Chapter 023: You Can Bet on Anything
They bet on the people on the table.
Bet on whether a skinny child can lift a strong man with one hand.
Bet on whether a petite girl can beat a martial arts master.
Bet on whether a person who is heavily bound can get out of trouble in a very short time......
This is one of the gambling methods, Gong Yuqing hid from the side and watched it, thinking it was very interesting.
The thin child propped up the big man, the petite girl defeated the master, and the bound person instantly shrunk and broke free.
Of course, there are some who are window dressing.
The small white and black wooden sticks represent the chips, Gong Yuqing doesn't know how much, but it feels like there should be a lot.
Then it gradually became more interesting.
Begin to bet on who is the real beauty among a large group of masked and curvaceous women.
There are nine people on the stage, only one is a beauty, and the others are either men or extremely ugly.
Whoever is the first to order the beauty, the beauty will follow whom, and there is no need to lose money if the wrong point is made, just to spend a good night with a man or an ugly.
Nine people were chosen, and the beauties took off their masks one by one, and lamentations and laughter rang out in the hall.
Even Gong Yuqing couldn't help laughing.
She could see through the mask, but she didn't do it for fun.
So when a rough bearded face or an ugly woman with buckteeth and lips appeared under the mask, she couldn't help but gloat.
Those men are going to spend Spring Festival with such people?
It looks like you can't say no, as if something has to happen.
Gong Yuqing couldn't help snickering, she must go to the corner tonight.
But what's so bad about a place like this?
It's a gamble, but it's a lot of fun, isn't it?
Just as she was suspicious and about to leave for the next place, two people suddenly walked in carrying a strange object.
It was a strange 'furnace' with fiery red coals burning underneath and a round iron plate the size of a washbasin on top.
After putting the 'stove' down, the two of them went to bring the nail boards again.
Sharp spikes were cast on iron plates, piece by piece, and soon filled the round table.
After the two went down, the man who had been introducing the gambling rules on the stage came up again.
This time, it's a gamble.
A woman who was said to have colluded with an adulterer to murder her husband was brought up.
"The punishment for this woman's crime is not exaggerated, and she will not escape death in the end, but now it seems to be dangerous but there is still a glimmer of life, as long as she can hold on to half a pillar of incense on the iron plate, she can live......"
She can maintain her balance in any position on the hot iron plate, but she can't fall, and if she does, she will fall on the pegboard, and it is almost impossible to rush out.
The people in the audience gambled on whether she would insist on half a pillar of incense in the end and not fall off.
If you insist on half a pillar of incense, someone will come to remove the nail board.
Unable to hold on to ......
That is, to bet on whether she can live or not.
Who that woman is, whether she murdered her husband or not, the people in the audience don't care, and they don't feel guilty for the pain she is about to endure.
For as long as they are willing to believe that her sin is unforgivable, she is unforgivable.
The people in the audience were excited about the upcoming 'performance', and the wooden sticks in their hands were thrown on the stage, all black, which means that no one thought she couldn't hold on.
The smile on Gong Yuqing's face had long since disappeared.
She stared at the woman on the stage with a calm gaze, looking at it seriously.
The woman was dressed in a clean white undergarment, and her long waist-high hair was soft and clinging to the garment.
She looked to be in her early twenties, her face as white as paper, her lips bloodless, and her eyes full of horror and despair.
She was not very beautiful, but she was very delicate, her body was small and weak, her two little hands were clenched into fists and trembled, her chest rose and fell sharply, obviously frightened to the extreme, but there was no way out, nowhere to escape.
She looks like an ordinary woman, and the aura she exudes is also very ordinary, like most people, not clear or turbid, and she has not done anything great good or evil.
How dare she kill?
Gong Yuqing couldn't see it.
But as long as it's a person, standing on that iron plate, it will be cooked immediately when it touches it, will it be scorched directly?
If you can't stand it and fall it, it will immediately turn into a sieve, right?
The faces hidden behind the black veil, I can't say whether they are looking forward to it or nervous, their eyes are staring at the extreme, trying their best to suppress the sound of heavy breathing, and staring at the woman who was held on an iron plate.
She didn't struggle, just bit her lower lip as her two little white feet stepped on the red-hot iron plate.
She knew she couldn't hold on.
She's going to die......
The long pain is better than the short pain, she is ready to be pierced by iron nails, although it is terrible, but it is better than struggling on the iron plate......
As she stood on the iron plate, the corners of some people's lips twitched unconsciously, and they covered their noses with their hands, as if they felt her pain and smelled the stench of burning.
But......
Nothing.
The woman just stood on the iron plate in a daze, her face dazed.
The audience suddenly became silent, and after a while, it suddenly became passionate again.
"Tricks!"
"Liar!"
"Fake!"
Everyone changed their voices, and the yin and yang were strange and expressed their dissatisfaction in unison, and they all felt that the dealer was playing tricks and tricking them into betting.
At this time, Gong Yuqing knew that the current bet was different from the previous one, and it should cost a lot of money.
She didn't know exactly how much, but she looked at the bastards......
Gong Yuqing secretly sneered, gambling with people's lives, no one wants to have good fruits to eat.
There was chaos in the hall for a while, the nail board was removed, and the two parties went to try the iron plate separately.
The iron plate was real, but for some reason, it didn't hurt the woman.
After the woman was taken down, two more girls of about ten years old were brought in.
This one is a fight to the death.
Only one of the two can survive, and it is not an ordinary hard fight knife, but to push the other party into the pit under the stage.
The pit is already there, and when it is not in use, it is covered with a baffle and you can't see anything.
After opening it, I saw that there were dense poisonous snakes inside.
The two children were as thin as pieces of paper, and their sallow little faces were full of sorrow and despair.
They looked at the veiled men in the audience with tears in their eyes, hoping that someone would be kind enough to spare their lives.
But in their hearts, they also knew it was impossible.
If you want to buy their lives, you have to pay more than all the bets.
And their lives don't seem to be worth even a few taels of silver, they were taken captive, and they didn't spend any money.
They were hesitating, and none of them wanted to push their partners down the snake pit, but the whip on the stage had already been drawn, and the guests in the audience were already waiting impatiently.
The noise and the whip forced the two little girls to lean together, and they hugged each other tightly as they walked towards the snake pit.