Twenty-seven, robbed

The fifth entry in Xie's Art Fair is the Doucao Pavilion. Zhou Xuan used to love playing this when he was in elementary school. Every autumn and winter, he had a handful of stems of poplar leaves under his insoles. He picked yellow and thick ones. He first soaked them in salt water for one day, then dried them and stepped on them in his shoes. He was very tough and had very tough results. He rarely lost his life and got the title of the winning general. At this time, he came to Xie's Doucao Pavilion. His skills were naturally itchy. It was a pity that he did not have the stems of poplar leaves that he had tanned himself.

The Doucao Pavilion is quite lively, with half-aged children. They don’t help adults do farm work, but steal money and goods from their families to fight grass. They steal jewelry and silverware except copper coins to gamble. The Xie Casino is really a young child and an old man.

Zhou Xuan did not have the own Doucao, so the dealer of Doucao Pavilion brought out a box of Doucao and asked Zhou Xuan to pick up three of them, and he still won two games in three games.

Xie Laoliu now knew that Zhou Xuan was an old gambler. Seeing that he was very sensible in choosing betting on the grass, he did not dare to gamble hundreds or thousands more, and said, "Young Master Zhou, this bet on the grass cannot exceed 100 taels of silver."

Zhou Xuan hadn't played this game for many years, and knew that he would definitely not be able to play with the dealer here. He smiled and said, "I originally planned to bet all the money together. Since Mr. Xie is a little afraid of the war, then bet a hundred taels."

Zhou Xuan held both ends of the fighting grass, and intertwined with the dealer's fighting grass, and whoever had the stem was first pulled out, who would lose. This time, Zhou Xuan was lucky. He lost three battles and three defeats, and he quickly lost 100 taels of silver and smiled and said, "It's so dangerous. I didn't expect that the fighting grass in Xie's casino was so powerful. Fortunately, I didn't bet all 1,800 taels, otherwise I would have to add the town to move the silver. Mr. Xie led the way and then take a look inside."

Xie Laoliu regretted it and thought to himself: "This Zhou surname is not very strong. I am afraid of him. Opening a casino requires courage. What's wrong with losing him a few times, win all at once!"

Xie Laoliu came to the Sixth World with full confidence. This was the Yezi Opera Hall. There were many people playing Yezi Opera. There were four people at a table, and there were more than ten tables. When the gamblers saw the Lin sisters and Xiahou Liusu, they all felt their eyes lit up. They had never seen such a beauty in the countryside! But even though they were stunning, they only had a moment, and then they started to gamble again. Beauty could not match the gambling addiction.

The scholar Li Tao and two servants stood behind a thin old man. The old man must be Li Tao's uncle. When he bet, he refused to recognize his relatives and let his nephew stand behind wet. He was jealous and only cared about playing cards.

Zhou Xuan told Li Tao not to make a statement. He stood aside and watched how to play the Ye Zishe play? You can understand it at a glance. This is simple mahjong, and it takes too much time to play it.

Li Tao said with a frown: "Brother Zhou, my uncle has lost 100 acres of fertile land and twenty acres. How can this continue?"

Zhou Xuan smiled implicitly and encouraged the old man: "Old man, you will definitely win back. Please see the card and take action when it's time to take action."

Li Tao’s uncle was happy and asked Li Tao: “Xiao Tao, is this your friend? Look at how polite they are. What you want in the casino is just such festive words. You are so happy that you keep saying bad things. What should you do if you lose 100 acres? Is it impossible to lose? There is no way out.”

Xie Laoliu asked: "Does Mr. Zhou want to play a few games?"

Zhou Xuan said: "If you don't play this, you won't win or lose. You have to play four people. I like one-on-one gambling."

Xie Laoliudao: "Then go to the chess hall, Go, chess, and snail horn chess."

Lin Hanyun looked at Zhou Xuan and laughed, thinking: "Go, even Huang Xingjian, ranked fourth among the top ten chess players, was defeated by Brother Zhou Xuan. Your rural casino is not just a big axe in front of Lu Ban's door!"

Zhou Xuan said: "I learned chess and Go when I was young. I have been busy doing business in recent years and have played less chess, but my chess skills are still there, so I'll go and have a small bet on Go."

