Chapter 36: Winners and losers are determined by one round, and gambling skills are amazing People
who run casinos are bound to encounter debtors, troublemakers, and people who get angry and want to beat people up after losing. Therefore, every casino will hire thugs.
Jinyufang is no exception.
There are a total of eight thugs in Jinyufang, all of whom are big and strong, rough men with fierce faces, and they look like they are not easy to mess with.
Except for Hou Zehua.
Hou Zehua is thin and dry, with a scar on his face, and he often smiles frivolously. The other thugs gave him a nickname - Monkey.
At this time, seeing that Hu Laoliu and Jiang Ning both rolled the big leopard of "six six six", Monkey quietly walked behind Hu Laoliu, laughed and whispered: "Uncle, what do you think? I said this woman is not simple, has she met an opponent? It's not a waste to invite you out this time?"
Hu Laoliu glared at his nephew and returned to the other end of the table.
While Hu Laoliu was shaking the dice, Jiang Ning openly looked at everyone present, but did not find Coach Zhao. It seemed that he should have left.
On the other side of the table, Hu Laoliu stared at the dice and thought, what he can do, Jiang Ning can do it too, and she is even not worse than him, so how can he suppress this yellow-haired girl?
Monkey saw what Hu Laoliu was thinking, rolled his eyes, and came over to offer a suggestion: "Uncle, this woman probably knows how to play the ordinary way, you have to think of other ways. Don't you still have the trick of 'Ten Dice Leopard'?"
Hu Laoliu's eyes lit up when he heard it. Yes, I almost forgot about it. Didn't he rely on this trick to dominate the gambling table and win everything?
Hu Laoliu's eyebrows relaxed, picked up three dice in his hand and played with them, his six fingers flew flexibly, attracting everyone's attention again.
Jiang Ning heard Hu Laoliu confidently say: "Girl, you and I can't tell who is better in the ordinary way of playing, and I don't want to waste your time. How about this, let's try something new?"
"Tell me." Jiang Ning guessed that the old man had bad intentions.
"Three dice won't do much, why don't we add a few more, um... how about ten? Perfect, for a good start. It's still a contest of who has the higher score, one point doubles the odds, do you dare to accept it, young lady?" Hu Laoliu said proudly, already overjoyed. After Hu Laoliu finished speaking
, before Jiang Ning could react, the people around him were already in an uproar.
"Ten dice, my God! How can this be so cool?"
"Young people don't understand, right? Sixth Master was the best at this back then, and he could even get all ten dice to be six, and was called the 'Ten Dice Leopard'..."
"Hey, hey, hey, I've seen it, I've seen it..."
The endless discussions, Jiang Ning pretended to think, and hesitated to speak.
Hu Laoliu thought Jiang Ning was scared, and laughed, "Girl, are you afraid? If you admit defeat, I won't make it difficult for you. The odds are 10 times, and you just need to leave 10 taels of silver."
Jiang Ning slowly raised the corners of her lips, but no one saw it. Everyone only heard her casually say, "This way of playing is indeed new, but well..."
Jiang Ning deliberately stopped talking here, and Hu Laoliu hurriedly asked, "But what?"
Jiang Ning did not answer immediately, but slowly picked up a dice and put it in front of her eyes to examine it carefully, deliberately pretending to be pretentious.
It was not until Hu Laoliu asked again impatiently that Jiang Ning said slowly, "I think ten dice are too few, why not fifty? Sixth Master, what do you think?"
"Fifty?" Hu Laoliu was so surprised when he heard this number that he couldn't close his mouth.
The gamblers present were also shocked and looked at Jiang Ning as if he was a madman.
"Why, you don't dare?" Jiang Ning raised his eyes and stared at Hu Laoliu with a burning gaze, repeating his words just now: "If you admit defeat, I won't bother you. Ten times the odds, just give me ten taels of silver."
Hu Laoliu looked at Jiang Ning, his eyes full of sinisterness, and the hand that was playing with the dice was also behind his back, tightly clenched into a fist. Everyone was looking at him, waiting for his reaction. He couldn't refuse.
"Okay! I'll bet you fifty dice!" Hu Laoliu answered decisively.
The monkey behind him didn't expect things to develop to this result. He looked at Jiang Ning with a complicated expression, then at his uncle. He couldn't say anything, so he turned around to prepare the dice and large bowls.
After a while, everyone saw a pile of colorful dice and several large bowls placed on the gambling table.
Fifty dice would definitely not fit in the dice cup, so the monkey brought a wide-bottomed large bowl the size of a face plate. After putting in the dice, they were so densely packed that there was only a finger's space between the edge of the bowl.
As you can imagine, after shaking the dice, the first thing to solve is the problem of overlapping dice, so who cares about the points.
Wonderful! Wonderful! Unheard of, never seen! All the gamblers were excited, waiting to see Jiang Ning and Hu Laoliu play dice.
Lao Yu thought about it and went to get two abacuses. After all, fifty dice can only have a maximum of 300 points. How can you remember them with your brain?
Everything was ready. Hu Laoliu looked at Jiang Ning and said, "Girl, you go first."
Jiang Ning sneered secretly, but did not refuse. She put the two bowls together, held them up with both hands, and shook them violently with a small amplitude under controlled force.
"Crack! Crack! Snap! Snap!"
Fifty dice collided in the bowl, sounding like a violent storm. Even the most capable person couldn't hear so many points.
"Boom!"
After a moment, Jiang Ning put down the bowl, looked at Hu Laoliu and said, "It's your turn!" Upon
hearing this, Hu Laoliu stared at the pile of dice in the bowl for a while, then slowly covered the bowl, picked up the bowl steadily with both hands, and began to shake it slowly. Completely different from the previous fancy moves, this time Hu Laoliu shook it very slowly, left and right, with his fingers tightly clasped on the edge of the bowl, concentrating, not daring to relax at all. As soon
as Jiang Ning saw Hu Laoliu's movements, she guessed that he wanted to make the dice as flat as possible in the bowl without overlapping.
