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"Distinguished guest, you won four thousand four hundred taels of silver before the last game, and the result of the last game was indeed a leopard. According to the rules, we should pay ......"
Ning Que smiled: "I know the rules, the payment must be doubled."
This sentence is equivalent to giving tens of thousands of taels of silver to the silver ditch casino. As a result, the expression on the manager's face suddenly becomes more gentle when complimented. "What a generous friend you are! In this case, I have decided to give you a round of two silver on my own responsibility to thank you on behalf of the casino and the owner,"
The manager said very politely and kindly. An enemy who had witnessed his cowardice and cruelty before would have been surprised to see him so polite to a gambler who had just won ten thousand taels of silver from him.
After a while, the casino had already exchanged all of Ning Que's bets for bills. With a stern look, he immediately stopped Sangsang's shining eyes and the movement of her prepared counting notes. However, he looked at the number 1 on a pile of banknotes, and it automatically made his lips feel a little dry.
The manager smiled and said, "You are welcome to play here at any time."
"You're so nice."
Ning Que obviously knew what the manager meant, although the manager didn't say it directly: since they were friends, they wouldn't gamble, so "welcome at any time" meant the opposite, which showed that they wouldn't be welcomed at the Silver Ditch Casino.
When Ning Que was about to leave the Silver Ditch Casino with Sang Sang, the manager seemed to have only one thing in mind. He smiled and said, "If you still want to enjoy gambling today, I have a good suggestion. Recently, a new casino converted from Lord Junjie's pawnshop opened in Westside. That would be a great destination.
The hidden meaning behind these words is very obscure. The manager thought that the lad must have a strong background and could understand what he meant. However, he didn't realize that Ning Que, who didn't have any strong background, instantly understood what he meant when the name "Junjie" reminded him of Zhao Xiaoshu's introduction in the Spring Breeze Pavilion that night.
At present, the Ichthyosaurus Gang has ruled the gangster world in Chang'an. Junjie-sama is finished, and his pawnshop has been converted into a casino. Just like the current Silver Ditch Casino, there is no strong backer behind it. Since you Ning Que dare to win so much silver in the Silver Ditch Casino, why don't you win again in Xicheng?
The manager stood by the window and watched the young master and the maid walk in the direction of Xicheng, gradually disappearing into the darkness of the night. He couldn't help frowning and shaking his head, his heart full of unwillingness and anger.
The middle-aged dealer opened the door and walked in with the heavy big dice box. Looking at the manager's back, he sighed after a moment of silence. "That young man is really a cultivator."
The middle-aged dealer is an excellent gambling king from the Great River Kingdom hired by Lord Meng before. He was mainly responsible for controlling the entire operation and rarely showed his strength. Today he was forced to play in person, but was still completely lost. Usually, the bookmaker in a gambling game has a big advantage in playing dice. He believed that if he were a banker, no one in the world could defeat him, and no trick would escape his eyes. Therefore, it is clear how this lad managed to beat him.
His facial expression became even more pale and terrifying, as he recalled that although he had made a leopard in the last game, he did not dare to open the dice box for the sake of the casino's reputation. Then he shook his head and said, "Even if he is a cultivator, we are too generous to him.
"Master Meng is dead. The reason why our casino was able to reopen was because Mr. Chen in the palace took pity on the orphans and widows left behind by Lord Meng, as well as other living guys. Now that we have to live a low-key life, how dare we create a riot? What's more, as you know, the young man is a cultivator, what else can we do?
After reprimanding the dealer in a low voice, he suddenly grabbed the black dice box on the table and smashed it directly to pieces. In the broken dice box, a golden mezzanine can be seen with some faintly carved patterns.
"There is a golden mezzanine engraved in the dice box with the word Fu engraved on it," the manager said sullenly. "Since the young man can see through the dice box, at least he is a cultivator in his true state. Do we have a better solution than to give him a few baskets of silver?
