"Mother, Father is gone, and we don't need so many people in our house anymore. Why don't you send some of them away so that we can have some peace and quiet."

Su Wanti raised her eyes and glanced at Madam Su.

Madam Su received her gaze, lowered her eyes and thought for a moment, then said:

"It's easy to arrange for those without children. Just give them some money and send them back to their parents' home. But what about those with children?"

Su Wanti said in a clear voice, "Brothers can't stay in the same courtyard forever. Sooner or later, we have to separate. Father is gone now, so how much we get depends on Mother's wishes."

These words hit the mark of Madam Su's heart, and she smiled and said, "Okay, I'll do it when I get home."

The master is gone and his son is still in prison.

If she kept these illegitimate sons in the house, not only would they be an eyesore to her, but she would also have to be on guard against them at all times, fearing that they would become greedy and use underhanded tactics to seize the family property.

It is better to separate the family as soon as possible, so that you can have peace and quiet.

Mrs. Su dealt with the matter of dividing the family when she returned home. She acted quickly and divided all the concubines' sons after the New Year.

Aunt Qian and her son got two shops, two farms, and several hundred taels of silver.

Aunt Qian felt that her son received too little property and was unwilling to accept it.

She first made a big fuss in the mansion, but no one paid any attention to her, so she ran to the gate of the palace and made a fuss, telling the guards at the gate that she was the mother of Concubine Su and that she wanted to go to the palace to see Concubine Su.

She didn't have the jade pass to enter the palace, and the guards had never seen her before, so they naturally wouldn't let her in.

Seeing that she refused to listen and behaved inappropriately, the two guards pinned her down with long sticks and beat her out.

Aunt Qian was beaten up, her face was bruised and swollen, and she looked in a miserable state. Seeing that she could not enter the palace, she returned to the Su Mansion in a bad mood.

She planned to use some money to buy a house in Beijing.

After returning home, she did not see her son. She asked the maid who served her son and learned that her son had gone to Hongyun Hall.

Hongyuntang?

When Aunt Qian heard these three words, she felt a chill all over her body.

This is one of the most famous gambling houses in the capital!

Her son is a simple and good boy. If he goes to a gambling house, he will be cheated out of his underwear!

Oh no! Her son knew where she kept her money and the title deed!

Aunt Qian panicked and rushed into the inner room, threw herself on the bed, lifted the mattress, and flipped up the bed board...

Empty.

The silver was gone, the title deed was gone, everything was gone.

"Ah!" Aunt Qian wailed and staggered out.

She wants to go to Hongyun Hall, she wants to find her son and get back the money and the land deeds!

As soon as Aunt Qian ran out of the courtyard, she ran into her son head-on.

"Son, you're back just in time! I was just about to go look for you! Did you take the silver I hid under the bed? Take it out quickly! I need it!"

Aunt Qian was so anxious that tears were about to come out, and her speech was as fast as jumping beans.

Her son stiffened his neck and didn't dare to look at her.

Aunt Qian suddenly felt something was wrong and hurriedly said, "Son, tell me quickly! Where's the money?"

"We've all lost!" The son shook off her hand and said coldly.

"What?" Aunt Qian was stunned. She felt as if someone had poured a basin of ice water on her, and she felt cold from head to toe.

Her teeth chattered uncontrollably.

"You, you're trying to trick me, aren't you? Don't scare me. That's all the money we have, mother and son. It's hundreds of taels. It would take a long time to count. How could you lose it all in a flash?"

Her son said impatiently:

"You think the money is too little, don't you? I just want to make more. I always won in the past, who could have thought my luck would be so bad today? Don't just stand there like an idiot. Go get me some silver and I'll go again tomorrow. I don't believe I can't win it all back!"

Aunt Qian was both angry and anxious. She was shaking all over and really wanted to beat up the man in front of her.

But this was the son she had given birth to with great difficulty, the son she had doted on for more than ten years, and she couldn't bear to touch him at all.

Even though all her property was squandered by her beloved son, she still couldn't bear to scold him.

She had no choice but to stand alone in the cold wind of early winter, letting the howling wind freeze her into an ice man.

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At night, the Yufu Palace was as warm as spring.

Su Wanti leaned on the cushion and embroidered a tiger-head hat for the baby in her belly.

Ye Zi served her and told her the news that had just come in.

"You said that Aunt Qian and her son were kicked out of the Su Mansion and ended up on the streets?" Su Wanti frowned.

"The Su family's ancestors were merchants, so they're not short of money, and Madam Su isn't a stingy person. This time, the family division will give them at least a hundred taels of silver, plus a shop and a farm. As long as they don't squander it, this money is enough for them to live on for a lifetime. How could these two end up living on the streets?"

Ye Zi smiled and said, "My Lady, you also said that this money is enough if we don't squander it."

"Now, those two are penniless because the fortune they just got was squandered by Aunt Qian's son!"

"I heard he stole all the money and went to the gambling den. Nine times out of ten, you lose. You can imagine the result."

"Madam Su did leave them a way out. She said she couldn't give them money, but she could send them to a farm and give them a yard and a few acres of land. She could also send them some seeds and food, so that they would have a place to live and live a stable life in the future."

"But those two had never suffered hardship, so why would they go? Not only did they refuse to accept, they also caused a scene in the Su Mansion, and that's why they were kicked out."

After hearing Ye Zi's words, Su Wanti smiled faintly.

These two people were so depraved that she didn't have to do anything.

When she was in the Su Mansion, Aunt Qian always said that her son was her lifelong support and she was a daughter and was useless.

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