People who sell knives on credit usually go to the countryside. He sells knives in two ways:
First, charge half of the money first, telling you that this knife will not be broken next year, and then come back to charge the other half.
Second, if a sheep can sell for 10 thousand yuan, it will come back to collect money and so on.
Look, most of them are unpredictable events, but most of what the real money lenders said has come true, but these people rarely show up to ask for money.
They wander around with a bunch of kitchen knives on their backs, or give credit to ordinary people under the trees or in the streets at the head of the village, leaving a prophecy, that is, a prophecy, saying that they will come back to collect money when the prophecy is realized.
No one noticed where they came from when they appeared. When they left, no one knew where they were going. If you follow them, you will find it futile. They suddenly came and left, leaving only gossip and mystery.
Legend of ancient knife borrowers
"There are more than 1,000 sheep, more than 10,000 Niu Yi, and a catty of corn", which is what we call the mysterious knife seller of the older generation. In an era when beef and mutton are only a few cents a catty, such a prediction is really surprising, because no one would have predicted that all this would come true in decades.
During the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty, people who bought knives on credit had exact records. Shanghai declaration according to 1878:
During the years of Xianfeng and New Year, in Fenghua County, Zhejiang Province, occasionally several foreigners came to the shore by boat to set up stalls to sell kitchen knives. After meeting with the buyers, they will calculate the price, but they will not charge the knife fee. They will tell buyers that they will buy rice at 80p a liter now, and when they sell rice at 18p a liter, they will come back to collect the knife money.
Everyone laughed at them for being crazy. When time went by in the early years of Guangxu (18 years later), the price of rice in Ningbo really dropped to 18 liter, and the people who bought knives recalled it and were amazed! Locals call it "credit knife".
Soon after, the knife borrower came back to collect the knife money. When the Ningbo government learned of this incident, it immediately sent officials to hunt down the knife borrowers, but it was too late. The borrower seems to know everything and has long since disappeared.