Chapter 43: The Difficulty of Eight Pounds of Ox
After the alliance of Tanyuan, the Daimyo Mansion, this famous city of the Great Song Dynasty has been peaceful for a hundred years. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info In a bland environment, fame is the pursuit of everyone, profit-seeking, and the mentality of the people. In the midst of the hustle and bustle, the city has become unprecedentedly prosperous.
There is food and drink to relax, there is a place to live and wear idle hands, after the life is good, the most attractive thing is entertainment.
There is also a side reaction in the prosperity belt, there is no war, there is no looting, how to become famous overnight, how to get rich overnight? There is nothing more exciting than gambling.
Throughout the year, merchants and gamblers come and go, merchants are gamblers, gamblers are merchants, nothing can be gambled, nothing can be discussed. The whole world has long become a giant casino.
It's just that I don't know, the Guan Pu here, with a few copper coins, where to throw the "pure", where to throw the "word", where to throw the "pure" hand?
Under the trend of the times, Shinong industry and commerce, the four people's respect and humility are crumbling. In addition to studying and becoming famous, there are at least a few other ways - enlisting in the army, making a profit in business, learning art to cultivate oneself, and gambling to try one's luck.
Successful gamblers are tantamount to winning the championship in the field, and Toad Palace is crowned, they are all temporary stars and have become the object of everyone's pursuit.
After the third day of the first lunar month, there was a topic circulating everywhere in the streets and alleys of the Daimyo's mansion: a merchant, alone in Cuiyun, gambling and pounced, and the nine sons were pure.
The name of Chen Yang resounded all over Woniu City.
Chen Yang threw nine copper coins of Hun Chun, and at the same time, Zhao Rentian also threw seven copper coins of Hun Chun. Counting up, Chen Yang won 5,110 guan for Zhao Rentian and lost 1,270 guan for Zhao Rentian, and after offsetting, Zhao Rentian needed to pay Chen Yang 3,840 guan. Among them, 1,920 guan belonged to Meng Po, and after Chen Yang returned 360 guan for Niu Bajin, he had 1,560 guan in his hands.
Four or five thousand copper coins, for Zhao Rentian, although it will not hurt his muscles and bones, it will inevitably hurt his flesh.
More than 1,500 runs, for Chen Yang, a small merchant, it is a huge amount. Converted into RMB, nearly 500,000, even for Chen Yang who crossed over, it is a lot of money
With such a large amount, it is naturally impossible to pay with copper coins, and what Chen Yang got in his hand was not copper coins, but silver.
It is full of 1,740 taels of silver, 16 taels and 1 catties, and there are 100 orders and 8 catties.
He is in his thirties and fifties, with a thin body, bright eyes, and a mustache at the corner of his mouth, revealing a shrewd atmosphere inside and out.
When he handed over the silver to Chen Yang, a cold light flashed in his eyes, he smiled slightly, and said: "Little brother of the Chen family, these silvers are not light, you have to be more careful on the way back." ”
Chen Yang tried to lift it, and couldn't help but scold, I'm Nima, this is too heavy!
With his current body, it is really difficult to lift more than a hundred pounds of things.
Chen Yang wanted another bag, divided the silver into two bags, and when he took out the silver, he felt that the silver was shining, and Chen Yang saw it, and his heart was pounding.
Niu Bajin has no other ability, but he is tall and has a lot of strength. In this way, he carried the big bag, and Chen Yang carried the small bag himself. Two brothers, one carrying a bag of silver, walked out of Cuiyun Building under the envious eyes of everyone.
When I went out, no one noticed that there was something strange among the onlookers.
It was during the New Year's Day period, when there was no curfew at the Daimyo's house, and although it was late at night, there were still people coming and going on the streets. It's just that the cold is deep, and the breath turns into ice, and the passers-by are all coming and going in a hurry, and they don't want to stay on the street longer.
Chen Yang and Niu Bajin were also walking fast, carrying so much silver on their backs, and the hearts of the two of them were both excited and nervous.
