When the devil

After careful planning and deployment, Guo Jianchao took Wei Ling and Xia Zhou to Wanlefang when dusk was approaching.

Different from the grand and unrestrained buildings like Huanyan Building, Wanlefang is more like a courtyard house, surrounded by houses on four sides, with dark red eaves, white walls, and a few swinging lanterns. The word Wanlefang is suddenly engraved on the house number On the road, if it weren't for the buzzing of people inside, people passing by would just treat it as a noble family's other courtyard.

"Can you really win?" Before going in, Guo Jianchao asked with lingering fear.

Xia Zhou smiled and nodded, like a big villain who kicked people into a fire pit.

The only thing to blame is that there is always an arrogant and evil spirit in his eyebrows and eyes. When Guo Jianchao saw him smiling like this, the uneasy snare drum in his heart beat louder.

"Winning all the time will be regarded as messing up the game, just click as far as you can." Xia Zhou looked at Wei Ling and talked to him: "Play whatever you want."

Wei Ling said, "Go ahead and play."

Xia Zhou leaned over: "You have experience, come here."

Wei Ling: "Have you never played craps?"

Xia Zhou smiled and nodded.

The little broken cat is very perfunctory, and it seems that he is not very kind. Although Wei Ling is usually gentle, he still does not want to be tricked by others. When he asked Guo Jianchao in Shuiyue Pavilion today, Xia Zhou also showed a casual attitude. Take the lead, no matter how much he knows about this matter, but it feels uncomfortable to be led by the nose all the time.

Wei Ling said, "I'll teach you."

Xia Zhou looked at him strangely: "You don't need to teach, you play, I see, it will come naturally."

Wei Ling said: "I'm very unlucky in betting, and it will only drag me down."

Xia Zhou didn't take it seriously: "It's okay, you are responsible for losing, and he is responsible for winning. It doesn't seem strange to match them together."

Wei Ling narrowed her eyes and said softly to Xia Zhou, "How dare you say that."

As a result, Xia Zhou was unwilling to play no matter what, so Wei Ling stopped talking to him, pushed open the door of Wanlefang and walked in.

As soon as he entered, a little boy in a coquettish short robe stepped forward to greet him: "Three adults, what do you want to play today?"

At this time, Guo Jianchao took out the airs of his regular customer and official, exchanged a few words, and Xiao Tong led the three of them inside.

There are quite a few people coming to play in the courtyard, from Liubo, to Boxi, and even fighting crickets, it is very lively.

In the room on the east side, there are several tables full of people playing dice, yelling in all directions, all of them frowning and concentrating, watching the dice roll and jump before stopping in the bowl.

"We lost again!"

"Come again! Come again!"

The crowd was full of enthusiasm and surrounded a table tightly.

Wei Ling glanced through the crowd, and caught a glimpse of the bowl used for throwing dice, which was indeed exactly the same as the one seen today.

Guo Jianchao also tilted his head to inquire: "Mr. Wei, you said that the bottom of the bowl is covered with a layer of spider web. The sound of the dice should be different when they are put into the bowl. Will it really not be discovered?"

The surrounding area was too noisy, Wei Ling didn't hear him for a while, Guo saw that he didn't respond, so he leaned over and asked again.

Wei Ling replied: "The spider web is very thin, if you use more strength, ordinary people can't hear it."

Guo Jianchao asked again: "Master Wei, can you hear it?"

Wei Ling: "What?"

Guo Jianchao moved closer to his ear: "I said, can you hear the difference?"

Before Wei Ling could answer him, Xia Zhou behind him slapped Guo Jianchao away, walked to the table in two steps, and pressed the silver tael on the table: "Add one." By the way, he patted Wei Ling on the shoulder: "He's here .”

Wei Ling: "..."

People around who didn't know the truth looked at Wei Ling from head to toe, and from foot to head. You must know that Wei Ling's appearance alone is an innocence that can't eat fireworks in the world. That face He was handsome, but his expression was very dazed. Compared with him, the two next to him were obviously much smarter.

Guo Jianchao pointed at himself: "Didn't I come?"

Xia Zhou raised his arm and pushed Guo Jianchao from one side of the table to the other side of the table, and then said to Wei Ling contentedly: "Don't be afraid, lose casually."

Wei Ling paused for a while, and said, "You don't lose my money, how can you be afraid?"

After she finished speaking, she turned around and didn't look at him.

Xia Zhou stared at the back of his head: "Weiling, I used to think that you are gentle and polite to others, but in front of me, you act like I owe you—"

Wei Ling: "It's up to you to lose casually, I'll do what you want."

Xia Zhou leaned sideways on the table, a pair of slender phoenix eyes stared at the back of Wei Ling's neck quietly, and his face was close to his ears: "lose is up to you, but 'borrowing and repaying' is not about your dealings with others. reason?"

