The Song family originally had some family money, but Song Wan Yue’s serious illness almost wiped out all the family’s silver, leaving only this much.
After hearing the doctor’s words, the Song family’s faces turned white once again.
The few hunters who had sent them over looked at each other and said, “We still have some silver money at home, we’ll go and bring it over here.”
Song Lin was a good hunter, and with him along, not only did they get more game, they also rarely encountered danger, and this time it was just an accident.
“No need.”
They were all ordinary farming families and could not take much silver.
Song Wangyue took all the money the family had in her hands and called out to Song Shen to walk outside with her, “Let’s go find big brother to think of a way.”
Song Shu had two sons, the eldest, Song Si, was studying at the county college, and his fellow students were all rich people, so this could only be the only way for now.
Song Wan Yue gave Song Shen the silver money and told him to wait in the cart.
Song San Xiao drove the cart so fast that Song Wan Yue and Song Shen’s internal organs were all turned upside down. Song Wan Yue’s face was white and she felt that she would not be able to hold on when she finally arrived at the county town.
“Go to the best pharmacy.”
Song Shen, with one hand tightly covering the silver in his arms, was paralyzed in the ox cart, unable to speak.
The bullock cart stopped at the entrance of Jishi Hall, and Song Wan Yue got off the cart with a white face and walked in with swaying feet.
Song Shen’s hands and feet were weak, and he struggled several times before getting up, wobbling out of the carriage and following him in.
Inside the pharmacy, Song Wangyue had already told the man about the medicine she wanted to take.
“Grab three days’ worth, how much silver do you need?”
The mate took the abacus and crackled his head, “The total is eighty taels.”
Dang!
Song Shen fell to the ground, his hand, which had been tightly covering the silver, dropping, his heart colder than if he had eaten an ice cube on a winter day. Three taels of silver really couldn’t even catch half of the medicine, and even if he went to his big brother, he wouldn’t be able to borrow that much.
Song Wangyue had already turned her head and was walking back, bending down to help him as she pa*sed him.
“Yue, Yue’er ……”
“You wait here, I’ll go find big brother ……”
Song Shen opened his mouth, wanting to say something, Song Wan Yue had already turned around and walked out the door, out the door, and while getting into the ox cart, he said to Song San Xiao, “Go to the best pawn shop.”
“What’s the point of going to a pawn shop, not to find ……”
Halfway through the sentence, Song Sanxiao realized something, “You’re not going to ……”
“It needs fifty taels, even if big brother can borrow it, what will we use to pay it back, if we don’t pay it back, how will big brother hold up his head in the academy in the future?”
Song Sanxiao’s hand holding the reins tightened, he knew Song Wangyue was telling the truth, but if they had to pawn the jade bracelet, they wouldn’t be able to redeem it later.
“Didn’t Third Uncle say that if something is given to me, it’s mine? Since it’s mine, I can naturally do with it as I please. Don’t stand still, go now, my father is still waiting for his medicine.”
Thinking of his elder brother’s situation, Song San Xiao did not hesitate and drove the ox cart to the largest pawn shop in the county.
Song Wan Yue got off the ox cart.
“I’ll go in with you.”
Song San Xiao looked for a place to try to hitch up the oxen.
“The ox cart is the only thing of value we have back home, if we lose it, the family will be even worse off, Uncle San is still watching, I’ll just go in by myself.”
Song Sanxiao was not sure, but Song Wangyue was right, there were all kinds of people in this part of the county.
“Then, then you’d better pawn it for fifty taels, for a three-year period if you want it alive.”
“Got it.”
Song Wangyue answered and walked into the pawn shop.
The pawnshop was large and there were two people waiting in front of the counter, and inside the counter, an old courtier, about fifty years old, was a*sessing things.
No one greeted her, so Song Wangyue automatically went over to the queue and when the two people in front of her had finished pawning, she approached the counter.
“Pawn what?”
Song Wangyue took out the paddle holding the jade bracelet, opened it, and put it on the counter.
The old courtier’s eyes lit up, then he collected his expression again, slowly and leisurely picked up the jade bracelet, looked at it again and again, and coughed, “This jade bracelet is not of good colour, at best it’s ……”
“Two hundred taels.”
The old courtier didn’t react for a moment.
“I’ll take the less.”
Only then did the old Chaofeng react to her saying that she wanted to pawn it for two hundred taels, and his body moved a little closer to the window, “Little girl, this jade bracelet of yours ……”
“Live when, three years.”
The old courtier didn’t know where the little girl in front of him got her bewildered confidence.
Two hundred taels if you say so?
If everyone was like her, how could he open this pawnshop in the future?
Standing up straight, “Fifty taels.”
Song Wangyue extended her hand towards him, and the old courtier was unsure.
“Our family ran into an emergency, and that’s why we thought of pawning this ancestral jade bracelet, since you’re so illiterate, I’d better sell it to my third uncle’s friend, he’ll give five hundred taels.”
Sell it?
This jade bracelet was worth a lot of money, it was a rare top quality, not to mention five hundred taels, even five thousand taels would not buy it. This little girl dressed like an ordinary peasant, yet she could take out such a good jade bracelet, she should be from a rich family that had fallen into disrepair, only to reach the point of pawning something, usually such families have no possibility of getting up again, no matter if it was three or five years, there was no possibility of redeeming this jade bracelet back.
Pretending to ponder for a moment, he held out a finger, “Two hundred taels is two hundred taels, but you are only allowed to pawn it for one year, not ……”, said the words retracting his finger, “only for six months.”
In half a year, trying to raise two hundred taels of silver is harder than heaven for rags like them, as long as the pawn period is over, their proprietor can take out the bracelet and sell it, that would be a big profit.
“Three hundred taels.”
Song Wangyue bargained.
“You little girl, how can you go back on your word?”
“I can sell this bracelet for five hundred taels, the only reason I am asking you for three hundred taels is to give my family hope. But in half a year’s time, even if we sold our whole family, we wouldn’t be able to raise that much. You’ve clearly made 200 taels, and you still think it’s too little? If you don’t want it, give it back to me, I’ll take it and sell it. At most my father will wake up and scold me for taking the medicine.”
Waking up after taking medicine? Is this a serious illness?
The old courtier was happy in his heart, but his face was ugly, “What kind of place do you think this is, you want as much as you want? For the sake of your filial piety, I will give you two taels more, no more.”
“I don’t deserve it anymore, you give it back to me.”
Song Wangyue held out her hand.
“Add ten taels.”
“Give it back to me.”
“Twenty taels.”
“Third Uncle ……”
Song Wangyue turned back towards the door and shouted.
“Alright, alright, three hundred taels is three hundred taels.”
Song Wangyue was satisfied.
The old courtier glared at her fiercely for a few moments.
In all his years as a courtier, it was the first time that someone had taken hold of him. However, it was just a little girl, if he really called for an adult to come in, I’m afraid this jade bracelet would not really be pawned.
Standing up straight, he shouted, “A poor quality bracelet with no water head, no colour, and a few edges!”
Song Wan Yue, ……
