Because the gourd did not fully recover, Yanyun had to slow down as much as possible to reduce the bumps when riding the horse, and if he had set off in the early morning, he could have rushed to the city in less than two hours, but with the speed of the horses, it was close to noon when the two entered the city.

I don't know if it's because she slapped the gourd a few times last night, she always feels that the gourd's face is as white as the paper people sold in the street shop.

Passing by the pharmacy along the road, the shopkeeper said that the medicinal materials Yanyun said had only heard of and had never seen, so she only bought some ordinary medicinal materials such as Baiji, Panax notoginseng, and blood exhaustion, and wanted to grind them into medicinal powder for the gourd to take internally. But she was still worried about whether these herbs for curing ordinary ailments would cure the strange disease of the gourd.

When Yanyun was about to ask the boss if there was a place here that specializes in selling Yunnan Gu poisons, Hulu pulled Yanyun out of the pharmacy and said as he walked: "Miss, if you blatantly ask the shopkeeper, aren't you afraid that he will sue the official mansion?" ”

Yanyun was puzzled: "Why did he sue?" ”

"If it is not allowed by the government, the private sale of rare medicinal materials is a sin for the head, you live in the mountains all the year round and are pampered, and you don't know that the laws and regulations of this world are ruthless and sinister." The gourd looked like Bai Xiaosheng's smugness.

She looked at the ordinary medicinal herbs she had just bought: "But I'm afraid these are not enough to heal and detoxify your wounds." ”

"I'll take you somewhere." The gourd didn't say where to go, but ran to the west of the city with Yanyun.

The west of the city is adjacent to Dongting Lake, and the sky is just right at this time, and the microwave water of the lake spreads out like countless gold bricks under the sun, and the dancing light occupies all her sight.

Yanyun was fascinated by it, but was pulled by the gourd: "What are you looking at, come quickly." ”

With that, she was dragged into an alley by him.

"What are you doing here?" Yanyun looked around and saw no one, and he didn't know what the gourd wanted to do.

The gourd walked forward quickly, and Yanyun followed vigilantly behind, this alley was extremely narrow, and if the two walked side by side, they could only pass sideways. On both sides of the alley are mostly the side windows of the streetside shops, which are higher than people's heads, and it is impossible to see what is inside. She poked her head and looked in front of the alley, at the end of which was another open street, and there were still faint human voices, but they were distant and vague, and the narrow alley was like two worlds.

Suddenly the gourd stopped, and Yanyun saw him standing in front of a wooden door, which was open, but there was a heavy gray curtain on the door, from which the sound of pai gow dice could be heard clearly.

The gourd lifted the curtain and motioned for her to enter.

"I'm not going to bet." When Yanyun learned that this was a gambling house, he turned around in disgust and wanted to leave.

He was not in a hurry, but said: "You will know when you go in, this is not as simple as playing Pai Gow and shaking dice." ”

"No, it's still a gamble?" Yanyun didn't want to argue with him, and said that this gourd was not only a drinker, but also a gambler, so he wouldn't have saved him if he knew it.

Seeing Yanyun frowning, Hulu guessed her thoughts, and couldn't help but feel miserable when he spoke: "I'm not a gambler, there are medicinal materials we need here, you see, my injury is not yet complete, if there is no life-saving medicine......"

"Only this once." Yanyun glanced sideways at the gourd, walked into the gambling house, and the gourd also followed.

The first time Yanyun entered this kind of place, he was also beating a drum in his heart, and he regretted that he came in impulsively just by pretending to be pitiful with a gourd. I didn't have much money left, so I wanted to rush to Chang'an to make plans again, but I met such a Laoshizi and pulled her to the gambling house.

As soon as the two entered the house, the sound of pai gow stopped, and two burly men covered in flesh came over, both looking at Yanyun and the gourd with a fierce face. Yan Yun carefully observed the environment here, this hall was very small, there were only two wooden tables and eight stools, one of which had a black cat lying on it, and the other had scattered gambling equipment and some scattered silver taels.

"Who are you and what are you doing here?" One of them, a big man with a full beard, asked in a vicious voice.

Yanyun couldn't help but take a step closer to the gourd, and whispered, "There is not much money left on your body, you have to think about it." ”

"Isn't that me?" Hulu also lowered his voice and said, then said twice towards the beard, "This strong man, of course we are here to gamble." ”

"You guys?" The beard looked at the gourd's dress with disdain, and then looked at Yanyun, and his tone was full of disdain: "A poor sour boy, a weak female streamer, what do you gamble on?" The rules of our sitting in the Buddha Hall, gambling must be a rare treasure, we don't recognize gold and silver property, look at the two of you or go! ”

"Since you are here, how can you return empty-handed, I know the rules of sitting in the Buddha Hall." After the gourd finished speaking, he rubbed Yanyun.

"What?" Yanyun looked at him suspiciously.

"Xuanyin beard." Hulu whispered.

Xuanyin must be the medicine that Chi Tianzong gave her to treat her shoulder injury, and last night she took out some to use in order to save the gourd, but she didn't expect him to let her use this as a gambling book, this guy is really shameless.

Yanyun's face turned blue with anger, took out the only remaining pack of Xuanyin whiskers from his baggage, handed it to the suspicious beard, and then whispered to the gourd: "You have a good wishful thinking, if you lose, I will leave you here to pay off the debt!" ”

"You just put a hundred hearts, let's go in and win some points." Hulu's words were like a sure victory, and Yanyun knew that he had always been ashamed to speak out, and he didn't bother to talk to him.

The bearded beard took this bag of Xuanyin and walked to the inner room, the east corner of the room was not lit, so Yanyun had not looked carefully before, and she noticed with the figure of the big man, it turned out that there was a low door in the east corner, which was also covered by a cloth curtain.

I vaguely heard what the people inside said, and saw the bearded man walk out quickly, changed his previous attitude, and said respectfully: "Two please." ”

The gourd also made a gesture of please, and Yanyun gave him a warning look and walked towards the dimly lit inner room.

She originally thought that such a small hall, its inner room would not be so big, but she didn't want the room behind the curtain to be so open, just a curtain, there are no less than 30 tables, large and small, more than half of them have gamblers in the game to gamble, these people have a lot of gambling books in hand, there are rare and exotic medicinal materials, antique toys, and even exquisite hidden weapons. They gamble in a variety of ways, there are ordinary pai gow, shake the dice to guess the size, but even the crickets, guess the length of these child's play skills are also used to gamble.

What a room of weirdos.

"I don't know how the two of you are going to gamble here, and what do you want to bet?" A dry, shrill sound sounded, like the astringent sound of pulling a rusty wheel.