Chapter 980

Li Jun sneered, "Uncle Yao, ask anyone here: with no family ties, who would lend you such a large sum of money?" Yao Dali was instantly struck speechless. When he had first borrowed money from the village brigade, he promised to repay it after the "double rush" harvest once he sold his grain. But now, having split from the family, his household only had five mu of farmland. Once dried, the yield would be just over two thousand catties. With husked rice priced at twenty cents a catty, he would have to sell more than half of it just to settle his debts. After paying the grain tax with the remaining portion, his household would have almost nothing left. What would his whole family eat for the months to come? That day, when the double rush ended, he had brought out a bottle of white liquor he’d been saving for a long time to host the Li family’s father and his three sons. Perhaps having had too much to drink, he used the liquid courage to ask Li Guozhi for a loan. Li Guozhi hadn't hesitated for a second before agreeing. The very next day after work, Li Guozhi and Li Jun had brought him two hundred and eighty yuan. He had been overjoyed, and the following day, he went to the village brigade to pay off all his debts.