Rebirth of Okuki Kofuro

Anxious to collect money for his younger brother, Mrs. Zhuang left the guest house where they lived with a heavy heart. After she left, Zhuang Qingze kicked down all the stools in the yard, his face turned pale with anger.

He asked to borrow 500 taels. Even if the Liang family doesn't have that much cash for the time being, shouldn't it be easy to raise 500 taels with the Liang family's wealth? In the end, Zhuang Qingrong was willing to borrow 100 taels, which seemed difficult. like.

Look, this is his so-called good sister who takes care of her younger brother!

The sound of Zhuang Qingze kicking down the stool woke Zhao Hongmei up. She hadn't slept soundly since Zhuang Qingze got up, but now she was completely awake, so she just put on her clothes and got up: "What's wrong, who messed with you so early in the morning?" ?”

"Hehe!" Zhuang Qingze sneered twice, and told what happened just now.

"It's only 100 taels!" Zhao Hongmei's eyes widened, "This, this, this is to send beggars, treat us as poor relatives who come to beat the autumn breeze!"

"We just let her borrow it, and it's not like I won't return it. Is it necessary to behave like this!"

"Qingze, let's not borrow this money anymore. My sister is prevaricating you. I will go to my natal family and beg my parents. Let's do business in a serious manner, and I will return the money I earn to my natal family in the future!"

As Zhao Hongmei spoke, she looked at Zhuang Qingze's face. If she really wanted to say, her natal family was far inferior to the Liang family, and she couldn't lend her 500 taels of silver, but she was the one talking anyway. Borrow it, it's not about what she says.

In fact, Zhao Hongmei is not worried that Zhuang Qingze really asked her to go back to her natal family to borrow money, because although they discussed before asking Zhuang to borrow money, after borrowing the money, it will be theirs, and they don't plan to pay it back. Zhuang's elder sister is also impossible Forcing the younger brother to pay back the money.

What's more, Zhuang Qingze wants to save face, so he won't let her go to her natal family to borrow money easily. After all, if a woman goes back to her natal family to borrow money, it can only show that the man is incapable of supporting a wife and children.

Zhuang Qingze was already in a bad mood, but now hearing Zhao Hongmei's words, it was even worse. He felt that the Zhao family was a foreign family, and they were all willing to borrow money. How could Zhuang Qingrong only take 100 taels of silver?

What Zhuang Qingze didn't expect was that the Liang family's annual income was only more than 200 taels of silver, and Zhuang decided to give 100 taels of silver to his younger brother before discussing it with his family. It's a lot of money in Ningdu, not small at all.

Of course, he thought this way mainly because Zhao Hongmei kept emphasizing how little it was, and with the number 500 taels for comparison, Zhuang Qingze really felt that it was too little.

"Qingze?" Seeing that Zhuang Qingze's complexion was getting worse and worse, Zhao Hongmei finally felt something was wrong, she closed her mouth and looked at him worriedly.

Being looked at by Zhao Hongmei with such "caring" eyes, Zhuang Qingze felt that his self-esteem was being stepped on. The person who stepped on him was his own sister, which made him very embarrassed and felt like a fool.

After waiting for quite a while, Zhuang Qingze never spoke. Zhao Hongmei was afraid that she had just said too much, so she persuaded Zhuang Qingze again, "Qingze, I was so excited just now, but actually thinking about it carefully, 100 taels of silver is quite a lot. Sister, Brother-in-law is also quite difficult, we still have more than 200 taels of silver in our hands, and together we can have more than 300 taels, which is enough."

"Didn't you just say that they bought a shop in the county seat? Although the location of the shop is not good, we can ask them to rent it out and use it as a warehouse."

"You go out to run a business, exposed to the wind, the sun and the rain. Our small house can't put too much stuff in it. We have to sell it after we buy it. If you have a warehouse where you can store your stuff, then you go out and buy something that can last for a long time. You can put it in the warehouse and sell it slowly when you come back, or you can wait until the price is relatively high before selling it.”

"You don't have to buy fabrics when you go out. You can look at other things. Anyway, after you have a warehouse, you don't have to worry about buying things. I believe that my sister and brother-in-law will save the shop for us..."

Zhao Hongmei's mind is really flexible, Liang Kangsheng and the others bought the shop with the most remote location, and she could figure it out, but at this time they didn't know how dilapidated those two shops were, and it would cost a fortune to maintain them as warehouses.

Zhuang Qingze's embarrassment was gradually relaxed under Zhao Hongmei's ingenious persuasion. He thought that if he didn't go to Zhuang's because he was angry, what would happen to the 100 taels promised by Zhuang? Gotta go find her.

In fact, Zhuang Qingze was motivated to buy materials because he once saw Zhao Hongmei wearing clothes made of silk brocade and thought it was very luxurious, so he asked what the material was, and when he learned that it cost five liang of silver a piece, he paid attention to it. .

He thought about how Zhao Hongmei couldn't put it down, and thought that women should like beautiful clothes. He believed that if he bought good-looking and fashionable materials, he would definitely sell them.

Although Zhuang Qingze didn't know the price of the silk brocade in the place of origin, but looking at the complicated patterns and colors, it must not be cheap. In addition to buying materials, there are also expenses on the road and management. He originally planned to buy two hundred for 500 taels of silver. about horses.

