Caishen Hall, third floor.
Under everyone's surprised gazes, Jiang Fengqing slowly stood up and took out an ordinary-looking gambling stone from the three remaining gambling stones on the gambling table.
Then the croupier called out two gloomy-looking gamblers. They all looked depressed and took one of the only two gambling stones at random.
There is nothing you can do about it. You can see that the gambling stone looks good and seems to be able to produce good things. Naturally, there will be others who like you and will also take a fancy to this gambling stone.
This back and forth is to compete with the chips offered by the two people. If the chips offered by others are higher, then you will fail in the competition, and naturally you can only withdraw. Seeing that your favorite gambling stone is taken away by others, and then you can only go to the place where you are defeated. Others pick and choose among the remaining gambling stones and choose one as their own betting object.
But having said that, you may not be able to get good things from the remaining gambling stones. Perhaps everyone was wrong, and the best gambling stone was chosen instead.
At this time, after all the gamblers have chosen the gambling stone, the dealer touches his palm three times again.
All the gamblers except Jiang Fengqing handed their chosen gambling stones to the maid behind them. After the maids took the gambling stones handed to them, they walked towards a small cubicle covered by four screens.
This is a stone interpretation place specially opened by Caishentang. There are several skilled craftsmen and stone interpretation masters who are responsible for interpreting stones for gamblers. In order to prevent gamblers from encountering difficulties in the process of unraveling stones, or accidentally breaking the gambling stones, after all, those who know how to gamble on stones may not necessarily know how to interpret stones.
Another reason is that gamblers are worried that they may play tricks during the process of unraveling the stone, or accidentally reveal what they have opened after unraveling the stone, so that others will know about it.
At this time, the maid behind Jiang Fengqing said softly, "Please give me the gambling stone. I will help you deliver the gambling stone and then bring it to you."
Jiang Fengqing smiled after hearing this, threw the gambling stone to the maid, and said, "Please also ask the master who reconciled the stone to be careful not to let the contents of the stone escape."
Although Jiang Fengqing's voice was not loud, the third floor was very quiet at this time, so all the gamblers present could hear his words clearly.
As a result, several gamblers laughed out loud instantly, and even the maid in front of Jiang Fengqing looked surprised.
"Hahaha, did I hear you correctly? Don't let the things inside escape?"
"Isn't this person a fool? This is gambling on stones, not telling a story!"
"I'm laughing so hard. What else can come out of this stone? Is it possible that a monkey can pop out?"
All the gamblers laughed so hard that they were obviously delighted by Jiang Fengqing's words. Lu Jinxin was even more exaggerated, laughing so much that he almost shed tears.
However, at this time, Li Zhenyu and the stunning dealer's expressions darkened, as if they were seriously thinking about what Jiang Fengqing said.
Li Zhenyu remembered when his father took him to a deep mountain forest to visit a stone gambling master to learn the stone gambling skills.
The stone gambling master did not go out to greet them, but turned them away.
The father and son stood outside Master Gambling Stone's door for three days and three nights. Without any cultivation, he was cold and hungry, and wanted to leave several times.
But seeing his father's cold and determined face, he swallowed his words alive.
While talking to the Stone Gambling Master, the Stone Gambling Master told him a story.
The story tells that there is a family of three living among the high mountains. The father barely feeds the family by growing some vegetables in the mountains and going to the mountains to catch game from time to time.
On the birthday of his young daughter, the father accidentally picked up a stone at the foot of the mountain, so he took the stone home and gave it to his daughter. He taught her that you must be as strong as this stone. people. My daughter, who had never studied in school, nodded in understanding.
Not long after, the farmer and his wife were unfortunately bitten by a venomous snake while doing farm work, and both passed away, leaving only a lonely daughter living alone.
The daughter had to work hard all day long and barely live a life of food and hunger. Whenever she couldn't stand the loneliness and helplessness, she would always take out the stone her father left for her, as if she could draw the courage to continue living from it.
This day lasts for several years. During this period, the vegetables that the girl had worked so hard to carry back for watering from more than ten miles away were completely destroyed by wild boars on the mountain overnight, but she did not cry.
The girl lay in the snow in the cold winter, hungry for two days and two nights just to catch a rabbit. On the way back, she was chased by a brown bear. In the end, she caught nothing and broke a leg. She did not cry.
The girl was awakened by the downpour in her sleep. In the end, she had to hug her knees and sit in the house whose roof had been collapsed by the rain. She had no sleep all night, but she did not cry.
The government chased a group of bandits into the mountain where the girl was. The bandits escaped into the girl's house in the middle of the night. Three days later, the government army entered the mountain to suppress the bandits and rescued the girl who was tortured by the vicious bandits. When the girl was rescued, there was no light in her eyes. She only had an ugly stone full of holes in her hand, which was full of scars.
When the girl dragged her body and stubbornly returned to her home, which was already in ruins, she was already so thin that she could hardly walk.
The originally innocent and lively girl turned out to have gray hair at the age of thirty due to the hardships of life.
The eyes that were originally as lively as a pair of grapes have become cloudy.
The originally smooth skin was now full of wrinkles, scars, and dark spots.
So she dug a shallow pit next to the ruins with difficulty, still suffering from illness.
On a night with a bright moon like snow, listening to the screams of wild beasts and the chirping of birds and insects from time to time in the mountains and forests, the girl quietly closed her eyes.
She didn't care about the damp soil beneath her, nor did she care about the pair of green eyes getting closer and closer to the pothole. She just felt very tired and tired, and just wanted to sleep for a while.
