"Butler Cui, are you going to give me a kick?"
Liang An sneered as he looked at the four servants of Cui Mansion who stood around and surrounded him after leading him into Cui Mansion, preventing him from running away.
"Are you here to see Mr. Cui? Is this how Cui Mansion treats guests? Or is Butler Cui bigger than Mr. Cui?"
Butler Cui looked at Liang An a little speechless.
"If I don't mess around with you, why are you here this time? Are you here to pay back the money?"
Liang An shook his head.
"I borrowed twenty taels of silver but I couldn't pay it back so quickly. That's a full twenty thousand copper coins."
"Then what are you doing here this time?"
When Butler Cui heard that Liang An was not here to pay back the money, his unhappy face turned ferocious. Liang An took out fifty copper coins from his arms.
"I'm here to do business with Master Cui."
"You come to our Master Cui with fifty copper coins? What business do you want to do?"
Liang An looked at Butler Cui a little unhappy.
"It doesn't matter what you say, I want to see Mr. Cui."
"you!"
Butler Cui was a little angry when Liang An scolded him, but he still waved his sleeves and gave a fierce order.
"Watch him and don't let him wander around at will, let alone bump into the nobles in the house. I'll go find the master and see if he wants to see this bastard."
Liang An's lips twitched, "I am a scholar after all, and you give me the name of a gangster? That's all, I owe you money, you can say whatever you want."
Liang An looked distressed as he watched Butler Cui go to report to his master.
Soon Master Cui came to the main hall with a big belly and drank a cup of tea leisurely. After a new cup of tea, he waved to the butler.
Butler Cui understood and hurried out to call someone.
"Liang An, come in, my master invites you."
Liang An didn't care and walked into the hall from the four servants surrounding him.
First of all, I saw the Cui family master who was leisurely drinking tea on the throne.
"Junior Liang An has met senior."
Mr. Cui looked at Liang An, "It turns out to be the prodigy from Wangyou Town. It's been a long time! I wonder what the prodigy is here for? Is he here to pay back the money?"
Seeing Master Cui knowingly asking questions, Liang An shook his head.
"Senior, I have an unsentimental feeling and I want to discuss it with my senior."
"Oh, I don't know what's wrong with that."
Liang An watched Master Cui take out all the fifty copper coins in his arms.
"This is fifty copper coins. I would like to lend Mr. Cui another five taels of silver."
"What? You owe me twenty taels of silver and haven't paid it back yet, and you want to lend me another five taels of silver. What do you want to do?"
Seeing how Master Cui was furious when he heard about borrowing money, Butler Cui also said next to him,
"The current price of grain is only four cents per dou. Do you know how much grain can be bought with five taels of silver? This can buy two acres of Susukino farmland."
"Junior naturally knows."
In response to Butler Cui's scolding, Master Cui didn't say anything at all, and Liang An didn't pay attention to anything. Instead, he bowed his hands to Master Tui again.
"Senior, I need to borrow another five taels of silver. I will immediately go to the county to find my friend to borrow the money and pay you back. I will definitely pay you back in full. During this period of debt, I will give you fifty copper coins every month. That's great. ?”
"Is that so?"
Master Cui was very happy when he heard that in addition to the twenty-five taels of silver with principal and interest that he would receive after receiving the goods, which should be twenty-five taels of money after one year, he could also get fifty more copper coins every month.
When Butler Cui Fu heard Liang An's words, his eyes couldn't help but shine, and he looked at Master Cui with burning eyes.
Although he didn't say anything, his eyes communicated to his master that these transactions were OK.
Master Cui stroked his beard.
"Is what my nephew said true?"
As soon as he heard the useful and powerful news for him, he even changed his name. Liang An didn't refute that Mr. Cui was too close to him and immediately promised.
"Senior, how dare you act recklessly in front of me, this must be the case. Send fifty copper coins at the end of every month until all the money is returned to Mr. Cui with interest."
"Okay. My nephew is a child like me, and I can trust my nephew. Why don't the housekeepers hurry up and help my nephew get some silver?"
But Master Cui had just finished arranging things, and Liang An even had a smile on his face.
"Don't be busy. Master Cui, I'll just stand here. I'll return as soon as I get the money and sign a note for Master Cui."
"There's no need for written evidence. I can trust my nephew."
Mr. Cui was cheerful. Although he said he didn't need it, the housekeeper came back with pen and paper when he went out to get some silver.
Mr. Cui looked a little embarrassed, but he still smiled and looked at Liang An who didn't seem to prevent Liang An from writing the evidence as he just said.
Liang An didn't pay attention to anything. The scholar just said what it was and wrote down the IOU.
It's just that Liang An didn't play any word games with what he learned in later generations, but wrote down fairly and impartially that he borrowed five taels of silver from the Cui Mansion. Before the debt is paid off, fifty copper coins will be sent to the Cui Mansion at the end of each month until all the principal and interest are paid off.
Master Cui was happy after seeing the writing.
"My good nephew is truly an honest man."
This sentence had the meaning of seeing off a guest, but Liang An didn't pay much attention, stood up and raised his hands to Mr. Cui.
"Thank you very much, senior, and I will take my leave now. I will definitely give you the money in full from now on until all the principal and interest are repaid."
"No rush, no rush."
Master Cui solemnly put the IOU in his sleeve and said to Liang An, "Don't worry." Liang An looked at Master Cui and said.
"No one can stand without faith."
But just as he was about to walk out, he suddenly turned his head again.
"Master Cui, why don't you give me ten more shi of food?"
"What? A few stones of grain. How does this work? One stone of grain is worth ten buckets, and one bucket is worth ten kilograms. Ten stones of grain is worth thousands of kilograms. It's also a business of a few taels of silver."
Although Mr. Cui can get it, he can't help but feel a little uneasy about lending it to Liang An again for no reason. Add in the food, and Liang An's debt will reach thirty taels of silver. Can he afford it?
Seeing Master Cui in trouble, Liang An said hurriedly.
"If a few kilos of food is too much, you can give me five dou first."
"It's easy to talk about."
Perhaps as soon as he heard that the five measures of grain had dropped, which amounted to only one hundred and fifty kilograms, Mr. Cui arranged for the housekeeper to go get the grain without even thinking.
After the food was fetched, Liang An put the food on his back and left. Master Cui looked at Liang An and hesitated to speak.
Liang An smiled.
"Master Cui, do you think I can't afford this food? We gentlemen have no trust at all? What's more, the fifty pieces of money I just gave you can buy five buckets of food at the grain store outside. But I sent it to you without hesitation. Do you still have to doubt my sincerity?
If you starve me to death and I don’t have the ability to go to the county town to borrow some money from my companions, how can I pay you back? "
Liang An finally revealed his plan, and Master Cui's expression changed.
He was arrogant and regretful, as if he had fallen into Liang An's trap, but in the end he still waved his hand.
"My dear nephew, go away."
