Qianlong listened to his mother's words and only smiled faintly, he himself is also a "layman", he is just a "layman", he is just happy and adaptable, and he is never as sincere and respectful as his mother, looking at the acres of the countryside that is illuminated by the bright sun, and the smoke willow lotus pond with green waves under the spring breeze, he carefully put his mother's arm and said with a smile: "This is the emperor's compassionate Bodhi wish, and the son naturally depends on you." Just don't talk about it, it's inconvenient for the imperial historians to say anything, and it's inappropriate for a first-class villain to say that my mother and son are Buddhas. The Queen Mother said: "I'm not afraid of people talking about Buddha!" I haven't heard that there are still princes and fathers, fathers and mothers, some Han people are dedicated to writing articles on Confucius, in fact, Confucius's 'benevolence' is not my Buddha's 'compassion'? The price in his mouth all day long 'speaks on behalf of the sages', and he wants to be promoted, and he makes money from the people in his hands. Instead of being so obsessed with Confucius and Meng, it is better for me to be a 'Buddha'! Qianlong laughed when he heard this, and said, "She Kong, She Meng! What a villain hypocrite! Mother said it well! ”

"The villain you said just now really has to be wary." The Queen Mother stood still, looked her son up and down, frowned and said, "I heard rumors that there is a woman named Shangge in the Hezhuo Hui Department, saying that you left Amur or something to fight, so you kidnapped this woman to be a concubine, is there such a thing?" ”

Seeing that his mother said solemnly, Qianlong also lost his smile, glanced at the eunuch who followed, and said, "There is no such thing!" What kind of militaristic event is this, and what does it have to do with Shanggege? To create such a rumor is to slander the king, and it should be cut out of your tongue and eyes! Who dares to preach these words at the back? ”

"If you track down like this, who will dare to talk to me in the future?" Seeing that everyone was frightened, the Queen Mother said with a smile, "The person who really rumored about this matter, I already spent on him a few days ago. I will not tolerate a slave who talks about the rights and wrongs of his master. ”

Qianlong let out a rough breath. When people saw him return to color, they were slightly relieved. Listening to Qianlong say: "He is justified in his mother's expenses. The palace is not as good as the outside, and no matter big or small can be tolerated, so we pay attention to the words 'prevent micro problems'. I just said that there is still a shadow in this matter, I met with Yue Zhongqi and a group of generals with Hurd, and someone did say that this 'Shanggege' was born. These martial artists are vulgar, ignorant and innocent, what is there to hide in their mouths? I also approved their words to Fu Heng and Hai Lancha, which was also the meaning of the monarch and ministers ridiculing Yongmu and Xi. This rumor in the palace has changed its taste, as if I am a lewd and cruel master, and I want to raise troops and Zhuo just for the sake of hunting glamorous fishing! This villain is extremely hateful, how can he indulge it! ”

"That's what the emperor said." The Queen Mother smiled, "There are only two things in the palace, 'no outside words, no inside words', and there are fewer rights and wrongs." Alas, the queen is so sick that I can't take care of some palace affairs. Pointing to the Nala clan for the time being, I am worried that Niu Hulu's heart is useless, and she is also a concubine...... What do you think about this matter, you must make up your mind as soon as possible, once you settle down, don't change it again, and stabilize the palace, so that you can manage government affairs with peace of mind. Qianlong pondered for a while and said: "Niu Hulu's clan is not successful. She stayed in Beijing, took care of the palace relatives ineffectively, Wei Jia's family almost had a difficult birth, and she also trespassed into the military aircraft department and had trouble with Ah Gui, which violated the ancestral family law. When I returned to Beijing, I naturally had to investigate and understand how to deal with it. This meeting is still presided over by the Nala clan for the time being. "Niu Hulu's family is deaf and dumb on weekdays, and he is the most timid and afraid to get into trouble." The Queen Mother pondered and said, "The situation in Beijing is very unexpected to me, and it is strange!" Don't be angry, go back and find out slowly. At this moment, it is up to you to entrust the Nala clan. "Let's go back to the boat along the bridge. Qianlong stood solemnly on the shore, watched his mother get on the boat before stepping north, remembering the situation of summoning twelve generals such as Sui Hude and Yue Zhongqi that day, Wu couldn't help but wonder, this group of martial artists said that Shangge looked like "Seven Fairies Descending to Earth", some said like "Guanyin of the Race", and even more strange said that it was like "Luo Shen Bathing", "Yuhuan Heart", "Xi Shi Da Er", indiscriminately used the idiom to make himself fall and laugh, I remember that I really said at the time, "Since it is so good, then capture and sacrifice the prisoner to His Majesty, in preparation for the harem!" Some said, "Catch and cook for the master, the fragrant ones are not used as ingredients", and some said, "With the master, she is a great creation." Such a good woman, who can afford to be useless by the master? ”…… The generals don't talk about literary ornaments, they are simple and stubborn, and they seem to be a little casual, and they also repeat these words to Fu Hengzhaohui, Hailancha and others to laugh. When the Queen Mother pointed it out at this time, there were rumors in the palace, and Qianlong felt that it was degrading to his dignity, and the words "widow and lustful" could not be afforded! Thinking about it, the smile on Qianlong's face had disappeared, and he strolled onto the imperial boat, without looking at Zhou Zai, and commanded Qin Mei hoarsely:

"Tell Wang Basha to send the song over, remove the bridge board, and start the boat!"

