Lin Hua felt uncomfortable when he thought of this. At this time, the firewood door of Shaowang's house was ajar and no one was home. In the chicken coop in the corner of the yard, an old hen was clucking happily. It seemed that it had just laid an egg. Lin Hua felt uncomfortable when he thought about this.

Hua looked around and saw that there was not even a dog. He bit his lower lip, pushed open the shabby wood door and slipped in. When the old hen saw a stranger coming in, she was so frightened that she pooped a hot excrement, "thump, thump, thump, thump."

He screamed in panic. Before Lin Hua reached the henhouse, it had already scared away. There were more than a dozen fresh and shiny eggs in the henhouse. Shaowang's mother deliberately did not pick up these eggs. She wanted to keep them in the nest for the old hen.

This time, Lin Hua got better. Lin Hua went up to spread his shirt and put the eggs on the clothes one by one. He picked up the eggs with a wicked smile and ran away from Shaowang's house.

He chose a remote path and hid here and there before returning home. He was about to have a big meal, but when he opened his clothes, he found that two of them were torn due to nervousness on the way. The egg liquid was all over his clothes, but he didn't care about it, but felt sorry for the two.

He only cracked the eggs. He closed the door, whistled, and lit a fire to boil the eggs. The white rice he ate at noon was tasteless, and his stomach was already starved to death. Soon the eggs were cooked, and he cooked them one by one.

It was gone, he burped, patted his belly and went back to sleep.

In the evening, Lin Hua's family was having dinner. Lin Hua's mother was nagging, and Lin Hua's ears were numb. He took a few mouthfuls of rice, threw away the rice bowl, raised his buttocks, and slipped out of the house. The bowl was still dangling on the table.

The person had disappeared. Lin Fen chased him out and shouted: "If you don't come back at night, don't leave the door early." When the words stopped, Lin Hua was already a hundred meters away.

Lin Hua came to the home of Hou San, the head of the village. Hou San was in his forties, a bachelor, short in stature, with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks. He had a pair of small, sneaky eyes. He usually idled around and did some sneaky things. Lin Hua did not study.

When I came back, I played with him all day long. I learned a lot of bad habits from him. Since I was single and had no one to care for me, and I lived in a single household, everyone liked to gather here to make money in their free time. Last night Lin Hua was

I gambled with some ghost gamblers here and lost several hundred yuan. Tonight, Lin Hua wanted to see if Hou San had won any money so that he could borrow a few hundred yuan to move back home.

It's not completely dark yet, and there are already six or seven people in the room having fun around the table. Smoke is billowing under a one-hundred-watt light bulb. The gamblers are either shirtless or wearing clothes, and the light of the light bulb shines on them.

Their dark chests. The smell of smoke and smelly feet mixed in the air, a smell that only gamblers can endure.

The way to play money in this area is called "Qianzibao". It involves one person standing on the table with two copper coins, flicking the coins quickly with one hand, picking up a bowl with the other hand, covering it, and moving forward

One push. The gambler guesses whether the copper coins in the bowl will have the same side up or one head and one tail. The same side up is a "pair". One head and one tail is a "ganzi". The person who helps with the operation is called "Bao Guan"

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Tonight's "treasure official" is Guiqin's husband Shaoqiang. He is shirtless, holding a cigarette at an angle, with half-squinted eyes. He holds a bowl in his left hand and points it towards the two rapidly rotating lids. The gamblers throw down their fifty cents one after another.

, one piece, and occasionally ten yuan bills. Bounded by the bowl, in front of the "Baoguan" is the "Ganzi", and on the opposite side is the "Pair".

Lin Hua had no money in his pocket, and he felt itchy when he heard the sound of covering the bowl. He quickly walked over and got close to Hou San. Hou San glanced at him and said, "Here you are?"

Lin Hua nodded. Hou San took out a pack of cut tobacco in an old salt packaging bag from his pocket and handed it to Lin Hua. Hou San was not only a gambler, he was also a smoker. He didn't smoke ordinary cigarettes, he only smoked them.

