The county wants to take charge, but how?
No evidence.
If you borrow money, you go there on your own accord, no one forces you to do so. When they come to collect the debt, they won't take your life or beat you.
It means slaughtering your chickens, killing your dogs, eating your food, sleeping on your kang, scaring your children, talking dirty to your wife, smoking and drinking, and doing all kinds of smoking.
Who can stand this?
They will also play nice: "I know your family is in financial difficulty and you can't pay it back, but if you can't pay back the principal, you can pay back the interest first."
Some people work hard all year round, but the money they earn is only enough to pay the interest.
Year after year, when will it end?
After listening to what the eldest brother Li Hongwei said angrily, old man Li Pingwang finally realized how serious the situation was.
"Boss, what should I do?" He didn't even bother to smoke his pipe. He hurriedly picked up the IOU and read it carefully. Then he did the calculation himself and was shocked.
"Why is it so much? Hongyan told me that the interest on 10,000 yuan is only 250 yuan."
"Only two hundred and fifty."
"Dad, you, how could you do such a stupid thing." Li Hongwei looked at his father's old age, whose face turned pale with fear. He couldn't help but feel sad and heartbroken.
Chen Xiaoying also clenched her fists, wishing she could punch the old man: "You believed everything she said to you. How dare you even lend her this kind of money?"
"Do you want to kill our whole family?"
Seeing his own mother's eyes turned red with anger and she looked like she wanted to kill someone, the second son Li Hongjian was also stunned. The fourth son Li Honggang was timid and frightened, looking at this and that in panic.
Because in his wife Yang Xiaohui's hometown village, some people were forced to commit suicide.
Only the third child, Li Hongqiang, felt that his eldest sister, Li Hongyan, could not do such a thing: "Mom, is there any misunderstanding? My eldest sister would never do such a thing."
"What's the misunderstanding? Wasn't it your eldest sister who took your father to Laowagou Village?" His wife Zhao Xueyan was so angry that she cried, "Twenty-eight thousand. The interest is six or seven thousand a year. We can't pay it back in our lifetime."
Li Hongqiang was also confused: "The annual interest is only 6,000 or 7,000?"
His monthly salary is 420 yuan, which is what he earns in twelve months of the year. Even if he doesn't eat or drink, it is not enough to pay the interest.
Li Pingwang was so frightened that he was stunned: "I, I'll go find her. This is definitely not the case. I'll go ask her again."
He had just stood up and taken two steps when his legs went weak and he fell to the ground. He couldn't get up even with his hands on the ground.
"dad?"
"dad?"
Several sons rushed over and helped him up.
Li Pingwang was crying and his whole body was limp. "Just let me die. Why did I borrow so much money? How can Hongyan pay it back? How can I pay it back?"
"Hongwei, Dad knows that you have saved some money in the past two years, so just pay back the money for your elder sister, okay."
The eldest son, Li Hongwei, was just worried about his father's health when he was hit in the face by an invisible slap.
"Dad, why should I pay her back? I don't deserve it."
"What should I do? She has no money." Li Pingwang burst into tears. A sixty-year-old man, he sat on the ground, sobbing and crying.
Li Pingwang cried so hard that tears streamed down his face, and anyone who saw him would feel sad.
Facing such a partner, Chen Xiaoying no longer wanted to say anything: "Who of you knows where Pengfei's girlfriend lives? Go and say hello first, and don't spend the money."
"I don't know." The second brother Li Hongjian and others looked at each other.
"Once the money is gone, our whole family will be driven to death." Chen Xiaoying gritted her teeth and looked at Li Hongwei: "Let's go and ask your eldest sister for the debt."
The third child, Li Hongqiang, hesitated: "Mom, is this okay?"
Even at this time, Li Hongqiang was still on the side of his elder sister Li Hongyan. Chen Xiaoying pointed at him and cursed: "Hongyan is forcing your father and me to die. What's good or bad about that? What's wrong with that? Li Hongqiang, do you have a pig brain? Do you have to be forced to your doorstep before you know how powerful it is?"
Although Li Hongqiang looks silly, he is actually the most timid among his brothers.
Chen Xiaoying would not abandon Li Pingwang and would take him to confront Li Hongyan.
Li Hongwei was driving a tricycle, and only the second son Li Hongjian was left at home to look after the family, and several daughters-in-law were there to listen to the news.
Watch the tricycle run away.
"Wow." The eldest sister Liu Lanxiang couldn't help crying. "Li Hongyan, how could she be so evil that she could trick her own father into writing a loan sharking letter? She is crazy, not a human being."
Wang Xiaoqin, the wife of the second son, Li Hongjian, was also frightened and her face turned pale: "Sister-in-law, is that really all? The money was borrowed by my eldest sister, so she should pay it back, isn't it okay?"
Liu Lanxiang cried angrily: "From the moment she tricked her dad into giving her fingerprints, she never thought about paying it back. Didn't you hear me just now? Dad asked your brother to pay back the money. Why should your brother pay it back?"
Zhao Xueyan had been crying for quite a while. She worked in a restaurant, busy from morning till night, not daring to take a day off. Her monthly salary was only over 200 yuan, which was already too much.
The interest is only 6,000 or 7,000 yuan. It’s crazy, crazy: “What’s the point of living like this?”
The second son, Li Hongjian, looked at the women crying. With so much debt, he wanted to cry.
Liu Lanxiang was still crying and cursing: "He is not a human being, but a beast. How can there be such a cruel person who wants to force everyone to death?"
He spent the money on his own and it had nothing to do with her.
Just think about it and you will know why people were able to lend him so much money at that time.
Li Hongyan would definitely talk about the small restaurant, saying that her mother ran a restaurant in the county town and her eldest brother bought a house in the city. His old man couldn't pay it back, but the old woman and her son could help pay it back.
Isn't that the case?
Liu Lanxiang felt heartbroken. How could this problem be resolved? They had borrowed the money for more than a month and only then did they realize that the interest was quite high.
The few people had no choice but to wait anxiously at home, hoping that mother-in-law Chen Xiaoying could really get the money back from the eldest sister-in-law.
Li Hongwei drove a tricycle, taking his mother Chen Xiaoying, his father Li Pingwang, and his third brother Li Hongqiang, and the family of four hurried to Zhaojia Village.
Li Hongyan was discussing with her husband at home about the wedding banquet for her son Pengfei.
"Don't invite many people in the village. Just give a two-dollar gift when they come. When it's time to eat, the whole family will eat with their mouths open, and there won't be enough for one table." She looked disgusted.
Zhao Faliang said, "You decide. I don't care about family matters."
His wife is strong-willed and he is not as smart as her, so he lets her do whatever she wants.
As the two were talking, they heard the sound of a tricycle stopping at the door.
"Who's here?" Li Hongyan went out to see curiously.
Then he saw his parents and two brothers walking in with unhappy looks on their faces.
"Dad, Mom, why are you here?" Li Hongyan was very surprised: "Didn't we just meet today?"
Chen Xiaoying stared at her and slapped her in the face. With a "pop", Li Hongyan almost fell to the ground.
"Mom, what are you doing?" Li Hongyan covered her face in pain and called her.