Chapter 5 Broken Cans
Han Xiufeng acted like a dead pig who is not afraid of boiling water. He opened the wooden box and took out a stack of house deeds: "All my uncle's belongings are here. I want to take them away! Although my aunt is old, she is not dim-sighted. Selling
It’s okay to sew and patch things for the current generation of wealthy families. As for Yaomei’er, you can sell them however you want!”
"Han Si, your uncle and your aunt are so kind to you, but you said such a thing. Is your conscience really eaten by a dog?"
"The whole family has been ruined, so why do we need a conscience!" Han Xiufeng stared at the story of Pan and said expressionlessly: "My Yaomei is still a young girl. If you are reluctant to sell out, you can take Yaomei as your concubine. In this way,
Coming to our two families is not only a friendship, but also a relationship."
This yard and the dozen acres of land in the countryside are worth at most five hundred taels. Even if the orphan and widowed couple were sold, they wouldn't be able to get a few taels of silver. The second son of the Pan family never expected that Han Si would be so shameless and said angrily.
: "Han Si, you are acting like a rogue. Let me tell you, repaying debts is a matter of course. No matter where this lawsuit goes, we will never lose!"
Han Xiufeng sneered and said, "You want to see an official and file a lawsuit, right? That's fine!"
When it came to meeting an official, Guan Baotou suddenly said: "The Yamen opens to the south. If you have reason, don't come in if you don't have money! Shopkeeper Pan, you have to think carefully."
This lawsuit can definitely be won, but what happens if it is won?
As Guan Baotou said, if you really go to see the official, not only will you not be able to get back the money you lent, but you will have to spend dozens or even hundreds of taels of unjust money.
Shopkeeper Pan didn't want the conversation to break up, so he quickly said: "Chang Sheng, please stop talking! My dear nephew, don't be anxious. If you have something to say, talk to me. I don't know others, but I know what kind of person you are. What do you do with your uncle's family?"
I won’t leave it alone.”
"Uncle Pan, I want to take care of it, but your second son doesn't give me a chance to take care of it."
"As you know, my parent has not studied for a few years and has never seen the world. Don't be like him. Have a sip of tea and calm down. Let's talk slowly, slowly, and calmly."
"Let's talk about it again?" Han Xiufeng sat down and asked.
"That's right," Shopkeeper Pan picked up the tea bowl and said with a smile: "Xiannie, you have been working as a clerk in the yamen for so many years, how come you haven't saved a few hundred taels of silver?"
Han Xiufeng sighed softly and said with an embarrassed look: "I'm ashamed to say it, nephew, not only am I useless, but I haven't saved a few taels of silver over the years of working as a yamen errand, and I've been lavish.
If my uncle and the uncles and uncles in the government office help me, I'm afraid he would have starved to death in the city."
As Guan Baotou said just now, the Yamen opens to the south. If you have reason, don't come in if you don't have money.
No matter whose family gets involved in a lawsuit, the yamen will ask for money for shoes and socks, money for food and drinks, travel and boat fares, settlement fees, unlocking money, and church fees. The same is true for scribes. This also costs money, and that also costs money, including food.
After the plaintiff and the defendant were beaten, Han Xiufeng said that he had not saved any money while working as a yamen errand, and Shopkeeper Pan would not believe it even if he beat him to death.
Han Xiufeng didn't care whether he believed it or not, and continued: "It's too late to regret now, especially after I heard people on the street gossiping a few days ago that Brother Pan planned to use my Yaomei'er to pay off the debt and sell Yaomei'er to the city.
I went to pick up the guests at the brothel, but I, my cousin, could do nothing. I am really ashamed of my uncle and my ancestors. I wish I could find a rope and hang myself on this yellow oak tree."
"My dear nephew, don't listen to the nonsense of those people on the street. Your uncle and I are brothers and sisters. Now that his body is still cold, how could I do such a sinful thing?"
