The time-keeping incense burner on the pine table was left with only a stump.

"Ten, Nine, Eight......"

As the nervous countdown sounded, several gamblers who were on the sidelines hurriedly placed their bets again.

The master of the presiding officer took the sandalwood box from the boy's hand and held it high.

"Male, male!"

Gao Yu muttered in his heart, he didn't think that the person in this sack would be Master Li.

"Woman, woman!"

Fang La waved his arms and screamed loudly.

"Man!"

"Female!"

The gambling house was boiling all at once, and the shouts were endless.

"Shh

The master smiled lightly, took out the golden wax ball from the box, returned the box to the boy, and then put the index finger of one hand to his mouth to stop the shouting in the hall.

Then he shouted in a shrill voice, "It's time to start!" ”

Suddenly, there was silence all around, and the air was almost frozen.

All eyes were fixed on the master's slender fingers, and when the delicate lid of the inlaid wire box was gently lifted, everyone held their breath. Some people have trembling Adam's apples and gasping for air; There were also people who held their hands to their hearts, and their eyes bulged, as if they were afraid that the wax pill would suddenly disappear in the blink of an eye.

The master crushed the wax pill, took out a small piece of yellow silk from it, glanced at it, and wanted to speak, but stopped but didn't say anything.

"Man!"

"Female!"

The gambling house began to boil again.

The master nodded, and when the shouting in the hall gradually subsided, he finally began to announce the results, and his voice became more and more shrill than last time: "Red-chip-win!" ”

"Ahh

After a brief lull, the hall exploded.

There are mutual congratulations and hugs who win more and win less, there are secretly sobs of losing his wife, and some people have calm expressions and can't tell whether they are losing or winning.

Many people thought of the young man who had bet a lot of money just now, and they moved their eyes to Li Kang's face, and they were surprised to find that Li Kang actually had a calm face.

There was something strange about the calmness, and it was simply expressionless.

"Heartless, heartless, this can't be a fool, right?" Some people secretly speculate in their hearts.

"It must be the loser of the dignitary's family." Someone started shaking their heads.

Fang La also waved the red chips in his hand excitedly, he looked back at Li Dang and Gao Yu and the others who were silent, and couldn't guess why Li Dang still bought black chips because Gao Yu mentioned earlier that the bag was Fan Lou Oiran Li Shishi, who disappeared some time ago.

"It's open!"

The master put away the piece of silk silk with the word "female" written on it that had been shown to everyone in his hand, and instructed a few of his subordinates to go up to the pine table and open the sack.

Some of the depressed people had found their black chips worthless, and they raised them and threw them at the pine tables and onto the brown sacks.

All the people believed that when the sack was opened, a beautiful lady would come out of it, smiling sweetly and congratulating the winning gamblers and asking them for a reward.

Gao Yu also believed this, but he was wondering if it would be Master Li in this sack, he felt that it was unlikely, what kind of status this Silver Hook Gambling House had in Bianjing City, and how could it be linked to the thieves who kidnapped Master Li.

Gao Yu glanced at Li Kang, and he found that Li Kang was also shaking his head slightly, and he felt more and more that his guess was right!

"Braids?"

Someone exclaimed, the rope at the mouth of the sack had been loosened, and just after pulling down a little, he actually saw two thick braids.

This kind of thick braid, the Song people rarely comb it like this, even women rarely tie it like this, but it seems that the Liao people or the Xixia people often tie the braids like this, and when they sleep, they are coiled in the back of their heads as pillows.

Sure enough, after a while, someone screamed again: "Bald! Baldness! No, it's a man with braids! ”

This was clearly the outfit of a foreign man, and the handymen of several gambling houses were stunned and did not dare to pull the bag down again.

The master who presided over was also calm, he raised a black chip and shouted: "There is a mistake, there is a mistake, today's gamble, the black chip wins." ”

There was an uproar in the hall, some people screamed, some people cursed, some people cried, some people shouted on the ground, but no one dared to drop things, because this is the Silver Hook Gambling House.

Everyone knows what happens when you get angry and dump something here.

Some gamblers, who had just thrown away their black chips, hurried up and looked around the pine table for their original chips.

The gamblers who were holding red chips in their hands and were about to exchange money seemed to have lost their moisture and wilted to the side.

Someone was not convinced, and shouted: "People haven't seen it yet, how can they say that the black chips have won?" ”

"Yes, but it's not necessarily the case?"

Many people clung to red chips and shouted in response.

A few handymen tore open the sack, revealing a big red quilt inside, tightly wrapped around a person, whose face was still in the quilt, revealing only his bare head and two braids.

The tight quilt was untied, revealing a stout-looking man with a mask on his face and bound limbs, unable to move.

I still don't know if it's a man or a woman. There was another commotion all around.

"Man! Male! ”

"Female! Female! ”

Everyone was looking forward to tearing the mask off the man's face.

Li Kang's face was ugly, because he recognized that the man on the pine table was wearing a dog mask on his face and dog clothes, and it was the one that Li Kang had sent someone to give me before.

Gao Yu also felt a little weird, and hurriedly secretly ordered his subordinates to tighten their guard.

All eyes were fixed on the pine table, and everyone was muttering in their hearts: "Today, what happened to this Silver Hook Gambling House, why are you making such a joke with everyone?" ”

In the minds of many people, this is just a joke of the gambling house, and they think that some serious gambling houses cannot go wrong.

Only the master in charge had a dead face, but after all, he was experienced, and he knew that there must be something wrong in some link, so he hurriedly thought of a way to make up for it, and instructed the left and right not to loosen the people in the quilt.

"Sure enough, it's still a man! It's still a fan, no, it's a dog! Someone said with a smile.

The mask has been removed, and the quilt is wrapped in no one else, it is Xiao Yu who is going to duel with Li Dare in two days.

He still had a rag stuffed in his mouth and a black cloth on his eyes, but Li Dang still recognized it, and that person was Xiao Yu.

"Is it Xiao who pays me? What the hell is going on? Gao Yu looked at Li Kang suspiciously.

Li Dang shook his head, he knew he was going to face another conspiracy. I don't dare who that person is, I dare to go to the post house and kidnap Xiao Yu, this kind of courage and ability are extraordinary.

Who could this be?

These people will not be Liao, nor will they be Song, and the Song people will not insult the envoys of the Liao State like this. Li Dang felt that it was certain that it was very likely that a group of people did it by dressing me in dog clothes and kidnapping Master Li.