Chapter 245 How Did You Win It Back?
Liu Cuihua left the room and closed the door for them so that they could talk openly.
Wu Xiyuan saw the door being closed, then turned around, and his eyes fell on the little girl sitting on the stool.
She looked up at him, her fingers twisted uneasily, and her face was tangled.
Wu Xiyuan sat down beside her, pulled her white fingers into his hands, gently pinched them, and then asked, "What happened? Don't be afraid, tell your husband what happened."
Su Jiuyue looked at his worried face and suddenly felt that he seemed to have misunderstood something.
In turn, she gently hooked his palm with her finger and said carefully, "It doesn't seem to be a bad thing at present. I'm also very confused. The course of events is really abnormal."
Wu Xiyuan looked puzzled, "Abnormal? What does this mean?"
Su Jiuyue stretched out her finger and pointed to herself, "I have got an adoptive father, an adoptive mother and an adoptive brother today."
Wu Xiyuan never could have thought that it would be like this, "How did that happen?"
He subconsciously felt that Su Jiuyue had got him an adoptive family, but then Su Jiuyue's words surprised him.
"When I went to the prefectural government today, it happened that Wang Qiying was also there. In order to protect me, Mrs. Yue said that I was her adoptive daughter. But who knew that Wang Qinying was not like common people, and insisted on taking me as his sister, and asked Governor Wang to adopt me as his daughter..."
Wu Xiyuan also listened with a confused face. It turned out that the adoptive mother and the adoptive father were not a family...
Then Su Jiuyue said, "Xiyuan, what do you think is the matter with Wang Qiying?"
Wu Xiyuan's eyes became sharp and said coldly, "I don't care about him! If he dares to covet you, I won't be so nice to him!"
Su Jiuyue, however, felt that this was not the case. That young Mr. Wang, her new brother, doesn't seem to be a bad person.
Su Jiuyue also knew that Wu Xiyuan had better not have a dispute with him at this time. If he really wants to pick on them, even with the help of Miss. Yi, they will still suffer a lot.
In Su Jiuyue's opinion, now that Wang Qiying attitude was unclear, and he had no obvious intention to covet her, then they should stabilize him first, and wait until next month after Xiyuan took the exam.
"No, he didn't do anything out of line and even gave me a gift. He also helped retrieve the 400 coins stolen by the thief last time!"
It would always make people happy to retrieve what's lost, and Su Jiuyue was no exception.
Suddenly it occurred to her that when Xiao Liu was caught outside the Confucius Temple that day, he angrily vented on them.
Xiao Liu said that the money he stole was won back by Wu Xiyuan.
Wu Xiyuan saw her suddenly changed her expression, and he didn't know what she thought of.
But his heart trembled for no reason, and he just had a bad premonition.
Sure enough, the next moment he heard his wife ask, "Xiyuan, how was it that I heard earlier you have won back the 400 coins?"
Wu Xiyuan's heart thumped, but his face remained calm, "Who did you hear this from?"
Su Jiuyue knew him quite well. As soon as he said this, she noticed the strangeness.
First, his eyes dodged. Second, his left hand had been clenched. Finally, he changed the topic.
All signs showed that he was guilty.
Su Jiuyue was more confident. "Of course it was that thief who told me! Don't ask me about this, just tell me whether what he said is true!"
Wu Xiyuan looked at Su Jiuyue's fierce appearance and knew that she had confirmed the truth in her heart. It was meaningless for him to justify himself at this time. It would only annoy her. He should just confess.
He sighed. "It's true."
Su Jiuyue stared at him, and her tone became more serious, "So, you did go to the gambling house!"
Wu Xiyuan was anxious as soon as he heard this, and quickly lowered his head to explain to her, "Jiuyue, my dear, I didn't go there to gamble! I really just went to deal with him!"
Su Jiuyue snorted coldly, unmoved, "Deal with him? Then tell me, when did you learn to play Damadiao(a ancient Chinese gambling game)?"
No one in the Wu family could play this game. The villagers work hard all year round, and they wouldn't spend money on gambling tools.
Normally, Wu Xiyuan was always reading. It was not reasonable that he won back the money by playing Damadiao.
This was the first time that Wu Xiyuan had felt it was difficult to fool his wife. For other things, she had always yielded to him, but this time he could feel that she was really angry.
He couldn't really tell her that he learned it in his previous life. He could only say that he learned it from several classmates when he was in school.
"Do you play well?" She asked again.
Wu Xiyuan shook his head hurriedly, "Not well. I was just angry that day. I followed him when I saw him go in. Unexpectedly, I was really lucky that day and won the money back."
Seeing that Su Jiuyue frowned, he said carefully, "After I won the money back, I didn't play anymore, and I never went there again."
Su Jiuyue's eyebrows stretched a little, "No matter what reason, you are not allowed to go again in the future!"
All Wu Xiyuan wanted was to make her not angry at this time. He would promise her anything, "I won't, I won't. I will never step into that place!"
Seeing that he promised, Su Jiuyue didn't seem as angry as she was just now, so she said, "I'm not trying to control you, but that was really not a good place to go. Just take a look at my uncle, it was because he got addicted to gambling that dragged down his family and my family."
Knowing that she was worried about him after all, Wu Xiyuan reached out and held her waist, bowed his head and looked at her, "dear, you must believe me. I will not go there in the future."
With that, a kiss fell on her forehead, gently, making Su Jiuyue's eyebrows gradually stretched.
"Previously, I didn't know how to return the 400 coins to you. Now it happens that you know it, so take it back!" Wu Xiyuan smiled and said that he had no intention of hiding private money.
Su Jiuyue shook her head, "You'd better keep it. It was originally meant for you."
"But this is too much for me to use at all."
Su Jiuyue took him to the table and signaled him to open the box she had brought back.
"What is this?" Wu Xiyuan was very curious.
"Just open it and have a look."