Chapter 584 This is a big shot
After seeing the bamboo sign, the people from the Jiaolong Gang took Xia Lin and the other two to the reception room. After a while, a slightly plump man with a goatee came up from behind.

“What can I do for you?” He smiled and sat down, then said in a very serious manner, “If you are in trouble, you can ask for help. Whether it’s borrowing money to return home or redeeming someone, we can talk about it.”

“The three of us are traveling from Jiangnan Road. Just now, a hero from the Jiaolong Gang said that we were targeted by bad guys. I wonder if the situation has eased?”

“Hmm…” The goatee twirled his beard and said with difficulty, “You are new here, and you may not know how dangerous this place is. Many people have suffered great losses before. There are spies of bandits everywhere in this county. If you show off, you will be targeted. At the very least, they will ask for money and property, and at the worst, they will simply kidnap you and take you to the mountains in exchange for money. I guess you showed off your wealth. But this matter is easy to deal with. You can find a place to stay on this street. As long as you don’t leave this street, no one can do anything to you.”

Xia Lin asked curiously at this moment: “Then we always have to go out.”

“Indeed, but I don’t know how to start this conversation.” The man with the goatee laughed awkwardly: “Hehe… It’s a bit embarrassing.”

“You can talk about it.” Xu Shiji bowed and said with a smile, “Sir, please don’t embarrass me.”

“Although this shouldn’t be the case, after all, we all have to eat, drink, defecate and urinate, so if you are really worried, you can pay some money to hire a few security guards. The price is negotiable. And you can rest assured that my Jiaolong Gang is doing the work. Those who can come here are all first-class experts.”

If it were someone else, conspiracy theories would surely come up, but Xia Lin and Xu Shiji could understand that this was probably the only way to perfectly solve the problem. And to be honest, in order to maintain the operation of a gang, there must be a business that can make money. You won’t get far just by relying on love.

“I don’t think so.” The second brother waved his hand and said, “If we are afraid of such a thief, where will my dignity be?”

“If you don’t want to, I won’t force you. I hope you guys will be careful. These people will target fat sheep.” The goatee smiled helplessly, “Don’t go to that street to have fun at night.”

The second brother naturally agreed on the spot.

But that night, the three of them appeared in the gambling house on “that street”. Poker and mahjong games had long been introduced here and evolved into all kinds of strange fast-food games. Multiple people laughing and making up numbers were already basic, and even the prototype of baccarat had appeared.

The three of them were invincible in this filthy gambling house. Xia Lin relied on his skills and psychological game to be invincible at the poker table.

Xu Shiji relied on the accurate calculation of probability to get the upper hand with the dice.

Second brother… Second brother just relied on recklessness, but his luck was pretty good, worthy of being a boy of Guanyin. Xia Ji could win three prizes in a row even if he bought eight random numbers.

It was just two hours, and the three of them used ten taels of silver to win more than one thousand seven hundred taels. This was something that had not happened in the gambling house for many years. The gamblers were all making a fuss, and even the people who were watching the casino thought they were there to cause trouble.

“Young man, quit while you’re ahead.”

Xia Lin was flipping cards when a man in his fifties came over, patted him on the shoulder and said, “That’s about it.”

“What? Can’t win?” Xia Lin tilted his head and smiled, “There’s no such thing as being able to only lose and not win, right?”

“You can win as you please, you are not winning the casino’s money.” The middle-aged man said with a smile, “It’s just that the three of you are too ostentatious. It’s better to be more restrained in this area.”

Xia Lin laughed, pushed the silver in his hand out, and threw the cards in his hand onto the table: “Double King Kill!”

“Sincerely, sincerely!”

Xia Lin pulled all the silver on the table in front of him and said provocatively, “Everyone, today you are unlucky, so don’t play anymore. If you continue playing, you may have to sell your wife and children.”

The middle-aged man who came to remind Xia Lin shook his head silently and left.

In fact, at this point, it would be impossible for him to stop. The gambling house naturally didn’t bother to look for a business worth one or two thousand taels, but the people playing in this casino were a mixed bunch, and it was hard to say what they would do.

Similarly, the other two are also very popular today. When it comes to playing with probability, no one can compare with a professional Taoist priest. Xu Shiji also made a lot of money.

When Xia Lin came over with the exchanged silver notes in his hands, clapping his hands, there was even a land deed in front of Xu Shiji.

“You’re amazing.” Xia Lin teased, “You won over all the people and real estate?”

Xia Lin threw the banknote in front of Xu Shiji and said, “I’ll buy your land deed.”

Xu Shiji laughed and handed him the deed. Xia Lin took the deed and walked to the gambler who had lost his fortune and was crying. He kicked him in the ass: “You gambler deserves to die.”

Although he cursed, he still threw the deed to the man’s face: “Get lost!”

The three of them probably won about 4,000 taels of silver, which was not much at all. The highest record of the gambling house in Jinling City was a loss of 1.5 million taels in one day. But that also depends on where this place is. In this place, 4,000 taels of silver is already a sky-high level. After all, in this era, the gap between the capital and these corners is greater than the gap between the Three-Body Star and the Earth. 4,000 is really outrageous. When they went out, they didn’t even need to think to know that there were already many eyes staring at the three of them, but because these three people didn’t look like someone who was easy to mess with, most people didn’t dare to act rashly.

