Chapter Twenty-Four: Singing to Wine
"Yes, Brother Simon. We bet on www.biquge.info Simon Brothers whether they would come to the gazebo at night. I bet I will come, but the master bets that you won't come. Chaoxu had a wine separation, he had drunk a lot of wine with his master before, and Ximen Qing had drunk a few glasses in a row, and he was already slightly drunk.
"So you won the first bet?" Ximen Qing suddenly said.
"Of course!" said Asahi triumphantly.
"Then why did you lose again?" like a basin of cold water poured down, Chaoxu wilted suddenly. He shook his head and looked at the bright moon in the sky, just when a cloud drifted over, blocking the moonlight.
"He was too arrogant and gambled with me for two more games, losing both games. Sima Bai put down his wine glass and said. This is the fourth sentence, Ximen Qing calculated in his heart~
"Yes, I got carried away. Chaoxu returned to his seat and picked up the wine jar, there was still half a jar of wine left. He continued: "When the master found out that you were coming, I didn't think I was having enough fun, so we gambled two more games. The second gambler came up with a bet that he would hit you with leaves, and you wouldn't dodge. ”
Ximen Qing coughed dryly, he had just been distracted, and secretly apologized to Chaoxu in his heart, if he hadn't been distracted, he would have won the bet.
"The third bet was proposed by me, and we will bet that we will return the antidote to 'Sadness and Crisp Breeze' to you, whether you will accept it. My idea is to be able to accept it, but the master said that you will not accept it. ”
Isn't this three gambling contracts related to himself~ Ximen Qing was speechless, is it interesting for you two eldest children to keep entertaining me?
But if you think about it, this bet is a loss!
Ximenqing smiled: "Do you want to know why you lost? Actually, this bet is unfair to you." ”
"I want to hear it in detail!" In fact, Chaoxu also wanted to know why he lost when he had the advantage and won a game first? Sima Bai also cast his curious eyes on Ximenqing.
Ximenqing didn't speak, picked up the wine glass, the meaning is self-evident, not to greet everyone to drink, but that there is no wine in my cup~
Chaoxu and Sima Bai both shook him with a big white eye. Waiting for the wine glasses to be filled with fine wine, Ximenqing pretended to be profound and said: "In fact, in the first bet, if I don't come, what will be the result?"
"Of course my master won!" Chaoxu reacted quite quickly.
"Yes, if I didn't come, the next two bets would not be valid, and your master would win directly, and he would have accounted for half of the chance of winning you. Your master loses the first game, that is, I came, so the second and third bets are established, and each bet has a half chance of winning, even if your master loses the first game, the next two games still have a chance to win. In this way, the probability of your master winning you is greater than half!"
This is the calculation of the probability of the event in later generations, Ximenqing tried his best to explain it to the two of them in easy-to-understand language, Chaoxu seemed to understand it, and Sima Bai understood it.
After a long time, Sima Bai picked up the wine glass and saluted Ximen Qing: "Brother Ximen, I admire you!" After that, he drank all the wine in the cup.
"This is the fifth sentence~" Ximenqing muttered quietly, and also drank the wine in the cup, but it was a pity in his heart, wine is not such a cow drink, you have to taste it carefully~
"What did you just say," Sima Bai asked, putting down his glass. He only knew what Ximenqing said, but he didn't hear the specific content.
"It's nothing! It's nothing! I just praise this wine for being delicious" Ximenqing snorted, but counted silently in his heart, the sixth sentence ~ See if you can say ten sentences in one night, I bet I can't.
Hearing Ximenqing's exclamation, Chaoxu no longer thought hard about the question of probability, and left him alone if he couldn't figure it out! He picked up his wine glass and said loudly: "Such a beautiful day, such a beautiful wine, how can you not be accompanied by poetry?" Ximenqing felt that Chaoxu was proud at this time, not at all like a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy, but had the momentum of the head of a family and the commander of an army. Ximenqing was startled by the idea of his sudden appearance, and wondered if I had drunk too much.
I only heard Chaoxu chanting: "
Wine Luminous Glass,
If you want to drink the pipa, urge immediately.
Drunk and lying on the battlefield, Jun Mo smiled,
How many people have come back to fight in ancient times?"
Ximenqing listened to it and praised it: "What a song "Liangzhou Ci". He applauded. This "Liangzhou Ci" is a seven-character quatrain of the Tang Dynasty poet Wang Han, which expresses the heroic spirit of the soldiers guarding the border who are loyal and patriotic, and regard death as their home through the description of a piece of feasting and drinking life in the border army. It seems that although Chaoxu is small, his ambition is not small!Ximenqing thought to himself.
At this time, Ximen Qing was also interested, stood up, held a wine glass, and said: "There is a song in my hometown, which is very good. With that, he took two steps and began to hum: "
Canghai laughed
The tide on both sides of the strait
Ups and downs follow the waves
The sky is laughing, and the tide is in the world
God knows who loses and who wins
The rivers and mountains are smiling and the rain is far away
How much do you know about the waves and the red dust
The breeze laughed and made it lonely
There is still a night photo left of pride
......”
As the saying goes, there is heaven above, and there is Suzhou and Hangzhou below. Looking at the city that appeared on the horizon in front of him from afar, Ximenqing breathed a sigh of relief. Starting from Bianliang, he and Yueting drove for nearly a month, and finally arrived at this beautiful and wealthy southern city.
Buying a house in the south of Hangzhou, settling Yueting, and leaving her some living expenses, Ximenqing rode a fast horse, wandered around, and continued to do the great cause of robbing the rich and helping the poor.