"Chirp ......"

Qin Meimei glanced at Qianlong, lightly slapped Qian'er, and flew as if she had passed the decree......

He Shen fell ill in Santang Town, Lanzhou Prefecture, and was not lightly ill. He returned to Beijing along the waterway canal of Shandong Road, and he also brought with him a letter from Fukangan to his mother, and he originally wanted to visit Fu Fu in Beijing, and he took Fukangan's disciple to check on the Luan Yiwei of the Internal Affairs Office first. When he was a child, he worked as a handyman in the sect, and often accompanied Fu Ling'an, the eldest son of the Fu family, to fight cocks and lackeys, and he also wanted to take this opportunity to pick up this layer of fate again. Full of wishful thinking, he went to Texas, met Zhao Hui, the eunuch in charge of tea in the Military Aircraft Department, and passed Ah Gui's words to him, telling him that he did not have to go back to Beijing, and went to Lanzhou Mansion to "wait for Gui Zhongtang". Zhao Hui said that Ah Gui had been ordered to leave for Gansu immediately, and the important people around him were to take care of the chores and wait for their daily life. Even if He Shen was in a hurry to return to Beijing, Ah Gui was his own master, and he couldn't provoke the guilty Xiangguo, so he had to obey the order. It crosses the border from Taiyuan, passes through Yulin, and crosses Ningxia into Gansu Province. All the way to the spring and the scenery of Vientiane to the glorious style, when out of the plug, it will be desolate, desolate, and desolate.

Gansu had a bad year last year. First, there was a lewd rain, which did not open for a month, drowning the crops half to death, and then the locust plague was followed by Yuqing. The overwhelming array of locusts spread from east to west, sweeping away not a single inch of grass in Gandong and northern Gansu, and the vast loess hills were as barren as a shaved scar. The locusts in the area of Saixi were frosted, and the fields were full of dead insects all over the city. Since ancient times, there have been established methods for dealing with locust plagues, one is to burn and the other is to bury. However, the autumn grain has not been harvested and the relief grain has not arrived, and the common people always want to eat at the moment, and every household has steamed and dried the insect corpses, and even used them as staple food. As soon as He Shen entered Gansu, he ate a "worm meal".

The locust, whether it is barbecued and stir-fried, occasionally eaten a few pieces, is a very fresh and fragrant delicacy. But when you eat a meal, after eating two meals, your heart will be nauseated, you will be disgusted and jealous, and you will be jealous and nauseous, and you can't swallow it! Heshen entered the country all the way, from Huachi, Huanxian, Qingyang, Guyuan, and Jingning, and it was commonly said that "eating" into the depths of the locust area, and it was even more chimney cut off - either you don't eat it, and you only have this "meat" to eat: the burnt and stinking locusts that have gone away from the oil, and exude the smell of rotting shrimp and the smell of choking people!

He Shen is also a person from a poor background, who has begged for food outside his mouth, Rao is like this, when he eats Santang Town, he is already full of anxiety and vomiting when he smells "locusts". Here is close to the provincial capital, the relief grain has also been sent, at first smell the grain fragrance, suddenly see the rice and wheat grain bait, the greedy and Shen live like a hungry ghost will eat Yulan, regardless of 3721, steamed dumplings, pancakes, fritters, as soon as they catch it, they will be full of fifteen points. Went out and met the spring rain, and drenched a soup chicken, already some body heat and fever, a stomach of locust pasta stirred out of place, thirsty in the middle of the night and drank a pot of leftover tea, he has always been very weak, after so tossing to death, Pingming first had a big vomiting, and then stirred the intestines and scraped the stomach pain like an inch, up and down the open gate straight vomit like a rope, endless filthy pickles, mixed with the chaos of the world, all over the guest house without a place to intervene, the window is also stinky, and he fainted to death before dawn.

The old days are travelers, and they are afraid of the plague and cholera; Second, they are afraid of unjust complainants; Third, I am afraid of entering Beijing to lift people. Pestilence cholera, which is an infectious disease that kills people; Many of the customers who complained about the wrongs committed suicide in the store, and the officials were able to take the opportunity to extort the shopkeeper; Those who enter Beijing to take the examination often rely on arrears of housing funds, and the magistrates often favor and refuse to judge, and the shopkeepers are afraid of anything. He Shen's first taboo, how can the boss tolerate it? Taking advantage of his fainting and unconscious, he hired a servant to carry the buried bar room, and dragged it out of the yellow soup and green water all over the ground, and even stuffed the car with people wrapped in the nest, and pulled it straight to a dilapidated Jiugong Niangniang Temple in the north of Santang Town, where a straw lay gave him a place to live under the east wall of the main hall, and sent a man to wait for him to breathe - these are the rules of this place, and no one said that the boss was unkind. It's just pity that Heshen, although he is not a dignitary, he is also a Mao God who is welcomed by people in and out of the Forbidden City, but he is in trouble at the moment, at the mercy of others, and he doesn't know it like a dead person.

