She felt like if she didn't listen to Ying, Ying would slap her in the face.
Lin Youran swallowed the words that were about to come out of her mouth and said, "Yes, my daughter will be out right away."
Ying Xixi slowly changed her clothes and washed up, while Lin Youran was standing outside the house waiting for her.
After an unknown amount of time, when Lin Youran's patience was almost gone, Qiulin finally opened the door and let Lin Youran in.
Ying Xixi sat at the table and drank tea slowly, "Sit down, Ran'er, it's not that your mother wants to be mean to you, but no matter what happens, you shouldn't be so rude.
When you marry into the Su family in the future, such behavior will displease your mother-in-law, do you understand?"
When Lin Youran heard this, most of the anger she had towards Xixi dissipated.
Ying was right. She couldn't let Brother Su's mother be unhappy.
"Mother is right."
"Well, now tell me, what brings you here in such a hurry?"
Lin Youran quickly said, "Mother, my brother owes the gambling house one thousand taels of silver! The people at the gambling house said that if my brother doesn't pay back, they will chop off his hands and feet!"
Mother, please help my brother!"
Ying Xixi looked puzzled. "How can you not have the money to pay? You saw it that day. I gave Jin'er a box of banknotes. There were at least a few thousand taels of banknotes in it. It was the money your father had saved up over the years!"
It's only been a few days, how come you're out of money?"
Lin Youran's eyes flickered as she heard this. "Because, because my brother went to the gambling house and gambled away all the money...
Mother! But if you lose money, you can earn it again. But if my brother’s hands and feet are gone, they are really gone, mother!
Mother, please save my brother! He is the only male in the family!
"How can I save him?! I gave most of the money your father saved over the years to your brother.
The remaining silver will be used for daily expenses of the mansion in the future!
If all that silver were taken out, would so many people in the mansion be starving to death in the future?
The entire Wu'an Marquis Mansion will become a laughing stock in the entire capital!"
Ying Xixi scolded with a cold face.
Lin Youran knew this was the case, and also knew that the mansion had to keep some untouchable silver in case of emergency.
But she also didn't want to watch her brother lose his hands and feet.
"Mother, what should we do? My brother..."
Lin Youran shed big tears.
Ying Xixi sighed, "I'm worried too. How about this? You have the key to the warehouse. Pick a few things and pawn them. You can get some money and pay Jin'er back first."
When Lin Youran heard this, her eyes lit up.
"Yes, there are also things in the warehouse! Thank you, mother! Your daughter will go right away!"
Lin Youran wiped away her tears and left.
Ying Xixi curled her lips and said, "Come here, keep an eye on her, and tell Su Mingzhi what she is going to do."
A voice came from the darkness, "Yes."
Lin Youran and her maid opened the door of the warehouse.
This was her first time entering the warehouse. As soon as the door opened, she was almost blinded by the rare treasures inside.
Any one of these would probably be worth hundreds or even thousands of taels if pawned!
My brother is saved!
Lin Youran picked up something at random and went out of the house with her maid to a pawnshop.
She left the house in a hurry and didn't have time to put on her veil. Before she even entered the pawnshop, she was stopped by someone.
"Ran'er?"
Lin Youran turned her head and saw Su Mingzhi, her eyes immediately turned red and tears fell.
"Brother Su."
"Don't cry, what happened? Ran'er, come here and tell Brother Su."
Su Mingzhi took Lin Youran and the maid into an alley.
Lin Youran cried and told the story of Lin Huijin.
"So that's how it is." Su Mingzhi's green eyes rolled around, and no one knew what he was thinking.
"Ran'er, don't cry. Since the Marquis's wife is willing to let you pawn your things to save your brother, then go ahead and pawn them.
But this pawnshop isn't very good, the price they offer is very low. I know a pawnshop that offers a good price, would you like to go and have a look?"
Upon hearing this, Lin Youran nodded without thinking.
"Okay! I'll listen to Brother Su!"
Su Mingzhi took Lin Youran's carriage to another pawnshop and pawned the things Lin Youran brought for the low price of two hundred taels.
Not only that, he also took the initiative to say that if Lin Youran wanted to pawn anything else, he could help her choose items with high pawn prices.
Lin Youran is a love-brained person, and she believes whatever Su Mingzhi says.
So after she finished pawning, she took Su Mingzhi back to Wu'an Hou Mansion, asked Su Mingzhi to help her choose things, and then continued to pawn.
After going through this three or four times, Lin Youran finally raised one thousand taels.
She immediately went to the Imperial College and handed the banknote to Lin Huijin.
Lin Huijin was a little surprised when he saw the banknote. He thought Ying would not give him money.
After hearing his sister explain the origin of the money, Lin Huijin's expression became complicated.
Ying... doesn't seem to be that bad.
"Brother, go and pay the money back! We can't delay any longer!"
Lin Youran urged him to go to the gambling house during his lunch break.
Lin Huijin originally thought that the people in the gambling house would ask him to pay more money, just like last time.
But I didn't expect that this time the people from the gambling house only accepted one thousand taels and said nothing else.
Lin Huijin breathed a sigh of relief, but he still felt very dissatisfied when he thought about the eight or nine thousand taels of silver he lost last night.
If he had another five thousand taels, he would definitely be able to win it back by doubling it!
After thinking about it, he left the gambling house, got on the carriage, and said to Lin Youran.
"Sister, I don't have much money now. Please find something else to pawn."
Lin Youran frowned, "Brother, do you still want to continue gambling?!"
"No, sister, I'm very lucky. I've mastered the rules and I won't lose again!
Now all we need is some silver. Don’t tell Ying, just quietly give some money to my brother, okay?
Didn’t you say that there are a lot of good things in the warehouse? If a few pieces are missing, no one will notice.
Besides, you are a living pawnshop, not a dead one. When my brother makes money, we can redeem the things back!"
Lin Huijin tried his best to persuade Lin Youran.
Lin Youran was a person with no opinion of her own, and she couldn't bear to see her brother begging her so humbly, so she quickly agreed.
Lin Huijin deliberately did not follow Lin Youran back to the mansion, but waited in the carriage outside the mansion for Lin Youran to take out the things to be pawned.
The brother and sister went to the pawnshop that Su Mingzhi mentioned.
The two thousand taels were pawned and all of them were in Lin Huijin's hands.
But he still felt it was not enough, he wanted five thousand taels.
"Brother, I can't do it today. If I continue to do it, Ying will become suspicious.
Brother, two thousand is already a lot. Maybe you can use this two thousand to win back all the money you lost!"
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