(759 throw in money, accept defeat, accept heavy gifts, hold up a lantern to lead the way to hell)

With a loud sound, he threw the copper coins in his hand into the empty plate on the table, which is called throwing money in and admitting defeat.

At the same time, a red agate placed on the table on the side of Song Lan immediately lit up, indicating that he had accepted the result of Song Lan's victory and Gou Zhu's defeat.

This result will also be gathered together by the connected ideas and integrated into a magic circle built by the ancestor of the Song family.

This array is arranged in the Song family ancestral hall in Song City. Its core is a seemingly ordinary granite stele named "Song Lord". The stele is carved with knives and axes, and the names of past family heads are vigorously and powerfully engraved on it.

The name of each generation of family head occupies a line on the monument. But this line does not have only one name, but four names. But three of them seem to have been scraped off cleanly with a knife, leaving only one.

He is the final head of the family.

As the two strands of inspiration gathered like water, the monument shook slightly, and a sound like a grinding stone was heard. As if a craftsman was working with his own hands, pieces of stone chips fell automatically. After a while, the last line of the list appeared one after another.

The two names were "Song Ruhai" and "Song Lan".

Although it is named "Song Master", the name on the monument is not just the head of the family. As long as you enter the top four of the money guessing competition, your name will automatically appear on the monument. If anyone among the top four is eliminated, his name will be erased at the same time.

The last person left is the worthy head of the family.

Everything is completed automatically by the preset inspiration in the formation. This strictly establishes the rules and avoids the possibility of malpractice by the organizers of the "Money Guessing Conference". When the name of the family leader finally appears on the monument, it is in his hands.

The identity stone automatically becomes the key to controlling the Song family.

The Song family is not a Taoist family, but a family of merchants. However, the ancestor of the Song family believes in spiritual formations in everything, and does not believe in people. He believes that people must have desires and selfishness. If they are selfless, they will naturally not be able to become merchants.

So from that time on, the Song family spent huge sums of money to hire Xuanmen formation masters to set up formations, set up various spiritual mechanisms, and control all key affairs in the family.

Although cashiering, accounting, stock-taking, and review all require human assistance, almost all the key points are automatically controlled by the magic system, which eliminates to the greatest extent the possibility of someone taking advantage of it and profiting from it.

The entire Song family is a huge, automatic money-making machine. Of course, it is difficult to distinguish whether it is the people or the magic circles that play the key role. It is just that both are indispensable.

It is such a "money guessing game" gambling game. In each game, the formation on the gambling table automatically combines the opponents and determines the winner or lose without the need for a referee. The deacons who patrol around the gambling table are mainly responsible for starting the game.

Maintain order so that no one disrupts the function of the gambling game.

Even the money that each person wins or loses does not have to be carried with him and delivered by hand, but is recorded in the formation's inspiration. After the money guessing conference is over, he can go directly to the Song family's accounting office to collect it.

What made Gouzhu feel heartbroken was the inspiration in the red agate he held. This is a kind of formation hub in the Song family, which represents his identity. It is called the identity stone. It also records the amount of silver he has won, and the amount is sharp.

decreased.

After losing 5,300 taels, there are still 3,600 taels left. Gouzhu sighed. For him now, although thousands of taels of silver are only equivalent to thousands of pure Yang pills and a few taels of blood spirit stones, but

It's not a small matter for him, because all his money is in Lian Ling's hands.

Although Lian Ling gave him the treasure ring from the Yuanbao Bank and told him that he could use it at will, the consequence of using the treasure ring was that every expense would be directly transferred back to the treasure ring in the same account held by Lian Ling.

She would also ask with a smile from time to time: "On August 13, at midnight, on the streets of Daming in Jinyu City, I withdrew thirty taels of silver... What did you use the money for in the middle of the night?"

Originally, their souls were connected, so she could just put her spiritual consciousness in and read it. But after becoming a Taoist couple, she suddenly had the concept of "privacy", and she rarely barged into her heart like this. But it was precisely because of this.

In this way, he was very troubled every time he explained.

It was easy to get a sum of ten thousand taels of silver, which was not within the treasure ring, but suddenly lost more than half of it, and even to a female prostitute. This is really not a pleasant thing.

Gou Zhu bowed his head angrily and was about to leave when he saw Song Lan carefully touching the agate stone in his palm and sending a ray of spiritual thought to it. The stone in his palm heated up slightly, and the silver in it suddenly

One hundred thousand taels more!

