Chapter 583: The Jia Family is out of food and has a bunch of creditors

Chapter 583: The Jia Family is out of food and has a bunch of creditors

Chapter 583: The Jia Family is out of food and has a bunch of creditors
Jia family.

"Wife, it's time to eat."

Jia Dongxu carefully helped Qin Huairu up from the bed.

"Dongxu, don't be like this. I've only been pregnant for a short time. It's not time for me to take care of you yet."

Qin Huairu said she was disgusted, but her actions were not slow at all. She really enjoyed the feeling of being taken care of.

"You just came back, your health is the most important." Jia Dongxu said sincerely, he had to take care of Qin Huairu's emotions first.

Qin Huairu sat at the table, looking at the rather sumptuous lunch, her stomach growling.

Although I had some food to eat during these days in the hospital, it was not that abundant.

Looking at the two children sitting upright, Qin Huairu said softly, "Banggeng, Xiaodang, let's eat."

The two children couldn't wait to start eating, and Jia Dongxu picked up some food for Qin Huairu.

The family was happy and comfortable. Even without Jia Zhang, the atmosphere in the Jia family was still quite good.

Jia Dongxu really wanted to maintain this atmosphere, but this was obviously his wishful thinking.

After dinner, Jia Dongxu went to wash the dishes. Qin Huairu couldn't persuade him and stopped forcing him. She turned around and went to the kitchen to take a look.

"Why are things missing? Why are there only so many oils, salts, sauces and vinegar?" Qin Huairu looked at the things that were missing, most of them.

He looked around carefully again, "Why is there so much less food? There must have been a thief in the house!"

Qin Huairu was shocked. She had only been in the hospital for a few days, and her home was already short of so much food.

I immediately went to talk to Jia Dongxu.

"Huai Ru, let me explain this to you."

Seeing that the truth was finally exposed, Jia Dongxu could only tell the truth.

"Okay, okay, you really act like a mother!"

Qin Huairu was furious, her face turned red and she couldn't breathe.

"Huai Ru, calm down and take a deep breath. The doctor said that you cannot have drastic mood changes." Jia Dongxu said panicked.

"Huff~" Qin Huairu touched her belly and took deep breaths to slowly calm her excited heart.

After a long pause, Qin Huairu recovered and looked at Jia Dongxu coldly: "This is the work of your good mother. How are you going to eat all this food?"

Jia Dongxu touched the back of his head awkwardly and did not dare to answer.

Now that things have come to this, we can only find a way to solve it.

"There's no food at home. What are you going to do? With this little food, it can only last for a few days at most. If it doesn't last until the end of the month, we will starve to death."

There are still more than ten days before the next grain distribution, and this amount of food is not enough to eat.

Jia Dongxu remained silent.

Seeing Jia Dongxu's cowardly look, Qin Huairu was furious: "Speak up, are you deaf? Are you dumb? If you don't have food, go to the black market to buy it! Do you want your family to starve to death?"

Jia Dongxu remained silent.

"Bang!" Qin Huairu slapped him in anger. "I was only in the hospital for a few days, and your home has been messed up like this. You can't even tell, and you still don't want to find a solution!"

Jia Dongxu hesitated and said, "There is no food for sale in the black market."

"It wasn't sold. That's impossible! You must not have gone there. How could it not be sold?" Qin Huairu was struck by lightning again. She staggered and almost fell.

Jia Dongxu wanted to cry but had no tears: "I really went there, and there was really no sale on the black market, and those black marketers didn't set up stalls.

"Impossible! They are profiteering merchants. As long as you pay enough, you will definitely be able to buy it. You must not have paid enough, right?!"

Hearing the word money, Jia Dongxu lowered his head again.

In Qin Huairu's opinion, Jia Dongxu is just stingy and doesn't want to spend too much money.

He immediately scolded: "Dongxu, what are you thinking? If you lose money, you can earn it again, but if you lose food, our family will starve to death."

"Bang Geng is still young and growing. He can't be hungry. Xiao Dang is only two years old and needs to grow as well."

"I'm still pregnant, and I need food everywhere. I can make more money, but if someone dies, they're gone for real."

Jia Dongxu was heartbroken when he heard this. Not only was he unable to buy food, the most important thing was that he had no money.

Jia Dongxu twitched his lips, wanting to say something but stopping himself, not knowing whether to tell Qin Huairu that her family had no money.

After hesitating for a long time, he finally told her that Jia Zhang had taken the money away.

"What!" Qin Huairu turned pale instantly, her eyes rolled back and she fell backwards into unconsciousness.

"Huai Ru Huai Ru!" Jia Dongxu immediately supported her, pulled her to the bed and pressed her philtrum.

