there is a king in the palace

"You're really ignoring me~ Your Majesty~"

In the Qianqing palace, Zhao Xianao was doing his own thing, even though the king stuck behind him like a follower, he would never give him a look.

The king was very sad, firstly because Zhao Xianao ignored him, and secondly because...he was addicted to gambling, he didn't have lunch and dinner, and now his stomach was growling with hunger.

The king really wanted to get back together with Zhao Xianao, as long as they reconciled, Zhao Xianao would definitely feed him.

Of course, he's not just here to fill his stomach...

"Your majesty, don't be angry, okay, or you can hit me twice?" The king said, lying on the table with his back to Zhao Xianao, and flipping off his robe, "Your majesty ,hurry up."

Zhao Xianao suddenly had a flash of inspiration, feeling that he could draw a "book" with his imagination.

……no.

Out of sight is pure.

Zhao Xianao sat on the chair behind the desk and picked up a book to read.

The king lay on the ground for a long time, but Zhao Xianao didn't see any movement. He sighed a long time, covered his buttocks with his own hands, and muttered something in a low voice.

"It's really hard to coax..."

How can I make Zhao Xianao happy?

The king scratched his cheek and began to think deeply.

After some time, the king had an excellent idea.

When I was in the Tiger Pavilion, those people in the Tiger Pavilion loved to tell some stories that made people excited after listening to them. Among them, the king heard the most 36 tricks.

Now, the king, whose stomach is playing empty city tricks, and whose body is playing bitter tricks, decided to add another trick to retreat, and give Zhao Xianao a combination of three tricks.

If this is not enough, he can only kowtow to Zhao Xianao to admit his mistake.

He wandered around the Qianqing Palace for a long time, Zhao Xianao ignored him and did not drive him out, he knew in his heart that the chance of success was still very high.

The king seemed to be walking towards Zhao Xian'ao's side, but as soon as he raised his legs, his body swayed precariously, then fell heavily to the ground, and then lay there motionless.

Zhao Xianao couldn't see it, but he didn't believe that the person he spanked just now fell to the ground in the blink of an eye.

Therefore, he shook the scroll in his hand, turned his body a little to one side, and treated the fallen king as nothing.

There is no woolen blanket in the study outside the Qianqing palace bedroom, the king is cold and hungry lying there, and feels comfortable all over.

Can't get up, hold back.

Can't handle it, hold back.

This is a "long" tug-of-war, and both "both sides" are determined and will not waver.

Zhao Xianao, who was sitting comfortably, didn't read the book, and only thought about the folk tales of the wolf coming.

The shepherd boy who loves to lie, was eaten by wolves in the end because others no longer believed him.

Forget it.

Before the "long" tug-of-war was over, Zhao Xianao frowned and walked up to him quickly, knelt down and asked, "You—what's wrong with you?"

The king didn't hug his thighs this time, he just squinted his eyes and said weakly, "I'm not feeling well..."

Zhao Xianao thought he had caught a cold, so he put a sticker on his forehead, and then put it on his own forehead.

Fortunately, no fever.

"What's wrong?" The words were concerned, but the tone was still cold.

The king clutched his stomach, tears fell as soon as he said it, "It hurts here..."

"This?"

"no……"

"That's this?"

He poked the king's stomach, and the king grunted in agreement, "Mmm..."

Zhao Xianao frowned even deeper, "Didn't eat?"

"Lunch... dinner... didn't even eat... Your Majesty, I really know I was wrong. Since you don't want to beat me, I will punish myself. Today, tomorrow, after... I won't eat anymore... ..." The king still couldn't bear to be cruel to himself, and swallowed the Hou Tian that was on his lips.

Not eating two meals is really cruel to the king.

But if you are hungry, you will be hungry, what should you lie on the ground to win his sympathy?

If you don't eat because you are greedy for fun, you deserve it!I will not sympathize with you!

"Get up, whether you eat or not has nothing to do with me."

