Chapter 1417 Debt Collection Call

"Xiaoxin, find out the "A Chinese Ghost Story" trilogy." Jiang Hao ordered.

"OK."

Thinking about it again, A Chinese Ghost Story came from Liaozhai, and if I traveled through that world by myself, I'm afraid it wouldn't be just a Chinese Ghost Story.

"Find out the origin of "Liao Zhai", as well as various Liaozhai movies and TV shows."

"Xiaoxin understands."

It took a few days to read these materials, and Jiang Hao had a deeper understanding of the world in his heart. Demons, ghosts, ghosts, ghosts, ghosts, and fox spirits are really a stirring and unpredictable world.

Consciously ready, today in the supercomputer room, I opened the system panel, without any further hesitation, clicked the button to receive the task.

Brush ~!

The figure disappeared in the supercomputer room.

The next moment, Jiang Hao appeared in the mission world. Before he opened his eyes, a wave of information flooded into his mind, letting him know his current situation.

Opening his eyes, Jiang Hao found himself in a room. The weather was cold at the moment, and there was whimpering wind outside the window, which made the window paper rattle and shake, but he was only wearing a thin green cloth book long robe.

In the corner is a peeling wooden bed with a thin quilt on it.

Next to it was an old desk with several thread-bound books on it. You could see the name of the top book "Four Books Collection", a rough inkstone, two bald pens, and an oil lamp next to it. In the lamp bowl was only half a cup of oil.

It can be described as a poor family with a broken house and a family with no walls.

His name is Jiang Hao, he is 21 years old this year, and his word is Hanyang, which means a majestic red sun rises on the vast sea and emits bright light.

Jiang's family used to be a middle-class family. Yu Yin of his ancestors left more than ten acres of land. His parents worked diligently in farming and had no worries about food and clothing. They did everything they could to send him to a private school to study and read since he was a child.

But a few years ago, his father was seriously ill. He spent all his family savings and sold a few acres of land, but he still couldn’t be cured. After his father passed away, his mother contracted a serious illness. Only Jiang Hao was left alone.

Before he died, he still told Jiang Hao not to give up studying, even if he only passed the exam as a scholar, Erlao Quanxia would be glad to know.

Jiang Hao only knows how to study and not how to farm, so he rents out the remaining six acres of land, and earns a living by harvesting some grain every year.

Jiang Hao had also taken the county test several times before, but he could not pass it once, which was a great blow to him.

You know, if you want to be a scholar, you need to pass the county examination, the government examination, and the college examination before you can finally become a scholar. Now he can't even pass the simplest county examination.

Besides, the most important problem he faces is not the imperial examination, but also how to live. The money and grain he can get from renting out a few acres of land is only enough for him to barely fill his stomach, and he still needs to read and write, which is naturally not enough.

Moreover, Jiang Hao suffered from a serious illness a few years ago. Not only did he run out of money and food, but he was also in debt.

Walking to the outhouse, there is a stove, and next to it is a wooden stand for washing face. On the wooden stand is a clay basin, which should have been a copper basin, but it has been sold before, so we can only use a clay basin to make do with it.

He took a ladle of water from the nearby water tank and poured it into the clay basin. The water surface gradually calmed down. The bottom of the black lacquer basin reflected the water like a mirror. Jiang Hao looked down and found that it was his own appearance, although it was only covered with green cloth. , the hair is a little scattered, but it is still hard to hide his handsomeness.

"Wow~!"

I picked up a handful of water and washed it, feeling very refreshed.

Now that I am here, everything will inevitably change before. With all my abilities, can I really be so poor that I can't eat and starve.

After washing up, Jiang Hao was going to sort out the information in his mind and think about what to do in the future.

The system task is to "eliminate evil spirits from heaven and earth", how to get started?

Suddenly,

With Jiang Hao's keen hearing, he heard someone's voice outside the courtyard, the chai door was pushed open, and a group of people walked in. Jiang Hao took a cloth towel and wiped it. At this moment, the door was pushed open forcefully with a bang.

Huh~!

The cold wind rushed in from the gate, bringing in a gust of cool wind. Fortunately, Jiang Hao was not afraid of the cold, otherwise he would probably shiver with the cold in his single clothes.

Two strong domestic servants in Tsing Yi saw Jiang Hao, and one of them smiled, "Hehe, it seems that Jiang Shusheng has recovered from his illness. Congratulations. Our Housekeeper Cao is in the courtyard, and I want you to go over and talk."

Steward Cao, Jiang Hao paused for a moment, then retrieved the memory from his mind, it seems that the debt collector came.

"Since Steward Cao is here, why don't you come in and talk." Jiang Hao said.

