episode_0168

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The time when gamblers are active is at night.

Considering that most entertainment takes place at night, it wasn’t that special. Giru is basically open at night and most gambling takes place in Giru.

However, there are places where you can gamble even during the day.

casino.

A space for those who only enjoy gambling, not as part of drinking and dancing.

“Hmm.”

The private player threw down his card and clicked his tongue. Not long ago, a large number of gamblers called Nandagin were suddenly arrested.

Unlike modern times, gambling is not illegal in this world of martial arts. However, there were few gamblers who were honest before the law. Gambling is not illegal, but activities as a gambler are perfect for getting caught for fraud.

Anyway, the gamblers who were caught like that were released safely a few days later.

Everyone kept their mouths shut, as if they had lost their souls.

“Brother! How long will you be like this!”

Sajeok screamed while looking at Cheongseo, who seemed to have lost half of her soul, but Cheongseo remained silent.

“Oh my! Were you really tortured in the coffin? What kind of crime is it for touching that card and making a person look like this? Since that day, brother Hakjo has been stuck at home and has not been seen once, and brother Heukjeo has left the gambling scene and only hangs out in bars…!”

Hakjo kept his mouth shut. What happened at Cheonsangru was something that could not be told to anyone. My classmate directly warned me, so the day I even mention Cheonsangru’s cloth, I don’t know if even mice or birds will run away without me noticing.

Cheongseo had no intention of opening his mouth even if it wasn’t for his classmate’s warning.

Gamblers who are famous in Luoyang. A hundred people put their heads together and came together. Cheon Sang-ru provides a seat and even receives cooperation from classmates to deal with just one person…

A large sum of 300 nyang was stolen.

How can such a miserable defeat be spoken of?

That day came to mind in Cheongseo’s mind.

[die.]

Just thinking about that day made my hands shake. The eyes that were casting a cool look while maintaining a rough posture clearly appeared in my mind, and when those eyes appeared in my mind, a chill went down my spine and I broke into a cold sweat.

Sajeok looked at Cheongseo’s trembling hands and closed his mouth. Although I was curious about what happened that day, I had no intention of scolding someone who was shaking like that.

“I understand. I won’t ask.”

Sajeok got up from the board to give Cheongseo a break. When I looked around the gambling hall to try another game, I couldn’t find anything worth playing on.

The historic site whetted my appetite. Nearly a hundred gamblers were caught and released at once, and everything became strange from that day on. No one spoke out loud about that time, as if they had actually been tortured in a government office, and more than one person had a distraught look on their faces.

Because of that, I couldn’t find anyone I could hang out with at the gambling house.

Unlike Giru, gambling places are rarely visited by those who enjoy casual gambling. This is because gambling on Giru is much more stimulating. You can drink alcohol at Giru, which makes gambling even more exciting, and there are spectators watching. Above all, there was a higher chance of winning money by gambling at a giru than at a gambling hall.

Those who, instead of waiting for the night and going to Giru, come to a gambling house where they cannot drink and there are no spectators to gamble, are people who can be said to be serious about gambling. As they were more professional gamblers, their average level was much higher than that of Giru.

A gambling house is a gathering place for gamblers. He was a private player with a talent that would not be easy to find a rival even in such a gambling hall.

‘That guy isn’t there… my brothers are all in very bad shape… I guess I’ll just have to focus on catching tigers in Giru for a while.’

It was a personal thing that made me sick at the fact that all opponents of my level had become strange, but if I think about it again, it also meant that the gambling world in Luoyang had become a muju communist. Should I take this opportunity to make a big deal?

‘I’ll have to sleep well and work hard at night with a clear mind.’

Since there wasn’t a gambling table to play on, I thought I’d just smoke a cigar and go inside, so I lit a fire and suddenly looked up as I felt the entrance becoming noisy.

Three people were entering the gambling house.

“Hiya.”

An ordinary-looking warrior. A nobleman like a master from a rich family. and…

A peerless beauty was standing there.

A woman so beautiful that even though she was wearing a cotton thread, her beauty could not be concealed. Just as the scent of musk powder cannot be completely hidden even if wrapped in paper, even though she was wearing a cotton thread that covered her entire face except for her eyes, it seemed as if her beauty was leaking through the cotton thread.

As a gambler, I have seen many courtesans with a flower-like appearance while traveling from place to place, but even those courtesans have the appearance of being turned into something else in an instant.

‘I can’t believe I felt this way even though my face was covered. ‘She is an amazing beauty.’

Ho Cheon-an, an ordinary man in the center, opened his mouth.

“Instead of a dull gambling hall, it is better to stop by Pungjeonggak and get some fresh air while looking at the scenery of Luoyang…”

“We need to see your gambling skills, so please sit down quickly. I believe that he will demonstrate his skills.”

Ho Cheon-an swallowed his dry saliva at the black cat’s cool gaze. In the eyes of the black cat, a strong will to see Ho Cheon-an’s gamble was revealed, so Ho Cheon-an was put in a difficult situation.

‘What kind of situation is this?’

For Ho Cheon-an, who had no way of knowing what the black cat and Hyeok-rin were talking about, the current situation was truly a thunderbolt in the dry sky.

Regardless of what Ho Cheon-an was thinking or not, the black cat grabbed the hesitant Ho Cheon-an by the shoulders and made him sit on an empty chair in an empty gambling house. Then, he took the bag out of his pocket and turned it over.

C’mon!

“Huh!”

“Geumja…”

Black cat’s Luoyang tourism fund. The large sum of money called Geumja Sapsipnyang, prepared generously as I looked forward to a tour of Luoyang with Hyeok Kirin and Ho Cheon An, shone brightly.

