Li Lao said to Pang Yu again, "I usually know the reasons everywhere. The Zhou family is also an ordinary family, and they may not be able to afford two hundred taels. Looking at Pang Geer's rich appearance, he must not be a short-lived person.
I don't think the injury will be serious, but I am relying on my old age, so please give in, Brother Pang."
Pang Yu, He Xianya, and Jiao Guozha rolled their eyes around each other and communicated with their eyes. Of course Mr. Li, the mediator, would say this, because if the mediation failed, Mr. Li would not get the mediation money.
Originally, the Li Lao should have been elected, but later they were appointed by local officials. From the original co-governance of the government and the people to the government's minions, corruption and bribery among the Li Lao became common. The Shenming Pavilion system existed in name only in many places. Although Tongcheng was well preserved, the sitting pavilion was not.
Li Lao basically bought it with money, and it was impossible to go back without earning money.
However, it seems that Shopkeeper Zhou only has so much money. Even if he is forced to go to court to litigate, he will still have that little money, but his joints will need to be taken care of a lot more. At least the punishment room, the commission room, the magistrate's friend, and the soap squad leader all need to be taken care of.
, there will be a lot more people handling it below, and in the end we may not be able to handle as much as we do now.
A few people made eye contact. Pang Yu didn't have a tacit understanding with these two people, but at least he could understand their expressions and knew that they meant that they had done enough foreplay and could quote the lowest price, so he nodded and He Xianya turned his head.
He said to Mr. Li: "Thanks to Wu Laoji, I believe that Brother Pang's injury will be fine in the future, but the cost of decoction and medicine is already eighty-six taels, which is indispensable. I still have to pay for the rest of the missed work and the helpers to take care of them.
I missed five taels of work. Although I think it won't be a big deal in the future, I will have to hire helpers to take care of me in the near future. I will calculate twenty-four taels and the total will be one hundred and fifteen taels. It can't be any less. It depends on how the Zhou family pays."
Shopkeeper Zhou said hurriedly: "I have fifty-three taels of silver in cash. If the paper goods in the shop are wanted by any of the gentlemen, I will give them to you at a price."
Zhou Yueru cried and said, "Dad, we have lost all our money and goods, how can we still do business? We are going to beg for work again."
Shopkeeper Zhou replied calmly, "There's nothing we can do about it. We've already encountered this, what else can we do, we can't go back to jail."
The father and daughter cried silently, and Zhou Yueru dragged and pulled him to get Shopkeeper Zhou to stand up, but Shopkeeper Zhou collapsed on the ground and couldn't pull him up.
Pang Yu's great revenge was avenged, and she felt a little happy in her heart.
But seeing that the Zhou family and his daughter kept crying, they were probably at the end of their rope. If they ran away or ran away, they would not be able to benefit. After thinking about it, they came up with a compromise: "If you don't take advantage of the cash,
If you don’t have a hand, then you can just mortgage it.”
Everyone in the room was stunned. A mortgage loan came from nowhere.
Li Laoqi asked: "Pang Geer, what is this mortgage?"
"That is to say, they only have fifty-three taels on hand, and they have to pay me one hundred and fifteen taels, but they still owe me sixty-two taels, so I will lend them the sixty-two taels first and pay me back two taels every month.
Until it is paid off, but there must be interest before it is paid off, right?
Two dollars is not much at annual interest, and it will be paid off in a few years.”
He Xianya hesitated and came over and said to Pang Yu, "The Zhou family's shop is rented, which means there are some goods in case they run away."
Pang Yu said magnanimously, "We have fifty-three taels at the bottom. We have to sell some paper goods. We don't know how to do it. The goods must be sold cheaply, so we have to give them low prices. It's better for him to make money by selling them and the business can continue as usual."
Since we have collected money, they can also make a living. It is a win-win situation. I am a good person. If I can do good things, how can I not do it?"
Zhou Yueru said angrily: "Then I will give you dozens more taels of interest. You are thinking well."
Pang Yu spread his hands and said, "If you can understand it first hand, there is no need to say more. Master, I am a good man and gave you this method. Don't fail to understand good people's hearts."
Mr. Li was afraid that the mediation would fail and he would not be able to get the money for the mediation, so he quickly agreed: "It's a good idea. The Zhou family's paper shop can still turn over goods."
Shopkeeper Zhou pulled Zhou Yueru and said, "This is the only way, otherwise there will be no way to survive."
Shopkeeper Zhou found another way out of the desperate situation and quickly knelt down to kowtow to thank him. Zhou Yueru grabbed him hard and said coldly, "Don't thank this evil man."
Her face looked a little better, but she was still crying.
Just as the two parties were making an agreement, Zhou Yueru suddenly lowered his head and said: "Pang, the evil man of the Pang family, can you give up the twenty-four taels of the servant fee? You want someone to take care of you, and the slave family will come as a servant."
Pang Yu gasped, he didn't dare to let this woman take care of him. Maybe this woman wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to take revenge. She might cause a minor injury or even poison him to death.
