Chongnan Fang, Shuntian Gambling Square

The gambling house is very large, like a small city, with seven or eight wooden buildings interspersed, and there are pavilions, flower ponds and excavated waterways in the middle.

This is like a gambling house, more like a flower building, or a top flower building.

The three wooden buildings in the front row are three gambling buildings, and the front of the wooden buildings are engraved with huge wooden signs such as pai gow, dice, cockfighting, etc.

The gambling games in the Shuntian Gambling House are also divided into a variety of games, in addition to the classic Pai Gow dice, there are also relatively novel cockfights, fighting grasshoppers, and even fighting martial arts.

Because of its large area, good environment and diverse gambling games, Suncheon Gambling House has won the favor of many gamblers, not only people from the outer city are willing to come here, but also many people from the inner city have heard the news.

The fixed number of days of martial arts gambling every month can make this huge Shuntian gambling house overcrowded.

And all of this is from the handiwork of Gui Wanqiu, the shopkeeper of the Shuntian Gambling House, which has only been opened for a few years, and is now the invisible leader of the imperial gambling industry. A Shuntian gambling house in Chongnanfang, an inner city gambling house and six ordinary gambling houses have attracted gamblers at almost all levels from top to bottom, and they have divided half of the gambling shops in the imperial capital.

This made the Sima family, who has been in charge of the gambling industry for three generations, that is, Sima Delei, the vice president of the Blue Coat Association. and the white-horse gambling industry, which is known as a century-old brand, is hot, but there is no way to stop it.

This time, Gui Wanqiu united with the original White Horse Gambling House and the current White Horse Hall to play a game together, and the bets of the two sides were all the gambling houses in this Chongnan Fang.

For Gui Wanqiu, the gambling house in Chongnanfang is no less important than the one in the inner city, and the other six branches can only be regarded as additions. And for Sima Delei, half of his net worth in Chongnanfang is also extremely important.

The gamble was made by Gui Wanqiu and Sima Delei in the presence of the president of the Blue Coat Society.

At noon today, both sides will take their books to the president of the Blue Coat Club to flop and see who has won the game.

But Gui Wanqiu not only wants half of Sima Delei's net worth, she wants everything, and she is Sima Delei's status as vice president. Therefore, she did not hesitate to unite with Le Zhengyi, regardless of the rules, and killed Sima Delei. She knew that her move would definitely make the president of the Blue Coat Society angry, but she believed in her words and believed that her backer was strong enough. From the point of view of this game itself, she did win, and she did it completely according to the rules and won above board. With this righteousness in front of her, she killed Sima Delei just to relieve some future troubles in advance, and at the same time, she believed that her proposal to join the Blue Coat Society and replace Sima Delei would be approved by the president of the Blue Coat Society.

After all, the net profit of her gambling house is much more than that of Sima Delei, who wouldn't love real money? The president of the Blue Coat Society also relied on the power in his own hands and relied on his strong background to dominate half of the underworld in the imperial capital. Fundamentally, he's also in it for the money.

With these premises, Gui Wanqiu believes that her actions today will not only not cause trouble for herself, but will also be an excellent reason for her to become a top position.

"Fourth brother, hurry up, dare to arrive at the Blue Coat Club before noon!" Gui Wanqiu felt that the speed of today's carriage was a little slow, so she urged in a coquettish voice.

But there was no sound outside the carriage, and Gui Wanqiu's originally side-lying body immediately sat up, and the coquettish smile on her face gradually froze and dissipated.

"Fourth brother?" Gui Wanqiu asked tentatively and softly.

"Sit down!" Suddenly, the middle-aged man who was driving suddenly let out a low shout, Gui Wanqiu tilted her body, and her head hit the window frame on one side of the carriage, and before she could exclaim, the speed of the carriage under her suddenly increased, and she only felt that the carriage should have turned a corner, and then there was a screeching sound of the carriage rubbing against the wall.

Gui Wanqiu's face was pale, and she bit her lip tightly, she knew that something might have happened, otherwise the fourth brother would not be so nervous, and her tone would not be so harsh, and now she could only trust this fourth brother.

I believe that this big man who once dominated the underworld in the imperial capital.

Dodo...

This dull sound sounded from time to time outside the carriage, Gui Wanqiu couldn't hear what it was, but she could hear the sound of metal impacting, her face was a little ugly, and her lips were oozing blood because of the excessive force.

The carriage kept shaking, making a creaking sound, as if it might fall apart at any time, coupled with the sound of dooming from time to time, the sound of gold and iron clashing, and the dull humming of the fourth brother, all of this was like the sound of hell, enveloping Gui Wanqiu.

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Chongnan Fang Shuntian Gambling House

A big bald head, dressed in a pale yellow monk's robe, held a greasy and broken bowl with some broken silver and copper coins in it, and the copper coins also reflected oily shiny.

