Jinghong Tower

Jinyiwei.

He Mingyue, the Jinyiwei garrison commander, walked in quickly and said to Zhong Yi, who was sitting at the top, "Master Zhong, Zeng Ziqi, who was arrested by us a few days ago, has become a teacher at the Ding family."

Zhong Yi was stunned. He searched his mind but couldn't remember which wealthy family in the capital had the surname Ding.

He Mingyue quickly explained: "This Ding family is not an official family, nor a merchant family, they are from the Cao Gang."

“Cao Gang?” Zhong Yi sat up straight. The importance of Cao Gang, what outsiders could see was only its water transportation. Only a few people knew that Cao Gang was assisting in building warships. Moreover, Zong Qi had been away from Beijing for half a year, and Cao Gang was managed by its deputy gang leader Jiao Wenhai.

He Mingyue said: "There is a man named Ding Qian in the Ding family. He is the son-in-law of Han Dadang, the former leader of the Cao Gang."

Zhong Yi knew who it was immediately. He knew all the situations of the wealthy families in the capital city in his mind. Although the Han family was a gang, Zhong Yi knew more about the Han family because of Zong Qi.

"Ding Qian? Didn't he marry into the Han family? Can a son-in-law set up his own household?"

Just now, He Mingyue was talking about the Ding family. Ding Qian was a son-in-law. Even if the Han family had no male heirs, he was still the son-in-law of the Han family. So it should be the Han family, not the Ding family.

He Mingyue explained: “If Zeng Ziqi hadn’t gone to his house, I wouldn’t have known about this.

Ding Qian grew up in a charity hall and went to the dock to make a living at the age of twelve. Later he joined the Cao Gang. His performance in the Cao Gang was mediocre, and it took him ten years to become a small manager at the dock.

Although Ding Qian did not get promoted after he and Han Yuzhu got married, their status in the gang was different after all.

He was generous and had a group of younger brothers around him. After the news of his marriage to Han Yuzhu spread, his biological parents and his brothers came to find him.

The family first lived in the Han family, but after only a few days, they were kicked out by the old lady of the Han family. No one knew how Ding Qian persuaded Han Yuzhu, but Han Yuzhu insisted on moving out and living alone.

Although Han Yuzhu was seeking a son-in-law, her parents' family also gave her some property when she got married. Although the Han family is no longer the gang leader, the family is wealthy and has an extraordinary status in the gang.

It was said that Han Yuzhu was acting like a mischief all the time, and Old Madam Han got fed up with it, so she agreed to let them move out and live on their own.

Ding Qian and Han Yuzhu lived in a three-courtyard house in Shitou Hutong. The house belonged to Han Yuzhu. The day after the couple moved in, Ding Qian's family also moved in.

After the Ding family moved in, they took the initiative and regarded themselves as the masters. They were very rude to the servants of the Han family. Han Yuzhu's maid secretly went back to the Han family to report the news. When Old Lady Han went there, she was rebuked by Han Yuzhu. After Old Lady Han came back, she was so angry that she fell ill. Later, when Han Yuzhu was in confinement after childbirth, Old Lady Han came to visit her. Somehow, she was so angry that she fell ill again when she came back. From then on, she no longer cared about what happened over there and focused on teaching her little granddaughter at home.

Now the neighbors all think that the family's surname is Ding. Ding Qian lived at the dock for eight out of ten days. The head of the family are Ding Qian's parents and eldest brother. As for Han Yuzhu, it is said that she gave birth to a seven-star child and is in poor health. She rarely goes out. "

Zhong Yi was stunned again. He still remembered the time when he invited Zong Qi to the Jinyiwei Yamen. Han Yuzhu looked for Zong Qi everywhere but to no avail, so he went to a tavern to drink. Afterwards, he was taken away. Although he was found at the back door of the tavern later, the waiter of the tavern died unexpectedly.

It seems that not long after this incident, Han Yuzhu married Ding Qian. Now Han Yuzhu actually gave birth to Qixingzi. The so-called Qixingzi is a child born after seven months of pregnancy. Or maybe it is not Qixingzi, but a child born at full term. If we count from the night Han Yuzhu disappeared, it seems that she was able to give birth to a child at full term.

However, in Zhong Yi's impression, Han Yuzhu was unruly and willful, and she definitely didn't seem like someone who would be bullied by her son-in-law's family.

This is really interesting.

Zhong Yi narrowed his eyes slightly and asked with interest: "Zeng Ziqi is a teacher in the Ding family. In addition to the infant Qixingzi, does the Ding family have other children?"

He Mingyue nodded: "Ding Qian's two elder brothers each have two sons, sixteen years old, fifteen years old, and two fourteen years old. Zeng Ziqi is teaching these four young men to read."

These days, a fourteen-year-old boy is old enough to go to the battlefield.

Zhong Yi smiled and said to He Mingyue, "Keep a close eye on the Ding family, including that Ding Qian. All the things about their family must be reported to me. I will receive reports about their family every day."

"Yes!" He Mingyue took the order and left.

