Chapter 62 Since ancient times, ten gambles and nine points have been cheating

Gambling is a game of betting on winning or losing with valuable things, and it is a form of entertainment for human beings. It has different meanings in different cultural and historical contexts.

As for when and where gambling originated in the world, no one has come up with a clear answer. Tracing back to the history of human gambling, as early as the late Paleolithic period, there was a habit of "trying luck", and in prehistoric civilizations, there were a large number of "grabbing" divination methods to judge bad luck, including major battles were determined by divination. Xu Shen of the Eastern Han Dynasty "Shuowen" contains "the ancient Wu Cao Zuobo", Wu Cao is Xia Wei's courtier. From this point of view, gambling appeared in the Xia Dynasty in China. In ancient times, gambling was called "gambling" and "betting", which was a game in which money was bet. There are winners and losers in the game, and the loser gives money to the winner, and the gains and losses of the game are increased by the money. This Chinese Zhou Dynasty has been recorded in history. Some people say that gambling originated from the time when Chu and Han were fighting, and Han Xin created a gambling game for the sergeants to pass the time and avoid the pain of homesickness and homesickness.

During the Eastern Han Dynasty, the shape of the six Bo was innovated, and the small Bo of "Ercoo" (the same function as the chopstick) appeared. In addition, each side has a round piece called "fish", which is arranged on the board with a twelve-curved grid, and the two ends are called "water", and the "fish" is placed in the "water". The number of moves is determined according to the number of the belts, which piece advances to the specified position, can be erected, called "proud chess". Then this "proud chess" can enter the "water" and eat the opponent's "fish", which is called "leading the fish". If you can first get three fish, you can get six chips, that is, you win.

But it is precisely because of the benefits brought by winning and losing that gradually gambling "and cheating" have become a pair of twin brothers, so that smart people have long had a definition of the gambling house, with a "cheat" word to try a momentary luck, but often the gamblers who are in it often can't see through. Some even summed up a self-righteous golden and jade saying.

"I'm not afraid of losing bitterly, I'm afraid of breaking the bet, gold and silver for money, there is a bet that doesn't mean losing, and you can win back." Gambling is also dead, not gambling is also death, it is better to gamble; people have no windfall, horses have no night grass and no fertilizer; to the back alley, forward suddenly bright, willows and flowers. ”

Hesheng Gambling House, Zhao Hui is the first time to the casino, as soon as he enters the door, he heard the hustle and bustle of the gamblers one after another, one by one rolled his arms, rolled up his sleeves, exposed the green tendons, the winners laughed, and the losers hung their heads, such as mourning.

The shopkeeper is also a good gambler, so he said to Zhao Hui when he entered the door: "Master, you take a look around first, and the small one will play two first." After that, without waiting for Zhao Hui to agree, he slipped into the crowd of gamblers.

"Fifteen, fifteen, fifteen!" Zhao Hui watched a bearded man and a short and fat man opposite confront each other at the gaming table, the bearded man held a cocktail in the palm of his hand, and shook it desperately while shouting, "snap", and the cocktail fell on the table, it was really fifteen, the bearded man laughed and grabbed the silver in front of Humpty Dumpty, "I won, haha." Humpty Dumpty, on the other hand, stomped his feet, let out a vigorous "sigh", turned his head and left.

Others may not be able to see through it, but this little trick is like a child's game in Zhao Hui's eyes, he only glanced at it, and then he understood what was going on.

Zhao Hui walked to where Humpty Dumpty was standing just now, and looked at the bearded man with provocative eyes, "Playing with two hands?"

The bearded man looked at Zhao Hui's dress, only thought that Zhao Hui was a straw bag, and immediately agreed: "Okay, since my brother is interested, I, Wang Wu, will play with you!"

Zhao Hui didn't say anything, only smiled, leaned forward with his hand, and motioned for Wang Wu to start.

