Lady Wan Guan

Chapter 27
Zhou Li ordered a plate of peanuts and ate them at a wine shop near Song Mansion.

This wine shop is located at the three-way intersection leading to the main entrance of Song Mansion. Sitting here, you can clearly see the movement in all directions.

But Zhou Li didn't need to look in all directions today, he only needed to stare to the west.

Finally, the people from the gambling house showed up with Lu Xingwang.

Zhou Li stood up immediately, took the wine he had prepared in advance, and walked quickly to Song Mansion.

When the concierge Lao He saw Zhou Li, he greeted him with a smile: "Ali, you are out on business again!"

"Yes, my legs are broken every day." Zhou Li smiled bitterly.

Then he handed over the wine bottle: "Xinghua Village, have a try."

Lao He smiled happily: "You are the only one who is thinking about me."

"That's necessary. I only have a short time in the mansion. Thanks to you, brother, for taking care of me. Otherwise, my eyes would be completely black, and I wouldn't be able to get started so quickly."

"That's because you're clever." Old He cheerfully opened the stopper of the pot and took a deep breath into the mouth of the pot. The aroma of wine filled his nostrils.

"Really good wine!"

However, he was on duty at this moment and did not dare to drink. Lao He sniffed again, resisted the urge to drink and put the stopper back in the bottle.

Just as he was talking, Lu Xingwang came.

When Lao He saw a man with a bruised nose and swollen face and rags, his face suddenly became serious: "Beggars, do you know where this is? Go quickly, go quickly."

"Lao He, it's me, Xingwang."

Lao He was stunned and looked closer at the pig's head.

"Oh! I really didn't realize it. Why did you become like this?"

How could Lu Xingwang dare to say that the person who beat him was behind him: "Oh! Forget it, I had a fight with someone. Well, I'm looking for my mother."

Lao He said: "Let me go and report it."

Zhou Li on the side asked curiously: "Lao He, he is..."

"He is Grandma Cui's son. Ali, help me take a look here and I will report it."

"It turns out he's Grandma Cui's son. What else do you have to say? I'll just take you in."

Lao He: ...But this is the rule of the house.

While Lao He was stunned, Zhou Li had already pulled Lu Xingwang in with familiarity.

Aunt Cui was picking out new clothes with her wife when she heard her son coming to the door. Aunt Cui hurriedly asked for leave from her wife and hurried to see her son at the second door.

Hemerocallis and others got the letter and told people when they saw it that Grandma Cui's son came to the door with a bruised nose and a swollen face.

So the curious maids and women rushed to see the excitement.

Naturally, Grandma Wang and Grandma Liu were not far behind.

Aunt Liu was just watching the excitement, but Aunt Wang had another layer of thought in her heart.

The day before yesterday, I heard Grandma Sun talking about seeing Grandma Cui writing a letter to Grandma Deng, which made her think of another thing.

Last year, Grandma Cui's son came to the door, and she happened to see it. The mother and son seemed to be having an argument. Out of curiosity, she quietly went over and listened. Grandma Cui cried and begged her son not to gamble anymore.

Only then did she understand why Aunt Cui was so greedy and dared to have a son who was a gambler at home.

If these two things are connected, then it makes sense for Aunt Cui to betray his wife and take refuge with Aunt Zheng.

She told the eldest lady about this, but the eldest lady didn't respond at all. She was quite disappointed at the time, but today Grandma Cui's son came to her door.

I don’t know if this has anything to do with the eldest lady.

At the second door, as soon as Lu Xingwang saw his mother, he knelt down and cried: "Mom, please save me, otherwise I will die..."

Seeing his miserable appearance, Aunt Cui couldn't help but be frightened: "Hurry up, what happened?" "Mom, I owe Master Ba 470 taels. If I don't pay up today, Master Ba will kill me." My hands and feet, mother, you have to save me..."

Aunt Cui's eyes went dark and she almost fainted.

470 twenty taels?

Even if you sell her, you won't be able to get so much.

Ever since Xing Wang got into the bad habit of gambling, she lost all her years of savings.

"Treason, you are trying to kill your mother... I told you to stop gambling, but you don't listen. Do you have to make your family ruined before you give up?" Grandma Cui raised her hands in anger.

But seeing his son's bruised and swollen face, he couldn't move his hands down.

She had given birth to such a son in her entire life, and she had doted on him countless times, and as a result, he had developed this kind of character.

"What evil have I done to give birth to such a rebellious son like you..." Grandma Cui beat her chest and stamped her feet in pain.

The people who were hiding behind the flower wall and watching the excitement silently answered this question for Grandma Cui in their hearts.

What crime?

How much money have you cheated from us, and what evil do you say you have done?

"Mom, please help me pay back the money first. I swear I will never gamble again."

"Swear, you have sworn countless times, but which one of them counts?" Grandma Cui asked. She was extremely disappointed with this son.

"Mom, it's true this time. I promise, I swear, mother... please come out with the money quickly..." Lu Xingwang hugged his mother's legs and cried: "You can't just watch me have my hands chopped off." Feet, become a useless person..."

Aunt Cui also cried: "Son, my mother has given you the last copper she has. Where do you want her to get 470 and two taels?"

Zhou Li thought about it, took out a few pieces of broken silver from his sleeve pocket, and handed it over: "Brother Xingwang, I have some broken silver here, not much, only one or two coins, how about you take it first?"

Lu Xingwang turned to look at Zhou Li and choked with sobs as he said, "Thank you, brother."

He got up and took away the broken silver in Zhou Li's hand, wiped his tears fiercely, and there was a hint of fierceness and coldness in his swollen eyes: "Mom, look, an unrelated person is willing to Help your son, you are my biological mother, but you do nothing to save her."

"Son, my mother really has no money."

"You have." Lu Xingwang shouted.

"You have. Doesn't that aunt Zheng give you a sum of money every month? I heard everything you said to dad. You said you would save it to marry me a wife, but I am about to become a useless person. Why else should I marry a wife? Mom, please take out that money and help me pay off the debt first." This time, Lu Xingwang no longer had a pleading tone, but a commanding tone.

Aunt Cui almost spat out a mouthful of old blood. She didn't know whether she was fainted or stupid.

It took him a while to react, and said tremblingly: "What are you talking about?"

The money had long been used by Xingwang to gamble and pay off debts.

What do you mean by saving money to get a wife?
She wanted to, but could she survive?
The next moment she realized that this was the Song Mansion, and Zhou Li was standing next to her.

She looked around subconsciously, and then she saw a dark head behind the latticework of the flower wall, with pairs of startled eyes staring at her.

Aunt Cui felt a buzz in her head. She had indeed taken Aunt Zheng's money to do some unimportant things for Aunt Zheng.

She never thought about betraying his wife, but her son owed a huge gambling debt... Can she still explain clearly?
Aunt Cui's eyes turned black and she fainted with a cry.

All the ladies and maids behind the flower wall were dumbfounded.

Aunt Cui took Aunt Zheng’s money?

And every month?

Doesn't that mean that Aunt Cui betrayed Madam?

I didn't expect to see such a lively scene, but to hear such shocking secrets.

Grandma Liu and Grandma Wang, two people who were not in the same relationship, looked at each other and left with a tacit understanding, going to Chengxintang together.

(End of this chapter)