Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and where there are rivers and lakes, there are... Casinos.

The most famous place in the west of the city is not the field scenery all over the city, but the small gambling houses on the street, probably because of the reason why a lot of money is stuffed into the government, and no one comes to check on weekdays, and there are many gamblers who sell their wives and daughters on the spot, and gamblers who turn their faces and don't admit their accounts and want to leave are beaten half to death and thrown out are even more common, but the gamblers still rush to the gambling house one after another, and put the only money left on their bodies on the table, as if they can have everything in the next second.

People can't help gambling, there are a lot of gambling stalls on the street, and even a few days ago, Yan Wang will not enter Kyoto someone opened a handicap, the business of the gambling house is naturally understandable, provoke the curtain, scattered in front of the gambling table black pressed a figure, occasionally the old man smoked dry smoke in the air, and the smell of sweat to form an uncomfortable taste, there is no gambler frowned, eyes just stared at the dice cup in the hand of the dealer on the table.

There are a lot of gambling methods, grab a copper coin to bet on odds and evens, bamboo cards to compare pairs, and bet on the roulette wheel on which hole the beads fall into, but the most popular among gamblers is the size of the three dice in the banker's dice cup.

Every time the dice cup is shaken, scattered broken silver and treasure money fly onto the table, piled up into a hill in various areas, the small people who record the bets are dizzying, and the gamblers who can't wait are noisy and shouting, at this time the dealer has the ability to town, either to sweep the eyes slightly, so that these gamblers are honest, or to let the gambling house at the table hire a splash out to maintain order, so as not to change the bet or take the sheep - of course, if some children steal other gamblers' things, the gambling house generally does not care, Maybe some of those kids are the casino's own people.

When the bets were written down and the odds were calculated, the old man who had been the shopkeeper of the gambling house for decades made a look on the second floor, and the dealer opened the dice cup with understanding and announced the fate of different people:

"One, fifteen, six, twelve!"

Gu Nian in front of the crowd looked at the three dice of the same size but with different points on them, and there was a lot of noise around him, some people shouted happily and some people cried, and the broken silver on the table was quickly taken away, and then replaced by the banker's loss, and there was one hundred taels of silver from him.

My mind was a little drowsy, and I couldn't figure out what was going on - how could I open five big in a row? I don't believe in evil, the first one to lose doubled, pressed to the last one hundred taels on the body, I thought it wouldn't be big in a row, who knew that today's dice cup is not small?

The throat was very tight, so tight that he couldn't speak, the light and shadow in front of him flickered, and he couldn't tell whether it was a waving hand or a flashing figure, and the expressions on his faces looked a little grotesque and deformed, which made people feel very sick to their stomachs and want to vomit.

So he threw up.

The black-clothed scholar who followed Gu Nian was overwhelmed, and said that he was a brother and would definitely believe him, looked at him in surprise, and patted Gu Nian on the back intimately: "What's wrong?" Brother Gu didn't eat something unclean? ”

The smell of smoke and sweat in the air was quickly suppressed by the sour smell, the crowd dispersed, and the splashes in the gambling house came to drive people away, Ji Gang smiled and helped Gu Nian away, and patted him on the shoulder again when he saw that he was in a state of distraction: "The world is impermanent, where are the frequent winners at the gambling table?" Brother Gu should not be too entangled, today's gambling house is not good for Brother Gu, let's change it! ”

"It's gone... It's gone..."

"What?"

"I've lost everything," Gu Nian's face turned pale, clutching his neckline, as if he couldn't breathe: "I've lost it all." ”

"How old should I be, if I lose all of it, I will borrow it, and the others dare not say, the owners of these gambling houses will be sold in the next face, as long as Brother Gu speaks, keep his hands and serve... By the way, why don't you go to Huailailou for something to eat first? Let's go to the Qinhuai River again..."

"You don't know how much I borrowed?" Gu Nian's eyes turned red: "How many gambling houses have you taken me to in the past half a month?" How much money was borrowed? These hundreds of taels, these hundreds of taels... I'm taking my family's fields! ”

"The field is gone, and there is still a house, isn't it?"

"The house is also staked! Otherwise, how do you think these hundreds of taels came from today? ”

"Hiss..." Ji Gang rubbed his teeth, probably didn't expect Gu Nian to be so ruthless, "That's a little difficult..."

This kid is better at reading than himself, how can he gamble better than himself? Ji Gang now remembers the appearance of the eldest girl who didn't dare to look at the first time when he brought Gu Nian into the gambling house a few days ago, but now he dares to bet all his net worth.

The future is really limitless.

Gambling on this thing, the reason why it is easy to make people addicted, is not actually how big the return is, but the excitement at the moment when the mystery is revealed, the silver that takes many years to earn after studying and doing business may only take half an hour to earn back, who touches who is not confused?

But the truth is very cruel, accustomed to this kind of stimulation of getting rich or destitute, and then trying to forget all this to honestly test for fame and farming and business to make money - maybe you will think when you are studying, when you are talking about business with people, when you swing a hoe, you will think, if your mother had bought the opposite at that time, wouldn't her net worth have doubled? Why do you have to struggle so hard here?

Gu Nian's kid was lucky, when he first entered the gambling house, he played less, he bet consistently, played three or four games, and won all of them, and when Ji Gang called him up to the gambling house the next day, the resistance was obviously much smaller, and I don't know if Gu Nian was stunned for a few big money when he went back at night.

Think about it, I have been managed since I was a child, I am used to being called and embraced by others, I read well and read well, and I follow Fang Xiaoru to learn Zhou Li, where is the time to contact gambling this kind of thing? It's okay when I didn't know it before, but once I got it, even if I held it at the beginning, I couldn't read it if I couldn't see Mr. these days, and I couldn't read it with my eyes closed, so it was better to relax my mind, and it was easy to fall into it.

What's more, there is a Ji Gang on the side who is pushing the hand... Losing the doubling bet is what he taught, anyway, he has been in the gambling house for so many years, and in the end, none of them can get out of the gambling house well, either evaporating from the world or begging on the street.

Calculate that Gu Nian this kid is so ruthless, and his family fortune is almost defeated, and that person's order is almost at the door... You can't let that Fang attendant in the court still have a chance to save this kid.

Ji Gang patted Gu Nian's shoulder and smiled very warmly: "It's okay, the daughter is scattered and will come back, what kind of character is Brother Gu?" Where is the need to worry about these, let's go to Qinhuai River to relax and relax, then Miss Qin Hong has been waiting for Brother Gu, it is all recorded in the account of the younger brother! ”

He lowered his voice and leaned closer: "Besides, there are so many gambling houses, don't we have anyone who hasn't been there?" How did they know if Brother Gu had taken the house and land out of the house? When the time comes, Brother Gu will raise funds, bet on it, won't he turn over if he wins? ”

Ji Gang's tone was meaningful: "How can there be children crying every day, how can we lose every day, there is no such reason in this world, yes or no?" ”