It didn't take long for Lao Wu to return to the gambling house with Wu Qiu'er.

Lao Wu still looked leisurely with his hands behind his back, only a big iron box in the arms of Wu Qiu'er behind him.

At this time, all the attention of the gamblers in the gambling house was on the sign, and no one noticed the departure and return of Lao Wu and Wu Qiu'er.

Shao Xi pointed to the iron box in Wu Qiu'er's arms and said to the shopkeeper of the gambling room: "Is there a point to calculate the gold shopkeeper here?" ”

The shopkeeper of the gambling house hurriedly got up and made a gesture in the direction of the back hall, which meant that he would talk about it later, this gambling house was full of people, and it was not suitable for the public counting of so much gold.

Shao Xi comprehended, and also replied to a gesture of invitation, and the two walked side by side, heading towards the back hall of the gambling house.

Those dealers and guys accompanied Lao Wu and Wu Qiu'er to walk behind.

Such a big bet, such a big sum of gold, everyone dare not be careless, once something goes wrong, it is not a joke.

Just as Shao Xi and the others were walking towards the back hall of the gambling house, the beggar standing in the crowd secretly moved his gaze from the sign to Shao Xi and the others, his eyes were a little complicated.

When Shao Xi and the others walked into the back hall, he also turned around and left the gambling house.

After everyone came to a large room behind the gambling house, the shopkeeper motioned for the man to guard the door, turned around and saluted Shao Xi.

said with a smile: "It's not that we can't trust the guests, it's just that the bets and payouts in the gambling house must be counted in person to avoid trouble later." ”

Shao Xi asked Wu Qiu'er to open the iron box, and also said to the shopkeeper of the gambling house: "The shopkeeper doesn't have to be polite, no matter where you go, you should abide by the rules. ”

The shopkeeper smiled and nodded, and glanced at the dealer beside him, who took out something from the cabinet that resembled a scale, but the balance was much larger.

He put the balance on the table, took out a piece of gold from the cabinet and put it on the tray on one side of the scale, and then turned around and grabbed the gold leaves from Shao Xi's iron box one by one and put them on the tray on the other side of the scale.

Shao Xi took a look, and had to admire that this gambling house really has everything, even this kind of thing is prepared in advance, it seems that the shopkeeper of this gambling house has gambled with others before, and even such a professional tool is always available.

Needless to say, the piece of gold that the dealer placed on the balance was used as a weight to determine how much gold was in Shao Xi's iron box.

When the shopkeeper saw Shao Xi staring at the scale, he thought that Shao Xi was suspicious of the balance and the gold nuggets in the tray.

So he hurriedly explained: "In order to ensure fairness, after the count, the guests can check whether our weighing instrument has been tampered with, including whether the piece of gold is real or fake." ”

Shao Xi just smiled and said nothing, of course he wanted to check it, how could such a large sum of gold be so-so?

It's just that there are some requirements that don't need to be put forward on their own initiative, and the gambling house shopkeeper, as a person who mixes up in the rivers and lakes, naturally understands this rule.

In fact, even if the shopkeeper doesn't say it, Lao Wu has been staring at the dealer at this time.

You can't have the heart to hurt others, but you can't have the heart to defend people.

Who knows if the gambling house will play tricks on that day?

Therefore, although Shao Xi didn't say anything, there were some things that Lao Wu was already doing for Shao Xi.

This weighing process comes in waves, because each time the gold leaf placed on the pallet at the other end has balanced the scale, it is placed in another iron box.

It wasn't until he weighed enough three thousand eight hundred taels of gold that the dealer stopped what he was doing.

Lao Wu stood beside him, and basically confirmed that the piece of gold he put on the balance should be a gold nugget of twenty taels, because every time the dealer grabbed the gold leaf into the tray on the other side, Lao Wu would silently count the number of gold leaves in his heart.

Each time it is twenty pieces, and the gold leaf is one or two pieces each, with this standard, every time the dealer puts the gold leaf into the tray, Lao Wu will silently count the number in his heart.

It can be determined that the dealer puts in twenty gold leaves each time.

After weighing it like this for a long time, it was a full hundred and ninety times, and finally three thousand eight hundred taels were weighed.

At this time, there were still a lot of gold leaves left in Shao Xi's iron box, and the shopkeeper of the gambling house was secretly surprised in his heart.

A young man came from afar with a little old man and a fat man as strong as a mountain of meat, and with so much gold with him, it seemed that he was not an ordinary merchant who had come to the Western Regions to do business.

