Summary of the previous chapter: Ma Xiaoquan borrowed ten taels of silver from Li Qinghan and made a bet with Zhou Chao...
The place where money was gambled was called "gambling house" in the Ming Dynasty.
The development of gambling houses can be traced back to a long time ago. When Ma Xiaoquan physically traveled to the late Han Dynasty, he often saw many people going to gambling houses.
But... the Ming Dynasty was a very special dynasty. Firstly, a poll tax was imposed, and secondly, gambling houses were not allowed to be opened openly.
It's just that... there are policies from above and countermeasures from below. If your government won't let you do it openly, then we'll just do it in secret.
...
Ma Xiaoquan and other dandies spent a long time together and chose a place called "Penglai Pavilion" to gamble.
Penglai Pavilion is located in the northwest corner of Beijing. Since the city gate in the northwest corner is not often opened, there are relatively few people going there. Therefore, over time, some military generals became the villagers and secretly built a "Penglai Pavilion" in the northwest corner.
"Obviously, Penglai Pavilion is a place for drinking and spanking for the officers and soldiers. In fact, Penglai Pavilion is a quite famous underground gambling house in Beijing.
After Emperor Taichang, that is, Zhu Changluo succeeded to the throne, he also mentioned that he wanted to clean up the underground gambling houses in the capital. However, due to the pressure of Donglin, Zhejiang, and Chu parties, he could only give it up temporarily. From this, we can see that this Penglai
There must be "shares" from those three parties in the cabinet.
Penglai Pavilion cannot be entered by ordinary people. It is like a gambling boat in modern society. You must have a certain amount of funds on hand before you are eligible to enter.
Of course, dandies such as Ma Xiaoquan are exceptions. As the stubborn masters of Beijing, they can still get in even if they have no money.
Ma Xiaoquan didn't know whether the fourth young master of the Ma family had ever been to Penglai Pavilion before. What he knew now was that he entered Penglai Pavilion as a disguised fourth young master and immediately attracted everyone's attention.
"Hoho? Isn't this Quanzi?"
Ma Xiaoquan was stunned for a moment, turned around and saw a tall, thin young man standing behind him.
It can be said that this young man has no choice in appearance. If placed in modern society, he would be a standard handsome guy. Coupled with his long legs and the perfect 0.6 to 8 golden ratio, Ma Xiaoquan instantly
I even think that if this young man was put back into modern society and placed in the country of Bangzi, and learned a few words of "Smecta", he would definitely be better than the "long-legged oppa" and "Professor Du".
Ma Xiaoquan frowned. He didn't recognize the person in front of him.
Ma Xiaoquan glanced at the friends around him and found that their faces were not very good-looking, so he couldn't help but become alert.
"Hey, fat man, who is that man?"
Zhou Chao rolled his eyes at Ma Xiaoquan and thought to himself, your boy wasn't so shocked by Miss Zhang's break-up of the engagement, right?
"Fuck, that's Lu Tian, damn, don't say you forgot."
"Lu Tian?" Ma Xiaoquan snorted and murmured in his heart: The surname is Lu? Could it be that he is a descendant of Lu Xian? No, Lu Xian has been killed by me...
Behind Ma Xiaoquan's body, the tall, thin and handsome young man saw that Ma Xiaoquan did not answer him, frowned slightly, and said: "Ma Xiaoquan, you are not still worried about Miss Zhang's break-up of the engagement, are you?"
As soon as the words came out, Zhao Qiao beside Ma Xiaoquan couldn't help it: "Lu Tian, why are you so crazy?"
Lu Tianyi looked indifferent: "Zhao Qiao, you are just a playboy. If you don't rely on your father, who are you? What right do you have to talk to me?"
"Lu Tian, you"
Lu Tian Leng snorted and said to Ma Xiaoquan: "Ma Xiaoquan, you haven't been here in Penglai Pavilion for a long time. What's the matter, do you want to win Miss Zhang back? To tell you the truth, Miss Zhang doesn't like you at all. You
You idiot, you cried your whole life for me, look at your hair, you don’t want to escape into Buddhism, do you?”
Listening to Lu Tian's shouting, Ma Xiaoquan was not very angry, but his friends around him couldn't help it.
Zhou Chao yelled: "Lu Tian, you are so awesome, aren't your family relatives of Fang Shoufu?"
Fang Shoufu was referring to Fang Congzhe. Ma Xiaoquan understood immediately when he heard Fang Shoufu.
"Okay, okay, don't talk anymore, let's go play our own game."
When Lu Tian saw Ma Xiaoquan coming out to smooth things over, he couldn't help but be shocked. In his impression, the fourth young master of the Ma family could be described as "a fool with a lot of money and a bad temper." As long as he was slightly stimulated, his blood would surely rise, but...
...This time we met, the fourth young master of the Ma family seemed to have changed a bit.
"Wait!" Lu Tian stretched out his hand to block everyone's way.
"Lu Tian, what do you mean?"
Lu Tian chuckled and said: "I started a game over there, one handful and ten taels. If any of you are interested, you can join in the fun."
“Not interested”
Lu Tian was not in a hurry: "Hey? Listen to what I have to say? If any of you can win a hundred taels from me, I... tsk tsk, I can consider breaking up the bet with Ma Xiaoquan.
Lose."
"What?" Upon hearing this, everyone looked at Lu Tian in surprise.
Ma Xiaoquan was different from everyone else. Lu Tian had been talking for a long time, but he didn't know anything about Miss Zhang or the bet. What Ma Xiaoquan was thinking about now was how to win a hundred taels of silver so that Zhou Chao would admit defeat.
"Quan Zi Quan Zi..." Zhou Chao poked Ma Xiaoquan's arm and whispered: "Bet with him and win back that tone for us."
"Ah?" Ma Xiaoquan was very puzzled, "Why, I don't know Ya'er."
"Stop pretending, you even exported your fucking wife, how can you not recognize her?"
Ma Xiaoquan couldn't laugh or cry. The one who loses to his wife is the dead fourth young master, and it's not him.
"I don't care. If you don't bet with Lu Tian today, I won't clear your account. At worst, I will give you all the money I have and admit defeat!"
Ma Xiaoquan was stunned for a moment. Zhou Chaoyi had been smiling all this time, so why did he look so serious when talking about Lu Tian?
"Biaozi, come here." Ma Xiaoquan pulled Zhou Chao's younger brother Zhou Biao to his side and asked quietly, "What's wrong with your brother? Why are you reacting so badly?"
Zhou Biao sighed, shook his head and said: "It's a long story, Quanzi, no matter what, you have to gamble with Lu Tian, um, I'll give you all my money, oh oh,
My money is in the hands of my brother..."
When the other dandies heard Zhou Biao's words, they looked at each other and reached a tacit understanding in an instant. They all took out their own money and stuffed it into Ma Xiaoquan's hand.
