"I...I didn't..."

"I didn't do that!"

"You police can't wrongly accuse good people. I...I really didn't do anything!"

People in their fifties are not considered young and have already entered the aging stage. Zhang Ligen was engaged in manual labor when he was young. Compared with his peers, his appearance is older, with dense wrinkles on his face and a dull complexion.

Dark and cloudy eyes.

Hu Pingtao noticed the emotional changes on his face and deliberately sneered: "You used the excuse of reporting gambling to trick our people into the mahjong parlor... Zhang Ligen, what on earth do you want to do?"

Zhang Ligen was still shrinking, with a horrified expression on his face: "I didn't lie to you! They are playing mahjong for money. They are really gambling."

Hu Pingtao asked very quickly: "What about you? As far as I know, you are also a frequent visitor to the mahjong parlor. You go there to play mahjong every day, and you often sit at the same table with Zheng Qianshan. Everyone there knows you. Haha...

…What is this? Knowing the law, breaking the law, and reporting yourself?”

A sly look flashed in Zhang Ligen's small eyes. He quibbled in a loud voice: "That was all in the past, I didn't play mahjong today. When you police arrest people, you need to provide evidence, I...I am reporting on my own initiative, I

I’m helping you catch the bad guys.”

Hu Pingtao smiled, raised his hand, and pointed at the surveillance camera installed directly above the desk: "Every word and every action you say here will be recorded. Zhang Ligen, I don't understand.

, you are from Sanshan Village and have been in the village since you were a child. You are also responsible for this demolition. Now you live in Dachang Village, and you will have to live with the villagers when you move back. How dare you say such things? Haha

, to put it bluntly, this is called eating the inside out."

"You said the people in your village are bad guys..."

"Believe it or not, I will send this video to your village committee for everyone to see?"

There was a trace of panic on Zhang Ligen's face, but he quickly calmed down, avoided the question, and said pitifully: "I am telling the truth. They are playing mahjong and gambling, and I... I am really helping you!"

Li Jianbin sat next to him, so angry that his lungs were about to explode. He opened his mouth to reprimand, but Hu Pingtao raised his hand to stop him.

"Okay, let me ask you, why do you want to report it? Haha, aren't you afraid that the matter will be leaked out and you will be beaten to death by the people in your village?" Hu Pingtao no longer looked fierce, he changed to a harmless smile.

Zhang Ligen answered quickly: "They won my money... They won too much of my money."

Hu Pingtao and Li Jianbin looked at each other, both feeling surprised by such an answer.

"Zheng Qianshan is a gambler. Before he moved, he would often gather people to gamble in the village." Zhang Ligen said: "In the earliest days, he played Pai Gow and Didi. He often won money and even slept with other people's wives. Later, he was

I was reported to the police and my gambling equipment was confiscated.

After he came out, he started playing cards, hoeing the earth, fighting landlords, blackjack, and playing gold and everything... Many young people in the village were led astray by him. They stopped working and gathered together to gamble all day long. When he was older,

There were several hundred in one handful, and there were more than fifty when I was young."

Hu Pingtao grasped the question keenly: "Has Zheng Qianshan won your money?"

Zhang Ligen hesitated for a moment, then nodded hesitantly: "...I won."

Li Jianbin responded quickly. He followed the topic and asked: "How many have you won?"

"I really don't have a detailed account of this." Zhang Ligen shook his head, his expression and words were a bit bitter: "My parents died early, and they used to farm in the village. At that time, they had to pay agricultural taxes, and the harvest from the fields was average.

, barely enough to eat. During slack time, Zheng Qianshan

When people gathered to gamble, I went over to watch the fun. At first, I followed the bets. At that time, I didn’t have much money, so I used millet and baguo, betting ten pounds or ten pounds... In general, I lost more and won less.

By the end of the year, hundreds of kilograms of grain will be exported."

"Then the policy changed, and I followed others to work outside. I made much more money than digging food in the fields, and my annual income was tens of thousands. This person, no matter how good he is outside, always has to go home.

, took root. I earned some money from working, and thought about going home to build a house, find a wife, and have a few babies... I went home during the Mid-Autumn Festival of that year and visited my relatives along the way, and each family gave some gifts.

