Everyone in the agricultural machinery company’s staff quarters knew that Xu Fang and her daughter had quarreled again.

Ever since Ji Ling threatened not to take the college entrance examination and wanted to work in the Provincial Institute of Architecture a month ago, the Ji family has never been quiet, and quarrels can be heard every day.

Just two days after the college entrance examination, the family was noisy again.

Those living in the family compound privately felt that Ji Ling was too noisy and could drive a gentle person like Xu Fang crazy.

The school in Bei County is on the east side of the county. From a distance you can see two rows of red-tiled houses. That is the No. 1 Middle School in the county.

More than a dozen people taking the college entrance examination walked out of the classroom one after another. Ji Ling and Tian Jing walked at the end. After leaving the classroom, Ji Ling was stopped by a boy in the corridor.

The boy was tall and thin, but very energetic. The most eye-catching thing was that he was wearing a pair of leather shoes.

"Ji Ling, I'll wait for you out front." Tian Jing nodded to Ji Ling and walked away quickly.

"Classmate, what do you want to talk to me about?" Ji Ling didn't know the boy in front of her, but the boy obviously knew her and was very familiar with her.

Hearing her calling classmates, the boy pursed his lips, said nothing, took out a piece of paper from his pocket and held it in front of her.

Ji Ling looked at the contents on the paper and fell into deep thought.

"Ji Ling, are you going to pay me back, or fulfill your promise to date me?" The other party's voice brought Ji Ling back to her senses.

She asked, “Is this a mistake?”

The boy frowned, his eyes swept around her face greedily, and he turned his head away with a red face, "There is your signature and fingerprint on it. When you borrowed the money, you said you would pay it back when your father was discharged from the hospital. In the past six months, you always said you would pay it back as soon as possible. My mother has been asking me who I lent the fifty yuan to. If you don't pay me back, I can't hide it anymore."

The boy paused, his face turned even redder, "Before you said you would date me after the college entrance examination, have you forgotten?"

Ji Ling looked at the words on the paper again. She had seen the original owner's notes and they were indeed her handwriting.

She took a deep breath, reached out her hand and took out a dollar and a half from her pocket, and stuffed it into the other person's hand without hesitation, "This is all I have now. Don't worry, I will pay you back next month. If you can't pay it back, you can go to my house and ask for it directly."

For fifty yuan, she even sold her feelings. What on earth was the original owner doing? Ji Ling walked quickly. The boy behind her shouted at her, "If you don't pay me back next month, I'll go to your house to ask for it."

Ji Ling stood dejectedly on the street, her mind full of thoughts about how to make money.

She glanced a few steps away, her eyes suddenly lit up, and she walked over quickly.

"Is this a Forever brand? It's so new, must it be newly bought?" Ji Ling's mind raced as she walked around the bicycle and stopped. "The chain is broken. Let's find a bicycle repairman. A chain will cost you dozens of dollars."

She stared at the other person with burning eyes, and the words "Ask me quickly" were written on her face.

The man stood up and asked cooperatively, "Does this comrade know a place where I can get my car repaired cheaply?"

Ji Ling opened her mouth to say that she could, but then she thought it was inappropriate. This would make the other party think she was a liar, so she said in a roundabout way, "A bicycle is worth seven months' salary for others. No matter where you go to repair it, you will be charged the same."

The man had no expression on his face, and his voice remained calm, "Is there any other way?"

Very good, not stupid at all.

Ji Ling took a deep breath and said, "My father is a worker in a machinery factory. I have been playing with him since I was a child. How about I give it a try?"

The man looked at her and said in silence, "Then I'll trouble you."

Ji Ling secretly breathed a sigh of relief, saying it was not a big deal, and started working without any hassles.

"Look here, you need to align the top rod of the chain breaker with the pin in the chain, slowly tighten the chain breaker, and then you can remove the pin. Then buckle the chain block back into the chain mesh at both ends, and finally buckle the two ends together, and the broken chain will be connected."

She said as she quickly put the chain back on and got back on the bike.

