After the marriage was severed, I fled with my golden finger to protect my mother

Clearly feeling the other party's contemptuous gaze, Xu Qingrong felt extremely aggrieved and embarrassed. However, there was nothing he could do. He had to pretend that he hadn't noticed anything and finished telling the story.

"Our family is having a very hard time right now. If it were just like this, it would be fine. If everyone tightened their belts and tightened their stomachs, they could save some food and get through this winter..."

Xu Qingrong sounded a little depressed as he spoke, and there was a hint of sob in his voice.

"It's just that the child's mother was injured when she fled from famine. She was anxious and angry when she encountered something like this a few days ago. In addition, it has been too cold recently. Her body couldn't handle it and she finally fell ill..."

"Please have mercy on me, housekeeper, and save my mother..."

"We are desperate, so we came here."

"Please..."

Xu Linzhi and several of his brothers also stepped forward and kept begging the housekeeper, hoping that he would help them as their mother was seriously ill and in urgent need of money for treatment.

"Are you trying to blackmail me for my kindness?"

The butler ignored them completely and just looked at them coldly with a hint of sneer on his face.

"Let's not talk about the fact that you saved the eldest master. Even if you didn't do anything, the eldest master's followers would have arrived very quickly. It can be said that there was no such thing as a life-saving grace..."

Hearing him say this, the Xu family members became anxious. Just as they were about to refute, they saw the housekeeper wave his hand and said lightly:

"Even if you really saved my life, we brought everyone in your village to the capital, not only bought you a large house, helped you with your household registration, but also gave you such a large sum of money. This so-called favor has been repaid, right?"

In fact, the Guan family has done a great job on this matter. If it weren't for that person's kindness, according to his idea, there would be no need to go through so much trouble and he would have made the person disappear on the first day of arriving in Beijing.

If we had really done that, these shameless people wouldn't come to us again.

"We don't mean that. We just want you to give us a way out. If we get the money this time, we will never come to Guan's house again even if we have to beg for food everywhere."

Even though he felt something was very wrong in his heart, in order to get the money sooner, Xu Qingrong still spoke nice words humbly.

As for saying this would be disgraceful, decency is something that is worth only a few dollars. It is not as cost-effective as spending hard-earned money in your hands.

Not long after, a servant came trotting over, whispered something in the housekeeper's ear, looked at the Xu family with a strange expression, and left the private room.

After the servant left, the housekeeper smiled again and stopped talking to the Xu family. After asking about the amount of money they needed, he took out a silver note from his pocket and threw it in front of Xu Qingrong.

"Since your family is in trouble, take these banknotes first."

Without saying a word, the butler just flicked his skirt and left.

They didn't expect this matter to go so smoothly. The people from the Xu family looked at each other, unable to conceal the joy on their faces.

Xu Qingrong stretched out his trembling hands and picked up the banknote, and his eyes widened when he saw it.

One thousand taels!

Although the Guan family had given them one thousand taels before, at that time they were given instructions and threats, and they wanted to stare at them and make them swear to the sky.

Just now, the butler asked them how much they needed. Xu Qingrong struggled for a long time before tentatively saying five hundred taels. But he didn't expect that the other party would be so straightforward and directly threw him a silver note for one thousand taels.

Xu Linzhi and several of his brothers also gathered around, holding the silver bills and checking them repeatedly, but they did not find anything wrong.

"We have received the banknotes. We will continue to buy food today and buy some warm clothes for everyone."

Holding the banknotes tightly in his hand, Xu Qingrong said to his children that this time, he would keep the money firmly in his own hands.

It would never be like last time, when Huang pestered him into agreeing to give it to her for safekeeping, only to end up not even knowing when it was lost.

The housekeeper just ordered several snacks, but he only ate a few pieces. Now that he had left, several brothers from the Xu family sat over with a swagger and started eating without any hesitation.

Brother Xu choked a little while eating, and took the half-empty teacup from the housekeeper and drank it all in one breath.

"Brother, give me a drink too..."

"I want some too. I'm choking..."

Because so many things had been lost in the mansion recently, everyone had been living frugally and it was very difficult. They would never have the chance to eat snacks like this in their lifetime, and now it was placed in front of them, who could resist it?

Xu Linzhi swallowed her saliva. She originally wanted to get a share of the food, but when she saw her brothers had messed up the table, she turned away in annoyance.

"Dad, we need to buy some meat. We haven't eaten meat at home for a long time. Everyone is craving for it..."

"Yes, yes, yes. If we boil cabbage in water every day, everyone who eats it will turn into cabbage..."

Now that we have money, we should buy some delicious food to nourish everyone’s body.

"Yours is indispensable. This time we will only buy the food we need for our family, and we will also buy some meat to satisfy everyone's cravings..."

Considering that he used all his money to stockpile grain last time, and someone took away the grain along with the pot, Xu Qingrong would not make the same mistake again now that he had the silver notes.

After the Xu brothers cleaned the table in a flash, they rushed to the grain store to buy food.

Fortunately, although the price of grain has increased slightly, it is still within everyone's acceptable range. Xu Qingrong looked through it carefully and finally bought some old grain that seemed to have a high cost-effectiveness.

Although they don't plan to stockpile more food, there are so many mouths to feed at home, so compared to others who only buy ten or eight kilograms, the Xu family is considered to be a family that buys relatively more.

Business people are quite shrewd. When they saw that Xu Qingrong bought so much grain last time and came back to buy so much again not long after, although they were a little surprised, they did not ask too much. After asking for the address, they asked the clerk in the grain shop to drive the horse-drawn carriage to deliver the grain over.

"Dad, give me some change so I can buy some things for my daughter's family."

Xu Qingrong's banknotes had been exchanged. Xu Linzhi touched his empty purse and said to his father.

"Then go ahead and come back early when you've bought it."

After all, this girl was quite capable, and Xu Qingrong had favored her over the years. When he saw her asking for small change, he didn't think much about it and casually grabbed a handful and stuffed it into her hand.