Baizhu Town is backed by Baiya Mountain, the climate is pleasant, and the East River flows slowly in front of the town, telling the beauty and tranquility of this thousand-year-old town.

The town is not big, and there are not many people, but there is only one main street, but there are many alleys, like the legs of centipedes, on both sides of the main street. Seven or eight Zhuangzi are located around the main street. Double-day fair, because the trade road passes through the town, so the day of the market is particularly lively. On the main street, there are all kinds of buying and selling, selling a lot of money, and bartering even more. In addition to foreign merchants, people basically know each other, even if they are not familiar, they can probably be named, but they can't be named, and they also know who lives in that Zhuangzi, who is related to whom, and what glory and troubles have been. This is the case with people in small places, who make ends meet by exchanging ideas with each other, and the daily pleasure is to find someone to praise or ridicule. Chewing on the root of the tongue invigorates qi and blood, and reversing gossip can keep the mind flexible, after all, it takes some imagination to depict a sesame seed as a watermelon, or simply create something out of nothing. Whoever has outstanding imagination can stand out in the group of small talk, and become the focus of a hundred birds and a phoenix and a moon in this period of time. There is only one fun in Baizhu Town these days, no matter how many people are tied together, they are all talking about one thing - Bai Wei, the eldest son and eldest grandson of the Bai family, who used to be a big family in the town, was choked to death when he ate.

Bai Wei was born ugly, his skin was as yellow as wax, and his original family was also well-off, and he was the eldest son and eldest grandson of the Bai family, the largest hunter in the town. The Zhang family is in the furniture business, and the Bai family hunted wild beasts, skinned them and handed them over to the Zhang family. The Zhang family's animal skin Taishi chair's business has actually reached the state capital, so even the business with the Bai family's animal skin has also reached the state capital. When the spring was just in the early spring, the Zhang family brought a large family in the state capital, saying that they wanted two tiger skin Taishi chairs to ask if they might get tiger skins. If you want to be in a hurry, you will have to see the goods in half a month, and the animal skins are not completely dried, as long as you can see them in half a month, how much money you want, and only a deposit will be given a hundred taels of gold. The Bai family saw that if this business was completed, even Bai Wei's future grandchildren would be able to lie down and eat for a lifetime, and they would have to work hard to eat it all to eat. The uncle of the Bai family thought that the big insects on Baiya Mountain were not a hundred but eighty, and he could hunt a few every year, what kind of difficult thing could this be! Give so much money! Although it seems to be urgent, the half-moon period is more than enough for your own family. If you are lucky, you may see two people walking as soon as you enter the mountain, and you will return in three days. In total, even if the contract is signed, if you can't see the goods for half a month, you will lose all your wealth and compensate the other party. When the big family heard the great joy, they said that if they were one day early, they would give an extra hundred taels, and five days earlier, they would give an extra thousand taels! Just don't miss the big thing. When Uncle Bai heard it, this is worth it! The other party is so open, let's be happy, and even say that the officials can rest assured! It will not be wrong! With a stroke of the pen, the contract added: "Half a month will return, and the head is guaranteed!" If you don't see the two tigers, the whole family will die. After writing the "pop", he pressed the handprint, and a mouthful of old phlegm was loud, and Bai Wei's father took the second father and the third father, and followed the most experienced second and fourth masters into Baiya Mountain, which can be described as "elite", vowing to return from tiger hunting within seven days. and made an appointment for seven days, and if you can't hunt, you will let people send letters out. Early in the morning of the eighth day, the Bai family looked at the path of the Baiya Pass from afar, and when the fog cleared, no one returned. The always steady uncle couldn't sit still, so he sent the third master to take all the middle-aged men in the family into the mountain to look for him. Five more days passed, and not one of them came back.

