Xu Si won a lot of money in this bet, and his addiction became stronger and stronger. He wanted to fall asleep holding the dice and Pai Gow.
After the servant brought the man back, Xu Si still looked dissatisfied, "I was about to win again, why did you pull me back?"
Manager Wu threw the tea bowl at him and cursed, "Gambling, gambling, gambling! All you do all day is gamble! How long are you going to delay doing what you promised to do?"
"I'm injured..." Before Xu Si could finish his words, Wu, the headmaster, stepped forward and kicked him. He was about to lose his temper, but when he saw two servants standing nearby and surrounding him, he had no choice but to swallow his anger. "Did you catch a firecracker? Why are you so angry?"
Seeing his miserable state, Wu Zhangshi sneered, "We are all from the Xu family, but you are not even as good as a woman. You deserve to be ruined. Look at you, you are worse than a dog."
"What did you say? Say it again." Xu Si was hit in the sore spot and didn't care about the servant beside him. He was about to rush up to hit someone, but he was held down by the servant and punched in the stomach several times.
Manager Wu stepped forward and slapped him several times, finally letting out some of the anger in his heart. "If it weren't for your usefulness, I would have killed you long ago. Why would I let you live like a parasite in our building, eating your lunch?"
Xu Si's face turned pale with pain and he didn't say anything for a long time.
"Look at you two brothers, you are not even as good as a woman." I should have beaten him up a long time ago. God knows why I have tolerated him for so long.
Manager Wu continued, "You probably don't know this yet, but she presented her master's book to the imperial court, and now it's being printed by the Imperial Academy. It looks like she's on the verge of fame and success, while you're still a hopeless loser in the casino."
Then he threatened, "I see she's getting stronger and stronger. Even if you go to overturn the case, she won't be able to do anything. It would be better to hand you over to the authorities. That would earn you a reward and help you make up for your debts at Wanjuanlou these days."
"Wait, wait." Xu Si finally recovered and asked, "Whose book did you say she donated?"
"Xu Yuan, her master, your sixth uncle." Seeing that he had regained consciousness, Wu continued to goad him, "The Imperial College's official engraving will be remembered for generations to come. Your Xu family has produced such a great master, and your descendants should have been blessed with wealth and glory. But now she has taken all the benefits and forced you into a desperate situation. How dare you accept this?"
Xu Si's chest heaved violently. "That belongs to our Xu family. What belongs to the Xu family is mine. She is just a bastard I picked up. What right does she have to take over my things?"
Wu Zhangshi continued to add fuel to the fire, "She is Xu Yuan's apprentice, so she is naturally qualified."
"I am Xu Yuan's nephew and of the same clan, so I am more qualified than her!"
"But you are a wanted criminal now."
"It won't be like that soon." Xu Si's eyes turned green. "Tomorrow I will go to the government office and beat the drum to protest my injustice. I want to overturn the verdict."
Finally convincing him, Wu breathed a sigh of relief and instructed, "I've already made arrangements with those two men in the prison. They've been crying foul for days, and the yamen has already recorded their statements. Tomorrow, you'll work together inside and outside to make this a big fuss. The more violent the better."
He patiently said, "As long as we reopen the case, we can hold Xu Jiang and the government office hostage. Then both you and we will benefit. If you win the case, you will inherit all of Xu Jiang's property. Even if you lose, our boss will redeem you and give you a small sum of money to send you back home."
Xu Si thought of Feng Miao and asked, "I overturned the case for money, why did you do that?"
"Why are you asking this? There are many things you shouldn't know, and knowing too much is not a good thing." The second half of the sentence was also referring to Manager Wu himself.
He originally thought that he could still be responsible for purchasing like Zhou Shancai did when he was in charge of Jisheng Bookstore, but after experiencing Zhao Xiu and now Zhou Huai, he couldn't escape even if he wanted to.
Xu Sidao said: "I don't want to die unclearly like Feng Miao. If I could get killed..."
"You're just not going to do it?" He thought he had a choice?
"Yes, but there are conditions. You have to write me a contract with your boss's private seal, and guarantee that you will redeem my sentence after the verdict is overturned. You also have to give me money and send me back home." In order to ensure that they would not care about his life or death after the deed was accomplished, Xu Si became more cautious. As long as they had the contract in hand, they had to find a way to get him out, otherwise he would use the contract to sue them for plotting against him.
This person is not easy to fool. Wu Zhangshi thought for a moment and said to Xu Si: "This matter needs to be reported back to the boss and he must approve it."
Xu Si nodded, "Okay." Then he twisted his body and frowned, "Why don't you let me go?"
Manager Wu raised his hand and waved, signaling the servants to let go, and then told Xu Si to wait for news in the house and not to go to the casino again.
Xu Sidu agreed.
Seeing that he had been tamed, Manager Wu was satisfied, then he stood up and walked out the door.
But when he passed by Xu Si, Xu Si kicked him, knocking him to the ground, then rode on him and punched him hard.
"You dare to hit me, Fourth Master? I'm tired of living!"
Zhou Huai looked at Wu Zhangshi, whose eyes were bruised, and asked curiously, "What happened?"
Wu was silent for a moment, then said aggrievedly, "I went back to the boss and was beaten by that evil creature Xu Si."
"How audacious!" He said this casually. He didn't care about the quarrels among the servants at all. Then he asked, "Why did you come to see me?"
"Xu Si will go to the government office tomorrow to overturn the case, but... he wants you to sign a deed guaranteeing that you will redeem his sentence and pay him money."
Zhou Huai frowned, "Is this a small matter worth coming back to me?"
"But if I give it to him, won't that give him a handle?"
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