"Sister-in-law, don't you know, Mrs. Guo passed away early, and our father and son are busy with their own business, she really has no one to take care of her!"

Cui said, "If Lord Guo doesn't dislike it and can rest assured, you might as well take the young lady to the ranch village, I take care of my daughters' properties, and she will always have time to talk to her, and she will be taken care of by someone to take care of her life, she will naturally be in a good mood when she has a companion, which is beneficial to the child." ”

As a result, Mrs. Liu's wife was taken to the ranch village.

These days the Liu family is really tasteless, and those maids and servants can't be at ease, after seeing Mrs. Cui, he said to Mrs. Cui half-truthfully:

"Madam, you have so many daughters-in-law who are not around, I don't have a mother-in-law, from now on, just call your mother, and if you don't recognize me, you have to recognize me!"

At that time, there were only two people together, and Mrs. Cui agreed with a smile.

Three days later, Governor Gao Min held a banquet in Ranch Village to give the fifth aunt Cui's wind, and most of the capital guards Guo Xiaoke attended. During the banquet, the eldest lady Gao Tiantian pouted Gao She's chicken, and the two said that they wanted to go to Yanqi to play together.

Cui Shi said angrily, you don't do your homework, are you wild when you get to Xizhou? I'm so worried about how I will explain to your mother Xie Jinlian in the future!

But Guo Xiaoke said, "Virtuous sisters-in-law don't restrain them, Xizhou is a place where the sky is high and the earth is wide." After the banquet, Guo Xiaoke personally brought Tiantian and Gaoshe chicken to Yanqi City.

The two children went to Banyue, and Cui Ying was afraid that they would play wild, so she asked people to send a letter to them, and Yanqi sent them back to Ranch Village.

Mrs. Zhao held her stomach and asked Gao Sheji, "Is Yanqi fun or ranch village fun?" ”

Gao Sheji was younger, and he answered the question, saying, "The eldest lady and Uncle Guo said that whether it is Yanqi or Ranch Village, it is much better than Qianzhou." ”

"Oh? How so? "The lady who is waiting for the edict is a little strange. Mrs. Cui was beside her, tilting her ears to hear what the child had to say.

Gao Sheji said again, "The eldest lady said to Uncle Guo in Yanqi that Qianzhou's grandfather is not good at all," Tiantian immediately threatened after hearing it, "You are not allowed to talk about Sheji!" ”

Gao Sheji swallowed half of his sentence, but replied unconvinced, "Isn't it what you told Uncle Guo that he once poked his grandfather in Qianzhou with an iron awl!?" ”

Gao Tiantian was exposed by Gao Sheji, glanced at Mrs. Cui weakly, and found that she didn't react, and the girl slowly became steady.

But that time was purely a rush of words, not what she deliberately said to Master Guo.

……

In Chang'an East City, dog fighting is in full swing. When the noise of the people and the barking of the dogs passed, the cylindrical copper wire cage with a diameter of three feet and a height of eight feet fell silent for a while.

Inside the copper cage, a yellow Tosa dog was covered in blood and lay motionless on the ground.

Not far away stood its victor, a black bull terrier with bloody eyes and curled flesh on its neck and forelegs.

The Bull Terrier lacks leg strength, but it won the game with a strong bite and long-lasting stamina, and it will eventually defeat the evenly matched and agile opponent and leave the opponent dead on the spot.

Soon, it will be given a piece of roast meat that tastes very good, and then it will be able to rest and enjoy the treatment of its wounds.

Someone outside the cage calculates how much they will get according to the odds.

Some of them are frustrated, carefully analyzing the information of the next two sides and their past records, and betting their hopes on the next game.

Immediately outside the bronze cage is a ring of mat sheds, with seats on which spectators and gamblers are seated.

There is also a sparse bamboo curtain hanging in front of the shed in the VIP area, and you can see the fighting dogs in the cage inside, but you can't see the inside from the outside.

A housekeeper ran over, stretched out his hand under the bamboo curtain, and put the chips he had just won, representing a large sum of money, and five chips representing a hundred coins each, on the wooden table in front of the second lady and asked:

"Madam, next some experts want to bet on the Tosa Inu Victory of the Fu Palace, and the maximum bet is a thousand times, can we bet on it?"

Lirong and Lilan said in unison, "Charge!" ”

But Xie Jinlian said uncertainly, "Tozo dog, obviously I saw it very unbearable just now, how can I bet on it?" ”

Jia Ding said, "Mrs. Xie, this is another one!" ”

Xie Jinlian said, "Why is my heart beating suddenly, I still don't bet, let's go back to the house." Fifteen hundred dollars are too easy to come by, and they are enough for half a month in the house, and I'm afraid it's not a good thing. ”

She said so, but she was actually worried that she would blame Sister Liu if she came back and found out.

After Gao Jun went to Quanzhou, Mrs. Cui was not there, and it was Xie Jinlian who was actually in charge of the Gao Mansion in Yongning Fang.

