Chapter 16 The Lion Opens His Mouth
Hongying saw Mengying staring blankly by the window again, and knew that the two pots of flowers were going to be in trouble again.
He said, "Miss, if you pick it up again, it won't bloom."
Mengying was worried about the cost of buying herbal medicine every day, and the two pots of rose leaves were almost bald by her.
Hongying didn't know why her master was worried, but she was always in charge of her worries.
Then he smiled and said, "Girl, I'll sing a little song to relieve you."
Mengying nodded, Hongying hugged the pipa and started singing.
"I was originally a pearl holding my palm, how could I live in peace? I was pretending to be a beautiful person in front of others, and tears came from behind my back.
The three springs of the south country are merciless, and there is no claim on the east wind, which adds sadness. Where can I get ten hu of pearls to redeem Yun Niang!”
After listening, Mengying held her chin with her hand and asked, "I also want to know where there are ten hu of pearls."
He looked at Hongying next to him again: "Do you think there are any big deals that can make money by making money?"
Hongying thought for a while and said, "Yes, officials rely on receiving gifts; those bandits and strong men rely on robbery and robbery. If they want to make a fortune, they have to rely on a gold ingot from the sky. So everyone goes to worship the God of Wealth and the Bodhisattva."
Meng Ying asked listlessly: "Is there no other way?"
"My brother also likes to have such dreams. In the end, he almost lost one leg when he bet on the big or small."
"I'm good at guessing the points and betting on the size of the game." Meng Ying was overjoyed. Why did she forget this?
In her previous life, she was following Lao Anren and often coaxed her to play Leaf cards, and what she was best at was shaking dice.
Even the maid in the room said, "It's a pity that you won two games if you don't go to the casino."
After getting an idea, Meng Ying asked Hongying, "The court clearly prohibited gambling. Which gambling shop did your brother go to?"
Hongying replied: "What he often goes to is the black gambling house downstairs of the Jade Archway. Girl, you don't know in the deep house. Now the court is doing superficial skills. That official and master all eat the filial piety of the gambling house and don't care at all."
Meng Ying nodded after hearing this: "Have you ever heard that someone has won a lot of money?"
"There are many people who want to win money, but few people who can really win money."
"Do you know what kind of gameplay in the casino?" Meng Ying asked curiously.
"I've been with my brother once, he's betting on the big or small."
When Hongying saw Mengying asking about the casino, she became alert and advised: "Miss, most of the gamblers have ended up having their wives and children, and their families have been destroyed. The casino must not be able to go to.
If you are really interested, I can teach you how to play horse hangs."
Seeing Mengying smiling but not answering, Hongying continued, "If the girl really wants to play, she can wait until the Cold Food Festival is over."
Ma Diaomengying is very familiar with playing, but she doesn't know about Guanpu.
He asked, "Will the Guanpu cost as much as possible?"
"Yes, the court will open three days of pass during the Cold Food Festival. Last year, a foreign merchant won two thousand taels of silver."
Meng Ying was intrigued now; "You can win so much! Then tell me how that played."
"The simplest way to play is to use one side to suppress the goods, and use the positive and negative copper coins to judge the winner and lose. The winner takes away the mortgaged goods, and if the loser, he has to pay the equivalent price to the suppressor.
Any mortgage for goods can be used, including food, utensils, clothing and other groceries, gold, silver, silk, calligraphy and paintings, and even land, carriages, songwriters, slaves, etc..”
Mengying was a little disappointed, "Don't there be dice shakers?" She is good at distinguishing sizes by listening to sounds.
"Some, when the dick is closed, there will be a gambling game on the second floor of Juxian's restaurant. Because the people who go there are either rich or noble, the government turns a blind eye. Although some people hold dices, they are always more fairer than the dice officials cheating in the gambling house."
"But there are restrictions, can anyone go?"
"It's all my grandfather, so you can't go to your daughter."
Ten days later it will be the Cold Food Festival. Meng Ying had an idea and wanted to go to Juxianlou for a gamble.
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The next day, Mengying sent Qingluo to buy a set of men's clothes.
Mengying tried it and it was a bit fat when she put it on. Qingluo used needlework and thread to collect it. At least she could wear it.
When you have clothes, where do you get the gambling money?
So Qingluo took out all his jewelry and placed it on the table one by one: "This is the gold bracelet you were young, this is the pearl head that my wife gave you the next year. Why is there a silver hairpin with hair tied?
Meng Ying lowered her head and asked, "Which one?"
"It's your favorite, why is the one with lily of the valley flowers gone?"
"Lily of the Valley?" Mengying said to herself.
She saw that Tao Huansheng looked a little red when he sucked his hairpin. He coughed and said, "If you lose it, you will lose it, don't look for it."
