Chapter 59: Wolves and monkeys collude, remembering Jinyufang

Zhao Qiang did not rush back to the government office as he said. After leaving Liu Mingan's house, he walked straight into a house in Hehua Village.

"Coach Zhao, you are here, sit here."

The man who greeted Zhao Qiang was a burly man. If Jiang Ning was here, she would definitely recognize him. This man is the thug of Jinyufang, Hu Zi.

But what Jiang Ning didn't know was that Hu Zi was actually from Hehua Village. His full name was He Zhenhu, the son of Aunt Li and the husband of Li Xiangyun.

Aunt Li Er and Li Xiangyun were very surprised to see He Zhenhu this morning, who had not returned home for a long time. However, He Zhenhu did not respond to them and only shouted: "There will be guests at home in the afternoon. You should talk less and remember not to tell others about this matter."

Aunt Li Er was worried when she heard this. She knew that her son worked in a casino and often lingered in brothels and bars. She was very worried that the friend he was talking about was a dubious person, although He Zhenhu himself was not a good person.

Li Xiangyun had a very bad time recently. Since she provoked Liu Mingan last time and woke up to sleep in the place where He Wen died, Li Xiangyun was sure that she had encountered a ghost. She did not dare to go out and stayed at home all day in fear.

Perhaps thinking about something during the day brings about dreams at night. Later, Li Xiangyun actually dreamed of He Wen several times. After waking up, she always felt that she was possessed by a ghost. She was overwhelmed and cried loudly. At first, Aunt Li still patiently comforted her a few times, but she became annoyed after seeing her do this many times. She said that He Wen "annoys people all day without doing anything" and was an "eyesore".

Li Xiangyun lived in a daze and didn't know what to look forward to in life. Until today, He Zhenhu suddenly came home. She had a glimmer of hope in her heart, but unfortunately her husband never looked at her straight in the eye after entering the house. Even if she took the initiative to approach him to talk to him, He Zhenhu ignored her.

Li Xiangyun was completely disappointed.

Zhao Qiang carried the copper gong and avoided people all the way to He Zhenhu's house. These were all agreed upon.

After entering the house, Zhao Qiang looked at He Zhenhu, then looked at the two women in his family, nodded as a greeting, and then sat down on a stool by the door.

"Coach Zhao, do you want to drink some water? Eat something?" He Zhenhu thought about what Hu Laoliu and Monkey had said, and asked attentively.

Zhao Qiang waved his hand and said, "Don't worry about me, do your thing." After that, he closed his eyes, leaned against the wall and stopped moving.

He Zhenhu said "OK" and turned around to go back to bed to rest. When he reached the door, Aunt Li came over and held him. She kept glancing at Zhao Qiang and asked in a low voice, "Huzi, why are you in contact with Coach Zhao? What is he doing in our house?" He Zhenhu

turned his head and looked at Zhao Qiang who closed his eyes. He also answered in a low voice, "Mom, don't worry about it. Just let him sit there. It's a good thing anyway."

The room was too small. Although Zhao Qiang couldn't hear what the mother and son were talking about, he knew they were definitely talking about him.

Zhao Qiang reached into his arms and took out the paper that had been crumpled into a ball and wrapped the powder. He held it in his hand and looked at it steadily. After a while, a bitter smile appeared on his face.

Although Zhao Qiang had lived a ridiculous life for half his life, at most he had been a thief when he was a child, doing some minor evils, and then gambling and drinking to be a playboy. How could he have come to this point today?

"Blame me for being too greedy!" Zhao Qiang said to himself in his heart.

Zhao Qiang sighed deeply, closed his eyes again, and couldn't help but think of the situation that day in his mind.

He owed Jinyufang 6,650 taels of silver, a number he had never dared to think about before. He definitely couldn't take out this money, and he wouldn't be able to pay it back in the future. He was so desperate that he wanted to cry.

Fortunately, he had a good brother - Monkey.

Monkey was a righteous man. He told him that the Sixth Master was kind-hearted and asked him to beg for mercy. Maybe things would turn around.

When Zhao Qiang heard this, it was like he suddenly saw a beam of light in the dark dungeon. How could he refuse?

He followed the monkey upstairs, and the monkey took him to a room where an old man with gray hair and a serious expression sat. He looked to be in his sixties, and had an aura that kept strangers away.

He knew that this man was the legendary "Master Hu Liu", who opened the Jinyufang, a one-of-a-kind place, and had been at the gambling table for many years, dominating the world and had no rivals. He was a legendary figure in the eyes of gamblers.

If it were normal, Zhao Qiang would be filled with joy and excitement to see such a person, but now, he only felt panic.

"Master Liu! I have a friend here..." The monkey said respectfully to Master Hu Liu with a smile on his face.

Hu Laoliu said "hmm" to indicate that he heard it, without looking up, and continued to do his own thing.

Seeing Hu Laoliu's look, Zhao Qiang thought there was no hope. He was so panicked that his face turned pale. He looked at the monkey for help, but the monkey smiled at him comfortingly and mouthed a word: "Wait!"

Zhao Qiang reluctantly felt relieved and continued to look at Hu Laoliu anxiously.

But he saw Hu Laoliu holding two large bowls, which were full of colorful dice, and there seemed to be about forty or fifty of them. Then Hu Laoliu put the two bowls together, picked them up and began to shake them slowly.

Zhao Qiang was shocked. What could he get from so many dice?

The three people in the room were silent, only the dice colliding in the bowl made a "crackling" sound, which sounded like a violent storm.

After a while, Hu Laoliu put the bowl down steadily, exhaled, and reached out to take away the bowl on top.

Monkey and Zhao Qiang couldn't help but stick their heads into the bowl.

In the dark bowl, dozens of dice were neatly arranged in circles. Except for the numbers in the two outermost circles, the numbers in the middle were all "six".

Zhao Qiang secretly clicked his tongue, and finally saw the strength of Liu Ye. He couldn't practice this gambling skill even if he practiced for another hundred years.

Unexpectedly, Hu Laoliu stared at the pile of dice with a serious expression. After a while, he sighed and muttered to himself: "With fifty dice, I can't even get 300 points. How can she get 390 points?"

There was a sense of resignation and unwillingness in his words.

Zhao Qiang didn't understand what Hu Laoliu was saying, but Monkey's eyes flashed with understanding. The reason was that Monkey had seen this kind of scene too many times in the past few days. He even suspected that his uncle had a demon in his heart.

Hu Laoliu pushed the bowl aside listlessly, then raised his head and looked at Zhao Qiang from head to toe.

Zhao Qiang forced himself to put on a smile and nodded in response to Hu Laoliu's gaze. After a while, he heard Hu Laoliu say to the monkey, "Tell me, what's going on?"

Zhao Qiang's heart immediately weighed down, like a prisoner awaiting sentencing.