Volume 1 Small Things in the Big City Chapter 7 A new kiln was opened in the east of the city
After some deliberation, everyone stayed at the Leisure Inn.
Li Chengcheng is the son of Li Valve, he is not short of money, and Qingcao lived in the No. 1 and No. 2 rooms of the Son of Heaven on the third floor, two taels of silver a day, Fan Wuchang is mean and stingy to the guys, but for the money owners who are willing to pay money, it is as warm as the spring sunshine. Xiao Hongyu is a female dependent, but she also lived in an ordinary room on the second floor, only Xiao Jinyan and Zhao Lanjiang were arranged by Fan Wuchang to the firewood room in the backyard with a disgusted face.
Xiao Jinyan didn't care, he had been living in the City God Temple before, and he was ventilated everywhere in winter, but now he was very satisfied with the fact that he could live in the firewood house. Zhao Lanjiang is used to living a hard life, and he has no problem with the two living together.
In the afternoon, it rained again in Suzhou.
Fan Wuchang asked Xiao Jinyan to go to the front yard to help, but Xiao Jinyan refused on the grounds of taking care of the hospital at night to make up for sleep, stole a pot of bad wine from the backyard, leaned on the bed, and read a book while drinking. Xiao Hongyu came to him and asked Xiao Jinyan to accompany her to visit Suzhou City in the rain in the afternoon, Xiao Jinyan said, "Girl, it's not raining much outside, why did your brain get into the water?"
Little Red Fish said: "I've been here for a few days, and you haven't even entered the landlord's friendship." Why, that's too much?"
Xiao Jinyan said that I just have one piece of clothing, and I don't have to change it when it's wet.
Xiao Hongyu said unhappily, "You think this girl is rare, but that Fan Wuchang is too hateful, just run to my room if he has nothing to do, send fruits for a while, candied fruit for a while, and be courteous, I'm about to be driven crazy by him here." ”
Xiao Jinyan said enviously, "You see we don't even have hot water here, you really don't know how to be blessed in the midst of blessings." ”
"In a word, to go or not to go?"
Xiao Jinyan leaned back, "There is rain in the south of the Yangtze River, wine in the thatched hut, and books in the hand, is there anything more comfortable in the world?"
Little Red Fish said what a broken book, he was so fascinated by it. She leaned over, ""The Days of Errand in the Seven Doors, yo, Xiao Daxia, are you still going to take the test quickly?"
Zhao Lanjiang suddenly asked, "Isn't this a little yellow book?"
Xiao Jinyan nodded, seeing that Xiao Hongyu's face was flushed, "What's the matter, Xiao Hongyu, you also want to take a look together?"
The little red fish snorted coldly and said something incorrect, I went to find Qingcao to accompany me.
As soon as Xiao Hongyu left, the firewood room was deserted, and Zhao Yanjiang said, "Brother Xiao, how did you think about the matter of Wujing?"
Xiao Jinyan closed the book and said slowly: "After Lu Xuanji defected to Shujian Mountain, he wrote the Martial Arts Scripture, and passed on the Jianghu to not practice the exercises outside the Three Realms, I think it is strange, the martial arts in the Martial Arts Scripture are passed on by Shujian Mountain, why did he let this book go to the people? Don't you think these behaviors are a bit contradictory?"
Zhao Lanjiang said, "I can't control so much, this martial arts, I am determined to win, whoever robs me, I will kill whom." ”
"But do you know where the martial arts are?"
"Wang Banxian said that you have a way. ”
It's Wang Banxian again, Xiao Jinyanxin said that he really doesn't think it's a big deal to watch the excitement, and he always makes trouble for himself, and the next time we meet, I have to talk to him about the money he owes and doesn't pay it back. picked up the wine jug, but found that there was no wine, and couldn't help sighing, "I used to have money, but I didn't think it was good, but now I don't know anything, and I found that money is really a fucking good thing." Brother Zhao, if you have money, get some wine. ”
Zhao Lanjiang said that he had no money, but he could find a way.
"What's the solution?"
"Either rob or gamble. ”
As soon as he heard the bet, Xiao Jinyan's eyes lit up.
