Chapter 7 Gambling

From ancient times: "Those who are rich in the world are not quick to gamble, and those who lose virtue in the world are not in Bo." ”

Let's say that there are many interesting things in the world, which can be fun, but gambling is the most harmful. No matter how glamorous this person is in the casino, most of them lose more and win less.

I often hear people say, "When I win, I'll stop." "I don't know that people have greed in their hearts, looking at ten taels and thinking about a hundred taels, looking at a hundred taels and thinking about a thousand taels, which one can hold it?

There are those who take advantage of the victory to pursue, only to say that they are always victorious generals, who show their teeth and claws, and refuse to stop in the excitement; when they lose in the first place, they always have to roll a few shares to win the dice and make a fuss; and there are those who taste the sweetness and want to make a fortune in this way......

No matter what it is, if you step on this hole, you will fall deeper and deeper, and you will eventually end up betraying your relatives and leaving your family. Therefore, there is a limit to money, and even if you win, it is not a good thing to win by gambling.

During the Jin Yuankang period, there was a son surnamed Xu Yingjie, and the words were clear. He is twenty years old, beautiful and beautiful. A young talent, quick thinking, good at writing, and a name for himself in Southern Province, just waiting for the court test.

This person has a secluded nature, and the cool thing is gambling. After returning home, he returned to his old job, lost a lot of family assets, and refused to change his teachings, and was locked in an empty room by his father, who wanted to starve him to death.

A servant girl in the house took pity on him and secretly let him out.

Not long after, his father passed away, Xu Yingjie was unrestrained, and he was even more extravagant, and the family business was ruined, only the original maid did not abandon him, and he also gave birth to a daughter, named Yurong.

Xu Yingjie has a family, but he still doesn't change, and he is still good at gambling. People on the street made fun of him for Xu Yiwen, and in the end, he even used the money for his wife to gamble, and his wife was ill for a long time and died not long after.

Xu Yingjie looked at his wife's corpse and his tearful daughter next to him, and then regretted it, so he decided to change his evil ways and study hard at home to prepare for next year's spring.

There was a wealthy merchant on the street, surnamed Bi, with a humble name, and he heard that the daughter of the Xu family was very beautiful, so he didn't care about it at first. One day passing by, Bi Pei stole a glimpse of Yurong through a crack in the gate.

I saw that she was slender, her long hair was draped in a vest, and she was held by a pink ribbon at will, her expression was innocent, elegant and vulgar, although she was young, she was gorgeous and charming. There is an apricot yellow square scarf embroidered in his hand, and his movements are gentle and tactful, indescribably delicate and lovely.

Bi Bei stopped unconsciously, and the slender girl in the door, the more he looked at it, the more he felt happy. I thought to myself, how could such a lovely little woman fall into the gambler Xu Yingjie's house?

Just as he was thinking nonsense, someone in the room greeted him, "Yurong." ”

Yurong heard his father Xu Yingjie's greeting, put down what he was doing and went into the house. Her agile and elegant shadow made Bi Bei stunned outside the door for a long time.

At a glance on this day, Bi Bei suddenly seemed to have his spirit and soul taken away. After returning home, he thought about it and tossed and turned, so he took advantage of his wife's home to visit relatives, and went to Xu Yingjie in private, wanting to take two hundred taels of Yurong as a concubine.

Xu Yingjie's face suddenly became extremely ugly, and without saying a word, he took a broom and drove Bi Bei out of the door.

Bi Bei's mind was full of the slender and beautiful woman, and his heart was itching and unbearable, and he couldn't rob it openly, so he asked his nephew from home to come and discuss.

On this day, Xu Yingjie was still studying at home, and now that the Beijing examination is imminent, a former classmate named Li Ji came to look for Xu Yingjie at home, and it happened that his daughter Yurong came to open the door.

When Li Ji saw her, his eyes suddenly lit up, this girl is really as her name suggests, and she is so cute!

When Li Ji saw Xu Yingjie, he stepped forward and grabbed his hand and said, "Brother Xu, now that the exam is imminent, and you still have the heart to read at home, follow me to the outside." ”

Xu Yingjie was devoted to studying at this time, and he really didn't want to go to play, so he replied: "Thanks to Brother Li's kindness, it's just that there are some small things that are not finished today, and I can't accompany him. ”

Li Ji said stiffly: "It's okay today, if you shirk it again, you will look down on it." "I can't help but say, I have to pull Xu Ying's door.

Xu Yingjie couldn't shirk it, so he had to agree and let his daughter Yurong plug in the door to watch the house.

When Yurong was leaving, he secretly stuffed two taels of silver in his father's hand, Xu Yingjie turned around and smiled, and went with Li.

The two walked and played, talking and walking. Two or three miles away, I came to a restaurant.

