Hearing this, Lan Ziyi asked knowingly:

"What about that? How did I not know? ”

Seeing Lan Ziyi like this, Tao Zhutu knew that Lan Ziyi was deliberately making things difficult, so he gritted his teeth and said clearly:

"Oh, young master, I'll ask you to borrow some silver, why do you bother me?"

When Lan Ziyi heard this, he put the scroll in his hand on the table, turned his head to look at Tao Zhutu and said:

"Third brother, you go out to gamble every day, lose every day, and come to ask me to borrow it?"

Tao Zhutu heard that he lost a few words every day, and his old face turned red, but he did not let go, but said cheekily:

"Young master, I had a good dream last night, I will definitely win today, and if I win, I will return it to you with interest."

Lan Ziyi said:

"Third brother, this is not a matter of luck, you will lose if you gamble for a long time, and gambling money is always a bottomless pit. And you're addicted to it now, and I'm not going to lend it to a gambler. ”

Hearing this, Peach Rabbit said with a hippie smile:

"Young master, I'm just betting on pleasure."

Hearing this, Lan Ziyi snorted coldly and said:

"You lost two hundred taels in three days, and you still call it a small gamble?"

Hearing this, Tao Zhutu hurriedly rubbed Lan Ziyi's shoulders, and said with a smile:

"Young master, two hundred taels is just a small meaning to you."

Lan Ziyi reached over his shoulder and pushed Tao Zhutu's hand away, and he said:

"Third brother, you don't come much, I sit in the house every day, the door doesn't go out of the second door, and I have lost two hundred taels of silver in three days, this thing doesn't make sense. The second brother was in charge of the bookkeeper, and he was already suspicious when I asked him for money yesterday. ”

Hearing this, Tao Zhutu walked to Lan Ziyi's side, and hurriedly said:

"It's not young master, today is the last day to distribute money to the military households, and after today, the eldest brother and the second brother will come back, how can I have the opportunity to go out again, and I have to lie in bed honestly every day." Young master, you can't bear to see me lying on the bed moldy? “

Lan Ziyi heard this:

"There are many ways to have fun, why does the third brother have to go out? Isn't it good to read a book in the house? ”

Hearing this, Tao Zhutu waved his hand, turned around and sat on a stool on the side and said:

"I'm not illiterate, so what are I reading? The only one who uses reading as a pastime is you, young master, and I want to sleep when I read a book. ”

After finishing the previous sentence, Tao Zhutu looked at Lan Ziyi with a sneer, and he said:

"Young master, you just said that you asked the second brother for silver yesterday, so you have silver."

Hearing this, Lan Ziyi shook his head and sighed:

"Third brother, you have really become a gambler."

Saying that, Lan Ziyi took out a piece of ten taels of silver from his arms and handed it to Tao Zhutu, and at the same time he said:

"Take it! That's all there is to it! Third brother, you have spent all your money in the past few days, and I will have no pocket money in the future. ”

Originally, when Tao Zhutu saw Lan Ziyi take out the silver, he reached out to take it. But when he heard Lan Ziyi scolding him for gambling sticks, he took back the hand that touched the silver. Peach Rabbit smiled:

"Young master, I'm not a gambler."

Lan Ziyi asked:

"Third brother, if you are not a gambling stick, then why do you gamble without eating every day?"

Peach Rabbit smiled:

"Actually, young master, betting on winning or losing doesn't mean anything to me, and I don't lack that bit of silver. What matters is that feeling, that unknown feeling of betting big and small in the moment before the market opens. It's like the feeling of swords intersecting when you're fighting with someone on the battlefield, and you won't know if he dies or I die, until the moment when the blade cuts the artery. ”

Tao Zhutu's words evoked Lan Ziyi's memories, and in the two months of the expedition, Lan Ziyi experienced the feeling that Tao Zhutu said more than once. That feeling is very addictive, even now that Lan Ziyi thinks about it, he can feel a tingling sensation transmitted down his spine. It is this feeling that makes Lan Ziyi fearless of the fear brought by the bloody battlefield, and in this sense, Lan Ziyi is also a gambler, just like Tao Zhuniu.

Lan Ziyi threw the ingot of silver to Tao Zhutu, and he said:

"Third brother, it's the last day, let's go out and play. When the eldest brother and the second brother are done, and your health is a little better, let's go to the racecourse of Jihu Camp to ride horses and shoot arrows, and you don't think about gambling every day, and you will waste your martial arts. ”

After catching the silver, Tao Zhutu stood up, he waved his hand at Lan Ziyi to thank him, and at the same time laughed at Lan Ziyi and said:

"Young Master, when did you learn archery? How did I not know? Why didn't you go out with the general when you went out to ride and shoot with the general? ”

Saying that, Tao Zhutu walked out of the door as if he had been beaten with chicken blood. But it backfired, without waiting for Tao Chatu to go out, Qiu Wenruo came in from outside, and the two almost didn't pretend to be together.

