When the first ray of dawn fell on the earth, Qin Xiao and Mu Yeji had already returned to Mu Mu Lane.

The doors and windows were closed, and the two people sat opposite each other at the table in the room. A bag containing one hundred taels of cash was placed in the middle of the table, and fifteen hundred taels of silver notes were also placed on the table.

After returning to the house, the two of them sat at the table and stared at the money for a long time.

Qin Xiao himself didn't believe that what he was seeing was real.

He worked very hard in Jiazi Prison. After two years, apart from expenses, he only saved more than two hundred taels of silver. For this reason, he always felt that he was a rich man in his heart. After all, ordinary people had only two hundred taels of silver.

Two pieces of silver is a handful.

But this time when I came out of Jingou Gambling House, in addition to my own capital and the 60 taels of silver I helped Mu Yeji win, I also made a profit of 1,400 taels.

One thousand four hundred taels of silver was an astronomical figure for Qin Xiao, and it was also an astronomical figure for Mu Yeji.

What made Qin Xiao feel most comfortable was that the money was taken from Zhenhou Mansion.

The Golden Hook Gambling House has become the property of the Zhenhou Mansion, so every tael of silver won from the gambling house was taken from the Zhen family.

Although the room was eerily quiet, the two of them were in a passionate mood.

Qin Xiao thanked Wen Butao from the bottom of his heart for the gambling skills taught by Wen Butao. He asked Wen Butao to teach him gambling skills in the Jiazi Prison. He just wanted to have more skills at hand, but he never expected that he would use Professor Wen Butao's skills in the end.

The gambling house won such a huge sum of money.

The young master's aunt put her elbows on the table and held her chin. She looked at the silver on the table for a long time and finally asked Qin Xiao in an extremely gentle tone: "Good nephew, how do you think we should divide it?"

Qin Xiao didn't say anything, opened the bag, counted sixty taels of silver from it and pushed it over: "You lost this in the gambling house, I will help you win it back, so you can save money in the future."

The young aunt opened her eyes wide and said in disbelief: "You mean, you have more than a thousand taels of silver in your hand, and you only gave me sixty taels?"

"Too many?" Qin Xiao stretched out his hand and said, "Then take some back."

The young aunt quickly took the sixty taels of silver and said with a frown: "Little Martial Nephew, you can't be so heartless. If I hadn't helped you fight, do you think you would have been able to get the silver back smoothly?"

"If it weren't for your fighting, you wouldn't even think about the sixty taels of silver." Qin Xiao said: "My salary is only twenty taels of silver a year. Sixty taels is enough for me to work for three years. You still have to pay for it."

Not satisfied?"

"Little nephew, if you do this, it will lower my opinion of you!" Mu Yeji stared at the stack of banknotes in front of Qin Xiao, just like a cat that sees a mouse and wants to swallow it in one gulp.

"Your favor is too cheap, I don't care." Qin Xiao didn't care: "And so what if you have a favor for me? You can't make a living."

The young lady suddenly became anxious: "Qin Xiao, you little bastard, do you want to take it all by yourself? I know you are shameless, but I didn't expect you to be so shameless. It's so crazy. If you really do this, I will kill people and rob you of money."

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Qin Xiao opened his hands and pursed his lips at the banknotes on the table: "Come here, you can cut them into pieces. The banknotes are on the table. You can grab them. I will never stop you."

The young lady's pretty face turned red and her chest heaved with anger. She gave Qin Xiao a hard look and cursed: "Keep the money to buy yourself a coffin. I don't care about it anymore. I have long seen that you are a cold-blooded person."

Bastard, even if you are chopped into pieces in front of me from now on, I won’t even look at you."

Qin Xiao said with a smile: "Little aunt, you are so angry that you took off your clothes and vented your anger with well water." Before the little aunt could speak, he became serious: "I can't keep this money either."

The little aunt asked curiously: "What do you mean?"

"Think about it, I'm just a little jailer. If I made such a fuss in the gambling house today, everyone will soon know that I won thousands of taels of silver in the gambling house." Qin Xiao was worried: "By the way, what should I say?

Come on, everyone is guilty, and everyone is innocent...!"

"The common man is not guilty, but the jade is guilty." The young master's aunt rolled her eyes at Qin Xiao and said disdainfully: "If you haven't read the book, don't pretend."

"Yes, it's a crime to possess a jade. Think about it. Turtle City is a mixed bag, and there are many vicious people like the young aunt. If they have evil intentions and target me, won't I be in bad luck?" Qin

Xiao sighed: "So we can't keep this money in our hands, we must solve it as soon as possible."

The little sister-in-law didn't care that he scolded her for being extremely evil. She smiled brightly and nodded repeatedly: "Yes, yes, you are so weak. If you hold thousands of taels of silver in your hand, you will certainly be coveted."

"You were the first to covet."

The young auntie smiled cheekily and said, "Just think of me, but how do you solve this problem? It's actually very simple. Just throw these coins to me and everything will be fine."

"I knew you would say that." Qin Xiao said disdainfully: "Little aunt, you are so greedy for money, you can easily be deceived by rich people."

"Give me some money, and I'm willing to be deceived." The young auntie blinked.

Qin Xiao thought for a while and then said: "There is a way. Give these silvers to the Duwei Mansion, then everything will be fine."

He really didn't say it casually.

