"You, you, you...it's you! How can it...how can it be you?"
Xiaobao was stunned when he looked at Chai Yan's face, and his tongue seemed to be tied.
Zhao Jiang asked strangely: "What's wrong, Xiaobao...do you know him?"
Xiaobao swallowed and nodded. The initial shock had now turned into timidity, and his legs were trembling slightly.
Seeing that Xiaobao couldn't say anything, Zhao Jiang had no choice but to look at Chai Yan.
Chai Yan said slowly: "Brother Zhao, I am the male of the couple that Brother Bao mentioned. I was the one who injured several brothers in their gambling shop..."
Zhao Jiang was stunned for a moment, then turned to look back at Xiaobao and asked: "Guo Bao! Tell me, what exactly happened? It must be you who are domineering and provoke the man from Chaixian County, right?"
"No, no..." Guo Bao looked sad and shook his head hurriedly: "Brother Zhao, that's not the case, listen to me..."
But Zhao Jiang didn't want to hear it. Guo Bao had always liked to cause trouble and bully others, and Zhao Jiang had already decided in his heart that it was his fault.
Therefore, Zhao Jiang wanted to get angry in the street and teach Guo Bao a lesson. Guo Bao was so frightened that he quickly retreated and dodged.
In the end, it was Chai Yan who came out to persuade and stop Zhao Jiang, and he calmed down his anger.
Chai Yan recounted what happened at Changsheng Casino that day, indicating that he was actually the one who started it, causing a scene and hurting others...
"No, no, no, it's my fault! Lord Chai, this is all my fault. You sir, please forgive us this time." Guo Bao quickly admitted his mistake to Chai Yan.
Zhao Jiang also apologized to Chai Yan on behalf of Guo Bao and invited Chai Yan to have two drinks at a nearby restaurant to express his apology.
So, the three of them found a small restaurant nearby, boiled two pots of wine, and started drinking along with the side dishes to go with the wine.
Although Guo Bao injured one of his hands, he still poured wine for Chai Yan and Zhao Jiang enthusiastically, and apologized from time to time for the conflict that day.
Chai Yan looked at the back of Guo Bao's hand and asked, "Guo Bao, are you still holding tight?"
Guo Bao hurriedly said: "Master Chai, it doesn't matter! It's just a skin injury, it will be fine in a few days..."
"No way, I can clearly see the dart that hit me, and it hurt me deeply!" Chai Yan said.
Guo Bao hurriedly hid his injured hand under the table and said with a smile: "Master Chai, don't worry about me. I'm fine. I'll give you a drink!"
Thank you Sir Alex for your magnanimity and not remembering petty grudges... I respect the little ones first!"
With that said, Guo Bao picked up the wine glass and drank it in one gulp.
He stretched out his hand to avoid hitting the smiling man, not to mention that Guo Bao was already like this, so Chai Yan also drank a drink.
Guo Baoma went up to pour wine for Chai Yan, and Zhao Jiang asked: "Mr. Chai County, I'm curious, who is the girl who is using darts with you?"
Guo Bao stood still while holding the wine pot. He looked at Chai Yan eagerly, waiting for Chai Yan to reveal the identity of the man.
After Chai Yan hesitated, he smiled slightly and said: "Brother Zhao, I'd better not talk about this, and don't ask. That person has a special identity, and it's not good to spread it..."
Zhao Jiang understood immediately, nodded and said with a smile: "I understand! I won't ask. It's because I didn't think carefully."
Although Guo Bao was a little disappointed, he roughly guessed that the woman was not an ordinary person. Why did he have bad breath that day? The dart was in vain!
After drinking, Guo Bao invited Chai Yan and Zhao Jiang to Changsheng Casino. Chai Yan didn't really want to go, but Zhao Jiang was very interested and immediately became energetic.
Only then did Chai Yan realize that Zhao Jiang came to Hulu Street to meet friends just as a pretext, but in fact he came here to gamble!
Chai Yan didn't want to spoil everyone's fun, and seeing that it was still early, they went to Changsheng Gambling House together.
With Guo Bao around, everyone in the Changsheng Gambling House was respectful and polite to Chai Yan. Chai Yan also expressed his apology to the people he injured last time, and the hatred between the two parties was resolved in one visit.
Chai Yan was not very keen on gambling. He played a few random games and lost them all, and then he stopped playing.
