Why is my master always lost and swollen? !

night, summer night.

There was no one in the dark alley, except for one lamp.

Brand-new lanterns radiate warm light and hang obliquely on the narrow gate at the end of the long alley.There is a fishing rod under the lantern, which is the kind used for ordinary sea fishing.

Liu Zian felt that Zhu Meng was deliberately mocking those who walked into the gambling hall, for a small profit, he was willing to be caught, and in the end he lost his life.

Of course, what Liu Zian could see, others could also see, but they didn't talk about it.

Everyone who stepped into the gambling house believed that he could escape unscathed, including the special envoy sent by the monarch.

All walks of life have their own kings, and gambling is the same.

The special envoy sent by the monarch is the king of gambling here.

The envoy was a sailor when he was young, he had been to various places, and he had gambled with various people.According to his own words, he has made tens of millions of big and small bets in his life, but he has never lost a single one—at least he has never lost since he was 30 years old.

The special envoy is 73 years old this year.

Not only is he a good gambler, but his eyes are even more poisonous. No matter whether he is a big doctor, a small doctor, a doctor who plays tickets or an expert in the doctor, no one has ever been able to play tricks in front of him, because no matter what tricks the opponent uses, he can see it at a glance. come out.

Perhaps it was because he played too well that he didn't like to gamble.He would not have come to this place if he hadn't been ordered by the king.

That's right, the task given to him by the monarch is to bankrupt this casino, cut off the sea monsters' retreat, and drive them away.

The envoy was about to succeed.However, the victories of the past few days have dazzled his mind, and he suddenly wants to seek some challenges.

"You said you wanted to challenge them?" The monarch was a little surprised. "Obviously if you continue to win this way, you can achieve the same goal. Why bother?"

"My lord, the challenge is to expose their methods in person, so as to prevent the people from continuing to be obsessed with this way." The special envoy said, "I am confident that I will win!"

Seeing that he was persistent, the monarch said nothing more, but secretly ordered the army to ambush around on the day of the competition to prevent accidents.

On the other hand, in the casino, Liu Zian read the so-called "challenge book" over and over again.

"What is written on it?" he whispered.

Not only is the language difficult to understand in this country, but even the characters are different from those in other places.They once asked the girl from the Qitong country to help them translate, but the girl could not read.

"Whatever it is, we'll be leaving in two days anyway." Aning glanced at him and said.

"What if it's something important?"

"If it was that important, they couldn't just throw a piece of paper over."

"But……"

"But what? But, if you're worried, just take this piece of paper to your husband, or to Boss Zhu, and let them take a look." Aning said impatiently.

She couldn't see Liu Zian's mother-in-law's appearance the most.

Liu Zian nodded, folded the paper and put it in his pocket.

"By the way, do you still have nightmares these two days?" Ah Ning asked again after a pause.

"Why don't you do it?" Liu Zian sighed, "Every day when I close my eyes, I see a bunch of people who are neither human nor ghost tied to the mountain wall, crying and howling, yelling for me to find someone to save them .”

"Whether this matter is big or small, let Qi show you later." Ah Ning said.

She instinctively thought that Liu Zian's matter was not that simple, and it might have some connection with the void world.

"Tell him to watch?" Before Liu Zian finished speaking, seeing Aning glaring at him, he quickly changed his words, "Tell him to watch, I don't worry!"

"Don't worry about what?" Mr. Baohe came back from the outside, just in time to hear Liu Zian talking nonsense in a serious manner, and asked with a smile.

"Sir, you're back!" Liu Zian's eyes lit up, and instead of taking the stairs, he slid down the handrail, "Have you gained anything?"

"The closest ones are the Three Kingdoms, the Zhourao Kingdom and the Long-Arm Kingdom, and you can get there in a day or two by boat." Mr. Baohe found a place to sit down, took out a small book, and said, "This is the way to go east. Going to the west, there are the Guanxiong Kingdom, the Yi Kingdom, the Stork Head Kingdom, the Yumin Kingdom, the Jiexiong Kingdom and the Yanhuo Kingdom. However, there are only a few records about these countries, and it is impossible to determine where their specific locations are. I searched as I walked."

"Sir, how did you find out about this?" Liu Zian was a little surprised, "You can speak their words?"

"I don't know how to say it, but I just guessed the general meaning." Mr. Baohe said with a sense of taste, took a glass and poured himself a glass of water, "I mainly looked it up from the book."

in the book...

Liu Zian and Aning glanced at each other, they had seen the characters written by the Qi Tong Kingdom, they were like ghostly drawn symbols!

"Sir, can you understand the words on it?" Liu Zian took out the paper with "Ghost Drawing Talisman" written on it, and unfolded it.

"The challenge book..." Mr. Baohe murmured, and suddenly asked, "Where did you find it?"

"I didn't look for it. When I got up for a walk in the morning, I found this nailed on the door, so I took it back." After a pause, Liu Zian couldn't help being curious, and asked, "Sir, when did you learn the Kingdom of Different Tongues?" Text? Could it be that you have been here before?"

