"Wu Yi, don't be afraid. You have such a good brother, what are you afraid of?"
Wu Yi didn't move, and his eyes seemed to be frozen in their sockets. He slowly turned from Wu Jin's face to Liu Boyu's face, his teeth were clenched, his cheeks bulged out into hard lumps, and there was a lump on his forehead.
A drop of cold sweat.
Liu Boyu sneezed, took out the handkerchief and rubbed his nose vigorously, feeling that he was so cold that he was about to catch a cold: "In exchange for silver, the total is eleven thousand eight hundred and sixty-one taels. The sixty-one taels, including our Liu Boyu, sneezed.
We are going to treat guests at home, and we ask Wu Jieyuan to raise the rest in the first month and return it to us, so that our Liu family can use this money to get through the difficulties."
When Wu Yi heard this number, he almost fainted, his body felt cold from the inside out, and he said in a hoarse voice: "Liar!"
At the same time, a voice came out clearly in his heart: "It's over."
He stepped back, his feet were so stiff that he stumbled to the ground. He fell straight back with a loud thud.
No one came forward to help him, so he stood up with a grin on his face and murmured: "It's a lie."
He turned around and ran out. He stumbled again when he stepped over the threshold. This time he didn't fall. He only staggered forward a few steps, then stumbled to the kitchen. Within a moment, he brought out a cup from the kitchen.
A brazier with two burning charcoal in it.
When he came back in the smoke, he put down the brazier and said to Wu Jin: "Brother, they made this up. It's fake. He just wrote it casually and wanted to blackmail people. How could I spend so much money?"
He acted very calmly, and his tongue moved neatly in his mouth, stuffing the light paper brazier.
Flames suddenly appeared in the brazier and licked the evidence clean. The flames suddenly rushed up to Lao Gao, burning the hair on Wu Yi's forehead, and emitting an unpleasant smell.
Neither Wu Jin nor Liu Boyu moved, just letting the fire shine on their faces, and watching the fire dim down, until the paper turned into gray-white sections and lay on the wood.
After Wu Yi finished burning the things, he stretched out his hand to pull Liu Bowen: "I ate the candy, I admit it. Tomorrow I will admit my mistake to my parents and pay you back with the money."
He dragged and dragged Liu Bowen, trying to throw Liu Bowen out of the house, cut him in two, and stop contacting each other. Liu Bowen made him stagger around, and the leather robe on his body was pulled loose, and his arms came out of the sleeves, making him sneeze violently from the cold.
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Liu Boyu said "Hey" twice, stood up and separated the two younger brothers. At the same time, he said to Wu Jin: "My younger brother goes to Yanguan on Yuhua Street three times a month. If you control it strictly, he and Bowen will skip school.
You’ll know once you ask.”
He turned to look at Wu Yi, who was full of fear, and smiled: "Little brother, didn't you also sign the order for the flower cards that you ordered? Why don't you admit it?"
"That's it." Wu Yi hesitated, "Liu Bowen coaxed me to sign it, and I didn't know it."
"You are tough," Liu Boyu pointed out, "Fortunately, your brother is Jieyuan and can be reasonable."
He stood up and walked to Wu Jin's side, raised his hand and gently patted Wu Jin's shoulder. Through a thick layer of clothing, he could not detect Wu Jin's trembling and fear. Only the bones that had been tempered for a long time stood up and resisted everything.
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He took back his hand and said, "I heard that you are the top student in arithmetic. I will send someone to deliver the bill to your house tomorrow. You can do the math yourself."
There was silence in the room for a moment. Wu Jin stood up, stretched one hand towards the door, and made a gesture of seeing off guests: "Okay, I won't see you off."
Liu Boyu took his younger brother to the door and turned to look at Wu Jin. Wu Jin's two long black eyebrows covered his bright eyes, as if he had an idea in his heart, so he stretched out his index finger and said "Shhh" to his mouth.
