Those who had seen through the world of mortals, rather than those who pretended to see through the world of mortals and wanted to take the shortcut to Zhongnan, were basically hiding in the remote mountains and forests, or waiting for death in the remote and dilapidated temples. It was impossible for them to come to the busiest casino in Chang 'an for money and stare at the dice cup as if they were the enemy who killed their father.
Ning Que obviously did not think too deeply when he thought of that sentence. In fact, the situation on the gambling table did not give him time to think or reflect. With the sound of shaking the dice, the heavy black dice cup kept falling and being picked up. The chips on the gambling table in front of him were getting more and more. On the way, the female dealer changed several big chips for him, but she still could not stop the chips from piling up higher and higher, gradually becoming a hill.
Playing the dice cup to see who was bigger or smaller, he won seven rounds in a row. He gave his all in each round, and by the seventh round, he had already bet more than a thousand taels of silver. Even in a place like the Yingou Casino, which was used to seeing bloodshed, it was still rare to see such a magnificent scene with extreme luck as the foundation.
There were more and more people around the brown gambling table, but fewer and fewer people around Ning Que and Sangsang. The gamblers could hardly suppress the fanaticism in their eyes, but they did not want to be too close to the lad in case of displeasing the casino.
The female dealer was still beautiful and gentle, but the smile on her face had become extremely reluctant. She apologized to the gamblers and left, saying that she was tired. The casino sent a middle-aged dealer to replace her. The gamblers around the gambling table knew that the casino felt that the lad's luck or gambling skills were a little difficult to deal with, so they replaced the dealer. Some regular customers even recognized that the middle-aged dealer was the master of the Yingou Casino, and exclaimed in surprise.
No gamblers dared to bet with Ning Que for a long time. From the fourth round, many gamblers followed Ning Que to bet with different attitudes and won a lot of money. However, when they saw the middle-aged croupier and heard the discussions of the surrounding gamblers, most of them decided not to follow Ning Que for the time being and decided to wait and see.
Ning Que had accumulated a lot of experience in the frontier fortress over these years, and he could be called the first master of gambling in the City of Wei. However, it was still impossible for him to compete with the real powerful dealers in Chang 'an. But now, he did not rely on gambling skills to win the game, but on the skills of a cultivator, using the primal energies of heaven and earth to cheat. Then, as long as he did not cheat in the casino, no matter how skilled a gambling master was, how could he be his opponent?
Was cheating allowed in the casino? Of course they could. But the Yingou Casino was one of the top three well-known places in the register of the Chang 'an Local Government. After all, it was not a small gambling house in a brothel. They would not resort to such means unless they had to. So … they could only watch Ning Que win.
After the middle-aged dealer entered the arena, Ning Que won three consecutive rounds. The crowd of gamblers behind him could not hold it in any longer. They took out their chips and started to follow the trend again. As a result, the casino lost more and more money at a faster rate. However, the middle-aged dealer's slightly dark face was still calm. It was hard to tell if it had become darker.
The crisp sound of the dice hitting the walls of the dice cup gradually disappeared. He slowly removed his hand from the dice cup and glanced at the hourglass that had just been turned over. Without looking at the other guests at the table, he looked directly at Ning Que and said with a smile,
"Guest, please leave your hand after you place your bet."
Ning Que held the thin bamboo ruler in his hand and slowly frowned. After a long silence, he stood up from the chair and put the bamboo ruler in the closest and smallest area to the middle-aged dealer.
The chips in front of him had piled up into a small mountain. It would be very difficult to push the chips into the big and small areas in each round. So, after a discussion with the casino, they agreed that if he wanted to bet all his chips, he could use the bamboo ruler in his hand instead. At this time, he bet the bamboo ruler, which meant that he was betting all of his assets on it.
The crowd around the gambling table suddenly exclaimed. These gamblers in Chang 'an, who paid great attention to their manners, could no longer suppress the shock in their hearts and became no different from the military gamblers in the City of Wei who made a fuss.
"Leopard!"
"Leopard! Why did he bet the leopard! "
"Lower your voice … Did he win too much just now and was worried that something would go wrong? So, he deliberately lost some."
"What nonsense is that? Even if he deliberately wanted to lose, it didn't make sense for him to bet all his chips on the table."
