"Does the family really have no money at all? Haven't you been doing embroidery work?" Han Ji lowered his voice and asked Zhang Luoyi.
Zhang Luoyi had a bitter look on her face and shook her head numbly and tiredly: "No more really. It was my mother's birthday last month. I couldn't go back empty-handed to celebrate her, right? So I spent some money to buy gifts; then I became ill. I need to spend money on medical treatment, and I don’t have the energy to continue doing embroidery... The family also has to buy rice, flour, oil and salt..."
"Then what should I do? I haven't received my training for next year yet." Han Ji frowned and said unhappily.
Zhang Luoyi lowered her head and did not answer. If it were before, she could have said to her husband gently and considerately: It doesn't matter, I still have some dowry money.
But now she couldn't say that, because after Han Ji went to Qingyang Academy in the county, her dowry money had been spent long ago. She finally realized the difficulty of breaking a penny in half and spent it. I finally understood why her mother scolded her so hard that she was a fool for spending money on men, but it was already too late.
Han Ji has been studying at Qingyang Academy for more than a year, and there is still a year and a half before the examination for candidates. Zhang Luoyi doubts whether she can continue to do embroidery work to support her husband's education.
"Ms. sir, I really have no choice." Zhang Luoyi replied in a low voice. She used to adore her husband, but now she is so disappointed in him. If he is really so smart and talented, why can't he even earn enough to go to school? So, she, a weak woman, has to work hard to earn money to support him?
Love will be worn away in the hardships day after day. Poor couples suffer from everything. When you live to make money every day, you will no longer be able to enjoy the happiness that love brings to you.
"Then, can you borrow some money from your parents-in-law?" Han Ji finally endured the shame and said this. He had no choice, and he didn't want to borrow money from his parents-in-law. After all, it would make it impossible for him to show up in front of his parents-in-law. He raised his head, but if he didn't borrow money from the Yue family, he would have to interrupt his studies. But now there is only more than a year left before the next national education examination. It is already very tight. If he is unable to further his studies due to lack of money at this time, , that would probably ruin this scientific expedition, and he didn't want to take such a big risk.
When Zhang Luoyi heard what he said, she suddenly raised her head and looked at Han Ji, unable to hide the shock in her eyes.
Han Ji turned his head, not daring to meet her eyes, but he put his arm around Zhang Luoyi's waist, softened his tone and said, "Madam, I know this will make you very embarrassed, but if I can't continue studying in the academy. I will definitely lag behind others in the next national education examination. If I fail and have to start over, do you still want to continue to live the hard life of the past year? I am doing it for our own good. It will be fine when I pass the examination. Then I will pay back a hundred times what I owe my parents-in-law..."
Zhang Luoyi felt very familiar with what he said. Will she repay him a hundredfold? Isn't this what he said to comfort himself after seeing him take out the dowry money?
Zhang Luoyi was no longer the innocent girl she was when she got married. Her eyes suddenly turned red and she said to Han Ji: "Last time I celebrated my mother's birthday, the gift I bought was cheaper. My sister-in-law secretly said that I was indeed Poor relatives in the countryside, who come to visit me... Now you want me to go to my parents to borrow money? If my sister-in-law finds out, I don't know how ugly she will look on me!"
Han Ji tightened his hands and hugged her tightly: "Madam, I know you are aggrieved, but this is all for our future. When I become a Jinshi and become an official, your sister-in-law will kneel down to please you. , Flatter you, let’s bear with it for now, okay?”
Zhang Luoyi cried silently. She cried for a while and suddenly asked: "Ms. sir, why don't you just borrow money from my father? Instead of asking me to borrow it?"
The expression on Han Ji's face suddenly changed. He didn't know what he thought of. He was distorted for a moment, but he quickly returned to normal and said softly: "Because you are their biological daughter and they love you very much. You go Borrowing is relatively easy, but if I borrow it, it will turn into a very embarrassing situation. After all, the situation is complicated..."
When Zhang Luoyi heard his explanation, she didn't think it was correct. She was sadly aware of the fact that her husband had left the trouble to herself to solve.
But she had no way to refuse, so even though she was unwilling in every way, she finally returned to her parents' home to borrow money.
"What? You said you want to borrow money for Han Ji to study?" Zhang's mother couldn't believe her ears when she heard her daughter's words, "Why do you want to borrow money for Han Ji? After studying for so many years, didn't Han Ji have a good relationship?" A classmate of his? Can’t he borrow money from his classmates? "
Zhang Luoyi defended Han Ji in a low voice: "If my husband borrows money from his classmates, how can he face his classmates?"
"Then he wants you to come back and borrow money from your parents' family. Have you ever thought about how you would face your parents, brothers and sisters?" Mother Zhang asked pointedly.
Zhang Luoyi was silent again. Seeing her like this, Zhang's mother suddenly asked: "Did Han Ji force you to come back to borrow money?"
"No! No! He didn't force me, he just persuaded me!" Zhang Luoyi quickly retorted. Although she was disappointed with her husband, she didn't want her mother to look down on her husband.
"You're still being so arrogant with me!" Mother Zhang sneered, "How could he have money to study in college before you married him? After you married him, he passed the examination and became a scholar, but he had no money to pay Shu Xiu?"
Zhang Luoyi explained nonchalantly: "That's because my mother-in-law used to do embroidery day and night to earn money for him to study. But later, my mother-in-law was overworked, became ill, and her eyes were broken, so she couldn't continue to do embroidery." , and the cost of studying in the town is different from that of studying in the county. The cost of going to the county is much higher..."
"Hmph! After all, it's just that Han Ji has no ability and has to rely on the women at home to work hard to study. It's really useless!" Mother Zhang saw through Han Ji's true nature.
"Mom, don't say that. My husband's ability is not to make money, but to study. He is really talented. He will definitely pass the exam and pass the Jinshi exam. Then you will be the mother-in-law of a high official. How wonderful." Zhang Luoyi cheered up and spoke up for her husband. Now that she was married to Han Ji, she was prosperous and devastated. What else could she do?
"You don't have to say good things for him." Mother Zhang sighed, "I don't know if it was a good thing or a bad thing that I agreed to let you marry him."
Zhang Luoyi tried her best to talk to her parents' family and finally succeeded in borrowing money. However, the Zhang family's impression of Han Ji, their son-in-law, was getting worse.
Originally, Wu Shichu didn't know about Zhang Luoyi's return to her parents' house to borrow money, but when the couple were talking in the room, they started to quarrel for some reason. Zhang Luoyi cried and said, "I will never go back to borrow money next time." ", and asked Han Ji to strive for success and think of ways to earn some money to subsidize, and not to rely on her as a woman for everything...