Another servant looked at the room with a cold face, "Your shabby place is dark and smelly, and the robes of Butler Cao will be dirty when you go in. Come out quickly, I don't have time to wait for you."

Jiang Hao put down the towel and followed into the courtyard.

It is the first month of the month at this time, and although the Jinhua Mansion is not icy and snowy, it is still very cold. In addition, it is windy today, and a few servants shrank their hands and looked at Jiang Hao outside, with unkind eyes. The middle-aged man in brocade clothes, with fat head and big ears, is Cao Steward.

Steward Cao looked at Jiang Hao with small eyes, "Scholar Jiang, the new year has passed, and the Lantern Festival has passed. We will officially start work today to clear up the original accounts. You owe us 20 taels of silver to the Hu Family Bank. Should you pay it back?" gone."

Jiang Hao immediately remembered the past in his mind.

In the cold winter of the previous year, Jiang Hao suddenly developed a cold, and he was dying of illness. He managed to go to the town clinic for medical treatment, but he had no money. In order to survive under the high fever, he borrowed 20 taels of silver from the bank in a daze, and spent it all. Finally survived, but also spent all the money.

Jiang Hao sighed in his heart, poor people really can't afford to get sick.

A serious illness can ruin a family.

Jiang’s family used to have enough food and clothing, but their parents were seriously ill one after another, and they emptied their remaining money. In the end, they could only sell the land. It was a huge expense to take care of their parents’ offspring. Jiang Hao himself fell ill, so he mortgaged the remaining six acres I borrowed 20 taels of silver.

"Bring me the IOU." Jiang Hao said.

Hearing Jiang Hao's words, Steward Cao was slightly taken aback. Before he sought out this kind of poor scholar to collect debts, he would usually be obedient, crying and complaining that he could not repay, or begging for a few days' grace.

The so-called "money is a person's guts, clothes are a person's prestige, if you have money, you have a strong waist, and you will be listened to when you die."

Does he have the money to pay off the debt?

He took out an IOU from his sleeve, handed it to Jiang Hao and said, "Look for yourself, this is an IOU signed by you personally."

Jiang Hao took it over and looked at it. It was an official IOU. With the six acres of land in his family as collateral, he borrowed 22 taels of silver from the Hu family bank for a period of three months, repaying the principal plus 60 taels of interest. The bank will take away the mortgaged land.

Depend on!

The interest rate is really high, a proper super usury, with a profit of 200% in March.

Jiang Hao shook his hands and returned the IOU to Steward Cao, and said in a flat tone: "The loan is for three months, and it has only been two months now, and there is still one month left. It will not be too late to collect the debt when it is due."

Butler Cao looked at Jiang Hao with small eyes, and was shocked by his demeanor for a moment, and didn't dare to make a mistake.

In the past, even if they were not forced to take away the land, they would probably have ridiculed them.

Although he had investigated before, the Jiang family was a single family and had no strong relatives, but the scholar in front of him gave him the feeling that he didn't dare to provoke him easily, so he reached out to take the IOU and stuffed it into his sleeve.

"For three months, okay, I'll come to you next month to ask for the bill, and I hope you can come up with 60 taels of snow-patterned silver by then."

Steward Cao left with a few blue-clothed servants, thinking about collecting debts from other families. Jiang Hao looked at Steward Cao's chubby back and moved his nose.

He has achieved success in cultivation and has a keen sense. He can feel a faint evil spirit in this Butler Cao.

Jiang Hao can be sure that it is definitely a monster.

But he can be sure that Steward Cao is a human being and not a demon.

A guess arose in Jiang Hao's mind. The demonic aura in his body was probably acquired from being with people with demonic aura often.

The Hu family in Qingxi Town?

It can't be the Fox family in Qingxi Town.

The world I came to is the world of A Chinese Ghost Story, where ghosts and ghosts are everywhere, and centipedes can enter the house to become the prime minister of a country. It is not surprising that the fox is a rich man outside the official, and it is not surprising to open a bank to lend usury.

Earning sixty taels a month is absolutely impossible for ordinary workers.

Even for Jiang Hao, one month's time is a bit tight, and he might not be able to make money without some extraordinary measures.

Is it possible to steal, rob and cheat, and go back to the old business?

"Gululu!"

Jiang Hao’s stomach screamed like a frog’s cry. Obviously, he was hungry. This guy only drank a bowl of gruel in the morning, but he still had a bowl of gruel at noon. Now it’s evening, and there is no oil in his stomach. It’s no wonder he’s not hungry. .

Emergency first, solve the immediate problem.

Looking at the undulating hills and mountains in the distance, Jiang Hao decided to go into the mountains and get a game or two to heal his stomach first, and then talk about something to eat.