Chapter 25 · Take a big gamble
The master and apprentice didn't know what the sharp-mouthed man thought, and the gamblers around him noticed that the two were dressed in shabby clothes and had a generous shot, and they couldn't help but be attracted to it.
Daoist Yunyang didn't notice the strange gazes of others, but after seeing Li Ming's bet, his face twitched slightly, and he immediately slapped his head fiercely, and asked: "Stinky boy, why are you pressing small for the teacher." ”
Li Mingfang screamed in pain, and then looked at the master with his head held high and aggrieved, and said, "I'm afraid that the disciples will be overwhelmed, what if it's small." ”
Daoist Yunyang stroked his beard, thoughtful, and suddenly felt that there was some reason, and he praised him: "Hey, bastard is smart, why can't you think of it as a teacher." ”
While the two were talking, the dealer picked up the dice cup and shook it under the secret intention of a gambling house guard.
At the beginning of the gambling game, the eyes of the master and apprentice shifted to the gambling table, and the two stared at the shaking dice cup, clenching their fists and shouting the size.
The gamblers around him who were watching and placing bets also began to shout noisily for their bets.
"Big big!"
"Tiny!"
“......”
At both ends of the table, at one end of the big and small, two groups of gamblers glared angrily at the other side, pointing fingers and feet, constantly shouting, and spitting stars flying left and right.
Li was mixed in with the crowd, his face slightly frightened. When he was in Fenyang Town, he had seen many gamblers gambling for money, but such a desperate posture was really rare. He was afraid that the next moment, the gamblers would suddenly lift the table without saying a word, pick up the bench, and beat you to death.
Fortunately, his worries did not materialize, and as the dealer slapped the sieve cup on the table, all the voices fell silent, and his eyes were fixed on the dealer's hand.
"Buy and leave, no regrets!" The corner of the dealer's mouth raised slightly, and his expression inexplicably swept around the surrounding people. Suddenly, everyone was silent, and the dice cup slowly opened the light.
"Four...... Four ......"
Everyone stared at the dice that moved out a little bit, their eyes were red, and when the dealer moved the two sieves out of the cup, the atmosphere on the scene was depressed to the extreme, and Li Chao and Yunyang Dao Chang were also staring at each other, and cold sweat flowed slightly.
As the last dice were completely opened, another four fell into everyone's eyes.
"Four-four-four! Leopard all!"
The three dice were all fours, and the dealer raised his voice to report the points in the stunned eyes of everyone.
As the saying goes, some people are happy and some people are worried, but at this moment, no one is happy except for the dealer, and they all have lost a fine light.
Yunyang Daoist and Li Chao were stunned for a long time, and after a while, Yunyang Daoist didn't pay attention to tearing off a beard, waking up from the pain, and he glanced at the dice on the gambling table, and said angrily at the dealer: "You must be out of the old man!"
"Yes, it's out of the old man!" Li Chao echoed the master viciously.
Where is there such a coincidental thing, the front foot master and apprentice have just finished pressing the big and small, and the back foot will pop out of a all-of-one, and the thing is more abnormal than a demon, and it is not suspicious to teach people.
Faced with the doubts of the two masters and apprentices, the dealer stroked his beard, and said with a smile: "Two guest officers, these three turns and one dice, but the most famous way to play in this workshop is to seek truth from facts, and never hide the trick." If the two guest officers can win, it is naturally your ability, and if you lose, you can only blame the two of you for their bad luck. ”
The head of what the dealer said was the Tao, and he was not afraid of the cannibalistic eyes of the master and apprentice. In his opinion, no one has ever dared to make trouble in the Shanghai Gambling House, and the other party is just two poor Taoist priests, so he is even more fearless.
As he spoke, the dealer put the dice into the cup again.
The master and apprentice were forced to be speechless by his words, and the gamblers who wanted to take the opportunity to fish in troubled waters to get back the gambling money on the side also looked at each other and didn't know how to coax.
What people say is very reasonable, if you play with pigs and boiling water, I'm afraid you can only eat and walk around.
"I'm going to be small this time!" said Daoist Yunyang glared fiercely at the nonchalant dealer, and then took out a handful of gold and silver from the package again.
Li Chao immediately took out a handful and snorted, "I'm pressing!"
The gamblers watched the two Taoist priests place bets again, and many people followed suit. Some people want to fish in troubled waters, and some people want to get back to the right game.
Everyone bets, and the dealer again goes up and down, right, right, and down, shaking the sieve.
"Big Big ......"
"Tiny!"
As the game began again, the gamblers on both sides of the table shouted again. This time, the shouting was even more intense than before. And the master and apprentice also parted ways, standing on both sides and pointing at each other and spitting everywhere.
Bang –
When the dice cup fell, the gamblers on both sides couldn't help but raise their throats, and the pins fell around them instantly, and everyone's eyes were fixed on the dice cup.
The dealer squinted, glanced at the crowd, and slowly unveiled the dice cup from left to right. This time, he didn't leave the suspense, but completely revealed the dice cup at once.
"Six-six-six?"
Three six-point dice lay naked on the table, and the game was another take-it-all game.
"Do you dare to say that there is no old man? Lao Tzu is also a frequent customer of your gambling house, how dare you tease Lao Tzu!"
"That's it, return the money!
Eat it twice in a row, and even a fool knows that there is something wrong with it. Before the master and apprentice had a seizure, someone had already risen up and shouted angrily.
With a question, the gamblers around them glared angrily, asking the dealer to give them justice.
