"Uncle Peng Shi is also here to gamble?" Fang La asked Peng Yuliang.

Gamblers?

Peng Yuliang frowned and shook his head.

Peng Yuliang didn't understand, and Li Kang didn't understand either.

He had heard that all the people in the Northern Song Dynasty were gambling, from Boss Zhao to ordinary people, and they would gamble as soon as they seized the opportunity.

There are many gambling media, chess, cards, calligraphy and painting, birds and beasts, treasure beads and stones can be, of course, the most popular among ordinary Li people is to throw copper coins, a decisive victory, simply neat.

Throwing copper coins is also known as "Guan Pu", because this thing is easy to disrupt the financial order, so the imperial court is usually strictly prohibited, but, in order to comply with the public opinion, the imperial court still stipulates the first day of the first lunar month, the Cold Food Festival and the winter solstice as the national gambling day, and allows "Guan Pu".

Although it is usually forbidden to throw money to determine the winner or loser, the people still like short and fast gambling methods, such as cockfighting, cricket fighting, which were very fashionable in the Song Dynasty, but Li Kang has not heard of "gamblers".

"Is it a bet on a man or a woman?" Fang La added.

"Is it betting on the sex of the child in a pregnant woman?" Gao Yu on the side couldn't help but ask.

"No!" Fang La said, "It's a person in the gambling bag, when the Silver Hook Gambling House opened this morning, there was a burlap bag on the largest gambling table, which contained a person, no one had ever seen it, I don't know if it was a man or a woman." ”

"If no one has seen it, why must it be a person?" Gao Yu asked.

Fang La looked at Gao Yu, and Nunu made a sound from his mouth, which means that everyone thinks that there is a person inside, so is there anything wrong?

"Oh no, take us to see it!" Li Dare said to Fang La.

"Is it the teacher's wife?"

Gao Yu woke up like a dream, he hurriedly grabbed Fang La's sleeve and asked him to take him over.

Fang La was a little unhappy when he saw Gao Yu's fierce look, but he heard that Gao Yu seemed to know who the person in the bag was, so he asked Gao Yu excitedly: "Do you know that the lady in the bag is a lady?" ”

Gao Yu shook his head, urging Fang La to hurry up.

"Are there people involved in this kind of gambling, aren't you afraid that someone will make a game in advance and hide people, so you naturally know your gender?" Li Kang also asked suspiciously.

"Brother Xian doesn't know, this silver hook gambling house every once in a while, there will always be some novel gambling methods, as long as the sack of the person is put on the gambling table of the gambling house, as long as the people in the gambling house say that they don't know the gender, they can bet, someone will bet. Because the management of the Silver Hook Gambling House is very strict, their internal employees are not allowed to bet in the gambling house, nor will they disclose the news of the people in the bag. Peng Yuliang said.

"Isn't that a private torture hall and an abuse of lynching?"

Li Dang had a lot of disgust with the Silver Hook Gambling House out of thin air.

"Nor is it? The gambling house never hurts people, but as long as they disclose the name, address and other information of the illegal subordinates to the loser, some people will naturally go to these illegal subordinates to settle accounts. ”

"Oh, that's a good idea!"

A few people soon arrived at the largest main hall of the gambling house.

The name of the main hall is "Juyi Hall", just listening to the name, you will think that it was named when the grass koo gathered in the cottage.

The hall is very large, as big as a football field in later generations, and there are more than 20 pillars standing in it, which divides the hall into relatively independent and mutual communication spaces.

In each space, there will be a group of people playing a kind of gambling. Everyone, as long as they are tired of playing one game, can easily pace to another space and play another game.

In the largest space in the main hall, a long brown sack sits on a large pine table.

Li Kang and the others arrived at the pine table, and the masters of several gambling houses pulled red ropes to prevent people from approaching the sacks.

Li dared to look at the coarse sack, and saw that the sack was swollen, although it could move slightly, he really couldn't tell whether it was a human or an animal. However, Li Dare knew that the Silver Hook Gambling House said that it was a person, and there must be a person in it.

However, it was impossible to tell whether the bag contained a man or a woman, for the man was apparently wrapped in a thick quilt, tied up, and placed in the bag.

"It can't be a teacher and a lady here, right?" Gao Yu asked Li Kang again.

Li Dang didn't answer, he just paid attention to the chips on the table.

The chips are made of wood and painted red and black, and the chips are marked with copper coins of equal value in proportion to their size. Li Dare saw that the smallest was consistent, and the largest was 10,000.

"If you don't have thousands of pieces wrapped around your waist, don't enter the Silver Hook Gambling House."

This rumor in the market is indeed true, Li Dare saw that many people who bet directly put boxes of real gold and silver in front of the master of the gambling house, counted them in person, and then chose red or black, holding a chip of different sizes, standing aside and waiting.

Red represents women and black represents men.

When the market opens later, the gamblers who lose can only hand over their chips and leave, while the gamblers who win can go directly to the master to exchange for the corresponding multiple of cash with the chips in their hands, or the chips that are common in the gambling house, and then play elsewhere.

"Who is the teacher?" Fang La still asked Gao Yu reluctantly, he wanted to make sure that it was a woman inside, so that he could bet with money.

"Fan Lou's master and lady disappeared some time ago, don't you know about this?" Gao Yu asked Fang La impatiently.

"It's her!"

Fang La suddenly realized, and hurriedly took out the dozen or so money in the bag to buy red chips.

There were a few people next to him who were about to place bets with money, and they heard the conversation between Gao Yu and Fang La, and also followed Fang La to exchange copper coins for red chips.

At this time, a boy holding a sandalwood box in his hand entered the justice hall under the escort of two big men, and came to the big pine wood in the center.

The box is very delicate, and it seems that it contains the answer to this gamble.

There is no distinction between the banker and the player in this game, and only one master in charge is presiding over the game.

The master in charge saw that the sandalwood box had been invited, and said in a sharp voice: "The mystery is about to be revealed, and the promise must be clear, at the last moment, you want to bet immediately, and the opportunity will not come again, bet quickly!" ”

Gao Yu looked at the two large boxes of copper coins he brought, and he turned his head to look at Li Kang, who looked strange and didn't say a word: "Childe, should we bet?" ”

Li Dare looked at Gao Yu and nodded slowly: "Buy black chips, 50,000 yuan?" ”

"What?" Gao Yu dug out his ears, thinking that he had heard it wrong.

Peng Yuliang also looked at Li Kang with a puzzled expression, didn't he come here to find Master Li, how could he buy black chips?

The black chips are the black chips, and the relieved Gao Yu quickly fulfilled Li Kang's instructions, and he ordered someone to move out the copper coins in the box and pile them high on the pine table.

Watching a few masters quickly count the copper coins piled up on the table with their hands and feet, Fang La glared at Li Dang and Gao Yu fiercely, as if they had set up a bureau to pull themselves into the water.

Li Dang still didn't speak, he didn't pay attention to Fang La's gaze, he just stared at the sandalwood box in the boy's hand.

"Whose loser is this, and it's 50,000 yuan as soon as you make a shot?" Someone around started talking.

"Could it be that he knows the record of this gambling game?" Some people are eager to try it and want to bet on black chips.

"Most of them are losers, and the rules of the gambling house are so strict, how can there be a leak." Someone shook his head and looked sadly at the usual copper coin on the pine table.