Although it is a little strange for a monk to appear in the gambling house, the gambler has never seen anyone, has not experienced any storms, and this kind of trivial matter is not as attractive as the broken silver in the monk's broken bowl.

The monk is only in his early twenties, and his head is shiny, so he should be well maintained. Although he wore a tattered monk's robe, with many stains, and many patches on his elbows and armpits, his face was very clean, his hands were greasy and black, but his face was white, and his lips were red and his teeth were white. Just looking at his face, he would definitely think that he was an outstanding young monk.

The young monk, who had a pair of sword eyebrows, stood all the time, and he turned around from the wooden building of Pai Gow, and then came to the wooden building where the dice were played. Several wooden buildings here have their own gambling games, which is different from the way other gambling houses stew in cauldrons.

Because of the obvious broken silver in the broken bowl, the guards in the gambling hall turned a blind eye to the young monk's behavior of wandering around and looking around.

As long as there is no trouble, the guards in the gambling house are almost wooden stakes.

Come to the wooden building of the dice, there are two floors here, the lower floor is sat by the gambling house to throw bones, and the upper floor is for gamblers to sit in the bank, and bet against the bones or other gamblers.

The young monk watched curiously at the gamblers guessing the size of the dice, watching the gamblers shouting almost frantically, his eyes showed his intentions, and his hand subconsciously reached into the broken bowl, grabbed the copper coin and put it down, grabbed it and put it down, making a wonderful sound of copper coins colliding.

The sound caught the attention of a broker among gamblers, an emaciated middle-aged man with a fox-like sly gaze in his eyes.

The middle-aged man rubbed his hands and came to the monk's side, and whispered, "Master, are you here to play too?" ”

The young monk's sword eyebrows suddenly relaxed, and his curious look suddenly disappeared, and he turned to a demented wooden appearance with four emptiness, and he said in a gentle and soothing tone: "The monk is just a red dust experience, seeing the eight precepts and six ways in the world, practicing the four major emptiness, Amitabha Buddha~"

The middle-aged broker was stunned at first, and was about to leave, but heard the young monk say again:

"This donor, may I ask, how is this played?"

The middle-aged broker raised his eyebrows and was about to speak, but he saw a big hand stretched out out of nowhere, and suddenly pinched it in the neck of the young monk, and the young monk was carried away by the big hand with a sigh.

The middle-aged broker raised his eyebrows and looked, but saw an ugly young Taoist priest in a Taoist robe, like carrying a chicken, carrying the young monk away. The young monk was still waving to the middle-aged broker, and kept saying:

"What is the way to play this dice, donor, tell the poor monk, tell the poor monk!"

The middle-aged broker looked at the monks and Taoist priests who had left the wooden building, and felt a little ridiculous, and snorted "Hell", and then returned to the gamblers and continued his work.

The gambling house guard next to the wooden building of the gambling house watched coldly as the Taoist priest left the gambling house with the monk, because the Taoist priest did not have any other outrageous behavior, nor did he disturb the other guests, so he did not meddle in his affairs.

The Taoist priest took the monk out of the gambling house, and the monk looked innocent, holding the broken bowl in one hand, and the broken bowl was shaking violently, but none of the copper coins inside were scattered.

The Taoist priest is also young, but he has a Chinese face, but his lips are very thin, small, and his big nose is a little collapsed. Ten people will say that this dignity is ugly when they see it, but the Taoist priest himself doesn't think it, his eyes are arrogant, and there is a sneer on the corner of his mouth.

"This morning's divination, the wealth is in the west, not in the east, which means that the monk gambling here today will only ruin his family." The Taoist priest glanced at the copper coin in the monk's broken bowl, and said something professionally as he walked out.

Leaving the monk outside the gambling house, the Taoist priest's plain face suddenly turned into an angry reprimand: "Taiping, I will accompany you to practice in Hongchen, not for you to go to the gambling house to gamble for money." What you have in this bowl is the money for the two of us these days, if you lose, what will we eat, don't you know how expensive the price of this imperial capital is! ”

The young monk was peaceful, he rubbed the back of his neck, his eyes crossed the Taoist priest, and still fell into the gambling house, and he said nonchalantly: "Okay, okay, I'm stepping on it, this kind of place in the gambling house should be a good place for the monk to do the way for heaven and rob the rich and help the poor." ”

The Taoist priest stretched out his hand to block the monk's sight, and said coldly: "Don't dream of being a bandit anymore, okay, you are a monk, a monk!" ”

The young monk Taiping was dissatisfied with the Taoist priest's arm, but he couldn't shake it, and the arm didn't move at all, as if it was cast from copper and iron. Unable to pull, the Taiping monk could only put down his hand angrily:

"Li Cundao, of course this monk knows that he is a monk, but you are a Taoist, why should you care about my monk's practice!"