As soon as He Mingyue left, another confidant came in with a wax-coated piece of intelligence in his hand.

Zhong Yi took it and looked at the sealing wax on it. He knew who sent it.

He remembered the name.

The road is bright.

He took out the information inside and took a book from the bookshelf nearby.

"Spring and Autumn Annals".

According to the code in the intelligence and comparing it with the text in the book one by one, the content of the intelligence was soon translated.

Zhong Yi deepened the smile on his lips, Mr. Jin, you are very interesting.

In Fuzhou, in Jinbao Casino, the proprietress Xiao Jinbao was whipping a waiter viciously with a rattan stick in her hand. The waiter was beaten so hard that he screamed in pain, but he dared not dodge. The proprietress had a bad temper, but she was also a straightforward person. As long as she let her vent her anger after beating him until she was tired, the matter would be over.

To be honest, this guy deserved to be beaten. Today, Young Master Jin won eight thousand taels of silver in the gambling house. The guy felt bad and said something extra. He told Young Master Jin that there was a new beautiful gambler in the Good Luck Casino.

Well, Young Master Jin's eyes suddenly lit up, and he asked someone to carry the eight thousand taels of silver to the Good Luck Casino. However, Young Master Jin was unable to resist the beauty, and the eight thousand taels of silver were all left in the Good Luck Casino.

So, do you think it is possible for Xiao Jinbao not to be angry?

If he lost, he lost. He could only blame his own inferior skills. But the eight thousand taels fell into the hands of the Good Luck Gambling House. Xiao Jinbao felt as sick as if he had eaten a fly.

As for the beautiful gambling goddess at Good Luck Casino, Xiao Jinbao snorted coldly. She knew who that woman was!

The so-called beautiful gambling god used to work in Jinbao Casino. Little Jinbao was born in a brothel, so her Jinbao Casino is also a place of licence. As long as gamblers have money, they can choose a beauty to gamble with them.

These beauties are called ladies of fortune.

This beautiful gambling goddess was once the wealthy lady in the Jinbao Casino.

Her name is Mingming.

Although these wealthy ladies would not sleep with the gamblers, they would inevitably be touched a few times if they stayed with the gamblers. However, this Mingming girl had a bad temper. Even when she was about to sit in the customer's arms, she would not let the customer move.

But even so, Miss Mingming is the top star in Jinbao Casino. Gamblers spend huge sums of money on her just to get Miss Mingming to gamble with them.

Why is this?

Because Mingming is an excellent gambler, whichever customer she sits next to will definitely make money, so people nicknamed Mingming "Golden Butt".

But this golden butt had a quarrel with Xiao Jinbao over a trivial matter, and then suddenly transformed herself into the beautiful gambling god of Good Luck Casino.

Look, even the famous Mr. Jin had to fall under her spell. Even so, there was a long queue in front of the Good Luck Casino. It was the first time I saw people queuing in a casino. There was no other way, there were too many people in the casino, and those who couldn't get in had to queue outside.

The more Xiao Jinbao thought about it, the angrier she got. She was not only angry at the guy for talking too much, but also at herself. Why couldn't she just hold back on her temper? She had a fight and took her money-making golden butt to someone else's house.

Since the Jinbao Casino lost its owner, Jin Pit, the business has plummeted. Every day, there are only two or three small customers. Finally, a rich man came today, and it turned out to be Mr. Jin. Mr. Jin won all the few customers and even took off his pants. By the way, he also won the fifth brother in the casino.

What is Fifth Brother?

It is inevitable that there will be customers with particularly good luck in the gambling house, but even if these customers win a large sum of money, they rarely take all the money out of the gambling house. Why is that? It’s because of Fifth Brother.

Whenever a customer won a large sum of money and was ready to quit while he was ahead, Fifth Brother would appear and drag him to gamble a few more times. Fifth Brother had plenty of tricks to get the customer to gamble with him, and after this gamble, the money the customer had won with great difficulty would be lost like water.

If you are lucky, you can still keep a few hundred taels of silver, but if you are unlucky, you will lose all the money you won and even lose your family property.

The reason why Young Master Jin became famous was that he could take all the money he won out of the gambling house, and he could even win some money from his fifth brother.

Xiao Jinbao regretted it so much that her intestines turned green. Without her golden butt, the fifth brother under her became a waste.

At this moment, Young Master Jin was also regretting.

Today he lost eight thousand taels in the Good Luck Casino. For others, this eight thousand taels would mean bankruptcy, but for Young Master Jin, it was just money in one hand and money out the other. He didn't feel bad, but he regretted not saying a few more words to the beautiful gambling goddess.

The eunuchs around him had already found out that this beautiful gambling god was once the wealthy lady of the Jinbao Casino. To put it bluntly, she was a prostitute.

Young Master Jin returned to the palace and transformed himself into Emperor Yonghe.

Today is the second day of the Chinese New Year, and according to the rules, he has to go and sleep with the imperial concubine.