There were also several people playing gambling in the chess hall. Xie Laoliu called one of them: "Blind Yang, you will play Go with this Young Master Zhou." Blind Yang was not blind, but his eyes seemed to be unable to open.

Yang Xiaozi's opponent refused to respond: "This chess has not been played yet."

Xie Laoliu is now determined to win Zhou Xuan's money, and said impatiently: "You can win, how many bets? Five hundred quotations, I'll give you four hundred quotations, go quickly."

Zhou Xuan said: "I have a mediocre chess skills, so I'd better bet on a smaller game, fifty taels of silver."

Xie Laoliu missed the opportunity before fighting, but this time he thought about the big bet, he was afraid of being fooled by Zhou Xuan. Jinling has a strong chess style and many powerful people have high chess power. Although Yang Xiaozi is the number one master of Go in Yongfeng Town, he doesn’t know Zhou Xuan’s details. It’s better not to play too much bet, and he said, “Young Master Zhou, fifty taels are too little. The first game is still 100 taels.”

Zhou Xuan said: "Okay, that's one hundred taels. Let me play as a follower. He is better than me." He patted Sanchi's shoulder: "Three, don't lose too ugly, it doesn't matter if one hundred taels of silver."

Sancai understood and worked hard in the game with Yang Jianzi. Both sides played very quickly. In less than two quarters of an hour, the game ended, and Sancai lost three pieces.

Zhou Xuan advised: "San, what's wrong with you? You should do this here, it's much cheaper to do this, and it should do this there, at least you can get the first shot-"

When Yang Xiaozi heard this, he laughed in his heart: "This person named Zhou is also a bad chess, and his guidance is even more irrelevant. He is not as good as this third brother."

Zhou Xuan said: "San, please stop getting out. I'll come on, and see if I beat him."

Sanchi muttered: "Master, my chess power is above you. I can't do it, and even more so, the master."

Zhou Xuan glared and said, "Nonsense, when did you beat me?"

Sanchi said, "That's because I give in to my master. I can give in to him normally. This is a gambling, I have to say it bluntly."

Zhou Xuan said: "Nonsense, I have always been better than you."

Fairy Jingyi, Lin Hanyun, Lai Fu, Xiaoqian and Xiahou Liusu were silent and silent. It was so interesting to watch Zhou Xuan and Sanchi sing and attract their opponents to the hook.

Zhou Xuan said to Yang Jianzi: "Come on, I will have the next game with you."

Yang Jianzi said: "It's better to bet a hundred taels. Do you want to add some bets?"

When Xie Laoliu heard Yang Jianzi say this, he knew that Yang Jianzi was sure to win, so he hurriedly said, "Put it a little bet in this second game, how about 500 taels?"

Zhou Xuan hesitated and said, "Five hundred taels are too much. This is how you don't allow you to admit defeat in the middle. At the end of the game, you will lose one son and fifty taels of silver, and two sons and one hundred taels of silver. The third brother lost three sons just now. I will never lose much more than the third brother. At most, there are three sons, only one hundred and fifty taels. If I lose ten sons, I will be considered unlucky, and five hundred taels will be gone."

Yang Jianzi thought to himself, "Looking at your exaggerated look, I really want to beat you ten." He said, "Okay, then that's it."

Guess first. For the sake of stability, Yang Blind Man made himself guess the white chess first. As long as Yang Blind Man was willing, he could always take the lead. Because he was the dealer, he would grab the opponent and let his opponent guess. He knew how many times he caught. If the opponent guessed, he had a very clever way to slide down his cuffs. Guessing would become a mistake, so he would naturally take the white chess first.

What kind of eyesight is Sanqi? When he discovered Yang Jianzi's trick, he kept saying nothing and said to himself: "By the master's chess power, it is not difficult to win you ten pieces. If you attack against each other, you will lose more."

At the beginning of the game, Yang Weizi was steady at first, and he tested the small contact battle. He found that Zhou Xuan's chess was indeed mediocre, so he became interested in killing a big dragon, killing at least 30 or 40 pieces of a big dragon, and fifty taels of a single son, haha, I got rich!

Zhou Xuan's one dragon is chased longer and longer, spreading to half of the chessboard, with as many as five or sixty sons.

