upstairs.
Liu Shen and Qian Yousheng drank tea leisurely and watched the butcher sharpening his knife to kill the pigs and sheep.
And the gaming table downstairs...
Pei Hongyu was like an anxious beast, his eyes filled with a layer of fine bloodshot eyes.
After waiting for a while, the owner of the gambling shop came over with a smile and a tray. There was a stack of one hundred taels and one thousand taels of silver notes in the tray.
Seeing this, Pei Hongyu seemed to have seen a savior. He quickly stood up and went over to get the banknote...
But as soon as his hand reached the top of the tray and before he could touch the banknote, someone grabbed his wrist...
"Master Pei, don't be anxious, don't be anxious..."
The owner of the gambling house smiled and pressed down his hand, admonishing: "We are all old friends. If it's a small sum of 1,800 taels, Mr. Pei doesn't need to ask, just play with it."
As he spoke, he put his arm around Pei Hongyu's shoulders, showing an irresistible attitude, and said: "But after all, it is fifteen thousand taels. If you include the fifteen thousand taels that Mr. Pei got before, then it will be That’s thirty thousand taels, which is not a small amount..."
"I know!"
Pei Hongyu was already losing his mind. Even his own father might not be able to persuade him, so how could he listen to him?
"Don't you just owe fifteen thousand taels?"
He snorted coldly and said: "Give me these fifteen thousand taels for my use first. If I make up my money in the next game, I will return it to you with interest!"
"Master Pei, please be careful."
The boss of the gambling shop pretended to be a warning: "Stop now, it's only fifteen thousand taels. With the Song family's property in our Heyang County, we can squeeze it out even if we squeeze it. What if..."
"Where is the chance!?"
Pei Hongyu shook off his hand and said impatiently: "I have lost five games in a row. I, Pei Hongyu, have grown up and played cards for so many years, but I have never lost six games in a row! Just bring me the account book!"
"Okay, okay, I said the wrong thing..."
The owner of the gambling house was so naive that he allowed himself to talk a lot, and said with a smile: "I'm going to slap you, Mr. Pei, please calm down, calm down."
After that, he beckoned to his servant and brought over the private account book prepared by the gambling house for Pei Hongyu.
Pei Hongyu snorted softly when he saw this, wrote his name on the account book, pressed his fingerprints, and then took a stack of banknotes in the tray into his hand...
"Master Pei is arrogant..."
The high-roller across the gambling table grinned, raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "I just don't know if Mr. Pei is going to play a few more games with the fifteen thousand taels he borrowed? But don't even lose your pants when you go out."
"Cut the fucking nonsense!"
Pei Hongyu, who had lost his mind, showed no trace of grace. He gritted his teeth and slapped the stack of banknotes in his hand on the table, and sneered, "Just take this amount, do you dare?"
"joke!"
The high-roller across the gambling table also sneered, threw the banknote in his hand on the table, and said with a sneer: "Mr. Pei, after going around for a long time, I am the one winning money now, what can I not dare to do?"
"Then play the cards!"
The boy from the casino who acted as the croupier wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, but followed the instructions and started shuffling the cards.
After the cards were shuffled and numbered, he said with a smile on his face: "These cards have been shuffled, do you two want to cut all the cards?"
"What do you ask me for?"
The high-roller across the gambling table waved his hand casually, glanced at Pei Hongyu opposite him provocatively, and said with a smile: "I'm not the one who lost the money. It's Mr. Pei you should ask."
"you……"
Hearing this, Pei Hongyu's temples jumped sharply, his face was a little deformed, he slapped the table and yelled: "What to cut? Just deal the cards!"
"Okay, okay..."
The boy in the gambling house nodded and bowed, and handed the cards to them in a polite manner.
Pei Hongyu snorted and took the cards from the table. After reading the value of one card, he blocked the view of others with one hand and rubbed the surface of another card with his thumb.
"Red head... red head... come on, red head..."
Pei Hongyu gnashed his teeth and muttered, a thin layer of cold sweat broke out on his forehead, and even the hands that were rubbing the cards were trembling slightly.
"Get a red head!!!"