"Brother Tai came first, let you invite first. Wang Wu is also exquisite, let Zhao Hui throw the cocktail first, Zhao Hui is not polite, and casually throws the cockroach into the air, and then falls to the gambling table.

"Bar" fell on the table, sixteen, Zhao Hui directly moved one of his white chess pieces from his own position to the position of the opponent's side, forming an arrogant chess, the bearded man was stunned, a little stupid, this is impossible, this is obviously his hands and feet, why did the other party throw sixteen? No matter, maybe it's luck.

The bearded man gritted his teeth, shouted "Sixteen", and also threw out the cocktail in his hand, "Bar Click" fell on the table, "Two!", he couldn't believe his eyes, and missed!

"Hehe, I agreed. Zhao Hui threw out the cocoon for the second time, "Thirteen", and the arrogant chess directly ate the bearded man who had just walked out of the sunspot, "I'm sorry, Brother Wang, lead the fish!"

As Zhao Hui copied the five taels of silver in front of the bearded man in his hand, the bearded man's forehead sweated unconsciously, "Damn, I don't believe it!"

The bearded man threw the cocoon in his hand again, he puffed out his cheeks, and looked at the cocoon on the table for a while, "Sixteen!" The cocoon gradually stopped moving, it was sixteen, it was clearly a seven.

Just like that, you come and go, and after a while, the six black chess pieces of the bearded man were all led by Zhao Hui, and he finally felt that something was wrong, and he realized that the person on the other side was extremely not simple, and there must be a background.

"This brother has good means, and he is convinced. Zhao Hui saw that the bearded man confessed, but he just smiled and didn't pursue it, and left with more than 30 taels of silver in his hand.

In the next few days, Zhao Hui interspersed between the gambling house and the inn, leaving early and returning late, and in a few days, he not only won thousands of taels of silver in the gambling house, but also helped the owner of the inn win more than 100 taels.

At first, Dong Shushen and Liu Wei didn't care, but Zhao Hui was greedy for the prosperity of Luoyang City to go out for a stroll, but slowly noticed that something was wrong.

On this day, after dinner, the shopkeeper came to Zhao Hui to go to the gambling house again, Zhao Hui and Dong Shushen said as usual to go out for a walk, and hurriedly followed the shopkeeper out of the inn, Dong Shushen and the two pretended not to know, and waited until Zhao Hui and the shopkeeper went away, Dong Shushen unfolded his senses, and Liu Wei tracked all the way to Hesheng Gambling House.

"Hesheng Gambling House", Liu Wei was furious, "This guy would actually come to this kind of place, if I let the master know, I won't be angry, no, I have to wake him up!"

"Big brother, don't be reckless, let's see. Dong Shu grabbed Liu Wei with his body.

"Since Master has let us go to the red dust to practice, this level will be passed after all, but the authorities are just confused. Dong Shushen continued.

Zhao Hui's title of the God of Gambling has long been famous in Hesheng Gambling House these days, and has become the target of attention and envy of gamblers.

"Master, this is the person, the disciple's method of controlling things has always failed in him, but he has always taken the lead, our origin and details are not clear, we only know that his cultivation should be far above the disciple. He Wu, the bearded man, said to a young man who looked a little strange.

"Well, there are really some doorways, according to what you say, his cultivation should not be under your senior brother, and he is a disciple of immortal cultivation, you are not an opponent, but it is expected, forget it, let me play with him." The strange man smiled strangely and walked towards the table where Zhao Hui was.

"This son, are you interested in playing a game with me?" The demonic man pushed away the gambler opposite Zhao Hui and threw a wink at Zhao Hui.

Zhao Hui looked at the strange man, and saw that he did not tie his hair, but only tied a thin red head rope at the back of his head, a black and thick hair hanging down his waist, a white face without any blood, and a blue-green robe, which set off a pair of red lips very weird. Although he is a man, the charm in his crooked eyes, even as a man, can't help but be a little rippling when he sees it. Cultivation is like Zhao Hui, but there is also a moment of distraction.