After a few days of drowsy sleep, He Shen woke up, opened his eyes and looked at the roof of the broken temple in confusion, shook his head suspiciously, and felt that the four turns of the gods, the curtains, the spirit gates, the treasure flags, and the murals were all brilliant and rotated upside down, and he was so dizzy that he was floating with the whirlpool on a flat boat, and he was covered in a cold sweat, and he fainted again......

"You...... Let's have a sip of soup...... Mung bean soup can relieve the ...... of distemper"

It was as if a woman's voice came from the far away clouds. He Shen opened his eyes again, this time no longer as white and bright as the wind disease, but he looked very tired and weak, looking at the woman in a faint stupor, her face became clear from blur, she was a woman in her thirties, her hair was unkempt and her hair was tied in a bun behind her head, her face was long and her eyebrows were kind, her lips were a little thicker, her clothes were ragged and her complexion was dark, she was obviously a beggar woman living in a temple, half-kneeling and squatting in front of the straw shop, staring at herself with a huge coarse porcelain bowl in her hand. He Shen looked at the crimson mung bean soup in the bowl, Wu Zi was slightly steaming, he had no appetite at all, but he knew that if he was hungry like this, he would only die, so he nodded reluctantly, and said with a miserable smile, "Thank you...... The sister-in-law ...... "half of her body was raised, and she took a sip in the woman's hand, feeling refreshing, and a little sweet, mixed with the fragrance of bean paste, and aroused her appetite, and after a while, she drank it greedily like sucking agar syrup, and fell to the ground relaxedly, and saw that there was a basket next to the head of the grass, which contained food such as dumplings and pickles, and asked weakly: "...... Is it something you gave me? ”

The woman shook her head and said, "It's from the shopkeepers, they come once a day, put down the food and leave......"

"Hmm...... Listen to you, I've been here for more than a day? ”

"Three days. And uncle, it's been three days...... The customs of this place are not good, you have paid for the store! How ruthless he was, he threw it down and let go of his hand. ”

He Shen's eyes flashed, and then dimmed. In fact, he was already poor when he lived in the hotel, and he couldn't complain about the ruthlessness of the boss. At the Guazhou Ferry Station, he sent a heart of compassion, relieved Jin Wenkui's family with firewood, and filled in all the business trip silver brought to him by the Military Aircraft Department, leaving only more than 20 taels of broken silver. Ma Erzi gave ten taels and promised to help him with another two hundred taels, but he was sent to Nanjing again. He is not familiar with the place, and he has to be full of reluctance to speak, and when everyone is busy sending the car, it is not good to take a loan seriously. Thinking about more than 30 taels of silver, how to loosen the money back to Beijing, in case of famine, eating locusts and gluttony, a few tooth sacrifices, and thieves took more than half, to Huaping's waist only less than five taels, the night of living in the three Tang Yihe shop, in fact, there was only one or two dollars of silver. He sighed helplessly, looked at the messy luggage piled up in the corner, stretched out his hand and pointed to the purse purse and said, "I can't do anything, I bother my sister-in-law to take that one......"

The pouch was taken, and Shen shook a pair of thin and pale hands, groping with a small bag and a pouch, the deepest pocket here contained an empty envelope that Ah Gui wrote to Fan Shijie and scrapped, it was originally used to hold a small silver ticket, it is not a match, nor is it an official citation, but there is a fire paint seal on it, which can prove that he and Shen are "people from the Military Aircraft Department", and now it is time to use it, but now it is gone! He Shen felt irritable for a while, and he didn't know where the strength came from, he half-straightened up, hurriedly stretched his hands, rubbed the purse all over the place, and hung it upside down and shook it, hoping that the envelope would fall out. The woman laughed and said, "Where can there be any money?" The people in the store thought that you were going to die, and they shook off the stolen goods here for a long time like a thief, and the pieces of paper, rags, and socks were all piled up and searched, and they were counting on leaving you money! ”

"Where did they get those things?"

"Burned ......"

"Burned?"

"You don't know how dirty you were when you came, they used your tattered pants to wipe you with pieces of paper, and then burned them with fire - there were still a few begging families in this temple, and they were afraid that they would be sick, so they all moved to the Jade Emperor Temple."

"I'm not looking for money...... He Shen fell crookedly and muttered, "Since it's burned, then leave it to fate and don't say anything." He started to speak again, and for a while, "Lao Ma" and "Gui Zhongtang", "Lao Yu", and "Yin Zhitai" chattered endlessly. The woman could not understand what he said, and saw her youngest daughter come back with a large basket of purslane, and went over the west wall to find water for the fire, and hot the leftovers while choosing vegetables. For a while, I saw the shopkeeper coming in with a cloth bag, which was expected to send dry food to He Shen, but he ignored him, and only commanded his daughter: "Have mercy, dig out the ashes under the firewood and the fire will be prosperous, just blow it with your mouth!" A five-year-old girl, I don't have any memory! The mercy was very obedient, and lay on the ground with his little arms and legs, and plucked out the soft ash under the wood with his stick.

