When Hongying saw Mengying dazed by the window again, she knew that the two pots of flowers were going to be in trouble again.
He said: "Girl, if you pick it again, it will stop blooming."
Mengying was worried about the cost of buying medicinal herbs every day, and the leaves of the two pots of roses were almost stripped bare by her.
Hongying didn't know why her master was sad, but it was always her duty to share his worries.
Then he said with a smile, "Girl, let me sing a little song to relieve your boredom."
Mengying nodded, Hongying hugged Pipa and started singing.
"This slave is a jewel in the palm of my hand, how can I live in poverty? I act coquettishly in front of others, but I shed thousands of tears behind my back.
In the spring of spring, pity is wandering in the southern country. The east wind has no idea about anything, which adds to the sadness. Where can I find pearls and ten dendrobiums to redeem Yun Niang!"
After listening, Mengying put her chin on her hands and asked: "I also want to know where there are ten dendrobium pearls."
Then he looked at Hongying next to him: "Do you think there is any small-capital, big-profit business that can make money?"
Hongying thought for a while and said: "Yes, officials rely on receiving gifts; bandits and strongmen rely on robbing homes and houses. If you want to get rich among ordinary people, you have to rely on gold ingots falling from the sky. So everyone goes to worship the God of Wealth.
Bodhisattva."
Mengying asked listlessly: "Is there no other way?"
"My brother used to like to have dreams like this. What happened in the end? He almost lost a leg when he was betting big or small."
"Guessing points and betting big and small, I'm good at this." Mengying was overjoyed, how could she have forgotten this.
In her previous life, she stayed with Lao An and often coaxed her to play leaf cards, and what she was best at was rolling dice.
Even the maids in the house said: "It would be a pity if you don't go to the casino and win two games."
Having an idea, Mengying asked Hongying, "The imperial court has banned gambling. Which gambling shop did your brother go to?"
Hongying replied: "He often goes to the black gambling house downstairs of the Jade Archway. Miss, you don't know in the deep house, but what the court does now is all superficial. The officials are all paying filial piety to the gambling house and don't care at all.
."
Mengying nodded after hearing this: "Have you ever heard that someone won a lot of money?"
"There are many people who want to win money, but there are very few people who can actually win money."
"Do you know what games are played in gambling houses?" Mengying asked curiously.
"I went there once with my brother, and he was betting big and small."
When Hongying saw Mengying asking about the casino, she became wary and advised: "Girl, most of those gamblers have lost their wives and children, and their families have been destroyed. You must never go to a casino.
If you are really interested, I can teach you how to play horse hanging."
Seeing Mengying smiling but not answering, Hongying continued: "If you really want to play, girl, you can wait until the Cold Food Festival comes."
Ma Diao Mengying is so good at playing Guan Pu, she doesn’t know.
He asked further: "As for Guan Pu, can any amount of money be enough?"
"Yes, during the Cold Food Festival, the court will hold a three-day banquet. Last year, a foreign merchant won two thousand taels of silver."
Now Mengying became interested; "You can actually win so much! Then tell me how to play that."
"The simplest way to play is that one party presses the goods and uses copper coins to determine the outcome. The winner takes away the mortgaged goods, and the loser has to pay the same price to the person who pressed the goods.
Any kind of goods can be used as collateral, it can be food, utensils, clothing and other miscellaneous items, it can also be gold, silver, silk, calligraphy and painting and other valuables, it can even be land, carriages and horses, singers, slaves, etc."
Mengying was a little disappointed, "Isn't there a dice shaking cup?" What she is good at is distinguishing the size by listening to the sound.
"There are also gambling games set up on the second floor of Juxian Liquor House during the lockdown. Because the people who go there are either rich or noble, the government turns a blind eye. Although there are people who use dice, it is better than that.
The cheating dice officials in gambling houses should be more fair."
"Are there any restrictions? Can anyone go?"
"We are all sons and daughters-in-law. Of course, my daughter, you are not allowed to go as a daughter."
The Cold Food Festival will be in ten days, and Mengying has an idea. She wants to go to Juxian Tower to gamble.
*
The next day, Mengying sent Qingluo to buy a set of men's clothes.
Mengying tried it on and found that it was a little loose when she put it on. Qingluo used needle and thread to tighten it, but she could wear it anyway.
Now that you have the clothes, where will the gambling money come from?
Then she asked Qingluo to take out all her jewelry. Qingluo put them one by one on the table and arranged them: "This is the gold bracelet you had when you were a child. This is the pearl necklace that my wife gave you the year before last. Eh.
, why is there a silver hairpin missing?
While Mengying was reading, she lowered her head and asked, "Which one?"
"It's your favorite, the one with the lily of the valley, why is it missing?"
"Lily of the valley?" Mengying said to herself.
