Inca Elegy (Novel) "The Fall of the Inca Empire" (Volume 2) by Zhang Baotong
The few soldiers who entered the room first saw Juan sleeping, so they gathered around and played together. After a while, Leguisano also entered the room. Although he was a little sleepy and exhausted, he could not forget his luck at noon and felt that today was definitely the day when he would win big in gambling. Therefore, he did not want to miss this opportunity today.
Seeing Juan sleeping soundly on the small bed, he walked to the bed and shook Juan. Juan was woken up and said impatiently, "What's the trouble? You didn't see me sleeping." Leguiza Nuo said, "Why don't you sleep? I just made a lot of money today. After all, I should take a gamble and have fun." Juan hesitated and said, "You go find someone first, and let me do it again." Get some sleep." He said and started snoring again.
Leguisano went to find someone, and he first found Alonso. Alonso lived in a room with several other soldiers. There was no one else in the room, he was the only one sleeping with his head covered. He pulled Alonso up and said, "Get up, get ready for war." Alonso sat on the bed in a daze, and as soon as he heard that there was going to be a war, he asked, "Oh my god, the Indians are coming? Leguisano said, "There are no Indians here. Get up quickly and gather in Captain Juan's office to report." Alonso rubbed his eyes with his hands and said, "When is it?" Leguisano said , "The sun hasn't set yet." He said, and urged, "Hurry up and get to Juana. I'll call Letomundo and Gonzalo."
After Leguisano called Letomundo, he happened to meet Gonzalo in the corridor of the hall. Gonzalo was also looking for them everywhere, so he asked, "Where were you just now? Why are you nowhere to be seen?" Leguisano said, "I just followed Captain Juan to eat on the street."
With that said, the three of them came to Juan's office. Seeing Juan lying on the bed and sleeping soundly, Gonzalo asked Juan, "What, are you sick?" Everyone smiled and said, "No, I'm just too hard and tired." Gonzalo was surprised. , said, "He has to be fed when he eats. How can he be so tired?" Letomundo said, "Isn't he afraid that he can't let others do it for him?" When Gonzalo heard this, He asked Letomundo, "Where did you go to have sex? Why didn't you call me? It's so embarrassing?" Letomondo said, "We didn't know beforehand, it was Alonso who took us there. ." Gonzalo asked hurriedly, "Where did you go?" Letomundo said, "Palace of the Virgin of the Sun God." Gonzalo said, "That's a great place. I heard that it was the home of the Inca royal family. A place for pretty girls to stay. I’m going to have a taste of it tomorrow too.”
At this time, Juan had opened his eyes, but did not get up from the bed. He made a statement to everyone, "I won't play if it's too small." Leguisano asked for his opinion and asked, "How big do you think it should be?" Juan said, "Chicha wine costs ten gold pesos apiece. It's a bottle, how big do you think it should be?" Everyone looked at each other, confused. Gonzalo replied, "That's not even twenty or thirty times." Alonso thought it was a bit big, so he said, "You are all rich people, but I am a poor man." Gonzalo He retorted, "Aren't you a rich man? In Spain, you are a rich man if you have dozens of gold pesos, and you are a rich man if you have hundreds of gold pesos. You must have at least several thousand gold pesos."
Alonso said, "Nowadays, a bottle of wine costs ten gold pesos. Even if you have thousands of gold pesos, you can only buy dozens of bottles of wine and dozens of pounds of meat. What kind of rich people are you? It's not like you have your own Shops and stores, that is the real rich man." A soldier named Gonzalez next to him interjected, "If you want to become a rich man, you have to take your gold back to Spain as soon as possible. A few thousand pesos would make you a local rich man, and he would be able to spend it all in his lifetime. Otherwise, here, you can only drink a few thousand pesos and gamble a few times, and it will be gone."
Letomundo said, "If you are not lucky, you may finish the game in two or three times, let alone a few times. That time in Cajamarca, I lost two thousand gold pesos in one night. I would say two thousand How much can gold peso do in Spain? At least it can build a magnificent building, and even the young and beautiful young lady can marry a house with ten or twenty bedrooms."
Juan didn't like hearing this, so he stabbed Letomundo with very harsh words and said, "Then why don't you go back to Spain? No one forces you to stay here." Letomundo saw that Juan had changed His expression quickly changed his tone, and he said, "Of course, it is better here than in Spain. Here, we are the masters, we are the emperors, we have whatever we want, we can do whatever we want, we are free, we can do whatever we want, gold and We can take all the beauties and use them as we please. Apart from here, where else in the world can there be a better place than this?"
At this time, Gonzalo had already played the dice and was ready to go to the dealer. So, he put four dice into two small golden bowls and said to everyone, "Okay, don't argue and argue. I'm going to the dealer. Don't affect my mood and my luck." With that, He shook the two small bowls and poured them onto the table. Four dice rolled on the table a few times and then stopped. The dice that was played actually had two full points, a five-point and a four-point, making a total of blackjack. This is a rare high point in ordinary dice rolls. Let Gonzalo give high fives with joy and excitement. As expected, none of the other five players hit more than blackjack. So, he continued to sit on the bank. As a result, he spread another high of twenty-two points. On the third village, he hit another seventeen points. Seventeen points is not considered a high point and can easily be surpassed by those behind you. However, no one else has surpassed it. In this way, Gonzalo made an extraordinary move and played four villages in a row, winning four hundred gold pesos.
