Chapter 3: Fire

"It's not easy for you to make some money. In the future, when I make a fortune, I will definitely come back to eat Sister Chen's button meat. ”

The two of you went back and forth, grinding and chirping and chatting for a while, Xiaohu was a little impatient to wait, and couldn't help but interject and said, "Sister Chen, my stomach is already screaming, hurry up and serve the food." ”

"Good, soon. Hey, by the way, Xiaohuzi, are you going out with your brother? Chen Lian asked curiously.

"Before I go out, hurry up and serve the food, I'm going to starve to death."

"Right now, right now." Chen Lian couldn't slack off first carrying a case of beer, then serving a plate of peanuts, and then went into the back room to cut the braised vegetables.

"Come on, don't say anything, Huzi, have a drink first." Li Qingbao bit open a bottle of beer with his mouth and filled the cup.

After the two touched a cup, Xiaohu asked, "Brother Bao, you went out this time, will you come back for the New Year this year?" ”

"No return." Li Qingbao didn't think about it, and said categorically: "If I don't make a name for myself outside, I, Li Qingbao, will never come back here." ”

"Oh." Xiaohu was a little disappointed.

After a while, Chen Lian had already brought up the braised vegetables and button meat, opened a few bottles of wine and went busily by herself.

The two brothers chatted without a word, and suddenly there was a noise at the door, and a Honda motorcycle stopped, and someone came over, Pan Hong.

This Pan Hong is Chen Lian's husband, except for being lazy and gambling, he is not bad, he is chubby, has a bald head, and has a good relationship with Li Qingbao.

"Yo! Boy Li, come to me so early today to drink. Pan Hong sat down at the table by himself.

Li Qingbao took out a cigarette and threw it over: "Lord is in a good mood today." ”

"Haha, are you free later? There is a way to make a fortune looking for you, why not? ”

"Bah, your uncle, let me play cards again, right? You said the same two days ago, playing a ten-dollar book, but Lao Tzu lost more than a thousand, and today he wants to trick me into losing money, and they all treat me as a Kaizi. Li Qingbao took a sip of beer and complained.

"Dude, look at what you're saying." Pan Hong patted the other party on the shoulder and laughed: "In a word, do you want to go?" ”

"Really going?" Li Qingbao's gambling addiction came up again, and he was a little excited.

"Nonsense, you're missing alone, this time we don't play mahjong, we just play landlords, and I can transfer your gas, what do you think?" Pan Hong continued to seduce.

"Okay." Li Qingbao finally couldn't resist the temptation, licked his lips, and said: "But I said it first, if you want to fight, you will fight twenty, and now I only have more than a thousand yuan on me, and I will leave after losing. ”

"Don't grind." Pan Hong patted his chest and promised: "You can always rest assured that you can play cards with me Pan Hong, there is no bad money, no, my change is ready, hurry up." After speaking, Pan Hong took out two bundles of money tied with rubber baskets from his pocket, all of which were ten or twenty pieces of change, and there were one or two thousand depending on the thickness.

"You're fucking ready." Li Qingbao scolded with a smile.

"Hehe, this is Chairman Mao teaching us not to fight unprepared battles. Lao Tzu hates the debt the most, playing cards or holding the money in his hand to play cool, this is what I want. Pan Hong looked terrified.

Taking a hard puff of his cigarette, Li Qingbao simply said, "Okay, where to play?" "Li Qingbao learned a little divination by Qin Punishment's side, although it is impossible to predict the prophet, but today he met a nobleman, it is also a turning point in fate, it stands to reason that the luck of this card will not be bad.

"This time I went back to Liang Tai's house, it was quieter, and no one was pointing fingers behind him, so he played comfortably."

"Okay, you wait a minute." After Li Qingbao finished speaking, he turned his head and asked Xiaohu, who was still eating the buckle meat, "Huzi, do you want to go over and have a look?" ”

"Forget it, it's stuffy, I might as well go back to sleep." Xiaohu refused while biting the buckle meat.