Time is fair, and the time will come. Never pause, never delay. He fears no one, and he does not pity anyone. Whether you need it or not, you won't get a little more than others. If you are experiencing pain, it will not pass for a moment. The half-moon period brought the anger of the big families in the state capital, and the big families were big in the end, not only to use the lives of the humble people in their eyes to soothe the emotions brought about by the fact that they could not change, but also to try to recover the losses. After the uncle endured the humiliation and scattered the family wealth, he finally kept the only remaining bloodline, and several younger brothers of Bai Wei's generation who did not enter the mountain were used up as Liwei's tools in the process of threatening the Bai family uncle to sell his house and land, leaving only Bai Wei's lone seedling, the ugliest seedling. He was able to survive because he amused the executioner by his appearance, and he must leave it to his master, who will be there in a moment. After the uncle sold all his family property and entered the door with a stack of silver tickets, hugged the corpse on the ground and grabbed the sky, the big family finally swept away with a few slightly beautiful Bai family girls. Before leaving, he threw down a tael of silver: "Old man, don't say that we are all killed, we have always been talkative, but we just acted according to the contract, and now we not only left you a piece of incense, but also left you some capital to help your grandfather and grandson make a comeback." I'll leave a line today, and we'll see each other in the future. And then there is such a win-win business, and we can still cooperate with each other. ”

Bai Wei hurriedly crawled over and picked up the silver and put it into his shirt. He's lustful and a gambler. It is important to know that both of these are also inexpensive. Looking at Bai Wei, who stood on tiptoe and avoided the corpse stumps and went out, Old Man Bai hoped that he could catch up with him a little bloody and do not take revenge for himself, even if he was stabbed by others, it would be like destroying the door anyway, and the family was neat and tidy underground. But his tearful old eyes were blurred after all the back of the alley where the gambling house was located, and the crotch of the back was still wet mixed with some pale yellow.

Uncle Bai and the steward of the Zhang family left a letter, and they had nothing else to ask for, only to take care of the last bloodline, if possible, let Bai Wei leave a seed for the Bai family, and after the fact, they entered Baiya Mountain, and they also never came back. The Zhang family is also righteous, or they feel that the fall of the Bai family has something to do with themselves, if it weren't for him to pull the strings and plot the tiger's skin, there would be no such disaster. But then I was relieved, how can it be counted like this, if it is so related, then it can only be blamed on why your ancestors went hunting and didn't strike iron, if your family is an ancestral blacksmith, I want the tiger skin to find you to do something. Take money to do things, rely on your ability to do work, you can't blame anyone if you can't take it, and no one has a knife on your neck to force you. Just help him this time! Let's have peace of mind! A few acres of land were purchased on the edge of Zhuangzi, and a few tiled houses were built for Bai Wei to eat, live and work. In less than a month, he told Bai Wei that he would have a daughter-in-law, hoping to fulfill the deceased's last wish. It's just that in less than a month, Bai Wei paid his daughter-in-law to gambling debts, and the Zhang family didn't get angry after the old lady Zhang learned about it, but only said that Bai Wei's life and death had nothing to do with the Zhang family in the future. When Bai Wei sent his wife to the creditor's house, he also came back with half a lot of money, and Bai Wei, who was happy, only felt that he had taken a big advantage, and he was in a good mood, so he beat a pound of loose wine, bought half a roast chicken, and gnawed the roast chicken clean while walking and drinking, thinking about how to ask the old man of the Zhang family to use the title deed as money. Passing by the old mansion in a swaying way, the door was open, and someone seemed willing to buy the house, and he could see a broker he knew who was walking around with a young man observing the scenery in the courtyard, and pointing at his house. Such a wolf-hearted person actually saw things and thought about people, poured a big sip of wine, smacked his lips and said: "I miss my Bai family, and I am chic." I also had fine clothes and food, and I also threw a hundred taels of one night to have a good time, and I didn't even smell this kind of wine, phew! If it weren't for the fact that the elders in the clan were blind, greedy and ignorant, and made a wrong decision to cause such a catastrophe to the family, how could I, Bai Wei, end up in such a field today! At the gambling table, you have to bet a few dollars and taels with the poor ghost. Bah! "The voice became louder and louder while talking to himself, and he was so angry that he threw the wine jug on the ground, but it didn't break, but he spilled a lot of wine, and he picked it up again and took a sip." Fortunately, I have always had hands and feet, and under self-reliance, I even have wine and meat every day, and my father and grandfather actually said that I could starve to death if I left the Bai family for a few days, depending on how many bowls of rice I ate at the last time when I went out! Bah! Bumped into a person in a haze, Bai Wei fell to the ground: "This time I want to die, without twenty taels of this waist will definitely not be cured, the daughter-in-law I just married is about to stay, this is good, delay Lao Tzu's inheritance." ”

There has always been only the old man blackmailing, and today the young man finally raised his eyebrows in front of the old man.

