Some of the people watching knew these gangsters and whispered: "They are all Sun Erhu's subordinates. It is better not to provoke them as much as possible."
Liu Xiu didn't know who Sun Erhu was in people's mouth. He asked an elderly man beside him: "Excuse me, old man, who is Sun Erhu?"
The old man looked at Liu Xiu strangely and saw that he was handsome and well-dressed. He said, "Young man is from other places, right? Sun Erhu is a famous big shot in this area. He runs a gambling house and makes money every day. It is said that
, Sun Erhu and the county captain are still close friends of life and death."
Liu Xiu first said oh and asked: "Where is Sun Erhu's gambling den?"
The old man pointed forward and said: "It's just ahead, less than half a mile."
"Thank you, old man."
"Young people should not go there. If you enter a gambling house, you will lose all your money." The old man shook his head and sighed.
Liu Xiu bowed to the old man and without saying another word, he pulled Luo You on the other side and the two of them withdrew from the crowd.
Luo You said angrily: "Sir, those people went too far and beat people to death! Will this...will cause death?"
Liu Xiu smiled and said: "Don't worry, they will be measured in their attacks. The people in the gambling hall want money rather than life. Beating people to death will not do them any good, but will cause a lot of trouble."
After a pause, Liu Xiu shrugged and said: "Any poor person must have something hateful about him. Even though he is beaten badly now, once he has money again, he will still go to the gambling house to try his luck.
"Once you are addicted to gambling, it is very difficult to quit.
The two of them were talking and walking forward. About half a mile away, Liu Xiu saw a gambling house on the side of the road.
This gambling hall has a large card list, more than twice that of an ordinary shop. Business is booming, and there is an endless stream of people coming in and out.
Liu Xiu looked up, shook his head at Luo You, and said, "Let's go in and take a look!"
Luo You was very excited and happily followed Liu Xiu and entered the casino with him.
The gambling hall has a big facade and a larger space inside, but the huge gambling hall is almost overcrowded. Wherever you look, you can hardly see anything else. They are all small heads. It is really crowded.
Liu Xiu pulled Luo You and spent a lot of effort to squeeze into the crowd. In the casino, there were people gambling on everything, including dice, six-bet, and even chess and go.
This gambling hall is very close to Taixue, and a large number of the gamblers are Taixue students. For these top students, the gambling hall has specially set up elegant gambling games such as chess and Go.
Liubo was a very popular gambling at that time. Two people played against each other. Each person had six pieces (five soldiers and one general; the soldiers were called scattered and the general was called Xiao). The dice were thrown to determine who would go first and how many steps. Who would eat the other's pieces first?
General (Owl), whoever wins.
Liu Xiu took Luo You and walked around the casino first. Luo You had never been exposed to this before, and it felt very fresh. His eyes were almost exhausted. Liu Xiu walked to the chess place and stopped.
There are two types of chess gambling, one is a two-person game, and the other is a game of solving the endgame. Two people play, there is a game worth 300 dollars, a game worth 500 dollars, and a game worth 1,000 dollars.
Liu Xiu stood aside and watched for a while. He felt that the chess players hired by the casino were indeed very powerful, and their chess skills were very high. Moreover, the chess players in the casino played extremely fast and did not give the opponent any time to think.
A very strong sense of oppression.
Liu Xiu is also very proficient in chess, but facing these players invited by the casino, he is not sure of victory. He instead walks to the end game.
There are many books in the east view of the palace, including many ancient chess scores. Liu Xiu's knowledge of endgames is very profound.
Looking at the endgame on the chessboard, he basically understood it.
He walked to the end game and touched his body. It seemed that he didn't have any money. Luo You came over, took out his money bag, took out a turtle coin from it, handed it to Liu Xiu, and asked in a low voice: "Young Master also wants to bet."
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Liu Xiu smiled and said, "Since we are here, let's not come in vain." As he spoke, he slapped the turtle coins next to the chess board. Immediately, a chess player came over, knelt down opposite Liu Xiu, and waved to Liu Xiu.
He waved his hand and said: "Sir, please leave first."
Looking at the chess player opposite, he was young, about thirty years old. Liu Xiu nodded to the opponent, then lowered his head to look at the endgame on the chess board. He first picked up the rook. When he saw the opponent narrowed his eyes slightly, he moved the rook.
Put it down, pick up the cannon instead, and take a step forward, General.
The origin of chess can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. The cannons in chess are not artillery in the modern sense, but refer to stone cannons, which are trebuchets.
When the chess player in the casino saw Liu Xiu picking up the rook first, he thought he had met an amateur, and naturally looked down upon him. However, when he saw Liu Xiu put down the rook and moved the cannon instead, he realized that he had met an expert this time.
His face became solemn and he responded carefully.
Liu Xiu had read a lot of ancient music, but he didn't remember it very reliably. However, the other party's micro-expression provided him with clues. He made the right move at the beginning, and the following was basically a routine, and he won the endgame smoothly.
The rule of the casino is to buy one and lose one. In just a short time, Liu Xiu won three hundred dollars. He took two turtle coins and walked to the next game. Without the slightest hesitation, he put the two turtle coins in his hand.
All the turtle coins were staked.
The chess player he was playing against was still the chess player. The latter's expression became much more solemn and he was staring at the chessboard intently. Liu Xiu repeated his old trick, picking up one chess piece and putting it down, picking up another chess piece and putting it down again, and so on.
Several times.
The chess player opposite looked impatient and was about to speak when Liu Xiu made a decisive move. The opponent's open mouth immediately closed, his head lowered, he slowly picked up the chess pieces and made a move.
Liu Xiu then moved faster and faster, without giving the opponent any chance, and won the game again in one breath.
