Chapter 502: Cooperation is reached

Chapter 502: Cooperation is reached

After the meal, Gu Ruinian was helped by the maid to wash his hands.

After drinking a cup of tea with Xu Zaohua, Xu Zaohua leisurely asked people to prepare the carriage.

Gu Ruinian was delighted as he was finally going to take him to meet the Second Master Lian.

Soon, Gu Ruinian and Xu Zaohua got on the carriage.

Ever since the second young master Lian was cut off from his marital life by Lu Zhaoyang, he has completely let himself go. In the past, he was addicted to the pleasures of pleasure, but after being cut off from his marital life, he could no longer indulge in pleasure and turned to a new way of spending money - gambling.

I sleep until noon every day, go to the casino after lunch, and gamble until midnight.

When Gu Ruinian followed Xu Zaohua to the largest casino in Pingchuan County, the second young master Lian had already placed two bets.

"Don't look around." Xu Zaohua said to Gu Ruinian.

Xu Zaohua took Gu Ruinian to sit in the box with ease, looking at the venue through the window. Lian Second Young Master had lost two rounds.

There was a smile on Xu Zaohua's lips.

Losing is good, losing will help her succeed.

"Ruinian, do you know how to gamble?" Xu Zaohua asked.

Gu Ruinian shook his head, his eyes shining with eagerness to try.

He wanted to experience this kind of money-spending den, but unfortunately he had no money.

Xu Zaohua seemed to see what he was thinking and said to him, "Go and play with Mr. Lian Er later."

Gu Ruinian said: "I have no money."

Gu Ruinian knew that Xu Zaohua wanted him to go to the gambling table and get close to the Second Master Lian and build a relationship with him.

But he only had five taels of silver in his pocket and couldn't even place a bet.

Gu Ruinian gritted his teeth, suspecting that Xu Zaohua deliberately set a trap for him to come to the casino to cheat him of his money.

He had heard that it was difficult to get off the gambling table once you were at it. Don't worry if you don't have money, the casino will lend you money at high interest rates and you can just pay it back later.

Those rich young men can do this, but he can't. If he borrows money from loan sharks to pay off his gambling debts, even Mr. Gu will have to give up on him.

Xu Zaohua smiled and said, "Can I, your sister, still let you pay for it?"

As he spoke, he called a waiter over, whispered a few words in his ear, and asked the waiter to take Gu Ruinian to play with the second young master Lian.

Gu Ruinian went there with gritted teeth.

After leaving the private room, he asked the waiter some questions and understood why a woman like Xu Zaohua could move freely in the casino and why the waiters were so respectful to her.

This casino belongs to the Zheng family. Everyone would give some face to the eldest lady of the Zheng family when she comes to the casino.

Gu Ruinian made up his mind. When they walked to the gambling table, winning or losing was not up to him. The most important thing was to make the Second Young Master Lian happy and gain his trust.

Following the waiter to the gambling table, Gu Ruinian sat down opposite the second son of the Lian family.

The second young master Lian has been losing a lot of money these days.

Although Gu Ruinian was not proficient in gambling, he understood the rules. These were similar to the rules of gambling in the village during the New Year in later generations, except that in the village, gambling was for fun and no one cared about the loss, but here, real money and even life were at stake.

Gu Ruinian thought that since Xu Zaohua was the young lady of the casino, it was impossible for her to be stuck at the gambling table. Since he wanted to gain the trust of the Second Master Lian, he naturally had to make him happy.

How could this matter make Mr. Lian II completely happy? Of course, he should win.

Gu Ruinian deliberately lost three games in a row to Mr. Lian Er.

The defeated Mr. Lian became happy.

In the end he won one thousand taels of silver from Gu Ruinian.

Gu Ruinian pushed the cards aside and spread out his hands. Naturally, the Second Young Master was unwilling to play. He was lucky enough, so how could he just not play?

What made him even angrier was that Gu Ruinian said he had no money.

Just as the Second Young Master Lian was about to hit someone, the waiter came forward and sent the Second Young Master Lian and Gu Ruinian to Xu Zaohua.

