Seeing that he was pale and indifferent, the round-faced fat man stood up and looked at him with a sympathetic expression, "Uncle, did you lose again?" he asked. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Oh, yes! Lost again. Tian Fugui let out a long sigh and looked at him guiltily.

"Oh, that's it!" the round-faced fat man looked a little hesitant, and then, with a thoughtful expression, he nodded, and raised his face to look at Tian Fugui, "Uncle, or ...... Shall I lend you a little more?"

Tian Fugui was taken aback, and said in his heart: "I really met a good person today!"

However, when he remembered that he still owed 20 taels of silver to others, he wanted to borrow them, but he did not dare to borrow them, but what would he give back to them in the future! Thinking of this, he turned his gaze to those people who were in full swing. When they had won, they let out a scream, like when he heard the gentle gasps of a woman in his youth, and it made him want to stop.

He looked back and thought: "I owe so much money to others, and I can't pay it back even if I survive until I die by planting a few acres of thin fields; Win it back, pay off the people's accounts, and then stop it!" So at last he decided that he had to borrow a little money from the young man.

With an apologetic look, he smiled at the fat man with a round face. Originally, he wanted to express his sincere gratitude to others with a smile, but there was no element of happiness in his smile at all. Some only have sadness and helplessness, so the smile in this background is indeed more ugly than crying.

The round-faced fat man was also understanding, and without waiting for Tian Fugui to speak, he took the lead in asking him crisply: "Uncle, how much do you need?"

When it came to the amount of borrowing, Tian Fugui was stunned again, he really didn't know how capable he was and how much debt he could bear. It can be said that, in his own case, he was already an overloaded boat, and even adding a grain of sand to his weight would have overwhelmed him and immediately sank.

Seeing that he was not sure of the amount of money he had borrowed, the round-faced fat man kindly helped him analyze the reasons and made up his mind, "Uncle," he said, "you have found that your capital is too small, and you will lose all of them if you can't play twice; As long as one of the big ones wins against her, won't all the small money I lost before come back! So, if you want to borrow, borrow more at once, so that your capital will be big, your profits will be big, and you will definitely win in the end!"

"Then if I lose, what will I give back to you, big brother!" Tian Fugui was undecided, in a dilemma.

"Hey, look at what you said, uncle!" the round-faced fat man immediately comforted him and said, "Gambling luck depends on a fire, you must not say such discouraged words, you must have the confidence to win, so that your momentum will become more and more hot, and your gambling luck will get better and better." ”

Tian Fugui thought about it and thought that what he said was very reasonable, after all, when he was gambling just now, he was always worried about what to do if he lost, and he didn't think that he would definitely win. It seems that I am about to change my concept and adjust my mentality! Finally, he gritted his teeth and secretly made up his mind.

"Well, big brother!" said him, "how much more money are you going to lend me?"

The round-faced fat man immediately stretched out a palm towards him, "This number, is it enough!"

Tian Fugui was stunned for a moment, with a hesitant expression, "Five taels!" he asked him with a sad face.

The round-faced fat man shook his head.

So, Tian Fugui was even more bottomless, "Big brother, how much is that?"

"Is fifty taels enough?"

"Enough is enough......" At this point, he sighed, "Thank you, big brother!"

"You're welcome, uncle," said the round-faced fat man, "who doesn't have a difficult time, it's nothing, it's normal!" he said, taking out a piece of rice paper from his sleeve pocket, on which some words were densely written.

Tian Fugui didn't know why, so he asked him, "Big brother, what do you mean by this?"

The round-faced fat man looked kind, smiled at him awkwardly and said, "Uncle, there is no other meaning, you see, this time it is fifty taels, plus the twenty taels just now, a total of seventy taels of silver; Therefore, we will also go through the formalities, and you sign here to confirm that there has been this thing between us. lest in the course of time, none of us will remember clearly. ”

"Yes, yes!" Tian Fugui hurriedly said, "I borrowed so much money from you, big brother, and I didn't leave an IOU; ”

"That's out of the way, uncle!" said the round-faced fat man, pointing to the sign in the lower right corner, "You can write your big name here." We are all friends who help each other, and we don't need to make it so complicated, so we can simply go through the formalities. ”

Therefore, Tian Fugui took the paper handed to him by the other party, and according to his request, left his crooked name in the lower right corner of the rice paper. After that, the round-faced fat man took the rice paper handed by Tian Fugui with one hand, and handed the prepared fifty taels of silver with a large cloth with the other hand to him.

After receiving a heavy bag of fifty taels of silver, Tian Fugui's heart seemed to be pressed against a Mount Tai, which made him depressed and heavy; that kind of expression was simply a soldier who rushed to the battlefield and regarded death as his home. He squeezed through the crowd again, and the people were surprised to see him come in with a pale yellow cloth bag and a heavy bag of silver.

People were amazed that he was able to scrape together so much money in such a short period of time. At the same time, I am also worried about his never-defeating personality. But no one said anything wrong with him doing so, but on the contrary, there was a loud cry of voice, as if intent on making public what he had seen. "I'm going to win this time, and I've got a lot of money this time. ”

Everyone looked at him with strange eyes, watched him squeeze into the crowd, and with a bang, put a heavy bag of silver in his hand on the edge of the stone slab in front of the girl who was the banker. "Girl, this time I'm going to bet twenty taels!" said he had already taken out two silver bills weighing ten taels from his money bag, and rattled them and placed them on the stone slab.

The girl who sat on the village smiled, and moved her gaze from the twenty taels of silver he had placed on the slate to his sad, sad, and depressed face. "Uncle, do you really want to bet so much this time?"

"Of course it's true. Tian Fugui said in a deep voice, as if he was gambling with other girls.

The little girl smiled, "All right!" she said, "I see that you are full of confidence, so I will make a bet with you first." As she spoke, she pinched the black chess piece with two delicate fingers and put it into the teacup in the middle. After that, he quickly used his hands to alternate the three tea cups into different positions.

Suddenly, all movement stopped. Tian Fugui immediately shouted, and pointed to the teacup in the middle and said, "That's it!" As a result, the girl opened the teacup in the middle and saw that there were no chess pieces at all.

There was immediately a boo on the field, and Tian Fugui was speechless. He exhaled deeply without saying a word, and with a resigned silence, he took the remaining forty taels of silver with a clatter, grabbed the bottom corner of the bag, and poured it all on the stone slab, "One more game!" he said weakly, and his face was terrifyingly terrifying, and the onlookers were worried.

"Uncle, how much are you here?" the girl who sat in the village still had no change in her face and her heart was not beating, and asked him in a normal tone as if nothing had happened.

Tian Fugui didn't speak, just stretched out four fingers towards her.

"Forty taels?" the girl confirmed.

He nodded, and still did not speak, but looked depressed and discouraged, staring blankly at the girl's skillful hands and the three teacups on the stone slab, which were as terrible as the devil.

The gamble started again, but Tian Fugui still didn't guess correctly! When he left the place that was as painful as a nightmare, it was already time for the sun to set, and the remnants of the sun were like blood. On this day, he did not eat a grain of rice, did not drink a sip of water, and until now he still does not feel a little hungry.

The remnants of the bloody sun, shining on his haggard, sad, lonely back, walked alone on the long road, and when the passers-by saw him, they were startled, and they all thought that he was a madman or a ghost!

His dull and depressed appearance makes anyone who sees him afraid!