Ma Erniang's Splendid Pastoral

Chapter 37 Gambling
Ma Qifeng also said: "The sky is dry and sunny, and there is no rain."

Ma Min'er turned her head to look at Shen's wooden shop, and stood still.

"Big sister is gone." Seeing that the eldest sister hadn't moved, Ma Dalang called back.

"If I hear wood, I will worry unnecessarily." Ma Min'er said to herself.

"Big sister..." Ma Dalang called out again.

Ma Min'er still stood still.

The Ma family, who had walked a few steps, had no choice but to turn around and stand beside her.

"Min'er, what are you thinking?" Ma Qifeng was puzzled.

"Father, for some reason, I want to buy their wood."

"..."

Everyone in Ma's family was stunned, they didn't even have food to eat, so what did they need wood for?

"Min'er..." Ma Qifeng felt that his daughter was very abnormal today. He wanted to let them take off their clothes just now, but now he wants to buy wood that cannot be eaten or bitten.
"But I know we have no money." Ma Min'er said listlessly.

The Ma family father and son are in a mess in the wind, what's the matter?
"Father..." Ma Dalang looked at his father anxiously.

Ma Qifeng looked at the chaotic carpenter's shop, and then at his daughter who refused to move. He lowered his head and didn't know what to think, then suddenly raised his head and walked into the shop.

"Father, what are you doing?"

"Wait for Dad at the door."

The bewildered Ma Min'er was aroused by his father's sudden action, and waited at the door without listening to his father's words, and followed in after raising his legs.

Squeezing through the crowd, the five members of Ma's family arrived at the shop. There was a small patio between the front shop and the backyard, with a lot of wood and planks piled up on both sides. Ma Min'er glanced regretfully.

Seeing her father squeezed into the crowd, she called out, "Father—"

"It's not that you are not allowed to come in."

"It's sunny outside, but it's cool inside." Ma Min'er grinned.

This child, Ma Qifeng glared at the nonsense daughter, but he didn't care, walked up to Liang Shixing, cupped his hands and asked with a smile: "Brother, where is your gambling house?"

Liang Shixing, who was instructing his subordinates to rob things, turned his head when he heard the voice, hey, you don't see many literati, and they are quite handsome, and the face that wanted to get angry changed instantly, "Brother, you are..."

"I have nothing to do, I want to go to Guifang to gamble."

"Yohe..." Unexpectedly, the scribe would want to gamble, Liang Shixing whistled, "Isn't he a local?"

"Brother is right!"

Liang Shixing waved his hands to stop his subordinates, and the whole yard fell silent in an instant. Everyone looked at the gentleman like a monster, but he didn't expect that he was handsome but a jerk. It's really hard to judge a character by appearance these days. It's really a servant scum.

"Oh, then you have the money to gamble."

"Of course." Ma Qifeng grinned his white teeth, smiling like a spring breeze.

Being good-looking is easier to do than not being good-looking. Just say "Of course".

Uh... It's crooked, let's get down to business.

"Haha..." Liang Shixing laughed loudly, "Okay, then go to the county town to find Jufu Casino, that's my place."

"county seat?"

"Yes, the county town of Pingding is more than ten miles away."

Pingding County?I have heard it before, it seems that it is the range that the Ma family's son-in-law cannot leave, but I didn't see it all the way through the exile.

"May I ask which direction to go to the county?" Ma Qifeng was also puzzled and asked.

"Northwest."

Oh, let me tell you, Xing'an City is in the south of Yunshui, one south and one north, and they will definitely not be able to see the county seat when they come here. Ma Min'er was thinking about the environment around Yunshui Town, but she didn't realize it at all. That kind and loving father would gamble?

Just when her mind was about to turn to other places, the old woman suddenly screamed from behind the patio, "Damnie, damselfly, damselfly..."

The calls became more urgent, and Ma Min'er raised her feet and ran towards the sound, followed by a group of neighbors.

Turning around the partition wall of the courtyard, a woman with blood on her face is struggling to break free from the old woman's hand, trying to hit the wall again. Beside her legs, three children are shaking with fear, and a man like a thin monkey is crouching in the corner with his head in his arms. .