The shopkeeper went to the shop with Heshen, threw away the cloth bag, stretched his neck to look at it, and said with a smile: "The surname He is a flag man, the most delicate, but he is so strong that he can't be tossed, as if he wants to wake up." Wu family, he came back and you told him that he still owed two taels of silver on the counter, and although this pile of rags was not enough, it would not be counted separately...... This idea of dry food is counted as the entanglement that we and Shundian sent him on the road. As he spoke, he reached out and picked up the torn clothes. Seeing that the boss of the Fang family was acting like this, Wu Shi was disdainful, but it was inconvenient to say it in his mouth, so he only poked the fire under the brick stove with a stick, making the hall full of smoke and ashes, and the wood stove crackled and scolded the little girl: "Dead Nizi!" The firewood brought was also wet! It's so big, I don't know anything. I didn't see the leper dog living in front of me, and he was only one year older than you, so he knew that he picked up rags and rotten covers on the mass grave to feed his old and immortal father! The poor girl saw that her mother lost her temper for no reason, and she didn't know what she had done, so she was so frightened that she stood aside with her little hands, grinning and crying but didn't dare.

"What, do you hate beating people with sticks?" The shopkeeper threw He Shen's clothes into a bag, listened to the woman's words, threw it on the ground with one hand, and smiled at Wu's hey: "The store money is not enough for luggage, you go all over the world and ask, see if this is the reason!" I feel sorry for him, who are you? Be a mother, you are young; While, he's big again! Oh, I said, others are afraid of being sick and leaving, but you will stay, it turns out that the widow touched it - dare to recognize a godsister in the open, and raise a little man in secret......" He was still talking nonsense in his mouth, but Wu threw the burning stick in his hand from afar, and hurriedly flashed his body, but he didn't hit, only a big red charcoal ball with a finger on the head of the stick fell into the neck, and burned down his back, and he jumped and screamed and trembled and scratched in pain, and he danced and walked all over the ground like a chicken claw. Wait until the ashes are extinguished before you have to stop. He pounced on him and was about to hit the Wu family, but Wu Huo Di picked up a pot of gruel that was rolling and stood up, and shouted: "Fang Er leper, you dare to take a step forward, I will give you a pig hair!" ”

Fang Er's leper didn't guard against the woman's move, so frightened that the string of burning bubbles on his spine forgot the pain, and with a handbag in his hand, he moved to the side of He Shen's face, and said with a white smile: "Okay...... You're awesome, you're awesome! Good men don't fight with women, whoever you want is whomever you want, anyway, I don't mix. Damn, it's cheaper for your surname and! Dou Bu Zhao and Shen kicked him, walked out of the hall crookedly like a play, shook his spirits again, and shouted at the hall: "Cheap woman! Don't be fucking complacent. There is a saying in the history of Mo Dian in the town, unemployed vagrants who are not making up hooligans will be sent back to their hometowns, whether you are running a single gang to sell medicine, playing a hundred tricks, telling fortunes, telling fortunes, and begging for food, there is relief in the weaving, and there is a rope string grasshopper string walking if you are not weaving a rope string grasshopper string walking - look at the good fruit of your pair of thieves and men and women to eat! He scolded and stumbled away.

Although the people of Heshen are in a daze, their minds are very clear, their words and actions are all in their ears and hearts, they listen to sadness and resentment, a period of helplessness and a sour heart, they have already burst into tears, only their tongues are stiff and they can't mumble idioms, and when they want to turn over, they have a headache and want to burst into tears, and their facial features are dislocated, and they tear the buttons on their chests with their hands. Seeing that her mother was busy stirring porridge with a wooden spoon, the little girl called Mercy came over and squatted beside He Shen, held his hand and shouted, "Uncle! Uncle...... There is also bean soup...... Do you drink or not? You're crying......"

"Have mercy on him. He's sick and hasn't eaten for a few days, so why don't you rub it again? Wu rolled up his sleeves, held the big bowl with one hand, gently pounded it with a stone in the other hand, and finally fished out a ball of green and green things from the bowl with both hands, wrung out the juice, and said something from the small bowl...... brought it over, and whispered in He Shen's ear: "Don't be anxious, that's what the old generation said, Wen Qian forced the hero to death." It is important to take care of your body first...... This is a home remedy, raw lentil juice to vinegar, anti-nausea and dysentery, our township uses this. Open your mouth, alas, that's it, okay, swallowed...... The hollow head drank the best. I also cooked purslane porridge, which also cured red and white dysentery, and slowly nourished, you are getting better at this age, and you are very ...... fast."

