Chapter 90: The Last Eighty-Six Copper Coins

85_85558The four of them quickly sat up on a bed. The dark-skinned prisoner then took out the playing cards that had been prepared and placed them in the center of the crowd where several people were seated.

Fan Xiaoqi looked at the deck of playing cards placed in the center of the bed. This deck is not much different from what he played in Maverick Village with the date-selling farmers. They are all playing cards with rough paper and relatively simple colors and lines on the cover. It's just that the last one is painted with a few lotus flowers, while this one is a simple mosaic.

"Alright, who's going to shuffle the cards?" the dark-skinned prisoner said, glancing at the faces of the others.

"I'll come. The most bullish murderer said with a confident smile as he stretched out a hand and grabbed the playing cards.

Then the most bullish murderer began to use skillful techniques to dance the simple and rough deck of playing cards like acrobatics, with all kinds of wonderful straight lines and arcs.

After shuffling the cards, the dark-skinned prisoners began to deal the cards with a delicate, skillful and brisk technique. Their gameplay was also similar to what Fan Xiaoqi had seen in the 'Maverick Village', so Fan Xiaoqi quickly got started and played against the three prisoners with red eyes with surging blood and unlimited greed.

Five copper coins in a game, it doesn't seem like a lot of money. However, because there are still some rules in this that are 'flipping', 'straight', 'triplet', and 'five-link', the money in the hands of several people is like playing a seesaw with a very large amplitude, with an average of twenty or thirty copper coins per game, and sometimes even fifty or sixty copper coins, constantly stilting and turning around in the pockets of four people. Let them be as frightened as the river and the sea, red faces, red ears, panting, but hearty, cool to the extreme!

During this period, several people were in a state of extreme excitement, so they chatted with great interest while enjoying the excitement brought by the big stakes poker games.

At first, it was a family affair, then he talked about the strange things he heard outside and the 'Blackwater Island Air Prison', and later talked about the heroic deeds and snowy nights of himself and his best friends. Of course, when they were the happiest in the conversation, they even stopped the poker game with huge stakes in their hands for a while, and waited for themselves or one of the four to tell the most wonderful story in their hearts, along with their most enthusiastic emotions, so that everyone was relaxed or crazy and excited for a while, and then they continued to start the game in their hands.

In this process, Fan Xiaoqi not only got the greatest happiness and comfort after escaping from 'Little Cow Village'. And I also have some basic understanding of the several prisoners who live with this cell.

The chubby, tall and strong prisoner was named Chen Tie. I am about 20* years old this year, and I once killed four people in a row in a fit of anger because of a quarrel with someone.

A dark-skinned sturdy man named Zhao Yu. He was a professional killer in the White Horse Country, and once missed, leaving traces for the officers and soldiers to track him. So a month later, a group of officers and soldiers forcibly broke into his house, arrested him and brought him here.

The appearance and body of the plug who played with him listened to an ordinary young man, named He Laosan. This guy wasn't a good guy before, he was a typical ruffian and a scoundrel. Once, because of the resistance encountered in the process of being a girl, two innocent girls were killed. In the end, because his father had some relationship with the local yamen, he was not directly sentenced to death, but was escorted to this 'Heishui Island Air Prison' that he could not get out of for the rest of his life. Although his methods were brutal, when he talked about these two things himself, his expression was very calm as if he were telling two light-hearted and humorous stories.

Now he is still lying on the bed with the 'bandit soldier' named Cao Xuan. In the process of going down the mountain to rob with his accomplices, he accidentally got lost, and was caught by the officers and soldiers and escorted here.

The last man, the handsome, magnificent, bearded 'most bullish murderer' who killed forty people. When Fan Xiaoqi knew his name, he just felt familiar at first and didn't pay much attention to it. But a moment later, when he suddenly recalled the time and reason why the name was engraved in his mind, he couldn't help but be really shocked in his heart, and he almost didn't call out.