The trembling hands of the old woman could hardly stop the woman who wanted to die. Seeing this, the neighbor hurried forward to help hold the woman back. The neighbor persuaded: "Damma, you are dead, what should you do with the three children?"

"Without food, drink, or shelter, they can't live for a few days." The woman's eyes were numb and empty.

"Damnie, don't be like this, Yunshui Town is in the worst drought in Yizhou, the situation is considered the best, without a house, as long as the family is there, it can survive.

"Survive?" The damselfly raised her blood-drenched eyes, "How to live?"

"Everyone agrees...so we can live..." The neighbor was scolded, and he was guilty of tongue-tied, even if it wasn't a famine year, how much could he help!
"Hehe..." The Damselfly sneered coldly, "You saved today, but you can't save tomorrow."

That's right, even if they stopped her, if she didn't eat or drink, she would still starve to death, the neighbors stood aside in embarrassment, not knowing how to persuade her.

Seeing that the damselfly was about to hit the wall again, Shenhou'er jumped and shouted, "Boss Liang, my shop is more than the money I lost. If you want my shop, you have to gamble with me again." He wanted to win the shop back .

Liang Shixing raised his eyebrows: "What did you tell me?"

"My shop is big, at least one hundred and ten taels of silver, but I only lost less than 30 taels, so I want to bet with me again with the shop."

"At least a fart, you go outside to sell it, who would pay 100 taels for your dilapidated shop?" Liang Shixing yelled.

The crowd nodded one after another, "Yes, in the famine year, if you have money, you can buy grain, so who will buy a shop?"

Hearing everyone's discussion, Ma Min'er thought to himself, the more famine the year is, the more businessmen will make disaster fortunes. Just as he was thinking about it, someone from the neighbor asked Shen Hou'er, "Do you want to sell it for 50 taels?"

Liang Shixing didn't expect someone to cut his beard halfway and stared at him.

"Master Liang, Shen Hou'er has 50 taels, and he will repay your 30 taels of gambling debt soon." The neighbor emphasized 30 taels in his words.

Liang Shixing scolded his mother secretly, I don't know if this shop is worth a hundred taels, it's not worth it, why did I ask someone to lure him into a big bet, damn it, I managed to lure him into the game and lost 30 taels, and it turned out to be cheap and you got it, how is it possible, Rolling his eyes, he can't be cut off, Liang Shixing slanted his eyebrows and said: "Shenhou, do you want to win back the shop?"

"Of course!" Shen Hou'er cried, and secretly glanced at the bloody lady, regretting so much that his intestines were green. He likes to gamble well, but every time he wins or loses, the maximum will not exceed two or two. , How could this happen?

"Okay!" Liang Shixing replied bluntly.

"Master Liang..." the subordinates shouted in unison.

Liang Shixing reached out his hand to stop his subordinates, "It's still more than a dozen miles away from my gambling shop, why don't you just gamble a couple of times in your living room, win it back, it's up to you, lose, you have to obediently give me the contract. "

"I……"

"Why don't you dare?"

"I..." Shen Hou'er was cruel, "Okay, I will do as you said." After finishing speaking, he walked towards his living room as if death was at home.

When Ma Min'er lamented that this person loses early and loses later anyway, his father actually took a step forward, "Brother Liang, can you let Ma come with you?"

"You..." Liang Shixing didn't expect the little boy to get involved.

"Yes, I want to win some money to buy food." Ma Qifeng told the truth, as for his daughter's talk about buying wood, he didn't take it to heart at all, he didn't have anything to eat, so why do he need wood!

"How much money did you win?" Liang Shixing's facial muscles twitched. The boy didn't think that gambling was easy, so he raised his eyebrows, "Okay, come on, I'm here to see how much you can win."

Dad followed Liang Shixing to Shen's living room, and everyone surrounded him curiously, and the Ma brothers and sisters also followed, but his father asked Liang Shixing's men to block them from the door and not let them see.

Ma Miner jumped anxiously, "Why are you going, why don't you let us in?"

(End of this chapter)