Changle Floating Life

Chapter 14 Linglong Dice Makes Tricks

Let's say that after King Duan went to Dali Temple to issue an imperial edict that day, someone reported the situation to the Prince's East Palace a few days later.

At that time, the prince was playing Shuanglu with King Ning in the garden. After hearing the report from the visitor, he was so surprised that he dropped all the dice in his hand on the ground, and his voice changed slightly: "Don't worry about the size, sit as the emperor, live My parents, my princess. Did he really say that?"

The man nodded yes.

King Ning picked up the dice and put it on the white stone chessboard, let it spin non-stop, and said: "He dares to conceive such rebellious thoughts, he is really a crime to be punished." The dice slowly stopped, and what was exposed on it was a dot .King Ning took a pawn move: "He thought he picked up a good job, and this time he is afraid that he will be sent to prison as well. Brother, how about my trick to blame Jiangdong?"

The prince thought about it for a while, then shook his head and said: "I just remembered, my father really said what he said. At the beginning of Taiping, when you were still young, it coincided with Princess Zhenguo's fiftieth birthday, and my father was in Beijing. Congratulations to Pei Yongzhen on his birthday. At the family dinner in the evening, when everyone was drunk and only a few old clan members were left, the father seemed to have said it. If he repeats what the father said, it is not considered rebellious, at most It’s all about respect.”

King Ning knew that he, the elder brother of the crown prince, was used to being dull and often said some unsightly things, but he didn't care too much, he just smiled lightly and said: "He thought that he would be at ease after Zuo Fengmian was brought into Dali Temple, let's look at him. That's the end." He tilted his head and thought for a while, then snorted coldly: "What's the big deal, this prince won't do it, just take him back to Yunzhou". It's really funny, did the Pei family have a love interest?"

The snow has not cleared, and the wind is bitter, and the early spring in Ganjing is so cold.

Ye Jianqing wore a jacket that was so torn that the cotton wool inside was exposed, and walked timidly through the alleys.After he left Cangshan last year, he walked all the way along the mountains, from the twelfth lunar month to the second lunar month. During the period, he made a mistake in the direction and walked a long way.A young dude from the Hou family, for the first time concealed his identity, wandering all over the world, relying on begging and doing small labor all the way to Ganjing, needless to say, he suffered a lot.

He also went to Ganjing several times when he was young, to celebrate the princess' grandma's birthday, the prince's wedding, and all the gratifying events in the world.But when he walked into the city again, he was stung by such prosperity.

He walked quickly in the alley with his arms folded, turned around and walked into a fence, looking around.First he saw a pawn shop, and when he was about to move his feet to go in, he suddenly stopped.Apart from a copy of "Tao Yuanming's Anthology of Poems", he has nothing else, and this anthology of poems is probably not worth a few copper coins.He looked to the left again, and walked straight into a small building with a "Sihai Gambling Square" plaque hanging on it.

Ye Jianqing walked in completely unconsciously to watch the excitement.There are two burly men standing at the gate of the gambling house. The usual practice is to only search out, not to enter.Seeing that his clothes were so shabby, he still wanted to come to gamble, but they all dismissed him and let him in.The building is three stories high, with a patio in the middle, crowded with people and smoky.Hanging in the courtyard is a pair of flying white cursive script "Family of the World", like a phoenix and a dragon, with magnificent and stunning strokes, but it has not been signed, and I don't know who wrote it.

The people inside gathered around the table, including Pai Gow, Shuanglu, Azalea, Go, Ma Diao and so on.Ye Jianqing walked around and saw that others were having fun playing, but he himself suffered from not having the money to bet.At this moment, he only heard a slight sound on the ground, and he turned his head to see that two copper coins rolled out from the crowd, and he didn't know which card table it fell from.

