Although Laizhou Gambling House is the largest and most famous one in the world, they are not the only gambling house in Lining County.
Xianke Building is one of them. Compared with Laizhou Gambling House, the area here is pitifully small, and the facilities are not exquisite or gorgeous. There are only a few gamblers in the two-and-a-half-story attic, and there are three waiters in charge of greeting guests. They were all sitting on a bench in the lobby, swaying around.
"Brother Shen." A slightly stout figure appeared at the door, blocking the light in the front hall. The servants hurriedly came over to greet him: "The shopkeeper asked you to move upstairs."
The chief gambler of Laizhou Gambling House, Shen Fang, still had his eyelids drooped and looked listless. Faced with the enthusiastic service of the boys, he just waved his hand and then led the two people behind him to receive him at the gambling house. Lead downstairs.
These two people are both young men, who look to be in their twenties. One is tall and straight, with an average appearance, but his posture can still be seen as extraordinary. The other is shorter and is characterized by long hair hanging down his back. Fa, his appearance is not bad, but I don’t know why this guy always has a mysterious smile on his face, which makes him look very vulgar.
This strange trio is composed of Shen Fang, Guan Lingxiao and He Nan, and the purpose of the three of them coming here is to meet someone.
Although this guest building is not large in size, it is surprisingly secretive. There are seven rooms on the second floor including the attic. The doors of each room are locked. You can hardly hear the sounds inside when walking through the corridor, unless you are talking. Just hold your neck and shout.
The group of people walked to the attic at the end of the road. Shen Fang pushed open the door. After seeing the person sitting at the head of the room clearly, he sat down on a chair and smiled crookedly at the person. After a while: "Old Wang... we have known each other for quite a long time. If it weren't for He Nan... I really wouldn't have known you were from the imperial court."
The man Shen Fang calls Lao Wang is the shopkeeper of this Xiangulou. He is about forty years old and looks like a very ordinary middle-aged fat man. He was well-known in the Ning area, and it was at that time that he got acquainted with Lao Wang, and it was more than ten years ago.
Unexpectedly, Lao Wang's expression was very strange. I couldn't tell whether it was embarrassment or embarrassment. He held it in for a long time before replying: "Xiao Shen, you don't know something. I was only recruited later..."
"Let's wait until the adult above me comes to talk about the specific situation!"
As soon as Lao Wang finished speaking, Shen Fang noticed that there were five sets of tea sets placed on the middle table of the attic. The one placed in front of Lao Wang had been used, but there were only four chairs.
"It seems that the person who is looking for me...is not Brother Wang, but someone else?" He Nan said in a familiar manner. After receiving the guidance from his senior brother Nan Yingzhi, He Nan learned how to contact the imperial court's intelligence base. , for example, the inscriptions on the plaques of these strongholds are not uniformly symmetrical, but are skewed to the right, and some objects are hung under the plaques or on the doorposts as signs. Take the "Xiangu Building" as an example. It is a cluster of small copper mountain pendants, which proves that this is a direct subordinate of Shanhe Mansion, but its rank is not high. The Yongjin Pavilion where Nan Yingzhi is located has three yellow flags on the left and right, indicating that it is the highest rank in the county. The health center is under the direct control of the three law departments of "Punishment Department, Shanhe Prefecture, and Tianbian Guard".
When He Nan first arrived in Lining County, he actively looked for a place to connect. This county has a small territory, but he found it as expected. At that time, he just had the mentality of "finding a backer to do things easily", and Lao Wang also He introduced Shen Fang indirectly to He Nan, otherwise He Nan would not have hooked up with Shen Fang, the chief eunuch.
Originally, in fact, Lao Wang only needed to be his lurking agent with peace of mind and report to his superiors regularly. Over the years, he has never revealed his identity to anyone, including Shen, who has a very good relationship with him. But maybe it was He Nan's arrival that broke the calm, or if He Nan hadn't come, no one might have noticed the conspiracy brewing here - in short, after a series of events, Shen Fang never A fringe figure suddenly became the protagonist of He Nan's "countermeasure plan".
As for Guan Lingxiao... he was brought in by He Nan. Although there was no deep friendship between the two, they still formed a temporary alliance out of trust in each other's abilities - especially in After Guan Lingxiao took the initiative to expose the fact that He Nan came from Shanhe Mansion - As for why Guan Lingxiao knew this, He Nan didn't ask much. After all, with the other party's wide acquaintance, one of them even had some "high-level" Friends are perfectly normal.
The reason why there is a so-called "countermeasure plan" can be traced back to the time after the first round of the Young Heroes Meeting, when Shen Fang accepted the invitation from the "new shopkeeper" of their Laizhou Gambling House. One night.
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"His hands...can't be a big bookmaker in this situation, right?" Shen Fang frowned at his employer.
Only a few people in the gambling house could recognize this new boss who had been the boss of Laizhou Gambling House for four years - a pair of slender and bright blue eyes, a nose as tall as a mountain peak, and a head of hair. His long blond hair is neatly combed back. The only flaw is that there is an old scar across the bridge of his nose in the center of his face - objectively speaking, such an appearance can be considered very handsome among foreigners. Although the scar is ugly, But it also adds a touch of wild and strange beauty to this elegant young man, at least it doesn't look as bad as the cunning Samson.
The boss chuckled lightly and raised his chin: "I happen to be a witness, why don't you try his ability?"