After winning two consecutive games, the number of turtle coins in Liu Xiu's hand increased to four, which was one thousand two hundred dollars. He stood up and walked to the third game. The old god sat down on the ground, still holding all the turtle coins in his hand.
Pressed on.
The chess player on the opposite side frowned and slowly sat down opposite Liu Xiu. At the same time, he looked at Liu Xiu carefully from top to bottom. This time Liu Xiu did not test again and played the chess quickly and decisively.
After only taking the first three moves, beads of sweat appeared on the forehead of the opponent's player. It didn't take more than two minutes for Liu Xiu to win the third game of the game cleanly.
Luo You, who was standing behind him, was full of excitement and couldn't help but clapped his hands and cheered: "Young Master wins! Young Master wins again!" As Luo You cheered, many gamblers around him came over and stretched out their arms one by one.
It has a long neck and looks curiously.
Four turtle coins turned into eight turtle coins. Liu Xiu had no intention of stopping. He continued to walk to the next endgame and sat down on his knees. Looking at his posture, it seemed that he wanted to finish all the endgames in this row.
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The chess player opposite sat down on his knees next to the end of the fourth game. When he was playing chess, beads of sweat were no longer dripping from his forehead, but beads of sweat were dripping downwards.
In the back-and-forth between the two sides, the fourth set ended with Liu Xiu's victory. At this time, not only Luo You cheered, but the surrounding gamblers also cheered and cheered.
Many gamblers have lost in these endgames. Now that they see someone who can continuously crack the endgames, they feel as if they feel a bad breath coming out of their hearts.
Liu Xiu breathed a sigh of relief and reached the end of the eighth game. At this time, Liu Xiu's bet had reached as many as sixty-four turtle coins, which was nineteen thousand two hundred dollars.
The endgame has nothing to do with chess skills. It is completely a routine. As long as you understand its routines, even people who don't know how to play chess can solve it step by step.
When Liu Xiu successfully won the eighth game, the chess player on the opposite side seemed to be weak and collapsed on the ground, with sweat on his head and body, and the clothes on his back were soaked with sweat.
What Liu Xiu won this time was not a small amount of money, but a full nineteen thousand two hundred dollars.
Liu Xiu couldn't hold more than a hundred turtle coins, so he could only hold them in a tray. When he put all the turtle coins in the tray and was about to take the tray away, the chess player opposite
Hold the tray down.
Liu Xiu looked at the other party cheerfully and asked with a smile: "Sir, can't you afford to lose?"
The old chess player on the opposite side blushed and said seriously: "Sir, how about we play a game of chess?"
Breaking the end game does not show your chess strength, and this chess player was not willing to lose.
Liu Xiu thought for a while and asked, "Where's the bet?"
The player on the opposite side patted the chessboard and said, "All of these!"
Liu Xiu touched his chin, pondered for a moment, and said, "Okay! I'll play a game of chess with you!"
A game of chess with a stake of up to 38,400 yuan made the onlookers couldn't help but exclaim. Liu Xiu and the chess players sat on both sides of the chessboard and arranged their moves.
Since this bet was proposed by the opponent's player, the man was polite to Liu Xiu and let him go first. Liu Xiu was not polite, and shot eight to five, taking the lead. The opponent's player responded with a knight, two, and three.
Both sides are playing chess very fast, with pieces coming out continuously, horses jumping and pawns jumping, rooks attacking and artillery bombarding, you come and I go, fighting inextricably.
Liu Xiu's level of layout in the early stage is average, but his level of mid-term game and late endgame is extremely high.
In this chess game, at the beginning, the casino player had an obvious advantage, with the advantage of having two more pawns. You must know that in a master showdown, the advantage of two pawns is not small.
But in the mid-term, Liu Xiu reversed the disadvantage. In the late game, Liu Xiu began to exert his strength, and the opponent gradually became difficult to parry. At this time, the advantages and disadvantages of both sides had been completely reversed.
In the end, Liu Xiu defeated the opponent with one more horse and one more pawn.
After the chess game was played, the casino players seemed to have collapsed. They sat slumped on the couch, looking at the chessboard, in a daze, unable to recover for a long time.
The surrounding gamblers cheered and applauded like a roaring tsunami. Luo You was even more excited, his eyes were shining, and his admiration for Liu Xiu was beyond words.
She really didn't know that Liu Xiu was so good at chess. In the past, she often saw Liu Xiu and Deng Yu playing chess. This was the first time she saw Liu Xiu playing chess. Unexpectedly, Liu Xiu just kept silent.
, became a blockbuster and won tens of thousands of dollars in the casino even playing chess, which he was not very good at.
At this time, an older casino chess player in his early fifties came over, patted the young chess player on the shoulder, and motioned for him to get out of the way. Then, he knelt down opposite Liu Xiu and said expressionlessly: "
Young Master, how about I play a game of chess with you?"
Liu Xiu stretched his muscles and said, "Sorry, I'm tired." As he spoke, he put more than two hundred and fifty turtle coins into two trays, then stood up, stretched, and turned around to ask for money.
Go away.
The elderly chess player asked angrily: "Master, don't you dare to bet with me?"
Regarding his clamor, Liu Xiu didn't take it seriously at all, but asked cheerfully: "Sir, would you like to play a game of Go with me?"
The elderly chess player frowned, stared at Liu Xiu for a while, and said, "If you want to play Go, I can find someone to play with you."
"OK!"
"What's the stake?"
"Old rules, all of these!" As he spoke, Liu Xiu nodded towards the two trays.
"Okay! We have an agreement!" The turtle coins in Liu Xiu's hand were 256, totaling 76,800 yuan. This money is enough to buy a building in Luoyang City, where land is extremely valuable.
Big house.
The casino had lost so much money to Liu Xiu, so how could he let him leave like this? Of course, he had to find ways to win the money back.
