gambler

In the mountains, in the green pine gaps, birds and flowers, a trickle of water flows slowly under an old stone arch bridge, and a wide mountain road extends over, connecting the stone bridge, and quietly extending. Looking along the way, you can see that there are two slippery houses faintly visible in the col in front of you, of different heights, but the colorful flags are fluttering, and the cloth flags are hunting, and it is actually a decent street.

In early winter and late autumn, the sun after noon is still quite scorching, incandescent and dazzling, the sun is like a fire, just like the middle of summer, and the mountain breeze blows slowly, but it is also very cool, and it is not as hot as in the summer wind.

The streets are quiet, and there is not necessarily anyone moving, but there is a cat with a black body, curled up in the shade of a tree, sleeping soundly, as if everything here is like in an ink painting, ready to come out but not moving. A kind of static beauty, this is just a microcosm of the Central Plains countryside.

This is the smokeless ditch, that is, the valley of sleepy guests, one of the four forbidden places that are rumored to be on the rivers and lakes.

There was silence in the valley, and suddenly, a flock of birds fluttered and flew into the distance, circling a few times and then flying off into the distance, and in the distance there were a few barking of lazy dogs, presumably the birds were startled and disturbed the good dreams of the dogs.

In the daytime, there was a man standing at the entrance of the ravine.

Ren Tianqi stood still at the entrance of the ravine, his eyes were level, and he was squinting ahead.

I can see that on the side of the road four or five zhang in front of me, there is a towering stone, on which the dragon flies and the phoenix dance writes three blood-red and bloody characters: smokeless ditch. The big red letters are dizzying and dizzy, and the heart is evil. Next to the stone is a rather elaborate street archway, I can't figure out why such a bright archway should be built in this big ravine. In the shade below the archway, there is a bamboo recliner horizontally, and on the recliner there is a man with a bare body, a fat body, playing barefoot, and a sound like thunder; the front of the recliner puts an empty bamboo collapse, and there is also a bamboo collapse on the side of the recliner, but there are some watermelon towels and other things on it, and there is a bright and swaying on the side bamboo collapse beam, a heavy machete, as if it is to tell the people of the world: this is by no means an unusual place, and you must be cautious when you come. The man with his chair had occupied most of the intersection.

In the early winter, under the sunny sun, some people fell asleep soundly, and it was amazing to fall asleep naked; what was even more amazing was that there were still four people standing silently behind the bamboo chair, squatting two dogs, both people and dogs were motionless there, staring at Ren Tianqi like clay sculptures.

It is appalling and frightening to say that even those animals that cannot speak are well-trained, trained to remain silent or immobile in the presence of strangers and to obey orders in all words and deeds. All these adventures herald the extraordinary place for people in the world.

The mountain road was twisted, and Ren Tianqi followed Tang Shengzhi and Gong Ming not far behind.

Not far behind Tang Shengzhi and Gong Ming, there were twin eagles, Tianbao and Hua Ruchun.

Then I came to see the lively show, and I was afraid that the world would be peaceful, and I followed each other from a stone's throw away, and looked.

Ren Tianqi knew that Wuyangou must be full of thrilling and unpredictable everywhere, and it must be full of crises and murderous spirits, and he didn't dare to be careless at all.

Ren Tianqi saw that someone had appeared in front of him to stop him, and he could see that the other party's dog seemed to be familiar, so he knew that trouble was coming, and he didn't want to go to the valley before the test came, and he didn't think about bypassing it, nor did he think about expecting it to pass smoothly.

Ren Tianqi straightened his clothes, looked back at the people behind him, smiled and strode forward with his sword.

Yes, the art is bold, there is no way back at this moment, rather than worrying all day long, afraid of this and that, it is better to give it a go, depending on the will of God, and the plan is in the people.

Behind them, the two people in the Tang Palace had also seen that the people in front of them were not good, and they both stood ten steps away, reached into their arms, and buckled the hidden weapon, just in case.

Ren Tianqi strode up to meet him, but the other party's people and dogs still didn't move.

Seeing that he was less than six feet away from the person on the other party's bamboo chair, he was already close in front of him, and he saw the big man muttering a few words, and he turned over and changed his posture.

Ren Tianqi is full of luck all over his body, ready to go, forced to be calm, and never stops.

Ren Tianqi did not stop, and still strode forward.

