Song Ming was so frightened that he went to cover Song Gua’s mouth again, “Keep your voice down, she’s tired from working, let her sleep a little longer.”
Song Gua’s eyes almost glared out.
“You’re really possessed by a ghost, I’ll go and find a divine woman.”
With that, he turned around and was about to head out.
Song Ming pulled her back, his voice very low and urgent, “I’m fine, I just figured it out, live a good life from now on, and you be nice to her from now on, or I’ll send you to Song Lian’s house.”
“What?”
Song Gua’s triangular eyes glared up again.
Song Ming ignored her and hurried back into the house wrapped in his blanket, only then did he see that the house was empty. The moment he stepped out of the door, the sun shone on his face and he realised that Wu had gone to work.
When he thought that he hadn’t even heard her get up, Song Ming’s face turned even whiter.
“Tell me clearly!” Song Gua’s came out of the house after him.
In the village even families without sons would not go to their daughters’ homes to retire, they would be poked in the back.
Song Ming, who had just broken out in a cold sweat and was barefoot and cold, didn’t bother to talk to her and turned around to go inside.
Song Gua’s hand grabbed the blanket, “You give me a clear explanation.”
Song Ming turned around and the blanket was torn loose, revealing the skin on his chest that had been cut last night, which Song Gua’s wife happened to see, and her eyes widened again in shock, “Who did this?”
Song Ming pulled her inside, closed the door with his hand, wrapped the blanket tightly around him, and didn’t hide it from her, “Daya Niang.”
Song Gua didn’t react for a moment, “You, you’re keeping someone outside?”
“What kind of person?”
“Your daughter-in-law ……”
Song Gua looked at him incredulously, “She, she, she hurt you?”
Song Ming nodded his head.
“This b*tch, just wait, I will skin her.”
With that, she turned around in a rage and was about to go to the workshop to settle the score with Song Ming’s daughter-in-law.
“Go on, go on, she’s gone mad now, saying that if anyone dares to bully her again in the future, she’ll chop them up with a knife.”
Song Gua’s movement towards the outside paused.
“I was almost hacked to death by her last night, and if I hadn’t repeatedly promised to be a cow and a horse in the future, we would have met in Hades by now.”
Song Gua’s drew a cold breath.
Without another word, Song Ming wrapped the blanket around her and went back inside, throwing herself headfirst onto the bed.
……
Xiao Si came over early in the morning to pick her up and take her to the Gu family, as Song Wan Yue had instructed.
Gu Yi waited at the door of the house and took her hand as soon as she got off the carriage, pouting aggressively, “You didn’t even let me go to something so fun last night.”
“There’s more fun today, are you going?”
Gu Yi’s head nodded like a chicken pecking rice, “Go, go, go.”
“Have someone find me a set of the boy’s clothes to change into.”
Gu Yi got excited and immediately had Xiao Si go and find clothes to come over.
He himself went back inside and changed into the new clothes Xu had made for him and came out, “Little girl, what are we going to do?”
“Shhh!”
Song Wangyue put her hand to her lips and hooked her hand towards him again.
Gu Yi got even more excited and walked over gingerly like a little mouse.
Song Wangyue lowered her voice, “Let’s go to the gambling house.”
Gu Yi’s eyes lit up and he leapt to his feet, “I’ll go back inside and get the silver tickets.”
Song Wan Yue pulled him back, “No, I have some with me, you can secretly instruct Xiao Si to bring the boys who went with us to the capital city last time, remember, secretly, don’t let Master Gu and Madam Gu find out.”
Gu Yi called out for Xiao Si to come in, pulled his ear to his mouth and instructed a few words.
Xiao Si looked at him instantly.
Gu Yi kicked him, “Why don’t you go now!”
Xiao Si “secretly” called out to the boys and told them to go wait outside the Song family village.
Gu Yi and Song Wan Yue got on the carriage and left the Gu family’s house. They met up with the boys outside the Song family’s village and went straight to the county town.
Last night, Song Wan Yue had already asked Song San Xiao for the address of the gambling house, and instructed the coachman to drive the carriage there.
“You guys wait here, and when Gu Yi and I get beaten out later you will go up and help.”
Several of the boys looked at each other in disbelief.
Xiao Si then realised that the two of them were going to the gambling house and hurriedly said, “I’ll go too.”
“Do you know how to gamble?”
Song Wangyue asked.
“No, no.”
“Do you have money?”
“No, no.”
“You don’t have money for one thing, and you can’t gamble, so you’ll only hold us back if you go.”
Xiao Si was speechless.
Gu Yi could not wait any longer and took Song Wan Yue’s hand, “Little girl, let’s go quickly.”
Song Wan Yue drew her hand back and coughed, “Young Master, I am now Little Four.”
Xiao Si, ……
Gu Yi, ……
Gu Yi was in the lead and Xiao Si was one step behind him, following behind.
The two of them strolled slowly, and when they came to the gambling house, Gu Yi looked inside curiously.
The man at the entrance of the gambling house saw that he was dressed well and looked like a son of a rich family, so he enticed him, “This young master, come in and play a few games, it’s very enjoyable.”
Gu Yi went inside and was pulled tightly by “Xiao Si”, “Young master, this is a gambling house, you can’t go in, the master will break your legs if he finds out.”
“My father is just scaring people, he only has one son, how could he break my legs? It’s alright, I’ll just go in and gamble a few times, we’ll come out after losing the few thousand taels of silver he gave me today.”
A few thousand taels?”
The gatekeeper’s eyes were shining and he could hardly wait to come forward to pull the man and lift the curtain so that he could see the lively scene inside, “This young master, you see we have all kinds of games in this gambling house, you can not only have fun here but also win silver to take home.”
Gu Yi pulled away from “Xiao Si’s” hand and quickly stepped inside.
“Young master!”
“Little Four” also hurriedly followed in, and kept advising, “Young Master, let’s go back ……”
Gu Yi was impatient and wanted to knock “him” on the head, but his hand was raised in mid-air and fell back, “Stop nagging, or I’ll have the gambling house people drive you back.”
“But young master ……”
“Shut up!”
“Little Four” reluctantly shut up.
Gu Yi came to a poker table where he was betting on the size of the poker table and extended his hand towards “Little Four”, “Bring the money.”
“Little Four” covered his pockets tightly, not giving.
Gu Yi simply went to untie the jade pendant on his waist.
“Little Four” was terrified and hurriedly took out a silver cheque and gave it to him, but Gu Yi didn’t even look at it and slapped it directly on the small print, “Bet on the small.”
Seeing the ticket amount of one hundred taels, the dealer’s eyes flashed and he quickly shook the dice in his hand, landing it on the table after a few clicks and opening it.
“Big!”
There was a wailing sound from the people at the table.
Gu Yi, however, did not take it seriously and moved on to the next table, still taking a hundred taels and pressing on small.
The dealer’s bet was still big.
Gu Yi continued on and lost several hundred taels in half a round.
Someone in the dark took it all in, beckoned someone to come forward and gave a few instructions.