Meng Ying looked at Qingluo putting a table of jewelry and kept some of the ones that Mrs. Yao valued more. The rest was asked Qingluo to put in the package and take it to the pawnshop.
Qingluo was startled and said, "Girl, these are all accumulated since you were young, they are all your treasures. Are you really willing to bear it?"
Meng Ying in her previous life did take these things tightly. The small bracelet and the small golden lock were engraved with the word "Fu".
After suffering from grievances, she always comforted herself, and her mother still had her own heart.
But for Mengying now, these things are just some dead things, and what she needs now is capital.
"If you live, you may not be able to redeem it in a long time. I am anxious to use the money now, you go."
"Yes." Qingluo hurriedly packed up her things and went to the pawnshop.
Hongying looked clearly: "Girl, do you want to?"
Meng Ying nodded, "You guessed it right, that's what it means. Go and find Lin Xiao and ask him to go to the city to make arrangements. If a girl kills all sides and wins the money, you must get out of here."
"Yes, but girl, have you ever entered the gambling house?" Hongying felt that the girl in front of her was really possessed by her brother, and she was talking nonsense.
Meng Ying shook her head, "But I can listen to the sound, I can tell the points inside him."
Hongying wanted to persuade her, but Mengying waved her hand: "Okay, let's do as I say. Instruct Lin Xiao to ask him to take his two brothers there that day, so it would be easier for people to do things."
Hongying dared not disobey, and she was blessed and went out to find Lin Xiao.
When Lin Xiao heard this, he almost burst into laughter and said, "Miss Yao really thinks she is a god. I have seen the lost money and lost all the money. I have never seen him win money and was chased by the gambling house."
Hongying put her hands on her hips and stared at her eyes widened: "If you want to go, you go. If the girl is broken, you will get out of here with your bag. Yao's house will no longer need you, let your brothers go and drink the northwest wind."
After Hongying finished speaking, she turned around and wanted to leave.
"Hey hey, Sister Hongying, why are you still angry? You're having fun with you?" Lin Xiao said with a smile.
"Who is your eldest sister? I am only thirteen years old. Are you that old?"
Hongying was so angry that she twisted Lin Xiao's ears.
"It hurts, big girl Hongying, please let go, you're going to twist it off!"
Lin Xiao rubbed his ears and said, "I'm not big, my hands are not weak. Don't worry, I'll cover it with me and I'll make sure I won't be able to make a mistake. But..."
"But what?" Hongying asked angrily.
She didn't understand why Mengying used this slut. She always bargained nonsense every time and refused to do anything without any benefits.
"Sister Hongying, there is a brother in my Chenghuang Temple who is sick and has no money to get medicine. Look, can you tell the girl? I will advance the payment in advance..."
"You have already paid five taels in advance, and you will have to pay for next year's wages. If you don't want to do it, let's look for someone else." Hongying was really fed up with this rogue and wanted to leave.
"No, no, I just ask, look at your anxious temper, can't I do it?"
Lin Xiao said intently: It’s really easy to see the King of Hell, but it’s hard to get rid of the little devil. Miss Yao is so easy to talk to, but the maids around her are so rude. Every time she either twists her ears or stares at her.
When Hongying returned to Yao Mansion, Qingluo had already returned, and so many of them were only one hundred and fifty taels.
Mengying asked Qingluo to have some broken silver and the silver notes he saved in his hand to add it to about 200 taels.
"There is less, it is better than nothing." Then Qingluo asked to keep the money.
Hongying stood beside her and wanted to speak but stopped. After Qingluo went down, Hongying said, "That Lin Xiao said that one of his brothers was sick, so she asked me to advance some silver, and I scolded her back." She thought for a while, and had to talk to Mengying.
"I have some use for those two hundred taels. However, I can't ignore his affairs." Meng Ying held the chess piece in her hand, stayed in the air for a moment, and said.
"You send this to him and let him get medicine." Meng Ying finished speaking, took out a purse from her arms and took out a golden leaf from it.
"Girl, this is given to you by the master. You and the eldest master each one. If you give it to him, the master will ask you in the future, how can you do it?"
Meng Ying shook her head and said, "There is nothing I can do. Let me talk about it later. Let him go to the emergency first."
"Yes." Hongying took the purse, and the girl in front of her made her more and more unable to see through why she took care of a beggar in such a way.
The girl fell in love with him?
Think about Lin Xiao, who is as chaotic as straw, always likes to wear torn clothes, but doesn’t like taking a bath, and it smells bad on his body.
Hongying got goosebumps all over her body, shook her head and said to herself: It is impossible for a girl to like him!
Chapter completed!