78 After talking about the dart game, let's look at the gambling house, the gambling house has a new atmosphere recently. Since Ma Biao became the nominal owner of the gambling house, he has been very concerned about the operation of the gambling house, and he squats here every day when he has nothing to do, but it seems that Wu Disaster is a little redundant. Zhou Dao said that Wu Disaster had the final say in the affairs of the gambling house, but he also told Wu Disaster to learn more and watch more, and not to feel that he was in power now, so he would do the order.

Wu Disaster is sensible, usually respects Ma Biao and some old people, and attaches great importance to their suggestions and fully discusses them, so that the daily business of the gambling house is basically not affected by the change of owner, and gamblers are still looking for fun and excitement here.

Recently, there is a new way to play that has aroused the interest of many gamblers. His family's divination is not fortune telling, but name guessing. It is a printed table, there are 6636 grids in the table, there are words and flowers, and 36 people or 36 kinds of objects or animals are written respectively, and they are opened in rotation every 10 days. When each period of gambling is opened, the dealer selects one from this table, writes the name with a bamboo card, wraps it in red cloth and seals it in a clay pot in public, and then hangs the clay pot on the beam in the center of the gambling house, which is usually visible to everyone. At this point, the dealer writes a plausible word puzzle and the gamblers can place their bets. Ten days after the bet, by the dealer in public smashed open the clay pot to open the fan payout, the odds is a loss of twenty-eight, the dealer pumped a percent. The total payout does not exceed 400 yuan, so that even if he is bet by many people, he will not go bankrupt. Now they have found other people's stores at the two city gates and the pier as their outlets to accept bets, and half of the bets at the outlets will be used as a commission.

Judging from the current situation, the progress of this business after the launch has been much smoother than Zhou Dao and they expected. Regardless of how much money there is, the size of the word should be staked in three words, and some of the money is divided into several different words. After the bet with the ticket stub, there is the content, amount and date of the bet, this ticket stub is torn in half from a long strip of stamped ticket face, if you win, you will take the ticket stub to the gambling house and the other half of the torn off together to investigate, after the match can receive the bonus. It doesn't cost much money, it's fast and fresh, and the word fans of each issue of the bet are better than many existing gambling tricks in terms of playing tricks. In addition, everyone is keen to discuss the mystery of the card, whether it is the old and young masters or the mother-in-law neighbors, they like to get together after dinner to chat a few words. Especially if someone's bet is won and makes a small fortune with a small fight, it is the center of the street discussion.

Zhou Dao felt that the design of this type of gambling was completely in line with certain concepts of psychology and communication. For this reason, they specially invited an old man with prestige and reputation in the county, with crane hair and white hair, looking like a fairy wind. On behalf of the dealer, he seals the words, makes puzzles and opens the puzzles, which is particularly solemn. However, the old man himself didn't know what the specific words were sealed, and the questions were prepared for him in advance. In short, Buzi's initial attempt was successful, and Zhou Dao planned to set up stalls in every town in the county, and if feasible, he hoped to open the gambling house in the state capital as soon as possible.

In the bay by the wharf, large and small ships are parked every day to sell grain, and the storage of grain is also a technical job. Now the autumn grain harvest, if it is all stored in the home, not to mention whether there is a place, even if it can be pretended, then it has to carry a certain risk, in case of damp and moldy for a long time, the loss can not be borne by ordinary people. Besides, in addition to eating, you have to buy things, so how can you do it if you don't cash in food? Lao Zhang has been busy recently, bargaining day by day according to the number of fineness, he is most anxious about the granary is not enough, fortunately the backyard of Hesheng has been expanded before, and several large warehouses have been repaired. It's also lucky, most of the site has been built in Luoma City and calculated from the Yu family, there are eight warehouses there, but they haven't been repaired yet, and they have to be added if they are not enough.

Carpenter Chen's apprentices were all brought in to cover the granary and work in shifts. Zhou Dao is anxious that there is not enough money, there is always a shortage of money, and there is always a shortage of money! Although Xu Shiyi also scraped a lot, he really hated it when he used it, and he spent all the money he could embezzle on hoarding new grain. Buying grain from the villagers is cash-out, and there is no such thing as credit. What he is most looking forward to now is that the government will quickly collect grain, but there is no movement at all in this matter. Zhou Dao was secretly anxious, but he was not too afraid, food is the hardest hard currency, the more troubled the times, the more so, more valuable than money!

Time passed day by day, and it was late September, and the official grain collection had not yet sounded? Zhou Dao couldn't sit still, his capital chain was broken, and he was about to collapse! Zhou Dao went to Xu Bian's office every day to inquire about the news, he had completely run out of money, and Carpenter Chen owed all the money for expanding the granary in the backyard before, and he completed the repair of the granary in Luoma City, but the wages were still owed! The apprentices are all disgusted, and even Carpenter Chen can't hold back, so he has to give half of it, right?

In order to have money turnover, Zhou Dao pawned out the mill! The chicken coop is also bet, and the income in the gambling house is used to collect grain, and he wants to gamble! All bet, he's going to bet! Lao Zhang is depressed, and he can't stop it, is he so greedy? Really opened a gambling house, gambling sex? It can only be said that he is crazy! Zhou Dao was forced by money and couldn't do it, so he discussed with Lao Zhang in private, wanting to do something in divination, but he was scolded by Lao Zhang and barely put out his thoughts.

Now that the autumn harvest has passed, every household is not short of grain, and Zhou Dao has hoarded a warehouse full of grain, and no one can buy it if he wants to sell it, unless he sells it cheaply! Last month, the guys' wages couldn't be paid, and there was Lao Zhang pressing no one to make trouble for the time being. Zhou Dao couldn't sleep night after night, and his hair was torn off, hey!

opened the city gate, Zhou Dao took Wu Neng and Zhang Hanwa to Xu Bian's house early in the morning, Xu Bian was not there, and he didn't know where he went? Zhou Dao was so anxious that he stomped his feet, his heart full of remorse. They hurried back again, and as soon as they arrived at the gate of Hesheng, they saw Xu Wei and Lao Zhang Zheng walking out of the door, and when they bumped into Zhou Dao, Xu Wei opened his mouth and said, "It's here!" The official document is here! ”