Chapter 50: Nothing, Huge Debt

Zhao Qiang took a deep breath, his hands trembling uncontrollably, and opened the lid. When he saw the "four, five, six" inside, he couldn't help but shout out.

"Four, five, six, it's a straight! Straight! Look, straight! Straight..."

Zhao Qiang yelled like a madman, and then danced with joy, pointing at the dice to let the people around him see the straight he shook out.

The dice came out with a straight, with a ten-fold odds, and Zhao Qiang bet sixty-six and a half taels of silver, which means that if he won, he would have six hundred and sixty-five taels of silver in his pocket.

The whole audience burst into laughter! The gamblers were so envious that their eyes widened, and they only regretted that they were not the ones who won the money.

It really fulfilled the couplet in Jinyufang: to win great wealth and glory with a small investment, to ascend to heaven in one step from nothing.

There were only three people present who ignored Zhao Qiang's "shunzi", one was the monkey outside the crowd, one was Hu Laoliu who was watching from upstairs, and the other was of course Lao Yu at the end of the gambling table.

Lao Yu saw Zhao Qiang's crazy attitude and just smiled in an unfathomable way.

Luck is good, Lao Yu thought.

There is something wrong with Zhao Qiang's dice. Three, four, five and six sides of each dice are filled with a little lead, while one and two sides have two pinhole-sized holes. In this way, the sides with one and two points are lighter, while the sides with three, four, five and six points are heavier. The dice that are shaken out will not have one and two points.

People with a little gambling skills have shaken six plates in a row and have not seen "one" and "two" once. They should have suspected it a long time ago. Unfortunately, this Zhao Qiang is just a gambler with no skills. He was drunk and had no idea of ​​these.

"Hahaha... I, Zhao Qiang, am rich! Rich!" Zhao Qiang slapped his thigh happily, "pa pa pa", and the force was so strong that it is estimated that there will be several red marks on his thighs when he wakes up tomorrow.

"Hurry up! Open yours!" Zhao Qiang laughed crazily for a while, then turned around and squeezed next to Lao Yu, urging him: "Open it quickly! Pay if you lose! Don't waste time!"

Lao Yu said "OK" in a good-natured voice, stretched out his hand to open the lid, and three dice with the "six" side facing up were lying quietly inside.

"Six six six", it turned out to be a big leopard!

The onlookers took a breath of cool air, and Zhao Qiang also froze in place. In an instant, the blood on his face disappeared.

"Alas, Lao Yu, I finally won a hand. Fortunately, I didn't embarrass you!" Lao Yu sighed deeply and said with emotion, which was a bit like "waiting for the clouds to clear and the moon to appear."

However, what people didn't see was that Lao Yu put his hands behind his back, and using the noise of people as a cover, he secretly threw a small piece of magnet in his palm under the table.

Lao Yu was just a dealer, not proficient in gambling skills. How could he shake out the big leopard of "six six six" as freely as Hu Laoliu and Jiang Ning? He didn't have that ability, so he could only use some shameful means.

Lao Yu glanced at his three dice indifferently, and the smile on his lips deepened. His dice were also tampered with.

Unlike Zhao Qiang's dice, Lao Yu's dice were only filled with iron powder on the "six" point, while the other sides were filled with the same weight of copper powder.

In the previous five dice games, Lao Yu wrapped a magnet in his sleeve and placed it under the dice cup. The iron powder was attracted downward, so that the "six" point was facing down and the "one" point was facing up. In order not to be deliberate, Lao Yu controlled the force and shook it gently, and the number that came out would definitely not be big.

But in this last dice game, Lao Yu placed the magnet right above the dice cup, without bias, and the number that came out was definitely three "sixes".

Lao Yu leisurely admired Zhao Qiang's bloodless face for a while, then slowly said: "Coach Zhao, you know the rules. Big Leopard, 100 times the odds, a total of 6,650 taels of silver, do you want to pay in cash or in banknotes?"

Zhao Qiang was completely drunk, he felt sober, but at the same time he felt like he was even drunker, his head was buzzing, and his body was limp.

