"Now he is peacefully confiscating family property in his mansion. No matter how powerful the Plum Blossom Gang is, they have no way to enter our Chu family to harm him."

Chu Chuyan suddenly realized: "My parents are so farsighted; I never even thought of that."

Qin Wanru's usually stern face softened with a gentle smile: "Chu Yan, your talent surpasses all of ours. What you lack now is experience and time. Given time, your achievements will surely surpass those of your parents."

Chu Chuyan smiled faintly, but there was a hint of sadness in her eyes. Decades later, her youthful beauty would have faded, and she would still be all alone. As for Zu An, she hadn't even considered him...

Achoo~

On the other side, Zuan rubbed his nose, wondering which little girl was thinking about him this time?

"Young master, you're finally back!" A childish voice rang out, and Cheng Shouping, with two char siu buns on his head, came running up to greet him. He had heard that his young master had gone out with Xue'er this time, and he wanted to see if he could run into Xue'er by chance. However, to his great disappointment, Zu An only had the steward Hong Zhong by his side.

Zuan chuckled and grabbed his collar: "You've come at the right time. Come with me to enforce the family law."

"Huh? Copying again?" Cheng Shouping's face immediately fell. "How many times do you have to copy this time?"

Zuan smiled and waved his hand: "Not many, not many, just about ten thousand times."

"Ten thousand times?" Cheng Shouping immediately jumped up. Was the son-in-law bad at math? Did he have some misunderstanding about the number ten thousand times?

Hong Zhong led him to the quiet room and said, "Please do not leave until you have finished copying." After saying that, he turned and left, leaving Zu Ancheng and his servant Shouping staring at each other at the wall full of family rules.

"Young master, please spare me! Even if I had to copy it ten thousand times, I still couldn't finish it even if my hand broke." Cheng Shouping made up his mind, thinking that he would never copy it for him this time. He still felt lingering fear when he thought about how he was tricked into copying it all night by himself last time.

"We're like family, if you don't help me, who will?" Zu'an put his arm around his shoulder and said with a smile.

"Hmm~ I won't copy!" Cheng Shouping shook his head like a rattle drum.

Zu An sighed, took out a silver note and flicked it: "Hey, I just made a small fortune, and I was thinking of rewarding you with 100 taels if you helped me copy it. Since you're not willing, I'll find someone else."

Although the 7.5 million taels were IOUs, the other 150,000 taels were real money. Today's trip to the Silver Hook Gambling House was truly fruitful.

Cheng Shouping's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly reached out to grab the silver note. A fawning smile immediately appeared on his face: "As the son-in-law's page, how can I let someone else do such a thing? Of course, I will do it."

"Okay, then I'll leave it to you. I'm going back to sleep." Zuan yawned; going out for a walk today had been quite exhausting.

Cheng Shouping frowned and said, "Young master, young master, I can't copy it all by myself even if I copy it ten thousand times."

Zu An rolled his eyes: "Otherwise, why do you think I gave you 100 taels? Couldn't you have used the money to find other servants in the manor to help with the copying?"

Cheng Shouping's eyes lit up, but he immediately said, "But wouldn't that mean I'd have less money left?"

Zu An waved his hand: "Anyway, the funding is yours. I don't care if you copy it yourself or hire someone to copy it. Just make sure you copy it 10,000 times." After saying that, he swaggered away, leaving Cheng Shouping alone, extremely conflicted.

On his way back to his room, Zuan began to tally up how many anger points he had earned on this trip: one, ten, hundred, thousand, ten thousand...

Total anger points!

Zuan grinned from ear to ear, reflecting on his experiences along the way. It seemed he needed more villains.

Back inside, I filled a basin with water and was about to wash my face and start the lottery draw when suddenly a voice came from behind me:

How did you do that?

Zu An was startled and hurriedly turned around to see that Old Man Mi's trembling figure had appeared behind him at some point.

It's unbelievable! This guy looks like he could be blown away by the wind, but he walks without making a sound. Even though my cultivation has improved so much, I still can't sense his presence at all.

"What? How did you do that?" Zu'an didn't dare to be negligent and hurriedly asked. For some reason, he could recklessly earn anger points when facing others, but when facing this guy, he had a subconscious fear and didn't dare to provoke him at all.

Why is that?

Zuan thought about it for a long time but still couldn't figure it out.

"Now everyone in the manor is saying that you won 7.5 million taels from the Silver Hook Gambling House in two rounds. How did you do it?" Old Man Mi stared at him with his small eyes full of curiosity.