I am doing meritorious deeds in Liaozhai

Soon after, we arrived over Mianyan County.

But Song Yushan hesitated. He checked the map several times and found that the surrounding terrain was correct.

The city at this location should indeed be Mianyan County.

Mianyan County is surrounded by mountains, and the surrounding terrain is easy to identify, so there should be no mistake.

But above the city gate, it clearly says "Win County".

"When did Mianyan County change its name?"

You will know what is going on when you go into the city and take a look.

Because she was worried that there was something fishy here, she left Uncle Jin on the clouds and landed quietly outside the city. She used the Yin and Yang invisibility technique to prepare to secretly enter the city to take a look.

When walking towards the city gate, Song Yushan felt something strange. He couldn't tell what it was, but he was attracted by the noise at the city gate.

Immediately afterwards, she saw a scene that she couldn't understand.

On one side of the city gate, there was a large table.

The table was crowded with people, all looking excited and crazy.

"big big big!"

"Small! Small! Small!"

……

Song Yushan was attracted by these sounds, and when he got closer, he saw that it was a gambling table.

The yamen guarding the city gate was the banker, shaking a dice cup, while the others were gamblers, guessing the odds.

"Open, open!"

"Bless me, Grandpa Gambling Fairy! It's Xiao!"

At the end of the game, I guessed the small one, won the money, and went to the city.

If you don't guess correctly and lose, you can only continue to gamble and guess.

Song Yushan traveled all over Xu, Yang, and Jing prefectures to pay city fees in this way, and he had never heard of or seen anything like this.

After entering the city, Song Yushan was even more eye-opening.

"Vegetables are on sale! Vegetables are on sale! Fresh vegetables! You can bet with a penny and win as you wish!"

"You can win the candied haws by guessing! You can win the candied haws by guessing! No money if you lose!"

……

This is the cry of a street vendor.

As for roadside shops, gambling methods and minimum amounts are written on their signs.

Song Yushan walked into one casually. There was no counter in the store, but there must be a gaming table.

In a tailor shop, you can get clothes if you win a bet; in a hotel or restaurant, you can get a meal if you win a bet; in a wine shop, you can get a drink if you win a bet.

If you lose the bet, you will spend money and be left empty-handed.

There is no dedicated gambling room in the city, but there are gambling tables everywhere.

When opening a shop, they compete on the design of the gambling table. When setting up a stall, they also bring a piece of cloth as a gambling board. Even if the conditions are worse, they also play guessing games.

Song Yushan passed by the county government office and saw that the county government office gate was wide open and people were flowing in and out. He walked in and took a look.

Good guy, other county governments are majestic government offices, but the county government here is a majestic casino.

I thought that the scene when the old county magistrate Su went to court at night to interrogate people, monsters and ghosts, and the people in the city crowded around to watch, was already very bizarre and rare.

As a result, the magistrate of Ying County was not only bizarre, but even outrageous.

Song Yushan watched secretly for a while, and there were two cases at this time.

One is a transaction dispute and the other is a marital dispute.

In the transaction dispute, a pawnshop owner sued his client for cheating through gambling, but the client refused to admit that he cheated.

In the marital dispute, the wife reported that her husband bet with her on the number of times they could have sex at night. Every time she won the bet, the husband cheated and couldn't complete it.

The case was outrageous, and the trial process was even more outrageous. After the county magistrate showed up, he first repeated the facts of the case, and then asked the pawnshop owner, the customer, and the couple if they were sure they wanted the county government to handle the dispute between them.

After both parties agreed, the county magistrate ordered the yamen to move in two gambling tables. The magistrate personally took charge and opened two gambling games.

Two pairs of parties participated in the bet respectively, and two out of three games won.

However, the money was not used as gambling chips, only winning and losing were recorded.

The pawnshop owner bet with his customer, and the customer lost.

The wife bet with her husband, and the husband lost.

The winning pawnshop owner and his wife were full of joy and excitement.

The guest and husband, who were the losers, looked depressed and desperate.

Then, the guest and her husband were dragged to the execution ground.

There is also a gambling table on the execution ground. If you win, you will be poisoned and drunk, and if you lose, you will be beheaded.

They are both death sentences, but both the guest and the husband are involved in the gambling, even more crazy than before.

As if losing is more terrifying than death.

Soon, the bet came to fruition. The guest’s head was missing, the husband was foaming at the mouth, and both lives were lost.

The reporter, the executioner, the bystanders, including the deceased, no one showed any dissatisfaction with this rule, as if it was normal.

It was precisely because even the deceased went to die calmly, but only with the depression of losing the bet, Song Yushan resisted and did not save others.

Under such circumstances, what's the use of saving people?

Lose another game and die again?

Song Yushan only felt that it was extremely ridiculous.

In other places in the city, money is gambled, but here in the county government, life is gambled!

According to this method of trial, if the murderer wins the bet, can he be acquitted? Can an innocent victim be sentenced to death as long as he loses the bet?

Although the loser looked depressed, he really accepted the result calmly.

No one in the city thought there was anything wrong with this method of judging the case.

Only Song Yushan, a foreign monk, was doubting life.

Now she feels that calling this county town Yingcheng is too appropriate.

The whole city is crazy about gambling. What is it called winning the city?

Is this place so ridiculous?

Of course not.

At least a thousand years ago, when the last time someone came to check the map, this place was still called Mianyan County, not Ying County.

If some people in the city are extremely fond of gambling and there are gambling houses all over the city, it can also be said that this is a regional characteristic and the gambling culture is prevalent.

But this is gambling in the city, not only money is gambled, but lives are gambled!

This is very abnormal.

Song Yushan secretly explored the entire county, and found that there was really no one who didn't want to gamble, and everything that he couldn't gamble with!

People all over the city seem to be obsessed with gambling and care about winning or losing.

Out of curiosity, she visited several villages and towns near Ying County. Without exception, they were all in the same situation as Ying County.

Song Yushan didn't find anything that might lead to the county's obsession with gambling.

She always felt that this situation that could affect so many people's minds was either caused by monks or demons.

Ordinary mortals do not have this ability.

When people gamble, they always talk about Grandpa Gambling Fairy and Lord Gambling Fairy.

But Song Yushan didn't find a statue of the god. He didn't know if it was just a lucky word on the lips of gamblers.

Moreover, she searched several times with her spiritual consciousness, but could not find any monk other than herself.

But there was an unexpected discovery. There was evil spirit somewhere in the city!

Song Yushan immediately chased the evil spirit.

It was a tall, middle-aged man with a beard.

He was dressed a little weirdly, wearing a big strappy hat and big, fat boots.

His speaking voice was also rough.