Section 75 Sweet Harbor Storm - Persuasion

The door was open, and when I looked in from the door, I saw a lot of sedan chairs parked in the yard, and there was a faint sound of touching cards and shaking treasures in the hall, which was obviously a gamble. Many hawkers selling cooked food extend from the door to the door, and it seems that there are all in the courtyard of the second gate. The characters in and out, three religions and nine streams, dragons and snakes are mixed.

"Open gambling here?" Chen Tianxiong was a little surprised.

"Yes, Sister-in-law Ai's good looks are the head of the county torture room. The benefits are not numerous. ”

Xiao Zhanfeng said: This gambling house has about 10,000 yuan every year for honoring several masters in the county, so no one has ever cared about it.

Looking in from the door, there were several tables of gambling inside, and Chen Tianxiong asked, "Can anyone go in?" ”

"Yes, yes, the first in and out casually, gamble casually, the gambling is not big, the regular customers go to the back, but someone has to be introduced."

So I went in and looked, there were pai gow and fan stalls. Chen Tianxiong entered the country to ask about customs, aiming to observe the environment, and did not make a move, Zhou Shizhai needless to say, gambling is a taboo for dart masters. It went round and round. Xiao Zhanfeng whispered: "He is usually within the second gate. ”

"How do you get in?"

"I want to be introduced by regular customers."

"Did you introduce us in?"

"I'm a regular customer." Xiao Zhanfeng basked, "Come with me, let's go out first." ”

Got out of the door, entered from a path on the side, Xiao Zhanfeng knocked on the door a few times, and a middle-aged woman came out of it, rude, who seemed to be quite familiar with Xiao Zhanfeng, and said a few words with a smile, Xiao Zhanfeng said: "This is my relative Aunt Liu." ”

This Aunt Liu doesn't know which distant relative she is. On weekdays, Xiao Zhanfeng can't get along, and when it's difficult to continue three meals, he sneaks here to have an idle meal. Fortunately, there are people here day and night, there is always a fire on the stove, and there is an endless supply of meals and snacks. So as long as someone is willing to take care of it, it's always okay to rub oil and eat a full meal.

Xiao Zhanfeng and his aunt said a few words in local dialect, and then turned around and said, "You guys come in first, the one surnamed Lin and Xiao Jinxiu messed around with Xiao Jinxiu until midnight last night, and he hasn't gotten up yet." He spat contemptuously, "I'll eat something to fill in first." ”

It turned out that he hadn't eaten breakfast himself, and was going to come up here to eat.

"How much longer?"

"It's almost there, I just sent the face wash in. We'll go up to the hall and wait for him in a moment. Xiao Zhanfeng said, took them to a secluded place in the lower room, and after a while, Aunt Liu brought a steamer, which was full of all kinds of snacks, sweet and salty, about the guests to eat the leftover parts of the dim sum together to steam and steam.

"You two want to do it too?" Xiao Zhanfeng said as he grabbed a broken crispy bun and stuffed it into his mouth. swallowed it quickly, swallowed a little, and Aunt Liu hurriedly brought him another bowl of tea. He drank it cleanly, then scooped up a shrimp dumpling and swallowed it.

"No, we've all eaten in the morning." Chen Tianxiong thought that this scholar was not taboo at all to eat the leftovers of prostitutes.

Xiao Zhanfeng guessed what they were thinking, and said vaguely while eating: "You must be laughing at me, a scholar, who will be reduced to the point of begging for prostitution." ”

Chen Tianxiong just wanted to say something, desperately looking in his stomach for an example of a good man when he was down, just thinking of an allusion to Han Xin's humiliation under his crotch, Xiao Zhanfeng had already smiled bitterly: "People are poor and short-minded, horses are thin - hairy - long, a person is broken, it is good to have something to eat, what kind of decency is there." He shook his head.

There is a whining in the words. It's even better to be dissatisfied with personal circumstances, and then dissatisfied with society.

After he finished eating "breakfast", Aunt Liu led them quietly through the firewood room. Arrived at a moon cave door.

"Two of you, it's inside the second gate when you go in here." Xiao Zhanfeng whispered, "After the two of you go in, you just don't look at it and don't say it, as usual, you don't want to inquire about other people's affairs here." When Lin Zhuang came out, we went up directly to talk to him. ”

There is no objection to this, and at the moment, the two of them were led by Xiao Zhanfeng, and they walked through the moon cave door and came to a hall.

