The years when I was an old man

The day my uncle kicked me out of the house, I first kowtowed to my aunt to thank her for adopting me over the years.I told my uncle again that if he dared to hit my aunt again, I would definitely kill him.

My name is Chu Liu. Since I was born, my parents have fostered me in my aunt's house.

In the beginning, my uncle was very kind to me.

Of course, it's not that he likes me so much.

It's because my parents always send him money from time to time, thanking him and my aunt for taking care of me.

There is a lot of money, so much that every time my uncle gets drunk, he will happily say, drunkenly, that I am his cash cow.

When I was young, I didn't know what my parents did.

Until one day in the summer when I was six years old, my father came back.

However, instead of walking back, it was carried back by someone.

The father on the stretcher, with no arms and legs.

The white bandages wrapped all over his body had already been soaked in blood, making his eyes red.

At that time, my father was dying.

When he was dying, he left me with only one sentence:

"Be an ordinary person, live an ordinary life, and never gamble!"

That day, I shed all the tears.

Also from that day on, I don't seem to have laughed again.

After my father left, my mother never appeared again.

Without the remittance from my parents, my uncle treated me worse and worse.

From the insults at the beginning, to the beatings later.

And his cousin Li Dabiao, who is five years older than me, also participated.

I clearly remember that in these years, they slapped me 2436 times, kicked me 3487 times, and punched me 2329 times.

The number of times I was beaten with a whip and a club was 336 times.

If it wasn't for my aunt's protection, I think I might have been beaten to death by them long ago.

I hate them, and I hold a grudge.

Otherwise, I wouldn't remember it so clearly.

At that time, I didn't know how to fight, and I didn't dare to fight back.

However, he learned to be beaten.

I was kicked out of the house, and I was not homeless, but followed Liu Ye.

Liu Ye is not his real name, and he never told me his real name.

The reason why he called him Liu Ye was that after he knew my name was Chu Liu, he asked me to call him that.

He came to our town in the second year after my father died.

When I met him, he told me that he was the most powerful magician in the world.

Moreover, he is willing to give all his magic to me.

Indeed, his magic is very powerful.

Poker, mahjong, dice, and Pai Gow are flying up and down in his hands, sometimes disappearing, sometimes more and sometimes less, disappearing like a ghost.

In this way, since I was seven years old, I learned what he called "magic" from Master Liu.

Sixth Master is a free and easy person to the extreme.

In addition to supervising my practice of "magic" every day, he just drank and had fun, and asked for flowers and willows.

He seems to have an uncanny obsession with women.

Even if they are over sixty, they sing and sing almost every night.

The strongest time, he actually controlled the three women at night.

Sixth Master also found a woman for me.

Young, about eighteen or nineteen years old.

The chubby face was smeared with thick rouge and gouache.

When she smirked professionally, posed in front of me, and took off her first dress.

I sent her a word: "roll".

It's not that I don't like women, it's just that I don't like this kind of woman.

My woman must be docile, obedient, and loyal.Depend on me, make me king.

It's like the "King" in poker.

Until one day, a woman was lying in my arms after dripping with sweat, and told me.

The king in the playing cards actually means the clown.

On my 20th birthday, Liu Ye invited me to Zuixiang Tower.

That is the best restaurant in our town.

In the simple and unsophisticated box, Liu Ye was smoking a golden nanmu pipe. With silver hair, he was still calm and unrestrained.

"Pour the bar..."

The blue and white porcelain bottle contains 30-year-old Zhuyeqing.

The wine is poured into the emerald porcelain green-glazed sea bowl, the hops are rolling, and the aroma of the wine is lingering.

"Xiao Liu, how long have you been with me?"

Sixth Master took a puff of his pipe, puffed out the clouds, and asked me.

"13 years, two months and 22 days!"

"What did I teach you?"

"Thousand arts!"

"What is a thousand arts?"

"Using the method of deceiving the sky and crossing the sea, achieve the purpose of stealing the sky and changing the sun!"

Sixth Master nodded slightly.

I am quite satisfied with my answer.

After knocking on the pipe, Liu Ye picked up the bowl and said to me:

"After drinking this bowl of wine, you will become a teacher! From now on, you don't have to follow me anymore..."

I know that day will come sooner or later.

I just didn't expect it to be on my 20th birthday.

The 30-year-old bamboo leaf green enters the throat, and a pungent fire line goes from the stomach to the top of the head.

Putting down the wine bowl, Liu Ye said again:

"Little six, you have to remember. What you have learned is a thousand skills, what you have entered is a thousand doors, and what you have walked is a blue way. From now on, you are no longer an ordinary person. You are already a blue way old man!"

The so-called blue road refers to all gamblers and scammers.

As long as you gamble, you will walk the blue road.

Think about when my father was dying, let me be an ordinary person and never gamble.

Unexpectedly, more than ten years have passed.

I turned out to be a Randolph jerk.

This may be the impermanence of the world, and the good fortune tricks people.

"Little Six, let me ask you again, do you want to be a master or a grandson from now on?"

"Master!"

I think in this world, no one would be willing to be a grandson.

"Okay, since you want to be a master. I want you to use what you have learned in the past ten years, and within three years, let Qianmen Landao know that there is a sixth master, the sixth master!"

three years?

can i do it?

I'm at a loss.

Over the years, although I have been to countless gambling games with Liu Ye, big and small casinos.

However, I've never played a game.

I don't know, what is my thousand skill level?

However, I still nodded in agreement.

Liu Ye once told me that the most difficult thing to cheat is not the technology, but the psychology.

In front of thousands of people, whether you can make full use of what you have learned in your life is the fundamental.

"Okay, from now on, you can wander alone in this world of thousands of gates and blue paths!"

Sixth Master's tone was calm.

But in my eyes, I still saw reluctance.

"The rivers and lakes? Where are the rivers and lakes?"

I looked out the window blankly and asked softly.

"Going out is the rivers and lakes!"