He Shen drank half a bowl of raw lentil seedling juice, the mouth was sour and his stomach was already Tongtai, and there was a gurgling sound in his empty stomach, and he actually made a sour burp, his face was bloody, and when he opened his eyes, although he was still dizzy, his heart was no longer so annoying, he held the pitiful and chubby little hand with his backhand, looked at Wu and said: "Han Xin's daughter is a drifting mother, someone and I will one day get help, ten times more than Han Xin!" ”

"Face!" Wu smiled, "Who expects you to repay this half bowl of lentil seedlings?" It's just that where it's not easy to accumulate yin, but to get the word peace is joy...... Last night you yelled that your leg hurts, and I knew you didn't matter, so you burned half of the adobe, and after a while, you poured vinegar on it, and wrapped it in a cloth under your knees—you don't move, I'll serve you porridge. "That's it. He Shen pulled Xiao Lianlian to inquire about her family history, only to know that this woman was a local, her mother's name was Zhang Qiaoer, and Wu Xuanzhu, who was married to Wu Ying, worked as a maid for Mrs. Wu. The year before last, a big water Zuli River burst, Wu Ying was full of oceans, just she returned to Zhangzhai's mother's house with pity, only to escape the catastrophe, and then spread the plague, the mother's brother also died, the brother and daughter-in-law could not allow the sister-in-law to eat at home every day, so she simply remarried a brother of her own family, which can no longer tolerate herself, wandering around begging...... He Shen listened to pity and said a rough idea, knowing that Wu's life experience was sad and kind, he couldn't help but sigh, closed his eyes and pondered, and secretly felt sad in his heart.

…… In this way, Heshen's body gradually recovered. In fact, diarrhea turns to dysentery, as long as the care is thorough, and it is not necessary to take Huang and various kinds of expensive drugs, Wu's mother and son go out to beg for food every day before and in the afternoon, and all the leftover rice and multigrain vegetable balls are selected and recooked and then heated for He Shen to eat. What red adzuki beans, purslane, sour pomegranate red date pills, scorched garlic, pomegranate shell grinding...... Occasionally, I asked for a little sugar, and the leftover fungus from the swill tank of the rice shop was scooped up, and the sugar was dried on the pot - the original taste was also excellent, and it was also used for Heshen. He Shen was in the camp in Zhangjiakou in the northwest earlier, and then worked on an errand with the Agui military aircraft, and he has always been the role of listening to greetings. Slowly got up, put on tattered clothes to warm up, helped pick vegetables and burn the fire or something, wandered around the field while idle, walked around the field, only recovered from a serious illness, the old cold disease on the leg was not cured, and the heart was anxious to go on the road, but there was no penny entangled, so I had to go every day.

On the evening of this day, He Shen had dinner and went into the town to take a leisurely walk when he was bored. At that time, it was the mid-spring weather, the smoke and sunset were like a curtain, the green lights and red candles of the shops on the street were shining, the sound of grinding and oil hammering of the rich fan mill loom was staggered and harmonious, the goods unloaded from the canal wharf, such as foreign cloth, indigo silk, tea leaves, herbal medicine, calligraphy and painting, fans, or donkeys or cars, the ringing and duo sounds were endless, and street food such as dumplings, ramen, onion cakes, dumplings, wontons, pancakes, fried buns, etc., were lit with sheep's horn lamps, winding and intermittently directly to the canal. Listening to the hawkers shouting and drinking, copying the pot and making the shovel, frying in oil, the onion, ginger and garlic mixed with the smell of meat and the fragrance of the streets and alleys overflowing, the sound of chopping and chopping on the board is endless, and the statue of Shen has sour apricots in his mouth, just swallowing saliva, and his belly is helpless, and when he wants to return to the temple, he suddenly hears someone in a teahouse in the north of the street shouting in ecstasy:

"I won! - Twenty-four hyacinths, three hundred and sixty years old; After the catastrophe of the gods, it is still the world! Won - hahahaha...... Where have I ever seen a bet win five hundred taels, the ancestral tomb of the old Fang family is angry! Hahahaha......"

laughed strangely, like a night owl on the old cypress tree in the cemetery in the middle of the night, and listened to the hairs on He Shen's body, only to remember that this was "fighting flower chips" gambling money. He Shen has been wandering since he was a child, and he went to the casino at the age of seven...... All kinds of games are skillfully played, and the famous "and god" of the front door Dashilar is only put away when he arrives at the military aircraft, and the rules are strict and the situation is forbidden. At this moment, when I heard the voice on the gambling field, I couldn't help but feel hot in my heart: five hundred taels and one bet, even in Nanjing Qinhuai River Liujia Casino is also a rare big bet! Won't winning his vote have everything? He patted his placket, there were only a dozen coins in it, this is Zhang Qiao'er to buy him tofu brain and buy vinegar and medicine tomorrow, one lost by mistake, not only did he not eat tofu brain, but he was even more embarrassed to see Zhang Qiaoer...... But at this moment, the mood is hot, and He Shen has no idea for a while. He swam a few steps forward like no one else, and then turned back in a ghostly way, and glanced into the teahouse through the door, only to see a few candlesticks illuminated brightly, four people sitting at the table of eight immortals, and five or six people around them, stretching their necks and opening their mouths, staring at the dice board in the middle of the table, their faces flickering with the lights flickering, and their faces were not clear. Suddenly, there was a "coaxing", and someone shouted: "Twenty-five pairs, apricot blossoms!" ——The people of Yulou are half drunk, and Jin Le Ma is like flying! ”

"Okay, this is for me, borrowing your words to talk about what is in my heart." He Shen said secretly, he grabbed the handful of Brother Tong, walked into the teahouse without hesitation, and stood behind the table without saying a word to watch the game.

