Chapter 474: Buried in the Sand (12)
In the eyes of the seven rooms, he didn't see any old women, and in the dark alleys, only Zhu Beichen stood in front of the stall and watched blankly.
Judging from Zhu Beichen's eyes, he was clearly staring at someone in the stall.
Qijian, who was puzzled, raised his voice and shouted angrily, specially joined the Taoist Xuangong, and pulled Zhu Beichen back to reality with a roar.
The old woman who had been selling at the stall a minute ago was gone, and the stalls, tables, and boilers were covered with layers of cobwebs.
His heart suddenly became furious, and he couldn't imagine that the old woman he saw was actually the same as when he was old.
Qijian patted Zhu Beichen and said, "It's okay." You looked like you were in a daze. "Looking at the stall in amazement, there was nothing left here but the desolation shown by the cobwebs.
Zhu Beichen opened his mouth wide and said in shock: "Qijian, I'm a little scared, do you know who I saw just now?" It's July, it's July. ”
Seeing Qijian's disbelief, Zhu Beichen continued to add: "Really, you have to believe me, she forced me to eat dumplings just now." And July's appearance is dozens of years older in an instant, but I can recognize her and who she is. What the hell is going on, tell me? ”
This question can't be explained by the seven rooms, it's clearly a shadowless thing, could it be that he is too nervous to hallucinate?
Recalling all the encounters they had encountered here, they had realized the existence of another Zhu Beichen, and now he had met July again.
Shichima wondered if any of us who could come here were more or less connected to the city. According to this reasoning, will you meet another seven-room, another fat man?
"Don't think too much, the dark and oppressive environment is easy to hallucinate." Is it the function of the bell? In addition to the role of guiding the soul, the soul bell will also have a subtle impact on the consciousness of the living.
Zhu Beichen nodded, maybe it was really his neurasthenia and hallucinations, he looked at Qijian and asked, "By the way, what about the others, what about the fat man and Yinxi?" ”
After all, although the origin of the fat man is unknown, he is always from the same world, but on the contrary, it is the sound that makes him a little uneasy, and now the two of them will not have any changes when they stay together.
Qijian said: "I didn't pay attention, I saw you burrowing into the deep alley like you lost your soul just now, and I didn't have time to greet them when I was worried, and I followed them, most of them were still in the market." ”
As everyone knows, the two people in the market are also experiencing the same scene.
It's not the first time that Yin Xi has visited the deserted market in the outer city, and the girl's heart still makes her interested in these dazzling goods, playing with them one after another.
Anyway, you don't need to pay for these things, and you can just take them away if you like them.
Most of the fat man's interest is some porcelain antiques, anything is vintage, and almost all goods can be called antiques.
Tired of appreciating, the fat man noticed the building behind a stall, with the signboard of the shop on the banner swaying in the evening breeze, and the word "gamble" written by Han Li.
It looks like it should be a gambling house, the first time I saw a gambling house in the ancient city, the fat man with itchy hands couldn't help but step in, although he knew that the building was empty, and he also wanted to see what the ancient gambling house was like.
The lively and noisy scenes, the gamblers rubbing shoulders, in my impression, aren't these all common pictures of gambling houses in costume dramas.
The door opened with a slight push, and the glimmer of light in the black hole gambling room, the long strip-shaped tables almost occupied the huge space. All kinds of gambling equipment are messily spread out on the gambling table, and the lonely picture only these utensils represent the once prosperous situation of this gambling house.
The size of the casino is vast, with two floors. The ground floor is a popular casino for ordinary gamblers, while the second floor is divided into large private rooms for the city's wealthy merchants to gamble.
The gambling equipment on the table is also made of expensive materials, a pair of dice are made of rubies, inlaid with pearl sculptures as points, and even the dice cups are made of fine agarwood.
It is no exaggeration to say that the exquisite materials used in the gambling equipment fully reflect the status of this gambling house as one of the best in the ancient city.
The sound of bustling shouts, the sound of dice hitting the cup, the sound of coins smashing on the table, and the noise of gambling came from the second floor.
The fat man said in his heart, why are there still people in the casino at this time? Thinking about it, cold sweat flowed, it should be that there should be no talent at any time, the outer city of the ancient city has been deserted, but what is the matter with the shouts of those gamblers.
I have been in the silent city for too long, and when I hear the voices of people, I yearn for the bustling and lively scene of the casino outside.
With a worried heart, the fat man stepped on the old wooden steps, and the old wooden planks were so rotten that they could not bear the weight of the fat man, and squeaked and squeaked.
The bright light on the second floor shot down, and at the end of the corridor there were two young women who were in the light, dressed in ancient women's clothes, with a charming face and a graceful figure, and very little clothing on their bodies.
Warm fragrant nephrite is full of arms, gorgeous clothes with snowflake chests, a visually seductive body, and a seductive figure.
The fat man threw away all the doubts in his mind, and happily accepted the support of the beauty, and the smile on his face was flushed.
