To Hold One’s Joy

  Chapter 357 Qianjinfang

  Xiuyue looked at Xu Fang and couldn't help but think: Miss Xu really looks like Princess Huayang.

   It's just that in her memory, Princess Huayang has always been radiant, but Miss Xu in front of her is pale and helpless.

  She used iron tongs to neatly put the baked sweet potatoes one by one into the rattan basket that had been prepared earlier.

   The sweet potatoes that were roasted brown one by one exude heat, and they are about the same size.

  The sweet aroma unique to roasted sweet potatoes immediately drills into people's noses, tempting people to swallow their saliva.

  During the twelfth lunar month of winter, people probably have no resistance to this kind of soft and sweet snack.

  Red bean immediately stretched out **** to pick it up, gritted its teeth and yelled hot, but persisted in grabbing it, burning the left hand to the right.

  Keer was much calmer, took out a handkerchief and picked up a sweet potato.

  The two little maids ran to Luo Sheng almost indiscriminately, and said in unison: "Girl, eat roasted sweet potatoes."

  Then the two looked at each other, and then quickly separated their eyes, but they thought the same thing in their hearts: Kouer (red bean), this little hoof, competed with her again!

  Two steaming roasted sweet potatoes were in front of him. Luo Sheng didn't intend to make a choice, but took both of them, and handed one of them to Xu Fang.

  Red Dou immediately pursed her lips and smiled.

  Although the girl accepted both her and Koer’s roasted sweet potatoes, she gave Koer’s to Miss Xu to eat what she brought.

  Hmph, Kouer still wants to compete with her for the title of the number one maid, why hasn't she woke up from her dream?

  Keer got used to it after being lost for a moment.

   That's all, what's the point of arguing with Hong Dou, a brainless little hoof, she knows why Miss Xu lost her mind, does Hong Dou know?

   Seriously, the girl still thinks highly of her.

   Hongdou curled her lips in disdain when she saw Kouer's expression.

  Kole knows what Kerr is thinking without asking.

  Why, helping girls find out news is a serious business, but it’s not about grabbing face for girls?

  What kind of discrimination are you messing with?

  Luo Sheng has long turned a blind eye to the secret rivalry between the two little maids, and asked Xu Fang with a smile: "Have Miss Xu ever eaten roasted sweet potatoes?"

  In the eyes of many wealthy people, sweet potatoes are coarse food and cannot be served on the table.

  Xu Fang thought that Luo Sheng would ask her why she came to a restaurant.

  At this moment, she was embarrassed and at a loss, and hardly knew how to answer this question.

  But she didn't expect Miss Luo to ask this.

  Xu Fang breathed a sigh of relief, and even felt a little grateful in her heart.

   "Eat."

  After her mother died, the adults told her that she had to observe filial piety, that she was not allowed to eat chicken, duck, fish, or drink rice noodles, and she even stopped drinking milk every morning.

  She disliked the strong smell of milk, so she had to be coaxed by her mother to drink it every day, but after that she was too hungry to sleep.

  It wasn't until she got older that she realized that what she missed was not the cup of milk, but her mother.

  During those difficult days, one day she accidentally saw a few little maids eating sweet potatoes, and pitifully smelled the aroma for a long time.

  The maidservant Hong'er exchanged a pearl flower for a sweet potato, and secretly gave it to her to eat.

  Later, on the pretext of not taking good care of her, Hong'er was called by her father to a matchmaker and sold her off.

  Xu Fang smiled at Luo Sheng: "It's delicious."

   "Then Miss Xu, eat it while it's hot."

  Xu Fang carefully uncovered the hot sweet potato coat, revealing the red heart inside, lowered her head and took a bite, it was sweet, soft and fragrant.

  As she said to Miss Luo, it is delicious.

  The lobby is full of the smell of roasted sweet potatoes and laughter.

  Luo Sheng accompanied Miss Xu to stand by the window, silently eating roasted sweet potatoes.