The name of this 'most bullish murderer' is 'Nangong Without a Trace'. It was the same character names that he emphasized when he eavesdropped on the conversation between two masked killers with hats at the 'Little Cow Village' inn that day.

Most of the people he killed were unknown samurai armed with weapons, and a total of 43 lives, including a few officers and soldiers. And why he killed these people, and why he was not sentenced to death, he has never kept his mouth shut, and today is naturally no exception.

He is 'Nangong Traceless'? That Nangong Traceless who has a 'Blood Sword' with super hidden combat power in his hand! Sure enough, he has an extraordinary bearing and a dignified appearance.

How does this man think, how does he not look like a bad person, but ...... But he had so much blood on his hands! Was it because he had no choice but to do it, or was there a sinister, vicious, filthy heart hidden under his majestic countenance?

Who knows? Who can say it clearly? There are too many inexplicable and unreasonable things in the world. I still save this nosy heart and concentrate on thinking about my escape plan!

So, Fan Xiaoqi continued to have an enthusiastic and unrestrained expression, full of interest, and a heart that was bound to take all the other three people's property for himself, and continued to play poker with the three inmates, and the blood of the beast was boiling.

After about an hour and a half of playing like this, the situation gradually became clearer. The one who won the most money was the tall, strong and fat 'Chen Tie' who had just been immersed in reading. He won thirty-five silver coins. The second is the 'most bullish murderer' Nangong Wuxi, who has also won a lot, about a silver coin. Again, it was the ordinary-looking 'He Laosan', who only won one silver coin and more than sixty copper coins.

You may ask, what about Fan Xiaoqi, who just wanted to win all the money of the three people?

Actually, I won't say it, everyone should guess it. He's lost all of his money now! As for how much he's lost? You just have to add up the three of the top three and the total number of wins to understand.

Fan Xiaoqi is now hanging his head, looking at the few cards in his hand that are not bad anymore with a depressed expression. His eyes were on fire, his body was shaking, his heart was hurting as if he had been stabbed with a hundred big holes, and his brain was already dizzy from defeat.

"Hey, I said, this little brother Fan. Fan Xiaodi ?......, "The dark-skinned and sturdy 'Zhao Yu' sitting next to him, seeing that he hadn't played a card for a long time, couldn't help but whisper a reminder to him."

"Oh...... Should it be, is it my turn?" Fan Xiaoqi woke up from his dazed state, smiled silly, and replied a little flusteredly.

"Hurry, hurry, it's all waiting for you. Nangong Wuxi, the 'most bullish murderer' sitting across from him, also urged him a little impatiently.

So, Fan Xiaoqi quickly calculated a little in his mind, and then played a card with his slightly trembling right hand, and even he didn't know whether to play or not.

At the moment when his cards landed on the bed, 'Nangong Wuxi' raised the last card in his hand and smashed it vigorously on the bed, while shouting with an excited smile: "Look at my Wulianshun!"

According to their gameplay, the 'Wulianshun' will be multiplied by five times, and after the two 'bombs' just now, Fan Xiaoqi has lost a full silver coin in this game!

Fan Xiaoqi had a gloomy face, and slowly stretched out his hand to take out the money in his pocket, while his heart kept dripping blood.

Oh my God! I've been moldy all my life! I'm not done like this. I have to squeeze out the last bit of my money, which is what I can do in the future......

Just as he was struggling in pain in the depths of his heart, about to take out a silver coin from his shriveled money bag to pay the bill, he suddenly realized that his money seemed to be insufficient!

In order not to lose face in front of his fellow inmates, he pretended that nothing had happened, and continued to use his hands to scramble through his pockets to determine if he really didn't have enough money.

After half a ring, he was finally completely sure that he really didn't have enough silver coins in his purse. At this moment, his heart sank as if it had been crushed by a large stone. My mind began to think in a panic.

What should I do? I only have, a little more than eighty copper coins......

"Hey, Brother Fan, what's wrong with you?" The dark-skinned 'Zhao Yu' saw that he couldn't come up with the money for a long time, so he asked in a low voice next to him.

