Bao Quan hid the contract given by Yuan Fang in the embroidery house's dowry. There was a paper ball inside. Yuan Fang saw it and said, why don't you throw it away. Bao Quan glared at him: Can I just throw away your things?
Bao Quan still had a private meeting with him in the embroidery building and didn't dare to stay too long. She had not yet officially introduced Yuan Fang, her future husband, to her parents. Last time, Yuan Fang asked a matchmaker to arrange a marriage, but Bao Quan's father still said that the bride price must be no less than 5,000 yuan. Now Yuan Fang is leaving again. Before leaving, he said that I will receive a bonus when the contract expires. Plus the salary, I can surely raise the full amount of the bride price. It will not be too late to meet my parents-in-law then.
As the year draws to a close, Bao Quan’s family makes sweet rice candy. Bao Quan's mother made a big piece and brought it to the embroidery building. Bao Quan looked at the rice candy and thought of Yuan Fang. When her mother left the embroidery building, she wrapped the piece of rice candy in smooth paper and hid it. In the dowry where the contracts and paper balls were placed, it felt more meaningful to share it with Yuan Fang when he came.
One day in the twelfth lunar month, Yuan Fang rushed to Baojia Village happily despite the heavy snowfall. He slowed down near the embroidery building in Baoquan. He first went around to the bamboo garden behind the house and climbed up a nan plant facing the window of the embroidery building. Zhu, if there is anyone else inside Bao Quan, he will wait until she is alone before saying hello to her. With Yuan Fang thinking this way, he climbed up a big bamboo. When he was only halfway up the bamboo, there was a "crack" and the bamboo broke. He fell heavily and sat down on the ground intertwined with fallen leaves. Fortunately, there was no hurt. This sound alarmed the people in the embroidery building. There were footsteps inside. He heard it and stood up quickly. He didn't know whether to run away or face it. He imagined himself in a panic and felt panicked.
Suddenly he found an old woman's face peeking out of the window of the embroidered building, probably Bao Quan's mother, looking at him, and then quickly retracted. After a while, he seemed to hear mutterings in the embroidery building, and then he saw the back of the old woman who walked out of the embroidery building and turned into the previous tile-roofed house. He didn't know if Bao Quan was in the embroidery building, so he walked out of the bamboo garden and walked around to the embroidery building. Just as he was about to go up the stairs, he heard a burst of crying in the embroidery building. For some reason, he quietly went upstairs, looked into the embroidery room, and saw Bao Quan. Tsuen threw herself on a table and was sobbing. He tiptoed in and patted Bao Quan on the shoulder. Bao Quan thought her mother was protecting her and kept quiet. Yuan Fangyi realized something and said softly: Sister, Yuan Fang is here, why are you crying? When Bao Quan heard the voice, she knew who it was. She turned her head and then hugged her head and cried, looking very sad. Yuan Fang asked what happened, but she didn't say anything and still just cried. While crying, he opened the dowry, pointed at a pile of scraps of paper and said hesitantly, "I'm sorry for you, for not keeping your contract and the ball of paper with the writing on it."
Yuan Fang has not yet reacted. Bao Quan added: My family has cooked rice candy recently. I will leave some for you to eat. I put a piece of rice candy on the dowry box where the contract and paper balls were kept. Because they were not sealed properly, the mouse stole the rice candy and sprinkled it. You peed on the contract and the paper ball, and you didn’t say a word until it was soaked. The hateful mouse chewed the contract and the paper ball into scraps. Now the handwriting is blurred. I’m worried that it will affect your work and mood. , and began to cry anxiously.
Yuan Fang felt that this was not a trivial matter, and was a little nervous. Suddenly he thought of his colleague, the big man with a long face, who had the same contract as him. When the payment was due, he would not be afraid of the gold-rimmed glasses not recognizing the payment. He said it doesn't matter, I have a way to solve this problem, why should I be frightened by this little thing? Seeing what Bao Quan said, he suddenly stood up with tears in his eyes and smiled. Yuan Fang hugged her and said: I will soon get 5,000 coins as a betrothal gift, and I can proudly worship your parents - my parents-in-law.
Don't be too happy, I still don't know if you can handle that matter smoothly. Bao Quan deliberately played the opposite tune.
Yuan Fangxin still felt a little uneasy. In order to prove that this matter was not a big problem, he said that he was going to find the contract for the collection of the big man with a long face. As long as his contract was there, were he afraid that the gold-rimmed glasses would not admit it? In this way, Bao Quan would not keep him. After sending him downstairs, walking around the embroidery building, and making out in the bamboo garden for a while, Bao Quan returned, only to run into his mother. Her mother said that she had opened a wooden window upstairs in the front room and had a glimpse of Yuan Fang. The body shape and appearance of the men, I just can’t hear what you are saying. The mother also asked Yuan Fang what good news he brought this time. Bao Quan said that he came to pick up the contract and planned to use it to collect the pawn shop bonus. But when he came, I was embarrassed and worried. He said it didn't matter. There was also a contract with my colleague, so I was a little relieved.
After Yuan Fang left Bao Quan, he went straight to the pawn shop and found a big man with a long face who said that his contract was bitten into pieces by rats when he left it with his girlfriend Bao Quan. The big man looked at him with a long face and smiled bitterly, saying that although the contract was not lost, it had been bitten by rats. Yuan Fang said it doesn't matter if you break a little hole.
The big man with a long face thought it was a big deal. He took out the contract from his underwear and unfolded it. It was precisely the number written on it - 3,000 shillings for each prize - that had been chewed into holes by mice. He said that I was about to find you to see if the contract in your collection was complete, but you were more anxious than me. Yuan Fang said, it's over. It would be difficult if the gold-rimmed glasses turned against each other and refused to admit their fault.
When they got off work, they told Gold-rimmed Glasses about the situation one after another. He took off the frame of his gold-rimmed glasses, took out a piece of fine silk from the eyelet of his clothes, and slowly wiped the two lenses alternately. After a long time, he called the big man with a long face in front of him and asked him to take the contract that had been chewed into a big hole by the mouse. When he came to see it, he said with gold-rimmed glasses and a half-smile: This matter is not easy to handle.
how do I say this? The big man had a mysterious look on his face and said, Boss Wan, we still had a gentleman's agreement at that time. A gentleman's agreement is a verbal agreement. This written agreement can only be used as a reference.
Nonsense, written agreements should be counted, oral agreements should not be counted. I'm not confused about this. Wan Jin put on his glasses, raised his neck and walked away. Yuan Fang stepped in front of him, looked at him and said: Boss Wan, can you bring your share of the contract? As long as your share exists.
Hey, that's really whimsical. Wan Jin frowned and said: Why are you blocking my way? You can file a complaint if you have reason to do so.
Yuan Fang said, we are going to file a lawsuit. We have signed a contract but will not commit to it.
I just want you to file a complaint, but why should you file a complaint? Wan Jin said, come with your own contract, and whatever is written in the contract will be fulfilled. What do you want me to do with the contract? I said I didn't sign a contract, so what?
The big man with a long face was so angry that he clenched his fists tightly, but he still suppressed his anger. Otherwise, even their wages will be affected. Yuan Fang was very anxious, knowing that Wan Jin had "rejected", but he controlled himself and did not get angry easily. He only asked when Wan Jin would give him one year's wages. Wan Jin said that after the pawn shop collected the recovered coins, Make further arrangements.
