Chapter 105: Pai Gow Gambling
Qingyun was so angry that he was going to die, but he didn't have a good seizure, because he was indeed serving the gamblers, no matter how superb his gambling skills were, he still had to rely on the Gu family to pay him a salary to live, and it was never wise to offend the guests. So the old man had no choice but to hold back his anger and ordered the servants who were waiting on the side to come forward and change the chips for Gao Jie, but he still couldn't pull it down himself.
This scene fell in the eyes of everyone, Wu Siyuan and Wang Chengming were slightly surprised, feeling that this young man had more mystery, while Qi Meiyue smiled even more charmingly, and kept staring at Gao Jie with more playfulness in his eyes.
The smallest chips in the Hongluan Hall are also worth one or two silver, in order to distinguish them from ordinary bamboo chips, and to have a grade, these large high-end chips are actually made of ivory.
The ancient book "Qing Barnyard Copy" cloud: "The chips, made of ivory, are as long as half of the shape, and take their square and width, and both sides are painted. If there is no ivory, it is convenient to cut the bamboo. Botu entered the game, and the bag family first gave chips to replace the green worm and the white horse. Its system, the size is uneven, or when thousands, or when hundreds, or when ten, so as to bet and convert at will. After the game is dispersed, the winner and loser are divided, and the chips are compared with their gains and losses, so as to reward Adu, and the ancient so-called point chips are also".
Pang Weifeng won nearly three hundred taels of silver in the hall, and Gao Jie still had more than two hundred taels in his pocket, so he exchanged five hundred taels of silver for chips.
According to the rules of the casino, when he bought chips before, Gao Jie's twenty taels had already been taken by the casino, and the tap rate was 10%. This is where the majority of the casino's revenue comes from. So Gao Jie now exchanges low-level chips for high-level chips, but he saves the rake.
When he was tapped in front, Pang Weifeng's flesh hurt for a long time, and before he could go into battle, he was exploited for two hundred dollars. And Gao Jie looked indifferent, because most of the silver he carried was obtained by "robbery" in Mizhi County before leaving, and he could bear it.
When changing chips, Qingyun had already started to shuffle the dice for the others, Qi Wusheng was watching by the eldest sister's side, while paying attention to Gao Jie from time to time, this young year is the nephew of their commander, if they can take this opportunity to stammer, the future may be smoother and smoother.
Gao Jie changed his chips, sat down at an empty seat at the table, and began to carefully observe the play of Pai Gow. In his previous life, not to mention Pai Gow, he had never even touched the gambling games such as mahjong, golden flowers, and landlords that people often played, and the casino was completely contributed to this Fulu Village for the first time.
The gambling equipment used in Pai Gow is called "domino", and in the Ming Dynasty, it was called "ivory card", because it was made of ivory animal bones, so it was named. There are only 32 dominoes, which is much simpler than more than 100 mahjong cards, and some people feel that it is difficult to understand the cards of dominoes, in fact, it can be said clearly as long as one sentence: the cards of each domino are spelled together by the points of two dice! A dice has six kinds of points, and the combination of two dice points should be 21 kinds, how can a pair of dominoes have 32 cards? In fact, there are 11 kinds of cards in a pair of dominoes, a total of 22, plus the remaining 10 kinds of single cards, exactly 32 cards. Pairs of cards have a special term called "Wenpai", and single cards are called "martial cards".
Two six points in the text card called the day card, a pair of day cards is the "day card pair", and two points called the ground card, a pair of land cards called "the land card pair", what else is the "person card", "goose card", "plum card" and so on various combinations, and so on.
In Mr. Jin Yong's "The Legend of the Deer and Ding", the gambling Lord Wei Xiaobao Wei has a pair of sons called "Copper Hammer", which is actually six points and one point, and the other is called "Tiger Head", which is six points and five points. And his daughter Wei Shuangshuang almost became Wei Bench, in fact, the bench is two two points. Whether it is a pair of cards or a pair of martial cards are called "treasure", it is a better card.