When he saw that it was indeed a red-headed card, his face was distorted with joy, and then he rubbed it hard, and the value of the card turned out to be exactly what he thought!
"Hahahaha, land card!!"
Pei Hongyu laughed heartily, stood up from his seat in excitement, and slapped the land cards in his hand on the gaming table!
There are a total of thirty-two cards in Pai Gow, and each combination of two cards has many variations. Among the many combinations, the 'Earth Card Pair' is second only to the 'Supreme' and 'Heaven Card' combinations.
It can be said that if you touch this kind of card, your chance of winning on the Pai Gow table has reached 98%...
The surrounding gamblers who were watching saw a pair of land cards coming out of such a heavy bet, and they all exclaimed.
The countertop is small, so it’s not intimidating to touch the Supreme;
The table is large, and drawing bigger cards means you may win a lot of money!
"Hahahaha~"
Pei Hongyu saw the high-roller on the opposite side twisting his cards with a frown on his face, and said with a joking smile: "What else is there to do? My pair of land cards has been revealed. If you can make a supreme pair, I, Pei, will Eat these thirty-two cards on the spot!!”
"Alas... I can't get the Supreme One out of me."
The high-roller on the opposite side sighed with regret, and then showed a card in one hand. The card was a pair of heaven cards that beat the pairs of earth cards in Pai Gow! !
Seeing Pei Hongyu's smile froze on his face, he also smiled and joked: "But, although I didn't get the Supreme, I can beat your earth cards by getting this heaven card pair."
"..."
Pei Hongyu looked at the natural pair in his opponent's hand with a look of disbelief on his face, and was stunned for a long time...
Suddenly, as if his backbone had been taken away, he slumped down on the seat with his feet weak, looking at the land card pair on his table and the opponent's sky card pair with blank eyes...
The gamblers watching around him even screamed in surprise, but he could no longer hear it...
"Hehehehe~"
The high-roller opposite stood up and smiled and held his hands in front of him. Seeing that the boy at the gambling table had already brought the banknote, he took the banknote and flicked it with his fingers, making a meaningful exclamation from his mouth.
"Master Pei, I accept..."
"..."
The sunset…
Pei Hongyu was kicked out of the Fuyuan Gambling House with disheveled hair and an appearance that looked like he had been beaten. However, none of the 'friends' who had been with him in the past were now gone.
He was at a loss, as if his body had walked out, but his soul was still in the gambling house...
Ever since he lost his last fifteen thousand taels of capital in that round of land and sky cards, he could feel that everything around him seemed to have changed...
The high-roller opposite who spent a lot of money collected his money and got off the table, no longer gambling;
The 'friends' on the side said hello and left the gambling house one after another, disappearing;
Even the gamblers who gathered around to watch the excitement dispersed with faces full of joking...
Pei Hongyu originally wanted to borrow some more money from the gambling house to make money, but the gambling house owner said, "It's a small business and it's really difficult to turn around." The person made a bet with you and refused for other reasons...
When he lost money, he naturally refused to obey. He cursed and wanted to take some money by force.
But he didn't know that his identity as "Mr. Pei" was worthless. Not only did he not get any money, but because of his arrogant words, he had a falling out with the gambling house and was beaten by the boy who used to be groveling in front of him.
When he saw the boss of the gambling house angrily taking out the account book and going to the Song family to ask for the account, he woke up from a dream. Only then did he regret it. Only then did he realize that he was afraid...
Thirty thousand taels of gambling debt!
The Pei family has been doing business for so many years but they haven't saved a fortune of thirty thousand taels. Today, he lost thirty thousand taels in a gambling shop! !
How could he not be afraid?
After being beaten up, Pei Hongyu finally recognized the reality. He cried and begged the gambling boss not to go to the Song family to ask for money. He said that he would give it a few days and he would be able to collect the money in a few days...
The boss of the gambling house, thinking of "old friendship", didn't do everything right and gave him a three-day deadline...
Pei Hongyu returned to the Song family in despair...
He looked at the plaque of the Song family's house, and thought of his parents' plan. He finally gathered some courage and entered the door tremblingly...