With such a huge amount of gambling money in his hand, he must be someone who was invited by other gambling houses to trouble him, although he couldn't ask directly on the surface, but the shopkeeper still wanted to test Shao Xi's identity.

"According to the rules, I shouldn't have asked about the identity of the guest, but I was a little curious, the guest came from afar, and with so much gold with him, he didn't look like an ordinary merchant.

"Judging from the clothes, a few guests should be from the Central Plains, this Loulan country and the Central Plains are separated by thousands of miles, I don't know what kind of business the guests came to my Loulan country to do?"

Shao Xi glanced at Lao Wu lightly from the corner of his eye, only to see that Lao Wu's face had already shown a look of vigilance at this time.

This gambling house opens its doors to do business, and never asks about the identity and origin of the guests, which is a kind of Jianghu rule, and now the shopkeeper of this gambling house actually asks questions.

Although you can not answer, if you don't answer, there will be some misunderstandings that should not be there, but if you answer, you are afraid of being touched by the other party, so Lao Wu will be so vigilant.

As the saying goes, a strong dragon does not crush the head snake.

The three of them are just newcomers, and they are not very clear about the distribution of local forces, and if they are found out by the other party at this time, no one can guarantee what will happen next.

However, at this time, Shao Xi was an old god, and he was not in a hurry.

"I can do any business in the next place, as long as it is a profitable business, but the main purpose of coming to Loulan this time is to find an old man many years ago, but I haven't had time to inquire when I just arrived in Guibaodi."

When the shopkeeper heard that Shao Xi had come to find someone, he felt even more curious, a person from the Central Plains who came here from thousands of miles away was not just as simple as doing business.

To be honest, there are many things in this Loulan country, there is really no need to go so far to do business, if he is looking for someone, he has never seen that looking for someone will bring so much gold with him.

For a while, he couldn't figure out the purpose of these Central Plains people coming here.

Shao Xi said that he would do all business, in fact, he didn't say anything, so the shopkeeper wanted to continue to try, and the only topic was to find someone here.

"Oh? The guests came to Loulan Country thousands of miles away, but they still had to look for an old friend? I've been doing business in this Loulan Ancient City for some years, and I don't know who the guests are looking for. Maybe I'll be able to help the guests. ”

Shao Xi's heart was also moved when he heard this, what the shopkeeper said was right, as a local snake, he had opened a gambling house here for so many years, and he was very familiar with local affairs, maybe he would know the Afuzhele he was looking for.

Even if he didn't know him, at least he could find out something about Guan Yucheng back then.

"It's not a secret, the old man I came to look for this time is also a native of the Central Plains, but he came to this Loulan ancient city many years ago, and now after so many years, I'm afraid that no one should remember him anymore."

"Also a native of the Central Plains? Although there are also Central Plains people in this Loulan country, there are not too many, especially in this Loulan ancient city, I don't know what the name of the person in the mouth of the guest is? ”

Shao Xi understood that the other party wanted to use this to find out his own details, so he asked the bottom of it, anyway, what he said at this time, it was better to make up a set of nonsense and put some information from the mouth of the shopkeeper.

"The old man I want to look for is named Guan Yucheng, there is a name on the rivers and lakes that calls him the swordsman of Xicheng, and he once opened an inn in the ancient city of Loulan called Yao Ling, I don't know if the shopkeeper has heard of this person?"

As soon as Shao Xi's words fell, he saw that the shopkeeper of the gambling house sitting opposite had changed his face greatly, there were surprises, shocks, but more fear.

He looked at Shao Xi with fixed eyes, as if he wanted to find something from Shao Xi's face.

His lips trembled slightly, and the whole person looked tense, and even his voice trembled slightly when he spoke again.

"Who are you looking for? Is it Guan Yucheng? That Xicheng swordsman, Guan Yucheng, the shopkeeper of Yaoling Inn? Dare to ask the guest what is his relationship with him? Why did he come to Loulan to look for him? ”

Looking at the performance of the gambling house shopkeeper in front of him, Shao Xi really understood what it meant to be a tiger dying at this time.

Guan Yucheng has been dead for so many years, and he can't imagine that there are still people in this Loulan Ancient City who will behave like this after hearing his name.

It can be seen how famous Guan Yucheng was in Loulan Country back then, and how famous he was in the ancient city of Loulan, and what kind of deterrent power he had!

It seems that many of the people of Loulan should have heard of Guan Yucheng's name, and it is not an exaggeration to say that the people of Loulan still have a deep awe of Guan Yucheng.

