NOVEL NEXT Chapter 208
Chapter 208 – Empty Handed
Chapter 208 Empty-handed door-to-door
Ji Xiaohong said: “The doctor said that the older the ginseng, the better the effect, so I think it would be great if you could lend me five hundred taels of silver. I will buy the best ginseng for your uncle. After all, He is a strong laborer of our family, and he still needs to make money to support his family, so he must take care of his body.”
Five hundred taels, how dare you speak!
Yang Ruolan’s family couldn’t help frowning when they heard the words.
This man’s greed is really comparable to Qiu’s.
Ji Weihao looked at Ji Xiaoqing again, “You are also here to borrow money, right?”
Ji Xiaoqing sneered and said: “Yes… yes, I heard that you made a thousand taels of silver today. It just so happens that I am also a little tight recently, so I came back to ask you to borrow some money.”
“Aren’t you the concubine of a rich family? Are you short of money?”
“Of course I lack, especially lacking. With money, I can buy a dowry, and I can raise my head and be a man at home. You don’t know, a woman without a dowry is really sad in her husband’s house.”
Ji Xiaoqing started to cry as she said that, “Xiaohao, little aunt’s life is really not as good as you think. It’s really difficult. Those boys are all people who push the high and trample the low.”
“My monthly money is pitifully low, and the food I eat is not much better than what the servants in the house eat. If I want to eat delicious food, I have to pay for it myself.”
“The last time I was sick, it happened that the master scolded me the day before. As a result, those people thought I was out of favor. I asked them to hire a doctor and they wouldn’t give me a doctor. I should bribe those people with my private money, and they would give me a doctor.” I have invited a doctor, otherwise your little aunt and I might have died long ago.”
“Also, last time on the master’s birthday, those women with dowry gave the master very affordable things, and I can only embroider a worthless purse for the master. The master is very disgusted. Didn’t come to my house for days.”
Ji Weihao said: “So, you two don’t usually come to my house, but today you came to borrow money as soon as you knew that I might get a thousand taels of silver?”
Ji Xiaohong and Ji Xiaoqing felt a little uncomfortable for a moment. From what they said, they seemed to come to the door for money.
Ji Xiaohong said: “Xiaohao, there is nothing Elder Aunt can do, so you can lend it to me. If you have money in the future, I will definitely return it to you. This is life-saving money. You shouldn’t just watch your Eldest Uncle do nothing. Are you dead like this?”
Ji Xiaoqing said: “Little aunt can’t help it, she can return it to you in the future, so you can give her five hundred taels for emergency.”
“Hehe.” Ji Weihao said: “You probably have already figured out how to divide up the one thousand taels of silver before you came, right?”
“Carve up?” Ji Xiaohong said: “We didn’t think so.”
“That’s right.” Ji Xiaoqing said: “We are really desperate. We just know that you have some spare money, so I come to ask you for help. Don’t worry, I will use the money to buy land, and there will be output every year in the future. I will save some money every year to pay you back.”
“Haha…” Nangong Anshan couldn’t help laughing.
Ji Xiaohong turned her head and frowned, “Why are you laughing all of a sudden?”
“It’s okay.” Nangong Anshan said: “I just think it’s funny. When you ask for help, you should at least bring some gifts to the door, so that you can show your sincerity. How can anyone come to the door empty-handed? Reason, don’t you two adults actually understand?”
Ji Xiaohong and Ji Xiaoqing choked.
They never thought of buying gifts for Ji Weihao, and they haven’t spent a copper coin on Ji Weihao in their life.
The money has not been borrowed yet, how could they spend the money first.
Ji Weihao suddenly said: “Auntie, Auntie, do you still recognize me as a nephew?”
The two said at the same time: “Yes, how could you deny it?”
“Then I was seriously ill before, and my wife asked you to borrow money. Why did you all avoid it? You don’t want to lend any life-saving money to my wife?”
The two choked at the same time.
Ji Xiaohong thought for a while, and explained: “Xiaohao, it’s not that I didn’t borrow money back then, but my family was really in trouble. You borrowed five taels of silver every time you borrowed it. How could our family be able to afford it? We were only fleeing at that time. Come here, the family really has no money.”
“Yes, yes.” Ji Xiaoqing said: “I am also sad in the mansion, and there is nothing I can do. I really can’t get five taels of silver.”
Ji Weihao said angrily: “You are not even willing to borrow five taels of silver, so why do you think I will lend you five hundred taels of silver?”
“You are our nephew. If my aunt has something to do, you have to help her.”
“That’s right, if you don’t help, you are not filial, and you will be stabbed in the back.”
“Yes, you were brought up by us, we are just like your parents, you should treat us as your biological parents and be filial.”
“We took care of you back then, but we suffered a lot. You can’t do something ungrateful.”
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The two chattered a lot.
Nangong Anshan couldn’t help clenching her fists when she listened. The words of these two people were really more annoying than Qiu’s.
“Have you said enough?”
The two were talking vigorously, and when they heard Ji Weihao’s voice, they immediately realized that they had talked too much.
Ji Xiaohong said: “Then we won’t talk about it, but Xiaohao, you must help eldest aunt this favor.”
Ji Xiaoqing said: “Yes, without your five hundred taels of silver, little aunt probably won’t be able to live in the future.”
Ji Weihao said in a cold tone: “After talking so much, don’t you just think that you have raised me before, so you think it is reasonable for me to give you money? But you two, you have never raised me.”
Ji Xiaohong frowned and said, “Xiaohao, don’t say such heartless things, why didn’t we raise you?”
Ji Xiaoqing said displeasedly: “That’s right, you can grow up so big, it’s thanks to us.”
Ji Weihao said angrily: “Don’t say it so nicely, when my parents died, I was already fifteen years old, and my family also had a house and a field.”
“At that time, I supported myself with the money I earned from copying books and farming the land. You never gave me a copper coin, and you didn’t even call me to your home for a meal.”
“During the holidays, you never came to see me, but you two, every time you passed by my house, you would come to my house to enjoy the autumn breeze, eat a lot of my food, and say that I have raised you. “
Ji Xiaohong and Ji Xiaoqing were taken aback, did this person remember the original things so clearly?
The two of them glanced at Nangong Anshan and the others at the same time, seeing them looking at them meaningfully and feeling a little uncomfortable at the same time.
Ji Xiaohong sneered and said: “Xiaohao, our family conditions were not good at that time, you have to be considerate of us, but we are also your elders, if the elders have difficulties, you should help the elders.”
(end of this chapter)