Chapter 83: The Imperial Dining Room is a Casino
Yue'er's eyes lit up and said, "So, just bring money?" β
"yes."
"How do you win or lose?"
"Ahem, I'm so lucky, I almost lose a fine every time."
Yue'er waved her hand and motioned for Rudong and Lu Yao to go out, leaving only Niu Tao in the room.
"Do you want to win?"
"Of course!"
"You help me get a set of clothes, take me there, I promise to help you win!"
Niu Tao was startled, shook his head again and again, and said: "Niangniang, this can't be helped, if I am discovered, I can't eat and walk around, at least a beating is inevitable!" β
Yue'er smiled, took out three dice from her arms, and threw them on the table, which were exactly three sixes.
Niu Tao's eyes were straight, but he still said, "No." β
"I won, half of it will be yours!"
Yue'er grabbed the dice and dropped them again, this time it was three.
Niu Tao's mouth opened wide, and he couldn't say a word anymore.
Yue'er smiled, grabbed the dice and threw them down again, this time she lost two sixes, one five, she was a little annoyed, she was not 100% sure, but two sixes and one five were still big.
But Niu Tao's confidence had been shaken, he looked at Yue'er and said, "But Niangniang, your face is really impressive, anyone who sees it will be suspicious." β
Yue'er took out the second human skin mask and stuck it on her face.
"Are there any flaws?"
"No, no, do you really want to go, do you really want to share half of me?"
"Of course it's serious, even the little eunuchs of other divisions are going, I'm mixed in there, who will know?"
Niu Tao looked at Yue'er, Yue'er's figure was neither fat nor thin, and she was wearing a set of loose clothes, who would see that she was not a eunuch, so she gritted her teeth and said: "Okay, you wait, I'll help you get a set of clothes, but in case you are discovered, don't implicate me!" β
"Don't worry, I will never implicate you, in case you are caught, just say that you are a good bet!"
Niu Tao stomped his foot and said, "Okay, then you wait!" With that, he trotted out.
Yue'er found an excuse to take Lu Yao away, and said to Rudong: "If I go to Jing Guiyi tomorrow, I will ask for two hundred taels of silver, and I only have one hundred and fifty taels, so I can only gamble!" β
Rudong was taken aback.
"Mother, you're too risky, aren't you?"
"If you don't take risks, how can you get two hundred taels, don't worry, I'll make a little money and leave, and if I win more, it will cause suspicion."
"Okay, then be careful."
Rudong now regards Yue'er as a real concubine, respects her, and does not dare to slack off.
After a while, Niu Tao came back with a set of clothes for the small yellow door and a three-mountain hat.
Yue'er had already put on a human skin mask, she changed her clothes and put on her hat, and she was a little eunuch in the palace.
The imperial dining room was in the southeast of the palace, and Niu Tao led Yue'er along the imperial city to the east, and the two talked while walking.
"Niangniang, your Baiyu Palace's situation is getting better now, and if you have a palace maid in the future, you will increase the dining room, and then the villain will no longer send you food, and it will be troublesome for you to send a message out."
Yue'er's heart moved, if she didn't let Niu Tao deliver the letter, would Zhao really be okay? He is the identity of the prince, it is more convenient to go out of the palace, and those guys from Ximen finally contacted the new master, and this time he will be like a headless fly, she thought about it, and suddenly smiled dumbly.
"I'm really confused, even if the Baiyu Palace adds a palace maid and an inner dining room, we always have to go to you to get something, and then I will ask Rudong to bring you the letter, and you don't have to come to the Baiyu Palace yourself after you take the things!"
Niu Tao touched his head and giggled.
"Yes, it's the villain who thinks too much."
The two met several patrolling guards along the way, and the two sides just nodded and passed by, obviously they were not strict with the eunuchs in the palace, as long as it was not the curfew time, the palace was not forbidden to move, and the curfew probably started from the hour.
When they arrived at the imperial dining room, Niu Tao took Yue'er and knocked three times at a dark side door.
"Who?"
An alert voice came from inside.
"It's me, Niu Tao."
The door creaked open, and a little eunuch glanced at it and asked Yue'er, "Who is he?" β
"He's silver!"
Niu Tao glared at the man viciously.
