Yu Shu found Mingyuan Gambling House on Qiu Kwai Fong West Street, a two-storey building, not as grand as she imagined, but the signboard was bigger than other houses on the street, only one of the three doors was opened, and there was an oily yellow leather curtain hanging outside, clearly writing the word "gambling".

As soon as Yu Shu entered the inside, he was smoked by the sour smell of sweat in his face, the hall was full of smoke and miasma, and there was a noise of talking and gambling everywhere, this September autumn, there were still people shirtless, revealing a backfat meat, Yu Shu was very tired of it, and couldn't resist the intention of turning around and exiting, and quickly searched around the hall, and found a man who was drinking tea alone in an inconspicuous corner, looking like a man in charge, and walked over to avoid the crowd.

When it was closer, I saw clearly that there was a scar lying on this person's face, from the left forehead to the wings of the nose, which looked a little ugly, but the strange thing was that this person's face was not fierce, about thirty years old, and he looked very calm, Yu Shu paused, and stepped forward to talk:

"May I ask this brother, who is going to find when he sets up a hexagram stall in this Qiu Kwai Fong and pays the rent of bowing his head?"

The scar-faced man raised his head and glanced at her, but did not answer, stretched out his hand and beckoned away, and soon a tall man ran over, Yu Shu saw it, and recognized it as the ruffian who smashed her stall yesterday, the same face, yesterday was vicious, but now he has a smile on his face:

"Brother Hai, what do you command?"

The scar man pointed at Yu Shu, and the ruffian turned his head to look, and only after two or three glances did he recognize Yu Shu, and his face showed a little fierceness:

"Brother Hai, you continue to drink tea, I'll take this kid elsewhere."

The scar man waved his hand, and the ruffian glanced at Yu Shu. "Come with me."

Yu Shu thanked the scarred man before leaving with him. The two squeezed to the edge of the counter of the gambling house, and the ruffian boss supported the counter with one hand, and said to Yu Shu with a tiger face:

"Did you bring the money?"

"Brought," Yu Shu didn't hold a grudge on his face even though he was angry with the ruffian in this place, and kindly took a piece of silver that had been prepared earlier and handed it over.

He shook it twice, then handed it to the guy sitting behind the counter, and said, "The piece of land in front of Old Man Sun's tavern." This half a month. ”

The guy took the money and immediately drew a piece of paper and wrote a few strokes on it. Handed it to Yu Shu, and took out a small plate of cinnabar and put it up, Yu Shu looked at the note with the words "September Half Five Two in front of Sun Ji Tavern", and was puzzled, and the ruffian urged impatiently:

"Why are you stunned, sign your name and press your fingerprint."

Yu Shu was puzzled: "What is this for?" "It's so unclear, how dare she sign and draw a pledge casually, in case she sells someone.

"If you want to sign it, sign it quickly. What is so much crap for! ”

The ruffian yelled at Yu Shu. Yu Shu turned his head sideways to avoid the saliva he squirted, secretly sneered and rewarded him with two mouths sooner or later, and went to ask the guy who was settling accounts.

The guy was pretty talkative. Listening to her question, he explained:

"Write your name on the bottom, and then press a handprint, that piece of street land will be rented to you, if someone robs your territory, take the note to our Evergreen Gang, keep it and don't make you suffer, remember to pay the rent on time next month, otherwise this piece will be invalid."

Yu Shu listened to his explanation, quite surprised, she originally thought that this protection fee was paid for nothing, but now that it looks at it, it is really useful, at least there is no need to worry about being robbed of territory by others.

After Yu Shu signed the note, the ruffian left, she didn't leave in a hurry, but asked the good-faced guy about the scar-faced man who drank tea in the corner, the little guy was probably sitting at the counter early in the morning and was in a panic, and when he saw someone talking, he was happy to chat a few words.

Yu Shu heard from his mouth, it turned out that the scar-faced man was not small, it was the deputy gang leader and second leader of the Evergreen Gang, who came down to inspect today, and was coincidentally met by Yu Shu, this person's surname was Qu, Yu Shu heard the ruffian call him Brother Hai before, and wanted to come to the big name called Qu Hai, listening to this young man's reverent tone, this Qu Hai has practiced martial arts for many years, has a hard kung fu, and is still a practitioner, no wonder she just watched him sit calmly, it should be the confidence of a person who practices martial arts.

Yu Shu was not interested in Qu Hai, but wanted to know how many catties and taels the Evergreen Gang had in this area, and he probably asked about the same, so he was afraid that this guy would notice something, so he changed the topic.

"Little brother, where is this Yi Zone, I'll try it." It's not that her hands are itchy, but that she is distressed that the five taels of silver are paid for half a month, and she can't compete with the evil power, and she can't be self-sufficient to win back the next month's protection fee, which is called wool out of the sheep.

The young man laughed when he heard this, "Brother is a person from outside Beijing at first glance, and it hasn't been long since he came, where is there a place in the south of the city that dares to start gambling in a bright light." ”

Yu Shu was surprised: "Why is this Anling City not allowed to be blocked?" ”

No, she always thought that the slightly larger gambling houses had easy games, and there was no rule in Yiyang City that no one was allowed to gamble.

The guy said: "It's not the whole Er'an Mausoleum, it's not allowed in the south of the city, and it's allowed in the north of the city, if you want to gamble, you have to go to the north of the city." ”

Yu Shu looked strange: "What the hell is this, why is it not allowed in the south of the city, but in the north of the city?" ”

The guy said: "There are two sayings in our capital, you don't want to listen to them." ”

Yu Shu arched his hand: "Please consult." ”

"It is said: a Qianyuan Road, breaking the south and the north, the three religions and nine streams converge in the south of the city, and the glory and wealth gather in the north of the city."

