Chapter 93: Poor but Strong

Chapter 93: Poor but Strong

Chapter 93: Poor but Strong
Pei Yuan's heart was pounding as he tried hard to guess what was in the brocade box.

He had an inexplicable panic.

I don't know what this extremely arrogant gangster will use to threaten me when he comes to me alone.

Pei Yuan was nervous for a while before his brain started to work.

Then he discovered...

It seems that I have nothing to lose except a lot of bad debts!

Pei Yuan looked at the brocade box and his eyes widened immediately.

I rely on!

Could it be the fingers of my creditors in there? !

That’s the creditor who has watched me grow up since I was a child!
Pei Yuan stared at the brocade box with light in his eyes, and for a moment he didn't know what he was expecting.

Seeing Pei Yuan's expression changing repeatedly, Lu Dahua couldn't help but laugh, "Captain Han thought that he could change the situation by bringing in outsiders, but I'm afraid he was overthinking it. Ever since the Nanjing Jinyiwei asked for your file, you have been in our sight, and your past has long been thoroughly investigated by us."

As he spoke, Lu Dahua placed the brocade box on the stone table in the yard.

He was afraid that drops of rain would fall in, so he only slightly opened the lid, revealing the fruits of their hard work.

A stack of IOUs.

Pei Yuan looked at Lu Dahua and asked uncertainly, "What do you mean?"

Lu Dahua smiled, carefully took out the IOUs from inside, shielded them from the raindrops, and counted out a small stack. "This is a small token of our appreciation. Let's just consider it as making friends."

Lu Dahua didn't know what he was feeling when he said this.

He brought more than a dozen brothers to Beijing, and with the cooperation of local tyrants, they frantically collected information about Pei Yuan in an attempt to capture him.

It turns out that this penniless bastard has no weaknesses except for a pile of debts.

But they couldn't threaten Pei Yuan and say that they would kill all his creditors if he didn't obey, right?

What's going on?

Even though Lu Dahua had little education, he knew that this was outrageous.

So Lu Dahua had no choice but to collect some IOUs to intimidate Pei Yuan.

At least I can prove to this guy that as long as he angers them, even if Pei Yuan flees to the ends of the earth, they can still threaten him at any time...

Pei Yuan was naturally aware of Lu Dahua's demonstration.

He took the IOU from Lu Dahua's hand and counted it. It was exactly fifty taels.

Pei Yuan felt a sense of awe in his heart.

Could this be V50, proving one's strength?
His eyes couldn't help but look at the remaining stack of IOUs in Lu Dahua's hand.

Lu Dahua smiled, put the IOU into the brocade box, and said openly, "As long as the brothers can get along well in the future, these will not be a problem."

Then, a lot of information started popping up.

Pei Yuan did not dare to distract himself to check the information at this moment. He looked at Lu Dahua calmly, "What does it mean to get along well?"

Lu Dahua laughed and said confidently, "Captain Pei will know when the time comes."

Pei Yuan also understood it roughly.

This Lu Dahua should be the one who does the dirty work openly. He looks like a big boss, but actually he knows nothing.

Those people's game over taxes and silver would not let such an open character know much.

Seeing that Pei Yuan looked calm, unlike the guys he had met before, Lu Dahua immediately felt a bit of favor towards him.

He remembered something and smiled at Pei Yuan, "By the way, I have something for you to see."

As he spoke, Lu Dahua took out a crumpled piece of paper from his waist pouch and placed it in front of Pei Yuan.

Pei Yuan carefully reached out to take it and took a look. It was the deed that he had mortgaged his ancestral home for sixty taels of silver.

"What is this?" Pei Yuan looked at it for a while and asked cautiously.

Because he found that those scattered IOUs worth a few taels of silver were neatly placed in the box, but this mortgage deed worth up to sixty taels appeared casually and wrinkled in Lu Dahua's purse.

Lu Dahua smiled without saying anything, then rummaged in his purse again, and took out a crumpled piece of paper and placed it in front of Pei Yuan.

"Look at this again."

Pei Yuan unfolded it and took a look, his eyelids twitched.

This is also a deed for mortgaging the ancestral home, and the price is also sixty taels. Even the text content is somewhat similar.

Seeing that Pei Yuan was at a loss, Lu Dahua dug out three more crumpled pieces of paper from his purse.

After unfolding it, it was also the deed that Pei Yuan used to mortgage his ancestral home.

The price is sixty taels, and the owner, guarantor, and all other contents are included.