On the field, he was really fighting to raise money for gambling. The founder of the Qing Dynasty Douhua Chip is called Tong Ye Geng, divides one hundred and one flower names into nine products and eight hundred pairs, and makes bamboo chips, each chip adds a flower and a sentence of flower words and poems, and the size of each product chip is not the same; Throw a lottery with six dice, and the one with the highest score wins, and so on. This method is complicated to say, but in fact, the chip system is very simple and convenient, and it is a mixture of literary style and elegance. At first, it was only used by literati and ink writers to fight wine, and it was circulated among the people, so it was naturally used in gambling. Since the beginning of the eleventh year of Qianlong, this method has swept the world in the past ten years, and has become a temporary choice for large and small casinos. When He Shen watched carefully, there were four people fighting dice on the field, a middle-aged man in his forties in the north, a roasted silk single gown and blue city cloth robe, a hooked nose on his face, and a pair of gloomy triangular eyes under his thick eyebrows flashed green and faint light from time to time. He knew that this was Fang Jiaji, the bookkeeper of the Fang Family Inn, who was winning the pride at the moment, pouting his lips as if he was not smiling, looking at the dice board with a determined look on his eyelids, and the eight-inch-long one-grade chip on the left table was already stacked with four or five. He Shen on the opposite side of the south also recognized that it was a gambler in Santang Town, named Liu Quan, a person who was less than 20 years old, had gambled away ten hectares of ancestral business, and the big village nest was cleaned, angry with his father and mother, buried and cried and did not go home, and still went to the casino. Opposite the west head sits seems to be a tea merchant, two hundred pairs to the original, there are already one hundred and sixty pairs, is not to lose or win the situation, very leisurely look at the dice board, playing with a Han jade pendant back and forth**. Only sitting in front of Shen face, who is also a middle-aged man in his forties, has lost a mess, there are a few chips in hand, each chip has only two pairs, and there are only a dozen pairs in total, and the owner of the gambling house at the end of the game is not enough, he is already poor. He was very reserved and calm, stroking the oily and slippery braid at the back of his head with one hand, holding the beige tape on his belt purse with the other, and wearing the buttons on the Baturu vest openly, watching Fang Jiaji make the dice.

"Look, if you want a treasure, you have a treasure, and the treasure spring is in your hand!" Fang Jiaji's left thumb clasped the bottom of the dice, his right hand covered the cover, shook in his ear, and the six dice in it suddenly made a crisp impact sound, he rotated a few times with his hands like malaria, grinned and listened to the jingling of the dice, froze, put it firmly on the table, and shouted loudly: "All colors come out!" Then the owner of the tea shop lifted the lid of the plate. When more than a dozen pairs of eyes are fixedly looking, it is a "four red" color, six dice are a "unit", a "two", and the remaining four are "four points" - already accounted for the second grade, when the lot is drawn from the second grade bucket, it is a plum blossom stick, a brand flower and plum blossoms, and the first two lines of poetry:

The thatched hut bamboo fence smoke outside the moon, the ice heart iron bone water edge spring.

The second grade in the nine products is already a rare good sign, and everyone cheered: "Good!" ”

Fang Jiaji wiped his beard and sat down.

Then the tea merchant shook the dice, but he held the plate in front of him with both hands, as if he was afraid that the dice plate would fly, swayed, listened, and listened again, repeatedly put it on the table several times, and uncovered it to see that it was "three reds" - three "fours", two "units", and one "three", and drew lots to get hibiscus flowers:

Jincheng celebrity master, treasure tent beauty.

"I want all the red!" Liu Quan carefully picked up the plate, pious like a woman in front of the statue of Guanyin, muttered a few words of prayer, slowly shook up and down, and put the dice plate between the clanging sounds, and opened it to see, it was actually two products: four "four", one "two", one "unit", and the lottery was a peony:

The Golden and Silver Palace Que Immortal Team, the splendid garden is rich and flowery.

At this point, Fang Jiaji was a little uncomfortable, and Liu Quan took a bowl of herbal tea and drank it.

