Tongyuan Castle is a county town near the west, and it is an important pass to the Central Plains from the west. Originally, this place was a merchant town, merchants from east to west, trade goods have to pass through here, this is a very prosperous county seat, but in recent years, due to the rebellion of the king of Zhenxi, all the fifteen towns in the west under his rule raised the anti-flag, the imperial court sent troops to recruit traitors for many years, this place has become the front line of the war between the two sides, the long war, the prosperity of the past has disappeared, many rich and noble families have moved away from here, here has become a place where ruffians, hooligans, spies and the black market prevail.

At noon on this day, the sun was shining, and Zhang Tianci was walking on the streets of Tongyuan County. This former wolf boy has grown into a handsome young man who is strong and upright at this time.

The city is full of wandering merchants and peddlers, shouting and selling, one after another, very lively, he looks east and west from time to time is very strange, after all, he has never been to a town outside his hometown since he was a child.

Tianci has been studying martial arts in Dongming Mountain for 3 years, because his body has excellent basic qualities, coupled with his natural intelligence, and he has been carefully guided by Master Lingmei in internal cultivation, so although he has not practiced martial arts for a long time, he has done his best to pass on the true transmission of Xuanzhen Dao, Taiji, Bagua, Xingyi and other Taoist divine skills, and his martial arts attainments are already unfathomable.

Xuanzhen Taoist is also reluctant to love, and he stayed in Heaven for one more year, and passed on all the martial arts "Wuji Xuangong" to God, and when Tianci became a teacher, he was already a 16-year-old young man, which was the age of high spirits.

After bidding farewell to Xuanzhen Daoist, before returning to Wangping Mountain Ziyun Palace, he planned to go back to his hometown to see his parents who had been separated for many years. Since the last time the bird passed the book, he has never been in contact with his family, I don't know how my father and mother are doing, how is the current situation, I miss it very much.

So he packed up, changed into civilian clothes, took the coils, and went all the way to the west, and spent the night in the morning, hungry and thirsty, and only after a few days did he get to the county seat of Datongyuan, and after staying here for one night, he could return to his hometown tomorrow.

Thinking that he was about to see his long-lost parents tomorrow, Tianci wanted to bring something to the second elder to express his feelings, and it was also an apology for his failure to fulfill his filial piety over the years. He looked around the streets, and found that everything here for food and clothing was very expensive, and he was afraid that he could not afford anything with the little money in his pocket.

In the end, he decided to go to dinner first. I came to a tavern, went in and sat down, ordered two side dishes, a bowl of noodle soup, and ate it with a sigh, and after a while, three bowls of noodle soup went down, and I felt full. When I asked the shopkeeper to come over to settle the bill, I heard a noise from the back of the tavern, so I asked the shopkeeper what he was doing behind the chatter?

"There is a small gambling house in the back, and the guest officer can also go to play if he is interested. The shopkeeper said.

"Is it gambling money? I'll take a look. After paying for the meal, Tianci got up and walked to the backyard.

When I came to the backyard, I saw dozens of people, robes, cloth clothes, and uniforms, shouting around a long table, very lively, it turned out that there was a gambling game here, playing Sic Bo.

This is a dice game in which the dealer places three dice into a black round-bottomed dice cup, closes the lid, raises it above his head and shakes it three times, then places the dice cup in front of the table, and the players start betting. There are many squares painted on the long table to represent different bet "areas", and each area is written with the words "big", "small", "three armies", "around the dice", "full circle", "points" and so on, representing different types of dice results and odds.

Tianci watched a few rounds on the side, and he roughly understood. Although no one could see the dice in the cup, he could tell the number of places the dealer had rolled out after listening a few times.

There are the most people who play bets on the size of the bet, and there is a strong man among them, who has won the bet several times in a row, and he is so happy that he can't keep his mouth shut. At this time, the dealer has made another bank, please bet. The man started to bet on the "small", thinking that after all, he had won several "big" bets just now, and this time he had to change.

Tianci listened really to the side, this time the dealer shook out the number is still "big", see him bet on "small", but also worry about him.

Who knows, after the man made the bet, he hesitated for a moment, moved all the bets to the "big", and then cheered himself up and said: "It won't be wrong, that's it!"

Everyone saw that he had good luck, and he also voted a lot.

"Ding" a bell rang, and the dealer shouted: "Ladies and gentlemen, buy and stop!"

