Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes.

Where there are women, there is right and wrong, and where there are men, there is either wine, meat, and beautiful women, or gambling.

Crowd gambling seems to be a hobby that many men find difficult to refuse.

After nightfall, Liufu seems to be calm and quiet on the surface, except for a few young people on night in the front yard gatehouse who are still chatting with candles, most of them have already fallen asleep.

Walking out of the gate to the east, turning a shallow alley, there is a row of slippery buildings.

Gambling halls, pubs, fireworks......

The gambling halls that are always noisy, the fragrant green houses, the taverns that are full of wine, and the pawnshops that eat people without spitting out bones, they are closely interdependent and interdependent.

A thin figure clasped his arms, hesitantly entering a pawnshop, which was not closed at night and waited for business to come to the door.

The counter was half a head taller than the person who came, and the thin man tiptoed to hand over what he was holding.

The shopkeeper puts on his glasses, brings things close to the lamp, looks closely, knocks, distinguishes colors, listens, sees, and is silent.

The thin man didn't say a word, and waited quietly.

The shopkeeper looked delighted behind the thick lenses of his glasses, but he quickly restrained his joy and examined it repeatedly with a straight face.

The thin man was seen as weak in his heart, and hurriedly emphasized, "Shopkeeper, I am a real good product, my mother passed it down from my mother's mother, four or five generations of family heirlooms, real good jade, don't think about me." ”

The shopkeeper had long looked as usual, not smiling, "The bracelet is jade, jade, but unfortunately there are a lot of magazines in it, which is not a good product, and the hairpin, the inlaid jade is barely a good jade, but it is only a small piece, too small, and it is inlaid with silver, so the overall estimate, it is still not worth a lot of money." In this way, the jade bracelet is fifty taels. Twenty taels of hairpins, a total of seventy taels of silver, if you are willing, we will accept the things. If you don't want to, you leave, we won't keep you. ”

The thin man's eyes purred, unwillingly, "A total of one hundred taels." I'll take a hundred taels! And I didn't sell it to you, but only for the time being, and I will definitely come and redeem it when I turn over it. ”

The shopkeeper laughed silently, and then came back when the book was turned? How many desperate people will say this oath here, but in the end, nine times out of ten, the goods will become dead. People who like to gamble, prefer it this way.

"Eighty taels, you can go to the next one, I dare to tell you responsibly. You walk through this alley tonight, and you won't find a second pawnshop with a higher bid than me, if so, you come to me, and I will give you eighty taels of silver without saying a word!"

The words are categorical, and there is no room for manoeuvre.

The thin man thought about it and rolled his eyes, there are several pawnshops here, there is no one more conscientious than this one, pawnshop. They all eat meat and don't spit out bones, and the world is as black as a crow, and they can still be tested again! When he did, he picked up eighty taels of white silver and flew away.

"Hey, isn't this a little camel? You kid almost lost his pants that night, and it's only been a few days, and it's not time for the monthly calendar, why are you here again?" someone joked loudly.

The little camel stood at the first entrance and looked around left and right, snorting in his nose. He didn't bother to talk to others, and he didn't linger at the table at the door, making a lot of noise everywhere, but his goal was very clear, and he turned sideways through the lower-class poor men who gathered to gamble small money.

"Oh, little camel, has this kid taken the wrong medicine, why don't you ignore me? Where did you kid make a windfall? If you have money, you pretend not to know us? You kid still owes me 30 yuan, come back quickly!" he said and pulled his sleeves.

The little camel swerved out of the way and threw himself to the largest, black wooden table.

"Go, go, what are the children doing to make trouble? Don't disturb the uncles Yaxing, this is also a place where you can come and gamble casually?"

A fat man was shouting at the table, he was the owner of the gambling house.

The little camel's thin hand spread out at the fat man, and a calm smile squeezed out of the thin face.

The dog's eyes look at people low, so that you can see clearly, uncle is a rich man tonight, do you have a reason to refuse a rich man to come here to gamble?

Sure enough, the gambling house does not refuse the rich, and it is greatly welcome.

The fat man saw clearly the silver ingots in the sleeve of the little camel, and smiled so much that only a slit remained in his eyes, "Oh, yes, it's the little camel uncle, where are you rich?