Pei Yuan looked at the five contracts and felt a little uneasy. He looked at Lu Dahua and asked, "Brother Lu, what do you mean?"

Lu Dahua waved his hands and cursed.

"My boss said that he wanted to make friends with you, so he asked me to go to Beijing to find out more about you and see how I could express my gratitude to you."

"As a result, I was busy for a long time, but didn't get much out of it."

"Later, I heard that Captain Pei had encountered many difficulties over the years and had even borrowed money at high interest rates. So we planned to collect some IOUs and give them to you as a favor. I didn't expect these damn things to cheat me when they heard that I wanted to redeem your IOUs."

"Look at these pictures. They're all made the same way."

"The one who bullies me for wandering around the world is a man with little education!"

"Even if I don't know much, can't I see that this is the same house?"

Pei Yuan was stunned for a moment, "What happened next?"

Lu Dahua said unhappily, "I was so angry that I killed all those guys. But they had a strong backer and the incident became a big fuss, so I hurried back here."

As Lu Dahua spoke, he slapped the crumpled papers into Pei Yuan's hands and said meaningfully, "People are treacherous, brother. Don't be too honest about the things that the higher-ups assign you to do."

Pei Yuan was holding a few pieces of paper in his hand and was trembling slightly for a moment.

At this time, many messages popped up again.

Pei Yuan clenched his fist, crushed the deeds, looked at Lu Dahua sincerely and said, "Don't say anything. When you need me in the future, just say a word."

Lu Dahua didn't find Pei Yuan's attitude strange.

Most of them had the same expression after threatening officials in the past.

It’s just that Captain Pei in front of him is a little too sincere.

Lu Dahua nodded in satisfaction. "Your words are enough. When you arrive in Suzhou, someone will contact you."

Lu Dahua seemed to be very familiar with the situation of their team. He didn't want to alarm too many people, so he said with a smile, "Even if we know each other today, we will meet again if we are destined to."

Pei Yuan stuck the knife into the ground, raised his hand and said, "Please." Lu Dahua looked at the knife.

With his martial arts skills, he didn't care whether Pei Yuan would do something behind his back, but this attitude was very comfortable.

So he didn't say much, just nodded slightly, and left leisurely with the axe in one hand and the brocade box in the other.

Seeing that Lu Dahua was about to disappear, Song Chunniang walked very lightly behind Pei Yuan and whispered, "Do you want to do it?"

Pei Yuan shook his head, "No."

"Hmm?" Song Chunniang was puzzled. "We two have a great chance of winning."

Pei Yuan stared at Lu Dahua until his figure completely disappeared, then he slowly said, "I'm afraid my conscience will hurt."

Song Chunniang looked at Pei Yuan, puzzled for a while, "I'm glad you're okay. I'll continue washing."

Pei Yuan then turned around and noticed that Song Chunniang's hair was still wet.

By the way, ever since Song Chunniang became the general flag bearer for Pei Yuan, she seems to have been treated like a beast.

The reason her condition worsened this time was because Pei Yuan wanted to use her agility to eliminate the hidden danger, which made her force herself to kill in the middle of the night to silence the witness.

Pei Yuan felt a little embarrassed.

"Go back and have a good rest. There's no rush to leave this time. Let's stay here for two more days."

The conditions of several people were not very good, so even if Han Qianhu knew, he would not say anything.

As for the opponent.

After what happened to Lu Dahua, they probably wouldn't be so eager to take action against Pei Yuan.

After all, the most crucial thing in this matter is not to deal with the people escorting the silver, but the target is still the silver.

Even if Pei Yuan was not there, there were still Li Yuan and Zhang Yuan. Their actions would only make sense after the silver was transported out of the silver vault of the governor of Suhang Weaving Factory.

Even the emperor would feel painful after losing these 80,000 taels of silver.

They wanted to prove to the court that levying commercial taxes in Jiangnan was not feasible, and even if they succeeded by chance, the cost would far outweigh the benefits.

Pei Yuan naturally wouldn't be so foolish as to surrender himself before the fight between the two sides even started.

Moreover, Lu Dahua’s words just now revealed a lot of useful things.

For example, Lu Dahua believed that Captain Han asked Pei Yuan to take charge of this matter in the hope of bringing in outsiders to open up the situation.

Does this mean that Han Qianhu has a crisis of trust in his subordinates, so he hopes that things will be led by an outsider like himself to avoid following in someone else's footsteps?
Moreover, it had only been a short time since he took over this matter, but the enemy had already learned about his information, and they even deliberately got some IOUs from Pei Yuan.

So when did they realize this?

