Chapter 31: The City of the Four Directions
After the three carriages swayed calmly through several county seats, they finally came to the Sifang City that Lao Wang said.
And Jiang Huai was also separated from several people at the city gate, and they laughed and said goodbye.
The swarthy boy plucked up his courage and said, "If you have the opportunity, you must fight again in the future." ”
Jiang Huaidu responded one by one, but he didn't really want to leave now, although he went to see the Mirror Moon Villa with a wait-and-see mentality, he felt more about the customs and customs of walking alone in the world.
As the saying goes, "Read 10,000 books, travel 10,000 miles." ”
The young man looked back at the city, patted the empty bag on his waist with one hand, took out an unfinished jar of loose wine, moved forward, drank it heroically, and said with a smile: "Jianghu, I respect you." ”
There was no response here, only the scorching sun hanging high.
The boy shook the jar upside down, gently sipped the last drop of wine, and walked across the city in a daze.
The streets of Sifang City crisscross vertically and horizontally, and the shops are lined up on both sides, and the crowd is shoulder to shoulder, so it is not lively.
The sound of shouting and selling, the sound of bargaining, instantly filling the eardrums, or there are words such as "fuck it" and "your uncle" constantly coming out.
The boy also saw some things that he had only heard in books or from other people's mouths in the past, such as someone circling a large circle in an open space, juggling ugliness to win a few copper coins, and even those craftsmen who can make delicate villains with sticky candy, abound.
Although it is better to see than to hear, and it is better to try to see it, but the young man is shy in his pocket, so he has to take a look at it with a lively mind, if he really wants to spend money, then forget it.
In his opinion, it would be good to see "pigs can run".
But just as Jiang Huai was about to step away, a noisy cheer attracted his attention.
In a small stall surrounded by a few people in front, some people cheered, some sighed, and some jumped to their feet and scolded.
"Did you old thing secretly move your hands and feet, Lao Tzu has always been called the head of good luck, how come to your side not only lost seven times in a row, but also only a little bit worse every time, you are a fool for us?!"
Someone acted as a bird, and the "wind and rain" followed.
"That's right, I already felt that you were making trouble underneath, but I didn't expect it to really make me guess. ”
"Smash the stall, smash the stall!"
Jiang Huai walked to take a look, and it turned out to be a short man with a mustache who was a banker, and he shook the dice to guess the size and press the copper coin.
But the boy knows that this kind of game seems to be a competition for luck, but in fact, there are hidden mysteries, and there are many doorways.
Even if it is not a person in the practice as long as he keeps practicing for many years, in addition to some simple techniques, the most important thing is a mysterious technique called "listening to the wind with his ears", when shaking the dice, just listen carefully to what is moving, you can know its points, people can not be guarded against, and the most important thing is a mental game, the person who shakes the dice will throw out some sweetness, you have to take it and leave, this matter is stopped, but you have to have a small profit and a big profit, with a small profit mind, that is really going to lose a butt to the sky, the two petals are exceptionally clean. ”
The middle-aged man with thief eyebrows and rat eyes, with a mustache, heard that he really couldn't sit still, and stood up angrily, although he was small, but he was full of momentum, and even pulled out a sharp knife from under the table and stabbed it heavily on the table, staring at him with wide eyes and saying angrily: "If you come out to talk about the rules, what kind of ability is it to open your mouth, if you can come up with evidence, I Yan Liu will lose ten times today, if you can't come up with evidence and wantonly frame people, then you have to ask me what happened to the knife intent in my hand!"
Several people looked at each other, all of them were taken aback, they didn't expect this person to be inconspicuous but have such momentum, to say that no one can really come up with the evidence, just because he was unhappy to lose and wanted to take it back.
Everyone stared at each other, so they had to break up unhappily.
The short man snorted coldly, sat down and leisurely knocked the melon seeds, and sneered: "Just you little rabbits, you still want to fight with me." ”
His eyes lit up, put down the melon seeds and rubbed his hands and smiled at the white-clothed young man who was about to pass by: "Hey, son, do you want to play a handful, as long as you guess the right points, press as much as you want, and you will definitely not be bullied." ”
Yan Liu's eyes were extremely vicious, such a handsome young man in white was either one of those rich sons with a very thick background, who was extremely generous, and he was even more willing to throw thousands of taels for a little face, and his eyes didn't blink.
Otherwise, those poor scholars who are cleaner than their faces and only know how to study hard can't squeeze a drop of oil and water out.
But isn't it all about the word "betting" in this business?
Jiang Huai stopped when he heard this, turned his head and smiled: "What a way to play." ”
Seeing that the fish was hooked, the man immediately rubbed his hands and smiled: "If you owe as little as five pennies, if you owe more, you can do whatever you want." ”
Jiang Huai nodded, took out a tael of silver and put it on the table engraved with the word "small", and pretended to be comfortable: "Then play with the small one first, and then take a look." ”
The short man was overjoyed, and he really made the right bet, he was really a rich son.
