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Chapter 193 Dai Zong's Armored Horse

"You didn't lie to me?" Li Kui jumped up from the ground all of a sudden, buzzing excitedly.

"Why did I lie to you? I didn't lend you the money just now because I was afraid that you would lose all the money. With your brain and luck, you don't have enough money to lose. I will accompany you to get some money for you. How about it?" , Brother, I am righteous enough." Zhou Tian couldn't help laughing seeing Li Kui's face beaming with joy.

"Haha, you are my real brother." Hearing what Zhou Tian said, Li Kui rushed over to Zhou Tian, ​​dancing and dancing. He wanted to give Zhou Tian a warm hug, but he was afraid that he would be thrown out again, so Li Kui ran away. When Zhou Tian was in front of him, he slammed on the brakes and stopped.

"If you have money, you are your brother. Someone wanted to beat me up just now." Zhou Tian smiled with his hands behind his back.

"Aren't I in a hurry?" Li Kui had a straight temper. Seeing Zhou Tian say this, he knelt down with a plop, "I will apologize to my brother, hehe."

"Get up, get up." Seeing that Li Kui looked like a child, Zhou Tian hurriedly pulled him up and said, "Which one is the biggest gambling house in this city? Let's go there and have a look today."

"The biggest gambling house in Jiangzhou City is Wanle Building. It seems to be opened by the emperor's father-in-law, but I, Tieniu, have never been there. I heard that if you go there, you need to gamble at least 100 taels." Li Kui said.

"100 taels..." Zhou Tian thought for a while and said, "Then go to the casino you usually go to first, there shouldn't be a lot of gambling requirements there."

"They dare! Let's go, I will accompany my brother to kill the Quartet." Li Kui responded, and led Zhou Tian to the direction of the city.

With the development of the commodity economy, various entertainment industries in the Northern Song Dynasty also flourished unprecedentedly. Brothels, casinos and other gold-selling caves came into being. One of these two entertainment venues was opened by local officials or relatives of the emperor, and the scale was huge.The other is private establishments, which are small and very informal, and there are people from all religions and schools. When Zhou Tian was a poppier in Yanggu County, he controlled such a gambling shop. However, since Yanggu County is only a small county, So Zhou Tian didn't get much benefit from the gambling house at that time.

"Brother, we're here." Li Kui said, pointing to a small shop.Li Kui, who has been taught a lesson, is very respectful to Zhou Tian, ​​and he also counts on Zhou Tian to turn back yesterday's book for him, so Li Kui has been on the road all the way, and the elder brother and the younger brother have not stopped shouting. .

This gambling house is the most common small gambling house in the market. Although the room is not big, there are many people, it is chaotic, and there is a smell of stinky feet.

There are three tables in the entire gambling house, and each table is full of people. The most common thing to bet on is a sieve, which is thrown into a bowl, and the bets are big and small.

"Just that table." Zhou Tian didn't like the smell of stinky feet in the gambling shop, so after picking a table, he casually placed a bet of ten taels of silver.

Zhou Tian has the rockfall technique, so Zhou Tian can naturally control the size of the sieve at will. In two or three rounds, Zhou Tian won more than a hundred taels of silver.Zhou Tianzhi was not here, so Zhou Tian, ​​who won a hundred taels of silver, took Li Kui away from this gambling house full of stinky feet.

"Hey, brother, your luck is really good, much better than mine." Li Kui held the silver and laughed happily. This time he has recovered all the money he lost in the past, and there is still a surplus. Can you Are you happy? "Brother, let's go, let's have a drink. I'm Tieniu for a treat."

"Tie Niu, when is this? We just finished eating, so you won't be hungry right now." It took Zhou Tian less than half an hour to win the hundred taels of silver. Zhou Tian, ​​who hadn't digested his meal, wasn't very hungry.

"Hey, I'm not hungry either, but brother, you helped me win so much silver, I have to repay it no matter what." Li Kui scratched his head and smiled.

"There's no need to repay. Take me to the Wanlefang. I didn't enjoy the game just now. How about we go to gamble for two more. If you win, you will still get [-]% of the money." Zhou Tian was looking forward to the casino that was not what he saw just now It's a small gambling house full of stinky feet, so Zhou Tian of Wanlefang still plans to go to see it.