Blind Yang became more and more excited. The pieces on the chessboard were covered with sweat. This was a super big dragon. If you kill this giant dragon, you can win three thousand taels of silver. Master Xie Liu must reward me with a big sum of silver. I can marry a concubine.

Yang Jianzi was obsessed with the greed. He no longer cared about his chess loopholes, and he was determined to attack and slay the dragon. He did not find that the black chess dragon had various ways to do it. Even if he discovered it, he thought that Zhou Xuan had poor chess skills and could not see the way to live chess.

It was almost time to see that Zhou Xuantu had a dagger. He hit it and dumb it, and the super dragon made two iron eyes in a blink of an eye.

Blind Yang was stunned and rubbed his eyes hard, looked at Zhou Xuan and looked at the chessboard. He thought that Zhou was lucky, but accidentally discovered the way to live chess. Three thousand taels of silver flew, and he was extremely upset.

Before Yang could come back to his senses, the black chess began to turn defense into offense and counterattack fiercely. The flaws exposed by the white chess just attack were grabbed one by one, and both dragons needed to do their jobs.

Yang Jianzi's forehead was sweating. He finally realized that Zhou Xuan had been deliberately showing weakness, but he woke up too late and could no longer deal with the endgame. Fortunately, Yang Jianzi was a veteran of all kinds of battles. Although he knew that the defeat was decided and Zhou Xuan's chess was far above him, he was still fighting hard. Now it was not to win, but to lose as little as possible. The two dragons gave up one and barely became the dragon with many numbers, while the other dragon ended in vain.

Xie Laoliu's face turned pale. Although he was just starting out in Go, he could still see how he was alive and dead. He knew that after Zhou Xuan's fool, Yang had lost a lot of money to death.

After receiving the last official, Blind Yang's face turned like earth and his whole body was trembling.

Zhou Xuan smiled and said, "Chengrun, I won forty-three and half sons, and that's all for half. Forty-three sons are 2,150 taels of silver. Apart from the taps, Mr. Xie will pay me 1,600 taels of silver."

Xie Laoliu's cheeks kept beating. He wanted to smile easily, but he couldn't laugh. After a while, he said: "Young Master Zhou is indeed a master. I admire you and wait for me to bring the money."

Zhou Xuan said: "Okay, I'll wait."

Xie Laoliu took the manager out of the gambling hall. The manager looked at Xie Laoliu's face and asked carefully: "Master Liu, do you really want to give the money to the person named Zhou?"

Xie Laoliu smiled sinisterly: "Immediately notify Brown Sugar and guard the cross ridge. It's almost time to send about ten people. Humph, if you want to win money from my Xie Casino, you have to pay for your life. But it's a pity that those women killed!"

The manager reminded: "Sixth Master, this person surnamed Zhou still has people in Yongfeng Town. If they want to kill eight of them, they have to kill them all. I will leave a few women for fear of future troubles."

Xie Laoliu said coldly: "What are you afraid of? You sell it to Qingyuan overnight. Don't you sell these three stunning talents for a few thousand taels?"

The manager smiled flatteringly and said, "Sixth Master, I will inform Brown Sugar in person to ensure that everything is foolproof."

Xie Laoliu shouted: "Wait a minute, ask Brown Sugar to be careful, don't hurt the horses, I think these five horses are worth a lot of money."

The manager responded and hurried away.

Xie Laoliu ordered someone to carry a silver box to Zhou Xuan and smiled and said, "Young Master Zhou is so amazing. I robbed my casino. I only have this silver for subsidy. I have to transfer silver from the county casino overnight. What if my grandpa comes again tomorrow? I will prepare ten thousand taels of silver to bet with my grandpa."

Zhou Xuan said in surprise: "I only won 3,000 taels of silver, so there is no silver in the expensive casino? This is inconsistent with the reputation of the number one casino in the ten counties in the southeast!"

Xie Laoliu smiled and said, "There are two casinos in Xie family, the largest one is in the county town, and it is just a branch here."

Zhou Xuan said "Oh": "Then I will go to the gambling hall in the county town tomorrow, and at least I will win it for a few thousand taels of silver."