Hehe, Xiaoyou, wasn't your daughter-in-law sold by you? As soon as the old man's words fell, Bai Wei got up.

"Who are you, old man? You can recognize me Bai Zhu Xiaobawang. Bai Wei said with a blowing nose.

"But the children in the town who cleaned up crying dad and shouting mother, the little overlord of Baizhu who was wiped out when he was wiped out the day before yesterday?"

Bai Wei was a little surprised: "Who are you, how do you know everything." How I don't know you, it's even more eye-catching. ”

"Old decay is just passing by here today."

"And how do you know everything?"

"Count." The old man said lightly, brushing his white beard, quite a bit of fairy wind bones.

"Can you pinch it?" Bai Wei seemed to be a little unconvinced, "These are all things that are spread all over the town, as long as you pass through here, you can know without asking." Phew, this bird place, no one can do it. Die poor and die poor, eat and wait for death, people are not busy, and their mouths are not idle! ”

"You paid your wife twenty-two taels of debts, and after sending it away, you spared half a copper coin, three hundred and twenty wen for one pound of wine, and seventy wen for half a roast chicken, and now there is one hundred and ten wen left." The old man squinted at Bai Wei, who was stunned: "These, does anyone know?" ”

"Ahh Ahhh Bai Wei slapped his greasy mouth twice, and hurriedly gave a salute: "Don't blame the old fairy, the villain is drunk and vain." Hurry up and ask the old fairy to help me calculate the big bet tomorrow? Buying a banker and buying leisure? He grabbed the sleeve of the old man's coat, as if grasping the hope of reviving the family.

"You are a blessed person, the heavens will descend on you, now is the time to suffer your mind, grind your body and skin, if you survive the past, glory and wealth, fame and fortune do not need you to take, roll out." People who are unfortunate often comfort themselves in this way, and people who want to get something for nothing believe in pretentiousness, so the old man's words are deeply recognized by Bai Wei, and he feels that the old man is really accurate, and he is that kind of person.

"Dare to ask the old fairy, I have endured all the hardships of the world and experienced tribulations, when will this suffering be a head?" Bai Wei thumped his chest and sobbed.

"Let's go! Cease! Cease! Since you and I have met, it is fate, and the old man will help you get through the current difficulties. The old man seemed a little unbearable.

"Thank you! Thank you, old fairy! If I can turn over, I will definitely make a golden statue of the old fairy. Bai Wei spoke incoherently excitedly, and began to kowtow like pounding garlic before he could see any benefits.

The old man picked it up: "You go out tomorrow at noon, spend ten wen to burn some paper money on the land temple, and then go to the gambling house you frequent, with nine rounds as a round, the first round of bets on 1357 rounds, the second round of bets on 2468 rounds, and the third round only on the ninth round." Each game is a bet on a four-to-four goal, all bets, every bet must be hit, remember to only play these nine games. The old man paused: "After nine rounds, the hundred copper coins have become more than 26,000 taels of silver, which is enough for you to redeem your inheritance." After the old man finished speaking, Bai Wei was like a lightning strike.

"If I can really do what the old fairy said, I will definitely build a temple for the old god in this Baizhu Town, so that future generations can worship it forever!" Bai Wei's lips were already trembling, as if nearly 30,000 taels of silver were in front of him.

"Not necessarily! Just remember not to gamble again in the future. Then he walked away. Only Bai Wei, who was still trembling, was left, and a surprised young man leaning on the door frame of the Bai family's old mansion not far away.

