Chapter 49 Chat with Towns
It has been a week since Javier robbed the farm. This week he went to Wapiti and asked the Indians to get some strange potions they configured.
The effect of this medicine is very limited. It can slowly feel uncomfortable and weak, and will cough continuously, and your face will become paler. However, it is actually not harmful to the human body. As long as you drink it again in the future, these negative conditions can be completely eliminated.
The only uncertainty is that the stronger the person, the later the symptoms appear, and this situation is likely to last several months.
On that day, while Wang Xuance was drinking and eating almonds in Valentine's tavern, Javier and Bill found him.
"Hey, Bill Javier, is there anything you guys come to Valentine?" Wang Xuance took the wine glass, greeted them, and then threw a dollar to the bartender: "Give these two people a glass too."
The two leaned against the counter and took the wine poured by the bartender: "Hey, Jason, we just went to a guy to collect the bill, but the guy said he knew you, so we could give him a delay for a while and let him pay it back in the future."
"Hmm?" Wang Xuance didn't remember who he had promised, but only a few seconds later, he remembered: "Are you talking about the self-righteous and unrealistic guy named Thomas Towns?"
"Yes, it's him." Javier turned around and looked at Wang Xuance: "Is what he said true?"
"How much does he owe you?" Wang Xuance ate another handful of almonds, and then turned his head.
"Fifty dollars, including interest, there are eighty in total." Javier picked up his glass and took a sip, then turned to see the women who were preparing to make money in the tavern.
Wang Xuance took out a hundred dollar bill: "Give it, this is Towns' debt. That person is useful to me. Can you take me to Mr. Towns' house? I have something to talk to him."
Although Javier and the others were robbers, they still followed some rules. So after receiving a repayment of 100 US dollars from Wang Xuance, Javier took out two ten dollars from his bag and planned to return it to Wang Xuance.
Seeing this, Wang Xuance waved his hand and signaled them to put away the twenty dollars: "If these twenty dollars are the expenses I give you to lead the way, you will take me to Towns' house, and these twenty dollars will be regarded as treating you to drink."
Bill and Javier didn't expect how generous Wang Xuance was. You know, twenty dollars is almost half a month's salary for a general worker, and Wang Xuance gave it as soon as he said.
"I'm a little convinced about it. You may be a child from a wealthy family who came out to find excitement." Javier smiled, but did not refuse.
"Haha, is Dutch guessing this?" Wang Xuance drank all the wine in the cup, waited for Bill and Javier. After they had all the wine, "Let's go, let's find Mr. Towns."
The three of them rode their horses all the way to Towns' farm. As soon as they entered the farm, they saw Towns hunched over and working in the cornfield next to the house.
"Hello, Mr. Tangs." Wang Xuance spoke first.
His voice made Towns, who was working in the field, turn around and see Bill and Javier following him, which caused him to not see clearly who was greeting him.
"Why are you here? Didn't you say you can give me a few days?" Towns' hand holding the rake was trembling, and his voice was full of uneasiness, probably because he knew that loan sharks were generally related to gangs, and if he couldn't pay back the money, he might encounter something else.
Waving his hand, Bill and Javier stopped and looked at Wang Xuance.
"Since you have arrived, then, Bill, Javier, if you are fine, go back. Mr. Towns and I have something to discuss." Wang Xuance was not polite and immediately let them leave.
Of course, Bill and Javier had nothing else to do, so they immediately left with the money given by Wang Xuance.
"Okay, Mr. Towns, can we talk?"
Seeing the two left, Tang Si finally focused his attention on Wang Xuance: "Oh, sir, thank you for giving me more time."
When Towns walked out of the farmland, he recognized it, and told him before that the gang members could be given a few days of gratitude to him.
Two people walked out of the room next to them, one young man and the other woman, probably Towns's wife and son.
"This is my wife, and my son, his name is Archie."
After introducing his wife and children, Towns brought Wang Xuance to the house and asked his wife to pour two cups of coffee over.
Wang Xuance sat on the chair and did not move the cup of coffee placed in front of him, because he didn't know if this cup had been used by Thomas. If he had used it, he would not be sure that he could be immune to tuberculosis.
"Mr. Towns, you're a farm, right?" Wang Xuance looked at Towns sitting opposite him and pretended to be puzzled: "Why didn't you see cattle and sheep in your farm, and only some crops such as corn that are not yet mature?"
