Chunniang Teahouse is famous in Jubao Street and even in Chukou Town, not because of the luxury of this teahouse, but because of other feelings. As the name suggests, the name of the teahouse comes from her proprietor, a widow surnamed Yan ** Niang, who is less than thirty years old, and is born like a flower and jade, and her fame is far and wide. The teahouse is built according to the water, backed by the wharf, the door is adjacent to the street, the water and land are the main roads, the customers are like clouds on weekdays, and over time, it has become the gathering place of the three religions and nine streams in the town of Chukou, and it is the first golden signboard of the tea house on the treasure street. To be able to open a teahouse in this mixed place, not to mention being a pretty widow, there is naturally something unusual, otherwise you will either be squeezed to death, or you will be remembered, in short, it is impossible to stand without nodding and Taoism.

First of all, this Chunniang's background has a background, her mother's father is a senior in the Cao Gang in the mouth and the Liangjiang waterway, and a few of the nephews and nephews in the family are eating water rice with the old man, and there are famous characters in the rivers and lakes. This Chun Niang was not raised in the boudoir since she was a child, but grew up on the boat with her mother, and she followed the Cao Gang brothers to mix together, and when she was not out of the cabinet, she dared to hold a knife and open a piece with someone, and she was a fiery character.

It stands to reason that such a girl from another family, the gentry and others don't like her, and the ordinary people don't dare to marry, as for the same people in the rivers and lakes, it is difficult to enter the eyes of the old man. Until Chun Niang was about seventeen years old, but he was taken in by the son of the master of the inspection department at the dock after a chance encounter, so he sent someone to inquire, and a woman like Chun Niang on the dock was not always looking for an accurate.

The son was born as a scholar, and he was famous, and the master was originally unwilling to marry the Cao Gang, but his son was enchanted, and his heart was tied to Chunniang, and the nine cows couldn't pull it back, so he could only loosen his mouth in the end and sent the matchmaker to propose. With such a family and background of the other party, I heard that the prospective aunt is still a showman, and Chunniang's father and mother naturally smiled and accepted it. So a big sedan chair, lively and lively Chun Niang carried into the door, originally a happy marriage, who knew that the newlywed less than a month, the son of smallpox actually died of illness, and even left no heirs. It just so happens that the only remaining sister-in-law in her mother-in-law's family is a powerful character, calculating the old man's net worth and squeezing Chunniang.

At first, Chunniang was patient in every possible way, but after a long time, she detonated her fiery temperament and fought with her sister-in-law at her mother-in-law's house. The old man of the inspection department has been disillusioned since the death of his son, although he knows that it is his daughter, but he is just this flesh and blood, so he has no choice but to have a showdown with Chun Niang and persuade her not to keep the festival. The father-in-law was very kind-hearted, and passed a shop on the street to the door of Chunniang, and used his own silver to hide from his daughter to make up some for his daughter-in-law, so Chunniang went out of the door of the master of the inspection department, and opened this Chunniang teahouse with the silver subsidized by his father-in-law on the shop, and the business is becoming more and more prosperous. The former father-in-law ended up in a clean house like this, because it was not easy to read Chunniang, and he has been serving as the prominent position of the inspection department, and he also maintains Chunniang in the official face, so that the Chunniang teahouse is even more dependent, and no one dares to make up his mind.

However, after the wind and rain, Chun Niang has become more and more introverted, although the rivers and lakes have not decreased, but the hot temperament has changed a lot, and it has never deceived people, so that this town has a mouth town to attract customers, eat tea on the rivers and lakes, gather in major guilds to talk about business, officials and officials pay bribes to open the doorway, and even open a dark treasure bureau to gather gambling, the Quartet is miscellaneous, the heroes gather, and all kinds of people who meet with radishes come one after another, as long as they enter this Chunniang teahouse, they have never made a mistake.

Today is no exception, the backyard of the teahouse has opened a dark gambling game, sitting behind the counter and looking at the endless flow of the front hall, and do not delay to greet the guests, the envoy runs the hall, the plump and wonderful Chun Niang's pair of black eyes are taken care of in all directions, and she can also be busy, the slender ten fingers like spring onions point to the cardamom red, and are knocking melon seeds, the snow-white teeth are slightly exposed, and the cherry red lips "flutter", a complete melon seed shell falls steadily in front of the tea tray, At a glance, she is a shrewd and sophisticated proprietress lady. At this moment, in the warehouse in the backyard of the teahouse, there is a dark situation in the backyard of the teahouse, and Chun Niang is sitting at the door, like a god, blocking the cows, ghosts, snakes, gods and demons from all walks of life.

