Twenty-three: Rebel
The boss quickly untied a cloth bag from his waist, and when he opened it, he revealed a lot of white silver, and he took out two pieces of broken silver from it and handed them back to the old lady.
"Woman, her son owes me more than eighty taels of silver, and I only need to pay it back to her now. This boss looked unwilling, and his eyes were full of hope that Xue'er would suddenly have mercy to help him administer justice.
"What is this silver for?" saw that the boss had become so obedient, and Xue'er also slowed down her tone.
As soon as Xue'er's words came out, several people cast strange glances at Xue'er, and the boss was stunned, but replied honestly: "This silver is for exchange, and you can exchange anything you want for this silver." ”
It turned out that the silver was so useful, and Xue'er became interested in this thing, and asked, "Where can I get such a good thing?"
"There are many ways to get silver, some people steal, some people rob, you can go to the casino to win, and some people earn money by selling coolies, or take things out to exchange with others. ”
Xue'er understood when she listened, and reached out to take out two luminous stones from her arms, which she picked up in the valley of the night, the valley of the night is full of luminous stones, she picked up a few round ones, which was picked up by the stream, the luminous stones were washed by the stream and were smooth and round, and they looked very cute, so they picked them up and brought them with them, and they also brought them when they came out of the valley, and they were not willing to throw them when they thought it was fun.
She shook the glow-in-the-dark stone in front of the boss's eyes and said, "This stone can shine at night, how much silver can I exchange with you?"
These two milky white luminous stones are smooth and round, and they are clearly two good night pearls, and they are also relatively large night pearls.
"Such a big pearl of the night?" the boss opened his mouth wide in surprise, this is a treasure, one is worth a fortune, not to mention that there are still two.
"I'll give you all this silver, and I don't want the eighty-three taels of silver they owe me, in exchange for your night pearl, do you think it's okay?" Seeing that Xue'er looked ignorant of the world, he asked tentatively.
Xue'er didn't expect that such a luminous stone could be exchanged for such a bag of silver, and she should have picked up more if she knew it.
"Okay, deal. ”
The boss couldn't hold back the excitement in his heart, he was so happy that he almost laughed, carefully wrapped the night pearl in a cloth, and then hurriedly took a few of his thugs, several of whom limped away with each other, and was afraid that Xue'er would regret it if she knew it.
The girl had already cleaned and bandaged her father's wounds, and the whole family came to thank Cher and warmly invited Cher to her home.
The little dragon turtle happened to be hungry, and said happily: "Master, it just so happens that we can take a rest here and get some food to replenish our strength, this is great!"
At this time, everyone noticed that the little dragon turtle, such a cute little animal can talk, and they are very curious.
"Hey, this little guy can talk, what kind of bird is this, I've never seen it before. The girl asked Cher curiously.
"I'm not a bird, I'm a little dragon turtle, I also have a name, the name the master gave me is Xue Feng, do you know if you call me Xue Feng?"
"Xue Feng, okay, I'll call you Xue Feng in the future, right?" The girl immediately became familiar with the little dragon turtle.
Through chatting, I learned that the family's surname was Ye, and they had a son and a daughter, and their daughter was Ye Qingqing, who was sixteen years old. The son's name is Ye Fu, and he is in his early twenties this year.
When they were young, because they were such an only son, the couple held them in the palm of their hands like babies, ate well and dressed well, and were never willing to slap them, but they didn't expect to spoil this son, and developed the habit of reaching out for clothes and opening their mouths for food, and they also made some fox friends outside.
The old couple saw that their son had endured it like this, but recently he had contracted the vice of gambling, and the old couple had almost lost all their savings, and they also owed a large amount of gambling debts.
The old lady shed tears as she spoke, and at this time Ye Qingqing had already prepared the meal, and came over enthusiastically and shouted, "Sister Xue'er, the meal is ready, let's eat!" She brought the meal to the table.
Ye Qingqing is very good at cooking, and the fragrance of food wafting on the table is very tempting. The little dragon turtle has been eating in the kitchen for a long time, it and Ye Qingqing have already played very well, and they have already chatted while cooking in the kitchen, Qingqing also likes the little dragon turtle very much, and prepared a food for the little dragon turtle alone.
At this moment, a young man slipped in outside, and as soon as the old lady saw her, she scolded: "Do you still know how to come back? Why don't you die outside! If you hadn't saved us by Miss Xue'er, this family would have been killed by you!"
It was Ye Fu who came in, he didn't dare to come back until now, and as soon as he came back, he ran to the kitchen, he didn't care about his mother's scolding, and muttered in a low voice: "Didn't you lose some silver, it's not because the family is poor and has no capital, otherwise I will definitely be able to win this silver back." ”
The old lady's ears were quite bright, and after hearing this, she immediately became angry, and immediately scolded loudly: "Why do you still want to gamble? Today, Liu San led people to ask for debts, and there was no money at home to pay back to others, your father almost let people beat people to death, and your sister was almost snatched away, you, why don't you know how to repent." As he spoke, he couldn't help but cry again.
