Chapter 127 Chip

Chapter 1 27

In a dilapidated alley south of Cat Ear Hutong, Song Nan and a group of people were in a circle to carefully observe the scene where Sun Xiaoer was beaten that night. Although it was many days apart, because the weather was sunny and rainy, and this was a secluded area, the damage to the scene was not serious, leaving miscellaneous footprints and dryness. Blood stains.

There is a dry blood clot on a broken green brick in half in the corner of the wall, which must be the brick that attacked Sun Xiaoer behind him that night.

Everyone couldn't see the reason. They all looked at Song Nan waiting for him to speak. Song Nan looked up and looked around for the hiding place of that group of people that night. According to Sun Xiaoer, he remembered that he went to work very late that night and there were no pedestrians on the road. When he came here, he was suddenly beaten with bricks and robbed of money. Obviously, this The gang must be ambushed on the left beforehand, and when Sun Xiaoer approaches, he will brazenly take action.

Song Nan's eyes fell on a low wall on the west side of the alley. The low wall was only two feet high, and he could step over it. However, seeing that the masonry on the low wall seemed to have scratch marks, Song Nan walked over and observed carefully and nodded slowly.

"The thief hid behind this low wall to wait for the maneuver. Look, the mold spots and green moss on the wall were scratched, which was caused by raising his feet and scratching across the wall." Song Nan pointed to the trace.

Everyone nodded in agreement, but thought, what does this mean? You can't find the thief based on this.

But when Song Nan stepped over the wall, there were many traces of dry excrement and urine on the side of the wall. Song Nan didn't care at all and looked down at the corner of the wall carefully. She reached out and turned over the bricks on the ground.

"Qianhu, Deputy Song, what are you looking for? Tell the brothers, let's find it together." Zheng Da asked with bulging eyes.

Song Nan waved his hand and said, "Don't come here. It's not easy to find traces when there are many people. I'm just going to see if there are any traces of these people."

Everyone had to stand outside the wall and stretch their necks to watch Song Nan bend down and look for it within a few feet. When they were bored, they heard Song Nan cheering and said, "Yes."

Everyone looked at it, but saw Song Nan bent down and cut out a red round thing from the cracks of the bricks in the corner. Everyone rushed in and gathered around Song Nan to see what the round thing was. The thing was like a thin piece of bamboo dyed and grinded, with the word 'One' written on one side and the word 'Hong' written on the other side.

Song Nan doesn't know what this is, but it is obviously artificial and can never fall here out of thin air. In a while, a flag school said, "Thousands of households, let me see."

Song Nan handed him the bamboo piece and said, "Do you know this thing?"

The flag school looked carefully with round bamboo pieces and said for a long time, "This is the chip used by the Hongyun Casino under the East Huima Bridge on Yongdingmen Street."

Song Nan said in a stunned way: "The chip? How do you know this?"

The flag school blushed and said, "To tell you the truth, my subordinates also like to play with both hands in their spare time. I have played in this gambling house. Hongyun gambling house's chips are divided into black, yellow and red. Black are large chips, each of which is ten taels of silver, white is one taels, and yellow is five yuan. This red one is the smallest chip of one silver. When entering the gambling house, you must first exchange chips. When you leave, you can use chips to exchange chips in cash silver on the cabinet, which is convenient and tight.

Zheng Da was surprised and said, "No wonder you always borrow money from the west. Your feelings are taken to the gambling house. Damn it, I didn't expect your son-in-law to gamble. Next time I won't lend you money for anything."

The flag school blushed and said, "Zheng Baihu, don't you think about the case of thousands of households? If I didn't say it, wouldn't I miss the big deal of thousands of households and scold me after saying it?

Zheng Da said angrily, "Damn it, anyway, I won't lend you money in the future."

Song Nan smiled and said, "If you lose ten bets and nine times, ten pieces of furniture will also be broken. Brother, don't gamble anymore. The monthly pay money is not enough to throw a few dice; however, if you don't know this thing in and out of the gambling house, we won't know it."

The flag school said, "There are many brothers in Wei Li who also gamble, and I'm not the only one who knows it."

Zheng Da said, "No wonder you grandsons shouted that they have no money to spend. I finally understand."

Song Nan raised the bamboo sign and looked left and right, frowned and thought about it. Ye Fanggu whispered, "How could this thing fall here?"

Song Nan said, "Yes, since it's a chip, it's silver. Why did it fall here?"

Zheng Da said, "Could it be that the thief fell that night? The chip of a penny can never be discarded casually. This can buy half a fat chicken.

Song Nan nodded and said, "It's very likely, but it doesn't rule out that someone will undress here and fall off. Let's go to another place."

Everyone was refreshed and followed another man, Liu Fu, who turned left and right to a shabby house. He crossed the narrow and dark house path to a broken earthen house. Liu Fu reached out and pushed open the fence door, led Song Nan to the courtyard, pointed to a piece of grass near the gate of the courtyard and said, "That's it, that's it that day. It was here that I was beaten by those bastards, but they said that I owed gambling debts, mother-of-law.