Xiao Jinyan loves to gamble, and he will lose every time he gambles, and he is the most popular type of person in the gambling house. However, each time he didn't gamble much, because he didn't have much money either. Accompanying Xiao Hongyu to go shopping, he refused to move, but if he wanted to go to the gambling house, it would be another matter.
There are seven or eight gambling houses in Suzhou City, the largest of which is the Silver Hook Gambling House, which is bigger than the Easy Inn, the owner of the gambling house, Li Zhengyi, is the head snake of Suzhou Justice Hall, in addition to the gambling house, Li Zhengyi also puts usury, and raises dozens of thugs under his hands, as well as several Jianghu guests, and is also the number one person in Suzhou City. Li Zhengyi still has some relationship with Zao Wou-Ki of Yixiaotang, the last time Zao Wou-Ki came to Suzhou, Li Zhengyi asked his third aunt to go to eat and sleep with him personally, so the two are still relatives.
It's okay to gamble, but I don't have the capital, so I went to Li Chengcheng to borrow it, but I hit a nail. The two came to the gambling house, only to find that Sun Buping and Tang Bujing walked out with a smile. Looking at the bulging money bag in his hand, he obviously won a lot of money.
Sun and Tang wanted to go to the Xiaoyao Inn to set fire, but it rained, and the two had nothing to do in the inn, so they came to the gambling house to try their luck while it was still dark. said that it was a stroke of luck, both of them were from the rivers and lakes, they had kung fu, and if they cheated a little, they won more than a dozen taels of silver, and they were soon targeted by Li Zhengyi.
Li Zhengyi said after a while, it turned out to be a young man from the Bashan Sword Sect, and he didn't want to offend them, so he gave ten taels of silver, so he regarded it as making a friend. After eating tea at the Silver Hook Gambling House for a while, the two were still worried about the arson, so they said goodbye, but ran into Xiao Jinyan and Zhao Lanjiang who were about to enter.
When the enemy meets, he is very red-eyed.
The enemy who can't be defeated is another matter.
Sun Buping said, "It's you?"
Tang Bujing pulled him and said in a low voice, "Don't be impatient." ”
Sun Buping snorted coldly and prepared to pass sideways. Zhao Lanjiang stopped them.
Sun Buping said, "Good dogs don't get in the way." ”
Although the heroes don't suffer immediate losses, they are not Zhao Lanjiang's opponents, but when they met, they still couldn't help but squeeze two sentences.
Zhao Lanjiang asked Xiao Jinyan, "How is your gambling luck?"
Xiao Jinyan touched his nose, "It's never been bad." ”
"I'm not going to have good luck. ”
Xiao Jinyan said, "In that case, I have an idea. ”
Zhao Lanjiang said: "I also have an idea. Yours is?"
"I'd like to borrow some money from these two. ”
Sun Buping said, "I'm very familiar with you, hmph, borrowing money, no way." ”
Zhao Lanjiang looked at Sun and Tang and said, "I think my idea is better, I'm ready to grab it." ”
As he spoke, he put the knife across the necks of the two of them, Sun Buping and Tang Bujing just won more than a dozen taels, plus what Li Zhengyi sent, they made up thirty taels. was snatched by Zhao Lanjiang, and the two swaggered into the Silver Hook Gambling House.
Sun Buping scolded, "This is clearly a robber!"
Tang said disrespectfully, "Okay, it's a big deal to find someone with low martial arts, and then grab it back." ”
"I can't swallow this breath. ”
And let him be arrogant for a long time, and in the evening a fire sent them to the western heavens. ”
When they entered the casino, the two of them added five to each other, divided the stolen silver, and acted separately. Xiao Jinyan likes pai gow and got into the pile of pai gow, but his gambling luck was as bad as ever, less than half an hour, he lost more than a dozen taels of fine light, fortunately, before he lost everything, he used the only silver to buy a jar of daughter red, leaning on the pillar, and one person was drunk.
Zhao Lanjiang is a simple person, and he only gambles on the size of the gambling money, the east is not bright and the west is bright, and Zhao Lanjiang kills all sides in the dice field. When Xiao Jinyan lost everything, the broken silver in front of him had been piled up, nearly a hundred taels, and everyone saw that he pressed big and opened big, pressed small and small, and even followed the bet, and also won a lot, which made the dealer lose a lot of money.
