After the group left, Aunt Mei and I carried the refrigerator back to its original place.

Then we sat on the sofa without saying a word.

Aunt Mei looked at me like a child who did something wrong and said carefully, "I'm sorry, I originally wanted to stay with you for a month and then hide in other places, but I didn't expect that they found me so soon, and it still implicated you..."

I shook my head helplessly and said, "This is not a problem of hiding wherever you are. These people are very socially related. They can find you wherever you hide. Unless you really hide in Iraq, you have to find a way to solve this problem, otherwise the snowball will grow bigger and bigger, and in the end no one can do anything about it."

Aunt Mei felt lost, "If I had a way, I wouldn't have chosen to hide."

"Then why do you borrow so much money?" I asked in confusion, "Is anyone in my family sick?"

In fact, since I saw the loan note, I have been guessing in my mind that Aunt Mei borrowed usury. Of course, except for the acute illness of her family, I really can't think of the reason why a woman borrowed so much money.

Aunt Mei hesitated for a while and finally told me the reason, but this reason really surprised me.

"These money was borrowed for Lin Mubai." Aunt Mei said.

I asked in great surprise, "Didn't you and your boyfriend have been in eight years? Haven't you been in contact for nine years? Why would you still borrow money for him?"

Aunt Mei sighed and asked me, "Do you have cigarettes? Give me one."

I took out my cigarette from my pocket, took out one and handed it to her. After lit it myself, Aunt Mei took a deep breath, and then told me the whole story.

"I didn't want to mention this to others anymore. When I was young, I always did some stupid things. We both loved each other very much at that time, but my mother disagreed with our affairs because his family had no conditions. His parents were divorced, no one cared about him, and he didn't even have a house to live in. The conditions were very poor, so my mother strongly opposed us being together. But when she was young, she felt that love was everything, so she elopeed with him without hesitation." Aunt Mei said while smoking.

I suddenly realized that this explained why she suddenly disappeared during that period, but her mother still lived there.

"We went to Jiangzhou and stayed there for three years," continued Mei Aunt Mei. "In those three years, life was very hard. I didn't finish college, so I couldn't find any decent jobs. I could only do some service industries. He was obsessed with his painting career. Apart from helping people draw pictures, he had no income. Most of the income was my meager income to support him. Later, he felt that it was too hard for me to continue like this, so he went out to find a job and went to a painting exhibition company specializing in."

"Is it the company that held the large-scale art exhibition in Jiangzhou last time?" I asked.

Aunt Mei nodded and said, "Yes, at the beginning, he just went to do chores for others. Later, they seemed to have discovered his talent in painting and won him a place to study in the United States."

"This is a good thing," I said.

"Good things are good things," said Aunt Mei, "but they only provide this opportunity and do not intend to contribute to him. We have to get the money for studying abroad."

This is true. After all, investments like artists are still risky, and having talent does not mean that they will succeed. It is actually very good that their company can win him a quota.

"So he asked you to lend him money to help him study?" I asked.

"No." Aunt Mei said, "He refused at that time because he knew we couldn't afford so much money and told me that he didn't like to go abroad. But even though he said so, how could I not understand his true thoughts? Although he had concealed it well during that period, I could still feel that he was very unhappy. He was indeed very talented in this area, and I didn't want him to waste his talents. Besides, this is not only his own life opportunity, but also our life opportunity. If it succeeds, my mother can change her views and agree to us together. So I decided to find a way to get money to let him study abroad. I usually do two jobs, work day and night, and borrow from friends and find a bank loan, so I can support him to study outside."

After hearing this, I shook my head helplessly. Obviously, this is a modern version of Qin Xianglian's story.

"He is very successful and keeps getting good news, saying that the tutor appreciates his paintings, or a collection company has also liked his paintings. I am very pleased on the one hand, but on the other hand, my troubles are getting bigger and bigger. In a few years, I have borrowed a lot of debts. The debt collector and the bank's call for the payment have made me unable to live in peace." Aunt Mei said, lit a cigarette for herself.

"During that time, I almost collapsed. I worked two jobs a day, and I was as tired as anything. When I got home, I didn't even dare to answer the phone because it was basically a debt collection." Aunt Mei said, "About two years ago, he told me that his paintings could be sold at a good price now. I felt relieved, but the debt collection was getting worse and worse, and the bank was going to sue me. I really had no choice, so I borrowed a loan shark and paid back all the debts. At that time, I thought that anyway, his paintings had already started to sell, and when he came back, we would definitely pay them back quickly. But what I didn't expect was that he suddenly lost contact, the phone could not be reached, and the people could not be found."

I smiled bitterly and said, "I guess the plot has developed like this."

Aunt Mei smoked a cigarette and said bitterly, "In order to find him, I went to the exhibition of the painting exhibition company almost every time, but I never saw him again. Until last year, you knew that. If you couldn't find him, I could only fall into new trouble, because the usury soon expired and started to collect the money. But at that time, I had borrowed all my friends. It was not long before I paid it back. It was impossible to borrow money again, and it was even more impossible for the bank to do so. So, I could only tear down the east wall and repair the west wall, borrow money from other usury companies, and repay it to this company. The high interest rate could only make me borrow more and more. Later, I had this million."

I sighed, a typical drinking poison to quench thirst.

"So, the 800,000 you have repaid for this million miles is also the usury loan from another place?" I asked.

If this is the case, I would have paid back the 300,000 yuan for her, which would have been useless.

"No." She shook her head and said, "That 800,000 was paid by my brother. When he knew my predicament, he sold the wedding house my father bought for him and helped me pay back 800,000."

I felt relieved. It was okay if she really had 800,000 usury loans, then I really had no choice.

"Forget it," Aunt Mei pinched her cigarette and said, "This matter has nothing to do with you. I can't implicate you. I'll help you get the property certificate back. I'll find a way to return it to him."
Chapter completed!