He said, "You keep a secret for me, and I will keep a secret for you."
If Wu Jin wanted to ask Mo Lingfeng for help, then he would have no choice but to make this account book public and let the world know about Wu Jieyuan's failure to repay his debts.
Wu Jin is a scholar and a Jie Yuan. He will have to go to Beijing to take the exam in the future. His reputation is like his wings. If he does not cherish them, he will fall from the air and never have the chance to spread his wings.
Wu Jin nodded: "Okay."
Liu Boyu then left with his younger brother. Wu Yi stood in the room with a blank face. His soul had obviously left with the Liu brothers. The broken hair on his head was all wet, and even his back was cold. Tears were dripping down his face.
If it falls, he doesn't know it yet.
He silently asked himself: "What should I do?"
He answered silently: "I don't know."
"Second brother," Wu Jin frowned and called him, but he didn't respond. He just stood there like cutting a piece of wood, "Second brother!"
Wu Jin increased his voice, and then he heard that his body began to tremble uncontrollably and his teeth rattled. He didn't know whether it was cold or fear.
After a moment, he spoke in a trembling cry: "Brother."
Seeing that he was distracted, Wu Jin reached out to hold him, and found that his palms were cold and sticky, as if he had sweated profusely, so he led him all the way to the main room: "Aniang."
Wu's mother was still sewing a cushion for the scooter, and the charcoal fire crackled in the house. She didn't hear Wu Yi's previous shout. When she saw Wu Yi's face turned pale, she said "Yeah" and threw away the needle and thread.
Walk forward.
She rubbed his head covered in cold sweat with her palm, and saw that he was shivering, shivering like a cold, and asked anxiously: "What's wrong? Is it a cold?"
Wu Yi was speechless. He walked to the bed with his eyes straight and sat down on the bed. He took off his shoes, raised his legs and curled up into the bed. He didn't know how to cover himself with the quilt. He just closed his eyes tightly and thought to himself.
:"what to do?"
Wu's mother was startled, chased after him, touched his forehead and then his back, but her hands were cold. She quickly called Wu's father to warm him up: "I'm afraid he will catch a cold, so you can sleep with him in your arms."
After I get some sleep, I'll make some ginger soup."
After that, she scolded angrily and distressedly: "It's snowing heavily, why are we building snow lions? It's so good now, I'm seriously sick during the New Year!"
Wu's father got on the bed, held Wu Yi's feet, and put them on his heart. Wu's mother covered him tightly with the quilt. The warmth around him made Wu Yi dare not open his eyes more and more, wanting to escape into his dreams.
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"The lion of the Liu family said loudly, I can't even make up more than ten thousand taels." He couldn't think of a way no matter what. "Brother will definitely find a way, but he can't spare me."
He thought over and over again in a daze, wanting to admit his mistake to Wu Jin, but he couldn't open his eyes, and even his two lips were stuck together and couldn't open.
And Wu Jin was sitting by the fire pot, watching Wu Yi's mother busy, bringing hot water to wipe Wu Yi's sweat. It wasn't until Wu Yi finished her work and poured away the dirty water that she said: "Auntie, my second child doesn't have a cold, he has a fright."
of."
"Scared?" Wu's mother turned away the charcoal fire and moved the charcoal basin closer to Wu Jin.
Wu Jin considered it and said, "Yes, he has been messing around in the past two years and owes the Liu family a large amount of money. The Liu family is here to collect the debt today. I hope we can pay it back in the first month."
"What!" Mother Wu shook the fire chopsticks in her hand, and countless charcoal fire suddenly appeared, "How much do you owe?"
Wu Jin took the fire chopsticks and coded the messed up charcoal: "The Liu family will send the bill tomorrow. I won't know until I calculate it."
Wu's mother noticed the concealment in Wu Jin's words. Wu Jin always told the truth, and it was true that he had to do some calculations to find out. But today's tone and demeanor seemed to be helping Wu Yi hide a big lie.