"What's the fuss about?" The curtain of the room next to him opened, and the Fourth Master yawned and walked out.
Zhang Laifu shrank his neck and stammered, "Four, Fourth Master!"
Fourth Master ignored him, looked at Xiao Qi and said, "What's going on?"
Xiao Qi had already stood up from the bench, bowed and said: "Fourth Master, this Zhang Laifu wanted to run away because he owed us money, but I stopped him."
"Well, you did a good job." The fourth master turned around, grabbed Zhang Laifu's hair with his hand, and pushed it back, "What? I want to run away because I owe the money. Let me tell you, no one can owe the fourth master my money. I can’t pay it back.”
Immediately, he ordered the two big men standing by: "You two press him on the table, take off his hands, and let him improve his memory."
The two men picked up Zhang Laifu, took out his two arms, and pressed them on the table.
Zhang Laifu struggled hard and shouted with a cry in his mouth: "Repay, return, Fourth Master, I didn't say not to pay back the money, yes, Seventh Master, you have to speak up, I did say I would pay back the money."
Before Fourth Master could ask, Xiao Qi, who was standing aside, said, "Zhang Laifu just said that he asked my sister to pay back the money he owed."
"Hey! You're a gambler and there's someone willing to pay back your money!" Fourth Master waved his hand, "Take him to the house."
After saying that, he walked into the room he came out of before, holding his hands behind his back.
Two big men each held one of Zhang Laifu's arms and followed him in.
Xiao Qi left one person watching outside and followed him into the house.
Back in the house, Fourth Master sat on the bench by the table, picked up the teapot and poured a bowl of water, took a sip, put down the teacup, and said, "Tell me, when will your sister come to pay back the money."
"Well..." Zhang Laifu said hesitantly, "How about Fourth Master, please let me go first and wait until I go back to find my sister to get the money."
"What a fart!" Fourth Master grabbed the tea cup with one hand and said, "If you run away, I will find you wherever I can. Who knows if your girl has any money to give you?"
"Yes, yes." Zhang Laifu said hurriedly, "The two times I came to the gambling house to play, I got the money from my sister."
"So your sister is quite rich!" Master's eyes lit up.
Zhang Laifu said hurriedly: "I have money, I have money. My sister has a brother-in-law who works for Hutou Village and earns a lot of money every month."
Xiao Qi, who was on the side, walked up to Fourth Master and said softly: "Fourth Master, Hutou Village is not something to be trifled with."
The fourth master nodded slightly, then put the teacup in his hand hard on the table and said viciously: "You are fucking kidding me."
"Don't dare, don't dare." Zhang Laifu trembled with fright.
Xiao Qi said at this time: "Our fourth master's business is all in the city, and Tiger Flag's business is outside the city. We usually don't interfere with the rivers. Although Fourth Master is not afraid of Liu Dongzhu of Tiger Flag, there is no need to do it for no reason. To offend, do you understand?”
"I understand, I understand, I understand." Zhang Laifu nodded repeatedly, and then said tentatively, "There is no need for Fourth Master to come forward. I will go to my sister to ask for the money. If I come back, I will pay back the money I owe Fourth Master."
Xiao Qi's face sank and he said: "With the relationship between Fourth Master and Liu Dongzhu of Tiger Character Banner, will it embarrass the family members of Liu Dongzhu's men?"
"Then...this money..." Zhang Laifu said hesitantly, "Fourth Master doesn't want it anymore?"
"Fart!" Xiao Qi scolded, "You owe Fourth Master money, so of course you have to pay it back."
Zhang Laifu had a bitter look on his face and said, "But I really don't have any money, why don't I wait?"
"Chop off your hands!" Fourth Master said calmly.
Xiao Qi winked at the two men guarding Zhang Laifu.
One of the two men grabbed one of Zhang Laifu's arms and pinned him down on the table. One of them pulled out a short knife.
Zhang Laifu's face turned pale with fright, and he shouted: "He is dead, he is dead, my sister's brother-in-law is dead, and now their family has nothing to do with the Tiger Flag. Really, it has nothing to do with it at all, but their family There is money."
