Chapter 4 The number one scholar’s father is a charlatan who always wins in gambling!
Yu Yan hated her husband's gambling behavior, so she couldn't bear to hear the word gambling. When she heard Si Yuan say he wanted to make a bet with her, she subconsciously frowned.
Si Yuan said calmly: "Let's bet on whether my divination is correct."
Yu Yan frowned and asked, "When did you become addicted to fortune-telling?"
Her eyes looked at the three copper coins in Si Yuan's hand. They were ordinary copper coins, just newer in quality, nothing special.
However, it is not strange to use copper coins for fortune-telling. But what Yu Yan found strange was when her husband learned how to tell fortunes?
Si Yuan casually pulled out a book from the bookshelf behind him. On it was written the words "Tong Tian Lu". He showed a proud expression on his face: "I learned from the book. Now I can tell fortunes accurately. Going to the casino was just a small test. Facts have proved that it is just as my divination indicates. After losing ten bets, I will have good luck. Look, I won money, didn't I?"
But as a person who is not superstitious, or who does not trust her husband, Yu Yan does not believe Si Yuan's words at all. She thinks that Si Yuan just happened to be lucky today and won the money. If he continues to gamble, he will definitely lose again.
Moreover, someone like Si Yuan, who is mysteriously confident in his fortune-telling ability, may think that his fortune-telling is correct and that he can win money, and then go to the casino and lose all his property.
So no matter how much Si Yuan talked, Yu Yan didn't believe a word he said.
Finally, Si Yuan showed an impatient expression and said, "Alright, alright, I only spent the tens of thousands of taels I had on me when I gambled before, okay? But I won't give you any more money even if I win."
When Yu Yan heard Si Yuan's words, she was delighted: "You said so, so the deeds to the house, shop, land and farm must be kept with me. Otherwise, how would I know if you would mortgage these things and use them for gambling?"
Si Yuan knew that the original owner's incompetence made Yu Yan, as his wife, feel insecure. He couldn't destroy the original owner's personality, but it would be nice to take this opportunity to let Yu Yan take charge of the family assets to make her feel at ease. So he pretended to be impatient and agreed casually: "Okay, I'll let you take care of it, and don't bother me anymore in the future!"
After achieving her goal, Yu Yan felt much more relaxed. She tried to persuade her stubborn husband a few more words. But when she saw that her husband still refused to repent, she left the study with a sigh.
Yu Yan could only comfort herself in her heart. After all, the family assets were in her hands. No matter how much her husband gambled, at most he would lose all the more than 40,000 taels in his hand. She could just pretend that he had never won this money.
But from then on, Yu Yan held on to the money in her hands even more tightly.
Si Yuan still follows the character of the original owner, going in and out of various casinos early and returning late every day, no longer limited to the Qinghe Casino where he was when he first crossed over.
After gambling so much, he always won every time he placed a bet, which naturally attracted other gamblers around him to follow suit. Of course, casinos would not welcome him as a gambling god who always won every time he gambled. Even cheating could not beat him. This evil guy was just an ordinary person whose gambling money could be easily snatched back. Therefore, all major casinos in the capital did not welcome him.
The only thing missing from all the casinos is a sign at the door saying "Li Siyuan and dogs are not allowed to enter."
Si Yuan is even worse off than the dog, because some casinos still keep dogs to guard the house and allow dogs to enter and leave the casino, but they will never allow Si Yuan to enter the casino again.
On this day, Si Yuan went out to the casino early and came back early.
Yu Yan, who had long been accustomed to Si Yuan going out to gamble every day, saw Si Yuan coming back so early with a displeased look on his face. He felt as if the sun was rising from the west, and asked, "Why did you come back so early today?"
Si Yuan was so angry that he didn't say anything. It was his attendant who answered: "Madam, the master is not allowed to enter the major casinos."
Yu Yan was stunned. Although she had sent people to inquire about her husband's recent situation and knew that he had been winning money recently, she did not expect that he could win so much that all major casinos would shut him out.
Si Yuan said angrily, "Damn casinos, don't they always win? I didn't win much money from them, and such a big casino can't even afford to lose tens of thousands of taels, how dare they open the door?"
He selectively forgot how huge the total amount of money bet by the other gamblers who followed him in betting was.
When he bet alone, he was relatively measured and only won a few tens of thousands of taels each time. But those gamblers who followed him in betting wanted to invest all their fortunes, and there were so many of them that the total amount was a huge sum that could bankrupt the casino.
Therefore, Si Yuan was only rejected by the casino instead of being beaten to death secretly, all because his identity as the son of the old Earl of Jingyuan and the younger brother of the current Earl of Jingyuan made those who run the casinos afraid of him.
Of course, there was also the factor that Si Yuan was very careful about, as he did not win much money. If he had tens or millions of taels in his hands, the people behind the casinos might have taken the risk to kill him and take the money.
The money in Si Yuan's hand happened to be on a safety line, an amount that the Li family could protect.
Yu Yan was a little confused as she listened to Si Yuan's complaints. Did her husband win so much from gambling that the casino wouldn't let him in?
She couldn't help but wonder, could it be true what her husband said about fortune-telling that every time you gamble, you will win and good times will come after bad times?
Yu Yan couldn't help but want Si Yuan to tell her fortune. After all, she had been married for almost three years and still had no children. Could he help her calculate her fate with children?
Yu Yan was a person who acted decisively, so when Si Yuan had lunch with her at noon, she brought up the matter: "Husband, we have been married for almost three years, and we still have no children. Don't you know how to tell fortunes? Can you tell us when we will have children?"
