Chapter 6 Young Woman Landlord
Zuo Shaoyang's eyes were not adapted to the dark light in the house and could not see other situations clearly. Xunxiang had already spoken: "Dad! Mom! We are back."
The thin old man just nodded and heard an old woman speaking in the dark: "Fengxiang, go and cook!"
Zuo Shaoyang suddenly realized that this thin goatee was the father of the deceased whom he possessed, that is, his future father, the old doctor Zuo Gui who likes to use Guizhi, who prescribes medicine. The woman with an old voice in the dark should be her mother Liang.
I heard a woman's voice in the darkness interjected sharply, "Oh! I still have food to eat, why don't I have money to pay my rent if I have food? I said to Zuo's family, don't be so fussy, I've been waiting for you for a long time. If you don't rent the house today, don't expect to have a meal!"
He heard the old woman sigh and said, "Sanniang, we don't give it to you. You have seen it all over the past day. There were only two patients in total. The medicine money was only more than ten cents, and they were given all of them, but they could never give it up. These days, there are chaos and don't even care about their lives. How can you get money to see a doctor? Therefore, opening a medicine shop is not profitable, and you can't even stutter. You can take care of it..."
"It's your business whether to make money or not! Let me tell you, it's time to celebrate the Chinese New Year. The old saying goes, this year is a debt that people have to live up to! I haven't turned over the debt of the Chinese New Year! The debt this year has to be collected this year! It's the year ahead, if I owe a few hundred cents, I won't force you to do it, but this year you owe my rent, plus the accumulated amount of past years, plus the money you borrowed from me in a mess, and married my daughter, totaling 9,070 cents! Okay, I'll let you take another step, I'm unlucky. I don't want this 70 cents, I have to pay back the 9,000 cents."
Zuo Shaoyang asked Fuji on the road and knew that in the early years of the Tang Dynasty, one tael of gold was equal to ten taels of silver, equal to one-standard copper coins, equal to one thousand coins of copper coins. It was equivalent to five thousand yuan. In other words, one cent was equivalent to five yuan of RMB.
Guizhitang owes 9,000 yuan in rent, which is 45,000 yuan. This money is probably an astronomical figure for this dilapidated pharmacy.
The old woman said in a voice: "Sanniang, we really can't afford it. It's said it's nine thousand words, even nine words, we can't get it now. - It's said that it's a meal, and the black noodles are mixed with wild vegetables in the pot. The black noodles are used by the fennel family for half a pound of New Year. The wild vegetables are also picked by Fennel and his brother when they went up the mountain to collect herbs. This year..., wuwu, I can't live it!"
"Don't cry in front of me and I'm poor. Who has no trouble? I want to cry when you cry, so my man left this house for me. He stretched his feet to death. My mother still hoped to have a rent for dinner. If I can't receive it, I'll go to drink the northwest wind! Zuo's family, I beg you, even if you help me, give the rent first!"
Zuo Shaoyang heard the two women talking in the dim room. He couldn't see it clearly before. His eyes slowly adapted to the light and finally saw clearly. A young woman was sitting on a high-legged round stool in the back, crossing her legs, holding a kraft paper roll in her hand, and kept taking things from the drum and throwing them into her mouth with one hand. Her pointed chin kept turning and chewing, swallowing it loudly. The light was not bright, and she couldn't see clearly what she was eating.
Her mother, Liang, stood in front of her side, wearing a skirt, and put her hands on her sleeves and arched her back, making her face unable to see clearly.
The old man sitting behind the long table never spoke, but just put his sleeves on his hands and lowered his head, looking at the ground, not knowing whether he was thinking about his worries or being forced to pay debts and having no shame to see others.
At this time, the sky was almost dark. Fenxiang took the medicine basket from Zuo Shaoyang's shoulder, quickly walked into the next wing room and put it down, came out again, walked through the lobby, and went to the other wing room. Soon, a dim oil lamp lit up in the wing room, slowly floated out, but Fenxiang held it up, walked to the long table, and placed the oil lamp on the table. He said to the old man: "Dad, I climbed the cliff to collect herbs today, fell down, and broke my head. You can see it."
Before his father Zuo Gui could speak, his mother Liang ran over in screaming, holding Zuo Shaoyang's shoulder, and looked up with her face: "Zhong'er, are you falling? Are you amazing? Show me."
Zuo Shaoyang followed the dim light and saw the wrinkled face clearly, like a loess high slope with gullies. His turbid eyes opened wide and looked at him with panic.
Zuo Shaoyang wanted to call him mother, but when faced with such a strange woman, he couldn't even shout it out. He just muttered in a vague way: "I'm fine, I'm a little broken."
Zuo Gui finally raised his head and looked at Zuo Shaoyang: "Sit down and see where the injury is for your father."
Zuo Shaoyang sat on the round stool next to the long table, bent down and lowered his head: "There was a hole in the back of his head, and some blood came out, it was okay."
Zuo Gui stretched out his two thin hands and held Zuo Shaoyang's head, and squinted his eyes at the dim oil lamp: "Well! There is a wound, it's quite long, but it's already healing and not bleeding. How do you feel? Do you want to vomit when you have a headache?"
"I don't want to vomit, my head doesn't hurt. I'm fine."
"Give me your hand and I'll take my pulse."
Zuo Gui took Zuo Shaoyang's wrist, stroked the gray goat's beard with one hand, while concentrating and taking the pulse carefully, for a moment, he slowly nodded and said, "Well, the pulse is peaceful, nothing is wrong."
Huixiang interrupted, "It's okay? Dad, my brother must have fallen a lot. He...he can't remember..., Alas, let me tell you later!"
The landlord who was rushing to get up and walked over: "You rent the house first, and then chat slowly. I'm in a hurry to go home."
Liang said with a bitter face: "Sanniang, we really don't have one."
This young woman is the landlord of their Guizhitang rented a house. Her surname is Zhao, and she is the third child and is known as Zhao Sanniang.
Zhao Sanniang smiled coldly: "Okay, it seems that it won't work. If this is the case, don't blame me for being rude. I also expected this result. You will move tonight! Move out immediately!"
"Moving? Where do you want us to move in this cold winter? Our Guizhitang rented your house and opened a pharmacy for many years. Some regular customers often see a doctor. If they move, they can't find a suitable house, and secondly, there will be no regular customers."
"I don't care about this! I want to eat too! I can't starve to death with you, right? You owe me a total of nine thousand yuan. Since you can't afford the money, you can pay it back with medicinal materials!"
Liang and Zuo Gui were both startled and looked at each other. Liang said with a bitter face: "Sanniang, we bought these medicines by borrowing money. If you take them away, what should we do?"
Zhao Sanniang said, "I can't control this! You owe others money, and you owe me money as well! I don't care where you borrowed money from! Also, you medicinal materials, plus it probably won't be worth 9,000 yuan. I originally wanted to deduct your family as well as paying rent, but I know that your family is not worth a lot of money. This year, I won't be too much, so I will leave it for you to take it away. Oh, who told me that I am so kind? I just took it away with you with a copper coin. I'll give you an hour to clean up, and after an hour I'll bring someone to take back the house. If you don't move, I can only ask someone to help you move. - By the way, there is a saying that's "A person will die and will not die." Even if you move away, you will have to pay back the money you owe me! I'll find someone to collect the debt! That's it! I'll go back to have a meal."
The landlord Zhao Sanniang said, and walked out.
Liang and Huixiang hurriedly begged, and Zhao Sanniang seemed to have already made up her mind and only said that she would bring people to take over the house in an hour.
Chapter completed!