"Can you believe the words of the street fortune teller?"

"Can't you believe it? I've heard that he is a Taoist priest of Jingling Palace, and he is a guest of today's official family, and he is very good at fortune-telling. ”

Kou Ji blinked his eyes with a simple expression.

Wu Ming opened his mouth, not knowing what to say about Kou Ji's words.

The Taoist priests in Jingling Palace, those are all Taoist friends who accompanied the official Zhao Heng to cultivate immortals and asked, he didn't dare to comment casually, if he was not careful, he would get into trouble.

But whether the Taoist priests in Jingling Palace have real talent or not, Wu Ming knows it clearly.

After all, in order to cater to the holy will, Wu Ming also accompanied his brother Wu Xian and became a Taoist priest in Jingling Palace for a few days.

Wu Ming looked at Kou Ji with a hint of pity in his eyes.

What a simple stupid child, anyone who catches it can deceive him.

If he is polarized by others, it is better to be deceived by me, so I, the uncle, will teach him in advance the truth that there are too many bad people in this world......

"Since the nephew has the guidance of a master, he will definitely be able to make a fortune in the city, you go to the private room first, wait, and the uncle will go and let the people in the gambling house arrange it."

Wu Ming said with a smile.

Kou Ji looked at him expectantly, "Can it really be changed?" ”

Wu Ming patted his chest and promised: "With my uncle, there is nothing that I can't do." ”

"What my father said is true, Uncle Shi, you are really a good person."

Koji exclaimed excitedly.

Wu Ming smiled heartily and let Kou Ji go into the private room, and he went to find the steward in the gambling house.

Kou Ji entered the private room, paced around the private room, measured step by step at the foot of the east wall, and finally stopped in a place and asked the head of Kou Mansion to follow.

"Behind this, it should be the treasury of the Donglai pawnshop, right?"

Chief Kou was stunned, and after thinking about the layout of the Donglai Pawnshop and the Purple Qi Gambling House, he nodded and responded: "It should be ......."

After confirming that he had found the wrong place, Koji sat down at the table in the private room.

Wu Ming returned to the private room at this time, followed by seven or eight people.

"Hahaha...... My nephew, the steward of the gambling house has agreed to let us stay in this private room. Let me introduce you to you, this is one of the stewards of the gambling house, the forest steward; This is the money boss of Changlong Cloth Company; This is Boss Chen of Hongchang Jade Shop. ”

Wu Ming introduced the three people led by Kou Ji, and he did not introduce a group of people who were similar to minions and long-term followers.

The Lin manager of the gambling house is a middle-aged man who is quite old, and his beard is piercing, like a fierce Zhang Fei, and he is a Jianghu person at a glance.

The money boss of the cloth shop is a fat man who wears silk and satin.

Boss Chen of the jade shop, dressed in a cloth robe, thin and thin, looks like a scholar.

Kou Ji carefully looked at the Boss Qian of the cloth shop and the Boss Chen of the jade shop, he felt that these two people should not be the trust invited by Wu Ming, and Bacheng was also like himself, a lamb to be slaughtered.

Kou Ji didn't expect that while Wu Ming was cheating him, he was also preparing to pit others.

I really don't miss any opportunity to cheat people......

Under Wu Ming's introduction, Kou Ji got up and cautiously saluted everyone.

Boss Qian and Boss Chen, looking at Kou Ji's performance, there was more contempt in their eyes.

Steward Lin and Wu Ming looked at each other and smiled, looking at everyone's gaze, as if they were looking at a slaughtered lamb.

"Now that we're all here, let's get started."

Boss Qian held his stomach, moved to the gambling table, and after sitting down, he said with a smile.

Boss Chen had a cold face and sat down at the gambling table.

Wu Ming also walked over, sat down at the gaming table, and then slapped the table and shouted to Steward Lin, "Hurry up and start." ”

Steward Lin nodded and walked over with a deck of pai gow.

"That...... Can you wait a minute......"

Koji spoke suddenly.

All eyes fell on him.

Under the gaze of everyone, Kou Ji shrunk his neck and said cautiously: "What are we betting on?" ”

Wu Ming said with a smile: "There are so many of us, of course we are betting on Pai Gow." What do you say, Boss Qian, Boss Chen? ”

Boss Qian smiled and said: "You can bet anything, the most important thing is to gamble." ”

Boss Chen said coldly: "I don't care. ”

Kou Ji shrunk his neck again and whispered, "But...... But I don't know Pai Gow, I only play dice. ”

Everyone was stunned.

