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As soon as Daiyu thought that this conjecture might be true, she couldn't sit still. After celebrating the Spring Festival, she hurried home and asked for the bird's nest to be tested by the nurse at home.

The doctor girl came looking for Daiyu not long after, and she brought a news with a solemn expression: a colorless powder was detected from the bird's nest, and I don't know what it was.

At first glance, the powder is mixed with the bird's nest, but if you don't look carefully, you think it is the powder contaminated on the bird's nest, but you can feed the powder to the insects, and you will be poisoned.

Daiyu was shocked: Who knew that sister Bao would do this?

She thought they were just bickering between ordinary sisters, you don't like me, I don't like you, and they stab each other when they have time.

Where did you think of being so immortal?

Mrs. Bai, who was listening on the side, felt cold all over, and took the bird's nest directly to look for Lin Ruhai.

Lin Ruhai was shocked when Daiyu and the doctor girl finished talking about the incident, and said with a smile, "Report to the officials."

It was Mrs. Bai who stopped him: "Master, if you report to the officials, you will have to testify that the girl will not mention ruining the girl's reputation by showing her face in public. What's more, the bird's nest has already been in our hands, where is the evidence?"

Only then did Lin Ruhai realize: "That's right, I almost did something stupid."

He has been an official for so many years, so he may not be so stupid, but he just cares about it, and he doesn't want his daughter to be tortured like this.

In an instant, Lin Ruhai had an idea: "Since the Xue family is like this, let's break their roots."

Not long after, Xue Dafool ​​met a young master outside.

That Mr. Zheng was gorgeously dressed, and his actions were extravagant. Even Xue Pan thought he had seen and experienced a lot, so he couldn't compare with him.

Mr. Zheng is also generous, he pays for the banquets and dinners, pays the bills, and talks about love affairs, very much like Xue Pan, wishing he could be sworn brothers with different surnames in no time.

The two of you came and went to play in the restaurant for a while, and Mr. Zheng took him to the casino.

Xue Pan used to gamble too, but he gambled at the wine table, so he stopped Mr. Zheng immediately: "You can't enter there, it's all about hooking you for money."

He tried his best to persuade Mr. Zheng again: "I'm from here. I lost a few shops in the casino in Jinling before, and my father beat me up so angry. I almost didn't die, so I won't dare to gamble in the future."

Mr. Zheng didn't care about it: "I came to the capital from my hometown just to meet noble people. Now God blesses me to meet a hero like Brother Xue. Why do I care about those little money?"

Life and death are about to enter.

Xue Pan couldn't help it, so he followed him, thinking that if there was a fraud, he could also lend a hand.

Unexpectedly, Mr. Zheng was lucky and won 2000 taels in the first hand.

Xue Pan stared in a daze, and Mr. Zheng smiled at him.

The casino has always been a rich man's business, and there have long been dedicated helpers who have come to serve, carrying fruit plate cakes, and there are heavily made-up daughters who bring fragrant tea to ask Mr. Zheng to moisten his throat.

Mr. Zheng hugged a beautiful girl proudly, looked up to the sky and smiled: "How?" Then ordered another beautiful girl to serve Xue Pan, and said quite righteously: "You come too! I will lose if I lose!"

Xue Pan was still in shock, picked up the dice and started to gamble.

In a daze, he was hit by the shake.

At that moment, someone brought them to the private room again. The red curtains were hanging down softly, and the fragrant wind was blowing. The antique incense burner in the previous court was burning with precious ambergris, and the beauty was beside him, clapping his hands and laughing, praising him: "Young master is really good!" Great, this is a win of 4000 taels.”

Xue Pan suddenly became interested, and sat down at the gaming table seriously.

Mr. Zheng's eyebrows moved slightly, and his smile became more cheerful.

Casinos are supposed to lure people to gamble, and he is what is commonly called a "gambler", who specializes in finding the rich man in sensual venues.

First, he tried every means to become friends with the other party, and then lured him to the casino.At the beginning, it was natural to say that winning or losing was all his own. After a few games, the other party saw how lucky he was, so he was naturally embarrassed to count it all as Mr. Zheng's.

So I started to gamble after coming and going.

Gamblers can only get deeper and deeper, how can you stop?

All kinds of traps are waiting for these rich young men to jump.

Xue Pan is getting happier and happier in the casino. At this time, he has lost and won, but generally speaking, he has a good chance of winning.

After he finished gambling, he bought new jewelry for his mother and Baochai, and brought them home proudly.

Baochai also boasted: "My brother has grown up now, but I know that I love my mother."

Xue Pan smiled, refraining from talking about his gambling outside.

But gradually, his luck was not so good, but Xue Pan remembered his brilliance a few days ago, and refused to admit defeat at all.

First let the boy go to get his private money,

Afterwards, some unused furnishings in the house were sold, and then private property was sold.

Later, even a piece of mutton jade that he was wearing was sold.

In the end, his mind turned to Xue's private property.

But his gambling luck did not improve.

Xue Pan couldn't bear it, so he signed the IOU sent by the casino.

The IOUs on casinos are special loan sharks. Some people specially put interest money near the casinos for unscrupulous gamblers. The interest is very heavy. Maybe you only borrow one tael at the beginning, but you have to pay back 30 taels after a month.The profit is rolling and the profit is endless.