The two of them drank tea upstairs, talked about the rules of the entrance examination, chatted very closely, and drank until they were half-drunk, and suddenly a person at the next table scolded: "This game is not counted, you and I have done it again!"

When I looked to the side, I saw dominoes, double continents, and five-wood dice scattered on the adjacent table, and horses and the like, all of which were used in gambling houses.

When Xu Yingjie saw it, his face changed color. Li Ji observed his words and looks, knowing that he was touching his heart, he secretly smiled in his heart, and said to Xu Yingjie beside him: "Why don't we take advantage of the wine and go to gamble with them for fun, how about it?"

didn't wait for Xu Yingjie to agree, and greeted the two people at the next table and said, "Two brothers, let's go together." The two clapped their hands and said, "Wonderful!

After talking, it turned out that the ancestral home of these two people was Shandong, and they were also going to Beijing to take the exam in the next few days.

Li Ji said with a smile: "My generation is happy today, they are each other's comrades, there is no need to divide the victory and defeat, hurt the harmony, each person only uses ten yuan as a fund, all of them win, stop all four, all lose, but consistently, just want to have fun and leisure." ”

Xu Yingjie's head shook like a rattle, saying that he would not gamble if he died, and Li Ji said unhappily: "Brother Xu is going to defeat everyone's interest, wouldn't it be more interesting to throw silver and drink to cheer up." ”

Xu Yingjie sat back at the original table, no matter what, he didn't gamble, and the three of them no longer persuaded him, and they ended up fighting each other.

The louder the shouting in his ears, mixed with the laughter of the three people, Xu Yingjie thought: It's okay to take a look, so he got up and stood over to watch him gamble with the three of them.

I saw that Li Ji was very lucky, and his hands would win everywhere, about a meal time, not to mention that he had won three times.

Xu Yingjie couldn't help but itch in his heart, so he took out the two taels of silver that his daughter gave him when she was leaving, and put them on the table.

When the three of them saw this, they all became happy and shouted, "That's how fun it is." ”

At the beginning, I really took ten dollars as the gambling capital, you win and I lose, you lose and I win, to the point where you have to throw it to the head, ten dollars should only be thrown casually, how can you stop?

At the beginning, the two Shandongs continued to lose money, and they frequently added in, not to mention more than a dozen taels. Xu Yingjie has excellent luck, the more he gambles, the more prosperous he becomes, look at the forty-nine taels he won, and when he wins fifty taels, he will go home and buy flowers for his daughter Yurong to wear.

But a few hands in a row should be regarded as if he lost, and seeing that he lost a dozen taels, he wanted to turn back to the original fifty taels.

So the head of the note was pushed wildly, to be transferred to Bo, a note is as big as a note, how to expect that in the end not only put the capital into it, but each owed three people fifty taels.

Xu Yingjie couldn't help but be afraid, and Li Ji said: "Winning or losing in the casino is a common thing, you come and go, I come and go, don't care." ”

Xu Yingjie refused to admit defeat and shouted, "Let's come on." ”

Seeing that he had no capital, the two Shandong people shook their heads and said: "Brother Xu, you have no money, what else are we gambling on, it's better to go home and get it, it's not too late to gamble." ”

Xu Yingjie saw that he was despised by them, so he had to endure his temper, gritted his teeth and said, "I will give you the house." ”

The guest from Shandong asked, "Brother Xu's house is worth a hundred taels." ”

Another person said with a hippie smile: "If the property is not enough, the wife and daughter can also use it......

Li Ji reprimanded: "You Hugh is talking nonsense, is Brother Xu the kind of person who doesn't admit it?"

Xu Yingjie was stimulated by their words, and his blood rushed to his brain for a while, as long as he turned the book, slapped the table and said: "Bet, bet!"

Li Ji persuaded: "Stop it, go back and find a way to repay the money." ”

Xu Yingjie didn't believe that he was so lucky, and raised his hand and said: "Brother Li, if you want to persuade me, you know it in your heart." So he made a note, bet his daughter Xu Yurong on the gambling table, and pressed his handprint.

In the last hand, Xu Yingjie looked at the dice with blank eyes, and his soul was also hung by it, and his heart was in a hurry, and he was defeated.

Two Shandong examinees shouted: "Shame! We should have won." That is, he ripped off the note of selling his daughter.

Seeing that Xu Yingjie fell into the trap, Li Ji finally mortgaged his daughter, smiled coldly, and went downstairs with two Shandong people.

It turns out that these two people are Shandong Gongsheng, they are obviously idle gamblers, and they don't have any real names, and they have always set up a game to deceive young children, and use lead sand to pour medicine into dice, some light and some heavy.

Turn the fingers around the book, twist the law, throw it down to win the color, if you don't understand the person who throws it down arbitrarily, you lose nine out of ten.