The man brought by the boss only has one thumb on his left hand. This is a very serious disability - even in daily life, there are many inconveniences, let alone gambling, which relies most on manual skills - such a person can't even be seen by an ordinary old man. Maybe he can't even do it, let alone the chief gambling supervisor of Laizhou Gambling House?
But after all, this is the person brought by his employer. Although Shen Fang is not familiar with his employer, he at least knows that the other person is very capable. Since he is the person he likes, he must have skills, so he has already thought of an ingenious idea in his heart. test.
I don't know who is the host and who is the guest in this sentence, but this is Laizhou Gambling House, and Shen Fang naturally defaults to trying the newcomers by himself - he took out three dice from his body and slapped them on the table like a magic trick. Go up, let the two people in front of you see clearly, and then hold the three dice in the palm of your hand with a swipe of your hand. When he threw it back on the table, the three dice were all spread out on the table with six o'clock facing up. .
This is not a magic trick, nor is it a matter of luck. It is a "skill" that has been honed over time, just like the oil seller who "uses a ladle to drink oil and drain it, then puts it through the money hole, but the money is not wet." It is just a matter of familiarity. As for this technique, as long as Shen Fang still has breath, he can succeed a hundred times if he does it a hundred times, and there is absolutely no chance of failure.
"Just do what I did again!" Shen Fang crossed his arms and pouted on the table.
"That's all..." The man with the broken finger sneered: "Don't underestimate me..."
"Even if I only have one finger, I will still do it!" After saying that, the man stretched out his disabled left hand, used his remaining thumb to "clump" the three dice together in the palm of his hand, and then threw them When it came out, it was the same three six o'clock upwards.
"Haha... If you use your left hand, you can barely pass." Shen Fang crossed his arms and sneered: "Maybe you should try again with your right hand?"
The man with the broken finger did not show any weakness. Since the other party asked, he would try every move - but he was not sure about it. He had already done it with the more difficult disabled hand, so why did the other party ask him to use his right hand? Is there some mystery in the rules?
But thinking about it, this instinctive action for gamblers comes faster. The man's right hand is undoubtedly more stable than his left hand. It is high-speed and dazzling. He can catch three sixes with one shake and one throw. Presented to the two people watching.
"Shopkeeper...you should be able to tell who won and who lost, right?" Shen Fang didn't even look at the man with the severed finger, and turned to look at the foreign owner.
"Haha..." Yang Dongjia laughed ambiguously: "Mr. Shen might as well do it again to open my brother's eyes."
In fact, the old foreign devil didn't even realize it. The two of them threw the dice three times, both of which were six, and not only did his men shoot left and right, but they also had inherent disadvantages. If the results were the same, they would definitely win! But looking at Shen Fang's lazy and confident expression, he felt that there was another mystery - but he was embarrassed to admit that he didn't understand anything, so he found an excuse to ask Shen Fang to do it again.
Shen Fang also kept quiet and pretended to be cold. He repeated the same action as he did the first time, and the three dice fell steadily on the table.
"You should finally understand this time, right?" Supervisor Gambling said lazily.
The Yangdong family has good eyesight and quick brain reflexes. He clicked his tongue and said bitterly: "It seems that Mr. Shen is better..."
Why did he say that? Because the dice rolled by Shen Fang, except for the six points pointing up, the three dices all had five points facing south, two points facing north, three points facing east, and four points facing west. , as if they were placed one by one on the table, but on the other hand, the man with the broken finger, although he threw three sixes twice, the direction of the dice was not neat.
"Did you 'do it'?" Shen Fang also deliberately emphasized the emphasis.
"Humph, what's going on? I just didn't notice it just now!" The man with the severed finger said viciously, and then he imitated the same pattern, and the result was quite standard.
"Did you misunderstand something..." Shen Fang lowered his eyebrows with a very pious expression: "Don't confuse the big supervisor and gambler with the little old man. Supervisor and gambler, the important thing is the word "supervisor", the important thing is Eyesight rather than technique, because your responsibility is to ensure 'fairness' in the field."
"Since I made a condom under your nose and you didn't notice it, then you are no longer qualified..."
"A real gambler will never take chances. A cheater doesn't have a second chance, because he may lose his life if he makes a mistake. There is no second chance for a gambler, because if he makes a mistake, he will lose his life. If there is an unfair gamble, it is very likely to result in bankruptcies and blood debts..."
"Huh, that's just you trying to justify yourself. If I can do it, it means I'm no worse than you!" The man with the severed finger was extremely excited.
Shen Fang glanced at him, then at the Yangdong family, and then said in a tone of "This kid is hopeless": "Whatever you think..."
Before he opened the door of the secret room and was about to walk out, Shen Fang suddenly turned around and said, "By the way, let me tell you one more thing - when I rolled the dice for the first time, I also threw them randomly, not so neatly..."
"you!"
"Gamblers... always have to control the situation on the court in their own hands, and never let others lead them." After that, Shen Fang closed the door.
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Shen Fang didn't know what the two men exchanged in the secret room later.
But besides these two people, there was another person who was completely immersed in the content of the conversation.
This man's surname was Yan. His Qinggong was very good. Before Shen Fang even entered the secret room, he had already gone to the room to unveil the tiles.
He had a background in intelligence work, so he had a very good memory. He relayed everything said by everyone in the secret room to an insidious guy verbatim.
In order to better perform his intelligence work, he even learned from his colleagues how to draw portraits accurately and efficiently, and these two portraits were also sent to that guy.
One of them was recognized.
This chapter has been completed!