"How much money does he owe you?" Mrs. Ning didn't even want to call her second brother, and pointed at Mr. Ning and asked Zhao Ba.
Zhao Ba smiled kindly and stretched out two fingers, "Twenty thousand taels."
Twenty thousand taels? The Ning family were so shocked that their eyes widened and they took a deep breath.
In the past, they would never have been frightened by 20,000 taels, because they had it at that time, but now, they don't have it, and 20,000 taels has become a huge number in their eyes.
Mr. Ning also looked at Zhao Ba with a shocked expression, "When did I borrow so much money?"
In his impression, he didn't borrow so much.
Zhao Ba waved a stack of IOUs and said, "These IOUs are all signed by Mr. Ning, and the drawings are pledged. We won't give you any extra calculations."
Ning Ruyu from the side hall was so angry that she gritted her teeth. The second uncle actually owed the gambling house 20,000 taels of silver. He had lost all the money in the palace. The 10,000 taels of silver that the grandmother took out were not enough at all.
He paid off his gambling debt. If the family pooled together, the money could be raised, but why? This is the debt owed by the second uncle. He has lost all the money in the family, why should the family help him?
Pay off gambling debts?
"Can you show me the IOU?" Mr. Ning maintained his demeanor as a successful candidate.
"Okay." Zhao Ba directly handed over the IOU in his hand. This IOU was in duplicate, and the other one was in their casino. He was not afraid that Mr. Ning would tear up the IOU. Mr. Ning was a scholar.
, he is a master of public education, he should not be able to do such a shameless thing.
The concierge took the IOU from Zhao Ba and delivered it to Mr. Ning.
Mr. Ning took the IOUs and looked at them one by one. Each IOU was worth one thousand taels, a total of twenty. Each one had the signature and fingerprint of the second son. He recognized the handwriting of the second son, and the signature was authentic.
It was his, and there was no forgery. The IOU stated that the loan was worth two cents. So to be precise, it was not twenty thousand taels of silver, but twenty thousand and four hundred taels of silver.
After Mr. Ning read them one by one, Zhao Ba asked with a smile: "Is there anything wrong?"
They are serious gambling houses and will not mess around, so there is no problem with these IOUs. Since two years ago, the government has been cracking down on cheating in casinos, and undercover agents often go to gambling houses to investigate, so now they
They didn't dare to cheat. They didn't cheat, but Mr. Ning could still lose so much money in their gambling house. It can only be said that Mr. Ning's luck was really bad.
In fact, Mr. Ning won at first, but after he won, he didn't know how to stop, so he started to lose. The more he lost, the more he wanted to win. If he didn't have any money, he would borrow money from their gambling house, and unknowingly he started to lose money.
I borrowed so much money and lost so much money.
Mr. Ning took a deep breath, gritted his back teeth angrily and said, "That's right."
Mrs. Ning, Mrs. Ning and Mrs. Ning originally hoped that there was something wrong with the IOU, so that they would have a reason not to pay it back, or to pay back less. But Mr. Ning's words, "There is nothing wrong." made them feel that way.
All my hopes were shattered.
"Since it's right, please return the money! We can go back and do business." Zhao Ba said, "The Ning family has a big business, so this little money is nothing to the Ning family!"
Twenty thousand taels of silver, no matter who you put them in, it can't be said to be nothing.
The Ning family wants to save face. Even if the house is empty, they don't want outsiders to know. They don't want this matter to be spread and people know that the Ning family has fallen.
Naturally, this money must be paid back, otherwise it will cause a big fuss, and it will be the Ning family who are embarrassed and laughed at, and it will also have an impact on the people of the Ning family who are preparing to take the imperial examination and become officials.
Mr. Ning said with a dark face: "Just wait a minute, we will prepare the money right now."
"Okay." Zhao Ba responded with a smile.
Mr. Ning helped the old lady up, and Mrs. Ning and Mr. Ning followed him out of the main hall.