In the face of the angry crowd, the dealer did not panic, and he stood in the gambling table, still looking like an old god, and did not put everyone in his eyes.
The sharp-mouthed man beside him walked up to everyone with a smile, pressed his hand and said: "Don't be excited, the gambling game is unpredictable, there are even small ones, and naturally there are even eats, how can we smash the signboard because of this bit of wealth, and I hope you believe in our Shanghe Gambling House." ”
The words of the sharp-mouthed man were convincing, and the gamblers looked at each other and were speechless. After a while, he saw that everyone was silent, and then said: "Since you think that what Xiao said has some truth, you may wish to continue to bet, and if you have any doubts, you can open the table and open the cup to verify the authenticity of the gambling game!"
The gamblers, who were about to continue questioning, shut their mouths when they heard the last words of the sharp-mouthed man. The master and apprentice looked at each other inexplicably, but the anger on their faces still did not dissipate because of the sharp-mouthed man's words.
Since the gambling house is self-reliant, no matter how much entanglement it is, it will be a loss, so it can only continue to gamble or leave. The gambling house is like this, it has never been a place to reason, and everyone knows it.
The anger was suppressed, and the dealer and the sharp-mouthed man glanced at each other, and began to pull the dice cup again.
Li Ban looked at Daoist Yunyang who was slightly red, pulled the sleeves of his robe, and asked softly, "Master, are we still gambling?" ”
There are not many gold ingots and silver tickets left on the two of them after losing two in a row, and the only jewelry and porcelain left, to gamble or not? Yunyang Dao Chang secretly considered himself, leaned less, he took out the jade and agate and put them on the gambling table, and asked, "How much are these worth?"
Seeing the old Taoist priest take out a bunch of inexplicable jewelry and jade, the sharp-mouthed man and the dealer unconsciously looked at each other and smiled, their eyes full of pride.
The sharp-mouthed man snorted, bypassed the crowd, came to the master and apprentice, bowed down and said with a smile: "Two masters, this gambling house only accepts gold ingots and silver tickets, not objects." ”
"Don't accept objects?" Hearing this, Daoist Yunyang raised his eyebrows, very dissatisfied with this.
The sharp-mouthed man observed his words and looks, and continued to laugh and laugh, so he acted as a question: "This ...... If the two masters want to continue gambling, I will mention our shopkeeper to be the master, and these items will be converted to you according to the market price, a total of two hundred taels of silver?"
Yunyang Dao Changwu nodded to himself, originally he thought it was two hundred taels of gold, but in the end it turned out to be silver, so angry that he brushed his beard, jumped to his feet and said: "Black shop! Black shop! Don't gamble, don't gamble!"
I think that at the beginning, I smashed a bunch of porcelain from Zhang Quangui and was asked for more than 2,000 taels of gold, but now so many jade jewelry are only worth 200 taels of silver, how can people accept it?
Li Chao also frowned, and said angrily: "You dare to deceive the Taoist master, we won't gamble!"
The two masters and apprentices looked angry and hated each other, and as they spoke, they put away the jade jewelry on the gambling table and prepared to leave the gambling house.
But as soon as the two of them turned around and took a step, two thugs with long knives at their waists suddenly walked in front of them, and the two thugs looked at the master and apprentice with expressionless faces, obviously trying to force the two to stay.
The master and apprentice were startled, and the Yunyang Dao Commander took a step back with Li Mingxiao in his arms, and then looked at the sharp-mouthed man with a sneer on his face, and asked timidly: "What do you mean by this!"
The sharp-mouthed man raised the corners of his mouth slightly, waved his hand at the unknown gamblers around him, and sneered inexplicably: "Don't panic, my Shanghe gambling house is not unmoral, the reason why I stopped these two Taoist priests is just to suspect that their things are not coming from the right way, so I took the opportunity to leave them to investigate, if it is a misunderstanding, our gambling house will definitely give them generous compensation!"
This is also a good word, but anyone with a discerning eye can see that this is to forcibly eat these two little Taoist priests. The gamblers didn't dare to speak, so they had to watch coldly, and the so-called things were not about themselves.
The two masters and apprentices turned pale, and they wanted to open their mouths to refute it, but it was difficult to argue, their own things were indeed coming from the wrong way, and now they were beaten crookedly, but they were poor in reasoning and words, and they couldn't deal with it for a while.
Yunyang Dao Chang rubbed his fingers and secretly thought about countermeasures. At this time, Li Ming's head was raised and he said angrily: "Don't you just want our baby, we will give it to you, but we have to continue to gamble, and it is yours if you lose or lose!"
As soon as these words came out, the sharp-mouthed man thought for a while, then nodded with a smile, and changed back to his previous appearance, and he bowed down and smiled: "In this case, please two of you, so as to prove the innocence of your things." With that, he secretly gave the dealer a look.
What is shameless, this is. Under the eyes of everyone, coercion and temptation, forcing the master and apprentice to forcibly bet, and even more high-sounding, they didn't know the word shame.
It is better to lose at the gambling table than to be empty, and gamblers have secretly said that the little Taoist priest is shrewd.
The sharp-mouthed man had just left with his front foot, but unexpectedly, he heard Li Ban climb onto the gambling table and raised his voice to the people around him: "Ladies and gentlemen, today our master and apprentice are ready to gamble, and if you want to make a lot of money, you can make a lot of money." The gambling house said that if you eat it all this time, you will be out of the money, and all the money you lost will be returned!"