However, he looked at Zhou Yueru up and down, maybe he often helped in the store, he worked well on weekdays, he appeared to have a well-proportioned figure, and his eyebrows were quite beautiful. However, he had a bad impression after the beating that day, but now he looked at it more carefully.
Although this woman is a bit fierce, I'm afraid she wouldn't be able to kill someone with poison.
Jiao Guozhao smiled maliciously and said: "What kind of servant are you doing? If you marry my brother as a concubine, the money will belong to the same family, so you don't have to pay any compensation."
He Xianya winked at Pang Yu and said, "What the second brother said is a little inappropriate. This girl looks at people with raised eyebrows and a fierce look. She must be a weak character. She will have to pay Pang an extra one hundred taels when she gets married."
Several government servants in the room laughed together, and Zhou Yueru's face flushed with laughter. It was always embarrassing to be rejected, so she turned away in shame.
Pang Yu took a closer look at Zhou Yueru's back, and it seemed that her figure was indeed pretty good. Most women in the Ming Dynasty did not go out. There were some who showed up in the city to do business, but after all, the number was very small, and most of them were at the aunt level.
Therefore, Pang Yu's aesthetics have been greatly adjusted recently. Zhou Yueru's appearance has been upgraded from average to upper-class, and her figure is really good. At this time, she is itching to see her, and she has forgotten all the fairies of the Liu family.
Ignoring He Xianya's stopping look, he said seriously, "I have some incompetence, and it's okay to just be a servant. Then I'll give you twenty-four taels less, and you can help me as a servant for three months..." He Xianya could hear what he said.
I was shocked. The maid fee of eighty taels per month for a relationship was a sky-high price. I had just extorted an exorbitant price to blackmail Zhou Yongtian. How could I be so wasteful now that I was hiring someone with real money?
So he quickly stepped on Pang Yu. After listening to it, Pang Yu probably knew that something was wrong, so he immediately changed his words and said, "No, half a year.
But you must agree first that you are not allowed to talk back to me, and you can do whatever I ask you to do."
Zhou Yueru turned his back to several people and was very surprised when he heard what Pang Yu said. At this time, he finally reacted. To prevent Pang Yu from going back on his word, he turned around like a whirlwind and replied: "Okay, okay, then we've agreed not to change."
"
Pang Yu suddenly woke up after hearing this. She was so obsessed with sex just now that she didn't calculate the account. The betrothal money she gave to the Liu family fairy was only eleven taels, but he actually gave this woman twenty-four taels without paying attention.
He punched himself in the head. He didn't have a clear concept of money. He thought it was a good deal to get a female secretary for twenty-four taels, but thinking about it in retrospect, deducting twenty-four taels like this would give the Zhou family some hope.
, you can settle down and pay off the mortgage without actually running away.
He Xianya closed his eyes and sighed softly. Four taels a month for a domestic helper is a sky-high price. This second brother is really stupid.
The prisoner next to him made a fuss, came over and slapped Pang Yu on the head several times, while cursing: "Damn, your hands are loose enough, don't you know how to give me twenty-four taels, my brother-in-law?"
Have you given me enough filial piety? Why don’t you open your mouth and I don’t know what to do with this person named He?”
Pang Yu looked at him with a smile, and didn't mind the other person slapping him on the head, and said: "Keep it all for eldest brother. No one will miss you, eldest brother."
"I'm sorry you don't dare either."
The prisoner grabbed the net towel on Pang Yu's head and shook Pang Yu's head back and forth several times. Pang Yu stared at the table with a smile on his face, showing no sign of anger at all, which was very consistent with his silly image.
Jiao Guozha couldn't stand it, so he came over to persuade him. Finally, the jailer pushed Pang Yu's head hard and sat back unwillingly.
Pang Yu smiled and watched the prisoner return to his seat, then turned to Zhou Yueru and said: "I will be a good person in this life, and every word I spit will be a nail. What I said is the contract. I will be a servant for six months with twenty-four taels of silver. I will arrive before 00:00 tomorrow morning."
Waiting at Ximen Pang’s Herbal Medicine Shop."
After hearing this, the prisoner cursed a few more times in a low voice, and the others also shook their heads secretly. The price they finally negotiated was more than twenty taels short, and he was indeed a fool.
Twenty-four taels is not a small amount for an ordinary family. Zhou Yueru, a girl's family, could only think of this way to reduce the loss, but when she thought that she would have to pay ninety taels in the end, she couldn't help but cry softly.
Mr. Li said happily: "It's settled like this, everyone is happy."
After that, he took out his pen and ink and started writing, "In July of the seventh year of Chongzhen, Pang Yu saw a rat running wildly in the street. During the beating, Zhou Yongtian, the shopkeeper of the paper shop, carried a burden and injured his head. He bled and fainted in the street, and he stayed in bed for several days before he was seen again.
After recovering, Zhou Yongtian voluntarily compensated Pang Yutang Medicine's servant for missing work and other expenses with 91 taels of silver. He paid 53 taels on the same day and the remaining 38 taels, with an annual interest of 2 cents for every two taels, to be paid off in installments of two years and one month.