Boss Qian suddenly looked at Kou Ji, and said with a smile: "Little brother is the first time to go to the gambling house, right?" ”

Kou Ji hesitated for a moment, but nodded seriously.

Boss Qian smiled again: "Since the little brother is the first time to go to the gambling house, then those of us seniors can't bully him, so let's bet on dice." ”

Boss Chen glanced at Kou Ji and said indifferently, "I don't care." ”

The three guests have to bet on dice, and Wu Ming and Lin are stewards, so naturally they can't help but let them get their way.

Immediately, Wu Ming faintly blinked at the Lin steward, and the Lin steward handed the pai gow to the minions behind him, and the urn commanded angrily: "Change the dice......"

The dice were quickly picked up.

The game also unfolded as promised.

Before the game began, Kou Ji spoke up again, "That...... I'm a little cold, can you add me a brazier......"

Steward Lin looked at Wu Ming, and seeing that Wu Ming did not react, he turned around and instructed the minions beside him, "Go and get a brazier for the guest." ”

"One is not enough, you have to have two, one on the left and one on the left and right."

Kou Ji added.

Everyone's eyes fell on Kou Ji again.

Kou Ji said timidly: "Can't you? ”

Boss Qian smiled: "It's not that it's not okay, but when you say this, I'm also a little cold." Steward Lin, ask your people to bring another brazier. ”

Boss Chen's eyes lingered on Boss Qian and Kou Ji, and he also asked for a brazier.

If the guests have a request, the forest steward naturally has to do it.

In a place like a gambling house, if you want to make money, you have to serve customers comfortably.

In this way, big customers will come back often.

Regarding Kou Ji's request for a brazier, Steward Lin and Wu Ming didn't feel anything wrong.

In the early spring, the river has just opened, the willows are not green, the frozen soil has not woken up, and the weather is still cold.

Kou Ji wore a thin dress, and it was not too much to ask for two braziers.

Four braziers filled with silver charcoal, the ones that were lit were prosperous, and instantly warmed the private rooms of the gambling house.

Kodge placed the two braziers that belonged to him by the wall, the closest to him.

The gambling game also officially began at the moment when the brazier was sent in.

……

The other side.

Pawn shop from the east.

After Liu Heng left, the middle-aged man in charge closed the door of the pawnshop and took the painting to the pawnshop's warehouse.

The storeroom of the Donglai pawnshop is very large and peculiarly built.

In order to avoid being remembered by thieves, there is no other space in the storeroom except for the door, not even a window, and closing the door is equivalent to a sealed space.

At the door of the storeroom, there is a small house, which is where the middle-aged man who is in charge of the store lives.

There is only one portal in the entire warehouse, and the middle-aged man who is in charge of the warehouse lives at the door of the warehouse and guards the door in person, which largely avoids being patronized by thieves.

The middle-aged man opened the door of the storeroom, and by the ray of sunlight that came in through the door, he found the bookshelf built on the west wall.

The shelves are full of calligraphy and paintings, but there are not many of them.

The valuable ones were taken back to the mansion by Wu Xian.

According to the usual practice, the pawn shop received celebrity calligraphy and paintings, and middle-aged people would not send them to Wu Xian by hand.

Instead, Wu Xian personally came to pick it up.

The reason why this is done is to prevent being set up by others.

If someone finds out the time and route of the middle-aged man going to Wufu to deliver something, and then pretends to pawn a priceless thing, snatches it back halfway, and finally comes to redeem it with a pawn ticket, then the pawnshop will have to pay for death.

When there was no such rule before, Donglai pawnshop was subjected to such a calculation.

Then he lost a piece of the original poem of Li Yu, the queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and also compensated 30,000 yuan.

It was from that time that Wu Xian set such a rule.

Middle-aged people will be robbed, but Wu Xian will not.

Wu Xian, as an official of the imperial court, has a sedan chair in and out of it, and there are guards to follow.

What's more, no matter who openly robs an official of the imperial court in Bianjing City, it will be attacked by all officials inside and outside the government and the opposition.

No official wanted to suffer the same thing in Bianjing.

The middle-aged man took advantage of the daylight to find a box wrapped in Shu brocade on the bookshelf, and after opening it, he put Liu Heng's pawned "Spring Hip Picture" into it.

Then he went out of the storeroom, locked the door, and returned to the house at the door to wait for Wu Xian's arrival.