Shopkeeper Ji smiled: "What can I mean?" You don't play cards, don't you allow me to play two?"

The shopkeeper said angrily: "Who said I won't play anymore?!" I just want to persuade this old gentleman to say a few words and stay to play leaf cards together. Since the old gentleman is not leaving, I naturally have to come back and sit down!

Shopkeeper Ji was full of joy, but he sat motionless on the chair, and said: "As the saying goes, 'take root'." According to the rules of the gambling house, since I sat on this chair, I must have touched the mold if I let it out, and if I gamble today, I will have to lose all my money. It's just that Lao Hu will be wronged for a while, and it's not too late for me to play a few games, and then give you this chair. ”

Seeing that Shopkeeper Ji looked like a scoundrel, Shopkeeper Hu became more and more annoyed in his heart, and pointed at Shopkeeper Ji and scolded him. Shopkeeper Ji was calm, and let Shopkeeper Hu scold, but he was not angry, and kept talking to Shopkeeper Hu with a smile. It's just that although he said it nicely, he refused to give in at all. As a result, after Shopkeeper Luo and Shopkeeper Song, Hu and Ji quarreled again.

Shou Nanshan has been smiling and watching the shopkeeper Hu and the shopkeeper Ji talk, only to see the shopkeeper Hu's voice getting louder and louder, and finally rolled up his sleeves, as if he was about to beat the shopkeeper Ji, he put the few leaf cards that he had been playing with on the table, and said slowly: "Why should the two brothers be angry about a chair? Since everyone wants to play a few games, Lao Tzu has a way." ”

At this time, everyone knew that "Lao Tzu" was the spoken language of Shou Nanshan, and no one was angry when they heard him speak like this. Shopkeeper Hu turned his head, his face was still angry, and he said, "What does the old gentleman have to say?"

Shou Nanshan said with a smile: "Leaf cards, four people play naturally." But with so many of us gathered together today, there must be a lot of people who want to play cards. Since everyone has a pastime, you might as well put down this leaf card, let's bet on pai gow, or roll the dice, isn't everyone can participate?"

Dongsheng Inn is the best inn in Dongliao County, and the tenants who stay in the inn are either rich or expensive. At this time, among the tenants who watched the excitement around, there were two salt merchants, two merchants selling medicinal materials, and five merchants from Liaoyang Mansion selling rice, flour, grain and oil. These people are all businessmen, and they naturally have a lot of money in their pockets, and they are good at gambling by nature. I just heard that someone was in the lobby and wanted to play leaf cards to gamble for money, so they rushed over. One by one, they were eager to try, only to hate that they were late and couldn't sit at the table.

In addition to these businessmen, crowded in the crowd, there was also a secretary of the Nanjing Ministry of Rites surnamed Yan who came back from Dongyi. Yan Siwu was ordered to go to Dongyi and give the newborn grandson of the king of Dongyi the name given by the Ministry of Rites in the capital. It stands to reason that this envoy should be sent by the Ministry of Rites in the capital, but Dongyi is a small country, there is no oil and water to fish, and it has to go to the outside of the customs, and the road is bumpy, and officials at all levels of the Ministry of Rites in the capital do not want to go, so they pushed the envoy to the Yamen of the Ministry of Rites in Nanjing. The officials of the Nanjing Ministry of Rites are not stupid, no one wants to go out on this hard trip, and they are also prevaricating, and no one is willing to go. In the end, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites actually came up with the method of "drawing lots", asking 37 officials from the Yamen of the Ministry of Rites to try their luck in the lobby of the Ministry of Rites. It's just that before the lot, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites made a trick, and finally this Yan secretary caught the paper ball that went to Dongyi.

It's just that Secretary Yan didn't know that the waiter of the Ministry of Rites cheated on it, and deliberately let him catch the paper ball with "Dongyi" written on it, so he had to admit that he was unlucky. The secretary is the smallest official in the Yamen of the Ministry of Rites, but he is only from the ninth grade, which can be said to be not in the stream. What's more, he is in the Nanjing Ministry of Rites, and in terms of authority, he is inferior to the masters in the yamen of the county governors in various places. It is a strict secretary who has gone through Nanjing, Jiangsu, Shandong, Hebei, Zhili, Liaoyang and other places, and has suffered a lot in the post station. The two officials of the Ministry of Rites who followed him also secretly complained, and scolded Secretary Yan for being an unlucky bastard, causing the two of them to only eat bran vegetables every day and suffer a lot.

