[Comprehensive martial arts] Holy Monk

There are 32 cards in a set of Pai Gow. After four rounds, there are four hands. Boss Wang won four times.

The lantern in the lobby has been raised high, and under the dizzy yellow light, the silver in front of him has piled up into a small hill, shining with a fascinating brilliance.And there was only a pitiful small piece of broken silver and a few copper plates left on Ma Lianzhang's hand.

Everyone can see that Boss Wang's luck is getting better.In the hidden corner, the thugs in Tsing Yi have begun to pay attention to the fat sheep, and at the gambling table, the spectators have changed their bets to the banker to win, and the businessman and the teenager have finally lost their seats. cards, they left the table one after another.

So only Ma Lianzhang and Boss Wang were left at the table, and no one was willing to sit down and gamble with the lucky Boss Wang.

But Ma Lianzhang still refused to admit defeat. He stared at Boss Wang with his eyes wide open, always suspecting that this ugly skinny man was cheating secretly.

Boss Wang smiled good-temperedly: "Why don't we just forget about it today?" As he spoke, he opened a blue money bag unceremoniously, intending to put all the money on the table into it.

Ma Lian suddenly pressed the money on the table, and said: "Wait a minute, we are betting against each other!"

Boss Wang stopped his hands and said, "It's not impossible. It's just..." He glanced vaguely at the little money left in Ma's face, and stopped speaking hesitantly.

Ma's face couldn't help but become even uglier.

Although he is extremely addicted to gambling, he has a principle that he never borrows money to gamble.

He pondered for a while, Boss Wang looked at his expression, and suddenly smiled slyly and said: "How about this, let's bet something else."

Ma Mianzhang's heart moved, and he asked, "What are you betting on?"

Boss Wang beckoned to him lightly, beckoning him to lean in, and said softly, "We bet on a question. Whoever wins will ask the other party a question. There is no limit to the content of this question, but as long as it is If the other party knows, they must answer truthfully.”

The expression on the horse's face finally became weird.

It was the first time he met someone who came to the casino to ask him questions.

He has always been a very cautious person, so those who know that he is an information dealer usually do not know that he is a gambler, and those who know that he is a gambler never know that he is also an information dealer.

There are very few people who know both of them at the same time, maybe there are only four or five in the entire Haihou City.

He looked at Boss Wang again, and he couldn't imagine that he was any of those people, but Boss Wang stared at him with his small black and bright eyes, clear and sly, revealing a very pleasing wisdom .

Ma Mianzhang almost thought he had misread, and blinked hurriedly.And when he looked over again, the expression of Boss Wang in front of him was still so slippery and wretched.

Boss Wang asked, "Do you dare to bet?"

Ma's face was itchy again, he really wanted to know whether the skinny man was cheating or he was really a master.

So he said: "Gamble!"

Boss Wang smiled slightly, first put all the silver on the table into the purse, and then took out a handful of silver ladles from his pocket.

Fang Tianzhi condescendingly took a look, and saw that these silver peas were very small and delicate, about one or two weights each, with a lifelike plum blossom printed on the top and center.

Boss Wang put the silver curly on the table and said with a smile, "Then take this as evidence. A win or loss is based on a silver curly."

After a cup of tea.

Boss Wang won six more times without losing once.

Ma looked at the cards on the table with a mournful face, and he hadn't figured out whether Boss Wang had played more than a thousand.But it doesn't matter anymore, because no matter what the truth is, he can't continue to lose!

All the money on this gaming table combined is not worth as much as his six questions!

Boss Wang was addicted to gambling, rubbing his hands with a happy face and said: "Roll the dice, Brother Zhang."

The horse's face suddenly came back to his senses, and he shook his head profusely in sweat, "No more gambling, no more gambling."

Boss Wang sighed unsatisfactorily, and said with regret: "Unfortunately, I was really lucky today, and I could have won two more rounds."

Without answering Ma Lian, he jumped up from the chair and ran away as if he had seen a ghost.

