Chapter 97

The next day, Wang An slept in late again.

Mainly because yesterday, Wang An had been sufficiently stimulated by the heroic and spirited posture of Mu Xueqing while riding a horse, and the wild energy she radiated!

So last night on the kang, he tossed and turned with the stark-naked Mu Xueqing for half the night; he was truly exhausted!

But it must be said, letting the stark-naked Mu Xueqing wear only a roe deer skin coat while doing that was also quite stimulating!

This made Wang An think of that earth leopard skin; that thing could also be made into a short coat!

Wang An pondered, would that feeling be even more stimulating? It must be incredibly satisfying!

But his mother would hardly let him keep that earth leopard skin to make a coat; mainly because that thing was too expensive!

The key was that he didn't dare say why he wanted to keep the earth leopard skin, fearing the old couple would directly whip him to death with a horsewhip!

That damn horsewhip, it hurts like hell when it hits someone! Not only painful, but agonizing; that sensation of pain simply sinks into the marrow!

Don't ask Wang An how he knows; in this era, although not every family has large livestock, when farming, one needs a whip to drive the production team's large livestock, and those whips are all homemade!

The unfortunate thing is, Wang Dazhu is the one who drives the large livestock and holds the plow straight when farming!

Plowing straight—not a sled, but a harrow—is used for raking soil and opening furrows when farming!

After washing up and eating breakfast, Wang An strolled to the small shop because he was thinking about how to leak the news of the black bear's den to Niu Dali.

As long as Niu Dali goes into the mountains, things will be much easier to handle!

Entering the small shop, he bought a box of Changbai Mountain cigarettes as usual; this time he didn't hesitate, going straight for it.

It's possible Niu Dali lost heavily in the gambling game and didn't have much money left, so he was playing cards in the small shop again today.

The card games in the small shop are mainly about bullshitting and bragging, but everyone feels that just bragging is boring, so they play for a little money to liven things up.

If everyone played normally, even if one lost hard all winter, losing ten or twenty yuan would be quite a lot!

Niu Dali naturally wants to win some money here and then go to a real gambling game to play big, because everyone in the village knows this! And Niu Dali has always done exactly that!

However, no one cares; no one plays mahjong with him because he cheats, only "Fried Golden Flower" doesn't pick players—whoever wants to play, plays!

And since Niu Dali has been hanging around gambling games, he naturally knows a few tricks, just like Wang An, he also knows some sleight of hand.

Naturally, he wins more and loses less; everyone knows what's going on, but it's just for fun, and the stakes aren't high.

Besides, Niu Dali is a scoundrel, and no one wants to provoke him; even if caught cheating red-handed, he refuses to admit it, and the key is that no one dares to kill him!

So when Wang An joined in, everyone was very happy; Wang An's reputation isn't great, and Niu Dali's is even worse!

In everyone's eyes, isn't this just dogs biting dogs, a mouthful of fur?

After a few rounds, Niu Dali won, so Niu Dali dealt the cards, and the person after Niu Dali spoke first.

Wang An discovered that this kid's technique was quite good; the cards he dealt himself were all from the bottom of the stack in his hand, and the ones he gave others were from the top; the speed was very fast—actually, he was holding back cards!

Wang An remained calm and directly bet small. Once Wang An bet small, Niu Dali could only win if he had a "leopard" (three of a kind), meaning he could sweep the pot—in other words, win money!

So Niu Dali paused slightly! After Wang An noticed, he knew that what he had kept for himself definitely wasn't a leopard!

Dealing with this kind of cheating technique of holding back cards, betting small is the most direct way to break the game; even if one knows how to cheat, no one dares to hold a leopard every single time!

And betting small requires betting for at least three consecutive rounds, so for the remaining two rounds, Niu Dali couldn't be the dealer, and he would be finished!

As expected, in this round, no one's cards were small, but Niu Dali's was definitely the biggest, because only then would everyone keep betting! And only then would Niu Dali win more!

However, as soon as Wang An bet small, everyone folded, leaving only Wang An and Niu Dali on the table!

Wang An's intention was very clear: I don't need to be big; my cards just need to be smaller than yours, and that's it!

Niu Dali isn't stupid; he didn't even look at his cards and folded directly!

Wang An didn't win much money, just collected the pot, but the next round was dealt by Wang An, meaning the right to deal passed to him.

At this point, Wang An still had to bet small, so when Wang An shuffled, no one could have a leopard!

Sure enough, Niu Dali messed with the cards—that is, cut them—several times, but Wang An didn't care; if messing with the cards could break sleight of hand, then there would be no point in cheating.

He arranged a mixed-suit 3, 5, 7 for himself, and a mixed-suit 2, 6, 7 for Niu Dali—that was perfect!

Sure enough, after Niu Dali looked at his cards, he dared to bet; 5 cents a hand, he bet several times, everyone else folded, only Wang An didn't look at his cards and kept betting blind!

When they reached the tenth bet, Niu Dali couldn't hold on, but he stubbornly said: "I'm playing with my eyes open, why should I be afraid of you playing blind?"

He directly took out 1 yuan and started tapping the table to keep count; Wang An also took out 50 cents to keep count!

When Niu Dali counted to the 20th bet, meaning his one yuan was gone, he finally said: "How about we call it a draw?"

Wang An certainly wouldn't agree! He shook his head directly!

Having bet so much blind, Wang An only needed 4 cents to call Niu Dali, while Niu Dali needed 10 cents to call Wang An—how could that be the same?

Then, Niu Dali got angry and directly pushed all 3 yuan he had in his hand; 3 yuan meant 60 bets! He still had one cent left, probably totaling a little over a dime.

Wang An calmly counted out 1.20 yuan and threw it into the pile of money!

Niu Dali probably felt he was sure to win, so he wanted to borrow money from the person next to him!

Even if not at a gambling table, no one would pay attention to you if you wanted to borrow money, let alone at a gambling table!

So, no one lent him any!

Furious, Niu Dali directly counted out 10 cents, threw it on the table, and said unpleasantly: "Show your cards!"

To be honest, at this moment, seeing Niu Dali's sore-loser attitude, Wang An wanted to beat him up, but to solve him once and for all, he held back!

Then he flipped over the three cards, but deliberately pressed the 3 diagonally, leaving only the bottom half-circle and the top half-circle visible!

So, Niu Dali thought Wang An's cards were 8, 7, 5.

He didn't show his cards to anyone else and began to collect the money on the table with extreme joy!

After smoothing out the money, Wang An rolled his eyes and, with a "sly" look, spoke up: "What? You haven't even looked at the cards yet, and you're already sure you've won?"

Niu Dali then realized he had been too happy; this kind of eagerness to collect money is a major taboo at the card table!

He hurriedly put the money on the table and laid out his cards—they were indeed a 2, 6, 7, a very small mixed-suit hand!

Wang An glanced at Niu Dali's cards, then pretended to frown, fanned out his own cards completely, revealing the complete 3, 5, 7—an even smaller mixed-suit hand! Then he looked at Niu Dali's again!

Then he imitated his brother-in-law's jump from before and leaped up! Shouting loudly: "Ahahaha... I won!"

At this moment, everyone in the room was shocked!

The one betting blind killed the one looking at his cards! And with the second-lowest hand!

How unlucky can one be? Could it get any lower than this?

Wang An felt he acted quite well, mainly because he wanted to cover up the fact that he had cheated!

After jumping, he took all the money Niu Dali had smoothed out!

Muttering to himself: "Tomorrow I'll clear out the den Li Erlengzi told me about; isn't this a sure win? No matter how much it's split, it's still a win!"

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