Old Man Chu led Lu Xuan to the study on the second floor of the villa.

This is a room full of sandalwood books, the tables, chairs and bookcases are made of dark sandalwood, the decoration is simple but not luxurious, the bookcases are filled with thick books, and there are all kinds of bottles of copper pottery horses on the wall shelves, at least in terms of Lu Xuan's connoisseurship, those bottles of copper pottery horses must be valuable antiques.

Lu Xuan sighed, the things in this study were worth more than the entire villa.

There are many calligraphy and paintings on the wall, iron pens and silver hooks, vigorous and powerful, Lu Xuan looked around and found that most of these words were written by the same person, so he asked curiously: "Grandpa Chu, these words are all written by you, right?" ”

"Xiao Xuan also knows how to read?" Old Man Chu smiled, walked to the bookcase, and used a key to open the drawer embedded in the bookcase.

"I don't understand, but Grandpa Chu's handwriting is good, and even the inscription of Marshal Yuan can't be struck." Lu Xuan said with a smile.

"Haha." Lu Xuan patted the old man Chu's heart, the old man Chu laughed twice, opened the drawer and took out a box from inside, inside the box was a blood-red jade pendant, and said: "Lu Xuan, this is what your grandfather left back then, you take it!" ”

The jade pendant was in his hand, and Lu Xuan felt a warmth in his palm, and immediately sensed that this blood-red jade pendant actually had a sinister qi overflowing, and a trace of evil qi drilled into the skin along his palm, and was absorbed by him, and this trace of evil qi passed through his body and was finally stored in the dantian.

Lu Xuan's eyes showed an incredible look, and then asked, "This is?" ”

"This is the jade pendant that your grandfather carried with him back then, and every time he killed an enemy, he would soak this jade pendant with blood, and over time it would become bloody." Old Man Chu sat behind the desk, seemed to recall the eventful years of the past, and said with some melancholy.

"I see, thank you Grandpa Chu!" Lu Xuan smiled and said, but an idea suddenly popped up in his heart: "Maybe this jade pendant is very useful for me to restore my strength." ”

Put away the jade pendant, Lu Xuan walked out of the study with Old Man Chu, and saw Chu Xiaoxiao walking towards him, and said with a smile: "Grandpa, have you finished your business?" ”

"You girl, you still take care of grandpa." Old Man Chu shook his head with a smile and said, "Say, what are you going to do?" ”

"It's nothing, I just want Lu Xuan to play poker with a few of us." Chu Xiaoxiao stuck out her tongue and said with a hippie smile.

Old Man Chu patted Lu Xuan's shoulder and said, "Xiao Xuan, this girl's name is Chu Xiaoxiao, Luo Yan's cousin, anyway, you will be bored with a few old men with us, just let Xiaoxiao take you to play." ”

As the saying goes, three years of generation ditch, let him accompany a group of old people separated by dozens of generation gaps would really be uncomfortable, so Lu Xuan agreed without hesitation.

"What are you playing?" Lu Xuan walked next to Chu Xiaoxiao and asked.

"Fight the landlord!" Chu Xiao grinned and led Lu Xuan to a room.

The room is very large, there is a huge crystal lamp hanging from the ceiling, and under the crystal lamp, there is an oval luxury card table, at this moment Chu Luoyan and Mu Bai are sitting at the card table, looking towards the door.

When Chu Luoyan saw Lu Xuan, he immediately felt an abnormality in his heart, and smiled politely at him, his smile was as cold as a fairy.

Mu Bai had a gloomy face, and secretly gritted his teeth as if he was going to swallow Lu Xuan alive.

"Isn't it true that the landlord can only be played by three people?" Lu Xuan looked at Chu Luoyan and Mu Bai in the room and said, plus Chu Xiaoxiao, it happened to be three people.

"You play, I'll watch from the side." Chu Xiaoxiao found a place to sit down.

"Forget it then." Lu Xuan is not blind, he can naturally see Mu Bai's yin and yang weirdness next to him, although he can ignore it at all, but such a person next to him when playing cards will always make him feel uncomfortable.