"Okay, I'll go over and have fun, I'll be back later." Li Qingbao replied and climbed on Pan Hong's Honda motorcycle: "Huzi, you can help me drive back on my broken motorcycle." ”

After getting into the car, Li Qingbao threw a Zhonghua to Pan Hong again, who took it and said with a smile: "Ouch, Zhonghua, brother, you have made a fortune recently, you are doing well." ”

"No, tomorrow Lao Tzu is leaving Pingjian Town, and it is rare to smoke a good cigarette, treat you as a brother before you are Chinese, and it is good for ordinary people to give Genhe water cards."

"Leaving Pingjian Town? Damn, you're going to work outside? Pan Hong was taken aback.

"Almost." Li Qingbao grinned: "The boss is not small, it's time to go outside." ”

"Where are you going? Brother, what is the way you have to make a fortune, take me with you by the way? Pan Hong said.

"No, no." Li Qingbao didn't want to talk about this, and after puffing out a cigarette, he deliberately changed the topic and said: "By the way, Pan Hong, go play cards with that Liang Tai today, I don't know this person very well, don't find someone to partner to kill me, you also know, my playing luck has always been very poor, and I will see the situation and don't blow up the money in my pocket." ”

"Brother, don't worry, if you want to kill, you will also cooperate with you to kill others." Pan Hong swore and said: "I will start you in a while, do you understand, I will definitely win money if I go to you today." That Liang Tai, I heard that he was in the underworld in Shanghai, but he offended people and now went back to his hometown for refuge, and now he has a little money in hand, so he doesn't kill anyone. ”

"That's a good feeling." Li Qingbao is much more relieved now. While speaking, Pan Hong had already parked the car at the bridgehead of South Road, and the destination had arrived.

After getting out of the car and walking for a short distance, I could already see that Liang Tai was already waiting at the door of the house, and I saw that Liang Tai was almost like all the men in Pingjian Town, he also liked to be shirtless, with a big pants on his lower body, and his skin was very dark. Li Qingbao met with him a few times, but there was no conversation.

Li Qingbao followed Pan Hong to say hello, Liang Tai first took out a cigarette and scattered one for the two, and then led the two into the door, the house was newly renovated, it looked very good, and led the two to the second floor, the table for playing cards leaned against the window, and the light was very good.

Li Qingbao really sat next to Pan Hong's upper hand, and Liang Tai sat opposite Li Qingbao, as soon as the three of them sat down, Liang Tai suddenly got up and said with a smile: "I forgot, it's hot, I'll pour two glasses of water to quench my thirst." ”

After bringing three cups of cold water, Liang Tai sat down again and said with a smile: "It's boring in my hometown, and it's rare to find someone to fight the landlord with." It's up to you to decide how big to fight, I'm free. ”

"Ten dollars, twenty I can do." Li Qingbao took out his wallet from his pocket and looked at it.

"Twenty dozen twenty, more than ten yuan is boring." Pan Hong said.

"Okay, then hit twenty, but I'll say it first, I only have 1,400 yuan on me, and I'll leave after losing. You can't owe money, and you have to settle your accounts. Li Qingbao said half-jokingly and half-seriously.

Pan Hong had already taken out the two bundles of change he had brought with him while he was talking, threw them on the table, and said with a smirk: "Settle the account for sure, come to me to change it if you don't have change for a while." ”

"You." Li Qingbao scolded with a smile.

"I understand the rules, everyone is a brother, you don't need to be so serious, it's just boring time to play, come on, come on, the shuffle begins." Liang Tai took out a brand new deck of playing cards from his pocket and opened it.

Liang Tai's shuffling action is very sharp, and it can be seen that he is a master who often plays cards. People who often play cards have a common characteristic, that is, they like to guess what cards others have in their hands, and rookies just look at the feeling and situation to play, which is the easiest way to judge the difference between masters and rookies, and Li Qingbao belongs to the latter, a big rookie.