Now the table is playing a small pai gow, each person touches two cards to compare the size, "one roll and two eyes". When the size is larger, if you can make up any pair of treasures, they are bigger than two unpaired cards, and the relationship between the treasure and the treasure from large to small is: supreme, heavenly cards, earth cards, human cards, and cards, plum cards, long cards, benches, tiger heads, four six, copper hammers, unit five, nine pairs of heaven, eight pairs of earth, seven pairs of people, and five pairs. Unpaired cards add up the points on the face to a fraction.
Although the small pai gow gameplay is simple, if you want to win, in addition to your own good luck, the dealer's shuffling and rolling of the dice also have a lot to do with it. A good dealer can remember his shuffled cards clearly, and then decide where to start with the cards through his superb dice rolling skills, so that he can control the wins and losses of different gamblers.
The dealers in the hall have good dice shaking skills, but there is still a long way to go to become a gambling master like Qingyun who is not only good at shaking dice, but also good at shuffling cards.
Just now, Gao Jie gave Qingyun an embarrassment without being humble or arrogant, and he killed all sides in the hall, he had already become a thorn in the old man's side, he was shaking the dice for Wang Chengming and other cards, while looking forward to Gao Jie playing early, he secretly thought in his heart, by that time, this boy who didn't know the height of the sky would become the fish on the old man's board, and he was not allowed to slaughter.
Gao Jie, who has the magic of "White Lotus Nine Lives", has long been transformed and has become the so-called "strongest brain", and his understanding and memory are transcendent and holy level, after three games, he will understand the rules of pai gow and the key to winning or losing, and he also understands that for ordinary people, Qingyun's old boy is a very critical factor in winning or losing, but today he met this freak, and the so-called gambling master can only be blind.
In the fourth game, Gao Jie participated.
Wang Chengming and Wu Siyuan at the poker table, including Qingyun who presided over the gambling game, knew that he was a rookie from Gao Jie's performance when he watched the game.
And Qi Meiyue also frowned slightly, quite worried about Gao Jie's eagerness.
In the first game, Gao Jie bet five taels of silver and lost, and in the second game, he lost another five taels.
When Qingyun and the others saw this scene, their faces were full of smiles, and their hearts were secretly refreshed.
Yu Hongzhi, Ji Longfeng, Jiao Miao and Pang Weifeng, father and son, who were sitting on the sidelines watching the battle, were so anxious that their brains were sweating, but they couldn't do anything, and they fidgeted on the chairs as if they had hemorrhoids on their buttocks. Even Qi Meiyue's sister and brother were anxious for Gao Jie.
And Gao Jie is still smiling, full of the decay of a loser.
After losing nearly thirty taels of silver in a row, Gao Jie suddenly sighed, shook his head and said, "It's not exciting to play like this, it's better to go to the hall to play!"
Qi Meiyue's sister and brother and Ji Longfeng were stunned, this kid is not exciting enough to lose like this, I really don't understand what he has in his head, only Yu Hongzhi blindly trusts Gao Jie, and also answers his words: "Childe said that if it is not exciting, it is not exciting!"
When Wang Chengming, Wu Siyuan and Qingyun heard this, they were afraid that this rookie would really go to the hall to play, so they hurriedly asked, "Brother Gao, how do you want to play to be exciting?!"
Gao Jie scratched his head, and habitually silently earlobes, tossed for a long time, and waited for Qingyun to wait for a hurry before slowly said: "After the cards are dealt, let's not open the cards first, feel that their cards are big, you can raise, and if you are not satisfied, you can add until someone abstains from withdrawing, and the last two remaining people, one of them does not want to follow anymore, and does not want to abstain, just add double bets to ask to open the cards, and finally the big card wins, what do you think, is it exciting enough?!"
The people on the table are all old foxes in the business world, and their brains are naturally good, and they all understand what Gao Jie said in a moment, and they all feel that this is indeed more exciting than just now, not only to see the character, but also to test the courage, and the win or loss will be much greater, and they all agreed. Even Qi Meiyue forgot what she was worried about for Gao Jie, and felt that this kind of play was fresh and nervous, so Han Shou agreed.
Qingyun was secretly happy in his heart, so he naturally complied, so he began to reshuffle the cards and shake the dice.
This handful, Qingyun shook out seven points, from Wu Siyuan began to take cards, according to his memory, Gao Jie should touch a plum blossom and a four-six, that is, the out-and-out "lame ten", he lightly twisted his sparse beard, smiling and waiting to see Gao Jie's jokes.
