Chapter 277: Le's Declaration of Emperorship (4)
Qingpingfang, Jingou gambling house.
The spacious VIP room has gold-leaf walls, gold-leaf ceiling and gold-leaf floor.
Beside the large mahogany gambling table, young men in fine clothes rolled up their sleeves, stood on stools, some even with half their chests exposed, slapping the chips at the top of their lungs and yelling like thugs.
Beside every young man in gorgeous clothes, there stood one, two, three or four beautiful women or girls. They were even more excited than the young men. Their hair was disheveled and their hairpins were dangling randomly. Some even had their skirts messy and were sweating profusely as they waved their fists and yelled.
In the entire private room, there were more than a dozen young men, several times as many beauties, and dozens of maids running back and forth. Each of them was so busy that they were sweating profusely and their faces were flushed.
Only Lu Yu, who was sitting next to Le De, and three casino dealers who were responsible for shaking the dice and collecting the chips were calm and composed, without even a blush on their faces.
The dealers are knowledgeable and experienced, and no matter whether they win or lose, they are always the final winners, so they naturally will not have too much psychological fluctuations.
And what about Lu Yi...
Money is just a concept to him, and he doesn't have much feeling about it.
money?
Not to mention the huge wealth that Lu Yi now possesses, which he is too lazy to calculate, let's say that he now goes to a certain great prince and tells him that as long as he is given an enlightenment, he can be forcibly promoted to the Fiery Realm and thus prolong his life by a thousand years...
How much gold, silver, copper coins, and rare treasures can you get with just this?
The wealth of the secular world is really just a concept to Lu Yi, who has already planted the golden lotus.
Therefore, Le De had bad luck and lost thousands of strings of coins as soon as he sat down at the table. Lu Yi calmly took out a few top-quality beads, exchanged them for thousands of strings of chips, and handed them to Le De.
Le De was so excited that he seemed to be injected with chicken blood. He howled and pushed the chips up one by one.
Lu Yi was smiling and making bets with a few small chips. No matter what Le De bet, he would follow suit. Once Le De lost all his chips, he would take out various pearls, jade, fine emerald, giant clam, cat's eye and other items without changing his expression, and exchange them for a handful of chips and throw them to Le De.
So, in the end, the expressions of those fanatical young masters changed slightly, and they looked at Lu Yi thoughtfully.
Finally, while the Jingou Casino brought a sweet soup to clear away heat and relieve fire, while everyone was drinking the soup and taking a rest, a young man with a crooked crown and several mature and beautiful women standing beside him pointed at Lu Yi.
"Le De, what's up? Where's Qian Youyi? Don't you usually take him around? Why did you change your henchman? And, your generosity is a bit outrageous!"
Qian Youyi was the eldest son of the grain merchant who sold the house to Lu Yi. He usually followed Le De around everywhere, and Qian Youyi usually paid for Le De's eating, drinking, and entertainment.
However, Qian Youyi’s move was definitely not as generous as Lu Yi’s.
In just over an hour, Le De had already lost thirty or forty thousand strings of cash. For these young masters, this was not a small amount of money - mainly because they were a bunch of playboys who had no chance to get involved in the family business on a daily basis and did not have much spare money on hand.
Le De wiped his face with a hot towel and slapped Lu Yi's arm triumphantly.
"My brother, Le Huo... I just came to Lezhou City and bought a house on Gongtong Street, at the southwest gate of Qingping Leyuan. He will be following me from now on. Brothers and sisters, if you see Le Huo in Lezhou City, please take good care of him."
Lu Yu smiled, stood up, and bowed to the group of dandy young men: "I am happy to be here. I am new here, so please take care of me."
A group of young masters looked at Lu Yi indifferently for a while, with green light flashing in their eyes, obviously treating him as a fat sheep.
Next, it was another bad gamble.
Le De lost miserably, while a group of young masters were overjoyed with their wins. Lu Yi remained calm and exchanged chips one by one, helping Le De lose more than 100,000 strings of cash.
In the end, all the dandies were a little scared after winning, and Le De's face looked a little abnormal.
On this day, Le De and his gang ended their gambling game at the Jingou Casino more than an hour earlier than usual. Before midnight, they dispersed hastily, each of them hugging their beauties, and no one knew where to continue their fun.
Le De, hunched over, wrapped in a cloak with thin cotton, walked slowly out of the Jingou Gambling House.
After going down two steps, Le De looked back at Lu Yi.
"Le Huo... Come on, I'm not a fool. You're being too generous. I'm Le De, and although I'm a relative of the Queen Mother , I'm not worth that much money. If it were my elder brother, maybe he would be worth about the same."
"Tell me, why do you want to ask me for help by giving me money like this?"
"Let me be frank with you. As for small matters, there is nothing I can't do in Lezhou City... As for big matters, well, you tell me first and I'll listen. But there's a high probability that I can't do it."
Le De spread his hands towards Lu Yi and sighed, "I can probably only accomplish things worth around a thousand guan, so Qian Youyi has been eager to play with me all these years... For anything over a thousand guan, you've got the wrong person!"
Lu Yi smiled brightly.
This Le De is quite interesting. Although he is not a good person, his bachelor and scoundrel spirit is really interesting, interesting...
