Zhao Wanning looked for prestige, and saw a woman wearing a smoke-pink Luo skirt and wearing a Linglang skirt walking over.

She had a bewitching posture, followed by several men in black clothes exactly the same as the man who stopped Zhao Wanning, holding the picture screen and Tian Mengming.

She had heard that some casinos would privately nurture thugs, and this time it was probably a big deal.

Zhao Wanning hurriedly rushed up to pull away the thug holding the painting screen, but was stopped by the man in black beside him.

"Girl, what do you mean by that? Why did you tie up all my attendants? Zhao Wanning said angrily.

The woman shook the silk fan in her hand, and said in a tactful voice: "Why don't you take a step to talk about this boss?" ”

"Jiao Niang, I haven't seen you for a long time, come and play with us?" A middle-aged man dressed in low-key but luxurious clothes said with a smile, he should be a regular customer, and his smile was a little obscene.

Zhao Wanning looked disgusted.

The woman named Jiao Niang kept her expression unchanged: "Oh, it turned out to be Lord Lin, you haven't been here for a long time, and when the slave family is done, I will come to look for you, you have to wait for the slave family." ”

"Okay, okay, I'll wait for you Jiao Niang."

Zhao Wanning was dumbfounded. If it weren't for the gamblers around her, she would have thought she had come to Fireworks Willow Lane.

The woman named Jiao Niang, with a delicate voice and soft eyes, looks at everyone with a sense of tenderness, and is charming and moving.

The painting screen and Tian Mingming were in her hands, and even if Zhao Wanning was unwilling, she had to follow her away, and then entered a room.

As soon as she entered the house, the lady sat in the main seat. The thugs also let go of the picture screen and Tian Mengming, but they were still blocking the door, and Zhao Wanning was inconvenient to save people.

Zhao Wanning raised his hand: "Jiao Niang girl, my attendant has just come from the countryside and doesn't understand anything, I don't know where this offended you?" I also hope that the boss will raise his noble hand. ”

The lady smiled silently. After raising his hand and clapping it twice, someone sent a dirty little beggar in.

"Ah Tao!" Tian Mengming rushed over regardless of it.

It turns out that this is the person they are looking for today, Ah Tao.

It's just that Ah Tao seems to have lost consciousness and fell to the ground and didn't move.

Tian Mingming knelt beside her, her hands were tied behind her back, and she couldn't move, so she lowered her head and turned over with her head, wanting to see Ah Tao's situation, regardless of Ah Tao's ragged clothes.

Zhao Wanning also hurriedly stepped forward to untie Tian Mengming, and then went to untie the painting screen.

"Ah Tao, Ah Tao, wake up, I'm Xiaocao." Tian Mengming burst into tears in a hurry.

The picture screen also hurried over to check on Tao's situation.

"Jiao Niang, huh? I don't know where this squire of mine has offended you, and this little beggar, how do you think it will be solved? ”

The lady walked to Zhao Wanning with a fan, looked around her, and then said with a smile: "Girl, your people are wandering around in my casino, I suspect that they are trying to steal things from my casino." ”

Zhao Wanning thought that she was in a hurry just now, so she didn't deliberately suppress her throat, and only then did this lady discover her identity as a woman.

Seeing Zhao Wanning's puzzled face, Jiao Niang pointed at her beard with her finger.

Zhao Wanning raised her hand and touched her beard, and found that the beard on one side had fallen off, and a corner was raised, so she quickly smoothed the beard with her hands.

"Girl, you should thank me. Didn't expose your woman's identity in public. ”

Zhao Wanning said: "What about debunking? Can't a woman come to the gambling house yet? ”

The lady sneered: "I see that the girl's clothes are not rich or expensive." Don't you women of a big family value fame the most? If other people know that you come to gamble and gamble, aren't you afraid? ”

"Why be afraid? Men are allowed to come to the gambling house to gamble for money, but women can't? Don't men care about their reputation? I see that there is no shortage of richly dressed men in your gambling house, and you just called that person Lord Lin. Even the court officials are not afraid of being caught in and out of the casino, why should I be afraid? ”

It was also the first time that Jiao Niang had heard such remarks. She originally thought that Zhao Wanning was also a lady, and she deliberately disguised herself as a man and ran to the casino, probably because she was afraid that her family would find out and her reputation would be damaged. But I don't want this, Zhao Wanning is not afraid of anything.

