"Can you believe the words of a street fortune teller?"
"Can't you believe it? I have heard that they are Taoist priests in Jingling Palace. They are the guests of today's officials. Fortune-telling is very effective."
Koti blinked, with a simple face.
Wu Ming opened his mouth, not knowing how to evaluate Kou Ji's words.
The Taoists in Jingling Palace were all Taoists who accompanied the official Zhao Heng to cultivate and ask questions. He didn't dare to comment casually. A little carelessness would cause trouble to the upper body.
But Wu Ming knew exactly whether the Taoist priests in Jingling Palace were truly talented.
After all, in order to cater to the holy will, Wu Ming also accompanied his brother Wu Xian to be a Taoist priest in Jingling Palace for a few days.
Wu Ming looked at Kou Ji with a hint of pity in his eyes.
What a simple silly boy, anyone who catches him can lie to him.
It’s better to be deceived by me because I’m being polarized by others, just as my uncle taught him in advance the truth that there are too many bad guys in this world...
"Since my nephew has an expert advice, he must be able to make a big profit. You can go to the private room and wait, and my uncle will ask the people in the gambling shop to arrange it."
Wu Ming said with a smile.
Kou Ji looked at him expectantly, "Is it really possible to change?"
Wu Ming patted his chest and promised: "With the old uncle, I will come forward. There is nothing I can't do."
"My father is right, Uncle World, you are such a good person."
Kou Ji exclaimed excitedly.
Wu Ming smiled knowingly and asked Kou Ji to enter the private room. He went to find the steward in the gambling house.
Kou Ji entered the room, paced around the room, measured step by step at the foot of the east wall, and finally stopped at a place to ask Chief Kou to the side.
"Behind this should be the warehouse of Donglai Pawnshop, right?"
Chief Kou was stunned. He thought about the layout of Donglai Pawn Shop and Ziqi Gambling House, nodded and responded: "It should be..."
After Kou Ji confirmed that he had not found the wrong position, he sat down at the gaming table in the private room.
Wu Ming returned to the private room at this time, followed by seven or eight people.
"Hahaha... My nephew, the steward of the gambling house has agreed, let us stay in this private room. Let me introduce to you, this is one of the stewards of the gambling house, Guan Shi; this is Changlong Buxing Boss Qian; this is Boss Chen from Hongchang Jade Shop."
Wu Ming introduced the three people who led Kou Ji, and he did not introduce the others who were similar to those who followed him.
Manager Lin of the gambling house is a very old middle-aged man with a beard and pierced blow, like a fierce Zhang Fei, he is a quack.
The boss Qian of the cloth shop is a fat man with a blessed attitude wearing silk satin.
Boss Chen, who is a jade trader, is thin and thin in a long gown and looks like a scholar.
Kou Ji carefully looked at Boss Qian from the cloth shop and Boss Chen from the jade shop. He felt that these two people should not have been requested by Wu Ming, and 80% of them were lambs to be slaughtered just like him.
Kou Ji did not expect that while Wu Ming was cheating him, he was also preparing to cheat others.
I really don’t miss any chance to cheat people...
Under Wu Ming's introduction, Kou Ji got up and cautiously saluted everyone.
Boss Qian and Boss Chen looked at Kou Ji's performance with more contempt in their eyes.
Guanshi Lin and Wu Ming smiled at each other, looking at everyone's eyes as if they were looking at the slaughtered lamb.
"Now that everyone is here, let's start."
Boss Qian held his belly and moved to the gaming table. After sitting down, he said with a smile.
Boss Chen sat down at the gaming table with a cold face.
Wu Ming also came over and sat down at the gaming table, then slapped the table and shouted to Director Lin, "Hurry up."
Guan Shi nodded and walked over with a pack of Pai Gow.
"That... can you wait a moment..."
Kou Ji suddenly spoke.
All eyes fell on him.
As everyone watched, Kou Ji shrank his neck and said cautiously: "What are we betting on?"
Wu Ming smiled and said: "With so many people, of course we are betting on Pai Gow. What do you think, Boss Qian, Boss Chen?"
Boss Qian said with a cheerful smile: "You can bet on anything, the most important thing is some bets."
Boss Chen said coldly: "I don't care."
Kou Ji shrank her neck again and whispered, "But... but I don't know Pai Gow, I only play dice."
