The day Tang Shao boarded the ship was the second day of the Lunar New Year, and the smell of fireworks wafted in the cold air. The spacious waiting hall in the Tianjin International Cruise Terminal looked very cold, only Tang Shao and the other four people, and the others were all staff.

In the afternoon, with a loud whistle, Tang Shao's boat finally arrived.

When Tang Shao and the others were about to board the ship, three guys wearing sunglasses came out of nowhere and walked into the passage first. The three people, two small and one large, all wore sunglasses and masks for fear of being recognized. The tall man is probably the tie of the three people here, and even if he covers his face, he still has a compelling momentum. He seemed to be badly injured, and his body was still shaking unnaturally as he walked. The two young men were holding each other on both sides, looking a little struggling.

"These three people are not simple." Just when Tang Shao was still looking at the backs of these three people and wondering where they came from, Tang Rou's voice sounded in his head.

"Why isn't it easy?" Tang Shao asked naturally through his thoughts.

"That big man is Xie You of the E era." Although Tang Shaocong hadn't really seen this person, he had heard Ouyang Beiyan say this name more than once. Just before this moment, Tang Shao still had a lot of doubts about this trip. Now that such a key figure has appeared here, he is relieved.

Walking into the atrium of the cruise ship, Tang Shao felt that he had suddenly entered another world. The atrium was bustling with people, including handsome men and women in beach pants or swimsuits. Coupled with the tropical landscape plants in the atrium, it gives the illusion of being on a tropical beach.

Tang Shao looked at this small space and couldn't help but sigh: "Damn! "It's crude, but it's great for expressing the emotions of the present.

"Distinguished guests, please show your invitation card." A blonde beauty stopped Tang Shao and the others who were about to continue forward.

"Here's our card." Ouyang Beiyan took out three golden cards from her bag, which she had obtained from Steward Li.

All the eyes of everyone were still nostalgic for the world on the side of this paradise, but Tang Shao felt a strange brainwave signal flash. He followed his feelings and found that a strange expression flashed on the face of the reception beauty who received the three gold cards, but the expression returned to normal in a flash.

"Wait, three, there's a sofa over there." The beautiful lady walked quickly to the front desk.

Soon, the beautiful hostess came back and called the other two girls over the walkie-talkie. Then he explained a few words to the face man in English.

"Three of you, please go this way." A girl walked up to Tang Shao and made a gesture of please, while another girl walked up to Master Wang and asked him to go to the other side.

"We're in this together." Wang Laodao, who was treated specially, was a little unhappy.

"Sir, you live in first class on the fourth floor, and these customers live in third class on the first floor." The blonde receptionist explained.

Hearing the blonde beauty say this, Master Wang's expression was a little embarrassed, but obviously a little excited, he smiled and said, "Since it's the rules on the ship, then so be it." ”

Hearing this result, it was time for Tang Shao to be unhappy again: he obviously brought a gold card, but he had to live in a third-class cabin, could it be that Wang Laodao was carrying a diamond card. Tang Shaoyi snatched the card from Lao Dao's hand, it was indeed blue, but the workmanship was obviously not as good as his own.

"Is there anything better about your card than mine?" Tang Shao asked disdainfully.

"Hey, you can't look good. Which member VIP card in the barbershop is not better than a bank card, but what about the money inside? Wang Laodao snatched the card from Tang Shao's hand and said proudly.

"I can't imagine that Master Wang has been to the barbershop." Ouyang Beiyan stared at Master Wang's shiny bald head and almost laughed.

Master Wang was very disappreciative and stroked the few remaining strands of hair, cut it and followed the girl upstairs with the reception.

Probably affected by the atmosphere in the cruise ship, Ouyang Beiyan smiled happily. Tang Shao seemed to be the first time he had seen her so relaxed.

Tang Shao and the three of them followed another reception girl to the room on the first floor, and the three of them were assigned to three rooms. Although it is a third-class cabin, it is also the third-class cabin of a luxury cruise ship after all, and the impression of this room on Tang Shao is much better than that of domestic express hotels, of course, Tang Shao only has such a reference object as an express hotel.

After putting away their luggage, Tang Shao, Tang Rou and Ouyang Beiyan gathered again. They spent the time before dinner visiting most of the cruise ship, and were invited by Master Wang to visit his first class.