However, Li Qingbao's cards are very good, he has a good mentality, he loses and loses, basically has not lost his temper with people, whether he plays big or small, he is very calm, while playing cards he also likes to brag and chat, the speed of playing cards is naturally much slower than others.

No, in the first game at the beginning, Liang Tai took a double ghost and a good hand of cards to the local owner, but he lost unexpectedly, and he was a little dissatisfied with Li Qingbao's playing cards and grinding and grinding, and he could have played a game in five minutes, but he was stunned to drag Li Qingbao for ten minutes.

Liang Tai frowned and shuffled the cards, wanting to speak again.

The second continues, Li Qingbao's luck is very good, today he really has signs of transfer, with a pair of ghosts and four eight in his hand so he called the landlord, several cards and led to a bomb in the hands of Pan Hong, although Li Qingbao no matter how dish, but good cards in the hand want to lose are difficult, this game quickly won. In this way, it is a total of three bombs, 240 per person, and 480 for one hand.

Li Qingbao was even more embarrassed, and the words in his mouth didn't stop, and laughed: "Damn, is Pan Hong Laozi really lucky today?" It's not scientific, in the past, Lao Tzu lost as soon as he played, and he took out the money in his pocket to finish, but today the sun is coming out in the west? ”

This is Dese, obviously Dese, this is also their characteristic here, that is, a way of joking, but the person concerned is naturally elated, but the narrow-minded words of the loser are a little unpleasant to hear.

The smile on Liang Tai's face disappeared, and he was a little unhappy, pouting and saying, "Grandma, isn't it just that you have a good hand, and the good show is still to come." ”

Pan Hong won dozens of dollars in the first hand, and in the second hand, he pasted two hundred and four to Li Qingbao, but he has a good mentality, and people who often play cards know that this is just the beginning, so they naturally don't take it to heart, and then said: "Your kid is nicknamed Wannian Lose, today you are off to a good start, it depends on whether you can get rid of Wannian Lose today." ”

", you eggs, who the gave me such a decrepit nickname." Li Qingbao rarely won two in a row, and he was very happy, and he didn't take it to heart. In the past, he did lose a lot, and when he rarely won money, he bought several pairs of red underwear in a row to transfer, but he still lost, and it is appropriate to describe him as "losing in ten thousand years".

But this Li Qingbao can be regarded as a big explosion of character, the hand is not a big card, or a big shun card, these few rounds down a lot of bombs, the money in the pocket rose rapidly, a moment to win 1,56.

When he won the money, he was naturally happy, and Li Qingbao had more words in his mouth, laughing non-stop, looking like he was underwhelmed. And Pan Hong's cards have not been very good, rarely called the landlord, and the win or loss is not big. The more he loses, the older he gets, the more he wants to ask the landlord to turn over the book, but the more he becomes a landlord, the more he loses.

"Three, four, five, six, seven, little straight." Liang Tai, who was the landlord again, threw the cards in his hand.

"Lao Tzu is big with you! Ten to A! Li Qingbao excitedly played a hand of cards.

Pan Hong and Li Qingbao are a group of farmers, so they naturally checked the cards, and Liang Tai did not have a card on top, so he said helplessly: "Don't." ”

"Haha, three fives with nines, sorry, I won again." Li Qingbao said and threw all the cards in his hand, with a smile on his face: "Also, Lao Tzu thought that this game was going to be lost, I didn't expect that I could finish all the cards with a straight, Liang Tai is fortunate that you made a straight and happened to let me press it, haha......"

Being joked by Li Qingbao like this, anyone with a discerning eye could see that Liang Tai's face changed, wiped his sweat, and said, "Li Qingbao, you have eaten shit today, you are so lucky." ”

Li Qingbao was on the verge of winning money, and he didn't pay so much attention to it, it was all a joke of the other party, and while counting the money, he said: "Ahem, just win some drizzle, drizzle." Lao Tzu won money, but he waited once in a thousand years, and he didn't say anything, and I will have two drinks later. ”

"Shuffle, shuffle." A trace of impatience flashed in Liang Tai's eyes, and he was very irritated to play this card.