"It's dice!" the dealer shouted, and one of the dealers reached for the lid of the cup.

At this time, Tianci clearly heard the dice in the dice cup jump in unison, and the point competition became smaller.

When the dealer opened the lid of the dice cup, it was "small!"

The strong man was dumbfounded, slapped his head with great remorse, sighed, and then shook his head stupidly as he prepared to leave.

Tianci can see clearly on the side, this is clearly the dealer's hands and feet, and there is a magnet hidden in his hand, which is used to control the size of the dice points at a critical time.

Tianci couldn't see the honest man being bullied, so he immediately followed the strong man to the outside of the courtyard gate, stepped forward to stop the strong man and said, "Brother strong man, please stay." ”

The strong man looked up and saw that a young man with clear eyebrows was standing in front of him, and for some reason, he asked, "This brother, I don't know each other, what is the matter?"

"I see that your luck is fine, why are you leaving and stop gambling?"

"It's just a small bet, and besides, I'm penniless, I can't gamble anymore, what can I do if I don't leave?"

"The younger brother saw that his brother was magnificent, had a bold temperament, and was quite eye-catching. The younger brother still has a little money here, and he is willing to lend it to his brother to try again, if he loses, it will be mine, if he can win back, he will deduct what his brother has lost before, and the rest will be with me, do you think it?"

"That's a good feeling. The strong man glanced at the broken silver in Tianci's hand and said, "But brother, this bit of silver can only be played with one or two hands, and it is difficult to turn over the book in the end, I think you should keep the flowers yourself." ”

"Although the elder brother takes it to gamble, the younger brother pleases you, naturally he will not let you lose, but when the time comes, you just need to bet according to my instructions." ”

"Oh, then I'll stop saying no, and I'll leave you alone. The strong man took the silver and said.

"Then please!" said Tianci, "when the time comes, you see that I put my hands in front of me, and my right hand over my left hand will be a big bet, and vice versa will be a small bet, can you understand?"

"Well, okay!" the strong man nodded in agreement, thinking, it's all your money anyway. Then he returned to the front of the table with Tianci.

After the dealer put the dice cup again, the strong man glanced at Tianci and bet all the silver in his hand on the "small".

Sure enough, the dealer was "small" after opening the dice, and he lost the silver.

The second, the strong man wanted to bet all, thought about it, put away half of the silver and put it into his arms, thinking that if he lost, he would return the book to the little brother, so as not to owe him, and then bet the rest of the silver on the "big" according to the instructions of God.

After opening the bank, he won again, and he bet all the money in his hand on the "small" as instructed. won six in a row like this, and before I knew it, I already had a lot of money in my hand.

The strong man wants to stop here, and he will accept it when he sees it. Unexpectedly, when he saw that the heavens sent him, he still hinted that he would bet them all. I couldn't help but secretly marvel in my heart, thinking that I had met a master from outside the world today.

After the dealer made a good deal, the strong man bet all the silver on the "small". The gamblers on the side had never seen such a continuous all-in player, and the competition was closed, not betting, and standing next to watch.

After shouting to stop buying and stopping, a dealer flashed out from the side and reached over to remove the lid of the cup.

It was too late to say that it was too late, so Tianci rushed to the front of the stage, brushed away the dealer's outstretched hand with one hand, and uncovered the lid of the dice cup with the other, and said, "I'll open it!"

As soon as the lid was lifted, three dice were displayed in front of everyone's eyes: two, three, three, small!

Seeing this, the dealer shouted: "Who told you to open it, this one doesn't count!"

"Can you drive differently?" asked Tianci, reaching out and patting the man's arm, and a stone rolled out of the man's sleeve and fell right on the table.

The dealer hurried to grab the stone, but he didn't know that it had been preemptively taken in his hand and held up for everyone to see.

"What kind of play is this?" After that, Tianci shook the stone on the top of the dice, only to see that the dice jumped up, and after they landed, they showed a large number on the upward side. Tianci turned the stone over and shook it again, and the dice jumped again, and now all the dice were displayed as decimal numbers.

When everyone saw it, they all suddenly realized, and then they were excited. "Out of a thousand!", "cheating!", "losing money!", the shouting and scolding were loud, and the two sides immediately competed and fought.

Here, the strong man had already taken back the silver and pulled the godsend, and ran out of the chaos, and the two ran away before they stopped, looking at each other and laughing.