Seeing Master Wang's room, Tang Shaocai finally knew why his room was third-class. Just as Tang Shao opened his mouth wide and looked around the room, Wang Laodao was lying quietly on the large sofa unique to the first-class cabin, smoking the cigars specially provided by the first-class cabin. This time, Master Wang didn't speak, just quietly watched Tang Shao go around the room like a leopard.

"Oh, master, you are a master everywhere!" Tang Shao praised from the bottom of his heart.

Master Wang sneered and replied, "This is where it is." When I was working in Dubai last year, the presidential suite on the top floor of the seven-star Burj Al Arab Hotel was called really good! ”

"You've been to Dubai before!" Tang Shao was not a compliment this time, he guessed that this Wang liar must be inextricable in nature and turned on the braggart mode.

"That's not it, there are many rich people in the Middle East, there are more rich people, and those of us who look at feng shui are also much easier to do psychic trading." As he spoke, Master Wang took a deep breath of his cigar, and then looked out the window at a forty-five-degree angle with his eyes slightly closed, with a melancholy feeling that he had no longer felt in the past.

Tang Shao looked at the master and sighed, and he himself sighed for a while, but the content of his emotion was: "This master-level liar is different, and he must have studied Stanislavsky deeply." ”

Liar is Tang Shao's inherent impression of this Master Wang, even after having the first class cabin of the hotel cruise ship in Tianjin, Tang Shao's impression of this person has changed from an old Taoist to a master, but Wang Qingming still has not gotten rid of the label of a liar. But after dinner, Master Wang in Tang Shao's impression can be regarded as a complete transformation into a master.

After dinner, Tang Shao, who was already preparing to live an otaku life on the cruise ship, was pulled by Ouyang Beiyan and Tang Rou to the most lively place on the cruise ship, the casino on the top floor of the cruise ship.

The cruise's casino is located in a small hall at the top of the cruise ship, which is glass on three sides and only steel on the front. Tang Shao was shocked again when he entered the casino. Not to mention the gorgeous lights and all kinds of strange costumes of men and women, there are more than a dozen languages of the people at first glance.

The casino is basically divided into three areas, with the gambling area in the middle for regular tourists. There are a few Bacardi tables and a few Macs in it. Located in the stern direction is the upscale gambling area for high-end travelers. Opposite the high-end gambling area is a relaxation area with several pairs of sofas and some drinks and food that can be picked up for free.

Ouyang Beiyan and Tang Rou obviously don't know how to gamble, and they came here just to join in the fun. So as soon as he entered the door, Tang Shao was dragged into the leisure area by two girls.

The leisure area was already crowded with people, Tang Shao picked a remote place to do it, and the two girls were chattering everywhere looking for food.

Not far from Tang Shao, a priest was chatting with two girls who looked like Europeans. The three of them sometimes crossed their chests in solemnity and sometimes burst into laughter, apparently several acquaintances.

There is still a TV to watch in the leisure area, and the hardcore otaku Tang Shao slowly immersed himself in the TV program that played marine biology science and education films.

"Yo! Apprentice, you can't be so good. Tang Shao, who was studying seriously, was interrupted by a familiar voice. When he came back to his senses, he found a priest standing in front of him. The pastor had a Bible under his arm, short blond hair in the style of Liu Hulan, and two mustaches like Mr. V on his mouth.

"You won't be Wang Qingming, will you?" Tang Shaoyou asked timidly, and the reason why Tang Shao asked this was because he saw the treasure bag that this priest was carrying cross-legged under his arm.

"It's not me. I went to the first floor to look for you just now, but you weren't there. What about your two little daughters-in-law, why didn't they come with them? Saying that, Master Wang picked up Tang Shao and walked to the two European girls that Tang Shao had seen before, and then said a few words to the two girls in a language that Tang Shao didn't understand, and the two girls nodded to Tang Shao very politely.

"This is Erin, this is Elma, both from Paris."

"Holy! It was you just now. Tang Shao suddenly realized, and his admiration for Wang Laodao also arose.

"What?"

"Aren't you a Taoist? How did you become a pastor again? ”

"If you don't say you're an old hat, where is this? This is an international cruise ship, is it appropriate for a Taoist priest to appear here? Master Wang asked very majestically.

"It's really inappropriate, but isn't it inappropriate for you to be a fake Taoist priest and become a fake priest?"

