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Chapter 1695 The Country Girl Looked Down Upon 16
Upon hearing Zhou Erlang's accusations, Linlang sneered, "I'm a gambling den, I can play however I want. So what, do you dare hit me? I have plenty of thugs! How dare you accuse the gambling den of cheating? You're as childish as a little kid."

Speaking of which, what Linlang finds most unbelievable is that some people play online casinos. In traditional casinos, it's hard to detect cheating, but in online gambling, it's just a matter of someone changing a parameter in the background. It's much simpler than cheating in traditional casinos, yet some people still dare to play. Sometimes, when Linlang sees someone suffer heavy losses from online gambling, she really thinks, "How is this person's brain working? It's something that others can easily change a parameter for, yet they dare to dabble in it."

Even after Linlang explained her winning method, Zhou Erlang was still unconvinced and shouted, "No gambling den operates like this! If you do this, who will want to gamble there in the future!"

“I told you this before you found out I cheated. In real life, if someone cheats, they won’t tell you, so how would you know? Just like if I hadn’t told you before, would you have known I cheated? You thought I had a sure-win strategy and wanted me to teach you,” Linlang said.

Zhou Erlang was still unconvinced and wanted to say something more, but Old Master Zhou, who was standing to the side, smacked him on the leg with a stick, making him howl in pain. He said, "A bet is a bet! Linlang told you she cheated, otherwise you would have been losing all along! You still have the nerve to shout that you're not convinced! This is at home, you can shout that you're not convinced, but if the gambling den cheated, would you dare to shout that you're not convinced? Once all the money is in their hands, can you get it back?"

Even his father, Master Zhou, took a stick and hit him, saying, "The family hasn't even made a fortune yet, and you're already gambling. Have you forgotten how your great-grandfather squandered the family fortune? And you still look so unconvinced."

Although Zhou Erlang was his son, and although Master Zhou coveted the title of Duke, he certainly wouldn't tolerate such a spendthrift son. After all, what if he killed his elder brother and then took over the family business? If his eldest son was a spendthrift, what would happen if he passed the title to him and then squandered the family fortune like the late Duke? So how could he tolerate such behavior?

Not only would Master Zhou not tolerate or indulge him, but no one in the family would side with him either. After all, they were all afraid that Zhou Erlang would end up with a mountain of debt and would have to use the family's money to pay it off. And the family's money belonged to everyone. Giving it to him to pay off his debts would be equivalent to taking everyone's money, and who would be willing to do that?

Seeing that no one was on his side, Zhou Erlang knew that arguing any further would not end well, so he dared not say anything.

But seeing his unconvinced expression, Linlang guessed that he still wanted to go to the gambling den in the future because he felt that if he could win, it was only because he cheated, so it didn't count.

Fortunately, she had already set a trap, saying that if he lost in the future, the mansion would not recognize him and would kick him out, so there was no need to worry that he would have a lot of gambling debts and that the gambling den would dare to come to the Duke's mansion to collect the debts.

Linlang immediately told Old Master Zhou and Master Zhou about this, saying that given her second cousin's situation, they had to spread the word in the capital that if any gambling den dared to let her second cousin gamble, the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion would not recognize any losses.

Old Master Zhou and Master Zhou naturally agreed. After all, there were too many temptations in the capital, and they couldn't guarantee that if they beat this scoundrel today, he wouldn't gamble in the future. So they made such a promise.

In addition, the servant who had lured Zhou Erlang to gamble was beaten and sold off.

Actually, this person was definitely acting under someone's orders, but Old Master Zhou naturally couldn't find out. Linlang didn't ask Old Master Zhou to investigate further for the time being, after all, the Zhou family's foundation was still shallow and they couldn't handle such things yet. She just noted it down and planned to settle accounts later. And wouldn't you know it, Zhou Erlang really did intend to go to the gambling den.

At this point, he wasn't addicted to gambling, but just like Linlang thought, he was unconvinced and felt that Linlang had cheated to win against him. He believed that if she hadn't cheated, she definitely wouldn't have won. He also thought that the gambling den he went to was quite legitimate and wouldn't cheat, which meant that he could win money.

She didn't care what Zhou Erlang was thinking; she had more important things to worry about: getting Master Zhou to stop taking on that lawsuit.

If Zhou Erlang goes to the gambling den, at most he will make the Zhou family heavily indebted. But this Master Zhou is foolish enough to try to take over the lawsuit, which will lead the Zhou family into a ditch. If he succeeds, the emperor could bring it up at any time and strip the Zhou family of their titles and confiscate their property.

The fact that Master Zhou took on the lawsuit was purely because he was set up. He didn't receive much benefit from the person who set him up. He only got involved because he listened to the other party's account, sympathized with the defendant in the case, and wanted to help them. He thought he was doing a good deed and never imagined that he would be deceived. The truth was not like that at all.

Linlang then privately told Old Master Zhou about the anonymous report that her father was trying to take over the lawsuit, asking him to give her father a warning. After all, this was different from Zhou Erlang's gambling; it couldn't be discussed publicly, lest it reach the Emperor's ears. Even if Old Master Zhou's plan failed, it would still negatively impact the Emperor's impression of him.

Linlang feared that Old Master Zhou was still young and wealthy and did not understand the dangers of taking on lawsuits, so she immediately said to him, "I heard that if someone takes on a lawsuit, the emperor will definitely strip them of their title and confiscate their property if word gets out. So when I saw this letter of complaint, I quickly told my grandfather to stop my father from doing something so foolish. Also, we must talk about it privately, not in public, so as not to let it reach the ears of the imperial family and damage their impression of our family."

Old Master Zhou was furious when his eldest son got into this mess, just as the infuriating incident involving Zhou Erlang had ended. Luckily, Linlang said that this was only the beginning and that her father hadn't gone to the prefect of the capital yet. She said that as long as her father was stopped from acting recklessly, nothing would happen. Otherwise, if her eldest son had already gone to the prefect of the capital to discuss this matter, it would have been useless for him to stop him.

Old Master Zhou felt his blood pressure rising with anger, thinking that if his unfilial descendants continued to anger him, he would eventually die.

Fortunately, there's Linlang, a good girl who always discovers problems in time and prevents them from happening; otherwise, the Zhou family would have been doomed sooner or later.

Old Master Zhou was also surprised that so many things had happened in less than three months since his family came to the capital. No wonder there are so many spendthrift sons in big families. The environment in the capital is terrible. There are too many bad people. Anyone who is not clear-headed will be tempted to make mistakes.

Thinking of this, Old Master Zhou paid even more attention to the situation of each family member, lest these rascals cause a lot of trouble before they even went out to socialize.

Immediately, Old Master Zhou summoned Master Zhou and asked him if such a thing had happened. After he admitted it, Old Master Zhou was severely scolded.