Chapter 28 0028

This time when Blind Ma Wu showed his Baolai, those old losers stopped rushing to bet, and each of them held the money in their hands and waited for Shorty Shi Er.Shorty Shi Er put the six dollars he had won on the "three" together with the original capital, and said with a smile: "Going for three alone, if it wasn't for three, I would have lost my entire head. … Do you think I don't know that you are playing Black Tiger Down the Mountain?!" "Yes! Let's follow suit!" "On the luck of this dwarf..." For this treasure, Shorty Shi Er bet three, and everyone followed suit. It is estimated that there will always be several hanging coins for the odd yards on the three-character door.Blind Ma Wu calmly opened the treasure box, and there was a red three sitting in the box.Needless to say, Blind Ma Wu paid all the compensation, and lost all the piles he had won so hard; Shorty Shi Er was not satisfied with his pockets, and even asked the other party if he wanted to lose or not?

"Let's go, dwarf, you can treat yourself less than you can drink," said the big bear, "Do you really want this blind man to take off his pants?!" "Hey, go slowly," Ma Wu yelled, "I still have some money here, and I want to take it with you if I win!" The light from a large stack of silver oceans pierced Shi Er's eyes, causing him to sway for a few steps before turning back, spitting and rubbing his hands. "Take a step, big bear," he said, "When I take his stack together, I'll invite you to the restaurant, and you can drink from the wine jar!"

"I'm willing to lose," said Ma Wu, holding a piece of silver and knocking on the stack of silver, "It seems that you are an old gambling expert!" "Hey, you're so flattered!" Shorty Shi Er shook his head, and said triumphantly, "I've traveled all over the North Road to inquire, and the second Master Shi of the Liuhe Gang bet on Baolai, so who the hell took half a coin from me?" No? I don’t care about winning or losing! I’m famous.” "I'm sorry, I've never heard of it." Blind Ma Wu said, "According to what you said, I should bet with you alone for this pile of money, so I can ask for advice." After finishing speaking, he turned to the court Everyone made a bow and said: "I'm sorry, gentlemen, I, Ma Wu, was really blind. I sold wild words in front of the masters, smashed the stall and made a fool of myself! I have to learn from the teacher again and ask this short man for advice. ——Close the stalls and stop gambling.”

After everyone dispersed, Ma Wu blindly put on a treasure, covered it with a black flannel cloth, and said with a smile, "Short man, this is the last time I return the carbine, and I bet all the money in your pocket. If you really want to bet, then bet on it!" "Why didn't I bring it here?" The dwarf turned his pockets, and a large pile of copper coins and silver coins were piled on the door of "four", and said with a crooked mouth, "I'm going to charge four alone; I know you opened four! Take the money." Blind Ma Wu didn't reveal the treasure this time, but pushed the treasure box in front of Shorty Shi Er, put the money into the purse, and tied the purse to the waistband.Shorty Shi Er was in a hurry and hurriedly opened the lid of the treasure box, but this time there was a Braille word that even the gods couldn't guess - "five".

"You, you, you...you! What's your mother's treasure opening 'five'?" Shorty Shi Er said, "I haven't heard of Baokai five in the world?" Blind Ma Wu ignored him and went straight out. "You drank too much, my treasure is clearly opened!" "Five! My fucking eyes see five? Bring me money!" "You're drunk," Ma Wu said, "Can you say you're not drunk?" "You drive five." Shorty Shi Er said, "Can you say it's not five?" "Who saw it?—Not even your friend standing at the gate of the temple. Even in a lawsuit, you can't find any witnesses."

Shorty Shi Er threw his fist fiercely, but he didn't hit anyone, but hit a pillar beside the front hall, and shouted: "Big bear, don't let this blind man go away, he cheated me of my money!" "I didn't go," he only heard a voice in his ear saying, "It's unlucky for me to be blind, I closed the stall, and I have to serve you, a drunk... help me, you two, he lost the treasure, but fell to the ground." My Bao Kai Wu, you say, in the salt market, if I am Bao Kai Wu and intends to cheat, will I still want my head?" "Don't talk to him," his mother's big bear also helped Ma Wu blind man to speak: "Our dwarf is like this when he drinks too much. In Wanjialou, we help people fight Bandit, this kid’s good intentions are not rewarded, just because he was drunk, he gnawed his head on someone’s tin wine jug, and was mistaken for a bandit, and his horses were tied to a tree with their hooves..."

Shorty Shi Er knew it in his heart, but it was useless. Once the old wine came up, he was full of energy, and his hands and feet gradually softened. He looked at the head with his eyes, and the head was a bunch of bubbles, rising upwards. Turn up, look at the lights, the lights are a string of light towers, stacked layer by layer into the mid-air, this night, it's fucking useless, and it's fucking upside down, the big bear looks as drunk as himself Hell, leaning his bear-like body on Lao Pan, that old Pan was shaking with three points, and with the pressure of the bear, the three points became six points, and he knew that Ma Wu was a blind man. The liar, with his whole body limply stuck to his shoulders, staggered out of the temple gate.

"Five...five...obviously...it's five..." Hearing his own voice, he was a little hazy, disappearing in the street on a snowy night like a fish bubbling.The blind Ma Wu obviously bullied him to be drunk, and he said to the big bear, "Listen, he has been unconvinced after losing money, and he is still at five..." "It's nothing unusual for her mother to open a five!" The big bear really didn't beat his mother, and forced his mother to follow the outsider's speech: "People make a living from gambling, and they have been gambling for half their lives. Occasionally, they open a five. It's a matter of course!"

