White Jade Tiger

Chapter 11

Volume [-] Gambling

Chapter 2 Gambler

In every line, there is a king, and in this line of gambling, it is the same.

The gambler's surname is Jiao, and no matter who recognizes him or not, they respectfully call him Mr. Jiao Qi.

Mr. Jiao Qi is not only well-known in this industry, but also has an honorable status.

Grandpa Jiao Qi gambled tens of millions of times in his life, and it is said that he never lost even once—at least not after he was 30 years old.

Grandpa Jiao Qi is 72 this year.

Mr. Jiao Qi is not only a good gambler, but his eyes are even more poisonous. No matter whether he is a big doctor, a young doctor, a doctor who plays tickets, or an expert doctor, no one has ever dared to play tricks in front of him, because no matter what trick you use, Mr. Jiao Qi It can be seen at a glance.

Grandpa Jiao Qi had already washed his hands and retired to the forest on the day of his sixth or sixth birthday.

——I heard that Mr. Jiao Qi has come back again, and he was invited out by the Eight King Kongs under his sect.

——He is so old and of such a high status, what else does he come out for?
——Come out to deal with that lucky leopard, the old man also wants to see what kind of luck this leopard is doing? He can actually throw three sixes every time?
Wuji had already heard the news, and of course he heard it from a 'friend'.

But he never expected that this famous gambling king in [-] provinces would be such a wretched little old man.

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Grandpa Jiao Qi held up a sterling silver hookah with a pair of hands with three-inch long nails, "huluhulu", took two puffs first, then smiled at Wuji, and said, "Sit, please sit down." '

Of course Wuji sat down, he never had the habit of standing in front of others.

Grandpa Jiao Qi squinted his eyes to look at Wuji, and smiled with squinted eyes: "This is Mr. Zhao?"

Wuji said, "What's your name?"

Grandpa Jiao Qi said: "My surname is Jiao, and my senior ranking in the family is Lao Qi, so others call me Jiao Qi." '

Wuji didn't even react at all, as if he had never heard the name before.

Grandpa Jiao Qi smiled lightly and said, "I heard Mr. Zhao has been lucky recently?"

Wuji said, "It's not bad." '

Grandpa Jiao Qi said: "I wonder if Mr. Zhao would like to give you face and play two games with me, a little old man?"

Wuji asked, "What are you betting on?"

Mr. Jiao Qi said: "Of course it's a game of dice." '

Wuji also laughed, and said: "I may not dare to accompany you to bet on other things, but I never refuse to bet on dice." '

Grandpa Jiao Qi said, "Why?"

Wuji smiled and said, "Because when I bet on dice, my luck seems to be very good." '

Grandpa Jiao Qi suddenly opened his pair of triangular eyes that were always squinted, and looked at Wuji.

When he opened his eyes, it was as if two rays of light shot out. Those who saw it for the first time would definitely be shocked.

Wuji was not startled by him.

When the zombie opened its eyes and looked at him, he didn't even startle.

He was by nature not easily intimidated.

Grandpa Jiao Qi stared at him twice, then narrowed his eyes again, and said: "But luck can change from time to time, when good luck sometimes turns bad, and bad luck sometimes gets better." '

He smiled lightly, and said: "There is only one kind of person whose luck will never change." '

Wuji said, "What kind of person?"

Mr. Jiao Qi said: "People who don't rely on luck." '

Wuji said, "What do you rely on if you don't rely on luck?"

Grandpa Jiao Qi said: "Rely on skills!"

He used his well-maintained hand, made a very graceful gesture, and then slowly continued: "Just a little skill is enough." '

Wuji seemed to be completely incomprehensible, and asked foolishly, "What technique?"

Grandpa Jiao Qi acted as if he really didn't understand, and explained to him: "The skill of manipulating dice. '

He smiled and said again: "Dice is a very simple thing. It has neither life nor mind. As long as you have a little bit of this skill, it will do what you want it to do." '

Wuji laughed, as if he still didn't quite believe it, and asked again: "Is there really such a thing in the world?"