"Master! Welcome, come to the private room, our two sisters serve the master. The woman on the left took a breath of light towards the fat man's ear, the strong perfume smell with an intoxicating fragrance, and the world in front of her was even more wonderful and blurry.
"Hehe, good, good. I'll take a look at the fat man. ”
In the fragrant scene of hugging left and right, the fat man was invited by the two women into a luxuriously decorated private room by the door, and there were already serving staff in the private room.
In addition, there was also a richly dressed boy sitting on the gambler's seat, and two women in ancient costumes were also waiting on the side.
Greeted to sit down in front of the private seat, the fat man looked curiously at the furnishings in the private room, a pair of mountains and rivers splendid sunshine screen is facing the door of the private room, there are several landscape paintings with thick ink and light colors on the wall, a large ancient incense burner in the form of high mountains and flowing water burns a giant inverted agarwood, and the clouds and mist are silently swaying along the incense burner in the shape of mountains and waterfalls, and the room is full of peaceful agarwood.
Smelling the agarwood fragrance, the fat man's consciousness became more and more blurred. As soon as I sat down and looked around, all the utensils here were clearly different from the public gambling hall on the first floor.
The single round table is inlaid with warm jade and gold, and the gambling content in the private room is also a gambling method such as dice.
The man in the gorgeous clothes at the other end of the round table raised his eyebrows and glanced at the fat man when he came in, and continued to whisper to the woman beside him, not caring about the arrival of the fat man at all.
On the contrary, it is the dealer who presides over the gambling equipment, in today's words, it should be a dealer, and he nodded to the fat man with great enthusiasm, and the dealer lowered the brim of his hat to cover his face as much as possible.
The fat man enjoyed the service of the close-fitting beauty, rubbed his shoulders and massaged, smiled and nodded: "Interesting and interesting." I don't know how big your bets are here. ”
Only then did he remember where he got the money, and he came to someone's private room, and said in his heart that it was miserable, he knew how much the rules of this kind of place were, and Uncle Chong would probably be skinned here.
"Ugh. I seem to have forgotten to bring the money when I went out, so I'll go back and get it first. The fat man said embarrassedly.
"The guest laughed, we can advance the gambling funds to the guest first." As he spoke, he asked the man at the door to withdraw the money.
After a while, the man turned back and entered the private room again, respectfully holding the tray, which was full of ancient coins in front of the fat man.
The ancient characters on the coins were no longer Han Li, and the fat man didn't know what the unit of measurement was for this big stack of coins, so he was embarrassed to refuse, so he stupidly coped with it and sat back in his seat.
The dealer asked the fat man if it was his first time, and then gave a general explanation of the rules of gambling here. To put it simply, it is actually three dice bet on the size, and the gamblers bet on them separately, and they win if they guess the size.
The rules are quite simple, and they are not unfamiliar to the fat man, not to mention that he is still a casino veteran, can he still be cheated by them in this kind of place.
"Okay." The fat man picked up a stack of money, and was hesitating to think about how much money was on it, and the dealer seemed to understand the fat man's doubts: "Distinguished guest, are you planning to press 100 taels?" ”
The stack in his hand alone is a hundred taels, and he knows that the purchasing power of one tael is not low, which is really a big gamble.
The fat man retracted his hand again, and said with a strong face: "Mmmm! The master pressed 100 taels. Wait, you shake first, I'm betting when you're done. ”
The man in Chinese clothes sneered and said: "Little fat man, if you can't afford to gamble, go out, this kind of private room is not for people like you to play." Look at your strange cloth strips, it doesn't look like a gold lord at first glance, don't end up lying down and going out, but it's not very good-looking. ”
Paying attention to the fat man's incompatible clothes, the dust is indeed a little downcast.
The flame in the fat man's heart was ignited in an instant, and he was dissatisfied with being unable to see clearly by this guy, and hated his son's face even more: "What nonsense, fat man, I will call you to have a long ability today, and I will go out with my bare ass in a while." ”
The dealer shook the dice skillfully according to the fat man's requirements, the corners of the fat man's mouth outlined a casual smile, and the root of his ears listened closely to the points in the dice cup, and when the dice were shaken, he already roughly knew the points in the dice cup.
Without saying a word, the stack of coins in his hand was thrown into the position with the painting "big", and at the same time, he did not forget to sneer at the man in Chinese clothes and said: "Little white face, I know that you will definitely buy it against me, don't let the fat man look down on you." ”
The man in Chinese clothes was also the master who couldn't stand the ridicule, stared at the fat man angrily, and threw the two stacks of coins on the table: "I'll buy it with you in reverse, let's open it." I want you to lose without any clothes. ”
The dealer opened the dice cup, and the points of the three dice were: one, two, and three.
The man in Chinese clothes stared straight with an expression of disbelief, and the fat man pouted proudly: "Boy, bet with the fat man, you are still tender." ”