Chapter 1 Cheongsam Woman

coincided with the National Day holiday, and a small town called Jinshi Town in southern Sichuan was also more lively than usual. It's just that the people who come and go on the street are still those, and there are very few outsiders, except for the locals, who are the villagers of the nearby Shili Eight Villages.

The people here are not very lucky, in the warm and humid climate of the south, the mountains are bare, there are no exotic fruits, no locals can rely on the mountains to eat, and there are no scenic spots, no large number of tourists to patronize. Fortunately, Jinshi Town is located at the intersection of several towns, relying on the economic contribution of agriculture, transportation, accommodation, etc., although it is not rich, at least it is not poor.

In fact, the most important reason why Jinshi Town can attract people from nearby villages and towns to frequent the city is those underground 'entertainment activities'. It's just that those are all unofficial, no matter how much economic benefits can be created, there is no benefit to the town's finances, and a large amount of money flows into the pockets of individuals, so Jinshi Town is a place where dark gold is surging.

It was close to midnight, and the main street of the town was sparsely populated, except for a few small restaurants that were still open at night, and there were no lights at all, which seemed particularly depressed and lonely. However, this is only a superficial phenomenon, and those who know the inside story know how lively and extraordinary it is under the calm ground of Jinshi Town. Just like the largest inn in the town, which was already full, although it was now dark, as if all the guests had fallen asleep, as long as the insider's guidance, through the dark passage at the end of the corridor, turned to the basement floor, and the noise and the buzzing of people could be heard from three doors.

"Big big!! Small! Small! Oh! ”

"Buy and go! Buy and go! It's on, fifteen! ”

"Four spans four, little five pipes, piggyback moths, little six o'clock - damn it!"

"Oh my God! Earth! Leopard! Banker wins! ”

This seemingly regular, even rustic inn turned out to be an underground gambling house.

The area of the gambling house is not too large, but all kinds of gambling equipment and gambling methods are complete, and the whole large room is full of smoke and miasma; Each table was crowded with people, all of whom looked engaged; Looks, figures, and makeup are vulgar, but scantily clad waitresses shuttle back and forth, bringing food, drinks, and chips to guests; Several big men with meaty faces and fierce faces guarded the doors and passages, patrolling the field like wolves staring at meat; The shouts, curses, excited shouts, and unwilling provocations filled every corner, and at a glance, they were filled with the most evil and greedy beings in human nature.

"Lao He, get out of here! If you have nothing to do, beware of me gelding you and letting you be a rabbit for everyone! "The dealer who was the dealer of Pai Gow called out to a tall and lanky man.

"Liang Guazi, watch the door next time, don't let him in!" The person in charge of the other gambling table said, pointing to a big man who looked horizontal and stupid by the door, "This unlucky guy who lost his family and lost his business sold the property he left behind and his wife who was so greedy, and I didn't see him win back a lot of money back, and he kept losing the day he came here, deliberately letting him, he didn't win, Lao Tzu has been doing this business for so many years, and I haven't seen anyone more unlucky than him." He didn't mean to let Lao He, he just wanted to see if he could win once, but the result disappointed and surprised him, this person, Lao He, had fallen to his ancestral grave.

"Yes, he doesn't owe much money anyway, just drive him away! Turning back will also ruin the luck of our village. Another principal said, "Don't underestimate this thing of luck, it's very evil!" ”

When the thug called Liang Guazi heard this, he walked up and picked up the man named Lao He. Lao He was too thin, and he couldn't help the strength of the cold melon seeds, and under the force of too much, he was thrown out like a chicken, and happened to fall under a gambling table, which shocked the gamblers to scatter in all directions.

"I'm not standing here anymore, Lao He's body has been lying down, it must be the same as the place where the child was buried, the luck is so low that he presses the foot, it's not that the loss is endless!" The gambler who was hit secretly screamed bad luck and hurriedly changed places.

Seeing this, another thug walked over quickly, grabbed Lao He and pushed him to the door, broke his thin fingers that were holding the door frame, threw him out, and then closed the door with a bang, as if he was afraid of bad luck entering the door, and said to himself, "I've seen a good gamble, but I've never seen such a good gamble." Fuck, I'm so alive, I'm convinced! As he spoke, he couldn't help but look out from the window hole that was too small to be considered a window, and saw Lao He falling to the ground, not moving, and not caring at the moment, looking back and continuing to look at the field, knowing that the gambler was just stealing the wine of other gamblers and getting drunk.

Rotten goods like this are not so easy to die, the so-called good people do not live long, and the scourge lives for thousands of years, which is not false at all!

