Chapter 63: Gambling Doubts

With the light coming from the door, Carpenter Zuo took a closer look at the drawings in his hand, and his face was a little excited.

Even though Ye Hao doesn't know how to work as a carpenter, some of the brief ideas she gives out of the thinking of a modern person are very novel to people in this era.

"Three days! Three days at most! I'll be able to make it for you!"

Holding the whole drawing in his hand as if he had found a treasure, the left carpenter stretched out three fingers, and the joy on his face was overflowing.

As for the plans he had talked about with Ye Hao before, he had all left them behind.

And the little radish head beside him secretly took the silver on the table into his hand with an excited face, and bit it with his teeth.

Ah! It's hard!

The little teeth hurt a little, but the excitement on the little face deepened.

With the silver, their grandfather and grandson don't have to live on a little vegetable leaves to cook soup every day!

Seeing that the old and the young were quite satisfied, Ye Hao nodded with a smile and said:

"Then I'll trouble you with this matter first, and I have to think carefully about how to deal with Carpenter Zheng's plan. If you have an idea, I'll talk to you about it."

For her words, Carpenter Zuo just beckoned, and a pair of eyes were still glued to the drawing, and he couldn't take them off at all.

However, his grandson sent the two to the door very politely, looking like little adults, which made Ye Hao feel even more pity in his heart.

It's all the fault of this world, so that such a child of a few years old has to worry about the livelihood of his family.

Think about when I was four or five years old, I was afraid that I was still a bear child who didn't know anything, and I came to stretch out my hand to eat and open my mouth.

After sighing silently, Ye Hao returned to the carriage, and Lin Bin drove the carriage to turn around in the other direction.

"When I go back later, I'll ask you to go to Xingnan Village. You should still have an impression of the people who came to steal last time, right? Ask them about Carpenter Zuo and see if that's what they say."

Although her impression of Carpenter Zuo's grandfather and grandson is not bad, Ye Hao did not believe the other party based on just one side.

At the beginning, she also trusted Carpenter Zheng too much, so she was almost deceived by the drawings.

As for the drawing she gave to Carpenter Zuo, she drew it herself, and she didn't even know one-tenth of the drawing given by the system.

If it was really a horse that stumbled and was deceived again, Ye Hao didn't care.

Think of it as clearing a hole for yourself!

"Good!"

Outside the carriage, Lin Bin's response was heard.

While the two were talking, the carriage had already driven to their destination, the gambling house.

This gambling house is the one where Ye Hao met Song An yesterday, she didn't get out of the carriage, she sat quietly in the carriage and waited.

Lin Bin, on the other hand, jumped out of the carriage, and not long after entering, he came back quickly.

He got into the carriage, and after a little talk, the carriage went on.

After a while, the next destination arrived.

This time, Lin Bin stayed in the carriage and waited, and he did not follow into the Wu Mansion.

He didn't know about the relationship between Wu Fu and Ye Hao, but he didn't ask much.

With such an empathetic helper, Ye Hao couldn't be more comfortable, and quickly followed the doorman into the house.

She is here today for a reason.

Yesterday, Ye Hao asked Boss Wu to help her find a shop for rent in the city, isn't this just to get news?

However, Boss Wu has been busy with charity recently, and he is really busy with it, so he told his wife the news of the investigation, and then his wife relayed it.

This is exactly what the two of them wanted, and they wanted to use this matter to discuss another matter in private.

Entering the hall, Mrs. Wu casually withdrew all the subordinates, and immediately took out a letter from her sleeve.

Although she was extremely worried about her own affairs, she would not come up and hold on to herself first.

"Here is some information about the rental shops that the minister found out for you, please take a look."

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Ye Hao took the letter paper and looked down carefully.

The information written on it is quite detailed, and the location, rent, area, etc. of the shop are recorded in every detail.

Looking at it like this, there are really two or three shops that make her interested.

Looking at her careful selection, Mrs. Wu added with a smile on her face:

"If you have any family that you can see, tell me when the time comes, and he will help you contact you when your husband returns."

In such a small place as Manyi County, all the merchants with heads and faces know each other, and Boss Wu is a more face-saving one.

He is the only wine shop in the entire county, and if everyone wants to buy wine, they have to deal with him, so it is naturally a matter of courtesy.

In addition, Boss Wu is very enthusiastic and righteous, and he is even more liked.

"Thank you so much!"

Ye Hao didn't twist either, and directly accepted the other party's kindness.

With Boss Wu as a matchmaker, it is indeed much more convenient for her to rent a shop, and it is impossible for her to find fault by herself.

Putting the letter in her arms, she glanced left and right, making sure that there was no one nearby before approaching Mrs. Wu.

She whispered in the other person's ear for a while, and told the news she had inadvertently found yesterday.

Song An was a good gambler, and Ye Hao didn't know if she was looking in the wrong direction, so she was in a hurry to tell Mrs. Wu.

In the next second, the other party's reaction made her understand that she was really a blind cat who bumped into a dead mouse, and guessed correctly!

"Song An is a good gamble?! That's impossible! The Song family has always had strict family laws, how could they allow him to gamble in the gambling house for an afternoon!"

Mrs. Wu subconsciously refuted the other party's statement, with a look of disbelief on her face.

The Song family and her Bai family are cousins, and although they are separated by a city, they often move around.

Especially after marrying into Manyi County, she will also have contacts with each other during the New Year's holidays, so Mrs. Wu knows the Song family quite well.