He was quite surprised, but there was no surprise at all. If he wanted money, he could earn it, steal it, or ask his wife for it, but he had never been used to others tipping him casually.

Although I dress simply to keep a low profile, and I don’t look like an elder, you, the first lady of the Song family, really treat me as a servant serving Song Ruhai? Show off? Humiliate me? A series of thoughts popped into his mind.

Besides, what if Lian Ling notices this kind of money when she comes home? There is no way to explain the legal source. Lying can’t hide it from her at all, and the consequences will be more serious. Why not lie and say it was given by a woman? Isn’t that going to turn the world upside down?

?

The flow of money in the Song family's account is controlled by their own consciousness. In fact, he could transfer the one hundred thousand taels of silver back to Song Lan with just one thought. But he did not do so, but decided to calm down first

deal with……

"Miss Song, what does this mean?"

Song Lan bowed her hands respectfully, bowed down, and said in a voice that could not be heard by the people next to her: "It's just a small gift, not respectful. I have no other intention, I just want to ask for something!"

…

Going back to more than ten days ago, Song Ruqing and Ye Nuer were seriously considering how to escape from Song Mansion, which is Song City.

Elopement is not an easy task. Of course, he can take Ye Nuer out of the gate in broad daylight, and no one will stop him. But it won't take long for a large number of bodyguards to come to him, no matter where he goes.

Wherever they go, they will follow.

It was enough for them to follow him, and soon people from Song’s Elders’ Association would follow him. No matter where he went to the ends of the earth, a few of these people would follow him from time to time, handing him a piece of jade slip, bowing and saying: “Please return this matter.

The head of the family decides!"

He didn't want to have people from the Presbyterian Church suddenly appear next to him while he and Ye Nuer were having fun outside.

It is not difficult to deal with this kind of thing. He only needs to take the jade slip, turn his spiritual mind around it, understand the whole story, and then send a ray of spiritual thought to say "yes" or "no". He just needs to take it.

You can even directly approve or reject it without looking at it.

But even that is annoying enough, as long as this kind of thing happens, it is annoying enough!

He can also directly delegate authority to the Presbyterian Council, which will then handle the matter on its behalf. However, this authorization is limited to one year at most.

He wants to be with Ye Nuer for eternity, how can he endure being harassed by these old guys after a year of peace?

Therefore, it is not possible to walk during the day, it must be at night, in the dead of night. But Songcheng is not an ordinary place, surrounded by restrictions. Moreover, he knows nothing about such mysterious things as battle methods, enchantments, and restrictions. He went on his own.

Aren't you looking for death if you go out?

He thought for a long time, and finally stared helplessly into Ye Nuer's eyes that were so beautiful that he couldn't help himself, and said: "I'm sorry, I can't leave. There is no way I can leave this cell without letting people know."

But Ye Nuer looked around carefully, stretched out her slender jade fingers and whispered softly to her red lips, saying: "Brother Qing, please keep your voice down, come with me." Then she grabbed his hand. The two of them held tightly.

Holding hands, one behind the other, avoiding crowded places, and walked towards the ancestral hall at the core of the Song family compound.

At night, the ancestral hall was lit with everlasting lamps. In the courtyard, not a single star could be seen in the pitch-black sky. Under the darkness of the night was a simple granite stone tablet, which was the headstone of the Song family.

Ye Nuer held the lantern in her right hand, let go of her lover with her left hand, and touched somewhere on the monument. There was a muffled sound from the ground. After a while, there was a thick layer of stone on the ground that seemed so old that no one had touched it for at least hundreds of years.

The granite floor collapsed on its own, revealing a dark hole. At night, the dim light of a long lamp illuminated the entrance, revealing a small set of stone steps.

"What is this? A secret passage? My dear, how did you find it?"

Song Ruqing was simply a little shocked. There was such a big hole under the family head's monument. As the head of the family, he didn't even know it. But Ye Nu'er was just a maid, how did she know about this entrance?

Ye Nu'er covered her mouth with her sleeves and smiled, and said: "Nu'er offended Granny Zhao San, who was in charge of the backyard, and was sent here to clean the ancestral hall for half a year. She discovered it one time when she was cleaning the monument."

Before Song Ruqing could ask more questions, Ye Nuer had already pulled him, and the two of them walked into the dark tunnel together. When their figures sank into the deep darkness like water, the granite slabs on the ground rumbled again.

The ground returned to its original state, as if no one had ever touched it.
Chapter completed!