"Young... Master, where are we going like this?" Jiao Yue, who had put on men's clothes and felt uncomfortable all over, asked in a low voice Hua Jinglan, who was walking in front of her in fluttering white clothes.
Ten taels of silver was enough for Hua Jinglan to buy a nice outfit. She was dressed in white and had plain boots, a folding fan in her hand, and her black hair tied up with a scarf. Her every move and gesture exuded the aura of a handsome young man, and she couldn't help but make people laugh while walking on the road. Look back frequently.
Izumo pursed his lips and touched the one tael of silver in his pocket, and said with great resentment: "Master, there is only one tael of silver left now, don't you still want to go to Tietou Pavilion?"
"Of course we have to go," Hua Jinglan tapped his head with a fan, "but before that, we have to go to another place."
Following the twists and turns of the alley, Hua Jinglan finally stopped. Jiao Yue looked at the sign in front of her and said in disbelief: "Gambling house?!"
"Buy big, buy small, buy it and leave it!"
"big big big!"
"Little! Little! Little!"
Just as Hua Jinglan thought, it was small, crowded, and smelled of men's sweat.
After looking around, I found that the atmosphere at the middle table was the most heated. I squeezed over and found that everyone's eyes were focused on a short old man. To be precise, they were focused on the banknote in his hand.
The dealer looked at him as if he were a fat sheep and kept urging him to place bets. The old man couldn't make up his mind several times, and finally gritted his teeth and threw it on the "little", and other bettors also did so. On "big", when I opened the cup, it turned out to be big!
"Big again!" the old man howled, touched his pocket, turned around and walked out of the crowd, muttering: "We lose again, and the coffin is gone!"
Hua Jinglan covered her lips and smiled, and whispered: "Old man, do you want to read the book?"
The old man looked at him with stern eyes, "What can you do?"
Hua Jinglan lowered her head and said a few words in his ear. The old man thought about it for a moment and then pushed back loudly.
The gambling game started again. When the banker saw the old man coming back, he smiled rudely and shouted at people to place bets while winking at the people around him.
"The big one will be brought back this time!" The old man pressed a thousand tael of silver note on the "big" one. Hua Jinglan also folded the one tael of silver note into tofu cubes and threw it on the "small" one.
"Big! Big! Big!" the old man shouted.
"Little! Little! Little!" everyone shouted.
As soon as the dealer opened, it turned out to be a small one. The dealer happily accepted the old man's one thousand taels of silver notes. Hua Jinglan used a fan to pay out her own one tael of silver notes and said: "Banker, you pay two for one, right?"
The dealer glanced at her and pushed over a tael of silver.
Hua Jinglan shook her fan, flicked the tofu piece away, and said calmly: "See how much is inside?"
The banker spread out the banknotes and his expression suddenly changed when he opened the banknote wrapped inside, "Five thousand taels?!"
"Are you not going to compensate?"
The dealer gritted his teeth and said: "Pay, of course!"
After walking out of the gambling house, Hua Jinglan took out a thousand taels of silver notes, handed the rest to the old man, and said, "It's nothing if I get some reward, right?"
The old man laughed so hard that his beard stood up. He counted the banknotes and kept nodding, "It should be done!"
"What's your name?" the old man asked again after collecting the banknotes.
Hua Jinglan glanced at him, "My mother taught me not to say my name to others casually!"
The old man was stunned for a moment, then laughed loudly, and ran away with his short legs, "Well, take care of yourself, kid!"
"Over there! Chase!" The distant voice startled Jiaoyue, "Miss, she's from the gambling house!"
Hua Jinglan turned around again, but there was still the shadow of the old man everywhere. She gritted her teeth and immediately grabbed Jiaoyue and Izumo and ran away!