CHAPTER IX

Hidden masters

Two years is neither a long time nor a short time, but the changes that have happened to Li Jinzhong are great, from a cautious man, never smiling, and rarely talking to a teenager who is now smiling all the time and can talk to others easily. Back in his room, Li Jinzhong came to the side of the bed and dragged out a wooden box from under the bed. When I opened the wooden box, it was full of gold, silver, jewelry, and a large pile of silver tickets. Li Jinzhong took out half of the silver ticket he had just gotten from Lao Chen and put it in the box, locked it and pushed it back under the bed. Then he changed his clothes and went out.

Lao Chen's guess was not wrong at all, and Li Jinzhong, who left the room, immediately plunged into the gambling house. It's the middle of the night, though. But the gambling house was still in full swing, and when I entered the door, I saw a big man looking around with his arms in his arms. Li Jinzhong stepped forward and slapped the big man on the shoulder, because the big man was observing the surrounding situation with all his body infusion, he was so frightened that he almost screamed, and was about to turn around is an old fist, when he saw that it was Li Jinzhong, he immediately said: "Damn, you want to die, people are scary and scared to death." Li Jinzhong put his arm around the big man's shoulders and said, "Lao Tie, you see that you have a big waist and a round waist, why are you so intimidating." Lao Tie shrugged his shoulders and broke free of Li Jinzhong's hand, glared at him and said, "You kid has itchy skin, right?" Li Jinzhong bounced away when he heard this, stood two steps away from Lao Tie and said, "Don't, little brother, I'm wrong, okay?" Lao Tie snorted and said: "Count you as a kid, don't you keep calling Lao Tie, okay, I've told you to call Brother Tie a long time ago, we are five or six years older than you, a little cub, and we will die with an old man." Li Jinzhong leaned over to Lao Tie again and said, "Okay, Brother Tie, isn't this called Shunkou." Li Jinzhong glanced around and whispered to Lao Tie: "Is there any fun game tonight?" Lao Tie glared at Li Jinzhong again and said, "Just fucking know that your hands are itchy, No. 6 in the private room." Get out of here, don't get in my way. After saying that, he threw a waist card to Li Jinzhong, and Li Zhong immediately smiled and said: "Okay, I'm leaving, Brother Tie will bring wine and food to honor you tomorrow." With that, he quickly went up to the second floor.

In Quang Binh East Casino, the private rooms are divided into four rooms, here, the distinction between the private rooms is not based on the luxury of the room, each private room here is exactly the same from the decoration to the objects, the only difference between the four rooms is the size of the bet. The gambling game of more than 100 taels is in the room with a lot of words, the game is more than 1,000 taels in the room with a lot of people, the room with a lot of 10,000 taels or more, and the last room with a lot of 100,000 taels is a big game with more than 100,000 taels. Since the opening of the Guangping East Casino, the rooms of Tianzihao have only been opened three times.

Li Jinzhong walked into this room, at this time there were six authors on the gambling table, their gambling method was to bet on pai gow, Li Jinzhong found a place where no one sat down, put the token that Lao Tie had just thrown to him on the table, and then took out a silver ticket, which was half of the bounty just gotten. Just 10,000 taels. Li Jinzhong sat down, and everyone at the table turned their eyes over, some people were puzzled, how could a half-old child come to get involved in such a big gamble, and some people had bright eyes, and they didn't know which son's brother came to send money. The dealer began to shuffle the cards, and Li Jinzhong skillfully threw out five hundred taels of silver.

After a night, Li Jin walked out of the local room with satisfaction, and went downstairs with a reward. At this time, the sky was already dark, and Li Jinzhong called the old railway who was directing the workers to clean up the yard: "Brother Tie, I'll invite you to breakfast." Lao Tie glanced at Li Jinzhong and said, "It's not overdone, right?" Li Jinzhong hurriedly replied: "How can it" Lao Tie looked at the people upstairs who were coming out of the ground room, and then said to Li Jinzhong: "Let's go." After breakfast, Li Jinzhong had to give Lao Tie a silver ticket, Lao Tie didn't want to kill him, Lao Tie said: "Only those who are afraid of a long life will receive your silver, the first time I received your silver was beaten by Lao Chen, the second time I collected your money to buy gunpowder for you and was almost blacked and blackened, the third time I collected your money to help you make steel balls and almost wasted my hands, little ancestor, you are still okay, don't give me money, our Lao Tie is a hard life, what do you have to tell you to say that I don't dare to accept this money." Li Jinzhong smiled awkwardly and said: "Brother Tie, you see that your craftsmanship is always the best in Suning County, and then help my brother and me make two hundred steel balls, what do you think." Lao Tie almost jumped up when he heard this, and scolded: "Damn, Li Jinzhong, you bastard, you want steel balls, and two hundred, you really want Lao Tie." I'll be a one-armed man in the future, no, no, no. Li Jinzhong said: "Brother Tie, what others do is not smooth, you watch" "No, no, you go to the blacksmith." Li Jinzhong continued: "Brother Tie, the craftsmanship of ordinary blacksmiths is too inferior, otherwise, one hundred and fifty. After some bargaining, Lao Tie finally agreed to make eighty steel balls for Li Jinzhong. Let Li Jinzhong prepare the materials and send them to him. Li Jinzhong reached his goal, so he said to Lao Tie: "Then I'll go back to sleep first, and I'll do it all night." I'll come back to you when I get the materials. ”

Lao Tie's real name is Wei Tieshan, and their Wei family has been building weapons for generations, and their family craftsmanship is also quite famous in the rivers and lakes, but because they refused to build a large number of weapons for a certain gang, the whole family was almost slaughtered. In the end, Wei Tieshan, the only seedling, escaped, and finally came back by Lao Chen unintentionally, so he let him work in the casino. Regarding Wei Tieshan's life experience, even Lao Chen doesn't know, but when he is in the gambling house and needs to build a little iron, he knows that Wei Tieshan is a good player. Wei Tieshan is simple by nature, bold and righteous, and upright, he feels that Lao Chen has saved his life, and he should repay Lao Chen well, so he is desperate to do things for Lao Chen. As for the blood feud in the family, Wei Tieshan has always been buried deep in his heart, once he is free, he will work hard to practice, although he has never shown his family martial arts in front of people, but Wei Tieshan is indeed the top master in Suning County and even the entire Cangzhou. With Lao Chen's eyes and knowledge, he had already seen that Wei Tieshan's martial arts had reached a height, but Lao Chen did not break it, he only hoped that Wei Tieshan would live according to his wishes. If he doesn't want to leave a reputation in the rivers and lakes, then let him go, as long as Wei Tieshan can live happily. Old Chen, who is old and childless, already regards Wei Tieshan as his own son.