Wu San knew that they were all experts, and too much temptation and concealment would only increase their distrust of each other, to tell the truth, to satisfy Cheng Sanye's obvious curiosity, he might know what he wanted.

Wu San took Lao Zhang to Shijiazhuang Casino and his acquaintance, helped him lay a world in Shijiazhuang, as well as Lao Zhang's unique card counting, card counting method, and even the agreement between himself and Lao Zhang, and talked about it as it was.

Cheng Sanye listened very carefully, and interrupted Wu San from time to time to ask a few questions, listening and listening, his body was completely leaning on the chair, and his eyes were slit, as if he was asleep.

After a while, Cheng Sanye opened his eyes and said to Wu San a little helplessly: "Boss Wu, I said that Liu Er's work was finished that day, and his eyelids kept jumping, and he dared to love like this." ”

"If, as you said, Lao Zhang is a top master, then his opponent, the person who came to me to play this game is too terrible. Lao Zhang and that person only gambled twice in my field, the first time Lao Zhang lost two or three hundred thousand, looking for me to borrow money, the second time was four days later, that time Lao Zhang brought one million in cash, and finally owed one million in the field, but if I remember correctly, they only gambled four or five rounds. I thought Lao Zhang was crazy at the time. ”

"Cheng Sanye, those two times, you watched Lao Zhang play cards, didn't you see that he was a master?" Wu San was stunned when he saw Cheng Sanye, and hurriedly asked again.

"No, it's more like a mallet, almost loses, there are two obvious opponents with big cards in their hands, and he keeps calling, hundreds of thousands, without blinking his eyes, millions at the bottom of the pool, but pushing the cards to admit defeat, so what is he doing in front of him? It's as if the money is not his own at all, it's just going to be given to the opponent. ”

Cheng Sanye's words made a terrible guess in Wu San's heart continue to be confirmed. Wu San hurriedly asked, "What does the person who gave you this willow job look like?" ”

"It should be two people, the person who found me said that his surname was Du, nodding in his thirties, about one meter eight, very strong, with a northeast accent, but he is not a master. Although the other one didn't end up and kept sitting next to the one surnamed Du, I felt that it should be the protagonist behind the scenes, and the one surnamed Du often glanced at the person, as if important decisions were made by that person. The man was not tall and thin, but he wore a mask and a pair of sunglasses, so he couldn't see what he looked like. That day, Lao Zhang should have noticed that person and kept staring at him. But the look was like an evil one, and then he didn't even look at the cards, just stared at the man. But Liu Huo's rules are there, and I don't want to ask too much. ”

"If I'm not mistaken, the money that Lao Zhang owes to the casino is also paid back by these two people?"

"This is clearly a trick, anyone with a discerning eye can see it, but if Lao Zhang has to drill into it, no one can save it. When the money was repaid, the kid surnamed Du didn't come, it was another person, not tall, thin and thin, and no one would pay attention to it in the pile. But I've been working in casinos for a long time, and I've fallen into the ability to recognize people, and he's the one with the surname Duna, the one who wears sunglasses and a mask, that's right. ”

Wu Sanwei stayed in Beijing for more than a week to see Cheng Sanye, and when he came back from Beijing, he had already heard that Lao Zhang had been expelled from school and divorced. He went to Lao Zhang's house once, Lao Zhang had already left home at that time, and Lao Zhang's daughter-in-law heard that his surname was Wu, but she didn't let him enter the house, and told him that she had nothing to do with Lao Zhang, so she closed the door.

A few days later, he received a letter from Xiang Yuanlin, which said that he had inherited the Taoist skills of his ancestors, and he did not have much time to take care of the casino in Handan, and he was going to return the casino to Wu San, and he did not want his shares in the casino, because he was going to Jiangxi to cultivate, so that Wu San did not have to look for him again, and he would definitely have the opportunity to meet one day.

Wu San said this, the sumptuous banquet in front of us, the waiter had already warmed it for us once, and everyone basically didn't move their chopsticks. After Wu San finished speaking, Team Cao still had an unbelievable look on his face, and asked: "Boss Wu, that means that in more than a year, you haven't seen Lao Zhang and Xiang Yuanlin again?"

Wu San nodded with a wry smile and persuaded us to hurry up and eat something.

"Boss Wu, listening to your story, how do you feel that Lao Zhang's gambling debts in Beijing are a trick to the far forest?"

"Team Cao, these are my guesses, and I also asked some friends to help inquire about the whereabouts of Lao Zhang and Xiang Yuanlin, but there is no news at all, and I can't confirm it from their mouths, my guesses can only be guesses. ”

"Boss Wu, I think your guess is right, first, the one who can beat Lao Zhang at the gambling table must be a person who is very familiar with Lao Zhang, familiar with his card counting routine, Lao Zhang is usually so low-key, there are not many people who know him, there are only two such people, you and Xiang Yuanlin. Second, defeat Lao Zhang, a greater possibility, but it is Xiang Jia's illusion, from Cheng Sanye's narration, Lao Zhang's fiasco, completely blind betting, and then push the cards to admit defeat, this situation, and Xiang Yuanlin to help you get the Handan casino thousands of methods are the same. At this time, it was Xiao Lei who raised his head and spoke, he had been silent almost all the time since he was on the dinner table at noon, and he did not speak, and finally couldn't hold back at this time and spoke.