He didn't say anything more, picked up the dice box and shook it up and down, pressed it on the table with a bang, and said with a smile: "Childe, if there is no objection, I can open it." ”
The boy nodded.
Then there was a sound of appreciation, "Childe, you are really lucky, a good start!"
He then took out a tael of silver from his bosom and put it on the table, grinning and waiting for the next step.
I never thought that the latter put away two taels of silver and turned around and left.
The man immediately couldn't sit still, got up and hurriedly said, "You just play one?!"
The young man in white turned around, with a smile on his face, "What, you still want to be strong, and you have to lose all the way before you can leave?"
"This, this..."
The man muttered for a long time, unable to say a word, and could only watch the cooked duck fly away.
There is no way to fish for this long-line big fish, and even the bait is gone.
Yan Liu said angrily in a low voice: "When did I suffer from this kind of, I must find a way to get back to the field." ”
He then pulled the table to the corner of the wall, picked up the melon seeds and followed secretly.
Jiang Huai glanced back a little with his afterglow and didn't look at it anymore, put away two taels of silver into his arms, thoughtful.
"A pie-in-the-sky good thing like this is really easy to deceive people, knowing that there is fraud, but still wanting to win again, and in the end they are willing to gamble and lose. ”
"The human heart is terrible. ”
The young man retracted his thoughts, walked leisurely and slowly, stopped in front of the gate of a rich courtyard, turned sideways slightly, stared at the mansion with a few golden lines outlined in large characters, and muttered, "This is the Mirror Moon Villa?"
An old servant in yellow in front of the door bent down and said with a smile: "Dare to ask if Gongzi is also the one who came to congratulate him?"
The young man shook his head, turned away, and inadvertently urged the aura of Qi Fu Haoran at a certain corner, turned back slightly, and patted the man who thought he was well hidden and had a gloomy face.
The latter turned his head and sat directly on the ground.
His face was flustered, looking incredulous, and he trembled and muttered, "You... Are you an immortal?"
The young man shook his head and smiled: "Naturally, he is not an immortal, but he can do some tricks." ”
The short man's face was blank, obviously not believing this, how could ordinary people do such an outrageous thing, just now he was still dozens of meters in front of him, and he ran behind him in the blink of an eye.
He didn't dare to think about it, and he no longer expected to get the bait or two back.
His face was as usual, Jiang Huai, who was dressed in white, clasped his hands to his chest and smiled: "Since you are like a fish in water here, can you do me a small favor." ”
The young man pointed to the palatial mansion in the distance and whispered, "Think of a way to take me into that courtyard, and it's better to be above board." ”
Yan Liu was stunned when he heard this, and his face changed even more when he was puzzled, and he turned pale in an instant.
Jiang Huai asked, "It's troublesome?"
It's not that he can't change into the hospital uniform with the word "Shangde", but he feels that something is wrong, if something really happens, it is not just to fill in a black line in the invulnerable white clothes, it really can't be drawn.
Yan Liuyu hesitated, and finally sighed: "It's okay for us people in the rivers and lakes to deceive the little people, but like the likes of Jingyue Villa, we don't dare, and we can't do it, and today is the 100th birthday of the owner of the village. ”
Yan Liu really didn't beat Hu in circles in this matter, he was afraid of that Mirror Moon Villa from the bottom of his heart, if the other party really had that heart, bullying a small character like them who didn't enter the stream was just a matter of moving his fingers.
When it comes to life and death, he never plays sloppy.
Jiang Huai neither nodded nor shook his head, but traveled thousands of miles away, putting himself in the shoes of the man with the sword on his back How to do it.
He seemed to see a man with a big grin and uninhibited appearance.
After a while, the white-clothed young man with a kind face instantly turned pale, brushed the man's shoulder with one hand, and said in an old-fashioned manner: "Yan Liu, don't hide it, otherwise you will suffer." ”
Yan Liu resignedly: "There's really no way. ”
Jiang Huai let out an "oh", turned to leave, and looked up to the sky and said indifferently: "Then forget it." ”
The thief-eyed man smiled slightly, relieved.
But the young man turned around and smiled: "Then I will go to your stall and put up a notice to tell the world how you shake the dice, how to judge the difference between the big and the small, or how to throw the line to fish, and how many mechanisms there are on that ordinary wooden table, how do you feel?"
The short man looked at the slightly immature face in front of him and felt a sense of despair, rubbed his head with both hands, and sighed: "There is indeed a way, but I want to ask something that I should not be qualified to know, the stakes are very high, and I hope that you don't have to blame the immortals, dare to ask why you want to go to Jingyue Villa." ”
The young man was actually imitating a person who was addicted, holding a sword with one hand, waving his big hand forward, and said heartily: "Of course it's for cool!"