"Qinghu, is the bamboo pai gow I gave you on me? Bring it to me and use it. Simao turned his head to Ma Qinghu and said.

"Who's going out with that thing? But I'll send someone to get it, and it's on the dock, and a stick of incense is enough. After Ma Qinghu finished speaking, he didn't ask why, and immediately arranged for his subordinates to get Pai Gow.

Less than a stick of incense, bamboo pai gow was taken, four mao in front of Lao Zhang, poured pai gow on a table of eight immortals, a total of thirty-two paved a table, with three dice dripping around: "Is it this kind of bamboo card?" ”

Lao Zhang didn't understand what kind of medicine was sold in the four-mao gourd, but he still looked at Pai Gow carefully and said, "It's like this, it's made of this kind of bamboo." ”

Simao glanced at it intently, and then said to Lao Zhang: "You shuffle the cards, and then turn the cards upside down." ”

Lao Zhanghu suspiciously turned the cards upside down, the back side up, and then began to wash his hands evenly, and then stacked together to form a rectangle.

Simao picked up a bamboo pai gow, turned it over with a snap, the card was face up, and said in his mouth: "Tianpai ....." Lao Zhang looked at it intently, the card is twelve points, red and black, not a day card or what?

Four Mao non-stop, pick up a card to turn over, while reporting the name of the card, as if long perspective eyes, between the moments, thirty-two cards all turned over, none of the mistakes, look at the old Zhang dumbfounded. Simao then like a trick show, picked up three dice, casually reported a number, and then threw the dice on the table, as he kept reporting "eight o'clock, nine o'clock, eleven o'clock ......." and other columns of numbers, these dice are like a fairy possessed, each scattered number and the number reported in Simao's mouth are exactly the same, the score is exactly the same, Lei Lao Zhang was dumbfounded

Lao Zhang woke up, and said with a hippie smile: "I didn't expect you kid to have so many unique skills, what kind of trick is this, why don't you teach your father....."

"Don't even think about it." Simao's tone suddenly rose a few octaves, and the eardrums of Lao Zhang, Yanzi and Ma Qinghu who were present were all buzzing, and everyone had never seen Simao speak so vigorously, and they couldn't help but be stunned.

Simao looked at Lao Zhang's smiling face before he had time to take it back, his expression was stiff, his heart softened, he sighed long, slowed down his tone and said: "Dad, there are some things that are said to be my turn to be a son, don't blame me for being disobedient and unfilial, I don't want to help you collect the body one day." Ten gambling and nine fraud, the strong have their own strong hands, you are also distressed and distressed for your son's difficulty, I will pay back the silver owed to the three lepers, and you still want to go out to gamble in the future, I will continue to help you pay off your gambling debts, who made me your son, I have to support the father, until the day I can't support it, I will take my life to pay you the debt, if the life is lost, we will be finished. ”

After saying this, Simao didn't look back and walked out of the workshop, without looking at Lao Zhang, Xiao Se's back was indescribably decadent and lonely.

Ma Qinghu and Yanzi walked over from Lao Zhang silently, followed by Simao's back, leaving Lao Zhang alone on the side of the table full of pai gow, alone in a daze.

"Brother Simao, you are so powerful, you know every card, how did you do it?" The swallow was struggling on the side, trying to divert Simao's train of thought. Simao closed his mouth and still didn't open his mouth.

Ma Qinghu smiled and took over the swallow's words: "This kind of bamboo card is a relatively simple thousand arts, it seems to be made of bamboo, in fact, the material does not come from a bamboo, so the texture of each pair of cards is different, good memory, good eyesight can recognize the number of cards from the back by virtue of the lines." The three dice are filled with mercury, as long as you knock it very covertly before shaking, the mercury flows into the groove at what point, and it will be what time it will be when it is sprinkled. ”

The two of them just said a word, gags next to them, and chatted about gossip, hoping to divert Simao's attention and make him feel better. The three of them walked aimlessly all the way, and unconsciously walked to the dock, looking at the boats shuttling back and forth on the river and the endless stream of pedestrians, Simao suddenly stopped, and said with a very solemn expression: "I always feel that something is not right, this thing is not so simple, but I can't figure out what the problem is?" ”

Ma Qinghu waved his hand: "Come on, don't cry with a sad face, when did you become such a mother-in-law, unlike your temperament, horizontal and vertical is just a matter of a dozen taels of silver, Uncle Zhang should also know that he is wrong, be relieved, let's go, let's drink." ”

Lao Zhang has been a lot more honest these days, going out early and returning late every day, helping in the workshop, and not going out to wander. Simao, as usual, was also so busy that his feet did not touch the ground, only Zhang was kept in the dark, still immersed in joy. The current life of the Zhang family is something that the Zhang family never dreamed of before. In the past, the Zhang family had no surplus food, and every day was over, and the husband was idle, and even his son was mixed in the market, and there was no shape. Now that Simao is on the right path, her husband seems to have begun to turn back, not only does the family have surplus food, but it is no longer a problem to eat big fish and meat, and before going to bed at night, Zhang has to count the silver tickets handed over to him by his son over and over again, and then grope and hide under the bed, and his heart is indescribably steady. Isn't this the ideal happy life of ordinary people?

Occasionally, the neighbors come to say goodbye, and Zhang's are also generous, can help others, and are respected by the neighbors, which is tantamount to a kind of luxury in the past, listening to the neighbors praise their son Simao for being sensible and capable, Zhang's heart is sweeter than drinking honey. She even began to plan a big event of finding a daughter-in-law for Simao and holding her grandson early. It wasn't until the middle of the night, when the family was just sitting at the table and having dinner, that Zhang's dream began to be completely shattered.

The three lepers finally came to the door, and he was not the only one who came, Liu Scar also followed, and seven or eight strong men blocked the gate tightly.

"Lao Zhang, when the day comes, I will come to your door, how about it, the three lepers are enough friends, right? But my brother is settling accounts, so you should also settle the money you borrowed from me, right? As if there was no one beside the three lepers, the big prickly butt sat on the table, and without using chopsticks, he reached out and scooped up a piece of pig's head meat and brought it to his mouth.

Zhang could only shadow under the oil lamp and saw the figure of a group of people suddenly break in, and then heard that the name was looking for Lao Zhang, and he sighed in his heart: "You went to gamble again, right?" Why can't you change your dog to eat? You're still not a person, you don't have a long memory......"