"Mr. Le De, what are you talking about? I just bought the Qian family's house and you came to visit. This proves that we are destined to be together." Lu Yi waved his hand and said, "It's just a small amount of money, don't worry about it. You just lost a few hundred thousand strings of silver. To me, it's just a small amount of money."
Le De was shocked: "Le Huo, don't act so pretentiously in front of me. Tens of thousands of strings of cash is just a small amount of money, right?"
Lu Yi smiled and nodded, "It's really just a small amount of money. I plan to buy the eighteen Xinhuanglou buildings in Qingpingfang. From now on, Xinhuanglou will be my business to make a living in Lezhou City. I'm a foreigner and have no relatives in Lezhou City. I need your help to keep an eye on this business."
Without waiting for Le De to speak, Lu Yi smiled and said, "If you can't keep an eye on him, then you can also introduce someone who can keep an eye on him!"
Le De was stunned for a moment, then laughed.
He paused, stretched out his hand and poked Lu Yi's chest: "You are a straightforward person. OK, I will help you. Hey, who said we are destined to meet?"
Lu Pu invited Le De to the Baisha River that flows through Qingpingfang. He got a pleasure boat and found a group of girls to accompany him. They had a good drink together and got Le De drunk. Then he threw Le De into the girls' mandarin duck quilt and left.
On the second day, in the afternoon, a business card was handed into Lu Yi's Lezhai.
In the lobby of Le's residence, Le Yi, Le De's elder brother from the same mother, sat steadily on a chair, holding a teacup, and looking at the furnishings in the lobby.
"I know this house." Le Yi looked at it for a long time, then looked at Lu Yi for a few more times, then nodded and said, "Qian Youyi, the guy who hangs out with Le De. Le De often comes here to find him. But I didn't expect that Le De would actually get to know such an interesting person."
Without waiting for Lu Yi to speak, Le Yi asked in a gentle voice: "Your last name is also Le? Is it true or false?"
Lu Yu smiled and bowed to Le Yi: "The Le family is a well-known and wealthy family in Jizhou City. Their assets are in Jizhou and they are ranked among the top ten. This cannot be faked."
Le Yi nodded: "Why are you here?"
Lu Yi smiled and said, "Lezhou City was robbed. All the people in the city died. Moreover, the deaths were tragic and strange. We dare not stay and can only leave."
Le Yi narrowed his eyes: "Why not go to Gaojing?"
Lu Yi sighed, "With no official position or job, and no support, it's not easy to live in Gaojing... There are too many princes and nobles there, and sometimes if you offend someone, you won't even know how you died."
"As for Lezhou City, the Le family is the most powerful. As long as you make friends with any of the sons of the Le family, even if there are conflicts among the family members, they will just quarrel a few times. It won't be like in Gaojing where they will confiscate the property and exterminate the whole family."
Le Yi smiled and said, "That makes sense."
Putting down the teacup in his hand, Le Yi looked at Lu Yi and said calmly: "However, since you have bought the Qian family's house and are planning to buy Xinhuanglou, do you know why they sold their property and left Lezhou City?"
Lu Yi pondered for a moment and shook his head slowly: "I'm new here, and these days, I've been busy traveling day and night, and I really don't know the mystery here... Could it be that there's something strange?"
Lu Fu asked Le Yi in return.
Le Yi stood up, walked in front of Lu Yu, lowered his head slightly, looked down at Lu Yu sitting on the chair, and said word by word: "You... are you a spy sent by the palace guard?"
Lu Yi looked at Le Yi in shock, "Why do you say that, Master Le Yi? Guardian of the palace? Le Huo is just an honest citizen, how could he have anything to do with that?"
Lu Yu's eyes widened, and he asked Le Yi in dismay, "Could it be because of the friendship between Le Huo and Master Le De?"
Lu Yi hurriedly protested: "After Le Huo knew the identity of Master Le De, he did want to make friends with him... But he didn't intend to get to know Master Le De... This, this, this... This is Master Le De, he took the initiative to come to my house!"
Le Yi put his hands behind his back, squinted his eyes, looked Lu Yi up and down for a long time, finally turned around and scolded him.
A middle-aged man with a cold and expressionless face walked into the lobby and went straight to Lu Yi. His hands were as fast as the wind, following Lu Yi's fingers, he touched his palms, arms, torso, and thighs.
Lu Yi smiled and let the middle-aged man do what he wanted.
The middle-aged man even took off Lu Yi's shoes and his foot bindings and rubbed them carefully for a while. Then he stood up, took a few steps back, and nodded to Le Yi.
"There is no sign of martial arts training anywhere on his body, and judging from his pulse..."
The middle-aged man looked at Lu Yi and coughed dryly: "Master Le Huo... cough cough, his pulse is exactly the same as Master Le De's. Maybe he didn't pay attention to health care on weekdays, and his kidney water is a bit too deficient."
The corners of Le Yi's mouth twitched. He looked at the beard-covered face of Lu Yi and suddenly laughed out loud: "I see... Brother Le Huo, you came to Lezhou City alone? Have you been safe along the way?"
Lu Yi hurriedly laughed and said, "How could I be alone? It's a long way from Jizhou to Lezhou. I have a few trusted people around me, otherwise how could I come here? It's just that there are some items that are inconvenient to carry, so they are guarding outside the city."