"Huai Ru, don't scare me."

Jia Dongxu was panicked. His wife died as soon as she was discharged from the hospital. Wouldn't that mean two lives were lost? He would have wasted his money.

After pinching for a while, Qin Huairu woke up slowly and saw Jia Dongxu right in front of her.

Snapped! ! !
Crisp and loud.

Qin Huairu looked at Jia Dongxu with disdain. He was incompetent at anything and left nothing after eating. He was as useless as Jia Zhangshi.

"I've only been in the hospital for a few days, and I've run out of food and money. If I stay a few more days, I'll probably even lose my house. Jia Dongxu, you're amazing."

"Your Jia family is really amazing. For your own sake, you don't care about anything. It really proves the old saying."

Qin Huairu's mouth twitched for a long time, and she couldn't think of how to say the sentence "If a man does not work for himself, he will be punished by heaven and earth."

Jia Dongxu lowered his head and allowed himself to be beaten and scolded without saying a word back.

"Forget it, forget it. I'm too lazy to talk to you anymore. Have you ever thought about what to do next?"

Qin Huairu shed two lines of tears from the corners of her eyes. She had to accept it now.

"Think about it"

"Say!"

"Borrow some food from the big guys."

"Why not borrow it if you think of it!"

“I’m afraid people won’t lend it to me.”

"If you don't try, how do you know that people won't lend it to you?"

Jia Dongxu lowered his head and said hesitantly: "They didn't even lend it to my mother, how could they lend it to me?"

Qin Huairu felt a darkness before her eyes. Without her, this family would fall apart sooner or later.

No one trusted Jia Zhang's character, so naturally, his son was not much better.

The reputation of the Jia family has been ruined in the courtyard, so if you lend money to the Jia family, you must be prepared to not pay it back.

Everyone would rather lend it to the new people in the back room than to the Jia family.

Qin Huairu has been consciously establishing her own character since she entered the hospital, and everyone trusts her far more than the Jia family.

"Oh, why is my life so miserable?" Qin Huairu sighed and wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes.

In the end, she, who had just been discharged from the hospital, was still needed.

"Okay, I'll go borrow some from everyone!" Qin Huairu forced herself to get up.

"Huairu, thank you for your hard work." Jia Dongxu looked at Qin Huairu with tears in his eyes.

Qin Huairu felt disgusted, so she went out and looked at the Yi family across the street. After hesitating for a while, she didn't look for him first and went to the front yard.

"Dad, my score is too little."

"What's missing? The big guys are almost the same."

"If it's too little, let's exchange it."

"I won't change."

"Go to the side, everyone is the same."

The whole family was noisily dividing the meat, it was so lively, and they could even chat and laugh at the end.

When I think about my own family, I just feel sad.

"Who's out there!"

"Uncle, it's me." Qin Huairu appeared in front of the Yan family.

"Xiao Qin, what do you want from me?" Yan Bugui asked in a kind voice.

Qin Huairu looked at the family eating and said, "Uncle, I'm sorry to bother you. I have no choice but to come to you. You must help me."

"Oh, no, no, no." Yan Bugui felt as if he was facing a formidable enemy when he heard this, and hurriedly said, "Xiao Qin, I am just an ordinary person, I can't help you, go find an old man."

"The uncle is an eighth-level fitter, very capable, it's no problem to ask him for the job."

Without waiting for Qin Huairu to explain, Yan Bugui immediately closed the door without asking any further questions.

bump!
Qin Huairu was directly rejected.

"Oh~" Since Yan Bugui didn't work, Qin Huairu planned to go find Liu Haizhong.

But thinking about the conflict with the Liu family a few days ago, it was a no-brainer.

Qin Huairu finally looked in the direction of Yi Zhonghai.

"No, the first one has to be put last, otherwise it won't work."

The one with the best chance is put at the end. If you fail at the beginning, you can still use the overall situation to suppress him.

Then, Qin Huairu went from house to house to borrow food while feeling her stomach.

"Xiao Qin, it's not that I don't want to help you, but my family doesn't have any extra food. I really have no other choice. Go find someone else to borrow."

"Xiao Qin, we have a large family with many mouths to feed, and we eat a lot of food. There is only a little left that is barely enough to eat. We really can't lend it to you."

"Xiao Qin, you're late. I lent two kilograms of food to a relative a few days ago. I didn't have much at home, so I had no choice."

Everyone used various excuses to prevaricate, and Qin Huairu asked everyone in the courtyard who could borrow food. In the end, Qin Huairu could only look at the last Yi family.

"Uncle Yi."

