In daily life, playing mahjong is a common entertainment activity, and everyone has to win and lose, but if someone wins money, it is disgraceful. For example, during the Republic of China period, it was already popular to play mahjong on the beach, and Zhang Xiaolin, one of the "three tycoons" on the beach, was a mahjong master, and he also had a unique skill that ordinary people could not learn, and finally he was subdued by gamblers because he won too much money. What's going on here? If you also want to know, let xiaobian reveal the secret to you:
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Jin Jinrong, Du Yuesheng and Zhang Xiaolin are known as the "three tycoons" of Shanghai Beach, and they have a good status in both black and white roads in Shanghai, and can even cover the sky with one hand, especially Du Yuesheng is also called "Emperor of Earth". Among the "three tycoons", although Zhang Xiaolin's status is a little weaker, there are many stories about the jianghu, and sometimes it has become a topic of discussion after tea and dinner. According to the data, Zhang Xiaolin is a native of Cixi, Zhejiang Province, who moved to Hangzhou with his parents when he was six years old and has been living and growing up in Hangzhou. When Zhang Xiaolin was thirteen, his father died of illness, leaving him and his mother to live together, so life was also very difficult. Later, Zhang Xiaolin also stopped going to school, so he followed a few friends to work in the Area of Gongzhen Bridge in Hangzhou, and Zhang Xiaolin also came into contact with all kinds of people, and also contracted a serious gambling habit.
Gongzhen Bridge is a mixed place in Hangzhou, since there are people here to do business, all kinds of gambling games have been emerging in an endless stream, so that many people who want to get rich overnight have lost here. For Zhang Xiaolin, although he can't read well, he has a few brushes for gambling money, and he often goes in and out with a few little brothers, and indeed wins a lot of money, much faster than his tired and tired odd jobs to make money, so over time Zhang Xiaolin has also become a celebrity of Gongzhenqiao, and he has also met more gamblers.
Later, Zhang Xiaolin became more and more skilled in playing gambling money, and he easily mastered some of the gameplay on the market, so he thought of playing something different, that is, learning from the old man. Zhang Xiaolin knows a lot of people who can cheat and play Lao Qian, and gradually learned some from them, such as playing dice cheating. The dice are very common props, and the six sides are one to six points, of which "one two three" is small and "four five six" is large. When playing dice normally, the owner shakes the dice, everyone bets big and small, bets on the right bet to win, bets the wrong money to lose, it looks very simple. However, Zhang Xiaolin's dice is not simple, he hollowed out the middle of the dice into a small iron block, and then put a large magnet on the tip of his shoes, when he shook the dice, he could control the size of the dice points on the table through the magnet hidden in the leather shoes under the table, so every time he played dice with Zhang Xiaolin, he won more and lost less, but later his trick was also exposed.
In addition to dice, Zhang Xiaolin also likes to play mahjong, of which he also has a unique skill. Now mahjong is plastic, the back of each card is the same, but the mahjong of the Republic of China period is made of bamboo, because the surface of the bamboo has a texture, so the back texture of each card is different. In the process of playing mahjong, some people can know what card is by remembering the texture on the back of the mahjong card, but some people have a good memory, some people have a poor memory, and Zhang Xiaolin is a good memory, basically a circle of cards down Zhang Xiaolin can accurately remember more than 20 cards, sometimes even more. As a result, Zhang Xiaolin had a great chance of winning with others playing mahjong, and he often won money because of this.
However, Zhang Xiaolin was not satisfied with marking cards through texture, he also developed a more powerful way of marking cards, that is, dyeing cards, and this move can not only be used in mahjong, but also any other card, such as dominoes, stone cards and cards. First of all, Zhang Xiaolin will smear the blacktail oil on his hand before playing cards, just like we apply hand cream now, and then when playing cards, he will dye the blacktail oil on his hand on the cards, as for where it is dyed, only he himself knows, because this oil is colorless and tasteless, generally can not be seen at all, but Zhang Xiaolin often uses it, so he can find it at a glance. In this way, through the dyeing of cards Zhang Xiaolin can know which cards are in the hands of the other party, and a few rounds of play are naturally more than winning and losing less.
Zhang Xiaolin tried many times to dye cards, and later he also used this trick to play cards after he went to Shanghai Beach, but the gamblers on Shanghai Beach were well-informed, and soon Zhang Xiaolin was recognized. As a result, some gamblers began to play different cards in the process of gambling money, that is to say, to play a game to change a deck of cards, so that Zhang Xiaolin's dyeing skills were useless, but in the end, zhang Xiaolin won more money. Therefore, in order to subdue Zhang Xiaolin, the gamblers also came up with a cruel move, that is, to isolate him, and no one played any gambling game in which he participated, so that Zhang Xiaolin could not even gamble money later.
Zhang Xiaolin was highly skilled in gambling, but unfortunately, no matter whether he cheated later or not, no one was willing to play cards with him. For us, we must also learn a lesson from Zhang Xiaolin, no matter what we do, we must be bright and honest, and do not play some tricks in private, otherwise in the end, we will lift the stone and drop it on our own feet.
Resources:
The Complete Biography of Zhang Xiaolin by Sima Lieren, Publisher: China Literature and History Publishing House
Wenlan Hairun Studio Editor-in-Chief Wen Xiucai, this article is written by: Special History Writer: Liu Lijiang's