Qi Meiyue touched four points, so after placing the bottom of five taels of silver, she decisively abstained.
Wang Chengming secretly glanced at his cards, and was secretly happy in his heart, he touched the long card treasure, which was basically a steady win, so he immediately added ten taels. And Wu Siyuan's cards are also good, it is a pair of eight pairs, there is no reason not to follow, so he did not hesitate to lose ten taels of chips.
Gao Jie pretended, lowered his head nervously, lifted his cards a little bit, looked left and right, and there was a toss, only then did he silently earlobe, hesitate to twist up a ten taels of chips, and gently put them in the stack of chips, he actually followed.
Qingyun almost laughed out loud, if it was seven or eight o'clock at this moment, he would still be qualified to steal chickens, but he didn't expect this stupid guy to follow him, he was extremely stupid, stupid to the point of home!
Seeing that two people followed, Wang Chengming was overjoyed and continued to raise twenty taels. Wu Siyuan thought about it and followed.
Gao Jie naturally struggled painfully again, and finally closed his eyes and twisted two more ten taels of chips to keep up.
So, the chips are piled higher and higher, because there are three people continuing, so no one can open the cards, Wang Chengming and Wu Siyuan cards are good, it is impossible to fold, and Gao Jie is a small strong appearance who refuses to admit defeat, although hesitation, hesitation, pain, struggle, all kinds of emojis are thrown out, and bite his lip from time to time, pinch his thigh, but in the end he is still not afraid of death.
When there were nearly eight hundred taels of silver piled up on the table, Wu Siyuan hesitated. Although he doesn't know Gao Jie's personality, he knows Wang Chengming very well, and knows that this guy is not very bold, if this card is not very good, I am afraid that he will run away in disgrace. After thinking about it again and again, he was sure that his eight pairs of land were not the biggest, so he gritted his teeth and abstained from the card.
Seeing that Wu Siyuan had been defeated, Wang Chengming was proud and regretful, and felt that he should win more to be worthy of the good deck of cards in his hand, so he looked at Gao Jie with expectation, hoping that this stupid boy would continue to resist him.
Gao Jie didn't disappoint him, he looked like he was about to die, and continued to follow up, and now he no longer had the hesitant and nervous appearance as before, but quickly and decisively threw the chips in front of him with Wang Chengming, without the slightest hesitation.
So, Wang Chengming began to hesitate, thinking that if this kid didn't have a good deck of cards in his hand, he couldn't keep spending it with himself based on his five hundred taels of bottom. He had always been a little timid and cautious, and when the chips on the table exceeded 1,200 taels, he decided to give up and continue to consume.
Of course, he is so good card, it is impossible to run away without opening the card, how to look at the card to die, so he threw out two hundred taels of double chips, hissed: "I want to open the card!"
When Gao Jie heard this, he looked at the chips of more than one hundred taels of silver left on his table, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief. If this guy doesn't open his cards again, Gao Jie will be finished, because he is not enough capital, and in the end he can't even take out the two hundred taels of double chips that he opened, and finally has to abstain by default.
Of course, if she asks Qi Meiyue for help, she should lend Gao Jie silver to continue to follow up or open cards, but this situation is not what Gao Jie wants, he is not used to owing such a big favor to a person who is not familiar with and does not understand, the so-called shortest cannibalism, and the softness of taking people, isn't it?!
Qingyun smiled even brighter, his face was already full of ravines, but this time he was happy, and the wrinkles increased a few more. Because he was completely sure that Gao Jie had lost, and he had lost completely, and this was exactly what he wanted to see, how could he not be happy. However, he also secretly admired this stupid boy who looked stunned, he was not very old, but his psychological quality was also very good!
Wang Chengming spread out his cards and said to Gao Jie in a deep voice: "Mine is a long card treasure, it's up to you!"
Wu Siyuan saw it, wiped his cold sweat, and secretly screamed that he was lucky, but fortunately he saw that the situation was not good, and he stopped quickly. And Qi Meiyue is a little discolored, the long card treasure is really a good card, Gao Jie is afraid that he will be unlucky.