As Du Lizheng said, if you are addicted to gambling, it is so easy to quit. Boss Bai saw no one else, it was Mei Xiucai who couldn't help but come to the casino again.

Because of gambling before, the father and son talked earnestly, and Mei Xiucai also swore a gambling curse, only saying that he would quit gambling, and if he gambled again, he would not die well.

I didn't go to the town these days, but when Mei Tongsheng got a little better and went to the village school, Mei Xiucai couldn't sit still at home, and deliberately avoided his wife and slipped out for fear of his wife's noise.

The two hundred taels of silver I got from the "gambler" last time were forcibly asked by Mei Tongsheng, and most of them repaid the arrears of Boss Bai, and the small part was held in Mei Tongsheng's eyes for daily chewing and throwing fees.

Last year, the Mei family also rented out 70 acres of land, although it was tenanted to the clansmen, but the rent of an eldest son was not less, fifty percent of the rent, and the Mei family was responsible for agricultural taxes.

But because the Mei family has two talents, there are 160 acres of tax-free land, and the agricultural tax of 70 acres will be saved.

In addition, the remaining 90 acres of tax-free land quota were not wasted by the Mei family. Several clansmen took refuge and put the land in the name of Mei Xiucai's uncle and nephew, and the one percent of the tax that was exempted was divided equally between the Mei family and the landlord.

The Mei family's own seventy acres of land rented nearly 100 stone of grain, which was converted into 25 yuan and 20 taels of silver; The remaining agricultural tax of the 90 acres of nominal fields in two seasons a year is 27 stones, which is exchanged for more than 6 yuan in money and more than 5 taels of silver.

Twenty-five taels of silver, plus the money and rice that Mei Tongsheng got in the village school, as well as Mei Sheng's rice and silver, the Mei family earns forty taels of silver a year.

If you change to other people's families, you will definitely be able to accumulate some of this income, but the Mei family has two scholars, pen, ink, paper, inkstone, apprenticeship, and friends, and silver everywhere.

If it weren't for Mei Tongsheng's stinginess and the best ability to grab money, the Mei family would have been unable to make ends meet.

Therefore, as soon as this land is sold, the future income will be reduced to more than a dozen taels, and the family of six will barely eat, Mei Tongsheng is really panicked, worried that his children and grandchildren will not be able to continue their studies. When I saw the two hundred taels of silver, it was naturally like a life-saving straw, holding it in my hand and not letting it go.

However, Mei Tongsheng was timid, and because of Boss Bai's prestige in Xiji Town and even Sanhe County, he didn't dare to offend, so he begged someone to help his son pay off Boss Bai's debts.

"One last time!" Mei Xiucai didn't have any gambling money, so she took out two silver hairpins from his wife's jewelry box, because one was inlaid with two beads, and he was four taels in the pawnshop; The other plain silver one was used as two taels or three coins, and a total of five taels and three coins were obtained.

Mei Xiu had only been in and out of Baijia Casino for two months before, and everyone in the gambling circle knew that there was a prince who was addicted to gambling.

In addition, Mei Xiucai is a scholar after all, he likes to pay attention to his face, and he is very happy when he pays for gambling, but many people are looking forward to him coming.

Seeing him at this time, two gamblers came over and beckoned him to the private room.

Mei Xiucai carried five taels of silver, and she didn't push back, and followed directly.

Before entering the casino, Mei Xiucai thought about the "last time", if she won, she would be more generous with her money in the future, save people in her thirties, and ask her father for money.

But when he entered the casino, Mei Xiucai's mind changed.

There was not much silver in his pocket, but Mei Xiucai was not timid, but let go of his hands and feet. Just because he thought that the debts on Boss Bai's side had been paid off, and if he used silver, he could borrow it from Boss Bai again.

It is said that the more you worry about something, the more you will come, and it is better to look down.

Mei Xiucai's current situation is like this, the capital of five taels and three coins of silver, and after a morning's hard work, he will come back with sixty-six taels of silver.

Twelve times, Mei Xiucai looked at the gambling table with her eyes full of light, and she couldn't wait to double it again. It was the "grunting" sound in his stomach that made his mind a little clearer.

Only what is taken back into the pocket is the real win, and what is left on the table is illusory.

Let's do it first.

Mei Xiucai made a difficult decision and came out for lunch under the pretext of having lunch.

An acquaintance gambler came out and said with a smile: "I'm hungry too, Mei Xianggong will give face, let's talk about Barilla." ”

With the gambler who wanted to buy land before, Mei Xiucai couldn't help but be wary of people, but when she remembered that the person in front of her was surnamed Jin and the old surname in the town, her heart was steady.

If it was really that sneaky person, they were all hiding their heads and showing their tails, and they wouldn't use people like Lao Jin.

In fact, Mei Xiucai was really wrong, because this old Jin was none other than the head of the Xining Marquis Mansion in Tongzhou.

