Chapter 20: The Underground Gambling Arena
Ge Er followed Tong Bo to the table with a dark face: "Friend, I don't know how to play at the fantan!"
Tong Bo pointed to Liu Ningshi, who returned to the table of the stall: "Although I don't know how to play much, my friend is a master." β
"I don't know you well, so why should I trust you? Ge Er said coldly.
"I'll lend you ten taels of silver, if you win, you just have to pay me back fifteen taels, if you lose, the right should be a friend between this son and Your Excellency, how about it?" Liu Ningshi took out a silver ingot of ten taels and threw it in front of Ge Er.
Ge Er looked at the silver on the table, his eyes flickering: "Why are you helping me?"
"Your Excellency is a skilled gambler, and I just missed occasionally, and I am also a good gambler, so I want to make friends with Your Excellency. Tong Bo gestured to the table: "Place a bet." β
In less than half an hour, Ge Er followed Liu Ningshi to bet and won back more than a hundred taels of silver, and his black face just now flashed red again.
Tong Bo felt that the time was ripe, and sighed deliberately: "Friend, what I said is right. This friend of mine is good at all kinds of gambling, but it's a pity that it's too small here. β
Ge Er listened to Tong Bo's words and pondered: "That's right, when will I be able to win back the silver I lost before." β
"Brother Xiangyun is really not a big deal to see the excitement, when did this girl become proficient in various gambling methods. Liu Ningshi snorted softly at Tong Bo, and said coquettishly: "We have so many gambling books in our hands, let's play slowly." β
Ge Eryi gritted his teeth and pointed to the ground with his hand: "Don't hide it from the two of you, if you want to be small and big, it's better to go below." β
"Isn't my friend talking about the underground gambling arena?" Tong Boxin said: "The game that has been laid all night has finally taken the bait." β
"How do you know?" Ge Er looked at Tong Bo with a shocked expression.
"I naturally know because I have this. Tong Bo deliberately revealed a small part of his name in his arms.
"Is this a famous post?" Ge Er's eyes were very complicated: "This post is not so easy to get. β
"What kind of dumb riddle are you playing?" Liu Ningshi looked a little depressed, she was smart and she didn't guess what Tong Bo meant this time.
"You'll know if you go. Tong Bo looked mysterious.
"Cut, if you don't say it, don't say it, who is rare. Liu Ningshi turned her head angrily.
"Wealth and danger are seeking, I will give up my life to accompany the gentleman. Ge Er's clenched fists trembled slightly.
"As long as I go, or I'll waste the two hundred taels I bought the post. Tong Bo remembered the silver that he promised the fat boy, and his heart was dripping blood.
Tong Bo and the three of them passed through the back door of the gambling hall lobby and entered a small secret room, only to see a lean man in a black suit standing straight with a saber in his hand.
"This is our name post. Tong Bo handed over the post with both hands.
"Hmm, this post can only allow two people to pass, which two of you can go in?" the thin man looked at Tong Bo and the three of them indifferently.
"The two of them used the post to enter. Ge Er stepped forward and whispered a few words in the ear of the thin man.
"Alright, you all go in. The lean man lifted the lid of a black iron on the other side of the chamber.
Tong Bo hugged his fists and smiled at Ge Er: "Friend, please lead the way." β
Ge Er also entered the passage first, Liu Ningshi followed, Tong Bo smiled and arched his hand towards the thin man, and also followed closely behind Liu Ningshi.
When the three of them walked along the passage for about half a cup of tea, Tong Bo and the three of them only felt that a piece of light suddenly opened up in front of them; here it was twice as big as the gambling house on the upper floor, and a large bluestone ring was located in the center of the gambling arena in a rectangle, and a blue-clothed warrior was fighting fiercely with a green-clothed warrior in the ring, and they made fierce moves, and their moves were fatal, and they would be seriously injured or even killed if they were not careful; there was a Taishi chair placed in front of each direction in the southeast, north, and west of the ring, and there were rows of benches behind the Taishi chair, and the gamblers on the bench waved their fists to make a burst of shouts for the samurai who bet for themselvesγ
Ge Er seemed to be accustomed to this kind of scene for a long time: "Two, there are two ways to gamble here. The first is to bet on the samurai to fight in the ring, and the one who wins is fine, but this bet is not exciting. β
"Why is that?" asked Liu Ningshi with a puzzled expression.
"That's because the records of these samurai will be recorded and announced in detail by the field records here, and the odds of some powerful samurai will naturally be low. Ge Er pointed at the Tsing Yi warrior in the audience with his finger: "For example, this warrior, he won eighty-eight battles and lost twelve after a hundred battles, and his record is obviously higher than that of this blue-clothed warrior, so if you bet two taels of silver on him, you can win back one or two taels of silver." β
"Then what is another way to gamble, can you win a lot of silver?" Liu Ningshi continued to ask.
