Recently, the entire Youbei Third Road has been in a turbulent situation. Since Li Xuanyu's death, the older generation of people have also died and fled, and there are few people still alive today. This life, old age, sickness and death, alternation of the old and the new, is a natural law; But from a macro point of view, the human factor accounts for the vast majority of the 'farewell to the old and welcome the new conference' in Youbei.

First, Guo Yunsong and Lin Siwei 'retreated bravely', and then Yan Hunt died violently before being reinstated. And at this moment, the gears of fate have shifted to the front of the Li family.

From this point of view, the descendants of the Yan, Guo, and Li families, in a sense, have also fulfilled the oath of their ancestors to live and die together and share wealth.

Shen Gui, who left the broken temple, now put on a green coat and a small hat, pretending to be a businessman who runs a single gang, taking advantage of the hazy night, a few rabbits and falcons fell, and jumped over the towering and solid walls of the Great Wilderness City.

Most of these night soldiers in the Great Wilderness City are the children of the Li family's relatives who eat a share of imperial food. Therefore, as long as they survive the time of closing the city gate on weekdays, these soldiers will immediately go away with their own pleasure, anyway, the Great Wilderness City is located in the hinterland of the three roads in the north, and in the past hundred years, no matter how fierce the fighting outside is, it has never hit the place of the Great Wilderness City.

At this moment, the night guards must be fooling around, and it is impossible to notice that a young merchant has turned out of the shadow at the corner of the city wall.

Shen Gui carried a coarse cloth blanket on his back and walked on the deserted street. There are not many pedestrians in this great deserted city during the day, and after the city gate is closed at night, the streets are naturally cleared. Such a simple folk custom of 'going to bed early and getting up early' also saves a lot of trouble for those night watchmen.

Guided by the hazy moonlight, Shen Gui finally came to the door of a house that was still lit with a dim candle flame. He looked left and right a few times, then stepped forward and knocked lightly on the door, making a long and short sound.

One long, representing the Qiangua; The two shorts represent the kun hexagram, which is the hexagram of heaven and earth, north and south, yin and yang, and so on. Of course, this kind of 'Qiankun knocking method' is used in this 'dwelling', which represents the contrast between losing and winning; Of course, there is another saying, saying that it is the Qiankun hexagram, the money word of the silver money, which is an auspicious way for people who set up private gambling houses to ask for a mouth.

It seems that this kind of 'secret gambling game' is opened after the sky is completely dark, and the 'insiders' who know the mystery of it, as long as they find a house in any big city that lights a candle late at night, if there are two copper coins inlaid on the door frame of this house, it means that this is a secret gambling game, and it is opening its doors to welcome customers.

Of course, this positive and negative copper coins also correspond to the same image of the two hexagrams of Qian and Kun.

After Shen Gui finished typing the 'code', he took another half step back and stood at the foot of the steps, holding the blanket on his shoulder with his right hand. It wasn't long before an old woman in slightly disheveled clothes opened a crack in the door with the sound of the latch falling.

"Young man, why are you knocking on my door at such a late hour? Who are you looking for? ”

"I'm bothering the eldest lady, I'm here to find a platform (to find a dark casino) and worship the God of Wealth (gambling)."

This is also the doorway in the casino treasure game. The place of open gambling is called 'treasure bureau', and the place of secret gambling is called 'taizi'; moreover, all casinos worship the God of Wealth as the ancestor, and the treasure bureau worships the God of Heaven and Wealth, and the platform worships the God of Wealth. Of course, the God of Wealth and the God of Wealth are also different, in addition to the God of Heaven and Earth Wealth enshrined in the gambling house, there are also various civil and military gods of wealth and so on...... It can be seen that no matter what line of people they are, they all have the expectation of making a windfall.

"Xiang Jia Dianah (expert guest)" ...... Come on in. ”

After finishing speaking, the old lady in charge of looking at the wind turned slightly to the side, let Shen Gui's body go, and then spat out a mouthful of phlegm (the rules of the casino, which are intended to 'smack' the gambling luck of the guests), and then closed the door.

Shen Gui looked at this ordinary house left and right, and then went straight to the direction of the backyard. Don't look at the face of this platform is very ordinary, but as long as you pass through a small door, you will find that it looks like an ordinary house, but inside it is actually a three-entry house.

The front courtyard is just an ordinary house without anomalies, and the second courtyard is where the casino is located; The last Sanjin courtyard is the 'working area' of the Taizi owner. And whether gamblers want to borrow silver or pledge black goods, these 'supporting financial services' are also in the last courtyard.

The biggest difference between this platform and the treasure game is that it is a 'platform' that is opened in the middle of the night, no matter what kind of gambling money black goods come from, and how big the gambling plate can be accepted. However, if the black goods are pledged to get rid of it, the price depends on what Mr. Palmeye in each table says. Of course, most of these gentlemen have found a 'part-time' job here, and they also have serious jobs during the day, and most of them are leaders in the pawnbroking or antiques trade.

