Chapter 17: The Yellow Warbler
Seeing Shi Ziling on the proud building, the gamblers who had been following him just now returned to their original tables to continue gambling, and they followed Shi Ziling to bet several times in a row, and each bet was doubled, and they already felt quite satisfied.
The onlookers on the sidelines dispersed when they saw that there was no excitement to see.
The bearded man wanted to go upstairs with Shi Ziling, but was stopped by two big men. The bearded man raised the two bags of gold coins in his hand and said loudly: "Lao Tzu is rich." ”
The two big men who stopped him were unmoved, telling him that he could not be allowed to go upstairs without invitations or regular customer introductions.
The bearded man was very angry, muttering something in his mouth at first, and suddenly got up and tried to force his way upstairs. Unexpectedly, he only took a step forward, and the two big men grabbed his left and right shoulders, and the two of them clamped hard, and dragged the beard directly down out of thin air.
The beard screamed in pain, Shi Ziling heard the bearded man's shouting before, and when he looked down, he happened to see two big men holding the beard, and his neat and neat skills didn't seem to be under the cold dragon and cold tiger of the cold wind village.
Shi Ziling was secretly surprised, thinking that this "proud building" was really a bit of a sprout, and any two guards guarding the stairs had such skills.
Shi Ziling and Yu Wei went upstairs, and saw that the upstairs was also divided into an inner hall and an outer hall. The outer hall is similar to a general restaurant, and it is a place to eat and drink tea. It was already noon, and a few guests were eating in the outer hall.
The steward asked, "Do you want to eat something first?"
Shi Ziling nodded yes.
The steward then beckoned someone to prepare the food and drink, and then said to the two, "Please dine first, and when you are done, someone will beckon you to come into the inner hall to play a few hands." After saying that, he gave a little salute, and then turned and walked into the inner hall.
Shi Ziling just saw that the two big men guarding the stairs downstairs were extraordinary, and he couldn't help but pay attention to this steward. After paying attention to observation, I saw that although this person had an ordinary face, he was calm and abnormal in his gestures, his eyes flashed from time to time, and his breathing was long and thin, and he actually had a bit of a master's demeanor.
Shi Ziling roughly estimated in his heart, although this person is not as good as Shen Tugang, but compared to Niu Zhengying, he is afraid that he is still more than a step stronger, but he didn't expect that a gambling house in Songhu City is also a hidden dragon and crouching tiger.
During the meal, Shi Ziling remembered what Yu Wei had just said downstairs, so he asked, "Where else do you say you yearn for the two most holy places besides here?" Also, what happened to the new owner?"
Yu Wei replied with great interest: "This 'proud building' is not only famous for being the biggest gambler, but the most famous is actually the new owner it launches every ten years. Legend has it that the beauty of this owner is that Su Xiaoxiao, who is the Oiran of the 'Deyue Tower', is also the one who is not to be missed...... That one...... What a let. ”
Yu Wei shook his head unconsciously as he spoke.
"And speaking of that 'Deyue Tower', it is naturally another place I yearn for the most. Legend has it that the current Oiran Su Xiaoxiao of 'Deyue Tower' is simply a heavenly immortal, attracting countless literati, scholars, dignitaries, and nobles who want to kiss that ...... Fragrant but unobtainable. Alas, if I, Yu Wei, have the opportunity to take a look at Little Miss Su from afar, even if I die immediately, I will have no regrets in this life!"
Shi Ziling looked at Yu Wei, who was spitting impassionedly in front of him, and finally understood a little, this guy is not only a good gambler, but also more lustful.
However, he is very strange that a gambling house wants to get a beautiful woman to be the owner, and he also changes the owner every ten years, making it look like a land of wind and moon.
He was about to open his mouth to ask Yu Wei, but Yu Wei seemed to have guessed what he was going to ask, and said: "Do you know who opened this gambling house? Let me tell you, the real backstage boss of this gambling house is the famous Duanmu family, and every owner here is the descendant disciple of the grandson of 'Caiyunxuan', who is not only as beautiful as a fairy, but also a first-class swordsman." ”
"Caiyunxuan has always had a good relationship with the Duanmu family, so he will promise to send a proud disciple to be the owner of the workshop here every ten years, and it is said that this is also a kind of training for Gongsun Auntie's disciples to enter the WTO. I don't understand, although gambling money is exciting and fun, is it also good for improving swordsmanship?"
Shi Ziling doesn't know what Duanmu family does "Caiyunxuan", only knows that Lu Dao eats by himself, although it is a gambling house, but the wine and food that comes up are much higher than the level of the rest of the family, Shi Ziling eats very relish.
Yu Wei didn't care much about the food, and only thought that he could enter the inner hall early to see what was going on after he finished eating.
Suddenly, as if he remembered something, he looked around first, and then asked in a low voice: "Ziling, you won ten in a row just now, could it be ...... Can you really tell the number of dice?"
Shi Ziling replied with a smile: "I can't just hear it, I can see through that dice cup at all, so I can see what points are opened." ”
"Huh, really?......"
Yu Wei was shocked, his expression was almost like a ghost, his eyes were staring at Shi Ziling, and the expression on his face was really indescribable.
"You're really big, are you really an immortal?" Shi Ziling said angrily.
"That'...... Then why are you ......" Yu Wei was confused by Shi Ziling, and stammered a little when he spoke.