Xue Pan finally owed 30 taels of silver.

He also said carelessly to the thugs who came to collect the debt: "My aunt's house is the famous Jia Mansion, my cousin is a concubine De, and my uncle is a high-ranking official guarding the border. Are you afraid that you will fail?"

The thug smiled grimly: "Let's ignore that, you can talk to Lord Yan."

While joking, he took off one of his arms.

Xue Pan howled in pain, only then did he realize that the other party didn't care about it at all.

The thug spat on his face: "I don't even piss to take a picture of myself. The high-ranking officials and eunuchs everywhere in the capital, if there is no one behind them, who would dare to give interest?"

Xue Pan was so frightened that he pooped and peeed, crying and begging: "Hero, spare your life! My family still has a little property, let me sell it to pay back the money."

The man smiled and chopped off one of Xue Pan's fingers with a knife. Regardless of Xue Pan fainting from fright, he directly sent someone to deliver a letter to Xue's house.

When Aunt Xue received the news, she passed over immediately, and Baochai went to Jia's house in a hurry.

Mrs. Wang has done a lot of things that violate the law, so there is no trace of awe. She keeps loan sharks outside, and immediately agrees to such things: "Why is this so difficult? Take my master's famous card Give it to the other party, does he still dare to do it?"

Only then did Baochai feel at ease.

The Xue family was in a panic, but the Lin family was in peace. Because of the reward from the palace for the Spring Festival, Lin Ruhai thanked him first.

Mrs. Bai took Daiyu to ask the steward in the backyard to ask about Zhuangzi's situation.

Now it's the end of the year, and the heads of various farms have also come to the Lin Mansion to answer, with one year's income and output, waiting for the owner to decide on the next year's operation.

A few village heads reported bitterly: "From March to August, it rained continuously until August, but there was no consecutive sunny day for five or six days; in September, a bowl-sized hailstone spread nearly two or three hundred miles away. Even people, houses, and livestock food have injured tens of thousands of acres..."

Daiyu sighed, the world has begun to appear chaotic, and the people have suffered and been displaced.

Mrs. Bai was also taken aback. One village head said that it might be to cover up his incompetence in farming, but several village heads from different land boundaries said that the year was not good, so it was obvious that the year was really bad.

She didn't dare to be negligent, and asked about the land boundaries of each household in detail, and asked people to write it down and copy it to Lin Ruhai, saying: "You have been tired for a year, and now the master is the master, so just stay in the house these few days." Rest in the guest room for a few days, and take a stroll around the capital."

Lin Ruhai came to the backyard after dealing with the little yellow gate in the palace. He wondered, "Why did you copy me a list?"

Mrs. Bai stood behind the screen and said: "Several village heads this year said that the year is not good. I am worried that they will deceive me as a newcomer, so I have someone write down the land boundary and hand it over to the master. The master often walks outside. If the land boundary In the event of a disaster, ask the local chief, you will always know the truth, and ask the master to help resolve this public case."

Lin Ruhai was also amazed: "Is there enough chewing at home?"

Mrs. Bai thought about it, and said: "There are only three people in the family, about enough, even if there is no harvest from today, our food reserves will be enough for everyone to feed for half a year."

Lin Ruhai asked the masters outside to inquire again, and the masters inquired everywhere, and brought back a heavy news: this year there were indeed disasters everywhere.

Some lands are floods, some lands are severe droughts, some lands are locusts, and some lands are wildfires.It's just that some local officials reported the truth to the court, some whitewashed it and reported it to the court, some didn't report it at all, and some reported it under a pile of papers in the political affairs hall.

Lin Ruhai couldn't sit still any longer, he called out to the servant to change his clothes: "I want to go to the palace, if there is a mess in the sky, and now it's approaching the twelfth lunar month, everyone is waiting for the New Year and has no business, which really delays things , there will be great chaos in the coming year."

Mrs. Bai also became serious: "I'm looking for someone to deliver a letter to my natal brothers, so that they can follow the pace of adults to play in heaven."

Daiyu had an idea: "I'm afraid the emperor will be displeased if I go rashly. Why don't you dedicate the "native" and corn grown in our backyard to the emperor? Come here, even if the emperor is worried about the world, there is finally a solution, right?"

Lin Ruhai nodded, and Daiyu ordered Qingwen to pick some plump and large potatoes from the cellar in the kitchen of the mansion, and picked dozens of golden ones from the dried corn.

He also asked the warehouse to fetch an exquisitely woven black lacquered bamboo basket, and tied red silk on it, and then happily said to Lin Ruhai: "Father, take this with you, at least to please the emperor."

Lin Ruhai and Mrs. Bai laughed and said nothing, but they were all relieved that Daiyu had grown up now.

Among other things, this thought alone is not bad.Now it is the root of the new year, and officials from various families have brought auspicious things to Beijing, not to mention all kinds of pleasing "auspiciousness", but there are a lot of New Year etiquette and auspicious words.

The emperor is surrounded by this mass of flowers, listening to you kneeling there crying and complaining about the severe disasters in the territory, how can you feel good?If you don't keep it clean, you will be angry with you.

Do you think every emperor is a Mingjun?Even being a Mingjun doesn't mean he doesn't have the shortcomings of ordinary people.