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Ah!” When the embroidery lady heard these words, she was so frightened that she stood up from the ground. With a bang, the medicine jar was knocked to the ground. The boiling hot medicine splashed onto their feet, burning the two people to the point they were crying out in pain.
Those two people were none other than Meng Liang and Qian Xi.
”I... I didn't borrow five hundred liang from anyone! ” Embroidered, she could not believe it, she remembered now that her tears were almost coming out.
”Have you two made a mistake!” Xiu Niang said anxiously. Five hundred liang! she thought. None of our families combined have that much money!
”Humph!” ”Wrong?” Meng Liang sneered. He took out a piece of paper and placed it in front of the embroidery lady. ”Do you recognize this?”
Xiu Niang saw that the paper was the IOU written for her by the kind-hearted young master.
”This IOU is not bad, but I only borrowed fifty liang from that young master! Furthermore, the Young Master has said that he can let me off later! ” At this moment, the embroidery lady vaguely guessed something, but she was still unable to figure it out.
”Humph!” ”Little girl, you're still so stubborn even now!” Qian Xi pointed to the embroidery lady and said, ”Now, this note is written in black and white. You've borrowed five hundred taels of silver from our Young Master Shu, and now you should pay back six hundred taels of silver in return. Do you still want to deny it?”
Xiu Niang's heart skipped a beat and she was immediately stunned. She knew that she had been tricked. How was this a kind-hearted person, this was clearly taking advantage of the situation! He had borrowed fifty taels of silver, but then again, he had borrowed five hundred taels of silver just because he couldn't read.
”Look at you, you can't afford to pay me back!” How about this, we will give you two choices. One, go to the Shu Family and be Young Master Shu's concubine. Second, let's go to the yamen and fight a lawsuit! If you don't want to choose either one, then you have to pay back the money. ”
Meng Liang carefully put away the IOU and said to the embroidery lady.
The more she thought about it, the more wronged she became. He sat on the floor and started crying. Seeing this, the two knew that it was useless to speak to the embroidery lady again. They could only run over tomorrow.
It just so happened that old man Wang and the others said their goodbyes to Luo Lingwei and the others, and each of them came back with gold and silver. Not long after Meng Liang and Qian Xi left, old man Wang came to the door. He saw the embroidery lady sitting on the ground and wailing. He hurriedly stepped forward and asked with concern, ”My daughter, what's wrong? Uncle Wang is here, so don't cry.
After trying to coax her for less than an hour, she finally stopped crying. The two of them sat at home. Xiu Niang poured a bowl of water for old man Wang and told him the whole story while sobbing.
Old man Wang was also very angry when he heard this. He thought to himself that these people were really something. Seeing that the lady was pretty, he wanted to kidnap her mother when she was sick.
”My daughter, don't be anxious. Didn't they want money? Uncle Wang just happens to have some money today. ” Old man Wang said as he took out the money Luo Lingwei gave him earlier.
He counted out six hundred taels of silver and handed it to the embroidery lady.
”My daughter, there are exactly six hundred liang of silver here. Prepare to send it to that person tomorrow, and this will be over. In the future, just live a good life with your mother.”
Xiu Niang looked at the 600 taels of silver on the table. She was extremely touched.