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Chapter 7 The Sixth Character Relationship in Wuxia Novels: Banker, Loser and Winner

Short Stories by Ni Kuang 倪匡 1927Words 2023-02-05
The yellow gold looks tempting, but the sound it makes when it collides with each other is not very pleasant.Beside the banker, under his feet, and on the floor, there is a small pit. The pit is full of gold ingots and nuggets. When a big bamboo block sweeps all the gold on the table into the pit, there will be a sound. , It simply makes the gambler heartbroken. At the gambling table, it is easy to distinguish between losers, winners and dealers.The dealer is calm and relaxed, you fight for the sky, the gods punish you, Xie Zu Xie Zong, laughing and having fun, that is your family's business, the dealer just rolls dice, takes bets, sweeps the gold on the table into the pit, or gets out of the pit. The winners are given gold to the winners, the winners are naturally elated and foaming, but the losers are not necessarily downcast, some have red eyes, some have blue faces, no matter how coquettish the beauties in the casino are, they are just coquettish beside the winners If you are angry, you will never dare to tease the loser, and you will be boring yourself.

The Gold Casino is the largest casino in the capital. You only see gold, but not silver. No matter how precious a treasure is, as long as the gambler bets on the table, there will be a special person to evaluate the value immediately. Eighty thousand taels of gold, even if it was just a bet and left, it was extremely happy to pay.It is said that the backstage of the Gold Casino is backed by the nine admirals of the capital, which makes the wealthy businessmen and high-ranking gangsters gamble even more heartily. its number. Tonight's situation was somewhat different from the past. Just after dark, three Persian Hus came in, all with curly hair, high nose, deep eyes and short mustaches. One of them was the tallest one. He was long, so he put his arms around a maid, and the maid immediately leaned towards him, making the barbarian chatter happily, not knowing what to say, but rubbing on the maid unequivocally. Touch, very noisy.

But as soon as they sat down at the gambling table, they had no distractions, and they gambled extremely well. As soon as they came up, they shook open three small leather bags, and under the light, diamonds the size of broad beans shone so brightly that people couldn't even open their eyes. , The noisy casino suddenly fell silent, three leather bags of diamonds, probably not more than two hundred diamonds! A gorgeously dressed old man walked over immediately under the sign of the dealer, picked up a few, turned to look at the light, squinted his eyes, and clicked his tongue: "Well, no matter how big or small, each one counts as one thousand taels."

The Persian Hu people looked at each other, nodded, and when they spoke, they actually spoke correctly: there are two hundred and four pieces in total, and they bet once. The barbarian looked challenging, but the dealer didn't even move his eyebrows, he opened his mouth to agree, when suddenly there was a voice that sounded rather tender: Wait a minute, the dealer doesn't accept it! Following the sound, a young man with a pale complexion and a black suit stared at the three small piles of diamonds: he was looking for some diamonds, but he was too lazy to buy them one by one, so he bet against these three.

The three Persians looked like they didn't care about anything as long as they got something to gamble on. The Zhuang family and the old man looked at the young man together. Although the capital is a big place, and there are all kinds of people in China, but the Zhuang family doesn’t just sleep when he is idle. There are numbers.However, the young man was not impressive, and he did not know when he came in.At this time, the banker gave a dozen winks to his own people in the casino, but no one knew where he came from. The old man hummed, with a very long ending, and looked at the young man. The young man put his hand into his bosom, but he didn't take it out immediately, showing a very strange smile: two hundred and four thousand taels of gold, you can't take it with you. On the body, if I lose, I'm talking about this, look at the three barbarians: take this as a credit!

He stretched out his hand, holding a piece of black lacquered wood, three fingers wide, one finger thick, and one and a half palms long, gently placed it on the table, and stretched out his hand to press it. The gamblers bet against each other, winning or losing. Originally, it had little to do with the dealer, and the winner would naturally give the dealer another draw.If the young people take out banknotes that can be cashed immediately, it will not be a problem at all.But it was such a piece of rotten wood that the dealer had to say: Well, what kind of treasure are you, pardon me for my humble eyes!

The dealer winked, and four thugs with closely buttoned hero jackets of the same color came up behind the young man and said in unison: "Let's take a look!"He reached out to the table and grabbed it. The young man moved very quickly, his hand on the wood shrank slightly back, the wood was actually a wooden box, the lid of the box was removed a little, in an instant, everyone's eyes lit up, and the young man immediately The lid of the box was pushed on again, but no one could see what was in the box clearly!Seeing those three Persian barbarians, their faces turned red suddenly, their eyes glowed brightly, and they shouted: "It's a bet!"

The Persians recognized the rare treasure, and they called for a gamble, so the banker naturally had nothing to say. For a moment, everyone felt itchy and wanted to know what kind of treasure was in the box, but although the young man withdrew his hand, no one said anything. To move around, the four big men also quietly withdrew. The dealer stopped shaking the dice cylinder, and the Persian barbarian called first: Big!The young man said in a deep voice: Little! The dealer opened the dice vat, and everyone shouted loudly. The young man had won. As if nothing had happened, he first put the wooden box in his arms, and then stretched out his hand to gather the three small piles of diamonds.The three Persian barbarians shouted suddenly, the lights of the knives were shining, and the three half-moon-shaped sharp knives attacked the young man. The young man flicked his fingers, and three flashes of lightning flashed across the place. A diamond shot at the blade with such great force that the three knives rebounded upwards, and the back of the knives hit the forehead of the barbarian heavily, blood splattered everywhere, and he fell back, not knowing whether he was dead or alive.

In silence, the young man put the diamond into the leather bag and muttered to himself: It's good to use this shiny thing as a hidden weapon!He stood up and turned to the dealer beautifully: The three on the ground belong to you! Until he walked out of the casino, the casino was still silent for a while.
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