"Hmph, your family can't get much money out of it. Who doesn't know how to treat your father? Your family even sold out the acres of land. Is it possible that you can steal it?" Mrs. Wang seemed to be sure of the spring breeze. He said arrogantly as if he couldn't get any money out of his family.
"Let's wait until the village chief comes." Chunfeng looked at Wang's proud look and did not open his mouth to refute.
It's useless to talk to some people with words. It's interesting to slap them in the face with actual actions. Chunfeng's lack of refutation made Wang more certain that their family had no money.
After a while, an opening was opened in the crowd, and the village chief walked in wearing a long gown.
"Village Chief, you are here. Please sit down!" Chunfeng saw the village chief coming and standing in the yard, so he moved a chair for the village chief to do. Everyone else was standing because the stools at Chunfeng's house were really limited. .
"Village Chief, you see, the He family can't get any money out of it. How do you think the yard will be divided? Why don't you help sell it and then distribute the money to everyone." Wang met the village chief. When he came, he immediately jumped forward and said.
The village chief did not answer Wang, but turned to look at Chunfeng girl. Just hearing Chunfeng call "Mother", Chunfeng Mother took out a bag of white silver from the house.
Everyone was relieved when they saw Chunfeng Niang taking out the money. In fact, they didn't want the Chunfeng family to sell their house to pay off their debts.
After all, the He couple, who have been neighbors for decades, are good people, but the people in this village are having a hard time, and they are afraid that their money will not be returned, so they follow them.
Only Wang was different. Her face was red and white, and she was gritting her teeth. The handkerchief on her hand was almost twisted into a twist, and her eyes were looking at Chunfeng Niang hatefully.
When the village chief saw that there was money, he didn't say anything more. He just shouted: "Bring me all the IOUs in your hands." Then he started to calculate the interest and pay the money one by one. As usual, Chunfeng gave the money and Chunfeng Niang collected the IOUs. .
Finally, Mrs. Wang counted the few copper coins again and again, fearing that she was missing a word. Finally, I counted it no less than five times before carefully putting it away.
After paying out everyone's money, Chunfeng Niang still had more than two taels of silver left, which made the others look a little jealous.
Chunfeng didn't care about other people's expressions, put away the money, and took out the IOU that he had withdrawn before.
"Well, thank you all for helping our family during the most difficult time. I thanked you here today. These are all the IOUs. Today I am here with the village chief. I would like to ask the village chief to be a witness. Our family has been here since I don’t owe anyone any money from now on.”
After saying that, he burned the pile of IOUs on fire.
"Well, this time I can prove that all the debts owed by the Duan family have been paid off!" The village chief also nodded and glanced at Chunfeng. I thought to myself that this girl is becoming more and more clever in her work.
The money has been paid off, but there are people who don't want Chunfeng's family to have an easy time.
"Village Chief, don't you think it's strange? Their family is so poor. Where did the money come from? To pay back so much at once, it's almost twenty taels with interest." It's Wang again.
Wang shouted loudly, and others started to discuss cautiously, "Yes, why do you suddenly have so much money? Could it be that you are really doing some illegal business outside?"
"That's not right. Their family is full of girls, and the rest is just a brat who can do bad things."
"Why can't women do bad things? Maybe they hooked up with rich people somewhere?" There were more and more comments, and they became more and more outrageous.
Some people were already jealous, but this time when people asked about the source of the money, they became even more jealous. Those who didn't see the good things in others spoke more and more rudely.
"Okay, shut up, what are you arguing about? They haven't said anything about what's going on, but you're talking about it now. Is this your usual upbringing?"
When the village chief heard these people talking more and more, he stood up angrily and yelled. The crowd suddenly fell silent, and the village chief said to Chunfeng again: "Girl Chunfeng, you'd better tell everyone, otherwise they will talk nonsense and ruin your family's reputation."
It seems that the village chief is thinking about Chunfeng's family, but in fact he is asking about Chunfeng's ways of making money. Everyone wants to live a good life and have money to spend, especially poor people.
Chunfeng was not angry when she saw that these people wanted to know how she made money.
He just sneered in his heart, he could tell you how to make money, it just depends on whether these people have the ability to make this money.
"Thank you to the village chief for considering our family's reputation. In fact, it's not a big deal to tell everyone." Chunfeng looked at everyone calmly.
"Then you should tell me where your money comes from. If you can't tell, then you have done something shameful. Our Dahe Village has always had good folk customs and will never tolerate such people!" Just listen to Wang Shi pointed at the spring breeze and shouted aggressively.
"This money is all the money I earn from hunting and digging herbs in the mountains. You can go to the Yuelai Restaurant and Anhe Pharmacy in the town to find out, or you can ask Uncle Wang in the village. Every time I go Everything we bring in the town is seen by someone, so our money comes from all sources. If you don’t believe it, you can check it out on your own. As for what we do illegally, most of our family is women and children, so we can’t beat or kill them. , I really can’t think of what bad things it can do.”
Now that the matter has come to an end, there is no need for Chunfeng to hide it. He can simply tell the whole truth, and speak with reason and evidence to stop the mouths of those who do evil things.
"Okay, now that the origin of the money is clear, we can no longer discuss this matter. Otherwise, it will ruin the reputation of the family and it will not be good for our village. Let's all disperse!"
When the village chief saw that Chunfeng had said it clearly, he didn't want to dwell on these trivial matters any more.
Regardless of whether the matter is true or not, it is indeed not good for the entire village to spread such words. Some people may even say that he, the village chief, is incompetent in governance. That's why the village chief wants to shut these people's mouths.
Everyone was about to go home when they saw the village chief's words, but they heard Chunfeng shout: "Wait a minute!" The people who had just stepped forward to leave turned around and looked back.
"Aunt Wang, you just said that if my money comes from wrong sources, you will drive us out of the village, right?" Chunfeng walked up to Ms. Wang and stared at her, making her hair freeze. Wringing the handkerchief, I didn't know how to answer for a moment.
"Not speaking means admitting it, so what if I have explained the origin of the money clearly? Aunt Wang!" At this time, the spring breeze was exuding a cold aura, and his eyes were slightly narrowed, giving people a Invisible pressure.
Wang looked at the spring breeze in front of her, which was obviously just a twelve-year-old girl, but it gave people an overwhelming sense of pressure, but Wang was just stunned.
Thinking that she was just a little yellow-haired girl who could do anything to herself, she straightened her back and said confidently: "That's what you said yourself. We haven't verified whether it is true. We have to believe what you say." Ah, why? "