Unparalleled Double Harmony

Chapter 297 Fighting Cards

There are many legends about the origin and evolution of mahjong, but most of them are difficult to verify or are suspected of fabricating rumors.

Fortunately, with this book, we don't have to worry about these difficult-to-argument issues, just say "this is Dazhu", and I, the storyteller, have the final say on the rest.

Therefore, we can tentatively consider that the current mahjong match between Sun Yixie and Murongji is a game with rules close to those of Japanese mahjong, but without rules such as active revealing cards and standing straight.

And the number of games they want to play is a "half game", that is, four games in the east field and four games in the south field, a total of eight games.

The rules for winning and losing are also very simple: each of the four players starts with 2000 chips (point sticks), and by the end of the eight rounds, whichever side has more points in total will win.

If the total scores of the two sides are the same in the end, then look at the comparison of the individual scores of the two "leaders" Sun Yixie and Murongji; How many points they got; and if it's the same... Then in the end, it depends on what the biggest fight they each played in these eight rounds.

Of course, there is a special situation where the winner can be determined immediately, that is - before the end of the eight rounds, one of Sun Yixie or Murongji has already lost all the chips (but Tang Weizhi and Liu Ming as Auxiliary, light loss can also be counted as negative numbers to continue).

From these rules, it is not difficult to see that what Murong Ji wants is a "short-to-medium-term contest with a certain error tolerance rate."

This is also very reasonable, because no matter from the point of view of "the gambling environment is arranged by the other party" or "our apparent hard power is higher", Murong Ji is not suitable for a long battle.

For a long time, it will change.

Although Murong Ji thinks that no matter how high Sun Yixie's level is, it is impossible for him to be at the same level as his family who specializes in gambling. It's like there is an insurmountable gap between amateurs and professionals...

However, this is a victory or defeat related to fame, interests, and dignity, and Murong Ji never wants to lose.

Moreover, in the short eight-round process, there was no extra time to slowly test the opponent's strength. Therefore, from the first round, Murong Ji followed the principle of "a lion fights a rabbit, and uses all his strength", and prepared to do nothing. Shot without mercy.

Seeing this, some people may want to say, mahjong, after all, do you have to look at the cards?So what if you are "relentless"?It's nothing more than playing more aggressively, stealing more, and being more greedy?

There is no problem with this statement as long as it does not violate the "card principles" and "rules of the game".

But... this is not a game, but a gamble. When it comes to the "gambling table", if it is still limited to "card theory" and "rules", how can it be called a real gambler?

Even today, if you walk into a mahjong parlor or a chess and card room, there is a probability that you will meet thousands of people (although most of the techniques are clumsy, but in most cases it is more than enough to deal with ordinary people). To the gambling table of huge profits... If no one is playing tricks, who will believe it?
Since Murong Ji dared to call himself the "Gambling Overlord", he was quite accomplished in making money.

Therefore, he will definitely pay a thousand.

The most common ways of making money on the mahjong table, with the highest cost-effectiveness in terms of risks and benefits, can be roughly divided into two categories:

One, tamper with the gambling equipment to control the matching of cards or master the opponent's card type.

To do this, the easiest way is to use an automatic mahjong table; the advantage of this method is that it is fully automatic in one step. The remote control can do it, but the disadvantage is that the tiles and tiles controlled by the automatic mahjong machine cannot be adjusted after the start of the game. If the rhythm is disrupted by the bumper, it may still overturn.

The more complicated method is to make some marks on the mahjong that only the out-of-the-box players can see, and then use techniques to control and fine-tune the game when manually shuffling the cards; You can also know what cards are in the opponent's hand at any time, and you can know what cards are on the card mountain. The disadvantage is that it requires higher requirements for on-the-spot reaction and skills.

Second, make a password.

That is to say, two or even three people at the poker table collude together to exchange information through small movements or voices that have been discussed in advance and that are not easily detected by others, so as to squeeze out the remaining two or one person's money.

This is a seemingly simple but very deep technology.

The most obvious way of "playing secret signs" can even be used by children; in mahjong parlors, chess and card rooms, or typhoon shelters, there are often two or three groups of scammers using this trick to kill passers-by. also.

