Chapter 1854:

Chapter 2237

In the middle of the night in Yangzhou City...it was pitch black.

This is not the city of the electrification era of later generations...

Although Yangzhou is already a large and prosperous city in this era...

However, once night falls, the city is still dark...

Of course, it's not completely dark. Looking from the sky, there are occasionally a lot of sparks dotted around it.

It was the ever-bright guiding light lit at the door of the rich and powerful family.

And among the sparse lights, there is a light that is particularly bright...

That light was not the guiding light at the gate of the wealthy and wealthy family, but a house light that was lit in a small courtyard.

This courtyard is not very big, that is, it looks like both inside and outside. Compared with the mansions of those rich and powerful families that often occupy more than ten acres of land, it can be said to be extremely petite...

In the room of the back house, a bright oil lamp was emitting its own light.

Logically speaking, even the wealthy and wealthy would not turn the oil lamp so brightly if it was not necessary.

You know, in this era, the brighter the oil lamp, the more lamp oil is consumed.

With such a bright oil lamp, the consumption of lamp oil in one night is enough to make some wealthy families feel heartache.

And the owner in this room obviously doesn't care about the loss of lamp oil, she only cares whether the ever-bright lamp she lit can really make her benefactor find her in the dark night.

"Eunuch, why haven't you come yet..." Wei Zhenzhen crouched on the round table, looked at the shining flames in front of her eyes, and murmured, "Is it true that Zhenzhen makes you so dismissive??"

Just then, there was a soft knock on the door...

"Is it Yu'er?" Wei Zhenzhen asked in a low voice.

"Madam, it's getting late... You should rest earlier... The master won't come at this time, I'm afraid it will be delayed again by the mundane things, so don't wait..." The maid outside advised softly.

"It's okay, I can't sleep on either side, just let me wait a little longer!" There was even a hint of pleading in Wei Zhenzhen's tone...

Hearing Wei Zhenzhen's words, the maid named Yu'er outside the door couldn't help sighing softly... "Forget it, if Madam wants to wait any longer, then let Madam go... The body is broken, otherwise, the master will blame the slaves..."

"...Does Eunuch remember Zhenzhen?" Hearing the maid's words, Wei Zhenzhen's face revealed a look of joy and sadness... "Yu'er, have you received news from Eunuch?"

"This... slaves just know that maybe the master will come to Yangzhou in the next few days, but when exactly will arrive, but I don't know..." Yu'er said, sighed faintly, and secretly slandered - bad guy The master really tortures people...

Even though she had already stolen Madam Wei's heart, she refused to tell her that she had taken it away... It is also euphemistically called, love is like old wine, the more it brews, the stronger it becomes.

Alas, I just suffered Mrs. Wei in the house...

Thinking of this, Yu'er said to Wei Zhenzhen in the house through the door panel: "Mrs. Wei, please take care of your body, for you, and for the master... the slaves are retiring!"

While talking, Yu'er's figure disappeared in place in an instant...

That seemingly beautiful maid is actually a martial arts master... If people see this scene, I am afraid that their jaws will drop...

"Yu'er??"

Wei Zhenzhen in the room heard the maid's farewell voice, and hurriedly shouted... After a while, she gave up after receiving no response.

She just wanted to chat with Yu'er for a while, have a conversation... It would be best to talk more about her mysterious master.

It's a pity that Yu'er is obviously sleepy...

Thinking of this, Wei Zhenzhen couldn't help but sigh deeply...

She put her chin on her arms, lay on the table, looked at the oil lamp in front of her, and couldn't help but return to that day more than a year ago...

Wei Zhenzhen was born in a small family in Yangzhou. Her father was originally a traveling businessman who traveled to the countryside. Although he lived a tight life, he was considered safe and happy.

But the moon is cloudy and sunny, and people have luck and misfortune...

I don't know when, her father got acquainted with a few friends.

Under the leadership of those friends, Wei Zhenzhen's father got into the bad habit of gambling.

In this case, his business will naturally be wasted...

Not to mention that the family is getting increasingly poor, even Wei Zhenzhen's father still owes a lot of gambling debts to the casino.

Even so, Wei Zhenzhen's father still refused to give up, but continued to borrow and gamble...

In fact, everyone knows what the psychology of a gambler is like.

The more you lose, the more you want to turn over the book, and the more you lose, the more you want to gamble, hoping that one day you will be able to turn around in one fell swoop and make a lot of money, then quit.

A gambler with such a mentality will never win.

In this way, all the valuable items in the family were sold off by Wei Zhenzhen's father and used for gambling.

It's not over yet...

After there was nothing to do, nothing to sell... Wei Zhenzhen's father was blocked at home by the people who collected the money in the casino.

On that day, the people in the casino took Wei Zhenzhen to pay off the gambling debt.

Fortunately, on weekdays, the neighbors get along pretty well, so with the help of the neighbors, the guys who collected the numbers didn't dare to be presumptuous, but when they left, they threw harsh words and didn't pay off the bet within three days. Debt, the Wei family will be destroyed...

Ordinarily, after this calamity, Wei Zhenzhen's father should also take heart and find a way to pay off his gambling debts, and then resume his old business to support his family, right?

However, things are not as simple as he imagined... How do you say something? Not helping the poor... What's more, Wei Zhenzhen's father is a gambler, which, to a certain extent, is doomed that he will not be able to borrow money...

After all, no one would lend money to a gambler, it would be like a meat bun hitting a dog, there is no return.

In the end, Wei Zhenzhen's father returned home empty-handed after two days of begging his grandfather to tell his grandmother.

Just when the family was at a loss, someone entered his door...

It's not someone else, it's Lao Feng who opened the food stall at the south gate...

That old Feng, this year has already turned 40 or 8, is a person who has half stepped into the coffin board.

However, he is old-fashioned, and Lao Feng has long coveted Wei Zhenzhen, who is famous for his reputation...

In the past, Lao Feng also knew that if he came to propose a marriage, he was afraid that he would be beaten up, because not only was he old, but he had already married a wife. With such conditions, how could the Wei family treat him like a flower? Jade's daughter to marry him as a child?

However, the day before yesterday, when Lao Feng passed by the Wei family's house, he saw the scene of the Wei family being forced into debt by casino thugs, which let Lao Feng know that the opportunity had come.