Just like when her father took her to pull weeds in his own field, she didn't want to work, so she lay on the side and said coquettishly to her father, "I'll just sleep for a while, just for a while." Her father would always sit down and rub her head lovingly, then use his thigh to cover the pillow for her to coax her to sleep.
However, these images were already turning yellow in her mind.
This night was the most sound sleep she had had in so many years. She even had a dream. She dreamed that she was lying in a pit, surrounded by a pack of wolves, and then a giant with black hair appeared. After driving away the pack of hungry wolves, he carried her all the way. That speed is really like flying.
They passed through dark mountain forests, waded through deep rivers, walked through inaccessible swamps, and climbed over towering mountain peaks...
The Stone Gambling Master's voice suddenly stopped, which whetted the appetite of Li Zhenyu who was listening in rapt attention.
Li Zhenyu looked at the stone gambling master with a look of reminiscence on his face, but did not dare to ask directly. After all, he had heard of the stone gambling master's deeds.
It is said that this stone gambling master was penniless when he first wandered to Chang'an. He earned a few money by working as a waiter in a small inn for three years. By chance, I came into contact with gambling stones.
As a result, this bet got out of hand and actually swept the top ten stone gambling places in Chang'an at that time, making all the owners of those stone gambling places burst into tears.
Even a priceless natural gold and jade Buddha statue was found in a stone gambling den, which made an elder from Putuo Mountain in Jingzhou travel thousands of miles to Chang'an and spend millions of gold to buy it back and enshrine it in Putuo Mountain.
It can be said that within a period of time, this stone gambling master became popular in the entire Chang'an stone gambling community, and was regarded as a guest by countless rich and powerful people who loved stone gambling.
But what makes this stone gambling master famous is not her vicious vision and amazing luck, but her identity as a woman!
Yes, she is the only woman in Chang'an who has the title of stone gambling master.
No one knows where her stone gambling skills came from, and no one knows how she entered Chang'an.
Countless people are curious about her origins, and some even have malicious intentions towards her.
However, she was still living well, and even at her peak, she withdrew from the stone gambling world, leaving only myths in the stone gambling world.
Tick tock.
Li Zhenyu accidentally touched a dice placed on the table. The dice fell to the ground, spun around twice, and finally landed under the table.
Li Zhenyu smiled awkwardly, then leaned down to pick it up.
While picking dice, he inadvertently glanced at the stone gambling master's feet covered by his long gown.
She actually has one foot covered with cloth!
When he tremblingly picked up the dice, he saw the stone gambling master looking at him with a smile.
On the way back, Li Zhenyu raised his head and wanted to ask his father about the stone gambling master, but his father just shook his head at him and cut off his curiosity about the identity of the stone gambling master.
"Betting on stones has spirits, and it may not be impossible to breed life in them."
The words that Li Zhenyu murmured in his mouth were exactly what the stone gambling master who had dominated the entire Chang'an stone gambling world said casually when he entered the Huo Mansion for a visit at the invitation of the head of the Huo family.
According to rumors, when he said these words, the gold-inlaid jade Buddha statue far away in Jingzhou, which was purchased by the elders of Putuo Mountain with a lot of money, flashed with golden light and shocked the entire Putuo Mountain.
As for the croupier, he remembered a secret about the God of Wealth Hall.
It is said that there was once a master Jie Shi on the fourth floor invited by the God of Wealth Hall. He died suddenly and mysteriously in his bedroom one night.
The God of Wealth Hall dispatched several purple-robed deacons to search the entire God of Wealth Hall, and actually caught a demon monkey.
Moreover, this monster monkey showed no fear when facing a group of purple-robed deacons, and even took the initiative to fight against the purple-robed deacons.
That night, the God of Wealth Hall was in a mess. The monkey hairs and blood stains scattered on the floor made the maids clean it up all day and night.
The battle hall on the fourth floor was even more chaotic. A big hole opened in the floor of the fourth floor, and countless dust fell to the third floor.
Afterwards, Caishentang issued a hush-hush order and no one was allowed to talk about this matter.
After the passage of time, this matter became a secret hidden in the God of Wealth Hall, unknown to outsiders. People in the God of Wealth Hall only occasionally mentioned it in private and did not dare to say anything more.
The dealer still remembered that another dealer who had a crush on her on the fourth floor talked about this matter with her on a whim when they were drinking and chatting with her. He also told her that in fact, some people speculated that the monster monkey of unknown origin came from the stone that the master of stone interpretation solved that night.
The croupier's face was full of shock, but he didn't dare to talk to him. He just kept drinking, and then made an excuse that he was drunk and went back to his room to sleep.
However, after the second day, she never saw the dealer on the fourth floor that she liked again. She was also transferred from her original position as a dealer in the box to work as a dealer in the lobby.
Seeing the maid frozen on the spot, Jiang Fengqing waved her hand to signal her to leave quickly.
The maid finally came to her senses. After bowing, she walked toward the stone solution site in a panic.
Seeing that there was nothing to watch, everyone's laughter gradually stopped after a while.
Jiang Fengqing held the tea cup, wondering what she was thinking.
An Zicheng was confused, but he also knew that now was not the time to ask, so he could only look at the magnificent appearance around him.
Lu Jinxin watched nervously as the maids took turns walking into the stone-solving place.
Li Zhenyu and the dealer stared at Jiang Fengqing's straw hat in a daze.
