The first day of the lunar month.

Overcast and cloudy.

On this day, Mrs. Hu received a flying pigeon biography, and there were only a few sentences on the letter:

Ding knife

Age: Twenty-two

Origin: Unknown

Martial Arts: Unknown

Hobbies: gambling, drinking, women

First appearance: 1 month ago, Chang'an, Yichun Courtyard

Mrs. Hu crumpled the letter into a ball, and then gently rubbed it with three fingers, and the note was shattered into confetti.

"Call back the two groups of men who are watching the sentry and prepare as planned." This is an order issued by Eighth Master Hu. A gentleman who is addicted to gambling and drinking is not worth the waste of too much manpower by Master Hu.

Ding Xiaodao drank again, but this time it was not in Yipinju, but in Chunhualou.

Ding Xiaodao had been drinking flower wine in Chunhualou for two days, and he heard from Lao Qin from the grocery store that there was a new Oiran in Chunhualou called Chu Chu, and the long one was called a beautiful one. Half of the men on this street have gone home and secretly carried silver tickets to find Miss Chu Chu.

So, Ding Xiaodao also went to Chunhualou with a silver ticket. Those men who secretly went to Chunhualou with silver tickets hated Ding Xiaodao to death, because their silver tickets were not as big as Ding Xiaodao, and they were not as much as Ding Xiaodao.

Ding Xiaodao shot 10,000 taels, and then took 10,000 taels to charter the venue. All the girls in Chunhualou toasted around him, and even the old bustard Mama Chen took out the good wine at the bottom of the box and gave him a drink.

Miss Chu Chu is really a big beauty, and she looks really pitiful.

But when Ding Xiaodao woke up the next day and saw the Chu Chu girl sleeping next to him, he vomited, and even vomited out the overnight wine. He jumped out of the window and fled without even putting on his shoes.

After a long time, the girls in Chunhualou still said that they had never seen such a ruthless man.

Chunhualou couldn't go, Ding Xiaodao secretly regretted that the 20,000 taels of silver tickets were not worth spent, but fortunately, these silver tickets were won back in the Jufu Gambling House in Chang'an.

The thought of betting on him couldn't help but itch his hands again, and the sound of dice rolling seemed to sound in his ears. He still remembered that Lao Du said when he was drinking with him that when his hands were itchy, he would occasionally go to the Golden Hook Gambling House.

The Golden Hook Gambling House is still a few streets away from Chunhualou.

Ding Xiaodao casually bought a pair of boots and put a set on his feet, and walked leisurely towards the Golden Hook Casino.

He was like a playful child, and he had to stop and ask about anything new he saw, and before he had finished the street, he had several more things in his hand, a windmill, a paper horse, a lantern, a jar for crickets, and a birdcage with two thrushes. At the second street corner, he opened the cage and put the two thrushes away, and gave everything to a little girl.

Except for the small wooden knife in his hand.

It seems that all the toys in the world are not as fun as his little wooden knife.

The Golden Hook Casino is really magnificent, and the signboard with red letters on a black background in Phnom Penh is particularly dazzling under the afterglow of the sunset.

The Golden Hook Gambling House is not on the street, but on the outskirts of the city, and although there are many houses around, it seems to be uninhabited.

Jin Xiaodao was not in a hurry to go in, he was sitting under an old locust tree not far from the Golden Hook Gambling House at the moment, took off the boots he had just bought, shook off the dust, and slowly put them on, "It is said that the old does not go and the new does not come, but only the feet know whether the new fits or not, and most of the things in this world are like this." He looked up at the old locust tree and smiled.

This old locust is afraid that it has been around for two hundred years, and the tree pole is enough for three or four people to hug, and the branches are luxuriant and full of vitality. But the tree is not a man, how can he answer him?

Ding Xiaodao still stared at the dense canopy and smiled: "Your Excellency has been here with me from Chunhualou, and you still refuse to come down to rest?" ”

"If you don't come down, I'll have to climb up?" After saying that, he really started to take off his boots, and he really planned to climb up. Anyone who has ever climbed a tree when he was a child knows that he must climb this kind of tree with no branches at the bottom of the pole to climb it barefoot.