In the accounting room on the third floor, the shopkeeper was doing the accounting, when suddenly a clerk asked him to come out to have a look.The shopkeeper came out, leaned against the railing of the patio, and looked down. There was a banker at one end of the long table, and a group of people at the other end. The leader was a poorly dressed young man.The clerk said: "In the beginning, there were only two copper coins for gambling. After playing Shuanglu and boxing guessing, I have been playing dice since I made a hundred coins. Every time I win, I have earned dozens of taels of silver. The manager can't see it." Did you get out of the thousand?" A group of people behind him saw that he must hit every time, they followed him to bet and booed, and in this way, the banker would suffer a lot.

The shopkeeper took a few glances and understood.This person doesn't play Pai Gow and Ma Diao because he doesn't have enough money to play, so he can't get on the table, so he has to play Shuanglu and boxing guessing.But later, I probably found that these are too time-consuming, and rolling dice is simple and quick, does not require serious thinking, is more gambling, and makes money faster. "Go ask him to come up, I'll meet this kid for a while."

Ye Jianqing played ten or twenty hands in a row, only to see the dealer's face getting darker and darker, and more and more people around him called.He thought in his heart that it was not good, and was about to stop when suddenly the crowd parted, and a decent steward came over, bowed his hands and said, "Young master, you are lucky today, and you must be lucky. Our shopkeeper would like to invite you to the VIP Room to play."

The people around him gasped and fell silent for a while. Ye Jianqing got up and was about to refuse, but someone shouted: "Bet with him!" Probably a lot of money was buried in this gold selling cave on weekdays, Therefore, those who secretly harbored resentment only hoped that the young man would teach the dealer and the proprietor a good lesson so that he could utter his anger.Then the voices of cheering and encouraging came one after another.

Ye Jianqing had a splitting headache, pointed to the chips on the table and said politely, "Please, the steward, can you exchange it for a full coin or a bank note. The villain has something important to do today, so I won't accompany you." Two people flashed out behind the steward. The big man held him from left to right, and said coldly, "If you win money, you want to leave, hmph, it's not such a good thing."

At that time, Ye Jianqing's martial arts were already good, and such a low-level hooligan could be knocked to the ground in just one or two strokes.It's just that he didn't want to stir up trouble in public, so he had to bite the bullet and follow up to the third floor.Entering a wing room, there are all huanghuali furniture and black lacquerware, which is elegant.Standing in the room was a middle-aged man wearing a long gown and a headscarf, who claimed to be surnamed Li, and was the shopkeeper of the Four Seas Casino.

Ye Jianqing was a little surprised, and said, "I don't want the shopkeeper to be a scholar."

Shopkeeper Li ordered someone to bring tea and water to him, and said with a polite smile, "I'm just taking care of the shop for my master. I'm a low-ranking scholar, and I know a few words, so it's not worth talking about. If my master is short of money, I have some here, so just treat it like that." It's a meeting ceremony, it's not a respect." Then he took out a few ingots of white ingots and put them on the table.

The young master used to have a lot of money, and he came back after all the money was gone, so why did he take the money seriously.At this time, it was red from the forehead to the toes, and the eyes were sore and astringent.Ye Jianqing sniffled sharply, and said with a sigh of relief: "Master Li, I didn't come to play games. I am indeed short of money, but today I only take what I won from the gambling table. I don't want that." He said in Xu Zhou and Jinling had also been in gambling houses, and knew the practice of this industry. If he took the money on the table, he would admit that he was out of money.

Shopkeeper Li looked him up and down, and said very politely: "Master, my subordinates don't believe that you can win twenty games in a row. I don't know how dare you bet with me."

Ye Jianqing blushed and said, "Okay."

At this moment, a little servant girl with forehead and eyebrows came to serve tea, and when she walked to Ye Jianqing's side, something accidentally kicked her foot, and she even poured the tea on him.The little servant girl was so scared that her face turned pale, she kowtowed to beg for mercy, and then wiped the tea on Ye Jianqing's body with a towel, but fortunately the water was not too hot.