At this moment, a gust of incense blew, and Zhao Lanjiang's eyes flashed, and a woman in a green water shirt stood opposite him. Zhao Lanjiang raised his head, this woman was bewitching, graceful, turbulent, and her eyes were full of spring, Zhao Lanjiang couldn't help but swallow his saliva.
Zhao Lanjiang is a masculine man and rarely interacts with women. In the Xiaoyao Inn, the little red fish is quirky and has a bad temper, Zhao Lanjiang doesn't like it, but the woman in front of him is delicate, like a ripe peach, which is another experience.
The woman didn't sit down, stepped on her right leg on the stool, revealing her slender calf, and said, "This hero, why don't you and I gamble?"
Zhao Lanjiang asked, "What are you betting on?"
The woman said: "Of course it's a bet on the silver in front of you, a game to determine the winner, if I win, these silver are mine, if you win, I'll go with you, how about it?"
Everyone was coaxing around, "Don't you dare to bet, it's not a man if you don't bet." ”
Another humane, "Such a girl, even if she sleeps, it is worth ten years of life." ”
The woman snorted, "Your Excellency, you still want to sleep with this girl, so go home and sleep with the sow in the pigsty." ”
Everyone laughed, and the scolded man was not annoyed, as if he was very happy to talk to the woman.
Zhao Lanjiang said: "I bet!"
When Xiao Jinyan was slightly smoked, he also noticed the situation over there, he glanced at the woman, and his heart was cold, and his intuition told him that the identity of this woman was not simple, so he carried the wine jar and came over to sweep the battle for Zhao Lanjiang.
The woman in green said, "The winner is decided, I am a woman, and I sit in the village." How's the bet?"
Zhao Lanjiang even agreed.
I saw that the woman raised her hand, and the dice cup put three dice into it, and shook the dice with one hand, like a trick, like a butterfly flower arrangement, and the dice cup shook the jingle sound. Xiao Jinyan released his cultivation, and Zhihai closely followed the trajectory of the three dice in the dice cup.
Ordinary masters of the rivers and lakes, martial arts to the sixth grade of the Wenjing realm, can use internal force to cheat in the casino, Xiao Jinyan can naturally do it, but he likes to gamble, but he has never used internal force, compared with winning or losing, what he prefers is the uncertainty in the process of gambling. If you use internal force, the result is already doomed, and it will be meaningless to gamble again.
However, Zhao Lanjiang gambled with the woman in green, and he felt that this woman was a little strange, so he used internal force. On the thirteenth stroke, the woman in green used a very ingenious technique to make the three dice touch in the air, and the three dice changed places, which allowed Xiao Jinyan to catch it.
Syllable!
The dice cup was buckled on the table, and the woman said, "Bet big and bet small?"
Xiao Jinyan has concluded that the three dice are one two, two one, and bet on the small.
When shaking the dice before, Zhao Lanjiang was absent-minded and did not listen to the dice carefully, since it was a gamble, he decided to gamble and was ready to bet the silver on a small amount. Before it fell, the woman in green rushed to Zhao Lanjiang and said, "Hero!" Zhao Lanjiang looked at her, "Huh?"
The woman pointed to her chest and asked, "Do you think it's a big deal?"
Zhao Lanjiang laughed, "Big!"
The woman laughed, "That's good." Place your bets. ”
As soon as the woman said it, Zhao Lanjiang bet the silver on the big one.
The woman in green said, "Buy it and leave!"
The dice cup opens, one two, two one, small.
The woman in green gave Zhao Lanjiang an ecstatic smile, "Gongzi Xie's silver!" said that, put away the silver, went to the front and handed in the tap, and was about to leave. Zhao Lanjiang shouted, "Girl, where can I find you?"
The woman in green smiled, "How, not convinced?"
Zhao Lanjiang said, "I want to invite you to tea." ”
The woman said, "You don't have to drink tea, my name is Yang Xiaoxiao, in the newly opened Tianxiang Building in the east of Suzhou, you want to find me, just go over there." As long as you have money, you are an uncle. "Say goodbye and leave.