Like the concubines, they are different from the young and the young, these rules are engraved in the bones of the Song family, that is, after Song Wan married the county order, the status of this pair of sisters and brothers has risen.

But do you really want to indulge in Song An's bad gamble? Mrs. Wu didn't believe it when she was killed.

Seeing Mrs. Wu's reaction, Ye Hao continued:

My man has been guarding the door of the gambling house for an afternoon, and he has been gambling, and it seems that he has lost hundreds of taels..

She said firmly, this appearance made Mrs. Wu have to believe it.

However, lost hundreds of taels?!

You must know that even if it is the wine business of Wufu, it is rare to make hundreds of taels a day.

Not to mention the drunken immortal building where the business is not as good as day by day, where can Song An afford to be so profligate?

"If, according to what you said, the Song family will not support Song An to gamble, then where did he get all this money? When I passed by the gambling house, I sent someone to ask, Song An has been gambling every day for the past three or five days, and he is about to lose thousands of taels!"

Previously, Ye Hao and Lin Bin made a special detour to the gambling house in order to ask Song An about gambling.

The truth is even more terrifying than Ye Hao thought, she lost nearly a thousand taels in a few days, which is an astronomical amount!

In a small place like the county seat of Barbarian, I am afraid that a thousand taels of silver is enough for the people of the entire city to eat and dress for three days!

"How is that possible!"

Mrs. Wu's eyes widened, although she was the eldest lady of a wealthy merchant, she had never seen so much silver.

Shaking her head, she muttered to herself:

"Where did Song An get all this money? The Drunken Immortal Building was also built at the expense of the Song family, although he was the boss in charge, he couldn't touch too much silver on the books! The Song family can't afford him to lose so much money!"

Mrs. Wu couldn't be clearer in her heart that the Song family treated Song An well, just for the sake of her sister Song Wan's face.

It's good to be able to build a restaurant for him to have a regular business, but the actual account books of the restaurant are still managed by the Song family, and he can only pay some silver for his daily expenses.

How many days to spend a thousand taels? If this was true, then the Song family should have found out a long time ago!

"Then there will be another way for this money."

Ye Hao pursed her lips, her eyes revealing a bit of deep thought.

At first, she turned her gaze to Song An, just because he was Song Wan's younger brother, and wondered if she could find some breakthrough points from him.

found out that the other party had lost so much money in bad gambling, which was also something Ye Hao didn't expect.

Now that she learned from Mrs. Wu's mouth that the Drunken Immortal Building was not Song An alone, she was a little scared, and the amount of silver of thousands of taels was not a small amount.

In the entire Barbarian County, there are only a handful of people who can easily come up with this money.

"This loser! I have to go to my uncle and say, how can I ruin the family property like this?!"

Mrs. Wu had no doubt about Ye Hao's words, so she was so angry that she stomped her feet and got up to go out.

Although the Song family and the Bai family are not to the point of being in the same spirit, they are also relatives, and she must not watch each other damage the interests of the family so much.

Seeing her rushing out in a hurry, Ye Hao hurriedly blocked the person, so as to persuade her to come down.

"Wait, wait! Mrs. Wu, don't worry about this matter!"

Seeing that the other party looked like she would not give up, she quickly clarified the stakes.

"Think about it, why did I go to check on Song An? Song An can spend such a large sum of money, apart from the Song family, doesn't he have anything else to rely on?"

Mrs. Wu also said before that it was impossible for the Song family to squander so much money for Song An.

The problem obviously lies in his other methods.

Thinking of this, Mrs. Wu stopped a little, stood in front of Ye Hao in a daze, frowned and said tentatively:

"Could it be that Song Wan gave the money?"

If it weren't for Ye Hao's guidance, she wouldn't have thought of this.

But as soon as the words came out, Mrs. Wu felt that something was wrong again.

"Although Song Wan is the county lady, she will not be able to take out thousands of taels of silver at every turn!"

Although it is said that in three years, the Qing Governor's Mansion has 100,000 snowflakes of silver. The big place in the county seat of Manyi County is already a poor place, and even if the county order squeezes it, it will not be able to get much oil and water.

There is a story about the county order mastering the new method of sugar production and making a lot of money from it, and Mrs. Wu has also heard of this.

But who doesn't know, no one wants to stay in this small place where any angry official doesn't want to stay longer, and it's too late for people to be promoted, so how can they go out to gamble for their brother-in-law?

Song Wan is married to the magistrate as his wife, and she has both reputation and decency, but it is impossible for her to really be the county commander's family.

There is no doubt about that.

"I also wonder if Song An wants money, except for the Song family, he can only ask his sister to reach out. Song Wan is a county lady, where did she get so much silver?"

Ye Hao was also full of doubts, unable to figure out the key point.

But she faintly felt in her heart that if she made this point clear, the contradiction that had been bothering the two of them could be solved!

When the two looked at each other and couldn't figure it out, Mrs. Wu suddenly patted her head and took out a stack of letter paper from her arms in hindsight.

After such a distraction, she forgot her own anger, and instead remembered what Ye Hao asked her to do last time.

"Here is Song Wan's whereabouts these days, there is an old mother by her side who came from our Bai family, and she is loyal to me, and she is not afraid of leaking."

This old mother, or the Song family was afraid that Song Wan would not serve the county order, so she specially invited it from the Bai family!