The Star-Picking Casino in Southern City was the most profitable business of Master Meng, a tycoon in Jianghu. After the bloody battle in Spring Breeze Pavilion, Master Meng's power directly collapsed and the casino was smashed into a pile of ruins. It was not until two months later that the casino was renovated and opened again, but now no one knew who was the boss behind the casino.
Although it was a casino that rose from the ruins, it was, after all, a time-honored one in Chang 'an City. Besides, it was decorated at a high price. The wooden tables in the casino were bright, the lanterns were hanging high, and the furnishings were exquisite. There was no sign of decay.
Ning Que and Sangsang walked along the way, looking at the gauze curtain around them and hearing the deliberately suppressed exclamations in the hall in the distance. They could not help feeling a little strange. When they were in the frontier fortress, they often went to the casinos in City of Wei and Kaiping market. However, compared with those small gambling shops full of sweaty, stinky, and swearing voices, this place was like another world.
No matter how luxurious and elegant the decoration was, a casino was still a casino. After all, it was a bloody place where people put their lives on the chips to fight. People from all walks of life shuttled through it. Although Ning Que and Sangsang, the young master and servant, were a little conspicuous, the stewards and servants of the casino were used to seeing gamblers of all kinds, so they just glanced at them casually and did not pay special attention to them.
As for the gamblers in the spacious hall of the Star-Picking Casino, none of them noticed their arrival. Dressed in silk or linen clothes, men and women of all ages, regardless of social class, were sitting or standing around dozens of big tables covered with brown blankets. They were nervously staring at the dice cups or the black triangle chips on the tables.
It was extremely hot in midsummer. On the three sides of the hall, there were seven or eight female servants waving the long fans in their hands to blow the wind into the hall. However, because there were too many gamblers in the hall, the air was still a little stuffy. Mixed with the smell of expensive powder and tobacco and wine, a faint and exciting smell of ambition gradually came out. If it were not for the extravagant ice basin placed under each table in the casino, the smell would probably be stronger.
The casino was not a charity. The purpose of investing was to make money. The more extravagant the investment was, the more money they wanted to make. Ning Que looked at the details in the hall and looked at the dealers in the same cyan uniforms, becoming more and more nervous. He did not know the lower limit of betting here and did not know whether they had brought enough money.
He went to the counter to exchange chips and asked about the minimum bet and the rules of the game. Feeling a little relieved, he took Sangsang to look around the hall of the casino. When he saw someone leaving the table where the dice cup was, he squeezed in before the others without hesitation and looked directly at the table, ignoring the disgusted looks from the people behind him.
Shaking the dice cup to see who was the biggest was probably the simplest and quickest way to determine the winner in the casino. What Ning Que liked were the two characteristics of simplicity and quickness, whether it was killing people or gambling. In addition, he knew that this was the only way he could cheat, so he naturally stood there like a nail and refused to leave.
The three dice were divided by nine points, and the more dice were big and the less dice were small. If the dealer got three sixes, it would be the best. However, if the gamblers were brave or bored, they could naturally bet on the leopard. If they won, they would not only kill the gamblers at the table, but also compensate the gamblers on behalf of the banker of the casino. However, this kind of thing rarely happened in the casino.
Staring at the big dice cup on the brown blanket, which was at least twice the size of an ordinary one, and the pretty female dealer waved her bare white forearm and rolled the big dice cup up and down like a magic trick, Ning Que listened to the crisp and dense sound of the three dice in the dice cup, and the sound of the dice cup falling heavily on the table …
Ning Que slightly lowered his eyes and seemed to be hesitating. In fact, he had already begun to meditate. The Psyche Power in his brain passed through the Ocean of Qi and Mountain of Snow in his body, slowly and gently perceiving the Breath of Heaven and Earth around him, and then perceiving everything around him through the Breath of Heaven and Earth.
This kind of perception was very wonderful: The invisible Psyche Power wave mobilized the Breath of Heaven and Earth to spread out and fall on things, which would slightly deform the perception. This kind of perception was fed back to his Psyche Power wave through the Breath of Heaven and Earth, and then entered his mind, forming a picture that was not clear, but he could see some details that were invisible to the naked eye.
There was a fat hand on the brown table. It was the hand of the owner of a cloth shop. After the dice cup was set, he threw fifty silver taels worth of chips to big and pressed the rest of the chips under his palm. Fifty silver taels worth of chips was not a small amount, but the owner's expression did not change. Only the hand that was pressing the chips was slightly trembling.
Ning Que did not care about the gamblers' psychological state. Although he often earned some money by gambling in the City of Wei, he knew that even the best gamblers could not win forever. Today, he came to the Star-Picking Casino just to win a lot of money with those wonderful abilities, so he only needed to care about whether he could see things that others could not see.
"There is only the smallest chip of two taels of silver left, and he still behaves so calmly?"
Through the subtle feedback of the Breath of Heaven and Earth, he saw the number of chips under the boss's trembling palm, and could not help laughing and muttering in his heart.
The word 'see' was not an accurate description. He could only vaguely feel the edges of the chips and the protrusions on them. There was no warm and smooth sensation to the touch, and there was no visual effect of seeing it with his own eyes in his mind.
