Chapter 25: The Leopard
"Buy big and buy small, buy and leave." The dealer shook the dice and shouted loudly.
Zhao Liang's face was flushed, and there were faint beads of sweat flowing down his forehead, and he was about to flow into his eyes, he reached out and wiped it, looking at the silver in his hand that had been soaked with sweat, his heart was beating like a drum.
"Uncle Zhao, buy big or small?" Someone next to him asked with a smile.
This person is also a frequent visitor to the gambling house, and he is also familiar with Zhao Liang, and sometimes he will gamble together for money or something. Both of them are addicted to gambling, but they both gamble and lose ten, and they are often kicked out by people who lose all their money. This person hasn't seen Zhao Liang for two months, and I heard that he occasionally comes to the gambling house, but they haven't met much, the only time he heard Zhao Liang's news and rushed over, but Zhao Liang just won the money and left. The people in the gambling house said that Zhao Liang had a big backer, and he was going to win every time he gambled recently, and he was itching to hear it, and he had been wandering around the gambling house, just to meet Zhao Liang, so that he could make a fortune with him.
Who knew that Zhao Liang had suddenly changed his personality recently, and he didn't come to the gambling house, this person had waited so long and his patience was about to run out, but he heard Zhao Liang's news again, and learned that he took two hundred taels of silver to gamble in the gambling house, and he also hurriedly chased after him.
Zhao Liang's luck is really stinky, two hundred taels of silver was lost in the morning, and only fifty taels were left, and he lost a lot of money with him. I thought that Zhao Liang would take the silver and wait for the next time to turn over the book, but this time he seemed to be a gambling addict, and he was reluctant to leave because of his red eyes.
It's already the third day, and Zhao Liang only has five taels of silver left in his hand. This is his last capital, and he can't lose.
Zhao Liang stretched out his hand to put it in the general direction, and the person next to him said again: "Yo, Uncle Zhao has thought clearly, this is your last capital." He laughed twice as he spoke, completely looking like he was watching a joke.
Retracted his hand violently, closed his eyes tightly, his ears were filled with all kinds of "big, small" sounds, Zhao Liang clenched the silver in his hand, thinking about Jiang Quinoa's words in his mind, and suddenly felt his heart tighten.
"Buy and leave," the dealer finally shouted, looked around, and then opened the dice cup and shouted loudly: "Four, five or six, big!" Immediately, some rejoiced, and some cursed.
The man next to him took a sip, scolded, and began to move from side to side again, not knowing whether it was better to buy big or small.
Zhao Liang squeezed the silver tightly and quietly watched others place bets.
"Yo, Uncle Zhao doesn't gamble? If you can't afford to lose, don't go into the gambling house if you can't afford to lose. After the man finished speaking, he threw the silver on the small one, spat it on his hand, rubbed his hands and said, "Grandpa, I really don't believe in evil." ”
"Buy and leave." The crops are rounding the rounds and the bets everyone makes.
Zhao Liang looked around, and finally bent down and was about to put the silver on the money, but he was pushed by someone, and the silver came out of his hand and finally fell on the gambling plate, he was about to take it back, and the dealer shouted: "Buy it and leave it." And knocked on his hand.
Zhao Liang turned back hatefully, and the man next to him gloated and said, "Yo, Uncle Zhao, you chose well this time." If you win, you're going to be killed. ”
On the gambling board, there are a lot of silver copper plates on the big and small, only the leopard has only sweat-stained silver on it.
Now that the quarrel is useless, Zhao Liang prayed in his heart, hoping that he would not lose the last five taels of silver.
"Big, big" "Small, small"
The big ones and the small ones shouted hard, as if they could really shout out the numbers in their hearts.
"Open!" With the dealer opened, the dice cup was opened, and in the voice of everyone who was surprised and scolded the mother, the dealer shouted: "Three points, leopard!" ”
Zhao Liang was stunned and didn't react for a while, until a curse came from the side, he woke up and hurriedly got the money back.
The man over there lost all his money, seeing that the dealer here was already glaring at him, he was busy smearing oil on the soles of his feet, and when he walked to the door, he also glanced back, and almost jumped up when he saw Zhao Liang winning the money, and suddenly took a sip and left with a gloomy face.
It snowed heavily overnight, and who would have thought that the next day would be clear, and when you get up in the morning, you can see the sun faintly when you open the window.
Jiang Quinoa thinks this is a good sign.
After breakfast, Xingni and Jiang Chun came, and the three little girls went out in plain clothes and walked in the direction of the ancestral hall.
There were already a lot of people gathered in front of the ancestral hall, not only people from the Jiang clan, but also people from all over the country who came to watch the play. The ancestral hall is heavy, and women and people with foreign surnames are not allowed to enter.
The three little girls came here, and they still attracted a lot of attention. Among them, Xingni's father and mother came early, her father and her brother went to the ancestral hall, and her mother gossiped with a few aunts, and when she saw them, she waved them over.
The three little girls said hello to the elders, and stood quietly to listen to them talk about their parents' shortcomings.
"It's the girl with the melon seed face over there, the daughter of Yang Laosan in Niutou Village, who said that she gave it to the Shunzi in our clan." One of the aunts pointed to a fair-skinned, melon-seed-faced, good-looking girl under a tree in the distance.
The others hadn't heard the news yet, so they all said with a look of surprise: "Yo, this girl looks handsome." ”
Jiang Chun saw that Jiang Quinoa was a little confused, so he said in a low voice: "Niutou Village is not far from our village, and I passed by their village when digging ditches in previous years. I heard that this Yang Laosan family has many daughters, and he gave birth to four or five daughters just to get a son. This is the second daughter of his family, and Brother Shunzi's family takes a fancy to this girl's good looks, and she is diligent and filial, so she has made a lot of dowries and set up this family business. I only heard about it the day before yesterday. ”
Xingni also leaned over and whispered: "Brother Shunzi seems to have been selected this year, and he will also recite the sacrificial words later, you say that this girl will not come to see Brother Shunzi, right?" ”
Jiang Chun pinched her and quipped: "Do you think everyone is like you and Zhao Liang, who grew up together and knew the roots." If you want me to say, this girl may not have seen Brother Shunzi before, this marriage is decided like this, isn't it a black eye. This is thanks to our Shunzi brother is a good one, what if you meet a woman who likes to drink and gamble and beat her mother-in-law? I will have to meet well if I want to get married in the future, and the two talk everywhere, and only when they get along can they agree to marry. Otherwise, if you marry the wrong person, you won't have a place to cry. ”
Xingni thought about it, and she said this truth, thinking of Zhao Liang's whole person, she felt sweet.
The three of them spoke a little louder, and Xingni and her mother looked over here, and the three of them hurriedly stood up, with a well-behaved appearance, which provoked everyone to praise a few more words. At this time, there was a thick bell from the ancestral hall, and everyone knew that this was the official start of the Winter Moon Festival, so they hurriedly got up and looked in the direction of the ancestral hall.