Perhaps, before Captain Han made his decision and even made it clear to Pei Yuan, someone had already guessed what he was thinking and made arrangements in advance.

Such a person might be one of the ones close to the core among the Thousand Households of Suppressing Evil.

Pei Yuan thought about it and felt more and more that he had underestimated the situation before.

Under the game between the two sides, this mission itself was as dangerous as walking on a tightrope. I even had the crazy idea of ​​planning to use the tax silver to purchase goods, which was really bold.

But why did Han Qianhu also agree with his approach?

What role does she play in this?
Pei Yuan thought about it and felt that the situation was so unclear that there would be no harm in just hiding for a while.

After hearing Song Chunniang's door close behind him, Pei Yuan finally had time to check his "debt settlement system."

Let’s look at the first one first, “Attention: One of your debts has been lost. Do you want to write it off?”

Pei Yuan looked down and saw several lines like this.

Pei Yuan knew in his heart that this was most likely the deed to the house that he had mortgaged in many places.

He cancelled it without hesitation.

Pei Yuan immediately saw that his debt had been reduced by three hundred taels.

Cool!
Pei Yuan felt like he had eaten a popsicle on a hot day.

Next, look at the fragmentary information below, most of which correspond to varying amounts of money.

Pei Yuan knew that this should be the 50 taels that Lu Dahua gave him.

After Meimei had written off all those debts, a new prompt popped up.

“The system will be re-anchored after detecting that part of your debt has been transferred.”

Pei Yuan was stunned for a moment, then he understood.

This should refer to the IOUs remaining in Lu Dahua's brocade box.

Sure enough, after a while, Lu Dahua appeared on Pei Yuan's list of creditors.

——Lü Dahua: Eight taels.

Tsk.

Pei Yuan looked down on him.

There are only eight taels of IOU left in total, and you are still pretending, there is nothing but blank paper underneath.

But this is also a good thing. At least Pei Yuan got Lu Dahua's location, and he has more confidence in facing the next things.

After summarizing all the information, Pei Yuan immediately looked at the data panel that had been completely changed.

Character: Pei Yuan

Occupation: Jinyiwei (fifth rank captain).

Property debt:
Debts receivable: 0
Debts payable: (38/38)

The total amount of money owed was 32,420 taels of silver (Gu Dayong 30,000 taels, Zhang Yaochen 120 taels, Tao Liben 32 taels, An Xianzhi 15 taels...)
Debt of favor:
Debts Receivable (1/1): Zhang Cong owes you a favor, and he promises to accept your advice in his spare time. You can also force him to ask for advice once, but this promise will become invalid.

Debts receivable (0/1): Sun Keding verbally promised to owe you a favor. Your request to him will have a small bonus. Cannot be forced to repay. Validity period remaining: 23 days.

Debts Receivable (0/1): Yue Qingfeng owes you a favor that does not need to be repaid.

The conditions for the establishment of a debt of favor are: do not meet Yue Qingfeng within one year. (When you appear in front of him, the time will be refreshed, and the remaining time is 365 days.)
Debt to be repaid (0/1): You owe a favor to Chang An, the Dianshi of Daxing County. Chang An hopes that you can marry his daughter to offset this favor. He has given up this idea. The host can delete this debt or force repayment.

Debts to be repaid (1/1): Wang Chang, the Minister of War of Nanjing, has decided to do you a favor and let go of this dispute with you.

Debt of Favor Repayment Request: He doesn't want to see you again. Mission Time Limit: Minimum time limit 9,999 days (When you appear in front of him, the time will be refreshed.)
Current debt ceiling: 156 taels (currently overspent by taels, days until the settlement date, the overspent portion will be forcibly settled)

Current credit value: 21/100 (You have received praise from Sun Keding)
Special state: Poor but strong (The amount of debt is reduced, allowing you to focus on solving the remaining troubles. When you focus on one thing for more than a quarter of an hour, it will become stronger and stronger. This state can be stacked.)
After taking a quick look at all the debts, Pei Yuan was instantly attracted by the special changes in status.

Huh?
Isn’t it the saying “The more debt you have, the less worry you have”?
This shouldn't be the case. Gu Dayong's huge debt of 30,000 taels of silver is still intact, so how come the special status has been refreshed?

Could it be that the conditions that trigger this special status are related to the number of debts and not the amount?
Or are there any triggering requirements, such as the need to focus on settling large outstanding debts?

In this case, can a new special status be triggered by changes in the amount and number of debts owed, or changes in the debt structure?

(End of this chapter)