Chapter 19: Sectarian Disaster

The man's eyes showed a fierce light, he looked like a standard thug, close to Li Xiaomu's ears, gritted his teeth and spit out word by word: "Get out, don't be nosy, little brute!"

Li Xiaomu turned his head and glared at the big man, shook it off, simply let it go, strode forward, stood on the side of the monk, and said loudly: "Great monk, do you want to win? I'll help you!" He also ignored the surprised eyes of the fat monk and the gamblers, pointed at the dealer and said, "Change the dice!"

"Yes, yes, change a pair!" The fat monk patted his head, as if suddenly realized, "I said, you must have done something on the dice, change quickly!"

The dealer's face changed, and he secretly looked at the shopkeeper, who looked coldly, glanced at Li Xiaomu, and gently turned the teapot lid. The dealer took out a pair of dice from his sleeve www.biquge.info pen "Fun" pavilion, and Li Xiaomu said: "Change and change!" The surrounding thugs have gradually approached, the shopkeeper put the teapot flat, and the thugs retreated and scattered.

After changing five pairs of dice in a row, Li Xiaomu took it and put it in his hand, turned it upside down, and said with a smile: "Okay!

He threw the three dice into the dice cup, covered the cup, and handed it to the dealer, the dealer's face was a little pale, and his eyes caught a glimpse of the shopkeeper sneaking into the inner hall, and then saw a slender middle-aged man walking out of the inner hall, and his heart was a little settled.

"What to bet on?" The fat monk turned his head and asked Li Xiaomu, Li Xiaomu was stunned, thinking that he had been extremely unlucky recently, and he didn't lose the monk's bet. was hesitating, but saw the monk say to himself with a smile on his face: "Little donor, you say, big or small?"

"I, I'm, small—"

"Okay!" the monk laughed.

"Uh-" Li Xiaomu wanted to say that my little benefactor didn't know either, but was interrupted by the monk, and when he was distressed, he suddenly found a tall and thin middle-aged man standing at the entrance of the inner hall, his eyes were slightly closed, his lips were slightly closed, and his hanging knuckles moved lightly, and he was shocked at the moment--Is he using a spell to control the dice? Just as he wanted to shout, the dice cup in the dealer's hand had already fallen.

The shopkeeper walked out of the inner hall slowly, his face calm, but his heart was full of ecstasy—he had heard that there were three points in the dice cup, and there was no one bigger than this.

Although Li Xiaomu couldn't guess the size inside, he saw the excitement flashing in the shopkeeper's eyes, and knew that this time he was lost, and his heart fell to a deep valley.

The fat monk was all on the gambling table, as if he didn't notice the changes around him, and he was still interested, he shouted, "Open!"

The dealer slowly lifts the lid of the cup......

The people around him were like ducks with their heads pinched, and they all craned their necks to look at the table.

The gambling house, which was originally noisy, was silent in an instant......

Smack-

The teapot in the shopkeeper's hand fell to the ground, shattered, and the tea splashed on his trouser legs, and he didn't even notice it, just stared blankly at the table.

A dice carved from cow bones lay quietly in the dice cup, and the upward side was engraved with a big red dot, which was indeed a point, but the other two dice were nowhere to be found!

"Haha! a little, a little! win, win, win!" The monk was overjoyed, rolled up his sleeves, laughed and hugged Li Xiaomu's shoulder with one hand, and reached out to the gambling table with the other, grabbed a few handfuls, and stuffed the gold and silver on it into his arms.

"Let's go, little donor, the poor monk invites you to eat and drink! Oh no, now you're not poor, rich monk, it's a rich monk!" The fat monk smiled with a spring breeze on his face, grabbed Li Xiaomu and walked out. The thugs around him saw that the shopkeeper had a black face, and they didn't dare to move. Everyone knows the rules of this casino, if there is a problem with the gambling equipment, whether it is accidentally shaking a dice or smashing a pai gow, whoever shakes it and smashes it loses. Whether it is according to the rules or the size of this gamble, the dealer of the gambling house loses. Therefore, everyone could only watch Li Xiaomu and the others walk away......

The gamblers saw that the faces of the gambling house were ugly, and knew that they could not give up, so they all bowed their heads and quietly slipped out of the gambling house. In an instant, there were no outsiders in the workshop.

The shopkeeper walked to the table with a cold face, and the thin middle-aged man had already picked up the dice cup to check, he dipped his fingers in the bottom of the cup, twisted it, and said in a deep voice: "The shattered ones have become powders."

"Keep an eye on—" The shopkeeper commanded through gritted teeth, and the thugs dodged out the door......

Li Xiaomu was pulled out of the gambling house by the fat monk, turned a corner and entered the largest restaurant in the city, and after sitting down, he ordered wine and food, and the two exchanged names.