The afterglow of the setting sun stretched the figures of pedestrians to the fullest, and even the doors of poor homes were sprinkled with a layer of rich gold. Bai Wei's tiled house was also dyed golden, as if to indicate that the owner of the house would become rich from now on. But the way the master walks is not a little rich, only infinite loss of soul and downfall. Softly pushed open the door that had never been locked, and fell on the couch softly, as if he had been drained of his soul, and his godless eyes were still unwilling, gritting his teeth and clenching his fists until his head was hammered into a muffled sound. "How is that possible! How can it! I don't believe it! I don't believe it! He roared. That's right, old fairy, old fairy! With that, he ran out of the door like crazy.

Peng Jiu likes to travel in the mountains and rivers, and it has been more than a year since he was away from home, and he suddenly remembered that it would be his father's 70th birthday soon. In the month from Heitan County to this Baizhu Town, Peng Jiu walked extremely happily, and it was really a good place all the way, with mountains and rivers everywhere and beautiful scenery. It is not like the Qinggang City, the climate is dry, so big the Qinggang Mountain Range does not even have a tree, it is all dirt mountains, there are white earth mountains, yellow earth mountains, white yellow earth mountains and yellow-white-yellow earth mountains, all soil, it does not affect its majesty at all, and it is still green and cloudy from a distance. I don't seem to be used to the dryness there since I was a child, and so does my father, both of whom often have dry coughs. I've been playing in this Baizhu Town for some time, and I haven't even coughed a word. The summer heat seems to be turned away by the mountains on all sides, and the best summer resorts have hunters selling fresh game from the mountains every day, fish and shrimp in the river, and river crabs holding leg hair when they are in the water. This place is very good, and I will come often in the future, especially in summer, and I will bring my father to escape the heat. After thinking about it, I simply bought a house, and I lived there forever. Pick and look at the eight or nine courtyards, only this house is the most satisfactory to him, but I heard that a few days ago, the blood-stained courtyard, a family offended the big man and was almost wiped out, unlucky, so it was sold cheaply. Dead person? Joke, my Peng Taiping's son will be afraid of the dead? If ghosts can harm people, Daddy has been bloodied all his life, wouldn't he have been strangled to death by ghosts countless times. Big shot? Have me Kitahara University? No longer think about it, give the money directly, take the deed and drive the broker out of the door, pull out the sword and carve a Peng character on the door, anyway, it will be redecorated again, and the door will have to be changed. Just as he nodded with satisfaction, a soft man stumbled and ran over the wall, still looking around for something, glancing at himself and looking away anxiously, looking for someone. Isn't this the drunk man who was teased yesterday, he was so fooled by an old man that he kowtowed like garlic, but he listened and taught him how to gamble money, how to turn 100,000 yuan into more than 20,000 taels of silver in nine rounds, haha. Yesterday, I was only surprised, thinking that there were people who believed this, but I forgot to laugh, and only remembered it again when I fell asleep, and hid my head in the quilt and laughed for a long time. I'm going to have to smile again today. Yes, you have to point at him and smile, and by the way, ask how the 20,000 taels of silver were spent, haha.

Bai Wei had already walked more than a dozen times around the place where he met the old immortal yesterday, fast and slow, sometimes looking at his feet, sometimes anxiously looking at the various intersections in the distance. As soon as Peng Jiu held back a smile and walked closer, Bai Wei ran to the opposite side, and an old man walked slowly in the sunset.

"Old fairy save me!" Before he could get closer, Bai Wei knelt down and bowed, kowtowing like rice.

"Well......," the old gentleman sighed, "you don't need to say it, I've already calculated that this will be the case." ”

"Old fairy save me!" Bai Wei bowed again, "The first nine games are really as you said, I already have nearly 30,000 taels of silver tickets in my hand." Bai Wei paused, his lips trembling with tears: "The tenth game, the tenth game...... I didn't want to play, but I remember the old fairy's advice, but, ...... I don't know how, so I bet, just one, just one, and there was nothing! Old Immortals! Save me, old fairy! ”

"Hey! You! So greedy! I specially instructed again and again yesterday, that is, I am afraid that the people's hearts will not be enough to swallow the elephant, and I don't want to avoid it after all. That's it, blame me, I shouldn't have seen you pity you. It started because of me, after all, you only lost a hundred Wen, here is one hundred and ten Wen, even the money you gave to the land lord to burn incense will be repaid to you, now you are back to yesterday, there is no loss, you just don't meet me, Huangliang is a dream. After saying that, he raised his leg and wanted to leave.

