Hearing Rogge's words, Catherine followed his gaze and saw a fat man in a scruffy suit walking through the crowd not far away and towards the table inside the casino.

She was about to ask who it was, but saw Rogge reach out and pick up his five gold coins from the roulette wheel, and then said to the stunned dealer: "Share all my profits with the brothers who bet, win or lose, good luck guys!"

When the gamblers heard the rumors and shouted long live, Rogge packed up the money and took Catherine's hand and walked out of the crowd, approaching the fat man calmly, and saw him sit down at a four-person table and begin to play poker with the other three gamblers.

Rog stared at his back, and saw him take out a heavy money bag from his body and throw it on the table, and say something loudly to the three of them, whose faces were at first a little contemptuous, but when they saw the money, they all became a little surprised, and then smiled.

Seeing this, Rogge tilted his head and whispered to Catherine, "Do you know that fat man?"

Catherine shook her head slightly, looked at him with curious eyes, and only heard Rogwan smile and say, "That guy is Joseph, the head chef in the palace of the Marquis of Khochersky, and he made the meal we had at noon." ”

"Are you here to follow him?" Catherine suddenly realized, looked at Rogge in surprise and asked, "Do you suspect that he is the murderer?"

"Not really, but he was one of the three closest to the bowl of beetroot soup, and it was worth observing. Rogge smiled and glanced at Joseph's back, and said softly, "Let's go over and see, pretend not to know him, and go over and see the excitement." ”

He took Catherine's arm and slowly came to Joseph's vicinity, looked at the dealer who was dealing cards for a while, turned back and whispered to Catherine, "They are playing 'Blackjack'." ”

"What is 'Blackjack'?" Catherine looked at him ignorantly, and Rogge introduced to her while staring at the situation at the table: "'Blackjack' is commonly known as blackjack, the dealer deals cards, and the rest of the people compare points with the dealer, if they are bigger than the dealer, they can win, and if they are smaller than the dealer, they will lose." ”

"It sounds like it's hard to win. Catherine whispered as she peeked at the cards held by the four people at the table.

"If the two baddies are here, he'll show you what a real card master is, and he can make this casino his own with a deck of cards. Rogge took a puff of his pipe and said with a smile.

Catherine looked at him in amazement, thinking of Locke's slender and dexterous hands, she couldn't help but nod secretly, and suddenly heard Rogge whisper in her ear: "Joseph is going to suffer, and the other two people are in the same group as the dealer." ”

Catherine followed his gaze to see a king of spades spread out in front of the dealer, and the other was pressed underneath, she looked back at Rogge with some confusion, and heard Rogge explain: "According to the rule 10JQK, it is counted as ten points, and the following card is the key, just now the dealer's two accomplices drew Joseph's attention and let the dealer change cards." ”

Before Rogge's words fell, the dealer lifted the card he pressed underneath, and presented an ace of hearts in front of him, and Rogge explained to Catherine in a low voice: "A stands for 1 or 11 points, which can be decided by the owner of the card at will, and ten points plus A is the perfect 'Black Jack', and the dealer will win." ”

"Oh my God, it's so despicable for them to cheat like this!" Catherine said with an indignant frown.

"The bookmakers in the casinos rely on cheating to win money, and the people who can really win money from them are just more clever cheating than them. Rogge smiled as he spat out a smoke ring.

Catherine suddenly realized "oh", saw the dealer take the bag of money in front of Joseph in front of her, opened the bag and took out a few silver coins to look at, looked up and asked him, "How is it, are you still playing?"

Joseph looked down at the two cards in his hand, and almost got blackjack, he gritted his teeth unwillingly, took out a bag of money from his body and threw it on the table, and said loudly: "Of course, I am not a person who casually admits defeat!"

"I guess too, only people like you will have good luck!" The dealer smiled and threw the bag of money he had just won on the side of Joseph's money bag, shuffling the cards and saying: "I won all the money just now, if you win this time, you can earn it back exponentially, I'm funny enough, buddy!"

Joseph looked at the two bags of money piled together and the pile of coins of the other two with great enthusiasm, and looked at the shuffled cards in the dealer's hand with great anticipation, and when he saw that the first cards turned over by the other three people were two, four, and five, he had a bottom in his heart, because the two cards in his hand were aces and sixes, and the total number of points could reach seventeen.

Joseph confidently held his cards and was not in a hurry to continue to play, he knew that the other three would probably continue to hit, hoping for the moment when their points exceeded the burst, but what he did not expect was that two of them did not admit defeat after asking for cards, which meant that their points were not exceeded.

This made Joseph feel pressured, and the dealer and the other man had three cards in their hand, but they did not exceed the score, so they probably had already surpassed themselves, and just when he was hesitant to ask for a card, the third person asked for a card.

