Chapter 3 Father's Kindness and Son's Filial Piety
Today, the person who opened this shake stall in the Chunniang Teahouse is surnamed Xu, nicknamed Sandao, a native of the local, who began to do dark piles and firefighters in the casino when he was a teenager (a guard guard outside the casino and a thug in the casino), and after becoming an adult, he tangled a group of people, and the three knives cut his original boss into serious injuries, wanting to rob this treasure land in Jubao Street. This boss Cao Gang was born in the Cao Gang, and he is also an old ruffian, the official did not report it, but he hung a heavy reward on the rivers and lakes to ask for his life, and also mobilized the Cao Gang to seek revenge. A rootless and bottomless, brave and ruthless stunned young man caused this kind of monstrous disaster, and ordinary people would have been sunk in the river a long time ago, but Xu Sandao was not only unharmed, but also began to show his scheming and grandeur since then.
He did two things. The first is that I don't know how to use to cast myself under the door of Chun Niang's father and become an apprentice of Guanshanmen, join the Cao Gang, and become the same door as the boss who was cut by himself. The second is to stab himself half to death with three knives and six holes above the Cao Gang Law Hall, and he was punished according to the Cao Gang Family Law. It was originally a public case, but it turned out to be a family matter, after such a break, outsiders can no longer intervene, plus his master is covered, the unlucky casino owner can no longer rely on the help of the Cao Gang and other underworld forces, so he can only make a break with Xu Sandao himself.
More clever things are still to come, Xu Sandao, who has not yet healed from his injury, let people carry himself to the venue of the Cao Gang bosses again, and generously stated his plans, saying that the original casino was just doing its own business under the banner of the Cao Gang, and Yu Cao Gang did not have the benefit of half a copper, if it was operated by himself, it was agreed that 30% of the profits would be given to the Cao Gang, and 10% of the benefits of the gambling stall on Jubao Street would be given to the original boss as compensation. At the same time, all gambling stalls in the unified mouth within three years must pay monthly income to Caobang Gongzhong according to the agreed amount. The word is the head, plus his master secretly helps, the rest of the people naturally push the boat, and the Cao Gang is on Xu Sandao's side in a blink of an eye, and the original casino owner has become a lonely person, and he has suffered a big dumb loss, and he can only knock out his teeth and swallow it in his stomach.
Xu Sandao carried the signboard of the Cao Gang and thundered on the ground, and became the number one casino boss in Jubao Street, and in less than a year, he was the leader of the casino. However, he did what he said, and the dividends that should be given to the Cao Gang Gongzhong and the original casino owner's silver are a lot. Because it took three knives to cut others and cut himself, he fell into the name of Xu Sandao. From a penniless outlaw to a casino boss who makes money every day and one of the powerful figures in the Cao Gang, Xu Sandao has also become a legend in the small rivers and lakes of Chukou, entrenched in Chukou Town, and has lived a good life for six or seven years.
Looking at Xu Sandao, who was sitting in the corner silently, with a mouth full of oil and gnawing on pig's trotters, Simao leaned over with a hippie smile: "Third Brother Xu, I haven't seen you for a long time, I will come to the bureau in person today, and I will hand over the work of running errands and reporting to me Simao, you can rest assured that you will be blessed at home, why bother so hard." ”
At this time, Xu Sandao is no longer the stunned green he was back then, with a pair of thick and black broom eyebrows, the small eyes under the eyebrows are staring at everything, and he knows at a glance that he is an extremely difficult character. He first waved his hand to let the little apprentice who was serving beside him avoid it, and then put down the pig's trotters that were gnawing happily in his hand, staring at the young man in front of him, and didn't say a word for a long time.
Simao still looked grinning, facing Xu Sandao's gaze without dodging, and said in his mouth: "Doesn't the third brother really have any care?" Please explain, Simao will definitely handle it for you. "Don't look at Simao's young age, but since he was a child, he grew up in the market and mixed in the rivers and lakes, so he can say that he is clear about this kind of trick. Xu Sandao asked the apprentice to avoid it, he must have something to explain, and then stared at himself and looked at each other, obviously using his eyes to cross his own way, trying to test his own strength and confidence. Therefore, Simao's eyes are full of smiles, this kind of eyes are neither ostentatious nor humble, just right, but the other party can't guess the slightest wave in his heart.
