Cold night, long street.
The street is long and the night is cold.
The long street has an end, and so does the long night.
At the end of the long street, Mr. Zhao’s beef noodle shop.
Ding Xiaodao had already eaten two large bowls of beef noodles, but the boy didn't even move his chopsticks. He stared at Ding Xiaodao with a smile as he finished the two large bowls of steaming beef noodles, and finally looked at Ding Xiaodao wiped his mouth with satisfaction and burped twice. He asked with a smile: "Can you still drink wine now?"
Ding Xiaodao rolled his eyes and said: "I can only drink a jar of Huadiao at most, but I can't drink tonight. Being stared at by others while drinking is very emotional." He paused and continued. : "Do you bring two wooden men with you every time you drink?"
It turned out that there were two people standing behind the young man. These two people had been standing beside the young man when they were at the Golden Gou Casino. A middle-aged man wearing a green Taoist robe and a long sword at his waist. The other had a white beard and wore An old man dressed in gray and sable.
The man in green clothes has a white face and a slight beard, and is tall and tall. He wears a beaded crown with a sandalwood base and a Taoist bun on his head. He is stroking the hilt of his sword with his left hand and stands solemnly on his left side. There is not even a trace of expression on his face.
The white-bearded old man's face was red, his temples were bulging high, and he looked like a master of the family. I saw him holding a three-foot-long cigarette rod in his hand, squinting and smoking one puff at a time. The cigarette rod was actually made of fine iron and was as thick as a child's arm.
Anyone with a discerning eye can tell that Ding Xiaodao is deliberately irritating them, but these two people are also very skilled and are not affected at all.
The young man said: "The two of them are my uncles, and they are both my closest relatives. This time I came to the Central Plains to handle an important matter, so they came with me to protect me. No wonder, brother." He clasped his hands and smiled. Said: "My dear, Ye Rongqiu, I wonder if my brother Gao's name can be informed?"
Ding Xiaodao played with the small wooden knife in his right hand, tilted his head and looked at Ye Rongqiu and said: "My name is Ding Xiaodao, Xiaodao's small, Xiaodao's knife."
The old man in gray clothes slowly exhaled a puff of smoke and said: "Your knife looks familiar. I wonder if it is that kind of knife..."
"Oh, have you ever seen that kind of knife?" Ding Xiaodao looked up at the old man in gray.
"No, fortunately no, that kind of knife is not meant for people to see!" the old man in gray sighed.
Ding Xiaodao gently stroked the small wooden knife in his hand, his eyes became warm, and he murmured: "Yes, that kind of knife is not meant for reading."
The man in green looked at Ding Xiaodao's hand and said coldly: "It's a pity that the wooden sword can't kill people."
Ding Xiaodao smiled, raised his head and looked at the man in green and said with a smile: "Of course a wooden sword can't kill people, and a real sword can't kill anyone either."
"oh?"
"The knife cannot move, and what can kill is not the knife, but the person!" Ding Xiaodao said every word. When he said this, his eyes were full of respect, as if the person who told him this truth was in the right place. He has an extremely noble status in his heart.
Only humans can kill, this is a truth. Truth is usually not easy to disprove.
The man in Tsing Yi stopped talking and stood in awe with his eyes lowered.
Ding Xiaodao looked at Ye Rongqiu and smiled and said: "Ye Rongqiu, your name sounds like a woman, and you look like a woman." Ye Rongqiu's face changed, and Ding Xiaodao continued: "If I hadn't seen you betting To spend money, I must have thought you were a woman."
"Brother Ding is joking..." Ye Rongqiu breathed out secretly.
Ding Xiaodao suddenly approached Ye Rongqiu and joked: "Especially because you have a scent on your body. It's very special. It's not quite like the scent on Miss Chu'er of Chunhua Tower." Then he said to himself: "Young master from a rich family. It's just different, you don't seem to have the aura of human fireworks."
Ye Rongqiu breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Where is Chunhua Building?"
"brothel."
Ye Rongqiu had just let go of her hanging heart, but now she seemed to be angry, and said coldly: "It seems that Brother Ding often goes to Chunhua Tower." After saying this, he stood up from his sleeves and glared at Ding Xiaodao.
Ding Xiaodao said in surprise: "What's wrong with men occasionally drinking wine? Have you never been to a brothel?" After saying this, he thought it was so funny that he burst out laughing.
Ye Rongqiu's face turned red and he snorted: "So what if I haven't been there? Only, only dishonest people would go to that kind of place."
Ding Xiaodao shook his index finger lightly and said: "You don't know something about this. First, teahouses and brothels are a place where dragons and snakes mix, and of course they are also a good place to get information; secondly, if you don't sleep well, you will Discovered that there was no better place to sleep than a brothel, where absolutely no one would disturb you.”
Ye Rongqiu spat softly: "Humph, anyway, those who go there are not good people."
Ding Xiaodao glanced at Ye Rongqiu, a glimmer of light flashed in his eyes, and a strange smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
"Why are you laughing?" Ye Rongqiu asked angrily.
"Laughing at you!" Ding Xiaodao laughed. "Laughing, why didn't you ask me how I won just now? You are angry like a woman."
"Me, you are talking nonsense, how can I be angry or look like a woman?" Ye Rongqiu's voice was trembling. He took a deep breath, calmed down and asked, "Does the cricket crowing first have anything to do with the lantern? How did you know that the lantern would suddenly go out?"