If it is normal, I am afraid that the young master will turn his face on the spot.At this moment, Ye Jianqing looked at his tattered clothes, could only smile wryly, waved his hands and said, "Don't wipe it, it actually stained your handkerchief."

Shopkeeper Li reprimanded the little servant girl with a cold face, and asked someone to send more tea, and ordered the little servant girl to go to the drawer to take out the gambling equipment.The dice cup is white porcelain from Beijing Kiln, which is as warm and moist as water when touched, but the dice are made of transparent crystal.Ye Jianqing's eyes showed surprise, Shopkeeper Li saw it, corner of his mouth curled up, put three dice in his hand, and said in a warm voice: "Master, let's see if the dice have been tampered with."

The crystal dice are as clean as jade, and the points on each side are inlaid with a small ruby. This dice is probably worth thousands of gold.Ye Jianqing first weighed it in his hand a few times, and then scattered it on the table seemingly casually. When the dice stopped, Fang looked up at shopkeeper Li, and said solemnly: "I've checked, the dice is fine. What does the shopkeeper think?" a game?"

"Just guess the size, as long as the young master says the right number, he will leave."

Shopkeeper Li tossed it first, and the crystal hit the white porcelain, and it sounded as good as the jade hitting the ice and the frost hitting the chime.When the voice faded away, he raised his eyebrows and looked at Ye Jianqing.Ye Jianqing's face turned pale, and after a while he said, "A little bit."

The little servant girl standing next to him burst out laughing and said, "My lord, there are three dice inside, at least three points."

Ye Jianqing shook his head and remained silent.Shopkeeper Li opened the dice cup, but it was really three stacked together like a pagoda.The little servant girl stuck out her tongue in shock.Shopkeeper Li didn't change his face, picked up the dice, and started to roll the second one.This time the dice cup was rolled for a little longer than last time, when the dice stopped, Ye Jianqing's face was extremely ugly, he stood up abruptly, and said angrily: "Shopkeeper, I don't want the money anymore, why waste everything?"

Shopkeeper Li's philistine smile faded away, his eyes were piercingly cold, and he asked solemnly: "Master, you have surrendered, can't you figure it out?"

Ye Jianqing finally couldn't swallow this breath, and said, "No point."

The little servant girl in Tsing Yi thought she had heard wrong.Shopkeeper Li turned his head up and laughed loudly, motioning for her to open the cup.The three dice were still stacked with one point facing up, but each crystal rubbed against each other during the shaking process, and all of them were smoothed, and the points were also worn away.When the lid was opened, three rubies fell out, so there were no points.

Ye Jianqing once heard that there are some masters in the Jianghu who can smooth out the inscriptions on stones with their fingers once they use their internal strength.Unexpectedly, this small gambling shop is also Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. An ordinary shopkeeper possesses profound internal strength, which can be used on these delicate playthings. It is even rarer than writing on stones to transmit power without breaking the palace. up.It's just that a good crystal dice can't be used like this, it really is a waste of money.

Shopkeeper Li stood up and cupped his hands in thanks, "Young master, someone Li has offended you. Please!" After he finished speaking, the door of the wing room opened, and the person in charge walked in, and exchanged the bank note to Ye Jianqing, Send him out with a smile on your face.

After the two of them left, shopkeeper Li looked at the little girl in green clothes, rolled her eyes and said, "Look carefully, Lanshan?" The little girl called Lanshan suddenly turned around and sat on the table, playing with dice , Duzui said softly: "I've checked his pulse, it's Gu Jiaozhu's man, that's right. The way he received the teacup was to divide the flowers and brush the willows, and the gossip he stepped on was the bright moon flow style. But, he Since you are practicing the mind method of Happy Traveling, why don't you recognize this crystal dice?"

Shopkeeper Li frowned, and said lightly, "I'm afraid Gu Jiaozhu hasn't had time to tell him about the origin of the teacher." "So Gu Jiaozhu likes this tune." Lan Shan shook his head pretending to be an adult, while reaching out to pick up the table I took a sip of the cup of Fuchun tea that I didn't have time to drink, and suddenly said in a choked voice: "It's over, let him walk around in such a dirty way, the leader is afraid that he will expose my skin."