Seeing that his attitude was still the same, the king was a little anxious.

As the saying goes, wisdom grows in haste, and a dog jumps over a wall in a hurry.

No, it's just quick wit. The already smart little tiger has soared IQ and EQ at this time, his expression is more pitiful, and his voice is weaker, "It hurts more in other places..."

Zhao Xianao would never be able to harden his heart when dealing with the king, he was impatient, "It still hurts."

The king held his hand, moved it to the place where his heart was beating, and buried his head in his cuff aggrievedly, "Here, you ignore me, I'm sad..."

At that moment, Zhao Xianao felt the sadness that the king said.

He was still alive and conscious, but his chest seemed to have been pierced by a sharp dagger. The cold wind crazily passed through his chest, and the cold air penetrated to the bone, spreading to the upper and lower parts of his body.

It turned out that this is sad.

Heartless little fat tiger, how do you know what sadness is.

Zhao Xian'ao's eyes gradually softened, he patted the king's shoulder, "Okay, I'll take care of you, get up."

"Really..." The king removed one eye from his sleeve and looked at him secretly, "Are you not angry with me anymore?"

Zhao Xianao's expression became serious and serious, "Yuan Huan, you must keep in mind what I said. If you have anything you want, you can tell me directly. If it's not something that violates the principle and touches the bottom line, I will I will definitely help you. But you must not deceive me, I hope this is the last time."

Your Majesty has already learned a lesson from today's misery. He turned over and got up from the ground, knelt on the ground upright, and said to Zhao Xianao solemnly, "I swear to God, I will never lie to you. There will be another time. The soles of the sores are bleeding!"

The king forgot where he heard those words. He thought about it, and it seemed that it wasn't cruel enough, so he added, "There will be another time! You just peel off my skin and make a chair!"

Hearing these words, Zhao Xianao finally regained his trust in the king.

"Okay, I've made a note, put on my pants, get up and eat something, when I'm full, I'm thinking about how to win the money back."

The king's eyes were shining brightly, "Win it back! Do you want to help me win it back!"

Just kidding, is 25 taels of silver a small amount? It has to be won back.

After the king finished eating the small stove, the two of them pushed away the bowls and chopsticks on the table, and stared at the dice cup on the table with jealous eyes.

"I heard that there is an old man in Chang'an, who can manipulate the dice in the dice cup at will to make it into the number he wants. He once won 1 taels of snowflake silver in one night."

The king was puzzled, "What is a cheater?"

"It's the kind of gambling that cheats. To put it bluntly, it's a lie."

The king stared at the boss, "Cheat? Isn't it good? I swear I won't lie?"

Zhao Xianao patted him on the head, "Don't do things so rigidly. It doesn't matter if you lie to others except me. I think you are very good at deceiving people."

Excellent...?

The king thought it was a compliment, and covered his face shyly, "It's actually not bad."

"..."

"However, if we can be as powerful as that cheater, won't we be able to make a lot of money?"

Zhao Xianao didn't blame him, because he himself had this thought, "Do you know what happened to that cheater?"

"What's wrong?" The king was quite curious.

"I was so poor that I couldn't even eat, and I even begged along the street."

The king couldn't believe it, "Why? No, didn't you say he won 1 taels?"

Seeing his expression, Zhao Xianao felt a sense of storyteller's pride in his heart, "He is too crazy, he was caught cheating on the gambling table, and he cut off two fingers with one knife. People who lack fingers It is forbidden to go to the gambling table, and that cheater has been learning how to make money all his life, and he doesn't know how to make a living at all, and that's it in the end."

The king sighed unceasingly, pestering him to tell the story carefully.

"...Okay, let me try first."

Zhao Xianao picked up the dice cup, put it to his ear and shook it.

"What are you doing?"

How stupid.

"I'm listening to the sound. Think about it, if we can judge the state of the inside by the sound the dice make when it stops, wouldn't we be invincible?"