Then started, Li Qingbao felt surprisingly lucky, and simply took a handful of landlords, this Meng was really right, a big ghost plus three two and a pair of bombs, and the rest were either straight or pairs.

Most of the landlords pay attention to luck, technology is secondary, although you are a big rookie, but you can take a peerless good card, when it is really how to play how to win.

"Nine to A, Big Straight." Liang Tai threw the cards in his hand, this card is the largest in the straight, Liang Tai thinks that others can't do it, and he is too lazy to ask others if they want to, and he wants to continue to play a few cards.

"Stop." Li Qingbao hurriedly shouted: "Lao Tzu wants it, what are you anxious about." ”

Liang Tai and Pan Hong were both frightened by his surprise, and Pan Hong scolded him: "Li Qingbao, don't shout at your boss, you are a miscellaneous piece, do you still have two kings to bomb?" ”

"The two kings don't have it, it's just a small bomb, four five!!" Li Qingbao took out four fives and slapped them on the table, and laughed: "Liang Tai, I'm sorry, my brother is going to blow you up again, hehe......"

"Fry it, just fry it, you talk a lot of." Liang Tai picked up a cigarette and lit one, and it was not as hot as it was at the beginning.

There was a bit of scolding in these words, and after finishing the last five straights in his hand, Li Qingbao put away his smiling face, stared at each other fiercely, and was coughed by Pan Hong, and said, "Hurry up and play cards." ”

Seeing that Pan Hong gave him a look, Li Qingbao endured it and didn't say anything.

finally quieted down, but his luck was too good, and then Li Qingbao continued to kill the Quartet, and after only a while, he had already won more than 2,000.

Pan Hong fought very steadily, and he didn't become a landlord a few times, so he lost five or six hundred. And the rest were all lost by Liang Tai, with about 1,500.

The atmosphere of this card game became more and more dull, just because Liang Tai couldn't help but scold just now, Li Qingbao's original good mood was also swept away, and his speech began to converge, and he didn't joke as unscrupulously as just now.

But Li Qingbao really went shit luck today, if you want to talk about technology, he doesn't have it at all, but this card is smooth, that is, the wrong play is wrong, and you can win the game indiscriminately, which makes people speechless to the extreme.

Things at the poker table are really like losing money, and when someone loses red-eyed, it is easy to make trouble.

And now Liang Tai is deliberately causing trouble.

Just finished playing a game, Li Qingbao pushed a bunch of messy cards on the table to the loser Liang Tai and signaled that it was time for him to shuffle the cards. But as soon as he pushed it over, what he didn't expect was that Liang Tai suddenly grabbed the card and threw it in front of Li Qingbao, saying: "Lao Tzu washed the cards all afternoon, this time you should wash them." ”

Li Qingbao was stunned by the other party's inexplicable and wonderful behavior, he was scolded by him before, and he was already very unhappy, and now it is obvious that Liang Tai is looking for fault.

No matter what you play, in Pingjian Town, it's the loser shuffle, the rules have always been like this, and this afternoon is also like this, why is it his turn to be justified now.

Grabbing a bunch of cards in front of him, Li Qingbao pushed it back in front of Liang Tai, frowned and said, "The rule is to shuffle the cards if you lose." ”

"I don't wash it yet, what's the matter?" Liang Tai stood up, his face changed, and a trace of ruthlessness flashed in his eyes.

"You love to wash or not!" Li Qingbao also stood up and glared at each other fiercely.

Pan Hong on the side was blinded by this sudden situation, and seeing that things were not good, he hurriedly persuaded: "Forget it, forget it, Qingbao, everyone is their own person, this look up and don't look down, there is no need to quarrel for this little thing, come on, come on, I'll wash this card, sit down and talk." ”

"Pan Hong, what do you mean by that? You're talking to him. Where would Li Qingbao be convinced, frowned and said loudly: "Wang Ba Lamb, you can't afford to lose this money?" How could Lao Tzu play cards with such a fool today. ”