Boss Wang raised his neck, looked at the door through the crowd of people, and said, "Brother Zhang, don't rush to leave!"

Hearing his voice faintly on the horse's face, he couldn't help running even faster, and rushed out of the gate of the gambling house in the blink of an eye.

The gamblers and spectators who watched saw that they had nothing to gamble or watch, so they dispersed in a hurry.Boss Wang turned his head back with a slight smile, shook his head and sighed, and slowly put away the silver box on the table, stood up and wanted to leave.

Just as soon as he turned his head, he couldn't help but pause slightly, and then he started to walk again.

At some point, the monk behind him wearing a bamboo hat—it seemed to be that monk—had quietly disappeared, and he didn't hear a single bit of movement.

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Fang Tianzhi slipped out of the crowd like a fish at the next moment when he was about to slip away, and followed closely.He followed very leisurely, because the horse's face was very depressed. When he found that Boss Wang hadn't chased him out, he let down his vigilance and kept walking forward with his big head drooping, without noticing him not far away.

Fang Tianzhi followed him through the clean and tidy bustling urban area, and after a while mixed into the low and messy residential areas in the east of the city, watching him take out two copper coins, buy a cake in a restaurant, and pay three on credit. Two haggis and a catty of rice wine wandered back to the door of the house.

Although the two fence gates were closed, most of the fence had collapsed. He didn't open the door, but he raised his foot and stepped over the fence, entering a dark mud room.

Not long after, a dim light suddenly lit up inside.

Fang Tianzhi was not in a hurry to call the door, he waited for a while in the shadow of two huts in the distance, and then approached the gate and asked in a clear voice: "Excuse me, is Master Zhang at home?"

There was no movement at all in the mud house where Ma Lianzhang was standing, but the window of the room next to him flickered, and a plump woman pushed open the door panel with a lamp.The woman quickly approached and took a look at the light, her face was ruddy and said: "Is it you?"

It was the woman in the red dress again.

Fang Tianzhi suddenly said: "We meet again, benefactor."

She went home and changed into an old jacket with moon white around her waist. She turned her head and saw the lights on at Zhang's house on the horse's face, and said, "Did you come back from the gambling house?"

Fang Tianzhi said: "Not bad."

She smiled and said: "You call him Zhang benefactor, he is afraid that he doesn't even know who you are calling." She raised her voice and shouted, "Ma Lian Zhang, have you returned from death, come out!"

Before she finished speaking, there was a sudden sound of pots being turned over and bowls being beaten in the mud house. The horse's face almost grabbed his shoes and rushed out the door. He smiled flatteringly and said, "Yingniang, what do you want me to do?"

Fang Tianzhi looked at him in amazement, he never expected him to be so courteous and flattering to this woman.But Yingniang took it easy and said, "I have a good friend who has something to do with you, are you willing to help?"

The horse's face was busy patting his chest and he said, "Just tell me if you have anything to do, I'll take care of it!" He rolled his eyes and walked up to the door, asking, "When did you make another good friend, male or female?" As soon as the fence door was opened, he and Fang Tianzhi faced each other through the lantern, he couldn't help being slightly startled, and asked with a strange expression, "Monk?"

Fang Tianzhi put his hands together and smiled and said: "Amitabha, the benefactor Zhang is polite."

Ma Mianzhang's memory has always been very good, although he didn't pay attention to his appearance in the casino, but he still remembered his voice clearly, and immediately said: "You are the one in the casino..."

Fang Tianzhi smiled and said, "That's right, I don't know if Master Zhang is still busy right now?"

Yingniang immediately interjected, "He has nothing to do. If you have anything to do, just go in and talk to him." Then she turned to look at Ma's face, "You still have money to buy wine?"

Ma Lian smiled and said: "On credit, on credit." Then he asked eagerly, "Can you come in and sit for a while?"

Yingniang rolled her eyes and said, "I'll go in." After thinking about it, she finally said coldly, "You welcome the guests in first, I still have some hot food on the stove, bring them over later."