Mr. Jiao Qi said, "Absolutely." '

Wuji said, "Will you know?"

Grandpa Jiao Qi said with a puzzled smile, "Do you want to see it!"

Wuji said, "I really want to." '

Mr. Jiao Qi said, "Okay." '

He clapped his hands, and Boss Jia immediately brought a big bowl, in which were three exquisitely carved dice with perfect sculptures.

Boss Jia said: "This bowl is made by the famous kiln of JDZ in Jiangxi, and the dice are the fine products made by the old Baoshizhai store at Xiejiekou, Wang's widow in Beijing." '

Grandpa Jiao Qi seemed very satisfied, and said: "Very well, gambling is not only a great learning, but also a kind of enjoyment. This tool must not be sloppy." '

Wuji said: "I completely agree." '

Grandpa Jiao Qi said: "The most important point is that Baoshizhai has always had a good reputation, and the weight of the dice it makes is absolutely in line with the standard, and there are absolutely no fake dice filled with lead or mercury." '

Wuji said, "I believe it." '

Grandpa Jiao Qi stretched out his well-protected hand with three-inch nails, and grabbed the three dice.

When the dice were in his hands, it was like the sword was in the hands of Ximen Chuuxue, a generation of invincible sword master Ximen Chuuxue.

In terms of gambling, Grandpa Jiao Qi is indeed worthy of being a master craftsman of a generation.

He rolled the three dice lightly, his technique was natural, skillful and graceful.

Wuji didn't even need to look at it to know that the three sixes must be thrown out of the three dice.

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The dice stopped, and it turned out to be three sixes.

Wuji sighed for a long time, and said, "It seems that your luck has been pretty good recently." '

Grandpa Jiao Qi said: "It's not luck, it's skill. Everyone can roll these three dice and get three sixes." '

Wuji said, "Oh?"

Mr. Jiao Qi said, "You don't believe me?"

Wuji was laughing.

Mr. Jiao Qi said: "Okay, you can try to show this Mr. Zhao." '

Boss Jia was the first to try.

He grabbed the dice, and sure enough, three sixes came out.

The other seven people each rolled once, and they all rolled three sixes.

Wuji seemed dumbfounded.

Mr. Jiao Qi said, "You can't see what's going on?"

Wuji shook his head.

Grandpa Jiao Qi took it as if he really couldn't see it, and said: "The dice are filled with mercury, and anyone who knows a little bit of skill can easily roll three sixes." '

He looked puzzled and said with a smile: "Although the dice in Baoshizhai are definitely not fake, as long as we give some small gifts to the master dice maker, the situation will be different." '

Wuji seemed to be in a daze.

Grandpa Jiao Qi turned around and asked a middle-aged man with a pale yellow complexion and high cheekbones: "What did you give to that old master last time?"

The middle-aged man said: "It's a big house located outside the West City. It has seven front and rear entrances, with all the furniture and furnishings, plus a pension of 1000 taels of silver per year." '

Mr. Jiao Qi said: "How much can he get in a year in the gem room?"

The middle-aged man said: '360 taels, plus a bonus for takeaway, plus less than 700 taels. '

Grandpa Jiao Qi looked at Wuji and said with a smile, "You should understand this by now, right?"

Wuji sighed: "If it weren't for your constant guidance, I really never thought that there is such a great knowledge in a dice. '

Grandpa Jiao Qi said: "Gamblers in the world, as soon as they see the dice in Baoshizhai, they immediately feel confident and bold to gamble, so they lost their wives to others, and they insisted that they were not wronged." '

He also sighed, and said: "Actually, people who gamble out of ten and cheat out of nine, and who never gamble, are the real winners." '

Wuji said, "But you—"

Grandpa Jiao Qi sighed: "I have already fallen, and if I get up again, I will be covered in mud!"

He went on to say, "But none of my sons and grandchildren have ever gambled." '

Wuji said, "They don't like to gamble?"

Grandpa Jiao Qi said: "Everyone loves gambling, but they love their own hands more." '

He continued calmly: "Of my thirteen sons, six of them have only one hand left." '

Wuji said, "Why?"