The tall chubby body bent down as much as possible, and the hair was slightly stammering with a smile.

The little camel puffed up his chest, squeezed through the crowd on both sides, and stood beside the large, dark wooden table.

Behind him, a large group of people squeezed over, all of whom followed to see the rarity.

The little camel looked behind secretly, most of them were familiar people in the Liu Mansion, Lao Qiao at the gate, Uncle Yu from the second gate, Brother An from the carriage and horse shop, and Xiao Huizi from the front hall...... I can't imagine that so many people in Liufu spend their nightlife here.

More than a dozen people were talking about the little camel.

"Isn't this the little guy who does the rough work? It seems to be the godson of Aunt Yu in the kitchen?"

"That's right, this kid is a ghost elf, he has no mother, so he recognized a godmother, no sister, and also recognized a godsister, the work in the house is not good to do, and he knows that he is playing autumn wind everywhere, stealing here and cheating there, and gambling when he gets money. ”

"Who is his godsister? It must be a rough mother-in-law, which little girl is willing to be contaminated with such goods?"

"Don't underestimate him, his godsister used to be not very good, but now she is famous!

"Oh, who the hell is that?

"Does the Corner Courtyard know? Does the fool Wan Ge'er's child daughter-in-law know?"

"Ah, could it be that this good friend is the little mute? No, that dumb person doesn't seem to be dumb recently, and he has learned a strange ability, specializing in delivering babies and seeing patients, she looks very responsible, how did she get hooked up with this kid?"

"you, a stinky mouth knows how to be nonsense! It's not the child daughter-in-law! It's a girl ring next to the child daughter-in-law, called Orchid. ”

"Orchid? Are you talking about that ......?"

The voice suddenly dimmed.

It seems that even if they are outside, they still know that some things should not be shouted loudly, the master is taboo, and they have no mouth to hide, but they are afraid that they will turn around and lose their jobs.

"Bet ten taels—"

"Twenty-two—"

"I'm also twenty-two—"

"Up—"

The sound of yo shouts rang out suddenly, and the quarrel shook the low roof of the casino, and the large lights hanging on the roof were swayed by the sound waves.

The people under the lamp, their faces are blood-red, and at first glance they are addicted to gambling, and those who win are smiling and full of spring breeze; those who are unlucky have red eyes, are shirtless, and only big pants are left, but they still have to gamble, and they gamble desperately.

"I'm betting -- thirty taels -- "

The voice of the little camel passed through the crowd, spiky and spine, and it seemed that he was going to cry if he lost again.

However, gambling is ruthless, tonight his luck is not smooth, last night lost not only did not get back, the eighty taels of silver were thrown into it like a stone into a deep pool.

"Up-wow-"

The shouts pressed on and on, and the impact made people's eardrums burst.

The little camel clutched the gambling equipment tightly with both hands, and blood was about to spurt out of his eyes, but in the end it was not blood or fire, but despair, and he lost again.

Touching the pocket, touching the sleeve, touching the chest, everywhere is empty, eighty taels of silver here is actually very little, and I can't afford to lose at all.

Eighty taels of white flowers, it's gone.

"There's no money, right, if you don't have money, get out of the way-get out of the way-uncle-"

Someone yelled and squeezed the little camel away.

"Little camel, you still fucking owe me thirty yuan, you kid lost all your money, what do you pay me back?" A pair of big hands tightly tore the collar of the little camel, and lifted his thin body off the ground.

"Let's go to your godsister again, she is now a big celebrity in front of the master, fragrant and sweet, any gown, a piece of jewelry, any piece of porcelain in her house, can be exchanged for money-"

In the tumult, someone shouted in his ear.

The little camel was reminded, his body shook like a loach, and he quickly slipped away from the crowd, out of the door of the gambling house, and ran out of the shallow alley with a puff of smoke.

Passing through several fireworks fields, it was so late at night, but there were still women who were very dedicated to the door to solicit customers, and those soft little hands suddenly stretched out to pull the little camel.

"Little brother-little brother-what's the problem, come to my sister's place to have fun-"

"What a handsome little brother - whose woman raised it-"

"What's the hurry? Are you in a hurry to find your mother for milk?"

"Hee-hee-hee-"

Laughter and scolding spilled all over the ground behind him. (To be continued.) )