The Zhuangzi of the Marquis of Xining in Tongzhou was not bought while it was hot in the two years since the capital was moved, but was placed before.

Speaking of which, it is also fate, and the Zhuangzi of the Hou Mansion in Xining was not hung in the Hou Mansion Gongzhong, but Hou Yongle of Xining sent someone to take his private house to the north after returning to Nanjing ten years ago.

At that time, the steward of the Hou Mansion took a fancy to two small villages, one was the ten-hectare village where Du Li was hiding, and the other was the adjacent five-hectare village.

In a hurry, the steward did not find the owner of the Shiqing small village, so he bought the small village next door, and it was no one else, the widow and orphan of the Xining Hou Military School.

This kind of resettlement of widows and orphans is a common thing for frontier generals.

The Marquis of Xining was secretive and sold official salt as private salt, naturally because he couldn't see people.

That is, the widow was a mother and son when she was in Xiliang, and when the family was gone, she closed her door and kept filial piety and did not socialize with the outside, but the strange thing is that the mother and son have two more posthumous daughters when they arrive in Beijing.

The widow was thirteen years old, born seven months after the titular Lao Tzu died in battle, but was actually only twelve years old.

Needless to say, the Marquis of Xining was not kind and lewd the wives of his subordinates.

Man, the amorous lawsuit is nothing, the identity of the Marquis of Xining is not suitable, not to mention that he is the identity of the princess and the concubine, and the concubine is suspected of despising the royal family; There is also the widow's husband, who followed the Marquis of Xining on patrol and died in an ambush by the Mongols to protect the Marquis of Xining.

If the Marquis of Xining lewd the "widow of the life-saving benefactor" spread, not only would the princess's wife not be able to explain, but even the prestige of the Xiliang army would be lost.

If you are ruthless, if you make such a mistake, you will have to go to the root of the curse with a bowl of safflower. The partial-born Song Marquis is a gentle and affectionate person, and he stole back and forth with this widow, and he also had a little sincerity, so he arranged to quietly give birth to an illicit child.

Later, the Marquis of Song was recalled to Jinling by the imperial court, and he did not leave all the mothers in Liangzhou, but he did not dare to really take Jinling, so he arranged for someone to go north to buy land in Tongzhou and settle the mother and son.

More than ten years have passed in a blink of an eye, and the widow's children have also grown up.

The boy is okay, the family is for studying, he has passed the children's exam, and now he is a county school official student; The daughter is thirteen years old, and it's time to say goodbye.

Although the five hectares of land purchased before were in the name of her widow, she still had a son, and there was no reason to give all her property to her daughter as a dowry.

In the past ten years, Marquis Song has not seen this biological daughter, nor has he forgotten it.

is obviously Miss Houfu, but she can only be kept outside, and she can't bear to be a father.

It's just that in the early years, it was far away, and the whip was out of reach, and now that the Hou Mansion has moved to Beijing, the Song Marquis is not worried about others, so he arranged for his nephew to come over, and he wanted to buy a property for his daughter who had no name as a dowry.

Duri was unlucky, and was found to be the owner of the neighboring Zhuangzi.

It's just that because the situation of Xining Hou has not been good in the past ten years, the nephew of the clan is also very cautious, for fear that he will accidentally make a mistake and bring disaster to the clan uncle, so he beat around the bush, first subdued Zhang Fu, the shopkeeper of Du Ji Buzhuang, and wanted to interrogate Du Lizheng's details, but asked the news that Du Li Zheng wanted to recruit a son-in-law.

Mei Sheng of the Mei family fell into the eyes of Young Master Song like this.

You must know that before Young Master Song came to Tongzhou, he received two errands, one was to buy property, and the other was to find a proper son of a local family and choose a son-in-law for the little clan sister.

Young Master Song's original intention was to buy the land and make a marriage contract unknowingly, but he didn't expect it to startle the snake, and nothing was done.

In addition, now that the details of the Sanhe County Order have been passed out, there are also relatives of the emperor over there, and they are still the Yue family of the East Palace, and it is even more difficult for the Song family to show what the carriage and horse do directly.

But Mei Sheng's family has a simple population, and he is really talented and learned, and he is a classmate with Miss Song's brother, and the official and suitable son-in-law candidate is similar to that of Song Houye.

Hou Ye Song thought that Young Master Song was young and had no courage, so he called him back and asked Zhuangtou Lao Jin to be responsible for these two things.

Since Lao Jin knew that the ten hectares of Zhuangzi belonged to Du Lizheng, he had already regarded it as a thing in his pocket, so he was not in a hurry.

On the contrary, it is a matter of marriage, Mei Sheng, a talented man who was a "little three-yuan" at the age of thirteen, is a hot candidate for a son-in-law in the county.

There is also the fact that Lao Jin Chu was entrusted with a heavy responsibility, and he had the intention to do better to please the master of the Hou Ye.

This "Barilla" restaurant is the second property that his old gold gave to the young lady.