"Uncle Pan, I feel relieved with your words." Han Xiufeng nodded slightly and said seriously: "Well, you can take the yard away. The same is true for the more than ten acres of land in the countryside. As long as the price is fair, I, Han Si
There will never be two words."
"What will your father and your three brothers do if I take the land away?" Shopkeeper Pan asked hypocritically.
"Don't worry, my father is old, but my three brothers still have some brute strength. I can take them to work in the Yamen. Although they won't make a fortune, they can still keep their mouths open."
"The fast class and the strong class are short of people. This is not a matter of just one sentence." Guan Captou lost no time in interjecting.
"Thank you, Uncle Guan, for your support." Han Xiufeng stood up and saluted, then turned around and said, "Uncle Pan, I have said everything that needs to be said. If you can give me a few more years of grace, the four brothers of my Han family will help my uncle even if they work hard to death."
I will repay the debt, and I will not forget your great kindness! But I will not re-establish the document, and I cannot harm my father and my three honest brothers because of my uncle."
How could Shopkeeper Pan not hear the implication behind his words? He thought, you little fox, you are not asking for mercy, you are clearly threatening!
Because once this yard and the land in the countryside are taken away, the Han family will have no livelihood. The three brothers of the Han family in the countryside will have no choice but to go to the government office with him to make a living, and they will change from good private households to servant households, and the servant households will manage
It is a despicable business that future generations will not be able to turn around.
What's more important is that their whole family went to the yamen as errands, plus Guan Baotou and other yamen servants and clerks who were good friends with the Han family, it was like offending all the scribes and clerks in the county government. The iron-clad yamen officials
, but the scribes and government officials are all locals. They may be a little afraid of Yang Juren while he is still alive. What if Yang Juren is gone?
If they were really targeted by these gang of evil scribes and government servants, the Pan family would not be able to get away with it!
The intention of re-establishing the document was seen through, the threats did not work, and it was not appropriate to go to see the official. Facing Han Xiufeng, who was not afraid of boiling water, shopkeeper Pan could only say: "My dear nephew, my parents don't know how high the sky is, but there is one sentence
That's fair to say, you have your difficulties, we also have ours, you'd better think of a solution."
"There is a way, but I don't know if Uncle Pan believes in me, Han Si?"
"Speak first, then listen."
Han Xiufeng suddenly stood up, walked to the door of the hall, looked at Han Yucai's memorial tablet and sighed: "Earlier, my Han family worked as tenants for generations. After paying the rent and taxes every year, there was not much left in the year's harvest. The whole family had no food.
With no food to eat and no clothes to cover her body, a teenage girl has no pants to wear and can only run around the mountain with her butt naked. If there is a disaster, even if she does not starve to death, she will have to sell her children. Fortunately, the feng shui of the ancestral graves is good, and the children are sold.
My uncle, my Han family has only lived a good life for a few days."
Everyone was thinking about what method this was and where it was going, but one could hear that he was inspired by his thoughts.
Shopkeeper Pan raised his head and looked at the memorial tablet in the hall, and said in deep thought: "Although Brother Yucai was unlucky and died young, he was still a man of success. The fact that he led your Han family to become prosperous is known to everyone in the country.
I don’t know. I think your family was so poor back then that Ling Zujian had no money to support his education. It happened that the three big families in the village, Xu, Wang and Chen, jointly funded a private school and invited a scholar from Jiangjin to sit there.
The scholar was striving to make progress, and sitting in the library was just a stopgap measure. After teaching every day, he studied sages' books in order to participate in the provincial examination. He had no time to wash and cook. Seeing that Brother Yucai, who didn't even have a name at that time and was still called Erwazi, was smart and smart.
I discussed with Lingzu, who was a tenant in the Xu family, to let your uncle be a bookboy for him, and Brother Yucai just followed that scholar to read and read, and your Han family became a scholar."
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Chapter completed!