Xu Zaohua said with a smile: "I heard that the second young master borrowed one thousand taels from our casino after losing all his money. Losing money is a small matter. If Master Lian knew about it, he would come to our house to kill us. I deliberately asked my cousin to go down and gamble with you, hoping that you can win back the money you lost. My cousin is an honest man and he doesn't want to lose one thousand taels. You owe our casino one thousand taels and my cousin will give you one thousand taels. Our two families will not owe or lose."

Only then did the Second Young Master Lian realize that the eldest lady of the Zheng family had deliberately paid off his debts.

After all, he came from a wealthy family, and the most common thing about him was scheming and scheming. Even the Second Young Master didn't believe that Xu Zaohua was helping him out of kindness.

Xu Zaohua is a widow, her roots are cut off and the family business is controlled by her elder brother and half sister. What's the point of helping him?

"Second Young Master, there are no outsiders here. I have my reasons for helping you. The Lian family and the Zheng family want to form an alliance, so let my younger brother-in-law marry your half-sister." Xu Zaohua saw what Second Young Master Lian was thinking and told him her plan.

"If they get married, will the Zheng family still have a place for an orphan like me and my widowed mother?" Everyone in Pingchuan County knew that the second son of the Lian family was a son. Xu Zaohua did not beat around the bush with the second son of the Lian family. "I don't want the Lian and Zheng families to marry. Not only do I not want it, I'm sure the second son of the Lian family doesn't want it either. Your concubine sister has the influence of the aunt, the ability to do business, and a capable husband's family. Is there still a place for you in the Lian family?"

When Xu Zaohua mentioned Lian Hengruo, the second young master Lian's eyes became gloomy.

In this life, the person he hated the most was his concubine sister.

She and her bitch mother coaxed her father into taking over a large piece of the Lian family's business, but they were still not satisfied and wanted more.

In fact, the business that his concubine sister got did not make him lose his foothold in the Lian family. He was a son, and even if he was cut off from the family line, the family would still have the incense and the Lian family would not give him the property. But he just couldn't stand Lian Hengruo's arrogance. What girl wouldn't live and die for her brothers? But she was so stubborn since she was a child. She would make trouble for everything that the brothers had, and when she grew up, she even took action against the three brothers.

He suspected that his marriage with Huang Jingshan was ruined by his concubine sister. Although he had no evidence, he just suspected it.

Now the concubine's younger sister is just a lady in the boudoir. When she gets married and has a good husband to help her, she will definitely step on the three brothers under her feet.

These days he did hear from his mother that Lian Hengruo was discussing marriage with the second son of the Zheng family.

No, Lian Hengruo cannot marry into the Zheng family.

A heartless and ungrateful person like her should marry a farmer or a pudding in white.

"Do you have a solution?" asked the Second Master Lian.

Xu Zaohua smiled and said, "Aren't you looking for Mr. Lian to discuss this?"

"Oh, let's discuss. Does the eldest young lady have any good ideas?" The second young master Lian crossed his legs.

Xu Zaohua pushed Gu Ruinian and said, "This is Gu Ruinian from my mother's village. Last time, the second lady's carriage splashed him with mud, but the second lady not only didn't say he was blocking the road, but also handed him a handkerchief. This is also destined to be together. Ruinian has been thinking about the second lady all the time, and wants to ask the second master Lian to help them."

The Second Young Master Lian looked at Gu Ruinian, who was wearing coarse cloth, with a dark and unclear look in his eyes.

He knew that Xu Zaohua's parents lived in the countryside, which meant that the boy was a farmer in the countryside.

Isn't this the destination he hoped Lian Hengruo would have?

Gu Ruinian gave the second young master Lian a flattering smile and said, "Please help me, second brother."

He was flattering Lian Hengruo now, and when he got Lian Hengruo, he would join forces with Lian Hengruo to drive this trash out of the Lian family to avenge today's shame.

Mr. Lian thought for a moment and said, "Your card skills today pleased me, so just follow me for now. Whether you can become my brother-in-law depends on your ability."

Gu Ruinian and Xu Zaohua looked at each other and were overjoyed.

In this way, a collusive cooperation was achieved.