Si Yuan paused. Yes, he almost forgot that his mission in this world was to be a father to the cannon fodder.
So the question is, where are his cubs?
[System, where is my son? Are you going to ask me to have a child with the original owner’s wife? Then could the child we have be the Li Changqing in the original plot? 】
The system replied: [Li Changqing is already in Yu Yan's belly, but has not been discovered yet. 】
Si Yuan: [I understand. 】
Si Yuan put down the chopsticks in his hand, wiped the corners of his mouth, and then dug out three copper coins from his sleeves. He said, "I will calculate when our child will be born."
He didn't do anything fancy. He just put his hands together, wrapped the three coins in the space enclosed by his palms, shook them up and down three times, and then threw the coins on the dining table.
Yu Yan and the maids who were serving them during their meal all looked at the three copper coins on the table with curiosity, unable to make out what they meant.
Si Yuan looked at the three destiny copper plates that he had chosen seriously with a serious expression, which made Yu Yan, who was about to ask something, become serious. She even breathed slower and looked at him expectantly.
Si Yuan pretended to be mysterious and pinched his fingers. He looked at the copper coins and pinched his fingers with an expression of surprise and joy: "Oh, Madam, God bless us. I just pinched my fingers and the hexagram shows that our son has been born in your belly."
Yu Yan was also extremely surprised when she heard Si Yuan's words. She asked again and again to confirm, "Really? Am I really pregnant?"
Si Yuan smiled and said, "Of course it's true. How could my divination be wrong? If you don't believe me, ask a doctor to take a look. You must be pregnant."
Yu Yan was so happy that she didn't know what to do. She repeatedly ordered the maid: "Go and ask Doctor Zhang to come to the house to check my pulse."
But before the maidservant could even step out of the door, the housekeeper came over in a panic and reported: "Master, Madam, someone from the Bo's Mansion is here to ask you two to come over immediately."
Si Yuan and Yu Yan looked at the butler's panicked look and knew that when he said that someone from the Bo's Mansion came to invite them over, he might actually be ordering them to go over and apologize.
After all, the butler is usually quite steady, and he must have panicked because he noticed that the attitude of the visitor from the Earl's Mansion was not right.
Moreover, it was lunch time, and someone from the Jingyuan Marquis's Mansion asked the couple to go over immediately. Asking them to go over at this time might mean that there was something important. Considering the attitude of the people from the Marquis's Mansion, this important matter should not be a good thing.
Yu Yan looked at Si Yuan with some concern. Si Yuan smiled at her reassuringly and said, "It's okay. I guess father, mother, and brother know what I've been doing recently."
This was within Si Yuan's expectations. He had long expected that the people behind the casino would go to the Jingyuan Marquis's mansion to file a complaint. And when they did file a complaint, they would definitely avoid the main point and say something that would be disadvantageous to him, such as advising the old Jingyuan Marquis to discipline his third son, telling him not to always think about winning money through gambling, but to study hard at home.
When old Uncle Jingyuan heard that his third son, who had been separated from the family, had become addicted to gambling, he immediately imagined a future scenario in his mind where his third son would lose everything and become homeless due to gambling addiction. How could he sit still? Of course, I immediately called my third son back and gave him a beating.
Si Yuan almost guessed what kind of words the person who made the complaint would use. He already had a way to deal with it, so he was naturally not worried at all.
Si Yuan smiled and said to Yu Yan: "It's just right for us to go and tell our parents the good news. They will soon have a grandson again."
Although the old Earl Jingyuan and his wife had already had a grandson born to the original owner's eldest brother, the current Earl Jingyuan Li Chengyuan, the third house, as a direct bloodline, has no children yet, and the old Earl Jingyuan and his wife have tried to induce childbirth many times.
If it weren't for the Li family's strict rules that forbid the birth of a concubine's son before the birth of the legitimate eldest son, I'm afraid the old Jingyuan Earl and his wife would have long been unable to restrain themselves from wanting to give the original owner a concubine.
The original owner was not a lustful person. Apart from a maid arranged by his mother to teach him about human affairs before his marriage, he had no other concubines.
Now, there are only two women in the backyard: Yu Yan, the wife, and the concubine who has little presence and lives her own life behind closed doors.
Precisely because the original owner was not greedy for women, Si Yuan has been obsessed with the casino since he traveled through time and has never set foot in the backyard, which has not aroused suspicion.
After the child in Yu Yan's belly is born, probably no one will care whether Si Yuan is interested in women or not.
Yu Yan listened to Si Yuan's words and stroked her flat belly. She really hoped that there was a child inside, but she didn't trust Si Yuan so much. She couldn't help but say, "But we didn't ask a doctor to take our pulse. What if it's a misunderstanding?" She didn't say directly what if Si Yuan's fortune-telling was wrong, but that was what she meant.
Si Yuan's face darkened and he said, "How can my divination be inaccurate? If you don't believe me, wait until you get to the mansion and ask the mansion doctor to examine you."
Although the Jingyuan Marquis's Mansion was becoming increasingly decadent, it still had to maintain its proper status, for example, hiring a doctor in the mansion to prevent the master of the mansion from having a headache or fever and not having time to call a doctor. This was the mansion physician.
Seeing that Si Yuan was angry, Yu Yan no longer questioned his fortune-telling skills. With a nervous mood, she followed Si Yuan in a carriage to the Jingyuan Earl's Mansion.
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