"No, we were sleeping."

Peng Fang pushed the door open without even knocking and walked in uninvited. It would be strange if Yun Mo had a good face.

"You are such a funny kid."

"Is there something wrong with my second aunt?"

"Well, Momo, how long do you and Xiaoling plan to stay this time?"

"We'll leave after the New Year."

Peng Fang laughed, "That's good. It's rare for you to come back, so you should stay for a few more days and spend some time with your mother. You are a filial child, unlike Huang Yao, who is really a piece of shit. The Huang family raised her for 18 years, and she ran away without saying anything. She is simply an ungrateful person who can never be tamed..."

"Second aunt, I suddenly remembered something."

"What is it?"

"Didn't my second aunt borrow 200 yuan from Huang Yao last September? Huang Yao said that she asked you to pay the money back to me. She had stolen 500 yuan from our house before, and I helped her pay it back."

When talking about paying back the money, Peng Fang's face changed. "She, Huang Yao, she never told me about this."

"I still have the IOU written by Huang Yao in my hand. Do you want to show it to my second aunt?"

Peng Fang's face froze. "No need. Well, Momo, I've already spent the money. I can't take it out right now. I'll give it to you later when I have it."

Yun Mo sighed, "Aunt, I don't want to urge you to pay back the money, but my family is running a bamboo weaving factory and we are short of money. How about you think of a way to pay back the 200 before the New Year? Doesn't cousin Huang Zhao earn dozens of yuan a month at the leather shoe factory? 200 yuan shouldn't be a big deal for you guys."

Before Peng Fang could think of an excuse to delay, Yun Mo said, "If you really can't pay 200, you can pay 100 first. For my second aunt's family, 100 is not much, it's just more than two months' wages for my cousin Huang Yu."

"Momo, Xiao Zhao's salary is not bad, but he is a money-shy person. He can't save much money in a month, and this money has to be used to pay Xiao Wen's tuition. Xiao Wen is the same as you. He will take the college entrance examination next year. We still don't have a place to pay for his tuition after he is admitted to university. It's not that I don't want to pay it back, but my family is really in trouble. Momo, can you understand?"

Yun Mo sighed, "If that's the case, then I certainly can't force my second aunt to return the money to me. But, second aunt, please give me a rough time. When are you going to return the 200 yuan?"

"After all, I definitely won't be able to pay it back in these two years."

"If I can't pay it back in the past two years, then can I pay it back the year after next?"

Peng Fang choked and said awkwardly, "That's hard to say."

Yun Mo thought about it seriously and said, "Aunt, I actually have an idea. It's a bit difficult to pay the 200 yuan all at once. How about I make an installment plan for you?"

"In installments?"

"Yes, you can't take out 200 yuan at once, but you can at least take out 5 yuan, right? Cousin Huang Zhao earns several hundred yuan a month, it's impossible that he can't even come up with 5 yuan. If you pay back 5 yuan every month, day after day, in a few years, won't the 200 yuan be paid off?"

Peng Fang was at a loss for words and couldn't refute for a while. Could it be that she couldn't come up with 5 yuan? "Then it's decided!"

Having said that, Yun Mo got up and went to the next room.

Before Peng Fang could react, Yun Mo had already called Yang Xinghua and Liu Zhi over.

"Grandma, this is what happened. Huang Yao still hasn't paid me back the 500 yuan she owed me, but Huang Yao lent 200 yuan to my second aunt last September. Huang Yao asked me to ask my second uncle to collect the 200 yuan.

But my second aunt said she couldn't come out yet, so I thought of a way to let my second aunt pay back 5 yuan every month. You and grandpa will keep this 5 yuan, which is a gift from Lingchuan and me to you."

Yun Mo didn't care about Peng Fang's pale face, and said with a smile: "Second aunt, let's start from this month. You give 5 yuan to grandma at the end of every month, and let my mother write you a receipt."

Peng Fang was still racking her brains to think of how to cheat, but Yun Mo's next sentence blocked her thoughts.

"Ling Chuan came back with me this time. According to custom, I also prepared a gift for you, my second aunt. If my second aunt is really short of money and can't even pay back 5 yuan, why not use this gift to pay off the debt? What do you think, my second aunt?"

Hearing this, Peng Fang immediately started making plans in his mind.

Any two of the cigarettes and alcohol gifts brought back by her niece and her nephew's husband are worth over a hundred yuan. The matter of the 200 yuan account has been exposed, and she will have to pay it back sooner or later. In the end, she is not at a disadvantage.

After figuring it out, Peng Fang immediately put on a bright smile.

"Okay, Momo, I'll do as you say. I'll give the 5 dollars to mom in two days."

"Well, second aunt, I have to be busy with the bamboo weaving factory for a few days. After I finish the work at the bamboo weaving factory, I will bring Lingchuan to visit you."

"Okay, okay, I'll be waiting for you guys to come."

Peng Fang left happily, but Huang Zhiqiu and Yang Xinghua were both worried.

"Momo, Huang Yao hasn't returned the money to you yet? Isn't her biological family quite wealthy? How come you can't even give her 500 yuan?"

"I had some unpleasantness with her, and she deliberately wanted to shirk her debt, but it's not a big deal. Anyway, I will ask for the debt every time we meet. If she is not afraid of losing face, I have nothing to worry about."

Yang Xinghua looked lost.

Huang Yao was raised by her personally. She felt sorry for Huang Yao because she had been without a father since childhood, and treated her better than her two granddaughters, Huang Qinghe and Huang Qingning.

As a result, after finding out that they were not a member of the Huang family, the other party ran away overnight without even saying goodbye and stole all the money in the house.

Yang Xinghua was in a bad mood throughout dinner, obviously affected by Huang Yao's matter.

Yun Mo had to rack her brains to say something interesting to make the other person happy.

"Dabai and Erbai hatched eight goslings this year. I gave four to my friends and I still have four at home. I plan to raise two of the four geese myself and give them the nicknames Daidai and Guoguo. I plan to give the other two to my niece Ling Chunhua."

When the Huang family heard that Yun Mo had given the big white goose a name, they were extremely curious.

"Momo, are you still planning to keep the geese? They have a big appetite and need to eat at least a pound of food a day."

Yun Mo thought, more than that, Dabai and Erbai are very picky people. Their daily diet must include vegetables, dried shrimps, and small fish, and it must also be mixed with spiritual spring water.

But Yun Mo didn't need to explain these to the Huang family in detail. "It's okay. We can afford it anyway. In addition to them, we also have two dogs at home. The house is very noisy every day."

Listening to her story, a smile gradually appeared on Yang Xinghua's face, and even her appetite improved a lot.

Yun Mo secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

(End of this chapter)