As soon as Ding Xiaodao's words fell, he saw a black shadow fly out of the canopy, a milk swallow threw into the forest, flew into the air and could still perform eight steps to catch the cicada's top light skill, a few ups and downs were already far away from twenty zhang, he saw that Ding Xiaodao did not chase it, suddenly a dry land onion, jumped up two feet high, and another harrier turned over and landed on a roof, looked back at Ding Xiaodao, and disappeared in a flash.

From afar, I saw that the black shadow was covered with a black scarf on its face. Ding Xiaodao didn't seem surprised at all, and muttered: "You have shown this supreme light skill, are you afraid that I don't know who you are?" Do you want to invite me to drink again so soon! ”

Ding Xiaodao thought to himself, doesn't this thief know my origin, but he doesn't seem to be hostile to me, is it friend or foe? Ding Xiaodao only felt a little big, one head was as big as two heads.

Whoever provokes this commonplace picking the moon will have a big head.

Sikong picks the moon and is known as the world's number one thief on the rivers and lakes, and it is not for nothing. A body of light skills has long been practiced. Ding Xiaodao thought that he would not necessarily lose to Sikong Jieyue, but Sikong Jieyue suddenly escaped for more than 20 zhang, and Ding Xiaodao knew that he would never be able to catch up.

If you can't catch up, don't chase it. Let's go and bet on two first.

Speaking of gambling, he thought to himself, if there is a chance, he must force Sikong to pick the moon to gamble lightly, as for the bet, hehe, he showed an evil smile on his face.

Two lanterns and two red lanterns have been hung on the gate of the Golden Hook Casino. There is a word "gold" on the lantern on the left and a word "hook" on the lantern on the right. The black seal script is particularly conspicuous. At this time, there were several more sedan chairs outside the door, and people were coming and going one after another. It must have been very lively inside.

It seems that all the gambling houses in the world are the same, smoky and miasma. From time to time, it is mixed with the screaming and scolding of women, and at this time it must be a man who has lost everything, thinking of taking advantage of it. These people were tired for a day, and finally avoided the yellow-faced woman at home, and took out the private money they had saved for an unknown amount of time to come out to have fun, they didn't gamble much, maybe it didn't matter to them whether they lost or won. Because their purpose is to have fun, and the next day after the pastime, they continue to run for life, although the women are scolding, but they always have a smile on their faces, shuttling around these men, they can also get a lot of tips in one night, but this is barely enough to support the family, so it is nothing to be wronged.

It was as if everyone did not dare to stop, as if there was a whip behind everyone chasing after them.

Life is a thick and long whip by nature!

There is no shortage of real gamblers in the casino.

Golden Hook Gambling House, like other gambling houses, has those who play pai gow, those who roll dice, and even those who bet on crickets. There is one gambler in the group of people who gamble on crickets, a real gambler!

This gambler turned out to be a commonplace, and he actually changed into a new clothes. He was afraid that others would not know that he was a rich man, and he wore a scarlet staff suit on him like a god of wealth, but a thin god of wealth.

Ding Xiaodao stood across from him, and he didn't even look at it, as if he had never seen this person before. His eyes were as wide as brass bells, staring at a box in front of him.

Even Ding Xiaodao began to find the box more and more interesting.

A long gaming table with a long wooden box in the middle of the box separated by a transparent gauze and a cricket on one side. It turned out that they were not betting on crickets fighting, but on which crickets cricked first, and the cricket that screamed first would win.

Sikong Picking Moon is doing the bank, this kind of gambling is both fresh and exciting, and how much to gamble at will, there are many people who gamble, and there are many people who watch, it seems that his luck seems to be good, and there are a lot of chips in front of him.

I saw him roll up his sleeves, put his hands on his waist, and shouted: "Come down, buy and leave......"