Shen Gui looked up through the front yard and found that the three houses in the middle courtyard were all brightly lit at this time. The west wing room hangs a wooden sign with the word 'Pai', the wing room on the east side hangs a wooden sign with the word 'Bao', and on the door frame of the main house facing north and south, there is a big wooden sign with the word 'Bo'.

From these three small wooden cards alone, it can be seen that there are different ways to play in these three houses. And Shen Gui naturally understood the mystery, so without thinking about it, he raised his legs and walked directly towards the main house with the word 'Bo'.

All the old gamblers who have traveled in the casino, most of them have some statuses, and most of them are tired of playing Pai Gow and mahjong. Moreover, if you want to participate in such ordinary 'gambling methods', you can wait until the daytime to visit the gambling house, and the environment will be more comfortable.

"The last one! Who else wants? ”

As soon as Shen Gui entered the door, he saw a 'short and thick' treasure official in the main house, standing on a table at this time, holding a bamboo stick, shouting at the gamblers who were surrounded around.

Shen Gui looked up and found that on the wall behind the man, there was a big red paper pasted on it, and the names of no less than twenty people were written on it. And these names all start with the word 'Li', and after a little pondering, Shen Gui has already guessed: The treasure that is being bet on this platform now should be the heir of the Li family.

This kind of play, although the 'lottery' time is relatively long, but also quite interesting, and often the odds are very different; there are also some old gamblers with status, especially like this kind of 'long-term' gambling method, according to them, this kind of play is more involved and more exciting.

At this moment, the news of Li Le'an's death has spread far and wide, so Li Deng, the current head of the Li family, has completely disappeared in the eyes of everyone on Youbei Third Road. Since there is no successor in the lineage of the Li family, the candidates for the successor to the head of the family can only be those relatives and children whose names are written on the paper.

Shen Gui looked at the red report, there were two people with the lowest odds and the most bets on it. one, it is the grandson of Li Sanlin, who is standing on the cusp of the storm; And the other one is a little strange, it turned out to be Li Zilin, the prefect of the Great Wilderness City.

But after thinking about it again, it is not unreasonable that this incompetent and cowardly Li Zilin Li Governor is now highly respected by gamblers. After all, this Li Zilin's parents died when he was a child, and he is a Li family who grew up eating 'hundred family meals'. Although he was a poor child who was not loved by his grandmother and uncle, when he grew up to the age of a weak crown, he didn't know what kind of 'shit luck' he had handed over, and he was actually favored by the head of the family, Li Deng, and personally pushed him to the position of the prefect of the Great Wilderness City.

Don't look at the fact that he is still a puppet prefect, and he has no official authority in the face of the Li family's minions, but after all, this wrecked is also the only Li family member who is still wearing official clothes except for Li Deng; Moreover, he Li Zilin has had no father and mother since he was a child, and he has been bullied by people after becoming a prefect, although he is like a waste, but it can also show that he Li Zilin has not been co-opted by any forces.

In this way, from the perspective of the successor head of the family, Li Zilin has a great advantage!

If Li Deng really wants Li Zilin to succeed him, then before he dies, he may not be able to put this four-grade prefect to the position of the household secretary who has been vacant and has not been filled. In this way, after Li Deng's death, Li Zilin, the secretary of the Yipin Household Department, succeeded to the position of prime minister, which is completely reasonable from the perspective of the law of the imperial court.

In other words, as long as Li Zilin can please Li Deng, then the identity of the head of the Li family and the envy of the two thousands of people with the Prime Minister of Youbei can be handed over very smoothly and smoothly.

The proprietor of this secret gambling platform should not be far from what Shen Gui thinks; Otherwise, it doesn't make sense at all to offer such odds for Li Zilin, a soft commodity who is bullied by others, according to common sense.

Shen Gui touched his cuffs, and was about to speak, but he heard a hoarse and rough voice behind him, and shouted in a low voice:

"Give it to me! I'm only signing this one, and I'm all betting on Li Zilin......"

As soon as he finished speaking, a medium-sized silver bag was thrown at the feet of the short and fat treasure official. Baoguan picked up the purse and counted the points, and then chanted to the guys beside him:

"The last treasure lot, Master Li Zilin!"

Shen Gui could see clearly, the silver bag contained a full amount of twenty taels of gold ingots! I didn't expect the real stakes of this sign to be around five hundred taels of gold! It seems that the gamblers who can stand here are all people who are extremely rich!

After seeing that the treasure official jumped off the table and took the treasure sign from the man's hand, Shen Gui lost the interest in continuing to look at it, and planned to continue looking for Li Sanlin who might appear here. But he had just turned his head and immediately turned his gaze to the treasure official.

It's not that there is anything unusual about this treasure official, but when Shen Gui turned around, he accidentally glanced at it, and found that the big high-roller who bought the last treasure sign had a very obvious scar on his face!

Shen Gui secretly said in his heart: It's really hard to find nowhere to step on the iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get it! I don't know how your scar man's martial arts are, but you're lucky enough! Not only did I find your traces first, but even the five hundred taels of gold you bet on would definitely be lost!