The days in Beginning of Winter are getting better and better now, and I already feel that I am not short of money. It can be said that some people are happy and some are sad.
Early in the morning in the county town, four or five fierce-looking young people came to Dachun's doorstep.
These men came forward and hammered the door of Dachun's house hard.
When Xiumei heard the noise, she rushed to the door immediately. As soon as the door bolt was opened, these young people rushed in.
Fortunately, Dachun's mother, Xiumei, was quite aggressive. She took the door bolt and smashed it, and finally stopped these people.
"I came to knock on the door early in the morning. How much grudge do I have against you?"
Among the young people, there was a guy who was missing his front teeth, and his words were leaky, "Auntie, who are you from Dachun?"
Xiumei immediately became alert and asked, "I am his mother, what do you want to do?"
"Okay, since you are his mother, it will be much easier to handle. Dachun lost two hundred taels of silver last night and was detained by us. Now take the money, otherwise your precious son will not be able to come back.
coming."
Xiumei was dumbfounded when she heard this, "No, it's impossible. How could he lose so much money?"
The guy was not impatient and took out a piece of paper from his arms and handed it to Xiumei.
"Let's see if your son wrote this himself."
Xiumei didn't know the words, so she had to shout loudly inside, "Cuihua, Cuihua, come here quickly."
Cuihua could still recognize a few words, so she took a look at the receipt and burst into tears.
"This damned guy really lost his money. Where can we get him these two hundred taels?"
When Xiumei heard that the matter was serious, she immediately put on a smile and said to these people, "Wait a moment, I will go in and get you some money."
Saying this, she pulled Cuihua towards the house. "Cuihua, how much money do you have?"
Cuihua wiped her tears and said, "Yesterday I still had more than two hundred taels, but Dachun took them all away, saying that I could bring back five hundred taels today."
"Mom, I don't have any here, how much more do you have?"
Xiumei sighed and took off her bracelet and the hairpin on her head.
"That's all I have."
At this time, a maid next to her came over and brought a cup of tea to Xiumei, "Ma'am, please have some tea."
Seeing this maid, Xiumei's eyes suddenly lit up, "Xiaohong, you don't have to work in my house from now on."
Upon hearing this, Xiaohong was startled and knelt down with a plop, "Madam, please don't drive me away. If I don't do well, you can hit me and scold me. I have no father and no mother. Let me go when I go out."
Where am I going?"
Xiumei chuckled, "Xiao Hong, don't be afraid, I'm not trying to drive you away, but I'm trying to find a good home for you."
As she spoke, she pulled Xiaohong and walked out with her bracelet and hairpin, "Everyone, if Spring doesn't come back, we don't know where the money is. So, I have two pieces of jewelry and a maid.
Do you think it can be worth the two hundred taels of silver?"
Frankly speaking, Xiaohong's appearance was quite decent, and she had fine skin and tender flesh. She didn't look like a maid doing rough work at all. Looking at these people, they couldn't help but widen their eyes.
The leader took the bracelet and hairpin, then circled around Xiaohong twice, "Then it's settled, I'll take them away."
Upon hearing that the man had agreed, Xiumei quickly took out the document of selling herself from her sleeve, "This has been registered with the government. Don't worry, Xiao Hong will have nothing to do with my family from now on."
Seeing these people leaving, Xiumei finally breathed a long sigh of relief and patted her chest gently.
"At any rate, it's over."
She breathed a sigh of relief, but Cuihua next to her cried very sadly, "Mom, if he just gambled away a thousand taels of silver, how will we live in the future?"
Xiumei was also speechless. She was so prosperous and smug when she got one thousand taels of silver. She even wanted to open a bun shop, but soon her son seemed to be a different person. He was eating and drinking every day, and recently he was no longer the same person.
Got into the bad habit of gambling.
In a few days, hundreds of taels of silver were thrown away like this.
Xiumei is unwilling to give in, but what's the use of not giving in?
In order to save money, they fired all the other servants two days ago, leaving only Xiao Hong. Now Xiao Hong has paid the bill, and apart from this house, their family really has nothing.
But what made her even more devastated was that later, just when they were about to have lunch, Chen Dachun came back, smelling of alcohol.
His scarlet eyes were bloodshot, and he looked like he had stayed up late last night.
When Chen Dachun opened his mouth, there was a fishy smell of alcohol.
"Mom, Cuihua, pack up and let's move!"
move place?
Upon hearing this, Xiumei was startled, and Cuihua looked at Chen Dachun in confusion.
"Okay, why do you want to move?"
Chen Dachun chuckled and said, "I sold this house for a high price, 200 taels for it. With these 200 taels, I'm going to turn over the money tonight."
Xiumei looked at her son in surprise, she couldn't believe her ears.
The house that had only been lived in for a few days was sold immediately.
It's okay to make a living by doing some business, but you still want to go gambling.
Just then, there was a noise at the gate.
A middle-aged man in rich clothes walked in. This man was fat and looked well-dressed.
He looked around the yard and nodded with satisfaction, then looked at a man in Tsing Yi behind him and said, "Well, Shitou, this is a nice house. I want it. I'll make sure to check the land deed later and don't make any mistakes."
After saying that, he came to Chen Dachun and said, "Let's move. Leave it for me before dark, otherwise I will lower the price."
Chen Dachun had an apologetic smile on his face, "Don't worry, Mr. Liu, I'll make sure it's done before dark."
Seeing these people leaving, Cuihua was the first to quit, "Dachun, you sold the house. If you lose the bet again, what will we do next?"
Unexpectedly, before he finished his sentence, Chen Dachun shouted directly, "You cursed me!"
When Xiumei saw her daughter-in-law, she stopped beating him. She stepped forward and grabbed her son, "You bastard, you dare to do it. You have ruined a good family."
Chen Dachun was still wary of his mother's attack on him, dodging left and right, without paying attention. Xiumei's foot slipped, and she fell to the ground with a thump.
The pain was so intense that Xiumei could not recover from the pain for a long time. Chen Dachun took this opportunity to rush into the house, took out the land deed and ran out.
Seeing Chen Dachun leaving, Xiumei ignored her own pain and shouted to Cuihua, "Hurry up and catch up with him, don't let him sell the house."
But how could Cuihua, a female prostitute, catch up with Chen Dachun? After a while, Chen Dachun disappeared.
When Cuihua came back, Xiumei was already sitting up. Seeing Cuihua come back with tears in her eyes, Xiumei knew that it was over.