It's more lively here than outside, and the gambling stuff is similar to the outside, but there is no cash on the table, all of them are delicate ivory picks, Chen Tianxiong shili is very good, and it can be seen that there are various words engraved on it with fine work, nothing more than heaven, earth, people and the like. It's about cipher

Chen Tianxiong whispered: "There are many people here, and it will be difficult to show up here, if Haiyitang knows, it will not be easy to do." ”

"You can rest assured," Xiao Zhanfeng was very sure, "This is the county seat, not Hai'an Street, and it's not their turn to point fingers." These sugar dogs never come here either. ”

"That's good." Chen Tianxiong was still looking around, Xiao Zhanfeng whispered: "Don't go around-mess-look, this is the most taboo here, come with me." ”

Xiao Zhanfeng knew that Lin Zhuang liked to gamble on "Fan Tan" the most, so he pulled Chen Tianxiong to stand quietly behind a table in the gambling Fan Tan, watching through the clusters of people, waiting for Lin Zhuang to come out to gamble.

Because the person hadn't come out yet, Chen Tianxiong focused his attention on the gambling table. He has a lot of social experience, and he has been involved in various casinos, but he has never seen this kind of gambling.

The table is designed for shaking stalls, with a hardwood top, one size larger than the usual square table, and the four corners are inlaid with marble to demarcate the boundary, and each side is inlaid with marble to make dots the size of a teacup. One point of the dealer, three points to the door, two to the right, four to the left, the green dragon on the left, and the white tiger on the right.

The dealer uses a shaker sieve, shakes it three times, opens the shaker to see the points, and each point has a different statement. The onlookers bet on each door of the table according to their respective choices and betting methods. Chen Tianxiong paid great attention to it, and found that there were many betting tricks in this stall, and the entry and exit were extremely large - he gradually saw the value of ivory chips, a chip with a heavenly character is one hundred taels, fifty with a ground character, ten taels with a human character, and about one tael with plain noodles. There are nearly 5,000 taels of gambling on this table. This is a small county town of Xuwen! The wealth that the sugar industry has brought to this place is indeed beyond imagination.

The luck of sitting in the village is quite vigorous, and the wind comes and goes, and the back waves of the Yangtze River push the front waves, pushing Chen Tianxiong from the back to the front, from standing to sitting. In order not to attract attention, Chen Tianxiong also bought ten taels of silver chips, bet at will, and planned to retreat to the back and wait if he lost all of them.

Unexpectedly, after going back and forth, his indiscriminate bets won a lot of money. In a blink of an eye, the chips in front of him were piled up, and after a rough estimate in the first half of the village, he won more than 100 taels of silver.

The stall has the so-called "road number", that is, the routine of each person placing bets. There are many famous halls of the road, big roads, small roads, meat roads, and plain roads, this set of things is the first way, very elegant, in fact, everyone believes in everyone. Like Chen Tianxiong, who has no way to bet casually and keeps winning, he has never seen it in the casino. This moment made the audience look sideways. Because Chen Tianxiong is a guest, and seeing that he is at ease, he is extremely free and easy when placing bets, the more he feels that this person is mysterious, and the more curious he is.

Under the gaze of dozens of eyes, he is still unabated in luck in the second half of the village, although there are also those who have eaten to accompany, but they still win more than they lose, this village is over, Chen Tianxiong has netted more than two hundred taels. Everyone at the table was surprised, envious, angry, and annoyed, and all kinds of eyes gathered on him, and all kinds of expressions were present.

Chen Tianxiong himself is not exempt

Baoguan enveloped gamblers, and also expressed his admiration, and took care of the opening of the "Qinglong Horn" to exempt him from his "head money". Chen Tianxiong didn't move, he only stood up slowly, and said, "Luck!" ”

The head money is a lot, and it is still thrown on the "Qinglong Horn", which is quite beautiful and gives the casino enough face.

But there is no need to gamble anymore, he Chen Tianxiong is here to find Lin Zhuang, not to gamble, let alone to prepare to mix the rivers and lakes in Xu Wen. Seeing that almost an hour had passed, and Lin Zhuang still hadn't shown up, he couldn't help but feel a little anxious.

Xiao Zhanfeng was very excited, and said in a low voice: "Shopkeeper Chen, I didn't expect your hands to be really beautiful!" ”

"What about the people of Lin Zhuang, why haven't you come yet?"

"It's already here, but it's when you're lucky, don't dare to disturb ......"

Chen Tianxiong couldn't laugh or cry. Xiao Zhanfeng gestured with his eyes: That is Lin Zhuang.

I saw a man of about 30 sitting on the edge of the table, with rough hands and feet, and there were many scars left by burning on his hands. It is a typical working man's appearance, but his face is gray, his twilight is very heavy, and his eyes are weak. Chen Tianxiong is well-informed and knows that this is what it looks like after the wine-lust is excessive.

I saw that although he was sitting at the table, he did not have a few chips in his hand. This will be a "four" word for the treasure official, and all three doors will be missed, and the chips will be closed by the one who opened it. I couldn't help but sigh. When he wanted to shake the treasure again, he didn't hit a single one, hesitating and pinching a few chips.

"Lao Lin! Why don't you place a bet? The banker asked, "It's going to be shaken!" ”

"Cherish a few dollars and go down! You're going to have bad luck. Someone persuaded.