"I think back then, when I was in Europe, I was a real person

Pastor, Taoist priest after returning to China. If this is not true, then the pastor is more true. Master Wang didn't have a cigar in his hand this time, so he picked up a glass of red wine and shook it gently, his eyes slightly closed at a forty-five degree angle and looked at nowhere.

Before, Master Wang said that he had been to Dubai, and Tang Shao was suspicious, and now he said that he had been to Europe, and Tang Shao wanted to be suspicious, but there was no reason at all.

After a few glasses of wine, several people were already red-faced and hot. Talking about the rise, a few people got up and headed for the gambling area.

Tang Shao, who entered the casino for the first time, was a little confused, but Master Wang seemed to be familiar with the road.

"How? Try your luck? Master Wang casually took out a few chips from his own chips and shook them in front of Tang Shao's eyes.

"Hehe, I'll forget it, luck has always been bad, especially gambling." The theoretical basis for Tang Shao's sentence is still a gamble he participated in in high school. It was an afternoon of summer vacation, and the three grandmothers in the neighborhood were missing one, and Tang Shao was temporarily arrested to fill the number. Those grandmothers who seemed to be struggling to walk, and sat there as if they would fall asleep at any time, but in Tang Shao's impression, they looked like hidden gambling gods. In just one afternoon, Tang Shao lost ten yuan, which was lost in a game where each hand was only one or two cents. Since then, Tang Shao has decided that he was born with bad luck in gambling, and later he even lost hundreds of thousands of beans by playing a rich man on the computer.

"Hehe, come here and have a few casual plays." Saying that, Master Wang didn't wait for Tang Shao to speak again, and directly stuffed a few chips into Tang Shao's hand, Tang Shao twisted them and counted them, a total of five.

Tang Shao didn't know the rules of gambling, and he didn't bother to bother with this kind of thing that he was not good at. He casually lost four on the Bacardi table in the center of the room, leaving the last one Tang Shao to put in his pocket as a souvenir.

Tang Shao, who had become a loner again, naturally moved towards a quiet corner again. But Tang Shao walked to a seemingly quiet corner. It seems that it is because this corner is not as noisy as the main stage, but there are not many people at all, and the crowd is tightly surrounded, and it seems that the sound is blocked in the middle of the crowd.

Tang Shao doesn't like to be lively, but he still has curiosity. He squeezed into the crowd, a head through several necks, and finally got a good view of what was going on.

Around the crowd was a small square table where four people were playing cards, and in front of each of them was a box full of chips. Their game is simple and brutal, with three cards per person, and the winner takes all. It is said that there should not be so many onlookers in this relatively monotonous game, but the enthusiasm of the working people to join in the fun is unpredictable. These onlookers are not only watching, but also participating. They will bet their chips on the people they like, and the person in the hand will win, and the person who bets will get a piece of the pie.

Tang Shao watched a few handfuls, and probably knew the rougher way to play here. He was finally infected by the enthusiasm of the working people, and one hand touched a chip in his pocket.

"Anyway, it's just one, and you won't lose anything by playing." He took out his chips and wanted to throw them in the box where he put them.

But when he really wanted to put the chips down, Tang Shao still hesitated. It's not that I'm reluctant to make money, it's just that my luck is really worth feeling sad about first. After being sentimental, he chose the box he was going to gamble on quite solemnly but without the slightest order. But when his mind just put on the card game, he suddenly felt a slight weakness in his chest, and the cards in the hands of the four people were actually reflected in Tang Shao's mind.

"Damn, it's just giving money for nothing." Tang Shao thought about it and threw the chips in his hand into the box in front of the person with the highest card in his hand. For a few seconds he didn't seem to realize the oddity of this. But by the time someone handed him the five chips, Tang Shao was already distracted.

"I guess I read the consciousness of the card reader just now, right?! Damn, that's money for nothing. Tang Shao's hand holding the chips began to tremble. Then he placed a second and a third,......

Half an hour later, Tang Shao's two pockets were already bulging with chips, and both hands were also chips.

"You're punching the master to death!"

Tang Shao was too focused, and was startled by the people behind him, and quickly turned around to look, only to find that Master Wang and Ouyang Beiyan were standing behind him. But when I turned my head again, the "folk gambling gods" who had just lost their money also came around.

In the leisure area, a woman was playing with her mobile phone, without raising her head, but she already knew everything about this side of the matter. She turned off her phone, glanced at Tang Shao with a smile, and then walked towards the depths of the gambling area.

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