At this time, Wu San put down the chopsticks he had just picked up and looked at Xiao Lei with interest.

"However, there is one thing I haven't figured out, and that is Xiang Yuanlin's motives. In this game, Xiang Yuanlin hid his identity, he must not want Lao Zhang to recognize him, and then pay off the gambling for Lao Zhang, that is, to ask Lao Zhang to owe him a favor, and use this method to coerce Lao Zhang to help him do things. Judging from Lao Zhang's later situation in Beijing, they don't seem to have made a living from gambling, what does this matter have to do with Lao Zhang's lottery purchase?" Xiao Lei looked at me suspiciously, and stopped talking.

"Officer Lei did a good analysis, which is something I have never been able to understand. I thought that Xiang Yuanlin did this to pull Lao Zhang into the gang, but the two of them joined forces to go to the casino, and they were still two old men, and it didn't matter if they didn't win much, they would definitely be targeted by the casino if they won more, not to mention taking the money away, and it was hard to say whether they could get out of the house. Moreover, this circle is very small, they really come to an end, and I will definitely get the news, and I won't be ignorant for more than a year. Come, that's all I know, you come all the way, I'll do my best to be a landlord and toast everyone. ”

After drinking the wine in the cup, I asked Wu San again: "Boss Wu, when you were learning art from the old man, have you ever heard of the Xiang family's statement about the heavenly machine? What is the last sentence in the Nine Lives Formula?"

Wu San nodded, "The Dao method studied by the old man's family seems to be the heavenly machine, but the old man Xiang didn't teach me anything other than the Thousand Arts, so it wasn't clear, but before he died, he told me that the Heavenly Machine seemed to be a set of numbers, which needed to be meditated and meditated, and there was a deep fate to obtain it, but historically, there were many numbers obtained, but there were very few people who could really crack the secrets through the Five Elements Bagua technique." Those who can solve a little fur are all prognosticators who have reached the peak of various eras, such as Guo Pu, Ge Hong, Yuan Tiangang, Liu Bowen, all of them. ”

"As for the last sentence in the Nine Destiny Formula, it is the Bureau of Destiny, and the soul can be ferried, I don't know what it means, maybe I have never encountered the Bureau of Destiny. ”

"Soul Attraction Can Be Fertished?" I didn't expect this last sentence to be like this, I thought that the front was a comprehension of life, and in the end it should be the awe and obedience to the Mandate of Heaven, but it turned out to be a Soul Channel, could it be possible to use the Soul Attraction Technique to fight against the Mandate of Heaven? This is the choice that Xiang Yuanlin has made.

If, as Wu San said, Xiang Jia's lineage, and the power of his family to study the science of destiny, then the Ghost Immortal Master's soul induction technique should be based on the cracking of fate and fortune, and replace the fate with soul induction. However, what the Ghost Immortal Master did in Mopan Mountain, how to look at it like a manifestation of going mad, using the living to control the soul and the soul to break through the evil, blocked for a while, but it only cured the symptoms but not the root cause, and the debts of sin always had to be liquidated together, can't this be seen to the people at home?

Maybe Xiang Yuanlin is aware of this problem, or now he can no longer use a living person to control the soul, and replace it with a cat, but as everyone knows, everything has a spirit, and cats and dogs are also the soul masters of the six reincarnations, and they will repay each other, and the dead knot will always be solved more and more, so what difference does it make?

Thinking of this, I can't help but think of Lao Zhang's family of the book "A Thousand Miles of Life", the author of this book, the numerology master of the Republic of China Wei Qianli, moved to Hong Kong after liberation, in his later years, he had creatively applied the art of numerology to predict the rise and fall of the stock market, and put his life savings into a stock, what he didn't expect was that since he bought this stock, this stock is like a wild horse, but unfortunately it fell all the way, Wei Qianli wanted to use the art of numerology to cross the industry, in the end, not only the pension money was folded in, but also became a laughing stock in the market.

Could it be that Xiang Yuanlin wants to follow Master Wei's example, combine his own Taoism with Lao Zhang's probability calculations, and break a new path in the lottery circle?

In the middle of the night, when Wu San sent us out of his restaurant, he deliberately pulled me to walk at the end, and whispered to me that in the past two years, although I have not seen Lao Zhang again, I received a letter from Lao Zhang to him a year ago, the letter did not mention his own situation, and the whole article was to persuade Wu San not to do underground casino trading, and it was precisely because of Lao Zhang's letter that Wu San made up his mind to wash his hands in a golden basin. And that letter, Wu San noticed, was not sent from Beijing, but Shangrao in Jiangxi.

(The machine of heaven is unpredictable, and it stretches and stretches and suppresses, all of which are to broadcast heroes and reverse heroes.) The gentleman is just obedient and prepared for danger in times of peace, and the sky has no use for his tricks. --"Caigen Tan")