Volume 1 The Rain of the Sword Chapter 7 Rotten wood cannot be carved
"Leopard, leopard, leopard, open!"
"Hey~TMD, what kind of luck!"
"Come again!"
"Buy big and buy small?" asked the professional dealer in front of everyone.
"Great!" Big" "Small!" ~
"Open open open!"
"Fuck it, it's a fucking back, and I'm losing!"
Unintelligible foul language filled the room, and the noise was incessant. Judging from today's tone, it is estimated that someone has lost a fine light again, and the noisy shouting and scolding are getting louder and louder. Jiang Laosi cautiously opened the door, his eyes swept over the people on the table, and finally relaxed when he looked at the second table, and finally found the person he was looking for.
This is the Wang's house, the only place in this small city where you can play for money.
As the old saying goes, no matter where it is, no matter how small it is, it may not even have a government agency, there are two things that must be indispensable: fireworks streets and gambling houses.
It just so happens that these two essential places serve the men of Jianyi City. Fireworks Street, in fact, is the southwest corner of the city of Fuxi Street, the street girls in it are all dressed very revealingly, of any age, as for the price, it can be as high as a few pennies all the way to a few coins of silver. And the only gambling house in this city is naturally this Wang family.
Wang's house is not big, only one main house, and there is a plum tree planted in the courtyard.
The Ministry of Civil Affairs of the Great Qin Dynasty clearly stipulated that unless there were more than 10 people gathered outside to gamble in a regular gambling house, the small crime of 30 rods could be convicted after 2 taels of silver.
But in fact, in such a small remote town, how can it be possible to open a regular gambling house? Even if it does, it has to go to the county town to report, and it must be registered, and the state has extremely strict control over the gambling house and the green house, although the law explicitly allows it to be opened, but it must be included in the control of the state apparatus.
Therefore, in this kind of small town, this kind of gambling house is very common in the courtyard of a private household, at least in the surrounding towns, there are a few similar private gambling houses, as the owner of the given venue, only need to collect ten copper plates from each person who enters, and you can lie at home and earn a few dollars of silver a day.
But often high returns come with high risks, and if the government comes to raid his home and confiscate all the gambling funds, he has nothing to say. But Xiong in the small town of Jianyi is also an idle county commander, so he doesn't have the time to pay attention to these things.
Even if he came to raid his home, he had already taken care of the officers and soldiers, which was also the doorway of a businessman, and since it was a kind of business, he naturally had to give some soup to the people around him.
Jiang Laosi stopped the person who was gambling, that person should have been about forty years old, wearing a black satin coat full of wrinkles on his upper body, and the collar button on the chest of the gown was tied one by one, and the look on his face was very bad, if the red face could be divided into a degree, that person's face should be said to be blood red.
Such a ruddy face made his already somewhat round face even more lovely, like a bright red tomato.
But contrary to this cuteness, his mouth was scolding and screaming what vulgar words at this time, judging from his face and words, it is estimated that he could lose a lot all night this night, and the words in his mouth were like the crossbow arrows of officers and soldiers, sentence after sentence, if he was entangled in the words, he could really spray people to death on the ground.
A few wisps of saliva remained on the corners of his mouth that had not been drunk, and even tried to slip off the corners of his dry mouth, but he lifted his sleeve and wiped it on his lips, so they were almost intimate with the black satin sleeves.
Jiang Laosi's eyes showed the satisfaction of finding the goal he wanted, so he naturally walked up to the middle-aged man with a somewhat round face, and said, "Eh, Lao Xie, is you not lucky today?
This is the art of speaking.
Jiang Laosi was naturally an expert in speaking, and before he could react, he immediately put his hand on the shoulder of the fat man with a round face, and said with a smile while looking at the gambling game on the table: "Old Xie, do you want me to help you with a few tricks in the game of this dice?"
In ordinary times, a rich man like Xie Fatzi would have to talk to a trafficker and pawn like Jiang Laosi.