This is not difficult to understand, Yu Shu heard it for the first time, he thought it was interesting, and he was about to ask this guy to talk about the things in Anling City again, when he heard a voice shouting from behind:

"Xiaoqi, what are you stealing again, hurry up and settle the account!"

was caught by someone, the guy called Xiao Qi was embarrassed to talk to Yu Shu anymore, and while pretending to be busy, he whispered to her: "Okay, I have to work, you go and get busy with yours, look at what we say for a long time, let me mention you, Chengnan is actually not a place without gambling, but it is not on the surface, we have a field under the Evergreen Gang, but there is no one hundred and eighty taels, I advise you not to gamble, you don't make much money, let's live a good life." ”

Yu Shu listened to this kind advice, thanked him, said goodbye to leave, and before leaving, he looked at the corner where Qu was sitting just now, but there was no one.

***

Let's say that Yu Shu came out of Mingyuan Gambling House, walked quickly all the way through the streets and alleys, and arrived at the street where Sun Ji Tavern was located, and before she could get to the front, she saw three or four people surrounded in front of her small hexagram stall, including men and women, blocking Jingchen's figure and not being able to see, she thought something was wrong, and hurriedly ran over.

"Jingchen."

Jingchen stood up as soon as he heard Yu Shu's voice, and watched her squeeze away from people and come forward with a worried face, Shicai's discomfort suddenly disappeared, and he waved his hand at her, indicating that he was fine.

When the people in front of the stall saw that Yu Shu and Jing Chen knew each other, a smart-looking girl asked in a crisp voice:

"You are Yu Gongzi, Jing Gongzi said that this is your hexagram stall, we have been waiting for a long time, you can be regarded as coming, help me with a divination first."

Yu Shu hadn't figured out what was going on, but when she heard this girl say that she wanted to tell a story, it was rare to see a guest, and she was overjoyed, so she quickly smiled and said, "Okay." ”

She gave Jingchen a look that she would talk about later, went around to the back of the stall and sat down, and said with a pleasant face: "What is the girl's surname?" ”

"My surname is Zhou."

"Miss Zhou, what do you want to ask?"

"You can see which day next month is a good day, my mother and brother are going back to their hometown."

There is a saying, go out to see the yellow calendar, that is for modern people to hear, the ancient yellow calendar, is only for the emperor's family to use the calendar, and ordinary people want to choose auspicious days to do all things, to avoid evil, to ask divination, such as moving, friends, burial, marriage and other things.

"Okay, you wait, I'll give you a palm."

Yu Shu is not very good at arranging the calendar, but it will be enough, let Jingchen help to study the ink, pick up the pen to calculate, write no words, just listen to the girl's snickering that week, follow her gaze to catch a few pieces of paper with Jingchen's font written on it, and then look at her dog crawling words, you know what she laughed at, but she was not annoyed, but smiled back:

"Girl, don't laugh at my ugly handwriting, my brother is handsome, and his writing is beautiful, I am ugly, of course my writing is ugly."

Miss Zhou was embarrassed by what Yu Shu said, but when she heard Yu Shu lower her head and reasoned, she was amused by her like a few people around her, and looked up at Yu Shu's eyes, seeing the young man in front of her, with round forehead and long eyebrows, a straight nose and bright eyes, and an amiable view, where is it good to call ugly, but it is not as handsome as the person next to her.

Jing Chen looked at Yu Shu and made the little girl laugh in just a few words, and he had to admire the way she coped with it.

Yu Shu only laughed with others, so he went to the calculation seriously, and only after about the tea time did he put down the pen and said to Miss Zhou:

"The third day, fifth and eleventh of the first month of next month are all good days to travel to visit relatives.

Miss Zhou didn't know why Yu Shu asked, but she still cooperated and told her: "My father Xiao Niu, my mother Xiao Ji." ”

Yu Shu stretched out his hand and scratched on the paper, and said: "Then the fifth day of the new year, the third day of the first month is the cow, the eleventh is the chicken, and the fifth day of the first month should be good." ”

Miss Zhou nodded, not suspicious, "How much is it for you?" ”

This is the first time that someone has asked for money since Yu Shu set up a stall in Qiu Kwai Fang, Yu Shu did not stupidly say "maybe you don't want money", quickly compared the market price, and stretched out his hand to compare:

"You're the first guest today, just give fifty cents."

Elsewhere, the calendar is a dime of silver, and when it comes to Yu Shu, it will be halved, and when Miss Zhou heard that it was cheap, she immediately happily counted half a string of copper coins and put them on the table, and then looked at Jingchen twice, and then left satisfied.

Yu Shu looked at the money on the table, almost red-eyed, after staying up for so many days, it finally opened, she happily turned her head to look at Jingchen, who had taken her first business, thinking that this guy was lucky to make money, and it seemed that the numerology of the capital star was not really hopelessly bad.

Suddenly, Yu Shu's smile froze, stared at Jingchen, suddenly remembered something, stood up according to the table, stood up on tiptoe at Miss Zhou, who was about to leave, and dropped a sentence, and chased after him in a hurry:

"Jingchen, you watch first, I'll go back when I go."

It's a bad dish, did she go out today without a brain, and forgot all about Jingchen, the bane!