Huang Ningxiang slapped her brother's hand away and said, "You don't have any money. You can't take it anymore. Be honest from now on. If you gamble again, you will end up like my second brother."
Huang Xiaoguan said with a playful smile: "Then it's one or two taels of silver."
Huang Ningxiang was determined this time not to indulge her elder brother and father in gambling anymore. She said in a stern voice, "Don't even mention a tael of silver. I won't give you a penny."
Huang Xiaoguan said with a bitter face: "But I don't have any money, I need to use it to fill my stomach!"
Huang Ningxiang said coldly, "Second brother is dead. This should be a lesson for you. From now on, I will not give you any money. I will save the money earned from this incense shop to marry you a wife. Daddy is old, and if he gets sick or something, he will need money. And if you want me to help you with this last order, you have to listen to me and find a job to take care of yourself."
Huang Xiaoguan looked embarrassed: "I am a rich man, how can I go out to find a job? It would be so embarrassing."
Huang Ningxiang glared at her eldest brother. "How dare you call yourself a rich young man? You're just a rich young man who's fallen on hard times. Also, gambling and squandering money is shameful. If you weren't such spendthrifts, I would have married into the general's mansion long ago. If you don't stop gambling, the general will use some means to make you disown me. By then, even your tears won't be of any use."
In fact, she really wanted to sever ties with her father and elder brother, but she was worried that Wei Youqing would investigate her father and elder brother's background. If they were found to have committed the three crimes three years ago, she would be finished.
It can be said that she and her father and elder brother are in the same boat, and no one can escape responsibility if something goes wrong.
"Ah!" Huang Xiaoguan was furious when he heard this and slammed the table. "He's just an outsider. Why does he want to separate our family? Why does he want us to sever ties with you?"
Huang Ningxiang also stood up and said angrily: "Because you are a gambling swindler, the reason why the General's Mansion won't let me marry the General is because they are worried that you will ruin the Huang family and then ruin the General's Mansion."
Huang Xiaoguan stared and opened his mouth to speak, but found that he had no way to refute.
He really wanted his sister to marry into the General's Mansion so that she could use the money from the General's Mansion to support him.
Huang Ningxiang watched the commotion in the shop startle the people outside and yelled at her eldest brother, "Be quiet and stop embarrassing yourself here."
Huang Xiaoguan walked away dejectedly, still thinking about Wei Youqing asking him to sever ties with his father and sister.
Huang Ningxiang watched her elder brother leave and finally breathed a sigh of relief, then began to think about the tenant named Lu Yi.
At this time, Wei Youqing walked into the shop. Huang Ningxiang raised her eyes and trembled with fear.
"What's wrong?" Wei Youqing saw that she seemed to be frightened.
Huang Ningxiang looked outside the door: "I thought my elder brother was here again."
Wei Youqing sat down and asked, "Is your elder brother asking you for money again?"
Huang Ningxiang frowned and wiped her tears with a handkerchief. "Another five taels of silver were taken away. Life is really unbearable. I want to close this shop and go to the mountains to become a nun."
Wei Youqing pulled out a ten-liang silver coin from his pocket and placed it on the table: "Take this."
Huang Ningxiang was secretly delighted, but she still looked pitiful: "General, how can this be done?"
Wei Youqing stood up and said, "Put it away! Life still has to go on. I have things to do in the barracks. I have to leave."
After saying that, he turned and left.
Huang Ningxiang saw him to the door, and when she saw that he had disappeared, she went back to collect the ten taels of silver and hid it under the warehouse.
After Wei Youqing left Huang's Incense Shop, he followed the path Huang Xiaoguan had taken and soon caught up with Huang Xiaoguan.
Huang Xiaoguan was standing at the entrance of the casino, wondering whether to go in and play a round. But as he took a step, he felt a shock on his shoulder and he instantly became half a head shorter. When he turned around, he saw Wei Youqing's stern face.
As soon as he uttered the word "General", Wei Youqing grabbed his neck from behind.
Wei Youqing said coldly, "How much money did you take from your sister just now?"
Huang Xiaoguan screamed "Ah ah" and couldn't speak.
Wei Youqing loosened his arms a little.
Huang Xiaoguan finally managed to breathe out and said hurriedly, "No, I didn't take a single penny."
Wei Youqing: "Did you take three taels, or five taels?"
Huang Xiaoguan shook his head: "General, I really didn't take it. I said I didn't take a penny. If you don't believe me, search me. I just came from the incense shop and haven't entered the casino yet."
Wei Youqing let go of Huang Xiaoguan and searched him carefully, and sure enough, he had no money on him.
"General, I did ask my sister for money, but she didn't give it to me."
Wei Youqing frowned and yelled at Huang Xiaoguan, "Get lost..."
Huang Xiaoguan turned around and ran away quickly without even daring to look back.
"A Ning, why did you lie to me?"
Wei Youqing clenched his fists tightly.
For Huang Ningxiang, he almost caused his father to lose his life, but Huang Ningxiang actually cheated him for a mere few dollars.
He originally wanted to go to the incense shop to question Huang Ningxiang, but after walking a few steps, he still headed towards home.
At the General's Mansion, Yu Jinshu was handling some affairs on the farm in the front hall.
"The weather is bad this year, and the harvest has been halved. The tenants' rent should also be halved. Otherwise, they won't be able to survive. Who will farm the farm in the future?"
"Yes, yes, the young lady is right."
"I heard that the children in the village have no education. We need to build a school on the village and hire two teachers to teach. The expenses will be charged to the general's mansion."
"Young Madam is righteous!"
"You can stay here for one night. Tomorrow morning I will go with you to the village to see how to build a school."
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