Mr. Jiao Qi said: "Because they gamble secretly." '

Wuji said, "Then you cut off one of their hands?"

Grandpa Jiao Qi said: "As long as the descendants of the Jiao family dare to gamble, I will cut off his hand if he gambles once, and his leg will be cut off if he gambles twice." '

Wuji said, "What about the one who gambled three times?"

Grandpa Jiao Qi said lightly: "No one dares to gamble three times, not even one." '

Wuji smiled wryly and said, "If I were a descendant of the Jiao family, I wouldn't dare." '

Grandpa Jiao Qi smiled slightly, and said: "But I never object to other people's gambling, because there are more and more people who gamble in this world, the lives of us people will be better and better." '

He suddenly said to Boss Jia: "How many children do you have?"

Boss Jia laughed and said, "Not many." '

Grandpa Jiao Qi said, "Not many, but a few?"

Boss Jia said, "Seventeen." '

Grandpa Jiao Qi said, "How much does each of them spend a year?"

Boss Jia said: "Except for the boss, everyone is distributed equally, 500 taels a year." '

He added: 'The boss is 1000 taels. '

Grandpa Jiao Qi said, "How much does your family spend a year?"

Boss Jia said: "That's hard to say, roughly calculated, it is about 8000 taels." '

Grandpa Jiao Qi said, "Are you still paying for your daily expenses?"

Boss Jia laughed and said: "I have entertainment almost every day, and friends in the six doors also have to deal with it; buddies in the palaces of princes and ministers also have to curry favor, and at least tens of thousands of taels of silver are enough every year." '

Grandpa Jiao Qi sighed and said, "But ordinary people can live a good life as long as they have a hundred taels of silver a year." '

He asked Wuji again, "Of course you should have figured out where his expenses come from!"

Wuji nodded, suddenly smiled and said, "But my expenses come from him." '

Grandpa Jiao Qi said: "So I think you are a genius, as long as you don't overdo it, you will have a better life than them in the future." '

Wuji said: "I'm not a genius, and I don't have any skills. It's just that I'm lucky." '

Grandpa Jiao Qi squinted his eyes and smiled again, then suddenly grabbed three dice from the bowl and threw them down.

This time he threw not three sixes, but the smallest idea——

unitary, two, three.

Wuji smiled and said, "Your luck has turned bad." '

Mr. Jiao Qi said: "It hasn't changed." '

In his obviously empty hand, three more dice were thrown out suddenly.

These three dice fell into the bowl and collided with the previous three dice, knocking 'Yao Er San' rolling, and all six dice became six points.

Grandpa Jiao Qi raised his hand and conjured up six more dice from his empty hand. He tossed them all at once, and twelve dice rolled in the bowl at the same time. When they stopped, all of them were at six.

Wuji seemed to be dumbfounded again.

Mr. Jiao Qi smiled slightly and said: "This is also a skill. A real expert can hold several pairs of dice in one hand at the same time, and no one else can see it." '

Wuji smiled bitterly and said, "I can't see it." '

Mr. Jiao Qi said: "So even if the dice in the bowl are obviously real, if he changes them with his hands, they will become fake. He can roll whatever number he wants." '

Wuji said, "These twelve dice are all filled with mercury?"

Mr. Jiao Qi said, "Try it." '

Wuji looked at Boss Jia. Boss Jia picked up a dice with two fingers and squeezed it lightly. The dice, which was harder than a stone, shattered. A drop of mercury fell and rolled around the table.

Grandpa Jiao Qi said, "What do you think?"

Wuji sighed and said, "Okay, that's great." '

Grandpa Jiao Qi said: "There is also a kind of person who has practiced qigong, and his technique is even better. Even if you obviously throw a six, if he shakes the table with qigong, the idea will change, and it will become a yao." He smiled and said again: "But in terms of gambling, this kind of style is a bit rascal, a real expert will never use this kind of method." '

Wuji said, "Why?"

