Jinyi Town Mountains and Rivers

Chapter 43 Something in the palace?
For more than an hour, Lao Hu had already won seven or eight hundred taels of silver.Zhao Zongqi, who was on the opposite side, lost so much that his eyes were red.

Zongqi Zhao called the clerk over: "Speak to your cashier, give me 200 taels of silver."

The clerk looked bitter: "My Master Zhao, you have already paid 500 taels of silver in our gambling shop in the past two days! According to the rules of the gambling shop, officials of the seventh rank can only credit 500 taels of silver."

He Liu laughed secretly when he heard this: This gambling house is so interesting.The money on credit actually depends on the official position's clearly marked price.

Zhao Zongqi's face was livid.This gambling house is the property of the commander of Tianjin Wei.He can't make trouble here.

Zhao Zongqi gritted his teeth, and took out a red cloth bag from his waist. With a heartless heart, he opened the red cloth, put a jade ox inside on the table, and said to Lao Hu, "Don't go. Yu Niu is a treasure, I guess it would be easy to pawn three or two thousand silver. I will go to the Wanyong pawnshop next door to pawn silver! You wait for me here!"

He Liu could tell at a glance that this jade ox was a property in the palace, and it was priceless, not to mention two or three thousand silver - if it was taken to Duanguzhai in the capital, it could be sold for five thousand silver.

He Liu, who inspected hundreds of households, was the family raider of Jinyiwei. Since he ransacked the house, what he confiscated was not only gold and silver, but also all kinds of antiques and treasures.

If there is no decree, the copied gold, silver, and treasure banknotes will be handed over to Taicang under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Households, that is, the national treasury.Antiques and treasures are all turned over to the emperor's private treasury - the inner carrier warehouse.

There is a problem here.

Since antique treasures are worth a lot of money, there is no shortage of master forgers.Those arty and corrupt officials will inevitably accept a few fakes.

If the emperor had a whim and went to the internal transport warehouse to check the handed-in antique treasures, and found fakes, would Longyan be furious?
How to match the counterfeit goods in the shipping warehouse?
What do you Jinyiwei do to eat?Are you blind?Can't tell the difference between real and fake?
Therefore, the Jinyiwei inspected hundreds of households not only to know how to search their homes, but also to know how to identify antique calligraphy and paintings.

Twenty years ago, when He Liu inherited his father's position, he took Xu Yanping from Duanguzhai as his teacher and learned how to identify antique treasures.So He Liu knew that this jade ox was a property in the palace, and it was very valuable.

He Liu was a little strange: the general banner of the Tianjin Guards Army was not comparable to the general banner of Jinyiwei.In the eyes of Jin Yiwei, such a seventh-rank official of the Weisuo army is simply a grass-roots official who is nothing.

How could such a humble person own such a precious jade?
Zhao Zongqi picked up the jade bull and turned to Wanyong pawn shop.

He Liu and Lao Hu looked at each other and smiled.

The two have been together for 20 years.With just one look from He Liu, Lao Hu knew what he was thinking.

Old Hu said: "Don't worry, I'm lucky today, no matter how much money he takes, I can win it for him."

Not long after, Zhao Zongqi returned to the gaming table with a stack of banknotes.He slapped the table and shouted loudly: "Five taels is no fun. If you want to fight, go bigger! Thirty taels, old man, do you dare to play?"

Old Hu said: "Why don't you dare? It depends on whether the two of them are willing to increase the size."

Brother Young Master and the businessman waved their hands again and again: "The size is too big. We won't fight anymore."

Zongqi Zhao said: "They are also two unhappy people! Old man, the two of you hang on to the table, will you fight?"

Old Hu laughed and said, "Anything will work."

Zhao Zongqi and Lao Hu stacked their cards well, and there was a resurgence of smoke on the card table.

"Touch yourself! It's muddled!"

"Eat the gun! It's muddled!"

It seems that Zhao Zongqi's luck has come.Three or four times in a row.But it's all a small mess.

Zhao Zongqi proudly said to Lao Hu: "This card table is just a feng shui rotation. Who doesn't eat dumplings during the Chinese New Year, and doesn't die an old man in 100 years? It's time for me to change my luck!"

Zhao Zongqi didn't get complacent for too long.

Lao Hu played a hand of cards.He Liu who was behind him didn't understand Ma Diao, but he could see that Lao Hu's hand was full of east, south, west and north winds.

Among the hemp hanging cards, the wind playing card is sometimes the safest.Because few people hang the wind card.

"North wind." Old Hu said.

"Hey, I haven't seen you go out, I thought you were holding back the four winds! I was so scared that I didn't dare to hit the wind. Nanfeng!"

"Nanfeng?" Old Hu asked.

"Old man, are you blind? I said the south wind is the south wind, see for yourself!" Zhao Zongqi said arrogantly.

"Haha, I'm confused! Qifenghui! 88 Fan!" Lao Hu pushed down the cards in his hand.

Zongqi Zhao stood up suddenly and looked at Lao Hu's cards.

I saw that Lao Hu's cards were a pair of middle hair and white, a pair of east and west wind, and a pair of south wind——Zhao Zongqi played south wind, which happened to release the gun.

Lao Hu said to He Liu who was behind him: "Lao Liu, you are the one who picks up the money for me, and the job of settling accounts is also yours. Do the math, how much is 30 taels and 88 taels?"

He Liudao: "Two thousand 640 taels!"

Cold sweat broke out on Zhao Zongqi's forehead.But he is a decent gambler, he said: "If you lose... just lose. Two thousand 640 taels, you, take it."

Zhao Zongqi counted out 600 taels of silver bills, added two 20 taels of silver ingots, and handed them to Lao Hu.

After losing this big one, Zhao Zongqi only had more than 500 taels of capital left.This book of more than 500 taels has not played a single card.

Zhao Zongqi pinched a card, hesitated, and finally played it: "Three barrels."

"It's confused! The package is one dragon, eighteen fan! It's exactly 540 taels!" Lao Hu pushed down the card and said with a smile on his face.

Zongqi Zhao fell under the chair with a plop.

3000 taels of silver—in less than half an hour, it was gone!
Zhao Zongqi walked out of the casino in a daze.

He Liu gave Lao Hu a wink.Lao Hu put away the banknotes, and the two followed Zhao Zongqi out of the gambling house.

Zhao Zongqi walked west all the way and stopped by the moat.

Old Hu was surprised: "Isn't this idiot going to jump into the river?"

He Liu shouted loudly: "Brother, don't think too hard!"

He Liu and Lao Hu walked quickly to Zongqi Zhao.

Zongqi Zhao glared at the two of them: "My surname is Zhao's Zongheng casino for more than ten years, and it is famous for being able to afford to lose. Isn't it just a loss of life? What are you doing here? Making fun of me?"

He Liu shook his head: "Brother, we can pay you back the money. As long as you tell us one thing."

Zhao Zongqi looked puzzled: "If I tell you something, will you return my money?"

He Liu nodded: "That's right."

Zhao Zongqi said: "Don't fool me!"

He Liu showed Jin Yiwei's bronze waist badge: "When did you hear that Jin Yiwei's words don't count?"

Zhao Zongqi looked surprised: "You two are Jin Yiwei?"

Old Hu said: "Brother, the one standing in front of you is He Liuye from the Jinyiwei Thirteenth Taibao! You must have heard of the name of the Jinyiwei Thirteenth Taibao, right? Our Sixth Master He always speaks in the same way Spit a nail! If you want to get back the silver and redeem the jade cow, then answer He Liuye’s question honestly.”

(End of this chapter)