As he expected, this man named Lao He was indeed drunk, and he lay on the ground for a long time before getting up, looking left and right with misty eyes. On the left is the heavy wooden door of the underground gambling house, and on the right is the dark dark passage, he hesitated, first went to slap the door of the gambling house, patted a few times and no one paid attention, and then patted again, until a fierce face appeared in the window, scolded him to scare him, got up and walked out of the door-

He dreamed of peony flowers last night, and the dream interpretation said that the peony lord was rich, which doomed his good luck to come, and he would get rich immediately, so he sold his bed board early in the morning and scraped together a little money to gamble. The bed was a real hardwood, and it was a whole piece, but it didn't sell for even a tenth of its value. But he doesn't care, as long as he can win, everything will come back again, does he still care about the two bed boards?

He thought all this was the care of the God of Wealth, because he had ruined his family in order to gamble, and even his beautiful wife, who had been married for less than two years, was abducted and sold to a foreign country by him.

He hadn't been to his favorite gambling house for a long time, so he was able to enter the door after all the good words, but he came with confidence, and lost it again in two handfuls, and the wealth of his dreams did not come. He is desperate and angry, the people in the gambling house know that he can no longer squeeze out the remaining money, and refuse to give him gambling money on credit, but he does not leave, stringing around the various gambling tables, only watching other people gambling also feels extremely enjoyable, by the way, stealing the wine thirst of those who have gambled, looking at it, the envy, boredom, unwilling to mix with the bad wine all into the stomach, and finally drunk to the station can not stand steady, and was thrown out by the people of the gambling bank!

The autumn night breeze was a little cool, walking on the empty street, blown by the night wind, the wine that had receded a little bit slowly surged up, making Lao He's footsteps staggering and vain, as if the whole world was shaking, and slowly took a fork in the road.

Kick-and-Kick--Kick -

Listening to his footsteps, he looked up, the moon and stars were sparse, and the night was very clear, why did he walk darker and darker? He stopped, looked around, and saw that he was in a dark and long alley, with the doors of the houses on both sides closed, and there was no popularity at all.

He couldn't help but smile wryly. I thought to myself, it's the middle of the night, apart from myself, a gambler, are there any normal people wandering around the street? But why is it so cold? Although his clothes have also been sold out, it is only the ninth month of the lunar calendar, and in their place, the weather is still very hot. I can't stand the chill of the night!

Moreover, he seems to be lost. This is where it seems, as if never been to. But he was born and raised here, and which street in the town he didn't know, why didn't he know here?

Confused, he walked slowly forward. After walking for about five minutes, I came to the end!

There was no way, he had to reflexively walk back, anyway, he had nothing to do, and no one was waiting for him, let's go slowly, how old is Jinshi Town, and he will definitely go before dawn.

He lowered his head and turned away, but as if he had hit something, he was stopped back.

"Who is blocking Lao Tzu's way, crashing into mourning! In the middle of the night! Lao He shouted with his wine, but no one answered him, only two sneers from the woman came.

The voice was very shrill, it sounded as if it came from a far away, but it was so close that it seemed to be in the ear, with the taste of Peking Opera, accompanied by a gust of night wind, which made Lao He sweat for no reason, and most of the wine woke up, blinked his eyes twice vigorously, and looked in front of him.

I saw two pairs of embroidered shoes on the ground, one pair is normal size, and the other pair is an authentic three-inch golden lotus shoe, but the two pairs of shoes are the same green satin surface, rolling black satin edge, the shoes are embroidered with pink peony flowers, yellow stamens, and a butterfly on the toe of each shoe, which looks gorgeous, but also ancient.

Further up are the four white calves, and then the hem of the big red embroidered cheongsam!

Two men had been following him, but he hadn't noticed anything! Even if there was no sound and no breath, even though he was drunk, it was impossible for him to be completely unconscious! Unless they're not people!

Thinking of this, Lao He was so shocked that he didn't dare to move, a piece of his pants was dripping, and he went down his thighs, and all those wines turned into urine.

"Sister, is this waste okay?" One woman said that the pair of normal-sized heavenly feet moved, as if they wanted to leave.

"It's him, the gambling is so big, and it's enough to lose his conscience, it's him, I don't want to look for it again!" The three-inch golden lotus took a step forward, so scared that Lao He almost died, and wanted to run, but he still couldn't take a step.

"Look up." A voice said gloomily and lightly, from the first sentence they said, it was the tone of Peking Opera.

Lao He trembled, how dare he raise his head.

