"return!"
"What do you want in return?"
"You are so brazen. What your father has not been able to do for several years can be done in a week?"
The villagers were even more excited, mainly because Chai Jin was too young and no one would believe it.
Sister Chai Fang tugged at the corner of his clothes aggrievedly, meaning to stop talking, for fear that her seventeen-year-old brother would not be able to bear the pressure.
The seven-year-old sister Chai Xiaoshan didn't understand anything. She had big eyes and an oval face and hid behind her father in fear.
Their family has experienced too many scenes of being scolded and attacked by a group of people.
Chai Jin once again stood in front of Chai Minguo.
Looking at the villagers, he said: "You know how my father owed money back then."
"If you don't give me a week, you must force my family to go up to the rafters."
"Okay, I have two hatchets at home. We, father and son, each have one waiting for you to come to your door!"
"walk home!"
Chai Jin took the family away from here.
The people behind him were even more scolding.
However, they all looked at the sickle in Chai Jin's hand and trembled, and no one dared to block their way.
One week, a total of nearly 9,000 yuan in foreign debt needs to be repaid.
In this era when the average monthly salary is over a hundred yuan, it is almost an astronomical figure for a rural family.
"Is it impulsive?"
After Chai Jin returned home, he looked at the old locust tree in front of his earthen house and muttered.
Impulsive of course, but no regrets.
Because at that moment, he already felt that his father had a mental breakdown and was on the edge of a dead end.
Chai Minguo finally returned to his former self at this time.
Being a father and a mother, and having to take care of several acres of land, this man has endured hardships that most men cannot endure.
Chai Fang prepared the meal and called the family to have dinner.
There are not many oil star beads on radish, cabbage, and vegetables.
This is the poor life of a family.
But Chai Jin tastes particularly delicious.
No one mentioned what happened just that afternoon, but a dark cloud hung over this family that could collapse at any time, and the atmosphere was depressing.
After a long time, Chai Minguo put down his job and said, "I'll go to your sister-in-law's house later."
"There has to be a way to survive. Kneel down and I'll borrow the money too. Brother, don't bother with this anymore."
Chai Fang is a very beautiful and sensible girl and the eldest son of the family. She said: "Dad, after harvesting the late rice, I will go to the south to work."
Chai Minguo said nothing.
Chai Jin ate his meal quietly without making any comment.
As for the young and ignorant Chai Xiaoshan, her eyes were wide open and she seemed to have forgotten to take a bite of the food in her mouth.
Looking blankly at her second brother, the little girl obviously didn't understand the current predicament the family was facing.
Chai Jin put down his job.
He said, "Dad, I will work with you to find a way. The boat will be straight when it reaches the bridge. There will be no obstacles that cannot be overcome."
In fact, while eating, he was also thinking about how to raise money.
I just don't have a clue yet.
Chai Minguo turned around and looked at his son with deep meaning.
Then he threw the cigarette butt on the ground and stamped it out: "Forget it, I'll go to the county now."
"Fangfang, take care of your brothers and sisters. Dad won't be back tonight."
Chai Fang nodded silently and went to wash the dishes.
Chai Jin wanted to say something, but in the end he just said: "Dad, please be safe, I will send you off."
In fact, he had no hope of being able to borrow money. He knew very well what kind of person this sister-in-law was.
His grandfather is buried in the village, and his sister-in-law's family is in the city.
I come back every year to visit the grave, and don't even enter his home.
Knowing that this family owed huge debts, I was afraid of being borrowed money, and I didn't look down on my brother from the countryside at all.
When Chai Xiaoshan saw Chai Jin getting up, she quickly dropped her bowl and chopsticks and followed him.
After sending her father away, Chai Xiaoshan couldn't wait to speak:
"Brother, I'm so hungry."
"Didn't you just eat? Why are you hungry again?"
"But brother, I want to eat jujube."
After finishing speaking, the little girl looked at a jujube tree that had been standing for decades in front of the house, and her mouth was watering.
Chai Jin felt relaxed for a while, remembering how his little sister was in a mental hospital in her previous life.
I felt sour in my heart: "Okay, I will get it for you. Even if you want the moon in the sky, I will get it for you in this lifetime."
The brother and sister ran to the old jujube tree, and Chai Xiaoshan's screams of surprise could be heard from time to time.
Chai Fang looked at her younger brothers and sisters in the adobe house with a haggard smile.
How to overcome this hurdle?
When she thinks of this problem, she feels inexplicably uncomfortable.
At night, Chai Xiaoshan made sure to sleep with her brother.
The Chai family has a total of two adobe houses, one of which is used as a kitchen, storage of farm tools, utility room, etc.
There is also a room with three beds that sleeps a family of four.
The family is poor, and because of poverty, there is no electricity in the house, so there are no electrical appliances.
Chai Jin held the sleeping Chai Xiaoshan in one hand, looked at the roof and thought hard, and suddenly thought of something.
He sat up and said, "Sister, are the stocks that Dad settled back then still there?"
"Those pieces of paper you used to lie to Dad?" Chai Fang has never been to a big city. Because she was poor, she stopped studying in elementary school.
I don't know what stocks are, but I always thought they were a lie.
Chai Jin quickly said: "Yes, it's those papers, can you still find them?"
"Maybe." Chai Fang climbed out of bed uncertainly and lit the old kerosene lamp.
Chai Jin was a little nervous.
He just remembered that Feiyue Audio stock was worth 50 yuan per share in 1984. So many years later, could it still be worth 50 yuan?
85 years! Not to mention rural areas, many people in banks don't know what stocks that have been issued for less than a few months are!
When these people from the village came back, they took the stocks to the bank and asked, but found that the bank did not recognize them.
So they regarded Chai Minguo as the enemy, returned the stocks, and forced Chai Minguo to write an IOU.
How did they know that what they regarded as waste paper had actually increased in value several times!
After the two siblings searched for it for a long time, Chai Fang finally found it in an iron box.
"Xiao Jin, is this it?"
After Chai Jin walked in and took a look, he felt relieved.
I was afraid that my father would throw it away, but fortunately it was intact.
I counted the numbers again.
I found that there were 135 stocks in a thick stack!
One share per card, that's 135 shares!
This is a huge fortune!
Chai Jin remained calm on the surface. After covering the iron box, he said, "Does the family still have money?"
Chai Fang frowned. Her face was very beautiful, and she looked a bit like Hong Kong star Yang Yuying.
"What do you want money for?"
Seeing this made him feel angry again. His sister's fate should not only be thirty years old!
"I'll go to China Shipping, turn these stocks into money, and come back to pay back the money."
"Isn't this a lie?" Chai Fang wondered.
"Liar?" Chai Jin sneered: "Not only can we pay back the money, but we can also get rid of the fate of surviving on our knees."
"Sister, please believe me once. This is the only chance our family has."
Chai Fang was soft-tempered and looked at her determined brother for a long time before making a decision.
He picked up the candle and took out a cloth bag from the bottom of his clothes box.
"This is the fifty yuan I saved from catching loaches and lobsters."
"Dad doesn't know. Originally, I wanted to go to the south to work and pay for my travel expenses."
"Xiao Jin, don't be fooled."