Ye Jianqing left the gambling house, took the cash in her pocket, found a clothing store and walked in.The clerk at the counter saw that he was disheveled and dressed like a beggar, and there was no complete spot on his body, so he came to drive him out with a dark face.Ye Jianqing quickly took out the banknotes and asked him to help him find some decent clothes.

When the guy saw that it was a genuine bank note, worth as much as twelve taels, he turned his face faster than the book.Ye Jianqing picked out a few clothes that were eye-catching, and borrowed the store's back room to change into.Sure enough, people want clothes, Buddha wants gold clothes, and when he came out brand new, the clerk was already dazzled.Ye Jianqing picked out another wooden hairpin and tied her hair.

The buddy has never seen such a handsome young man, who is so romantic to the extreme, glowing softly like a jade mountain.He strongly recommended a large cloak trimmed with white fox fur in the store, which was light and windproof, and said that Ye Jianqing would definitely need it when going out.

Ye Jianqing touched the silky fur collar, and thought of her bicolor-shining bird-gold fur, then shook her head: "No need, even these clothes, I can't wear them all the time."

The clerk asked attentively, "Where are you going, Mr. Lang?" He thought who doesn't love fancy clothes, and if he asked for the address, maybe the business would come to his door in the future.

"I'll go to the government to surrender." After he finished speaking, he walked out with his head held high in the astonished eyes of others.

Ye Jianqing walked out of the store, pulled up his collar, found out the direction, and walked straight to the Yangzhou Guild Hall in the east of the city.When he came out from Cangshan Mountain, he had deliberately inquired about it along the way.The case of Ning Caishen and the Princess Mansion is well known all over the world. The criminals were imprisoned in Beijing and imprisoned in Dali Temple, but Zhao Nanxing was put under house arrest in the Yangzhou Guild Hall.

After a meal, I saw a row of long streets, all of which were business facades, with a gatehouse with white walls and black tiles interspersed in the middle, Jiangnan style, brick lintel, with the word "Southeast Liuhui" in it, under the gate There is another small vertical plaque "Yangzhou Guild Hall" on the left.Standing at the door were two black-armored soldiers with halberds. The tall horse-headed walls were scattered and there was nowhere to climb.Ye Jianqing walked over calmly, walked around to the back of the street, and sure enough saw a small corner door.

He walked to the door, and there was a lock on the door. Seeing no one was around, he stretched out his hand and skillfully twisted the lock off, and hid it in his sleeve.At that time, he had already achieved a small amount of success in the mentality of wandering freely, and he had reached the state of silence, and he could hear the joy of no joy.Therefore, when he opened the door and came in, he knew that there was no guard inside the door, so he dared to be so presumptuous.

A small courtyard house with a high and deep patio covered with snow. He walked through the Chaoshou verandah, and there was a small garden with a cobblestone-covered ice flower path on the ground.He has also been here.In previous years, when I went to Beijing, if I didn't live in Zhen Guo Princess Mansion, I would stay here.Ye Jianqing listened carefully, only to hear the slight and chaotic footsteps in the Wenhui Pavilion to the east.After thinking for a while, he flew onto the roof of the veranda, and the cat sprinted on it.

Before we got to the vicinity of Wenhui Pavilion, we saw that the inner three floors and the outer three floors were all people dressed as forbidden soldiers, surrounded by iron barrels.He landed on a big pine tree in the courtyard next door. The big pine tree was five stories high and had lush leaves.Ye Jianqing grabbed a few pine cones casually, looked at the sky, and saw birds flying by, so he threw the pine cones, and the birds landed one after another.