Sure enough, after a while, Xu Sandao, who had found nothing, snorted stupidly: "You two go to the casino together, which can be regarded as a scene, but I don't know if you are in charge of each other, or who will take whom to play?" ”
Simao glanced at the obscene father beside him from the corner of his eyes, his eyes looked around as if he hadn't heard, and then took over the conversation: "Third brother, as the saying goes, father and son soldiers, our two fathers are here to make up the popularity of your field, they are all for the third brother to carry a sedan chair, the work of the front and rear feet, and what else to divide who will take who to play, one heart, one heart." Xu Sandao's words were puns, and Simao's answer was also a pun, all of which were leaky.
Xu Sandao's words can be understood as ridicule, or as temptation, if the father and son disagree, and Simao says it again, his words will naturally stop. And Simao's answer can be understood as an idle article to resolve ridicule, and it can also be understood as reassuring him that he has something to say.
Speaking of which, Xu Sandao's eyes flashed, and he no longer played dumb riddles, the corners of his mouth were slightly furrowed, and he looked at his imperceptible movements, and in front of the two people who were sitting in the gambling table were already a pile of silver and stacked silver tickets, the total number was only no less than eight or nine thousand taels, which was obviously a posture of killing all sides. One of these two people has a big waist and a round waist, and a horizontal face, while the other has delicate eyebrows and is dressed more elegantly.
Simao retracted his gaze and inquired about Xu Sandao's meaning with his eyes. Xu Sandao lowered his voice and said, "I heard that your opening skills are good, do you have the ability to meet the level on the field?" ”
Simao's eyes rolled, and he also lowered his voice and said: "I'm shallow, let alone winning, I haven't even seen the trick clearly, but I have a way to send God, is it considered a success?" What he said actually meant was that he couldn't catch the other party, and he couldn't win the other party, but he could let these two people retreat, whether this was in line with Xu Sandao's requirements.
Xu Sandao didn't say anything, his eyes swept around, and he saw that his subordinates were patrolling the field, and the gamblers were staring at the gambling table intently, no one noticed their corner, and then wrapped his sleeves and stretched out his hand, Simao skillfully faced the other party and stretched out his sleeves, and in a blink of an eye, a heavy ingot of silver slipped into his hand, and after a little weighing, it was an official ingot of about fifty taels.
"This is half of it, and the other half will be paid for it, and two apprentices will be sent to give you a hand, only one, and you will not be able to show the true God." Xu Sandao said quietly.
Xu Sandao means to agree to send God, but no one can know that he is instructed by Xu Sandao, this condition naturally has its deep meaning, in case of a situation, it will not let Xu Sandao be pushed to the front, there is no room for maneuver. Simao nodded, turned around and pulled the obscene uncle on the side and walked out. Xu Sandao looked at the backs of the father and son, beckoned the two little apprentices and whispered two words, the little apprentice nodded knowingly, and then followed Simao out.
Just out of the gate, when there was no one around, the obscene uncle complained in a low voice: "You are crazy, today we just want to fight the autumn breeze and mix the grain, how dare you beg for food from Xu Sandao's mouth, his silver is so easy to take?" I don't know what to hold back yet. ”
Simao looked at his father and grinned: "No, Lao Zhang, when you see silver on weekdays, you are the master of the coffin of the dead, and you don't dare to do it. ”
"That's your Lao Tzu and I are forced to live and be forced to be helpless, and other Lao Tzu won't do it, what if you don't cheat and cheat? It was Lao Tzu who earned this kind of money to raise you. The lewd uncle had a sad and helpless expression on his face.
"If you have it, it's time to be ugly again, if you really depend on you, my mother and I should have starved to death." After stopping the performance of the obscene uncle, Simao put his sleeves in his hand, bumped his father with his shoulder, and said with a hippie smile: "You haven't answered me yet, why don't you dare to take Xu Sandao's money today, it's not that you're afraid of him." ”
"Fart, if Lao Tzu bears this head himself, if he wants to die, he will die with his eggs in the sky, and he will not die for thousands of years, and he will be afraid of a bird. But it's your little rabbit who picks up the money today, what if it's a pit waiting for you to jump? Who doesn't know Xu Sandao in Chukou Town, black, black went to his grandmother's house....... "Before he could continue, the corner of his eye swept to the two little apprentices who quietly stepped out and looked at his grandfather from a distance by the door, and immediately retracted the words behind him.
