Chapter 21: Father and Daughter's Debt

  Du Yan is a woman who always manages to do things that make people want to kill her and silence her.

  If I couldn't beat her, she would have been long buried.

  Facing Du Yan's deep and thoughtful gaze, Qin Kan felt a pang of guilt for a moment. But then he thought to himself, "What am I afraid of? She still owes me 200 taels of silver, doesn't she? I'm her creditor, why should I be afraid of her? It's supposed to be the other way around, isn't it?"

  "Pay back the money, 200 taels of silver!"

  Du Yan's eyebrows were deeply furrowed: "Last time, about the poetry collection, I just had some suspicions, so I tested you with words, but didn't dare to confirm. This time, however, I've caught you red-handed... Qin Kan, what kind of person are you?"

  "I'm your creditor... Don't change the subject, pay me back." Qin Kan said in a standard Huang Shiren tone.

  "Don't try to change the subject! Tell me, what's on your mind? It's clearly yours, so why are you using someone else's name?"

  Qin Kan's eyes narrowed slightly as he said coldly, "…Do you want to welch on the deal?"

  "You want to be famous all over the world, but it's not possible. You're willing to abandon your talent and reputation like a worn-out shoe, and instead focus on making money quietly... are you sick?"

  "If you don't pay back the money, I'll report you to the authorities. Your father is a county magistrate, but even he can't escape the heavenly principle of repaying debts."

  "How many more wonderful skills are hidden in you..."

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  “…………”

  Two people speaking different languages, each saying their own thing, the scene is very chaotic.

  "Stop, stop!" Qin Kan raised his hand and sighed in pain: "......it's so tiring talking to you."

  Du Yan also didn't seem too relaxed: "I think so too..."

  "We obviously don't see eye to eye, why be so persistent?"

  "That's also true."

  The two men parted ways, agreeing to meet again tomorrow for another battle.

  Until Du Yan's figure disappeared from view, Qin Kan suddenly woke up with a start.

  "Where's the silver? Didn't she still owe me money? She just mixed it up and got away with it, this woman is really good at evading debts..."

  With a disdainful shake of his head, Qin Kan turned around and returned to his own room, where he began outlining the story for "Journey to the West".

  Qin Kan had just left for a moment, when the door of Tang Yin's room opened. The dispirited and dejected Tang Da Caizi stared blankly at the empty doorway, standing there in a daze for a long time.

  "I clearly heard someone arguing at the door, so why is there no one here?"

  Standing like a wooden stake for a long time, Tang Yin's eyes widened in terror, and his body began to shake violently uncontrollably.

  "Could it be... I've really gone mad?"

  The main hall inside the government office of Shanyin County.

  Du Hong stood up with a strange expression on his face, it was unclear whether he was angry or smiling.

  "Yan'er, are you saying that this official position of mine was secured by your paying out 200 taels of silver?"

  Du Yan's mouth was smiling, but she deliberately sighed: "Originally agreed to one hundred and two silver, later daughter really couldn't bear that shameless person's face, severely beat him up, so it rose to two hundred and two..."

  Du Hong: "………"

  Du Zhixian has an urge to crash into a wall...

  I really don't know whether I should praise my daughter or give that scholar Qin a good scolding.

  "You're being too ridiculous." Du Hong managed to squeeze out this sentence, his face still unable to conceal the shock in his heart.

  Du Yan smiled and said: "If it weren't for our daughter's antics, I'm afraid we'd all be on the road back home in defeat right now?"

  Du Hong cried and laughed: "I am not a romantic person, but the official position actually has to rely on my daughter's efforts to keep it, it is really..."

  "Dad, I've said it many times before, the daughter is the one who paid the price, and the one who really saved your official position is Qin Kan."

  "Qin Kan..." Du Hong narrowed his eyes and fell into deep thought.

  That day, I was in conflict with Shi Lu, and I had been forced into a desperate situation. But since the woman and child appeared, the situation reversed, and I finally counterattacked. Now thinking back on this strategy, the timing of the woman's appearance was extremely appropriate, it was simply brilliant.

  If this plan was really thought out by that scholar named Qin Kan, then this guy is absolutely not simple.

  Who would have thought that Du Yan's words were not shocking, and he continued to say: "Dad, the 'Life is like first seeing' that has been popular in Jiangnan recently, do you know who wrote it?"

  "Isn't that the dissolute Tang Bohu?" Du Hong's face showed a look of disdain.

  He was a Confucian scholar by origin and did not like Tang Yin's unconventional and unrestrained style.

  Du Yan smiled and shook her head, with an air of mystery on her face.

  Du Hong was silent for a moment, then exclaimed: "Could it be Qin Kan?"

  Du Yan smiled and nodded.

  "How can he produce such a good sentence, why did he pretend to be Tang Yin?"

  Du Yan sighed: "This person, I don't know if he's sick or not, has a crazy obsession with silver, and doesn't care about reputation. Those timeless beautiful sentences are just goods that can be exchanged for silver in his eyes..."

  Du Hong stroked his beard, stunned. This young man has such talent, why doesn't he show it to the world? At such a young age, does he want to be a hermit?

  Du Yan's apricot eyes blinked, and she didn't know what idea she was harboring.

  "Under your governance, Yanshan County has such a talented individual; why don't you take him in?"

  Du Hong glanced at her lightly: "Yan'er, what do you want to say?"

  "Father, although Qin Kan has been stripped of his official title and is now just a scholar, he's not someone to be underestimated. Moreover, you're still able to sit securely in the county magistrate's chair. Qin Kan's contributions shouldn't be ignored. Didn't your former advisor resign and leave you because he was afraid of being implicated by you? You govern Shanyin County with no advisors or assistants..."

  Du Yan's voice grew smaller as she spoke, and her pretty face flushed with a red glow for no reason.

  Du Hong did not notice his daughter's expression, he was thinking about measuring.

  He understood the meaning of his daughter, a scholar who had been deprived of his official title and would certainly have no hope in the imperial examination. Entering the government office as a humble scribe was not a bad idea. Although being a scribe was a low-ranking position, it was still a respectable job in the county. Helping Qin Kan with such a big favor, using the position of a scribe as a small repayment was not impossible.

  He can come up with such a clever plan to help him get through the difficult situation, and he can also make such a great sentence that will be widely spread among the scholars of Jiangnan, his wisdom and talent are both top-notch. However... his idea is somewhat sinister, it can be seen that this person's heart is not necessarily very kind, hiring someone like this as his advisor... what if he corrupts me?

  "Cough, Yan'er, tomorrow bring that Qin Kan, come to the yamen to see old man..." Du Hong finally made a decision.

  Du Yan's face turned gloomy, and she let out a soft sigh: "Dad, before hiring him as our steward... Alas, I still owe him 200 taels of silver. You haven't seen his debt-collecting expression..."

  "Ah..." Du Hong suddenly felt a toothache.

  Two hundred taels of silver is equivalent to the assets of a middle-class family, Du Hong is an honest official, so honest that it's ringing, to be honest, he can't afford it.

  He gritted his teeth and stroked his mustache, Du Hong's face turned somewhat angry and embarrassed.

  "You go call him over and ask me for it, I'd like to see if he dares or not!"

  Du Yan giggled and nodded in response.

  Inside the hall, the father and daughter fell silent, each lost in their own thoughts.

  Du Hong came back to his senses and saw his daughter hanging her head, looking dull and stupid, as if thinking about something.

  "Yan'er, what are you thinking?"

  Du Yan muttered: "I'm thinking, I'm thinking... did that Sun monkey get the Dinghai Shen needle or not? The Dragon King won't give it to him..."

  P.S. There is another update tonight.....