Transmigrated as a Peasant Baby Who is Pampered by All

The burly man was already tall and big, and even without exerting force with his foot, just his weight on Yang Cheng made it almost impossible for him to breathe.

A wooden stick as thick as an arm was pointed at his nose, scaring him so much that he didn’t even dare to resist. He could only nod repeatedly, "Yes, I have two sons, but..."

"Then that’s correct." The burly man didn’t even give him a chance to finish speaking and waved his hand.

"Your wife took your two sons yesterday, borrowed twenty taels of silver from our master, saying it was to let the boys learn some trade, and promised to return thirty taels today."

"We are kind people, just here to collect the debt for our master."

Another man took out a piece of paper from his chest, with something written on it. Yang Cheng couldn’t read, but he recognized there was a red handprint at the bottom.

"This is the note your wife made, for thirty taels, not a single penny less. If there isn’t enough, sell the house and land, and if that doesn’t work, sell your family members. Sons as servants, daughters as prostitutes, even those slightly older outside can be tidied up and taken care of, someone will fancy them."

The burly man said it nonchalantly as he put away the paper again, even turning back to maliciously glance at the two women outside.

Seeing them scream and dodge in fear, he laughed mockingly.

"Alright, go get the money."

The burly man withdrew his foot, signaling Yang Cheng to go get the money.

Yang Cheng shakily got up from the ground, "No, no money..."

"What? No money?" The burly man glared, "Are you looking for death?"

With a "bang," the stick smashed onto the nearby table, shattering it instantly, and everything on it clattered to the ground.

Yang Cheng was so frightened his legs went weak, and he said with a sobbing voice, "Really, truly no..."

"Gentlemen, that Yang Zhang has already been divorced by my son, she was driven out yesterday. She must have intentionally said she’s still our daughter-in-law, then let you come to us."

Finally, Yang Cheng’s father hurried back, he had gone to the fields with the third son early in the morning. Someone ran to find him just now, saying the eldest daughter-in-law had borrowed dozens of taels of silver outside, sending those people to their house to demand money.

He was both angry and anxious, hurried back with the third son, and already discussed some on the way.

That’s thirty taels!

Regardless if the family could come up with it or not, even if they could, there’s no way it would go to clear her debt!

Although he hadn’t seen much, he had heard of something called "eternal loan," which was lending money to people in urgent need, then collecting it back at high prices.

He heard that sometimes borrowing ten coins could snowball to a thousand taels of silver with interest!

That vicious woman surely went to borrow from an eternal loan, claiming to be their daughter-in-law, as long as she was in the family for a day, those people could drain them dry!

Even the whole family might be sold off!

The old man was furious but had to think quickly of a solution.

Finally, he remembered, as long as that wicked woman wasn’t part of their family, no matter how much she borrowed outside, it had nothing to do with them!

Realizing this, Old Yang heaved a sigh of relief, and could calmly say those words.

Even though he was actually frightened by the few burly men, he had seen stormy weathers, at least kept his facade calm.

"Dad?" Yang Cheng looked at his father in surprise.

Old Yang ignored him, glared at him, and continued to look at the burly man in front of him.

"Gentlemen, that woman is now in Xiangmu Village. She was divorced yesterday, that’s why she made a fuss. You could ask anyone in that village to know."

The burly man’s brows furrowed, "Really?"

Old Yang, "Of course it’s true, you can go to Xiangmu Village to inquire now, that woman fled with several children and even sold her daughter as a servant for twenty taels, that money must still be on her!"

"Peh!" The burly man spat, "Damn it, that lying woman dared to fool our master. Let’s go! To Xiangmu Village!"

After saying this, the burly men furiously left the Yang house, others quickly followed.

After those people left, Old Yang glared at his eldest son beside him.

"What are you standing around for? Go find the village head, write the divorce letter, have someone send it to that woman!"

Yang Cheng, "Dad, do we really have to write it."

"Big brother, if you don’t write it, can you come up with thirty taels of silver? And if it isn’t paid, tomorrow it might be forty taels."

The third brother was also very angry; he didn’t know how the older brother managed his wife. Now not only thirty taels in debt, they had to return even the few taels silver given in advance by the widower at the village head.

Yang Cheng, "Isn’t that twenty taels still with your sister-in-law, and selling Da Ni got another twenty taels, paying it back would still leave us ten taels."

Even if he didn’t like his wife much, divorcing her would leave him as a bachelor. His reputation was already ruined, no one would marry him now.

Old Yang glared at him fiercely, "She’d bring out thirty taels if she had it, but now it’s hidden who knows where, she’s clearly ready to ruin the family with her."

The third brother added fuel to the fire, "Big brother, quickly find the village head, you heard just now, even mom would suffer by then."

As expected, Old Yang got even more furious, "Get it done quickly, if you don’t write the divorce letter today, consider yourself out of the family, and don’t have anything to do with the Yang family in the future!"

Yang Cheng was indeed frightened, "Alright, alright, I’ll go find the village head now."

The village head had been quite scared lately as well; first, Yang Zhang asked him to write a deed of sale. Fortunately, she didn’t mention it, so he wasn’t troubled by the Yang family.

Just when he felt relieved, suddenly a group of thugs entered the village, demanding money from the Yang family.

Those people just left, and Yang Cheng came wanting a divorce letter!

The village head was left speechless by this family, and he didn’t want those thugs to keep bothering the village, disturbing its peace, so he wrote it.

But, after watching Yang Cheng press his handprint, he couldn’t help but sigh and shake his head.

The Yang family, started out well, how did it end up like this?

Eternal loan: meaning high-interest loans in ancient times