Zhao Jiang, who was standing aside, pointed at the pile of books in Chai Yan's hand and joked: "Cha County man, you come to the casino with books, it's weird that you can win money, hahaha..."
Chai Yan said with a smile: "Yeah, it's all my fault for these books. I wouldn't have bought them if I had known about them."
After that, Zhao Jiang went to the table to gamble a few times, but his luck was not very good. Generally speaking, he lost more than he won.
Zhao Jiang took the money and angrily left the gambling table where he lost money, saying: "This table is not good, I have to find another place!"
Chai Yan smiled and said: "Brother Zhao, it seems that you really can't enter the bookstore before gambling!"
"That's right, I will definitely not go to the bookstore before I come here next time!" Zhao Jiang said gruffly.
After watching Zhao Jiang gamble for a while, Chai Yan lost interest. After saying goodbye to Zhao Jiang, he left the Changsheng Gambling House and prepared to go back to the Yiren Pavilion.
Zhao Jiang devoted himself wholeheartedly to the gambling game, so he asked Guo Bao to send Chai Yan away. Chai Yan said no, but it didn't work.
Guo Bao sent Chai Yan to the door of Yiren Hall and bowed respectfully to say goodbye.
Chai Yan was amused. He was obviously arrogant and arrogant last time, but the contrast now was too great.
This scene happened to be caught by the Erhu who was greeting the guests at the door, and the Erhu was shocked.
At dinner time, Erhu sent the food to Chai Yan's room.
As soon as he came out, Erhu saw Murong Puliu nodding and waving to him.
Erhu immediately ran to Murong Puliu: "Master, if you have anything to give me, please give me instructions."
Murong Puliu asked softly: "You went in just now, what was Mr. Chai doing?"
Erhu immediately replied: "Reading."
"Reading?" Murong Puliu asked curiously.
Erhu nodded and said: "Yes, the library owner, Mr. Chai bought a bunch of new books. When the younger one came in, he was reading with great interest..."
Murong Puliu said to himself: "So, I went out to buy books..."
Erhu answered: "Master, not only did you buy books, Mr. Chai also went to Changsheng Gambling House!"
"How did you know?" Murong Puliu asked, then glared and said, "I asked you to stay at the door, but you went off to work elsewhere, right?"
Erhu hurriedly said: "No, owner, I saw Brother Bao from Changsheng Gambling House returning Mr. Chai. He looked so respectful. I have never seen him before..."
"Oh, really?" Murong Puliu's eyes were a little surprised.
Erhu suddenly lowered his voice and said in a mysterious tone: "Master, I seem to have heard Brother Bao calling Mr. Chai... Sir!"
"Sir?" Murong Puliu asked in shock, "Did you really hear him shout like that?"
Erhu didn't dare to confirm: "I think I heard it. I was a little far away at the time. When you ask the owner, I'm not sure again..."
Murong Puliu frowned and thought for a while, then said: "Erhu, don't you know someone from Changsheng Gambling House? You should go there and inquire about it now. We have to find out the origin of Mr. Chai...
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"I know, owner, I'll go find out more about it right now." Erhu responded and left.
A quarter of an hour later, Erhu ran back panting.
Murong Puliu took the erhu to the back and then asked: "How is it? What did you find out?"
Erhu suppressed his voice and told everything he had learned.
After hearing this, Murong Puliu's face was already shocked: "Tsk, tsk, tsk, it's actually the Duke..."
"Erhu, please don't spread rumors about this beforehand, do you hear me?" Murong Puliu warned.
Erhu said sensibly: "Don't worry, owner, I understand."
After waving away his erhu, Murong Puliu turned around and walked quickly towards the backyard.
Murong Puliu went to Yuzhu's room in the backyard. Yuzhu was practicing piano music in the room, but stopped when he saw Murong Puliu arriving.
"Master, why are you here? Isn't it busy in front?" Yuzhu asked.
Murong Puliu closed the door after entering the house, and then eagerly came to Yuzhu's side and said: "Yuzhu, what do you think mother just found out?"
"What did you find out?" Yuzhu didn't understand.
Murong Puliu said seriously: "Yuzhu, do you know that Mr. Chai on the second floor is the newly promoted Baron of Anping County!"
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PS: I don’t have the manuscript at hand. I’ll upload it after coding it. Please forgive me if there are any typos or wrong sentences.
Also: I wish all book friends a happy New Year and all the best in the new year!