Just when the dealer dealt the cards, it seemed that the hand of the card slipped a little, and a card under the card that was sent out was exposed to a corner, Joseph clearly saw that it was a four of hearts, and his heart was pleasantly surprised, if you add this four of hearts, your points can just meet blackjack!

He did not hesitate to ask the dealer to deal cards, the dealer did not hurry to pick up the card, suddenly picked up the top one and inserted it into the middle of a stack of cards, and said to the three at the same time: "Just now the hand slipped, the card was exposed, according to the rules that the card can not be counted." ”

After saying that, he threw the next card to Joseph, at this time Joseph suddenly ate coptis like a dumb man, there was suffering but could not say, he looked down at the card thrown in front of him, and prayed in his heart that the points would not burst.

When he lifted the corner of the card with a trembling hand and saw that it was a queen of spades, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and if the ace that had been used as eleven was counted as a point at this time, his total was still seventeen, although it did not increase, but at least it did not burst.

When the dealer asked again if anyone wanted cards, all the people present were silent, Joseph hesitated again and again did not dare to ask for new cards, can only wait with anxiety to open the cards, when all the cards were revealed, he saw that the dealer was twenty points, the other two were nineteen and eighteen respectively.

Annoyed, Joseph got up and walked away without tears, leaving the dealer and the two gamblers to look at his back and laugh secretly, they were smiling all over their faces as they collected the money on the table, and the dealer opened Joseph's purse and poured out the money inside and counted it.

"Why does this money smell weird?" said one of the gamblers, wrinkling his nose.

"I smell it too, and there is a strange smell of both purses," said the other gambler, frowning, "isn't that fool the cook of the Marquis's Court? ”

"Where is so much nonsense, what does it matter what the money tastes like, hurry up and clean it up!" the dealer gave them a blank look and said, and when the three of them were about to put the money away, one hand suddenly pressed on the money bag.

"Gentlemen, do you mind if I come and play a game?"

The dealer and the other two accomplices looked up at this old gentleman with a foreign accent, exchanged glances with each other, and the dealer smiled treacherously: "No problem, I don't need to introduce you to the rules, right?"

"I know your rules, but I want to play big. Rogge sat down in the chair where Joseph had sat before, and hooked his finger at Catherine, who was standing behind her, and Catherine placed five gold coins on the table with her small black lace gloved hands.

The three gamblers looked at the five yellow gold coins dumbfounded, and then looked at the pile of money piled up in front of them, which added up to the value of even one gold coin, the dealer hesitated for a moment and smiled at Rogge: "Sir, you bet so much, we don't have the money to follow!"

"It's okay, you put all your money down, I'll pay for it, and we'll pay for it both wins and losses. Rogge said unhurriedly, smoking his pipe.

The three gamblers exchanged glances when they heard this, smiled and promised to load up the money, and the dealer immediately shuffled and dealt the cards, and when the two cards were dealt to Rogge, he looked down at the cards in his hand, which were a two of hearts and a four of spades.

He calmly put down his cards and continued to ask the dealer for cards, a total of four cards, and when he raised his hand again to ask for cards, the three gamblers looked at the six cards in his hand with some surprise, surprised that he still did not exceed the points.

At this moment, a quarrel suddenly broke out at another table nearby, a gambler accused the dealer of hiding the cards, the two sides quarreled, and the dealer on Rogge's table took advantage of the opportunity to be attracted by everyone's attention, and secretly glanced at the cards that were about to be dealt to Rogge, and found that it was a plum queen.

He secretly sneered, knocked lightly on the table to pull everyone's eyes back, and sent the plum blossom queen to Rogge, thinking: Old guy, see if you don't lose a fine light now?

Rogge picked up the card from the dealer, looked at it with the other six cards, smiled and spread the cards on the table, and said, "I have won, gentlemen!"

The three gamblers looked at the cards he spread out in front of him in disbelief, only to see that the seven cards in front of Rogge were 10 points of clubs, 2 points of hearts, 4 points of spades, a square A, a number of 3 points of clubs, and a total of 2 points of spades, which added up to exactly 21 points.

"This ...... How could this be!" The dealer looked at the cards in front of Rogge dumbfounded, dumbfounded and speechless, Rogge smiled and stood up, grabbed five gold coins and Joseph's two bags of coins and said, "Thanks to you, my luck seems to be good, thank you." ”

After saying that, he took Catherine and turned away, leaving the three gamblers who were at a loss to sit on the ground and look at each other, and when the two left the hotel and turned the corner into an alley, Catherine couldn't suppress her curiosity and asked, "How did you do it?"