Chapter 120 Pay Back the Money
At this moment, Old Lady Wan's voice was undoubtedly more powerful than a death warrant in the ears of several people.
While Old Lady Shen was not paying attention, Shen Lao Er quickly ran over and tried to take the wooden stick from her hand, but Old Lady Shen was not a pushover. When she saw Shen Lao Er coming, she raised her hand and hit him on the hand.
Shen Lao Er cried out in pain again, holding his hands.
"What are you guys still standing there for? Are you really going to let that old man and young man outside tear down our house? And sell your wives off?"
Shen Laosan and Shen Laowu were a little unhappy when they heard this.
"Second brother, why are you selling my wife and not yours?" Shen Laowu muttered.
Shen Lao Er glared at Shen Lao Wu: "If it were you, who would you sell? Look at these wives and see who is the most valuable? Are they blind? Your second sister-in-law is already middle-aged, who would sell her? To be a maid?"
Shen Laowu was speechless for a moment. He silently stepped forward and endured the beating from Old Lady Shen, and pulled the wooden stick out of her hand.
He didn't want to lose his wife. He and Gan had been married for less than half a year, and they were in perfect harmony. How could he bear to sell his wife?
Old Mrs. Shen was so angry at her youngest son that she was shaking all over. She pointed at her sons and was so angry that she couldn't speak. Her eyes rolled back and she almost fainted. But Old Second Shen quickly held her up and pinched Old Mrs. Shen's philtrum hard, and finally prevented her from fainting.
"Mother, please take out the money quickly. That old woman will definitely tear down our house soon. Why are you doing this? Fifteen taels of silver can only rebuild a yard as big as ours. If it is demolished, we will not only have to pay more money, but also have to rebuild the house. If you do that, we will lose a lot."
Old Mrs. Shen looked at Old Man Shen with bloodshot eyes, making a whimpering sound, and was so angry that she couldn't speak.
Several brothers of the Shen family were also anxiously turning around under the kang. If they knew where Old Lady Shen hid the silver, they would not need to beg Old Lady Shen and would have given the silver away long ago.
Just then, they heard a loud rumbling noise in the yard.
The three brothers of the Shen family ran out quickly, and were stunned when they saw that a jar placed at the door of the kitchen had a big hole in it, and Wan Xingmo was holding a big iron pot in his hand.
Old Lady Wan was gesturing at the iron pot, muttering to herself, "This big iron pot doesn't seem to fit our stove. I wonder how much it can sell for? It looks like it could be worth some money. Otherwise, let's not smash it yet. Mo'er, put the pot on the ground and take it away later."
Wan Xingmo put the pot at his feet and heard Old Lady Wan say, "Smash everything in the kitchen that can be smashed. Their house will be demolished soon anyway. Let me hear the noise first. I'll be happy too. This year is the New Year, so let's have a peaceful New Year and let them smash a few more things."
Old Second Shen was so angry that his face turned pale, but there was nothing he could do. He quickly ran out to stop Old Lady Wan.
"Aunt, it's my mother's fault. Please show some mercy. I'll go get the money from my mother right now. We must pay it back today, okay?"
Old Mrs. Wan dusted off the dust on her body, put her hands behind her back and looked at Mr. Shen.
"Since we are neighbors, I will give you one more chance. If you don't seize it, there will be no next chance. After all, it is only natural to pay back debts. Even if you sue the county magistrate, I am still right."
Old Mrs. Wan's voice was so loud that even Old Mrs. Shen in the room could hear it.
Shen Laoer immediately crawled back with gratitude and asked Old Lady Shen for money.
Shen Laowu was afraid that Old Lady Wan would really sell his wife, so he helped Shen Laoer to force Old Lady Shen to give him the money.
"I don't have any money. It wasn't my wife who owed the debt in the first place. You don't have to force me. I will never give the money to my enemy even if I die. You are all weaklings. How could I give birth to such an unfilial son like you? Let her kill me if she dares?"
Old Mrs. Shen sat on the kang in the room and shouted loudly out the window.
Old Mrs. Wan curled her lips and didn't take Old Mrs. Shen's words to heart at all. She knew unfilial sons too well and knew they were capable of doing anything.
She had experienced far more than Old Lady Shen. She had seen many people exchanging their children for food and abandoning their parents on the road to escape famine. She had also seen unfilial sons selling their mothers to work as nannies in order to pay off their gambling debts.
Old Mrs. Shen had never experienced the beatings from her unfilial son. She had been served too comfortably by Mrs. Shen in the past and didn't know how treacherous human nature could be. Unfortunately, she still didn't know how lucky she was and threw away such a filial daughter-in-law.
