Chapter 127: One Gambling Poor Three Generations
Xu Fu was in a good mood when he went home every day, and he was very interested in eating at night, and asked his daughter-in-law Liu to accompany him to drink a few glasses of wine.
But luck is always so short-lived, in the casino within a few days Xu Fu began to lose money, and lost more and more day by day, in the end he secretly took out the real estate deed as a mortgage as gambling funds, but it was still not enough for him to lose, at this time Xu Fu has been completely gambler's greed and luck confused mind, he is eager to turn over the book to win back everything he lost, even the dowry jewelry that Liu married he stole to pawn, and then continued to go to the casino to "play luck".
In fact, at this time, Mo You was already in the back room of the gambling stall with the boss of the stall, and the person who gave the nickname Dulong Yizhihua was sharing Xu Fu's family property, this Yizhihua committed murder in the field in his early years, and later lurked in Luoyang.
Everyone on the road knows about him, so usually no one dares to mess with him except for the official errand, because he is a one-eyed dragon and likes to put flowers on his hat, so everyone calls him a one-eyed dragon.
On this day, Xu Fu lost the last copper plate in his pocket, seeing that it was just noon, he was unwilling to watch Mo You shouting five and six happily playing with coloring, and a group of gamblers around him shouted very excitedly, he suddenly felt itchy and wanted to join in, but touching the empty pocket, he wanted to borrow some money from Mo You, Mo You's luck seems to be very good recently, and he won more than a dozen taels of silver.
Xu Fu stepped forward and gently pulled Mo You's sleeve behind him, Mo You looked back and asked puzzledly: "What's the matter, don't grind and chirp like a girl." Is there no silver left? Xu Fuzheng was worried about how to borrow money from him, who would have thought that this Mo You was so considerate of others to see their difficulties at a glance, and immediately said: "Today's luck doesn't seem to be very good, I lost ten taels of silver in the morning, and if I don't have any money, I will borrow some money from Brother Mo to get your luck." ”
Mo You smiled: "The most taboo thing in the casino is to borrow money from each other, aren't you looking for me to be unlucky?" Seeing Xu Fu's embarrassed look on his face, Mu You had a plan and said, "That's it, brother." I'll take you to the back to find a flower at the gambling stall and see if you can borrow a little silver. Xu Fu could only nod and let him wait for him to finish the gamble.
Originally, this branch was reluctant to lend Xu Fu any more money, because this kid's fixed assets had already been lost, and he had nothing to pledge. But Mo Youxin was ruthless and wanted to completely destroy the Xu family, so he said to Yizhihua in private: "There is a lady in his family, Liu's family, the one who grows is called a beautiful one, if Xu Fuzhen can't pay the money, he will get the lady to play with it, and then sell it to a brothel to make money." When Yizhihua heard this, she laughed lewdly and agreed.
Xu Fu took the borrowed loan shark fifty taels of silver and continued to mess around in the casino, and when it was dark in the evening, he really won three taels of silver, Xu Fu wanted to return the fifty taels of usury to a flower, everyone think about it, this loan shark is commonly known as the rolling dragon, one in and one out is the interest and principal, and the flower is not a philanthropist, at that time, he settled accounts with Xu Fu, and after the calculation, he still owes a flower and two taels of silver, and fifty taels of silver to borrow a day is five taels of silver, so which era has no man-eating tiger?
Xu Fu returned home full of grievances, Liu Shi prepared meals early and waited for him, women in that era had almost no status, no matter how virtuous and virtuous a woman was, it was just a man's private property, the man in the family was the sky, even if this man was useless and unproductive, eating, washing his feet, serving and sleeping were indispensable, this is called women's morality,
Seeing his younger brother Xu Longzhi also sitting aside with a book and waiting for him to eat together, the anger in Xu Fu's heart was vented at him: "Read, read, you know how to read all day long, if you can come out to help me earn some money to support my family, and save some money for yourself to marry a daughter-in-law, I will burn high incense." Something that doesn't make a living, and you didn't throw the book away for me and didn't roll it over to eat?! ”
Xu Longzhi blushed and lowered his head, he is also a stubborn child in his heart, his parents died, and he can study with peace of mind by relying on his brother and sister-in-law to support this family, but these days his brother seems to have changed as a person, and he doesn't like how he looks at him. He seems to have become a redundant person in the family since his father's death, if it weren't for his sister-in-law Liu's constant comfort and telling him to study in peace, he would probably have left home in a bad mood.
At this time, my brother lost his temper with him inexplicably, he didn't want to eat with him, he picked up the book and was about to leave, his sister-in-law Liu Shi hurriedly got up and said to him: "Uncle don't pay attention to your brother, he may have encountered something bad outside today, looking for someone to lose his temper, you eat yours, don't listen to his nonsense." After that, he turned around and came to the dining table to pour wine into Xu Fu's wine glass, and said to him a little angrily: "How can you go home and be angry with your family if you suffer outside?" Do you still look a little bit like a brother as a brother? ”
Xu Fu originally wanted to lose his temper, but when he saw Liu's angry look, he was a little weak-hearted, because until now the family didn't know that he had lost all the land and house deeds, so he could only bow his head and drink the wine, and he was in a terrible mood.
Xu Longzhi hurriedly finished dinner and said goodbye to Xu Fu and Liu, turned around and went back to his house. Liu Shi complained to him angrily: "My brother is squeezed by you every day, but you are like a brother and sister outside, and you fight together every day, I have heard that he is not a good person, and you will have less contact with him in the future." This Xu Fu was already congested, and he said impatiently when he heard Liu's nagging like this: "What do you know about a woman?" Are you responsible for men's affairs? "It's not easy for the Liu family to say anything, after all, it's his own man, and it's angry to talk too much.
