The wind, which had been blowing for more than ten days, finally stopped, and the brown smoke and dust in the sky returned to calm, and the sky was like a gray-yellow cloth unfolding at one end, tearing a hole in the middle, revealing the blue underneath.

The fierce wind has been blowing for the past few days, and the people in the entire Jinyang City have shrunk at home, closed their doors, and even less than half of the shops in the city have been opened. Now the wind has stopped, as if everyone is suffocated, eager to come out to breathe, the market shops are open, pedestrians, cars and horses are coming and going.

Mu Qing led Aliu Ayue to look at the cloth in a fabric shop, preparing to buy a few spring clothes in a few days. Because of the difficulty of the world, Mu Qing did not entangle the price with the store, nor did he allow Ah Liu Ayue to pester, the shopkeeper estimated that it was a high roller, and opened the good materials in the store in front of her.

She chose a neat white stack with delicate tentacles at both ends, kept it as a lining, and picked out a dark and plain dressing robe at one end, and looked at the left and right ends of a dark cyan thick silk in her hand, thinking that the single robe for Du Ruhui was very compatible, and suddenly heard Ah Yue let out a low "ah".

turned his head to look, but saw Ah Yue staring at the other side in a daze. There is a trail on the side of the wide road in the city that has not entered the square, and Ah Yue is stunned by a small road leading to the south building square. Mu Qing followed her gaze, and a familiar figure swayed into the path, and the outfit she had personally dressed and picked up for him this morning.

Not to mention Ah Yue, it was Mu Qing, who was also stunned at the moment. Nanloufang is the last place in the Jin Dynasty [Yangcheng, even if the serious music fang disdains to be compatible with it, but it has gathered a lot of secret prostitutes and untouchables. And several gambling houses, during the day, the three religions and nine streams are mixed, the door is not sparse, and it is even more lively at night, and the lights are lit all night until dawn after closing.

Mu Qing has lived in Jinyang City for more than a year, only heard others talk about this Nanloufang, and has never set foot in it, firstly, he has never been concerned, and secondly, he is a woman after all, and it is not appropriate to enter and leave such places for no reason. Therefore, it is convenient to visit Jinyang City. I have never entered the South Building.

At this time, she didn't care about that much, turned around and ordered Ah Liu, paid to inspect the fabric, and waited in the store, and involuntarily walked out of the store under her feet. Cross the avenue. The ghost sent a god to set foot on the path to the south building.

Ah Yue, who followed, carefully tugged at her sleeve. "Lady, do you really want to go? Xu yes, I saw the wrong eye for a while? ”

"You're looking at it wrong. Am I wrong? Mu Qing shook off her hand lightly, frowned and glanced at the extension of the trail, "I haven't seen it left and right, and since I've already come, why not take a look." ”

As he spoke, he had already entered the door. Mu Qing raised his head and swept his eyes, but it was not much different from other squares, some of the doors were closed, some were hidden, although there were not idlers walking around, but there were not as unbearable as everyone said.

After a while, there is a slightly higher gate courtyard on the side of the road, the gate is wide open to the market, there are three or two people straight in and out, there is no gatehouse and the like to come forward to interrogate, there is a faint sound of boiling people inside, because it is far away, it is not very real.

Mu Qing boldly stepped into the gate and walked a few steps towards the courtyard, there were two side rooms and a main house, and the courtyard of the three courtyards was noisy. A scolding man walked out of a side room, glanced at Mu Qing and Ah Yue, was stunned, his eyes immediately lit up, and he stepped forward with a salivating face, "Where are the two sisters going?" ”

Mu Qing's heart tightened, and he didn't pay attention to him, and pulled Ah Yue out of the way he came, but the man didn't chase him out. The two did not dare to turn back all the way, and only stopped when they reached the small crossing that connected to the market. Ah Yue stroked her chest and palpitated: "What kind of place is that, strange and frightening." ”

"It's a gambling house." Mu Qing looked at the other side of the trail suspiciously, biting his lower lip, undecided, why did he want to go to that place. I didn't care much about it at the moment, and when I returned to the cloth shop, Ah Liu had carefully inspected the fabric, and wrote where the house was, and asked the shopkeeper to send it.

I still wanted to go to the bookstore to see if there was anything I could collect, but because I had a layer in my heart, my interest disappeared for a while, so I took Aliu Ayue back to the house directly.

Ah Yue and Mu Qing were not wrong, and it was Du Ruhui who hurriedly transferred to Nanloufang. He was not alone, there was another person who entered the Nanloufang trail before him, Ah Yue didn't recognize it, so he didn't pay attention to it.

The gambling house in Nanloufang has not been opened for several days because of the strong wind and dust for several days, and the Jinyang Palace has been idle because it has not taken over for many years, so the Jinyang Palace Supervisor has become the most idle official position in the entire Taiyuan County, and the idle Jinyang Palace Supervisor has a lot of time to linger in the game. The gambling house was not open for several days, and he was depressed and proud, and his mind was upset.

It was easy for the strong wind to stop on this day, which made Pei Lin itch unbearably, and before noon, he hurried to Nanloufang. Du Ruhui quietly followed, followed him, entered the place where the fireworks gamblers gathered, followed for a while, and turned into a slightly magnificent gambling house, that Pei Lin was undoubtedly a frequent visitor, and everyone greeted him all the way, and went straight into the main room, and arrived in front of the high case of a double land play.

Du Ruhui stood outside the crowd of onlookers, and by virtue of his length, he looked inside over the crowd for a while. The drama of Shuanglu is elegant and vulgar entertainment, and the noble family of Houmen, whether it is a servant or a deep lady, can play a few games against each other, Du Ruhui also accompanied his grandmother when he was young, and often deliberately lost, coaxing his grandmother to comfort and entertain.

