Ruan Jiayu held the cup of hot water in her hand and told the whole story in a halting manner.
Xia Shige guessed correctly. During this period, Xia Guozhang and Xia Ziqi frequently went to 1105. They were not going to take care of any elderly people, they just went there to gamble!
At the beginning, Xia Guozhang and Xia Ziqi won together, and they brought back a lot of supplies. The coal and down jackets in 1101 were all won by them.
But for some reason, starting from a few days ago, Xia Guozhang and Xia Ziqi's good luck suddenly disappeared. They went from being invincible, to half losing and half winning, to losing more and winning less, and in the end, they were almost always losing.
In just a few days, the two of them had lost almost all the food and coal in the house, and the cotton-padded clothes and quilts were also lost to others as chips.
Early yesterday morning, Xia Guozhang and Xia Ziqi moved the last box of coal from their home. Xia Guozhang told Ruan Jiayu that they would use this box of coal as a last-ditch effort. Xia Guozhang also assured Ruan Jiayu that they would be able to "make a comeback" this time.
At this point, Ruan Jiayu's eyes were filled with confusion and regret. She choked up and said, "Guo Zhang said that he wanted to 'leverage' and win back all the materials he had invested in the past few days... I don't know what 'leverage' means, but since he left yesterday morning, he has never come back..."
Ruan Jiayu wiped the tears from her face, glanced at Xia Ziqi who was standing silently beside her with his head down, and continued: "One morning, Ziqi came back alone, and I realized that they had lost so much yesterday..."
"...Now they are asking us for two kilograms of rice, ten boxes of sausages and five kilograms of coal, and they are also saying that if we don't give them, they will freeze Guozhang to death... Sister-in-law, what do you think we should do now?"
After Ruan Jiayu finished speaking, she couldn't hold back any longer. She covered her face with her hands and started crying again.
Xia Shige couldn't help but frown when he heard this - two kilograms of rice, ten boxes of sausages and five kilograms of coal...
How dare Xia Guozhang gamble so much?! He doesn't even have so much stuff at home!
It can be seen that gamblers are completely reckless when they are in a state of high spirits. They don’t even consider whether they can actually take out these chips…
After hearing what Ruan Jiayu said, Sun Yuegui's face turned pale. If she had known that Xia Guozhang would never change his ways, she would never have spoken for the third brother's family.
Now that Xia Guozhang was in such big trouble, Sun Yuegui didn't know what to do for a moment and could only look up at Xia Shige.
Xia Shige was silent for a moment, and suddenly some doubts arose in his heart.
She looked at Ruan Jiayu and asked in a deep voice, "Third aunt, let me ask you something... You said that Third Uncle has changed for the better over the years and has never gambled. Is that true?"
Xia Guozhang’s gambling addiction was so serious that Xia Shige couldn’t believe that he had really reformed over the years as he said.
Under Xia Shige's questioning, Ruan Jiayu had no choice but to confess what had happened in the past few years.
It turns out that Xia Guozhang has been gambling non-stop for the past few years since he was kicked out of the house because of online gambling!
It is true that he played the game diligently and gambled online from time to time. In order to gamble, he borrowed money online and ended up with a black account. Later, he went to a private lending company to restructure his debt and borrowed high-interest loans.
He was about to go bankrupt, but unexpectedly a natural disaster struck and most of the people in the debt company that lent him money died. It can be said that Xia Guozhang turned a disaster into a blessing and survived until now.
After hearing what Ruan Jiayu said, Xia Shige felt his eyes go dark and he almost fainted from anger!
——It turns out that this family of three started acting when they first came to Xindu Community a few months ago!
She wishfully thought that her third uncle had reformed and felt sorry for her third aunt and little cousin, but she didn't expect that all three members of this family were movie stars!
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