"Let's just go back and gamble. What Wanlefang is we going to? It's quite far away." Li Kui muttered puzzled.

"The bets in this place are too small, and it's boring to play. The Wanlefang should be full of big bets. If you win twice, maybe I can marry you a wife." The most important thing is the smell of stinky feet. , almost made me throw up three times.

When he heard about marrying a daughter-in-law, Li Kui grinned, "Okay, I'll follow my brother's orders, and I'll take my brother there."

After going around a dozen small alleys, Zhou Tian and Li Kui came to the door of Wanlefang.

The location of Wanlefang is the most prosperous area in the entire Jiangzhou City. There are many casinos and brothels. The largest brothel in Jiangzhou City is next to Wanlefang. However, it is not yet the time for the girls to welcome guests, so that The brothel named Huichunlou is far less prosperous than Wanlefang.

Although this Wanlefang is the largest gambling house in Jiangzhou City, since the gambling industry in the Northern Song Dynasty had just started, Zhou Tian didn't find any other gambling tools other than the sieve.But that's fine too, Zhou Tian really doesn't know anything other than guessing the size.

Without the intrusion of stinky feet, Zhou Tian can finally make some money with peace of mind.

Since the background of Wanlefang is very deep, Zhou Tian is not willing to cause trouble, so Zhou Tian is very cautious when using the falling stone technique, and there is no situation where he guesses correctly several times in a row, but because the stakes are huge , so after all the betting, Zhou Tian still made a lot of money.

In the Northern Song Dynasty, there was no bargaining chip, so Li Kui couldn't hold the silver won by Zhou Tian, ​​so Zhou Tian exchanged all the silver for gold and continued to kill the Quartet.

However, Zhou Tian, ​​who opened Goldfinger, felt a little bored, Zhou Tian couldn't feel the thrill that a gambler should have, and Zhou Tian didn't have a place to spend the money he won, so it must be cheaper for Li Kui. The most important thing is that in two days, the kid from Song Jiang will write anti-poetry uneasy, even if he has money, he won't be able to take it with him.

Feeling bored, Zhou Tian was fiddling with the sieve in his hand, when his eyes flashed, he suddenly saw the brocade box in the hands of a rough and crazed man.

"Look at how much gold I can exchange for this ginseng." The rough man opened the brocade box in his hand, and inside it was a white and fat thing that looked like a radish.

The person opposite the rough man is a middle-aged fat man, dressed in fancy clothes, he seems to be a businessman, he took a look at the rough man's brocade box and said, "Ten gold bars worth the sky."

"Hmph, you think I'm a fool, don't you?" The rough man slapped the table and said, "In our country of Jin, Korean ginseng needs at least twenty gold bars."

"The prices in the Song Dynasty are different from those in the Jin Dynasty." The middle-aged fat man said calmly.

"Even if there is a price difference between the two places, the price of this ginseng should be more expensive in the Northern Song Dynasty." The rough man said.

Zhou Tian could hear their bargaining clearly. Just when the two were about to settle the deal with thirteen gold bars, Zhou Tian suddenly stepped in and bought the Korean ginseng with twenty gold bars.Of course, Zhou Tian bet with that rough man from the Kingdom of Gold with twenty gold bars as a bet, and the gold bars naturally returned to Zhou Tian's pocket in the end.

After winning the baby, Zhou Tian didn't stay in the casino any longer, but took Li Kui to buy some wine and meat to find Dai Zong.

Although this Dai Zong is a national civil servant, but with the establishment of the Song Dynasty at that time, this official position of Dai Zong is not popular at all, and it is estimated that it is similar to the current aunt of the neighborhood committee.Therefore, the dream of buying a house is like a luxury for Dai Zong, who likes to make friends with people from all corners of the country. At that time, he didn't have any loans, and even if he wanted to be a house slave, he couldn't do it. So this single Dai Zong often lived in the free place of Guanyin Nunnery near the Town God's Temple. Son.

When Zhou Tian and Li Kui went there with wine and meat, Dai Zong had just returned from get off work.

"Brother, look what I brought you. It's the braised venison from Jade Building, and a jar of Huadiao wine." Seeing Dai Zong, Li Kui said with a single glance, "Brother, I'm rich now." , look at my robe, isn't it beautiful?"

