Chen Mianmian didn't sleep all night.
Because of illness and money.
At dawn the next day, Chen Mianmian finally fell asleep. Not long after she fell asleep, she heard the sound of Bao's ghost crying and howling.
Chen Mianmian sat up suddenly.
"Daughter, please help me." Mrs. Bao rushed into the back room and when she saw Chen Mianmian, everyone fell into Chen Mianmian's arms, "Please help your father, please help your father."
"What's wrong, dad?" Chen Mianmian was also a little nervous.
"Your father was kidnapped." Mrs. Bao howled like a ghost. "Last night, someone came to the house and kidnapped your dad. They said that your dad owed them twenty thousand taels of silver and told us to pay it back within ten days. If we postpone it for one day, we will chop it into pieces." Take off a finger from your father."
After chopping off twenty fingers, then chop off the limbs. After chopping off the limbs, the only thing left that can be chopped off is the head.
Then we have to ensure that even if everyone is chopped off, they will still survive.
Chen Mianmian felt sick again when she thought of the bloody scene: "Ugh..."
"Daughter, you can't vomit. You have to save your father." Mrs. Bao is not in the mood to care about whether her daughter vomits or not. The man is going to lose his head.
"Didn't he go to lend loan money? How could he owe someone else twenty thousand taels?" Chen Mianmian felt a little better after vomiting for a while, but her throat was so uncomfortable that she could not speak hoarsely.
Mrs. Bao sobbed, "Your father lied to us. He didn't put the usury money, he went to gamble."
"Gambling money?" Chen Mianmian covered her chest, resisting the nausea: "How can he gamble money!"
"What's the use of talking about this now? It's all a gamble. Oh, my daughter, that's your father, you can't just ignore him!" Mrs. Bao sobbed.
She is useless, and the responsibility of saving the man can only fall on Chen Mianmian.
Chen Mianmian also knew what would happen if he didn't repay the money he owed to the casino. "Don't I have thirteen thousand taels of silver with him? Let him pay it back!" Chen Mianmian felt a little panicked when she mentioned the thirteen thousand taels.
Probably not, probably not losing!
"Wow, your father lost the thirteen thousand taels." Mrs. Bao covered her face and cried.
"The house can be sold for two thousand taels, so it's an emergency!" Chen Mianmian added.
Mrs. Bao also cried: "Your father didn't buy that house at all. He took all the money and gambled and lost it all."
Chen Mianmian: "...Then what else can we sell? You can save dad by selling it."
"Uuuu, your father and I have saved hundreds of taels of silver over the years and lost it all. Not only did we lose all the money, but also, even..." Mr. Bao stopped talking, and Chen Mianmian's head was about to swell. After opening it, her intuition told her that she couldn't ask what she lost, and it would be over if she asked.
But she still asked: "What else did Dad lose?"
Mrs. Bao opened her mouth, "He, he, he lost the village of Marquis, Master Marquis, Zhuangzi, lost."
"Boom!" It was really a thunder, which made Chen Mianmian burnt on the outside and tender on the inside: "What did you say? What did you say he lost?"
Mrs. Bao glanced at Chen Mianmian cautiously, "Your father lost Master Hou's village."
Chen Mianmian's eyes were filled with fire and his face was ferocious: "He is not my father, he is not my father!"
After hearing this, Mrs. Bao was afraid that Chen Mianmian wouldn't care. She hugged Chen Mianmian and burst into tears: "That's your father, the father who gave birth to you and raised you. You can't ignore your father. You have to ignore it." He, he is really on the verge of death. You are now the concubine of the Hou Mansion. The Hou Mansion is so big and only has 20,000 taels of silver. If you go to the Marquis and cry, won't it be enough if you just cry?"
Chen Mianmian's vision went dark and she fainted.
So angry.
Xu Wanning threw a handful of fish food into the pond.
The yard that Wang Xingmin arranged for her was remote but quiet. There was a small rockery pool in the yard, and there were several crucian carp in the pool.
Swimming around at the bottom of the clear pool, when they saw someone throwing food, they all swam up and gathered around Xu Wanning, enjoying the rare feeding.
"Master Wang's taste is really strange. What does he think if he doesn't raise koi carp and raises crucian carp?" Qingxing smacked her lips.
Xu Wanning smiled and said: "Koi is too beautiful to be eaten. Although crucian carp is not beautiful to look at, it is edible."
Qingxing was even more puzzled, "How many taels of silver does Mr. Wang need to buy fish?"
Xu Wanning smiled and threw another handful of fish food.
She didn't know whether Wang Xingmin was short of money, but Xu Wanning always felt that this fish was not just for the sake of raising, but...
Raised for food.
After all, the crucian carp in this pond weighs more than a pound, which is perfect for stewing radish and braised crucian carp.