  Outside the window, there is a slanting wind and light snow, and there are many pedestrians.

  Roasted sweet potatoes are sweet and soft, with a lingering fragrance on the teeth and cheeks.

  Xu Fang held the hot roasted sweet potato and ate it in small bites, when she suddenly burst into tears.

  She glanced at Luo Sheng in embarrassment, but found that the other person's expression didn't change much.

   Calm with a little tenderness.

   This is very different from the girl Luo who carried her younger brother to the Changchun Marquis Mansion that day, but it was the girl Luo she knew.

  Family ugliness should not be publicized.

  Xu Fang understood this truth, but at this moment, facing this person, she suddenly had the desire to confide in her.

   "Miss Luo, if a person has the bad habit of gambling, how can we get him to quit?"

   "Miss Xu, you mean Brother Ling?"

  Xu Fang was taken aback.

  Luo Sheng had a calm expression on his face: "I met him in the casino, but he didn't see me."

  Xu Fang: "..."

  Miss Luo also gambles?

  She suddenly regretted speaking.

   Miss Luo will find her younger brother as a poker friend in the future, right?

  Thinking of this possibility, Xu Fang suddenly felt that the roasted sweet potato in her hand was not so sweet.

Luo Sheng sensed Xu Fang's thoughts, and bent his lips into a smile: "I'm very curious, and I want to see everything...Gambling is really harmful, and that day I saw someone who had a finger cut off because he didn't pay his gambling debts." Woolen cloth."

   With a bang, the roasted sweet potato in Xu Fang's hand fell to the ground, and her face turned pale.

   "Miss Xu?"

  Xu Fang grabbed Luo Sheng's wrist, her voice trembling: "Miss Luo, my younger brother is addicted to gambling, can you help me think of a way to make him come back from the wrong way?"

  She is cautious, forbearing and considerate, and she is completely helpless in the face of her brother's situation.

  As for Ms. Luo, perhaps because she was so impressed by letting her father and stepmother suffer that time, she inexplicably felt that Ms. Luo was a capable person.

   It's just that it's a little presumptuous for her to ask for help like this.

  Luo Sheng nodded happily: "Okay."

  Even if Xu Fang didn't come to ask for help, she would still come forward. Now that Xu Fang has asked, it is more logical.

  Luo Sheng agreed so happily that Xu Fang was taken aback for a moment, wondering if the other party hadn't heard clearly.

   "I can help Miss Xu with this, as long as Miss Xu doesn't feel bad." Luo Sheng looked at Xu Fang and said.

  Xu Fang nodded without hesitation: "I don't feel bad!"

  As long as it can make my younger brother improve, receiving some lessons is nothing.

  She's not that confused yet.

  Luo Sheng smiled and nodded, looking at the snow falling outside the window, he said softly: "Then Miss Xu, just wait."

  In Qianjinfang, it was very lively.

   People who like to gamble will not be hindered by the bad weather from coming to the casino.

  The place where the daughter of gold is scattered and returned, some people are ecstatic and some are desperate.

  In an inconspicuous corner, Xu Qi's face was pale, dripping with cold sweat: "No, no..."

  Why did you lose again!

  The people who joined the game have long been impatient: "Why, can you afford to play but can't afford to lose?"

   "Whoever can't afford to lose, come again!" Xu Qi roared with red eyes.

   "Come again?" A man with triangular eyes spoke, "Come again, you can pay back the money you owe first. By the way, how much do you owe?"

  The younger brother on the side smiled and said, "Five thousand taels."

   Triangular eyes patted Xu Qi's shoulder: "Did you hear that, five thousand taels of silver, let's come back after paying off."

  Five thousand taels?

  Xu Qi seemed to have been hit head-on with a sap, and his head exploded.

  How could there be five thousand taels?

   "You, you nonsense—"

   "Nonsense?" Triangle Eyes slapped a stack of IOUs in front of Xu Qi, and smiled sinisterly, "Boy, open your eyes and see if you wrote these yourself!"

  (end of this chapter)