Shao Xi's understanding of Guan Yucheng was all heard from Lao Wu, and he only knew that Guan Yucheng had a good reputation in this Western Regions.

But I never thought that just mentioning Guan Yucheng's name would make old rivers and lakes like the gambling house owner look panicked, as if the three words "Guan Yucheng" represented something terrifying.

"The shopkeeper heard it right, what I came to Loulan Ancient City to look for this time is the 'Xicheng Swordsman' Guan Yucheng, the shopkeeper of the Yaoling Inn, it seems that the shopkeeper knows my old man."

I saw that the shopkeeper of the gambling house hurriedly got up and saluted respectfully to Shao Xi, which was a bit unexpected by Shao Xi, and hurriedly got up and bowed to the other party.

"Why did the shopkeeper make such a big gift? You and I are only meeting for the first time today, do you really know the old man in my mouth? ”

The shopkeeper of the gambling house looked a little excited, and there were faint tears flashing in his eyes.

"I don't know if you can ask, what is the relationship between the guest and that Guan Yucheng? Why did you come thousands of miles to the ancient city of Loulan to inquire about his whereabouts? I also want my guests to tell us the truth, which is very important to me. ”

Shao Xi couldn't help but feel a little puzzled, if Guan Yucheng was only famous in the Western Domain, it would be understandable that some people would be a little excited when they heard his name, but the shopkeeper of this gambling house seemed to be a little too excited.

It seems that he has some unusual relationship with Guan Yucheng, could it be that he is also Guan Yucheng's old friend?

If that's the case, maybe you can really get some things related to Guan Yucheng from him.

"Guan Yucheng is a senior for Zaixia, and I was also entrusted to come to Loulan Ancient City to look for Guan seniors, it seems that the shopkeeper knows Guan seniors, I wonder if I can tell you something about Guan seniors?"

The shopkeeper of the gambling house was particularly excited at this time, and his voice trembled and muttered, "After so many years, finally an old man from the Central Plains came to look for him!" A generation of heroes died in a foreign country, but I couldn't do anything back then, and now I finally see his old man! ”

Shao Xi was overjoyed when he heard this, but he was also shocked in his heart.

Happily, the shopkeeper of the gambling house seems to know Guan Yucheng, and it seems that the two still have a relationship, otherwise he would never have expressed such feelings.

And it was his emotion that was shocked, and the person who could behave like this showed that the relationship with Guan Yucheng back then was by no means ordinary, and he seemed to know a lot about Guan Yucheng's affairs back then.

Otherwise, he would not sigh that he could not do anything about Guan Yucheng's death.

It seems that he found clues about Guan Yucheng on the first day he came to Loulan Ancient City, maybe the shopkeeper of this gambling house knows where Guan Yucheng's bones are, and knows where Avrelle is.

The shopkeeper asked excitedly, "I wonder who this guest is entrusted by?" ”

Shao Xi was a little unhappy at this time, and said in his heart that you asked me for a long time, why was it that I came to find someone like this?

So Shao Xi didn't rush to answer the other party's question, but asked, "I don't know what the relationship between the shopkeeper and Senior Guan is?" Don't know the shopkeeper's surname? Was it the old acquaintance of the predecessors? ”

Shao Xi's tone was very resolute, indicating that if you don't answer my question, I won't answer your question again.

The shopkeeper of the gambling house also seemed to realize that he was a little excessive, and hurriedly saluted Shao Xi again.

"I'm so sorry! I am really a little excited to see the old man who is the shopkeeper today, my name is Avrele, and I was the guy of Yaoling Inn back then.

"If it wasn't for the shopkeeper who saved me and took me in, I wouldn't be where I am today, when the shopkeeper's horizontal knife committed suicide, I had time to stop it in the future, and I still feel guilty!"

Speaking of this, he couldn't help but hide his face and weep.

Shao Xi was a little stunned by this sudden surprise, and said in his heart, I damn it! It won't go that way, will it?

I just arrived in the ancient city of Loulan, so I accidentally met the guy of the Yaoling Inn back then, Avrelle?

Originally, before coming to Loulan Kingdom, I was ready to look for it here for a long time, but I didn't expect to start looking for it yet! The person I was looking for actually appeared in front of me.

This is really nowhere to find the iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get it!

Shao Xi turned his head and glanced at Lao Wu, who nodded knowingly.

opened his mouth and asked Avrele: "I didn't think you were Avgere, then you must know where Guan Yucheng's bones are now, right?" ”