Chapter 13: Borrowing Money
"That's OK!"
Jiang Ming didn't say anything more. He knew that farmers like Uncle Li had no extra money, but they still had backbone. I'm afraid that if I continue to persuade him, Uncle Li would not agree.
A "life-saving talisman" is only worth ten cents of copper coins, and it will make Uncle Li feel that he is humiliating him. If he accidentally goes to the extreme, it will be troublesome.
Jiang Ming said: "Uncle Li, I won't talk nonsense with you here. You should go to the town early and buy all the medicinal materials I wrote, so that you can restore your health to Ergouzi as soon as possible.
Furthermore.
Once it’s late, who knows if there will be demons? Or go and come back early!”
Uncle Li nodded, turned around and left, saying, "Then Master Jiang, I will go to the town to buy medicinal materials first. If you have any negligence, please forgive me. Don't be polite, just treat this place as your home!"
Jiang Ming said: "Uncle Li, don't worry, people like me never know how to write the word "polite". Just go and do your business. I will definitely regard this place as my home. By the way, I forgot you said that in addition to using medicine for three meals a day, if you can eat Ergouzi, eat more meat. After all, no matter how good the medicinal materials are, they are not as good as meat. Moreover, they are all ordinary medicinal materials, which is impossible to compare with the nutrition of meat!"
Uncle Li's body stagnated, then quickly walked out of the door and said, "Master Jiang Xiao, don't worry, if I have the conditions, I will definitely prepare some meat for this kid!"
Jiang Ming looked at Uncle Li's back as he left. Although he didn't see his expression, he knew that he was definitely insincere. He even had to borrow money from the village chief for buying medicine. It is conceivable that there was any extra money to buy meat. As for chickens, they were all used to lay eggs, and they were usually reluctant to eat them. He took out a purse, then took out ten taels of silver again, and stuffed it to Ergouzi.
Ergouzi looked at him at a loss and said, "Brother Jiang, you, what do you mean?"
Jiang Ming said: "What can it mean? Of course, it is to ask you to buy meat. Don't you want to eat meat?"
Ergouzi swallowed and nodded, shook his head again, and said, "Brother Jiang, look at what you said, who doesn't want to eat meat? Say something you are not afraid of, Brother Jiang, eating meat is my lifelong dream, but I can't take this money!"
As the saying goes: Children from poor families will become their families early!
Although he was still a little unreliable, he still understood everything he should have. He knew that the wallet his father gave Jiang Ming was his life-saving money, and he also added ten taels of silver to it. How could he have the nerve to take it?
"Can't take it? What can't be taken?"
Jiang Ming snorted coldly, glared at Ergouzi, and said, "I didn't give this money to you for free, but it's because your family has serious financial problems at present, so I lend it to you first so that you can get through the difficulties first!"
Ergouzi pushed Jiang Ming's money and said, "Brother Jiang, I appreciate your kindness. Our family has no money at the moment, but our family can borrow it from the village chief, and we can still overcome the current difficulties!"
"I don't know the situation of your village chief. Their family is richer than yours, but they have a larger population and they are all digging food from the soil. Even if they have extra money, they can't borrow much!"
Jiang Ming snorted coldly, pointing out the seriousness of the problem, and said, "I'm afraid I can only borrow usury. Although you are still young, you should also know what 'usury loans are'? It's something that ruins the family. I wonder how many people borrow usury loans and have their whole family finished playing.
Of course, even if your village chief has lent you extra money, you should think about how to pay it back? It is impossible for you to really delay your family for a year or two. So if you really want to pay it back quickly, you can only go up the mountain to hunt. The prey on the mountain is so powerful that you are a native farmer. It is impossible for you to know if your father is capable of hunting prey on the mountain.
Just say that there are not only prey, but also demons on this mountain.
Under all circumstances, there is a high possibility of accidents!"
Ergou opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but for some reason, he just couldn't say anything when he spoke.
He is young, but he already understands everything he should understand.
"Bang!"
Ergouzi slapped himself with all his might, and burst into tears and said, "Blame me, it's all my fault. If it weren't for me, I wouldn't have been like this!"
"Okay, if you can remember this lesson, I don't think your father and mother will regret it, spend this little money!"
Jiang Ming grabbed it with one hand, Ergouzi was about to slap his second face, stuff his wallet into Ergouzi, and said, "By the way, tell me, what is the situation of your kid? You will leave Lijia Village. You are so old. Not only me, but you are afraid that your father and mother have already explained it to you. You must never leave Lijia Village alone!"
Ergouzi trembled all over, as if he had thought of something, and said, "Brother Jiang, that's the case..."
After a long time, Jiang Ming's face changed slightly. After hearing Ergouzi's narration, he understood what was going on and said: "It seems that cleaning up the nearby demons is a bit sparse during this period, otherwise the demons would not dare to come to the village to lure you boy!"
"Master Jiang Xiaodao, the food is cooked. Come and see if the food is suitable for your appetite. If it doesn't work, I will kill the chicken and stew the soup for you!"
Suddenly, a shout came from outside the bedroom. Jiang Ming stood up and said, "Aunt Li, I'm here!"
"Remember, when your father or mother come over, you will give them the wallet. If they don't want it, tell them that I'm lending it to them and I must pay it back, but there is no time limit. When will I get rich and when will I pay it back!"
Jiang Ming gave an instructor and got up and left.
After a long time, Aunt Li saw Jiang Ming put down the bowls and chopsticks and said, "Master Jiang Xiaoyao, how about it? Is the food in our house still suitable for your taste!"
Jiang Ming raised his thumb and said, "Aunt Li, don't say that your skills are unique, and you are many times better than the food my master cooks!"
Aunt Li knew that Jiang Ming was just talking, not talking about her cooking skills, but she just talked about her food, just plain rice. Even she was almost tired of eating it, but she couldn't help but be extremely happy and said, "Master Jiang Xiao, you can just talk. I am a farm craftsman, and at most I can eat it. How could Master Song have good cooking skills?"
"Aunt Li, don't be too modest!"
Jiang Ming stood up and said, "It's getting late. Aunt Li, I'll go back first. If Ergouzi has any problems, you must come to me as soon as possible!"
Chapter completed!