After the rotten dog skin escaped from the distance, he turned his head and spat hard in the direction of Li Xiu's house, and then scolded again, but no one around listened at all, so he scolded a few words and felt bored, and he didn't dare to go back to find a fight, and finally could only rub his chest and limp away. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

But as he walked, the rotten dogskin didn't know where to go, the only three rotten grass houses in the house had been mortgaged by him to others, and there must be a lot of debtors guarding the door, and he would definitely be beaten worse when he went back.

Speaking of which, he lived a relatively comfortable life during this time, the ninth sister would secretly give him his monthly salary, so that he would not disturb the lives of their mother and daughter, and the copper coins several times a month also made the rotten dog skin become more generous, and he played bigger in the casino, but in this way, he lost faster.

For example, in the past few days, the rotten dog skin not only owes a lot of casino debts, but even threatened to cut off his hands, the reason why he went to find the ninth sister today is mainly to ask for money to spend, if there is really no money, the big deal is to pull their mother and daughter to the market to sell, should be able to exchange a lot of money, but I didn't expect to get a beating.

The ninth sister is her own family, and Xiaoya is her own daughter, but now she doesn't go with herself, which makes the rotten dog skin more angry the more she thinks about it, and she has the heart to go back to make trouble, but she is afraid of being beaten, and finally she has to scold and go to Xinzhu County, which belongs to the jurisdiction of Xinzhu County, but compared to the prosperity of Chang'an, Xinzhu County is a little depressed, and the rotten dog skin used to go to Chang'an to gamble money, but now he is being collected by several gambling houses in Chang'an, and his home is gone, so the rotten dog skin can only go to Xinzhu County to think of a way.

Xinzhu County is not far from Chang'an, but it may be because Chang'an is too prosperous, the rich people in Xinzhu County are more willing to go to Chang'an to live, and the poor also want to go to Chang'an to live, coupled with the impact of the war in previous years, the population in the county has been greatly reduced, so now Xinzhu County is very depressed, in fact, not only Xinzhu County, some counties near Chang'an City are in this situation.

Rotten dog skin before dark into the new county seat, he used to mix here for a while, but also very familiar with the situation of the county, into the city gate he got into the alley, and then came to a dilapidated house, knocked on the door a few times, immediately a strong man opened the door, and then looked at him very vigilantly.

This is actually a casino, gambling is prohibited on the face of the Tang Dynasty officials, but gambling is not at all prohibited, so the casinos run by the people are everywhere, not to mention anything else, there are a lot of casinos in Chang'an City alone, and it is said that there are powerful people behind them, which is also the reason why the rotten dog skin does not dare to go to Chang'an, in case he is caught by those people in the casino, I am afraid that no one will care if he is killed.

Rotten dog skin has been here before, and the strong man who guards the door said a few words and went smoothly, the casino is in the main hall of the house, because the weather is cold, the door of the main hall is with a thick cloth curtain, just open the curtain, there is a rush of heat inside, which is also mixed with the smell of sweat, odor and other strange smells, which makes people want to smell it.

However, the rotten dog skin enjoys this familiar taste, especially when he hears the noise inside and the impact of the gambling equipment, he can't hold it, and then steps into it, only to see that the whole hall is placed with a discord table, each table is surrounded by people, all kinds of ways to play, the simplest and most common is to play dice bet size, some people like to play the pot, in addition to the cards that have become popular recently, there are also people who play, but there are not many people who can play.

Rotten dog skin is a frequent visitor in the casino, especially when he sees others playing so lively, a lot of copper coins come and go on the gambling table, which makes his hands itch even more, and the gambling addiction is also hooked up all of a sudden, but if you want to gamble, you have to have money, and he now has no money all over his body.

However, there is no way to have no money, there are people who specialize in lending money in the casino, known as "one out and two in", which means that every penny loaned, it became two pennies when it was repaid, and it doubled all of a sudden, which was more ruthless than the usury of later generations.

Rotten dog skin is a lot of debts, anyway, he is not the first time to represent the casino's debts, so he came to the casino with a familiar way, only to see a fierce bald head sitting there, the table in front of him is piled with high copper coins, and there are a few thugs standing behind him, no matter which casino borrower is this virtue.

Rotten Dogskin smiled and stepped forward to borrow, and reported his place of origin and name, these money lenders have eyes and eyes, and they have the household registration book of the government in their hands, as long as their name and place of origin are found to be correct, they will lend to him, otherwise they can only use physical collateral.

Although the house of the rotten dog skin was mortgaged to another casino, but the household registration was still there, so it was quickly found, but he didn't even have half a cent of land under his household, and the casino was only willing to put a consistent penny, and the rotten dog skin begged for a long time It was useless, and finally he could only press the fingerprint on the stupid IOU, take the money and turn around and go to the gambling table.

