Ignoring their pleas, and even those who tried to kneel, Liu pushed and shoved them out of her house.
The front door slammed shut, and Liu, still muttering as she bolted it, continued:
"These people, when my family was in trouble, all of them just watched and laughed, not one of them thought of lending a hand. Oh, now that your family is in trouble, you want to ask my family for help? How can you be so wishful thinking! You are all so shameless!"
The women outside who were about to knock on the door twitched a few times, their faces turning from green to purple, then back to green again, before finally giving up and not daring to knock anymore.
There was nothing they could do; they were just telling the truth. They were simply there to watch the spectacle when these two people were in trouble, practically ready to crack open some melon seeds.
Now that others have become rich, my family is still the same as before, struggling to make ends meet, worrying that if the harvest is bad, the family will have nothing to eat. We are living the same life, so why are we living such different lives?
How come other people are getting better and better, while they are still the same as before?
The women whispered amongst themselves before heading to the clan chief's house.
Clan Chief: \(◎o◎)／!
Don't come any closer!
Buying water to irrigate the land was supposed to be a good thing for the whole village, so how did it end up becoming a responsibility for their family?
After finally managing to send away wave after wave of people who had rushed over upon hearing the news, the old clan chief was also at a loss for what to do.
He lay on the kang (a heated brick bed), resting with his eyes closed, but his mind was racing with ideas for a solution.
Unexpectedly, he remembered someone saying that "Chao Dong's mother wouldn't lend them money."
Lin Yueshi received a reward of five hundred taels of silver from the emperor!
In the whole village, her family is the richest!
But what should he do to get Lin Yue to agree to lend money to some of the villagers to buy water?
Before he could even come up with an answer to this question, Yue Jiuyue, along with her daughter-in-law Liu, came to give him the answer.
"Grandpa, today a few of my sisters-in-law and brothers' wives came to my house to borrow money. To be honest, I don't want to lend them the money."
Yue Jiuyue paused for a moment after saying this. The old clan chief and Village Chief Lin thought she had come to complain, and Village Chief Lin immediately comforted her.
“Chao Dong’s mother, I’ve sent all those ignorant women back home. They just ask to borrow several taels of silver. Does anyone have a mountain of gold and silver to lend to them? Don’t worry, the village will find a way to solve this problem.”
Village Chief Lin's idea was simple: everyone in the village knew that Yue Jiuyue was rich. Not to mention anything else, the five hundred taels of silver bestowed by the emperor were right there in the open. So the first person everyone thought of to borrow money from was not their family, but Yue Jiuyue's family.
This has never happened before.
However, if Yue Jiuyue were to give in, everyone in the village, whether they were truly broke or just looking to take advantage, would definitely try to borrow money. Even if Yue Jiuyue lent out all her money, it still wouldn't be enough.
After all, since they asked to borrow money, and it was a loan from the whole village, they certainly wouldn't borrow only what they needed. Some people even thought that "the law doesn't punish everyone" and didn't intend to repay the money. There must be quite a few people like that.
There was no way around it; Yue Jiuyue's family made so much money last year, who in the surrounding area wouldn't be envious and jealous? Even Village Chief Lin was extremely envious.
"Huh? Oh."
Yue Jiuyue looked at the village chief Lin, who was frowning, and wondered whether she should reveal her purpose for coming.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
