Chapter Twenty-Nine: Selling Wives and Daughters
Li Yin replied to the girl: "As a professional perfume customizer, I promise not to have the slightest blasphemy against you, when you face me, just treat it as if you are sick and look at Langzhong, if you are really afraid of gossip, you can invite a few more friends together." ”
The girl nodded with satisfaction, "This method is feasible." ”
And there were several women who looked like wolves and tigers, but they looked Li Yinlai up and down with different eyes, and thought to themselves: "This guy is quite strong, even if I don't know if it's a silver-like wax gun head, it won't be useful, if it is, maybe take the opportunity to include him under Luo's skirt!" ”
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The small perfume not only brought Li Yin thousands of taels of silver income in a few days, but also through that "private customization", he had the opportunity to contact the ladies and ladies from time to time, and really heard a lot of useful information.
For example, I learned that the court of Goryeo was not monolithic, and was mainly divided into two major factions, one was the Yuan faction that controlled the government for decades, and the other was the "royalist faction" led by the general Eulji Moondeok who supported the royal family.
The two factions are evenly matched in terms of government and military strength, reaching a delicate balance, and no one can help anyone.
This kind of information is almost well known among the upper-class nobles, but the lower-class people have heard of it at most, and they definitely don't know much, and Li Yin feels more and more at this time how correct his previous decision was.
Li Yin was about to go out that day, and when he passed by the door of his "perfume store", a woman suddenly walked out of it in a hurry and crashed into Li Yin's arms in an instant.
Li Yin immediately felt two plump and elastic things on his body, and his heart couldn't help but waver, he took a step back before standing firmly, looked down, and couldn't help but be stunned.
For the woman in his arms was the graceful young woman in the tulle he had seen in the house of the mansion that day.
The reason why Cai Lian appeared here is naturally to buy perfume, and this thing is now in Pyongyang City, which can be said to be known to everyone, and everyone knows about it.
Cai Lian's husband Wen Chengde, after selling the ancestral house to Li Yin for a huge sum of nine hundred taels, the family moved to the inn, planning to live for a few days first, and then slowly find a suitable house.
At the same time, Wen Chengde made up his mind to quit gambling after repaying the three hundred taels of arrears in the gambling hall, and in order to show his determination, he also handed over half of the money to Cailian for safekeeping, and Cailian was very happy for a few days after seeing this situation.
However, it didn't take long for Wen Chengde to feel itchy again, he instantly forgot his promise to quit gambling, and immediately entered the gambling hall again, and it took less than a night to lose all the three hundred taels of silver he had with him.
After Cai Lian learned about this, she was very sad, but she felt helpless, although she still had three hundred taels at home, but she knew that if Wen Chengde still wanted to gamble, she was afraid that she would not be able to keep the money.
At this moment, she heard such a thing as perfume, and from time to time she heard others talk about such and such a man, who was originally away from home all day, since his wife bought Lee's perfume, the man immediately changed as if he was a person, not only loved his wife and family, but also became motivated.
Cai Lian was born in the family of the official eunuch, and she knew that this might be the hype of the merchants, so she didn't believe it at first, but at this time, she was helpless, so she had to hold on to the luck psychology and ask people about the place where the perfume was sold.
When she learned that the place was near her original home, Cai Lian was very hesitant, afraid that she would be embarrassed by seeing Li Yin again, but in the end she gritted her teeth and quietly walked over.
After buying a bottle of perfume with the lowest price, she immediately rushed out, intending to leave quickly, but who knew that she happened to crash into Li Yin's arms.
After Cai Lian saw Li Yin, she was so frightened that she almost fainted again, and forcibly broke away from Li Yin's embrace, and then ran away in a panic.
As soon as Cailian returned to the place where she lived, she saw her husband Wen Chengde rummaging through the cabinets in the house, and she hurriedly stepped forward and stopped: "You...... Are you going to gamble again? That's our last money! ”
Wen Chengde pushed Cailian away, and then finally lowered the pillow where Cailian slept and found the three hundred taels of silver.
Cai Lian anxiously stepped forward and grabbed the money bag, begging: "At least leave some money to buy a house, otherwise we will have no place to live." ”
Wen Chengde's eyes were red and he shouted: "Let go of my hands!" ”
Cai Lian grabbed the money bag tightly, with tears in her eyes, Chu Chu's pitiful appearance, which can turn the tough guy into tenderness, but Wen Chengde, who wanted to gamble for money, seemed to be crazy, and suddenly shot and pushed Cai Lian forward.
Cai Lian was immediately pushed backwards, hit her head against the wall, and fainted. Wen Chengde didn't look at her, and strode out with the money bag.
Niuniu, who was sleeping on the bed, but somehow rolled to the bottom of the bed, woke up at this time, climbed out of the bed, wiped her eyes with her hands, and saw Cailian lying on the ground, and hurriedly stepped forward and cried: "Mother." Mother, what's wrong with you! ”
Cai Lian slowly opened her eyes, and when she saw her daughter Niuniu, she hugged her tightly and burst into tears silently.
Wen Chengde's gambling luck on this day was surprisingly good, and when he gambled in the middle of the night, he won nearly 1,000 taels of silver, which made him smile crookedly.
When the owner of the gambling house saw this, he nodded lightly to the person who was shaking the dice.
After that, Wen Chengde's luck plummeted, and he couldn't stop losing, and when the sky just dawned, he not only lost the 1,000 taels he won, but also lost the 300 taels of capital.
Wen Chengde still didn't give up, and shouted to the dealer: "Come again!" ”
The dealer sneered: "Come again? Do you still have money? ”
Wen Chengde said: "The old rules, owe it first!" It's not the first time, when did I not pay it back on time? ”
The dealer smiled: "You have to have something to mortgage when you play a white strip, you used to have a valuable house, naturally there is no problem, but now your house is gone, what mortgage can you take?" Take your wife and daughter? ”
When the other gamblers heard this, they all laughed along.
After thinking about it, Wen Chengde seemed to have finally made a decision and said to the banker: "If I use my wife and daughter as collateral, how much will it be worth?" ”
The dealer was stunned for a moment, his previous words were just casual remarks, but he didn't expect this Wen Chengde to really want to do this, but the dealer didn't have any kindness, and said lightly: "According to the market price, the big one is from Miss Guan, who is good-looking, and can be worth fifty taels, and the small one is not worth anything, at most three taels." ”