Book 26 - Chapter 12 – Ten Gambles Nine Cheats (1/2)

Book 26 Chapter 12 – Ten Gae, Yun Yuzhen said, “nobody can hear us now; these walls are speciallyother people [Translator’s note: the sentence stopped here I checked all four ofsat down and asked, “Does Zha Hai knoho I am?”

Yun Yuzhen sat down on his left, and then said, “Naturally I would never tell hi; I just told him that you and I knew each other, and that we have a little friendly relation between us I always have a wide circle of friends, so he will never be suspicious nobody has ever thought that Ziling’s gah, Xu Ziling said with a wry sood to say between us?”

Yun Yuzhen was silent for half a day Finally she asked in soft voice, “Is Kou Zhong co sensed that he could not trust her any his head, he said, “I ca”

Yun Yuzhen stared at hi, why did you not kill Xiang Yushan and ’s rieved expression; shaking his head, he said, “I don’t know! I really don’t know! If I could not harden ainst you even more Ay! Even until now, I still don’t understand why you want to help Xiang Yushan to har her head low and spoke in distress, “If you believe ht too, but I never expected that things would go this far Plus I, Yun Yuzhen, also suffer the retribution; I foundand friends deserting (idioone; day in and day out I a corpse, sothat rather than passing the rest of my life in pain like this, death would be much better I have been co said, “But on the surface you still appear to be well-off!”

Shaken, Yun Yuzhen said, “To Xiang Yushan, I a which value lies in the usefulness that he could exploit And now my usefulness has decreased substantially, and by his side there are beauties surrounding him like a cloud, and his riches can overturn a nation; ould he still want ret is that it was only today that realize it Xiang Yushan’sabout crafty plots andthe experts Your firsthand experience on this regard ought to bemused inwardly that it was indeed too profound He spoke heavily, “How’s Xiang Yushan’s recent develop that he knew nothing about Xiang Yushan’s situation, to see if Yun Yuzhen was still defending hi’s ar to the north has been crushed by you and Xiao Zhong, Xiang Yushan no longer thinks highly of Xiao Xian; he retired with the pretext of being sick The fact is that he wanted to separate hi, and wanted to establish his own business e Fa their business Because he is afraid of your revenge, even I do not knohere he is”

Xu Ziling mused that this was probably the real reason you woke up He said, “Xiao Xian is not a lay practitioner of Buddhis Fa to leave and si puzzle for uess is that there is soreement between the two sides; in case the troops are defeated, Xiao Xian could still enjoy the Xiang Family’s riches and honor without any harm Ay! If you have never had a chance to pass your days in riches and honor and power, it is still all right, but after tasting riches and honor and power, it is hard to return to ordinary life! The feeling of losing what one has just obtained is the an to understand her current desperate htly, he asked, “So what are you going to do?”

With tears gushi+ng out of her eyes, Yun Yuzhen hung her head low, shook it, and said, “I don’t know; I already do not have anything at all I don’t want to think, or even talk about it Thinking about it seeth fro ruefully, Xu Ziling said, “If I could do that, I would have done it long ago”

Wiping her tears, Yun Yuzhen spoke in low voice, “Are you and Xiao Zhong still planning on going to Guanzhong?”

Xu Ziling re Yushan intentionally sent out his people to broadcast this information, so that nobody under the heavens does not know it If you cannot cancel this trip, youhave body type and bearing that are one in a nize”

Deep hatred toward Xiang Yushan welled up in Xu Ziling’s heart; he thought that even though he could not harden his heart toward Xiang Yushan, but if he could expose his Xiang Fa and harm him until he lost his fahthie?” Yun Yuzhen asked

“It would be best if you don’t see hiood thing to say to you”

Yun Yuzhen forlornly said, “I have nothing else to fear”

Xu Ziling rose up to his full height and said, “Let me talk to him first! How do I find you?”

Lei Jiuzhi watched as Lai Chaogui put thirty taels of gold on the table; turning his eyes toward Liu An, he said, “Where’s your gold?”

Liu An took out eight taels of gold froold, Xiaoren will be iame”

Lei Jiuzhi shook his full-of-white-hair head; his excite the dice and shuffling the tiles!”

Ling Gu pushed the deck to the middle of the table to let the four men shuffle the tiles Immediately continuous clickety-clack was heard, the at the twowas obviously a novice, while Lei Jiuzhi was not going anywhere either Greatly delighted, he said, “Chen Xiong, how do you want to play it? I have a good proposal, which willhis brows, Lei Jiuzhi shook his head and said, “Whatever the ga to play; how could we change it randonaled Liu An; in turn, Liu An signaled Kou Zhong Kou Zhong had to struggle not to laugh He said to Lei Jiuzhi, “Let’s hear what Jia Xiong has to say first, and then Chen Lao [old Chen] can decide Naturally ill comply with your, the Senior’s opinion”

Lei Jiuzhithat there was no harled hard to suppress the ecstasy in his heart; he said, “This gaets eight cards, which you could make into four pairs any way you want First, do not let other people see it And then four players turn the cards over at the sa and sest, count the points of the cards that do not form a pair If it is ular five and regular six [orig ma wu and ma liu, respectively, no idea what it is] make a total of eleven points, but it is only counted as one If the su shi+’ [lit overcoat ten], a definite lost This method is sinal, Kou Zhong hastily agreed; he said, “Betting this way is definitely extrehtful; it should be settled appropriately”

Lei Jiuzhi watched attentively at Ling Gu’s skillful hands staking the tiles for everybody; albeit reluctantly, he said, “All right! But if anybody can seize total victory with four sets of cards, the ill be doubled If the banker seizes total victory, the other three players will also pay double We hed tenderly and said, “Chen Laoban indeed has heroic spirit; this kind of ga!”

Lei Jiuzhi took out half an ingot of gold and stuffed it into Ling Gu’s hand, while stroking her cheek in passing Chuckling, he said, “Niang’er’s [young lady] ui and Liu An noticed that he still had so away a thousand gold without hesitation’ style; their hearts were burning like a blazing coal

Ling Gu’s eyebrows blossohed; she leaned close to Lei Jiuzhi and whispered in his ear expressing her thanks in tender voice oozing with flirtation, before rolling the dice on the table to deteraa caui is inside!”

Xu Ziling asked in low voice, “Is there any place we can hide? Right noe are too exposed”

Lin Lang gave hi Ye can leave one step earlier, Gongliang Ji is there, waiting for our good news”

Xu Ziling nodded his agreement, and walked in the direction of the main door Suddenly someone carance By the ti, tender and char influential fahed and said, “Gong Xiong has a startling-the-world skill, yet Nujia has never heard Gong Xiong’s na nificant talent plus a bit of luck mixed in it, how could it deserve to enter Miss Xiaoxian’s discerning eye?” Xu Zilingabout Yun Gui region, and rarely cahtly pulled his sleeve, steering hi away from the first hall, toward a fishpond outside She s Xiong, I ashe was so courteous toward hiood impression on her; he asked, “Does Miss Xiaoxian want to knohich fa from?”