Immortal Aoki

【Chapter 14】

Zhong Fei stopped trying to explain, turned his head with a smile, and met Xing Yin who had turned back.Xingyin's eyes are clear, just like his voice, there is no trace of impurity.Zhong Fei was suddenly comforted.No matter what happened in the past, at least tomorrow will be accompanied by Zhaohui.

Take people's money, □□.

Xingyin proposed to investigate from Xie Zimei's father, after all, it is a predestination.But Zhong Fei waved his hand: "It's useless. When his father died 15 years ago, he must have checked everything. With Scorpion Mei's suspicious character, whenever he had doubts, he must have found someone else to investigate secretly. They found nothing. , let's not bother."

It was later proved that this was indeed the case. Xie Zimei had asked several people to investigate secretly before, but to no avail.

Zhong Fei said: "It starts with Scorpion Mei himself, he is the focus of everything."

It is a conventional practice to nail the stakes first and then tie the donkey, and to cast the nest first and then fish, which is too slow.Zhong Fei started directly from Xie Zimei, and what he wanted was to stab the soul.For the next three days, Zhong Fei spent time in various casinos of Xiezimei, and it was a small win.Not long after, everyone in the venue knew that Xie Zimei had a "distant cousin" surnamed Zhong, who was generous and skilled.

The Fangzhu who manages the casino burst into laughter when he saw him.After all, nine out of ten bets lose, if you are not afraid of winning, I am afraid that you will not come.

"Young Master Zhong, you are just like your cousin, you are extremely lucky." Someone said jealously.

"Assignment and acceptance."

Zhong Fei mainly bets on skilled games, such as Leaf Pai Pai and Pai Gow, similar to playing poker and mahjong, relying on memory and skills to control winning or losing.It is said that people have luck. Some people see that he is lucky, so Zhong Fei bets whatever he bets, and earns accordingly.One of them is Qin Xiaochu, in his twenties, with eyes as round as lychees and lips as thin as leaves.

After almost winning, Zhong Fei went to the cockfight.

Zhong Fei was about to bet on the fighting cock "Dabai", Qin Xiaochu hurriedly asked: "Brother Zhong, can "Dabai" work, "tea ceremony" is better than it. "

The two looked similar, and Zhong Fei couldn't tell the quality of the fighting cock, so he bought a "tea gift".The cockfighting arena is really boiling and dusty, and the gamblers are all shouting and cheering for the roosters they bet.After a lot of chicken feathers, the victory and defeat are settled. "Big White" did not win, and "Tea Ceremony" also lost. In the end, the winner was a big black chicken.

In the next two rounds, he also lost without accident.

The casino kills without blood, and Zhong Fei loses most of the money he won with countless brain cells.

Qin Xiaochu pursed his lips and was about to cry: "I shouldn't be fighting cocks, what are you doing blindly fighting cocks, there must be black people here! "Tea Li" is so strong, it will fall down when it is bumped lightly, you say, Is it because there are many people betting on it, and the owner of the shop has tampered with it, such as poisoning the "tea ceremony"? "

How can there be no shady scenes in the casino?

But Zhong Fei disagreed with him.

The dealer takes everything, and the casino makes money by raking in money, not by gambling money.The dealer invites experts to sit in charge, as long as the guests don't win all the time or win too much, the dealer will not care.Otherwise, if the reputation is lost, who will come?The Mei family's ancestral casino has an iron reputation, and there have been incidents of "beating troublemakers to death", but no incidents of "doing black hands and feet".

All gamblers hope to "turn the game over at the next move", so Qin Xiaochu puts out his last savings to be desperate.Zhong Fei grabbed him: "Keep it, I will bring you back another day."

Qin Xiaochu was moved by his self-confidence, with a bitter brow: "When will I win enough three thousand silver taels?"

You have no skills and no eyesight, so I am afraid that there is no hope: "What do you want so much money for?"

Qin Xiaochu wanted to redeem the piano for someone else.