"It's really hard to say. I don't think I have been here, but I met acquaintances who know me."

"Like the proprietress of Wushan Hotel?"

"Almost." After saying this, Mr. Baohe hesitated for a moment, as if recalling some bad memories.

"What's wrong?" Seeing that Mr. Baohe's expression became a little subtle, Liu Zian asked.

"It's nothing, just sitting in the sun for several days looking at flowers and listening to the sounds of nature."

To be honest, Mr. Baohe has always felt that he did not hear the dialogue between the world and all things, but had an auditory hallucination.

The sun is scorching hot, sitting in the sun for such a long time, it may be difficult not to have auditory hallucinations...

"Listen to the voice of nature?" Liu Zian wanted to laugh, but seeing Mr. Baohe's bitter and bitter expression, he felt that it was not natural to laugh out loud, so he forcibly held back.

"Laugh if you want to. To be honest, if it didn't happen to me, I would also want to laugh." Mr. Baohe saw that Liu Zian was holding back his tears, he sighed and said helplessly.

As a result, Liu Zian laughed like a convulsion, causing Aning to roll his eyes at him again and again.

"What happened next?" Anin asked.She felt that Mr. Baohe's ability to understand Qi Tong Guo's characters had something to do with it.

"How should I put it, although the process sounds a bit ridiculous, it is still somewhat useful. For example, although I don't understand the language of the Qi Tong country, nor their characters, but I can understand what they want to express. Mr. Baohe smiled and said, "It's strange, isn't it?"

"What's so strange about this?" Aning asked back. In her memory, Mr. Baohe seemed to have always had this kind of ability, just like getting lost, it was born.

Mr. Baohe was taken aback when he heard the words, then shook his head.

At this time, Liu Zian had laughed enough, saw the paper on the table, and asked, "By the way, what kind of challenge letter is this?"

"Someone wants to bet with us."

"Gambling? Gambling with the man who opened the casino, did this person burn the money?!"

"Moreover, they not only want to gamble, but also gamble with dice."

"Then aren't they doomed?"

"No, we are doomed."

"why?"

Liu Zian couldn't figure it out, Mr. Baohe could throw three sixes with one shot, how could he lose?

"In order for this business to last for a long time, we must let the boss taste some sweetness." Mr. Baohe said, "If you don't believe me, you can ask Boss Zhu, he must think so too."

Sure enough, when Liu Zian told Boss Zhu about this, he also said the same thing.

"If you always lose, then who will come to play?" Ju Meng took a sip of the hookah and said cheerfully, "We not only want to lose, but also lose beautifully!"

"I've only heard that winning is beautiful, but I haven't heard that losing is beautiful." Liu Zian muttered in a low voice.

"I haven't heard of it either." Ju Meng shrugged, "So it depends on Mr. Baohe's ability."

The location was set by the special envoy, and it was said that it was to prevent them from playing tricks.

Mr. Baohe naturally didn't intend to play tricks, so he agreed.

When we arrived at the location, the room was already full of people. I saw a dry and thin little old man sitting on a red sandalwood chair covered with red felt. He had a pair of small triangular eyes on a dry and sallow face. A few sparse goatees, and the gray hair is almost gone.

All in all, this is a little old man who makes people feel very weird at a glance.

Mr. Baohe took a deep breath.

Ever since he became Painter Bai, he has had a psychological shadow on this kind of weird little old man. He would not deal with him if he could not deal with him on weekdays. Unexpectedly, he was not as good as God, so he ran into him.

"I hope everything goes well this time." Mr. Baohe prayed secretly in his heart.

"Sit down, please sit down." The special envoy smiled at Mr. Baohe and said.

Mr. Baohe didn't give in, and sat down graciously. He didn't have the habit of standing in front of others.

"I was a seaman when I was young, so I can say something about you."

Mr. Baohe nodded when he heard the words, indicating that he knew.

"What's your name?" the envoy asked.

"It's not worth mentioning." Mr. Baohe said softly.

"Hey, why is it not worth mentioning?" The special envoy laughed, "I heard that you are very lucky?"

"It's passable."

"Then, will your excellency be willing to give me some face and gamble with me, a little old man?"

"What are you gambling?"

"Of course it's a game of dice."

Mr. Baohe also laughed.

"I may not dare to bet on other bets, but I never refuse to bet on dice."

"Oh? Talk about it."

"Because I'm always very lucky when I play dice."

The special envoy suddenly opened his pair of squinting triangular eyes and looked at Mr. Baohe.

As soon as he opened his eyes, it seemed as if two rays of light shot out. Those who saw it for the first time would inevitably be shocked.

However, Mr. Baohe was not intimidated.

He has seen many strange things, and this little thing can't frighten him.

The envoy glared at him, then narrowed his eyes again.

"Luck can change. Good luck can turn bad, and bad luck can turn good." He chuckled, "There is only one kind of person whose luck will never change."

"What kind of person?"

"An unlucky person."

"What do you rely on if you don't rely on luck?"

"Rely on skill!"