Next, it was Leguisano's turn to play the dealer. Gonzalo thought he was lucky, so he doubled the bottom. In other words, if he wants to win, he has to win twice as much as other people, and if he wants to lose, he has to pay double the base money to the winner. Therefore, everyone is afraid of letting Gonzalo win, because if he wins, others will have to pay him double. However, today the dice was so weird. Once it came into Gonzalo's hands, it became particularly wild. Every time he hit it, it reached a high point, which made other people feel terrified when they saw him rolling the dice. As a result, Gonzalo had already won more than a thousand gold pesos without playing many games. Among them, Leguisano has lost the most, losing more than three hundred gold pesos.
Originally, he didn't have much cash in his hand, and he had already lost all the money after playing a few games. Therefore, he was always in debt, and the debt was getting bigger and bigger. He had no choice but to use the pure gold sun he snatched from the Sun Temple as collateral. Perhaps because the golden sun was too delicate or precious, Pizarro did not ask anyone to melt or cast the golden sun into gold ingots at that time. Moreover, he rewarded and distributed it to Leguisano to show his respect for him. Special rewards for your exploits in the gold heist. At that time, this golden sun was assigned and rewarded to him as the value of three gold ingots, and each gold ingot was worth six hundred gold pesos. Therefore, this golden sun was also valued at one thousand eight hundred gold pesos. Gold pesos.
The pressure of twenty or forty gold pesos has already exceeded everyone's bottom line. Therefore, every time the dice is rolled, everyone's eyes are wider than cow eggs, their faces are cold, their expressions are focused, their eyes are either full of extreme expectations, or full of fear-like worries, their heartbeats are racing, and their nerves are tense. Especially since everyone lost a lot, they were a little flustered and impatient, but on the surface they could still remain calm and calm. Maybe the casinos where they spend money like water have tempered their mentality to be extremely tough.
Leguisano lost the most, losing eight hundred gold pesos in less than two hours. At this time, he was under tremendous pressure. He knew that if the eight hundred gold pesos were sent back to his hometown in Spain, he would not know how much land he could buy and how many houses he could build, so that the whole family could live a comfortable life. However, he lost so much property in less than a while. However, he felt that he still had a chance to turn defeat into victory and defeat into victory.
So, he silently made a sign of the cross on his chest, praying to God to bless him and help him, so that his fortune would turn around and his luck would change greatly. Then, he rolled the dice and got nineteen, which was the highest number he had thrown tonight. I originally thought that with this number of points, I could become the banker. However, Juan rolled twenty. Just a little more than him, I played his banker. Then, Juan went to the bank and actually threw a full point of twenty-four. A full point of twenty-four is also called the apex or extreme point. It is the highest point and state in throwing dice. Many people have never rolled such a point in their lifetime after playing gambling. Therefore, according to the regulations, as long as someone can throw For a full point like twenty-four, others will have to pay ten times the dealer's minimum amount. In other words, Juan's bet was forty gold pesos, so everyone else would lose four hundred gold pesos to him.
Because he had no cash, Leguisano had always been in debt. He owed Gonzalo more than four hundred, and now he owed Juan more than five hundred, and he also owed others one or two hundred gold pesos. But Juan didn't want Leggisano to owe the debt, so he asked Leggisano to use the solid gold sun to pay the bill. Leguisano was a little unhappy and wanted to continue to owe the debt, but Juan refused and insisted that he use the golden sun as collateral. Leguisano had no choice but to return to his dormitory and give Juan the golden sun as collateral.
Since he had already lost so much, he didn't have to worry about the lice and the debts. He used the golden sun as a mortgage, which made Leguisano emboldened.
So, like Juan and Gonzalo, he doubled his base money, because many people in the casino have this mentality: when they are not lucky, they have to increase their base money to make up for their luck. Therefore, there is such a saying and jargon: If you are not lucky, add the bottom and rush. Sometimes this approach works very well. For example, when we were in Cajamarca, Letomundo once lost a series of battles. He lost eight or nine hundred gold pesos in one night, and it was about to close at dawn. At this time, there were not many gold pesos left in his hand. So, he made a desperate move and used the remaining twenty gold pesos as a one-time deposit. As a result, he won back more than two hundred gold pesos at once. Then, he bet all the two hundred gold pesos on On the table, more than a thousand gold pesos were won back at once. At the same time, the officers and soldiers of the Spanish Expeditionary Force were left with a legendary story that people talked about and passed on forever.
Therefore, Leguisano also wanted to follow in the footsteps of Letomundo and launch a desperate counterattack to reverse the situation and save the defeat. Fortunately, he finally took the second bank and won nearly two hundred gold pesos in one go. Having tasted the sweetness, Leguisano immediately increased his base money to eighty gold pesos, which meant that he bet four times the base money. A win would be more than four hundred gold pesos, but if he lost, You have to give others eighty to one hundred and twenty gold pesos. However, he did not have the kind of luck that Letomundo had, because in the casino, this kind of luck is really pitiful and can be said to be rare.
He lost a series of battles, one defeat at a time, until dawn. He already owed Juan seven hundred gold pesos, owed Gonzalo more than four hundred gold pesos, and owed others four to five hundred gold pesos. So Juan took his Golden Sun as his own and returned more than 800 gold pesos to him. And once these eight hundred gold pesos were used to pay other people's bills, there wouldn't even be a penny left on hand. Seeing that he had lost everything, everyone dispersed and went back to their dormitories to sleep. Different from the legendary story created by Letomundo, Leguisano also created a casino miracle and myth for the Spaniards, but this miracle and myth made people feel that it was too cruel. It's so sad, because he lost a sun before dawn. Since then, the Spanish have added a proverb, "The sun is lost before it rises."
