Chronicles of the Lazy Sovereign Novel - Chapter 84

Chapter 84

“Aigo!”

“Uaaah!”

So close!

The last dice revealed a five. Unfortunately, the final total of Wei Yan-ho was thirty-five instead of thirty-six.

“But even that’s something!”

Of course, if it always came out double six, who would play dice?

The gambling house started to move.

From the moment that young punk suddenly came in with a huge amount of gold and challenged them, something felt strange, and now he had created an incredible thirty-five hand.

‘Funny.’

The middle-aged men realized that the situation was becoming very strange.

“This looks suspicious.”

Players who practically lived in gambling houses had experienced this type of game once or twice. A game that began with the intention of catching an unwary.

A game that systematically drives a fool crazy from the beginning to the end.

The problem was that the prey in this game was reversed. Normally, it should have been Poison Bee who pulled thirty-five. Thus, the image would be complete with that young punk losing all his bets and being expelled without white.

But now, absurdly, it was the young punk who had reached thirty-five.

‘Could it be that this young punk created this game?’

The middle-aged men considered it absurd, but they could not fully clear their suspicions. The game was too strange to rule it out. It was as if it had been planned from the beginning to empty the money of the Golden Flower House.

“Thirty-five…”

The eyes of middle-aged men looked at the dice.

In a normal game, taking out thirty-five would be enough to be sure of the victory. But who was sitting in front of Wei Yan-ho at the time was nothing less than Poison Bee.

If I were Poison Bee, the world legend of Hubei’s game, creating double sixs once again would not be impossible.

The Golden Flower House was so quiet that you could even hear the sound of a needle falling.

Swallow.

The sound of someone swallowing was heard.

Poison Bee glanced quietly at the dice, then raised his head to look at Wei Yan-ho.

“You were hiding your skills?”

“Excuse me?”

“It seems that this game was manipulated from the beginning.”

“I don’t know what you mean.”

Poison Bee smiled bitterly.

Anyway, if you manipulated the game, it’s awesome, and even if you didn’t manipulate it, it’s still awesome, but you underestimated me too much.

Whistling!

Poison Bee stretched out his hand like lightning and threw the dice into the cupilete.

Squeeze!

After placing all the dice in the cupilete, Poison Bee pressed the cupilete firmly against the ground.

“You will regret trying to make jokes about this Poison Bee.”

“I keep telling you I didn’t do any trick.”

“It doesn’t matter in any way.”

Gang Cheon-rip approached Poison Bee and whispered to him.

“Can you win?”

“I am Poison Bee.”

“I know. I know, but… if you lose, the Golden Flower House will be ruined.

“That will not happen.”

Venenous Bee looked at Gang Cheon-rip with confidence. Seeing his gaze, Gang Cheon-rip nodded and receded.

“I’ll trust you.”

Poison Bee didn’t even respond to Gang Cheon-rip’s words and quietly glanced at the dice cup while calming his mind.

‘Have there ever been such a big game?’

He had lived in gambling houses for decades, but it had really been a long time since he faced such an important game.

Feeling the boiling blood of a player, Poison Bee bit his lips hard. Although his heart burned, keeping his head cold was the basic principle of the game.

“Hup!”

With a brief battle cry, Poison Bee lifted the dice cube in the air.

Clac, clac, clac, clac, clac, clac, clac, clac, clac, clac, clac, clac, clac, clac, clac, clac, clac, clac, clac, clac, clac!

With clean sounds, it seemed visible that the dice were being placed in an orderly manner.

“Double six!”

Double six, double six!

With Poison Bee’s movement, screams began to burst from all directions.

Seeing this kind of game, it was natural for players to have their blood boiled.

“Ha!”

Wei Yan-ho yawned but did not turn his eyes off Poison Bee’s hand.

“Holaa!”

Poison Bee shouted loudly and threw the dice to the ground.

Trepido!

Six dice began to turn on the board. The dice, which rotated with fierce force and lined up in formation, stopped one by one.

“Six!”

The first dice that stopped showed a six.

Wow, my heart’s gonna burst first!

Quiet, keep your voice down!

The second dice stopped.

“Six!”

The third.

“Six!”

The fourth.

“Six!”

The enthusiastic players began to push the people around them back and to run forward.

“Move!”

Stop pushing!

The heads of the players began to stretch forward.

The fifth one stops!

“Six!”

It’s a six, it’s a six, it’s a six, it’s a six, it’s a six, it’s a six, it’s a six, it’s a six, it’s a six, it’s a six, it’s a six, it’s a six, it’s a six, it’s a six, it’s a six, it’s a six, it’s a six, it’s a six, it’s a six, it’s a six, it’s a six, it’s a six, it’s a six, it’s a six, it’s a six, it’s a six, it’s a six, it’s a six.

“The five are sixes!”

The players’ eyes were wide open, as if they were going to come out.

“Could it be… really double six?”

“Double six could come!”

This is legendary!

Jin So-ah grabbed Wei Yan-ho’s hand hard.

“What do we do, young Master Wei?”

But Wei Yan-ho remained completely calm as always.

“Would another six really come out?”

“It’s out before too.”

Then I could come back out.

How can you talk about this so calmly, if we lose here, we’ll become beggars!

“Not us, but me.”

Wei Yan-ho sank into his chair and looked at the last dice with empty eyes.

“Mmm…”

Wheel, wheel, wheel.