"Wait a minute." Fourth Master raised his hand to stop him.
The man holding the knife stopped, put down the knife, and stood aside.
The Fourth Master looked at Zhang Laifu and asked, "Who do you think is dead?"
"My sister's brother-in-law who worked for Tiger Character Flag died outside not long ago while working for Tiger Character Flag." Zhang Laifu paused and then said, "Tiger Character Flag gave my father-in-law a lot of money and rice and noodles."
For fear that the other party would not believe it, Zhang Laifu added: "Everyone in the village has seen this matter. The fourth master sent someone to Hanzhuangzi and asked anyone at random to find out."
Xiaoqi walked up to Fourth Master and whispered: "Fourth Master, we can't offend the people who work for Tiger Flag, but they are already dead. Even if we do something, I don't think Tiger Flag will come after this trivial matter." Come on, why don't you send someone to take Zhang Laifu to Hanzhuangzi? I heard that the Tiger Character Flag has gold, mountains and silver seas. If one of their people dies, the pension will be twenty or thirty taels, which is more than enough to pay back Zhang Laifu."
The Fourth Master turned the teacup with his hand, pondered for a moment, and then said: "I'll leave this matter to you, and I won't come forward. Then write another twenty-tael IOU in his sister's name, and then ask him to sign it and bring it with you." Let’s go to his girl to ask for the debt.”
"I understand, little one." Xiao Qi nodded.
A new IOU was quickly written and brought to Zhang Laifu. Xiaoqi said to Zhang Laifu: "Here, take your fingerprints."
Zhang Laifu looked at the IOU on the table and the ink pad beside him, and said hesitantly: "Master Qi, what is this?"
"Fourth Master has written a new IOU for you, please click it!" Xiao Qi tapped the IOU on the table with his hand.
Zhang Laifu glanced at it and said awkwardly: "I can't read, Master Qi, can you read it to me?"
Xiao Qi said: "It's similar to the IOU you signed before, but this IOU is not that you borrowed three taels of silver from us, but that you owe us twenty taels."
"What?" Zhang Laifu's pupils widened and he said hurriedly, "Seventh Master, you can't do this. I only borrowed three taels of silver, and after including interest, it's not as much as twenty taels."
Hearing that he owed so much money, Zhang Laifu didn't dare to press his fingerprints. He couldn't pay back even thirty taels of silver, even after selling twenty taels of his house and land.
"Don't worry." Xiao Qi said harmoniously, "You don't need to pay back this money, isn't there your sister?"
"That's too much." Zhang Laifu shook his head vigorously.
Xiao Qi patted Zhang Laifu on the shoulder and said, "As long as you press your fingerprint, we will cancel all the money you owed."
"Twenty taels of silver!" Zhang Laifu said hesitantly, "I'm afraid my sister won't be able to get it."
Xiao Qi said with a smile: "It doesn't matter if she can't get it out. Your father-in-law will definitely be able to get it out. Hutou Village is surrounded by mountains of gold and silver. Your sister's brother-in-law once worked for Hutou Village, and he is still short of money."
Everyone in Lingqiu knows that Tiger Character Flag is extremely wealthy. The iron yard in Dongshan and the four-wheeled carts that often appear on various roads in Lingqiu are all Tiger Character Flag's business. It is enough for an ordinary family to have food and drink for a year.
Zhang Laifu looked hesitant.
Xiao Qi's voice turned cold and said: "What are you waiting for? Press it quickly. If you don't press it, Fourth Master will really chop off both of your hands."
Zhang Laifu trembled with fright, glanced at the fourth master secretly, nodded quickly and said: "I press! I press!"
When he thought about it, even his sister could get five taels of silver from Han Erfu. As Han Erfu's biological father, the money in his hands would only be even more.
Now Han Erfu is dead working for Huziqi. Huziqi is so rich, but he still has to pay seventy or eighty taels of pension.
The Han family has so much money, and he is the second brother of the Han family's wife, so what's the point of asking for money!
Thinking of this, he took the ink pad and pressed his thumb inside it, staining it with red ink pad. He took it out and pressed it on the IOU beside it, leaving his own fingerprint.
