Chapter 33: Exquisite gambling skills, showing their edge
for the first time Jiang Ning entered Jinyufang originally to find Coach Zhao, but after entering, she found that she had thought things were simple.
This Jinyufang looks like a small door from the outside, but there are seven or eight shops connected inside, and the area is almost as large as a football field.
There are two floors in the shop. The first floor is the lobby, with seven or eight large gambling tables placed from left to right, and each table is surrounded by people. The second floor is designed as an atrium, with more than ten small compartments with screens divided around the curved railings. The people upstairs eat snacks and drink tea, and can see clearly what happens in the lobby.
Of course, what attracted Jiang Ning's attention the most was a huge couplet hanging from the second floor to the first floor.
The first couplet reads: "With a small investment, you can gain great wealth and glory";
the second couplet reads: "From nothing to something, you can ascend to heaven in one step.
" The horizontal line reads: "Time and fate."
This couplet is really appropriate, Jiang Ning thought, and it understands the gambler's mind.
However, this Jinyufang is bigger than Jiang Ning imagined. She stood there for a long time, looking back and forth in the venue for several circles, but couldn't find the figure of Coach Zhao.
"Girl, what are you standing there for? Come to the table and play a few rounds!"
The monkey's voice came from behind. Jiang Ning didn't want to pay attention to it, but the man suddenly raised his hands above his head and clapped, then shouted: "Hey! Gentlemen! A girl has come to our shop. She is rich and can spend a lot of money. This girl is here for the first time, so please be considerate and let her have as much fun as possible!"
The monkey looked skinny, but his voice was surprisingly loud. When he opened his mouth, he directly drowned out the lively situation in the venue, allowing everyone immersed in the gambling table to clearly hear every word he said.
It was a rare sight for a rich girl to enter a casino. Dozens of eyes turned to Jiang Ning. Everyone was very interested, their eyes full of curiosity and exploration. Some even whistled at Jiang Ning.
Jiang Ning stood there calmly, observing the men who slowly walked out of the darkness.
One, two, three, four, five, six, a total of six men, all of them were like Monkey Hu Zi, wearing a black suit, with their hair tied up, and a neat and tidy outfit.
They were hired thugs by the casino.
Jiang Ning easily guessed the identities of these people, and she also understood that it was not realistic to just leave this place, especially for someone like her who came in with money.
Well, let's gamble.
The woman who made Jiang Ning the killer N was a master at the gambling table. Jiang Ning's gambling skills were taught by her. Even if she had no talent and could not learn the woman's omnipotent skills, she was more than capable of handling these situations.
Ancient casinos were not just a little bit worse than modern casinos. In modern casinos with high technology, there are many kinds of gambling methods, but in Jinyufang, Jiang Ning only saw a few: dice, Pai Gow, Fan Tan, and roulette.
Among them, dice, because of its simplicity and intuitiveness, has derived several ways of playing, with different bet multiples, such as betting on size, betting on odds and evens, facing dice, leaving dice, facing points, etc.
Jiang Ning raised her feet and walked straight to the table where dice were played.
The monkey came up eagerly: "Girl, do you want me to change your silver into copper coins? This way you can play longer and avoid losing it all in one go."
"No need." Jiang Ning was too lazy to bother, so she put the two silver coins on the table and asked the dealer: "How do you play?"
Everyone stared at the two silver coins quietly for a moment, then someone weighed the copper plate in his hand, "tsk tsk" twice, and exclaimed: "What a rich man!"
"I wonder where this young lady came from, and why she is so generous?" another person asked in confusion.
Someone else retorted: "What do you mean by young lady? Does she look like a young lady in this outfit? I think she is just a spendthrift woman. She uses the hard-earned money of men to show off in the casino. I don't know what she is up to..."
"Maybe she is pretending to be shabby on purpose. You see she is covering her face because she is afraid of being recognized."
"Well, now that you mention it, it's possible. Let me think about whose young lady this figure resembles..."
Jiang Ning turned a deaf ear to everyone who was pointing fingers at her, and didn't even raise her eyelids.
The dealer was a shrewd middle-aged man. His real name was unknown, but everyone in Jinyufang called him "Lao Yu".
When Lao Yu heard Jiang Ning asking about the rules, he smiled and said, "It's very simple. I'll roll the dice and everyone will guess. The sum of the points on the three dice is more than ten, and the sum of the points is small. The party that bets correctly will share the loser's money according to the multiple of the bet, and then we, the banker, will draw one out of the five winners. Girl, do you understand?"
Five out of five means that if you win five coppers, you still have to give one to the banker. It's really cruel.
"I understand, you can roll it." Jiang Ning said lightly.
"Okay!" Lao Yu lifted the lid of the dice cup, and there were three dice lying inside: "Everyone, get ready!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Lao Yu closed the lid of the dice cup, picked up the dice cup with both hands, and began to shake it vigorously.
"Ding!" "Ding!" "Ding!"
The scene suddenly became quiet. Everyone held their breath unconsciously, listening attentively to the crisp sound of the dice hitting each other in the dice cup. Several people even closed their eyes and listened attentively with their heads tilted.
"Dong!" Lao Yu put the dice cup heavily on the table and said calmly, "Everyone, place your bets!"
The gamblers who were usually anxious and impatient were not in a hurry this time. They weighed the copper plates in their hands, glanced at Jiang Ning, and waited for her to place her bets.
Jiang Ning didn't care and put the silver on the "big" with a "pop".
"Girl, have you placed all your bets?" Lao Yu asked uncertainly.
Jiang Ning raised her eyes and looked at him directly: "As you can see."
There were bursts of sneers in the crowd, and then the rest of the people began to bet their own money. Most people were attracted by Jiang Ning's silver, so they chose to bet on "small", and a few people bet on the same side as Jiang Ning.
After everyone finished betting, Lao Yu shouted "It's open" and slowly reached for the lid of the dice cup.
"Small!" "Small!" "Small!"
The people around him began to shout, one louder than the other, as if they could shout out the result they wanted. Those who bet on the same side as Jiang Ning shouted "big", but unfortunately there were few people and their voices were completely drowned out.
Lao Yu was neither fast nor slow, waiting for the group of people to shout, and then he touched the lid of the dice cup at a very slow speed, then took a deep breath and shouted: "Open!"
The dice cup was opened, and three dice lay quietly in the basin. Everyone looked up and said: "Three, four, four, eleven points, big!"
Most people lost, and there were sighs and groans. The winners looked at the pile of money and smiled from ear to ear.
Lao Yu divided the money according to the bets. Jiang Ning bet more, so she got more. In addition to the turnover for the banker, she earned 103 copper coins in this round.
"Miss, you have a good hand. You are off to a good start. Do you want to continue?" Lao Yu handed the money to Jiang Ning and asked with a smile.
"Then let's continue playing."
Jiang Ning put the copper plate in her arms, and the silver ingot was still on the table as a bet.