The Taoist priest named Li Cundao snorted coldly and said: "Who let you spend all my money, Taoism does not have the means of charity of your Buddhism, before you pay me back, I must follow you." Naturally, I won't care about your monk's practice, but if you want to spend money indiscriminately, you just can't do it! ”

It turned out that this Taoist priest and a monk met before March, but because of some fate, the monk used the Taoist priest's money to do good deeds, and as a result, the Taoist priest became entangled with the monk, and the monk didn't care, saying that he wanted to learn from the mountain bandits, rob the rich and help the poor for the heavens, but until now, the monk has not robbed a rich man, and he can't help the Taoist priest this poverty, let alone the way for the sky.

The monk and Taoist priest were arguing at the door of the Shuntian Gambling House, and Liu Xin and Senior Brother Cheng also walked out of the Shuntian Gambling House at this time, they came to investigate the Shuntian Gambling Workshop, and by the way, they checked Gui Wanqiu. As a result, Gui Wanqiu, who was supposed to be here, happened not to be here today.

After seeing the Shuntian gambling house, Liu Xin couldn't help but sigh, that Gui Wanqiu is a good businessman, in this gambling house, he even recognized a hundred households of Jinyiwei, when reporting that day, Jinyiwei gathered in the imperial city, he saw this person from afar, it should be a hundred households of Nanzhen Fusi.

Even the hundreds of households in Jinyi have gambled here, so you can imagine how rich the guests of this gambling house are.

"I just found out that this Gui Wanqiu is betting against Sima Delei of the Blue Coat Club, today is the day when the gambling game opens, and at this time, they should be in the Blue Coat Club." Senior Brother Cheng didn't know when he heard the information, and he shared it with Liu Xin at this moment.

After he and Liu Xin entered the gambling house, they acted separately, Liu Xin was responsible for investigating Gui Wanqiu's whereabouts, and Senior Brother Cheng was searching for information about the Shuntian gambling house.

"What kind of organization will the Blue Coat be?" Liu Xin did not see this organization in the information given by the secret investigation team.

Senior Brother Cheng pointed to his feet and said, "There must also be a place under the feet of the Son of Heaven to hide dirt and dirt, commonly known as the underworld. Originally, there were several underworld forces in the imperial capital, most of which were entrenched in the outer city, and this Chongnanfang used to be one of the favorite places for these underworld forces. However, in recent years, this situation has changed, first of all, the Blue Coat Association merged Sima Delei, who is engaged in the gambling industry, Wu Wanyi, who is engaged in the black market business, and Chu Zhaoxin, who is engaged in the Qinglou business, in the form of a chamber of commerce. Let the three serve as the vice presidents of the Chamber of Commerce, while the mysterious president acts as a mountain, protecting them and their business. Then at the end of last year, the remaining underworld forces were cleaned up by a young man, and then Shanshui Zhai was established, and those underworld forces became branches under Shanshui Zhai. The nature of the Blue Coat Society and Shanshui Zhai is similar, but the president of the Blue Coat Society is the protector of the people below, and Shanshui Zhai heard that several families accidentally provoked the Zhai master, and the Zhai Lord forcibly merged them in order to punish them, and siphoned off all the profits. ”

"Quite interesting!" Liu Xin commented that with his vision, he naturally looked down on these low-level forces.

Senior Brother Cheng saw the indifference in Liu Xin's eyes, so he solemnly admonished: "The underworld forces in the imperial capital are not simple, and without the official backing of the imperial court behind them, it is impossible to survive in the imperial capital. And the fact that the president of the Blue Coat Society and the master of Shanshui Zhai can unify these forces shows that they have stronger backers behind them, or they themselves have a deep background. This point is incomparable to the Jianghu sect. Therefore, don't underestimate these underworld forces, although they are not strong in force, their appeal and influence far exceed those of ordinary Jianghu sects! ”

Liu Xin heard of such a situation for the first time, so he nodded suddenly, and the two of them happened to walk to the door of the gambling house at this time, since Gui Wanqiu was not here, then they planned to go back to the Baihu Office first, and then let people check it out.

When Liu Xin passed by the door of the gambling house, he saw a young monk and an equally young Taoist priest, standing at the door of the gambling house as if arguing about something.

The monk's lips are red and his teeth are white, his face is delicate, and his appearance is quite good, which makes people feel very affable at first glance, which is very important as a monk.

And although the Taoist priest looked a little ugly, Liu Xin saw something different. This young Taoist priest is steady, and after his arms are straightened, he can still do not move at all under the plucking of the monk, so he should have a good cultivation. Zhengyang's national religion is Buddhism, Taoism has been closed for decades, and if the Taoist priests walking in the world are not those fake and shoddy products, it is really as rare as a treasure.

And such a pair is even rarer, and it can be said that it is a spectacle to see such a pair at the door of the gambling house.

