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Tong Ran took out the bamboo cards from the box. There are three sets in total here, which are perfect for playing blackjack.

"Please look, my lord. This card has four different suits. Each suit has numbers from one to ten, as well as thirteen cards of pawns, soldiers, and generals. There are 52 cards in one deck, and here are three decks." Pick out the seed cards and show them to Dengzhi County.

The master is next to him, he has lived with the county magistrate for a long time, and has dabbled in gambling a lot, so he unconsciously picked up a bamboo card to admire at this moment.

However, as soon as he lifted the hand of the bamboo card, a sharp light shot from Deng County Magistrate's small eyes.The master paused, and immediately put down the bamboo card.

Tong Ran saw this scene clearly from his angle, but he didn't make a sound, and explained the rules of blackjack to Dengzhi County.

Its gameplay is not difficult, each round is dealt by the dealer, two cards per person, and then you can choose to stop, increase or raise, and finally look at the sum of the numbers on the cards in your hand, if it is greater than 21, it is called a bust, and you lose If the bet is less than or equal to 21, it will be compared with the dealer. The party with the larger number wins. If the numbers of both parties are the same, it is a draw.

Among them, one to ten is calculated according to the number on the card, and pawns, soldiers, and generals are all calculated according to ten.One is special, it can be counted as one or eleven.

County magistrate Deng hadn't gambled for a while. He rubbed his hands, holding an eight of spades, and couldn't bear to let it go.

After Tong Ran finished speaking, he put the card into the box: "Tong has no chance to try it. If you like it, you can keep it as a collection."

"Who said you're out of luck?" Deng Zhixian said, "The gambling ban must be obeyed, but I'm happy with the gambling, and it's noon now, why don't you go to my mansion for a meal, and we'll have two in the afternoon, and you'll be happy Dream."

Tong Ran's eyes lit up: "Really? Tong, thank you for your success."

"Hahaha, it's easy to talk about." Deng Zhixian laughed, and regardless of the sun still shining, he left the official duties in the yamen and took Tong Ran to his house.

Deng's mansion was very close to the county government office, and it was only a few steps away. However, the prefect of Deng didn't like to walk, so he still called a sedan chair and sat comfortably at the door of the house.When he arrived at the mansion, he first asked the housekeeper to bring Tong Ran in, and then ordered to pass on the food. He wanted to go in quickly and try the fun of blackjack after eating, but the master kept giving him winks, so he had no choice but to lag behind step.

After Tong Ran left, Deng Zhixian and the master went to the study in the outer courtyard. As soon as Deng Zhixian entered the door, he said impatiently: "What do you want to say?"

The master handed over his hand to confess the crime, and then said: "I don't think Tong Ran's gift is too coincidental, but I'm afraid there may be fraud in it."

Deng Zhixian snorted coldly: "What should I be? Do you think this county has never thought about this festival?"

Master: "Yes, my lord is perceptive, but my lord is stupid, please show me."

Deng Zhixian's face softened a little, and he said again: "Why do you think he sent the tea first? That's the tribute Dahongpao, a kid from Washe, it's probably the most valuable thing he can get, but he I don't know if this thing is what I want, so I prepared another set of bamboo cards. After all, he was just betting. He took two things that he could get the most out of, as long as I got one of them, would I like it? That’s enough? Maybe he brought more than two of them.”

"This..." The master didn't dare to refute, but he always felt that this was not Tong Ran's intention.

Deng Zhixian said again: "I still thought he was a tough-minded person, but I didn't expect him to be a flatterer, so after waiting for an hour to see him, he was also afraid, so he didn't dare to reveal it."

"But..." Master still hesitated.

Deng Zhixian was completely impatient: "What's the matter with Chi Chi Wai Wai? He was born in a small Washe, and he got the chance to get this opportunity by luck. It's the first time he entered the officialdom to please people clumsily. I Can you still be fooled by such a kid? I will take him into the gambling room later, the old rules, you stay outside."

"Hey." The master didn't dare to say any more, and hurriedly agreed.

Deng Zhixian slammed the door and left.

Lunch was sloppy, but fortunately Tong Ran brought jerky, the little tiger was not full and chewed the jerky unhappily.

Stinger, I give him a salary of [-] cents a month, and I have a lot of fish and meat, but I don't even give me a decent piece of meat.

Tong Ran stroked the little tiger's head to comfort it.