The three won the money and went out to find a store to eat. Xu Shiji lowered his voice and asked, “Are you trying to lure the snake out of its hole, Third Brother?”

Xia Lin just smiled with his eyes narrowed, and did not answer directly. Instead, he waited until the spies outside hurried away before he said, “Are you two brothers scared?”

“Haha…” Xu Shiji patted the saber wrapped with cloth beside him and said, “I don’t like killing, but I’m not a vegetarian either.”

The second brother even took off his clothes, revealing muscles like a silverback gorilla. Even if Tyson came, he would tremble with fists. He was truly not afraid.

“Actually, if you insist on saying there is some meaning or purpose, there is none.” Xia Lin said with a smile: “You tricked me out, so I have to find something for you to do, right?”

When the two heard the laughter, it shook the roof.

Yes, I didn’t have any plan for this trip, I just wanted to have fun, what’s the most fun thing in the world? Of course, risking your life is the most fun.

“I will sacrifice my life to accompany you, sir.”

When the three of them drank some wine and walked out of the store, it was already late at night. There was no one on the road, and only the barking of dogs in the distance disturbed the night.

The moonlight is bright today. There is a breeze on the summer moonlit night, which dispels some of the stuffiness. The chirping of insects in the grass and the untimely buzzing of mosquitoes make the night seem very pure.

The three of them were singing out of tune, and their average age was in their thirties. They were pushing each other on the street like children, acting like drunkards.

At this moment, Xia Lin, who had the most acute senses among them, suddenly raised a finger: “There is movement.”

Xu Shiji and the others immediately stopped fighting and listened attentively. As expected, there were indeed rustling sounds of footsteps on the ground around them. There were quite a few people, and they were probably already hidden in the darkness.

“Hey, I have an idea.” Xia Lin raised a finger: “Let’s count who knocked down more. Whoever knocked down the least will treat you tomorrow.”

The second brother laughed: “Then I’m afraid you’re the one who’s invited!”

Xu Shiji sighed and said, “Look at my saber!”

After saying this, he and his second brother took off the cloth from their weapons, but Xia Lin drew out his dagger and stood back to back with the murderer. At this moment, his second brother said loudly, “Heroes from all walks of life, don’t hide, come out!”

Suddenly, many people came out from the darkness around them. A rough count showed that there were more than forty of them. They paid a huge price for these little things.

Xia Lin took out the shotgun from his waist and opened the safety button: “I’ll count to three.”

“Wait a minute, the other side hasn’t reported their number yet!”

As soon as the second brother finished speaking, Xia Lin had already rushed forward with a dagger in his hand and used the move of “Dragon Out of the Sea” to knock a man to the ground.

“one!”

“You have no martial ethics, kid! Where’s the one, two, three?”

The chaos had already begun. The second brother was the first to lead the way. The moonlight splashed between the broken walls. The spear drew a half silver arc, and the iron spike at the end of the spear knocked three hidden arrows away. When the hidden weapon was nailed into the dead tree, his boots had already crushed the broken lines of the bluestone slabs and rushed forward five steps. The tip of the spear opened the throats of the two leading people, and the blood splashed was exactly the same color as the red eyes of the jackdaws on the branches.

Eight shadows surrounded them from all sides. The buzzing sound of the gun barrel recoil had not yet dissipated, and the second brother suddenly lowered his body and swung his gun, breaking three tibias with the ash wood gun. He took advantage of the momentum to rise up amidst the screams, and the moonlight flowed down the fine iron gun head into a cold waterfall. Two masked men covered their bleeding necks and fell into the rubble, startling the gray pigeons roosting on the wall at night.

The remaining five people had just formed a sword net when the second brother suddenly flicked his wrist and shook his spear. The two-meter-long red tassel exploded into seven phantoms, but his real body went straight to the middle like a silver dragon flying through the clouds. The strong man holding two axes staggered back, and the iron goggles on his chest had been stabbed into powder. When the spear was pulled back, it slashed diagonally, cutting off the scimitar of the attacker on the left along with half of his shoulder blade. The broken blade rotated and embedded into the earth wall, shaking off the wall dust.

The last three people retreated with their Adam’s apples rolling, and the moonlight nailed their shadows to the broken wall and kept shaking. The second brother swung the tassel of his gun to shake off the blood beads, and the night wind swept the remaining blood over the groaning bodies on the ground. The nightingale on the dead branch suddenly screamed through the air, and the gun shaft had penetrated the last black shadow like a white rainbow piercing the sun, nailing the blood-stained gun tip to the gnarled trunk of the ancient locust tree, shaking the tree’s silver light to shatter like snow.

“Wow, second brother, you’re really good at fighting.” Xia Lin was still dodging the attacks, but his second brother had already finished the fight: “I’m using my ultimate power!”

(End of this chapter)