C10 Energy Replenishment

"Hmm, it's like this. I would like to ask, can I make an advance payment of 5 taels of silver?" Su Jin raised her request.

"I'll make up the cloth slowly in the next month." She added a few words.

"About this …" The shopkeeper fell into deep thought, but soon after, he came to a conclusion.

"If Miss Su is in trouble, it's not good for me to not help. I also believe in Miss Su's abilities. How about this, I'll lend you some silver. Lady Su doesn't need to return it in a month, you just need to repair it in two months."

The shopkeeper naturally had his own plans for this condition. In two months, the headquarter of the county city would send people here to collect the cloth, and the cloth that Miss Su made would have its own special characteristics. If one could accumulate a batch and hand it over, perhaps he would be able to appreciate it and write it down in his head.

Thus, he quickly agreed.

"Thank you, shopkeeper. I will return it as soon as possible." Su Jin slightly bowed to him.

"I can't take it. Miss Su, quickly get up." The shopkeeper quickly gave way.

For some reason, whenever this girl was polite to him, he would always have a feeling of trepidation, a feeling that he shouldn't have.

Shaking his head to chase away this emotion, the shopkeeper turned and entered the back hall. He took out an item with a copper coin embroidered on it and placed it on Su Jin's hand. "This is a tael of gold. Miss Su, you can count it."

Su Jin kept the bag and thanked the shopkeeper once again before hurriedly leaving the store.

"Looks like there really is something." The storekeeper stroked his mustache as he pondered.

Su Jin was indeed very anxious. Ever since she obtained the money bag, Number 1 immediately became active and kept rolling around:

"Quick!" Give it to me! "Give me that gold!" Those who didn't know what his tone and his urgent attitude were might have thought that he was addicted to drugs.

Su Jin rolled her eyes, "How can I give it to you?"

"Just take it and put it in your sleeve."

Su Jin did as she was told. She had just rolled up her sleeves when she felt a suction force coming from the space around her. Then, his hand lightened. It seemed that he had already taken number 1.

"You still know to leave me a purse?" She put the bag away. "How about it?" "How do you feel?"

"Comfortable —" As if greatly satisfied, Number 1 lazily said.

"You're feeling really good. I still have a big account here that I don't know how to fill in." Su Jin said in a bad mood.

"Hehe, I'm good and you're good too. I'm still serving you, master." Number 1 noticed the trace of displeasure in her tone and quickly said in a flattering tone.

Su Jin let out a "hmph" and walked back home.

In order to borrow money for Number 1 to replenish her energy source, her originally relaxed state of mind became a little more anxious, and the only thing she could do now was to speed up the weaving process.

Su Jin didn't tell her family about borrowing money. Firstly, she couldn't explain where the money went, and secondly, it was just a waste of time.

Since the cloth shop owner had agreed, Su Jin wasn't anxious to pay back the debt within two months. Instead, she focused more on the loan sharks. After all, none of these loan sharks were easy to deal with.

Not long after, Su Jin had saved up some money, mostly from selling her clothes at the market. The loan sharks urged her to send it over a few times, but Su Jin was not in a hurry.

It was noon then, and the people who came were beyond the Su Family's expectations. It was the man who was called Brother Wang, the leader of the debt collectors. Brother Wang brought someone with him and tried to barge into the house, but his mother could not stop him.

The two of them walked away, but their eyes were still full of malice, causing others to feel uncomfortable.

"Mother, in the future, all of you must keep people at home and prepare some defensive items. Do not let anyone enter your house so easily." Thinking about the upgraded loom in the room, Su Jin couldn't help but be a little worried.

Naturally, she knew that if the secret of the loom was discovered, she would not be able to remain calm, and would even be constantly spied upon. However, she also knew that it was impossible to hide this matter forever. Whether it was to increase production or to expand scale, the loom would inevitably be exposed in front of others.

She only hoped that she wouldn't expose this secret too early and that she would have enough time to prepare for it.

However, the reaction of Brother Wang and the others caused her to feel uneasy. She wondered, did they discover something that was purposely intruding to investigate, or was it just an ordinary method of prodding money?

No matter what, this matter had given Su Jin a warning. She decided that the next step after paying her debt was to repair this dilapidated and unstoppable courtyard.

There were still several pieces of fabric left in her hands. Su Jin let her second brother carry one to the carpenter's house to repay the favor of lending her the tools.

"..."

At the other end of the town, inside the Black Tiger Gang's lair, Brother Wang was leading a group of men drinking merrily.

"Brother Wang, is the Su family really that precious?" A chunky man on the left put his empty bowl on the table, wiped his mouth and said to Brother Wang.

"Definitely." Brother Wang picked up the bowl of wine in front of him, looked at him, and said confidently.

On the side, a skinny guy with monkey like cheeks said, "Brother Wang's eyesight can't be wrong, I just don't know how you saw through it."

After drinking, Wang Ge put down the bowl and smiled complacently: "You guys, your eyes are all blind, only I can see it."

His eyes were a little hazy, and he smashed the table: "There's no harm in telling you guys this, that day when I went to the Su Family to collect the debts with Ah Gen Ah Fa, the little girl from the Su Family made a new contract with me, don't you guys think about it, if you don't have a bit of confidence, how could she agree to this request?"

"Later on, I went to investigate and sure enough, the Su Clan was able to take out seven to eight pieces of cloth to sell in just three to four days. It would be strange if there wasn't a treasure in the clan!"

When the men heard this, they burst into an uproar. Immediately, some of them were in the mood to move. "Since there's such a treasure, why don't we take this opportunity to steal it?"

"Can you imagine that I wouldn't have thought of that?" Wang Ge looked at that person arrogantly and said: "I already investigated that person yesterday and I am almost certain that the Su Family is hiding a secret. In two days, we will find an opportunity to bring people in and we will obtain that treasure! "Hmph, the contract is in our hands, they can't do anything!"

Everyone was in line. Thinking about the unknown treasure that they were about to obtain, they all became excited.

"Drink, drink. Brother Wang, drink too. If you have anything you want to help with, just call us!" There was no need to greet him, Agen had already filled his glass with wine. Brother Wang looked at him with approval, and Agen was even more pleased to see that Brother Wang was satisfied, as if he could take more advantage of this robbery.

The sound of wine bowls colliding could be heard. The man's rough laughter drifted out of the room, dissipating in the hazy, bleak autumn rain …