Chapter 36: Crazy Gambler (Part 2)

  When Yitian asked for another card, the black-clad woman beside him said: "Little brother, your current score is already 16 points. If the hidden card is an A, you'll have 17 points. With such a high score, asking for another card is quite risky!"

  "Kid, if I were you, I'd give up. I think your trump card isn't even worth a single point?" The man in gray said with a smile, thinking that someone like Yi Tian was just here to gamble and didn't have any real skill. As an 'old hand', he looked down on people like this from the bottom of his heart.

  The black cow stood by, though it didn't say much, its tense expression was self-evident, as if it were playing with itself.

  "Haha, someone once told my fortune and said I'd have a lifetime of good luck and prosperity, but I don't know if it's true or not. Today, I just want to try it out here and see if the fortune teller was accurate!" Yi Tian said with a smile.

  "Hei Niu leaned in close to Yi Tian's ear and whispered, 'Yi Tian, the one who did your fortune telling, wasn't it your old man? Didn't you say his predictions were inaccurate?'"

  "Alright, I admit it, I lost my temper again!"

  "...". Hearing this, Hei Niu immediately became speechless. Unexpectedly, in such a tense atmosphere, Yi Tian still had the mind to brag.

  The banker took a card from the deck and pushed it forward to Yitian, flipping it over. It was a 'two'!

  When that 'two' appeared, everyone exclaimed that Yi Tian was lucky, and the probability was really too small, only about thirty percent.

  Actually, Yitian had already known that the card was a deuce, otherwise he wouldn't have continued to ask for cards in such a small probability situation.

  "Wow, this is all going well for you, kid! You're quite lucky!" The man in gray clothes shook his head and said.

  "Haha, little brother, it seems you have a great chance of winning this!" The black-clothed woman said.

  "It's okay, I guess I'm just lucky!" Yi Tian directly flipped over the hidden card "I just happened to have twenty-one! Haha..."

  If just now he was still marveling at Yi Tian's good luck, then now it can be said that Yi Tian's luck is simply against the heavens, others are all staring blankly at Yi Tian's hand.

  The woman in black grasped Ye Tian's arm excitedly and said, "Five linked rings! Ha ha, little brother, you've actually got five linked rings!"

  "What is Wu Lian Huan?" Yi Tian asked in puzzlement.

  Before the woman in black could answer, the man in gray on the other side exclaimed: "You don't even know this? The five consecutive rings are exactly twenty-one points with five cards, which is a winning hand, and the banker has to pay double!"

  "What? Double?" Hei Niu exclaimed, then started calculating, "Five hundred yuan was pressed, double that is one thousand yuan, won one thousand yuan with one hand, haha, Yi Tian, you're too awesome!"

  "Hehe, lucky, just lucky!" Yi Tian said with a somewhat smug smile.

  In the next few rounds, Yi Tian won five times and lost once. His bets also started to get bigger and bigger, from the initial 500 to the current 1,000. So far, he has more than 6,000 yuan in his hands.

  Hei Niu saw Yi Tian win so much money, his face bloomed with joy. Previously, he wanted Yi Tian to see good and collect, but Yi Tian's luck was really too strong. Even he himself hoped that Yi Tian would play for a while longer, maybe the 20,000 yuan of usury could be won directly from the casino.

  Everyone around can't help but stare with envy, wondering why they always lose while a young whippersnapper who doesn't know anything wins? In the end, all they can do is sigh and say that Yi Tian's luck is just too good.

  The man in gray was even more puzzled, he had only won half of Yi Tian's money so far, and this was something he had worked hard to get, taking great risks. If he were caught by the people here, the consequences would be unthinkable.

  He even secretly observed whether Yitian was also an old swindler like him, but after watching for half a day, he couldn't figure it out.

  The woman in black reacted indifferently, as if she didn't care about the money at all. However, when she saw Yi Tian winning, she couldn't help but smile occasionally.

  After a while of conversation, Yi Tian also asked for her name, but the woman in black simply let Yi Tian call her Mei Jie.

  Just as the game was going on to the eighth round, a middle-aged man with a slicked-back haircut walked over, dressed in a suit and looking very professional. He was holding a new deck of cards and whispered something to the dealer, who then took the deck and left. The middle-aged man put down the deck and smiled all over his face as he said: "Hello everyone, it's time for me to take over. My name is Zhao Shuo, and I'll be serving you from now on. Please place your bets!"

  Seeing this middle-aged man's smile, for some reason, made Yi Tian feel a bit awkward. What the reason was, he couldn't say.

  Yi Tian still bet a thousand dollars like before. After the dealer dealt the cards to everyone, he asked: "Does anyone want to hit?"

  At this time, the two cards of Yitian are: the hidden card is 10 and the exposed card is 9. With a total of 19 points, he can't take any more cards. After going around the circle to take cards, he finds that if he takes another card, he will burst.

  The Zhuang family's tile has only 18 points, and it may not be worth asking for.