Grandpa Jiao Qi said: "Because gambling is a very learned thing, and it is also a kind of enjoyment. Even if you want to use tricks, you must use it gracefully. You must not force it to make people feel unconvinced when you lose." '

He smiled and continued: "You must convince people to lose, and others will come again next time." '

Wuji sighed, "Sure enough, you are knowledgeable." '

Grandpa Jiao Qi's squinted eyes shot out again, he stared at Wuji and said, "But of course I won't use this method to gamble money this time." '

Wuji said, "Even if you want me to use it, I won't." '

Master Jiao Qi said with a sullen face, "If we want to gamble, we must gamble fairly, and there must be no falsehood." '

Wuji said, "Yes." '

Grandpa Jiao Qi narrowed his eyes and smiled again, and said, "Okay, then I will play a few games with Mr. Zhao." '

Wuji said: "Why play a few games, wouldn't it be more enjoyable to see the winner or loser!"

Grandpa Jiao Qi opened his eyes and stared at him again. After a long time, he asked, "You only gamble?"

Wuji said: "As long as you can tell the difference between winning and losing, one hand is enough." '

Mr. Jiao Qi said, "How much do you bet?"

Wuji said: "I have to see, I don't seem to have much on me." '

He took out a large handful of silver bills from his person, and a wad of thinly beaten gold leaves.

While counting, he sighed and murmured: "I really don't bring much. Even the sum of these gold leaves is only 38 taels." '

Except Mr. Jiao Qi, everyone's expression changed.

The eight people here, although each of them is a top tycoon in the (gambling) industry, they have never even heard of a gamble of more than 30 taels of silver.

Wuji suddenly smiled and said, "I remembered, I still have 40 taels on the table outside, which just makes up [-] taels." '

Boss Jia changed his face and said, "There are still [-] outside?"

Wuji said: "1 taels is my capital, and the dealer should pay me another [-]." '

Mr. Jiao Qi's expression remained unchanged, and he said, "Go outside and get [-] yuan to Mr. Zhao." '

Boss Jia said, "Yes." '

Mr. Jiao Qi said: "By the way, you can go to the cashier's room to see how much you have." '

Boss Jia said, "Yes." '

A burly purple-faced man suddenly said, "I'll accompany Sixth Brother to have a look." '

Mr. Jiao Qi said: "It's good for Liao Laoba to accompany him. It just so happens that you also have business here. If there is not enough in the accounting room, you can also collect some." '

Old Liao said: "Yes." '

After they left, Grandpa Jiao Qi turned to Wuji again, smiled and said, "Master Zhao, do you want to drool first?"

As soon as he walked out of the curtained door, Liao Laoba frowned and said, "I really don't understand what the old man is doing?"

Boss Jia said, "What do you not understand?"

Old Liao said: "Why did the old man tell that Plague all those tricks? Why didn't he use these methods to deal with him?"

Boss Jia said: "Because the old man knows that Wensheng is definitely not Wensheng. '

Old Liao said: "But he didn't even notice the old man's tricks at first." '

Boss Jia said: "He is pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger." '

He smiled and said again: "But the old man is not simple. Since he knows that he can't hide it from him, he might as well show him his hands. As long as he knows how powerful and says something nice, the old man might let him go." . '

Old Liao said: "But this kid just doesn't know what's good or bad." '

Boss Jia said: "So in my opinion, the old man is ready to let go of him this time." '

Old Liao said: "But the old man hasn't done anything for seven or eight years, that kid..."

Boss Jia laughed and said, "Don't worry, ginger is old and hot, and Sun Monkey's 72 changes can't change the palm of Tathagata Buddha." '

He asked again: "You have been with the old man for almost 20 years, have you ever seen him miss?"

Old Liao said: "No." '

He finally showed a reassuring smile: 'Never. '

There was no sound in the house except the 'plop, puff' from the hookah.

Everyone is thinking.

What kind of tactics should be used to win this 'lucky leopard'?
Everyone can't think of it.

Every method they can think of is not sure of victory.

The young man was so steady, so utterly unpredictable, that he almost felt a little frightened.

Is he really lucky?
Or was it because he believed that Grandpa Jiao Qi would never see what tricks he was using?
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Grandpa Jiao Qi smoked the hookah one after another, even closing his squinted eyes.