Wei Ling distanced himself from him unhurriedly: "Unfortunately, you are not human."

Everyone around greeted each other shyly, with the same question in their minds: what is the situation.

"Hey, the one in black seems to be the owner of the Shuiyue Pavilion—" Finally, there was an exclamation from the crowd.

"It's really Pavilion Master Xia."

"Who is that young man in white?"

"Could it be a friend of Pavilion Lord Xia?"

"Hush--I heard that the next one never likes to make friends, but only likes to make friends..."

The voice was drowned out by the shouts from another table, and the last few words were not heard.

"Could this be Lord Xia's..."

"cough."

Wei Ling took another step forward, widening the distance even further.

Xia Zhou didn't mind either, but his nondescript smile betrayed his mind that he didn't think it was a big deal. Seeing that Wei Ling ignored him, he also withdrew his hooliganism, leaned back against the table lazily, and prepared to watch play.

Soon, the dealer started the game. Although Wei Ling was repulsed in various ways, he still concentrated on playing. He looked at the dice, and Xia Zhou looked at him. The side face was very delicate, with long eyelashes. In his eyes, maybe Xia Zhou's gaze was too hot, and Wei Ling responded several times from the corner of his eye on the way, wishing to throw him out of the gambling house.

In the first round, Wei Ling called for big, and the dice unexpectedly came out with two ones and one two.

In the second game, Wei Ling asked for a small, and the dice came out with two sixes and one four.

In the third game, Wei Ling continued to be small, and two dice came out with two fives and one three.

……

In the end, Wei Ling managed to lose nearly 30 taels of silver to Xia Zhou.

Most of the chaotic gamblers won this game, but none of them dared to reach out to take the money in front of Xia Zhou. They looked left and right, and one of them stretched out his hand cautiously, but because of Xia Zhou Turning around, he quickly retracted his hand in fright.

"I'll come, I'll take the place of Mr. Wei. Hehe." Guo Jianchao finally squeezed in from the side, and took over the mess left by Wei Ling. Wei Ling finally breathed a sigh of relief and retreated to the side.

"This kind of little trick can tell the size of the dice with a little magic power. How can you still lose with a bald head and not win? You think you are taking revenge on me?" Xia Zhou asked Wei Ling.

Wei Ling smiled wryly: "The gambler gambles on luck, not cultivation. Wouldn't it spoil everyone's happiness if I mess around? Besides, you are a big monster. There is a saying: big monsters can bend and stretch."

Xia Zhou raised his eyebrows: "I haven't heard any common sayings."

Wei Ling chuckled, but didn't speak.

Xia Zhou raised his chin in the direction of Guo Jianchao: "Come on, just watch and win back twice."

After speaking, I heard Guo Jianchao cheering, he must have won.

After thinking about it, Xia Zhou couldn't help sighing: "But it's a skill to guess wrong every time just by luck."

In fact, Wei Ling himself can't figure it out, it's about five or five points less likely, how can he guess wrong every time.

He said: "It would be great if there was a game of guessing wrong, maybe I can become the God of Gamblers."

He didn't think too much about what he said, and after he finished speaking, he realized that he was really naive. Seeing Wei Ling's innocent, pitiful and cute face, Xia Zhou couldn't help laughing.

Wei Ling let him laugh beside him, and took the opportunity to observe the surroundings. He didn't feel that it was against harmony before, but now he calmed down and thought about it. Mochi said before that there are many monsters in Liuli City, and most of them live like ordinary people, but this There is no enchantment around the gambling house, but only Xia Zhou is a demon inside, and the others are honest mortals.

"If you want to talk about the God of Gamblers, there is a real God of Gamblers in the imperial city." Naturally, Xia Zhou didn't know what Wei Ling was thinking, so he continued to talk about the topic just now.

Wei Ling wasn't thinking about him at all, so she asked casually after listening to him, "Who?"

Xia Zhou said: "Young King, Gu Yuan."

Wei Ling's heart tightened, and she raised her head in a daze.

It was a chill from the heart, like a python wrapped around his nerves.

Xia Zhou narrowed his eyes: "What are you nervous about?"

Maybe he knew, or maybe he didn't know, Wei Ling sighed lightly, and calmed down the waves in his heart: "No, I get a headache when I hear the surname Gu, old problem, you continue to talk."

The person who really summoned Xia Zhou to the world at the beginning probably hid in the imperial city, until today Wei Ling has not found a clue. , just like the shadow hidden in the dark, if you are not careful, it will swallow up all this peace.

And at the beginning, the person he suspected the most was King You Gu Yuan.

Gu Yuan is the second prince of Zhao Kingdom. There are rumors that he has the blood of a demon flowing on his body, so that he is shunned by people in the palace, but he is very good at dealing with people, and he is not seen doing anything out of the ordinary. Wei Ling had heard a lot of rumors about him during those days in the palace, and most of them praised him.