But Lirong was still unsatisfied, and begged, "Let's take a look again, okay?" ”

Xie Jinlian had already gotten up and said to Lilan, "Lao Jiu, you watch her closely, don't detain her," and then left with her personal little girl ring and went back to the house.

As a result, the game was missed, and two dogs fought fiercely in the copper cage.

The two sisters, Lirong and Lilan, were behind the bamboo curtain, and they didn't care about the battle outside, sitting there whispering.

Lilan said to her sister, "This is not good, it is not like enclosing some land is a serious way, I rent out those lands, even if I fall asleep, I will make money into it." ”

She looked at Lirong, and her sister seemed to notice the fierce fight in the copper cage again, and said, "And this can't be done, as long as you bet on it, you are afraid that you will fall asleep, and you must stare at them with half eyes open!" ”

Lirong's eyes were staring outside, the tall and mighty Tosa dog from the Fuwang Mansion had forced the opponent into the corner of the copper cage and whimpered and fled.

She regretted it a little, because she missed this bet, and said to Lilan without looking back, "Fuwangfu is not as clear as us!" ”

Lilan looked left and right, and whispered to her sister, "Hey——, I'm serious, the Cuiwei Xingyuan in the Meridian Valley will be completed soon, and we don't have to think about it within twenty miles of the Xingyuan, it's royal." But twenty miles away, there is not much enclosed at the moment. ”

Lirong turned her head to look at her sister and asked in surprise, "You are really circled!" ”

Lilan sighed and said, "There are four hundred acres in the south of the mountain in Cuiwei Xingyuan, which was originally owned by Wang Qianming, a scholar from the Zhongshu House. ”

"So much? What are we going to do? To open up the wasteland? ”

Lilan said, is Wang Qianming's mind lower than ours? He said that after the completion of Cuiwei Xingyuan, the attendants, palace people, and guards, to say the least, will not be less than a thousand people stationed and waiting every day, don't they want to eat? It's okay to say that the grain can be pulled in from the outside, but the greens are not fresh in the vicinity!

These lands are just for growing some vegetables and supplying them to the Xingyuan and Cuiwei Palace, and there are countless profits, and then we only need to rent them out, so how can we use them to open up the wasteland!

"How much does it cost?" Lirong asked.

Lilan said that it was worth it no matter how much it was! Moreover, Wang Qianming looked at the face of Lord Chu, and sold us the place closest to the top of the mountain of Cuiwei Xingyuan, and turned over the top of the mountain to the Xingyuan.

"He also said that this land is poor and has little soil, and it can be sold to me at the lowest price, 500 yuan per mu."

Lirong said, "Sister, how can there be such a cheap thing in the world, you don't want to make your mind faint, five hundred wen per mu, what is the difference between this and Bai You!" ”

Li Lan said, "If I am still opening a warm soup pool in Jiaohe County as a small boss at this time, how can Wang Qianming see me?" Isn't the sign of the Ministry of War Shangshu not enough for him to see? Besides, he didn't buy it at a great price! ”

He sighed again and said, "It's just that the mere eighty-five dollars stumped me!" ”

Lirong laughed, "Look at your big mouth!" Eighty-five, a county government can save for ten years without eating or drinking. But when did my sister ever have such an embarrassment when she was in Xizhou! I don't have a lot of money, and it's a serious matter, if you don't ask Sister Xie for it, you come to beg me instead, where do I have any money? ”

Lilan said again, "Alas, since I followed Jun, such a big family business has also been married to the surname Gao, and the pool has also been confiscated, so I don't even have the ability to make money!" Half of the money was stuck by Xie Jinlian! The warm soup pool in Xizhou has a lot of income, and I could have quietly gone to personal turnover. But Mrs. Cui just went, and she couldn't hide her every move! ”

Lirong said, "Sister Xie is very careful, but her mind is much worse than you in business, in my opinion, the errand of our Gaofu housekeeper should be done by you, Lao Jiu." ”

"Who says it's not?" I have no other intentions, I just want to make an appearance for everyone to see, isn't the final income all from our military department Shangshufu? ”

Lirong originally wanted to take out half an ingot of the gold she had secretly saved and given by Wu Weiliang, and let her sister Lilan go around first.

But after thinking about it, if Li Lan asked where the gold came from, it would be difficult for her to explain, and it would be even more troublesome if she let Xie Jinlian know, so she held back.

She looked at the chips on the case, which Xie Jinlian generously left behind and let their sisters bet on gambling, and she didn't say anything about drawing a bonus when she left.

She said to Lilan, "Don't we have 1,500 yuan in our hands at this time, let's bet twice more, earn 80 yuan and leave,"

She teased, "You didn't look down on fighting dogs just now, and you didn't rely on this in the end?" ”

"But that's too much!" Lilan said.

Lirong said, "We won't be able to bet a big double?" ”

Lilan thought about it, she had enough money, and she didn't have to beg Xie Jinlian when she went back.

