"Wonderful, wonderful." Tong Bo clapped his hands rhythmically: "There are really hidden dragons and crouching tigers in this Ziyan Pavilion, which makes the trip worthwhile."
"Young Master Lu is a distinguished guest in the poultry house, so you must not be rude." The man in commoner looks extremely mediocre. If he were placed in the crowd, he would be inconspicuous. His voice is not loud, but his every word is sonorous and powerful.
"Who are you and why do you come to the poultry house to cause trouble?"
"Yes, yes! It caused us to lose so much."
"Get out, you guys, get out." A group of gamblers who beat the red fighting cock lost their money and vented their resentment on Liu Ningshi and others.
"Everyone, please be quiet for a moment and allow me to say a few words." Lu Shaoyun was in a good mood after winning the cockfight. He waved to the gamblers in front of the square table, causing the scene to quickly become quiet.
"Brother An! If you have anything to say, why bother to go to war?" Lu Shaoyun smiled slightly: "Of course, using force against me is of no use."
"It's true that money can make all the difference. Of course, Mr. Lu, my brother, is strong enough to protect him." Tong Bo didn't wait for An Dafang to speak, then he spread his hands towards the civilian man and laughed.
"Who are you?" Lu Shaoyun looked at Tong Bo's unfamiliar face and frowned: "I seem to have never seen you before."
"What does it matter who I am?" Tong Bo grinned: "We are talking about business. Since we need something from Brother Lu, we might as well make a price!"
"Who is this person?"
"Never heard of it."
"You actually want to do business with Mr. Lu?"
"Hmph! You really overestimate your capabilities." As soon as Tong Bo finished speaking, a group of gamblers began to discuss again.
"Interesting, it's so interesting." Lu Shaoyun laughed loudly: "Brother, I want to do business with you, but I don't know if I have enough capital?"
"The cost is not an issue. Mr. Lu, please give me a price." Liu Ningshi was already standing side by side with Tong Bo: "Brother Da Fang, do you think so too?"
"As long as we can find out Lin'er's whereabouts, it doesn't matter what happens." An Dafang also walked to Liu Ningshi's right side.
"Oh my! The three of you are really united, I'm really touched." Lu Shaoyun smiled and knocked on the table with his hand: "Why don't we have another game? As for the bet, anything less would be too boring, so just twenty thousand taels."
"What Mr. Lu means is that if we lose, we will have to pay a price of 20,000 taels of silver. If we win, then..." Tong Bo was halfway through speaking when Lu Shaoyun interrupted him: "If you win, , I will tell you what I know.”
"This is unfair." An Dafang pointed at Lu Shaoyun angrily: "If you lose, you should pay 20,000 taels."
"How can there be absolute fairness in this world? If there is fairness, it will not be..." Lu Shaoyun hesitated and brought the topic back: "If you don't want to gamble, I will never force you to do so! "
"Yes! It's fair." Tong Bo knew it was unfair, but he smiled gracefully: "It's just that this gambling method is not interesting enough."
"Not interesting enough?" Lu Shaoyun has been in business for many years and boasts that he has read countless people, but he still can't understand Tong Bo: "Then what is interesting?"
"Friends here, how much money did you lose in the previous cockfight?" Tong Bo asked the gamblers loudly.
"Three taels, five taels, forty taels..." Although the gamblers didn't understand what they meant, they still told the number of silver taels they lost.
"Miss Liu, please write down all these numbers." Tong Bo smiled ghostly, and Liu Ningshi knew that he was going to play tricks again.
"A total of five thousand taels." Liu Ningshi handed the registered bill to Tong Bo in the space of a cup of tea.
"Master Lu, let's bet another five thousand taels." Tong Bo smiled and showed the bill in front of Lu Shaoyun: "If you lose, you have to pay everyone the money listed on the list, how about it?"
"Brother, are you trying to win people's hearts?" Lu Shaoyun looked at the bill in Tong Bo's hand and admired his courage: "But do you have that much gambling money?"
"If we lose, then this hairpin will be yours." Liu Ningshi pulled out a crystal clear, restrained hairpin from her head.
"This hairpin?" Even a businessman like Lu Shaoyun, who was used to seeing rare objects, also exclaimed in a strange way: "Could it be frost and snow?"
"Young Master Lu is right, this is the famous hairpin Shuangxue." Liu Ningshi placed Shuangxue on the square table: "How about it, Young Master Lu is willing to bet?"
"I agree!" Lu Shaoyun hid his right hand behind his back because his fingers were trembling with excitement.
"Ning Shi, how can such a precious hairpin be used for gambling?" An Dafang roared and took the hairpin back from the table.
"But if you don't gamble, you don't know what happened in Jifang Pavilion?" Liu Ningshi shook her head: "There is no better way now."
"I don't have so much time to wait. If you don't want to gamble, don't stay here and influence others." Seeing that An Dafang was obstructing him, Lu Shaoyun gave him a look of disgust.
"Money is just an external possession. The most important thing now is to find out who framed Brother Da Fang." Liu Ningshi took back the hairpin from An Da Fang and put it on the table.
