12 The Young Master Tang Losses his Wife (2/2)
”One can lose his people… but not his face. I pawned my precious jade and sword for three-hundred-thousand silver liangs in an impulsive fit. I thought that I would win all my money back. But, I didn’t expect… didn’t expect… that I would lose it all,” Tang Yuan said in a hesitant manner.
”You said that one can lose his people… but not face. I remember that your father spent a huge amount of money to buy the famed Snow Buster Sword for you. That divine weapon can cut iron like mud. That jade was made-up of Warm Jade. Your father had paid one-million liangs to buy those assets for you. And yet… you pawned them for only a three-hundred-thousand liangs? No one can make this kind of a loss in a bargain sale…”Jun Xie was speechless. [This man is a complete rake!]
”I too have rules… you know… but, my mind had become numb. I can’t even explain the state of my mind back then,” Tang Yuan grumbled.
”You still have the pledge note… even if you’ve lost your possessions. So, you can redeem your assets later on. I know that your father loves you a lot. He… at the most… will rebuke you. He won’t kill you over this. Moreover, your family has a lot of money. Is this such a serious problem…?” Jun Xie grunted twice.
”Nonsense! These two items are treasures. How can I not wish to win them back?” Tang Yuan replied in an indignant manner. ”But, you’re well aware of my Grandpa’s rules. You saw it yourself… what I had to endure the last time. One layer of my skin had been torn-off because of his beating!”
”And yet… you continued to gamble. What did you pawn this time? I know that you possess a lot of precious assets. But, you don’t have anything else that was worth a million liangs…” Jun Xie was an experienced man when it came to the psychology related to gambling. He knew that this fat friend of Jun Mo Xie wouldn’t have been this anxious if he hadn’t gambled away something he couldn’t recover.
”Yes… Actually… I didn’t have anything valuable on me. So, I pawned my wife…” Tang Yuan’s face looked full of regret and a desire to end his life. ”I’m not even married to her yet.”
”Ah?” Little Ke gasped and widened her eyes in shock. She stared at Tang Yuan with disgust in her eyes. She thought in her heart, [It was difficult enough for the Young Master to become a better human being… and now this friend of his has arrived.]
”What? You pawned your wife? You pulled your wife into this mess?” Jun Xie nearly tumbled-off his chair. He felt that he would faint. This was too shocking! It was unthinkable!
Tang Yuan’s fiancée was the daughter of Sun Cheng He – the Vice-Minister of the Ministry of Justice. A beauty from a prestigious family had been dragged into the Thousand Gold Hall. This news would attract an unsurmountable amount of ridicule and laughter if it was to spread.
[The son of the Minister of State Revenue went gambling… and lost the daughter of the Vice-Minister of Justice in a bet.] Grandpa Tang would pump-out all the fat and oil from this fatty’s body and use it as a fuel for the Sky Lantern if he came to know of this.
”I… I didn't drag her there… ” Tang Yuan was on the verge of crying, ”… but I signed a promissory note… pawning her for a million liangs… It was written in black and white. I signed it.”
”Pig… you pig!” She was the daughter of the Vice-Minister of justice… and Tang Yuan was the son of the Minister of State Revenue. This incident had the capacity to affect the future and reputation of the two prestigious families. And yet, he had pawned his to-be-wife for a mere one-million liangs. ”You signed it as well! What happened to the one-million liangs?”
”I lost them too…” Tang Yuan fell to ground, and started to bawl and wail. This caused the ground to tremble a little. ”They said that they don’t need the money or my fiancée. But, they will make the promissory note public if I don’t give them around a million-and-five-hundred-thousand liangs within three hours.”
”Oh My God!” Jun Xie was speechless. ”How did it become one million-and- five-hundred-thousand liangs? Wasn’t it supposed to be only a million liangs?
”The extra money is the price for granting me three hours to get the money. Please save me, Third Young Master. I’ve nowhere else to go.”
”How can I save you? What made you think that I’ve such an amount of money?” Jun Xie said. [Are you serious? I can happily kill a person like you… and you’re expecting me to help a gambler like yourself? That’s another matter that I don’t have this much money with me. But, even if I had this sum of money… I wouldn’t have lent it to you.]
”I don’t need money from you…” Tang Yun’s spirits were lifted. He blinked his small eyes and said, ”You haven’t visited the Thousand Gold Hall in the recent times. So, Li Feng and Meng Hai Zhou have put forward a condition that they’ll return the promissory note to me if I can bring you to gamble a few rounds with them.”
”Do I have such a high level of prestige?” Jun Xie shook his head as he thought about the wasteful ways of the original owner of this body. His fame in the gambling halls had transcended all notions of popularity!