Mrs. Ning didn't even want to call her second brother, so she 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's eyes widened in shock and they took a breath of cold air.
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 debts.
If the family pooled their money together, the money could be raised, but why should they pool it together?
This is the debt owed by the second uncle.
He has lost all his family's money, why should his family help him pay off his gambling debts?
"Can you show me the IOU?"
Master Ning maintained his demeanor as a master of civil affairs.
"Can."
Zhao Ba directly handed over all the IOUs in his hand. This IOU was in duplicate. The other one was in their casino. He was not afraid that Mr. Ning would tear up the IOU.
Mr. Ning is a scholar and a master of public education, so 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, and each one had the signature and fingerprint of the second brother.
He recognized the second child's handwriting, and the signature was indeed his and was not forged.
The IOU stated that the money borrowed was 2 cents interest.
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 don't mess around, so there are no problems with these IOUs.
Since two years ago, the government has been cracking down on cheating in casinos. Undercover agents often go to gambling houses to investigate, so now they don'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 is really bad.
In fact, Mr. Ning won at first, but after he won, he didn't know how to stop and started to lose.
The more he lost, the more he wanted to win. If he didn't have any money, he borrowed it from their gambling house. Unknowingly, he borrowed so much money and lost so much money.
Mr. Ning took a deep breath, gritted his back molars angrily and said, "That's right."
Mrs. Ning, Mrs. Ning and Mrs. Ning were originally hoping that there was something wrong with the IOU, which would give them a reason not to pay it back, or to pay back less.
But Mr. Ning’s words are “nothing wrong.”
All their hopes were shattered.
"Since it's right, please return the money so that we can go back and deliver the goods."
Zhao Ba said, "The Ning family has a great 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.
I don't even want this matter to be spread out and let 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."
"good."
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.