The Legend of Shushan Xuanjian

Chapter 484 New Pai Gow
Peng Beihai, Feng Chaoyang.And with books and swords, the road is boundless.On this day next year, Qingyun will go, but he laughs at the busyness of the world.

——Xin Qiji from "Partridge Sky·The Autumn Examination of Sending Out Profiles"
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Five people went down to the cabin, the boat gambling hall was spacious and bright, with gorgeous facilities and various gambling equipment.In the brightly lit hall, hundreds of gamblers gathered, but they didn't feel stuffy at all, scattered among various gaming tables.

The casino maids who shuttled back and forth in the casino, from orchids outside the Great Wall to Yiren in the south of the Yangtze River, all kinds of beauties with half-exposed breasts, lotus arms and wrists, are glamorous and sexy.The princes of the aristocratic family linger here and forget to return, and they don't know how much life is.

Jia Chang watched Bai Fu stealthily, Bai Fu also showed a fascinated look when he saw the beautiful woman, he was not constrained, depressed, or indulgent.Once the beauty left his sight, Bai Fu's demeanor immediately returned to normal.

Jia Chang's heart trembled.Brothels and casinos can best expose people's inferiority, which is why I choose this as my livelihood.I have read countless people, but it is the first time I have met a person like Bai Fu whose heart is like a mirror, things come and go, and things go and never stay.

On the south side of the hall is an antique box with exquisite materials, which is specially used to receive distinguished guests.

Five people walked into the box and saw this mysterious gambler.This person is over thirty years old, tall and burly, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, a pair of tiger eyes are piercing, and he has the spirit of a Yanzhao knight.

Seeing five people, this person showed no fear, his eyes swept over Bai Fu, implying provocation.

Casino chips were piled up beside this person, Jia Chang glanced over and calculated that this person had already won thousands of taels of gold.

Jia Chang snorted coldly, and said in his heart: "Eating a bear's heart and a leopard's guts, dare to come to my Beihai Gang's territory to cause trouble."

Ji Qianqian, the top gambler of the Beihai gang, is beautiful and charming, with bold clothes and superb gambling skills. She gallops around the gaming tables on weekdays and rarely meets opponents.

Today, he was killed by a mysterious gambler and was helpless, so he used a silk handkerchief to wipe the sweat from his forehead from time to time.Seeing the gang leader Jia Chang approaching, Ji Qianqian let out a long sigh of relief and asked someone to replace him from the gambling table.

Walking in front of Jia Chang, Ji Qianqian's chest rose and fell, and she said with shame: "The leader forgives the crime, the subordinate is incompetent."

Jia Chang said: "You have done your best, there is no need to blame yourself. Did this person cheat? If he cheated, order someone to cut off his hands."

Ji Qianqian said: "This person's gambling skills are unpredictable, and his subordinates can't see it. If his subordinates have good eyesight, this person should be a member of the 'Beigao' sect."

As soon as these words came out, except for Bai Fu and Princess Qingluan who were at a loss, the other three gasped.

In the world of gambling, there is a saying, "Gao Zhan in the north, Xiaolou in the south, one mountain holds the sky and is peerless in the world." It refers to the three masters in the world of gambling.

Gao Zhan, the God of Gamblers in the north, swept across Mobei from the Gobi to the grasslands, from being invincible.

Su Xiaolou, the Southern Gambling Immortal, sits on the Qinhuai River, and has no defeat against the heroes of the world.Ji Qianqian is Su Xiaolou's first disciple.

There is also a gambler, Yue Qingtian, who can't see the end of the dragon. He was invincible 30 years ago and once won the three mansions of Gao Lishi overnight.In the past ten years, he has never shown his face in the rivers and lakes. I don't know if he is still in the world.

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Seeing the five people whispering to each other, the mysterious gambler smiled arrogantly, and said to Jia Chang, "Since Chief Jia is here, why bother to watch from the sidelines, why don't you give me some pointers?"

Seeing this person blatantly declare war, Jia Chang sneered, and took Jia Qi and Li Qi to meet him.The Beihai gang brought a gold plate to the three of them, which was filled with chips worth a thousand taels of gold.

The three of Jia Chang sat down, besides the mysterious gambler, there were Lu Zi, the heir of Fan Yang's Lu family, and Zheng Lu, the heir son of the Zheng family of Xingyang.

The curtain was about to open, and the atmosphere in the casino suddenly became heated.

Princess Yanguang has a special status and is relatively neutral. She voluntarily applied to be a croupier, blindly shuffling and building cards with a gilded copper cover.

Li Yan took a look at how everyone played, and said, "The rules of Pai Gow on this gambling boat seem to be different from those of other casinos in Chang'an?"

Ji Qianqian said: "The rules here are indeed different from those of other gambling houses. This is a newly popular way of playing, adding the rules of the barbarians, making the game simpler and more exciting, and the winning rate of overtaking is higher, and counterattacks by gamblers often occur."

Seeing Bai Fu's bewildered face, Ji Qianqian explained the Pai Gow rules to Bai Fu in detail.