"Tie Niu, Brother Zhou Tian bought this for you?" Seeing the things in Li Kui's hands and the robe passed on his body, the two Dai Zong turned their eyes and looked at Zhou Tian.

Zhou Tian just smiled and didn't say much.

"It's my Tieniu's own money." Li Kui said with a chuckle, "It's just given by Brother Zhou Tian. You don't know that today, Brother Zhou Tian and I are killing everyone in Wanlefang. We won four or five gold bars alone. Ten, I, Tieniu, have never seen so much money in my life, no, I won the money, so I bought something to honor you."

"I said, why are you so generous?" Dai Zong let Zhou Tian and Li Kui into the nunnery to confront Zhou Tian, ​​"Brother, don't blame me, my place is so shabby, I made my brother laugh at me."

"Brother is at ease." Zhou Tian looked at the Guanyin Nunnery that Dai Zong gave to occupy the mountain as the king. Although it is not big, there is no shortage of everything. Except for the lack of a kitchen, this daily necessities have everything.

"I'm a widow, so I don't have to be so particular about it." Dai Zong set up a stool for Zhou Tian and Li Kui, placed wine and food on the table, and drank for a while.

"Let me tell you about the killings in Wanlefang today. Let's talk about Wanlefang..." As soon as the wine glass was put down, Li Kui yelled loudly. Today, Li Kui knows what it means to spend a lot of money Now, I used to gamble on small things, so Li Kui, who was so excited, naturally wanted to tell Dai Zong what he had seen and heard.

This Li Kui was not only loud, but also a chatterbox. After half an hour, Dai Zong couldn't stand it anymore and had to speak up to stop Li Kui.

However, Li Kui obviously hadn't finished talking, and after being interrupted by Dai Zong, he still kept mumbling until Zhou Tian stuffed a piece of venison the size of a palm into his mouth, which was considered to have stopped.

Without Li Kui's murmurs, the drink was much more enjoyable, and Zhou Tian also took advantage of Dai Zong's drunkenness to inquire about his armored horse that can travel five hundred miles a day.

But Dai Zong obviously didn't take the secret of his armored horse seriously, and Zhou Tian didn't say anything, so he let it all out by himself.

"This magical technique was passed on by a Taoist priest I met when I was young. At that time, the Taoist priest passed me a formula and the method of making the armored horse. After that, I couldn't find anyone, and I followed the armored horse. The horse and the mouth formula have gained the reputation of being a great protector in Jianghu." Dai Zong smiled, and took out a piece of yellow cardboard with many runes written on it from behind him, "This is the armored horse, although anyone It can be used, but if it is made and activated, there is no one else except that Taoist priest and me, Dai Zong."

Zhou Tian took the yellow cardboard from Dai Zong's hand and looked at it carefully, and found that it was similar to his own talisman, except that what was written on it was not words, but some messy symbols.

"The dean is not afraid that this thing will attract other people's prying eyes." Zhou Tian asked after taking a sip of his wine.

"Haha, brother's worries are unnecessary." Dai Zong shook his head and smiled, "Now the style of great Confucianism is in full swing, and the power of ghosts and gods is respected in both temples and rivers and lakes. In addition, it is extremely difficult to practice my technique, so even if I was the one who taught others the method of making the armored horse and the mental method I learned at the beginning, and I am afraid that others may not be willing to learn it."

Zhou Tian nodded, and tentatively said, "Oh, it's actually like this. My younger brother is a little interested in this magical technique. I wonder if the dean can give me some advice."

"Brother Zhou Tian wants to learn? Hehe, of course there is no problem." Dai Zong laughed, took out another thing from behind, and handed it to Zhou Tiandao, "It's not that I, Dai Zong, have never taught others the skill of supernatural power, but Even if they learn it, no one can really motivate the armored horse. As for the method of making the armored horse, it is even more impossible to learn. Well, this is the mental method I learned from the Taoist priest, Zhou Brother Tian can take a closer look first, it’s not too difficult, I learned it in just one day.”

"Then thank you Dean." Zhou Tian put down his wine glass, took the mental method and started to read it.After seeing this, Zhou Tian was startled, and found that Dai Zong's method turned out to be a method for cultivating spiritual power, but that method was not at the same level as Zhou Tian's "Book of Heaven". In terms of the speed of cultivation and the purity of the spiritual power produced, it cannot be compared with "Book of Heaven".