The last die began to stop slowly.

“Six…”

The middle-aged man’s eyes saw that the dice slowly showed a six while it stopped.

“Uah…”

Double six!

It was the moment the double six was about to appear.

But…

Turn.

At that point, the dice turned as if someone had turned it and then fell sideways.

A sepulchral silence filled the game house.

Those who watched, Poison Bee, and even Wei Yan-ho himself… all could only stare at the dice for a while, without being able to say anything.

“Ah…”

“T-three!”

“Three came out!”

“Thirty-three!”

“Young punk won!”

“A hundred nyang won a hundred nyang!”

The gambling house fell into madness.

The cheers of the players screaming and fighting as if they had won themselves were enough to shake the roof tiles.

“Seeing such a game in this world!”

This will become a legend!

“Someone really won a hundred nyangs from Golden Flower House!”

Jin So-ah burst into tears and held on to Wei Yan-ho.

“Young Master Weeei!”

“You’re heavy.”

Young Master Wei, we won, we won, we won a hundred nyang of gold!

“And so we did.”

Wei Yan-ho scratched his cheek.

Unlike Wei Yan-ho and his joy-sharing companion, Gang Cheon-rip looked at the dice with an expression of lost soul.

“Have we…lost?”

Gang Cheon-rip murmured something to himself, then looked at Poison Bee and shouted.

You said you could win!

Poison Bee remained silent.

You said you could win, you said you could win, but what a situation!

“Please calm down!”

It looks like I can calm down right now!

Gang Cheon-rip would have preferred to faint.

One hundred nyang!

A hundred gold nyang had just flown before their eyes.

In silver, that was equivalent to 10,000 nyang.

With that money, he could live with luxuries all his life wherever he went, and he also represented the equivalent of several years of Golden Flower House earnings.

All that money had disappeared in one moment.

– N-no. Without that money…

At the time Gang Cheon-rip attempted to reach the stakes, Ha Dae-bung stepped forward and blocked it.

“Ah?”

“As the party has already decided, we will redistribute the money.”

When Ha Dae-bung applauded, those who had followed him ran forward and collected the stacked money next to the board.

“Here you go.”

Then Ha Dae-bung gave a twenty-nyang gold promissory note to Gang Cheon-rip. Wei Yan-ho’s debts had been fully settled.

With this, all the financial relations between the Golden Flower House and the young master Wei Yan-ho are resolved. Those who witnessed the incident and I, Ha Dae-bung, will be witnesses.

“Right!”

“I saw it!”

Ha Dae-bung smiled and placed a box full of coins on the board.

Let us enjoy today together with those who encouraged the atmosphere. Please take some silver coins!

“The best!”

That’s why I can’t leave the gambling houses!

Ha Dae-bung approached Wei Yan-ho and reached out to him.

“Congratulations.”

“…Isn’t that my money?”

“Excuse me?”

“Why are you ascribing my money?”

The sweat began to form on Ha Dae-bung’s back.

“I’ll give it back to you.”

“Please do it.”

“…yes.”

Ha Dae-bung turned her head and snapped her tongue.

Someone who just won eighty nyang can’t even share a little bit! We should have consideration for living together!

“I-I’m ruined.”

Gang Cheon-rip just sat on the spot.

His desolate appearance was pitiful enough to arouse compassion. Venenous Bee’s complexion paled slightly, but surprisingly he maintained a calm expression.

“It was a good match.”

When Poison Bee bowed his head, Wei Yan-ho suddenly rose from his seat.

Then he hollowed out his hands and bowed.

“It was a good match.”

Jin So-ah watched the scene curiously. During all the time he had observed it, he had never seen Wei Yan-ho treat an opponent with such courtesy.

“Well then.”

While Poison Bee turned and walked away desolately, Wei Yan-ho silently watched his figure as he walked away before sitting.

“Ha!”

Wei Yan-ho yawned and stretched, then turned to Ha Dae-bung.

“For now, please deposit this money in the money house.”

“Of course.”

– Then I can come back now, right?

What about the Imperial Inspector’s Golden Sword?

“Then bring that too.”

“Understood.”

Wei Yan-ho struggled to get out of his seat again.

“Aigo, it’s time to go.”

“Young Master Wei, my legs tremble so much that I cannot walk.”

“What did you do?”

Just looking left me powerless. Are you all right, young Master Wei?

“I’m always tired.”

Wei Yan-ho smiled and turned around.

Manager Ha will take care of the remaining money, so let’s go home for now. Let’s go home, eat and sleep well.

“I’m going to remove the pillars of Songjeong Pavilion!”

“I can’t eat that much.”

Just as Wei Yan-ho and Jin So-ah laughed and were about to leave, the curtain of the door opened wide and a group of people ran in.

“Huh?”

Wei Yan-ho bowed his head.

I hadn’t called anyone else, so who were all those people?

Men dressed in dark black robes blocked the entrance.

“Eh…”

Wei Yan-ho looked at the scene and then turned to look at Ha Dae-bung.

“Do you know who they are?”

Ha Dae-bung’s face began to harden quickly.

“Judging by the emblem of the black spider in its black robes, they appear to be from the Black Screen.”

“Black web?”

Wei Yan-ho tried to extract from his memory the name that barely emerged: “Black Spider Web”.

At that time, the men separated to the left and to the right, and a middle-aged, corpulent man walked among them and shouted.

“Who is Wei Yan-ho?”