When Yu Shu heard that shout, she was 80% sure that it was coming from somewhere. She tiptoed and looked inside. In the spacious and bright hall, there were groups of people standing in groups, shouting one after another, accompanied by the clattering of coins. It was very noisy.
While Yu Shu was walking inside, she felt strange. As far as she knew, gambling had been strictly forbidden since the Yuan Dynasty of the Song Dynasty, so how could this gambling house be openly opened on the street? Could it be that the Da An Dynasty didn't prohibit gambling?
Walking back and forth in the middle of the hall, Yu Shu was sure that this was a big gambling house. There were more than ten tables, and most of them were gambling on dice and playing Pai Gow. Yu Shu was very interested in things related to numbers. When she was in university, she had a private conversation with a professor about this business, so she could recognize these ancient gambling tools.
After walking around in the middle of the hall, she was not interested and walked to both sides. There were more people around the gambling stalls on both sides of the wall. There were many people looking up at the wall on the east side, and there were many people holding compasses in their hands under the west wall.
What? Compasses?
Yu Shu looked at the west side a few more times. When she was about to go there, she was pushed to the east side by a group of people.
There was a row under the east wall, but there were no dice or dominoes. The wall was divided into several areas. In some areas, there were many long yellow signs, and in some areas, there was a large piece of white paper with words written on it. There was a row of tables along the wall, and there were several people standing on the high cabinet behind it. The sound of abacus was heard in the crowd. What was going on?
Yu Shu quickened her steps and walked towards the tables with white paper pasted on the wall. She was blocked by the crowd. She tiptoed and looked around for a while, but couldn't see anything. Just as she was about to squeeze in, she saw a waiter ringing a bell on a high shelf and shouting, "Place your purchase! Metal, wood, water, fire, fire, earth, come open!"
The people around the table all took a step back. Yu Shu raised her head and saw the waiter waving to the back. Immediately, another waiter went up to the high cabinet and pasted another piece of paper next to the large piece of paper on the wall. On it was a series of numbers written in traditional characters.
There was a commotion on both sides, and the spectators were discussing, "Did anyone win? Did anyone win? "
[Whoever got hit, just tell us first! "
[Mr. Pei won again? Or Mr. Song? "..."
Yu Shu, who was standing behind the crowd, could not see what was happening in front of her. After a while, the bell rang again, and the shop assistant who rang the bell shouted again, "No one in — buy a sign and reopen it! "
With a "whoosh", the crowd dispersed to both sides. Yu Shu spotted a person who was trying to squeeze out and pulled him back. She politely asked, "Big brother, what are they betting on here? "
This man was just a spectator, and did not lose any money, so his expression was not bad. He smiled at Yu Shu, and pointed to the gambling table in the middle, "Little brother, this is your first time here. If you want to play, you should go over there. This Yi District is not a place for you to play. "
Yi District? Yu Shu was suspicious, and said politely, "I'm not here to play, I'm just here to watch the fun. Brother, tell me about it. "
The man looked at Yu Shu's obedient face, and became more patient. He turned around and pointed to the white paper pasted on the wall behind the high cabinet, and said, "Do you see this? This piece is for the number of bets. In the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, we start a round, and if you can solve the question on it, and solve it correctly, you win. "
Yu Shu squinted her eyes to look at the nearest piece of white paper, and saw that it was clearly written in bold black characters, "I only heard that the people next door get silver, I don't know how much silver. Han people, seven taels for the beauty, seven taels for the loss, and half a catty for each person. Let me ask you, those who are good at math, how much silver do you get? "
Yu Shu was stunned, wasn't this a math question?
How could this be used to bet? Yu Shu was puzzled, and continued to ask, "Then how do we calculate the money if we win? "
The man pointed to the other side, "Do you see that, there's a change of tiles, a pair of tiles with a number engraved on the back. Take the red tile and go up to calculate. There's a pen and paper on the table, and after you're done calculating, use the red tile and the black tile. If you win, go up to collect it, and someone will call the number. Sigh, just now, there were more than fifty tiles, if someone wins, they can earn at least five taels of silver. What a pity. "
Five taels!
Yu Shu's throat was dry, and she swallowed her saliva. Looking at the question on the wall, it was as if she saw a pile of shiny silver waving at her.
This question was not easy to solve, just set two unknowns, and it would be done.
The man saw that Yu Shu's eyes were shining, and smiled, "Why, little brother, are you interested in betting? "
Yu Shu suppressed her surprise, and shook her head, and said with a silly smile, "I'm just looking. "
The man nodded and said, "This is the place where the Yi Xue teachers in the city come to try their hand. It doesn't depend on luck, and you can't follow the wind. You can go around by yourself, I'm leaving. "
Yu Shu said goodbye to him, and watched him walk away. She was not in a hurry to buy tiles, but squeezed to the front of the crowd, and carefully observed a few rounds of betting. Ten taels of silver per round, she only had one chance, and she must not be careless. She decided to observe the situation first. Five rounds were played, and three of them won, and two of them missed. Those who won varied in number, those with fewer won, and those with more won had it all to themselves. Those with more won had it all to themselves, and those with more won had it all to themselves. If they didn't win, the banker would take it all. Every time they bet on a red tile, there would be a yellow wooden tile next to the white paper with the calculation question written on it, which was considered to be a fair announcement of the bet.
