"We don't default on our debts."
Liu Mengru cried and said: "Mr. Wang, please wait for a while. I will go back to the house to get something."
Um?
Zhao Ping was a little confused. Could it be that this young lady still had some private money?
But it shouldn't be.
With the original owner's financial resources, there was no way he could save fifty taels of silver.
You know, the Wei Dynasty did not pay attention to commercial development. If ordinary farmers wanted to make money, they could only work as helpers, earning thirty or fifty cash a month.
One tael of silver is equivalent to a thousand coins.
Fifty taels, that's fifty thousand Wen. A person can't earn that much money in his lifetime without eating or drinking.
What's more, the original owner is a jerk, doesn't do business, and often gambles and drinks.
How could there be fifty taels of silver at home? !
Wang Shiren was also a little puzzled and frowned deeply.
Do you really have money to pay back?
It looks like the trap is going to continue.
That one fell in love with Liu Mengru, and if he didn't get her, he might also be implicated.
Liu Mengru ran out after a while, holding a jade pendant in her hand.
He handed it to Wang Shiren and said, "Mr. Wang, this is my family heirloom. Do you think you can help my husband pay off his debt?"
The jade pendant is shiny and round with a willow character engraved in the middle. It is worth a lot at first glance.
Wang Shiren's eyes were almost drawn.
But he quickly covered it up, grabbed the jade pendant, and said solemnly: "It's such a piece of shit, it's not even worth two taels of silver."
"I'll take it first and use it as tea money for this errand."
"In addition, I can give you two days of grace..."
Zhao Ping's eyes almost popped out of his head.
Seeing the jade pendant, he remembered something.
When the original owner bought Liu Mengru, she had lost her memory, and she only had this jade pendant on her body to mark her identity.
The original owner had been thinking about it for a long time.
In order to get the jade pendant, he even beat her half to death, but Liu Mengru did not give in.
She also wants to find her family with the jade pendant.
Unexpectedly, she took the initiative to take it out today.
Zhao Ping was extremely moved.
Before Wang Shiren could finish speaking, he rushed forward with a quick step, stretched out his hand and snatched the jade pendant back.
He said with a gloomy face: "Mr. Wang, your wishful thinking is very loud."
"It's a pity that I hit the wrong place."
"You still give me two days of grace? The IOU clearly states that the return period is one month. It's only been three days, and you come here to demand the account. Do you really think that I, Zhao Ping, am easy to bully?"
"hehe."
Wang Shiren sneered, "With your family's circumstances, let alone one month, even if I give you three years, can you come up with fifty taels of silver?"
"What if I can pay it back?"
Zhao Ping stared at him and asked.
"If you can pay it back, I won't take the interest."
Wang Shiren was not the one who suffered the loss. He also stared at Zhao Ping and asked: "What if you don't pay?"
"Then I will sell myself to you as a slave."
Zhao Ping said.
"good."
Wang Shiren readily accepted.
Anyway, no matter how long you give him, it is impossible for a second-rate guy like Zhao Ping to earn fifty taels of silver.
When the time comes, not only will he be able to complete the task assigned by the person, but he will also have free labor, so why not do it.
Anyway, it was only a month, he could afford to wait.
"If you don't trust what you say, let's put it in writing."
Wang Shiren is too narrow-minded and is afraid that Zhao Ping will not admit his account afterwards, so he wants to leave evidence.
This is exactly what Zhao Ping wants.
Liu Mengru opened her mouth but did not dare to say a word.
But he made up his mind and put the bag of rat poison in the porridge later.
The family returned to the West together to avoid being sold when the time came.
Zhao Ping didn't know this, so he signed the document and drove Wang Shiren away.
Then he took Liu Mengru's hand and returned the jade pendant to her, "Mengru, this is the only thing on your body that can be related to your identity. Keep it well and never take it out again to avoid losing it."
Um?
Liu Mengru stared with big watery eyes, her face full of disbelief.
