Thus, she returned the five taels of silver that she had just extorted from Zhou Xiaoli.
Lai Jinniang looked pained.
Zhou Xiaoli tapped her finger on the silver and said indifferently, "We're still short of 15 taels."
The mayor immediately looked at Lai Jinniang and Zhou Fugui.
Lai Jinniang's face was bitter. She sat on the ground and shouted, "Aiya, I don't have any left. Even if you kill me, I don't have any money!"
She had thought it through. She would take out the money that Zhou Xiaoli had just given her and forget about anything else.
If they want her to write an IOU, so be it. When the time came, she would use the excuse of not having any money to decline paying. As time passed, who would remember?
Lai Jinniang had a good idea. Zhou Xiaoli knew that she couldn't get 20 taels of silver back, but she wouldn't let her off easily as well.