Qin Xiao had a lifesaver who was a luthier who played the zither and the zither for a living.At the beginning of the year, I made a bet with someone and accidentally lost my family Guqin.That piano is expensive, and it is now in a musical instrument store with a price tag of 3000 taels.The luthier begged the shopkeeper not to sell it, and he raised money to buy it back.But 3000 taels is so easy, and I haven't raised much money in the past two months.Fortunately, Guqin is expensive and there are few people who know the goods, so this matter is just dragging on.

A few days ago, the owner of the musical instrument shop issued an ultimatum: Someone fell in love with the piano, and in the last ten days, the luthier would sell it without any money.

The luthier has no family property and no land deed, how can he get it?

Qin Xiaochu calculated the land deed of his family's property, and when he was short of one thousand taels of silver, he thought of the casino.Give it a go, maybe two thousand will become three thousand?The result can be imagined, two thousand becomes one thousand, and one thousand becomes five hundred.Seeing that it was about to disappear, I finally caught Zhong Fei, the god of luck, and turned it back to 1000 taels.That piano is about to fly.

Are there many musicians in this world?Zhong Fei laughed: "You are stupid, you don't know anything, don't you just wait to be slaughtered when you enter the casino?"

Qin Xiaochu: "What can I do, I am also very desperate."

The two left the casino, Qin Xiaochu said that his home was in a street not far away, and invited Zhong Fei to dinner.The hospitality was hard to turn down, so Zhong Fei followed.When I got there, I saw that my dear, it was also a good house, no wonder the family property was worth two thousand.But the inside is bleak, with no possessions, and the yard is full of grass.

Someone inside shouted: "You son of a bitch just came back, your father starved to death."

Qin Xiao was angry: "You don't know how to do it yourself."

Qin's father came out on crutches, with funny looks, one big and one small eyes, gossiping and spitting, there was no one in a hundred and eighty miles that he didn't know.There is nowhere to look for when you have broken through iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get here. When Zhong Fei asked about the Mei family, Father Qin slapped his thigh: "Don't mention the Mei family to me!"

It turned out that the Qin family was rich back then, and they walked sideways, and the Qin mother they married was also pitiful with bright eyes and white teeth.At that time, Father Mei was not well-off yet, so he abducted Father Qin into his casino, and it has been out of control ever since.It is said that gambling, the more you gamble, the more you lose money. Father Qin has gambled for more than ten years, and his land and family properties have been lost to the Mei family casino one after another, leaving only this single house.In the last match, the bet was Qin's mother, and if she lost, she would be paid to Mei's father as a concubine.

Father Qin thought something was wrong afterwards, and dragged Qin Xiao out of Mei's house to make trouble, causing someone to break his leg.

Soon, Mei's father died suddenly, and Qin's mother, who had been reduced to a concubine, also passed away.

Father Qin suddenly felt that life is nothing more than this, no matter how good you are, you will die in the end.Not wanting to fight for leisure, he stayed with his son in an empty house, ate dried salted radish and white rice, and just got by.Over the years, Qin Xiaochu has experienced the ups and downs of human relationships, and he hates gambling. If it wasn't for the luthier, he would never enter the casino.

After listening to those old things, it was already night.

Qin Xiaochu lit a lantern to send Zhong Fei off, and before he went out, he saw Xingyin leaning against the trunk of the willow tree in front of him, with puffy cheeks and a displeased expression on his face, he didn't know how long he had been waiting.

Zhong Fei wondered, "How do you know I'm here?"

Xing Yin: "There is your breath."

Are you a hound's nose?Zhong Fei poked that swollen cheek: "What's the matter, who messed with you?"

Xing Yin looked away: "Didn't you agree to have supper with me?"

Zhong Fei: "I didn't say no."

Xing Yin: "Then why do you eat at someone else's house?"

Zhong Fei smiled: "Dinner doesn't affect my supper, I can still eat noodle soup, sun cake, wonton, and silver clove porridge!"

The leek bones in February and March are fresh and tender, rolled into spring rolls, put into the oil pan, and exploded with a sound of oil, the spring rolls rolled a few times, fried golden and crispy, picked up, placed on a small plate, the aroma went straight to the nose .Zhong Fei ate two, and another bowl of wontons with thin skins and big ones, feeling very satisfied.

