The peripheral gambling bureau was bustling with people, and it was hard for Xu Wenlan not to see Xiao Yanjun. He walked over with a sullen look on his face, and placed a 100-tael silver note under the number 27 worn by Lan Yuying.
Xu Wenlan raised his head and glanced at Xiao Yanjun. Seeing him sneer with disdain, he added one hundred taels of silver notes more and more angrily.
In the blink of an eye, five or six cards had been placed, and everyone around them was dumbfounded. They had never seen anyone place such a bet before.
"Young Master, Young Master." The boy who set up the stall stopped Xu Wenlan with a look of embarrassment on his face: "We are just having fun on this festive holiday, so please don't come and cause trouble."
"Ah?" Xu Wenlan was confused and didn't know what the stall owner meant.
"In case you win, you can't afford to lose. You can only bet a hundred taels at most." The stall owner looked scared.
"Don't make things difficult for me." Zhao Xingwen came over, picked up his extra banknotes and stuffed them into his hands. Then he took out a 100-tael banknote from his arms and put it on Huo Wenshu's body. Of No. 31.
Su Qian'an and Bingwen also walked over together, laughing and joking. Su Qian'an took out an ingot of twenty-two pieces of silver from his sleeve and placed it in the twenty-nine that Su Qianle was wearing.
Bingwen picked up his ingot of silver and put it back into his hand. Before Su Qian'an could speak, Bingwen had quickly taken out a hundred-tael silver note from Xu Wenlan's hand and placed it on the 29th.
"You are so stingy," Bingwen said to Su Qian'an.
It's not like Su Qianan didn't have money. Maybe his previous wandering life made him feel that it was not necessary.
"Hey, why are you pretending to be generous and taking my money?" Xu Wenlan was stunned. Just after he finished speaking, Bingwen Xingyun Liushui took another hundred taels from his hand and placed it on the twenty-eight taels worn by Xian Li. On the number.
Bingwen said to Xu Wenlan, who was blinking with his mouth open: "What happened to your two hundred taels of silver? You stayed in the inn for so many days in vain. Do you want to argue with me?"
"Bah, think of me as stupid." Xu Wenlan spat at him.
Nowadays, the inn in Mingxiangyuan costs a thousand dollars a night, but it is still full every night. He is so frustrated that he would argue with Bingwen.
"Okay, it's almost starting, go back quickly." Zhao Xingwen tried to smooth things over.
Xu Wenlan got off the donkey along the slope and pushed Zhao Xingwen back.
"Aren't you going to put a bet on Miss Lan?" Xiao Mubai looked at Xia Chu and had no intention of moving.
"As long as Aodenge Rile doesn't win, it won't be the same if any of them wins?" Take the lead.
Su Qianle's palm finally touched Xia Chu lightly. The warm touch from the fingertips of her palm made her have a wave of charming reverie, and she became more and more determined to win Huo Huanbu and give it to Xia Chu.
The competition officially started, and at first glance there were one or two hundred girls participating.
"With so many people, when can we compete?" Xiao Muhong muttered.
"It's very fast. It's estimated that there will be about ten people left after one round." Xia Chu said with a smile and a confident voice.
Xiao Mubai looked at his slender hands thoughtfully. The person officiating announced that the first round would be a pin-throwing test, and each girl would take out a basin of water from the backstage corresponding to her number.
Zhao Xingwen watched them come out from the backstage, carefully holding the basin in both hands, and walking very lightly.
Looking carefully, he saw a film-like thing on the water in the basin. He was curious and asked Xu Wenlan, "What is this?"
Xu Wenlan finally had a chance to show off. He waved his folding fan and pointed at him: "This is not ordinary water, this is a basin of mandarin duck water."
Shi Zhongfei became interested and asked, "Which rumor does this come from?"
Xu Wenlan shook the folding fan in his hand, and the hair on his temples danced up and down, making his handsome face more and more lively: "This is wrong, it is not a rumor. The so-called 'Mandarin Duck Water' means taking half a basin of water one night in advance. This Mandarin Duck The water can be mixed with water obtained during the day and night, or mixed with river water and well water and poured into the basin."
Everyone suddenly understood and praised the wonderful idea. Zhao Xingwen nodded and asked: "So that's what happened. What is that layer above?"
Xu Wenlan closed the folding fan and pointed to the film floating on the water in the nearest basin: "If the water is left in the basin overnight and exposed to the sun for a day during the Chinese Valentine's Day, the water surface will vaguely form a film-like substance. At this time, use sewing clothes. Gently place the needle on the water surface. The needle floats on the membranous material. Observe the reflection of the needle in the basin. If the needle shadow is a straight line, it means that the trick has failed. If the needle shadow forms various shapes, or is curved or thick at one end and thick at the other. Thin, or other shapes, it is a clever thing."
Zhao Xingwen didn't quite understand what he heard, but he still felt inexplicably powerful in his heart: "I heard about the four great talents in the capital when I was in Han Yang, and I have always been curious about why you can occupy a unique position. Now I am convinced."
Xu Wenlan rolled her eyes at him and said angrily: "My master's talent name is Qin. Forget it, you know nothing about Qin, chess, calligraphy and painting, and you don't know what Miss Huo's eyes are on you."
Zhao Xingwen was retorted but had no power to reply. He asked how a martial artist knew this. If you discussed the art of war, riding and archery with him, he could argue with you all night long.
Therefore, Zhao Xingwen smiled shyly and changed the subject: "There's nothing comparable, it's just luck."
Xu Wenlan stopped her playful expression and said slightly nervously: "Let it go."
I saw about two hundred girls picking up a needle one after another and placing it gently on the water. Some girls were too nervous and exerted a little force, and the tip of the needle fell first. When the membrane was pierced, it fell into the pelvic floor first. Out.
The remaining ones, after screening, were judged to be out if the needle shadow showed a straight line in the basin.
After a while, half of the girls came off the stage holding basins with shy faces.
Zhao Xingwen, Xu Wenlan, Su Qian'an and Bingwen in the audience couldn't help but hold their breath when they placed the needle. They were relieved when they saw the silver needle floating on the water.
But before the breath was released, the screeners walked over one after another, and their breaths started to rise again. Xu Wenlan and Bingwen held their hands together, Zhao Xingwen and Su Qianan also held their hands together, and the remaining Shi Zhongfei and others People, looking at the weird scene of the four of them, were more nervous than the girls on the stage and couldn't help laughing.
Xiao Mubai looked at Xia Chu's unworried face, just paying attention to Aodenge Rile, and smiled in his ear.
"What did you do when you high-fived them just now?"
(End of chapter)