6,650 taels! Even if Zhao Qiang was sold, he couldn't afford it!

"Of course, I know that Coach Zhao definitely doesn't have that much money on him, and he can't take it out today. Then just write an IOU first, and give it to us when he has the money. We are in front of everyone, and Coach Zhao is a well-known figure. We believe that Coach Zhao will definitely not default on his debts." Lao Yu added sympathetically.

"No, it's impossible, how could this happen? How could this happen..." Zhao Qiang muttered to himself, his eyes were already dull, and he couldn't accept this terrible fact at all.

In the blink of an eye, it was heaven, and in the blink of an eye, hell, this change made all the gamblers sigh, and the people who were envious just now began to feel lucky that they didn't participate in this life-threatening gambling.

At this time, Lao Yu had written the IOU, and walked to Zhao Qiang leisurely and said, "Master Zhao, please give me your fingerprints, and I will pay you back with the money some other day."

"No, no, no, no..." Zhao Qiang looked at the thin paper, as if he had seen a ghost that wanted to take his life. His face turned pale, his eyes were full of fear, and he collapsed to the ground.

Everyone couldn't help shaking their heads and sighing when they saw him like this. Master Zhao used to be such an arrogant person, relying on his uncle's superiority. Although he was not an official, no one dared to look down on him. But now he has fallen into such a situation.

Seeing this, the monkey not far away unconsciously recalled his conversation with Hu Laoliu two days ago.

"Uncle, why did you choose him?" The monkey asked puzzledly.

At that time, Hu Laoliu laughed, drank a sip of tea slowly and then said: "There are three reasons. First, he has learned martial arts and is a coach in the government office. He is quite skilled. Second, his uncle is a clerk in the county government office. He is an official and dare not default on his debts. Third..."

Hu Laoliu kept it a secret and asked Monkey: "Why do you think I asked you to ask about Liu Mingan?"

Monkey thought about a series of things and understood the connection in an instant.

"Uncle is really resourceful!" Monkey still remembers the feeling of enlightenment at that time.

"Monkey! Monkey!" Suddenly, Zhao Qiang had a flash of inspiration and thought of the monkey who brought him here. He got up from the ground excitedly like a drowning man grabbing a life-saving straw, looked around, and finally found the monkey leaning against a pillar outside the crowd.

Zhao Qiang staggered towards Monkey, grabbed his hand and begged: "Monkey, good brother! Please tell them that I am your friend and I can't afford so much money. Please help me to ask Lao Yu for mercy. I will find you any kind of wife you want..."

Monkey had expected this to happen. He calmly pulled out his hand and shook his head helplessly at Zhao Qiang: "Coach Zhao, you are too greedy. Lao Yu and I are just working for Jinyufang. We can't say anything. You ask people for help..."

Monkey stopped here, pointed upstairs, and continued: "It may be helpful to ask Sixth Master. Sixth Master is very kind!"

"Then let's go see the Sixth Master! Take me to see the Sixth Master? I'll beg for mercy from him when we see him!" Zhao Qiang said hurriedly.

The monkey frowned and said in embarrassment: "But..."

Zhao Qiang pleaded: "Monkey, I beg you, I can't give out so much money even if you chop me into eight pieces, just take me to see the Sixth Master."

After a moment of silence, the monkey said with a "give it up" expression, gritting his teeth: "Okay! Coach Zhao, I really treat you as a brother, and I don't want to see you in such a difficult situation. Let's go to see the Sixth Master together. I believe that the Sixth Master is magnanimous and will definitely show you a clear way."

"Okay, okay..." Zhao Qiang responded repeatedly, fearing that the monkey would regret it if it was too late.

Everyone watched Zhao Qiang follow the monkey upstairs, whispering to each other, but Lao Yu laughed, crumpled up the IOU in his hand and threw it away.

"Everyone, let's continue playing big or small!" Lao Yu shouted loudly, and walked back to the original gambling table leisurely, as if nothing had happened.