Chapter 319: Heart knot
Chapter 319: Thousands of knots in the heart
What does it mean to draw cards that successfully match the cards in your hand twice in a row?
A complete deck of playing cards has 54 cards, excluding the jokers, there are still 52 cards, divided into 2 colors and 4 suits. Among them, hearts and diamonds are red, and spades and clubs are black. The rules of the game of drawing jokers require that the two cards have the same number and the same color in order to be successfully matched.
That is, the Ace of Hearts can only be paired with the Ace of Diamonds, and the Ace of Spades can only be paired with the Ace of Clubs.
There are only 4 A's in a deck of cards, two red and two black, which means that any card in the entire game can only be paired with a unique card of the same color, and there is only that one card in all the hands held by all players.
The gambler's two draws happened to be cards that could successfully match the cards in his hand. These two cards happened to be dealt to Allen during the card dealing stage and were just randomly drawn by the gambler. If this was due to luck, Xia Yubing could only say that the gambler had really good luck.
Xia Yubing glanced sideways and saw that the gambler still had 6 cards left in his hand.
After clearing all the cards in the hand, the player can leave the game - leaving the game does not mean winning. There are only losers in the game of drawing joker cards, no winners.
It was Allen's turn to draw.
Xia Yubing stared at Allen across the table, silently watching him slowly reach out to Ix, who was pale due to blood loss from his thigh. If I remember correctly, this guy named 'Alan' seemed to be Ix's follower.
She had learned from Ning Zhe about some traditions of the European nobility before. Those who could enter the opera house with the master and participate in this extremely private "auction" were generally not ordinary servants.
This Allen should be the kind of confidant who has been trained and educated since childhood. At least two generations of his ancestors have been retainers of the Icks family. He grew up with Icks. The relationship between the two is closer to friends than master and servant, or even brothers.
Thinking of this, Xia Yubing's thoughts couldn't help but wander. Two good brothers who grew up together, participating in the same game, and sitting in adjacent seats. The conditions are there, so who can guarantee that they won't cooperate with each other to cheat or something?
Would a gambler allow people to cheat in his game?
Xia Yubing was daydreaming without any purpose. At the same time, Allen took a card from Ix's hand:
4 of spades
"Ok?"
When this card was drawn, Xia Yubing noticed that Allen's expression seemed a little strange, a little surprised, and a little annoyed. Finally, he pursed his lips and put the 4 of Spades into his hand.
Aaron has no cards that pair with the 4 of spades.
In other words: "The Four of Clubs is not in his hand." Xia Yubing muttered to himself.
But if that's the case, what's with that complicated expression? Could it be that he also has a 4 in his hand? But because the colors don't match, they can't be matched, so he showed that expression?
Xia Yubing looked down at the cards in her hand, one of which was: 4 of Hearts.
"If Aaron had a 4 in his hand, it would have been the 4 of Diamonds."
Less than two seconds after this thought came to her mind, Xia Yubing noticed that the gambler who had been sitting motionless next to her left hand seemed to be looking at the cards in Allen's hand intentionally or unintentionally.
"Could it be that..." A somewhat absurd thought appeared in Xia Yubing's mind, making her a little unbelievable: "No... It's impossible, right?"
If my guess is correct, then no one can win this game from the beginning.
The drawing of cards continues.
Ix drew a 6 of spades from the God of Fortune, and the God of Fortune drew a 9 of spades from Sally Sally. Neither of them had a card that could match them, so they each put the card they drew into their own hand.
Then, Sally Sally drew a 10 of diamonds from Xia Yubing's hand. Since there was no card that could match it, Sally Sally had to put it into her hand.
In this round of card drawing, except for the gambler, everyone's luck seems to be bad.
Xia Yubing took a deep breath and turned around. The gambler had already raised the cards in his hand slightly.
It was her turn to draw a card. Without much hesitation, she reached out and drew a card: the 8 of hearts.
"really……"
Xia Yubing looked down and found that the 8 of Diamonds that could pair with the 8 of Hearts was not in her hand. She had clearly done what Ning Zhe said, but her good luck today did not seem to be reflected. She could only add this red 8 to her hand.
The second round of drawing cards is over and the third round of drawing cards has begun.
Still starting from the gambler, in clockwise order, it will draw cards from Allen's hand.
At this moment, the eyes of the four living people in the room all converged on the gambler. Xia Yubing couldn't help but tense up her body, staring intently at the gray-white hand with spots of corpse spots stretched out in front of Allen, and took out a card from the fan-shaped hand.
【4 of Spades】
The moment Xia Yubing saw the suit of the card, her pupils suddenly shrank.
At the same time, the gambler drew a card from his hand, and the suit on it was: [4 of Clubs].
The suits were matched successfully, and the gambler discarded both cards into the pile in the middle of the table.
The number of cards the gambler currently holds: 4
"It is indeed the case!" Xia Yubing was shocked.
The 4 of Clubs has always been in the hand of the gambler, and the only card that can pair with this card, the 4 of Spades, was originally in the hand of Ix, with Allen between the two.
According to the clockwise order of drawing cards, the gambler should not be able to draw cards from Ix's hand, but Allen drew the 4 of Spades from Ix's hand, and then the gambler drew the 4 of Spades again, paired it with the 4 of Clubs in his own hand, and discarded it.
The third round of drawing cards had just begun, and the gambler had only 4 cards left in his hand, and he had apparently become the player with the fewest cards on the field.
If nothing unexpected happens, the gambler will probably be the first player to leave the game.
But is it really such a coincidence?
The only spade 4 that could pair with the club 4 in the gambler's hand was in Ix's hand, and it happened to be drawn by Allen. Then it happened to be drawn by the gambler again in Allen's hand. You should know that players have to shuffle the cards before each drawing.
Are there really such coincidences in the world?
"Either the gambler is cheating, or he really has good luck." Xia Yubing thought, "It's better than mine after I offered sacrifices and prayed to the crucifix."
There are 4 cards left and the gambler is about to leave. But how can I judge whether the gambler is simply lucky or cheating?
Different situations require different handling methods.
After thinking it over for a long time without any result, Xia Yubing was so confused that she couldn't help but steal a few glances in the direction of the gambler. She gritted her teeth, made up her mind, and simply took out a leather-covered notebook from her bosom, opened it on the table, and there was a blue gel pen inside.
Sally Sally on the side looked at the black and blue handwriting on the notebook and blinked curiously. She knew Chinese characters, but Xia Yubing didn't notice this at the moment. She was focused on the gambler.
The gambler just glanced over here and didn't take any further action.
"It seems that as long as I don't peek at other players' cards, I won't be judged as cheating."
Xia Yubing felt relieved, and while Allen and Ix were drawing cards across the table, she quickly picked up her pen and wrote lines of slightly sloppy Chinese characters in her notebook.
(End of this chapter)