Reborn As Lucky Star

Chapter 108: Chapter 108 I Know I Was Wrong

Upon hearing the word “continue,” Yue Jiannan couldn’t help but shudder.

“I… I have no money left, how can I continue?”

Lin Chunju sneered, “You might be out of money, but you still have family—you have your brother, your sister, and your old mother to give you money.”

“You can mortgage the house and land to pay off debts, the Yue family rented a fish pond, you can also exchange that for money.”

Yue Jiannan’s face turned paler and paler, and he tried to argue, “Mother, I cannot…”

Lin Chunju cut him off, “You think you cannot now, but those who get carried away at the gambling table and want to turn things around don’t care about the consequences, as long as they can keep you gambling, you would dare sign any document.”

Yue Jiannan immediately thought of Mao Hui; wasn’t that person exactly like that?

Lin Chunju stood up and hurled playing cards at Yue Jiannan.

The cards slammed into his face, the edges cutting painfully across his face.

Yet that jolted Yue Jiannan to a better sense of reality.

“Wait until there’s no house, no land left, and with three children at home, you could even consider selling these children, have you thought about that?”

Yue Jiannan’s body turned ice cold, as if frozen.

In the village, there had always been looked-down-upon gamblers who, in the heat of the moment, had even mortgaged their wives and children, only to end up having a hand chopped off.

But even so, he still habitually squeezed in at the gambling table.

In the end, that man disappeared without a trace, villagers guessed he died in some filthy ditch.

No family members ever bothered to look for him, to claim his body.

Previously, Yue Jiannan had never thought about these things because he felt he was lucky, always winning money.

But today, his mother, who doesn’t know how to play cards, had managed to make him lose miserably, which made Yue Jiannan more and more scared as he thought about it.

Soon, his entire back was soaked with sweat.

“Mother!”

The ground was covered with playing cards, and Yue Jiannan suddenly knelt down.

“I realize my mistake, I shouldn’t gamble.”

Lin Chunju didn’t help him up.

Gambling is no trivial matter, and Yue Jiannan, being young, could be easily coaxed into falling back into it.

If this root wasn’t cut from the start, who knows, he might be lured back to the gambling table again.

“Stay at home for the next couple of days and keep yourself grounded.”

Yue Jiannan agreed shamefully, and only then did Lin Chunju let him get up, and they together picked up the cards from the floor.

Lin Chunju gathered the playing cards and handed them to him, “Take this deck back to your room and think hard about it.”

Without saying anything harsher, Yue Jiannan felt as if he had been slapped hard across the face, his cheeks burning red.

He hesitated for a long moment before taking the cards.

“Mother, I understand now.”

Yue Jiannan hung his head and left the room, Lin Chunju breathed a sigh of relief.

“Grandma, don’t be mad.” Yue Qingqing climbed into Lin Chunju’s lap, softly consoling her.

Lin Chunju stroked her hair, “Qingqing, I’m lucky to have you around.”

Before Yue Jiannan came back, Lin Chunju had thought of many strategies, eventually deciding on this method.

During the game, Yue Qingqing was sitting right beside her.

If they were losing the game, Qingqing would tap once in her palm; if winning, she’d tap twice.

For Yue Qingqing, all this was too easy to accomplish.

She didn’t even need to use her Spiritual Energy to see the perspective cards; she could just look up and read Yue Jiannan’s energy to know the outcome.

“I think Uncle truly realizes his mistake; he will surely change.”

Lin Chunju sighed, “Let’s hope so. The boy isn’t bad-natured; he just always thinks he’s smarter than he is, not realizing the world is full of smarter people.”

Outsmarting oneself, that’s exactly what it means for people like the third brother.

Just as Yue Qingqing had said, Yue Jiannan was truly suffering.

Especially when he returned to his room and flipped the playing cards over and over again, unable to find any tricks, he was even more startled and frightened.

He couldn’t see through his mother’s tricks, let alone those of the more experienced people out there.

Yue Jiannan was indeed clever and quickly realized something about his streak of good luck over the last few days.

These people had probably let him win from the start.

If it hadn’t been for his mother’s severe warning, he probably would have ended up ruined at the gambling table!