After hearing this, Uncle Xu pondered for a moment and said: "Two Xiaolang, what you said is really difficult to do, presumably that Fan shopkeeper deliberately made things difficult for you!" ”

Li Tao was anxious when he heard this: "Uncle Xu! Is there really no way? ”

Uncle Xu shook his head: "No way, unless you are good at gambling, there are two gambling houses in Shucheng County, and occasionally I heard that there are two thousand yuan won in one night!" ”

Fan Changfeng's eyes lit up: "Ah Tao, why don't we go to the gambling house to try our luck?" ”

Li Tao is from the next generation, how can he not know the catty in it. He looked at Fan Changfeng coldly: "Since ancient times, nine out of ten bets have been lost, do you think everyone can make money there?" Jiulang, you are going to do great things in the future, but don't get involved in gambling. Otherwise, don't blame me for not recognizing brotherhood! ”

Fan Changfeng has known Li Tao for a long time, and it is the first time he has seen Li Tao talk to him in this tone, he knows that Li Tao is serious, and hurriedly explained: "Ah Tao, I don't mean that, if I, Fan Changfeng, get involved in gambling in the future, I will ......."

Li Tao hurriedly took over: "Jiulang, needless to say, you and I are brothers, how can I not believe you, just to give you a wake-up call!" ”

Mr. Xu also said on the side: "Fan Xiaolang, Li Xiaolang is not wrong at all, there is no one who has been involved in gambling since ancient times!" He's also good for you, don't be angry! ”

"Uncle Xu, is there no other way than this gambling house?" Li Tao still didn't give up.

Mr. Xu seemed to remember something, and he said with a smile: "Three years ago, I met a person who earned 10,000 yuan at a time!" Not only have I seen it, but the people of Shucheng have seen it with their own eyes! However, this is more than ten times more difficult than gambling in the gambling house, not to mention! ”

Li Tao blinked his eyes: "Uncle Xu, it's okay, you should tell us the story!" ”

"Speaking of which, this matter also has something to do with this gambling house!"

"What does it have to do with the casino?"

"The two gambling houses in Shucheng County were opened by this person who earned 10,000 yuan!"

"Uncle Xu, can you tell me more about it?" Li Tao was interested.

"This person's name is Nie Wushuang, known as 'Nie Shensuan'!"

"'Nie Shen Count'? Dare to be a fortune teller! ”

"No, this god is not another god, 'Nie Shensuan' is a master of abacus! I have competed with countless people and have never lost, so I am known as 'God Calculation'! Three years ago, a person came to Shucheng and named him to find the 'Nie Shen Suan' to test the abacus. It is said that this person is a master of abacus in Chang'an West City, known as 'Kyoto Divine Calculation'! On the day of the competition between the two 'divine calculations', it can be said that there are thousands of empty alleys, and all the people of Shucheng went to see the stunts of the two! Xiao Lao'er was also fortunate to see this scene! ”

"Uncle Xu, go on!" Fan Changfeng saw that Uncle Xu stopped, picked up the wine bowl, and hurriedly urged.

Mr. Xu took a sip of wine, put down the wine bowl and sighed: "It's the first time I've seen the two of them stunt, and I've beaten the abacus to the point of being superb!" There are two abacus in front of the 'Kyoto Divine Calculation', and the bows are opened left and right, and they don't even look at their hands! 'Nie Shen Calculation' is even more absolute, he used three abacus at the same time! ”

"Three abacus? How can he make three calculations? Li Tao and Fan Changfeng's eyes almost popped out.

"In addition to opening the bow left and right, there is also an abacus in front of him!"

Mr. Xu said.

"Standing with an abacus?" Li Tao and Fan Changfeng were a little confused.

"That's right! There is a beadless abacus! There are beams and 12-gear abacus bead rods, which are no different from ordinary abacus, the only difference is that there is no one bead on its bead rod. ”

Uncle Xu's words shocked Li Tao, because he knew what the beadless abacus was for.

In later generations, the abacus was used to train abacus mental arithmetic. The so-called abacus mental arithmetic, that is, when calculating, the calculator does not dial the dial, but forms a virtual abacus in the mind, and then uses the bead algorithm to do mental arithmetic on the virtual abacus. Through repeated training on this abacus, the real abacus will be completely abandoned.

Li Tao didn't expect that someone in the Tang Dynasty could use mental arithmetic, and it was a three-purpose one-mindedness.

"Later, 'Kyoto Shensuan' lost to 'Nie Shensuan', and 'Nie Shensuan' won the bet of 10,000 guan. It is said that the 'Kyoto Divine Calculation' ended up losing to the abacus without beads. Later, the 'Kyoto Divine Calculation' returned to Chang'an, and died of depression less than three months after returning. Since then, 'Nie Shensuan' no longer compares abacus with others! ”

Li Tao couldn't help but sigh when he heard this: "I didn't expect Shucheng to have such a capable person!" ”

Old Master Xu shook his head and said, "Shucheng Earth Spirit Master, how can you count 'Nie Shen' a capable person?" Haven't you heard of the 'Three Uniques of Shucheng'? ”

"'Shucheng Three Uniques'? Haven't heard of it! Li Tao and Fan Changfeng shook their heads in unison.

"Cheng Caizi, Xi Sizhu, and Nie Shenshu are called the 'Shucheng Three Uniques'!"

"Nie Shen counts us as we know! I don't know ...... this Cheng talent" Li Tao's heart suddenly moved: "This Cheng talent is named Cheng Dezhang?" ”

"Huh? Li Xiaolang, do you know that Cheng Caizi? Old man Xu asked strangely.

"Hmmm! Recognize! Uncle Xu, there is no need to talk about this Cheng talent, tell us about this silk bamboo! ”

"This Xi Sizhu is a woman, named Xi Xiaoqian, her father was the ...... of the Luzhou Thorn History"

More than 10 years ago, Xi Tingshi hated the evil deeds of Zhang Yizhi and Zhang Changzong's brothers, and he sprinkled Chen Shu with thousands of words, counted all kinds of crimes of Zhang Yizhi and Zhang Changzong's brothers, and submitted them to the imperial court, hoping that the saint could take the Jiangshan Sheji as the priority and get rid of the two thieves around him as soon as possible. How did Xi Tingshi know that as soon as his letter of ten thousand words arrived in Chang'an, it fell into the hands of Zhang Yizhi and Zhang Changzong's brothers. Zhang Yizhi and Zhang Changzong's brothers found an excuse to retaliate, and Xi Jianshi, his wife and three sons, and all the servants in the family were killed, leaving only the youngest daughter, Xi Xiaoqian. Although Xi Xiaoqian left her life, she was sold as a music record, and later exiled to the "Baihua Pavilion" in Shucheng County.

Back then, Xi Xiaoqian was twelve years old, naturally beautiful, beautiful as a flower, and she was smart and clever, which was very loved. The old bustard mother-in-law of the "Hundred Flowers Pavilion" is very kind-hearted, she saw that Xi Xiaoqian was so young, but she suffered such misfortune, she was very sympathetic, and accepted her as her own daughter-in-law.

In order to divert Xi Xiaoqian's attention and make her come out of her grief as soon as possible, Granny Wang specially invited a master from the music workshop to teach her to play and sing every time.

Xi Xiaoqian has an extraordinary talent for music, when she was sixteen years old, her reputation had spread throughout Luzhou, and for a while, I don't know how many princes and grandsons came to her and proposed to her. However, Xi Xiaoqian refused to meet anyone who came.

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