Most of the leaves of the metasequoia tree in the yard have fallen, but when the wind blows, there are still small oval leaves stuck to people's heads and faces.

Shen Xianru completely ignored the broken leaves. Looking at the two dice boxes on the table, his breathing quickened.

Eight thousand taels!

That’s eight thousand taels of silver!

If he had this money, he would no longer have to stay in the capital and be a "tribute student" that no one looked down upon. As long as he used this money to smooth things over, he could become a parent official, who would be better than his father. Uncle is a hundred times stronger!

"Open it quickly!" he roared in his heart. As soon as the dice box was opened, he would get all his future and wealth!

His concubine who was rolling the dice did not move, because the young man who called himself "Zhao Die" was leaning on the table, staring directly at the dice box in her hand:

"If you lose this round, I'm afraid you will be sold to me, let alone this yard."

The woman with the veil on her face smiled timidly, but her hand held the dice box very steadily.

"You'd better win." Zhao Die refused to let her go just because of her pitiful appearance. "Anyone who dares to use tricks in front of me will be worse than dead if he falls into my hands."

The woman still didn't say anything. She had obviously been ordered by Shen Xianru to do this kind of thing not once or twice. She tilted her head slightly to dodge, but her hands remained motionless.

Shen Xianru laughed at the side: "Young Master Zhao knows everyone's family background at a glance, why bother embarrassing a woman's family at the gambling table?"

Zhao Die sneered and slapped his palm on the table.

"Want to see my dice? Why don't you let me see the dice in your box first?"

After saying that, he turned around and took out the ax from his follower's hand, and struck the woman's hand with such force and ferocity that the woman was so frightened that she quickly dodged and her hand naturally moved.

The wooden dice box fell directly to the ground with her hand and rolled out, revealing that the dice inside rolled out on the ground and read "one, three, four".

The ax in his hand was half-swung and he pulled it back. Zhao Die looked at the dice that fell on the ground and let out a disappointed "tsk":

"I thought it was another three sixes in a row, but it was only eight points."

Zhao Die had been sitting still for the past dozen games. No one expected that he would directly hit the dice box with an axe. Shen Xianru looked at the woman's face and knew that the situation was not good, so he quickly said:

"Mr. Zhao, how can you scare people with an axe? The dice box was moved and the dice were messed up. This game cannot be counted!"

Zhao Die looked at him with a smile: "What can't be touched? Rolling dice is meant to be determined by destiny. Besides, I didn't touch her dice. Didn't she move them all by herself?"

Shen Xianru was furious and said loudly: "This game doesn't count!"

He wanted to throw himself on the table and take back the eight thousand taels of IOU he had placed as a bet, but there were already two people behind him holding him tightly.

The servants of the Zhao family, who had been silent before, also showed their axes and surrounded the gambling table.

Zhao Die took the note in his hand under Shen Xianru's glare.

"Why doesn't it count? Is it possible that you already know the original number of the dice in this box? Otherwise, what does it matter if you touch the dice but don't touch them?"

Looking closely at Shen Xianru, Zhao Die held the paper in one hand and played with the ax with the other, sneering:

"Everything comes as it comes. I'm here to collect debts. It's just that you don't want to pay back the money. You actually set up a trap to get money from me? When you were born, your father put a few dogs in your belly. Courage?"

Lifting his legs and placing his feet on the gaming table, Zhao Die said lazily:

"It makes people think they have a chance to make money, and the more they bet, the bigger their bets are. As long as they lose completely in the last game, all the previous ones are just foreshadowing. This is the only way you people who set up gambling games can learn it. It’s really boring… How does it feel to almost win eight thousand taels of silver?”

Looking at the IOU that he had drawn and stamped, Shen Xianru's eyes were splitting, and then he realized that Zhao Die had no intention of gambling with him from the beginning, just like he had no intention of gambling with him from the beginning. It’s the same as Shen Yan paying back the money.

"Liar! You! You are obviously a liar!"

