Chapter 146: Chen Si Joins the Game
The middle-aged woman's whole heart felt as if it was soaked in warm water, soothing her. She felt she could muster up the courage to secretly search her mother-in-law's room again.
The middle-aged woman took the change and kept it close to her body.
Four taels of silver are enough to get through this cold winter and have a good new year.
Ni'er at home has been clamoring for a bowl of steaming mutton soup from the street for a long time. It costs sixteen cents, but she and her child's father have never dared to agree.
It's not that I'm reluctant, but under the control of my mother-in-law, it's really not easy to save a few cents from my finger sewing.
The middle-aged woman's eyes were red, her eyes were hot, and her heart was hot too.
"Mr. Lu." The middle-aged woman came closer and whispered, "My mother-in-law is a shrewd person. She won't act until she sees something. If Miss Cheng was really pregnant, the child would probably be related to her nephew from her mother's side."
"Chen Si'er, a thug at the Yongsheng Casino in Lotus Town, has a good relationship with my mother-in-law's nephew. Whenever they have money, they get together to drink, play dice, and visit kilns. The gambler's evil intentions are probably hidden from Chen Si'er."
"Thank you, sister-in-law, for the news you brought me today. My brother has escaped from trouble. I will prepare a thank-you gift tomorrow." Lu Mingchao bowed solemnly to express his gratitude.
The middle-aged woman was a little embarrassed and stammered, "I'm not doing this entirely to help you..."
"Sister-in-law, I understand everything." Lu Mingchao interrupted the middle-aged woman. "I judge people by the deeds they have done, not their hearts. Sister-in-law helped me, so it is only natural for me to repay her."
"Sister-in-law, it's late. Why don't you stay here for one night and leave at dawn?"
The middle-aged woman took a look at the clean and exquisite room, and sniffed the room filled with a faint floral scent. She felt as if she was pricked by a needle, and stood up suddenly. "My eldest brother from my mother's family is waiting for me at the entrance of the alley outside Chaofu Grain Store."
"Lu Dongjia, I'm leaving first."
Lu Mingchao found a food box and put the snacks on the table into the food box. "Sister-in-law, take it home and try it."
After watching Mrs. Yang's daughter-in-law leave, Lu Mingchao and Lu Yao sat opposite each other.
The candlelight flickered, and the yellowed prescription was clearly extinguished.
"Second brother, since Old Lady Yang already has something on Cheng Zhi, why doesn't she immediately make an effort to get Cheng Zhi to marry?"
Lu Mingchao gently rubbed the prescription with his fingertips, a thoughtful look on his face.
Lu Yaoqian took a sip of the tea in the cup and leaned back in his chair casually. "First, Cheng Zhi wanted to take advantage of Old Lady Yang."
"After all, Cheng Zhi took the risk to file a complaint, and Old Lady Yang's nephew was either imprisoned or exiled thousands of miles away."
"Secondly." Lu Yao's fingers were slightly bent, tapping the armrest of the wooden chair. "Old Lady Yang discovered that the baby in Cheng Zhi's belly might not be of Yang's bloodline."
Lu Mingchao believed it and said, "Then Brother Lao will deliver the message to Uncle Chen."
Lu Yao said unhappily, "Isn't this one of the reasons why my mother asked me to stay in the city?"
Keeping company and running errands.
Lu Mingchao smiled and deliberately said, "Then I will go with my second brother?"
Lu Yao shook his head without thinking, "If my mother knew about this, she would chase me around the yard with a broom in hand and beat me up."
"Chao Chao, keep these banknotes. They are better than nothing."
Lu Yao took out two banknotes from his lapel, looking as if he didn't care at all.
Lu Mingchao frowned slightly. "The money that my second brother earned from writing storybooks all night long?"
Lu Yao raised his eyebrows and said, "Why stay up all night?"
After he finished speaking, he didn't give Lu Mingchao a chance to speak again and hurriedly pushed the door open and walked out.
Lu Mingchao let out a long sigh and carefully put the banknote away.
In fact, she was better off than Lu Yao thought.
After all, Chaofu Grain Store's business is almost profitable with no investment.
The lamp flickered and the room became bright again.
Just like Lu Mingchao's heart, bright and warm.
lotus town.
It's the middle of the night.
Chen Si'er was drunk, humming a drunken tune, with red eyes, and staggering in the deserted, dark alley.
It is absolutely true that alcohol makes a man fearful.
Chen Si'er was not afraid at all. In fact, he was drunk and wanted to go to the casino to try his luck.
"Chen Si'er?"
Deep in the dark alley, two big men seemed to appear out of nowhere, holding sticks as thick as a middle-aged man's arm.
Chen Sier sobered up instantly.
Shivering, I wanted to run in the other direction.
Turning around, I saw two more tall and mighty men.
"My dear fellows, hold on, don't let go, we can talk it over, we can talk it over."
Chen Si'er was flexible and fell to his knees with a thud.
"If you pay me back honestly, I won't do anything."
"I borrowed twenty taels of silver for a month, with a monthly interest rate of three percent. The total principal and interest for the month is twenty taels and six hundred wen."
"Pay back the money and everything will be fine."
The man in front of Chen Si'er snapped the stick in his hand and sneered, "If you don't pay me back, this will be your fate."
The night was dark and the moon was hidden behind the clouds.
Chen Si'er couldn't see the burly man's face clearly, but he could hear the brutal murderous intent in his voice.
Pay back the money?
He doesn't owe any money!
"My dear friends, you must have made a mistake. I, Chen Si'er, did not lend money at usury."
Twenty taels and six hundred coins!
Where can he get more than twenty taels of silver? Isn't this going to cost him his life?
"You are Chen Si'er, Chen Si'er from Yongsheng Casino, right?"
Chen Si'er nodded blankly.
"That's right, I'm looking for you, Chen Si'er."
"That guy surnamed Yang borrowed money from our boss in your name. Now he can't pay it back and has gone into hiding. So, shouldn't you pay him back?"
"If you don't pay me back, I'll either break my arms or my legs. It's your choice."
The burly man had a ferocious voice and looked evil. Chen Si'er was angry, anxious and scared.
The last name is Yang!
Chen Sier gritted his teeth and said, "My dear, I have no relationship with Yang..."
"Tsk." The burly man said with a light "No relatives or friends?"
"For safety reasons, our boss specially sent someone to visit the place before lending the money."
"You and Yang were always arm in arm with each other, wearing the same pants when you were close friends, finding the same chick in the kiln, and clamoring to be brothers with different surnames who died on the same day of the same month of the same year. How come you are no longer related to each other when it comes to paying back the money?"
"Besides, that's not what Yang said."
"Yang said that three or four years ago, you two were so close that you didn't know who you were. You two teamed up to bully a teenage girl. You couldn't even tell whose child the girl was in."
Chen Sier: ???
A good girl?
He has never had sex with a clean girl.
The burly man had a smile on his face but a cold look in his eyes. He punched Chen Si'er hard in the face.
"Chen Si'er, either you pay me back quickly or I'll break your legs and throw you outside the county government office in the middle of the night to turn yourself in for you."
"You forced a decent girl to commit a crime, and you conspired with Yang. You're dead."
"Debts are not paid when a person dies. When you die, I will sell your sister who is studying embroidery in an embroidery shop. I can get some money from her."
Chen Si'er only felt his lower body getting wet, and a fishy and rancid smell filled the alley.
Don't blame me for being unjust if you are unkind.