But maybe it's because he just played all night and lost too much, the two heavy eyebrows on his face were about to wrinkle into a rope, and when he heard Jiang Laosi's words, of course he was too late to be happy, so he hurriedly held Jiang Laosi's hand and said:
"I've always heard that Brother Jiang has some skills in you, if you help me win, I will immediately let you go to the melon field in Hexi to get melons, and you can collect as much as you want. ”
Everyone in the room laughed when they heard this, and they all laughed at Xie Fatman's desperation, and actually believed in such a small person in the market, which really made people laugh off their big teeth.
Fat Xie seemed to trust Jiang Laosi very much, but in fact, he was also a little weak in his heart, but as the owner of the sandy land in Hexi, he had seen Jiang Laosi pick melons in the melon orchard, Jiang Laosi was just squatting in the ground alone, just relying on his hands to pat the green melon, he knew the good or bad ripeness, and there was no mistake at all.
But today is a gambling game, and Xie Fatzi doesn't know if Jiang Laosi's set is good in the gambling game, but he has already said that he wants Jiang Laosi to help, so it is not easy to take back his life, so he can only hold on to his face and say to everyone at the table: "You know a fart! Jiang Laosi's dice playing skills are very good, don't blame me if you lose a fine light when the time comes!"
Everyone heard this kind of words, and immediately called for Jiang Laosi to play for Xie Fatzi, Xie Fatzi pulled away the scattered silver copper plate in front of the table, and paid off the money owed first, and then looked at Jiang Laosi and whispered into his ear: "I have already released cruel words today, losing money is a trivial matter, if you make me lose face, it is good to have you kid!"
Jiang Laosi nodded with a smile, and did not directly answer Xie Fatzi's words, but only expressed his affirmation with a smile. He put the yellow paper umbrella aside, sat down on the bench neatly, arched his fists at the table, and said in the tone of a Jianghu person:
"Villain Jiang Laosi, today I will play with all the adults, winning or losing depends on luck, no matter what the situation, I am willing to gamble and lose. ”
When the people at the table saw him like this, they put away their contemptuous looks, such a skillful technique, it is impossible to be a novice.
When the unprofessional dealer saw such a big scene, he said kindly: "Then please sit down, and it will start in a while." Then he glanced at the people around the table, and after finding that there was no suspicion of cheating, he began to shake the dice cup in his hand and shouted: "Buy big and buy small, buy and leave!"
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"Why don't you speak, I'm asking you!" In the school, a little girl in red was leaning into her waist and questioned the boy with a serious face.
"I, I, I ......"
Ah Xiao had never felt so embarrassed, at least until now.
Originally, Uncle Jiang just wanted to stay here to avoid the rain, he went to Wang's house to get something and came over, who knew that the rain was so heavy, after estimating that there should be no one in the school today, he was willing to hide in to avoid the rain, who knew that the school was inhabited, this is a shame! The more Ah Xiao thought about it in his heart, the more ruddy his face became.
Unlike Fat Xie's tomato face, Ah Xiao's white and tender face was as red as a peach. It's really hard to pinch it.
"Tell me, what are you doing here?" the little girl asked aggressively, taking a step forward. But then at such a close distance, she was attracted by Ah Xiao's flushed face, stared at Ah Xiao's face very seriously for a while, and said suspiciously: "Why haven't I seen you before?"
"Mofei, you're not a student here!" She stamped her foot excitedly, rejoicing for a moment at the answer she had guessed, and then quickly calmed down, thought for a moment, and finally seemed to understand something.
Her mouth turned into an "O" shape, her eyes widened, and she pointed to Ah Xiao in front of her with trembling fingers, her hands were helpless and her face was flushed, and she said in the tone of a teacher who taught her students on weekdays: "I see! I see! At a young age, if I don't follow the right path, I just think of some dirty ways, it's really rotten wood that can't be carved! I'm so angry!"
"No...... No, no, it's not like that, I don't!" Ah Xiao held back for a long time, and finally held back such a complete sentence from his mouth.