It's just that after crossing the river to Dongyi, hundreds of officials below the king and queen of Dongyi actually welcomed more than 200 miles out of the capital. Yan Siwu didn't expect that he could be greeted so ceremoniously, and he was pleasantly surprised. When he handed over the wooden box containing the holy decree with the name of the king and grandson to the king of Dongyi, the king of Dongyi had tears in his eyes and shouted long live. In the next ten days, it was really a small banquet every day, a big banquet every three days, and the secretary was so happy that he couldn't live in Dongyi. The two tolerances are also fragrant and spicy, and there are people serving them every day, so they are naturally happy. It's just that the emperor's order is in his body, although Yan Siwu is reluctant, he is still not allowed to set off to return to the Ming Dynasty in the end. The king of Dongyi led the princes and hundreds of officials to send out a hundred miles, and when they were about to part, they stuffed a black cloth bag embroidered with gold silk to Yan Siwu.

Yan Siwu had never received such preferential treatment, and he was grateful to King Dongyi. After walking out for a few miles, there was no longer the shadow of Dongyi Junchen, so Yan Siwu quietly opened the small cloth bag and found that the bag contained twelve silver barley, each weighing ten taels. There were also three gold leaves, which, taken together, were worth a hundred taels of silver. When Secretary Yan saw these silver barley and gold leaves, he was so shocked that he almost fell off his horse. The two men who followed him on horseback didn't know what was going on with Secretary Yan, so they chased after him. Secretary Yan had already stuffed the black cloth bag into the big bag next to the saddle, only to say that the horse had stumbled and almost turned itself upside down. Fortunately, he held the reins tightly, so he didn't fall off his horse. Now it's fine, and you don't have to worry about two tolerances.

The two men also privately received twenty taels of silver from the officials of Dongyi Kingdom, and it was when they were happy that they did not notice that Secretary Yan had also made a windfall. The three of them were all overjoyed, day and night, and after crossing the river, they entered the boundary of Dongliao County. When the three of them came, they stayed at the post station in Dongliao County, and they suffered the white eyes and insults of the post station guards, and they didn't want to suffer this bird anger anymore. After discussing it with the three of them, they all said that they didn't want to go to the post station again, and since they had entered the realm of Daming, they didn't need to rush to the road. Find an inn in the city to rest for two days, and then it's not too late to set off for Kannai.

The three of them had made a decision, and when they heard that the Dongsheng Inn was the best inn in Dongliao County, they rushed to the inn to stay. The three of them ran all the way, they were already exhausted, they went to bed early last night, and this morning they heard the noise in the lobby of the inn, so they went downstairs to see the excitement. Yan Siwu is a good gambler in his life, but his life is poor, and he has never had any opportunity to gamble. Today, he hid more than two hundred taels of silver in his arms, and his waist was straight, standing in the crowd and stretching his neck to look at the leaf cards on the table, and he couldn't wait to sit at the table and play two handfuls.

Hearing Shou Nanshan say that he wanted to play pai gow and roll dice, and intended to let the crowd who watched the excitement also participate in the gambling game, Yan Siwu and the businessmen suddenly had their eyes lit up, and they squeezed forward one after another, shouting that they might as well play a few games together. When Yan Siwu was struggling to squeeze forward, he suddenly felt that the crook of his left leg was cold and was hit by someone, and he almost fell to his knees. He was furious, and turned his head to scold, only to see one of his men following him with an excited face. He was stunned, and was about to speak, when the man smiled and said, "The villain looks lively and wants to go up and play two." ”

Shopkeeper Hu heard Shou Nanshan say that he wanted to gamble on pai gow and roll dice, and thought to himself, looking at Lao Ji's appearance, it was very difficult for him to give up his chair. At this time, I can't turn my face with him, but I can't advance or retreat. If you play pai gow and dice, it is a good way not to tear the skin. What's more, pai gow and dice are easier to cheat than leaf cards. Hmph, I originally planned to win dozens of taels of silver from this old guy surnamed Shou, but I didn't expect that your old Ji would not give me face and jump out by himself. Since you jumped into the well by yourself, don't blame Lao Tzu for not pulling you. If I don't slaughter you today, I'm afraid that your old Ji doesn't know how powerful Lao Tzu is!

Thinking of this, the shopkeeper Hu said: "Since Mr. Shou wants to play pai gow and roll dice, he should accompany him." ”

After he finished speaking, he turned his head to the shopkeeper Feng who was standing aside and watched the excitement and said, "Shopkeeper, may I ask if there are pai gow and dice in the inn?"

Shopkeeper Feng said with a smile: "Uncle said he was smiling. We are here in an inn, not a gambling house, where will there be pai gow and dice? However, if you want to play, the villain can let the guy go to the gambling house outside the alley to borrow a few pairs. But the government has ordered that you can't set up gambling without permission, which is a bit difficult to do......"