Looking at Li Si's pitiful appearance, Lu Xiaoxian asked, "How much money do you have to pay every month?" ”

"Ten taels of silver a month, not a penny!"

"Ten taels of silver?" Lu Xiaoxian's eyes widened, "So many? ”

In Youzhou City, the beggars who steal children only need to pay 300 yuan per month, and other merchants only need to pay 200 taels of silver per month. Unexpectedly, a thief in Lisi in Chang'an City had to pay ten taels of silver every month, which was too dark.

Li Siyi pouted: "I'm still a little, the other people in the shop who do business, which one can't pay thirty or fifty taels, and at most one hundred taels of silver!" ”

After listening to Li Si's words, Lu Xiaoxian was completely speechless.

Chang'an is at the foot of the Son of Heaven, and I thought that the public security should be much better, but who knew that it was such a scene.

Lu Xiaoxian turned his head and asked, "These bosses are so bold, won't anyone sue them?" Doesn't the government care? ”

"You are from out of town, and you don't know how deep the water in Chang'an is." Li Si showed a look of disdain, "Most of the money collected by the leaders was given to the lords of the government, and the government received the silver, of course, they turned a blind eye." If someone goes to sue, these officials will also settle the matter for the leaders, and in the end, it is the person who is unlucky to complain! ”

Lu Xiaoxian's heart moved, and he suddenly remembered something, and he asked quietly: "Do you know that Chang'an City has a handle with tattoos on his arm?" ”

Li Si smiled dumbly: "Those who can make heads are capable, and each head will have tattoos, what you are asking is really strange!" ”

"I am not afraid of Jing Zhaoyin in life, and I am not afraid of King Yama in death!" After Lu Xiaoxian finished reading, he asked, "Have you ever heard of the person who tattooed these two sentences on his arm?" ”

Li Si's expression changed and he nodded.

Lu Xiaoxian said strangely: "What's wrong?" Are you afraid of him? Who is he? ”

"His surname is Xu, and he is in charge of our workshop, and I will give him ten taels of silver every month!"

Lu Xiaoxian's eyes narrowed slightly, and he finally found the main owner who was molesting Lu Wufang two days ago.

"What is the origin of this Xu Tuo?" Lu Xiaoxian asked quietly.

"The power behind him is huge...... Li Si smacked his lips.

After listening to Li Si's introduction, Lu Xiaoxian roughly knew the origin of Xu Jiaotou.

Xu and Qin are both evil young men in their twenties, although they are not very old, they have backgrounds behind them.

Xu Jiaotou is the nephew of Liu Yang, the chief housekeeper of Princess Anle's Mansion, and Liu Yang, as the housekeeper of the Princess's Mansion, has to give three points if anyone sees it.

Qin Jiaotou is the godson of Tian Kewen, the envoy of the Inner Court Palace, although Tian Kewen is only a eunuch, everyone knows that he is a big celebrity next to Empress Wei.

With such a background, Xu and Qin did whatever they wanted, not only oppressing the people to make a fortune, but also not letting go of the leaders of other squares. In just two or three years, he annexed the power of several fangs and became the leading figure in each fang.

Of course, with their wealth in abundance, they will not forget to always honor the protective forces behind them.

As the saying goes, one mountain cannot tolerate two tigers. With the expansion of their respective forces, there was inevitably a conflict between Xu and Qin.

Half a year ago, the two sides fought for the territory of Yong'an Fang, and there were not a few people who had broken their heads and mutilated limbs, and even almost killed them. In the end, both sides lost and lost, and there was no winner or loser.

Xu and Qin, who were unable to fight again, had to agree to take a bluestone slab in the middle of Yong'an Fang as the boundary, and each was in charge of a section, which was the end of the matter.

As a result, there were two cases of Yong'an Fang being in charge of the head, which became the only special case of Chang'an Fang.

Li Si's home is east of the bluestone slab in Yong'an Fang, which is under the jurisdiction of Xu Toutou, and it is the rule set by Xu Toutou to pay ten taels of silver every month.

Lu Xiaoxian listened, thought for a moment, and said to Li Si: "That's it, I will pay for your share of the money this month!" ”

"You're coming out?" Li Si looked Lu Xiaoxian up and down: "Can you afford it?" ”

"If you don't believe it, forget it, if you want to believe it, come with me!" Lu Xiaoxian dropped a sentence and walked away.

Li Si hesitated for a moment and hurriedly followed.

Coming to the door of Tiantong Casino, Lu Xiaoxian stopped.

Li Si grabbed Lu Xiaoxian and said in surprise: "You're not here to gamble, are you?" ”

"Of course, going to the gambling house is gambling money, can't you come to drink tea?" Lu Xiaoxian glanced at Li Si.

Li Si was surprised: "Be bold enough, do you know who opened this gambling house?" ”

"I'm here to gamble, it doesn't matter who opened it?" Lu Xiaoxian disagreed.

"This is a gambling house run by Mr. Wei, behind him is Princess Taiping, who dares to come here to gamble money, if you want to gamble, you will go to Yefang to gamble!"

Mr. Wei?

Lu Xiaoxian's heart moved: "The Mr. Wei you are talking about is called Wei Xianyun?" ”

Li Si hurriedly covered Lu Xiaoxian's mouth: "You don't want to live anymore, there are a few people in Chang'an who dare to call Mr. Wei's name!" ”

Lu Xiaoxian smiled, it turned out to be Wei Xianyun. Passionate about e-books

Lu Xiaoxian asked again: "What do you mean by Yefang?" ”

"In Chang'an City, the people who can open gambling houses are all people with backstage, and even the government doesn't dare to mess with them, and those who go in and out of it are also rich people. People like us can only go to the grass platform gambling houses set up by the leaders of each square if they want to gamble for money. These gambling houses have not been filed with the government, so they are called wild gambling houses. ”

"Whatever, it's already here anyway, let's go in and talk about it!" Seeing that Li Si stopped moving, Lu Xiaoxian said again: "If you still want to pay the money, just follow." If you don't have the guts, please do it yourself! ”

After that, Lu Xiaoxian ignored Li Si anymore and went straight into the gambling house.