"Look, it's that simple. If the chain breaks next time, you can fix it yourself." Ji Ling looked at the other person and smiled. "Do you understand? You don't have to spend this money in the future."

Ji Ling: She made up her mind and said word by word, "These techniques are not to be passed on to others. I'm telling you everything today. You don't have to pay more. Ten yuan will be enough."

After a long silence, the man finally said, "I thought you were doing a good deed."

Ji Ling: Even a penny can make a hero fail.

Ji Ling tightly held the ten yuan given by the man in her hand, and watched the other person's back disappear around the corner of the street before she looked away.

Her little face was burning red all the way to her ears. In order to make money, she didn't care that the other party was looking at her like a liar.

In her current situation, it seems that she has no other way to make money.

Ji Ling took a deep breath before walking home.

The foreign debt is fifty yuan, minus the ten yuan I just earned, there is still a shortfall of thirty-eight and a half yuan.

I moved bricks for more than a month before going to college and paid off the money.

Hope was right before her eyes. Ji Ling took a deep breath, and just as the corners of her lips were raised in satisfaction at having solved the problem, she heard a voice calling from behind, "Ji Ling."

A strange voice, but I recognize her.

Ji Ling froze, slowly turned her head and looked at the strange boy behind her, "You called me?"

The boy was short and slightly fat, and looked about the same age as Ji Ling. "Ji Ling, you said your mother broke her leg and didn't have enough money for hospitalization, so I lent you fifty yuan for more than two months because you agreed to date me. You said you were afraid of delaying the college entrance examination. Now that we've graduated, can you date me?"

Ji Ling’s eyes widened.

How much money did the original owner defraud? And how many people did he agree to date?

Ji Ling gritted her teeth and said, "If the person doesn't like me, I will pay you back."

Perhaps because Ji Ling was so angry, like a bull with red eyes, the boy did not dare to refute and let her go.

And the scenes that happened next once again refreshed Ji Ling's understanding of the original owner.

All the way from school to home, she met seven or eight male classmates who came to collect debts. They all gave the same lame excuses, saying that their father was seriously ill and hospitalized, or their mother had a broken leg and the family was in urgent need of money. They also used the temptation of being in a relationship with the other party. The total amount of money collected was nearly 500 yuan.

Ji's father's monthly salary was only 48.6 yuan, so you can imagine how much money 500 yuan was in that era.

She really couldn't understand why the original owner borrowed so much money, and where did the money go?

She only thought that the original owner was an outstanding and spoiled person, but she had no idea that he would leave behind so many messes.

Ji Ling shook her head vigorously. The most important thing right now was how to pay back the money, otherwise so many people would find her home. Ji Ling was not the original owner, and her reputation would be ruined if she used her beauty to seduce male classmates to borrow money.

Nothing valuable was found in the house, and the borrowed money was nowhere to be found. Ji Ling sighed at the IOU in the drawer, and when she heard someone coming in, she immediately closed the drawer.

Ji Yong said, "Xiaoling, your brother will be back with the coal soon, so go out and clear out the things in the yard."

"You don't have to go to college to be useful. A high school education is enough if you can get a job. Our agricultural machinery company has assigned many college graduates, but none of them earn as much as I do. It's more important for a girl to find a capable husband in the future. Xiao Liu from your mother's department store is the same age as you. He hasn't even graduated from junior high school, but he's been earning two years' salary. Isn't that good?"

"You are so young and you stay in your room sighing all day. Young people need to be energetic. If you don't work hard now, you will have nothing in the future."

While Ji's father was advising his daughter, Ji Ling looked at her face in the mirror. Finally, she put down the mirror, opened the drawer and looked at a drawer full of IOUs.

Don't say she has nothing, she has beauty! And there is an IOU There are not many things in the yard, just the floor table and four chairs for eating. The father and daughter moved the things under the plum tree. Ji Jianhua hadn't come back yet, but Xu Fang walked in with a pale face and was supported by someone.

(End of this chapter)