Ho Chi Cong,
You need help !
Cheers,
Ung Bun Heang
Hello My Albino Lan Rat Ho Bun Heang,
One post of mine brought you from your rat hole, another post send you
back to your rat hole.
I can not take credit from that because I borrow it from Gu Long
"Legendary Twins".
I let you read this so that you can learn something :
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Xuanyuan San Guang continued, “That teahouse was at a small alley,
after I lost for three days, the old and young in that alley all won quite a
lot from me, except for an old man. Although he goes to the teahouse everyday
for tea, saw me losing everyday, but he was never tempted, never willing to
gamble as well.”
He smiled and added, “The more he refuses to gamble, the more I want
him to gamble. Others said that not only does this old man not gamble, he
doesn’t smoke nor drink as well, truly a log of wood indeed. Everyone calls him
Li Lao Shi (Lao Shi = honest), and even said that if I can make this Li Lao Shi
gamble with me, they will each kow tow to me once.”
Du Jiao Jiao glanced at Li Da Zui and laughed, “I did not expect that
there would be such a good person in the Li family, how rare.”
Xuanyuan San Guang continued, “In that alley there’s also a Widow Du,
and it seems that the magistrate is almost going to erect a Chastity Memorial
Arch for her. Although she has a small stall at the mouth of the alley, but for
the past ten years, no one has ever seen her smile, and there’s no one else in
her house but for a dog who guards her door.”
Li Da Zui laughed, “I did not expect that there would actually be
someone from the Du family who is willing to remain a widow, how rare, what a
pity she’s still missing a dog… haha, the best thing about a dog is that it
cannot speak.”
Xuanyuan San Guang said, “On the fourth day, I still had thirty
thousand taels of silver left, so I pushed all the silver towards Li Laoshi and
said, I only have to say one word, and I can let that Widow Du smile, and speak
another word, and make her give me a slap. I asked Li Lao Shi if he believes
me.”
Ha Ha’er can’t help but ask, “Did he believe you?” Xuanyuan San Guang
replied, “Widow Du never smiles, and a man and a woman should keep a
respectable distance, so it’s impossible that Widow Du will slap a man.
Naturally Li Lao Shi does not believe me, so I made a bet with him. If I lost,
I will give him the rest of the silver, but if I win, he only have to gamble
with me ten rounds of dice. He looked at the silver in front of him, and stared
for more than an hour, but finally betted with me. He may be honest, but if an
honest man were to see silver being offered to him, he won’t bear to decline
it, because everyone were so sure that I will definitely lose this bet, and
there’s not even a chance that I might win.”
Ha Ha’er said, “But you won.”
Xuanyuan San Guang replied, “As long as I can have a good gamble with
him, naturally I must win at all costs.”
Once he heard this, Du Sha can’t help but feel curious, and asked. “How
did you win?”
Du Jiao Jiao said, “Just one word that can make a widow smile, and
another word to make her angry and slap someone… even I am baffled.”
Li Da Zui and Bai Kai Xin looked at each other and really could not
figure out what is the word Xuanyuan San Guang said and why would it have such
a huge effect.
Xuanyuan San Guang said nonchalantly, “At noon, that widow opened her
fried pancake stall, and the dog is never far away from her, so naturally it’s
with her as well. So I walked over, respectfully kow-towed to the dog and said
‘Father’. The widow was stunned and although she wanted to frown, but she can’t
help but laugh in the end.”
On hearing this, Li Da Zui and the rest laughed as well.
Xuanyuan San Guang added, “Others saw that with just a word I said,
that widow really laughed, and although they were awed and laughing, they still
could not imagine how I can make her angry and hit me.”
Du Jiao Jiao laughingly replied, “To tell the truth, even I cannot
think of how you can do it.”
Xuanyuan San Guang continued, “I only knelt in front of her and called
her ‘Mother’, and her face turned red immediately, even her neck thickened, and
she gave me a hard slap before turning around and leaving.” Before he could
finish his words, Li Da Zui and the rest were already bending over with
laughter.
Xuanyuan San Guang said, “So Li Lao Shi had to play dice with me, but
who would have expected that my luck suddenly changed, and I won ten games in a
row. His bets were small initially, but later, he became nervous with all the
losses, that he used his chamber pots and blankets as bets. After losing for
ten games, he has lost everything. I asked him, you don’t even have anything to
bet with, how can you continue to gamble? He was stunned for a while, but
suddenly gritted his teeth and took me to his house. His house is now empty,
but there’s a small building, and in it were a few large chests.”
Du Jiao Jiao asked hoarsely, “Large chests? What kind of large chests?”
Xuanyuan San Guang replied, “Large black chests, full of dust gathered
at the top. Li Lao Shi said that someone else asked him to look after them, and
he has never touched them, but now, he couldn’t care less.”
He continued with a laugh, “Once a person becomes anxious from losing,
he would even use his wife and son as bets. This Li Lao Shi may be very honest
and reliable all his life, but an old house on fire will burn even faster.”
Du Jiao Jiao asked, “He… he really lost all those chests to you?”
Xuanyuan San Guang replied, “That’s right, but I did not expect that
those chests would actually be filled with gold and silver, and all the more
did not expect that those chests belonged to all of you. If not for the mark
you made on the chests, I will never think that you will actually hand the
chests to an old man for safekeeping, haha, this plan is really marvelous.”
He continued with a loud laugh, “Because the money seemed to have
dropped into my lap from the sky, and I got a few hundred thousand for nothing,
I started gambling in full force. By the time I came here, I’ve lost almost all
of it, and the rest I have given it away as wedding gift. Now my pockets are
empty, so if you want me to pay up, I don’t have a single cent, but I still
have my life!”
Bai Kai Xin, Ha Ha’er, Du Sha, Li Da Zui and Du Jiao Jiao were all
stunned, their face ashen, as if someone had just died.
Ha Ha’er said, “So… so Ouyang Ding and Ouyang Dang did not hide the
chests at Turtle Hill, but kept it in Li Lao Shi’s house, we were still tricked
by them.”
Ha Ha’er suddenly threw away the shovels and hammers that were on the
ground, and laughed loudly, “Actually we really should thank this gambler.”
ai Kai Xin asked, “Thank him?”
Ha Ha’er explained, “If he did not tell us, we’ll still be slaving
here, digging holes. Now we can take a rest instead.”
Du Sha said slowly, “Actually what he has said is correct, if not for
Xuanyuan San Guang, we will never know where the chests really are, and will
end up doing more work, feeling more anxious instead.”
Bai Kai Xin exclaimed, “So this means that, you’re not planning to ask
him to pay up?”
Li Da Zui laughed, “He’s already said that he has no money, and he only
has his life…”
Bai Kai Xin replied, “But the flesh on his body is not bad, don’t you
want to have a taste of it?”
Li Da Zui laughed, “If I eat this gambler up, won’t it be worse? If he
starts betting with my intestines and gastric, I’ll suffer from indigestion.”
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