Dry tobacco grown by himself. In his words, the tobacco tastes tasteless when smoked. He used chicken manure fertilizer on the tobacco grown by himself, and the tobacco leaves grown are wide and thick. When dried and cut into shredded tobacco, the tobacco is mellow and strong when smoked. What does Monkey San usually mean?

You don’t even have to do any work, but growing cigarettes is definitely hard-working.

Lin Hua took it, took out the shredded grass tobacco inside, rolled a pagoda-shaped dry tobacco, lit it, and took a deep breath. He coughed violently several times and puffed out thick smoke. He asked Hou San: "Tonight

How are you lucky?"

Monkey Three sighed: "Even so." Monkey Three also lost last night, but not all.

Shaoqiang has been very lucky these days and has won more than a hundred yuan tonight. He saw Lin Hua coming and said, "Hua Zi, did you bring any money tonight?"

Lin Hua looked at him with contempt: "There's no need to be so hasty. You will collect the debt tonight for what you owed last night. Gods are not so quick."

Shaoqiang raised his voice and said: "I'm not chasing you, I'm reminding you, don't forget it." Shaoqiang is a very stingy guy. He can clearly remember a needle you borrowed from him ten years ago. Moreover.

This man values ​​money more than justice, so no one in the village likes to associate with him. On the other hand, his wife Guiqin has a carefree personality and laughs whenever she sees people. She is also generous and is willing to take any small things she has to eat or use.

Come out and share it with everyone. Shaoqiang often talks about her, but she doesn’t take it seriously.

When Lin Hua heard Shaoqiang ask this question, he said impatiently: "I can't do without you." He regretted it in his heart. He owed it to no one but this debt collector. If he didn't bet with him last night, he wouldn't have lost money.

Oh! Alas! If there was a regret medicine in the world, he would be the first to buy it. If, if...if there was one, he wouldn't have the money to buy it.

Shaoqiang was a man who was unyielding when he was in power. He said angrily: "Can you set a time for me to pay you back? Should I pay you back in three days or five days? There must be some time."

Hou San couldn't stand it anymore. He came out to fight and said: "Young master, don't force Hua Zi. You can't get any money out of him even if you skin him now. You won so much tonight, so...

Please forgive him for a few days. Talking too much will ruin your luck tonight."

When Shaoqiang saw that he was playing around with money at Housan's house, and Lin Hua really had no money, he made a favor: "The third brother has said so, then Huazi, please find the money and return it to me as soon as possible. It won't take too long."

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Lin Hua was too lazy to pay attention to him. He was next to Hou San and Hou San with their heads lowered and looking at the rotating copper coins on the table without even blinking. When the coins were spinning very closely, Shao Qiang raised the bowl and clicked fiercely.

Covered down.

Hou San looked at Lin Hua and gestured with two fingers under the table. This meant that he guessed that the copper coin on the bottom of the bowl was a "pair". Lin Hua nodded, and he also guessed it was a "pair". So Hou San

Three bet on a heavy treasure, ten dollars. The other gamblers matched up Monkey Three's ten dollars with one dollar and two. Monkey Three held his breath, stared at the "Bao Guan" Shaoqiang and took the bowl away.

. Sure enough, there were two identical copper plates lying inside. Monkey Three smiled with yellow teeth and took the money back with his hands like a crawler. Lin Hua was also happy for Monkey Three in his heart. This pair of brothers in need often helped each other.

After an hour, Hou San won a little, handed over 20 yuan to Lin Hua, and said: "Let's play a few hands and win back last night's money."

Lin Hua gratefully accepted the money. Hou San and she had the best relationship among the group of gamblers. It was common for each other to help each other at the gambling table. Lin Hua joined the gambling game with little money and could only get one piece.

We were playing together, but our luck was mediocre, and we still couldn’t win or lose even until midnight. So we got up and wanted to leave.

At this time, Shaoqiang saw that he still had the twenty yuan in his hand, and immediately asked: "Hua Zi, can you pay me back some first?"

Huazi stared at Shaoqiang for a few seconds, then threw the twenty yuan in his hand in front of Shaoqiang. He gritted his teeth and said, "Damn, that's too much. I'll chop wood and sell it back to you in a few days."
Chapter completed!