At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, starting from Huang Taiji, he learned the lesson of the great harm caused by the spread of gambling in the Ming Dynasty, and adopted a strict punishment and resolute attitude towards gambling. For example, officials gambling stipulates that they must be "dismissed from their posts, held accountable, not allowed to redeem, and will not be hired after dismissal." The gambling of the common people does not care about the military and the civilian "flail for two months". The opening gambling and the people who draw "each flail for three months and a hundred rods". Later, even the production and sale of gambling equipment had to be held accountable to the local government. In the sixth year of Yongzheng, because someone in Anhui openly sold gambling equipment, the imperial court dismissed the county governor of the place where the gambling equipment was produced, the prefect was dismissed and retained, and the officials such as the superintendent were demoted to one level to stay. The severity of the punishment and the severity of the criminal law can be said to be unparalleled in all dynasties.

It is now the Qianlong period, the gambling law is still in place, and the court has not opened the ban, but with the consolidation of the regime and the stability of the society, the court has gradually relaxed its vigilance against the lessons of the previous dynasty, and the supervision has been slowly relaxed, and many high-ranking officials and nobles have even taken the lead in participating in gambling in private. The wind of gambling spread rapidly from south to north and from east to west. It's just that gambling is still an industry under the table, and it can't see the light, so it depends on Chun Niang to sit in the store, relying on her face in black and white, and the one who opened the dark game was able to organize the big field in the town of Chukou in her teahouse, of course, the tap for Chun Niang is also very rich.

The warehouse in the backyard was supposed to be a place to store tea, vegetables and vegetables, grain and oil, because it was backed by the wharf, and the surrounding was separated by the road, and the tall courtyard wall and the front hall of the teahouse were obstructed and quiet, and the outside of the yard was convenient to lay the hidden pile, in case something happened, and could escape from the back door waterway, so it was selected as the treasure place to open the dark game. At this moment, the roar in the room was loud, and the gambling was dark.

Dozens of people are crowded with people, head to head, all of them are different, but without exception they are all holding their sleeves high, their eyes are red, densely surrounding a temporary long table that was originally used to eat door panel meals, and the table is covered with gambling spreads for betting and betting, copper coins, broken silver slots, ingots, scattered one, a group of people are gambling and shaking the stall.

Shake stalls originally arose in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, because it is particularly suitable for many people to gamble, and the gambling method is simple, and soon it will be common throughout the country, it seems that gambling in this world is the same as the plague, even if the mountains are thousands of miles, the people are very different, the identities are different, and even completely not restricted by gender, age, and education level, can spread fast and far.

The tool of the stall is three dice, one cylinder, after shaking out, the sum of the numbers of the three dice is added and divided by four, as for the result there are only four, either it is divided to get the result of four, or it is not exhaustible then the remainder is one, two, three any one, in short, there are only these four cases. These four results belong to the four sides of the table, the gambler in the dealer shakes away the hand on the four sides of the table bet, if the bet wins, by the dealer pays, no bet in the three sides are the dealer to eat. Because there are only four results of this stall, gamblers feel that it is simple and has a big chance of winning, plus the so-called "stall road" summed up by the setters to induce, so many people are very careful to study these non-existent laws, such as the Qing Dynasty great poet Gong Zizhen, and even drew a deduction diagram on the top of his bed tent, and he was pondering the empty stall in his dreams, and the result was that every gamble must be lost, and it was rumored to be a laughing stock. In fact, people who know a little bit of probability in later generations know that the probability of each side next time is always one in four, unless it is cheating, there is no way to pave the way.

Shake stalls and other gambling methods are different from the casino owner sitting in the banker, the dealer is done by the gamblers in turn, but it must be equipped with an assistant, the jargon is called the matching, which is responsible for distributing gambling funds according to wins and losses and betting. But ten gambling and nine fraud, once you have to do tricks, this match is often more important than the dealer, not only to calculate fast, but also to control the rhythm, watch the situation coldly, and even help the dealer welcome and send treasure (casino jargon, especially refers to the replacement of lead or mercury in the middle of the dice to cheat).

As for those who open gambling games such as swing stalls, they rely on the dividends of each game and lending to make profits, which is a sure way to make a profit and not lose money. Of course, if you take the money, you have to do things, and the gamblers must not only find and convene gamblers, but also provide a venue to ensure safety, in case something happens to the casino, you have to admit compensation and make money, if the person who sets up the game does not do the bank, you must also ensure fairness, punish cheaters, and maintain order. Therefore, all the people who start the prosperity of the casino are all people who have guaranteed credibility, strength and power.