"Raise your head!" The voice screamed, and Lao He subconsciously raised his head in fright.

In front of him, there were two women, each wearing a big red cheongsam, with a white silk handkerchief pinned to the placket, and a large peony embroidered on the chest. In this alley as black as the underworld, such two women suddenly appeared, looking beautiful and terrifying, and their faces made Lao He even more shocked that half of his three souls and seven souls were lost!

Their faces are all covered by oil paint, and they can't see their original faces clearly, but the white faces, crimson lips, pink on the cheeks, and long eyebrows as black as ink are all the appearance of the female dans in Peking Opera!

Lao He trembled like a withered leaf in the autumn wind, and he didn't even have the strength to move a finger, so he could only let the three-inch golden lotus get closer and closer.

"Whitch!" The Tianzu 'woman' snorted coldly.

The three-inch golden lotus glanced back at her companion, then looked back at Lao He, her neck turned three hundred and sixty degrees, "Aren't you scared to death?" They still speak in Peking Opera dialogue, as if they have been saying this all the time, and will continue to say this forever!

"No-don't dare-scare-"

The three-inch golden lotus laughed, "It's good that you're not scared to death, there will be someone you scared tomorrow, don't be scared to death at that time, it's really transferred!" ”

"Yes-yes-"

"It's pathetic!" The semantics were gentle, but the tone was gloomy, and one hand patted Lao He's shoulder, making him feel cold to the bone, and his legs, which were barely standing, were weak, and he fell directly to the ground.

"Our sisters do good deeds and want to be a complete character, I chose you to come today, you are really an ancestor who burned high incense." The three-inch golden lotus paced in front of Lao He's face, and Lao He found that their feet did not touch the ground at all, and there was no shadow on the ground, so he was convinced that he was really walking at night and met a ghost. But when he thought of the word 'ghost', he broke out in a cold sweat again, thinking that they were going to kill him, so he hurriedly begged for mercy.

"The two of you - Daxian, we have no grievances in the past, and no enemies in the near future, you can spare me! If there is anything undone, just ask, I-I will do my best to do it, so that there are no regrets behind the two of you, please treat me as a fart, let it go! There was an offense today, sorry! I'm sorry! I'll burn more paper money tomorrow to repay the two for not killing. As he spoke, he didn't know where the strength came from, so he got up and kowtowed desperately, hitting the ground with a 'thump'.

"That's a bad thing!" Tianzu said contemptuously.

"Whoever wants your dog's life, we are here for you!" The three-inch golden lotus said softly, "As long as you listen to us, we will guarantee you to win many gambles from now on, and become a long-term winning general at the gambling table from now on!" ”

Her last voice dragged on for a long time, and it was very terrifying to hear it in people's ears, but Lao He was a gambler, and at this time he heard the word "gambling", and saw that these two "women" had no intention of killing him, and he also heard that he could win for a long time without losing, and he couldn't help but be bold and asked, "Really?" ”

"yes!" The three-inch golden lotus said, "As long as you promise to help us do something, and you pass the test tomorrow, you can become a gambling god!" ”

When Lao He heard this, he couldn't help but completely forget about his fear, and he was so excited that he almost jumped. Looking up at the two women, although they were startled by the unchanged and strange facial makeup on their faces, they finally saw the clothes on their bodies.

No wonder I dreamed of peony flowers, and sure enough, there was the help of gods! He thought half-happily and half-fearfully, and he didn't want to think about it, how could these two female ghosts with gloomy manners become the protectors of mankind?!

"Why are you so happy?" Tianzu said in disgust, "You have a contract with us, if you can't fulfill our wishes, you will die without a place to be buried!" Besides, you don't know if you'll be scared to death tomorrow night! ”

"Forget it, why scare him. He's dead, aren't we asking for trouble? The three-inch golden lotus laughed again, "He Fugui, tomorrow, come to the ravine on the south side of Tietou Mountain, and bring incense, candles and paper money." Remember, if you meet us today, you will agree to our conditions, so if you don't come—hum! ”

She snorted coldly, and suddenly turned to leave, leaving He Fugui to look blankly at their backs and disappear in the darkness as if they melted.

Tietou Mountain is the back mountain of their town, and it is named because it is bare and does not grow plants, only stones. The ravine on the south side was a mass grave, and in normal times few people dared to go there during the day, but tomorrow he would go there in the middle of the night.

He was afraid, but he was even more afraid of the consequences if he didn't go, not to mention, those two immortals said that they would help him become a gambling god, so no matter how afraid he was, it was worth it!

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