If a cultivator could cause such an effect by mobilizing the Breath of Heaven and Earth, it could be imagined that there must be many cultivators in history who had nosebleeds every day, felt tired every night, and died of Qi deviation because they peeped at the scenery of women's breasts every day, or fantasized about something soft and tender.
The beautiful female dealer looked around gently, and opened the dice cup with both hands. The three dices at the bottom of the cup were "two, three, three", small. The cloth shop owner's palm on the table stiffened slightly. His five fingers grasped down, tightly holding the last chip. He forced a smile to the people around him, nodded, and walked out.
At this moment, Sangsang's small body finally succeeded in squeezing in. She squeezed to Ning Que's side with difficulty, stood on her tiptoes, and looked at the pile of chips and the dice cup on the table with her willowy eyes, forcibly suppressing her nervousness.
A slight and clear sound of the dices hitting each other rang out again, and a new round of gambling began on the table. The big dice cup rolled up and down in the fair hands of the beautiful female dealer, and then fell on the table.
"Please make your bets." The female dealer looked at the gamblers around the table with a smile, and re-read the rules of Star-Picking Casino as she did at the beginning of every new round of gambling. "If you don't make your bets within the time limit, please wait for the next round."
The big and small gambling table was in the shape of a semicircle. On the wide table, several betting areas were drawn with a thin white cloth. In addition to piles of chips and a few teacups, there was a small and cute hourglass placed in the middle of the gambling table. After every round, there would be someone to turn the hourglass upside down.
Ning Que glanced at the fine sand flowing quickly in the hourglass, and found that time was a little tight, so he quickly focused his attention on the big, black and heavy dice cup. Because he looked so attentively, the expression on the lad's face was particularly focused and nervous. Some guests at the table couldn't help laughing, and joked, "I don't know which family's kid came here to play star-picking. Does he think he can break the dice cup if he stared at it for a long time?"
Ning Que didn't pay attention to the jokes around him, because he was very nervous at this time. Besides, could he tell these gamblers that he was going to break the big, black and bright dice cup?
Just as he said to Sangsang at the entrance of the casino, Ning Que never fought a battle without preparation in his life. In order to win money today, he had spent the whole night yesterday experimenting.
He felt how deep the water in the bucket was through the wooden bucket, how many taels of silver under the bed through the bed board, and whether Sangsang squatted under the window with her eyes open or closed. After repeated training, he was sure that he could control the weak Qi of Heaven and Earth. Although it was impossible to shake Mount Tai, it should not be a big problem to see Mount Tai. Therefore, he came to the Star-Picking Casino with confidence. As for the whole night of meditation, his speed and proficiency in mobilizing the Qi of Heaven and Earth had been greatly improved, which was a benefit beyond his expectation.
According to the battle plan made by the master and servant in Lin 47th Street and the poor practical experience, Ning Que thought that the subtle Qi of Heaven and Earth controlled by his Psyche Power could easily pass through the thick wall of the dice cup when he looked at the black dice cup, and then feel the wonderful depression on the surface of the dice. However, he never expected that the Qi of Heaven and Earth he controlled couldn't go any further after entering the thick wall of the dice cup!
Ning Que's body suddenly stiffened, and he looked at the big black dice cup in shock, not understanding what had happened.
At this time, the bottom of the cute hourglass in the center of the gambling table was almost full of sand. An impatient gambler at the table saw his appearance and began to urge him. He looked at the black dice cup in distress, trying to figure out what had gone wrong.
According to his usual behavior, he should give up this game. However, he didn't know whether it was because of the hourglass and the urging, or the strong unwillingness in his heart, he didn't want to give up. He stared at the dice cup, frowned, and desperately increased the strength of his Psyche Power to control the Qi of Heaven and Earth to stab into the dice cup which was like an iron wall!
"Break!"
The Qi of Heaven and Earth compressed to the extreme by the Psyche Power seemed to become a sharp invisible needle, and finally stabbed into the dice cup!
Feeling the wonderful touch like a hot knife cutting into butter and fingers into cream, and seeing the three dice lying quietly at the bottom of the dice cup, Ning Que suddenly relaxed, and his tightly knitted eyebrows gradually relaxed.
Just before the hourglass finished, he took out the small star that was folded into a silver note, and gently put it on the side of the table that bet on big.
The beautiful dealer glanced at him with a smile, and slowly lifted the dice cup.
Four, five, six.
Big.
The small star that was folded into a silver note was carefully spread out by the female dealer with her slender fingers, and then pressed on the center of the gambling table to show to the gamblers. Then she pushed the silver won by Ning Que to them with a thin bamboo ruler.
Even in the Star-Picking Casino, it was rare to see two hundred taels of silver being used to bet on big or small in the dice cup. In addition to the gamblers' compensation, the dealer also had to pay a lot of money. The chips pushed by the thin bamboo ruler to Ning Que were not divided into big or small. They were stacked up one after another, which looked quite attractive.
A middle-aged man at the gambling table looked at Ning Que and said with a smile, "You seem to be young, but you play big. You don't look proud even though you have won. You are really calm at such a young age."
Ning Que lifted his sleeves to wipe the sweat on his forehead, and shook his head with a smile without saying anything. He thought to himself, "If you can see through the dice cup like me, you can naturally be as carefree as if you have seen through the mortal world in the gambling house."
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