After shaking for about half a minute, everyone saw Hu Laoliu gently put down the bowl and then heaved a long sigh of relief.
The monkey brought a cup of tea over. Hu Laoliu was thirsty and looked at his sensible nephew with admiration. He picked up the tea bowl and drank it all. Then his face returned to its previous relaxed expression. Hu Laoliu laughed and opened the bowl himself.
Everyone looked up and saw that the fifty dice were neatly placed in a circle in the bowl. Except for the two circles on the edge with different numbers, the dice in the inner circles were all "six"!
"Great! Great!" Lao Yu was the first to applaud, and the others also praised.
The monkey came up with a tea bowl and looked at it. He couldn't help but smack his lips: "Uncle is really still strong even at his old age!"
"Don't be so rude!" Hu Laoliu tried his best to suppress the joy on his face, and then raised his voice and said, "Then count the points!"
"Hey, okay, okay!"
Lao Yu nodded repeatedly and asked the monkey to help. The monkey picked up the dice from the bowl one by one and put them into another empty bowl, while loudly counting. Lao Yu was counting on the abacus "clacking".
"Six, six, six... three, five, two... one, six, over!"
After counting the fifty dice, Lao Yu announced loudly: "Sixth Master's points are two hundred and seventy-six!"
There was another round of boos around, and praises came from every corner, and Hu Laoliu smiled.
"Okay, it's my turn." Jiang Ning said coldly, interrupting this happy party.
Hu Laoliu clenched his fist and coughed lightly, then nodded to Lao Yu and Monkey. The two walked to the other side of the table, and the others also leaned over to look at Jiang Ning.
In full view of everyone, Jiang Ning opened the bowl, revealing the dice that were scattered all over the place.
"Hiss!" Lao Yu took a breath of cool air, his expression frozen.
Hu Laoliu's heart tightened, and he pushed through the crowd and walked quickly to the end of the table. After seeing the situation in the bowl clearly, he frowned, pursed his lips, and looked solemn.
In the dark bottom of the bowl, the dice were scattered, facing up, and all of them were "six".
However, this was not the end. Jiang Ning did not know how to make the dice have two layers, one above the other, but they did not overlap. The upper layer of dice stood diagonally and got stuck in the gap below. One dice showed the numbers "four, five, six" on three sides at the same time!
Everyone's eyes changed when they looked at Jiang Ning. If they hadn't seen it with their own eyes, who would believe that this miraculous skill was real?
After a long time, everyone only heard Hu Laoliu sighing and saying, "I lost."
His voice was low and hoarse, full of reluctance. After saying that, he waved to Lao Yu and Monkey, signaling them to count the points.
Lao Yu looked at Hu Laoliu anxiously, but saw that Hu Laoliu stood with his hands behind his back and lowered his eyes, and he could not see the expression in his eyes clearly.
The monkey squinted at Jiang Ning, but could only see her eyes that were not surprised. He had no idea what this woman was thinking.
He picked up a dice from the upper layer and threw it into the empty bowl with a "ding" sound. The monkey counted: "Four, five, six."
Lao Yu came back to his senses and quickly drew a few strokes on the abacus.
"Four, five, six, four, five, six..."
There were ten dice on the three sides of the upper layer, followed by the dice on the lower layer. The monkey took a glance and said: "Forty, all six."
Lao Yu "slapped" the abacus, glanced at Hu Laoliu, and then said in a voice that was neither too loud nor too soft: "The points of this girl are... three hundred and ninety!"
The whole audience was shocked!
According to the rule of one-point-one odds, Hu Laoliu would lose more than one hundred taels of silver!
Jiang Ning's eyes showed a little smile, and she said to Hu Laoliu who looked grim: "Sixth Master, one hundred and fourteen taels of silver, you should not default on the debt, right?"
"Haha, I'll accept the loss if I bet, just wait!" Hu Laoliu said with gritted teeth, and turned to go to the second floor.
Jiang Ning watched Hu Laoliu go upstairs, and suddenly Monkey's sinister voice sounded behind her: "Girl, you really made a fortune."
Jiang Ning retorted: "To be honest, I owe you a lot."
Don't think she didn't see it, Hu Laoliu was called down by Monkey, otherwise she would have left to find Liu Mingan long ago, why would she stay here for so long.
"Heh," Monkey said noncommittally, with a smile on his lips and a cold light in his eyes: "I have never heard of someone like you before. May I know your name? Where are you from?"
Jiang Ning remained silent, and did not pay attention to Monkey again until Hu Laoliu went downstairs.
Hu Laoliu walked up to Jiang Ning with a wooden box in his arms, and opened it in front of everyone. Eleven gold ingots and four silver ingots were quietly lying in the box, making everyone jealous.
"One hundred and fourteen taels of silver, not a penny less." Hu Laoliu stared at Jiang Ning.
"Thank you!" Jiang Ning reached out to take the box, held it in her arms, and then said: "Then I will take my leave today."
Everyone made way for Jiang Ning, watching her walk to the door, lift the curtain and leave the Jinyufang.
Hu Laoliu stared at Jiang Ning's back, his eyes like a venomous snake spitting out its tongue, making people shudder. Then he glanced at Monkey, who nodded calmly, called Hu Zi, and the two of them left Jinyufang quietly from the side door.
Lao Yu stood beside Hu Laoliu, not daring to say a word. Master Liu lost both the battle and the people today, and he would definitely not be able to swallow this bad breath. I'm afraid that girl is very dangerous.