At this time, it was already clear in the copper cage that the Tosa dog from the Fuwang Mansion was unharmed and won a great victory, and it was going to fight for the second time in a row.

Lirong said, "Let's see which opponent it is, it's a big deal to bet on it to win tenfold!" ”

Then against the Tozo dog is a slender toothed dog, the dog owner is a timber merchant from Qinzhou, Lirong looked at this pintooth dog, it was somewhat similar to the momentum of the first defeat, so he called the family Ding, and said to him, "Go and bet on the Tuzuo dog 1,500 yuan, bet ten times." ”

Lilan asked, aren't you afraid that you won't be able to return to your book if you lose? Sister, when did you have this big stroke?

Lirong snorted, "If you can afford to lose, of course you will have the confidence, besides, how can King Fu's dog lose easily?" ”

Their eyes were fixed on the battle inside the bronze cage, and even the terrible barking of dogs coming from inside and the forgetful roars of the spectators outside the cage were not in their ears.

In the end, the Tosa Inu from Fukuo's Mansion won a miserable victory, and although it had no good skin left on its body, it still stood, while its opponent could only lie on the ground, gasping for breath, and whispering a whimper of defeat.

Lilan involuntarily got up and cheered in the watchroom, only this time, the 1,500 yuan in her and Lirong's hands won 15,000 yuan, and even the capital was 16,050.

"It looks like Tosa won't be fine!" ”

Lirong said, my sister doesn't understand, as long as it stands at the end, there will be buyers to buy it to raise it after it is released, and its value will skyrocket!

The next two were a duel between the other two dog owners, and Lirong didn't let go of the bet after watching the two.

This time, an even stronger bull terrier from King Fu's Mansion entered.

The dealer said that this is His Royal Highness King Fu has just been introduced by the Lingnan border and the barbarian heavy money, it is said that even the evil wolves in the jungle are afraid of it.

Lirong said, "We're going to bet on it to win tenfold." ”

Lilan calculated in her heart that if she won again this time, then even the principal and interest would be 181,500, and the fraction could be given to Xie Jinlian for the difference, and the rest would be enough to buy another 170 acres of land.

She clutched her chest and said, "If we don't even look at our opponents, won't we be too risky!" Don't make a bamboo basket for water. Otherwise, we only bet five times, and if we win, it will be enough. What if you lose? ”

Betting on dogs is about winning or losing, betting ten times to win, and losing to lose ten times.

But the chips were already on the table, and Lilan's heart was pounding, and she didn't feel a little relieved until she saw her opponent from the Bull Terrier playing.

It is a small bearded dog, which is often carried by northern herders to herd cattle and horses, and it is said that it is not very afraid of wolves.

It was too small compared to a bull terrier, and stood tall on both sides.

Lirong won steadily, and said sarcastically to her sister in a low voice, "You are a little stronger than Sister Xie, why do you have such little guts!" If it weren't for my idea to hold it firmly, you would still be opening a pond in Jiaohe County at this time! ”

Lilan didn't squeak or retort, because the battle in the bronze cage began again!

And that's exactly what Lirong said.

The bull terrier was successful, and it only allowed the opponent to maneuver for a few rounds, and a wolf pounced from above, riding its whole body sideways on the body of the bearded dog, and then biting the opponent's left ear with a dead bite.

The bearded dog was in pain, and after struggling a few times, he couldn't lift the bull terrier on his body, but he just hissed in pain with his neck straight underneath.

Gamblers outside the arena also shouted desperately, "Bite it, bite it, change it." ”

Someone said, "You are a layman, the bull terrier has always been fierce at biting, but it is not very flexible, what if you spill your mouth and can't bite for a while?" Hu dogs are not vegetarians either! ”

Someone shouted, "Brother Ren has a point, as long as the bull terrier holds on for a while, the Hu dog will be defeated, you see its ears are almost torn off by the bull terrier, and the blood is dripping to the ground!" ”

As soon as the words fell, the bull terrier seemed to be frightened by the blood in front of him, and as soon as his mouth loosened, he jumped up and ran, and it screamed in its mouth repeatedly, ran to the edge of the copper cage, and jumped several times to get out of the cage.

The caged bearded dog rolled over and crawled up, blood dripping from his left eye and cheek on his ear.

It looked at its opponent in bewilderment, and at this moment the Bull Terrier was panicking to jump over the top of the cage to escape, and its two sharp front paws scratched the copper wire on the cage for a while.

The bearded dog jumped over and barked at the bull terrier.

This bull terrier in Quanzhou, who was stupidly frightened by the tragic death of his companion who caused the accident, was suddenly startled by the blood it bit out of his own mouth today.

The memory of the hacking dog in Quanzhou unfortunately reappeared.

It tried to escape from the Huengu and flee to the other side, but the Huhou had already pounced with a muffled roar.

Everyone was stunned, and after a moment they began to curse,