"Take me inside quickly!" Rong Sheng urged Gu Beiyi. She hadn't heard the conversation between the old gambler and Gu Changqing very clearly and wanted to follow them in to see why the old gambler had come to the Gu family.

Gu Beiyi's dark eyes crinkled with a smile: "Okay, but you have to kiss me!"

"Kiss you..." Rong Sheng didn't expect this guy to turn into the shameless man he used to be: "In broad daylight, are you sure?"

"You promised me a favor but didn't keep it! And I was bullied by your brother. Don't you think you should give me some compensation?" Gu Beiyi said pitifully.

Rong Sheng felt a lump in her throat. She really hadn't done it. Who told him to be beaten into a coma by the Gu family and forced to stay at her house? As for his brothers... they had never liked him!

So Rong Sheng bit her lip and quickly left a kiss on Gu Beiyi's handsome face, like a dragonfly skimming the water, but it made Gu Beiyi feel Rong Sheng's tenderness and shyness.

He savored that fleeting, delicate kiss in his heart.

"Um, I've already kissed you, can you take me inside now?" If he lingered outside, someone might see him, and he'd get a beating from his four older brothers, and even his parents wouldn't let him off easily.

As for her, her ears were about to fall off, because her parents and brothers would nag her endlessly.

"As you wish!" Gu Beiyi put his arm around Rong Sheng's waist and, like a gust of wind, flashed into the Gu family compound, hiding in a corner to observe the situation.

Upon entering the Gu family home, they saw the old gambler standing at the kitchen door, watching Gu Changqing's two daughters-in-law, Chai and Hui, cook. With his hands behind his back, he was giving orders to Chai and Hui like a lord:

"You two, make extra food for lunch today. Your father invited me over for lunch. If you don't make enough, I don't know what I might say. And if there's any gossip in the village, it has nothing to do with me!"

Chai and Hui loathed the old gambler and had no desire to cook with him. So, the two sisters-in-law told him to get out immediately and not to set foot in their house again. If he disobeyed, they would go to the village head and have him take him away!

The meals at their house were rationed; if the old gambler was given any, they would go hungry.

It doesn't matter if the adults go hungry, but it's pitiful for their daughters, five daughters! If they also go hungry, they'll develop health problems later in life.

Because of Du's ruthlessness, she often bullied the children, and the children's lives were like living in hell. Du's preference for sons over daughters was extremely severe!

The women in their family had no status whatsoever; the Du family and the Gu brothers could bully them however they wanted.

So Chai mustered her courage and together with Hui drove away the old gambler. But the old gambler had been hungry all day, and once he entered the gate, how could he leave so easily? So no matter how Chai and Hui tried to persuade him to leave, he wouldn't go.

Instead, he shamelessly stepped into the kitchen and walked towards Chai and Hui. Chai and Hui were startled and quickly took out fire tongs or a blowpipe, wanting to beat the old gambler.

Seeing this, the old gambler simply smiled faintly: "Women should obediently serve men. Guests are guests, don't you understand this principle? You want me to leave? Fine, go ask your fathers-in-law if they agree. If they agree, I will leave!"

Gu Changqing heard the old gambler's words as he stood at the kitchen door. He was so angry that his fists clenched so tightly they cracked, but he didn't have the strength to step forward and beat the old gambler up.

Instead, he calmed his anger down a little, and said coldly, "Old gambler, this is my house. If you want to eat, you'd better behave yourself!"

"Gu Changqing, don't forget what I told you this morning, so hurry up and have your two daughters-in-law cook a lot so I can have a full meal! Otherwise, this matter..." The old gambler threatened Gu Changqing.

Gu Changqing was furious, but his weak and incompetent nature forced him to swallow his anger and tell Chai and Hui to hurry up and cook more food.

Chai and Hui were not about to agree. In the end, they were even scolded by Gu Changqing.

The reprimand startled Du Qincai, who was lying on the kang (heated brick bed) in the east wing. Du Qincai quickly got up from the kang, put on a coat, and came out. "If you're going to cook, just cook properly. What's all the noise about?"

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw the old gambler standing calmly in the middle of the kitchen, and his anger immediately subsided.

"You... how did you get here?" It was rare to see fear on Du Qincai's face, which made Gu Erniu's wife, Hui Shi, very curious. Considering Du Qincai's strange behavior these past few days, Hui Shi felt that the reason why Du Qincai had been behaving well for the past few days was inextricably linked to the old gambler.

The old gambler said, "I'm hungry, I came over for a meal! What, are you going to kick me out like your two daughters-in-law?"

Upon hearing this, Du Qincai cursed the shameless old gambler in her heart for treating their Gu family like a restaurant. However, considering that the old gambler held her secrets and he had no time to pay attention to her, she could only fiercely instruct Chai Shi and Hui Shi to cook more food and bring out the meat in the house to stir-fry a dish for the old gambler.

The old gambler was very satisfied that Du Qincai was sensible.

At that moment, he was incredibly grateful to the man in black. If the man in black hadn't told him Du Qincai's secret, he wouldn't have been able to get Du Qincai to listen to him so obediently and even cook meat for him.

Upon reflection, he realized that he hadn't eaten meat in a long time, and he had almost forgotten what meat tasted like.

Mrs. Chai and Mrs. Hui were very unhappy, but since Du Qincai had spoken up, they had no choice but to cook more food.

Rong Sheng and Gu Beiyi heard that the noise in the kitchen was almost over, so they sneaked into the east wing of the Gu family's house, hid in the wardrobe, and listened to what the old gambler would say after he came in.

With the highly skilled martial artist Gu Beiyi present, their sneaking into the east wing went unnoticed by the Gu family.

The sound of them opening the wardrobe door was also silenced by the system, so the Gu family had no idea that they had sneaked in.

The old gambler swaggered into the east wing, looked at the bedding on the kang (a heated brick bed), and then looked at Du Qincai: "Sleeping in the middle of the day, you're the only one who does that!"

Du Qincai gritted her teeth in resentment, but said obediently, "I'll get ready right away!"

You damn gambler, don't get cocky. I'll go find him tonight and teach him a lesson. You've been so arrogant all day, daring to bully me like that. You really think I, Du Qincai, am easy to bully?

After Du Qincai tidied up the kang (a heated brick bed), she invited the old gambler to sit on it and asked Gu Changqing to make him a cup of hot tea to help him relax.

Having followed Du Qincai for many years, how could Gu Changqing not know Du Qincai's little schemes? So he obediently did as Du Qincai asked.

The old gambler was very satisfied with Du Qincai and Gu Changqing's pragmatism: "You two are capable people. Since that's the case, don't worry. I'll give you a definite answer: as long as you treat me well, I will definitely not spread those things around!"