That's right, Emperor Yonghe felt that he was the big boar used for breeding. He had heard people say that there was only one breeding boar in an ordinary pig farm, but there would be more than a dozen sows. After a few litters of sows, the piglets would grow up gradually, and a young and strong one would be selected from them to be the breeding boar. The original old boar would be washed and slaughtered and sold for meat to maximize its final surplus value.

Emperor Yonghe calculated that he was only three to five years away from being slaughtered.

Emperor Yonghe went to the Imperial Concubine's palace. The Imperial Concubine was dressed in white and was looking at him with a worried and resentful expression. In broad daylight, Emperor Yonghe felt a chill down his spine. Whose female ghost was this to collect debts? It turned out to be his own. The rope hanging around her neck made it look even more like a ghost.

Looking at the female ghost in front of him, no, it was the imperial concubine, Emperor Yonghe didn't want to stay here for a moment.

He found an excuse and fled in a hurry.

Look, this is the wife that old bastard Jing Chongguang married for me. She looks just like a female ghost. She is here to take my life.

Emperor Yonghe turned around and went to the Queen's palace. Today was the second day of the new year. If he did not stay in the Imperial Concubine's palace but went to other concubines, Jing Chongguang would say tomorrow that he did not observe etiquette. But it was different for the Queen. The Queen was the master of the six palaces. If he went to the Queen, even Jing Chongguang would not be able to say anything.

However, the Queen is also quite scary.

For example, now the queen is reading a book. When she sees him coming, she takes out a book and says to him, "Your Majesty, I want to test you."

Emperor Yonghe held his head and said, "I am tired. The Queen does not need to test me. I am going to sleep. The Queen can study by herself."

In the Queen's palace, Emperor Yonghe had a separate room where he could enjoy solitude.

He took out the dice and gambled with his left hand and right hand. As he gambled, he felt it was not enough and suddenly remembered the female gambling god he had met during the day.

It would be great if there was such a female gambling god in the harem.

Suddenly, Emperor Yonghe had a bold idea.

If he took that beautiful gambling goddess into the palace, wouldn't he be able to gamble all night long with a clear conscience?

But he soon felt disappointed again. He knew the identity of the beautiful gambling god. She used to be a wealthy woman. With such a lowly identity, Jing Chongguang would definitely not agree to let her enter the palace.

But for some reason, the more impossible something is, the more Emperor Yonghe desires it.

The next day, as usual, he said that he was overworked and would not attend the morning court, so he asked the regent to preside over the meeting.

Before Jing Chongguang left the court, Emperor Yonghe slipped out of the palace, transformed himself into Young Master Jin again, and went to the Good Luck Casino.

Today, his gambling luck was a little better. He fought with the beautiful gambling goddess for 300 rounds, and most of Fuzhou City was shocked. Two waiters in front of the Good Luck Casino collected money. Want to come in and watch the fight? Sure, one tael of silver can watch for half an hour.

The gambling lasted from the morning till the midnight, and Mr. Jin was finally defeated by the beautiful gambling goddess.

Although he only lost one thousand and two taels of silver in the end, it was a great humiliation for Master Jin.

Young Master Jin was rubbing his hands in anticipation, and before he even left the Good Luck Gambling House, he had already made a clear agreement with the beautiful gambling goddess.

For ten consecutive days, Young Master Jin went to the Good Luck Casino every day. The Good Luck Casino made a fortune just by collecting admission fees.

This matter soon reached Jing Chongguang's ears. He was so angry that he almost had a heart attack. If this was his biological son, he would definitely beat him back to his mother's womb and give birth again.

But although he also treated him as his son, he was not his biological son after all. He was the emperor.

You can't hit him, and you can only scold him gently.

Jing Chongguang felt that the emperor could not be blamed for this matter. The emperor did nothing wrong. The one who was wrong was that beautiful gambling god. It was this kind of lowly woman who led the good emperor astray.

Jing Chongguang immediately ordered the sealing of the Good Luck Casino and captured the beautiful gambling goddess.

He originally wanted to kill the woman and be done with it, but he was worried that Emperor Yonghe would not let her go, so he locked the woman up in the dungeon.

When Emperor Yonghe found out, he was furious. He said, "I have listened to you and become a breeding pig. The only way I can be a human being is in the gambling house. But you have cancelled my only qualification as a human being. Do you want to force me to death?"
Emperor Yonghe took a sword, ran to Jing Chongguang and committed suicide.

Although he knew he was scary, Jing Chongguang was still frightened.

Forget it, isn’t she just a lowly woman?

Give it back to him!
In the end, Emperor Yonghe swore to heaven that as long as the beautiful gambling god was allowed to enter the palace to gamble with him, he would not go to the gambling house and would stay in the palace as a breeding pig.

Jing Chongguang was so angry that he was fuming, but he finally agreed to this unreasonable request.

As it turned out, during the first month, Emperor Yonghe did not go anywhere and stayed in the palace obediently.

But a month later, Emperor Yonghe took the woman named Mingming to the gambling house. (End of this chapter)