The two lost all and walked out.
Xiao Jinyan asked, "With your internal strength, bet on the size of the bet, you shouldn't lose." ”
Zhao Lanjiang said, "Somehow, when I saw that woman, I felt that my heart was ape, and I couldn't concentrate." ”
Xiao Jinyan said, "This woman is not simple. If you guessed correctly, it should be someone from the Jade Maiden Sect, one of the eight major sects of the Demon Sect. ”
The Demon Sect in Xiao Jinyan's mouth is the Light God Sect.
The Cult of the God of Light and the Cult of the Netherworld used to be branches of Manichaeism, and because of the sect's secretiveness and evil, they all became demon cults in the rivers and lakes. There are eight sects in the Bright God Sect, and the Jade Girl Sect is one of them, and most of its disciples are women, practicing methods such as soul seduction and seduction, especially the artifact fraud orb in the door, which is said to be able to control people's thoughts and behaviors.
Zhao Lanjiang said: "Pay more attention." ”
The two went out to work for a long time, and finally made her a wedding dress, and when they returned to the inn, the rain had become lighter. Everyone had dinner at the inn and chatted in the lobby, Fan Wuchang was worried that Sun and Tang would retaliate, so Xiao Jinyan and Zhao Lanjiang were responsible for the first and second half of the night respectively.
Zhao Lanjiang returned to the firewood room, his mind was full of the figure of Yang Xiaoxiao, a woman in green, the more cranky he was, as if he was enchanted, the more he wanted to see her.
He found Xiao Jinyan and said, "I'll discuss something with you." ”
"What's the matter?"
"Borrow some money. ”
"What are you borrowing money for?"
Zhao Lanjiang said, "A Tianxiang building has just opened in the east of the city. ”
Xiao Jinyan smiled bitterly, "Do you think I look like a rich man?"
Zhao Lanjiang found Li Chengcheng again, and Li Chengcheng was playing chess with Qingcao.
Zhao Lanjiang: "I want to borrow some money from you." ”
"What?"
Zhao Lanjiang: "A kiln has just opened in the east of the city. ”
Li Qingcheng said coldly, "Get out." ”
Zhao Lanjiang went to find Xiaohongyu again, "I want to borrow some money from you, a kiln has just opened in the east of the city, and I want to go there." ”
Little Hongyu whined, "You bullied me, I'm going to go to Brother Xiao to complain." ”
Zhao Lanjiang ran away.
Thinking about it, it is more reliable to find Lao Fan, today Fan Wuchang was collecting accounts on the counter, and when he saw Zhao Lanjiang coming in with a knife, he hurriedly put away the silver and locked it, "What are you going to do?" Zhao Lanjiang put his arm around Fan Wuchang's neck and said, "Old Fan, you are locked up in the Suzhou Mansion Prison, who rescued you?"
"It's you. ”
"Someone eats and drinks for nothing at your place......"
"It's you, too. ”
Zhao Lanjiang coughed dryly, "I mean that others eat and drink for nothing here, who helped you run away?"
"It's still you. ”
"We've known each other for so many days, what do you think of me to you?"
Fan Wuchang shuddered when he heard it, "Okay, Zhao Daxia, let's talk straight, don't beat around the bush here, except for borrowing money, we can talk about anything!"
Zhao Lanjiang had to confess, "I'll borrow money from you." ”
Fan Wuchang said, "There's nothing to talk about about this. ”
Zhao Lanjiang shook the knife and said, "This matter must be discussed, a kiln has just opened in the east of the city, and I am going to find someone." ”
Fan Wuchang glared and said, "Do you think I don't know, I've been wanting to go for a long time and have never been willing to go, how can I borrow money to let you go?" Zhao Lanjiang said that since this is the case, don't blame me for turning my face and not recognizing people, I am ready to send you back to prison.
Fan Wuchang said, there is something to discuss!
The two of them talked about it, Fan Wuchang agreed to lend Zhao Lanjiang ten taels of silver, and took a few pieces of paper from the drawer, "This is a coupon for two taels of silver, I originally thought that I would come in a few days, it is not cheap there, you have to save some flowers." ”