Tao Zhutu is a thief, even if he bumped into Qiu Wenruo, he was scared enough, he quickly retreated to the house to get out of the way, and said with a smile:

"It turned out to be Mr. Wen Ruo, why did you leave in such a hurry?"

As soon as he finished speaking, he found that Qiu Wenruo was followed by a father-in-law.

Qiu Wenruo also let go of his position after Tao Zhutu got out of the way, stretched out his hand to lead his father-in-law into the house, and heard Tao Zhutu asking, Qiu Xiao said straightly:

"San Lang, this is the father-in-law who came from the palace to send a message to Wei Hou, and the cabinet seems to have something to summon Wei Hou."

Although Tao Zhutu is playful, he is not stupid, he knew that there was something going on today when he saw his father-in-law coming, and when he heard the words, Tao Zhutu temporarily dispelled the idea of going out to play, and followed Qiu Wenruo to introduce his father-in-law into Lan Ziyi's bedroom.

Lan Ziyi had already heard the movement in the outhouse, and when her father-in-law was introduced into the bedroom, Lan Ziyi had already gotten up to make a move. Lan Ziyi said:

"Ziyi has seen his father-in-law."

Seeing this, the father-in-law who came hurriedly stepped forward and helped Lan Ziyi to sit down on a chair, and he said:

"Wei Hou can't help it, when I came, Daddy Yu specially instructed me that Wei Hou's feet hurt, don't let Wei Hou work, lest you get sick."

Qiu Wenruo, who entered the house at the same time, said:

"When I saw my father-in-law coming, I knew that there was something important, so I handed over the work at hand to my father Zhang Luo first, and I brought my father-in-law to see Weihou."

Lan Ziyi nodded to Qiu Wenruo, smiled and said to his father-in-law:

"It's hard to worry about the fish."

Then Lan Ziyi asked:

"I wonder what my father-in-law has to say? The Cabinet wants to find me? ”

The father-in-law nodded and said:

"It is true that the cabinet summoned Wei Hou. Lord Shen Zhong of the Ministry of Industry impeached Wei Hou for rewarding the army for his private wealth, and was suspected of buying people's hearts, and Lord Zhang Mingyue, the first assistant of the cabinet, asked Wei Hou to ask for an explanation.

When I came, Daddy Yu specifically told me that I wanted to see the condition of Wei Hou's foot injury, and if I could, I would invite him, and if I couldn't come, forget it. “

When Lan Ziyi heard the word Shen Zhong, he scolded in his heart. But this is also a reasonable thing, Shen Zhong's virtue endured for three days before biting someone was enough to give Lan Ziyi face.

Lan Ziyi hurriedly got up and instructed Tao Zhutu to say:

"Third brother, change clothes for me!"

At this time, Qiu Wenruo stepped forward and said:

"Slow down! Wei Hou has an injury on his foot and is inconvenient to move, and his father-in-law also understands, so I don't think Wei Hou should force himself to enter the palace. ”

Lan Ziyi heard Qiu Wenruo's reminder, a flash of inspiration flashed in his head, and he hurriedly asked the justice of the message:

"This father-in-law just said, what did Father-in-law Yu say?"

The father-in-law arched his hand and said:

"Daddy Yu said that if Wei Hou's feet hurt and it was inconvenient, he didn't need to go, so as not to get sick."

At this time, Qiu Wenruo said again:

"Wei Hou Ke still remembers the previous incident of the royal ditch horse march? At that time, it was also the cabinet that took the lead, and the lords summoned it; There is also the matter of spring ploughing, and that time Wei Hou also left. ”

Qiu Wenruo said that Lan Ziyi naturally remembered that Lan Ziyi was sold by King De twice, and once he was forced to go up to top the bag, and the end of the two times was not good anyway. This time Shen Zhong was impeached, and it was definitely not a good thing for the cabinet to summon Lan Ziyi, and the meaning in Yu Gonggong's words was clearly not to let Lan Ziyi pass.

In this case, there is no bad thing about King De this time, so why does Lan Ziyi need to go? On the spur of the moment just now, Lan Ziyi didn't think about it, but fortunately, Qiu Wenruo reminded him in time.

So Lan Ziyi, who had just jumped up from the chair a moment ago, sat back tremblingly with the armrest of the chair, only to hear him say to his father-in-law:

"Father-in-law, don't hide it, if it weren't for the love of Father-in-law Yu and the willingness to exonerate me, I would have let go of this leg today, and I would have to enter the palace. But it was really a pain in his feet, and he was afraid that he would cause Jin Chuang to relapse if he walked too much, so he asked his father-in-law to tell Father-in-law Yu and several middle halls in the cabinet, Ziyi still needed time to recuperate, and he couldn't leave the palace to enter the palace. ”