Hasn't this bastard been thinking about her jade pendant?
Why is it that he doesn't want it now that it's in his hands?
Do you have other plans?
Liu Mengru did not dare to accept it, but said uneasily: "Ms. sir, here is the jade pendant for you. Don't sell Xiaoxiao, she is our daughter."
Liu Mengru took the word daughter very seriously.
It was intended to remind Zhao Ping that once he exposed this matter, he would no longer be able to hide his inhumane things.
"Mengru, I don't sell Xiaoxiao."
Zhao Ping smiled bitterly.
"I won't sell you either."
"On the contrary, I want to thank you."
"I was such a jerk in the past, and I broke your mother and daughter's hearts."
"But you still never leave me and take care of this family so that I don't starve to death. I sincerely thank you."
"Starting from today, I will start a new life and I won't let you mother and daughter suffer any more."
With that said, Zhao Ping bowed deeply to Liu Mengru.
When Liu Mengru heard these revealing words and saw Zhao Ping's unreasonable behavior, she was completely at a loss, but she shed even more tears.
Snap, snap, snap.
Soon the ground was wet.
Zhao Ping did not comfort him anymore. Some things depend not on how you say them, but how you do them.
Action is the best proof.
He forced the jade pendant into Liu Mengru's hand, went to the kitchen to drink some water, then carried a rattan basket on his back, picked up the sickle and left the house.
Fifty taels of silver is not a small amount.
Even if Zhao Ping is a top medical student with a bachelor's degree and a master's degree, even if he has five thousand years of civilization in his mind, it is not easy to earn fifty taels of silver in a month with this status.
Not to mention being hungry.
Fortunately, there are many hills near Xiping Village.
For doctors that is a treasure.
In particular, the medicine of the Dawei Dynasty was extremely backward, with books like the Huangdi Neijing, Shennong's Materia Medica, Treatise on Febrile and Miscellaneous Diseases, and Compendium of Materia Medica completely absent.
Of course, it may have appeared, but the original owner didn't know it.
This does not prevent Zhao Ping from using this to make money.
Besides, there is also game on the mountain, so it would be good to hunt two rabbits, pheasants or something like that.
Otherwise, it would be the kind of gruel with clear soup and little water every day, which would not fill my stomach.
I am so hungry and dizzy that I still have the energy to work.
So Zhao Ping left the house and went straight to the back mountain.
"Mom, what is my dad doing?"
Seeing Zhao Ping leaving, Zhao Xiaoxiao dared to ask curiously.
"Mom doesn't know either."
Liu Mengru shook her head, she had not recovered from the shock just now.
Zhao Xiaoxiao asked again, "Has my father gotten better?"
"Why didn't you hit us today?"
"Is it getting better?"
Liu Mengru murmured silently, then smiled bitterly.
"He has been messing around for so many years. How can you say that he will get better if he gets better, unless he changes to another person."
"Otherwise the dog can't change its habit of eating shit, and it might be harboring some bad ideas."
"We are still proceeding as planned."
Zhao Xiaoxiao nodded.
Liu Mengru rubbed her daughter's head and said sadly: "Xiaoxiao, it's just because of your suffering that you are so young, so you have to..."
"Mom, Xiaoxiao is not suffering."
Before she could finish speaking, Zhao Xiaoxiao hugged her and cried, "As long as I can stay with my mother, even if I die, Xiaoxiao will feel happy."
The two hugged each other and cried.
At this time, Zhao Ping had already arrived at the back mountain.
Honeysuckle, Angelica dahurica, Bupleurum, mint...
Zhao Ping felt happy when he saw the medicinal materials all over the mountains and plains.
With so many good things, is he still worried about not being able to pay back the money?
But before he could take action, he heard a surprised voice coming from behind, "The Zhao family boy?"
"You are really a boy from the Zhao family. What are you doing here in the back mountain? Do you also want to dig wild vegetables?"
