There is a huge difference between ten taels and one thousand taels.
The gap was too big for Chen Baobao to accept, and he complained that the casino cheated him out of his money. He was thrown out by the casino thugs.
Chen Baobao was unwilling to see the money he had just earned fly away before it even had time to warm up, so he jumped up and down and cursed for a long time at the entrance of the casino.
There are countless people who lose everything in the casino every day. Passersby are used to it and have no interest in listening to his trivial stories. Occasionally, two people who are bored will give him some advice, half-seriously, half-jokingly, "Stop swearing. Swearing won't bring back your money. Instead of wasting time, go home and eat."
Chen Baobao lost all the money he had and had nowhere to go except home, so he could only walk home dejectedly.
On the way, he happened to meet two people going to the casino. When passing by, Chen Baobao happened to hear one of them say, "You don't have many good luck days. If you miss it, you don't know when you will have the next chance. I have good luck today, so I specially asked my uncle to borrow 100 taels. I am sure I can win big."
"My uncle is a well-known wealthy man in the area. If he doesn't help me, his nephew, who will he help?"
Chen Baobao was in a bad mood and took everything he heard to heart.
He sneered disdainfully, "It's only one hundred taels, what's so great about it. You're not a rich man, at best you're just a small landlord."
Unlike his aunt, who was the second wife of the Feng family and whose dowry list was over a foot long.
When Chen Baobao thought of the dowry list of the second wife that he had secretly seen, he felt inexplicably moved.
He didn't dare touch the jade ruyi with golden phoenix head on it. The incense burner, calligraphy and paintings that were not used usually were just sitting there in vain. It would be better to take them out and sell them to raise some money.
Wait until he wins a large sum of money and then redeem it.
Chen Baobao returned home at great speed, first said a few nice words to the old lady and the second wife, which made them very happy, then he slipped into the wing room that the second wife used as a warehouse and stole a few calligraphy and paintings.
The pawnshop owner took advantage of him because he didn't know anything about calligraphy and painting, and only pawned him 150 taels out of the money he had bought for thousands of taels.
Chen Baobao's mind was full of winning money, winning big money, and he didn't care about the price of the yellow pawn. He took the money and went straight to the casino, where he gambled to his heart's content again.
Win or lose, in just a few days Chen Baobao pawned all of the second wife's dowry.
As the weather was getting colder, the Second Lady urged the maid to take out the thick clothes from the boxes and dry them out in the sun, ready to wear when it got even colder. Unexpectedly, the maid went out once and came back with a pale face.
"Madam, it's bad. Your dowry box is empty."
The Second Lady didn't believe it, so she ran to the side room and opened the boxes one by one to check. As the maid said, everything of value was gone.
Including her fur clothes, all that was left were some half-new old clothes.
The second wife almost fainted. She couldn't believe that she would be robbed while living in her own home. However, she was also worried that the old lady was thinking about her dowry, so she ran to question her.
The old lady was suspected for no reason and was so angry that she slapped her thigh and cried.
"What a sin I have committed. I raised the girl I had conceived with great difficulty, and spent half my fortune marrying her off, only to be divorced by her husband's family."
"I didn't say anything bad about you, did I? I let you live in the East Courtyard and prepared your favorite food for you three meals a day."
"How could you suspect me of something missing? Do you still regard me as your mother?"
The second wife was furious, and was even more upset by the old lady's crying, "How dare you say you have never thought about my dowry?"
"I didn't say you must have taken it. I just asked you why you are crying."
The mother and daughter started quarreling first. The servants tried to persuade them, but it was no use. They just hid in the corner and dared not look up.
As they were arguing, Chen Baobao came in dejectedly.
The second wife's eyes suddenly lit up, and she pulled his sleeve and asked loudly, "Did you take the things in my wing?"
Without waiting for Chen Baobao to reply, the old lady spoke up to defend him, "You are really crazy. Baoer is the most knowledgeable and polite person. How could he take your things without permission?"
With the old lady protecting him, Chen Baobao naturally denied it, "I didn't see anything that auntie was talking about."
However, the second wife was certain that it was Chen Baobao who took it away.
Although the Chen family had fallen on hard times, they still had a three-story house with many servants and maids. Even if a thief wanted to break into the Chen family's house, he would not dare to do so easily.
He grabbed Chen Baobao's sleeve tightly and asked him where he had put the things.
Chen Baobao was already in a bad mood because he had been losing money for days, and he was annoyed by the Second Wife's nagging, so he simply acted like a scoundrel and admitted the blame.
"Yes, yes, I took the things. I have already put them in the pawnshop. If you want to get them back, you can give me one thousand taels of silver and I will help you get them back."
The Second Madam was so angry that her chest felt tight. She pointed her finger at Chen Baobao and trembled like a leaf in the wind. "You, you, you, that's worth tens of thousands of taels of silver, and you only pawned it for a thousand taels?"
"Where's the silver I pawned? Don't tell me you ate it."
Chen Baobao was so shameless that he sat down beside the old lady and said, "I lost, and I don't have a penny left. Either you give me the capital and I'll get it back, and I'll redeem it and return it to you, or you can ask the government to arrest me. Anyway, I don't have a penny left."
When the old lady heard Chen Baobao say that he had lost all his money in the casino, she felt very distressed. But she was even more afraid that the second wife would really send him to the government.
How could a daughter be more important than a grandson, so she quickly protected him.
"You also said that those things were your dowry. Now that you have been divorced by the Feng family, the dowry should be returned to your parents' home."
"I understand that you are in a bad mood, so I haven't mentioned this to you yet. If you are sensible, you should take the initiative to send the things to me."
"Bao'er is the only child of the Chen family. In the future, this family will belong to him. If you dare to touch a hair on his head, I will not let you go even if I have to sacrifice my life."
The Second Lady felt that the Feng family acted in a noble and respectable manner like scholars in everything they did, which made her feel tired. When faced with the rogue faces of the old lady and Chen Baobao, she realized how valuable it was to be reasonable and abide by the rules in everything.
His lips trembled with anger for a long time, but he just couldn't think of any words to make him feel better. He threw his sleeves back to his room in a huff. The more he thought about it, the angrier he got. He didn't even eat dinner, and no one asked him a question.
The Second Lady stayed in her room for two days, and no one from the Chen family came to ask her a question, let alone an apology.
She felt heartbroken and scared at the same time. Now that she was able to walk and move around, and was supporting her parents' family with a lot of money, her family still didn't take her seriously.
When her private savings run out in the future, or she has a headache or a fever, can she count on Chen Baobao to take care of her in her old age and see her to the end of her life?
I'm afraid they won't even give her a place to live, and will leave her to fend for herself, and finally just roll her away like a tattered mat.
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