"It is said that all red and vegan are good, but Lao Tzu's hands stink very much!" The middle-aged man from other places in front of He Shen picked up the dice plate unhurriedly, and said with a smile: "It's a contradiction, I don't believe it, and I still have a nine products!" He shook his legs, holding the plate in both hands and turning left and right, shaking and turning upside down, making the dice toss and turn in the inside. He was a big loser, and he was so casual and irreverent, and everyone laughed. He Shen turned his face sideways at the moment, feeling familiar, he was afraid that he was wrong, rubbing his eyes and looking again, who is Prince He Hongday? - How did he look like this, and how did he get here, he couldn't guess even if he wanted to break his head! A "fifth master" didn't call out, Hongyang had already put the dice board, and Da Ra said: "Uncover it!" ”

When the lid was opened, when everyone stared at it, there were two "fours", three "twos", and one "five", with a name of "double red", and a "moon flower", with four words written on it:

Zhu Yan is always good

Hahaha...... In a burst of laughter, Hongyang leaned back and laughed self-deprecatingly: "Fuck it, it's five hundred taels gone!" Come again......" next to a long random count of silver tickets. He Shen also recognized that he was Wang Bao'er, the number one cronie servant of the prince's mansion, and thought that although he knew this No. 1 prince of Tianzi, he had also met and talked, but the nobles did not remember people, and it was difficult to say that he and the prince knew themselves as "small", and they were not necessarily happy to recognize each other at this time...... I made up my mind in my heart, paid attention to the gambling game, knew how to observe fraud, and knew the truth after two circles. When it was Hongday's turn again, He Shen smiled lightly and said beside him: "Fifth master, the slave will help you, do you think it?" ”

"You are?" Hongday, who was smiling dryly, turned his face, looked at He Shen, and then turned to look at Wang Bao'er. Wang Bao'er knew each other, and said with a smile: "It's with Jiamuye's uncle." I didn't expect to meet here! He Shen said with a smile: "I have seen my master in Nanjing for a month, I went to the right-wing Zongxue Hutong, I played football with my grandfather with Uncle Fu, and I lost, saying that 'hairy eggs' are not good...... Remember? Hongtian couldn't help but laugh when he heard it. Listening to Liu Quan's urging to "get out of the plate", he handed the dice plate to He Shen and said: "The master's luck is too stinky, you come to change the air!" ”

He Shen didn't shake the plate immediately, picked out a few dice and put them in his hand to pull and weigh, put his hands together and held the shake, and said: "The dice have a spirit, I wish I can win!" - This time I want a two-pin-four-red! As he spoke, he shook the dice. His shaking method is similar to that of the tea merchant opposite, slowly sowing up and down, a bit like sowing chaff dust from the wheat with a dustpan, and listening carefully to the sound of the dice falling inside, five or six times in a row. Everyone was impatient when they heard this, and Fang Jiaji said something cold: "Which woman did you learn this from in the Nine Palace Niangniang Temple?" As soon as the words fell, He Shen said: "Fifth master, you won this bet-" Gently put down the dice board. When the shopkeeper lifted the lid and looked at it, everyone was surprised that they actually shook out five red fours and a "five"! Wang Bao'er exclaimed happily: "He Shen really has yours - Sihong!" If you want four reds, you're four reds, almost fucking plain! Hongtian laughed so hard that he couldn't close his mouth, and pulled out the lottery and laughed, "You are also four red and I am four red, I have more ideas than you, hahaha......" Everyone gathered around to look at the lot, and it was a peony flower, and they all praised it in amazement: "This master has turned his luck over!" ”

Fang Jiaji is a banker, he bets fifty taels by himself, Hongday's five hundred taels are doubled, and the joint author loses one thousand and one hundred taels. He Shen's hand made him angry and strange, but he was a winner, and there was no reason to gamble, so he had to send the silver ticket over. The tea merchant and Liu Quan also sent silver over here. It was his turn to shake the dice, glanced at Heshen, and suddenly lost all his confidence, but muttered, and poured the dice into the palm of his hand for a while, and the buckle plate was still the same as before, gritted his teeth and shook violently, and came out to see, there was only one "four", and two threes, one two, two "unit", and the second pair of Pinghua, "the predecessor of catkins", stinky to no longer stink. He sat back down in frustration.

"Look at my luck." The tea merchant smiled, "I want four reds too!" He took the first dice, put them in his hand, twisted and plucked them one by one, and threw them into the plate. Still swaying, listening, and circling, put down steadily. When the lid was lifted, everyone was surprised: four "two" and two "unit" in the six dice were combined into five "two", and the famous grade "one product coincides with five colors". This trick is shaken out in the casino, it is really a hundred times! Everyone in the audience was dumbfounded. Liu Quan shook it again, and got a five-grade wax plum blossom, saying that it was "opening a sweet mouth before the wind, and fainting in the snow", even the words were full of bad luck, but he was very calm, calmly pushed the silver, licked his lips and sat firmly.

He Shen took over, looking particularly solemn. There are only three ways to win this "coincidental five colors": "all red", "plain" (i.e., six dice with exactly the same number) and "one dragon" (i.e. one to six yards). Wang Bao'er and Hongtian watched his movements, only to see He Shen put the six dice on the table, only with an index finger to flip over, a bit like watching ants move, from time to time fingers in the mouth to suck, and press the dice, after a long time to say "appropriate", then shake the dice, still raise the dustpan dice up and down to listen to the sound, and let the dice rub the bottom of the plate, turn around and put down, and said calmly: "The fifth master bet two thousand this time." We're going to eat it all! ”

"Superb!"

