In a blink of an eye, seven days had passed since the winter festival sacrifice, and the Wu family was still as peaceful as usual, everyone was still doing what they should do, as if they had completely forgotten about the three sticks of incense being cut off by the sacrifice.
Wu Shi, the ninth son, and Wu Bai, the tenth son, from Wu Family's South Courtyard, ran to Dulefang almost every day after returning from the school after offering sacrifices.
The so-called nine loses out of ten bets, the more the two young masters gambled, the more they lost. In less than a day, they lost all the money they had won and the monthly bills issued by the Wu family in the past, and even borrowed a large sum from Gamble Fang. The huge amount of silver was doubled, and a written statement was made to promise to return the silver within seven days. Unexpectedly, in just half a day, all the borrowed silver was lost.
At this moment, the two young masters became anxious. They neither dared to ask their family members for money, nor did they dare to let them know. In the end, the shopkeeper of Gamble Fang was willing to let them use things as collateral, but the mortgaged things must be bones, dragon nails, The ghost flute and the Xuanya fan are three magical artifacts.
When Wu Shi and Wu Bai heard this, they immediately became suspicious of the shopkeeper of the casino. How did this person know that their family had these magic weapons? But after thinking about it, Gamble Fang was a place where dragons and fish mixed together, and the shopkeeper of Gamble Fang had a lot of contacts. It was not surprising that someone knew that they had these magical artifacts, so he dispelled his doubts and went home to get the magical artifacts.
However, the magical artifacts are all placed in their warehouse, and the key must be obtained to open the door of the warehouse.
Wu Shi and Wu Bai waited patiently at home for two days, and finally found an opportunity for Wu Qianbin and Wu Qiantong to go out for inspection together, so they found an excuse to ask their mother to open the warehouse.
"Mother, everyone in the school privately said that I was dressed poorly and didn't even have a decent pendant on me. I was worse than the attendants around them. Now I almost have no face to go to the school anymore." Wu Bo He took his mother Dong Mingji's hand and said coquettishly: "Mother, just let me pick some expensive pendants from the storeroom, so that I can go to the school to destroy their prestige."
"How well are your cousins dressed?" Dong Mingji was immediately upset when someone said bad things about her precious son: "I remember the last time I went to your school, I didn't see a few people dressed better than you. What qualifications do they have to say about you? Take the pendant on your waist as an example, it is made of high-grade white jade, and it was handmade by the jade carving master of the imperial capital, hey, where did the jade ornament on your waist go?"
Guilt flashed in Wu Bo's eyes, and he naturally didn't dare to tell her that all the valuables on his body had been pawned: "I left it in the room, and it would only be embarrassing to carry it."
"How could it be embarrassing, that's..."
Wu Bo interrupted: "Mother, you don't know that the cousins and sisters in the West Courtyard and East Courtyard are not wearing antique jade bracelets, or some magical jade ornaments. Everyone is better than me."
"Is there really such a thing?" Dong Mingji felt uncomfortable when he thought that his baby son was dressed in shabby clothes than others, and he didn't want to be laughed at by other sisters-in-law, so he stood up and went to the inner room to take out the storeroom key: "Go, mother Go to the warehouse."
Wu Bo's plan succeeded, and he was overjoyed. He followed Dong Mingji to the warehouse to pick out three precious accessories worn by men, and then, coquettishly asked Dong Mingji to go to the secret room where the magical artifacts were stored.
Dong Mingji's heart softened, so he opened the secret room and let him in.
Taking advantage of her inattention, Wu Bo quietly stuffed the ghost flute and the black tooth fan into his sleeves, and after leaving the storeroom, he quickly found an excuse to leave the Shu Tong Yard and came to the carriage outside the gate that he had previously agreed with Wu Shi wait here.
About half an hour later, Wu Shi also got into the carriage.
Wu Bo asked anxiously: "Brother Nine, how is it, have you got it?"
"Who am you, Brother Ninth, how could I not get it." Wu Shi smiled triumphantly: "You must know that I was the one who came up with the idea of letting our mother open the warehouse."
Wu Bai smiled happily, and then languished again: "Ninth brother, if my father finds out that I stole the magic weapon as a mortgage, he will definitely break my legs."
Wu Shi put away his smile: "Don't worry, my father and uncle won't be able to use the magic weapon recently, we just need to redeem the magic weapon before they find out."
"But, where do we get so much silver to redeem the magic weapon? By the way, my mother gave me three precious pendants just now, and we can pawn them to pay off the debt."
Wu Shi rolled his eyes: "You are stupid, these accessories are meant to be worn on your body every day, if they are missing, how can you explain to your mother?"
"That's right, then how do we have money to redeem the magic weapon?"
"Isn't the new year here? We will receive a lot of red envelopes, and we will have money to pay off our debts."
"That's right." Wu Bo grinned, "Brother Nine is still smart."
The two came to Gamble Square and hurried to the third floor,
There are a lot of people who come to Gamble Fang to gamble, people come and go, and there is a lot of excitement.
When Wu Shi and the others ran to the second floor, they suddenly bumped into a man who was about to go downstairs, and then, with a 'pop' sound, a black and blue jade flute fell out of Wu Bai's sleeve.
Wu Bo was startled, hurriedly put the ghost flute back into his arms, and said angrily: "You walk without eyes? If you break my magic weapon, how will you compensate me?"