Looking at this father who had never been in shape and didn't dare to ask for the silver with white flowers, and his face was red and white, Simao rarely replied to Mai Mang without a needle, and after being silent for a moment, he whispered: "You don't want to think about it, what is there in our family that is worth thinking about, do you need to dig a pit for me with so much effort?" Did you see it just now, the two gamblers in the field are clever, and the origin is not simple, Xu Sandao just guessed that they did something on the dice, but I can't see how this treasure is sent up and how to invite it down (referring to the sneak into mercury or lead-filled dice, and then replaced with normal dice after successful cheating), I can't catch their handles on the face, and I can't guess their identity, and I can't use the means openly and secretly, in case a gambler sees their way first, Or it will be rumored that there are two old men in Xu Sandao's field in the future, and those who don't know will say that he conspired with others to cheat gamblers, how will his dark situation be opened in the future? Even if he knows, he will scold him for not being able to control the field and opening a treasure game, which will hurt the gambler. According to Xu Sandao's temperament, he couldn't swallow this unjust breath. ”
Lao Zhang listened to his son's analysis, and couldn't help but turn a little pale: "So he takes a fancy to your fast hands?" Let you go to the table to deal with these two boys? If you lift the lid of these two people on the table (which means exposing the scam of the two people), isn't it for Xu Sandao to offend people? Even Xu Sandao has to weigh the person, you dare to stretch out your head to catch the stone? Even if you don't lift the lid on them, can you be sure that you can win them? ”
Simao shook his head: "Don't talk about lifting the lid, I'm not stupid enough to do this, it's just that I didn't make a move on the table, those two people are fast, especially the young man who opened the match, he looks inconspicuous, and he is even smarter, I just secretly glanced at it a few times, he didn't even make a small move, unless he searched his body, I can't catch his current, let alone win them." "People who are good at making thousands of people have a routine, that is, they must rely on many small actions to form a blindfold and divert everyone's attention and attention, so as to have the opportunity to steal the beams and change the pillars, and the fish and the eyes are confused, but if a thousand small movements are few, or even no small actions, then there is only one reason, this old man's hand has been incredibly fast, and the technique is so clever that there is no trace. And these two people obviously have a background, and they can't be forcibly searched, so Xu Sandao didn't dare to deal with them in the same way as ordinary cheating gamblers.
"If you can't see the flaws, how can you determine that the other party is out of the thousands?" Lao Zhang asked.
Simao pursed the corners of his mouth, and was very speechless about his father's IQ: "If you gamble on the immortals for a long time and lose, you will always win, you don't see the two of them eat big and lose small, and they will kill all three parties unconsciously, how can there be such a clever way if you don't have a thousand?" And I can smell them two miles away, and when I see more of this person, I feel it, and you don't understand this when I tell you. ”
Hearing his son's point-to-point words, although Lao Zhang is an old fritter, his heart can't help but hang higher.
Although the son is young, he has been in the rivers and lakes since he was a child, and he started from buying snacks and running errands in the casino tea shop.
When Xu Sandao sat in the banker to open the gambling game of the treasure, he once met a master of the face of the student, the kung fu is very powerful, and the betting is very sophisticated, ten games can be guessed correctly seven or eight sets, so that the full gamblers finally took this person as a guiding light, and followed his way to count, less than half a day's work, the dealer collapsed into tens of thousands of taels of silver, and the gambling game was less than an hour, even if there was a gambler, there was no rules for scattering the stall, not to mention that this group of gamblers recognized the money and did not recognize people, the result was that the more people gathered, the more the stakes were piled up thicker, If he goes on at this pace, he can't hold out the game, Xu Sandao will have to be beaten bankrupt, and he has changed four dealers in a row, but he still can't turn the tide of defeat.
At this moment, Simao Mao recommended himself to be the dealer, Xu Sandao was still in doubt, Simao whispered a few words in his ear, Xu Sandao heard that there was a little truth, and it was also a dead horse as a live horse doctor, so he let Simao play, but he didn't expect that there were less than three, and after the master lost thousands of taels of silver, he pulled his legs and left. This incident spread in the town of Chukou the next day, and it caused a lot of sensation, and everyone knew that the old Zhang family's Simao was a natural gambling embryo and played a good dice cup. After Simao Niang found out, she beat him up and punished him for kneeling for a long time, and Simao's father secretly asked him what tricks he used to make the master gambler admit defeat.