"Liar?" Zhao Die laughed, waved his hand and told the strong man standing next to him: "Tong Wu, did he owe you ten fingers before? Go and collect the debt quickly."

His tone was extremely relaxed, as if he was asking Tong Wu to pull out a few onions.

Shen Shouru, who had been silent on the side, took advantage of others not paying attention and suddenly broke away from the shackles of the people next to him and ran out of the yard. As soon as he opened the door, someone chased him from behind and held him down. He looked at the door outside. But he showed joy:

"Sir! Sir, help me! Our brother is the nephew of the late Shen University Scholar. Today, someone colluded with bandits and came to my house to force my eldest brother to write an IOU for eight thousand taels of silver. If we hadn't met you, our brother would have died. No one knows!”

"Are you the nephew of the late co-organizer Shen Shao?" someone asked slowly outside the door.

Shen Shouru responded quickly: "Exactly! Exactly! Academician Shen is my second uncle."

The screen wall facing the gate blocked everyone's view, and they could only see that Zhao Die's two men who went to fetch people had retreated, with timidity on their faces.

Then, the sound of footsteps walking into the courtyard was heard again, until a green trail came into view. After being restrained, Shen Xianru, who was about to have his fingers chopped off, also showed a smile on his face and looked at Zhao Die viciously. At a glance he shouted loudly:

"Sir! Sir, help me! These people are..."

A group of people wearing green trousers lined up on both sides. A man wearing a white flying fish suit under a black cloak turned into the courtyard. When he heard Shen Xianru's voice, he followed the sound and looked over:

"Who are you? Why do you look like this?"

"Student Shen Xianru is also the nephew of Bachelor Shen and a supervisor of the Imperial College! This man, who calls himself Zhao Die, first tried to break down my door with an ax and then forced me to sign an eight thousand tael IOU. Please ask adults to make decisions for students!"

The person who came did not speak.

This man in a white flying fish suit is also very young, tall and handsome. Standing in the courtyard, he looks like a magnolia tree coming from the spring. He first looked at the dice box on the table, then looked at it The dandy boys on the left and right who were still watching the excitement then looked at the houses and trees in the courtyard. Finally, he looked at Zhao Die who was still lazily sitting on a chair.

Zhao Die, who was looking at him, said impatiently: "Why are you here?"

The man standing smiled faintly: "I was a little worried when I heard that you were coming."

"Aren't you worried? What are you worried about? How can the Shen family, a pair of losers, hurt me?"

Zhao Die's tone was less harsh than before, but ten times more arrogant. He raised his head and looked at the man in brocade clothes with disdain across the gaming table.

But the man didn't get angry at all, and still smiled: "I don't trust this yard. It will be bad if you go too hard and let the blood of the two Shen family members stain the yard."

Before Zhao Die had time to speak, Shen Xianru suddenly let out a strange cry in his throat: "You two are actually accomplices!"

"Who is his accomplice?" Zhao Die suddenly picked up the tea cup on the table and hit Shen Xianru on the body, causing him to howl in pain.

The young man in Jinyi shook his head in disapproval. He didn't know whether he disagreed with Zhao Die's actions of hitting people or with what Shen Xianru said:

"Shen Xianru, you and your brother Shen Shouru have been gambling together all year round. According to the law, you will be punished severely. I collected the papers and came to get you."

"Paper?" Shen Xianru was shocked and panicked, "Who, who sued me? I am a supervisor of the Imperial College! How could I do such a thing as gambling?"