In Jianghu slang, the person who manages this kind of work is called "Lao Yue", which belongs to the same category as "throwing bars (generally referring to those who engage in lottery gambling and fraud on the street)"; What is a real scammer, because a real scammer needs to have "jobs" in his hands, while Lao Yue and Huang Tiao'er don't have much technical content, and usually it takes several people to work together to make fake gambling.

The "signs" used by people at this level are nothing more than lighting cigarettes, scratching ears, and touching noses. Touching the chin, rubbing the eyes, and scratching the forehead are also the same meanings... The more detailed ones are combined with the position of the hands. The number of fingers stretched out seemingly randomly in small movements conveys more specific information.

Some people may ask, such a simple password, is it not cheating?
Then as I said before, at least it is more than enough to deal with ordinary people.

For example, sitting across from you is a person who plays mahjong with his right hand. His left hand is usually placed on the left side of the row of mahjong tiles in front of him naturally. Touching the cards on top of a few cards... Like this habitual action that many people have, what do you think is abnormal?
But if I tell you that the position of his hand, a little forward, a little behind, or parallel to the card, represent three suits respectively, and his fingers on the card, thumb, index finger and The middle finger, and the first to third cards on the left corresponding to these three fingers correspond to the nine numbers from one to nine... Do you suddenly find that every movement of his is a secret sign?And just this one hand, can pass the information of the tube, ten thousand, bar, one to nine, a total of 3*9*4=108 cards?
What I have mentioned are only relatively common and superficial methods. The truly brilliant codes are much more concealed, and the information that can be conveyed is also more complicated.

A well-trained gambler can instantly convert these signals that have "turned seven or eight turns" into the original information, and immediately respond to play the next card without showing any signs of observation and thinking.

And "signing a secret sign" has the biggest advantage over other thousand arts - even if you are discovered, as long as you don't admit it, there is a high probability that others will have nothing to do with you.

Because this method usually does not require any props, and the information transmitted is also "encrypted". No matter how rough the encryption of those clumsy codes is, as long as you insist that you like to touch your nose or chin, you will be caught. how?
What's more, if there are really masters present, the masters will not expose you on the spot after seeing your codes, but will pretend not to know, wait until they crack your codes, and use the information given by you at critical moments Give you a fatal blow.

So now... Which method did Murong Ji and Liu Ming use?
The answer is: use both.

Today, Murong Ji not only made a mark on the mahjong he brought, but also made a secret sign with Liu Ming in advance.

We won't explain the secret code, let's just talk about the mark...

The marks of this pair of mahjong are hidden in the patterns on the back of the cards. Although it is not possible to distinguish each card clearly, it is possible to confirm the suit of each card (using the method of making marks, usually it is not All 136 cards are clearly marked, because if it is done to that extent, everyone can see that each card is different. Moreover, for those who have reached a certain level of mahjong skills, they can see the suit of the opponent's hand, This advantage is almost the same as that of a clear card).

And this "marked mahjong set" is obviously not a temporary rush. It is a "special gambling set" specially made in the private workshop of their Murong family.

Just like the magician's magic props, these carefully crafted cheating tools of the Murong family are also - even if they may not be used, they will always take a few with them when they go out, just in case they are needed.

It can be seen from this that Murong Ji is not so ignorant. The items and rules he chose this time... It seems that he made a quick decision, but they were all carefully considered.

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East inning.

At the beginning of the first round, Tang Weizhi's expression showed that he had an excellent deck.

From the perspective of Murong Ji and Liu Ming, the marks on the back of the cards are also proof... This guy surnamed Tang really couldn't hide anything on his face when he gambled...

Sun Yixie, on the other hand, was drinking and beating leisurely with a bowl of soy milk.

His small eyes were always half-smile and half-smile, flicking here and there, making people feel unpredictable.

Of course, this feeling is not so terrible under the premise of "I know which suits and how many cards you have in your hand".

In this way, after several rounds, this round ended with Tang Weizhi's self-play.

Murong Ji and Liu Ming didn't show any annoyance about this. In fact, they had tried their best to cooperate in the defense in this round. The two used various methods to change the order of drawing cards to prevent Tang Weizhi from making a bigger show. The guy's starting hand is really good, and they can't stop Tang Wei's hand in the situation of listening to many sides. They can only say that this hand makes him less hand and it is considered a success.