Sure enough, the voices of Shen Lao Er and Shen Lao Wu were soon heard from the room.
"Mother, if you don't want to take the money, don't blame your son for being unfilial. We should also separate the family. You should take care of yourself. You can live in the woodshed over there by yourself. Anyway, we don't have the patience like my sister-in-law to take care of you. Since you don't want this family anymore, then we should all be fine."
"Mom, I just married a new wife, can you bear to watch her being sold by them? Can you please not be so selfish?"
Old Mrs. Shen refused to listen and just lay on the kang with her face up, not moving.
At this time, Gan came in, pulled Shen Laowu out and whispered a few words.
Shen Laowu's eyes widened in shock. "Are you telling the truth? How did you know that my mother's money was stolen?"
Gan patted Shen Laowu and glared at him, "Keep your voice down. I also found it when I woke up one night. Didn't mother tell you that there was a rat hole in the wall of her room? She asked you to plug it up. In fact, she put some silver in there the night before. I saw it with my own eyes."
Without time to think, Shen Laowu immediately strode back, without even taking off his shoes, and climbed onto Old Lady Shen's kang.
Old Mrs. Shen was frightened and stopped pretending to be dead. However, no one helped her and she couldn't sit up. She stared at Old Shen with dead fish eyes.
"Old Five, are you courting death? What's wrong with you? Get out of here."
When Old Mrs. Shen saw Old Five Shen running straight to the place where she hid the money, she became panicked.
She wanted to rush over to stop Shen Laowu, but she couldn't move and could only move slowly with her arms.
Old Five Shen completely ignored Old Lady Shen, with only the sealed rat hole in his eyes.
Shen Lao Er and Shen Lao San didn’t understand what happened to the fifth brother?
"Fifth brother, what are you doing?" Shen Lao Er asked Lao Wu in confusion.
Shen Laowu replied hastily, "Mom's money is in the rat hole we sealed up. Second brother, third brother, hurry up, or Old Lady Wan will smash our things again."
When Shen Laoer heard that there was money, he ran faster than Shen Laowu. He supported himself on the kang with his hands, jumped directly onto the kang, stepped over Old Lady Shen, and ran towards Shen Laowu.
Old Third Shen did not move, but stood on the ground anxiously watching his two brothers looking for money. He also glanced outside from time to time, fearing that Old Lady Wan and Wan Xingmo would rush into the house and smash things.
Old Mrs. Shen's attempt to stop the attack was futile. Finally, she began to howl hysterically, because the rat hole contained all the property of her family. There were still fifty taels of silver in it, but that was her coffin money. With this money, she had the confidence to ask her sons to honor her. Now that the money had been taken out by her sons, what could she still do to control them?
Shen Lao Er reached his hand into the rat hole and quickly pulled out a heavy purse.
"Old Five, we really have money, not a small amount. Our family still has so much silver, but we still live a frugal life every day. It's really aggrieved. How much food can we buy with so much silver? The thin porridge we drink every day can reflect a person's reflection. Damn it, I want to eat meat today, all I can eat."
Shen Lao Er took the purse and, despite Old Lady Shen's final obstruction, he slapped Old Lady Shen's hand that was grabbing his trouser leg and jumped off the kang.
The three brothers took out fifteen taels of silver, leaving thirty-five taels. After some discussion, the three brothers divided the thirty-five taels of silver among themselves, giving each of them ten taels. With the remaining five taels, they would go to the town to buy rice and meat, since there was still time, they could still return before New Year's Eve.
They did what they said. Shen Laoer took the fifteen taels of silver and returned it to Old Lady Wan, then went straight to the town with Shen Laosan and Shen Laowu.
Old Mrs. Wan didn't know what had just happened inside. She weighed the fifteen taels of silver in her hand and felt it was a little unreal. She was about to smash a few more things, but this guy returned the money?
"Grandma, shall we go back? It's very cold outside, and little Fubao's hands are a little cold." Wan Xingmo hugged little Fubao tightly in his arms and stuffed her two little hands into his clothes to warm them, but her face was still red from the cold.
"Yes, yes, yes, hurry back, we have the money, everything is fine, go home."
When Old Lady Wan was taking Wan Xingmo back to her own house next door, they happened to meet an old man and another person passing by them. Wan Xingmo looked back at the young man behind the old man. This man had an extraordinary demeanor and did not look like an ordinary citizen. However, Wan Xingmo was not a nosy person, so he followed Old Lady Wan into the yard.
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