Capítulo 280: Chapter 272: This Is a Good Thing

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Yu Xiu entered the house of the scoundrel with a preoccupied mind, not even hearing his mother greeting her at the door as she barged straight in without acknowledgment.

The scoundrel, from Yushu Village, lived with his mother, the two of them alone. Nearly forty, he hung around idly without any proper work. He did have a wife once, but she couldn't endure his frequent beatings and eventually ran away.

With the former wife gone, he and his mother lacked a proper livelihood. Not to mention remarrying, even getting meals wasn't easy. They scraped by through petty theft, living meal to meal.

Later on, he saw that people in the village were starting to live better, and those with time on their hands gambled more. He came up with an idea to put some tables in his home along with a few sets of mahjong and playing cards, inviting people over to gamble. The winners would then give him a cut of their earnings...