Although he won thousands of taels of silver, Qin Xiao always felt a little hot in his hands.

The Duwei Mansion has been in a difficult situation in recent years. As Meng Zimo said, fast horses are thinner than others. In the final analysis, it is still caused by lack of money.

Part of the silver provided by the Xiling clan was only enough to pay the salaries of the government servants, and it was often in arrears, even for the equipment and horses of the Duwei Mansion. The imperial court had always used the national treasury as an excuse, and actually did not pay the Xiling Protector for many years.

The government provided practical help, and the Duhufu managed to squeeze out some funds to ensure the operation of the various governor's houses, but it could only be barely maintained.

Part of the reason why Qin Xiao carried out reforms in Jiazijian was because he knew that Han Yunong had always been worried about using money.

Part of Jia Zijian's income belongs to Jia Zijian, and part is given to the treasury of the Duwei Mansion. However, compared with the expenses of Duwei Mansion, the money provided by Jia Zijian is limited after all, and it is impossible to truly solve the problem of the city.

This problem in the Wei Mansion.

It is precisely because the income from Jia Zijian has given the Duwei Mansion a lot of help that Han Yunong turned a blind eye to Jia Zi Jian. Otherwise, with his temperament, he would not allow Qin Xiao to do business in the prison.

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Qin Xiao remembered clearly that Ma Kuai had a total of 18 official horses. Two of them had died in the past two years, leaving only 16 horses. This meant that Ma Kuai's yamen officials could not have one horse per person. For this reason, Han Yunong once

I asked the Xiling Protectorate to send some horses over, but not a single horse came over.

Qin Xiao has always been worried that if all the officers and horses in the Duwei Mansion die in the end, then the horses will soon be disbanded.

Now he has thousands of taels of hot silver in his hand. If he hands these factors to Han Yunong, he can naturally buy more horses for the Duwei Mansion and even replace everyone's equipment. But he knows very well that the Duwei Mansion has not given any money in the past few years.

Everyone changed their equipment and sharpened their sabers again and again. Before Han Yunong came to Xiling, the Duwei Mansion was a lackey of the Zhen family. Naturally, the government officials were very popular, and their clothes and equipment were changed every year.

However, Han Yunong safeguarded the interests of the empire and naturally became a thorn in the side of the Zhenhou Mansion. The life of the Duwei Mansion was getting worse day by day.

Qin Xiao sometimes even wonders, if it weren't for Han Yunong's existence, would the Duwei Mansion still be necessary?

It seems that the empire's energy has never really been focused on Xiling, and it has never given the Duwei Mansion the support it deserves. Most of the people in the Duwei Mansion are just for food. Only a few people such as Han Yunong always hold the banner of the empire.

Let the Duwei Mansion become the empire's last position in Zhen County.

Mu Yeji looked at Qin Xiao like a fool, widening her beautiful eyes: "Are you crazy? Give the money to the Duwei Mansion?"

"I am from the Duwei Mansion, so there seems nothing wrong with handing over the money, right?"

"You are really crazy." The young aunt made a judgment: "You work as an errand in the Duwei Mansion, and you get your salary from there to live. You are not asked to be a good person and give money. The Duwei Mansion wants money, and let them ask the emperor for it.

Go, what does it have to do with you? Qin Xiao, I have to remind you, never do anything stupid."

Qin Xiao just smiled, knowing that in the eyes of others, he would look like a really bad person and extremely stupid.

"Anyway, I don't care what you do, you can share some with me." The young aunt said bitterly: "Should the Duwei Mansion marry you, or should I marry you? I am your aunt after all, and one of my own. I have money.

If you don't give to outsiders and not to your own people, just dig a hole and bury yourself." Afraid that Qin Xiao wouldn't agree, he said with a frosty face: "If you don't agree, I will burn all the banknotes and the ill-gotten gains.

, that doesn’t count as me robbing you.”

Qin Xiao was stunned for a moment, thinking that this young aunt would actually do something like this, and said angrily: "Why are you licking your face and asking me for ill-gotten wealth?" He knew that if the young aunt was really going to get ruthless, that meant

It must be possible to do it. If you really burn all the banknotes, you won't be able to give them to Han Yunong.

He thought for a moment, then finally took two banknotes and threw them over, rolled his eyes and said nothing.

Although it was only two hundred taels, the young aunt obviously felt that it was acceptable. Her pretty face, which had been sinking, immediately put on a smile. She took the banknote and kissed it. She did not mind that the banknote had been changed hands by countless people, and then went directly to

Putting it into his chest, Qin Xiao couldn't bear to look at it.

"Get up, take off your coat first, and lie down on the bed." The young aunt stood up and arranged her hair in a ladylike manner.

Qin Xiao was startled and glanced at the bed, his heart pounding faster: "What are you going to do?"

"Go up if I ask you to." Little Senior Aunt's beautiful eyes showed a cold look: "I find that you are really becoming more and more disobedient now. If I give you a face, you can continue."

Qin Xiao looked out the window. It was already dawn. He stood up and said, "Little aunt, you go to bed first. I have to go to the Yamen to work." He turned to leave, but felt a breeze passing by, and his shadow slipped.

It was already in front of him. If he hadn't stepped back in time, he would have almost landed on the young aunt's plump and soft body.

"You don't understand me?" The little aunt raised her finger and pointed at the bed: "I asked you to go up and lie down. Now, immediately, hurry up!"

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