"Do you have anything to do with me?"
An old man with an unattractive appearance and plain clothes, who had never placed a bet in person and had just stood aside to watch the fun, saw Lu Jing walking towards him and took the initiative to ask.
"Is the old gentleman the top blogger in this gambling house?"
The gold medal gambler is the most powerful gambler in a gambling house. With him in charge, ordinary people from thousands of families would not dare to come to the gambling house to have a casual meal, and most of the other gamblers in the gambling house are his apprentices.
Lu Jing just saw that the gambler in charge of dealing cards at this table was very respectful to the old man, and he always glanced here from time to time when dealing cards. In addition, the old man had been standing here for so long without gambling. The thugs in the gambling house He didn't even bother him.
Lu Jing guessed his identity from this, but he didn't expect that his guess was in vain. The old man shook his head and said, "I'm not."
Lu Jing was surprised, "Then who are you?"
"I'm the boss here." The old man said leisurely.
"…………"
Lu Jing looked at the old man from head to toe again, and then asked, "Where is your golden hook?"
"Why do I need a golden hook?" the old man asked.
"Because I didn't see the golden hook in this gambling house, and in this case, the golden hook is usually on the boss's body."
The old man shook his head when he heard this, "My gambling house is called Golden Hook because the gambling house I used to go to was called that name, and the boss didn't have a gold hook, only a copper hook. He took care of it himself." The copper hook is called the golden hook.
“I didn’t have much money at that time, and I couldn’t gamble a few times a month, so I could only live out my addiction on the sidelines, but I was always kicked out by the thugs in the gambling house.
"So I secretly swore in my heart that when I got rich one day, I would enjoy myself in the Golden Hook Casino. If someone chased me away, I would slap a dime in his face.
“As a result, I finally made a huge fortune when I was forty years old. However, when I returned to the Golden Hook Casino, I found that the place was deserted and the boss seemed to be dead.
"I'm very disappointed. It's like you wear a beautiful dress but can only go out at night.
"Later I came to the capital to make a living, and I continued to work hard with that money and made more money, but I always felt that there was a place in my heart that was always empty.
"It wasn't until I bought this gambling house from its previous owner and changed its name that it cured my long-standing heartache."
The old man said, "Now I can stand here as long as I want, and no one can drive me away anymore."
After a pause, he added, "Okay, I've finished telling my story. It's time for the young man to tell your story."
"I don't have a story. I'm here to find someone, a new face that just appeared in the gambling house recently."
The old man didn't answer in a hurry. He glanced at Lu Jing and said, "Are you an official?"
"no."
"Then why should I tell you?"
When Xie Lili heard this, she was not surprised but happy. She puffed up her chest, almost telling Lu Jing to come and beg me.
In the end, Lu Jing still didn't look at her. Instead, he fumbled around in his arms for a while, and finally took out an agate dice and handed it to the old man opposite.
Lu Jing was not sure whether the dice was useful.
After all, Mrs. Qi had said when she gave him the dice that it was old. I wonder how many people in the world would recognize it.
The old man didn't pay much attention to the agate dice when he first took it. It wasn't until he took a closer look at it that his expression gradually changed.
After that, he put the agate dice next to the oil lamp beside him, looked at it carefully for a while, and then said with emotion, "Thousands of treasures, five-color dice, hey, I didn't expect the rumors to be true. Old man, I can count as one today." I’ve gained experience.”
After saying that, he returned the agate dice to Lu Jing and asked, "May I ask if your surname is Qi?"
This time it was Lu Jing's turn to shake his head and said, "My surname is not Qi, but I have a master whose surname is indeed Qi. Everyone calls her Mrs. Qi. It was she who gave me this agate dice."
The old man looked at Lu Jing with a strange look, "Your master seems to be very optimistic about you. He actually gave you all the five-color dice that have been passed down from generation to generation in the Qi family. With this dice, everyone in the Qianmen family will want it." Driven by you.
"Are you also from Qianmen?"
"I'm not," the old man said, "but the Qi family always has to give face, and I happen to be troubled by something."
"What's up?"
"You just asked me if there are any new faces who often come to the gambling house recently. Well, the young scholar at the third table to your right, I suspect that he is cheating, but there is no evidence.
"He doesn't win much, and he pretends to be very good. After winning one, he always loses three or four, and he can only earn a hundred taels of silver in a day.
“I don’t care about the money, I’m just a little unhappy that someone is playing tricks in front of me, but I can’t do anything about him.
"I was worried that the bloggers in my gambling house had poor eyesight, so I specially invited their gold medal blogger from the Ruyifang next door, but I still couldn't see anything. You came at the right time, you are a descendant of the Qi family, Maybe you can see through his tricks."
Lu Jing looked in the direction indicated by the old man and saw a scholar in his early twenties playing dice in front of a table.
He was playing the simplest game of guessing, and like the other gamblers at the table, they were all staring at the hand of the blogger shaking the dice.
Lu Jing did not leave immediately, but asked again, "Is there anyone else?"
"The person you asked Chu Qian is still a new face who has appeared recently. The former has nothing to say for the time being, and the latter has quite a lot to tell the truth. This is Lintian Mansion, and my gambling shop is also open for business.
"Some people lost everything here and never came back. Naturally, there will be new people to make up for it. Otherwise, where can I make money?"
"What I'm looking for is a group of weirdos, just like that scholar. There's something about them that's different from ordinary people."
"What exactly does the difference mean?"
"Forget it, I'll ask myself."
After Lu Jing finished speaking, he thanked the old man and walked towards the young scholar.
The latter's attention was all on the dice at the moment, and he didn't notice anyone approaching him. But just when Lu Jing came within ten steps of him, a look of surprise suddenly appeared on the young scholar's face, and then I no longer check to see if I have hit the mark.
He just stood up from the table and walked quickly outside the gambling house.
However, he only had time to take two steps before his hand was grabbed by someone, and then a cold sharp instrument was pressed against his lower back.
"Where is your accomplice?" Lu Jing asked.