Xia Zhoudao: "King You likes to gamble, and he likes to try his luck in everything. Once he tied the captured rebels and exposed them to the scorching sun. It was not for torture or personal enmity. If it rains heavily, he will be released with his life."

Wei Ling had never heard of these anecdotes, but she was a little curious: "How did it turn out?"

Xia Zhou said with a smile: "It's strange to say that it was rainy a few days ago, but after King You gave the order, the sun suddenly shone brightly. It's only because the sky has no eyes, and hundreds of rebels were left to dry on the barren land to die. "

"It's not kind to bet on the rain." Wei Ling said.

He knew that the rebellious army would not end well under the enemy's army, but it was cruel to his ears to spend his life on such a whim.

Xia Zhou couldn't help but laugh, "A Ling, are you frightened by King You's cruelty, or are you sorry for the pity of the rebel army?"

"I don't have much contact with King You, so I don't know his character." Wei Ling paused for a while, and then said: "But the rebel army should have been executed by capital punishment. I think King You should let them choose one of the two, for the sake of survival. , I voluntarily chose to bet with the sky, and I have no one to blame."

Xia Zhou sighed: "You just said that you didn't have much contact with King You, but you immediately guessed what he was thinking."

Wei Ling said: "Since it's a gamble, then of course you have to make a condition. If you benefit from it anyway, the gamble is meaningless. Just like the rumor, if it rained heavily in heaven, King You let go of a hundred rebels. It's a big crime, and with the emperor's temperament, even the royal blood can't escape..." Speaking of this, Wei Ling slowly stopped talking.

After all, how much could he guess about the affairs in the palace.

"Wow! Young master, I am the Buddha's light today! I won again hahahahahaha."

Not far away, Guo Jianchao's cheers were deafening.

Along with his cheers, there were whispers and resentful eyes around him.

I don't know how many times he won, the table that was originally full of people was empty in a blink of an eye, and he was the only one left holding the money and laughing up to the sky.

Wei Ling sighed speechlessly, and asked Xia Zhou, "What demon method did you use?"

Xia Zhoubing glanced at Guo Jian coldly, and when he turned to Wei Ling, he smiled again: "It's not worth mentioning, so it makes him more sensitive than usual."

Wei Ling said, "It's too sensitive."

Xia Zhou said: "Why, are you envious? If you are willing, I can make you more sensitive."

"You don't need to do anything extra..." Wei Ling raised her eyes, met him flirtatiously and coldly: "You and Mr. Guo just need to chat slowly."

When this cat demon was a cat back then, he was frank and affectionate, but how he became a human being with such a playful smile on his face, I don’t know what kind of stimulation he received in the human world in the past three years, he strayed from the path of a demon life, and lived like a hooligan Mutually.

"Lord Xia Pavilion!"

Unlike Wei Ling, Guo Jianchao was unwilling to be indifferent, and ran over holding Yin Zi.He is also a real man who can afford to let it go, because the artifact reacted violently to Xia Zhou before, when he saw Xia Zhou, he could defend and hide, but this would make him win money and smile so fast They huddled together, and even called out "Lord Xia Ge" sweetly.

"Look, you have won so much." Seeing that Xia Zhou ignored him, Guo Jianchao simply stepped forward, standing between Xia Zhou and Wei Ling with his whole body.

Xia Zhou said "Yes." Then he stood up straight and said, "Call work."

"Good job, good job!" Guo Jianchao grinned from ear to ear, immersed in the weird atmosphere he created contentedly: "I have a hunch that Qiuhua will come looking for me soon, and then you have to bless me again. "

Guo Jianchao clearly regarded the thousand-year-old demon as a bodhisattva, and he didn't notice the murderous gazes around him at all.

Xia Zhou was already annoyed by him, and walked forward without looking back. Guo Jianchao followed like a puppy chasing a meat bun. After taking two steps, he finally realized that he was putting his hot face on his cold butt, and stayed for a while. In a daze, he could only turn his head to glance at Wei Ling in embarrassment, and shrunk back in despair.

"Young Master Wei, Pavilion Master Xia is not very happy."

What Wei Ling can say, his intuition tells him that no matter what he says now, he can only talk nonsense and perfunctory: "He is shy."

Guo Jianchao laughed dryly, looked at Xia Zhou's back: "Young Master Wei, let me ask you a question quietly."

"Ok?"

"Couldn't Master Xia be some sort of divine beast? Like a unicorn, a phoenix..."

Guo Jianchao was still brooding about the magical red light, but now he had found a reasonable way to explain it, and silently believed it.

Wei Ling: "Next time, you can ask him."

Unfortunately, I guessed wrong.

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感谢在2021-09-0322:30:24~2021-09-0416:54:53期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

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