"Tenth brother." Worried that he would cause trouble, Wu Shi hurriedly stopped him from continuing: "It's good that the magic weapon is not broken, it's important that we see the shopkeeper now."
Wu Bo snorted coldly, and the man who glared at him viciously went up to the third floor with Wu Shi, walked to the innermost room, got the guard's permission, and entered shopkeeper Yu's study.
The man who bumped into Wu Bai was none other than the black gang who was called here to stare at Wu Shi and the others. When he saw that the door on the third floor was closed, he turned around and went up to the third floor, and behind him were six guard.
"Master Yu, we have brought the magic weapon you asked for."
Wu Shi and Wu Bai took out the magic weapon.
Shopkeeper Yu said with a smile: "Young Master Ninth and Young Master Ten really kept their promise and brought the pledged magic weapon within the stipulated time."
He stretched out his hand to them: "You guys bring it to me to see if it is the magic weapon I want."
Wu Shi raised his hand to block the magic weapon Wu Bai handed out: "Master Yu, before I show you the magic weapon, I want to know why you specified these three magic weapons as collateral?"
Shopkeeper Yu's eyes flickered slightly: "I'm not afraid to tell you this, I have a friend who wants to capture a big monster recently, and he needs some high-grade and special magic weapons to help him succeed, but he didn't Then I found out that only your Wu family’s magic weapon is suitable for him, but he is not familiar with your Wu family, so he asked me about it, and I happened to ask him for something, so I thought about what to do Only then can I help him borrow the magic weapon, but I didn't expect you..."
He chuckled: "You guys also know what happened next."
Wu Shi's eyes sank: "You wouldn't deliberately let us lose money just to borrow a magic weapon, would you?"
Shopkeeper Yu slowly suppressed his smile, and looked at him seriously: "Master Jiu, do you think I am such a person? If I really do this, who will dare to gamble at Lefang in the future?"
Wu Shi thought about it, so he handed over the magic weapon.
Shopkeeper Yu checked the three ritual objects, and after confirming that they were the ones he wanted, he asked them to write and sign the deposit, and asked them to stamp their seals to prove that these ritual objects were mortgaged to him.
Wu Shidao: "The magic weapon is mortgaged to you, but you must also ensure that the magic weapon is intact when we redeem it."
"There is no problem with this." Shopkeeper Yu picked up the papers with a smile and looked at them: "Young Master Ninth and Young Master Ten, it's still early in the morning, do you want to go downstairs and gamble on two more copies?"
Wu Shi sneered: "I'm afraid that if I continue to gamble, I will bet two more magic weapons to lower my debt."
He pulled Uber and turned to open the door, only to see the man who bumped into them blocking the door.
Wu Bo said angrily: "Get out of the way."
Ignoring his anger, Heigan stepped forward, forcing Wu Bai and Wu Shi back into the house.
Wu Shi felt that this man was not an ordinary person, and there were six guards behind him, so he hurriedly grabbed Wu Bai and asked him to keep quiet, so as not to offend someone who could not afford to offend.
Heigan went directly to shopkeeper Yu, picked up the magic weapon on the table, and said softly: "This magic weapon is a betrothal gift from my master to my wife, why is it in your hands?"
Upon hearing this, Wu Shi and Wu Bai turned pale.
damn!
This person turned out to be from the Hei family.
Wouldn't that mean that Wu Ruo would know that their father stole his dowry
If people from the Hei family came to confront them, the two of them would not only have their legs broken.
Wu Bai grasped Wu Shi's hand tightly, and asked in fear, "Ninth Brother Nine, what should I do?"
"I...how would I know." Wu Shi was also very scared. In terms of age, he was not much older than Wu Bo, and he didn't have much experience in dealing with things. Therefore, when encountering such a big thing, he naturally panicked.
Shopkeeper Yu knew his identity as soon as he heard his words, but he still pretended to be angry and said: "Who are you? How dare you break into my study room, you know that the whole Gambling and Music Workshop is my territory, you, hey, what are you doing?" , you return the paper to me, come, come, come quickly."
Heigan directly snatched the three magical artifacts and written documents, stuffed them into the bag inside his cloak, turned around and ordered to the guards: "Take him back."
Hearing this, Wu Shi and Wu Bai hurriedly turned around and ran away, but were blocked by the guards, and their spiritual power was not as high as the guards, and they were knocked unconscious by the guards within two strokes.
Shopkeeper Yu was afraid that they would do something to him, so he quickly said, "Don't hit me, I'll just go with you."
In order not to attract attention, Heigan led them to jump out of the window, then left from the backyard of the casino and returned to Heifu.
Wu Ruo raised her eyebrows in surprise when she saw that Heigan had brought everyone back.
He had asked Shijiu to send people to guard the gambling workshop before, and then came to get all the entrails, but he never thought that Shijiu would ask Heigan to do this.
Heigan put the three artifacts and documents on the table: "Madam, two of the artifacts were indeed made by the master, as for the other one..."
Wu Ruo picked up the Xuanya fan and looked at it, then nodded, "It's my mother's magic weapon."
He put down the Xuanya fan, and picked up the paper, which not only had the signatures and handprints of Wu Bai and Wu Shi, but also the seal of the Wu family, and there were no loopholes in the paper, so he put down the paper and looked at Heixin in satisfaction.
Heixin immediately understood the meaning in his eyes, walked forward with a smile and asked, "I don't know what orders Madam has?"