, twenty taels per month, a total of fifty taels.
If there is any debt, Pang Yu can deduct it from the goods of Zhou Yongtian's paper shop. In addition, because Pang Yu's injury has not healed, Zhou Yueru, the daughter of Zhou Yongtian, has been taking care of Pang's family for half a year until the first month of the eighth year of Chongzhen. I may not have any evidence now, so I established this
It is used to mediate documents and contracts.
The Zhongjian people are Wu Qinglin, Pang Yu is here, Zhou Yongtian is here, and the scribe Wu Qinglin is here."
Pang Yu didn't pretend to be seriously injured. He stood up and nodded in agreement. However, he would not make a pledge until he received the money, so he said to Shopkeeper Zhou, "Shopkeeper Zhou, let's settle the money first and then withdraw the charge. You can
You can go home."
Zhou Yueru wiped away her tears and dragged Zhou Yongtian hard, trying to drag him up and sit on a chair. However, Zhou Yongtian was tall and strong, and completely lost his strength due to fright. Zhou Yueru tried several times but failed, and was still very tired.
Head sweating profusely.
Seeing this, Pang Yu turned to Jiao Guozhao and said, "Eldest brother, third brother, let's be good people and help each other."
Although Jiao Guozhao was a little reluctant, he still came to help, and the three of them almost lifted Zhou Yongtian onto the chair.
Zhou Yueru looked expressionless, glanced at Pang Yu a few times, comforted Zhou Yongtian for a few words, and then returned to the paper shop to raise money.
While waiting for the money, the prisoner kept walking around inside and outside the house. When he was bored, he would scold Pang Yu or shake Pang Yu's head. He seemed to be very interested in this form of entertainment.
Pang Yu sat in his original position and let the prisoner beat him and scold him, as if he was shaking someone else's head. Even Jiao Guozha and He Xianya found it strange that Pang Yu could rarely sit for such a long time in the past.
Half an hour later, Zhou Yueru, an old shop assistant, appeared at the door and placed a cloth bag on the table with a "swish" sound.
Zhou Yueru threw the cloth bag on the table with red eyes and opened it. There was a pile of silver bars and copper coins inside, which weighed dozens of kilograms.
Li Lao took out a weighing stick from under the table and weighed the pieces piece by piece. He Xianya was looking at the quality and accounting on the side. Zhou Yueru, with red eyes, argued with He Xianya about the quality.
Pang Yu felt a headache looking at the pile of silver of various sizes and fineness. In the Ming Dynasty, gold was used, and silver and copper coins circulated together. There was no standard currency. Everyone relied on experience to calculate. Silver has its own quality, and copper coins have their own shapes.
, not only is it easy to be deceived, but even the conversion is a huge hassle.
After about half an hour of tossing and talking, the two parties finally reached an agreement on the fineness of the silver taels. They then spent another quarter of an hour converting the copper coins into silver. He Xianya then found an abacus and prepared to add one to the number of silver taels he had written down.
Pang Yu took the list, read it silently for a while and said, "The total is fifty-two liang, three cents and five cents."
Zhou Yueru stared at him suspiciously, "There are so many, you can tell the total in one breath, you can't be just talking nonsense to defraud money."
"I just told you not to talk back.
What kind of attitude do you have, young master, I am a good person, and I used to do big business, so I will not defraud you of this little money."
Zhou Yueru said angrily, "The money calculation is not for your helper. How can we not argue about this matter? I have to use an abacus to calculate."
Pang Yu spread his hands and said, "If you don't believe it, just use the abacus."
He Xianya also didn't believe it. He took an abacus and calculated it each with Zhou Yueru. No more, no less, exactly fifty-two taels, three cents and five cents. The two of them looked at Pang Yu as if they were looking at a monster.
Zhou Yueru reluctantly took out a few pieces of money from her purse and put them on the table. He Xianya wanted to weigh himself again, but Pang Yu stopped him and said, "Just a little less. We men are more generous."
"I'm not missing you..." Zhou Yueru said angrily.
"Don't talk back."
After Pang Yu finished drinking, he turned to Zhou Yongtian and said, "Shopkeeper Zhou, you can go home."
Shopkeeper Zhou let out a long sigh, then tilted his head and fainted on his seat. Pang Yu shook his head, people really shouldn't get involved in public affairs. He was such a domineering and majestic man that day. In the next few days, he would faint with joy just hearing that he came home.
You have delayed me for a long time, so I can divide the money and go."
The prisoner who was waiting next to him finally waited until the money was counted, and after saying that, he reached out to the table to get the largest silver coin. After hearing this, the jailer in the execution room also followed him, because Pang Yu used to be a semi-idiot, and people outside often scolded him.
People in the yamen often wanted to take advantage of him.
Just as the two of them were about to get the money, they suddenly heard a choking sound, a white light flashed in front of Laozi's eyes, and a waist knife quickly slashed towards his finger.