The king felt that Zhao Xianao's move was wrong, but he had just been forgiven, and he didn't want to offend Zhao Xianao again so soon, so he sat obediently without saying a word.

Zhao Xianao listened for a while, then handed the dice cup to the king, "You have good ears, listen."

The king's ears are indeed better than Zhao Xian'ao's, but no matter how the dice cup is turned, he can't tell the difference.

"Your Majesty... maybe, we can't start with the voice..."

Zhao Xianao raised his face, "You question me?"

Before waiting for the king to explain, Zhao Xianao nodded and said, "You are right to question, then what good idea do you have?"

"No……"

Unexpectedly, the two of them returned to their original intentions and continued to stare at the dice cup with jealous eyes.

After a long time, Zhao Xianao got up suddenly, "Let's go out of the palace."

"Now? Leaving the palace?"

"The time is just right."

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the nights in Chang'an are bustling, especially places like casinos and brothels where men do business.

The Great King and Zhao Xianao wore ordinary clothes, holding the emperor's gold medal, and quietly left the palace from Anwumen.

Their destination is the largest gambling house in Chang'an - Yunding House.

It is the place where the gods stay.

The Yunding House is not like the Theater Viewing Building and the Backing Building. It has nothing to do with Zhao Xianao, but the casinos and brothels in the entire Song Dynasty have to pay a large amount of tax to the national treasury every year, which is ten times more than ordinary businessmen. It can be said that Half of the treasury is supported by these people.

"It's so big inside, so beautiful! Wow, the gaming tables are so big!"

Zhao Xianao poked his waist, feeling very disgusted, "Can you stop being like an old farmer entering the city, isn't our "home" not as beautiful as here?"

The king looked here and there, "No."

Zhao Xianao glared at him.

The king was wronged, "I can't lie to you."

Your Majesty is indeed telling the truth.

The Yunding House is magnificent and extremely extravagant. A square plaque is hung on the stone wall facing the gate. On it is the Chinese character Gambling in gold. Above the plaque is a crimson curtain embroidered with golden flowers. On the left side of the plaque is a couplet. It says size as you wish, and on the right side, wealth is determined by God. There are twelve crystal lamps hanging on the roof, making the cloud-top house bright like daytime. There is a gold-leaf incense burner in each corner, and white clouds and smoke envelope the house. At first glance, it looks like the world. wonderland.

Not to mention the exquisitely carved mahogany tables and chairs and the pure gold cornucopia placed next to the plaque.

Zhao Xianao's bedroom is not so wide.

The king and Zhao Xianao walked to a long table with a marble table, where they were betting big and small. There were nearly a hundred people around the table, and it was a little spacious. Played a lot in the palace.

These people are all dignitaries in clothes and clothes, and spend a lot of money. A gamble can cost hundreds of taels of silver.

coins?nonexistent.

"Really rich..." Zhao Xianao looked greedy. Although he was the richest in the Song family, the money only appeared on the ledger, and it was the first time he saw so much money.

"Your appearance now is also very similar to that of an old peasant entering the city."

Zhao Xianao cast a sideways glance at him, took out a gold ingot from his bosom, and weighed it in his hand, but he still refused to place a bet.

The dealer had noticed him a long time ago, "This brother has been watching it for a while, come and try your luck."

Zhao Xianao glanced at him, "No hurry, no hurry."

As if predicting that he would make a bet sooner or later, the dealer continued to roll the dice without teasing him.

After a while, Zhao Xianao casually threw the gold ingot on the small table, scaring the king into turning back into a tiger.

But he still had good eyesight, and he could see that Zhao Xianao was pretending to be rich. The king didn't take the gold ingot back in a petty manner, but looked at the dice cup with an indifferent face.

The dealer opened the dice cup, it was really small, he gave Zhao Xianao two ingots of gold ingots, and said with a smile on his face, "Brother, good luck."

Zhao Xianao took the gold ingot, turned to the king and said, "Is it fun?"

