Chapter 136: Festival (3)
All in.
Where else could gamblers find such a romantic word?
If I had been a player in that gamble, I would have clapped at such a bold bet and shouted ‘die!’
The problem was, that gambler was Cheongso.
I grabbed Cheongso’s slender shoulders to stop her.
“Let’s talk for a moment.”
I forcibly dragged her, who insisted we had to start when the flow was right, to a deserted spot.
“What the hell are you thinking? Don’t you know thirty nyang is enough to buy a decent rice paddy?”
A perfectly reasonable warning.
But the cleaner’s reply that followed was something else.
“It’s not thirty nyang. It’s seventy nyang.”
“What?”
“I brought all the money I had.”
The truth spilling from her mouth left both me and Myohyang gaping in disbelief.
“Actually, I’ve been coming here constantly since I first arrived in Hanjung. I brought every last coin I had to try and recover the money I’d lost.”
I’d thought she was just a lazy bum, but the problem was far more serious than I’d imagined.
A bum might just squander his family’s food, but a gambler ruins the entire household fortune, doesn’t he?
If things kept getting this bad, she might even gamble away the Cheong family’s land deeds.
‘Hmm…’
I couldn’t help imagining the head of the Cheong family grabbing her by the hair and dragging her away.
Lost in my thoughts, the confident voice of the cleaning lady reached my ears.
“If you’re worried about losing, don’t fret. Our Cheong-ah is invincible.”