The gamblers’ attention immediately focused on Ho Cheon-an and Black Cat.

“I will give all of this gold to the person who wins in a competition with this person.”

Ho Cheon-an opened his mouth, his gambler’s eyes lit up, and he stood up competitively. A gambler who was gambling next to Hocheonan sat down on the table opposite Hocheonan, and exclamations of regret echoed around him.

The gambler said with a grin.

“Hahaha! There is no softness!”

“I won’t say it twice.”

“Okay, what about the rules?”

“Choose your own gambling type. The method is as both people want.”

“In that case, we will use each other’s home appliances as stakes, and the one who takes away the other person’s home appliance first will win. What do you think about the goal loss for the event?”

The gambler quickly set favorable conditions. If you bet real money, if you lose, it’s an immediate loss, but if you’re playing with home appliances, you’re only getting your money’s worth. In addition, the gambler mentioned that he was most confident in the sport, Golbae.

The gambler waited for Ho Cheon-an’s consent, but Ho Cheon-an was looking at the black cat instead of the gambler.

“Why are you doing this all of a sudden?”

“I just wanted to see my senior’s gambling skills.”

Seeing the black cat showing no signs of backing down, Ho Cheon-an sighed heavily and turned his head to persuade Hyuk Kirin.

But why isn’t Hyuk Kirin looking at him with expectant eyes? Hyeok Kirin, who received Ho Cheon-an’s puzzled look, mumbled and said.

“I also want to see someone gambling at least once…”

Hyuk Kirin also had no idea why the black cat was like this, but for Hyuk Kirin, the current situation with Ho Cheon-an gambling was not bad. Ho Cheon-an’s dexterity sometimes amazes us just by looking at it, so how great would it be if he showed off his skills in a real gambling game?

People’s moods tend to ease after seeing great attractions… Hyuk Kirin had some hopes that the black cat’s anger would ease after seeing Ho Cheon-an’s gambling skills.

Ho Cheon-an, who received those earnest eyes, sighed. Okay, anyway, it would be a shame to wake up here.

“Let’s go quickly. There are twenty-five home appliances. Whatever sport you want. Instead, there is a condition.”

“What?”

“You must be shameless. If you win, you take this money and you bet nothing? If you lose, it’s a good night.”

“…Good.”

It was a condition that the opposing gambler could not refuse. In the first place, if you lose in a game where 30 nyang of gold is at stake, it is nothing.

The board has begun.

The black cat, watching from a distance as the gambler began to shuffle the cards, thought.

‘I need to know more about my senior.’

The thought, which was just a passing intuition after seeing a swindler at a tea shop, was somewhat resolved by going to a gambling place and placing a bet.

Is Hocheonan as a warrior really Hocheonan? Black Cat could only shake his head at that question. As a military officer, Hocheonan had many ups and downs. Due to an unknown constitution, his will was forcibly broken and he remained stagnant until recently, when he finally began to unleash his energy.

However, even though he had raised his spirits, the mountain that Ho Cheon-an had to overcome was still difficult. Because of my constitution, I had a hard time managing my energy, so there was no way new obstacles wouldn’t appear in the future.

‘As a military officer, Senior Ho’s environment is too harsh for him to reflect his own tendencies.’

Even though you already consumed one elixir to reach the top, you must consume seven additional elixirs to clear the way to the peak. The fact that it takes as many as eight elixirs to reach climax is beyond all the twists and turns.

On the other hand, what about gambling?

The black cat recalled Ho Cheon-an’s hand technique. A flashy type that is different from other gamblers. Should I say it’s a shame? Ho Cheon-an’s gambling skills that dazzle the eye and create illusions were definitely different from others.

‘Senior Ho’s gambling skills clearly reveal his tendencies. So, Mr. Ho’s gambling will also proceed according to his own inclination.’

Until now, Black Cat had vaguely thought that it would be okay to just be with Ho Cheon-an. That thought has not changed even now. But we couldn’t be together with those thoughts alone.

‘Senior understood me, but I didn’t.’

The black cat recalled Ho Cheon-an’s appearance. In order to understand the black cat, he listened seriously to his incoherent words and also stepped forward to solve the black cat’s problems.

However, Black Cat had never made any special effort to understand Hocheonan.

I wasn’t talking about secrets that shouldn’t be revealed, such as why Hocheonan knows about enlightenment.

Questions I had to ask to understand the person named Ho Cheon-an. Why do you like martial arts so much? Why do you not want to make your name known as a gambler? Why is it so easy to pass on the gambling skills you worked so hard to learn to others?

There were countless points that could have been questioned, but the black cat did not delve into them.

‘So you need to know now.’

After hearing Hyeok Kirin’s confession of feelings, his emotions moved here and there, but what ultimately remained in Heukmyo’s mind was a deep question.

Why did things happen like this? Giving enlightenment to Hyeok Kirin was a quite risky choice. Even considering the emotional exchange between the three people, which Black Cat was a third party and could not know, it was a risky task.

reason.

Black Cat could not understand why Ho Cheon-an made such a decision. And only after his thoughts reached that point did the black cat realize. I had never tried to understand Ho Cheon-an in the first place, so how could I see through Ho Cheon-an’s thoughts?

That’s why I dragged Ho Cheon-an into the gambling den. I came here and scattered gold coins to witness with my own eyes Hocheonan’s talent, which best reflects Hocheonan’s true appearance.

Black Cat looked at Ho Cheon-an picking up the goal card and muttered softly.

“Please show us what you see. Senior.”