TEXT 167 Encountering a different situation

Hearing Xu Wen's question, the first person to react was Qi Kun. He immediately turned his head and stared at Zuo Teng.

"Oh, nothing. Zuo Teng glanced at his hand and said indifferently, "I lost, who will come next?"

The young people looked at each other, but it was too cowardly to admit defeat at this moment.

After a while, a person finally stepped forward and volunteered, "I'll come!"

The number he threw was neither big nor small, three feet three.

He shook his head when he saw the number.

In this kind of game, decimals are of course good, but Xu Wen has already drawn a long straight line of six feet one, and they can only win if they exceed six feet one.

Roll such a decimal and lose at the starting line.

But he still painted, this person will be the second to stand up, and the strength is really not weak. The three-foot-three line extends straight forward, and it is extremely accurate.

Next, one after another people stepped forward, most of them were smaller than Xu Wen's, and occasionally two of them were more than six feet one, but they didn't succeed.

Lu Cheng and Qi Kun did a good job, one of them was three feet seven, and one was four feet four, Lu Cheng was one inch behind, and Qi Kun was only two points more.

In the end, there was no doubt that Xu Wen won the first place in this round, and all the more than 20 copper plates were included in his bag.

Xu Wen stood aside and watched the whole process, and had a rough assessment of the strength of everyone present.

After this round was over, Zuo Teng pinched the dice and looked around: "Are you still coming?"

The apprentices were a little dazed, and just at this time a person was called, and he hurriedly said, "It's my turn, I have to go!"

The other apprentices also took the opportunity to disperse, and in the end, only Zuo Teng and Xu Wen were left around.

Zuo Teng threw the brick into the corner, smiled and hugged Xu Wen's fist and wanted to leave, Xu Wen patted him on the shoulder to stop him, and his voice was not loud or small: "Can you show me your dice?"

Zuo Teng was stunned for a moment and looked at him vigilantly.

Xu Wen smiled slightly, but obviously didn't intend to get out of the way.

Zuo Teng hesitated for a while, and finally stretched out his hand from his pocket and handed the three dice to Xu Wen.

The color of the wooden dice was slightly yellow, and Xu Wen knew that it was boxwood when he saw it from a distance. Now that the dice had fallen into his hand, he immediately knew it and confirmed what he had just thought.

"Filled with mercury?" his voice was lowered, but he could still hear Zuo Teng clearly.

Zuo Teng's face turned pale in an instant, and his lips moved twice, without saying a word.

The difference in weight between boxwood and mercury is so large that it is easy to spot. But Xu Wen asked him directly for this, which means that he had seen the problem in the dice before...... This can be done by visual inspection, which requires a very precise grasp of the various properties of the wood.

This alone is not something that ordinary people can do. At least none of the people who had been playing with him for so long could do it.

Xu Wen smiled and returned the dice to him without saying anything.

This move made Zuo Teng stunned, he hesitated to take back the dice, saw Xu Wen turn around and was about to leave, took a step forward, and asked stupidly: "You...... That's it?"

Mercury dice control the center of gravity of the dice, and with practice, the shooter can control the number of dice points.

Zuo Teng made it clear that he was cheating with mercury dice, and of course Xu Wen could guess that his big five, five or six were thrown by Zuo Teng. And now, that's it?

"If you hadn't thrown yourself a five, five, or six, I certainly wouldn't have just left it at that. Xu Wen tilted his head back and said with a smile.

Xu Wen took Qi Kun and Lu Cheng away, and waved his hand to him before leaving, his movements were very free.

Zuo Teng looked at their backs in a daze, and suddenly grabbed his right hand with his left hand. He clenched it very tightly, and his right hand quickly became red with blood, but there was a white mark between the reds.

Zuo Teng stared down at the white trace, silent.

If not...... I also......

After a long time, he turned around and walked out of the small courtyard in silence.

"Did he cheat just now?" Lu Cheng asked Xu in a low voice after walking out of the paragraph.

He didn't call out on the spot to expose the matter, and there was a huge difference from before.

"Yes. Xu Wen nodded at him.

"Then isn't he cheating others out of money, why did you just let him go?" Lu Cheng shouted in a low voice.

"It's not like scamming people out of money. His judgment of the length of the distance is indeed better than others, and he deserves to win. Xu asked.

"What do you mean?" Lu Cheng didn't understand too much.

"If you look closely, every time someone stands at the starting point, he looks straight to the finish line. Before he measured it, he could already see if it was right or wrong. Xu asked to explain.

"Yes, is it?" Lu Cheng really didn't pay attention.

"That's right. From just now, Qi Kun's expression was a little depressed, and then he finally spoke up to agree. He then asked Xu again, "Is his hand really hurt?"

"I guess, my right hand is a little weak. Smaller movements are well controlled, such as rolling dice, but long periods of force are not good. Xu Wen has carefully observed and basically has come to a conclusion.

"This is really ......" Qi Kun was silent for a moment, shook his head and sighed.

Lu Cheng was stunned for a moment, and suddenly understood why Xu Wen would let Zuo Teng go.

How similar is this talent, this kind of encounter, and Zhou Zhicheng?

It's just that Zhou Zhicheng still has a master who loves him and a younger brother who loves him, and Zuo Teng obviously needs to make a living by himself......

Lu Cheng looked at his hands and couldn't help but start wondering if he couldn't do this anymore if something like this happened to him?

He thought about it for a while, felt that it was too unlucky, and after snorting a few times, he began to feel a little sympathetic to the person named Zuo Teng.

Xu Wen will let Zuo Teng go, in addition to the fact that he is somewhat similar to Zhou Zhicheng, mainly because he feels that this person has arrogance in his heart.

He threw a five, five, or six to Xu Wen, and after Xu Wen finished, he also threw himself the same number.

He didn't know he couldn't get to that point, but he forced it.

Xu Wen could understand his mood, and he would probably do the same.

Xu asked a few people to go to find Master Yao and them, and then two people came slowly from behind the verandah, one of them was white and beardless, and he was very rich, and the other was a little old, lean and short, with a bitter face.

The former looked at the horizontal and vertical lines on the ground, and said with a smile: "It seems that there are many high-quality young men to refer to this year." ”

"Hmm. The bitter-faced old man replied nonchalantly.

"Then please ask Lord Sun. The white-faced fat man arched his hand towards him, smiling even more.

"Hmph. The bitter-faced old man snorted again, not distinguishing between joy and anger.

After playing for a while, there were still more than 20 numbers in front, and Qi Zhengze still had some energy here, so he found a place to sit down with Master Yao and made tea.

Xu asked them to accompany them, and after only sitting for a while, several people came over to say hello, all of whom were prospective candidates who had just played a round of games.

"Fight to fame. Master Yao asked with a laugh and a joke.

Xu Wen smiled embarrassedly, and suddenly there was a shallow and faint discussion from the inside out, quickly spreading to the entire registered courtyard.

"Master Sun's master is going to have a birthday?"

"Let all the candidates give gifts?"