Chapter 269: The Gambling House
Lao Wu has been moved to the kang by his brothers to lie down, Xiao Qi also helped to rub the stiff muscles on his face softer, and returned to his usual appearance at this time, but no matter how he greeted and shook, he didn't react, a bearded face was a little vicissitudes and haggard, it was too tossed this month, and he had the life to come back from Hengshan, but he didn't expect Lushi County to be even more terrible.
The sixth child has heard of the cardholder, he has always liked to study some folk remedies and other things, and he has made himself chattering, and his courage is getting smaller and smaller. How to say it, the fear of ghosts and belief in God is actually the same concept, fear of ghosts is just because you don't understand, afraid of such unwarranted things, and this belief in God is superstitious folklore, what you believe in is spiritual, if you don't believe in it, it will not work, but if you really believe in God, then you have to believe that there are ghosts in this world, then you are extremely afraid, and you have to tremble when you walk at night.
The blind man held the wooden card, and looked at Lao Wu for a long time before saying: "I don't know if this thing is spiritual, but according to the old tradition, this person has to set up a monument after death, and the person who stands on the monument is lying down, and the wooden card is buckled, and the dead person is standing, which is particularly unlucky, and it is also the head of this button."
The wooden sign for no reason was buckled on the table, and in addition to what happened last night, the blind man said with some hesitation: "I suddenly remembered something, let's go back last night, I vaguely remember how Lao Wu was smashed, but why is he standing there?" Why don't you know how to hide? Did you let the evil go? ”
The fourth child frowned and said, "Jiang Blind, you are really blind, tell me where did you see that Lao Wu let something go up?" He was smashed on the head by the stone pier, this is the sequelae, I want to find you for treatment, let you be nonsense, let's go to the county to find someone else to see, you go to sleep! After speaking, the fourth brother asked the brothers to carry Lao Wu away. They went to the county seat to find a medical center to show Lao Wu.
But the blind man stopped them and said, "Fourth, don't worry! The medical hall in the county town is full of Mongolian doctors! I know too well, they know a! Lao Wu's situation is definitely not something that Lang Zhong can cure, you have to go to Wu Banxian in the county town to take a look. ”
Xiao Qi asked him strangely: "Then Wu Banxian is also Langzhong?" ”
The blind man touched his forehead and said helplessly: "Oh, you guys are really, why don't you understand?" Lao Wu is evil, he has to find a ready-made Wu Banxian and let him take a look, okay, hurry up, don't delay. Light on the road! He also told my brother to be careful.
The fourth child saw that the blind man was not in a rut, and asked them to see what Wu Banxian was, and he didn't say anything to let the brothers carry Lao Wu out of the house, thinking that this Jiang blind man was really a charlatan, and he wouldn't be able to give them to a fortune teller, how could he let him fool and delay Lao Wu's illness. But then they didn't go to the county seat but went all the way back to the dormitory, wanting to call Hu Dabao to go together, but when they arrived at the dormitory, they found that Hu Dabao had long been gone. I don't know where this man has gone.
The old residential area in the west of the county is full of low and dilapidated houses, this is the most chaotic place in the county, there are all kinds of birds, often get together to gamble money, even after liberation, there is no way to rectify, just wait for the old city to be renovated as soon as possible, so as to pick up this messy place.
There is a well-known person in the old neighborhood to the west, which is basically known throughout the county. Who's that? Tiger head Li Xianhu.
said that this Li Xianhu, he is a native of Lushi County, this person is wide, fat, and has a fight with Hu Daji. He has been shaved all year round, and his most obvious feature is exposed when he has no hair, that is, the folds on Li Xianhu's forehead are stacked when he is angry, which at first glance looks like the head of a tiger, and the nickname of the tiger's head is derived from this. The generation that beat his father has a bad reputation, although it is not a bully. But there are also some acts of bullying and dominating the market, and when it was Li Xianhu's turn, he didn't lose his father's face, and he became a bully completely. Li Xianhu lived for more than 30 years and never did a day of serious work. The small life is delicious, there is nothing to chew snacks, there must be wine at every meal, and there are dozens of people under him, all of whom rely on these people to collect money on the street for a living.
Li Xianhu is notoriously domineering, basically no one in the county town dares to provoke him, and the end of offending him is either death or short arms and legs, and people hide when they see it, but they don't dare to step aside. In the past, he was overbearing and no one cared because he was fighting, the world itself was chaotic, and all the officials had run away, what could the ordinary people do, they could only let them do evil, and they couldn't afford to hide. Now that the whole country has been liberated, Li Xianhu also understood, and immediately pretended to be honest and didn't go out to hang out, but it was even worse than before in secret, sitting in the village to gamble, and collecting money from the street to open a shop, that is, protection money, but the people who were persecuted by him did not dare to denounce it, because everyone knew what Li Xianhu was, and if he dared to denounce him, the lives of his whole family would hang, and he couldn't do anything to play with his life, so he endured it.
Because they all swallowed their anger, Li Xianhu became more and more arrogant and greedy, he gambled is a well-known thing, no one dares to talk more in the hands of the big power, and the top has to turn a blind eye, now every noon, there are many people to the west of the old residential area to get together, all go to a family behind the stinky ditch, that is where Li Xianhu gambles and sits in the village, and the county is estimated to be a few places that dare to gamble, which is one, or the largest place, at least thirty or forty people can be crowded in the hut at the same time at a time, the third child went to play with the flower head here, and he still owes Li Xianhu a lot of money, and he has not paid it back yet.
Although the house is dilapidated, there are doors and windows, and they are all very strong, there is not even a crack on the side, and there is a door in the courtyard.
There aren't many people today, but there are more than a dozen people, some of them are dressed fairly well, they look like they can have a little money, and they make a big shot, but this kind of never wins. Some are wearing rag shoes, trouser legs are all mud, this kind of people generally borrow money to play, that owes a lot of debts and has to play, always thinking that they can get it all back, but the more they play, the more they lose, and finally completely bankrupt, the house and field are let Li Xianhu take away, and the people who lose money dare not speak out, Li Xianhu has really made a lot of money over the years.
Clear-eyed people don't need to think about it to understand the Tao here, it's nothing more than Li Xianhu, the dealer, who is out of the house, but the people who are drilled in it can't understand it, and they don't want to believe it, look at the tickets in front of them, as long as they can win, they can take it away, isn't it a fool not to take the money? It's a pity that in the end it's more stupid than a fool.
The people who went to play today were a little dumbfounded after entering the house, it was really fresh, and the first time I saw Li Xianhu, he personally supported the table and was the villager. Li Xianhu stretched his legs and bare his arms, and he was still playing with a few dice in his hands, squinting at the people who entered the house, looking like he was going to eat people. Sure enough, it was extremely dark today, and I saw Li Xianhu fiddling with the dice, but no one dared to say anything, he couldn't leave if he wanted to, he lost miserably, and his pants were almost left.
But I didn't expect that there was another person in the house, this person was far more meat than Li Xianhu, who was it? Hu Dafang! (To be continued......)