After Ogata and Mamiya entered the casino, everyone in the casino immediately focused their attention on these two newcomers.
After glancing at Ogata and Mamiya, they looked back.
The gamblers continued to gamble, and the pot vibrated and the dice were rolled.
Even when they saw Ogata and Mamiya had knives stuck in their left waists, they were unmoved - it was enough to show that they were very accustomed to the sight of samurai entering and exiting this gambling den.
Mamiya led Ogata and walked directly towards the two futons in the middle.
The two futons in the middle are already occupied by two strong men.
"I'm sorry." Mamiya said directly to the two strong men, "Can you please give up your seat?"
The two strong men turned their heads and looked at Mamiya up and down with displeased eyes.
After seeing the sword at Mamiya's waist, a bit of fear flashed across their faces.
In the end, the two strong men reluctantly gave up the two futons in the middle and went to sit somewhere else.
After the two strong men left, Mamiya knelt down on one of the futons without ceremony and asked Ogata to sit on the other futon next to him.
Every window in the casino was covered with curtains, making the casino extremely dark.
It was still broad daylight, so we could only use candles to illuminate the scene in the casino.
The candlelight reflected the gamblers surrounding the "odd" and "even" cards, projecting their figures on the mottled wall behind them, swaying along with the candlelight.
Looking at the large pieces of paper with "odd" or "even" written on the ground in front of him, Ogata thought to himself:
——Better than odd and even...I can play this one...
The gambling in this gambling house is simpler than Ogata imagined.
Bi odd and even is the only gambling game that Ogata knows how to play.
When Ogata and Mamiya joined the gambling game, the previous gambling game had just ended and a new gambling game was about to begin.
Tsubozumi sitting in front of Ogata and others is a young man.
He was not wearing any clothes, only a white loincloth, revealing his firm skin and muscles.
He has large tattoos on his body.
Ogata couldn't recognize anything tattooed on this young man's body. He could only barely make out that there were many animals on it, including tigers and monkeys.
In addition to animals, there seem to be many ghost-like things.
This large tattoo covered nearly 70% of his skin and looked very harmful.
Ogata can guarantee that if this young man goes to the street to buy things from a vendor wearing only a loincloth, then the vendor may not dare to accept his money.
A new gamble begins.
Zhongbain, who was sitting next to the pot, took the dice and checked them again, and shouted loudly:
"shake!"
With just a "pop" sound, Tu Zhen used a neat movement to throw three dice made of antlers into a barnacle wrapped with a layer of stickers, and then shook it up, down, left and right with skillful movements.
The gamblers were like hungry carnivores looking for prey, staring at the barnacles shaking up and down in Hu Zhen's hands with their red eyes.
Their fiery gazes were about to burn a hole in the barnacle in Hu Zhen's hand.
A very few gamblers also put their hands over their ears, hoping to hear the movement of the dice inside the barnacles.
Only Ogata and Mamiya looked casual, as if they didn't care about the current value of the dice inside the barnacle.
The final "bang" sound? Hu Zhen slapped the barnacle containing the dice to the ground.
Let go of the hand holding Barnacle. Hu Zhen spread his hands and made a "please" gesture, and said loudly:
"please!"
Gamblers took out their money one after another and threw it on the "odd" or "even" paper.
After sitting down on the futon, Mamiya crossed his arms and reached into Haori's sleeves.
After he started depositing money, Mamiya turned his head in the direction of Ogata and whispered at a volume that only he and Ogata could hear clearly:
"Ogata-kun, do you think it's single or double?"
"How do I know if it's odd or even?" Ogata said angrily. "If I had the ability to know what the number of the dice is, I would have made a fortune by gambling long ago."
"The number of the dice in the pot is now double."
"How do you know?" Ogata cast a doubtful look at Mamiya.
"intuition."
After saying that, Mamiya stretched out his right hand that had been inserted into Haori's left sleeve just now.
When his right hand stretched out from Haori's left sleeve, he held two things in his right palm - two large pieces of gold.
Mamiya did not hesitate to throw the two large pieces of gold on the paper in front of him with the word "double" written on it.
After the two big winnings landed, a "hissing" sound immediately sounded in the casino.
The rest of the gamblers could only take out some copper coins, and very few took out silver.
Mamiya's two large sums of money were particularly noticeable in this gambling hall.
"Open!" Zhongpen shouted angrily.
After Zhongben finished speaking, Tsutsubo opened the barnacles, revealing the appearance of three dice under the barnacles.
4,4,6——14 points, even.
The gamblers who had just bet their money on the "order" screamed.
The gamblers who bet their money on "even" cheered.
"It seems I'm pretty lucky today."
Mamiya said softly to Ogata while collecting the money he just won.
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Mamiya and Ogata participated in 4 gambling games at once.
Ogata couldn't figure out whether Mamiya was just lucky, or whether he had the ability to hear the number of dice inside the barnacle.
These 4 bets they participated in? They won all of them.
In the blink of an eye, the two of them won a lot of money.
Mamiya was involved in the whole gambling process.
And Ogata basically kept his arms crossed the whole time, watching Mamiya gambling there.
While watching Mamiya gamble, Ogata was also silently observing the security situation of this gambling house.
According to Ogata's observation - there are four guards in this gambling hall.
These four guards stood at the four corners of this gambling hall.
These four guards were probably in a daze out of boredom.
Or watch the gamblers gambling there with interest.
It is worth mentioning that these four guards all wear katana and wakizashi on their waists.
He must be a ronin hired by the Negishi family.
Nowadays, the world is full of wanderers who have no fixed place to live and no food to eat.
As long as you can get a decent commission, there are many ronin willing to be your thugs.
Unfortunately - no matter how Ogata looked, he couldn't find anyone who looked like a big shot in this gambling hall.
It seems that the only staff in this gambling den are Hu Zhen, Zhong Pen, and these four guards.
Soon, a new round of gambling began again.
After Zhongben checked the dice, Hu Zhen took the dice from Zhongben's hand.
But this time, a strange smile flashed across Hu's face.