Chu Xiaoxiao immediately wanted to persuade, but before she could speak, Mu Bai said with a sneer: "You shouldn't be afraid of losing, right?" ”

The jade Maitreya Buddha worth millions turned out to be a broken ring foil in the end, although Mu Bai was not short of this money, he couldn't swallow this breath no matter what.

"You're right." Lu Xuan nodded and said, "It's really because I'm afraid of losing, I don't have any money on me, and it's not good if I can't pay the bill if I lose." ”

"Humph! Bad seeds! Mu Bai originally thought that Lu Xuan would quibble, but who knew that he would admit it so readily, which suddenly made the 'cruel words' that Mu Bai had already conceived lose their effect, and couldn't help but be even more annoyed.

"I have money, I'll lend it to you!" Chu Xiaoxiao seemed to smell the smell of gunpowder, and jumped up and said for fear that the world would not be chaotic.

"Good!" Even the clay figure has three points of anger, and in the face of Mu Bai's repeated provocations, Lu Xuan agreed without thinking about it.

Mu Bai was immediately overjoyed, and his eyes were full of sinister smiles when he looked at Lu Xuan.

The three of them didn't play very much, and they also had a few hundred yuan, but after Lu Xuan joined the game, a fierceness flashed in Mu Bai's eyes, and he said: "The pattern of fighting the landlord is too small, no matter how you play, you can't play the wind and waves, since you want to play, there is a kind of let's play big!" ”

"I don't care." Lu Xuan shrugged his shoulders and looked at Chu Xiaoxiao.

"I'm fine!" Chu Xiaoxiao's mouth outlined a wicked smile and said.

"Then use a million as a bargaining chip and use stud to win or lose, how about it?" The ruthlessness in Mu Bai's eyes was even more victorious, and he seemed to see the picture of Lu Xuan losing a poor and being collected by Chu Xiaoxiao for debts in his mind, thinking about what you will do to fight with me when the time comes!

After Lu Xuan agreed, a servant immediately sent some colorful round chips, stacked high, one hundred yellow, five hundred green, one thousand blue, five thousand red, and ten thousand black, adding up to exactly one million.

The news of the stud duel also spread, and it immediately attracted a large group of guests attending the birthday banquet and the young people of the Chu family, and the room was immediately full.

The dealer who deals the cards is a bodyguard of the Chu family who has good card skills.

Chu Xiaoxiao, as Lu Xuan's financier, volunteered to be a referee next to him to put an end to all tricks.

Chu Luoyan didn't plan to participate, she stood on the side with her hands on her chest and watched quietly, she felt very strange, it stands to reason that Lu Xuan's chips were all borrowed from Chu Xiaoxiao, and in the face of the imposing Mu Bai, he would be more or less lacking in confidence, why did Lu Xuan look like an uncle walking birds in a park, revealing a light and breezy appearance.

Is it pretended? Chu Luoyan was really curious.

Stud, also known as sand crab, is one of the simplest and most exciting ways to play poker, the simplicity lies in the popular rules, as long as you have seen a few times to start, the excitement lies in the fact that this kind of play is easy to stimulate the anger between players, so that the chips on hand are quickly exhausted.

It is precisely because of this that a series of gambling king and gambling saint movies will use stud as the final finale.

Lu Xuan and Mu Bai sat on both sides of the oval table, and the game began.

The dealer opened a brand new deck of cards, drew all the cards except A, K, Q, J, 10, 9, and 8, leaving only twenty-eight cards and began to shuffle the cards.

The dealer is dealt cards four times, the player will get a total of five cards, the size of the card determines whether the player calls, or give up, according to the card combination into a flush, a straight flush, four of a kind, straight and so on, if the player's card is the same, then compare the size of the card, the largest is A, down to K, Q, J, 10, 9, 8.

Mu Bai's eyes were sharp, staring at the deck of playing cards that were flipping up and down, as if he wanted to memorize all the cards by memory, and only after the dealer shuffled the cards, Mu Bai withdrew his gaze, his face was as if he was looking at it, and a smile rose at the corner of his mouth.

