NOVPUBChapter 138: Chapter 138: Raising Money
Chapter 138 -138: Raising Money
Fang Jiansheng was stunned. He had not come over just now because he heard that his younger brother was sick and wanted to avoid work, but he had not expected his younger brother’s business had actually failed.
What would they do now?
Not just later, but what about now?
This bunch of extremely vicious people were still waiting here.
“Brother, is that so? If Sister-in-law is unwilling to help out, consider it a loan from us. We will definitely pay you back when we have the money, but Xiaoshan needs to be saved now! A family must not stand by and do nothing when one of their own is in trouble. Xiaoshan is your nephew after all. If something happens to him, the Fang Family’s lineage would be cut off.” He couldn’t believe that Fang Jianping had only saved up five hundred dollars over the years.
He didn’t consider how long Fang Jianping had been in business in town, or that it hadn’t been many years since the policies were relaxed. Originally, the couple also made money working for others in town, and it was only by chance that they started this business later. He also didn’t think about how much money had been spent at home and how Fang Jianping could have that much money.
The couple was making money, not going out to pick it up. Making money was never that easy.
Immediately, the old lady objected, as Xiaoshan was her life. When she heard this, the old lady could have jumped three feet high.
“Brother, you can’t keep secrets like this at a time like this. Your nephew is waiting to be saved, you know. Besides, Xiaoshan will be the one to perform the funeral rites for you in the future. You can’t just watch something bad happen to Xiaoshan and do nothing!” The old lady felt that her second son was playing tricks on them because of what Fang Jiansheng said.
Guang Ge couldn’t help but laugh, and the brothers around him laughed loudly as well.
“I thought we were the bastards, but turns out assholes are everywhere. Even though we’re no good, at least we know to have some shame. This shamelessness, I’ve never heard anything like it. People build you a house, provide food and drink, even raise a family for you. You people farm and must make some two hundred bucks a year, right? After spending their money and eating their food for all these years, where did your money go? Did you give it to some young widow or did you use it to curry favor with some young wife?
And then accuse others of hiding money? My God, my eyes have been opened – such shameless louts, we can’t even compare to them. What an eye-opener! The people of the Fang Family are indeed something!”
A bunch of hooligans immediately laughed loudly, “Guang Ge, we might be hooligans! But we follow the rules, debts must be paid – it’s a matter of principle, and that’s indisputable. But compared to those people! We’re just playing in the minor league, way behind them. Maybe we should go home and check if we have brothers or sisters! If not, even married-off sisters would do. It’s much easier than loan sharking and doesn’t even require any effort, let alone repayment—it’s just a walking goldmine!”
“Go to hell, I’ve told you, even though we are hooligans! We were still born to our parents, and our siblings are our flesh and blood of this life, not the afterlife. We can’t do something so devoid of conscience. If anyone dares to step on their own siblings back home, thinking about eating and drinking off others, don’t blame me for breaking their legs to give them a lesson!”
“Yes, Guang Ge, how could we be those shameless beasts! We would definitely not do such things!” Several men immediately assured, leaving Fang Jiansheng blushing with shame.
Having been exposed like this, saying anything further was futile.
The old patriarch glared fiercely at his wife and Fang Jiansheng. Each one was a source of constant worry.
They were really forcing people to laugh at them.
“So, your mother and I still have five hundred dollars, you and your spouse fork out twelve hundred,” the old man saw Fang Jiansheng was about to speak, he immediately interrupted, “don’t plead poverty, I know you have it, the rest your brother will make up three hundred, give them this two thousand for now, we’ll talk about the rest later!”
Guang Ge shook his head, “Old man, you’re still one hundred short, it’s twenty-one hundred dollars.” Making money this way wasn’t easy, of course, they wouldn’t let a single cent slip, let alone a hundred dollars, enough for them to enjoy good food and drink for a while.
“Dad, I really can’t come up with any money!” Fang Jiansheng immediately spoke up, joking, this alone would clean out him and his spouse’s savings, there was no way he could come up with more, it wasn’t pleading poverty this time, it was genuinely having none.
The old man looked at the old lady, who said annoyedly, “I don’t have any either, where would I get that much money from, let the younger one pay!” She had originally set aside dowry money for Xiaoshan, which was now completely washed away, leaving her unsure of what to do next.
Yang Mei spoke up, “Dad, doesn’t the younger brother need to see a doctor?” Were they supposed to fill this family’s bottomless pit like this?
The old man pondered, his own son needed medical treatment too.
What to do?
Guang Ge smiled, “Old man, no need to worry! It’s only a hundred short, easy to handle, I have an idea, I saw in your family’s yard, there are two pigs in the pigsty, and we don’t mind taking them! Taking one will cover the hundred dollars!”
Joking, loan sharks were the best at collecting cash, no money was easy to deal with, just use goods to cover, that was their regular practice, as soon as they entered they had brothers go round the house and garden, they already knew what valuable things were there.
The old lady wouldn’t have it, “That pig alone is worth at least one hundred fifty or sixty dollars, you can’t just say you’re taking it away, that’s really not decent!” She had raised that pig, and in just one more month it would be ready for sale, it could fetch money then, already weighing two hundred pounds, why should she let the loan sharks take advantage so easily?
“Alright then, old lady, keep your pig, we don’t really want to be shepherding a pig everywhere anyway, we just want the money, not a cent less, or else… mmhmm…” Guang Ge wasn’t angry, seeing they already intended to repay, and most of the money had been put out, why would they quibble over such a trifle, if they wouldn’t give him the pig, he didn’t want it either.
Fang Xiaoshan, frightened, clutched at his grandmother’s sleeve and hid behind her, “Let’s come up with this hundred dollars!” Fang Jianping couldn’t hold back, seeing his older brother and father pushed so far, maybe it was just Fang Jianping being too kind.
Yang Mei was so infuriated she could have swallowed Fang Jianping whole, what an idiot hadn’t heard, you big brother had put out twelve hundred, just short of this hundred dollars, she hadn’t expected it, let alone mention it, not to mention the income from crops every year adding up to hundred or two hundred dollars, and there were pigs to sell every year, the house always kept two pigs, those pigs alone could bring in three hundred dollars each year.
The family’s food supply came from their own harvest, and any urgent needs were covered by them as a couple, what did they need to spend money on? None, yet they couldn’t come up with the money, who would believe that!
Now this blockhead of theirs was even considering others’ plight, not realizing these people wanted to suck their marrow dry like vampires. 𝖓𝖔𝖛𝔭𝖚𝖇.𝔠𝖔𝔪
The family pooled together the money and handed it to Guang Ge, who passed the IOU to the old man, money exchanged for the deed, and the old man burnt the IOU, finally feeling some peace of mind.
Guang Ge and his posse finally left.