Song Nan said, "Have you cleaned this place?"

Liu Fu twisted and said, "No... The little man doesn't even bother to fold the quilt. After surviving for a day, his whole body hurts. How can he have the strength to tidy up the yard."

Song Nan smiled and said, "I guess so, otherwise how can there be grass in this yard?"

Liu Fu's face turned red and he didn't dare to talk back. Song Nan had already walked to the weeds. The dead grass was pressed out of the traces of struggle. It must be the place where Liu Fu was beaten that day. Not long after Song Nan found another red chip under the grass roots beside him, and his heart suddenly brightened.

"Yes, this time it can be concluded that this chip is carried by the thief." Song Nan raised the chip and laughed.

"But thousands of households, why did this group of thieves throw chips? Is it the handwriting of a few years ago? Is it possible to leave a red plum as a mark to show your identity? Zheng Da asked.

Song Nan laughed and said, "The strange man didn't accidentally throw it down. I guess this guy must have won a lot that night. He couldn't put it in his pocket. When he came out of the hiding behind the low wall, he fell across the wall, and another piece fell when he punched and kicked here."

Ye Fanggu whispered, "It may not be the same person, but it can be concluded that this group must have gambled money in Hongyun Casino before committing the crime."

Song Nan praised with a tall finger: "That's right. The fox's tail is exposed. It seems that I'm going to take a hundred and eighty taels of silver to Hongyun Casino to try my luck."

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In the evening, Song Nan and Ye Fanggu rushed to the Hongyun gambling house under the Maqiao in the east of Yongding Gate. In order to prevent leakage from being recognized, Song Nan glued a moustache on her lips and blackened her skin with foundation, while Ye Fanggu dressed up as a young man. Anyway, there were not many people who knew her, and there was no need to bother much effort.

Lu Qingli also wanted to follow, but considering her three-legged cat's kung fu and Song Nan, once something happened, Ye Fanggu couldn't take care of the two, so she was persuaded by Ye Fanggu to stay at home. In order to attract less attention, Song Nan did not let Li Daniu follow.

Taking Yongdingmen Street as the boundary, the west of the road is Zhengnanfang, and the east of the road is Zhengdongfang. This Hongyun gambling house was originally owned by Qiu Wu, a ruffian head in Zhengdongfang. After Qiu Wu's death, in addition to some of them were summoned to the urban management brigade by the little princess, there were also many defiant disciples who fought for and carved up the industry left by Qiu Wu. , this Hongyun gambling house fell into the hands of a ruffian named Black Tiger.

The name of the black tiger is loud, but the ruffians call him a black cat to show contempt. The reason is that this guy curls up behind every time he fights. Others are scarred, but he retreats and is shrewd. His behavior is completely inconsistent with the loud and domineering name of his black tiger.

But in any case, whether it is a cat or a tiger, now Black Tiger's men have gathered seven or eight brothers to jointly take the Hongyun Casino as their own, with a lot of money every day, but it is also gaining fame.

Two big men stood at the door of the gambling house with their arms in their arms, and two pairs of angry eyes against the movement around them. When Song Nan and Ye Fanggu came to the door to enter, the two big men stopped them angrily.

What do you do? Two, this is not a teahouse brothel. The numb-faced man on the left shouted.

Song Nan said in astonishment, "Isn't this a gambling house? Aren't people allowed to gamble?"

The two big men looked up and down and shouted, "Face, where did you come from?"

Song Nan said, "What do you care? Do you still need to report the residence for gambling? I accompanied my young master out to play. Why don't you entertain him? If you don't invite us to play in other houses, is there still a few gambling houses in Beijing?

The numb-faced man looked at Ye Fang's white-faced and red-faced look like a prince. Song Nan was like a middle-aged servant. He suspected that which prince stole the family's money and came to play. He was happy: he met the baby. So he asked, "Do you have any money? You are not allowed to be in debt in the casino. If you owe money, your legs will be broken.

Song Nan said, "Who are you scaring? It's not the first time I've taken the young master out to gamble. We are veterans."

The two big men looked at each other and said with a smile, "Old hand? Yes, it's full of novices. Some of you have won. Go in.

Song Nan glanced at them and deliberately untied the bulging money bag around their waist and weighed them. The two big men's eyes were straight. Seeing that the weight of the money bag was at least a hundred taels of silver in it, it was now. These two young children are the God of Wealth tonight.

After Song Nan and Ye Fanggu lifted the curtain and went in, a big man quickly followed him in and sneaked into the counter and whispered a few words to a thin man who was lying on the lounge chair drinking tea. The man jumped up and looked at the hole of the counter and looked into the casino.

(Thanks to the two brothers, Qingkong Bixi and Datang Yanyumeng.)