"That is, the bettor himself goes to the ring to challenge the samurai here. As far as the two of you are concerned, you can be regarded as a fresh face here, if you go to the ring to challenge the samurai here, if you can win, you can win back twenty taels by betting on one tael. Ge Er explained, his eyes shining.
"Then challenge the pair with the highest record here. Tong Bo stretched lazily.
"What, do you want to challenge the two-man battle, or the ace pair?" Ge Er looked at Tong Bo in surprise.
"Brother Xiangyun, do you want to lure the snake out of the hole again?" Liu Ningshi stared at Tong Bo with a smile, and a burst of secret transmission entered his ears: "However, I helped you make a game on it just now, and now I have to help you get into the ring, what is the benefit of Ning Shi being so tired and tired?"
"Friend, I'm just trying to win a little more money, and you see I'm still wearing this coarse cloth garment without any money to change it. Tong Bo responded to Ge Er at the same time, and said to Liu Ningshi: "What does Miss Liu want? As long as she doesn't promise with her body, or asks for silver, everything else will be done!"
"Hmph, it's not serious, who wants you to make a promise!" Liu Ningshi blushed, and said in secret: "It's okay to help, Ning Shi will try with you again afterwards." β
"Just kidding, don't take it seriously. Tong Bowan smiled and said secretly: "Then please Miss Liu." β
"Two, have you really decided to challenge the ace combination here?"
"yes, we've decided. Tong Bo and Liu Ningshi nodded in unison.
"Oh, by the way, how much silver do we have left for the three of us combined?" Tong Bo looked at the two of them expectantly.
"Three hundred taels in total. Ge Er was responsible for gathering all the three people's silver together: "Do you really want to gamble?"
"If you win, it's six thousand taels, and your brother won't all come back if he loses just now!" Tong Bo suddenly asked, "Where is this gambling method betting?"
"This level of gambling must be done by looking for the steward here, and today the seats on the east, west, and south sides are empty, and only the steward on the north side can be found. Ge Er pointed with his hand to a man in black on the Taishi in the north.
Tong Bo glanced at the man in black, with a rugged figure, with anger in his eyes, a gutter nose, and a face full of horizontal flesh full of fierceness.
"You're the steward here, and we want to challenge you to be the number one group here. Liu Ningshi carried three hundred taels of silver and put it in front of the man in black.
The man in black glanced at Liu Ningshi with slanted eyes, frowned, and said, "Why haven't I seen you?"
"We know the rules, and the challenge of the number one combination must be done in the presence of two stewards. Ge Er stepped forward and nodded and leaned into the ear of the man in black: "Please also ask the cold steward Yu Cheng to do this, and your benefits will be indispensable after the challenge." β
"It's you, kid. The man in black glanced at Ge Er, and his originally dark face softened a lot: "Even if you are lucky, the steward of the west has already arrived, and he will go to the ring in half an hour." But I can remind you that the pair has only lost one game here. β
"That's that, win or lose, you won't be less. Although Ge Er pretended to be calm, he was also beating a drum in his heart.
Amid the shouts of the gamblers around him, a monk with a big belly and a wine jug in his hand staggered into the ring, wearing a gray vest naked, revealing his chest hair, and his fierce face made people look at it intimidatingly.
Another Taoist priest in a yellow robe, carrying a long sword, was born with kind eyebrows and kind eyes, and his long beard fluttered, looking like a fairy wind and bones.
Liu Ningshi looked at the Taoist priest's exquisite body, and couldn't help but feel a sense of competitiveness, only to see the folding fan being thrown, her petite and light body rose from the ground at the same time, and her feet lightly clicked on it when the folding fan flew to the middle of the ring, and the whole person fell on the ring before the folding fan, and the folding fan flew down to her hand impartially.
"This girl is too competitive. Tong Bo shook his head helplessly, and slowly came to the ring.
"Good, good, good. Seeing that the Taoist priest and Liu Ningshi showed their hands at the same time, the gamblers under the ring let out thunderous cheers.
Seeing this, the cold steward located in the north rarely came to the old man in the Taishi chair in the west: "Steward Yun, the challenger this time doesn't look weak?"
"Well, you have to watch them carefully, don't make any trouble, and then you won't be able to explain to the owner?"
Tong Bo's eyes were lazy, the drunken monk's eyes were hazy, Liu Ningshi's pupils were condensed in autumn water, and the Taoist priest was kind and kind, and the four people in the ring looked at each other like this.
"Fight, why don't you fight? When are you going to look at each other?" The gamblers in the audience let out an impatient roar when they saw them not making a move, if it weren't for the fact that the people standing in the ring were all masters, it was estimated that banana peels and rotten eggs and other miscellaneous items would be thrown at them.
Tong Bo snorted intentionally or unintentionally, the originally kind Taoist priest instantly showed a fierce look, his hands changed from palms to fingers, the internal force around his body surged, and the long sword behind his back flew into the air with a "poof".
The Taoist priest grabbed the long sword with his right hand and swung it, and several sword rays shot at Tong Bo like a wind from the sword.