Does he already have the odds in his chest? Or is he still thinking about how to deal with this young man?
Wuji smiled and looked at him, as if a collector was studying a precious antique and identifying the authenticity of this antique, or like a little fox studying the movements of an old fox, hoping that he could recover from Learn a little secret.

Is Grandpa Jiao Qi also watching him secretly?
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Boss Jia and Laoba Liao finally came back with a large pile of banknotes, and first picked two for Wuji.

'Here is twenty thousand. '

"Have you collected enough 40 taels?"

"Here is 40 yuan," Boss Jia put down the banknote, and he couldn't help showing a smug expression on his face.

It is by no means easy to scrape together 40 silver in an instant.

Wuji smiled and said: "It seems that Boss Jia's business has indeed made a fortune." '

Boss Jia also smiled and said, "This is a business to get rich!"

Wuji said, "Okay, how do we bet now?"

The middle-aged man with pale yellow face coughed twice first, and said: "There are rules in business, and there are rules in gambling. '

Wuji said: "There are rules in doing things, and even more rules in gambling." '

The middle-aged man with a pale yellow face said: "But no matter what the rules are, both parties must agree." '

Wuji said, "Yes." '

The middle-aged man with a pale yellow face said: "If there are only two players who gamble against each other, they cannot be divided between the banker and the player." '

Wuji said, "Yes." '

The middle-aged man said: "So no matter what idea is thrown by the first one, the other one can catch up." '

Wuji said, "What if the two companies have the same idea?"

The middle-aged man said: "Then there is no winner or loser in this one, and we have to toss again." '

Wuji shook his head suddenly and said, "This is not good." '

The middle-aged man said: "What's wrong?"

Wuji said: "If the two families always come up with the same ideas, don't they have to keep gambling? Even if they gamble for three days and three nights, they may not be able to tell the winner or loser." '

The middle-aged man said: "How do you want to bet?"

Wuji said: "If the one who throws first throws the biggest idea, the opponent will have to admit defeat." '

The biggest idea is three sixes, as long as he stretches out his hand, he throws three sixes.

All eight of them were staring at him, asking almost at the same time: 'Who will throw first?'

Wuji said: "This old man is very old and respected, of course I should let him toss first." '

When these words came out, everyone was taken aback, even Mr. Jiao Qi was surprised.

Is this kid crazy, or is he feeling too sure?
Wuji's expression remained unchanged, he smiled slightly, and said again: "Please first!"

Grandpa Jiao Qi stared at him for a long time, then suddenly said: "Boss, bring a pair of dice." '

The middle-aged man with pale yellow complexion immediately took out a small box carved from white jade.

In the box, there are three white jade dice on the bottom of the yellow satin.

The middle-aged man said: "This is a jade dice for tribute. It is the best quality made by the old shopkeeper of Baoshizhai. There will never be a fake."

Grandpa Jiao Qi ordered: "You take it to Mr. Zhao to have a look!"

The middle-aged man said: "Yes." '

He held it with both hands, but Wuji pushed it away with one hand, and said with a smile: "I don't need to look, I can trust this old man." '

Grandpa Jiao Qi stared at him for a long time, then nodded slowly, and said, "Okay, you have style!"

Using two fingers with three-inch-long nails, he picked out the dice one by one and held them in his palm: "Win or lose with one shot?"

Wuji said, "Yes." '

Grandpa Jiao Qi stood up slowly, stretched out one hand, facing the mouth of the bowl, and gently put down the dice.

This is the most disciplined way of throwing, and absolutely no one can express any doubts.

With a sound of 'ding', three dice fell into the bowl, and the sound was as clear as a silver bell.

The dice were spinning non-stop, but everyone seemed to have stopped their heartbeat.

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The dice finally stopped.

Three sixes, it really is three sixes! The biggest treasure among all ideas, eat all!
Mowgli laughed!
He patted his clothes, stood up slowly, and said, "I lost." '

After saying these three words, he walked out without looking back.

(End of this chapter)