When Li Xiaomu first heard this name, he was happy in his heart -- a monk who broke the vows! His master must also be a muddy man, and he gave his disciple such a Dharma name, but he also thought that he did not abstain from drinking and meat, and gambled without taboo, but he was really a person like his name, hehe, I just don't know if this monk has broken the color vows, or he will wait for the wine and food to take him to the fireworks and willow alleys in the back street to go around? Yo he, this master, are you here to preach the scriptures, come on, come on, let's talk in the room - the girls really want to touch the Zen spirit......" Li Xiaomu laughed so hard that his heart trembled, and the monk who broke the vows saw him staring at himself and smiled evilly, but he wondered in his heart but it was not easy to ask.

When the wine and food came up, the two pushed the glasses and changed the lamps, ate and drank, and after a few glasses of wine, the conversation gradually increased. But most of them talk about wine and meat experience, gambling skills, etc., and there is no important point.

The two of them have been drinking for three rounds, the dishes have been five flavors, and they have talked very speculatively, they have already called themselves brothers, and the monks are not like monks, and the cultivators are not like cultivators, only to see the diners around them shaking their heads and smiling bitterly.

"Brother Xiaomu, aren't you afraid that the gambling house will send someone to trouble you?" The monk who broke the ring suddenly changed his words, staring at Li Xiaomu with blazing eyes.

Li Xiaomu was waiting for this opportunity, and he smiled lightly: "With my brother here, what am I afraid of?"

The monk who broke the ring was slightly stunned, and then smiled for a moment: "How do you say this?"

"My brother has won so much gold and silver from them, and they all still have the heart to eat, drink, talk and laugh, why am I afraid?"

"Oh, that's right-" The monk who broke the ring patted his head, took out a large handful of gold and silver from his arms, pushed it in front of Li Xiaomu, and said with a smile: "I just cared about drinking, I forgot to thank you, you helped me win the silver, let's divide it-"

Li Xiaomu saw that there were three or four hundred taels of gold and silver, his eyelids jumped, but he stretched out his hand to push it back, suppressed his smile and said: "Brother, you are really unkind to this monk, I should thank you, what are you thanking me?"

The ring-breaking monk smiled slightly and stared at Li Xiaomu with amusement.

"If I heard it right, the word 'oh' at the entrance of the town saved my life and Douzi's lives. ”

The monk who broke the vows did not say whether it was right or wrong, waved his hand, and said, "Come on! Drink and drink!"

Seeing this, Li Xiaomu was even more convinced that his guess was correct. I thought to myself: This monk who broke the vows didn't know where his master came from, and his cultivation was unfathomable, and the dice didn't know what he had done. Seeing that the precepts were broken, he deliberately diverted the conversation, and did not ask questions.

Breaking the ring and picking up the wine jar at hand, he found that he had seen the bottom, and he was about to call for wine, but he was held down by Li Xiaomu.

"Brother, there have been sneaky people looking at the door, it should be from the gambling house, it's getting late, let's go, and there will be less trouble." ”

The monk who broke the ring nodded, said goodbye, paid the silver, and shook out of the restaurant with Li Xiaomu.

The two said a few words such as "there will be a period later" and "take care", and then said goodbye in the city and went their separate ways.

As soon as the evening breeze blew, Li Xiaomu woke up a lot, he looked back at a few big men following in the distance, walked a few steps quickly, and dodged into an alley.

The footsteps of the people following behind were getting closer, Li Xiaomu shrank behind a stack of large vat and secretly watched, and saw a few gambling house thugs stop at the mouth of the alley, stretched out the sticks in their sleeves, and lined up to surround them.

Li Xiaomu took a few steps back, and was about to run wildly, but he saw a person running from outside the alley, whispering a few words in the ear of the leading thug, and all the thugs looked out, and they were all surprised, and suddenly turned around and dispersed.

Li Xiaomu wondered in his heart, hid for a while and saw no movement, quietly slipped out of the alley, came to the street to take a look, and was even more surprised in his heart - the street that was still bustling just now seemed to have been hit with countless "mute notes" in an instant, the whole silence was there, the street was empty and there was no one, but the shops on the street were all the same, the buns in the bun shop were still steaming, and the stove in the blacksmith shop was still burning red......

Li Xiaomu was feeling strange, but he saw a faint red light flashing in the distance, and he was shocked, and ran quickly towards the city entrance, only to find that the city gate was already crowded, as if the whole city was gathered here.

He broke into the crowd and saw several people hurrying back from outside the city, their clothes were tattered and their faces were like black ashes, and one of them shouted as he ran: "It's terrible, it's terrible - Bayan Mountain is on fire, the fire is too big, the 'Eight Along Gate' on the top can no longer enter, go up the mountain to put out the fire-"

When Xiao Mu heard this, it was like a basin of cold water pouring down.

"Master-"

He ran to the sect like crazy......