Chu Jun chewed the jerky, he remembered the county magistrate surnamed Deng.

Deng Zhixian didn't really invite Tong Ran at all, he didn't realize until halfway through the meal that he could let Tong Ran handle the lunch by himself, and come to his house to report in the afternoon!

Hey, what a miscalculation.

But since he kept the meal, he couldn't drive people away now, so he just halved the meat on the menu and put it in front of him.

After dinner, Deng Zhixian asked Tong Ran and Qiu'er to be blindfolded, and led them into the gambling room together.

The servant who brought them into the gambling room was probably a little afraid of the tiger, and the hand that was on Tong Ran's shoulder to guide him was trembling. Deng Zhixian saw him and scolded him.

The size of the gaming room was beyond Tong Ran's imagination. He thought it could accommodate up to five or six people, but he didn't expect that there were three tables inside, which could accommodate two or thirty people to play at the same time. It was a bit like a VIP room in a modern casino.

After entering, Deng Zhixian walked back and forth among the three tables several times, and finally sat down at the middle table: "Just this one, this one is prosperous today."

Of course Tong Ran had no objection, Qiu'er took out the cards, shuffled them and started dealing the cards.

Qiu'er sits on the banker, and he stands opposite the two of them. His cards are one bright and one dark, and the bright card is four.

Both Tong Ran and Deng Zhixian are players, and both cards are clear cards. Tong Ran has one seven and one soldier, and Deng Zhixian has two threes.

Tong Ran took the lead and said, "My lord, choose first."

Deng Zhixian shook his hand: "You go first."

Tong Ran asked for a card, Qiu'er uncovered the top card in the pile, and turned it over to Tong Ran, it was an eight.

"Hey, I exceeded 21 points, and I busted." Tong Ran regretted, and threw the two bet copper coins on the table to Qiu'er, "Now it's your turn, my lord."

Deng Zhixian also placed two copper plates and said: "Add a card."

He had thought about the rules while eating just now. All the cards add up to 150 cards, of which there are 48 cards representing ten, far more than other numbers, so the probability of getting ten is the highest.

He only has a six now, so he can take the card with confidence and boldness.

The ball turned over a card, five of hearts, and Deng Zhixian immediately called for another card.

The ball turns over another card, which is a pawn, and the pawn is equal to ten points. The sum of the previous three cards is exactly 21.

Sure enough, he had a clever plan, and Deng Zhixian smiled complacently.

"Congratulations, sir, you have won at 21 o'clock." Tong Ran said.

"Wait," Deng Zhixian said, "the dealer hasn't turned the cards yet." If he wants to win, he must enjoy the most complete victory.

Qiu'er turned over a few cards pretending to be nervous, and finally busted out with annoyed expression.

Deng Zhixian felt bored when he got the two copper coins that Qiu'er gave him, so he asked Tong Ran: "Can you bring silver? Copper coins are boring, let's use silver."

Tong Ran had been waiting for his words.

He took out the silver with a distressed face, and said cautiously: "Does your lord use silver too?"

Deng Zhixian was noncommittal: "I don't have it on me."

"I'll give mine to the adults first." Tong Ran immediately handed over the taels obediently.

Sure enough, he has never seen the world, and he is still a little bit young to please others. Deng Zhixian felt even more proud: "Why don't we add a rule, if there is no winning or losing between the players, it will not be fun. How about this, if any player wins When you win the banker, you also win another player, not only the banker will pay him a share of the bet, but also the other player's coconut, how about it?"

No casino would agree to this condition, but this kid still had to make a living under his hands, so he couldn't help but refuse.

Tong Ran nodded as expected.

Qiu'er practiced dealing cards all day and night. His hands are fast and the speed of dealing cards is also very fast.

However, it was still not as fast as Tong Ran's mental calculation.

There is a card counting method called "high and low method" in blackjack. Simply speaking, it divides the cards into three categories. When there are 21, 2, 3, 4, and 5 cards, one point will be recorded, and 6, 7, 8 scores zero points, 9, 1 and pawns, soldiers, and generals score one point. As long as you record all the cards that have been played before, add their scores to get a score for the cards that have not appeared in the future. Roughly judge, and then decide to raise, suspend or raise.

The ball was dealt the cards, and Tong Ran got a nine and an eight each. He mentally calculated all the cards that had appeared before, and now the score is three.

