When the door squeaked, the landlady became extremely nervous. She picked up a roll-top kitchen knife and stared at the broken wooden door nervously. When she saw the person who came in, she was wrapped up tightly. When she saw the man, she breathed a sigh of relief.
"Master, you're back!" The landlady's voice was filled with tears, and she was obviously frightened.
Xiao Zhuzi on the side happily wanted to rush forward and hug his father, but was quickly blocked by the shopkeeper's hand. He panicked: "Don't make trouble, baby, dad is dirty now!"
Xiao Zhuzi blinked her eyes. She looked at her father's body, but she didn't see anything dirty. She saw the shopkeeper quickly take off the linen he was wrapped in after entering the house, and then put them all on. He piled them under the stove, burned them all, and then took his wife's hand and entered the back room.
The landlady looked at the shopkeeper eagerly. Although she had been running the house, it was only at this moment that she truly understood how valuable and trustworthy her husband was.
The shopkeeper's face was solemn and painful, and he whispered: "All the city gates are blocked, and there are guards guarding the entrances. There is no way to escape."
The landlady choked up and said, "Are we going to stay here and wait to die?"
The shopkeeper hesitated and hesitated, but the landlady saw this and said quickly: "Master, if you have something to say, please hurry up. How long has it been? You are still hesitating?"
The shopkeeper whispered: "When I went out to inquire about the news, I heard someone say that the prefect... wants us all to die..."
The landlady took a breath of air and said in a trembling voice, "Why is this? Why does the prefect want us all to die? Is he crazy?"
The shopkeeper lowered his voice even more and said, "I heard it's for revenge!"
The landlady was shocked and angry. She naturally knew what the prefect Li Tian had done before, but she didn't expect that the prefect Li Tian would dare to take revenge so arrogantly just after the prince left!
The landlady said angrily: "Ah? Does the prince know this? This is simply unreasonable! He wants to kill everyone in the city, and the prince doesn't skin him?!"
The common people of Daqi all know that the prince is a holy prince who loves the people as his own son, but he has no mercy at all when he attacks corrupt officials and crazed evil officials!
They all firmly believed that if the prince knew about this, he would definitely chop off the head of the prefect Li Tian as a sacrifice to the people he killed.
The shopkeeper hesitated again and whispered: "I also heard..."
The landlady was an impatient person. She poked the shopkeeper with her finger and said angrily: "If you have something to say, can't you finish it in one breath? Do you have to take a big breath? Is there any other bad news?"
The shopkeeper's voice was almost too low to be heard. He whispered: "There are people working together in the city, ready to find an opportunity to escape together!"
The landlady's eyes lit up, and she whispered: "When? Where to escape from?"
The shopkeeper whispered: "We are in contact. I heard that the guards Qiu Ba and others also want to escape. Once we get through to one of them, it will be much easier to handle!"
The landlady thought for a while, but was a little confused: "But... where can I go after I escape?"
The shopkeeper whispered: "Don't worry about it so much. The plague is rampant in Taiyang City right now, and there is no medicine to treat it. The prefect is also frantically sealing off the city. If this continues like this, everyone in the city will die sooner or later! Don't you? Are you going to escape and stay in the city to die?"
The landlady sighed and said: "These hard days... when will the end come to an end!"
The shopkeeper thought for a moment and said, "I'll go find out more tomorrow. We must escape together!"
…
While Xiaozhuzi's family was plotting to escape from the terrible hell of Taiyang, in the distant Shenjing, there was a scene of bustling, noisy, drunken and luxurious life.
Early in the morning, just after dawn, Shenjing was already bustling with activity. Lao Weitou arrived at the door of a newly opened gaming shop on the street early and looked forward to it before it opened.
Old Weitou is one of the gamblers who hangs out at the bottom of Shenjing. They usually like to gamble and are bad gamblers. If I ask them about the Four Books and Five Classics, current affairs and seasons, they will be confused and confused. But if you ask them They talk about their gambling experiences, hey, then they can talk endlessly and talk to people for three days and three nights: Which company's sieve has lead filled in it! Which casino has better thugs? Which bookmaker has dirty hands and feet! Which scammer is more powerful!
There are hundreds of thousands of gamblers like this in Shenjing!
They heard that the imperial court actually opened an official gaming venue, and it was actually a new game. After a little research, they, the gamblers, discovered the mystery and immediately became interested.
And what's the secret
Without him, it’s fair!
Yes, although the Mark Six Lottery is a big player in blatant cheating, among most gambling projects, this is considered a relatively fair, just and open project.
After all... the stakes are low, ridiculously low! One bet was only ten copper coins! And once you win... that's five hundred thousand taels! !
Five hundred thousand taels! !
As soon as this news came out, first of all, the gambling world in Shenjing was already in shock!
Five hundred thousand taels is enough for them to spend a lifetime! !
And the payment was only ten copper coins!
The casinos and gamblers who didn't really see the mystery for a moment sneered and chuckled!
Is the imperial court here to send money
If someone really wins the jackpot with ten coins, it will be great fun!
Therefore, these gamblers spread the word and came early on the first day the casino opened. Although there are gaming purchase points in various streets in Shenjing, every venue has There are already huge crowds of people and the queue is like a long queue!
Old Weitou thought he had arrived early, but he didn't expect that there were people sitting there carrying small horses and slowly moving with the team, and there were even people with a roll of bedding under their arms! Looks like I've been here all night!
This behavior made Lao Weitou, a senior gambler, a bit dumbfounded!
Old Weitou waited patiently. After waiting in line for two hours, it was finally his turn. Old Weitou had already studied the gameplay in Di Bao before he came, so he made one or two moves. Silver, and then bought a hundred bets at once, and the numbers for each bet were different.
But Lao Weitou was just one of these crazy gamblers. What even the prince and Li Chengfeng didn't expect was that... the reward of 500,000 they set for opening the pool at the beginning was already an astronomical figure. They have to run several installments in the first place before gamblers can buy more than that.
But what they never expected was that in just one morning, in Shenjing alone, the enthusiastic gamblers had invested more than half a million!
And all this is just the beginning of this wave of madness.
Li Chengfeng opened a Pandora's box with his own hands.