"Liu Laizi! I'm begging you. For the sake of helping you in the past, please return the money to me! If not, my family will really be unable to open the door!"
The middle-aged man begged, his expression moving.
The onlookers all around also spoke out:
"That's right! You Liu Laizi, you came to my teahouse to drink tea together back then. You were like brothers. You said that if you don't have money, that's it. If you have money, why don't you give it back to others!"
"This person is really nothing..."
"Your cloth shop was built because someone lent you money back then, otherwise you wouldn't be where you are today?"
When the short and dark Liu Laizi heard these voices, he felt a little angry, a little troubled, a little distressed, and made up ten thousand unwillingnesses, but in front of so many people, he did not dare to quibble and get angry.
It's just that he also has his own methods.
"Ouch……"
Liu Laizi's face fell down and he looked pitiful:
"Where do I have the money? If I had the money, why wouldn't I pay it back to you? We two brothers had a friendship at the beginning. Isn't the money I owe you still in my heart?"
"You said this! Feel your conscience, do you believe it?" the middle-aged man cried.
Among the many people watching, those who knew them or knew about this incident also spoke:
"Nonsense!"
"The dogs don't believe it!"
But Liu Laizi didn't listen at all and just continued:
"Don't look at it. I opened a small cloth shop. It seems like I can make some money, but in fact it's all a loss. My family can't blame it! The clothes I'm wearing look pretty respectable, but after all, I'm not.
I've been wearing it for four or five years. If I hadn't gone out today... I wouldn't have been able to wear it. It's worn out even at home..."
"You dare to say that you are carrying such a big box and there is no money in it?"
"This..." Liu Laizi was startled and immediately said, "Of course there is no money in it!"
"You're still lying! Why did I become friends with you when I was blind in the first place!" The middle-aged man's voice became hoarse, and he held on to Liu Laizi's clothes, "You go and pay for the goods to shopkeeper Zhang from Chengnan Clothing Store today.
, you think I don’t know? Open the box and take a look!”
"you……"
Liu Laizi immediately panicked and started arguing with him. No matter what, he said that he had no money.
A group of Taoists watched from outside.
Yesterday, I spent half a day with this middle-aged man, and I knew that he was actually a kind-hearted person. If not, he would not have lent more than a hundred taels of silver to an unrelated person.
It can be seen that he has made preparations before coming today. He knew that Liu Laizi was going to pay for the goods, so he arrived outside the city a day in advance and came to the city to block him early in the morning. Judging from the behavior of the onlookers around, similar dramas did not appear.
I know how many times it has happened.
However, this person is really a scoundrel.
It's just that this middle-aged man helped them clean up in the Taoist temple last night. Even though he didn't have much power, it was still a friendship, but no one could see it. Not to mention such things, even passers-by felt angry when they saw it.
But when encountering such a scoundrel, even if everyone has the ability to subjugate demons, it will be difficult to deal with him. Not to mention Taoist people who value money more than life, even if the gods come, they may not be able to do anything.
Lin Jue was thinking——
I do have a magical silver technique.
It's just that although I have mastered the magic of phantom silver, since the yin and yang spiritual method I have practiced is quite suitable for this kind of mysterious magic, the effect is not bad, and it can take care of some time. But the person asking for money is a middle-aged man, and Liu Laizi has to get it.
If you take out money from your hand, if you use this spell, you have to design it carefully.
"I'm really not talking nonsense! I was planning to go to Shopkeeper Zhang of Buzhuang and ask him to give me credit!"
"Then open the box and take a look!"
"How can that be done? There are things belonging to my daughter's house inside. My little girl is not married yet. How can I just take them out and look at them!"
"My daughter is going to starve to death..."
"I also want to pay back the money! Give me more grace and let me think of a way! Trust me again!"
While several Taoists were thinking and thinking of ways, the seventh senior brother had already walked out and said:
"The money I borrowed from someone was a favor and friendship. This good believer can no longer open the door. Since Mr. Liu is willing to find a way to pay back the money and let shopkeeper Zhang of Buzhuang buy it on credit, why not borrow some money and pay it back to this person first?
Where is the good believer who helped you? So that his family can afford food."
When the two of them heard this, they both turned to look.