"Yesterday I used a few less on Xiao Jinxiu, but today I won't have it!"

Lin Zhuang looked at it blankly for a long time, but he still couldn't make up his mind, if he threw away a few taels of silver from Zuihou and lost it again, he would be penniless. Sister-in-law Ai here, although she is not a yamen, she also "does not come in if she has no money". Even if he was reluctant to give up-especially reluctantly to Xiao Jinxiu's coquettish-bone-in-bone, more than half of the silver he received from Zhu Sanye was filled in with her - he still had to be swept out of the house immediately.

I have the heart to remember it again, but the hundreds of people in front of Monk Zou Temple will be out of cooking today, and there will be no rice if there is no silver. If you want to ask the third master to give money, you have to wait until you burn incense and swear to give him a ring. Lin Zhuang knew that those workers had long been dissatisfied with themselves, and if there was no rice to send this time, they were afraid that the matter of burning incense would be yellow.

After thinking about it for a long time, he still stood up and abdicated to make way for Xian. Shrinking to the side by himself, he asked for a pot of tea. He didn't have much money in hand, so he naturally refused to develop a small account. The people in the hall turned their faces very quickly, and it took a while to bring a pot of tea, but it was still cold.

"What a bitch ruthless." Lin Zhuang muttered quietly, thinking about how to go back and tell the workers to make a big noise when they burn incense tomorrow, so that they can ask Zhu Sanye for a sum of silver.

Just as he was thinking about it, someone suddenly patted him on the shoulder, and someone shouted: "Master Lin!" ”

How did Lin Zhuang know that someone was staring at him, he heard the voice, turned his face to look, saw Zhou Shizhai staring at him with a smile, and asked, "You called me?" ”

"Yes! Aren't you Master Lin Zhuanglin? ”

"Yes, it's me," his eyes rolled around Zhou Shizhai, as if he was trying to search for such a person in his memory.

Seeing that this person is not expensive or cheap, he is lofty, and his gestures are quite graceful. Knowing that he was not a person to be messed with, he asked politely: "Brother Tai is looking for me?" ”

"I want to make friends with you." Zhou Shizhai smiled.

"Who is your owner, it can't be the wrong person......"

"I don't admit my mistake," Zhou Shizhai lowered his voice, "Our Dong's house is in the warm pavilion, please bend down and move the bottle a few steps, he has something to say to you." ”

Lin Zhuang suddenly became alert. He has been messing with the three sects and nine streams for a long time, and he knows some of the weirdness. Recently, he followed Zhu Sanye to deal with the South China Sugar Factory, and the wealth of this sugar factory is not small. The gods fight the method, and the small people take medicine. If South China finds someone to deal with him, he really can't shout for help, and no one listens! This is not Hai'an Street, and Haiyi Hall can't be eaten. What's more, Sister-in-law Ai is a place where black eyes only recognize silver silver. The other party's money has arrived, and he will become a "road down" on the street in the middle of the night today!

He also reacted quickly, and hurriedly excused himself: "I understand Guidong's love, but I have to do some chores soon." I'll visit ...... as soon as it's done."

Before he finished speaking, one of Zhou Shizhai's hands had already grasped his wrist.

"Master Lin, please do it now, Idong is very busy!" Zhou Shizhai was full of smiles, but his eyes were cold.

Lin Zhuang was taken aback, and just wanted to struggle, there was a sharp pain in his wrist, and half of his body was numb.

"Please!"

Lin Zhuang was forced into the warm pavilion like this. Chen Tianxiong was worried that Xiao Zhanfeng was a local, so it was inconvenient for him to show up, so he waited next door. He sat with his back lit, so that Lin Zhuang couldn't see his face, but he could see the other party's face clearly.

"This is our Master Chen." Zhou Shizhai "escorted" him in and introduced.

Lin Zhuang is half a Jianghu person in the end, knowing that the current situation is not good, and many people are not to blame, so he quickly knelt down and kowtowed.

"Get up." Chen Tianxiong said in a deep voice.

"Yes, Master Xie Chen." Lin Zhuang stood up, stood aside carefully, and saw the man who escorted him in guarding the door, secretly crying bitterly in his heart, thinking that he would have to suffer some hardships today.

Chen Tianxiong said straight to the point: "I am entrusted by the owner of South China to say a few words to you!" The affairs of Haiyitang and the South China Factory, the bridge to the bridge, the road to the road, originally had nothing to do with you workers in the sugar house, and I am advised to do less useless things. So as not to hurt the peace! ”

"Don't dare, don't dare." When Lin Zhuang heard that it was indeed from South China, his legs and feet suddenly weakened, and he knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly. The matter of mixing with Zhu Sanye is well known in Xu Wen, and the opponent may not dare to move Zhu Sanye, but pinching him to death as a small fireworker is a matter of raising his hand. I don't know if they want to use themselves as the "chicken" of the monkey.