Yu Shu understood the process, and calculated a few more questions. She was secretly glad that she did not blindly bet on the tiles just now. The questions posted by the banker could not be solved just by counting and counting. Among them, there were two questions that were the product and division of several multi-digit numbers. Without an abacus, Yu Shu was not confident that she could get one right.
If she had known earlier, she would have brought an abacus. Yu Shu regretfully looked at another failed round, and the clerk on the high counter cleared away more than 30 yellow tiles on the wall. She licked her lips, turned around, and walked to the counter selling tiles. She took out a small silver from her waist, bought a pair of tiles, and squeezed to the front.
At the front, it was much more relaxed than at the back. The traders were more well-behaved than ordinary gamblers. They stood at the table and did not push each other. Each person guarded a spot, calmly looking up and waiting for the question to be asked. They did not disturb each other. There were more onlookers than those who actually bet. The bets were different from others. The bets were all on the table, written by each person, and there was no phenomenon of people following the crowd to bet.
[The 18th round, the bet for the new tiles has been made. Gentlemen, please come forward. Those who bet on the tiles, those who don't, please leave!] []
Yu Shu looked up at the new question posted on the wall, and secretly said that she was lucky. It was a solution question, so there was no need for an abacus. She took a piece of paper from the long table, but did not use the brush on the table. Instead, she took out a charcoal pencil from her pocket, leaned on the table, and covered the formula with one hand to avoid suspicion. After calculating, she stuffed the paper into her sleeve, dipped the brush in ink, and rewrote the answer stroke by stroke on a piece of paper. When she was done, she used the red tile to cover it. She was not in a hurry to hand it over. She waited for the people on both sides to finish the calculation before calling for the waiter.
After a while, she heard the bell ringing, and the bet was made. Yu Shu followed the crowd and took two steps back. Looking at the yellow tiles hanging on the wall, she thought to herself, "One more, one more …"
The tile didn't stop until it reached 32 yuan. Yu Shu was excited. It should be known that this was three taels, which was equivalent to a day's profit in Cao Zixin's shop!
If she won, it would be 32 times more!
[The 18th round — two people won — number twenty-two Lu, number seven!] []
Yu Shu looked down at the black tile in her hand. It was number seven. Hearing that two people won, she was a little depressed. Then she thought that it was better this way. The big prize for a few people won would inevitably attract jealousy.
Even so, when Yu Shu, the "young man", followed a middle-aged man to win the bet, there was still a lot of noise.
"The one in front, who won? "
"Mr Pei won — ah, there's a kid with yellow hair who also won! "
"Tsk tsk, at such a young age, could he be a disciple of some Yi family? "
"Maybe he was just lucky. "
"Tsk, if you have the ability, go and try. "
"Hehe, I don't have that ability. "
Yu Shu's ears are very sharp. When she hears the discussion behind her, she knows that she has attracted the attention of others. She takes the tael of silver and returns to the crowd. She accepts the gazes of the people around her. She hesitates. She has only won once and people are already paying attention to her. If she wins a few more times, will she attract too much attention?
But if she didn't gamble, where would she find ten taels of silver to enter the Great Exchange Store's library?
With this thought, Yu Shu made up her mind. She squeezed to the place where the tokens were sold and calculated in her heart. She painfully took the tael of silver and bought ten pairs of tokens in one go. She returned to stand in front of the long table.
Yu Shu was a little more cautious. In the following rounds, she placed bets on every round. If she met someone who needed to use an abacus, she would just write down a rough number. She did not calculate it in detail. If she met someone who was more accurate, she would look around and see that there were many people placing their bets. After ten rounds, she won five times and missed five times. She won twice and won three times. "Look, that young master won again! He has won four or five times already, right? "
"That's nothing. Mr Pei won seven times this morning. "
"How is that the same? How old is this young master? How can he be compared to Mr Pei? "
Yu Shu stuffed the last tael of silver and tael into her pocket. She was sweating from the heat and her face was flushed with excitement. These questions were not difficult at all. She was excited about the taels of silver in her pocket.
It was more than eleven taels of silver!
She had been in Daan Dynasty for almost two months. This was the first time she had so much money. She did not count the beads she helped Jing Chen sell last time. That was other people's money. This was her own money!
Listening to the discussions around her, Yu Shu turned her head and looked at Mr Pei who won the same game as her. She secretly rejoiced that there was such an experienced player here to steal her limelight.
Pei Jing was also sizing up Yu Shu. He had only come here to have some fun this morning. Who would have thought that he would meet such an opponent? Although he had won two more rounds, his age was still there. Compared to a teenager, he did not feel that winning two rounds was something to be proud of.
Hearing the bystanders gossiping that this young man might be a young master of the Yi Sect, he didn't think much of it. If he really was a disciple of the Yi Sect, why would he come to this kind of place to play? The Yi Sect was very strict and the opposite was the Kong Sect's Yi Sect. If someone saw him and informed his family, he would definitely be beaten up when he returned.
If he was not from the Yi Family, then he was worthy of his attention.
Pei Jing saw Yu Shu squeezing out of the crowd. He hesitated for a moment and followed her.
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