When the middle-aged man saw that it was the Taoist he met yesterday, he felt a little grateful, but he didn't have many other thoughts in a hurry, so he just raised his hand to wipe away his tears.
When Liu Laizi saw someone coming to speak for the middle-aged man again, he was distressed and angry, and he reprimanded:
"To put it lightly! Where can I borrow the money to pay it back?
"Who wants to lend me money?
"Who among you here is willing? This money is not a small amount, who can lend it?
"Could it be possible, Taoist priest, that you can lend it to me?"
When the Seventh Senior Brother heard this last sentence, he immediately smiled, as he had been waiting for this sentence.
"sure!"
"Um?"
Liu Laizi was stunned: "What did you say?"
"I can lend it to you if I am a poor man."
"Can you lend it to me?"
"Why not?" Seventh Brother said with a smile, "The good believer next to Liu Gong met yesterday and knew that he was a good person. Liu Gong was able to become friends with him when he was young. Most of them are also good people. I think he is just living in embarrassment at this time.
, I really can’t come up with the money.”
"No! Taoist priest, no!"
When the middle-aged man heard this, he looked panicked. Even if he could get the money back, he still wanted to dissuade him:
"This Liu Laizi is now a well-known old man. Even the shopkeeper of the cloth store has to take money before he will deliver the goods to him. If you lend him money, you will definitely never repay it!"
The seventh senior brother just smiled and said to them:
"The good believer is not in a hurry, Pindao has money. It happened that Pindao passed through Cuiwei County before and received a lot of money from good people in the city. If Liu Gong is really willing, Pindao will lend it to Liu Gong first and return it to the good believer."
"..."
After Liu Laizi was stunned, he stood there and thought to himself.
The middle-aged man next to him kept trying to persuade me.
Some of the onlookers around were admonishing Brother Seventh.
However, the seventh senior brother all smiled and declined, stubbornly believing that such a thing would not happen and told them not to worry.
Soon, Liu Laizi finally made up his mind:
"Say it first! Even if you are willing to borrow, I don't have any collateral!"
"Can!"
"Huh?" Liu Laizi was stunned. This person simply made him feel a little uneasy. Thoughts flashed in his eyes, and he added, "My shop is not doing well and is losing money. You can lend it to me and I will give it a day or two."
I’m afraid it won’t be enough.”
"It doesn't matter. Pindao will live in the original Qingyi Temple outside the city. Pindao is a monk and has nothing to spend money on, so there is no need to worry."
Hearing this, Lin Jue and the junior sister looked at each other.
Liu Laizi thought again:
"Then I have to make an agreement. Since it is the money you lent me to repay Luo Laosan, I will not handle it and give it directly to Luo Laosan. I don't care whether the money is real or fake. I will return it to him anyway.
!The debt will be cleared!”
"Mr. Liu is really shrewd and cautious. No wonder his business can be so big." Brother Seventh smiled, "I am a monk, not a magician. How can I use counterfeit silver? That is a serious crime."
"That……"
Liu Laizi continued to look at him, and then said: "It's settled! I'll pay you back if I have the money, but I don't have it now. How about I write you an IOU first and use a piece of good cloth as collateral for you?"
"This is even better!" Senior Brother Seven smiled brightly, "Mr. Liu is indeed a kind man!"
"Wait for me a moment!"
Liu Laizi then pulled the cart back.
The people around him all looked at this foolish Taoist. Some were watching the excitement, while others felt the same and were worried about him.
Especially the middle-aged man named Luo Laosan was the most anxious.
"Taoist Master, you are so careless..."
"It's still too late for Taoist Master to regret it!"
"Taoist Priest, I see you are quite young, why are you so confused!"
"Just lend him the money. After receiving the IOU, if you can hire a lawyer to take care of it, then if you go to the government to get the money back, it's not impossible to get the money back! But you shouldn't, you just shouldn't accept it.
His piece of cloth is used as a mortgage! That piece of coarse cloth is not worth much. After you take it, it will be even harder to get money!"
Everyone, you have a mouth and I have a mouth.
Which ordinary person has never encountered this kind of thing? Regardless of whether he is usually kind-hearted or not, I want to wake him up at this time.