"I didn't come to the gambling house to gamble for money." Zhao Wanning glanced at Tian Mingming and Ah Tao in her arms.

"This little beggar is the sister of my squire, and I have come to this gambling house today to find her, and to take her away. I hope that Boss Jiao will raise your noble hand. ”

The lady shook her fan and sat down at the beginning: "That's not good, this little beggar wants to stay in our gambling house." ”

"Why?"

Jiao Niang put down the fan in her hand, looked down at the brightly colored cardamom in her hand, and said idly: "This little girl collided with our gambling house guests today. In order to calm things down, we spent a lot of money to appease our guests. I also know that she is a little beggar, and she must not be able to repay so much money. So I told her to stay in my gambling house as a slave. ”

"I'll make up for you how much money you spent, and I must take it away."

"Oh? Is the girl willing to pay for it? Jiao Niang raised her eyes and asked.

"You say, I'll make up for you as much as you want."

"Five thousand taels."

"Five thousand taels?! Why don't you go and grab the money? How on earth does a little beggar offend a distinguished guest? Do you still spend so much money on people? ”

The lady was not angry: "Since you feel that it is beyond your ability, then leave by yourself." ”

"Without this money, I would not have let people go."

Zhao Wanning looked at Tian Mingming, who was looking at her with blank eyes, her eyes full of supplication. Tian Mingming didn't know what the concept of five thousand taels was, and in the past, their family of six only had five taels of silver a year.

Zhao Wanning wanted to take Ah Tao away, but five thousand taels was too much. She turned her head and changed her face, pretending to be pitiful and said: "Sister Jiaoniang, this little name is Hanako, and she is my sister who depends on each other as a maid, you are beautiful and kind, and you will definitely not want to see your sisters separated." The two of them are so pitiful, both parents are dead, and the two of them depend on each other for their lives. ”

Seeing that the girl was unmoved, Zhao Wanning continued: "You see that this little girl is still so young, but she is only six or seven years old, and she can't do anything. You leave her at the gambling house, and she can't do anything. Instead, you have to give her a bite to eat, clothes and clothes, like a drag oil bottle. Why don't you ask for less silver, and let me take her away." ”

After waiting for a long time, Jiao Niang opened her eyes and said, "Fifty taels, take it away." ”

Zhao Wanning hurriedly nodded: "Thank you, Sister Jiaoniang, you are beautiful and kind." ”

Zhao Wanning took out the silver from the sachet as she spoke, and was about to hand it to Jiao Niang when the door of the room was suddenly kicked open.

"Dali Temple handles the case, and all the irrelevant people retreat!"

It's Pei Yue.

He was dressed in a bright red official uniform, followed by the uniformly dressed Dali Temple guards.

Silver Candle ran to Zhao Wanning's side and said anxiously: "County Lord, are you okay?" As he spoke, he checked to see if Zhao Wanning was injured.

Zhao Wanning shook his head: "Why did you bring Pei Yue here?" ”

"I waited outside the gambling house for a quarter of an hour, and you didn't come out yet, so I went in and looked around, but I didn't find you, so I thought something had happened to you, and wanted to report to the police. Who knew that on the way to Dali Temple, I met Mr. Pei, so I told Mr. Pei, you and the painting screen went to the gambling house to find someone but disappeared. Master Pei came with the guards. ”

Jiao Niang walked in front of Pei Yue in a few steps, and said Jiaodidi: "Yo, this official, we are doing serious business and have always abided by the law." ”

"If you're law-abiding, why are you holding people upstairs?" Mei Jiao Niang was in front, but Pei Yue was unmoved, and replied with a righteous face.

"I didn't detain them." Jiao Niang said: "I don't believe you asked this little lady." ”

Zhao Wanning also hurriedly explained: "It is true that we are not detained. ”

But the silver candle she said...... Pei Yue wanted to speak and stopped.

