Transmigrating to Book 50, others hoard rice, I hoard money

Zhou's father was helping to pick up the tiles and said, "Everyone, please handle them with care. If these tiles are still usable after you take them back, if any of you need them for building a house, just come to my house and get them. You don't have to return them. I'll just take this as a thank you for supporting my daughter!"

A man on the roof said, "Uncle Chuanmin, don't worry, we are being careful. The beams of the main room next door look good. Are they going to be demolished?"

Father Zhou: "Let's tear it down, tear it down. The Yang family keeps saying they don't have the money and they want to refuse to pay it back. Do they think they are right even though they don't have the money?

Tear down their house, including the bricks, tiles, beams, etc. We will estimate the price later. Anything we can get will help. I don’t have time to come here every day to collect debts.”

"okay!"

Yang Kaiyun, Mrs. Fang and others had been driven out of the room and were being watched by several big men.

Seeing his house being torn to pieces, Yang Kaiyun almost couldn't breathe and shouted, "Stop! Stop it now! Don't tear down my house, or I will fight you to the death!"

Zhou Chuan'an leaned on his cane and swung the butt of his gun at Yang Kaiyun: "Why are you shouting? If you don't behave, I'll shoot you!"

Yang Kaiyun staggered after being hit, and gritted his teeth and said, "You bunch of bandits! I'm going to sue you at the township government!"

Zhou Chuan'an: "You can sue me if you want. Your son is a cadre, but he has a wife and children, but he is looking for a partner and trying to climb up the social ladder. He even wants to trick his country wife into divorcing him. If he is reported, you can just wait for him to come back to farm!

And you guys, you're lazy and don't pay back your debts. What's wrong with us using your assets as collateral?"

Yang Kaiyun originally wanted to use Yang Jinlin's argument that "arranged marriages are not recognized by the law" to refute Zhou Chuanan.

She was also worried that she would anger him and get beaten or even shot, so she had to endure it and watched her house get shorter and shorter.

When Mrs. Fang saw the men surrounding her, all of them had unfriendly expressions, she wanted to curse but swallowed the words back.

Yang Jinsen didn't want to be beaten, so he just hid aside with his head in his hands the whole time to reduce his presence.

Yang Yao looked at the attic where she lived, and there was nothing in it except a few old clothes and a torn quilt. She just tore it down without feeling any pain.

There is no place to live at home, so maybe I can go to the provincial capital to live with my second brother and live the life of a city dweller.

It's just that the people in Zhoujiawan have gone too far in bullying others. It would be great if they could get their retribution and die a miserable death.

Yang Yaodi muttered to herself, but no one could hear her curse, and it did not affect the progress of demolishing the house at all.

For every piece of furniture and clothing that was carried out, Zhou's mother would take Xie Cuilian and Zhou Rong to carefully search through it, and they found a lot of coins.

Some are sewn into quilts or torn cotton-padded jackets, and some are hidden in the cracks of furniture.

Shen Xiaomei found a small hole behind the wardrobe in Mrs. Fang's bedroom. She removed all the bricks nearby and found a brown paper bag containing 30 silver dollars in a small cloth bag.

She ran out excitedly and said as if to take credit: "Third Aunt, look, the Yang family is really a liar. They are rich but they say they have no money. I found this in a rat hole."

Mother Zhou took the silver dollar and praised, "Our Xiaomei is really good. She found the treasure right away. Let's go to Aunt San's house for dinner tonight and I'll make you something delicious."

Shen Xiaomei waved her hand and said nonchalantly: "Why are we so polite as a family? I suspect that the old woman has hidden some money. I will go look for it again and will not let go of a single penny!"

"Okay, hard work."

Zhou's mother put away the silver dollar and prepared to take apart another quilt.

Seeing this, Jin Mei rushed over and stopped her, saying, "This is my dowry, you can't touch it. I don't care about money at home. This quilt is my memory of my mother's family, please don't tear it apart."

Zhou Rong pulled Jin Mei away, sneered, and said, "I heard that when you got married, your parents only gave you a blanket and a few old clothes. Are you sure this quilt is your dowry?

The pattern on this quilt was clearly my mother's dowry to me, but you tricked me into believing it, so how did it become your dowry?"

Zhou's mother said, "The dowry I gave to Darong was all recorded. There is a dowry list with the patterns and colors of the quilt covers, bed sheets, cloths, etc. I have listed them all. I brought the dowry list with me.

If you insist that this quilt is yours, we will take out the list and compare it."

Jin Mei lowered her head guiltily, not daring to answer.

Xie Cuilian said: "Everyone takes apart their quilts and washes them several times a year. Could it be that you would not wash your quilt for more than ten years just for the sake of your so-called thoughts?

This quilt doesn’t look like it hasn’t been washed for more than ten years. You stopped us from taking it apart, so there must be something good hidden inside.”

Jin Mei said in panic: "No...nothing..."

Zhou's mother snorted coldly, and with the cooperation of Xie Cuilian, she took off the quilt in a moment.

There were some coins hidden in the four corners of the cotton wool. Zhou's mother counted them and found a total of 11 yuan.

After Zhou's mother reported this number, Mrs. Fang slapped Jin Mei in the face immediately.

"Bitch! How dare you steal my money?! I was wondering how the money under the pickle jar disappeared, and I thought Zhou Rong took it. It turns out that you, a little bitch, stole it.

You are quite good at pretending. You act pitiful in front of me all day long, but behind my back you are as vicious as a poisonous snake!

Jinsen, divorce this vicious woman. Our family doesn't want a daughter-in-law with such dirty hands and feet!"

Yang Jinsen glanced at his mother and wife, and said impatiently, "Let's put this aside for now. Be quiet. Don't you see there are so many people around?"

When Jin Mei saw that Yang Jinsen did not divorce her on the spot, she immediately leaned over, lowered her head and said nothing.

Mother Fang glared at Jin Mei fiercely and tried to snatch the money back from Zhou's mother, but Yang Kaiyun stopped her and whispered, "You can't beat her, don't waste your energy. We have to survive and get through this first."

Mrs. Fang thought it made sense, so she stepped aside and watched angrily as Zhou's mother and the others dug out the money they had hidden one by one.

Shen Xiaomei was meticulous and had a keen sense of smell. She found all the money that Fang Pozi had hidden in the room. In addition to the 30 silver dollars, there was also a pair of silver bracelets and 72 yuan in coins.

Together with the coins found by Zhou's mother and others in several quilts, the total amount was 115 yuan.

Many of the bricks, tiles, wood, and furniture were broken or worm-eaten and could not be used. Zhou's father said they could only be worth seven dollars.

This was because they were once relatives, so he offered a high price. If he sold it to someone else, it would not be worth even three dollars.

The quilts, cloths and other items that were part of Zhou Rong's dowry were all taken away, but Zhou's mother said she would not accept the Yang family's worn-out clothes and quilts as they could not be converted into money.