The gambling of the Song Dynasty was rich and colorful, including balls, chess, dice, fighting birds, Guan Pounce, etc., and the participants, from the scholars and emperors, down to the ordinary people, and even the ruffians and scoundrels, can be described as all-encompassing. Everyone knows Ouyang Xiu and Li Qingzhao are all good among them.

Ouyang is no stranger to ball games, he has broken multiple peripheral groups, but these peripherals cannot manipulate the game. Ouyang is just pure gambling nature. In Ouyang's view, the gambling technology that cannot manipulate the game is not high, and he loses four times out of ten.

Chess Ouyang is very unfamiliar, and chess only has basic rules. Betting entirely on the reputation of the two, he admits that he has a sixty percent loss.

Fighting birds are rare in modern times, Ouyang doesn't know much, and the loss is not small.

Guanpu can only be held on New Year's Day, the Cold Food Festival and the Winter Solstice. At the beginning of the Song Dynasty, the management of gambling was very strict, and it was basically a cut of words. Later, the emperor became so passionate about gambling that the law became a dead letter. Especially in the late Northern Song Dynasty, where Ouyang lived, it was common for folk officialdom and literati to gamble on words. In the Yuan Dynasty, it was even more terrible, and the emperor decided that the promotion of officials was to throw dice on the main hall.

Dice also have bet sizes, but the popular way to play for upper-class characters is to walk the chessboard, similar to the current flying chess. has money and identity to use beautiful women as chess pieces, which is quite lewd.

Only the last type of Ouyang feels the most sure, that is, coin gambling. The first one takes a bunch of money and shakes it, buying one, two, three, four. After opening the last four for a group of points, the remaining few in the end is a few, this gambling method is called money. There is also a kind of money throwing, which is the positive and negative sides that children can play with now.

Although Xincheng County is a small county, it also has two gambling houses. However, compared with the scale of more than 100 gambling houses in the capital city of Bianjing, it is a small thing.

Ou Ping said nervously: "Little master, Mr. said that gambling is the root of all evil. ”

"On the first day of the Lunar New Year this year, Mr. and I squeezed a table." Ouyang explained: "You wait outside, if I don't come out after an hour, go find the eldest young master to save me." ”

"But ......"

"Listen to me, there's nothing wrong with that." Ouyang took a look at the signboard of the gambling house: Four Seas Gambling House. I smiled in my heart, I don't know if I, a modern person, is good at gambling, or an ancient person is more magical. Ouyang is not good at gambling, because he has hardly seen anyone who has made a fortune from gambling, and he has never seen any casino boss who will end well.

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Fat sheep! Ouyang opened the curtain and entered the gambling house, and dozens of people present read a noun at the same time. Seeing that he is not very old, his face is like jade, his clothes are smooth, and his black hair is clear, it is obvious that the young master of which family is curious to come here again to have fun.

A guy immediately stepped forward: "What do you want to play?" ”

"What's easier?"

Sure enough, it's a chick! The guy greeted with great joy: "Childe might as well play with money." Take a look. A dealer will know, grab a handful of copper coins in an urn into the bowl, and the two bowls will start to shake. The bowls are placed, and the player bets on one, two, three, and four. The dealer opens, pours the money on the table, and then uses chopsticks to spread the copper coins every four, and finally there is a two. Then it is two or three times the loss, double the loss, and the bet or one, three, and four chips are eaten.

What a clumsy technique, Ouyang could see at a glance that the dealer was out of thousands. Hidden in its rolled sleeves is a copper plate, which is slightly bent up and down with its arms facing back, and falls into the bowl under the cover of its arms, mixed in the pile of copper coins. This technique can only hide one copper coin, and there will be a sound if there are more. That is, the dealer is willing to pay a lot of snacks, as for how the dealer knows the number of copper coins caught, maybe the problem is in the urn, maybe the dealer can rely on the weight to judge, this Ouyang can't see it for a while.

If you don't pay a thousand, even if you don't make a thousand, this young master will win. Ouyang smirked and said, "This is fun." ”

"Childe, please sit down, and the little one will pour you water."

Ouyang sat down, grabbed his head and took out a handful of money from the money bag, then counted, took out two hundred Wen, and put the rest back. The dealer began to shake the money, and when he finished putting the bowl on the table, he said: "Buy more and lose more, buy less and lose less, bet." ”

One person: fifty wen. Two people: 300 Wen. Three: 300 Wen, 4 Wen: 30 Wen. Ouyang took a light breath of cold air, is it one or four this time? Is it single or double? Look down on gamblers again, ya, it turns out that the third position is To! Big brother, please be professional, see how shabby you are dressed, but after these three hundred words, there seems to be no desire to see the result at all.

Now it's in the 1st, 3rd, and 4th positions. Ouyang shook his head lightly, gambling is not as simple as he imagined, especially since he only knows modern gambling equipment. Only now do I understand the words of an old man, why the simpler the bet, the more impossible it is to make a thousand. Two single pairs, young master, I am not without courage. Ouyang took out two hundred wen and put it on the list, if the store is shrewd, the first one should let his fat sheep win.

"Open!" The dealer fiddled with it and shouted: "One, lose a single and eat double, lose one, eat two, three, four." ”

No, the risk is too big to control. Ouyang stood up: "It's noisy, there is no place to clean up." ”

The guy on the side immediately said attentively: "It's better to try the size of the child." ”

"Oh?"

The guy led Ouyang to a private room, which was very clean. There are four people at a table, a banker, a young woman with Fengyun, a ** who sits on the bench, and a middle-aged man who looks like a businessman.

Guy introduced: "Three dice, the leopard is the largest, and the loss is double." If there is four four four, it is one point. Out of four, four, six, it's six. If there are no pairs of three, it is no point. ”

"Okay, that's interesting."

"Childe plays slowly."

The young woman played with the dice and said, "Childe, we don't have the ones we always don't play." ”

"I have, I have a lot of consistency!" Ouyang took out 800 Wen, and then put on the 200 Wen he had just won.

"Lao Jiu, let's start then!" The young woman threw the dice in the bowl.

"Sanniang said to start, of course it starts." The dealer Lao Jiu said: "Everyone bets." ”

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It turns out that the dice can be controlled by people. The first kind of inferior, most shameless and most easy to be beaten by others is to press the required points in the palm of your hand, and then pop them out with the help of finger power, and the dice fall into the bowl without bounce or jump. The second uses the rough edge of the bottom of the bowl to control the number of times the dice roll. Ouyang only has one kind, and it is also the most difficult one to learn, which is called hitting the dice. That is, the dice do not hit the bottom first, but touch the edge of the bowl and then bounce back to the other side, and finally land on the bowl. It seems to be very lively, and the dice are about to jump out. But in fact, there are up to three jumps. And these three times are all bouncing with faces, so you can control the number of points.