The king immediately understood, "It's too easy to win this money, it's boring and boring, let's go and look at other things."

When the dealer heard that they were going to leave, his face changed slightly, "What are you talking about, little brother? Gambling dice is fun and luck."

The person next to him also said, "I see that this is your first time playing, and you are very lucky."

Zhao Xianao waved his hand and led the king to the other side.

The banker didn't dare to do anything to him in public, because he looked at his expensive clothes, and was afraid of offending the owner who was not easy to mess with, so he could only suffer from boredom.

After leaving the crowd, the king let out a long sigh of relief, "I was scared to death!"

"Didn't you eat the bear's heart and leopard's guts? You're sweating so much."

"Whoever loves you, it's not my gold." The king pouted his red lips, and didn't say that I'm afraid you'll lose money and cry.

"Don't worry, that person sees that I'm a stranger, so he will definitely let me taste some sweetness." Zhao Xianao knows everything related to money in Chang'an City like the back of his hand.

The king was stunned, "You mean, that person cheated?"

Zhao Xianao bent down slightly, leaned close to his ear, and said in a low voice, "Are you trying to make trouble? Can you keep your voice down? Deceit is certain, but they are all done very carefully, so that some people Lose, some people win, take profits from it, don't cheat the casino and lose money."

The king didn't like him talking next to his ear, the heat made his whole body numb and itchy, "You don't have to say that, others can't hear you."

"Ok."

Zhao Xianao raised his head and looked ahead, without the slightest bit of embarrassment after failing to seduce someone deliberately.

"But what are we doing here?"

Zhao Xianao looked around and didn't answer the king's words. After a long time, he suddenly smiled, "I found it."

"what?"

Zhao Xianao led him to an old man in his early fifties who was sweeping the floor, and handed him the gold ingot he just won, "Can you do me a favor?"

The king didn't understand what Zhao Xianao meant at first, but he was as witty as he was, and quickly realized that this seemingly ordinary sweeping old man kept his right hand tucked in his sleeve.

He is the cheat!

"As soon as I'm old, I'm a sweeper. What can I do for you?"

Do tall people talk like that?It's hidden when you hear it!

"Talk outside."

Your Majesty thought that according to the development of the story in the storybook, the expert would see through the red dust, and would not do anything for Zhao Xianao firmly, and Zhao Xianao would understand it and reason with his emotions. In the end, the expert was moved by his attitude. Moved, everyone is happy.

However, the king never expected that as soon as he went out from the back door of the Yunding House, Zhao Xianao took out his gold medal arrow to show the old man.

They said a lot, and it was condensed and passed to the king's ears like this.

"I, Your Majesty, help me."

"Alright, Your Majesty!"

"Money, take it, pay."

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

The scriptures are all lies!

Zhao Xianao and the king followed Laoqian back to his residence. Under Laoqian's teaching, Zhao Xianao learned how to manipulate the special dice.

However, the king who does not know how to do it has no knowledge of theoretical knowledge, and he does not know how to operate it in practice.

It was midnight when we returned to the palace. It was freezing outside, and Zhao Xianao didn't prepare a carriage. He was shivering from the cold, and insisted that the king stick to him and walk, "Why is it so cold this year...Wang Yuanhuan, aren't you a goblin? Turn into a fire..."

"Your majesty, you should read those scripts less in the future, they are all lies."

"What about turning pebbles into silver? Doesn't count?"

"Well... Then I will try to absorb the essence of the sun and the moon in the future, okay."

Zhao Xianao was amused by him, and slightly turned his head to look at him, but his lips brushed against his cheek inadvertently.

At that moment, Zhao Xian'ao's heart was beating very hard, and the sound of thumping sounded like thunder in the silent night.

The king felt the softness across his cheeks, but he didn't take it seriously. He was still thinking about the 25 taels of silver, and asked worriedly, "Your Majesty, how can we win the silver back?"