The special envoy moved his fingers, as if exercising his muscles and bones. After a while, he said slowly, "In front of laymen, sometimes a little skill is enough."

Mr. Baohe seemed completely incomprehensible, and asked, "What technique?"

The special envoy seemed to pretend that he really didn’t understand, and explained: “The skill of manipulating dice. Dice are very simple things, neither life nor mind, as long as you have this skill, what do you want it to be, so it will be."

Mr. Baohe laughed, as if he didn't quite believe it, and asked again: "Is there really such a thing in the world?"

"Absolutely."

"Then will you?"

"Do you want to see it?"

"think."

"it is good."

He clapped his hands, and immediately someone beside him brought a large bowl, in which were three perfectly carved dice.

"Do you think there is something wrong with the dice?" the special envoy asked, seeing that Mr. Baohe had been staring at the dice in the bowl.

"No, I just think the dice are quite delicate."

"Gambling is not only a great learning, but also a kind of enjoyment, so this tool must not be sloppy."

As he spoke, the special envoy reached out and grabbed the three dice.

He rolled the three dice lightly, with a natural, proficient and graceful technique.

Mr. Baohe didn't even look at it, but he knew that the three sixes must be thrown out of the three dice.

Sure enough, just as he expected.

"It seems that you have been lucky recently." Mr. Baohe said with a long sigh.

"It's not luck, it's skill."

The envoy squinted his eyes and smiled again, grabbed three dice from the bottom of the bowl, and threw them down.

This time he didn't throw three sixes, but the smallest dot, three yaos.

"Your luck has turned bad." Mr. Baohe laughed.

"No change." The envoy said.Immediately afterwards, three more dice popped out of his obviously empty hand.Three dice fell into the bowl, knocking "Yaoyaoyao" rolling, and all six dice became six points.

With a wave of the envoy's hand, six more dice were conjured up with his bare hands, and he threw them down. Twelve dice rolled in the bowl at the same time, and when they stopped, all of them were six.

Mr. Baohe seemed dumbfounded again.

"This is also a skill. A true expert can hold several sets of dice in one hand at the same time, and others will never see it."

Mr. Baohe smiled wryly and said, "I can't see it. If it wasn't for your constant guidance, I would never have thought that there is such a great knowledge in a small dice."

"There is also a kind of person who has practiced Qigong, and his technique is even better. As soon as he slaps the table, his idea will change. Even if you obviously roll a six, it will become a yo." The special envoy gave Mr. Baohe a meaningful look. , and said, "But in terms of gambling, this kind of style is a bit rascal. A real expert will never use this kind of method."

"Why?" Mr. Baohe continued to pretend to be stupid.

"Because gambling is a very learned thing, and it is also a kind of enjoyment. Even if you have to use tricks, you must use it gracefully. You must not force it to make people lose." The special envoy slowed down and smiled. "You You must convince people to lose, so that others will not trouble you."

"Sure enough, he is knowledgeable." Mr. Baohe sighed.

The special envoy's eyes opened again, staring at Mr. Baohe and said, "But of course we won't use these tricks when we gamble this time."

"Even if you want me to use it, I won't."

The special envoy said with a sullen face, "If we want to gamble, we must gamble fairly, and there must be no trace of fraud!"

"Yes." Mr. Baohe nodded kindly.

The envoy narrowed his eyes and smiled again.

"Okay, then I'll play a few games with you."

"Why play a few games, it's more fun to see the winners and losers!"

The special envoy's face was a bit ugly, and it took a long time before he said quietly: "You only gamble?"

"As long as you can tell the difference between winning and losing, one hand is enough."

"How much do you bet?"

"Twenty percent of the casino's dividend."

Except for Mr. Baohe, the faces of all the people present changed.Although they know that gamblers sometimes spend a lot of money, they have never even heard of a real gamble.

The special envoy calmed down and said, "If I lose, you can ask whatever you want."

Two people in the crowd heard the words, frowned, looked at each other, and pointed out the door.

"I really don't know what this old man is going to do!" one of them said angrily.

This person is none other than the King of the Qi Tongu Kingdom who came to watch the battle after changing his face.

"My lord, calm down." Another person comforted.

That's right, this person is the minister who has been advising the monarch.

"Why did the old man tell that guy all those bells and whistles? Why don't these methods be used to deal with him?"

"Because the old man knows that kid is absolutely extraordinary."

"But he didn't see the old man's tricks at all."

"He's pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger." The minister smiled and said again, "But the old man is not easy. He knew he couldn't hide it from him, so he simply showed him his hands. As long as he knows how powerful and says something nice, then we Take the initiative.”

"But this kid just doesn't know what's good or bad!"

"So Yichen came to see that the old man is already planning to let go of him this time."

"The old man has been back for seven or eight years, and he hasn't gambled in the past few years..."

"Don't worry, my lord, Jiang is still old and hot. Sun Monkey has 72 changes, and he still can't jump out of the palm of Buddha."

"Has the old man ever missed?"

"there has never been."

The monarch finally showed a reassuring smile.

"It's fine if you don't."