If it sells as well as he imagined, then he will spend more money to buy goods in the future. If it doesn't sell so well, he won't be afraid. At worst, he can sell it at a cheaper price. Anyway, he "borrowed" the capital from Zhuang Qingrong.

What makes Zhuang Qingze dissatisfied now is that Zhuang Qingrong only agreed to 100 taels of silver. Even if he added his own 200 taels, it would be 300 taels. At least part of the money was his own money. He was unwilling to take risks with his family's money.

As for asking him to borrow money from Yue's house, he couldn't say that, and he didn't want to borrow money from friends. After all, anyone who could lend him money knew that his sister's family was rich. Will definitely think about it.

And the most important point is that only the money borrowed from Zhuang Qingrong does not have to be repaid, because the money should belong to him in the first place.

Now, Zhuang Qingze listened to Zhao Hongmei's gentle persuasion, and saw Zhao Hongmei looking at him relyingly. He suddenly had an impulse. He wanted to prove to everyone that he, Zhuang Qingze, could do things by himself after leaving Liang's winery!

Zhao Hongmei didn't know what decision Zhuang Qingze made. Seeing that Zhuang Qingze suddenly became full of fighting spirit, she thought that he had listened to what she said, and planned to continue persuading him to ask Zhuang Qingrong for more money.

Unexpectedly, Zhuang Qingze suddenly said: "Hongmei, I will go to Zhuang Qingrong to get the 100 taels right now, and you will give me 200 taels after I go back."

"By the way, you call Cheng Hong and Cheng Zhi up, we'll leave when I get the money, and don't be angry here."

Hearing this, Zhao Hongmei's smile froze for a moment. She just said that she used her own money to do business, but she just mentioned it. She didn't really want to take out the money. She wanted to stimulate Zhuang Qingze to go to Zhuang Qingrong again and ask Zhuang Qingrong to give them more. 50 taels of silver or 100 taels will do.

But Zhuang Qingze didn't give her a chance to speak, so he hurried to the main courtyard of Liang's family after finishing his sentence.

On the other side, after returning from the guest house, Mrs. Zhuang started digging through the drawers. She was thinking about how to make up 100 taels.

There is a lot of money in the family account book, and now there is only a little cash left, which will be used for the daily expenses of the family in the next few months, and cannot be moved.

In addition to the money on the books, the family still has a small part of the Zhuang family's private house. It is said that the private house is actually her dowry, because there are no other elders in the Liang family, and she manages the house alone, and has no private house money at all. necessary.

After marrying Liang's father, in order to support the winery, Zhuang embezzled part of his own dowry. Later, the winery made money, and Liang's father tried to return all Zhuang's dowry.

Mrs. Zhuang didn't care about it, so the silver part of her dowry has been mixed with the account books of the Liang family. Although there is a dowry list, the Liang family can't get the money now, so naturally they can't get the money out of the dowry list.

In addition to the various daily necessities in the dowry for the married daughter, the most valuable part of Zhuang's dowry is some precious jewelry.

The Zhuang family lives on the water and is familiar with the things in the water. At the beginning, Zhuang’s dowry contained a small box of large pearls. She sold the pearls for the sake of the winery. If pearls are sold, they cannot be bought back. She was replaced with gold and silver jewelry and included in the dowry.

Therefore, Zhuang looked inside and out of the house, and only found two silver notes with a face value of 20 taels in a corner that he hadn't noticed before.

Father Liang woke up before Mrs. Zhuang entered the house to search for things. He couldn't fall asleep after waking up. Seeing that Ms. Zhuang seemed to be in a hurry, he got up, put on his clothes and asked her what she was looking for.

Thinking that she had agreed to lend 100 taels to her younger brother, Mrs. Zhuang hadn't discussed with Liang's father before, but now that Liang's father woke up, it was impossible for her not to talk about it, so she told about the loan.

Father Liang's face changed suddenly, thinking that his son did the right thing by using the family's money to set up a shop years ago, but Zhuang Qingze actually asked to borrow money on the first day of the new year, and even borrowed such a large amount, depending on his wife's attitude , if it wasn't because the family didn't have enough cash, she would definitely have borrowed it directly.

Now that there is no money in the family account, his wife still promised to lend 100 taels to Zhuang Qingze. Liang's father's face was dark, and he wanted to tell his soft-hearted wife that her brother was not a good thing, and worried about making her sad.

After thinking about it, Father Liang decided to stay with his wife later. Since he had agreed to borrow 100 taels, he would lend it out, but he had to write an IOU. It was unreasonable for such a large sum of money without any evidence.

Mrs. Zhuang was in a hurry to find the money, so she didn't pay attention to Liang's father's face. She looked at the lonely bank note on the table with a sad face, and she had a headache. If she knew that she would not agree to her brother just now, she should discuss it with him. For a while, she thought of a way.

Father Liang knew what she was anxious about, but he just didn't open his mouth. It would be best if he couldn't find the money anyway.

At this moment, Zhuang Qingze came over. He saw that the main courtyard door and the room door were open, so he walked in without saying hello. He saw only two 20 taels of silver bills on the table. He was not sure what Zhuang's was. mean.