In the east of the city of Nanjing lives the Prince's Mansion, the first and second grade Dayuan Mansion in the court.

To the south lived were the family and the three or four official mansions.

In the west of the city, there are mostly large merchants and officials below the fifth grade.

In the north of the city, it is mainly inhabited by ordinary people.

Fan Ruoxi's current location is in the southeast of Nanjing City.

She asked Lian'er to be at home, and this time she brought the purple bamboo that her grandmother gave her.

Because she felt that Zizhu was more knowledgeable than Lian'er, but she also arranged a task for Lian'er, asking her to go outside and chat with the maids in other yards without a trace.

The two of them came out the back door, but fortunately it was not very far from the main street, and it took twenty minutes to walk to a busy street.

Fan Ruoxi walked slowly with Zizhu, wearing a veil and wearing different clothes than usual, but no one could recognize her for a while.

"Let's go, I don't have any money to play, the eldest young master of the Fan family, I'll play again after taking the money!"

In front of a gambling house, two thug-looking people blasted out a little young master and a little guy together.

"Young master, let's go, don't be known by the old lady." The little guy cautiously said to the young master.

Fan Ruoxi heard the voice behind him, Young Master of the Fan family?

The son of the second lady?

The only male heir among grandchildren?

"Come less, silver, I'll go home and get it, don't look down on people." The young man's eyes widened and he said viciously.

At this time, a man with a scar on the right side of his face came out, who seemed to be the head of the gambling house.

"Young Master Fan, your old lady can say, I can't bear to let this only grandson lack arms and legs, I advise you to be obedient, either go home or play with silver."

Last time, the third master of the knife took someone to the Fan family to ask for silver, and the old lady also used official coercion to suppress him, he was not afraid, but he just didn't want to make so much trouble.

"Hmph, let's go!"

Fan Ruoxi hurriedly took Zizhu to an alley, and the province was discovered.

This Fan Ruogang didn't bully the original owner a lot, and she didn't have time to deal with his entanglement now.

"Zizhu, why didn't the eldest young master say hello to the old lady yesterday?"

"Miss, the eldest young master is still grounded!"

"Grounded?"

Zizhu was given to the eldest lady by the old lady, but the deed of sale was still in the old lady's hand, and I didn't know whether to say something or not.

Fan Ruoxi's eyes rolled, "You are with me now, as long as you behave well, when you reach the age, I will tell my grandmother to find you a good family, if you are not obedient, I can also return you to the old lady." “

Zizhu is sixteen, and at the age of twenty, he can redeem the deed of sale and leave the house.

If you want to return it to the old lady, it will be a slap in the face of the old lady, and the old lady will definitely hate her at that time, not to mention that there is no good family to marry, if she is demoted to a third-class maid or something, then there will be fewer monthly cases, and she will want to save more silver as a dowry.

Zizhu thought for a while, and said with a sweet smile, "Miss, the eldest young master was grounded half a month ago, because she owed the gambling house money, the second lady used her own private money to make up enough, and asked the old lady again." “

"Oh? Is he in debt to gamble? How much silver?"

"Ten thousand taels."

So much?

You must know that the eldest lady of a big family like her is only ten taels of silver per month, and other families may have more, but it is only a matter of a few dozen taels.

"Why did you get to the old lady?"

"Eldest lady, that is, because of the trouble to the old lady, the slave maid only knew one or two, the second master couldn't take out so much silver, I heard that the second lady had made up a few times before, this time the second lady was ruthless to teach the young master a lesson, so she didn't take it, so it was a big trouble, the second master didn't have so much silver, and I asked the old lady to add some."