"The brother and sister were taken away by the casino people. Master, do you want to rescue them?"

Bai Chi shook his head directly.

"Why save them? They'll be ungrateful bastards who only know how to suck blood. Fifteen hundred taels won't be enough for them to spend. I wonder how many more fifteen hundred taels they'll want after I save them."

He didn't take action directly, even though it was out of consideration for his parents and brothers.

That family is full of greedy people, and their ambitions are higher than the sky. Even if they forced the original owner to death, they probably wouldn't shed a tear.

In fact, such people will suffer retribution sooner or later as long as they harden their hearts and turn a blind eye.

That's why Bai Chi has not taken the initiative yet.

Although he didn't care, the situation in this era was different. Even if it was a huge injustice, if one was blatantly unfilial, people would point fingers at him and scold him for the rest of his life.

He let it go for himself, but didn't want to get Zhong Yunxiao scolded as well.

And now, everyone knows that his parents withheld all his betrothal gifts and deliberately made things difficult for the Zhong family when getting married, forcing them to pay another 500 taels and almost missed the deadline.

Now they are even more greedy. Ever since their son married into the Zhong family, they have been thinking about the Zhong family's money. They openly ask the second young master's wife for money on the street. I don't know how much they have taken privately.

"Fortunately, the eldest young master arrived in time. The second young master's wife is a soft persimmon. His parents bully him all the time. If it weren't for those bad things, the second young master's wife would definitely be better off in the Zhong family than she is now!"

Xiao Hei imitated the rumors he heard in the afternoon and looked at his owner with a smile.

"Master, your husband had these things spread. What do you call it? Controlling the direction of public opinion? Anyway, no one is saying you are unfilial now. They all say you were harmed by your natal family."

Bai Chi raised his eyebrows slightly.

'It seems that there is really nothing I need to do.'

Now in the eyes of others, he is the vulnerable person who has been badly cheated by his parents, and they want him to fill their gambling hole.

But the Zhong family obviously wouldn't allow them to do so, and didn't even want them to come into contact with Bai Chi, so the eldest son of the Zhong family sent them directly to the yamen, and they didn't even make up the charges casually.

Those two men did stop Bai Chi and asked for money, but this kind of thing, at a minimum, was like asking his son for retirement money, and at a maximum, it did have something to do with roadblocking.

It all depends on which side the government leans towards.

It is obvious that the government favors the Zhong family.

Bai Chi yawned, stopped thinking about it, pulled the quilt over him tightly, and prepared to go to sleep.

Just when he was dozing off, Xiao Hei suddenly called him again.

"Master, is your husband suffering from insomnia? He's been standing by the study window for almost an hour now. It seems he's been standing there since he came back, looking at you."

Xiao Hei sent a picture. Zhong Yunxiao was standing by the window of the study. There were small water droplets on his hair. It was unknown how long he had been standing there.

Bai Chi frowned. In this cold winter, is he trying to kill himself?

I don’t know if it was telepathy, but as soon as I thought of this, Zhong Yunxiao reached out to close the window, then slowly turned around.

The servant who was dozing off by the fire heard the noise and ran over to ask if the young master wanted to wash up and rest.

Zhong Yunxiao didn't say anything, just nodded slightly, but Bai Chi's brows furrowed even deeper.

Zhong Yunxiao was clearly frozen to death, so cold that he couldn't even speak!

"Is he going to die? It's so cold, and he doesn't even have a cloak on. Tomorrow is New Year's Eve. Does he want to celebrate the New Year while sick?"

Bai Chi was a little worried, but because of his status, he couldn't just go over and scold the person.

"Master, I'm afraid your husband will have a fever tonight."

But there is no point for the two of them to worry now, they can only pray that he gets better.

Facts proved that Bai Chi's worries were correct, because in the middle of the night, Zhong Yunxiao indeed had a fever.

Bai Chi noticed something was wrong almost immediately. Zhong Yunxiao on the bed had a flushed face, as if he was in a nightmare. His mouth opened and closed, as if he was saying something, but no sound came out.

It was precisely because there was no sound that the night watchman did not notice anything wrong with the young master and was still sleeping soundly in the small room next door.

Bai Chi was anxious, so he didn't call anyone else and went straight to Zhong Yunxiao's room.

The charcoal fire in the house had gone out and it was even colder than his room, so much so that Bai Chi shivered.

"Master, please put on some clothes first. You just got out of bed. Be careful not to catch a cold yourself."

"It's okay, I'll be back in a moment."

He then went forward to check Zhong Yunxiao's body. His forehead was burning hot. Just as he was about to take his hand away to feel his pulse, his wrist was held down.

His eyes, which were clearly closed just now, were now open, but his gaze was a little dazed. He was trying hard to focus and see the person in front of him clearly.

"Ah, Achi? You're here."

Bai Chi blinked, nodded, and smiled brightly.

"Brother, you are sick, remember to see a doctor."

"Okay, big brother, listen to Achi."

"Master, what's wrong with you? Do you want some water?"

The servant came out of the small room. It turned out that he heard the noise over here and was bringing some water.

Bai Chi put the index finger of his other hand to his lips: "Xu."

Then he exerted a little force, broke free from Zhong Yunxiao's grasp on his wrist, and disappeared in front of Zhong Yunxiao.

"Achi!"

Zhong Yunxiao suddenly screamed and sat up, just in time to meet a servant who came in with water. He also happened to hear Zhong Yunxiao screaming his sister-in-law's name and woke up from the bed.

And he called me so intimately.

The servant was stunned for a moment, at a loss as to what to do. Should he pretend not to hear and deliver the water, or pretend not to hear and go out himself?

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