Ning Qingwan curled her lips disdainfully, "You're cooking food for me? I'm afraid you're going to set fire to the kitchen."
After saying that, Ning Qingwan looked at the already dark sky, put down the needlework in his hand, got up and went to the kitchen.
But when he got to the kitchen, he was inevitably a little dumbfounded. He turned around and asked, "Can you make a fire?"
In the past, when he was at the house, he could cook a few dishes when he had nothing to do, but he didn't know how to make a fire in the house because there were servants.
"meeting."
Qiao Jinhuan responded, "The husband has already called me, so the wife must know how to do it if she doesn't."
"Don't mess around. If you can't do it, just get out of the way and I'll do it myself."
Ning Qingwan said forcefully.
Qiao Jin laughed twice, sat on the stove, bent down, and lit a fire in a few seconds.
Ning Qingwan skillfully cooked rice and stir-fried vegetables.
After a while, the two of them sat down in the hall to have a meal.
"I want to open a shop."
After a long while, Ning Qingwan suddenly said, "We only have so little money on hand, so we can't just sit back and have nothing."
"You can open it if you want. You have the final say on your family's money."
Qiao Jinhuan readily agreed.
She herself is still a "sinful person", so she has no nerve to point fingers at Ning Qingwan.
The two chatted for a while, and after dinner, Ning Qingwan had to clean up a room again and wanted to sleep separately from Qiao Jinhuan.
"What do you think I'm doing? I won't move back until you change things."
Ning Qingwan snorted softly, turned around and entered the house, closing the courtyard door as if to guard against thieves.
Qiao Jinhuan only raised his eyebrows slightly and smiled meaningfully.
This means she has something to do tonight.
otherwise……
Gradually, the night gets darker.
When Qiao Jinhuan saw that the lights at Ning Qingwan's side were all turned off, he went out with the twenty or so taels of silver left by the original owner and entered the gambling house with ease.
The gambling house was noisy, with people coming and going, and it was extremely lively.
From a distance, you can hear the sound of dice shaking inside and the continuous cheers of women.
As soon as Qiao Jinhuan stepped in, countless regular customers greeted her.
"Qiao Xiucai is here."
"Qiao Xiucai, I haven't seen you for a long time. Now you have a lot of money. Do you want to test the water?"
Qiao Jinhuan casually agreed and went to the gambling table.
"Hey, Qiao Xiucai, you are a rare visitor!"
The dice player sitting on the gambling table gently shook the dice cup in his hand, and the dice inside made a crisp sound.
She greeted with a smile, "Let's play a few games. I see your face is glowing today. You are destined to have good luck!"
Qiao Jinhuan glanced at her and suddenly smiled, "Okay, let's play a few games."
She pushed someone away and sat on a chair, crossing her legs, looking as ridiculous and charming as before.
"Okay."
The dice player smiled politely, his eyes twinkling slightly.
Shopkeeper Zheng had just told them that Xiucai Qiao had gone to the capital and was rich again, so she had to find a way to drain her of all her money.
"Gululu~"
"Crash, clatter, clatter...boom!"
The dice player pressed the dice cup on the table, "Bet on the big bet on the small, bet on the small, buy it and leave it!"
Without moving his eyes, Qiao Jinhuan took out twenty taels of silver and threw it on the "big" with a "slap".
The dice hand was slightly stunned.
This Qiao Xiucai actually succeeded.
But it was just one time, and the dice player just regarded it as luck and didn't care.
Other gamblers also put money in, and they couldn't tell what was going on in the dice cup, so what they bet on depended on luck.
After a while, there were at least two hundred taels of silver on the table.
The dice hand opens the dice cup, 5, 5, 6.
"Sixteen o'clock, big."
Following the dice player's words, sounds of joy, sighs, or anger could be heard all around. Just by looking at their expressions, one could easily tell who had hit the bet and who had not.
With this move, Qiao Jinhuan won back twenty taels of silver.
She looked at the dice player calmly and said, "Continue."
"Crash..."
Qiao Jinhuan still threw all the forty taels of silver into the "big" one.
In less than half an hour, when Qiao Jinhuan put everything in, the money in front of her piled up into a small mountain, and she looked like she had seven or eight hundred taels.
No wonder so many people are crazy about gambling.
Not everyone can resist this pleasure of getting wealth for nothing.
Qiao Jinhuan's face was as dull as ever. On the other hand, the face of the dice player opposite her was completely black, with cold sweat breaking out on his forehead.
"Crack!"
Putting the dice cup on the table again, the dice hand flashed his eyes and said, "Press the big one and the small one, buy it and leave it."
Qiao Jinhuan still piled all his money on "big".
The gamblers at the same table, after seeing Qiao Jinhuan's ability to win a handful of bets, all got carried away and all bet their money on "big" like crazy.
There is no "small" bet on the table.
The dice hand was almost suffocating. She swallowed, holding the dice cup with both hands, but her standing feet were stretched under the table.
She couldn't afford to lose this one.
As long as you step on the mechanism, all the dice in the dice cup will turn into 1.
The dice hand skillfully kicked it to the side...Huh? Why is it soft?
Qiao Jinhuan leaned on the chair and looked at her with a half-smile, "Why are you kicking me? You've already placed your bets, why haven't you opened it yet? What are you waiting for?"
Hold!
The dice player stared at Qiao Jinhuan angrily.
"That's right, open it quickly, open it quickly!"
"Open it!"
The gamblers around me urged him with red eyes.
In desperation, the dice player had no choice but to open the dice cup. The three dices inside were "4, 5, 6", a total of 15 points, which was huge.
"Qiao Xiucai! Qiao Xiucai!"
"Come again, come again! Keep pushing!"
A group of gamblers who followed Qiao Jinhuan's winnings looked at Qiao Jinhuan with crazy eyes and couldn't help shouting her name.
The scene gradually became a little out of control.
With no other choice, the dice player had no choice but to ask shopkeeper Zheng to come out.
"You said Qiao Jinhuan always won, so you don't know how to do anything?" Shopkeeper Zheng scolded angrily, "How much did you lose?"
"About two thousand taels."
Qiao Jinhuan made half of the money, and the gamblers who followed the trend made the other half.
The dice player smiled bitterly, "It's not that I don't want to do tricks, it's Qiao Jinhuan. She seems to have discovered the mechanism of the gambling table, so..."
"waste."
Shopkeeper Zheng cursed, "Invite Qiao Jinhuan in, and then let me bet against her."
Lao Fang was the most powerful gambler under Shopkeeper Zheng. The dice in her hands were more obedient than her own, so she didn't believe that she could win against a scholar.
More than a thousand taels!
If she lets Qiao Jinhuan take the money away, her work for the past half month will be in vain.
When the dice player heard this, he had no choice but to go out with a smile and invite Qiao Jinhuan into the side room inside.
No matter how unhappy he was, shopkeeper Zheng still had a smile on his face when he saw her, "Qiao Xiucai, you are so lucky today..."