"Oh, no, it's nothing ......" Fan Xiaoqi hurriedly responded, and after thinking for a moment, he continued to reply: "I just, just want to drink saliva." ”

"If you want to drink water, I have a big cup here!" said the murderer 'He Laosan' with a polite smile, turned around and took out a large glass of water from the drawer next to the bed and handed it to Fan Xiaoqi.

"Thank you. Fan Xiaoqi politely thanked He Laosan, and at the same time carefully took the heavy glass of water, put it to his mouth, and fell into a nervous state of thought.

What to do, what to do? If I can't come up with the money, these wicked guys don't know what they're going to do to me......

Isn't there such a beautiful 'real cowhide money bag'? Anyway, it's worth about 30 copper coins.

Thinking of this, Fan Xiaoqi's gloomy face suddenly brightened a lot as if a ray of sunlight had swept through. Immediately, he took a large cup of water in his hand, poured a large mouthful into his mouth, and then handed it back to He Laosan.

After thanking him with a smile, he took the shriveled money bag out of his coat pocket and placed it on the bed. Then he pursed his lips and said with an open face: "All my money is here." More than 80 copper coins, plus this beautiful 'real cowhide money bag'. That's enough for me to pay the bill, right?"

When several prisoners heard his words, they couldn't help but glance at each other at the same time.

Then, Nangong Wuxian pursed his mouth, and with an expressionless face, he reached out and grabbed the good-looking 'real cowhide money bag' that Fan Xiaoqi had just put down. First, he opened the money bag, counted the coins inside, and then looked through the beautiful money bag for a while. Immediately, an imperceptible smug smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and then he spoke: "There are eighty-six copper coins in it, plus this money bag." Kindness...... Count him ten copper coins, then you also have four copper coins for us. After speaking, Nangong Wuxian frowned slightly, and squeezed his eyes at Fan Xiaoqi at the same time.

"Ahh......h I'm a 'real cowhide money bag', even if I throw it at the pawnshop, I should sell it for at least thirty copper coins, right?" Fan Xiaoqi explained to Nangong Wuxian with a little indignation.

"Then you can take it yourself to the pawnshop and sell it. In the eyes of my brothers and me, it was worth only ten copper coins. After speaking, Nangong Wuxian spread his hands, revealing an indifferent expression.

You, you murderous demon! Damn black-hearted devil......

After Fan Xiaoqi secretly scolded Nangong Wuxian in his heart for a while, in the end, he still had no choice but to Nangong Wuxian and replied with a sigh: "Okay, if you say it's worth ten, it's worth ten copper coins." ”

"Huh. Nangong Wuxian touched his chin and smiled, and then said, "Then, I will accept your money and money bag first." As for the four copper coins you owe us...... For the sake of us being cellmates, I'm not in a hurry to find you. Give me a month, and after a month, give me these four copper coins along with the money you have earned from your hard work. There are fifty-four copper coins in total, and none of them can be missing. After speaking, Nangong Wuxian showed another malicious smile.

Damn it, murderous demons, damn bastards!

Fan Xiaoqi cursed Nangong Wuxian who blackmailed him again in his heart, and replied helplessly and weakly: "Okay, okay, I agree." ”

As a result, this bloody gamble quietly ended in this slightly embarrassing situation!

Afterwards, several prisoners, with different expressions and attitudes, returned to their beds and did what they had to do.

Among them, the happiest one is Nangong Wuxi. It was He Laosan again, and his face was just a little happy in line with the amount of money he won. The one with the most bland expression and the one who won the most money was the fat, tall and strong 'Chen Tie'. From this incident, it is not difficult to see that he is a deep, introverted, unsmiling, and psychologically good guy.

After the game, Fan Xiaoqi hung his head and slowly walked to his bedside. Then he was sad and disheartened, and the six gods lay on the bed without an owner, and began to feel a thousand sorrows