After persuading, Liu Laizi ran back with a piece of cloth in his arms, as if he was afraid that the Taoist would regret it.
"Taoist Master, take it!"
"Thank you."
The seventh brother looked at the piece of cloth and found that it was just a piece of coarse cloth and not valuable, as the people around him said.
However, he had just arrived at Qingyi Temple, and there was nothing in the temple, and the monks could not use any good cloth. This coarse cloth was good for making door curtains, pillowcases, aprons, etc.
Unexpectedly, there was an unexpected gain.
Senior Brother Seven smiled and said, "Write an IOU."
I immediately borrowed pen and paper, wrote the IOU, and signed and pledged it.
"Where's the money?"
Liu Laizi looked at him with the IOU.
"Wait a minute, let me look for it." The seventh senior brother smiled and walked aside, "How much does a hundred taels of silver, plus interest, cost now?"
"What interest?"
"How can you borrow so much money without interest? How can you do it without interest?"
Just when Liu Laizi was about to retort, he heard the people around him began to scold him again. He was afraid of being scolded and that it would affect his future business. He thought that it was the Taoist priest who paid for it anyway, and he "couldn't afford it" anyway, so he simply said
:
"Then I'll just rewrite it! How about calculating the interest on twenty taels of silver for him?"
"Twenty taels in more than ten years? It's still fifty taels anyway."
"Fifty? Then..."
"If Mr. Liu lends it to me, the interest will not be charged."
"That's what you said! Fifty is fifty!"
"Please rewrite the IOU!"
Liu Laizi then tore up the IOU and wrote another one.
The seventh brother continued to withdraw money.
Everyone saw the Taoist take off a package from the horse's back. The package was bulging, but it looked very light, so he put his hand in and groped around.
He took out an ingot of honeycomb silver for a girdle.
Take out a few broken pieces of silver at once.
After doing this several times, I finally collected one hundred and fifty taels.
"money!"
"IOU!"
"Luo Laosan, where is your IOU?"
The three of them stood together, Liu Laizi gave the IOU to the seventh senior brother, the seventh senior brother gave the money to the middle-aged man, and the middle-aged man gave the old and yellowed IOU to Liu Laizi.
Liu Laizi tore it up on the spot.
The people around him lamented that this Taoist was ignorant, and some felt that this Taoist had someone to rely on, which made him so confident.
Only Liu Laizi was secretly happy.
Luo Laosan has been pestering him for several years. Although he doesn't want to pay back the money, he still feels annoyed. I didn't expect to meet a kind-hearted stupid Taoist priest today...
I was freed myself.
I couldn't help but look back while walking.
I saw that although Luo Laosan got the money, he was still anxious, following the group of Taoists, and kept saying something.
I'm afraid I'm speaking ill of myself.
But just at this glance, Liu Laizi happened to see the stupid Taoist carrying the package, and put the IOU he gave him into the package with his backhand, but did not put it away.
At the beginning of autumn, it was windy.
When the wind blew, the IOU was blown down.
"Um?"
Liu Laizi's eyes widened, and with quick hands and feet, he immediately ran over and picked up the IOU.
Spread it out and take a look——
Sure enough, it's the one I just wrote.
"Haha! Wonderful!"
Liu Laizi smiled while stroking his palms!
Now I am really happy!
Never thought that extreme joy would lead to sorrow——
It wasn't until he took the mule and cart to the cloth store in the south of the city, and asked shopkeeper Zhang to pay for the goods, that he opened the box and found out that there were originally more than 150 taels of silver in the box.
All of them were gone.
There are only a few taels of silver left.
Liu Laizi immediately panicked, broke out in a cold sweat, and started searching frantically.
But where can I find it?
It wasn't until I touched the IOU I had written in my arms, calculated the amount of money, and found that it matched exactly, that I realized what I was doing.
Liu Laizi suddenly turned pale, as if he had been struck by lightning, and even lost his balance and almost fell to the ground.
After a while, half of the city could hear his crying and cursing.
One morning, people who had watched the debt collection scene where he and Luo Laosan were arguing passed by and heard his cries. They were surprised and confused at first. After listening to a few more words, they gradually came to their senses.
It turns out that Taoist is really good at magic.
This incident spread quickly in Mingxia County.
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Chapter completed!