With the exclamations, the gamblers began to discuss in shock. However, the middle-aged dealer behind the table was not affected by these discussions. He calmly looked at Ning Que who slightly lowered his head and said in a gentle voice, "Guest, are you sure?"
Ning Que looked at the hill-like chips in front of him and was a little absent-minded. After being reminded by Sangsang, he reacted and nodded.
Of course, he could win more by betting on the leopard, but the probability was too small. Even the most daring gamblers dared not bet with Ning Que. Under the gaze of the crowd, the middle-aged dealer put his palm on the dice cup but did not open it for a long time, as if the dice cup was as heavy as a mountain. Suddenly, he raised his head and looked at Ning Que with a slight smile, saying, "Let's make friends?"
Ning Que didn't mean to urge him to open the dice cup. After hearing this, he understood the meaning of the casino. He smiled and nodded to express his gratitude. Then, he turned around and whispered to Sangsang before leaving the table.
It was not known when the beautiful female dealer reappeared. She respectfully stretched out her right hand and led the way for him.
There was a luxuriously decorated room behind the counter of the casino. Ning Que and Sangsang were led to this room. As soon as the door was closed, the noisy discussions and praises outside suddenly disappeared.
A slightly fat middle-aged rich man came out from behind the curtain. He bowed to Ning Que with hands folded in front and said very sincerely, "I'm the shopkeeper of the Yingou Casino. We are very grateful that you are willing to make friends with us."
Ning Que left the table without asking the middle-aged dealer to open the dice cup, because he knew that he had won enough and he had to save some face for the other party. Before entering the casino, he had been thinking about how to leave after winning. Now that the casino took the initiative to extend a friendly gesture, he certainly did not hesitate to accept it.
"The previous guest won 4,400 taels of silver. The last game was indeed the leopard. According to the rules, the owner should lose all …"
Ning Que said with a smile, "I understand the rules. Go to the second round."
This sentence was equivalent to giving tens of thousands of taels of silver to the casino. The shopkeeper of the Yingou Casino suddenly became more gentle and said with emotion, "My friend, you are really generous. Then I will add a round number for you on behalf of the casino and the owner to express my gratitude to you."
The shopkeeper said with a kind face. If his enemies who had seen his sinister and cruel face in the past saw him being so polite to a gambler who had won more than 10,000 taels of silver from him, they would definitely be shocked.
After a while, the casino changed all the chips that Ning Que had won today into notes and sent them over. At the first time, he stopped Sangsang's action of counting the notes with a stern look. But when he glimpsed the number 1,000 taels of silver on the thick stack of notes, he could not help but feel a little dry.
The shopkeeper said with a smile, "You are welcome to play at any time in the future."
"You are welcome."
Ning Que knew that the shopkeeper did not say it explicitly, but he was advising him in a euphemistic way: Since we are friends, it is not a relationship on the gambling table. Welcome to play at any time means you are not welcome, and don't come to the Yingou Casino in the future.
Just when he was about to leave the Yingou Casino with Sangsang, the shopkeeper seemed to have just thought of something and suggested with a smile, "If you think that is not enough, I have a good suggestion. There is a newly opened casino in the West City. It was changed from Master Junjie's former pawnshop. It is really a good place to go."
The meaning hidden in these words was very obscure. The shopkeeper guessed that this lad must have some background and should be able to guess the meaning of his words. But he did not expect that although Ning Que did not have any background, when he heard the name Junjie and thought of Chao Xiaoshu's introduction at Spring Breeze Pavilion, he immediately understood what Ning Que meant.
Now the dark world of Chang 'an was dominated by the Fish-dragon Gang. Master Junjie was finished. The pawnshop under his name was changed to a casino and reopened. Just like the Yingou Casino, there was no backer. Since Ning Que dared to win so much money in the Yingou Casino, why not go to the West City to win again?
Standing by the window, the shopkeeper could not help but frown and shake his head, his heart full of unwillingness and anger, watching the young master and his servant walking toward the West City and gradually disappearing into the night.
The door was opened, and the middle-aged dealer came in with the heavy big dice cup in his arms. Looking at the back of the shopkeeper, he sighed after a moment of silence, "That lad is indeed a cultivator."
