Old lady Lin was chasing after him on tiptoe, but after running a few steps, she tripped over her left foot and fell to the ground.
The women watching the fun burst into laughter, and the old woman was so angry that her mouth was twisted. Wang Qiufen and Tian Cui'e stuffed a few melon seeds into each of them before sending them away.
Zhou Zhuo's big hands were warm and powerful. Holding his hands like these, the wind beside my ears was fragrant.
Lin Qingqing felt that she didn't hate being with Zhou Zhuo at all. Although he was not very smart, he was very good to her, and that was enough.
The two ran for a while before slowing down. Zhou Zhuo kept turning his head to look at Lin Qingqing, and little stars were scattered all the way.
"What are you laughing at?" Lin Qingqing found that Zhou Zhuo was grinning foolishly.
"Wife, you are so beautiful."
Lin Qingqing: "..." Was she being teased?
When the two were about to reach Zhou's house, they found a group of people standing at the door. Lin Qingqing's heart skipped a beat, thinking that something had happened at home, and she hurried over.
When the onlookers saw Zhou Zhuo and his wife coming back, they automatically made way for them. Lin Qingqing walked in and saw an old man in his sixties sitting on a chair in the main hall.
Xue Guixiang stood aside, wiping her tears and pleading, "Fourth Uncle, please be kind enough to give me a few days. I really can't afford that much money."
"Niece-in-law, it's not that I'm in a hurry to collect the debt, but you promised me that you would pay me back as long as Zhou Zhuo got married. Now it's been three days since your family's wedding. You won't blame me for coming to collect the debt, right?" The old man's eyes swept over Xue Guixiang, and it was obvious that he had no good intentions.
"How dare I blame Fourth Uncle? If he hadn't lent me the money, Zhou Zhuo's wedding wouldn't have been so lively. I can only blame myself for not being able to raise enough money to pay him back."
"It doesn't matter if you don't have money. I think this house is still worth some money, so I'll use it to pay off the debt."
Xue Guixiang was so frightened that her face turned pale. "I dare not, Fourth Uncle! This is the only place I can live. If you ask me to use this house to pay off my debts, where will my family live? Please have pity on us, an orphan and a widow."
Lin Qingqing had some impression of this old man. His name was Du Laosi. His family was originally landlords. Later, during the land reform, all the land, houses and other things in his family were divided up by the state.
But he still secretly kept some good things. After liberation, he secretly exchanged these things for money. His life was much better than others, but because of his bad background, he never got married.
In her previous life, the original owner had a strained relationship with Xue Guixiang and had no idea that her family was in debt. Now that she knew, she couldn't bear to watch her mother-in-law being bullied by this old woman!
"Mom, what's going on? Why is someone still interested in our house?"
"It's all my fault for not doing things well. I was in a hurry to arrange your wedding, so I took a hundred yuan from your fourth master, but I didn't think about how to pay him back. Now your fourth master is here to collect the debt, and I can't pay it back, so he thought of using our house to pay off the debt. It's my fault that I've dragged you down." Xue Guixiang cried so hard that her nose turned red.
When she borrowed money, she first wrote to her second sister Xue Guiqin. When the family was in trouble, who else could she rely on for help if not her sisters? Besides, Xue Guiqin married an oil worker, and the family lived a good life.
But who would have thought that until the first day after Zhou Zhuo's death, Xue Guixiang still hadn't received a reply from her sister. At this time, the housekeeper hired by the family had arrived, waiting for the master to take money to buy vegetables and meat. In desperation, Xue Guixiang had to take a hundred yuan from Du Laosi for emergency. Originally, she thought that as long as her sister sent back the money, she would return it to Du Laosi, but she didn't expect him to come so soon.
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