As soon as he finished eating, Liu was asking the servant woman to clean up the table, when he heard a noise outside the door, and then someone slammed the door very hard, Xu Fu jumped up from his seat and asked in a low voice, "Go and see who is slamming the door outside?" Liu Shi answered, let the housekeeper old slave go to see, the old man walked forward quickly to open the door, and kept saying as he walked: "Come on, don't smash it." ”
A group of fierce and vicious people were looking for Xu Fu by name at the door, and the old housekeeper asked, "I don't know what the uncles are looking for my master?" The one-eyed dragon at the head said loudly: "He owes me money and mortgaged this house to me, I am here to collect the account today, if I can't collect it, hum, then I'm embarrassed." The old housekeeper was frightened, and hurriedly ran in to report: "The old lady is not good." ”
At this time, Xu Fu had already understood that this was a flower to ask for an account. scolded secretly in his heart: Why did this guy choose this time to ask for money? That's how it can be good. Liu listened to the old housekeeper's words and was about to ask Xu Fu what was going on, when he saw that Yizhihua had already brought someone in, and asked loudly as he walked inside, "Where is Xu Fu?" Come out to Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu will ask for an account today. ”
At this time, there were already a lot of neighbors gathered at the door to watch the excitement, and Mo You was secretly happy to watch the excitement in the crowd. Xu Fu came out of the door with a hard head, and said to Yizhihua with a smile: "I didn't know that my brother's platform was here at night, and my little brother was polite." A flower rushed up and said to him unceremoniously: "You don't give me nonsense, when will the money you owe me be paid?" ”
Xu Fu was very nervous, and he stammered when he spoke, and said anxiously: "This ...... We're not talking about this...... Did you say that it would last for a month? How can this day be ...... before this day comes? Can I pay you back? Yizhihua said viciously: "Don't come to this set with Lao Tzu, it's right for a month, what if you run away halfway?" Who do I go to? Liu asked Xu Fu very inexplicably: "Xianggong, who are these people?" How do they say you owe them money? ”
Xu Fu lowered his head and didn't speak, and the flower over there looked at Liu Shi with a lewd smile and asked, "You are Xu Fu's wife?" Sure enough, he's very handsome, hahaha. A few scoundrels behind him also used words to slighten the Liu clan. Liu Shi blushed and scolded very angrily: "You scoundrels, you break into private houses at night to pick quarrels and provoke trouble, housekeepers." The old housekeeper answered in the courtyard, and Liu said loudly: "Go and report to the official, I don't believe that there is no royal law in the world." The butler turned and walked out the door.
Seeing this, Yizhihua was also a little weak-hearted, thinking that this little girl had a very strong temperament. So he said to Xu Fu viciously: "Okay, you are ruthless, surnamed Xu, don't come to my casino in the future." Let's see the official in the future! After saying that, he glared at him fiercely, snorted coldly and turned away with someone.
Xu Fu sat on the seat as if relieved, and remained silent for a long time. Liu asked loudly with red eyes, "Say, how did you get into trouble with these scoundrels?" How can we mortgage our house to someone else? Xu Fu couldn't wait to find a hole to get into at the moment, but he really couldn't speak, and it was difficult to talk about his ugly things. But at this moment, Liu Shi was waiting for his explanation with red eyes on the side.
I think that when my father died, the backbone of the family was gone, and it was all up to a weak woman of the Liu family to take care of the family, and he was not as responsible as his younger brother Xu Longzhi every day, at least he was still studying diligently, and it was with the virtuous Xu family of the Liu family that he would not be down, but now that such a thing has happened, it has hurt the heart of the Liu family and made outsiders see their jokes.
Although he felt sorry for everyone in his heart when he thought of this, he still said stubbornly: "My family property, how I want to use it is my business, and it is better for me to lose myself than to leave it to my brother who is not angry." When he finished saying this last sentence, Xu Fu picked up the teapot on the table and slammed it on the ground, obviously because he was weak in heart and emboldened himself.
Liu grew up and looked at this man who had lived with him for almost three years, and felt as if he was so strange on both sides overnight, he never seemed to really understand him, what did Xu Fu think in his heart, how could he be so selfish and rude, he would never talk to himself like this before, what is the matter, the two of them are soft-spoken and talkative. Liu said with tears in his eyes: "When I volunteered to marry, I valued your character, and I never thought of asking for your money and property. But now you say this, why were we together in the first place? At this point, I have nothing more to say. After that, he went back to his room to pack his bags and go back to his parents' house.
Xu Fu wanted to keep her but was unwilling, so he watched Liu take the maid and carry the burden back to his mother's house in the city that night. Mo You looked sneakily at the gate of the Xu family early the next morning, and the housekeeper got up to open the door, and when he saw it, he asked him: "Uncle Mo, are you looking for my master this morning?" Mo You smiled and said, "Your master is okay, I saw someone looking for your master last night." ”
The housekeeper had long known that this Mo You was not a good thing, and he didn't bother to talk nonsense with him at the moment, so he just went in after a few perfunctory words. But this grandson still learned about the Liu family's return to his parents' house from the mouth of the Xu family, and Mo You was overjoyed. There are indeed people like Mo You in the world, but they forget that they will repay the kindness of a meal, and they always feel that no one in the world can be sorry for themselves, otherwise they will secretly retaliate. Therefore, you must not make friends with such people. (To be continued.) )