"Mr. Jason, you also know that I am doing charity. I sold all my cattle and sheep just to do charity." Towns' face was full of pride, and he thought it was a cause that could touch everyone else.
"Do you remember what I said to you?" Wang Xuance did not refute him, but turned the topic into another direction.
"What?" Thomas could no longer remember what Wang Xuance had told him a year ago. He only remembered that Wang Xuance once gave him five dollars to others in need.
Wang Xuance also knew that a year had passed, and he had only met him once, and it was already very good to remember him, so he said bluntly: "I said that if a person cannot even take good care of his family, the charity he did was just to satisfy his empty and hypocritical activities in his heart."
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"You!" Towns was very angry because in his opinion, he lost all his money for charity and even borrowed usury, which was definitely not to satisfy his inner emptiness.
"Mr. Towns, look around you. What's left in your farm? Some corn fields, and there's still? No more, everything has been sold by you." Wang Xuance looked around and showed a look of finding something.
Towns was so excited that he wanted to scold people by his words, but after thinking about his pasture carefully, there was indeed nothing inside, only a little cornfield left, and even his family was almost unable to support him.
Sitting in a decadent chair, my mood gradually became depressed.
Seeing that Towns didn't speak, Wang Xuance continued to speak: "Mr. Towns, you can see that you should be sick, right? Can you tell me what the disease is?"
Hearing Wang Xuance's words, Towns raised his head: "Tuberculosis is an unsolvable disease."
"Then you look like, you will definitely not be able to live long. You will definitely die within a year." Wang Xuance's voice was ruthless, but it was also very real, because this is the fact.
"Yes, I will die within a few months. It doesn't even take a few months. In just one month, I will lie in bed, I can't do anything, I can only wait for death." Towns was helpless because this was beyond the control of human resources. Mrs. Towns, who was standing next to him, covered her mouth and sobbed silently, because this was something she had known for a long time.
"Then have you ever thought about it? What should you do if you die, your wife and son?" Wang Xuance pressed step by step, "You must know that if you die, your wife and son will lose her husband and father, especially you are still using usury."
"If I die, we will be loan sharks..." Before Towns finished speaking, Wang Xuance spoke.
"Do you think usury will disappear after you die? No, no, those gang members will let your wife go out to be a prostitute, and may get sick in the end, and then fall into a corner where no one cares. Well, it may be eaten directly by wild dogs; and your son will be forced into a coal mine pit and work day and night, and in the end, your son will suffer from a disease similar to you, and their life will be like staying in hell in the future. And these are all brought to them by you, the one who is a father and a husband."
Wang Xuance took out a bottle of wine and started drinking it slowly. Tang Si, who heard Wang Xuance's words, stayed in the chair because he always thought that if he died, the debt would be eliminated. Yes, Tang Si had no intention of paying the debt. After all, he was about to die.
But Wang Xuance now has made him truly understand the horror and darkness of the gang.
Towns's face became paler and he was frightened by the scenes described by Wang Xuance.
"This, this..." Tangs murmured to himself. Mrs. Tangs, who was originally standing next to him, also softened. She also thought about what to do if her son was really as Wang Xuance described.
"What should I do, Mr. Jason." Towns came to his senses and looked at Wang Xuance with a serious face, wanting him to help find a way. Now, only he can save himself.
"How much money do you owe now?" Wang Xuance didn't say much, just wanted to know how much money Towns still owe now.
"I, I, this." Gripping my teeth, Towns said: "I still owe the Cochrane Gang twenty dollars, plus interest will cost thirty-two dollars, Mr. Strauss will cost 50 dollars, and the interest will cost 80 dollars."
"Is there anything else?" Wang Xuance stood up.
Towns waved his hand quickly: "There is no one else, only these two."
"If I were you, I would take my wife and children to other places. In those big cities, you can't live long, but your wife and children still want, and I just saw your son Aqi, who is still studying, right?" Wang Xuance stood up, "If you can accept it, I am willing to pay two hundred dollars to buy your farm, and you will also transfer your debts to me."
After the previous words, Towns had already figured it out, so the two sides quickly reached an agreement, and then Towns took his wife and children to Valentine, and then took a bus to another place.
Chapter completed!