While Shen Zhilan and Mrs. Shen were reading, Qian Fugui left the inn.
After sitting on the boat for so many days in a row, Qian Fugui felt like his whole body was falling apart... If he hadn't been worried about something and was not hungry, he would probably have just lay in bed all day.
Because he wanted to visit the Shen family, he did not go to the restaurant for dinner. Seeing that there was a shop called "Jueweizhai" next to him with a lot of people in front of the door, he asked the servant beside him to buy some for him.
He smelled an enticing aroma. The things sold in that shop must be delicious!
The servants of the Qian family went up to line up, and soon brought back some food for Qian Fugui: "Master, that's the place selling braised food, I picked out some and bought some."
Qian Fugui took a look and saw that the bamboo basket given by the store contained a chicken, a duck, some vegetarian chicken, dried tofu, etc. It smelled particularly good.
He had eaten a lot of braised food before, but he had never eaten anything so delicious! Qian Fugui pulled off a chicken leg and took a bite, and was even more amazed.
This stew tastes so good!
It’s easy to get bored if you only eat vegetables... Qian Fugui asked someone to buy him two steamed buns, and he ate them while walking towards Shen’s house.
Qian Fugui was a man of extraordinary appearance and outstanding temperament, and he was dressed very elegantly... People who saw him thought he was a scholar or a juren from a wealthy family.
As a result, this person actually had a steamed bun in one hand and a chicken leg in the other... People around him looked at him sideways.
Qian Fugui ignored the gazes of the people around him and continued eating.
Eating a meal on the road is nothing to him, and his image is completely unimportant.
When he first joined Prince Yan, he suffered countless hardships in order to run his business well. For a period of time, he had to sleep in the open air and it was difficult for him to have a hot meal. He also had to fawn on others all day long.
Qian Fugui's men had already found out where the Shen family lived. Qian Fugui followed his servants forward and felt that the streets in Jiangnan were a bit narrow.
There was a group of people sitting at the door of a house in front, blocking the entire road.
Qian Fugui glanced at the house and saw "Qin's House" written on it, then looked at those people...
Today is the 26th day of the twelfth lunar month, and it is near the end of the year. The Qin family must have owed some debt, and someone is asking for repayment now.
Qian Fugui was right. These people came to collect debts and were hired by the Jinye Embroidery Workshop.
Jin Xiaoye asked Jin Xiaoshu to find someone to collect the debt, so Jin Xiaoshu hired ten strong men from Miaoqian Village, plus Jin Sangshu and a boatman from his boat company... a total of twelve people, blocked the Qin family's door.
Jin Xiaoshu did not come himself. Normally, he would come in person for such a matter, but Fang Jinniang was about to give birth, and he was worried about his family during this period, so he did not go out of Chongcheng County much.
It might take a few days to collect the debt, so he is unlikely to come.
This time, he let Jin Sangshu and the boatman from his boat company lead the way in collecting the debt.
The boatman's name was Zhou Jinsong. He was a smart man who always got things done. Jin Sangshu was also very reliable and they were one of their own. Jin Xiaoshu felt relieved to have them come out together to collect the debt.
He had just arrived at the Qin family's door and was sitting there sharing steamed buns. When he saw someone passing by, he shouted at the Qin family's door: "Master Qin, please be kind and return the money! We have no money to celebrate the New Year!"