General, the lady escaped again

Chapter 714 Li Hao is in trouble (2)

He held Li Hao's hand and refused to let him take the money from the cash box.

"I've already told you I will pay you back! Let go of me! I'll definitely lend you the money today!" Li Hao threw Lin Xiu'er hard, and Lin Xiu'er couldn't withstand the force and fell to the ground. A slender hand reached out and helped Lin Xiu'er up.

Lin Xiuer looked up and her face turned pale. "Little...little woman."

Li Hao, who was taking out the money, heard Lin Xiuer's scream and was so scared that his hands shook and the money fell back into the cash box.

"I heard that you want to borrow money from me?" Ji Xiaomu stroked Lin Xiu'er and said slowly while looking at Li Hao whose body was stiff.

"I...I will pay it back!" Li Hao said after a while with his face flushed.

"How much silver have you taken so far?" Mother Ji asked calmly. Looking at Li Hao's attitude just now, he didn't even bother to look at the copper coins. He directly took the silver ingots and silver notes. It was obvious from his familiar look that this was not his first time.

Obviously a repeat offender.

"I...this..." Li Hao scratched his head anxiously. Lin Xiu'er looked at Ji Xiaomu with red eyes and silently took out the account book.

This is what she wrote down, the amount of money Li Hao took and returned each time.

Seeing Lin Xiuer take out the account book, Li Xi looked dejected.

"July 3rd, 10 taels." Ji Xiaowu turned to the first page, and it seemed to start from July 3rd. "Return it on July 7th."

"On July 15, twenty taels." Ji Xiaowu raised her eyebrows. "Return it on July 16."

After a day, it seems that the bet was won.

"On July 26, fifty taels. On July 27, thirty taels. On July 29, sixty taels." Little Ji sneered. "On August 3, fifty taels will be returned."

"Sixty taels, one hundred taels, thirty taels..." Ji Xiaomu casually turned to the back and there was no word about return. Even adding up these, it was at least two hundred taels.

"Auntie, if you help me again, I will definitely win it back!" Li Hao suddenly ran to Auntie Ji and dared to ask for money.

"What if you lost?" Ji Xiaomu asked back calmly.

"I won't lose!" Li Hao said in a daze.

"Gamblers always lose. How can they not lose? Nine out of ten people lose. Who dares to say that they have never lost a single bet?" Ji Xiaomu put away the account book and said to the Bai family disciples outside the door. "Go to the village and bring Li's parents over."

"Yes." The Bai family disciple accepted the order.

"You guys go play in Jinxiu Pavilion! I have something to take care of." Ji Xiaomu said to the six girls. The girls nodded, knowing that Ji Xiaomu had something to deal with, and left obediently.

"Don't... don't tell my parents." Li Hao wanted to stop him but he couldn't. The disciple of the Bai family had already driven a long way away in the carriage.

"Sister-in-law, who took him to gamble? How did he get involved in gambling?" Aunt Ji ignored Li Hao, helped Lin Xiu'er sit down, and asked.

"It was around the first day of July. I don't know when he got to know a group of people and became friends with them. I don't think those people were good people, and he even accused me of being nosy." Lin Xiu'er wiped her tears and said slowly.

It turned out that because Ji's Cake Shop was doing a booming business and he and Lin Xiu'er were in charge of the shop, those people outside thought he was the boss, so they intentionally or unintentionally invited him out for drinks and tried to please him. Li Hao also became a little inflated because of these people's flattery. In addition, Ji Xiaomu believed in them and even managed the accounts themselves, so he felt that he was really the boss.

Under the collusion of those people, Li Hao became addicted to gambling, because those people deliberately let him win in the beginning, making him think that winning money was so easy. The more he won, the more he won, and it became unstoppable.