A large score means that there were few big cards before, and it is not good to add cards now, and it is easy to get big cards and blow up.

"Add cards." Tong Ran said decisively.

When Qiu'er dealt a card, it was a pawn, counted as ten points, and Tong Ran had a total of 27 points, which he busted as he wished.

Deng Zhixian also took a card with eighteen points. When it was Qiu'er's turn to take the card, he added three cards in a row and immediately busted. The whole bet went into Deng Zhixian's pocket.

I don't know if today is his auspicious day, since Tong Ran won once in the second game at the beginning, he is the magistrate Deng.Tong Ran's cards are actually not bad, and he narrowly lost several times, but it's a pity that gambling depends on luck, and when luck comes, no one can stop it.

Tong Ran's face was remorseful, and his heart was like a sophisticated computer, which continued to operate. In addition to the high and low methods, he also calculated the number of remaining cards and the probability of occurrence of each card, ensuring that he would lose most of the time. , as if the luck was really bad.

Deng Zhixian won twenty hands in a row, not only winning the Zhuozhuang ball, but also winning Tong Ran's bet.After he proposed to use silver taels, their bets were all one tael, so he could win two taels in each game.

At the beginning, he only paid two taels of money, but now he has 40 taels of silver.Deng Zhixian felt more and more that this blackjack was indeed his lucky star, and the more he played, the more interesting he became.

Another game started, and Deng Zhixian threw five taels of silver: "Tong Ran, let's play something big." He directly reached out to Tong Ran, took the five taels of silver on the table, and threw it into the betting box. Area.

In this round, Deng Zhixian got 21 points, and with a smile, he rolled all the ten taels of silver from Tong Ran and Qiu'er into his arms.

With the sweetness of a big bet, the subsequent bets became bigger and bigger, five taels, ten taels, 20 taels, and in the next round, Deng Zhixian got the card of double ten, and the winning ticket was in his hands. All the chips were pushed to the betting area, and even a white note of 100 taels was written.

"A total of 400 taels, Tong Ran, get off."

Deng Zhixian had already stood up, and he looked down at Tong Ran with satisfaction in his eyes.

This little brat has been trying to win him from the very beginning, but he has put everything in his hands, and now he has lost with a bang.This price of 400 taels will definitely make him not even have to wear his underwear.

Hmph, if you want to please him, just giving gifts is not enough.

What he wants is to have something to ask of him, and to have something to give him.When this kid loses everything, don't worry about not giving his life to him.

"Okay." Tong Ran said, he took out ten gold ingots from his pocket.

A gold ingot is worth one tael, and one tael of gold is approximately equal to 100 taels of silver.

Deng Zhixian's eyelids twitched, this kid is so rich.

Tong Ran spread his hands, and said with a bitter face: "This is my last family property, sir, please be merciful, let's just finish the 400 taels of betting, and leave some money for my tiger to buy meat for the little ones." .”

"What are you afraid of? Are you afraid that you won't have any meat to eat if you follow this county?" County Magistrate Deng said, "If you lose the 100 taels of gold, even if you lose, the county will guarantee you to earn it back within three months."

Tong Ran: "Your Excellency, are you serious?"

Deng Zhixian: "Of course, in three months' time it will be the barley harvest season. You are a farmer, so you can collect taxes by then..."

It is true that barley will be harvested in three months, but 100 taels of gold is not so easy to earn. Deng Zhixian knows it well, but he is sure that a boy like Tong Ran who was born in a wash house will not understand what is going on in the field.

Tong Ran put ten taels of gold into the betting area: "Then listen to the adults."

Sure enough, he was fooled, and Deng Zhixian was secretly happy.

Tong Ran already had a general and a seven. If he didn't add more cards, he would definitely lose. If he did, he still had a chance.

"Add." Tong Ran said.

The ball deals cards, a taxi.

Tong Ran exploded.

At that moment, Deng Zhixian rushed straight towards the ten golden ingots, but was stopped.Tong Ran pointed at the ball: "My lord, he hasn't flipped the card yet."

Their rule is that all bets can only be taken if the banker and the player win at the same time.

"Yes, yes, hurry up." Deng Zhixian was already impatient, his gold was there, and he wanted to get them into his pocket quickly.

In all previous games, Qiu'er will continue to draw cards until he busts.

So it can be said that he, the banker, has never won once.

But this time, he didn't continue to take the cards, but directly turned over his own hidden card.