Simao used ten big money and a pack of braised beef to exchange the secret to Lao Zhang, the tricks of the rivers and lakes were separated by a layer of paper, and those who didn't understand were pitted to death or a ghost, but those who understood were broken with a stab. It turned out that he observed that the gambler had a small movement, that is, it would be imperceptible to the slight side of the head, and the right ear would move, although he had never seen it, but he had heard a halfway master tell himself about the kung fu of hearing the wind discernment, and some people had a very keen sense of hearing, none of them, because the six sides of the dice were different, and the sound of the landing was different, plus according to the dealer's posture of shaking the dice cup, the technique, the strength and the points of the previous dice, to judge the trend of the dice, so that several kung fu combined, You can estimate the approximate number of points, especially for the size of the bet, and the winning side is very large.
So Simao asked Xu Sandao to send a few supports, and before the dice cup settled, he pretended to be anxious and shouted loudly in the master's ear, "Big, big, big..." or "Small, small, small, small.......", and for the sake of insurance, he also sent people left and right to interfere with his hearing. When Simao shakes the dice, he frequently changes the shaking method, so that the other party can't figure out the law of his strength.
The second is to use the force of the whirlwind to change the number of the dice every time, and the dice try not to hit the porcelain wall and bottom of the dice cup to avoid making a sound. The third is to use skills to position the dice at one time when they are settled, so as not to let them stop when the dice cup rolls, and try to make as little sound as possible. The fourth is to add a small action, at the moment before closing the shaker and preparing to re-shake the dice, the little finger quickly and covertly disrupted the starting point of the dice, which not let everyone see the scrambled points, and it is not illegal cheating. In this way, less than three, the other party saw that the dealer had found a flaw, so he was very experienced and accepted it, won 10,000 silver, pulled up the Shunfeng flag and left. Because the other party relied on real kung fu and did not do any tricks, Xu Sandao had to admit that he was unlucky, but the wool was out of the sheep, and the money exported would naturally fall on other gamblers and win back. The person who can open a casino will not be a good man and a woman, staring at a fat sheep and swallowing the belt meat, and not even spitting up the scum, the final outcome can only be to force the other party to play a black hand, and the money won't be spent.
Lao Zhang Xindu met a master again today, so he wanted to repeat his old skills, but I heard my son say that the other party's skills were above Simao, which was troublesome. If you can't fight the other party on the field, and take Xu Sandao's silver, according to his personality and temperament, he will not look at the friendship between Simao in the past and open the net, and he will definitely turn his face and not recognize people, as soon as he thinks of this, he gritted his teeth, as if he had made a lot of determination: "I will go to Xu Sandao and return the silver ......to him" After saying this, he reached out and wanted to touch the silver from Simao's body.
Simao grabbed Lao Zhang's hand: "Dad, can the silver be returned now?" The rules of the rivers and lakes are fixed money, Xu Sandao stretched out his hand to give money, and he didn't admit it when he shrunk his hand, and it was a truth that he couldn't do it and gave up halfway, and at that time, we would have to be at his mercy. ”
Lao Zhang was really anxious now, looking at the two people who had been staring at him from afar, his neck was red, and he gritted his teeth and said: "You little rabbit cub, you are a stubborn character, Lao Tzu went to find Xu Sandao, and he was afraid of a ball, you give me the silver, and go home quickly." ”
Looking at Lao Zhang's expression, Simao felt a little moved inexplicably, he patted Lao Zhang's hand, and said slowly: "What are you anxious about, since I dare to take this deal, I naturally have the means to make the deal happen." Besides, the rice jar at home has also fallen off, and if you don't get some silver back today, the mice should move, and your mother is going to take a broom to you again. ”
"Do you really have a way?" Hearing his son's words, he couldn't care about the ridicule in his words, and Lao Zhang asked overjoyed.
Simao, who had just said a human word, instantly returned to his original form, snorted: "Try it first, and then hand it over to you when you can't go out to top the tank, don't worry." ”
"You little rabbit cub......." Seeing his son walking towards the casino with his hands behind his back and walking towards the casino like a dog, Lao Zhang's face was full of deflated expressions, and he blurted out this mantra, and the warm scene of returning the father's love and filial piety to the father and son was instantly shattered.