The fat man on the chair was still thundering.

There were four people behind the chair, and the two dogs were still motionless.

Just as Ren Tianqi was about to rub shoulders with the fat man, a big hand like a bowl suddenly stopped horizontally in front of Ren Tianqi, clinging to Ren Tianqi's chest.

The big hands were fat, greasy, white, red, black and long. The arm was motionless, and the green tendons were bulging.

Ren Tianqi stopped steadily, smiled faintly, and said, "Is my friend's feelings awake, I don't know if I woke up or woken up?" Is it disturbing my friend's dream?"

The big man on the bamboo chair had already turned over and sat up, his face drooling, and his eyes were hazy. The whole person appears taller and fatter, with a larger face, and no part of his body does not show his fatness. The big man had a fat face full of smiles, panting, and said with a smile: "It's easy to say, where do you come from, and where do you want to go?"

Ren Tianqi said with a smile: "Ren Tianqi in Xiayangzhou, I want to go to the ditch to find an old man." ”

The big man laughed, his fat all jumped and swayed, and he turned around and said: "His grandmother's, is there anything valuable in my poor ravine, why don't I know brother!

The four people and the two dogs stood quietly behind them as if they had just woken up, and the people nodded their heads and responded repeatedly, and the dogs also stuck out their tongues and shook their tails, baring their teeth and grinning.

Ren Tianqi said with a smile: "Dare to love is a newcomer, and it seems nondescript to not understand the rules here!"

The big man cocked his fingers and said with a smile: "Okay, my brother acts above board, and there are few good people in the world." However, there is no smoke ditch here, and no smoke ditch has its own rules of no smoke ditch, but no matter who wants to fight this during the day, they have to compete with me. ”

Ren Tianqi turned around and smiled: "Hey, I don't know how to compare?

The big man rubbed a pair of big hands and said excitedly: "It's rare that someone comes to compete with me calmly in broad daylight, and my tiger is sincerely afraid." Today, we are really happy to be a tiger, civil, martial, you can pick it up. Poetry, piano, calligraphy and painting, knives, guns and sticks, eating, drinking, prostitution and gambling, everything!"

Ren Tianqi thought for a while and said with a smile: "Shiqin, calligraphy and painting, I don't know anything about it; I don't know how to gamble with me, but I don't know how to gamble?"

The big man slapped his thigh with his big hand and said with a smile: "Brother is generous-hearted, and he must have suffered a lot in ordinary times, but as the old saying goes, the heart is right, and people do not deceive the sky." You can rest assured, our Huzi is the most fair, never stealing chickens and touching dogs, and stabbing people in the back. Moreover, there are many gambling methods for our tiger gambling equipment, but the Ren brothers chose it. ”

The big man didn't reply, and said loudly: "Dog, go get my bag!"

Before the words fell, a dog turned around and flew away, blinking back with a black cloth bag.

The big man stretched out his hand to take the cloth bag, and with both hands, he fell a lot of gambling equipment, killings, dominoes, copper coins, turtle shells, and straw sticks on the bamboo table in front of him.

The big man wiped his sweat, looked up at Ren Tianqi, and said with a smile: "Brother, you are usually the best at that?

Ren Tianqi stretched out his right hand to take this on the bamboo table, looked at that, it was very rare, and said with a smile: "You can play anything?

The big man was stunned for a moment, laughed, and said, "His grandmother's, there is still bargaining on my territory, and I am afraid that there will be less bets." The rules of this place, the lord is as he pleases, and the brothers just have to make their debut!"

Ren Tianqi stroked a few strokes on the bamboo table with his right hand, grabbed and retracted, raised his head and said: "Okay, let's compare the dice, compare the size of the dots, the smaller the better, how about it?"

The big man nodded and said, "Cheng, his grandmother's, others play dice is bigger, you are smaller than you, the interest is different, our family likes it, our family accompanies it." Do you still raise that brother?"

The big man stretched out his hand and picked up the bamboo table, emptied the bamboo table, and put all the things on the ground on the ground.

Ren Tianqi patted the bamboo table with his right hand, and as soon as he closed his hand, there were already five killings on the bamboo table, which Ren Tianqi deliberately picked up on the bamboo table. Ren Tianqi raised his head and said: "Plus, if I lose, not only will I not fight here to enter the valley, but I will also voluntarily leave this long sword in my hand;