The little eunuch who had brought the deck of cards up earlier picked up a deck, first removed the jokers, shuffled them, and then started dealing—the first card went to Tong Sanlang, the second to Mo Buping, the third to Tong Sanlang, the fourth... the sixth card to Mo Buping.
Tong Sanlang lifted the three cards in his hand to look at them, pushed all the small wooden plaques representing banknotes out without any expression on his face, "One million taels, all in."
Today's gambling match had Tong Sanlang representing the Yang Family and Mo Buping representing the civil and military officials, which is why the wooden plaques representing the chips had increased considerably, with each being worth ten thousand taels, so a hundred of them amounted to one million taels.
With any higher stakes, people would have to keep track with little notebooks and pens.
Mo Buping, upon seeing this, immediately discarded his hand, "I fold."