The little eunuch sneered, turned sideways, and Niu Tao pulled Yue'er in.
The Imperial Dining Room is actually a large courtyard, with a high vermilion lacquer wall on the outside, and the inside is divided into the Outer Imperial Dining Room and the Funing Hall Imperial Dining Room.
In fact, the imperial dining room of the Funing Palace is the inner imperial dining room of Emperor Xuanling, and there are more chores in the outer imperial dining room, in addition to the unified deployment, they are also responsible for the meals of some low-level concubines, palace maids and internal and external eunuchs, while the imperial dining room of the Funing Palace is only responsible for the emperor's meals.
As soon as Yue'er entered the imperial dining room, she smelled the fragrance of sauce, and saw more than ten large vats open in a row on the side of the courtyard wall, wanting to come to make pickles and the like.
Niu Tao pulled Yue'er and went straight to the imperial dining room of the Funing Hall inside.
"God, how dare you gamble in the emperor's imperial dining room?"
"Ha, it's spacious and clean, and no one dares to check it."
There are two buckets at the entrance of a side hall, but the entrance is on the side, and this bucket is very smelly, although it is cold and there are no flies, but it is still disgusting.
Entering the door, Yue'er was startled, what kind of imperial dining room is this, it is clearly a small casino, there are many people in it, there are already thirty or forty people, there are eunuchs here, and there are palace maids, but these palace maids have their faces covered, obviously they don't want to show their true faces.
This time, Yue'er was even more relieved, and she knew that she would dress up as a palace maid.
The casino is not noisy, everyone knows it, if it is noisy, it will be troublesome to attract the attention of outsiders.
Niu Tao asked Yue'er to take out a silver ticket of fifty taels and exchange it for a stack of chips, and the two sat down at a gambling table.
This table is to press the big and small, by the dealer to shake the dice, the dealer is a forty or so thin internal supervisor, he shakes the dice and has no technique, buy big and buy small for yourself.
Yue'er looked at it for a moment and changed the table, she looked at several tables and didn't make a move.
Those eunuchs and palace maids gambled very small, that is, one or two yuan, and rarely more than ten yuan.
But Niu Tao is very strange, he can do things calmly, but when he gets to the gambling table, he can't hold it back, and he can't wait to win or lose.
After looking at all the tables, Yue'er sat down at a table, and the number of people in the room had increased to more than fifty people, and there was some commotion.
The corners of Yue'er's mouth curled, first took five yuan to bet on a small one, won a double, then used ten yuan to bet on a big one, and won twice, and in the third game, she bet on a small one with five yuan, and lost.
Niu Tao bought ten chips, he followed Yue'er to buy, the front win, the chips in his hand increased to forty at once, he was happy, but the last one was all lost.
Yue'er rolled her eyes, Niu Tao bet like this, it's strange if she doesn't lose everything, she handed Niu Tao the ten chips she won.
"If you lose it all, you won't have it!"
"Yes, yesβ"
The two changed a few tables, Yue'er took five or ten yuan to gamble, and basically doubled when she won, but she didn't double it five times or ten times, Niu Tao followed Yue'er to play, and this time he bet on five yuan, but after playing for a long time, the chips in his hand were still around ten yuan.
Time passed slowly, and Yue'er didn't win much, about thirty or forty chips.
Niu Tao is a little strange, didn't Concubine Duan come here to win money, if she continues to play like this, when will she get rich?
Yue'er remembers that there is a clause in the "Book of Gambling", that is, you can only start when you see the right time, and if you don't have the time, you must not take risks, her original goal is not big, you can win fifty taels, and if you win slowly, you should be able to achieve this goal, but you have to divide half of the cattle, which is not enough.
At this moment, two strange laughter came from outside the door.
The curtain was raised, and two people walked in side by side.
These were two young inmates, in their twenties, and as soon as they entered, they each exchanged a few hundred chips.
"Yo, these two plague gods are here!"
Someone muttered quietly.
The two inner supervisors exchanged their chips and sat down opposite each other at a table, their eyes facing each other, and there was fire in their eyes.
"The old rule, today is still a bet, until you lose everything!"
"Yes, until it runs out!"
Betting is to roll the dice with each other, comparing the size, whoever is bigger wins.