Usury, compound interest, borrow a hundred, and you end up owing more than double?
Qi Taiguo looked at Chen Shouwang as if he had been struck dumb, holding a cigarette between his fingers that burned down, its long ash nearly dropping onto his hand before he realized and shook it off.
"Two hundred twenty yuan?" Oh my God, so much money, what on earth had he done!
Chen Shouwang, clutching his head, said, "How could I dare tell you guys? If it got out, my military career would be over!"
This was the truth Chen Shouwang couldn't bear to reveal.
A youth enlisted; all his parents' and younger siblings' hopes rested on him. Therefore, they put everything they had into securing his marriage to Hualing, who came from a cadre family, hoping the Yue family would help and support him, enable him to have a limitless future, bring honor to his ancestors, and provide for his siblings in the future.
