Forces of Temptation

Qu Jinsha's smiling face was still kind, and the abacus in his heart was already raining down.

The position and technique of Jiang Fang's folding cards are extremely precise.

In this set of well-designed magnetic cards, I am afraid that most of them have been reduced to ordinary poker.

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, it would be too deliberate and not decent enough to propose a new card now.

According to the rules of the casino, if there is no obvious damage to a new deck of cards that has just been opened, it must be used for at least three rounds before it can be replaced.

Watching the almost completely invalid poker being fed into the machine, I heard the sound of disorderly cleaning and brushing of the machine.

Qu Jinsha had heard this voice thousands of times.

As he listened, his heart calmed down.

Originally, he planned to let Jiang Fang taste some sweetness in the first game.

Now it seems that it is no longer necessary.

Young people are inevitably arrogant, and it is a good thing to suffer a little loss.

Jiang Fang seemed completely unaware of what he was about to face: "Is there a banker?"

Qu Jinsha didn't dare to underestimate him, but his attitude was still casual: "Do you still know 'banker'?"

"It's mentioned in the rules of Texas Hold'em, you just taught it."

"You can have this. Let's take turns to sit in the village."

"One round?"

"One rotation."

"What's the dealer's odds?"

"Win or lose is tripled."

"Who will be the first to sit on the bank?"

"Me first?"

"……it is good."

During several back-and-forth conversations, Jiang Fang's smile had faded from his youthfulness and shyness.

He sat comfortably and comfortably, with one hand resting on his knee, his slender fingers like a pianist tapping slowly on his knee joints following the symphony playing in the casino.

"You come first."

Qu Jinsha secretly smiled.

He had already seen that this young man was capable.

Knows the tricks of the casino, understands basic gambling terminology, and is ambitious enough to make a fortune.

However, even if he wanted to pretend to be a pig and eat a tiger, he acted too anxiously.

Before he could bear it for a while, he was impatient to show off his abilities, just like a little peacock, not willing to hide its beautiful tail at all.

After reorganizing the slightly chaotic situation, Qu Jinsha's desire to support Jiang Fang increased.

What's the fun in taming a dog?

Wouldn't it be fun to tie up a proud and self-confident pup who thinks he's a wolf, and wear down his dignity and ideals little by little.

Nan Zhou also saw that Jiang Fang's temperament had undergone an indescribable change.

Before, his aggression was very light, and he was always courteous and smiling, giving people the impression that he was very approachable.

But now Jiang Fang, sitting there alone, is like a frozen fire, looking enthusiastic, but inside he is proud and indifferent.

This him and that him, the only thing in common is that he is always smiling.

Nan Zhou took a few steps forward and touched Jiang Fang's arm.

Jiang Fang, who had vaguely regained his previous state, felt his heart skip a beat and turned his head.

Meeting Nan Zhou's gaze, the muscles on his forearm that were unconsciously tensed suddenly relaxed.

Jiang Fang asked with a smile, "What's wrong?"

Nan Zhou lowered his head and asked him in a moderate voice: "What is a banker?"

In the casino, this problem can be called mental retardation.

Boos rang out from all directions.

But Jiang Fang was not impatient at all, and explained to him in detail: "At the gambling table, the winner of the previous game is usually the banker, and the other players are called the player. The player who bet on the size of the banker can take turns. . Once for him, once for me, and then it's his turn."

"Then 'win or lose is tripled', what do you mean?"

"If the banker wins, the player will lose three times his chips; similarly, if the banker loses, he will pay three times his chips."

Nan Zhou understood without expression: "Ah..."

Then he stood beside Jiang Fang, showing no intention of leaving.

Jiang Fang: "Any questions?"

Nan Zhou: "No more. I want to stand here."

Jiang Fang looked at him inquiringly.

Nan Zhou: "...to accompany you."

The hustle and bustle of the crowd, the soft and warm red velvet carpet, the brilliance of the crystal lamp, and the opponent who is ready to go.

Jiang Fang, who was surrounded by these people in all directions, asked with a smile, "I look lonely, do I need someone to accompany me?"

"I do not know."

Nan Zhou lowered his eyes and said lightly: "...I just came here to stand for a while."

Jiang Fang's heart trembled slightly when Nanzhou's subtle straight ball hit his heart.

He fixed his gaze on Nan Zhou until a boxy hole was opened in the center of the card table, and a stack of cards that had been completely shuffled face down was sent out.

The bunny dealer brings a tray full of chips.

The 10-point chip is yellow, the 50-point chip is blue, and the 100-point chip is red.

Seeing this, Li Yinhang was startled.

...Didn't you agree to only bet 100 points?

But Jiang Fang at the gaming table had no objection to this.

The bunny girl took out a small copper cane-shaped card hook, lifted the hook, and lined up the thoroughly shuffled cards.

