Aunt Zhuang nodded, not wanting Bai to bother Aunt Zhou with her own affairs, so she changed the subject and said, "Let's buy some more needlework, and I'll get some pairs of shoes for the children."
Aunt Zhou responded with a smile: "Okay, let's go, I happened to have two pairs for Wan Chun."
Aunt Zhuang listened to her laughter, and the worries on her face gradually disappeared, and she continued shopping with Aunt Zhou.
Mrs. Jiang, who was not far away from them, stamped her feet in anger.
Mrs. Jiang's original surname was Liu, and her family owned a rice shop in Qingzhou Mansion. She lived a relatively prosperous life, but she fell in love with a married man, Jiang Dacheng.
After Jiang Dacheng married Aunt Zhuang, he was honest at first, but later, perhaps seeing that Aunt Zhuang was getting older and sallow, he started to flirt with women everywhere, and finally got involved with the girl from Mipu.
Mrs. Jiang was betrothed to a merchant in her early years, but before entering the bridal chamber, the man took a boat out to sea and never returned. Later, she returned to her parents' home and became a famous old girl in Qingzhou Prefecture.
Jiang Dacheng couldn't do anything for money. He fell in love with Mrs. Jiang and abandoned the wife of his family.
Mrs. Jiang got on the sedan angrily, returned home, and told Jiang Dacheng about seeing Aunt Zhuang buying fabrics with a wealthy family. ?.?????.???
Jiang Dacheng was not surprised, "She used to work for wealthy families in the capital, and now it's not strange that she continues to serve in wealthy families."
Mrs. Jiang was just not convinced, "As long as she is here, I will have no peace."
"What? Do you still want her to go to the underworld?" Jiang Dacheng said while looking at the account book.
Mrs. Jiang's eyes were cold and she gritted her teeth and said, "It would be nice if we could let her go to the underworld."
Jiang Dacheng did not listen to her words and continued to look at his account book.
At night, he took out his account book and made some changes, then stole a sum of money and secretly went to the gambling house.
Just yesterday, he had just come out of the restaurant, and for some reason, he went to a gambling parlor by accident.
After this bet, I lost a total of more than one hundred taels of silver.
Now that all the money in his hand was spent, he thought of manipulating the account book and continued gambling with the money.
Early the next morning.
Du Wanchun and Aunt Zhou got up early, packed the things they bought in the past two days, and prepared to pick up Zhou Ruiyuan and go home directly.
Unexpectedly, on the way, I saw a lot of people gathered in front of me.
Aunt Zhou opened the sedan curtain and looked outside, "Did something happen ahead?"
Aunt Zhuang looked over and saw that it was Jiang Dacheng's rice shop, "Isn't that the rice shop in my house?"
Aunt Zhou asked doubtfully: "That heartless man's shop? Come on, let's go and have a look!"
Du Wanchun quickly asked the driver to take a few steps forward.
Aunt Zhuang was lying at the window looking at the rice shop.
I saw a lot of people surrounding the rice shop. A group of people were taking rice and tearing down the shop.
Aunt Zhuang asked the passers-by beside the carriage, "What's wrong with this rice shop?"
Passers-by sighed: "You don't know yet? The shopkeeper of this rice shop went to the gambling house in the market to gamble money last night and lost ten thousand taels of silver in one night!"
"Ten thousand taels of silver? That much?" Aunt Zhuang asked in surprise.
The passerby nodded, "Yeah, how could he have such money for a small rice shop? Then he just sold out the rice shop."
Aunt Zhuang was very surprised when she heard this. Yesterday she was quarreling with their Mrs. Jiang, but today the Jiang family has collapsed?
When she was wondering, she heard a woman crying not far away.
"Let me go! Don't you want money? I'll give it to you!"
Du Wanchun and Mrs. Zhou heard the sound and looked over.
I saw a group of men dragging a woman to the carriage.
"Isn't that the lady who scolded grandma at Buzhuang yesterday?" Aunt Zhou exclaimed.
Aunt Zhuang took a closer look and said, "That's really that woman."
Passers-by looked at her, then pointed at her and said: "This shopkeeper Jiang is really not a human being. He sent his wife to pay off the debt!"
"The people in these gambling houses are all very vicious, and they don't know where they will sell her."
Aunt Zhuang
