Zhu Pingan contentedly came out from the room of Lord Tantai, and from a distance, he saw Chu Xiong, Zhang Chufeng, and Zhuo Yan in the long corridor outside the door. From their concerned eyes, Zhu Pingan understood that these three goods had taken themselves ya bet again.
This gambling game that had lasted for more than half a month, shouldn’t he, the party himself, also collect some commission.
Thus, with a smile on his lips, Zhu Pingan walked straight towards them and greeted them.
“Ahem, little brother Zhu ……”
“Sir Zhu ……”
After all, they had taken Zhu Pingan as a ya betting object, and when they saw the person in question come over, they couldn’t help but have a few awkward moments.
“Hehe, congratulations big brother Chu, you won.”Zhu Pingan pulled out the court approved official document from his pocket.
“Really? The rations have come down?!”Chu Xiong couldn’t help but rejoice at the words, the next second he glimpsed Zhu Pingan’s meaningful smile, Chu Xiong couldn’t help but feel embarrassed again, rubbing his hands together again and again, “Ah? Cough cough, Zhu little brother, you know all about the matter that we bet with your soldier’s food and wages?”
“Well, I’ve known about it since your first day.”Zhu Pingan smiled and nodded.
As a result, Chu Xiong’s face turned even redder. Zhang Chufeng and Zhuo Yan were also a little embarrassed.
“Hehe, Big Brother Chu, Lord Zhang, Lord Zhuo, what’s there to be embarrassed about, a small gamble is good for the soul.”
Zhu Pingan smiled in disbelief.
“Hahaha, still little brother Chu is sensible. Come, let’s take a look, well, it’s true, the court has already approved our yamen’s application for military rations three days ago, with this official document you can go to Yingtian Ministry of Military Affairs to draw 5,000 taels of rations.”When Chu Xiong heard Zhu Pingan’s words, he let go of the embarrassment in his heart, and the whole person couldn’t help but laugh out loud, took the official document handed over by Zhu Pingan, unfolded it and read it over, and then read it out to Zhang Chufeng, Zhuo Yan and the two of them like a victorious big fat goose.
“It was approved so quickly?!”Zhang Chufeng and Zhuo Yan were incredulous and stretched their necks.
“Oh, white paper, black letter and red seal can still cheat you? Look for yourselves, is it written like this!”Chu Xiong angled his head and laughed, handing the official document approved by the court to Zhang Chufeng and Zhuo Yan, allowing them to watch.
Zhang Chufeng took the official document, read it over, confirmed it again, and had to accept the fact that the rations had been approved.
Zhuo Yan also read the official document once and confirmed this fact, a meaty expression appeared on his face paralysed.
“Haha, you’ve finished reading, right? After you’ve finished reading, return the official document to little brother Zhu. Little brother Zhu still has to draw rations with the official document.”Chu Xiong laughed as he collected the official document back and returned it to Zhu Pingan.
“Hahahahaha, willing to gamble, take the silver. You two have won me so many times, this time it’s finally my turn to open up.”Chu Xiong laughed and stretched out his hands to Zhang Chufeng and Zhuo Yan, teasingly saying, “When I lost in the first place, but I was quick to pay out the silver, you guys won’t renege on the debt, right?!”
“What reneging? What are you talking about, Fatty Chu? Not just a hundred taels of silver! Who would renege!”
Zhang Chufeng gritted his teeth and fished out a hundred taels denomination silver ticket with body temperature from his bosom, and reluctantly threw it to Chu Xiong.
“My little baby!”With an agility that did not match his size, Chu Xiong caught the silver ticket that Zhang Chufeng threw over and kissed the silver ticket with vigour, a fat face smiling like a sunflower.
Zhuo Yan a face paralysed face although meat pain, but is a willingness to gamble, do not give up but very quick to pull out a hundred taels of silver tickets handed over to Chu Xiong, “Here, I have not even warmed it.”
“Haha, old brother Zhuo is just more refreshing than some people.”As soon as Chu Xiong received the silver ticket, the corner of his mouth grinned to the back of his head, “You didn’t warm up the silver ticket, you don’t have to be sorry, old brother I’ll help you warm it up.”