Qu Jinsha's eyes quickly flicked across the cards.

He didn't see any cards with special textures.

...the magnetic code did not work.

Of course, he had expected such a situation a long time ago, so he wasn't too surprised.

He deliberately checked whether Jiang Fang took the opportunity to mark the card when he took the card just now.

Qu Jinsha prided himself on his sharp eyesight, but after inspecting around, he found that Jiang Fang's hands and feet were quite clean.

This discovery made him a little disappointed.

According to the rules of the Douzhuan casino, once a "player" cheats, if he is caught, he will have to repay 10 times his gambling money.

Qu Jinsha likes this word game.

The guests are the "players", and he is the "player".

The master cheated, how could it be considered cheating?

Just wait for three rounds before changing to a new deck of cards.

At that time, Jiang Fang would not be able to encounter any new cards.

Jiang Fang quickly designated a card.

With a steady mind, Qu Jinsha randomly took the last card, moved it to his eyes, and opened it to check.

Grass flower 7, a moderate number, no surprises.

Qu Jinsha smiled and asked, "Will you increase the size?"

In the chip tray in front of Jiang Fang, there was a solitary yellow chip coin with a face value of 10 points.

After checking the bottom of the cards, his expression was still impeccable, and nothing could be seen.

He replied: "No."

Qu Jinsha smiled even wider.

The cards drawn by the opponent must not be very big.

As Qu Sands expected.

Jiang Fang turned over the card, it was 9 of spades.

Picking 52 out of 2 is just such a boring game of pure luck.

In the first game, Jiang Fang won without pain or itching.

The crowd of onlookers erupted into cheers with little enthusiasm, as well as booing gloatingly:

"Oh—the boss lost!"

Boss Qu was neither angry nor annoyed, and put the cards back to their original positions with a slight smile.

Although Jiang Fang won this game, he won a lot of morale.

"Oh my goodness." Qu Jinsha watched his three 10-point chips being moved into Jiang Fang's chip slot by the copper hook, and put on a very regretful tone, "If Xiao Jiang was a little more confident just now, he would have raised his bet. Yes, now it can triple."

Hearing this, Li Yinhang, who was still immersed in the joy of winning, felt a lump in his heart, and his interest dropped greatly.

Yes, the value of 9 is actually quite large.

If I had been a little more confident and called just now...

Nan Zhou's voice interrupted her regret: "Why didn't Boss Naqu add it, because he wasn't confident enough?"

Qu Jinsha was not annoyed, and played Taijiquan gently: "Haha, people of my age can't fight anymore and like to seek stability. I didn't expect that young people are also cautious and have no drive."

Jiang Fang completely ignored the soft knife in Qu Jinsha's words, put the 9 of spades in his hand into the card pile, and took the whole deck of cards in his hand again.

Because most of the magnetic codes in the card had been destroyed by him, Qu Jinsha was not annoyed at him, and just reminded him in a leisurely manner: "Xiao Jiang, the second round is about to start."

Jiang Fang glanced over the numbers on the card one by one, without raising his head, he said, "Let me see."

Qu Jinsha's heart skipped a beat.

Can he count cards?

But in a moment, Qu Jinsha laughed: "You don't need to look at it. As long as it goes into the shuffler, it will be shuffled again."

"It won't be a mess."

While speaking, Jiang Fang raised his eyes from above the fan-shaped card.

After the lower half of his face was blocked, Jiang Fang's eyes lost the smile.

He said softly:

"Boss Qu, there are rules for all cards."

"No matter how you wash it, you will see what you should see."

Qu Jinsha laughed.

I didn't expect this handsome young man to be quite good at putting on airs.

It seems that they are planning to do something?

But Jiang Fang quickly closed the cards, revealing the lower half of his face with a sincere smile again.

This turned the somewhat serious words into an insignificant little joke.

52 cards, again fed into the machine.

After a lot of searching, the table was slowly opened again, and a deck of cards was revealed.

This time it was Jiang Fang's turn to sit in the manor.

If he wanted to come up with a thousand, he had no choice but to seize the opportunity of hitting the cards just now.

Qu Jinsha's small but sharp gaze quickly scanned the backs of the cards spread out on the card table, trying to find the traces of Chujiangfang's betting.

Unexpectedly, after searching, he had an unexpected harvest.

Magnetic code!

On the 13th card from the left, there is a slight discoloration that is unique to the magnetic code after it is recognized!

The difference is as small as the 70th and 80th levels in the game of spotting the color blocks.

How small is it?

Even if it is so small that this cheating card is picked out and placed in front of everyone, telling them that it is a problematic card, it is difficult for ordinary people to identify where the cheating is.

Jiang Fang's discount did not destroy all the magnetic codes!

For the first time, the slightly damaged magnetic code was not recognized by the machine.

The second time, the magnetic code successfully passed the magnetic screen.