"This young master is still happy." Lu Shaoyun was secretly happy and waved his hand: "Bring a pen and paper, I want to sign a contract with this young master."
"Master Lu is really good at calculating." Tong Bo didn't stop anyone, he just sneered: "This Master Shuangxue is worth seven thousand taels of silver. Isn't it too much of a loss to just bet on it like this?"
"What do you want?" Lu Shaoyun saw Tong Bo coming out to disrupt the situation again, but he didn't act like he did to An Dafang just now, he just smiled lightly.
Lu Shaoyun is not afraid of others yelling at him. Yelling can only show a person's guilty conscience, but he is very afraid that knowledgeable people will expose the truth and make him irrefutable. After all, when the strength is not much different, who can Being reasonable accounts for half of your chances of winning.
"Young Master Lu, there is no need to worry." Tong Bo smiled and said calmly: "I am just stating the facts and have no other intention."
"This person knows he has suffered a loss, but he just said it. Does this mean he looks down on me?" When Liu Ningshi put the word 'Liucheng' on the contract, the big stone in her heart finally fell to the ground, but she still Secretly he was angry with Tong Bo: "I will make sure you look good in the gambling game."
"The contract between the two parties is completed." The man in civilian clothes who was responsible for beating the gong raised the contract signed by Liu Ningshi and Lu Shaoyun above his head with both hands and showed it to everyone in the room.
"That unfamiliar young man, we support you."
"Yes, yes!"
"We must win." All the gamblers outside the fence cheered for Liu Ningshi.
People are like this sometimes. No matter how loudly they clamored to support Lu Shaoyun before, once their own interests are involved, they will fall out faster than turning the page in a book.
"I'd better keep this scholar in white." Lu Shaoyun waved, and a boy diligently placed a chair on the southernmost side of the fence.
"Since it's a bet between two people, why should I watch the seat for Mr. Liu?" Tong Bo asked with a smile when he saw that Lu Shaoyun had already sat down leisurely.
"Of course." Lu Shaoyun waved again, and the boy once again placed the chair on the northernmost side of the fence: "How about it, what are you going to do to fight?"
"雊銊銊!" Tong Bo swayed in front of the cage where the fighting cocks were kept on one side of the room, listening to the cries and observing the color of the coat.
"Well! This one is good, this one seems to be good too!" Tong Bo walked back and forth holding his lower handle, and suddenly his eyes lit up: "I will choose this one."
It was a fighting cock with black feathers all over its body. It looked like it was malnourished. It was almost thin to a straight line. Its eyes were not as lively as those of the 'white warrior' inside the fence. It was a little sleepy. Why? He doesn't even look like a powerful character.
"Hahaha!" Lu Shaoyun looked at the fighting cock in Tong Bo's hand and couldn't help laughing loudly: "Brother, you have too much money and nowhere to go to deliberately seek to lose, right? Such a tame chicken makes me feel victorious. No force."
"Yes, yes! Why did you choose such a guy? Isn't it obvious that you are going to lose?"
"Replace this dark guy quickly."
"Don't cause everyone to lose too." These gamblers may be too eager to win back the money they lost, so they also started making noises, but they forgot who initiated this unprofitable gambling game.
"Xiang Yun! This fighting cock doesn't look very good, let's change it!" An Dafang looked at the black chicken in Tong Bo's hand and said uneasily: "After all, this is related to Ning Shi's hairpin and Miss Qingli. money, if you lose..."
"Miss Liu, what do you mean? Do you also want to change to this black chicken?" Tong Bo interrupted An Dafang's question and turned to Liu Ningshi and asked.
"Since it was Brother Xiangyun who proposed it, it should be your decision." Liu Ningshi thought for a moment and then made the decision to support Tong Bo.
"Dafang, how about I write you an IOU! If you lose, how about I bear all the money?" Tong Bo's expression was solemn, without the previous joking.
"Hey! Forget it, if we lose, we brothers will bear it together." An Dafang was infected by Tong Bo and stretched out his right palm to hang in the air.
"Okay, we are indeed good brothers." Tong Bo also stretched out his right palm and held it with An Dafang: "Don't worry, we won't lose?"
"Change quickly?"
"Why haven't you changed it yet?"
"Stop procrastinating!" A group of gamblers suddenly started arguing when they saw Tong Bo, An Dafang and Liu Ningshi talking non-stop.
"Shut up, everyone!" Tong Bo turned his face, full of chills, and said coldly: "Whoever talks too much will not get the lost money."
This sentence was a slap in the face of this group of gamblers, and suddenly the room became deserted, with only the "Scholar in White" Yao Yao inside the fence screaming.
"In that case, let's get started." Liu Ningshi, as a contractor, sat face to face with Lu Shaoyun, with Tong Bo and An Dafang standing on her left and right respectively.
"雊雊銊!" Tong Bo threw the black fighting cock in his hand into the fence, and the 'white warrior', with the power of victory, came forward with eager eyes.
"Dang!" The common man stood in front of the square table at some point and beat the gongs and drums to start the game. The 'White Warrior' reversed the defensive attitude of fighting the 'Western Overlord' in the previous game and took the lead to rush forward.