"Brother Yang, thank you so much!" Niu Bajin exhaled white air in his mouth and kept laughing.
"Hehe...... Chen Yang panted, "Don't come to this set, what's polite, I said earlier, standing in front of you is a brand new Chen Yang." ”
"Hehe...... I believe you! Can you also divide the silver in this bag? Niu Bajin's voice was excited, and his eyes lit up under the illumination of the light.
Looking at Niu Bajin's stout body, Chen Yang suddenly had some bad premonitions.
"Don't talk about it yet, let's talk about it when we get back."
"If you don't have me, how can you encounter this good thing?"
I rub! Chen Yang turned his head to look at Niu Bajin, speechless for a while.
"Stinky boy, do you think you've done something good, if it weren't for you, how could you get into such trouble?" Niu Bajin's appearance made Chen Yang very angry.
"Hehe...... I know it's wrong, aren't we winning?" Chen Yang was carrying a small bag, his tired shoulders were sore, and at this moment, he changed it several times. This cow is eight catties, but it looks relaxed, except for a little panting, he walks like flying, and this moment of kung fu has fallen more than two steps behind Chen Yang.
"Go slower, go back and talk again, by the way, eight catties, let me ask you, how is your wooden workshop? Now that you have money, help me make something. ”
Hearing Chen Yang say this, Niu Bajin slowed down a little and asked, "You, you want my family to help you make things." ”
"What's wrong with that?"
"Haha...... I think, forget it, my dad is at home, thinking about it all day long, for so many years, he hasn't made anything decent, hum! If it weren't for the bad business at home, how would I gamble for money......"
"Ah, your ten times, is it the family's money?"
"......" Niu Bajin realized that he had slipped his mouth, so he quickly stopped and stopped talking.
"Talk, ten times is not a small number, tell me, where did this come from?"
Niu Bajin still didn't speak, just walked silently, and after a long while, he whispered: "This, the ten yuan is the guest's deposit......"
"Ah, you took the deposit, so what about your father?"
Niu Bajin still didn't speak.
"Say it."
Niu Bajin suddenly stopped, and said in a pleading voice: "Brother Yang, we grew up together, you can't see death and not save it, my family is in big trouble." ”
"......" Chen Yang was speechless for a while, this cow is eight catties, but it will really cause trouble.
"What happened to your family?"
"My father, my father ...... him"
It turned out that Niu Bajin's father, Niu Carpenter, received a big order a while ago to build a batch of furniture. However, because he liked to ponder, he did not do what the master wanted, but made many changes on his own. The master was dissatisfied and demanded that he pay a large amount of money, even if he sold the entire Niu Kee Wood Workshop, he could not fill the shortfall.
"......" Chen Yang was big for a while, and asked, "How much does your father owe to others?" ”
"Not much, three hundred ......"
"What?" Three hundred is not much? That's a lot of money before you win. At this moment, they were carrying so much silver, three hundred copper coins, which was really not much.
"Eight catties, I kind of understand, no wonder you took ten copper coins and wanted to bet with others."
"yes, yes." Niu Bajin nodded and begged: "Brother Yang, we are good brothers, you can't see death and not save it." ”
Nima, come and go, this has lost more than 600 times, Chen Yang felt a great pain in his heart. Even if it is won, it is also its own money. It was only then that he understood the deep meaning of Meng Po asking him to gamble.
"Okay, I'll pay you back the money!" When he said this, Chen Yang felt another pain in his flesh.
"Really, thank you Brother Yang, thank you Brother Yang." Niu Bajin was so grateful that he was almost about to kneel and kowtow.
"Alright, alright, let's go first, let's go back."
As soon as the two of them raised their feet to leave, they heard one of them say coldly: "Stop, where are you going!" ”
It's a woman's voice.
In the deep alley of the street corner, a few people came out, hula, and surrounded them, blocking their way.
Several people were dressed in black and masked, and they couldn't see their faces, and the person who took the lead turned out to be a woman.