Chapter 590 - 573: Leeches
Tang Sufen looked at her eldest son, Huang Jianshe, in disbelief and asked tremblingly: "What did you say? Say it again?"
Huang Jianshe cried out: "Mom, I don’t know how I ended up owing so much debt. Mom, if I can’t repay the money, they’ll chop off my hand."
"Five Thousand Yuan, how can I pay that for you?"
Tang Sufen had painstakingly saved up four thousand eight hundred yuan over the past three years, and all of it went to her second son and daughter-in-law to buy a house. Because the second son’s wife said she would only have children after buying a house. After getting the money to buy the house, they quickly prepared for pregnancy, and now she’s already expecting.
Hearing she had no money, Huang Jianshe knelt on the ground and pleaded: "Mom, if I can’t repay them, they’ll chop off my hand, and Meili will definitely divorce me and take my son away. Mom, you must help me; otherwise, my family will fall apart."
Unable to resist her son’s pleas, Tang Sufen could only say she’d find a way. And her solution was to sell a jade carved snuff bottle and a Yuan blue and white pen holder that Lu Hongjun had collected, selling them for four thousand nine hundred. She added another one hundred yuan herself to make up the Five Thousand Yuan.
Tang Sufen said: "Only this time, if you owe debts again next time, I won’t be able to help you."
After swearing he’d never do it again, Huang Jianshe took the money and left. To be exact, he ran out, and with a light step.
Half a month later, Lu Jiaxin heard the housekeeper say that Lu Hongjun called her, saying there was something important. The housekeeper said, "Boss, the old man said it’s very important and wants you to call him back as soon as possible."
Lu Jiaxin listened but put the matter aside.