"Mrs. Xu." Wang Xingmin called her from behind.
Xu Wanning patted the fish food stuck in her hand and said happily: "Master Wang."
"Mrs. Xu, the case will be heard in court tomorrow. I hope Mrs. Xu won't be afraid. It's just a formality. You don't have to say a word." Wang Xingmin still remembered the task that Pei Heng gave him before leaving, and said that he would not be afraid. You can't scare Mrs. Xu, and he also said that scaring Mrs. Xu is scaring her. If Mrs. Xu is unhappy, he is unhappy.
I behaved well.
How could Wang Xingmin remember these words firmly and implement them to the letter?
"Thank you, Mr. Wang, for reminding me." Xu Wanning felt happy again: "Everything will be subject to Mr. Wang's arrangement."
"It's easy to talk about." Wang Xingmin rubbed his nose, wanting Xu Wanning to say a few nice words in front of Governor Pei, but he was afraid of being rude, so he thought about it and came up with a topic: "Mrs. Xu also likes to feed fish. Well?"
"If you have nothing to do, just tease them and relax your mood." Xu Wanning said with a smile: "Master Wang, you like it too?"
"No, no, no." Wang Xingmin waved his hands repeatedly, "I'm just a rough guy, how can I understand these romantic things. The one who likes to feed fish is Governor Pei."
Xu Wanning was silent: "Did he raise this fish?"
"Yes, Governor Pei lived in the house for a while. Seeing that the pond was empty, he raised a few fish. Not to mention, Governor Pei raised a few fish very well. Look at these fish, they are all fat. Stronger."
Wang Xingmin's kind words seemed to be free of charge, and he was afraid that he would miss a sentence: "The Governor said that when he is free, he will catch fish to celebrate. You said this is true. Crucian carp is worthless and has many spines, so it is nothing." Delicious, how could the Governor like to eat this kind of thing?"
Xu Wanning: "..."
Pei Heng likes to eat fish.
One time, there were no big fish in the kitchen, only a few lively crucian carp.
Qing Xing brought the crucian carp back to Ningyuan from the kitchen, and Xu Wanning made a braised crucian carp dish, in which the crucian carp was boiled with shredded radish.
Pei Heng jumped into the kitchen without knowing why and saw her cooking fish.
Pei Heng looked shocked at the time, "You can also cook?"
Xu Wanning deliberately misbehaved, the braised crucian carp was burnt, and too much salt was added to the braised crucian carp with shredded radish, but Pei Heng didn't say a word.
Although I didn’t eat much, I seemed quite happy.
"When the matter is over successfully, I hope Mrs. Xu can say a few nice words in front of the Governor." Wang Xingmin smiled flatteringly.
"I'm not familiar with him." Xu Wanning told the truth.
Wang Xingmin obviously didn't believe it: "Mrs. Xu is joking. The Governor wants to ensure the safety of Mrs. Xu and to properly resolve Mrs. Xu's dispute. It means that Mrs. Xu and the Governor must be close friends. Mrs. Xu should not lie." Resigned."
Xu Wanning: "..."
Is she familiar with Pei Heng?
How familiar can fair-weather friends and the Dark Alliance be?
Xu Wanning didn't know.
But what she can be sure of is that once her matter is settled and Pei Heng gets evidence of the Hou Mansion's extravagance, her journey with Pei Heng will come to an end.
There will always be goodbyes.
Xu Wanning returned to the room, and Chen Wang was already waiting for her.
It's not that the discipline in the Hou Mansion is not strict, it's actually that Wang Xingmin doesn't care.
As long as he didn't go to kill her, Wang Xingmin would turn a blind eye to anyone who came to find her.
Xu Wanning and Qing Xing went in one after another. Xu Wanning obviously noticed that Chen Wang's eyes lit up a lot when he saw Qing Xing.
"Chen Wang." Qing Xing was overjoyed to see Chen Wang.
Chen Wang was also very happy: "Qing Xing." His two eyes were sparkling with tenderness and love written on them.
Even the third party, Xu Wanning, could understand it.
Xu Wanning wanted to withdraw and give the two of them space to talk to each other.
Qingxing then asked, "Chen Wang, is my sister okay? Have you gone to see her? Did she ask you to bring me a message?"
Xu Wanning: "..."
She still didn't quit and left. Anyway, I don't understand.
"What's going on in the house?"
Chen Wang glanced at Qing Xing and replied sternly: "Chen Ming lost all his money and was caught by the casino. Mr. Bao asked Chen Mianmian for money."
Xu Wanning flicked the table with her index finger, an incomprehensible smile on her face.
"How many more days can the love between Cui Lu and Chen Mianmian last?"
If love is mixed with money and interests, it will be like mud and cannot be held up against the wall.