Chu Xiong looked at the two hundred taels denomination silver tickets in his hand, a fat face smiling like a flower, his mood was not to mention how happy he was.
Just when he was in the midst of his self-indulgence, a hand reached over and accurately grabbed one of the silver tickets, then whooshed it away.
Who dares to rob my money?
Chu Xiong was in a hurry, and when he looked up, he saw Zhu Pingan, smiling with a sunny face as he held the silver ticket.
“Big brother Chu, as your ya betting partner, I’m equivalent to a banker, and I helped you win the bet today, it’s not too much to meet and share half, right?”Zhu Pingan looked at Chu Xiong with a smile, shook the silver ticket in his hand and said slowly.
“Cough, cough, cough, not too much, not too much.”Chu Xiong said with a face of flesh pain.
“Hehe, big brother Chu’s generosity in funding the Yamen’s military rations, then little brother will be obliged.”
Zhu Pingan, under Chu Xiong’s meat-ache gaze, put away the silver cheque with a smile on his brow and clasped his fists to say thank you.
Zhu Pingan robbed Chu Xiong without a trace of burden in his heart, for one thing, Chu Xiong was rich and generous, and this money was his won silver, without a little labour added; secondly, just like what Zhu Pingan said, as a ya bet object and wrote to Xu Shi to help him win the bet, this one hundred taels of silver was the share he deserved.
“Yes, yes, yes, funding the military provisions, I’m responding to the call of Lord Tendai to help Zi Hou with all my might.”Chu Xiong sniffed, and nodded his head repeatedly, I like this statement, then turned his head to look at Zhang Chufeng and Zhuo Yan, and laughed hehehehe, “Last time at the table, the Tuan Tai Lord was calling on us to help Little Brother Zhu, but I carried out the will of the Tuan Tai Lord to the very end, and financed Little Brother Zhu with one hundred taels of silver for the army’s rations and provisions, hehehe, don’t you have anything to show for the two of you, Brother Zhang and Elder Brother Zhuo? ”
“Dead fat man, my private money all won away by you, I would like to show, you lend me ah?!”Zhang Chufeng just lost a huge sum of one hundred taels of silver, his mood was not happy, hearing Chu Xiong want him to sponsor silver again, his face was even darker, gritting his teeth and rushing Chu Xiong with a rant.
“Can ah, as long as you make a loan note, how much you want to borrow, how much I lend you.”Chu Xiong hemmed and hawed and laughed.
Zhang Chufeng ignored him.
“Your hundred taels of silver is what I contributed.”Zhuo Yan a face paralysed face said indifferently.
“Elder brother Zhuo, it’s mine if you lose to me, that’s what I contributed.”Chu Xiong corrected.
“Hmph, dead fatso, the wool is still coming out of me and Lord Zhuo.”Zhang Chufeng grunted and gritted his teeth, “You are being generous at the expense of Lord Zhuo and I. More than that, you yourself even earned a hundred taels backwards.”
Speaking of this, Zhang Chufeng’s eyes suddenly lit up with a flash of light, and then hehehe smiled and looked at Chu Xiong.
“Why are you looking at me like that?”Chu Xiong’s goosebumps rose when he was looked at by Zhang Chufeng.
“Hehehe, dead fatso, if you really responded to the call of Lord Tendai, you will sponsor Chu ZiHou with the other hundred taels of silver tickets as well. It’s also yours for nothing anyway.”Zhang Chufeng hemmed and hawed and strongly encouraged.
“Good!”Zhuo Yan’s face paralysed face also had an expression and nodded in agreement, his eyes looking towards Chu Xiong.
“I ……”Chu Xiong clutched the silver ticket in his hand and subconsciously took a step backwards.
“Aiya, how is this good.”Although Zhu Pingan said this on his lips, his eyes were unblinking as he stared at the other one hundred taels silver ticket in Chu Xiong’s hand, like a hungry wolf aiming at its prey.
For a while, three people, six eyes like a spotlight, stared at Chu Xiong without blinking.
“I ……am thinking of doing just that.”
God knows how Chu Xiong uttered these words, and God knows how much blood dripped from his heart when he uttered these words.
“Today is a harvest season ……”Chu Pingan returned home fully loaded, and on his way home, he couldn’t help but hum a little song.
