Chapter 505
Yuan Jing and Jing Lie had not been standing there for a while when they saw some movement at the door of the gambling house opposite. Seven or eight people who looked like thugs from the gambling house were pushing a man out. The man wanted to confront them, but all he got was ridicule.
"Oh, Mr. Xie? It's useless even if you are Mr. Xie. You still have to pay back the money you owe. Didn't you marry a rich wife? Let your wife pay the debt with money. If you don't pay it back next time, we will come to your house to collect the debt directly from your wife."
"You... are going too far! Just wait!" Xie Boli wanted to put on a righteous look to condemn these thugs, but he was pushed out by one of the thugs and almost fell flat on his face. He was so angry that his face turned red and he felt extremely humiliated.
Yuan Jing scratched his ears and remembered, "Didn't he marry a woman from a merchant family? Doesn't he have any money to spend? The woman who marries him is unlucky for the rest of her life."
Jing Lie chuckled and said, "At first, the Xie family mother and son had the dowry that woman brought in, and they spent it lavishly for a while. Later, the woman found something wrong, so she withheld it and kept her dowry. After that, I had someone tell her that Xie Boli had developed a gambling addiction. Since then, the Xie family has had even less peace."
Yuan Jing was speechless and said, "This guy is really a dog that can't change its nature. He is so self-righteous all the time. In his heart, he probably thinks it is a disgrace to marry a merchant's daughter. He looks down on her background and wants to use her money. There are not so many good things in the world. If this goes on, how long can the woman endure it?"
Jing Lie touched his chin and said, "Maybe I can't bear it for much longer."
The woman and the merchant behind her were interested in Xie Boli's future and therefore married their daughter off as an early investment. However, seeing that Xie Boli was getting more and more useless due to his gambling addiction, could the merchant still see his future? If they were smart, they should have cut off contact with him as soon as possible and drawn a clear line to avoid greater losses.
If Jing Lie hadn't brought him here, Yuan Jing might not have recognized Xie Boli if they had run into him outside. Looking at his gambler appearance, where was the temperament of the former talent? His appearance in the past was still quite intimidating.
Yuan Jing felt sorry for his original self and shook his head speechlessly, then pulled Jing Lie away. With Jing Lie watching over him, he didn't even have to worry about taking revenge.
Xie Boli glared at the gambling house behind him with hatred. To him, he would not be a gentleman if he did not take revenge. One day he would teach this gambling house a lesson, and then he stood on the side of the road, not knowing where to go.
He didn't want to go back to his current home. That woman was full of the smell of money and only cared about money all day long. She was born in a merchant family. She didn't have half the talent and gentleness of Miao'er. However, Miao'er was now the concubine of the fifth prince, and he couldn't even see Miao'er.
In a trance, he seemed to see the back of the Fourth Young Master Zeng again. He stepped out and wanted to reach out to call out to him, but at this moment, a carriage passed by him quickly. Xie Boli was so scared that he dodged quickly and was almost hit by the coachman, who cursed him.
Xie Boli looked again, but there was no sign of Fourth Young Master Zeng's back. No one else could let him have whatever he wanted like Fourth Young Master Zeng did, and was afraid that he would be unhappy. Now there was another man beside Fourth Young Master Zeng. Xie Boli told himself that he obviously hated Fourth Young Master Zeng's thoughts about him, but sometimes he couldn't help but recall the scene when Fourth Young Master Zeng tried to please him, and Fourth Young Master Zeng's beautiful face now.
Xie's house.
Guo was Xie Boli's wife. When she heard the news from the servants, she was furious and slammed the table angrily: "What kind of talent is this! He owes the gambling house more than a thousand taels of silver. He hasn't earned a penny of silver. He has already spent so much money. You call him a talent? I think he's more like dog shit."
Guo was not a gentleman to begin with. She was good at abacus since she was young and had met all kinds of people with her father. It was impossible for her to pretend to be gentleman, so her true colors were exposed not long after getting married. Although the mother and son of the Xie family looked down on her background, Guo quickly found out the situation of the family and kept a tight hold on to the money to see if the old hag would have the nerve to scold her.
But she never expected that Xie Boli, a distinguished scholar who had passed the imperial examination and was a well-known talent in the capital, was actually seduced and led into a gambling house and became addicted. Guo, who had come into contact with all kinds of people, knew that once a man became addicted to gambling, he would be ruined. Not only would he be ruined, but his entire family would be dragged into the whirlpool. Thinking of having children with such a man, Guo wished she could beat Xie to death.
"Go and ask my father to come over. I have something important to discuss with him. Ask him to come quickly."
"Okay, miss. I'll go back and ask the master to come over." The servant still called her Guo according to the old name of the Guo family.
Half a month later, Jing Lie brought back a piece of news to Yuan Jing that Guo from the Xie family had a falling out with Xie Boli and divorced with her dowry, which made the neighbors of the Xie family very excited.
Not long after the divorce, people from the gambling house came to Xie Boli's house to demand a debt. Xie Boli could not pay it back, so the people from the gambling house not only smashed the house, but also took away Xie's house and drove Xie's mother and son out. Now the mother and son are living on the streets.
