This can at least help you get through to spring, and once the weather warms up, there will always be a way out.
I'll come back in a few days, but then I'll have to take your son away. You think about it yourself."
The debt collector left, and the man stood there dumbfounded.
He tried to borrow money, but had nothing to pawn. He thought of pawning himself, but no one wanted that. He could only pawn his son, but if he didn't borrow the money and go for treatment, they'd all burn to death, and then there'd be nothing left to pawn.
This trouble came on its own, and naturally, he thought of saving his life first.
The next day, the man picked up some gossip he'd previously heard, and then quietly squatted at the backdoor of a wealthy household. Before dawn, he saw the backdoor open, and a cart was pushed out.
The ground was slippery, the cart overturned, and a teenage corpse covered with scars fell onto the ground from the straw mat.
