Lin Yu'an walked into one of the biggest gamble house in the town, there are two big gamble houses in the town and the rest were small time gamble houses. One of the biggest gamble house was opened by a business man and the other by an underground thug, both gamble houses were competitors to each other. And the gamble house Lin Yu'an chose to go to was the one owned by the underground thug called Ye Xiong which was also the name of the gamble house, he thought it was better for him to befriend a * Big With Deep Roots * than a rich wealthy man who only knew to plunder and spend money about.
The reason why Lin Yu'an chose that gamble house was because he'd rather deal with thugs than those noble businessmen. In this era of discrimination between the nobles, scholars, officials and peasants he'd rather not involve himself with those nobles, scholars and officials since he was a peasant now, and another reason was that the idiotic previous owner used the house deed and land deeds as guarantee to borrow silvers from this gamble house. So Lin Yu'an made up his mind to retrieve those deeds since he had no intention of moving just yet. He walked around in the gamble house checking the games available in this era which he came to conclusion of not being impressed..... Lin Yu'an pick a random table to gamble. He took out a tael of silver and started to gamble in weni, he intentionally lost five games continuously and when the sixth game started he got serious and put on his gamble lord look.
He started winning giving the dealer no time to rest and onlookers gathered around impressed with his skills, this called forth the attention of Ye Xiong and he had his thugs monitor Lin Yu'an. Lin Yu'an wasn't bothered by that because that was exactly what he wanted, the attention of Ye Xiong. Lin Yu'an used a tael of silver to make almost 30 taels of silver in an hour, seeing that Ye Xiong was truly impressed since that was the first time someone had made so much in his gamble house even though his dealers were cheating. And what was more impressive was the person he considered a waste was the one plundering the silvers in his gamble house.
" you, come with me. Our boss wants to see you " a hand harshly grabbed Lin Yu'an's shoulder while it's owner said, Lin Yu'an nodded and quietly followed. He was taken to a well lit room with a bit of furnishing, a man looking like he was in his 30s was seated with a wine cup in his hand and about three or four young men standing, Lin Yu'an stood there watching Ye Xiong calmly and analysing his opponent while Ye Xiong also slowly sipped the wine with his eyes on Lin Yu'an making the air in the room looked stagnant looking like two underground bosses were about to engage in a battle of wits, the people guarding Ye Xiong started to sweat profoundly not knowing what was going on and feeling like the air was suffocating and the room turned into a deserted place.
" take a seat " Ye Xiong was the one to break the silence first and offered Lin Yu'an a seat, Lin Yu'an saluted and walked to one of the chairs and sat down. " it was just last night i saw you but seeing you now i feel like there's something different about you... or it may be my assumption " Ye Xiong tested the waters and said to Lin Yu'an. " how can that be, I'm still the same as you last saw me Ye Xiong ge..... it must be that i was scolded by my dead parents in my dreams last night so I'm trying to live a well behaved life from now so my dead parents don't come and scold me again. "
Lin Yu'an looked serious whiles saying this load of craps making Ye Xiong squinted his ryes and watched him seeing him talk not respectfully like his usual self but not arrogant too. Ye Xiong still thought Lin Yu'an was different because the previous Lin Yu'an always cowered in fear whenever he saw Ye Xiong but the new Lin Yu'an wouldn't do something as cowering over Ye Xiong who he considers a nobody. And even in his previous life Lin Yu'an had never cowered in fear of someone not even the federal government but Ye Xiong didn't know that.
But still Ye Xiong somewhat believed Lin Yu'an's words because in this backwards era they believe in gods and ghosts more than anything, " then your luck being good today was because of your parents scolding you " Ye Xiong joke " he he " Lin Yu'an let out a small laugh " Ye Xiong ge you don't know, i was beaten in my dreams. My dead parents wants me to retrieve back the deeds i gambled away... so I'm here today to settle my debts and take back the deeds " Lin Yu'an put on a serious face, Ye Xiong quietly observed him not saying anything. Just when Lin Yu'an was thinking that Ye Xiong was going to make things difficult for him, he heard Ye Xiong say to one of his men standing " bring me his deeds ".
Lin Yu'an breathed a sigh of relief hearing that and the deeds were brought to Ye Xiong who threw them on the table, Ye Xiong and his thugs were illiterate so they didn't know how to keep accounts, the only way to make those who borrow money from them pay back was to have them leave something valuable with them. " your debt with us has accumulated to 15 taels including the interest. " Lin Yu'an nod as soon as he heard that.... but instead of taking out the money he took out the box of playing cards and place them on the table. Ye Xiong raised his eyes and looked at him baffled " Ye Xiong ge why don't you play a game with me first..... are you interested? " Lin Yu'an said to him with his finger on the box of playing cards. " what game? "
Ye Xiong asked skeptically and his men also looked at Lin Yu'an confused thinking he was an idiot to challenge their boss to a game. Lin Yu'an smiled mysteriously took the box and tore it open taken out the playing cards..... " i forgot about this until this morning when i remembered so i came to find you with it.... i once helped a foreign merchant before and he thought me how to play this and gave me a box to keep for myself. I was drunk then so i totally forgot about it. " Lin Yu'an said always making sure to check Ye Xiong's expression, Lin Yu'an started to set and organize the cards with his hands moving fast and freely making Ye Xiong watched him carefully intrigued with his expression no longer the indifference it was... Lin Yu'an beamed brightly
" the foreign merchant taught me three ways to play this cards game, would Ye Xiong ge mind accompanying me to play? " Lin Yu'an asked " you can teach me first then we'll play " Lin Yu'an smiled seeing that Ye Xiong wanted to cheat him but he chose to feign ignorance " sure I'll teach Ye Xiong ge one game then we'll play " Ye Xiong started to laugh seeing that Lin Yu'an didn't fall for his trick " i didn't know little brother Yu'an wasn't hard to trick! " Ye Xiong resorted... Lin Yu'an also laughed along he really like people who were quick to realize the situations and Ye Xiong was quick to change his tone with him. " let's try Tric-Taking game " Lin Yu'an decided on the game to teach and taught Ye Xiong, after teaching him for the third time Ye Xiong got the gist of the game and they played a friendly game twice. " Let's spice things a bit.... let's stake on them " Ye Xiong suggested and Lin Yu'an agreed.
They played a serious game which was novel yet interesting to Ye Xiong and his thugs, his men who where present with them surrounded them while he and Lin Yu'an played staking on them.... out of ten games they played Ye Xiong won four of the which took them about one or two hours before they decided to stop. After they game they became more friendly with each other smiling from ear to ear, truly only an underground boss knows how to approach his fellow. " Ye Xiong ge is getting better and better " Lin Yu'an praised him honestly, truly Ye Xiong was a fast learner. " hahaha little brother truly jest, I'm far away from being better compared to you " Ye Xiong resorted
" Ye Xiong ge would get better as he plays more... what do you say about the playing cards, are you interested? " Lin Yu'an got down to business and so did Ye Xiong. " how much will it take for you to be willing to let go of the cards " Ye Xiong asked " Ye Xiong ge to tell you honestly I'm not willing to sell " Lin Yu'an paused as Ye Xiong gave him a dissatisfied looked, Ye Xiong's men were also dissatisfied hearing that Lin Yu'an wasn't willing to sell but Lin Yu'an didn't care about their dissatisfactions. " i want to co-operate with Ye Xiong ge about the playing cards " Lin Yu'an said making Ye Xiong sat up confused " what kind of co-operation are you talking about? " Ye Xiong asked.
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