"It's just a misunderstanding." Zhao Wanning explained.

It's not that she is kind enough to speak for Jiao Niang, it's just that they came to save Ah Tao, and they bypassed Dali Temple. And she and Jiao Niang have already discussed it, and if she gives Jiao Niang fifty taels of silver, she can take Ah Tao away, and the matter has been successfully resolved. If Pei Yue intervenes in Dali Temple again, I am afraid that it will make a big fuss, and it will not be good if it startles the snake.

On the way here, Yin Zhu had already told Pei Yue the purpose of their trip, Pei Yue didn't know that this matter should be a big thing and a small matter. But when he thought that Zhao Wanning had entered this mixed place and hadn't come out for so long, he felt afraid. What if something really goes wrong?

Zhao Anning saw Pei Yue's solemn expression, thinking that he didn't know that they had bypassed Dali Temple to save Ah Tao, so he took a few steps forward and whispered in front of him: "We came to the gambling house today to find Ah Tao." is Tian Xiaocao's friend. Unexpectedly, this Ah Tao offended the guests of the gambling house, and Jiao Niang spent a lot of money in order to appease the guests, so she had to leave Ah Tao as a slave to repay the money. ”

"Now that we have discussed, I will pay the gambling house, so that we can take Ah Tao away."

This is the first time Zhao Wanning has taken the initiative to get close to Pei Yue, and Pei Yue doesn't want to miss it easily. He lowered his head and whispered to her, deliberately saying nothing: "Then why did Silver Candle tell me that you and Tuping stayed in the gambling house for a long time and didn't come out?" I saw that there was a rope on the ground, and it looked like it was used to tie people. They didn't tie you up, did they? ”

"No, no, no. They tied the picture screen and the grass, but they didn't tie me. ”

Zhao Wanning used osmanthus after shampooing. Pei Yue got closer again, and the fragrance of osmanthus faintly penetrated his nose.

"Why?"

"Because I'm gambling at the table." Zhao Wanning was a little embarrassed, and she glanced up at Pei Yue embarrassedly.

Pei Yue frowned: "How can you go to the table to gamble for money?" Don't you know who is at this table? They're all outlaws. If you're just losing some money, that's it. If you offend the outlaws, they will kill people! ”

Pei Yue was right, he had seen a lot of such people in Dali Temple in his previous life.

Those people are addicted to gambling and lose all their money at the table. He didn't dare to offend the owner of the gambling house, so he secretly wrote down the person who won the most money at the gambling table, and then followed them to a place where no one was around, and directly snatched their money bags.

He had come across a case. The person who was robbed of the money refused to obey, and the gambler was so angry that he directly stabbed the other party to death with a knife, and then disposed of the body. Later, I found that the money came faster than gambling directly, so I stayed in the gambling house all day long, looking for people who won more money every day, waiting for the opportunity to grab money. If the other party does not cooperate, they will stab people directly. Later, when the East Window incident happened, the gambler took seven or eight lives, which was really bad. The case was sent to Dali Temple, which also shocked several officials of Dali Temple.

Zhao Wanning just stated what she did today, but she didn't expect Pei Yue's reaction to be so big, and she was complaining about Zhao Wanning both inside and outside the words, which had the meaning of teaching her to do things.

Zhao Wanning didn't do it anymore, and said angrily: "What do you care about me?" I love to gamble and gamble. What does it have to do with you? ”

"Why doesn't it have anything to do with me?" Pei Yue raised his voice: "I'm you-" The word husband was swallowed back into Pei Yue's stomach in time, "I am an official of Dali Temple, and I should advise you to quit gambling." ”

Zhao Wanning turned his head and ignored him.

Lu Chunnian, who was behind Pei Yue, was dumbfounded. The master of his temple was on duty on the first day today, and he was originally going out to inspect. Whoever wants to meet a good-looking little attendant follows him to the gambling house. Let's not talk about it, I didn't expect that the always friendly and polite Lord Temple would suddenly follow the ...... in front of him The strange-looking white-faced scholar quarreled.

It looks like the two of them seem to know each other.