"Xiao Qin, why don't you rest at home after being discharged from the hospital?" Yi Zhonghai said in a kind voice.

Qin Huairu fell to her knees without saying a word.

"Uncle, you have to save our family too!"

Yi Zhonghai quickly helped Qin Huairu up: "Xiao Qin, what happened to you? Get up quickly."

"Uncle Yi, you are the only one who can help me with this matter. No one else can help me. You must help me. If you don't help me, I won't be able to get up."

Hearing this, Yi Zhonghai's face suddenly became serious and he looked at the old lady. It seemed that this person was not friendly.

The lady hurriedly said, "Xiao Qin, please stand up first. It's not good for the child to kneel down while you are pregnant."

Yi Zhonghai nodded: "Yes, Xiao Qin, what exactly happened?"

Before she could speak, Qin Huairu burst into tears: "Uncle Yi and Aunt Yi, how can you be a mother-in-law like this?"

Qin Huairu vividly described how Jia Zhang brought food and money back to the countryside.

"My mother-in-law has taken all the food away, and there is only a little food left at home, not enough to eat. Does she want to starve our family to death?"

"Qi Qi~"

After saying this, Qin Huairu covered her face with her hands and sobbed.

The first aunt was moved by what Qin Huairu said: "This Jia Zhang is really too much. How can a mother-in-law be like this? Isn't this going to kill the child?"

"Auntie, you think so too." Qin Huairu looked at the aunt as if she saw a close friend.

Yi Zhonghai looked serious. He guessed why Qin Huairu came to him. It was most likely to be to ask for money or borrow food.

But his family was also short of food. Although the two of them were old and their appetites were not as good, it was better to store more food than nothing.

Qin Huairu looked at Yi Zhonghai's expression and understood what was going on, so she went straight to the point: "Uncle and aunt, my family really has no other choice, so we came to you."

"I have searched the entire yard and begged everyone to lend it to me, but no one is willing to lend it to me. I can only beg you."

"If you don't lend me the money, my family will starve to death. Uncle, for the sake of Banggeng, please lend me some money!"

Having said that, Qin Huairu quickly knelt down.

"Xiao Qin, Xiao Qin." An old lady hurriedly supported him and looked up at Yi Zhonghai.

People are in such a difficult situation now, it would be unreasonable not to lend them some money, we all live in the same courtyard.

But she was unwilling to borrow too much, as there was not much food at home.

Under all these circumstances, Yi Zhonghai sighed and said, "Xiao Qin, I know about your family's situation. What Jia Zhang did was indeed dishonest."

"Since you came to me, how can I, as your master, not lend you the money? But my family isn't very well off, so I can only lend you two kilograms of food. Don't think it's too little."

Hearing this, Qin Huairu lowered her eyelids in disappointment. This was too little. It could only last for a day or two at most. It was of no help.

But something is better than nothing, "something is enough, not too little."

The conversation turned.

"Uncle, can you think of a solution for me? There is no food to sell on the black market, and my family has no money. We can't survive without food."

There is only one solution for now.

"Well, write an IOU and pay back double the amount you borrowed. Only then will people be willing to lend you some money."

"If your family borrows another 10 kilograms of grain, it should be enough to last until the end of the month. If each household contributes a little, it will be enough."

"You should discuss this with Dongxu. If it works, I'll call a meeting to help you. Let's go home and discuss it."

Qin Huairu looked at Yi Zhonghai's resolute expression. This was all Yi Zhonghai could do to help.

"I'll go back and discuss it with Dongxu."

Before leaving, Qin Huairu did not forget to take the 2 kilograms of food handed to her by an old lady.

"How is it? Did you borrow it?" Jia Dongxu looked at Qin Huairu with shining eyes as she came back with a small bag in her hand.

"This little bit of food is not enough."

Qin Huairu looked at Jia Dongxu coldly: "Humph, you think it's too little? If you think it's too little, why don't you go and borrow it."

Jia Dongxu smiled bitterly. If he had the face to do so, he would have lent it long ago. Why bother waiting for Qin Huairu to come?

Qin Huairu stopped talking nonsense and told Yi Zhonghai about his plan and the matter of helping to convene the meeting.

Jia Dongxu hesitated. Borrowing one and returning two is too much.

Although the amount borrowed by a family is not much, it is still a considerable amount when accumulated.

Seeing Jia Dongxu's reluctance, Qin Huairu said, "Jia Dongxu, how long do you want to think about it? The most urgent thing now is to get through this first."

"You're still thinking about returning that little bit of food. What's the use of food if people are dead? If you had the ability, you would have gotten the food long ago!"

"What are you thinking about? If you have the ability, find a way yourself!"