Xie Laoliu said: "Okay, welcome." He said to himself: "Tomorrow you have only ghosts to gamble."

Zhou Xuan said: "It's Zhengshen time now, so I'll say goodbye. Please fill the 3,500 taels with a solid burlap bag to make the horses more carry."

Without saying a word, Xie Laoliu asked someone to pick up four thick linen bags, each packed nearly 900 taels of silver, and tied them tightly, and sent four shopkeepers to help carry them.

Zhou Xuan praised: "Mr. Xie is really first-class in the casino, with thoughtful service. Although he lost so much money, he talked and laughed calmly. He was indeed very decent."

Xie Laoliu smiled on his face and said in his heart: "I'm so kind, I want you to die!"

When he walked to the Yezi Opera Hall, Zhou Xuan whispered a few words to Sanchi. Sanchi walked to Li Tao and said, "Mr. Li, my master asked you to go back to the town with him."

Li Tao said with a frown: "My uncle refuses to leave."

Sanchi then went to help the thin old man and suddenly said, "Old man, why are your mouth tilted?"

When the other three people who were betting on the same gamble saw that they were crooked, their hands became trembling, and their hands were trembling, and they screamed: "Old man Fang has a stroke!"

Li Tao was shocked and shouted repeatedly: "Uncle and uncle."

Old Man Fang's mouth and eyes were crooked, his body could not move, and he could not speak, and only his blood-covered eyes would turn.

Zhou Xuan came over and said, "Brother Li, don't be in a hurry, take the old man back to the town to find a doctor."

Li Tao said anxiously: "But my uncle has lost more than 20 acres of fertile land and has gone out. What should I do?"

Zhou Xuan said: "Brother Li is confused. Money is external things. Saving your uncle is the most important thing. Hurry up and let's go back to town together."

Zhou Xuan and his group of eight, Li Tao's uncle and nephew and two servants, a total of twelve people led their horses out of the Xie Manor. Xie Laoliu was diligently sent to Kuobanqiao and invited Zhou Xuan to go to the county casino tomorrow to gamble again.

The severe rain in summer comes and collects quickly. The sky is as clear as green as the setting sun, the trees are green, and the valley is green, and there are only traces of heavy rain left in the muddy yellow mud.

Old Man Fang’s mouth stopped tilting when he left Xie’s manor, and he could walk anymore. He spoke a little vaguely: “Why did you leave? I still have to bet!”

Zhou Xuan frightened: "Old man, you had a stroke just now. Now you have recovered a little. If you go in and bet, you will definitely be paralyzed all over your body. What old man is paralyzed all over your body? It's disgusting to go to bed with shit and pee. Think about it yourself."

When Old Man Fang heard this, he felt a little scared. The older people were afraid of paralysis and said dejectedly: "Then it would be a waste of money. I can't get it back. Half of my belongings have entered this casino!"

Zhou Xuan said: "It's okay, I'll come again after all the money is gone, get on the horse."

Everyone got on the horse one after another, four bags of silver, Sanchi and Laifu each brought two bags, hanging them on the belly of the horse on both sides.

Zhou Xuan helped Fairy Jingyi get on the horse first, then he rode on it himself, and naturally hugged Fairy Jingyi's slender waist with his left arm, and rode his horse with a "drive" sound and trotted.

Because of the presence of Li Tao's nephew and uncle, Fairy Jingyi was so embarrassed that she didn't dare to lean against Zhou Xuan.

After leaving the loess road, the road turned around and the manor disappeared. The "Wynn Inn" who rode with the three cynical people shouted: "Young Master Zhou, Mr. Zhou, there is something important to say to the villain."

Sanchi drove his horse to Zhou Xuan, and the gang said nervously, "Mr. Zhou, be careful. The money in Xie's casino is not so easy to win. There is no good ending in the town that anyone who won more than 200 taels of silver from Xie's manor will either be robbed halfway or caught fire when he returned home in the middle of the night. Two years ago, a gambler in the town who could throw dice won 800 taels of silver here and rushed back to the city excitedly. However, his wife and children in the city never waited for him to come back and disappeared without a trace. The rumors were that they were killed halfway and destroyed the body. Mr. Zhou won 3,000 taels of silver this time-"
Chapter completed!