Chapter 20 The King of Thousand Kings

In 1983, a man walked seven streets with a fruit knife stuck in his head.

In 1984, a car accident victim with broken glass in his face was running through a farmer's market.

On New Year's Day in 1990, a strange man appeared on the street. There were two dice embedded in his eye sockets. They were smashed in. Sometimes people's vitality is very tenacious. He was sent to the hospital first.

, he stayed in bed for half a year and died after returning home.

The last words he left for his son were only two words: No gambling!

The son's name was Baoyuan, who was 16 years old at the time and later became a famous gambling king from all over the country.

His mother worked hard to raise him up, built a house, and married a wife. Their family lived a peaceful and happy life. He had a son and a motorized tricycle. He traveled to and from the riverside and the market, selling aquatic products. One day, several fishmongers came to him.

When they got together, one of them said something: Let's play poker?

This sentence changed Baoyuan's life.

It was in a factory that had been abandoned for many years. The gears were covered with morning glories, and a sycamore tree even grew in the factory. It started to rain heavily, and the fishmongers threw their motorized tricycles by the river and ran into the water.

The factory was sheltered from the rain. One of the fishmongers suggested playing poker, and everyone agreed. The fishmonger broke off the sycamore tree and gave each person a leaf, which they put under their buttocks and sat cross-legged.

Bao Yuan folded his arms and watched. Everyone encouraged him to play together. He smiled and said, "No."

What they were playing was "Fake Golden Flower", also called Three Cards. It is a folk multi-player card game widely spread across the country. Playing "Fake Golden Flower" may involve small cards, cheat cards and big cards, which is a sign of strength, courage and resourcefulness.

The contest is an adventurer's game.

Baoyuan learned it after watching it for a while.

A fishmonger said to him: "Cousin, let's have fun, there are so many people."

His blood boiled, he rubbed his hands and said, "Okay."

He inherited the adventurous gene from his gambler father, just as each person remains what the other person was before.

There were a lot of mosquitoes in the abandoned factory, and they bitten numerous knots on his body. He pinched them gently with his nails. He enjoyed this comfortable feeling all afternoon. At dusk, when the rain stopped, the fish were harvested.

The fishmonger left in a hurry. He counted his money and won more than 2,000. This was his first time gambling.

He stood up, patted his butt, and a leaf fell down.

From then on, Baoyuan carried a deck of playing cards in his pocket every day. He gambled money in various places, on the open space of the dock, on the neighbor's bed, and on the greasy dining table of the food stall.

The gambling friends helped him contact the big gambling bureaus.

He got deeper and deeper and gradually lost all his savings. He thought it was bad luck, but later someone reminded him that someone cheated during the gambling process. How did he cheat? He couldn't figure it out. Even so.

, he still persisted in his obsession and borrowed money to gamble every day.

His mother found out about Baoyuan's gambling and asked him to kneel in front of his father's portrait.

"How did your father die?"

"Died of illness."

"Fart, fart, it's gambling. When he was caught cheating, two dice were smashed into his eye sockets. Do you know what was used to smash them in?"

"have no idea."

"Use the bench!"

Baoyuan had no money to gamble anymore, and no one was willing to lend him money, so he just stared at people gambling every day.

On February 19, 1997, Baoyuan picked up a lighter on the street, and his fate took a turn. The lighter was made of copper, and after polishing, the light could be used to detect people. He had an idea and thought that he could use light reflection

See the hole cards clearly. In other words, put the lighter in a suitable position. When the cards are dealt, the cards will be emitted from the lighter. In this way, he only needs to look down at the lighter to know what hole cards each player is dealt.

At that time, high-tech gambling had not yet appeared, and many gambling props were not popular. Gamblers relied entirely on tricks and skills to gamble.

This idea made Bao Yuan so happy that he tried it several times and thought it was feasible, so he quietly sold the house.

There was a lighter in his pocket, and a fire was burning in his heart. Through this lighter, he glimpsed the most incredible and dark scene in gambling.

It was in a private room of a teahouse. The bosses were playing a big game, with a base of 100 and a maximum of 1,000. The winning or losing in a game was hundreds of thousands. When Baoyuan went there, the game was already in full swing, and the gamblers were playing with him.

With a greeting, he joined the gambling game.

He lit a cigarette and put the lighter casually on the table in front of him. When it was his turn to deal the cards, he could see the hole cards of all the players on the field with the help of the lighter's reflection, and slowly won a lot of money. He played

Very cautiously, when it was almost dawn, he touched three 6s.

Baoyuan thought, the time has come to determine the outcome of the game with just one hand. After getting the money back, he will never gamble again.

The money on the table had already piled up into a small mountain, and the others gave up after a few rounds. Only a man in a suit was left, betting thousands and thousands. Baoyuan knew in his heart that the opponent's trump card was two K's.

and a 3 of spades.

The man in a suit asked Baoyuan: "How much money do you have left?"

Baoyuan replied: "More than 40,000."

The man in a suit took out four stacks of money and said, "One thousand and one thousand is too slow. How about we stake all the money?"