There are 32 dominoes in total. At the beginning, each gambler divides two face-down cards as "bottom cards", and three face-up cards that are successively issued by the croupier.

After all the betting rounds, if the winner cannot be determined, the game will enter the "showdown" stage. Players who have not folded their cards will show their respective hole cards to compete higher, and the player with the highest card will win.

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Bai Fu said: "If you want to cheat, how do you do it?"

Ji Qianqian said: "There are ever-changing methods. Generally speaking, the northern school is good at eyesight, while the southern school is better at technique.

Some people are good at hiding cards in their hands, taking advantage of people's unpreparedness to exchange bad cards on the table.This technique is called "Sleeve Qiankun".

But on the Beihai gang's gambling table, every pai gow has a secret mark, and each deck of pai gow is only used once, so this method will not work here.

There is another kind called "Borrowing the Corpse to Resurrect the Soul", in which ghosts are arranged among the maids in the gambling house, and they take advantage of opportunities such as the maids pouring tea and water to come behind the gamblers and wait for the opportunity to reflect the gamblers' hole cards through glass cups and other objects.

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Another clever gambling technique is called 'stealing the sky for the sun'.Gamblers will play tricks when building cards, remember the position of each card, and then when rolling the dice, distribute the good cards to themselves and return the bad cards to their opponents. "

Bai Fu said: "If the croupier builds the cards, how can the gamblers manipulate the cards?"

Ji Qianqian said: "The top-notch gambling skills do not rely on a thousand tricks, but test the gambler's eyesight and memorization ability.

The moment the gambler builds the cards at the croupier, he has to remember the position of each card moving and changing.No matter how the croupier builds or cuts the cards, the gamblers can't be distracted.In this way, after the cards are distributed, the hole cards in the hands of each guest on the table can be known. "

Bai Fu clicked his tongue after hearing this, remembering so many changes in an instant is no less than learning a set of sword skills in an instant.

Ji Qianqian said: "But this method also has limitations. Once the person who builds the cards is replaced by a top croupier, the cards will be built and cut using techniques such as 'Tiannv Scattering Flowers'. Or they can be shuffled blindly in a gold-plated copper cover to prevent gambling. The gambler can see the change of the hole card. In this way, the gambler cannot know the bottom of the card.

Therefore, top gamblers will combine all factors in the casino to judge the opponent's hole cards, including the opponent's eyes, subtle changes in the body, etc.

Even deliberately revealing flaws, leading the opponent's mentality to change, causing them to make wrong judgments, advance blindly or timidly fold their cards, will give up a good situation and let others go.

Among the 36 gambling skills passed down to me by my master, there are many methods such as escape from the shell of the golden cicada, kill with a knife, fish in troubled waters, cheat the world, create something out of nothing, play hard to get, steal the beam and change the post, watch the fire from the other side, attack the country by false ways, and many other methods.

When it comes to the realm of the three masters, Senior Yue, Gao Zhan and my master, gambling is like the art of war.

Hearing this, Bai Fu's heart moved.

　注释

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　　Domino rules:

　　There are a total of 32 domino tiles, among which there are eleven kinds of tiles with two tiles. This pair of tiles is called Wenpai or Wenzi.The text is divided into long cards and short cards.Short deck is also called single deck.

　　Wenpai long cards are divided into sky cards, land cards, human cards, draw cards, clubs, long threes and benches.

　　Wenpai short deck is divided into tiger head, red head, pointed seven and copper hammer.

　　Among the 32 tiles, ten tiles did not form a pair.Eight of them have only "corresponding cards" with the same points but different patterns.And there is only one of the two.There are ten such cards, which are called Wu cards or Wu Zi, also known as dots.

　　Wuzi is divided into red nine points, black nine points, flat eight points, oblique eight points, red seven points, black seven points, red five points, black five points, big monkey and little monkey.

　　Dominoes are divided into three types: Gong, Dian, and Mo.

　　Palace: Heaven.land.people.and.plum.long.plate. (two of a kind per block).

　　Dot: Nine o'clock (red nine. Black nine).Eight points (curved eight. Flat eight).Seven o'clock (red seven. Black seven).Red at six o'clock.Five o'clock (red five. Black five).Red three dots.

　　What: an axe.Four six.Six.five. (two of a kind per block).

　　Ring: Red six points plus red three points are called ring, which is the largest card in the dominoes, and it is the smallest card when used separately.

　　Domino level: louder than palace.Is the palace bigger?Mo is greater than dot (Xianggong-Me-dot), and dot is the smallest.

　　reference poem

　　The new robe of white ramie is tender and cool.Spring encroaches on the leaves and rings the corridor, Yumen has already approved the waves of peach blossoms, and the Moon Palace receives osmanthus first.

　　Peng Beihai, Feng Chaoyang.And with books and swords, the road is boundless.On this day next year, Qingyun will go, but he laughs at the busyness of the world.

　　——Xin Qiji from "Partridge Sky·The Autumn Examination of Sending Out Profiles"
　　
　
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