He smiled indifferently in his heart, he hadn't touched his hands for many years, and now he had to use this pair of land trips to coax him again. Immediately, he squeezed through the crowd, rubbed in front of the high case little by little, and deliberately stood in a place where Pei Lin could see when he raised his eyes.

Sure enough, within a moment, Pei Lin suddenly reached out and patted his arm in surprise, Du Ruhui turned his face to look, the two had met several times at Tang Guogong's place, but they didn't know each other, and they actually met in the gambling house at this time, and their faces were a little surprised and embarrassed.

Pei Lian's heart turned, he could meet him here, but he was afraid that he would be the same, so he got up with a smile and arched his hand, "Keming also likes this stubborn thing?" ”

"It's been okay lately, and I've been walking around a little bit." Du Ruhui raised his hand to return the salute, "Brother Pei doesn't have to stop......"

Pei Lin took his hand, "Hey, it's better to meet by chance, since you're here, you might as well have fun together." ”

Sitting opposite him was a solid civilian, who often dealt with Bo, so he knew Pei Lian, although he knew that he was in a public office, and he really shouldn't linger in the gambling house, but he was very interested and never broke it. Seeing that there was a face, listening to their back and forth answers, he thought that this person was about the same level as Pei Gong, so he didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly stood up and sat down, only watching the battle from the sidelines.

Du Ruhui sat down half-pushed and half-sat on the spot, picked up the dice from the desk with a smile on his face, and threw them with his hands. It is said that the victory or defeat of this game is determined by the points on the dice, but there is a lot of attention to in the chess, and it still takes some strategic calculation to win.

After rolling a few dice, just as he was about to lead Pei Lin into the country, he suddenly heard a rough laugh from someone outside the house, "Where are the two sisters going?" ”

The room full of people was focused on their own gambling interests, and no one had time to look up, even if someone heard it, they only regarded it as a prostitute in the house, and they were all interested in going to the gambling house to solicit customers.

Du Ruhui only felt that his heart moved, because he was sitting at the opposite door, he looked up and saw a familiar delicate figure pulling a woman with the appearance of a maidservant, hurriedly turned around and walked quickly outside the door. Behind the two of them, a coarse and reckless man was smiling shyly, intending to follow and strike up a conversation.

He was shocked, how did she come here? He threw down the dice in his palm, stood up straight from his seat, gathered his pupils, and seemed to be about to rush out of the door in his next breath.

Pei Lin raised his head and called him, but when he didn't respond, he raised his hand and pushed him again, "Keming, why don't you roll the dice?" ”

He was slightly distracted, nodded and answered Pei Lian's words randomly, and then glanced out, Mu Qing's figure was no longer in the courtyard, only the reckless man stood in place stupidly and laughed.

He exhaled a sigh of relief, put his consciousness back on the gambling equipment in front of him, still standing, picked up the dice, and threw it with determination, which was a big point. Pei Lin frowned, and secretly counted in his heart, if he didn't get five dice, he would lose, and this bet went straight to the bottom of a thousand yuan.

Unexpectedly, Du Ruhui raised his hand but took the most undesirable step, so he loosened his tight eyebrows, quickly reached out and grabbed the dice bone, and remedied it again and again.

At the end of the game, Du Ruhui lost a thousand yuan, Pei Lin hurriedly refused to take the gambling money, "It's just a stubborn thing, why should Keming be more serious, he can't count." ”

"If you are only a recreational object, how can you come to this place? If you come, you will have your own rules. What does Brother Pei mean by this, is he afraid that a certain person will not be able to pay this money? Du Ruyan pretended to be unhappy, and refused to give up, and then suddenly suddenly, "Brother Pei doesn't look down on the gambling skills below, he only feels bored, and he refuses to be stubborn?" ”

"Where does that come from?" Pei Lin laughed loudly, waved his hand and motioned to the waiter next to him to re-set the situation, "Place another thousand for one bet." ”

It wasn't until sunset that the two of them stopped gambling, Du Ruhui lost 10,000 yuan, and even the waiter who watched people win or lose coldly all day long, couldn't help but marvel, and muttered softly, "10,000 yuan, you have to go back and forth several times to move out of the workshop." ”

Du Ruhui smiled, took out a brocade bag from the bag he carried, and poured out a handful of large and small gold cakes from the brocade bag, counted them casually, three large gold cakes of twenty taels, and several small gold cakes of fifty taels and ten taels, all of which were pushed to Pei Lian, "That's all I have with me, and the rest will be sent to Brother Pei's mansion tomorrow." Can Brother Pei still be trusted? ”

Pei Lin wanted to push on his face, and smiled proudly in his heart, he had always heard that this Du Keming was born in a family of princes and eunuchs, and he was the grandson of Yixing Gong, and he was deeply relied on by Duke Li, and he was very deep and accessible. (To be continued......)

ps: The author said, what is Shuanglu, a gambling game with a long history, originated in Cao Wei, prevailed in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and was once appreciated by both the elegant and the vulgar, from the royal family to the gangsters, they will gamble. In the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, it was banned because of the excessive gambling style. Therefore, there are descriptions of Shuanglu in "Golden Vase Plum", but in "Dream of Red Mansions", there are so many descriptions of eating, drinking, and playing games, but Shuanglu is missing. This kind of gambling is now lost, but based on a large number of Tang poems and Yuan and Ming novels, it is speculated that its principle is similar to that of our current flying chess. Yes, that's right, it's flying chess. Do you suddenly feel that the ancients are also cute? R1292