"The family finally saved some money, and now you have lost it all, how can you live in the future!" the more the old lady thought about it, the more sad she became.
Ye Qingqing walked over silently, she took out a handkerchief and wiped her tears for her mother, while comforting and saying, "Mother, just say a few words, no matter what you say, my brother can't listen, there are still guests at home!"
Xue'er also came over to comfort her, she opened the bag of silver she had exchanged from Liu San, divided half of it and handed it to the old lady: "You can take the silver, don't be sad about the silver." ”
The old lady hurriedly excused herself: "How is this good? Our whole family was rescued by the girl, and this has not yet repaid you, so how can we take your money again?"
Xue'er forced the silver into the old lady's hand and said, "There are so many of you who also need silver, so don't be polite to me, I don't need so much silver alone." ”
The old lady reluctantly accepted the money, and her mood was much better, she warmly greeted Xue'er to eat, and said: "Girl, I don't have any good things to entertain you at home, you are welcome, you must be full, this day is about to get dark, don't leave at night, I will ask Qing'er to clean up the room, and you will be a companion with Qing'er tonight." Cher glanced outside, it was getting dark outside, and it was already evening, so she nodded in agreement.
Qingqing's room is very simple, but it is very clean and tidy. Xue'er also likes Qingqing very much, this girl is a little thinner, but she is quite good-looking, and she is more sensible, the two of them hit it off at first sight, and they talked about more topics, and they talked until late at night before going to bed.
In the middle of the night, Xue'er was awakened by a scream, the sound came from the next room, and then the footsteps of someone hurriedly fleeing and the frightened shout of the Ye family's father: "Old woman, old woman, how are you?" Xue'er quickly got up, Ye Qingqing also woke up, and the two of them hurriedly ran to the next door to see.
The door of the next room was wide open, the room looked very messy, as if she had just been robbed, Mrs. Ye sat on the ground, her forehead seemed to have hit something and a big hole, blood continued to flow out, flowing all over the ground, the appearance was very scary, Father Ye was panicked looking for something to bandage the wound.
"Mother!" Qingqing pounced all of a sudden, already crying: "Mother, what's going on? How can it be like this?"
At this time, Father Ye had already found something to bandage, and Xue'er hurriedly helped to bring a basin of water, cleaned the wound and bandaged it, and then Mrs. Ye slowly told what had happened.
It turned out that when Xue'er gave Mrs. Ye the silver, she was secretly seen by Ye Fu in the kitchen, and at night while the old lady was asleep, she secretly pried open the door of the old couple's room, skillfully touched the old lady's bed, and found the silver next to the old lady's pillow, and was about to take it away, when the old lady suddenly woke up, and grabbed the cloth bag containing the silver as soon as she stretched out her hand, and immediately knew that it was her son who came to steal her silver, and reprimanded in a low voice: "What are you going to do?"
Ye Fu didn't answer, he reached out and grabbed it, where did the old lady have the strength of a young man, and was dragged to the ground from the bed by his son, at this time Ye Dad also woke up, and said in a daze to go back to the old woman, Ye Fu was in a hurry, and pulled hard hard, grabbed the bag containing the silver and ran away, the old lady was suddenly dragged and hit the cabinet in the room, only to scream, and her head was hit like this.
The old couple sat on the edge of the bed and sighed, regretting that they shouldn't have spoiled this son too much, and they didn't even care if they hurt themselves, and they also hurt their daughter to suffer with them.
Xue'er and Qingqing persuaded them for a while, and seeing that it was still early in the morning, they went back to the room and continued to sleep.
Ye Fu snatched the silver, ran out of the courtyard in a puff of smoke, and hurried all the way to the town under the moonlight.
There are several gambling houses in the town, which are open all night long, Ye Fu has the silver in his hand, his waist is straight, and he walks into a gambling hall called Good Luck in good spirits.
The gambling hall was full of people, many people were gambling here, the gambling table was piled up with white silver, everyone showed greedy eyes, Ye Fu touched his pocket, as if the silver on the table had become his own for a while, and his heart couldn't help but bloom.
A skinny monkey-like person raised his eyes and saw Ye Fu, and immediately greeted him: "Yo, Brother Fu, I haven't seen you for a few days, where did you go to get rich?"
Ye Fu replied absentmindedly: "Where is it so easy to get rich, isn't it that you can't sleep at night, come and touch your luck." ”
At this time, someone at the table next to him was shouting loudly: "Come on, come on, buy big and lose big, buy small and lose small, buy more and lose more!" shouted while shaking the bamboo tube in his hand, and several people were surrounding there to bet.