  "I'm done," said Yi Tian, and then he looked at the cards on Mei Jie's side, which were a K and a 7. If she took another card, it would be a 2, making a total of 19 points. Just as Mei Jie was hesitating, Yi Tian said: "Mei Jie, if you think your hand is too small, just take another card. After all, we've already won so much money, losing one round doesn't matter!"

  "Okay, I'll listen to you, one more time!"

  When the card was dealt into Mei's hand, she found it was a deuce. Mei was overjoyed and started dancing with excitement, "Haha, nineteen points!"

  Yi Tian also took a look at the card of the man in gray and found that he was twenty points, this time he should have won too, and it was not his turn to cheat.

  When everyone else had folded, the banker stretched out his hands and glanced at his hole cards with a smile: "I don't want to play either!"

  Originally he should be delighted that he was nineteen points and had won eighteen points from the banker, Yi Tian's face didn't change color, but in his heart he had already started scolding, "You damn bastard, you actually cheated!"

  He hadn't paid much attention to it before, but when the banker was dealing cards, he suddenly discovered that the banker had exchanged the bottom card in the blink of an eye. The method was even more clever than the gray-clothed man's, without using any tools, and the bottom card was changed to a ten-point card. The card that was swapped out by him had already entered his sleeve, and when he touched the card box, it was easily inserted into the card.

  When everyone's cards were revealed, the banker also turned over his card. "Sorry, everyone, I have twenty points!" He then took away all the betting money on the table, while the man in gray got nothing because he had a push.

  He felt that the other party's means were too high, so Yi Tian also became more cautious and only bet 500 yuan this time.

  When the banker was dealing, he finally knew how the other side was cheating. It turned out that each ten-point card had a faint scratch on it. When the banker touched the scratched area for an instant, he would directly flick the card into his sleeve. When dealing to himself, he would take it out as a face-up card, which was also a ten-point card. Meanwhile, the banker would hide another ten-point card in his sleeve during the dealing process, ready to replace the hidden card later, and then put the replaced card very naturally into the deck.

  Seeing his two cards, Yi Tian sighed, because his cards only had eighteen points, and if he wanted more, he would burst. He already felt that he couldn't win much money at this table, so after losing the five hundred yuan in front of him, he said: "Well, it's always boring to play this game, let's play something else for a while, Mei sister, do you want to play something else?"

  "Okay, I feel the same way too. Since you want to play something else, let's play together!"

  From the moment Mei saw Yi Tian, she found him very similar to an old friend, a man she had once been in love with. Therefore, she had a good impression of Yi Tian, not for any other reason, but because it felt familiar, as if on Yi Tian's body, she could fulfill her unfulfilled wishes and get a little satisfaction.

  As they walked, Mei Jie casually asked: "Little brother, I forgot to ask you earlier, what's your name?"

  "Mei Jie, you can just call me Yi Tian!" Yi Tian said with a smile. In this short while, he had discovered that this woman named Mei Jie had a very cheerful personality and was quite likable, so he told her his name.

  When she heard Yitian's name, Mei Jie suddenly paused, her eyes constantly measuring Yitian's face.

  "Mei Jie, what's wrong?" Yi Tian asked in puzzlement as he saw her staring at him with a somewhat dazed expression.

  "Oh... nothing, nothing. You remind me of someone. By the way, where do you live?"

  Before Yi Tian could respond, Hei Niu chimed in: "Haha, his family is from Lai Shan Village. His dad is a fortune teller. If you ever want to have your fortune told, Mei Jie, you can look for their old man!"

  Mei nodded slightly and thought to herself, "Is it really that coincidental in this world? It's also too similar... thinking about it, it's been almost twenty years since I've seen her..."

  Just as she was thinking about it, Yi Tian asked: "Mei Jie, what do you want to play?"

  "Hehe, whatever you want, go ahead!"

  "Alright, this time we'll play dice!" Although he wasn't clear about Mei's background, Yi Tian felt that this person made him feel very close, like a long-unseen elder, so he spoke with great politeness.

  After chatting for a few sentences, the three of them arrived at the Sic Bo table, watching the rattling dice cup and listening to the surrounding crowd's constant shouting, it made people feel like playing a couple of rounds.

  As for shaking the dice, Yi Tian was familiar with it. When setting up a stall to calculate the divination with Old Man Xu, he had encountered several stalls shaking dice and gambling, with very small bets. Once, Yi Tian even took out the loose change from his pocket to bet, but ended up losing everything, and when Old Man Xu found out, he scolded him severely.

  "Three, three, four points, small!" The banker shouted.

  As soon as the words fell, a sighing sound came, and two more people lost everything, reluctantly leaving.

  At this time, the banker started shaking the dice again, shook them three to five times, and slapped them on the table, saying: "Please place your bets!"

  He took a glance at the dice cup and found that it was a straight dragon with four, five, and six points. The payout for the straight dragon on the table showed 1:12. Easy Heaven shook his head and smiled, then looked at the more than 6,000 yuan in his hand, took out 1,000 yuan and put it on the payout number of the straight dragon, "I bet 1,000!"

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