As soon as the lid was lifted, everyone straightened their eyes: the dice were divided into purple, blue, red, soap, white, yellow, one, two, three, four, five, six full colors, and the crystal bright light was displayed on the plate, which was the "one dragon" that was one out of ten thousand! People were so surprised that they forgot to applaud for a while. This is the best, and there is no praise for it, but it is just a spoken report, and Shenman chanted:

Nine days of purple smoke, clouds and rain and thunder.

Sweep away the millions of soldiers in the pasture, and come to the temple of the pillars!

Everyone shouted "Good!" ”

"Fifth master, this is a smile and contribution." He Shen said with a grin. Wang Bao'er smiled with a smile on her face, and cashiered the ticket.

At this point, everyone has been wiped out. Fang Jiaji and the tea merchant still have thirty or fifty taels of scattered silver, and the old book has been eroded. Liu Quan's chips were exhausted, and he still lacked seventy-four taels of silver to make up the account. He Shen said generously: "You let off the field, don't want more than seventy taels." Unexpectedly, Liu Quan slammed the table, the green tendons on his forehead burst out, and he stood up with a sigh: "Come on!" ”

He Shen said with a smile:

"Come on, done! - Where's your silver? ”

"I didn't inject silver!"

"So what are you betting on?"

"I'll bet on this arm!" Liu Quan patted his chest and said loudly, "Who in Santang Town doesn't know that Liu Mouning can't bend a man, and he will never be bad!" Hongtian looked at Liu Quan with appreciative eyes, but said: "It's also a sin to be disabled." Why bother? I'll reward you with your capital, go back! Liu Quan said angrily: "I don't want to reward it!" If you lose your arm and leg, I bet: one arm is one thousand, one leg is two thousand, this life is five thousand, I can't turn over the book, and I'll show you! He pulled out a wrist-untying dagger from his waist and stabbed it on his wrist, and the blood immediately dripped, "I'm a loser!" Which one wants to go, let me poke a transparent hole first! ”

He was so strong and brutal, Fang Jiaji and the tea merchant were impatient, and when they saw the blood, they remembered that this iron-headed was originally an outlaw who gambled viciously. They themselves are also people who have lost all their money, and they also want to turn over the money, so they quietly instructed the people around them to "take the silver".

Then gambled two more rounds, the Fang family and the tea merchant had no better luck, and they were all kicking hard in the seven and eight products, and the chips or hydrangeas or tu, or Luoru or hostas, "butterflies into a group", "Gao Hui Feiying", "Jietong Qingshi", "drunken hairpins" were all in a mess. They were all so depressed that their faces were like ashes. Liu Quan shook out a four-grade "osmanthus", and then shook it but fell into two pairs of hibiscus, "morning glory and twilight", all of them lost their armor and failed to form an army. He Shen is handy, if there is divine help, he wants to get the lotus flower in the third grade, and he wants to get the Xuanhua in the fourth grade, "the gentleman's character in the outside is straight, and he is ruthless and has a hateful beauty" - sweeping the whole seat without hindrance. made Hongri so happy that he raised his thumb and shouted: "Xiao Hezi, I really have you!" ”

"Okay, this is the death of the heavens, and I ......" Liu Quan was covered with cold sweat, his face was as blue and miserable as the window paper in the moonlight, he stood up with difficulty, picked up the dagger, glanced at everyone with a distracted gaze, and suddenly burst into a burst of hysterical laughter, "You can't gamble, what are you going to do?" I'll pay off your gambling debts!" He raised his blade suddenly, gritted his teeth and was about to pierce his heart viciously, and He Shen was stunned even Hongday, and shouted urgently: "Slow! ”

Liu Quan's hands were in the air, and he rolled his eyebrows and asked, "What?" ”

"Listen to me," He Shen said slowly, "You are not guilty of capital crimes, you are dead here, and we still have to suffer a lawsuit." It's play, who's serious with you? There is no father and son in the casino, and he refuses to gamble because he is a man, and he loses his life, and this life is paid to me, which is the right reason. This is one. ”

"Ho, done! And two? ”

He Shen said gloomily: "Second, I want to tell you that with pheasant gamblers like you, I won't think about winning in the next life." I'll show you—I'm going to be all red! He picked up the dice, did it according to the previous method, put it on the plate and shook it, and opened it with his own hands, and the six dice were all fours!

Everyone couldn't help but gasp, looking at each other and looking at He Shen again, not knowing whether this skinny young man was a ghost or a ghost.

"I'm the number one bet in the world." He Shen smiled at Fang Jiaji and the tea merchant who were stunned, "The two of you can only be regarded as uninformed." How about this dice given to the brothers? Don't be reluctant, the world is full of friends, how many bosom friends can there be? It's a single person who knows each other, otherwise ......"

Before he finished speaking, the tea merchant and Fang Jiaji nodded like chickens pecking rice: "Brother is a hero, we are convinced, and we will honor your old man!" As he spoke, he got up and said goodbye.