Shi Ziling thought that he couldn't talk to him about the use of spiritual power in "Dementor **", and he definitely didn't understand it, so he sighed and said: "Probably I was lucky today, I wanted to accept it if I saw it, but you insisted on dragging me up, it seems that I have to lose back to them." By the way, are the 'Deyue Building' you just mentioned and the 'Proud Building' here the same boss? ”
"I don't think it's a boss. ”
Yu Wei hadn't come back to his senses for a while, but as soon as he talked about "Deyue Tower", he suddenly became energetic again, "I heard that Deyue Tower is the property of the Xiahou family, and it has branches all over the country, with this one in Songhu City and the one in Yanjing City being the most famous. However, the one in Yanjing City did not have Su Xiaoxiao. 'Su Xiaoxiao'ah!" Yu Wei deliberately accentuated his tone.
"Alas, but I heard that there is no one with ten gold and eight gold, and I am afraid that I can't even enter the door of 'Deyue Tower', and my income in the Yu family is only five gold coins a year, and I want to see Su Xiaoxiao, I'm afraid it's so difficult......"
Yu Wei sighed as he spoke, his regret and regret overflowing.
Shi Ziling took out a pass from his arms, handed it to Yu Wei, and said, "If you hadn't brought me here, I wouldn't have had a chance to win so much money, this is a pass for one hundred gold coins, which is Xie Lu's thank you." ”
"Eh, what's so embarrassing! We're all good brothers, let's go out and play together......"
Yu Wei couldn't stop smiling, and while humbly conceding, he had already reached out to take the pass.
"Ziling, you are really ...... It's such a friend, from the first day you arrived at the Yu family, I thought you were ......"
The two of them had eaten and drunk to their heart's content, and immediately someone stepped forward to guide them into the inner hall.
The inner hall is large and spacious, and the decoration is very magnificent. There weren't many tables inside, only about ten, and several were empty, making it much quieter than the bustle of the lobby downstairs.
Next to each gaming table stood a young girl in colorful clothes, not only beautiful, but also concave and convex figure is very eye-catching, but each girl has a long or short sword inserted in her waist, plus their eyebrows are heroic, people dare not think about it.
Then the steward who had led them upstairs came up and asked, "What do you like to play?"
Shi Ziling replied, "May I ask the name of this boss?"
The steward said unhurriedly: "The boss doesn't dare to be, Mu Kang is the steward here, and he asks his friends for more advice." ”
Yu Wei on the side couldn't help but be taken aback when he heard his surname Duanmu. The Duanmu family is one of the five major families on the Mingyue Continent, and it is said that the behind-the-scenes boss of this "proud building" is the Duanmu family. Now that there is a person from the Duanmu family standing in front of him and asking him for more advice, Yu Wei feels that he is too face-saving today.
He was about to say a few polite words, when Shi Ziling had already spoken: "I won't play anything other than guessing the size of the dice." ”
Duanmu Kang said: "I see, those two please come with me." ”
Then Duanmu Kang took the two to an empty gambling table near the corner, and said to the girl in purple sitting at the table: "Miss Huang Ying, this friend is very lucky downstairs, and he has won ten in a row. ”
This girl called Huang Ying was the only one sitting among the many sword girls present, and her eyes lit up after hearing Duanmu Kang's introduction, and she said with a smile: "It turns out that this son is the one who won more than ten in a row downstairs, I wanted to go downstairs to see it after I heard about it just now, but then I heard that Duanmu Manager had invited someone up, so I have been waiting here, please sit down." ”
Huang Ying said as she looked up and down the stone tomb carefully, left and right.
At this time, a few people came from the next table, one of them was dressed as a scribe and shook the folding fan in his hand and said: "It's been a long time since I saw the sassy and heroic posture of the Huangying girl shaking the dice cup, it seems that we can feast our eyes today, and our luck today is really good, Ha Lu Ha ......."
Huang Ying smiled slightly: "Ma Gongzi said that he was joking, I usually don't see you come to play gambling." ”
"It's not that I don't want to gamble, it's that your table hasn't been open for a long time. The scribe known as Ma Gongzi also responded with a smile.
Shi Ziling's heart moved, and he asked the scribe, "Isn't this table usually open?"
"Yes, today I borrowed your brother's light, I don't know what Your Excellency will call?" asked Shi Ziling politely.
"In the Lower Stone Tomb. ”
"Shiziling?"
Ma Gongzi thought about it, obviously didn't have any impression, and didn't care, and greeted a young man opposite: "Master Su, you are also here." ”
That Su Gongzi responded: "Exactly, in addition to the rare sight of Miss Ye, the owner of the workshop, the opportunity to meet Miss Huang Ying is also very rare." Saying that, he smiled heartily with the horse boy, and several gamblers next to him also nodded in agreement.
After a short time, the table was already full of people, and there were not many people in the inner hall upstairs, but now more than half of them were sitting at this table. Even if you don't sit down, you will glance here from time to time.
Huang Ying didn't say much, raised her hand to uncover the delicate dice cup in front of her, showed the three dice in it to the gamblers present, and then smiled: "Xie Lu thank you for your support, I play at this table is a gambling size, now I am going to sit in the Zhuang Shake Cup, please prepare to bet." My table has a minimum bet of 100 gold coins per hand. ”