But Liu Xin didn't pay much attention to the two of them for long, because the chaotic sound of horses' hooves could be heard in the distance, as well as the angry scolding and exclamation of pedestrians after they hurriedly dodged.

The next moment, Liu Xin saw a carriage rushing over quickly on the street corner in the distance, and what Liu Xin cared about the most was that the carriage shed was filled with crossbow arrows. And Liu Xin's eyesight is excellent, and he can still see clearly after hundreds of meters, the man driving the carriage has a few crossbow arrows stuck in his body, and his robe and sleeves are full of dark red, which should be bloodstains.

The horse dragging the carriage was a little vague at its feet, and it also had crossbow arrows stuck in its body, and it was in a state of exhaustion.

Soon after the carriage appeared, on the roofs of the buildings on both sides of the street, several masked men in strong suits appeared, these people held crossbows in their hands, and they intercepted and killed them in broad daylight.

Rumble!

Immediately afterwards, another sound that Liu Xin was somewhat familiar with suddenly came from somewhere, Liu Xin's gaze swept away subconsciously, and his eyes suddenly fixed there.

The walls of a shop had been smashed open by life, stone chips were flying, and a burly figure eight feet tall burst out of the dust, wrapped in chains. With a wave of the giant's arm, a chain shot like a crossbow arrow into the carriage of the galloping carriage.

The groom grabbed the front of the carriage with both hands, and with all his might, he flew up into the air, kicking his legs violently, hitting the end of the chain with a thud. Then the groom returned to his original position with the help of his strength, shook his body and encouraged him to sit upright, grabbed the reins and jerked violently, and at the same time burst into the gambling house:

"The people in the Shuntian gambling house have come out for me, and the shopkeeper is in trouble!"

The giant retracted his chains, and rushed towards the carriage in great stride, and he lowered his body and raised his elbows against the carriage, intending to knock the carriage away.

But at this time, there were two figures quickly approaching the giant, these two people were dressed in regular clothes, holding a long knife, when approaching the giant, it was a knife that cut off the head and face, the knife light flashed, showing the great power of this knife, the giant's ears moved, and he didn't look at it, his left arm was raised, and the thick iron chain wrapped around the arm collided with the knife body, flashing a burst of sparks.

The person with the knife was none other than Liu Xin, and as soon as the giant appeared, he recognized that this person was the person who attacked him that day, the tenth master of the Northern Barbarians named Buhe. Liu Xin didn't have time to think about it, so he rushed out, but the saber in his hand was not the Jinyi Wei embroidered spring knife, because he changed into a regular clothes for a private visit, and the embroidered spring knife was not brought, he snatched it from the guards guarding the door of the gambling house.

The giant's power is still incomparable, and he forced Liu Xin back at will, and after he landed, he glanced at the knife in his hand, the blade had already appeared a few gaps, and the blade was also a little twisted, and it should be destroyed if it came again.

This knife is an ordinary weapon, made of stainless steel, which is already good, but in the hands of top masters like Bu He, it can still be destroyed at the touch of a button.

However, he only glanced at the knife in a hurry, and all his attention fell on the other figure who rushed out with him.

This person was wearing a yellow monk's robe, and his speed was not slower than Liu Xin's, but because he had no weapon in his hand, he jumped high and kicked at the giant, and at that time, Liu Xin's sword light had just been blocked by the giant, and the giant didn't have time to deal with the monk, so he hit the monk's foot with his head.

Bang!

The monk felt a huge force coming from under his feet, which made him unable to stabilize his body, and the whole person flew out sideways, and finally adjusted back when he landed, and with one hand, he slid to the ground.

Liu Xin and the young monk glanced at each other and saw the surprise in each other's eyes, but the two did not hesitate, and almost instantly rushed towards the giant again.

The giant glanced back at the two of them, the coarse cloth obscuring most of their faces, revealing only a pair of eagle-sharp eyes, and he waved his hand into the sky, and ran towards the mouth of an alley.

Liu Xin wouldn't let him run again, but suddenly there was a sound of breaking the air in the air, Liu Xin dodged, and three crossbow arrows were suddenly inserted into his original position, and the tail end of the crossbow arrow was still trembling.

The giant's speed was very fast, and it disappeared into the alley all of a sudden, and Liu Xin knew that he couldn't catch up, so he stopped.

Unexpectedly, the monk continued to chase after him, and soon disappeared into the alley.

Liu Xin couldn't take care of the giant at this time, and when he looked back, the carriage had already arrived at the door of the gambling house, and many people had rushed out of the gambling house when he heard the roar of the groom. The horse that pulled the carriage swooped twice, and then fell to the ground with a bang, and the carriage was so deflected that the groom, in a hurry, was able to pull a woman out of the carriage, and fell to the ground with the woman in his arms.