When the guards heard the sound, some people went to check, and the rest turned their eyes to that corner.Ye Jianqing took advantage of this gap, used lightness kung fu, and rushed to the highest floor of Wenhui Pavilion.He landed silently, and there was no guard on this floor. He was about to slap his chest and breathe a sigh of relief when the door creaked open.

A man came out of the door, with a pen in one hand and a book in the other, looking at him with his mouth wide open in horror.Ye Jianqing rushed up from the ground with a white rainbow piercing the sun, covered his mouth, and dragged him into the room.The door closes without wind.

Both of them fell to the ground, and that person was Zhao Nanxing. After being horrified, he looked happy and said, "Young brother, ah no, young master, why are you here?" He met Ye Jian three months before getting married. It has been more than a year since Qing's last meeting.

A pair of close friends meet each other, longing for a long-term wine party, a few lonely days, and repeated changes in the stars.Ye Jianqing was also agitated, and at this moment, he suddenly heard the sound of boots rattling outside.He quickly put his finger on his lips, and then pointed out the door. Zhao Nanxing nodded knowingly, and saw him turn over on the beam of the house.

Not long after, someone said outside the door: "Young Master Zhao, I have offended you." Then a guard soldier opened the door, and saw Zhao Nanxing sitting on the futon on the ground reading a book, looking at himself blankly.The guard glanced briefly at the room, then closed the door and retreated.

Ye Jianqing jumped off the beam.Zhao Nanxing asked him anxiously: "I heard that you escaped, why did you come back again? In this splendid hell, what are you doing stupidly throwing yourself into the trap?" He suddenly turned pale when he said this, and tremblingly said: "The confession, yes Zuo Fengmian forced me to draw a bet." When he said this, Judi thought of Yuan Shangqiu's tragic situation before he died, and his whole body trembled, the pain was unbearable.Ye Jianqing also guessed that he must have remembered about Yuan Shangqiu, tried his best to restrain himself, his eyes were still slightly red, and said: "It was not my intention to escape last time. I came back this time to surrender myself. Nan Xing, my grandma Died in front of my eyes, they are so cruel to Zhongliang, pointing a deer as a horse, I can't swallow this bad breath no matter what. The grievances of your Zhao Jianing family are also remembered on me, but I have a sigh of relief, and I don't make them happy."

Zhao Nanxing could not help shivering when he heard the deep-seated hatred in his words, and then looked at Marquis An Ning carefully.In his memory, Ye Jianqing had always been a rich and pampered son, who treated others with gentleness and courtesy, even when he was angry, he acted like a spoiled child.He wanted the moon in the sky, but if he gave him the stars, others would feel ashamed of his good family background and appearance.But when I saw him today, there were more traces of wind and frost on his face and body, and there were some unclear meanings in his eyes, which made him feel chilly.So he forced a smile and said: "Jianqing, leave me alone, you can go. This case is a case without a head, and it will not be resolved in a long time. The emperor just used excuses to clean up the officialdom in the southeast. Once the emperor and the courtiers, later In [-], when the new emperor takes the throne, the grievances of your Princess Mansion will be revealed."

Tears finally came to Ye Jianqing's eyes: "How long will it take? I can't wait that long."

Hearing his desolate voice, Zhao Nanxing held his hands against each other for a while, choking speechlessly.

At this moment, I heard a large group of hurried footsteps on the stairs, making people flustered.Ye Jianqing quickly wiped away tears.Zhao Nanxing also stood up with the teapot in his hand, opened the door and walked outside.Walking to the stairs, I saw a leading guard, leading a large group of people, coming up with a bad expression.

Zhao Nanxing stopped them, and deliberately smiled: "Master Jun, my teapot is out of water, and I was about to call someone to add water. What a coincidence, you are here."

The leader of the guards stretched out his hand and pushed him aside, the teapot fell to the ground and broke in two.A group of people rushed into the room aggressively, only to see that the doors and windows were wide open, and there was no one left.

The author has something to say: The next chapter does not know Zhao Lang is Zhao Lang

The next chapter has a big twist.

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