The scene when Tao Huansheng took away his hairpin appeared in front of her eyes. His face was a little red. He coughed and said, "If you lose it, just lose it. There is no need to look for it."
Mengying looked at Qingluo laying out a table of jewelry, and kept some of the ones that Mrs. Yao valued more. The rest, she asked Qingluo to put into packages and take them to the pawn shop to pawn.
Qingluo was startled and said: "Girl, these are all your savings since childhood. They are all your treasures. Are you really willing to part with them?"
In the previous life, Mengying really held these things very dearly. The small bracelet and the small golden lock were all engraved with the word "福".
When she was wronged, she always comforted herself that her mother still had feelings for herself in her heart.
But for Mengying now, these things are just dead things. What she needs now is capital.
"Youngdang, maybe it won't be long before I can redeem it. I'm in a hurry to use the money now, so go ahead."
"Yes." Qingluo quickly packed up her things and went to the pawn shop.
Hongying looked on clearly: "Girl, what do you want?"
Mengying nodded, "You guessed it right, that's what it means. You go find Lin Xiao and ask him to go to the city to make arrangements. If the girl I kill everyone and come back with the money, I can get away easily."
"Yes, but girl, have you ever been in a gambling house?" Hongying felt that the girl in front of her was really possessed by her brother, and she could talk nonsense.
Mengying shook her head, "But I can listen to music, and I can identify the points in it."
Hongying still wanted to persuade, but Mengying waved her hand: "Okay, just do as I say. Tell Xiao Lin to bring two brothers there that day. There are many people and things will be easier to do."
Hongying did not dare to disobey, so she went out to find Lin Xiao.
When Lin Xiao heard this, he almost burst into laughter and said, "This girl Yao really thinks she is a god. I have seen people who lose and lose their entire fortune, but I have never seen people who win money and be pursued by gambling houses." Hongying put her hands on her hips and her almond-shaped eyes widened: "If you are asked to go, you will go. If it ruins the girl's affairs, you will just get out of here. The Yao Mansion no longer needs you. Let your brothers go and drink the northwest wind."
Right."
After Hongying finished speaking, she turned around and wanted to leave.
"Hey, sister Hongying, why are you still angry and joking with you?" Lin Xiaoxi said with a smile.
"Who is your eldest sister? I am only thirteen years old. Am I that old?"
Hongying was so angry that she pinched Lin Xiao's ears.
"It hurts, it hurts, sister Hongying, let go quickly, it's about to be twisted off!"
Lin Xiao rubbed his ears and said, "I'm not that big, but my hands are pretty strong. Don't worry, I'll wrap it up with you and I'll make sure nothing happens. But..."
"But what?" Hongying asked angrily.
She didn't understand why Mengying used this ruthless attitude. She always bargained haphazardly and refused to do anything unless she got some benefits.
"Sister Hongying, a brother in my Chenghuang Temple is sick and has no money for medicine. Do you think you can tell the girl that I will pay in advance..."
"You've already made an advance of five taels, and the further advance will be next year's salary. If you don't want to do it, we can find someone else." Hongying was really fed up with this scoundrel, and wanted to leave.
"No, no, no, no, I'm just asking. Look at your impatience, why can't I handle it?"
Lin Xinxin said in her heart: It's really easy to meet the king of hell, but hard to deal with the kid. Miss Yao is so easy to talk to, but the maid next to her is so unruly. She either twists her ears or blows her beard and stares at her every time.
When Hongying returned to Yao Mansion, Qingluo had already returned, so a large amount of jewelry was only worth one hundred and fifty taels.
Mengying asked Qingluo Jewelry to give some broken silver, plus the banknotes she had saved, the total amount was only about two hundred taels.
"A little is a little less, it's better than nothing." She asked Qingluo to put the money away.
Hongying stood beside her and hesitated to speak. After Qingluo went down, Hongying said: "That Lin Xiao said that one of his brothers was sick and asked me to advance some money, but I scolded him back." She thought again and again, but she still had to
Tell Mengying.
"I have a use for those two hundred taels. However, I can't ignore his affairs." Mengying held the chess piece in her hand and said with her fingers in the air for a moment.
"Send this to him and let him get the medicine." After Mengying finished speaking, she took out a purse from her arms and took out a gold leaf.
"Girl, this is given to you by the master. You and the young master each have one. If you give it to him, what will happen if the master asks about it in the future?"
Mengying shook her head and said: "There is no other way. Let's talk about it later. Let him go to rescue first."
"Yes." Hongying took the purse. The girl in front of her made her even more confused as to why she would take such care of a beggar.
The girl likes him?
Think about Lin Xiao again. He has straw-like hair, always wears shabby clothes, and doesn’t like to take a bath. He smells bad.
Hongying got goosebumps all over her body, shook her head and said to herself: There is absolutely no chance that the girl likes him!