Looking at Lu Xiaoxian's back, Li Si gritted his teeth, stomped his feet, and followed.

Lu Xiaoxian is no stranger to Tiantong Gambling House, but Li Si came in for the first time, and he saw the people coming and going, all kinds of family cakes were brilliant, and his eyes were straight.

"Who says I can't afford to gamble?" An arrogant voice suddenly came from a gaming table.

Lu Xiaoxian followed the prestige, only to see a gambler who seemed to lose red eyes, stepped on the chair with one foot, opened his trouser leg, took out a knife and cut off a piece of meat on his leg, and threw it on the table bloodily: "It's worth fifty taels of silver, I'll bet big!" ”

The gamblers were terrified and didn't know what to do.

Shopkeeper Hu suddenly appeared out of nowhere, and said quietly: "Come on, give medicine to this friend." ”

Immediately, someone came with a small cloth bag and covered the gambler's wound with the medicine inside.

What kind of "medicine" is this, it is clearly salt foam.

"Whew!" The gambler grinned in pain and couldn't help but howl.

Shopkeeper Hu smiled coldly: "Fork out!" ”

Lu Xiaoxian looked at it and shook his head.

There is nothing to mess with in opening a gambling house, and it is not easy to get a piece of the pie from the gambling house.

Lu Xiaoxian has seen a lot of troublemakers in the gambling house, most of these people rushed into the gambling house single-handedly, scolded, and even made trouble. Every now and then, the thugs who are fed by the gambling house will rush up and beat them up.

The ability of the gangster is to insert his hands, hug the back of his head, protect his temples with his elbows, twist the scissors of his two legs, clamp his lower body, and fall down on his side, just stopping the door of the gambling house, and then let the thugs beat him and not fight back, and his mouth is scolding non-stop, even if the skin is open and the blood flows all over the body, there can be no moaning, let alone begging for mercy.

If this stalemate continues, if it can hold on, someone in the gambling house will arrange for the beaten person to be carried home to recuperate. After the injury is recovered, the gambling house will give some silver every month, called "take the hanging money". The identity of this bastard is "mixed".

The gambler just now, the salt powder covered the wound, grinned and shouted pain, and naturally he was going to be forked out of the door, which is called "planting". Those who are capable, talk and laugh freely, do not show a little pain, and when the gambling house meets this kind of person, they will also give them "hanging money".

Li Si had never seen such a scene, his legs were already trembling with fright, but Lu Xiaoxian's face was calm.

Seeing that the gambler was forked out, Shopkeeper Hu glanced at Lu Xiaoxian intentionally or unintentionally, turned around and went back to the house.

Lu Xiaoxian was about to find a gambling table with a lot of people to place bets, but he saw a gambling house pouring tea over and saluted Lu Xiaoxian: "This guest officer, we have a shopkeeper invited!" ”

"Excuse me?" Lu Xiaoxian was stunned: "What do you ask me to do?" ”

"Little ones don't know! Please come with me! ”

Lu Xiaoxian was a little hesitant, but he still pulled Li Si, followed behind the little guy, and walked towards the room on the side.

The little servant led Lu Xiaoxian into the shopkeeper Hu's house, covered the door and went out.

The house was well insulated, and when the door was closed, the noise outside the house was suddenly inaudible.

At this moment, Shopkeeper Hu is sitting at the table, playing alone with the dice.

Shopkeeper Hu glanced at Lu Xiaoxian, put the bowl on the table, and pointed to the chair opposite the table: "Sit!" ”

Lu Xiaoxian was not polite, nodded and sat down.

Li Si was a little overwhelmed, so he had to stand behind Lu Xiaoxian.

Shopkeeper Hu looked at Lu Xiaoxian and said nothing.

Lu Xiaoxian also looked at Shopkeeper Hu.

The shopkeeper's face looked weather-beaten, his two deep-set eyes were deep and bright, his hands were the size of a small thin fan, each finger was so thick that it seemed that he couldn't bend it, and his skin was wrinkled, a bit like tree bark.

Although Lu Xiaoxian could see that Shopkeeper Hu was not an ordinary person, he did not expect that thirty years ago, Shopkeeper Hu was a famous gambling king in Chang'an City, otherwise he would not be qualified to be the shopkeeper of Tiantong Gambling House.

Shopkeeper Hu's eyes were sharp, as if he wanted to see Lu Xiaoxian's heart.

Lu Xiaoxian was very peaceful, but his face was not shocked, with a hint of a smile.

"I don't know what Childe is called?" Shopkeeper Hu finally spoke first.

"Lu Xiaoxian!" Lu Xiaoxian replied cleanly.

Li Si on the side knew that the name of this broom star was Lu Xiaoxian, and he silently recited the name twice and kept the name firmly in his heart.

"Oh, it turned out to be Lu Gongzi!" Shopkeeper Hu suddenly asked, "Does Mr. Lu know dice?" ”

The shopkeeper Hu asked knowingly, and Lu Xiaoxian didn't bother to be polite to him, and said loudly: "According to legend, the dice were invented by Cao Cao's son Cao Zhi during the Three Kingdoms period. In the past, the dots of the dice were all black. Later, some people divided it into red and black, which was very beautiful, so they called the dice 'dice', which means color. Later, some people called 'dice' 'dice'. Dice were originally just divination instruments, and then gradually evolved into gambling equipment......"