Bai Wei was anxious, and pounced on the old man's heels and hugged his legs and howled: "Old immortal! I was wrong old fairy! I didn't lose a hundred wen, but tens of thousands of taels! On the day the whole family was wiped out, Bai Wei never cried so sincerely.

"When did you have tens of thousands of taels, and you only had a hundred?"

"I won! I had already won it, and I already carried it in my arms. It's all the last one, the last one careless. I can still win it back, the old fairy save me, this time I will win it back, I will be able to bear it! Bai Wei was already a little crazy.

Most gamblers are like this, they want to turn back their capital when they lose, and they want to win again when they win, if they can win so much every day, why bother to make a living. If you keep losing, you won't lose much in the end. The most feared thing is to win a large sum and lose it back, at which point the gambler will feel that he can win, but he is just unlucky. As long as you bet a few more times, you will always be able to win back all the losses once. So the snowball is getting bigger and bigger, the debts are high, and the family is harmed, and looking back, stopping at any step before the catastrophe is a hundred times better than the moment. If you lose 10,000 and want to turn over, if you lose 100,000 and want to turn over, you owe one million and you have already broken the idea of turning over, and you know that it is impossible. But he will still gamble, because it is too late to stop at this moment, and it will never be possible to pay it off by slowly saving money or taking the right path to pay it off, although you are willing to save, the creditor will not be willing to wait. I just want to win back a little bit, so that my debts are less, and I can pay off them in less time. If you can go from owing one million to five million, it is God's mercy. He never thought that this wish had been fulfilled before.

Just like Bai Wei at this moment, if he can recognize that he only lost a hundred wen, and his capital is only one hundred, he doesn't feel anything. But he felt that the more than 20,000 taels were his. From 100 Wen to more than 20,000 taels, if there can be one time, there can be a second time, it depends on whether the old immortal in front of him is willing or not. So at this moment, whatever this "immortal" says, he will believe, and whatever he asks him to do, he will do.

"The old man can't help it, you have lost all your fortunes yourself." The old man closed his eyes and sighed. "When a person's luck is over, then the general trend has gone. In your last game, not only did you lose your money, but you also lost your life. You are the mud that can't support the wall, the old man changed his life against the sky and wanted to help you, you are really not even as good as shit, you can't hold the wealth you give, you will die in a few days, you rotten person who chokes to death by eating shit! The fairy can spit foul language, it can be seen that the anger is not light, so he kicked away the toad lying on the surface of his feet, raised his legs and left, his shoes were cleared by snot and tears, and the sunset shone with golden light. Peng Jiu, who was not far away, smiled lightly, today was more interesting than yesterday, smiled and shook his head and went back to the house, no longer looking. However, he still said in his heart that this old man had some tricks, and he could really let him win money.

Bai Wei's sluggish appearance was like a pile of rotten meat on the board that was about to collapse, and after listening to the old fairy, it had become a puddle of soft mud.

"Unless......" the old man walked a short distance, stopped and turned back. The rotten meat jumped up, very neatly, "Unless what?" Father! Grandfather! Unless that's the case. His round eyes were blazing, and he was instantly energetic, and he walked in front of the old man in two steps.

"Take advantage of the situation."

"How do you borrow? Whom to borrow? Bai Wei was unspeakably urgent.

"Borrow the power of all living beings and bury them in your courtyard. It can help you rekindle the dead wood in spring. If you burn in this calamity, if you burn it by a single person, he will extinguish it, which is a fatal act. can only take advantage of the momentum of all sentient beings, and if the people come down, it will be harmless. After all, the old man seemed to be a little unbearable.

"Yes, yes, the old fairy is merciful. How do I borrow it? Bai Wei nodded repeatedly.

"Potential, with the same sound, can be borrowed as potential. Go borrow it, the old man can't say more, he has already leaked too many heavenly opportunities. The old man's fate with you is over, so ask for more blessings. Then he threw down a pengot of silver and drifted away. The last voice floated in: "Remember, you still have to go out at noon on time, otherwise you won't be able to take advantage of it." ”