"It seems that my "Book of Heaven" is a treasure." Zhou Tian shook his head and returned the mental method in his hand to Dai Zong.

"Brother Zhou Tian, ​​if there is anything you don't understand, you can ask me, and you don't have to give up so quickly." Then Dai Zong thought that Zhou Tian gave up because he couldn't understand his mentality, so he couldn't help but said with a smile.Since Dai Zong obtained this mentality, he also wanted to pass on this mentality, but he found that no matter who he taught this mentality to, he could not cultivate what was needed to motivate the armored horse. See Zhou Tian today Shaking his head, he felt that the other party must be the same as the person he taught before, unable to cultivate what is needed to motivate the armored horse.

Zhou Tian didn't answer Dai Zong's words, but said, "Could the dean tell me how to make a armored horse, so I can see if I can make an armored horse."

"Brother Zhou Tian, ​​what did you say?" Dai Zong didn't expect that Zhou Tian would ask him for the method of making armored horses. After a moment, he didn't hesitate, and took a piece of yellow hard paper without runes from his side and said, "This armored horse There is nothing special about the method of making a horse, you just need to write a few runes on the paper, it doesn’t matter what kind of paper it is, I am more comfortable with this kind of paper, so I have been using it all the time.”

"Sure enough, the production method is similar to that of the spirit talisman." When Zhou Tian heard the method of making the armored horse that Dai Zong said, his heart suddenly became enlightened. The legendary armored horse that can travel five hundred miles a day turned out to be so The thing is, the key to everything lies in the rune that is similar to the circle fork.

Zhou Tian took the yellow hard paper, and with his spiritual power running, he drew the same rune on the armored horse that Dai Zong had already made before.

"It takes so much spiritual energy..." After Zhou Tian finished drawing the armored horse, he felt a emptiness of spiritual energy in his body, and he had consumed [-]% of his spiritual energy all at once.

"Brother Zhou Tian, ​​what are you doing?" Dai Zong couldn't help asking when he saw Zhou Tian scratching at him with his fingers.

"Making armored horses..." Zhou Tian said.

"Hehe...Brother Zhou Tian really knows how to joke." Dai Zong took out a brush and a box of cinnabar and said, "Don't say that Brother Zhou Tian didn't learn my mind, even if he learned it, he still has to use this Langhao brush and cinnabar."

"Does the dean still need these things to make this armored horse?" According to Zhou Tian's estimation, the mental method learned by Dai Zong is the same as "Book of Heaven", which can only be learned by those who are destined to be immortal, so this Dai religion has been practiced by many people and gods. The law, but those people can't learn it because they don't have a fairy fate.Zhou Tian also heard from Zhang Jiao that a person who has two levels of red-orange celestial affinity must use cinnabar to make talismans. Looking at it now, Dai Zong seems to be a red-rank or orange-rank fairy .

"Naturally, otherwise it would be impossible to make armored horses." Dai Zong nodded.

"En, is that so..." Zhou Tian smiled, and tied the armored horse he made by himself to his leg, and immediately activated it with his spiritual power.

"So fast..." Zhou Tian moved his feet, but ran out of Guanyin Nunnery with one leg.The driving method of this armored horse is the same as Zhou Tian expected, just inject spiritual power, but Zhou Tian ignores one problem after another - how does this thing turn and stop.

Although he didn't know how to stop, Zhou Tian's reaction was not slow. After leaving the Guanyin Nunnery, there happened to be a big jujube tree. Zhou Tian clung to the trunk with one leap, just in time to let the armored horse on his right foot fly into the air , this is considered to have stopped.

"Principal, come and help me, little brother, I can't stop!" Zhou Tian, ​​who was hanging on the jujube tree, shouted to Dai Zong for help, and Dai Zong was looking at Zhou Tian sitting just now with meat in his mouth. The place.It seemed that he was frightened by the scene just now.

"Where's Brother Zhou Tian?" Dai Zong was in a daze with that, but he was stronger than Li Kui, Li Kui was so drunk that he forgot where his nose was. Seeing that Zhou Tian was gone, he asked.
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(End of this chapter)