The middle-aged dealer was stunned. He ran the casino all year round and made a lot of friends. Although he was an ordinary person, he also knew the rank of a cultivator. He couldn't help but wonder, could it be that this young man had already entered a state of doubt?
"Why would such a character come to the casino?" He said angrily. "Now I really doubt that he dares to be so unscrupulous in Xicheng. Although Master Junjie was dead, some ordinary cultivators still didn't have the courage to provoke the backers of the new casino.
The manager did not reply to the dealer's words. He just stared at the dice box fragments, the golden mezzanine and the Fu characters on the table. Seeing these things, he gradually became indignant, and then muttered, "Since the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, I have rarely heard of cultivators making money by cheating casinos, because this is really a shame for cultivators.
"As a cultivator in his true state, he is not meditating in the sect, not communicating with his companions, but traveling around the mountains and rivers and sensing the breath of nature, but going to the casino to gamble incredibly! What does he want to do?
The manager whispered, looking up at the darkness of the night through the window. "He's just bullying people."
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Before entering the Silver Gully Casino, there was only a paper star on Sangsang's old belt, on which was folded a note of two taels of silver. But now, it's become a thick pile of notes. Although her waist looks ugly and the notes are bulging, she doesn't care at all and even lets out some innocent laughter from time to time.
"Young Master, are we really going to the casino in Xicheng now?"
"Of course. This method of making money can only be used once, so it is enough for us to make a fortune at once.
Usually, people like Ning Que, who have experienced many life-and-death situations before, should know when to stop. However, he has been poor for a long time. So, when he found such a good way to make money today, he couldn't help but continue to use it - just like those poor villagers, although they had been herding sheep in the west of the Yuelun Kingdom all their lives, they couldn't eat mutton, and then suddenly found a treasure bottle, and the sheep could keep jumping out of it.
Although in the prosperous Chang'an, 10,000 taels of silver is undoubtedly a huge amount of money, but in the grassland, this money is enough for the horse gangs around Shubi Lake to commit suicide in the case of Ning Que's move. And if it is in Weicheng, the property will prompt those middle-aged women who want to make Sang Sang as their daughter-in-law ignore Ning Que's mood and directly rush into Ning Que's house to rob Sang Sang.
The thick stack of notes directly made Ning Que's mind dizzy. Even Sangsang, who has a thin and flat chest, is full of passion and enthusiasm at the moment, and can't wait to sweep all the casinos in Chang'an.
Unsurprisingly, there is a new casino in the West Side with significantly newer and larger branding and décor than the Silver Groove Casino. Knowing that this casino was changed from Master Junjie's pawnshop, Ning Que took Sang Sang directly into it without fear.
As expected, Ning Que maintained his propensity to win. In addition, with more experience and bets, he won with determination at a faster pace. Soon, the facial expressions of the dealers in the new casino quickly turned red. After some discussion, the casino invited Ning Que to play a new game in the inner room in a polite but slightly threatening manner.
Anytime, anywhere, if the casino doesn't cheat, Ning Que will always win.
When he almost squeezed the new casino into a weak casino, the backer of the casino finally couldn't bear it anymore.
A strong man in a turquoise robe, turquoise boots, and turquoise hat looked coldly at Ning Que at the table, and then said in a deep voice: "Friend, Mr. Qi admires you very much and wants to invite you to some tea."
At this time, a slender man in a thin turquoise robe was enjoying the natural wind at the top of the West City Gate. Since he was thin, his turquoise robe looked like it hung from a bamboo pole and made a constant sound every time the night wind came.
On the sweltering summer nights in Chang'an, people can feel very uncomfortable. In some wealthy families, the maid uses a fan to cool the owner, and ice cubes can also lower the temperature in the house. For ordinary families, they can only open the door and lie half-naked on the bamboo bed in the alley. As we all know, the higher you go, the cooler the night breeze gets. However, the really tall Tang Dynasty palaces and magnificent city walls are certainly inaccessible to the masses.