In fact, this practice of rotten dog skin has already committed the taboo of the casino, if people know that his family's house has long been mortgaged to another casino, I am afraid that they will be caught and killed by these lenders, but once the gambling addiction of gamblers like rotten dog skin comes up, it is like a drug addict in later generations who have committed drug addiction, and he can't control himself at all, not to mention that it is not the first time he has done this, so he doesn't care at all, it's a big deal to let them go to his ninth sister of the Hun family to ask for it, and if it doesn't work, just mortgage the ninth sister and their mother and daughter to them.

Maybe it's just the sentence "frustrated in love, proud in the casino", or maybe it was a little good luck when I went to Li Xiu's house, the bad dog skin is not bad today, although occasionally I will lose some, but I win more times, and the result has always slowly become two, two times into three and four times, when I won the most, the rotten dog skin even piled up nearly ten times of money in front of him, if he withdrew at this time, even if the ten times he didn't pay off the gambling debts, he could let him deal with the lender for a while.

However, the rotten dog skin is a rotten gambler who doesn't know what it means to stop, especially since he lost so much before, and now he finally won, so he naturally wants to win more desperately, so as to get back all the losses before, and it is with this kind of psychology that the rotten dog skin wins, the more excited he is, and his eyes are red, and at the same time, many people see that he is lucky and bet with him, which makes the rotten dog skin play more energetic.

The casino is much more cruel than the battlefield, there has never been a winning general here, you can only rely on luck to win, or you can only cheat, and the good luck of the rotten dog skin cannot last forever, but in the second half of the night, his luck finally ran out, and he began to lose more and win more, looking at the copper coins in front of him are getting less and less, and the eyes of the rotten dog skin are redder, but at this time he is losing red eyes, and he is naturally more reluctant to get up, and he has been losing until dawn, but there are only five copper coins left in front of him.

"Thief, mother, what the hell!" The rotten dog skin scolded with a hideous face, grabbed the five coins in front of him and bet again, hoping to use this money to turn the tables, but unfortunately this money is not enough to bet, so he was driven down by other people at the gambling table, which made him scold again, grabbed the copper coins and left the casino angrily.

Out of the lobby of the casino, the rotten dog skin found that it was already bright outside, but the weather was not very good, gloomy and still blowing the north wind, the biting cold wind from the neck, cuffs drilled in, so that the rotten dog skin also shivered a few times at once, hurriedly wrapped his clothes and stomped his feet, and then trotted out of the casino.

There are not many people in Xinzhu County, and it is not very lively during the day, there are only a few breakfast stalls on the street doing business, and the rotten dog skin touched the only five copper coins left, feeling hungry to death, in fact, he has not eaten a mouthful of food since noon yesterday, but he is too excited in the casino, and he does not feel hungry at all.

At that moment, the rotten dog skin came to a breakfast stall and sat down, ordered a bowl of noodle soup and a few steamed buns, and ate it with pickles, but the stall was mainly seven, but he only had five wen, the stall owner was unwilling, and the rotten dog skin played a trick instead, scolded a few words and threw down the five pennies and left, and the stall owner did not dare to chase.

After eating, the rotten dog skin also felt warmer on his body, but now he has nowhere to go, he definitely can't go back at home, Chang'an doesn't dare to enter, and the ninth sister has also been driven out, thinking about it, it seems that only the casino can go, at least it's warmer there, it's better than blowing cold wind on the street like this.

Thinking of this, Rotten Dogskin returned to the casino again, but knocked on the door and was told that the casino had just closed, because it was not open in the morning, only in the afternoon and evening, which made Rotten Dogskin couldn't help but curse, Chang'an's casino is not closed for twelve hours a day, but unfortunately he didn't want to think about how many gamblers there were in Chang'an? How many gamblers are there in the entire Xinzhu County? People won't be stupid when they open a casino, they can't open the door without customers, right?

As soon as the casino closed, the rotten dog skin didn't even have the last place to go, which made him have to come to the street again, wandering around aimlessly, but the entire Xinzhu county was not much bigger, and it turned around after a few turns, and at this time, the north wind was getting stronger and stronger, and the weather was getting colder and gloomy.

In the afternoon and afternoon, the rotten dog skin also felt cold and hungry, the little thing to eat in the morning was long gone, and after a while, the air began to float fine rain, although the rain was not big, but it was pervasive, the rotten dog skin was quickly soaked, and the body was cold, which made the rotten dog skin keep cursing God in his heart for being blind, but it was raining at this time.

He was cold and hungry, and he was homeless, and the more he thought about it, the more angry he became, especially when he thought that the ninth sister and their mother and daughter must be staying in the warm room and eating a hot meal now, which made him even more angry. But at this moment, the rotten dogskin suddenly inadvertently looked up, but saw a tall building, which made him stunned, just wanted to turn around and leave, but thinking of the current situation, this made him suddenly grit his teeth, turn around and stride there! (To be continued.) )