Yingniang returned to her home with a lantern.

Fang Tianzhi bent down and got into the mud room on the horse's face.What he didn't expect was that although the room was dark and simple, it was not so dirty and messy. There were only a few empty altars and jars in the empty kitchen. When he entered the back room, there was a bed and a table, and in the flickering lights, Sure enough, a wine bowl and a bench were overturned on the ground.

Ma Lianzhang lifted up the bench on the ground, sat upright with his feet crossed, picked up a piece of haggis and chewed it, Fang Tianzhi ignored him.

Fang Tianzhi didn't care, and sat on the other bench calmly.

The horse looked at him with a face, and suddenly said: "You will never be Yingniang's friend. Although she is a very good woman, she can't get in touch with people like you."

Fang Tianzhi smiled and said, "A person like me? I'm just a poor monk."

Ma Lianzhang sipped his wine and said, "There are many poor monks in Haihou City, but I have never seen a poor monk like you."

Fang Tianzhi said: "I am indeed not a monk in the city."

The horse face said: "What do you want me for?"

Fang Tianzhi stared at him and said, "I want to ask you something. I heard from my friends that there is nothing in Haihou City that Ma Lianzhang doesn't know about."

The cheeks on the horse's face that were chewing did not move.

Naturally, he would not think that the "friend" Fang Tianzhi was talking about was Yingniang, because in Yingniang's eyes, he was just a "not bad gambler".

Fang Tianzhi keenly noticed that his face had become very ugly, and even felt that he was a little fidgeting, and was about to ask something, but he heard him ask suddenly: "What do you want to inquire about?"

Fang Tianzhi opened his mouth to ask, but suddenly he didn't know where to start. He pondered for a while and said, "I want to find a monk. A few days ago, he might have been kidnapped to Haihou City, or he might have been kidnapped by Haihou City. Kidnapped by someone." He thought for a moment, "He's about 40 years old—"

Speaking of this, he suddenly realized that after 18 years, Master Liu Miao's appearance seemed to have hardly changed, he still looked like a young man.

So he hesitated for a moment, and he continued: "But he looks very handsome and young. Once you have seen him, you will definitely have a deep impression on him."

Hearing this, Ma Lianzhang suddenly raised his head to drink up the wine in the bowl and asked, "Where do you come from? What's your name?"

Fang Tianzhi sensed something was wrong, and said: "The poor monk's dharma name is Xue Jing, and he came from Dongxin Temple."

The face of the horse has become unknowingly ugly and a little blue.He poured himself a bowl of wine in silence, and then said dryly, "Okay, I can tell you now."

Fang Tianzhi was startled for a moment, but suddenly overjoyed, he asked, "Do you know where this monk is?"

The horse face said: "Not bad."

Fang Tianzhi was about to ask more questions, but he suddenly had a trace of doubt in his joy, and said with a smile, "What's the price of this news?"

Ma Lian said coldly: "This news is worthless. Since you are Yingniang's friend, then treat it as a gift from me."

Fang Tianzhi said calmly: "Then where is he?"

The horse turned his face and said, "In the sea."

Fang Tianzhi asked, "What do you mean?"

Ma Lian said: "It's literally. He has been soaking in the sea outside Haihou City for four days." He said word by word, "He died in the sea."

Fang Tianzhi was shocked, but he immediately convinced himself that the news was not yet true, and it was not time to be emotional.But Ma Mianzhang took a sip of wine and said, "The news of the dead is worthless, so I can give it to you."

The only sound in the room was the sound of horses drinking and chewing haggis.

Fang Tianzhi didn't speak for a long time, but when he spoke again, he said calmly: "Boss Wang, since you're here, why stand outside?"

The horse's face was unclear, so he was stunned for a while, and suddenly heard a soft sigh from outside the house.

The next moment, Boss Wang pushed the door open and walked in.

He blinked his bean eyes in embarrassment, cupped his hands and said with a smile: "I didn't mean to eavesdrop, I'm really sorry."