Chapter 30
Wait until you can get married?
To Bai He and Lu Ju, it was a blatant crime. Although the three hundred taels the girl sent to Mo Zi was very sudden, and they wanted to plead for her, Mo Zi sealed these soft moves with just one sentence.
He came up and confronted the girl head-on. This made the two of them not sure how to speak. They tried to persuade one to calm down, but they were afraid of adding fuel to the other's anger.
Xiaoyi has a chivalrous nature. She will immediately comply with Sanniang's orders. If there is nothing for her to do, she will laugh freely, always looking like an innocent child who is looking forward to a good show, but is extremely disappointed.
Qiu Sanniang's dazzling almond eyes were half-squinted instead of open, her red lips pursed tightly, as if she was about to lose her temper, but she turned her head and said to Bai He, "Go, bring me my little gold."
After Mo Zi heard this, he just snorted, but his arm was pinched hard by Lu Ju next to him, and he changed to a muffled groan in the middle.
"Say less." Lu Ju lowered her voice and said in front of Qiu Sanniang, into Mo Zi's ear.
Mo Zi also went to Lu Ju's ear and said, "I didn't speak just now."
Qiu Sanniang just pretended not to notice the whispering under her eyes.
Bai He came out of the back room, holding a black lacquered wooden box with gold in his hand, with a small golden lock on it.
Qiu Sanniang took out a similarly golden key from her purse, opened the lock, lifted the lid of the box, and put her hand in. Then she heard a clicking sound, and then she saw that there was another golden key in her hand that was even more golden than before.
A golden little abacus.
It was Qiu Sanniang's favorite treasure when she was still doing business with Master Qiu. It was made of pure gold and the size was suitable for her fingers to move.
"Three hundred taels, if I lend it to you, I will receive three cents of the principal a year as interest. As for what you give me back, count more, and it will be 20 taels a year..." Qiu Sanniang picked up the beads with a crackling sound.
When Bai He heard this, he thought that he had made the girl angry, and that was included in the profit. Seeing Mo Zi open his mouth, he thought, yes, he quickly begged for mercy.
"Girl, please stop dialing. It won't be calculated if Xiaojin falls apart. According to the method of collecting three points of interest and paying it back in twenty-two years, when I am 88 years old, I will still owe you a total of 5,200 taels.
"Three points of profit? Eat people without spitting out bones."
Qiu Sanniang originally thought that Mo Zi would owe her 510 taels when the abacus beads were set to the third year. She just felt something was wrong, but she didn't expect that Mo Zi had already reported the debt seventy years later.
"Five...five...thousand..." Luju was so frightened that she stuttered.
In fact, Qiu Sanniang settled the accounts very quickly. She figured out at once that the amount of money she paid back must be higher than the amount of money, so that she could settle the accounts.
"Besides, girl, I also said that if you can marry into the prince's palace, we can talk about these three hundred taels." Mo Zi was really angry today.
Bai He's eyes were green and he thought, Auntie, why did you say it again?
"This matter -" Qiu Sanniang was not angry, but still smiled, making thousands of peach blossoms bloom charmingly, "Now it is up to me. Besides, don't you hope that I will marry well?"
"That was my wish three hundred taels ago." Mo Zi felt that he usually served Qiu Sanniang very hard, but why did he suddenly get a bolt from the blue?
"Bai He, Lu Ju, you two go down." Qiu Sanniang waved her sleeves, and Su Su snow plum blossoms appeared one after another.
When the others went out, Qiu Sanniang laughed twice and said, "It's not impossible for me to come out with three hundred taels."
"Then it's your turn, and I'm not the one to get married." Mo Zi thought, but didn't say it out loud. Provocations should be stopped in moderation.
"If it's me, you'll have to sign the contract again. Is that okay?" Qiu Sanniang smiled with absolutely evil intentions, "You said, as long as it's my business, it's your business. I don't count.
It's very difficult for you. Three hundred taels of silver is not easy for you, but it may not be impossible. After all, unlike Bai Helu Ju, you have a chance, right?"
Mo Zi understood, "Since the girl knows that it is not easy, she also mentioned the contract. If I can really pay three hundred taels of silver, can it be rescheduled? I don't dare to be greedy for more, just reduce it by one year."
"Yes." Qiu Sanniang's eyebrows stretched, "If you can't do it, you will have to add five years."
"A word is settled." Five for one is not unequal, but Mo Zi has to agree.
At this moment, she suddenly remembered what Wei Da said when he bet her to win - wealth is sought in danger. She does not seek wealth, only freedom. It is not to escape or cheat, but to feel guilty and truly win it back with her own ability.
Freedom. Otherwise, if she could escape from the small Qiu Mansion, could she still escape this social system that is full of traps for orphans and makes people cry when they die?
The wings will gradually become fuller, and all she needs to do is wait and wait for the opportunity.
Scheming? No, he is a lonely traveler wandering in the wrong era and has to protect his own instinct.
"Xiaoyi, you are the witness." Qiu Sanniang ordered.
"Yes." Xiaoyi looked serious and impartial as soon as he heard the order.
"Mo Zi, now that we have an agreement, you will no longer have the idea of deliberately sabotaging this marriage?" Qiu Sanniang was still worried. The whole thing originated from her impromptu joke. A young lady cannot bow her head to a maid, so
The more they talked, the more serious they became. If she hadn't come up with the idea to make an agreement, there might have been a rift between them.
"The girl's business is Mo Zi's business." This is another mantra, which is equivalent to the modern saying "The customer is God." "Mo Zi will go and inquire now. If there is a problem with character, Mo Zi should ask the girl to consider it."
Other people, don’t waste your whole life just for the three hundred taels of agreement.”
Mo Zi retreated.
"Xiaoyi." The remaining one is the one who knows her true temperament best.
"Miss." Xiaoyi sat down in a chair with his feet up on the armrests.
"Have we seen her begging for mercy?" She lowered her head very consciously every time, and lowered her hands very submissively every time, but for some reason, it was very dazzling to see.
"When I put my fingerprints on the deed, Miss." Xiaoyi thought very seriously.
"That doesn't count, she even bargained with me." She was almost dead, speaking with more air coming out and less air coming in, and her bones were clanking. "I am the one who suffers."
I picked someone up and stayed in a room. I randomly found a barefoot doctor and gave him five taels of silver for diagnosis and medicine. After he finally succeeded in surviving, he became his ready-made master. No matter what Xiaoyi thought, he didn't think Qiu Sanniang was the best.
She suffered a loss. But if she didn't continue, she was afraid that the lady would never be finished.
"Then I never begged for mercy." After saying that, he was very satisfied with his answer and nodded.
"So, you can't blame me. I asked her to find three hundred taels. It's fine if she doesn't say a few nice words, and she seriously contradicts me." It's not her fault.
"...Mo Zi is honest." Xiao Yi thought about it for a long time.
"True?" Qiu Sanniang smiled happily, "Yes, she is honest to me, but she tells stories and recites poems to others. She is such a smart person, do you think I can compare with her?"
"..." Xiaoyi swallowed and struggled to spit out three words, "It's incomparable."
"Whether it's a big clever thing or a little clever thing, I think we'll know soon." After Qiu Sanniang finished speaking, she turned around and went into the back room to take a nap on the bed.
Chapter completed!