"No, no, that's impossible!..."
After Xu Taiping won six rounds in a row by betting on small, the gambling den attendant serving as croupier at the table finally lost his composure and cried out.
"Is something wrong?"
Xu Taiping looked at the croupier, a trace of puzzlement on his face.
"No... nothing's wrong."
The croupier gave an awkward smile and hurriedly shook his head.
In truth, if anything was wrong, it ought to have been his dice cup.
"Sir, since your luck is so good, why don't we play something else, with higher stakes?"
The croupier looked at Xu Taiping with a broad smile.
Although this was Xu Taiping's first visit to a gambling den, he could still guess the croupier's little scheme.
"I'm done. If I keep playing, our young lady might scold me."
Xu Taiping hefted the heavy money pouch in his hand, then turned toward Xuanyuan Xueluo as he spoke.
The croupier had already begun thinking of teaching Xu Taiping a lesson, but the moment he saw Xuanyuan Xueluo's back, he abandoned the idea and thought:
Forget it. It's only thirty-odd taels of silver. At worst, the manager will give me a scolding.
The stakes at his table were low to begin with. Its purpose was to hook casual customers, give them a taste of sweetness, then draw them into the inner room to gamble for higher stakes.
Xu Taiping simply put away his silver and stood up.
He had not played those rounds to make money in the first place, but merely to test his fortune as the Golden Scale Champion.
"Young master, I never would have guessed you could read dice by their sound."
Xu Taiping had only just returned to Xuanyuan Xueluo's side when Elder Zhang's voice transmission sounded in his ears.
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