But I saw the man calmly took out an envelope from his arms: "Ms. Shen, the daughter of Shen Shao, the co-organizer of the university, is suing you two brothers for gambling and causing trouble in her old house all year round. This is the petition. Today, the DPRK has issued an order to strictly investigate gambling activities in various parts of the capital. As a tribute supervisor of the Imperial Academy, you have been doing such things that violate the law all year round. Not only will you be punished severely according to the law, but you will also be deprived of your honor. "

"How dare Shen Shiqing sue me?!" Upon hearing the word "Shen", Shen Xianru's eyes widened with disbelief, "How dare she, an orphan with a dead father and dead mother, Sue me? If it weren’t for my kindness, she! Her! You would even accept a lawsuit from a woman? Let me tell you! Shen Shiqing would have gone crazy, she is a crazy woman! If I hadn’t covered her up for her She was divorced by the Xie family a long time ago! Her mother is a lunatic! She is also a lunatic! How can you listen to a lunatic’s one-sided words? "

Hearing Shen Xianru's mad curses, Zhao Die, no, Zhao Surui looked at Shen Shiqing, who had been standing in the middle with a normal expression.

Shen Shiqing, whose eyes were deep in thought, seemed to be aware of his gaze. When he raised his eyes and met each other, Zhao Surui seemed to hear Shen Shiqing speaking in his heart.

"Your Majesty, you have seen it, you have heard it. This is the shackles you think you can easily break away from."

The cold voice was the same as before.

Zhao Surui was stunned and realized that the moment just now was just his hallucination.

The sun is setting in the west and the sky is getting colder.

Zhao Surui shivered, and Peifeng, who was also dressed as a man next to him, quickly picked up the silver rat cloak he had put aside and put it on for him. Even while wearing the clothes, he kept talking:

"Crazy? I think you are the mad dog. You will bite at will when you are about to die. You are like a mad dog that has lost its family."

At this time, Shen Shouru on the side suddenly knelt down and said loudly: "Sir, you and Mr. Zhao are old acquaintances, but do you know that Mr. Zhao is also a gambler? He has nearly ten thousand taels of treasure hidden in his body. They were all gambling money, and the loan receipt of eight thousand taels of silver signed by my brother was all taken away by him in the name of gambling! Your Excellency is an extraordinary person, and he must be a noble and honest person. I will shield this person for selfish reasons!"

Before Shen Shiqing could speak, Zhao Surui smiled first.

"Me? Gambling? Hahaha! You said I gambled when I had a lot of money on me. Do you have any evidence?"

"That IOU!"

"IOU? This is obviously the rent you two brothers owe after renting Madam Shen's house for several years. I came to collect debts for her. When did I become a gambler? On the contrary, you... I saw it when I came here. You have filled the yard with people playing dominoes and gambling dice. A group of people dressed in silk robes gambled money, and now I have locked them in the backyard room. Those people are all gamblers recruited by you."

As he said that, Zhao Surui shook the IOU in his hand.

"If you don't believe it, I can also send Mrs. Shen's letter entrusting me to collect debts for her to Jingzhao Mansion. As for gambling..."

Zhao Surui looked at Shen Shiqing and said with a half-smile on his face:

"A law-abiding, timid person like me really can't do it."

Shen Shiqing turned her head to the side. Her face had no real expression since Shen Xianru called her a lunatic, but now she actually had a smile.

Seeing that smile, Zhao Surui was shocked to realize that he had inadvertently coaxed Shen Sanfei, and snorted again.

Shen Shiqing also stopped talking to Shen Xianru and Shen Shouru. The witnesses and physical evidence were all there, and there was nothing else to say.

As soon as she raised her hand, Xichang's officers immediately tied up everyone in the house and escorted them out.

Zhao Surui was used to being quiet in Zhuangzi, but Zhao Surui was not used to the screams and pleas from everywhere, so he waved his hand and said:

"I've searched through the valuable things in this house. You should hurry up and take care of things. You have to treat me to a nice meal today."

He helped Shen Sanfai get his house back! There is still eight thousand taels of rent left!

Although the money must have fallen into his hands...it belongs to Shen Sanfai, and Shen Sanfai still has to thank him!

The two passed by each other, and Shen Shiqing said softly: "Thank you."

The wind blows the fir trees, and the frost covers the withered vines.

Shen Shiqing stood in the yard and looked at the place where she grew up.

Zhao Surui walked to the screen wall and turned to look at her, only to see her back.

It was obviously his body that was used, but Zhao Surui felt like he had seen a dead leaf.
To be continued...