After saying that, Qin Huairu was so angry at Jia Dongxu's stupid brain that she turned around and was about to leave.

Jia Dongxu quickly grabbed her hand: "Huai Ru Huai Ru, I agree."

Qin Huairu was furious: "Let's borrow the grain first. We can talk about whether to return it later. It's not impossible not to exchange it. The grain is in our hands."

"We will decide how to deal with it. Can they rob us? If they do, we will call the police and arrest them. Our family's reputation is already like this, what are we afraid of?"

Jia Dongxu looked at Qin Huairu in disbelief. She actually said such a thing.

In the past, Qin Huairu always gave her the impression of knowing when to advance and when to retreat, but she didn't expect that she actually had this side of her.

Qin Huairu was helpless and was really forced.

Qin Huairu and Jia Dongxu went to find Yi Zhonghai: "Uncle, thank you for your help."

Yi Zhonghai nodded and immediately convened a general meeting.

In order to borrow grain smoothly, Qin Huairu directly exposed Jia Zhang's inhumane behavior to the public.

As expected, he was immediately condemned by everyone.

"This Jia Zhang is really a piece of shit."

"I was wondering why Jia Zhang brought so many things back that day. It turns out they were filled with food."

"What a bitch! How can you be a mother-in-law like this?"

Seeing everyone talking about Jia Zhang like this, Qin Huairu couldn't help but feel happy. It was finally a good thing.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Qin Huairu stood up and begged, "Everyone, my family really has no choice but to be without food and money. For the sake of our neighbors, I can only ask everyone to lend me some food."

"I'm not asking for your food for nothing. Dongxu and I are willing to write you an IOU and pay you back double the amount you borrow. We will never let you suffer any loss."

Yi Zhonghai stepped forward and said, "I promise everyone, if the Jia family doesn't pay, I will pay back the grain they owe, but I can only pay back as much as I borrow."

"Don't worry about borrowing too little. The Jia family just needs to hold on for a few days and we'll be able to release the grain by the end of the month."

Hearing that the repayment was double and Yi Zhonghai would act as a guarantor, they thought that this might not be impossible. All the families discussed with each other and planned the feasibility of this matter.

"If Jia Dongxu said this, I wouldn't accept it at all, but this is what Qin Huairu said, can this be done?"

"I think it's feasible. The Jia family can't be trusted, but Xiao Qin can be trusted."

"You can borrow, but you can't borrow too much. What if you don't pay it back?"

No one was blinded by the double repayment, nor was anyone convinced by Yi Zhonghai's guarantee.

Someone immediately stepped forward and said, "Okay, I'll lend it to you, but I don't have much left at home, so I can only lend you 1 kilogram."

"Thank you. Any amount is fine." Qin Huairu thanked immediately.

Others had intended to borrow more, but since the first offer was so low, no one dared to borrow more.

"I'll borrow 1 jin too."

"We are all neighbors. I want to borrow 1 kilograms."

Everyone in the yard spoke.

There are more than twenty households, and all together it only weighs about 30 kilograms, which is enough to last for more than ten days.

Jia Dongxu wrote an IOU for everyone and put his fingerprints on it. To reassure everyone, he kept smiling and assuring them:
"Don't worry, we will definitely do a good job in this matter. We will definitely pay it back after the grain is released."

After a while, the IOUs were finally written. People from several courtyards borrowed the money, but a few did not, but it didn't matter.

Jia Dongxu pulled Banggeng and Xiaodang to kowtow to everyone to express his gratitude.

"Thank you, uncle and aunt!"

"Thank you, brother and sister!"

"thank you all!"

Everyone took the IOU and went back home contentedly, handing the grain over to the Jia family.

Everyone was prepared for the Jia family not to pay back the money, and the price paid was within an acceptable range.

"Okay, I've borrowed them all. This way I can last until the end of the month." Qin Huairu looked at the pile of food, feeling both happy and worried.

Looking at Jia Dongxu standing aside, she seemed like a waste, completely useless. Even a pregnant woman who had just left the hospital had to take care of such a small matter.

"Oh, I'm so tired." Qin Huairu held her forehead and lay back on the bed.

"Huairu, thank you for your hard work." Jia Dongxu immediately helped Qin Huairu back to bed.

"I want to take a nap, don't disturb me." Qin Huairu waved her hand impatiently.

Jia Dongxu disappeared immediately like a pug, and did not forget to warn the two children: "Don't disturb your mother's sleep. If you wake her up, I will beat you to death."

The two children were so scared that they left home immediately.

Jia Dongxu wanted to go to bed with Qin Huairu, but she kicked him away.

(End of this chapter)