"Crickets use their wings to make sounds. On the right wing of the cricket, there is a short, file-like spine, and on the left wing, there is a hard spine like a knife. The left and right wings open and close, rubbing against each other. The wings vibrate. It can make a pleasant sound. Crickets usually stop chirping in the winter months. These crickets used for fighting and gambling are usually kept in greenhouses, so that they cannot distinguish the changes of seasons. "
Seeing no one interrupt, Ding Xiaodao continued: "Two male crickets put together will definitely think that the other has invaded their territory, and they will send out short and powerful chirps to warn each other. But there is a piece of gauze in the box. , over time, the crickets sense that the other party is no longer a threat. At this time, they will stop chirping. Unless..."
"Unless you see the light?" Ye Rongqiu's eyes lit up and he said excitedly.
Ding Xiaodao looked at him and smiled and said: "Yes, another major habit of crickets is to seek light. Crickets naturally like light. If they are in a dark room, they usually won't chirp when they hide in the corner, but if you are in When a light is lit in the house, it will come out and chirp at the light.”
"Sikong Zhaiyue has been standing, blocking the lantern behind him with his body. If you bet 'General' calls first, he will quietly turn his body to let 'Iron King Kong' see the lantern behind him. If you bet 'Iron King Kong' "Squawk first," he will stand still. "General" saw the lantern behind you, and he was already excited. He will secretly nudge "General", and "General" will shout first. When he is lucky, you You won't notice it at all, he will know how to measure it, so you won't win at all, not even once." He said this, leaving the three of them dumbfounded.
Ye Rongqiu said bitterly: "It turns out he actually cheated!"
Ding Xiaodao said with a smile: "Nine out of ten gambles are cheats, don't you understand this truth?"
"Wait a minute, you said his name is Sikong Zhaiyue, the same Sikong Zhaiyue who is known as the best thief in the world?" Ye Rongqiu asked in shock.
"Who else could he be? Who else would be dressed like that, looking like a god of wealth, for fear that others would not know that he is rich." Ding Xiaodao said with a smile. "But he is really rich recently."
"But how did you know that the lantern behind him would suddenly go out?" Ye Rongqiu was still puzzled.
"This reason is even simpler, because you are all looking at the gambling games on the table, and no one will look at these things. But I have seen that the wick in the lantern has flashed three times, and even the light has been much dimmed. It won't take long for it to run out of oil and go out. When the lantern behind Sikong Zhaiyue was extinguished, I suddenly turned sideways. After the General saw the lantern behind me, he was gently attracted by my secret luck, and he barked first. Already." Ding Xiaodao smiled lightly.
"But why does Sikong Zhaiyue keep moving? He could have moved before you?" Ye Rongqiu still refused to give up. He was anxious to know the answer. If Ding Xiaodao remained silent at this time, he would go crazy.
"Because I said something to him." Ding Xiaodao looked at Ye Rongqiu with a smile. He likes to laugh very much, and his smile is beautiful. He always feels that if people in the world smile every day, there will be fewer worries in the world.
"A word? What word? Why didn't I hear it? But talking is cheating and losing!" Ye Rongqiu wished he could punch Ding Xiaodao's smiling face into a crying face.
"I didn't make a sound, so it's not cheating. I was lip reading, and I just knew he could understand it because I only said three words!"
"Which three words"
"Shaolin Temple!"
Shaolin Temple, these three words were indeed like a magic spell, making Sikong Zhaiyue feel as if he was immobilized. It took half a stick of incense to calm him down.
Ding Xiaodao, these three words were like a curse. Sikong Zhaiyue's head probably hurt even more than Ding Xiaodao. Big and painful.
Although Ding Xiaodao spoke in an understatement, anyone with a discerning eye could understand that the gamble in the gambling house just now was no less than a life-and-death showdown between masters. Not only does it require meticulous observation and the calmness of a mountain to collapse, but it also requires meticulous thinking and shrewd skills.
Even the old man in gray clothes cast approving glances at him, and Ye Rongqiu's eyes shone with admiration.
"It's the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month in a few days. Shaolin Temple must be very lively." The cold light in the man's eyes flashed away.
Ding Xiaodao said calmly: "It must be very lively. I heard that Huotoutuo cooks Luohanzhai very well. I wonder if I will be lucky enough to eat the Laba porridge he stewed."
"You want to go to the Shaolin Temple too? Why don't you go with us? My car is just big enough. And there is a lot of good wine in the car." Ye Rongqiu looked at Ding Xiaodao and smiled, with a look of expectation on his face.
Ding Xiaodao thought for a while, looked at Ye Rongqiu and said, "You answer my two questions and I will go with you."
"You ask!"
"First, you are not good at gambling at all. Why did you go to the Golden Hook Gambling House? Second, where are you from?" Ding Xiaodao played with the small wooden knife in his right hand. The small wooden knife kept changing and flying between his five fingers, as if it was originally A part of his body. He stared at Ye Rongqiu and asked.
"I went to the Golden Hook Casino just to lure someone out. I could only lure him out if I kept winning or losing. I wasn't good at Pai Gow or dice, but I happened to meet Sikong Zhaiyue as the banker. I tried to trick him and pretended to lose to him, but I had already lost almost a hundred thousand taels and still didn't see that person show up, so I was going to change my plan to keep winning. I was going to win back the last one just now. I could use ventriloquism or teleportation from a thousand miles away. Provoke 'Iron King Kong' to scream first without letting the other party notice. But you suddenly appeared. I, I believed you inexplicably. I had an intuition in my heart that you wouldn't lie to me." Ye Rongqiu kept looking at Ding Xiaodao as he spoke. , eyes eager.
"As for me, I come from an isolated place outside the customs, under a white cloud." Ye Rongqiu said with a smile, "And you, where are you from?"
"I also come from an isolated place, under another white cloud..." Ding Xiaodao said with a faint smile, "Goodbye!"