Zhao Xianao, who had been staring at him closely, felt disappointed by his reaction. An unknown fire rose in his heart, and this fire was not willing to spread it on the king. He sneered and shifted his target, "Tomorrow, in the palace Let’s start a gamble and let them play to their heart’s content.”

This kind of thing can only be done by Zhao Xianao.

He has always been an unreliable emperor, otherwise, how could he fall in love with a tiger spirit.

……

At noon the next day, Zhao Xianao set up the gambling table in the Imperial Garden, anyone in the entire palace can participate in it, with a base of [-] coins and no upper limit.

The concubines seldom saw the emperor once, and it was also rare to play with the emperor. They all brought their bulging purses to the Imperial Garden, and those eunuchs and court ladies who wanted to show their faces in front of the emperor also brought all their savings. , Of course, these people are very few.

And all those little eunuchs who won the king's fortune yesterday all came, which was expected by the king and Zhao Xianao.

The news that the emperor started a gambling game in the palace and played the dice himself in the dealership spread outside the palace in the blink of an eye, and the people still called him a dog emperor. Even the civil servants got the news and began to write notes criticizing the emperor.

"Buy it and leave it, buy it and leave it! Concubine Hui! Concubine Xuexue Min, you won't be able to make a bet. What are you always trading for?"

Facing the emperor's reprimand, Concubine Hui felt bitter.

Minpin's father is the richest man in Chang'an, how much the family subsidizes throughout the year is beyond her reach.

no!If you can't compare it, you have to compare it!

The comparability of the concubines in the harem should not be underestimated. One person took the lead to bet 100 taels, and all the people behind followed. Zhao Xianao shook the dice, and some people cried in their hearts and others smiled.

Zhao Xianao is still very fair, those who have money will lose more, those who have no money will lose less, in short, it will be his own people who will win in the end.

Such as the king, such as Manager Li.

These concubines are not stupid, they noticed that the king can always make the right bets, and they followed him to bet. After a few trials, they found that the king was really reliable, so they placed a big bet. Zhao Xianao looked at the gold and smiled. Shaking out a leopard.

Manager Li laughed at the side, "Your Majesty, you have eaten everything!"

"Ah—how could a leopard be born! What's wrong with you, Little Yuanzi?!" "Exactly! How could a leopard be born!" "Xiao Yuanzi!"

Even Concubine Min was in a hurry, let alone those concubines who were already tight on money.

The eunuchs and maids also lost a lot, so they didn't dare to say anything.

"My ladies and gentlemen, why are you blaming the slaves? If you didn't want to win the dealer's money, how could you lose so much, isn't it the emperor!"

Zhao Xianao sang with him, and looked at the concubines with dissatisfaction, "Why, I can't win?"

be cheated!

The concubines instantly understood that the emperor was blatantly cheating!

It's really dumb to eat coptis, and I can't tell the pain.

Concubines, you look at me, I look at you, standing in a line for the first time.

Zhao Xianao counted the money with his head down, and when he looked up, there was no one in front of him except Director Li and the king.

"Your Majesty! How much did you win?!"

It was rare for Zhao Xianao to be so happy, "Not counting the copper coins, the total is 350 taels. As for you, you have won a lot, right? You just bet [-] taels on the one I took all."

"I won exactly 300 taels~" The king is so sensible, he left 15 taels of silver, and gave the rest to Zhao Xianao, "It should belong to the emperor."

After finishing speaking, the eyes of the king and Zhao Xianao fell on Director Li who was about to leave.

Manager Li smiled awkwardly, and gave Zhao Xianao all the 260 taels he just won, "Eunuch Xiao Yuan is right...just right..."

The news that the emperor played a fraudulent game and won more than 2000 taels of silver from the concubines and eunuchs quickly spread outside the palace, and instantly became a new topic of discussion among the people in the streets and alleys.

According to gossip, the emperor learned his gambling skills in a certain casino in Chang'an.

Those casinos in Chang'an were questioned like never before, and they were completely empty for a while.