Baoyuan understood that the other party wanted to scare him away, so he threw all the money on the table and said: "Okay, you pay, let's play the cards."

The man in a suit picked up his cards, glanced at them casually, turned over the cards and said, "See for yourself."

Bao Yuan was stunned, until many years later he still remembered the opponent's cards: three kings!

He clearly saw that the opponent's hole cards were two kings and a three of spades, but he didn't understand why it turned into three kings.

On the way home, he was penniless and owed a lot of foreign debt. The wind was so strong and the weather was so cold.

In order to avoid creditors, the mother returned to the countryside and was forced to live with her aunt. The wife took her son to her father-in-law's house. Firecrackers were blasting outside and every household was beaming with joy. Baoyuan couldn't help feeling sad and burst into tears.

Baoyuan went to his father-in-law's house to find his wife. The son opened the door and called daddy. The wife pinched the child hard, and while beating the child, she gritted her teeth and said: "Don't call him daddy. He is not your daddy. You don't have a daddy. Your daddy will die."

Got it!"

The 3-year-old son looked at Baoyuan with tearful eyes.

Many years later, he still saw his son's helpless and aggrieved eyes in his dreams.

From then on, all Baoyuan's stories were in different places.

There was a Liangpi seller under Laoguan Bridge in Jiangxi. He had been selling Liangpi there for five years. One day, when his Liangpi shop was about to close, a vicious man walked in. From then on, he never opened the door again.

, he was robbed.

The person who robbed was Bao Yuan.

Suppose there is a river in front of him, he will jump in. He thought about committing suicide, but became timid again when he stood on the bridge. He looked at the river, the clouds were reflected on the water, fish were swimming by, and the people on the boat were casting nets.

, some fish cannot be caught because they belong to the sky. Bao Yuan ate a bowl of cold noodles under the bridge. After he was full, he robbed the old man selling cold noodles and began his wandering career around the world.

In Henan, he worked as a security guard in a copper factory, and in Hebei, he worked as a restaurant apprentice. Wuqiao is also the hometown of acrobatics in China. Whether it is on the streets or in the countryside, from the elderly to the children, everyone in Wuqiao possesses unique skills.

One day, Bao Yuan was wandering around the station and saw a group of people gathered on the roadside. When he squeezed in, he saw a lame old man playing poker.

The old man took three cards, two of which were hearts and one was the ace of spades. He threw the three cards on the ground. The one who bets on the ace of spades wins. If you bet big, you win big, and if you bet small, you win small. Because of his

His movements were very slow, and even a child could see clearly where he threw the Ace of Spades. After a while, he lost a lot of money, and he became a little anxious and muttered: "Everyone I met today is an expert.

Ah, let’s play one last time and then close the stall.”

The old man still slowly threw the three cards on the ground. The audience saw the Ace of Spades in the middle. Some interested people placed their bets. Bao Yuan also bet 10 yuan. The old man turned over the middle card.

But it's not the Ace of Spades. Many people lose.

This is a widely circulated street scam. It is not a magic trick, but just uses low-level tricks to create illusions.

Bao Yuan went to the station every day, and became familiar with the old man as soon as he went there. The old man claimed to be from the Northeast, but he spoke with a southern accent. He had been working in the world for more than ten years. One time, Bao Yuan had just paid his salary and invited the old man to drink at a house.

In the beef noodle restaurant, the old man performed several poker tricks for Bao Yuan to see.

The old man shuffled the cards skillfully and performed a one-handed shuffle. After shuffling, four were dealt. Baoyuan turned over his cards and his eyes lit up. There were three kings. The old man turned over his cards and smiled proudly.

, turned out to be three Aces.

The old man asked Bao Yuan to deal a random card. He turned over the card, and it turned out to be an A.

Baoyuan thought he had met a god, so he begged the old man to teach him. The old man said: "You can't teach for free, you have to pay tuition." Baoyuan took out his salary. That day, the old man taught him how to shuffle and change the cards.

, steal cards.

Baoyuan suddenly realized and finally understood how he lost in the first place.

Baoyuan asked the old man: "You are so powerful, why don't you go gambling?"

The old man said: "Yaozi, don't say that, these are all three-legged cat things. There is a magician from the Shanghai Acrobatic Troupe named Chen Shirong. He is the real master."

Baoyuan is very perceptive. After the old man practiced it several times, he mastered all the essentials of the movements. He also practiced the basic skills of Qianju.

Gamblers can always find gambling, just as wild dogs can find poop.

Bao Yuan became proficient in practice and was eager to try it. Although these were just elementary skills, no one saw through some small gambling games. Bao Yuan also won a lot of money relying on these small skills. Gradually, everyone stopped playing with him.

.He heard from a fellow villager that there was an underground casino in Shijiazhuang, and went to Shijiazhuang the next day.

The darkness of underground casinos is unfathomable, and what people know is just the tip of the iceberg.

Bao Yuan was very confident in his three-legged cat skills. He entered the casino and was caught as soon as he came out.
To be continued...