In the past, I ate compressed space meals and food from smart kitchens, which were made precisely and tasted the same.Now that I have tasted countless flavors, I feel that the most wonderful thing is the handmade delicacy, whether it is salty or light, with smoke and fire.

"Aren't you full at that Qin's house?" Xing Yin held up half of the mask.

"Didn't I promise to eat with you?"

"Do you remember?"

"If I'm not old enough to say it, just turn around and forget it." Zhong Fei picked up a wonton and put it in Xingyin's mouth.

Xingyin bit down, the corners of his mouth curled up, and he smiled faintly—really, a little coaxing would be fine—Zhong Fei had discovered early on that Xingyin seldom ate, but he never refused to be fed, and when he was fed, he was very obedient Shun.In March, the evening wind was warm, and the two of them walked back along the bluestone road, and the shadows were drawn very long by the moonlight.

These two days, Xingyin followed Xie Zimei in the name of a guard.

He compiled the collected information into a list, all of which are the sources of Xie Zimei's large sums of money in and out of accounts in recent years. There are legitimate and ill-gotten gains, and the incidents and personnel involved are quite detailed——After reading it, Zhong Fei suddenly felt, Xing Yin is also appropriate to be a policeman.

Zhong Fei noticed a line: Autumn Qixian, 3000 taels.

Zhong Fei asked: "What's the matter with this sum?"

Xing Yin said depressedly: "Why did you notice it all of a sudden, he is Mu Zhu's friend."

Qiu Qixian, Mu Zhu's friend, Qin Xiaochu's benefactor, the place is small, only a few people come and go.

The person who gambled with Qiu Qixian was Xie Zimei. At that time, the bet was very casual: "Will the next person walk in the door with his right foot or his left foot?" The musician lost—Xie Zimei was very lucky, and it was from then on Yes, everyone present at the table witnessed their bet.Qiu Qixian thought he was unlucky, and lost 1000 taels in such a muddled way.He couldn't afford it, so he pawned Guqin to pay off Xie Zimei's bill.But once the pawn period expired, he still had no money to redeem it, so the pawnshop sold the guqin to the musical instrument store for 3000 taels, and the musical instrument store is now offering [-] taels.

The bet of 1000 taels ended up being 3000 taels.

Zhong Fei was puzzled: "Scorpion Mei Mingming only got 1000 taels, how could it be written as [-] taels?"

Xing Yin said: "I don't know, it was copied from the accountant of Mei's family."

Zhong Fei pondered for a while, then slapped the table, and suddenly realized: the pawn shop and the musical instrument shop were all instructed by Xie Zimei.The initial bet of 1000 taels was to lure fish into the bait, and Qiu Qixian was pawned to pawn the guqin.

Xingyin: "Just for a guqin?"

Zhong Fei shook his head: "No, Xie Zimei's intention is the Qin family's son."

Given the relationship between Qin Xiaochu and Qiu Qixian, he must help.The Qin family is innocent, and the only valuable house is a house, which is so tight that it can afford 3000 taels.Xie Zimei is not just good at gambling.The old cat sleeps in the room, which is passed down from generation to generation. Father Mei squeezed Father Qin dry, and Xie Zimei continued to squeeze the younger ones. The Qin family was really unlucky.

Xing Yin was angry: "This kind of person deserves to be killed, let's go, don't help him investigate."

Zhong Fei smiled: "So, do you think we are going to help him?"

This child is so naive that he will be eaten to pieces.Zhong Fei couldn't help poking this serious face with his fingers.Xing Yin was so startled that the lantern in his hand almost fell to the ground, staring at Zhong Fei speechless, his bright eyes burning.

Zhong Fei laughed at this reaction: "What I promised was to find out."

Xingyin said for a long time, "I have so many thoughts."

Zhinao can accurately analyze abnormal data, Zhong Fei is not as good as Zhinao, so he has to read it several times.Back in the wing room, Xing Yin brought him a tub of hot water to soak his feet, the water temperature was always just right.Zhong Fei soaked for a long time, and something was wrong. Looking again, Xingyin closed his eyes and "practiced", with one foot resting on the side of the wooden basin, calmly conveying "heat".Manual adjustment is much more comfortable than air conditioning.