The dealer dealt cards, the first card is the hole card on the table, only the player can see it, the second card, Mu Bai got a heart J, Lu Xuan got a square 8.

Lu Xuan carefully grabbed the hole card in the palm of his hand, and glanced at it lightly, it was a red heart 10.

"The jack of hearts speaks." This bodyguard who works as a dealer is expressionless and very professional.

The player with the big card bets first, Mu Bai stared at Lu Xuan with a provocative gaze, and casually threw a black chip to the table.

Mu Bai bet 10,000.

"Follow." Lu Xuan also took out a black chip and threw it on the table.

The dealer continued to deal the third card, Mu Bai was an ace of spades, Lu Xuan was a king of hearts, and it was still Mu Bai who had the upper hand.

"The Ace of Spades speaks." The dealer said with a blank face.

"Go ahead with ten thousand." Mubai bets.

Lu Xuan followed 10,000.

The fourth card, Mu Bai was assigned a diamond J, and there were already three cards in his hand, namely the J of hearts, the ace of spades and the J of diamonds, plus a hole card, which was already considered a combination of 'pairs'.

Lu Xuan's fourth card is 10 spades, plus his hole card 10 hearts are also a 'pair', but 10 is smaller than J, and he is still behind.

The fifth card is the tiebreaker, which determines the final combination of the cards, if you don't have confidence to give up, if you have confidence to continue to call, or even stud, stud means all-in, if the opponent doesn't give up, you have to bet with your stud chips.

Mu Bai was given a grass flower A again, and Lu Xuan was given a grass flower 10.

Mu Bai smiled coldly and threw out a few more black chips.

"Deal." Lu Xuan called.

The hole cards were opened, and there was a burst of exclamations around him, Mu Bai's hole card was an ace of hearts, plus his original ace of spades and grass flower ace, and the three aces were better than Lu Xuan's three 10s.

Lu Xuan lost this game, one million chips went out of 100,000, and there were 900,000 left, and the chips piled up high were immediately shorter than Mu Bai.

"Do you dare to continue!" Mu Bai won a game, with a smile on his face, and looked at Lu Xuan defiantly and said.

"Go on." Lu Xuan said, his expression was a little heavy, but his eyes narrowed slightly, and no one noticed the trace of cunning in his eyes.

In the second game, Lu Xuan lost, and the chips of 100,000 yuan floated away, and now he only had 800,000 left, scratching his head with his hand, he seemed to be a little impatient, and threw all the cards in his hand to the bodyguard who served as a dealer.

"In a hurry?" Mu Bai saw Lu Xuan's expression in his eyes, and couldn't help but feel proud in his heart, the picture in his mind that Lu Xuan was despised by everyone in the Chu family because he owed Chu Xiaoxiao money became clearer and clearer, he couldn't wait to start the third game, and thought fiercely in his heart: "This is just the beginning!" ”

It seems that Lu Xuan's luck is not very good, at the beginning of the third game, Mu Bai was divided into a few good cards, and Lu Xuan was stabilized on the card surface, until the dealer dealt the fifth card, Mu Bai stood up violently, and slapped the eighty bundles of banknotes piled up in front of him.

"Stud!" Mu Bai laughed and shouted.

Everyone was shocked by Mu Bai, and looked at Mu Bai's cards, the ace of hearts, the ace of grass flowers, the ace of spades, the jack of spades and a hole card.

"Could it be that hole card is ......?" exclaimed.

"Four A's, Mu Bai's luck is too good!" Some people are envious that even at the top tables, it is rare for four aces to appear at the same time.

Just like that, Mu Bai has already taken seven or eight A's, and his luck is bursting, but Lu Xuan, on the other hand, doesn't have an A's.

But just when everyone was sighing and envious of Mu Bai, an abrupt voice made them all stunned.

"Stud!"

Directly opposite Mu Bai, Lu Xuan also stood up and slowly pushed out the remaining 800,000 chips with both hands.

This book was first published in Reading Books