East Second Bureau.

Tang Weizhi's strong fortune is still continuing. Although it is not [-]% sure just from the suit on the back, but judging from the expression on his face... [-]% of his hands are the foundation of the three yuan.

This is what luck is like. Sometimes it will follow a certain person inexplicably, and you never know how long it will take to leave.

However, seasoned gamblers know that there is a so-called "bad luck" at the gaming table.

A choice, a hesitation, a loss of a round...even a casual small action of the lucky person may make the goddess of luck leave him.

And after a good "luck" dissipates, what follows is often astonishing bad luck.

Some people say that this matter is metaphysics, and some people say that this phenomenon can be explained in part by psychology and probability. The method of "broken luck" to deal with Tang Weizhi-rob Hu.

Big Triple is good, but relatively, this hand type is too heavy. It is not so easy to play this kind of hand...especially when your opponent knows what kind of hand you want.

It's true that Tang Weizhi's hand is a big triple, but he needs to get valid cards for at least three or four consecutive rounds before he can draw the cards.

As long as Murong Ji and Liu Ming play first before he draws the card, then Tang Weizhi's big three yuan will be like a flower in the mirror, and the bamboo basket will be nothing.

The two of them already knew the suit of each hidden card. Based on this, their "sign" could be more concealed and simplified (take the position of the hand in the above paragraph as an example, if the two parties in the communication If you already know the suit of the card, you can save a step), so, after a simple exchange, Murong Ji knew that Liu Ming's hand was in the form of a quick attack to draw the card, and then they started to operate...

After the four rounds, although the lucky Tang Weizhi had already drawn two valid cards, Liu Ming had already drawn the cards.

Pihu, listen on both sides, and one of the cards he listened to was aimed at an invalid card in Tang Wei's hand.

As a result, when Tang Weizhi got the third valid card, he really played that card and fired the gun for Liu Ming...

Although the points lost in this hand are not many, but Tang Weizhi saw that the big three yuan in his hand was about to be drawn into nothingness. This depressed feeling made you a perfect exam paper, but in the end he was given a zero because he forgot to write his name. That's a bigger blow than not being able to pass in the first place.

East Third Bureau.

The "broken luck" manipulated by Murong Ji and Liu Ming was undoubtedly a success.

This hand had just been shuffled, and before they even started to look at the opponent's cards, they saw Tang Weizhi's bitter face.

This is the face a person will most likely want to put on when he picks up a deck that he can tell with a single glance that he can basically fold his Hu.

of course there are exceptions……

Sun Yixie is an exception.

When it comes out of his mouth, you have to listen to it like this——

I'm at a disadvantage = I take advantage of something.

I got hurt = lost a little blood.

I was yin = I went to yin, but it was a pity that I didn't get yin.

And when he said these things, the expressions on his face and body movements were matched, which was more real than real.

For example, at this moment, he had just finished his second bowl of soy milk, and while ordering the clerk to exchange for a bowl of sour plum soup, he was counting the cards in his hand, but he saw him stepping on the corner of the stool with one bent leg, sitting on his side, looking Looking at the complete background in front of him, he yelled with his big mouth open: "Damn chicken! What is this thing! Is it still fluffy? Ah——"

Obviously, when the fortune began to flow, the next person to be favored was Sun Yixie.

Looking at this guy's cards, and that face, Murong Ji and Liu Ming couldn't hold back... They have seen quite a few gamblers, both those who like to pretend and those who like to bluff, and they are quite common Yes, but it's really rare to see such a natural and incomparable existence like Sun Yixie.

It's as if... In this guy's cognition, he is really at a loss; except for the Tianhu card, the others are "difficult to play" and "too bad to play".

In the end, the third round of the East ended with Sun Yixie's Hu card.

Just like the first game in the east, Murongji and Liu Ming minimized their losses when they couldn't defend their opponents; when Sun Yixie was two rounds away and was about to touch himself, Liu Ming deliberately let go, not only letting Sun Yixie Hu's fan numbers were reduced, which also prevented Murong Ji's points from dropping.

Then came the East Fourth Bureau.

And this round... was also the round where Murong Ji and Liu Ming started to crush.

(End of this chapter)