"We've already given you a lot of money, what else do you want?"
Jiang Yunniang cried, "We have also mortgaged our shop to you, please let us go."
The big man sneered: "How much money does your shabby shop have? No one wants even fifty taels! Either you take out two hundred taels today, or we fight tooth and nail!"
Jiang Quan, who was not far away, was furious when he saw the two big men acting so rampant, but he didn't dare to take his little cousin to stop them, remembering what his little cousin had told him. So he pulled Jiang Wu and ran towards Wupu.
He wanted to go to Wupu to ask the constable from the yamen to come over.
He didn't believe that the police would ignore such brutal extortion.
Besides, no matter what, my aunt is still my grandparents' biological daughter and my father's biological sister. As her nephew, I cannot ignore her.
Jiang Quan still ran to the martial arts shop near the county school and found Jin Wu. "Uncle Jin, someone wants to kill my aunt! Please go and save her."
Jin Wu was sitting in the martial arts shop bragging to his colleagues. When he heard what Jiang Quan said, he immediately stood up, picked up the sword on the table and asked, "Where is it? Take us to see it!"
It's almost the New Year, and the order has been repeatedly made to each class to patrol carefully to prevent criminals from committing crimes and causing trouble, which would damage the reputation of the county government. We never expected that someone would dare to kill someone. This is outrageous!
Jiang Quan nodded and pulled Jiang Wu to run in front.
Passing by his own shop, Jiang Quan asked his younger cousin to go back. However, Jiang Wu delivered the delicious food in his arms to the shop and chased after his second cousin. Along the way, he kept looking at the sword on the patrolman's waist with curious eyes.
He really wanted to have such a beautiful knife.
When they arrived at the entrance of the alley, they saw Jiang Yunniang sitting on the ground crying. Zhang Jia and the murderer were nowhere to be seen.
"What's going on?" Jin Wu asked Jiang Yunniang.
Jiang Yunniang looked up and saw that it was the constable. She immediately got up and stammered, "It's nothing. I just fell down."
"Fell down?" Jin Wu turned to look at Jiang Quan suspiciously.
Jiang Quan immediately said, "Aunt, I just saw two men beating you and uncle, how did it become a wrestling match?"
Jiang Yunniang turned around and saw that it was her second nephew. She was stunned and immediately said angrily: "What did you see? Don't talk nonsense, little kid! Who hit me?"
Someone nearby couldn't stand it anymore and chimed in, "Someone just hit you. How could you be so ungrateful as a woman? Someone was trying to help you out of kindness, but you insulted him."
Jin Wu snorted and asked Jiang Quan: "Is this woman really your aunt?"
Jiang Quan was embarrassed, but still nodded: "Yes."
"It seems that your aunt doesn't want you to meddle in other people's business. Young man, next time you encounter such a thing, it's better to ignore it." Jin Wu patted Jiang Quan's shoulder, turned around and left with several yamen runners.
Jiang Wu looked at his second cousin curiously, then glanced at his aunt, tugged at Jiang Quan's sleeve and said, "Second brother, let's go back." He didn't like this lying aunt at all.
Someone clearly hit her just now, but she concealed the truth and scolded her second cousin. This is exactly what the master said about repaying kindness with enmity.
Jiang Quan nodded and took his little cousin away.
After taking a few steps, Jiang Yunniang grabbed his shoulder.
"What are you doing?" Jiang Quan pushed away his aunt's hand, took a few steps back, and looked at the disheveled woman warily.
Jiang Yunniang changed her previous anger and said with a pleading look: "Erquan, don't tell my family about what happened just now. Don't tell anyone."
Jiang Quan nodded coldly.
"Also, can you talk to Dacheng and lend me two hundred taels of silver for my aunt to use in an emergency? I will pay him back soon." Jiang Yunniang pleaded, "You saw it just now. Your uncle is in trouble. If you don't pay him back, he will be beaten to death."
Jiang Quan shook his head: "No, we don't have that much money." Even if he had money, he couldn't lend it to this unreasonable aunt.
Seeing that her second nephew refused to help, Jiang Yunniang immediately frowned, turned around and limped away.
Jiang Wu pulled his second cousin and said, "Aunt is so weird."
Jiang Quan nodded, pulled his little cousin and walked quickly back to his shop. After thinking about it, he told his eldest brother what had just happened.
"Brother, I think my aunt will come to borrow money from us again, so don't lend it to her." He always felt that something was strange.
Jiang Cheng: "I'm not stupid. Even if my parents came, I wouldn't lend them so much money."
When the shop business was just getting on track, the most taboo thing was to spend the first money earned or lend it to others. That would be sending away one's own luck and wealth, which was very unlucky, so he would not lend out a penny of the money in the shop.
At this moment, Yingbao and her two cousins were packing boxes in the warehouse.
A box of persimmon cakes weighs two pounds, and a box of chestnut cakes also weighs two pounds.
The packed gift boxes are stacked on the shelves in the warehouse, neatly arranged and very spectacular.
There are also many large gourds piled up in the warehouse, all of which were brought from the village. They are sold at ten or twenty taels each, and several can be sold in a month.
Different auspicious words are pasted on each gourd, such as carp leaping into the peasant's door, five sons passing the imperial examinations, name on the gold list, blessings as vast as the East Sea, prosperous business and so on.
Jiang Wu ran in and handed the snacks he had bought to his three sisters. He sat aside and ate while recounting what had just happened. At the end, he said, "Aunt is so weird. She clearly was beaten but she refused to admit it and even borrowed money from my second brother."
Yingbao frowned in thought.
Why did she feel that this routine was a bit familiar, like a honey trap
But it seemed that the group of people were not targeting my uncle, but my aunt, or my aunt's family.
Since last year, my aunt has often gone back to her parents' home to borrow money. She not only borrowed from my grandparents, but also from my uncles and my second uncle, and also from my mother. However, my mother refused on the grounds that she had just bought a house.
After she had borrowed from everyone in the family and could no longer borrow, she frequently asked to hand over her specialty shop to her son Yukun.
I guess my aunt thought that I was just a five-year-old kid and couldn't be the owner of the shop, so she never told me.
Now, she started to target her eldest cousin again, hoping that Jiang Cheng would lend her money.
Yingbao thought about it, ran to the shop and asked her second cousin what had happened just now.
Jiang Quan described the situation in detail and said angrily, "I saw that man kept beating my aunt, so I went to find Uncle Jin, but the group of people and my uncle were gone, leaving my aunt sitting on the ground alone."
"Alone? What about my uncle?" His wife was beaten for protecting him. Logically, he should have taken his wife to see a doctor or go home, but his uncle left alone.
What kind of heartless man is this
But my aunt lied to the police and said that she was not beaten but just fell down. She also begged Jiang Quan not to go home and tell her family, and did not mention why my uncle was not there.
What a weird family.
Jiang Quan said angrily, "Who knows! Judging from the state of my aunt, my uncle should be fine for the time being."
Yingbao pondered and said nothing more.
The next day, Jiang Quan took her three sisters and little cousin to Washi to play, and also went to listen to Dongmei and her father storytelling.