Chapter 43 (2/2)
However, Jia Ruidao was not an average person. He was a professional gambler. His professional conduct and ethics didn’t allow for him to be perfunctory and scuffle. Thus, he was very serious in listening and distinguishing the rolling dices and its collision sounds. While he simultaneously also controlled the dice numbers with his vibrating skill technique.
But Jia Ruidao didn’t immediately put down the dice cup this time, and instead had been observing the changes on Tang Xiu’s face.
When Jia Ruidao found that Tang Xiu’s face looked tranquil and soothed, a relaxed expression was also revealed on his face as he put the dice cup down.
Jia Ruidao lifted up the dice cup as the 3 dices’ final points were shown. It was impressively 5, 5, 6, with a total of 16 dice points.
Upon seeing that Jia Ruidao didn’t score 18 points, a touch of worry and anxiety flashed on Zhang Deqin’s expression, as the Zhang Yongjin trio also looked anxious.
But when they recalled that Tang Xiu was only just a green gambler, they immediately relaxed.
Although Grandmaster Jia didn’t get full points, but it was not that far off. Tang Xiu could only rely on his luck to determine the numbers, while the probability to get full points was simply too low. Zhang Deqin and the others didn’t believe that Tang Xiu would get full points by relying on luck.
Just like in the proverb that said, “Stepping backward for a step before advancing forward for 10,000 steps”, could also mean that even if Grandmaster Jia lost to Tang Xiu, both sides would only be tied, and there was still a third game to decide the outcome of the gambling house. But still, Tang Xiu couldn’t depend on his luck to win against Grandmaster Jia twice, could he?
After he nodded towards Jia Ruidao, Tang Xiu also picked up the dice cup with dices, and then began his second game.
Through the first session of adaptation and training, Tang Xiu’s dice shaking movement clearly had become more skilled and a lot faster. So he was now focusing on listening and distinguishing the sounds produced by the dices’ changes inside the dice cup.
Everyone was struck dumb with surprise for a moment when Tang Xiu put the dice cup down. It was because that Tang Xiu only shook it for only a minute.
“Hey brat, you couldn’t be giving up, right?” Recalling as to how Jia Ruidao took a full 5 minutes to shake his dice cup and roll the dice, and Tang Xiu only took a minute, Zhang Yongjin naturally didn’t think that Tang Xiu’s gambling skill was more powerful than Jia Ruidao. But he thought that Tang Xiu already didn’t want to continue putting an act and stopped.
“Grandmaster Jia’s strength already made him intimidated. If he doesn’t give up, he will be on the point of death, heh.”
“Brat, you finally have self-knowledge eh. Your gambling skill is much inferior to a master. Even if you shake your dice cup longer, it’s useless. You might as well rely on your luck.”
“It’s better to finish the game this quick, so we don’t have to waste more time.”
When Xue Renfei, Hu Wanjun, and Zhang Yongjin trio saw Tang Xiu’s action, they were frozen for a moment, before they then subconsciously taunted him.
In the next moment, everyone’s eyes turned round as Zhang Deqin, Zhang Yongjin’s faces were flushed red while Xue Renfei, Hu Wanjun, and Jia Ruidao’s eyes were full of a disbelieving expressions.
Because when Tang Xiu had opened the dice cup in a flash, the dices’ numbers had already been shown in front of everyone.
5, 6, 6, for a total of 17 points. It was a point higher than Jia Ruidao with 16 points before.
“We won! Did we actually win?” Although Long Zhengyu comforted Tang Xiu before, in fact, he already didn’t hope too much for Tang Xiu. But he comforted himself because of the long-established etiquette and self-controlling manner he had long been cultivated, as he chose to comfort him and not blame and accuse him.
“Eldest Brother, I knew you could do it. Big Brother, do you believe me now?” Long Zhenglin’s sentence’s first half was aimed at Tang Xiu, as the other half was pointed at Long Zhengyu. At this time, Long Zhenglin was dancing with a joyful expression, just like a child.
After having confirmed repeatedly, as well as making sure that his eyes didn’t fail him when seeing the dice numbers in front of Tang Xiu, Long Zhengyu finally awakened from his huge shock as he clenched his fist and then grabbed his younger brother with excited tears in his eyes.
It was because the Walled Hill Village project was too important for Long Zhengyu. He had to firmly step on this first step since it directly related to Long Zhengyu’s entire life plan. Therefore, he had been racking his brains for this project for almost 3 years to make it happen.
Had the project suddenly get cut off, Long Zhengyu really didn’t know whether he could face the failure or not. This was why he literally begged for help everywhere, and also the reason he finally chose to believe his younger brother’s words and invited an outsider to help with this problem.
“Your luck is truly good. But I don’t believe you can win the next time.” After the silence for a long time, Zhang Yongjin spoke with a sour expression.
But this time, Zhang Yongjin’s tone was obviously different from his previous emboldened speech. Also, nobody echoed him again, since the others were also still immersed in their astonishment and had yet to awaken from the shock Tang Xiu had given them with the 17 dice points.
*[advantage]: by having their erection in contact with her
*[ cent bills]: China has cents in bills called jiao
*[Guoshu]: Guo here means country and shu means technique
*[ 190 centimeters]: Over 6ft tall
*[Lake Cui]: Cui Hu, also means Green Lake
*[hundred dyuan bills]: 100yuan is their biggest bill
*[Daoist Fierce Tiger]: The author of this novel
*[Noodles]: made of wheat
*[Rice Noodles]: made of rice
*[Zhang Tian Tian]: Tian means sweet
*[Bajiquan]: Also known as Eight Extremities Fist, but Bajiquan sounds nicer to me
*[Long Taos]: side characters in Chinese operas who perform acrobatics and fight scenes
*[12.47 to 13.07]: don’t ask me about the tree sap