Everyone was stunned.
Boss Qian suddenly looked at Kou Ji and said with a cheerful smile, "Is this the first time the little brother has been to the gambling shop?"
Kou Ji hesitated, but nodded seriously.
Boss Qian smiled again: "Since the little brother is here for the first time at the gambling house, then we can't bully him, so let's bet on dice.
Boss Chen glanced at Kou Ji and said calmly, "I don't care."
All three guests have to bet on dice, Wu Ming and Lin Guan are in charge, of course they can't help but wish.
Immediately, Wu Ming blinked vaguely at Guan Lin, Guan Shi handed Pai Gow to the person behind him, and said with a voice, "Change the dice..."
The dice were quickly taken up.
The gambling also started as scheduled.
Before the start of the gambling game, Kou Ji said again, "Um... I'm a little cold, can you give me a brazier..."
Guan Shi looked at Wu Ming. Seeing that Wu Ming did not respond, he turned around and ordered the people beside him, "Go and get a brazier for the guest."
"One is not enough, you have two, one on each side."
Kou Ji added another sentence.
Everyone's eyes fell on Kou Ji again.
Kou Ji said timidly: "Can't it?"
Boss Qian said with a smile: "It's not that it's impossible, but I'm a bit cold when you say so. Lin is in charge, let your people bring a brazier over."
Boss Chen looked at Boss Qian and Kou Ji, and asked for a brazier.
When the guests requested, Guan Lin had to follow suit.
In places like gambling shops, if you want to make money, you have to serve the guests comfortably.
This way big customers will frequent them.
Regarding Kou Ji's request for a brazier, Guan Shi and Wu Ming didn't think there was anything wrong with it.
In the early spring, the river just opened, the willows were not green, the frozen ground was not awake, and the weather was still cold.
Kou Ji's clothes were thin, requiring two braziers, which was not excessive.
The four braziers filled with silver and charcoal, and the bright spots, instantly warmed the room of the gambling house.
Kurt specifically placed the two braziers that belonged to him on the wall, closest to him.
The gambling game officially started at the moment the brazier was sent in.
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the other side.
Donglai pawnshop.
After Liu Heng left, the middle-aged man of the shopkeeper closed the door of the pawn shop and took the picture to the warehouse of the pawn shop.
The warehouse of Donglai Pawnshop is very large and very strangely constructed.
In order to avoid being missed by thieves, apart from the door, the warehouse has no other gaps, not even windows. Closing the door is equivalent to a sealed space.
At the entrance of the warehouse, there is a small house, which is the place where the middle-aged man of the shopkeeper lives.
There is only one door in the entire warehouse, and the middle-aged shopkeeper lives at the door of the warehouse and guards the door personally, which largely avoids being patronized by thieves.
The middle-aged man opened the door of the warehouse, and found the bookshelf on the west wall by the ray of sunlight coming through the door.
The bookshelves are full of calligraphy and painting, but not many are valuable.
The valuables were taken back to the mansion by Wu Xian.
As usual, the pawn shops received celebrities' calligraphy and paintings, and middle-aged people would not personally send them to Wu Xian.
It was taken by Wu Xian himself.
The reason for doing this is to prevent being entrapped by people.
If someone finds out the time and route for a middle-aged person to send things to Wu Mansion, and then pretends to pawn a priceless thing, snatch it back halfway, and finally take the pawn ticket to redeem it, then the Donglai pawnshop will have to die.
Before this rule existed, Donglai Pawnshop was subjected to such a calculation.
Then he lost a piece of the original poems of Li Yu, the postmaster of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and paid 30,000 yuan in compensation.
It was from that time that Wu Xian made such a rule.
Middle-aged people will be robbed, but Wu Xian will not.
As the imperial court order officer, Wu Xian had sedan chairs and guards to follow.
More importantly, no matter who it is, if anyone robs a court order official in Bianjing city, it will be attacked by all the officials inside and outside the court.
No official hoped to experience the same experience in Bianjing.
The middle-aged man took advantage of the sunlight to find a box wrapped in Shu brocade on the bookshelf. After opening it, he put Liu Heng's "Chunxi Tu" into it.
Then he left the warehouse, locked the door, and returned to the house at the door to wait for Wu Xian to arrive.