The middle-aged dealer was a gambling master invited by Master Meng from the Great River Kingdom. He was only responsible for holding the fort and rarely participated in the game. Today, he was forced to do it in person, but he still lost happily. The dealer had an advantage in shaking dice. He believed that no gambling master in the world could beat him under the premise that he was the dealer. Besides, no swindler could hide from his eyes, so it was very clear what was going on with that lad.
Thinking that he shook a leopard in the end, and in order to maintain the face of the casino, he was forced not to open the cup. His face became more ugly, and he shook his head and said, "Even if he is a cultivator, we are too polite."
"Master Meng has died. Our casino can be reopened because of the pity of the Sixth Master Chen in the palace for the orphans and widows left by Master Meng, and the brothers in the gang who have no place to eat. Now we have to live with our tails between our legs. How dare we make trouble? What's more, you know that lad is a cultivator. What can we do to him? "
The shopkeeper reprimanded him in a low voice, and then without warning, he grabbed the black dice cup on the table and smashed it directly. There was a golden interlayer in the broken dice cup, and some patterns were faintly engraved on the interlayer.
"There is a soft gold interlayer in the dice cup, and it is engraved with runes." The shopkeeper said with a gloomy face, "That lad can see through the dice cup, so he is at least a cultivator in the real state. What can we do except to obediently hand over the silver?"
The middle-aged dealer was stunned. He had been in the casino all year round and had a wide circle of friends. Although he was an ordinary person, he also knew the realm of cultivators. He thought that the lad was so young. Had he entered the No Doubts State?
"Why does such a person come to the casino?" He said angrily, "I'd like to see if he dares to be so presumptuous in Western City. Although Lord Junjie is dead, the backer behind the new casino is not someone ordinary cultivators dare to provoke."
The shopkeeper did not answer him. He just stared at the dice cup on the table on the table. Looking at the soft gold in the dice cup and the runes, the more he thought about it, the more unhappy he became. He murmured, "Since the founding of the Tang Empire, I have never heard of cultivators making money by bullying casinos, because it is too degrading for them to do so."
"A cultivator in the real state doesn't go to the mountain gate to meditate and practice hard, doesn't communicate with his peers, doesn't travel to famous mountains and rivers, doesn't feel the Breath of Heaven and Earth, but comes to the casino to gamble. What is this?"
The shopkeeper raised his head, looked at the night outside the window, and said faintly, "This is bullying."
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The two hundred taels of silver in Sangsang's old belt had now become a thick stack of silver. It was stuffed into her waist and looked a little ugly, but she did not care and giggled foolishly from time to time.
"Young master, are we really going to the casino in Western City?"
"Of course. This way of making money can only be used once, so let's make as much money as we want."
Logically speaking, a person like Ning Que, who had experienced countless life-threatening situations, should know when to stop. However, he had been poor for too long. Now that he had found such a good way to earn money, he was like a poor villager who had been herding sheep in the west of the Yuelun Kingdom all his life but could not even afford mutton. Now that he had found a treasure bowl that could keep jumping out of black sheep, how could he not use it?
Even in the prosperous Chang 'an City, more than ten thousand taels of silver was undoubtedly a huge amount of money. And if this amount of money was placed in the grassland, it was enough to make the Horse Gang beside Shubi Lake commit suicide before Ning Que raised his knife. If it was placed in the City of Wei, it was enough to make those aunties who wanted to marry Sangsang ignore Ning Que's face and carry the bridal sedan chair to kidnap the bride.
The thick stack of silver directly made Ning Que dizzy. Even Sangsang's thin and flat chest was full of grandeur at this time, and she wanted to win all the gambling houses in Chang 'an City.
Sure enough, there was a newly opened casino in West City. The signboard decoration was newer and larger than that of the Yingou Casino. Knowing that this casino was renovated by Junjie Xicheng's Qu Pawnshop, Ning Que was not afraid and broke in with Sangsang.
What happened next was no accident. He won money again and again. Now he had more experience and more money, so he won more quickly and fiercely. In a flash, the dealers of this new casino changed their expressions. After a discussion, they politely and threateningly invited him into the inner room and opened a new table of gambling.
Anytime, anywhere. As long as the gambling house did not cheat, Ning Que would always win.
When he almost turned this new casino into a small workshop, the person behind it finally stood out.
A fierce man in a green shirt, green boots and a green hat looked at Ning Que coldly and said in a low voice, "My friend, Mr. Qi appreciates you very much and would like to invite you to have a cup of tea."
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