FID – Chapter 490

  Chapter 490: 50 Thousand Taels of Debt

  ”She may not still be saved.” Wei Hong did not want to discourage Liu Zhiqiu, but she needed to remind him of the facts. “Although her body did not stiffen, and even her wounds healed themselves, these may be the effects of the drugs, nothing more. Zhiqiu, she has no body temperature, no heartbeat, and no pulse.”

  Liu Zhiqiu fell silent for a moment, then raised his eyes. “I want to try.”

  ”I’ll send the letter.” Wei Hong sighed.

  The members of the Liu family were stubborn in their bones.

  Once a decision is made, it must be acted upon.

  With such a family style, it was useless to stop any of them.

  Early the next morning, when Liu Erlin and Du Juan got the news, they almost staggered down on the ground in fright.

  Liu Erlin’s lips trembled, “The corpse re-revived?”

  The other three, “…”

  ”Father, Mother, the medicine that Nannan refined is unusual. We all know that. I just want to try my best. Whether the result is good or bad, it all depends on her luck,” Liu Zhiqiu said.

  They all knew who she he was referring to.

  Du Juan said, “Now that you’ve decided, go ahead. Our home has me, your father, and Dahong. No matter how bad something occurs, we have neighbors in the village to help us. Don’t worry about us.”

  ”There are supplies in the winery. When I pass by the county, I will notify our partner merchants to pick up the goods by themselves. Aunt Hong, please watch over the handover.” Liu Zhiqiu made the next arrangements, and then held out his hand to Du Juan. “Mother, give me some money.”

  ”Aren’t you rich yourself?” Du Juan glared at him.

  ”I have no money. My money was spent on jade hairpins during the Lunar New Year.”

  ”You bastard, are you still trying to fool me? Yesterday, you spent 50 thousand taels in one go. When you took it out, you didn’t even blink your eyes. You were so generous, and now you have the nerve to ask me some of it?”

  ”The 50 thousand isn’t my money. I took it from my grandma’s money box.”

  50 thousand taels, if he had that much money, could he still be stingy with the New Year’s red envelope?

  ”…” This time, before Du Juan could find a broom, Liu Erlin took off his shoes and beat his son. “You wastrel, 50 thousand taels, ah. I’ve been wondering why you were suddenly so generous. It turns out that you pried your grandma’s money box! You prodigal son, don’t you run away, I’ll beat you to death today. I’ll kick you out of the house!”

  Liu Zhiqiu jumped up the wall in the blink of an eye, and crouched down and faced Liu Erlin, who couldn’t reach him even if he jumped up and down. “Dad, don’t be mad. I’ll secretly return when I earn money. I’ll also give you and mother some. If you don’t tell on me, Mother and Aunt Hong won’t either, and nobody can find out. I guess Grandma doesn’t even know how much money she has saved. Besides, she has never studied, so she can’t count big numbers.”

  The three in the yard, “…”

  Liu Erlin was persuaded. He threw his shoes on the ground and put them on. “You’d better remember that. 50 thousand taels, if you pay one less, I will beat you to death!”

  After breakfast, Liu Zhiqiu pulled up the carriage, took the corpse and followed his mother to grab a 100 taels of stashed money. Afterward, he hit the road alone.

  While driving the carriage throughout the journey, Liu Zhiqiu’s frown never stretched.

  With a debt of 50,000 taels, if he worked for Nannan, he could earn up to 500 taels a year, including affinity bonuses.

  It would take him a hundred years to pay back 50 thousand.

  He would have to live until he was 123 years old to pay off all his debts.

  This was definitely impossible. He must think of other ways to do it.

  Every year, he could receive a hundred taels from his eldest brother, and could coax a few hundreds more from Qian Wanjin, the fool. There was also Feng Qingbai. He couldn’t swindle him, but he could make a deal with him…

  He must show his brotherhood somehow.

  He couldn’t be paying his debts all his life. How sad that must be.

  When passing through the county seat, Liu Zhiqiu first went to the various partner merchants to inform them that he would be absent for a while. Thus, the delivery and payment of the winery would be temporarily handed over to the village chiefs and Wei Hong.

  These merchants were shrewd, and it was common for them to screw others to gain some benefits. But when it came to the Xinghua Village Winery, they dared not.

  Their partnerships have just been established. If their integrity was lost from the get go, they would be discarded from the medicine and wine business in the future.

  Would that be the same as picking up sesame seeds and losing watermelons?

  No one would be so stupid to dig their own grave.

  There were countless people below them, eyeing to get a piece of the pie from their hands.

  For the last trip, Liu Zhiqiu went to Wanjin Restaurant again and told the shopkeeper to pick up the goods by himself.

  He took away the only horse-drawn carriage left at home, so he couldn’t let Wei Hong drive an ox-cart to deliver the goods.

  When he came out of the restaurant, he bumped into Kang Ziyu.

  At this time, she was surrounded by a few young ladies in brocade clothes.

  The two brushed past each other, neither greeting the other out.

  After seeing that Liu Zhiqiu’s carriage drifted far away, the few ladies around Kang Ziyu chattered.

  ”That was the young boss of Xinghua Village Winery, right? Sister Kang, didn’t you often go to Xinghua Village before? Why don’t you know him?”

  Kang Ziyu walked into the restaurant with her back straight. “What kind of boss is he? He’s but a long-term worker for his family. How can a country bumpkin climb his way up to me?”

  A few ladies behind them looked at each other, covered their lips and laughed. “I mean, Sister Kang is the county magistrate’s daughter, how can she be acquainted with a peasant. Even if we can exchange a word, how can we have the same topics? We talk about the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, but they talk about farming in the fields.”

  ”Let’s go in. Don’t you want to treat me to breakfast?”

  ”Yes, yes, let’s get in quick. It’s rare to invite Miss Kang to join us, so we can’t neglect her.” Some noblemen approached Kang Ziyu and joked, “Miss Kang is a big Buddha. We have failed to invite her several times before, but this time we smoothly invited her here. So, we must have a drink and celebrate.”

  Kang Ziyu listened to these compliments around her, and her lips curled slightly. The picture of the young man passing by her just now flashed in her mind.

  It was as if he didn’t know her. He didn’t spare her a sideway glance, nor spare even a single glance at her.

  What did he have to be proud of?

  She, Kang Ziyu, still had a circle of support without Li Junyue, and without Liu Zhiqiu.

  Most people wanted to flatter her.

  There was no shortage of people, who pleased her, around her!

  Liu Zhiqiu was totally in the dark about her thoughts and didn’t care.

  She was none of his business. In the future, he’d just treat her like a stranger when they meet.

  You really had to come into contact with some people and lift their veils to the nature behind them.

  Capital.

  After Liu Zhixia and Fu Yuzheng’s festive wedding, life slowly returned to order.

  The elders initially intended to return to Xinghua Village once the wedding was over and the dust had settled.

  They just didn’t expect Fu Yuzheng to be pregnant, so they postponed their return trip.

  Fu Yuzheng didn’t have a family, and it was the first time she was pregnant. She had no knowledge about many things, so if the elders didn’t watch and take care of her, they couldn’t rest assured.

  After the marriage, she was a member of the family, and she was also carrying the first golden great-grandson of the Liu family.

  The elders were so focused on Fu Yuzheng that Liu Zhixia became pitiful.

  He was almost driven to the study room to sleep.

  If not for his firm resistance, he probably couldn’t even hug his wife at night.