"Both of them are extremely drunk." The blind Ma Wu spoke fairly, "Where should I help him?" "The back flower hall of Fuchang Salt Store," Lao Pan said, "The two of them are the legs of the Liuhe gang led by Guan Baye, and they and Baye will all rest there tonight..." "Unfortunately, we have to hand them over to that Baye Guan!" Just like that, one sober accompanied the three drunks, walking westward on Luoxue Street, towards the Fuchang Salt Store.On the road, Shorty Shi Er started to vomit, his head hung like a pickled melon in the arms of blind Ma Wu, he closed his eyes, spit out five drunken words intermittently, even the cold water fell on his face Even the snowflakes on the bed could not wake him up.The gold-toothed old Pan Yuan was also quite drunk, and he couldn't stand the big bear hanging on his body, making him drunk even though he wasn't drunk. Passing Sixitang brothel, he heard a girl singing a ditty inside, The two caught up with each other in a crooked way, humming in a daze:

"That's one more time... The moon shines on the top of the building, the young lady of seventeen or eighteen..." And the chants of the porters on the pier are still ringing one after another.In a dark place, the blind Ma Wu took off the fake plaster on his eyes, and took the time to touch the handle of the pistol attached to the inside of his coat, thinking: Guan Ba, Guan Ba, this guy is you. But touching screws in a crock—you can't get out of your blind father's hands. Of course, Shorty Shi Er and Big Gou Xiong would never recognize that Ma Wu blind man who opened a stall and set up a bet was the powerful leader of Judge Zhu Si, Wu Yan Wang.

The brothel opened by Mao Liu is located at the end of the street in Badong. There are three courtyards and four entrances to the house. The front door of the brothel is obliquely facing the river slope at the mouth of the bridge, and the back door is next to the old turtle guarded by the mythical legend. lotus pond. Even though it was a cold winter night with heavy snow, the hall was still very lively. Under the dripping eaves in front of the gate, there were seven huge lanterns with the hall name in red hanging under the tiger's head tiles, swirling and reflecting a piece of silver. snow scene.The brothel was originally the abandoned residence of the former Qing salt officials. It has high stone steps and a large door. The floor is covered with smooth water-milled square bricks with patterns. On the one-foot-high copper-clad threshold are two doors with lion heads embedded. The door knocker is covered with hexagonal silver nails and the black lacquered gate has a majestic and solemn air. If it weren't for the seven big lanterns, no one would dare to guess that it is a brothel. There are five front houses in a row, and there are wing sheds on both sides. On one side of the wing shed, there are mules and horses, and on the other side, there are self-provided rickshaws of the rich and powerful. Under the front porch of the wing shed, there are also some sporadic food loads. The rickshaw pullers and the men who took care of the livestock looked at the tall mansion, pouring white wine and twirling peanuts, chatting leisurely outside. "Baye, that's Mao Liu's cousin over there." Lao Cao Yao pointed. "Don't call me Baye anymore." Guan Baye said, "You can call me Chen Jintang, Young Master Chen. My identity is a salt merchant." "That's right, that's right, Eighth Master, oh, no, no, no! I mean Young Master Chen, I'm an old hand at kilns and tea courts, so please be aggrieved and keep your mouth shut, and let me do everything—you just need to catch that one." Liu Mao, as long as he is in the courtyard, I guarantee that he won't be able to leave." The two walked to the door of the brothel, Lao Cao went up and grabbed the door knocker, slammed it a few times, puffed out his chest and pretended to click: "Hmmm! Near the door, why are you so slow to visit? The guests went up the steps and ignored them accordingly. Master Huke will come to the door next time?" Before Master Hu Ke could finish his sentence, the door opened with a creak, and the man in green clothes only glanced out of the corner of his eye, then stepped back three steps, bowed his waist like a shrimp and said: " The small courtyard does not know that the distinguished guest is coming, please go to the back hall." On the other hand, he shouted through the screen wall: "Hold the lantern to illuminate the road, the distinguished guest has arrived!" After shouting, Guan Baye felt his eyes light up, and it turned out that from the second Entering the house, four pink gauze lanterns turned out, and the hibiscus-colored transparent and bright lights sprinkled on the snow, turning even the snow into powder; the ones carrying the lanterns were four round faces with pointed chins and combed with double rings. The girls in the bun, all about sixteen or seventeen years old, all wore emerald blue flowered satin jackets, the collar, hem, and short flowered cuffs, all trimmed with pure white rabbit fur, The lower body is wearing a long purple pleated skirt. The strange thing is that although the jacket is covered with whole branches of golden plum blossoms, the flower shapes are different when you look closely; the plum blossoms on the far right are just budding, and the next one is plum blossoms just emerging. Three of them, the plum blossoms are in full bloom, and the last one, the plum blossoms have withered from the branches. The four girls tremblingly picked up the lamps to welcome the guests to the front steps, turned around, and there were two lamps in front of each guest, and said please with a smile on their faces, in a soft voice, which made people addicted to it. It's the first time to enter the atmosphere of gentleness.The second time you enter the house, it is bright and dark, and the layout is very elegant. It is a place for entertaining guests in a brothel. Before Baye Guan enters the door, a woman in her thirties with a smile and a long history has already followed by the door. "Wan San," Lao Cao greeted the woman, "Where is Mao Liu, the tortoise? ... This is a rich man from afar, um, the famous salt merchant Young Master Chen."