Not only was Yuan Jing speechless, Song Shi and Song Shan couldn't believe it either: "How could a scholar be so poor that he has to live on the streets? Why can't a scholar do anything good but can't even make money?"
No matter how you look at it, the life of a juren master is much better than that of the servants, but now Xie Boli's life is worse than that of the servants. How did he get the status of a juren? Or is he just a bookworm and doesn't know how to run a business?
Yuan Jing teased them both, "Mr. Xie is a man of great talent who disdains money and wealth. How can you allow the smell of money to get on him? That would be a disgrace to society."
"Pfft!" Song Shi and Song Shan heard the sarcasm in the young master's words and burst out laughing together.
It's really great! Fortunately, their young master came to his senses and gave up this great talent Xie. Now no matter how you look at it, Young Master Jing Lie is much better than that great talent Xie. No, the great talent Xie is not even qualified to carry Young Master Jing Lie's shoes.
Yuan Jing was in a very good mood after hearing this. With the precedent of Guo, no one would be so desperate as to marry their daughter to her, right? And after this incident, would Xie Boli still be able to concentrate on studying and taking the imperial examination? With his gambling addiction, he really became a useless person.
Seeing that Xie Boli was not having a good time, Yuan Jing was happy.
Liu Yiyi also heard Xia Zhou mention this matter. Xia Zhou was standing up for his fourth brother Yuan Jing, who had been badly cheated by Xie Boli.
Liu Yiyi was surprised and asked, "He's addicted to gambling? His wife divorced him? Are the Xie family mother and son homeless?"
Seeing Xia Zhou nodding his head, Liu Yiyi felt as if she had heard something from the Arabian Nights. If she remembered correctly, Xie Boli was a juren, right? How could a juren bring him to this state? She remembered that the status of a juren was very valuable in ancient times, but Xie Boli had brought him to such a state that he could not even make a living.
Xia Zhou was worried that Liu Yiyi would be fooled by Xie Boli's status as a scholar, so he explained to her seriously: "This guy is not a good person. Fourth brother was deceived by him at the beginning. In fact, he took the initiative to approach Fourth brother at first, but ended up despising Fourth brother. Fortunately, Fourth brother let it go early. Although Brother Jing is not a scholar and has a very ordinary family background, he is devoted to Fourth brother. Compared with Brother Jing, the Xie family is a piece of shit."
"Pfft! Haha..." Liu Yiyi laughed so hard that her stomach hurt. However, this description was quite vivid. In fact, thinking about the current appearance of the Fourth Young Master Zeng, she could hardly imagine that the Fourth Young Master Zeng would have been interested in Xie Boli's wholehearted kindness to him. This had nothing to do with the Fourth Young Master Zeng that she knew.
The Fourth Young Master Zeng that she knew was a very wise and good man who did not care about worldly views. Looking at the downfall of the Yongyi Marquis's Mansion, Liu Yiyi dared to bet that the Fourth Young Master Zeng could not have known nothing about it, and he should have even been involved in a lot of things. So it was a little hard to imagine that such a wise man would be deceived by Xie Boli.
Forget it, this has nothing to do with her. She also looked down on Xie Boli, but she admired Guo's resolute decision to divorce. This is called cutting losses in time.
She heard that Han Miao and Xie Boli had been involved before, and Han Miao hurried into the Fifth Prince's backyard after being caught. Liu Yiyi couldn't help but guess that Han Miao was a bad woman and it was impossible for her to have any dealings with Xie Boli, who was a juren at the time. It was very likely that Xie Boli would be a person of status and position in the future, just like Zeng Yuanxin. However, she didn't expect that Xie Boli would be like Zeng Yuanxin and did not follow the history that Han Miao was familiar with.
Maybe this time and space is a parallel world, so there is no need to care about the fifth prince.
Since Han Miao entered the Fifth Prince's Mansion, she has been busy trying to win the Fifth Prince's heart and vying for favor in the backyard. Later, because of Liu Yiyi's matter, she was busy competing with Liu Yiyi and had no idea where she had forgotten about Xie Boli.
However, due to her status, she couldn't keep an eye on the newly opened shops every day. She also had limited manpower. In fact, most of them were run by people sent by the Fifth Prince. She could only take time to take a look occasionally, but the account books sent to her made her realize that the situation was much worse than she expected.
Although she had taken away some of Yiliu's business, Yiliu still had more customers than hers and earned more money than hers. Doesn't this mean that Han Miao couldn't compete with Liu Yiyi? How could Han Miao admit defeat?
"What's going on? How is my store inferior to Yiliu's across the street? Why are all the customers running to her store?"
"Master, I have inquired about it. I heard that the Yiliu shop across the street has several secret recipes. The products they make are really good. The freckle removal skin care products are really effective, and the whitening ones are also effective. Now those ladies have chosen the Yiliu shop."
The manager in charge of the shop looked at the concubine carefully, but didn't dare to say something. His wife was also secretly using the whitening skin care products in Yiliu's shop. After using them for a while, her skin did improve a lot, but the things made with the recipes given by the concubine did not have such good effects.
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