Chapter 13: Money Booth
Fan Monkey crossed his fingers and counted the accounts for them: "First of all, the anaphyny fruit is not an elixir treasure, and no one usually buys it at all, even if the procurement of the Valley of Ten Thousand Beasts is specially for it, it can buy two or three hundred pieces in the sky." You have to gather all the fishy fruits in the county, and I estimate that there are two or three thousand of them. I bought two or three thousand houtynia nuts, but I could only sell two or three hundred, even if the price increased tenfold, it would be a loss or a profit. But the Valley of Ten Thousand Beasts is not a fool, how can they buy your fishy fruit at ten times the price?"
When Yin Gongzi heard this, he nodded frequently, and persuaded him diligently: "What the third uncle said is right, let's think of other ways." ”
Yin Qin seemed to have been distracted, and suddenly asked: "The third uncle said just now that the inventory of fishy fruits in the whole county is only two or three thousand, if you eat them all, how many spirit stones will be needed?"
Yin Xiaoxiao tugged at his sleeve and said, "Brother Yin Qin, did you listen to the words of the third uncle and grandfather just now? No one wants the fishy fruit at all, why do you buy so much?"
Smile attentively: "It's nothing, I just want to know how much this thing is worth." ”
Fan Monkey saw that he was not giving up, and said angrily: "Although the anaphyny fruit is not expensive, it is not something that can be bought with gold and silver, it has to be exchanged for a spirit stone, and a low-grade spirit stone can be exchanged for ten nay fruits." Don't you have a big stone in your hand? If you're lucky, you can exchange it for more than a thousand. However, even if you have 10,000 fishy fruits, you can't exchange them for the Open Pulse Pill of the Valley of Ten Thousand Beasts. ”
Yin Xiaoxiao exclaimed: "Isn't this little fishy fruit about the same price as our family's first-class demon beast skin, instead of risking your life to hunt demon beasts, it is better to pick fishy fruit." ”
Fan Monkey said: "You are talking about the price of Xiaocang Mountain, and the price of the demon beast skin will be slightly higher when it comes here." Although the current market is not good, a low-level spirit stone is still about the same for eight or nine animal skins. Moreover, the thing of houtynia is often priceless, and no matter how much you pick, you can't sell it, and in the end it will rot in your hands. ”
Yin Xiaoxiao was worried again when Fan Monkey said it, and looked at Yin Qin and said, "Fourth brother, you still listen to the words of the third uncle and grandfather, and don't touch the fishy fruit." ”
Attentively digressively diverted the topic and said, "It seems that the Great Elder has lost money on their business, and the market in the county town is not as bad as they say." ”
Yin Gongyin sneered: "Whether the loss is lost or not, only a few elders involved in the transaction know. ”
Fan Monkey sighed and didn't answer.
When he was attentive, he turned his face and said to the Yin family brothers and sisters: "I have a way to earn spirit stones, which is much safer than you going to the gambling house, are you interested?"
Yin Gongzi immediately came to the spirit: "You say, you say!"
Yin Qin didn't explain, but looked at Fan Monkey with a smile and said, "But I still need to borrow something from the third uncle." ”
Fan Monkey immediately shook his head and said, "The ugly words are in the head, if you ask me to borrow a spirit stone, there is no way." Instead of lending you the anatus and selling it, you can still hear it in the water. ”
"Don't worry, all I need is a secluded room in your backyard. As for the spirit stones, I will ask for them from Immortal Master Zheng of the Valley of Ten Thousand Beasts. "He said it solemnly, but everyone thought he was crazy about Lingshi.
was stared at by everyone with strange eyes, and he didn't care about it, and asked Fan Monkey: "I heard the second brother say that there is a common gambling method called flipping stalls on the side of Xiaocang Mountain, I don't know if this kind of gambling method is still in the county town?"
"This kind of gambling method is very ordinary, not only in the county town, but also in the gambling houses of the major cities of the Wu Dynasty. Fan Monkey said in his heart, this little barbarian didn't have a brain burned by yak farts on the road?
The so-called flipping stall, the official name of the gambling house is "money hundred stalls", and the currency value of the Barbarian Dynasty is divided into three types: copper coins, silver ingots and gold leaves from low to high.
The gambling method of the money stall is very simple, generally four people make up a game, a banker, three players, the banker out of the stall, the player guesses the stall. The dealer has a leather bag in his hand, which contains a hundred copper coins of the Wu Dynasty, and he can't count them when he comes out of the stall, so he has to grab a handful of copper coins and use a big bowl to buckle them upside down on the gambling table, and no one can see how many copper coins are pressed inside. The dealer then picks up a small bamboo stick and presses it against the bottom of the bowl, and from that moment on, the dealer can no longer touch anything on the table.
After the dealer comes out of the stall, the player guesses the stall, that is, guesses the remainder of the total number of copper coins under the bowl divided by four. At the gaming table, four squares marked one, two, three, and four are marked in advance, which are called four gates. Each player is only allowed to press a door, the dealer is no one to press the door, the rule is not to press the door that has been pressed by others, if you must press the door, then this game is and. In this way, everyone's odds, including the bookmaker, are three to one, which is very fair.
After the three players have placed their bets, the player on the left hand side of the banker is in charge of the stall. The specific steps are, the player picks up the bamboo stick at the bottom of the bowl, picks up the bowl, and then uses the bamboo stick to push the copper coins four in a pile, respectively to mark the number of one, two, three, four four in the area, by the dealer opposite the player to check the number, this is called the stall, push to the end of the remaining money is the number of wins of this stall.
After dividing the winner, the player on the right side of the dealer is responsible for collecting the stall, and the copper coin within four squares is pushed back to the dealer with a rectangular piece of wood, and the dealer puts it back into the animal skin bag and re-stalls.
The rules on the gambling table are that the player who is not allowed to touch the copper money with his hands whether it is a stall, a stall or a stall, and the dealer is not allowed to touch the copper money after the stall, so as not to cheat.
After the dealer has ten stalls, he will go down to the village, and everyone will take turns to sit in the village.
Flipping the stall belongs to the gambling method of one or two eyes, winning or losing can be big or small, there are no technical requirements for the participants, the rules are very fair, the victory or defeat depends purely on luck, not only in the gambling house is very popular, in Ogurayama, even ordinary people will use this way to play money during the New Year's Festival.
Yin Qin determined that the money Baizi stall was also very popular in the gambling houses in the county town, and asked Yin Gongchou if there were any fake spirit stones in his hand.
Yin Gongchou spread his hands and said: "I was replaced by Elder Yan for that piece, although this thing is a fake, it also needs a good first-class animal skin to be exchanged." Who has nothing to do with so many fake stones?"
The fake spirit stone is made of specially polished jade, soaked in the spiritual spring for at least three years, although it is a fake, but the stone can also emit a faint aura, and the monks in the general refining period do not deliberately check it, and it is easy to be fooled.
Yin Qin frowned slightly, the spirit stone was not enough, his plan was a little troublesome to operate, it really didn't work, so he had to find a way to change some fake stones from Cangshanfang City first.
"I have!" Yin Gongyin, who had not spoken on the side, suddenly pulled out a bag of animal skins, poured it on the table, and poured out more than a dozen "spirit stones".
"Third child, why are you doing so many fake stones?" Yin Gongzi was shocked.
"Play!" Yin Gongyin's face was expressionless.
"You kid won't hold back and want to buy things with fake stones in the market, right?" Fan Monkey had already seen through this kid, raised his foot and kicked over and said angrily, "You troublemaker, do you know how much of a sin it is to use fake stones in the county town? If you are caught, the cramps and skins will be light, and no one will be able to protect you at that time!"