Qu Jinsha, who was overjoyed, didn't change his face. After thinking about it, he naturally took out the card that represented victory as before.

Lady luck is on his side!

Thinking of this, Qu Jinsha calmed down and was not in a hurry to unveil the plaque. He asked Jiang Fang who was on the opposite side: "Little dealer, have you chosen?"

Jiang Fang put the selected cards upside down in front of him, turned sideways, and took a red 100-point chip from the chip tray, and put it into the chip compartment together with the 40-point chip from the previous round.

Qu Jinsha sneered in his heart.

After winning a game by luck, and then inspired by myself, I really burst into confidence.

Qu Jinsha added the same chip as him, and said while adding, "Do you want to increase the chip?"

"what……"

Jiang Fang imitated Nan Zhou's sudden tone, and took another red chip, sandwiched it between the thumb and index finger of his right hand, as if holding a chess piece, rubbed it for a while, and put the chip into the chip box again: "Add more chips."

Qu Jinsha was not afraid at all, and added the same chips as him, and kindly reminded: "Jiang Fang, add less, if you lose, you are the banker, and you have to pay three times."

Hearing what he said, Jiang Fang raised his hand to his ear, facing Qu Jinsha with his palm, and flicked his fingertips lightly.

—— Between his little finger and ring finger, there is actually a red chip sandwiched!

He dropped the red chip into the grid and repeated: "Add more."

Seeing that he was so determined, Qu Jinsha's heart tightened suddenly.

The magnetic code will only help the table identify the highest cards in the rules from the 52 cards.

Did he also get 2?

And won the suit?Draw the biggest 2 of spades?

Just as Qu Jinsha was about to quietly turn over his own card to check for confirmation, he saw that Jiang Fang, who had added two yards in a row, turned over his card.

Impressively, it was a 9 of hearts.

Qu Jinsha: "..."

He almost choked on himself.

After a short moment of shock, it took him a lot of effort to control his desire to laugh out loud.

……That's it?

It's just that I got the same 9 as last time!

How could Qu Jinsha have expected that his casual aggressive method would be so useful?

Seeing the game that must be won, his strong desire to play rose again.

Doesn't Jiang Fang like to pretend to be a pig and eat a tiger?

Why don't you pretend to be yourself, let him taste the feeling of being sucked until his bones are crispy.

Forcibly suppressing the raised corners of his mouth, Qu Jinsha filled up the chips in the chip grid one by one, like a generous and honest elder, and said with a smile: "I'm lucky. Then... let me see mine too."

He lifted the victory card in front of him.

Qu Jinsha didn't check his cards.

He stared firmly at Jiang Fang's face, wanting to immediately see from this vigorous young man's face the astonishment of defeat, unwillingness to be angry, and the pathological fanaticism eager to make a comeback after the fiasco.

--but none.

There was nothing on the expression he expected to appear.

The curvature of Jiang Fang's mouth did not change at all, like a precision-trained instrument, everything was steady and just right.

Amidst the increasingly gloating cheers around him, Qu Jinsha felt a sudden chill down his spine.

……wrong! !

He lowered his head abruptly, a constriction in his throat.

The psychological weightlessness of falling from heaven almost made him lose his composure and let out a muffled "grunt" belch.

What caught his eyes was the smallest card in the current deck.

grass flower 3.

how come? !

How did it become like this? !

In Qu Jinsha's dilated pupils, Jiang Fang raised his hand to support his cheek.

Jiang Fang would not say that when he was visiting around just now, he discovered the secret behind the playing cards uniformly used in casinos.

He would not even say that he picked out a 3 of clubs from the discarded cards that had been scanned and used by the croupier.

Having been a croupier for four years, Jiang Fang has the habit of keeping poker cards in the casino as souvenirs.

When Qu Jinsha invited him to gamble, Jiang Fang had a plan in mind.

When the 3 of Clubs was first played, it was one of the most needed and biggest cards in the hand.

In the game rules of betting on the size of poker cards, Club 3 is always the smallest one.

and so--

——"Let's play a little simple game."

——"Boss Qu is so lucky, I want to bet on my luck with Boss Qu."

—— "Just... how about betting on size?"

When he got the card for the second time and counted it to the position of club flower 3, Jiang Fang tilted his wrist slightly, and easily slid the card with the magnetic code imprint on the back into the sequence.

Over and over again, a transformation was made.

Sure enough, Boss Qu only cared about whether he made a mark, and he didn't notice the trap he dug out with his cheating hands.

Jiang Fang smiled while holding his chin, his light-colored pupils were full of humility and indifference.

He said, "Boss Qu, there are rules for every card."

"No matter how you wash it, you will see what you should see."

As he spoke, Jiang Fang brushed the three bright red chips hooked by the bunny girl's copper hooked stick with his fingertips, and asked with a half-smile, "Is that right?"