Today's matter was prepared by Li Ji first, deliberately to earn Xu Yingjie's set.

Li Ji looked at the note of the painting and said to the two, "Go back and hand it to my uncle." ”

Xu Yingjie gambled well, sat for a long time, saw that the upstairs was empty, got up and slowly stood on the table, and muttered: "In the past, the pen fell into the storm, and the romance strayed into Bole. The strict father taught his son Laoliang, and loved his wife and was kind and open-minded. If the inferiority does not change, it will eventually be defeated, but it will teach you to lose Yurong in the blink of an eye. After death, he had no face to enter the loess, and his fate was hung in the sky. "I committed suicide on the beam.

This Yurong was still waiting for his father to come home at home, but what he was waiting for was the big red sedan chair of the Bi family.

When a neighbor heard the crying and came out to stop it, the housekeeper of Bifu raised a roll of yellow paper in his hand, on which was written by Xu Yingjie himself.

Bi Pei was fidgeting at home, listening to the housekeeper enter the door and say that it was done, he slapped his thigh, and was about to go out, but he happened to bump into the head of the lady who came home.

Bi Bei's brain turned quickly, and he passed Yurong to his stupid son, Bi Dai. Seeing that Yurong was very beautiful, Mrs. readily agreed.

This Bi Dai is nearly thirty years old, still stupid and stupid, and does not understand the affairs of men and women, Yurong shrinks in the corner every night and looks at him in horror.

And Bi Dai has a habit of sleeping, that is, he loves handstands, so he died of a cerebral hemorrhage within two years.

At this time, Yurong has grown up, her figure is more plump and slender, and her appearance is even more delicate.

Bi Bei only has a chance to take advantage of it, clinker at this time in the middle of the dynasty Jia Nanfeng to do political power, the heroes raised troops to Que, the princes of the clan have raised troops, the world is in chaos, the history is called "the rebellion of the eight kings".

Bi Bei already had a hidden disease, and when he heard that the soldiers and horses of King Qi had entered the city, his heartstrings trembled, and he was scared to death.

The first general to enter the city was called Zou Qingyun, so he naturally wanted to go to each house to search for it, and when he saw Yurong standing in the corner of Bi's house, he was immediately shocked.

I've never seen a woman with such a look, so I plan to take her as my wife.

It's too late, it's too soon. I saw a man who exuded a majestic righteousness coming over.

Zou Qingyun saw that this was his own doorman.

Li Ji advised: My lord, you must not! You have just entered the city, if you marry the widow of the Bi family. King Qi will definitely regard your behavior as lustful, and he will not be entrusted with reuse, and his years of hard work will be ruined in one fell swoop, and I hope that my lord will think twice!"

Zou Qingyun has lived in officialdom for a long time, and of course understands the pros and cons, so he had to listen to Li Ji's words and give up reluctantly.

Liu Zhen, the Duke of Anxiang, was stationed here on the order of the King of Qi, and by chance he also saw Yurong, who was also impressed by her beauty, and thought that he was a peerless stunner, and planned to marry her home.

It just so happened that on this day, Li sent to visit Liu Zhen's newly built mansion, and after knowing Liu Zhen's plan, Li Ji groaned: "This Xu Yurong is an ominous person, with a red face and trouble, whoever has an affair with her will be killed." Her former husband died a particularly tragic death, and he heard that the seven orifices were bleeding. There are so many beautiful women in the world, why should she not marry? There are few willows blowing on the branches, and there is no fragrant grass at the end of the world!"

Seeing that Liu Zhen was still hesitating, he stepped forward and whispered: "This woman is so good-looking, if there is no problem, when Lord Zou came, he would have married her a long time ago." ”

Liu Zhen thought about it, hesitated, and broke off his thoughts.

After Li sent out of Liu's mansion, he immediately ran to Bifu to see Yurong and told her: "Your father entrusted you to me when he was dying, I will marry you, you go to Yongzhou to wait for me first!" So he went home to pack his things and prepared to defect to Sima Hao, the king of Hejian.

Unexpectedly, the news got away, and Liu Zhenyuan was furious when he heard about it, and he used his upper finger crown! It was this guy who persuaded me to give up Xu Meiren, but I didn't expect it to be for my own enjoyment!

So he ordered Zou Qingyun to send troops to exterminate the entire Liji clan and loot his family property.

Xu Yurong came to Yongzhou alone, helpless, and could not wait for Liji, relying on a hand of exquisite embroidery to open a dyeing workshop, and later the business became bigger and bigger, across Shaanxi, Long, Qingdao Province.

A year later, he married Xu Angong, the assassin of Yongzhou, and gave birth to a son, Xu Mao, who became famous.