Gifts, a date has been set, and everyone has promised to come and help build the house at that time."

Hu Pingtao nodded slightly.

In the past, when building a house in the village, construction teams were rarely hired. People in the village who were familiar with each other would help. You could buy the materials and take care of the food, and you could build a large tile-roofed house in a few days. The advantage is that the construction cost is very low, but the disadvantage is that the construction cost is very low.

The earthquake resistance of the built house is very poor, and the structure is not very good.

"Zheng Qianshan knew I was back, so he invited me to play cards. I wanted to refuse at the time, but many acquaintances came, and I couldn't save my face, so I played with them all night."

Looking at the frustrated expression on his face, Hu Pingtao asked: "Lost?"

Zhang Ligen looked miserable: "I worked outside day and night. In order to save money, I ate steamed buns and drank tap water almost every meal. Zheng Qianshan is a wolf, so ruthless! We played with golden flowers that night. According to our rules

As a rule, the bet on the blind cards is doubled. I won even six blind cards, either a pair or an a, and the total number was hundreds."

Hu Pingtao continued to ask: "What happened next?"

Zhang Ligen's lips began to tremble, and his voice became trembling: "Later... I was still bored with that card. At that time, there were seven people in the field, including me and Zheng Qianshan. By the third round, the other five

Everyone looked at the cards and threw them away, which means the cards were not big. In the end, only Zheng Qianshan and I were left."

"Zheng Qianshan was so bored that he didn't look at the cards, so he raised the bet to fifty yuan. I felt a little scared, so I picked up the cards and looked at them. Only then did I realize they were three kings, a bomb!"

Hearing this, Li Jianbin was very surprised: "This is a big name! Only three top players can win."

"Yes, under normal circumstances, only three points can be bigger than three kings." Zhang Ligen said with a bitter look on his face: "But there is another situation, two, three, five, the smallest card, which is designed to cut bombs."

There is no biggest card in "Zha Jinhua", the smallest card wins the biggest card, but this situation is extremely rare and can almost be ignored.

There was a hint of sympathy in Hu Pingtao's eyes: "Did Zheng Qianshan get the two, three, five?"

This memory was extremely painful for Zhang Ligen. He clenched his fists tightly and his whole body was shaking: "I looked at the cards and raised to one thousand, and Zheng Qianshan followed with five hundred. I continued to raise one thousand,

He was a little hesitant, so he looked at the cards and followed by a thousand."

"Anyone who has played "Zha Jinhua" knows that only those who have seen the cards and have high cards will follow. What I got in my hand were three kings! What is the concept...win a pair, win

If you win a straight, you can win a flush, you can even win all the bombs from two to eggs. You may not be able to get one of these cards even if you play ten thousand times. In the words of an old man: This is the real opportunity to make a fortune."

"I raised five thousand yuan at once. I was confident. After all, there were thousands of dollars on the table. No matter what the three kings said, they were sure to win. Even if Zheng Qianshan was scared away and refused to follow,

The money on the table alone is worth this card."

Li Jianbin asked with interest: "Did he follow?"

"Not only did he follow, he also added five thousand."

"I think the card in his hand should be very big, at least a flush with an ace."

"Maybe it's a royal flush."

"It could also be a bomb."

Zhang Ligen's face showed a look of reminiscence, with some hatred and some regret: "At that time, Wang Qingguo, Yang Dafu and Tao Xingzheng were also playing cards together. Yang Dafu was sitting next to me. He made big movements when looking at the cards and throwing them away. I saw him

There are hearts in the card

Jian'er. Wang Qingguo sat across from me. The table where he played cards was very old. There were several cracks on the table. When Wang Qingguo threw the cards, one card got stuck in the cracks and stood sideways. When he pulled out the cards, all the cards were stuck in the cracks.

Everyone saw that it was a plum blossom."

Hu Pingtao understood: "So you judge that Zheng Qianshan cannot have three sharp points in his hand?"

Zhang Ligen sighed: "Yes! The plum blossom card is open to the public, and I also remember the position of Yang Dafu's card. In order to show fairness, everyone rolled up their sleeves. If Zheng Qianshan has three plum blossoms in his hand after the cards are opened,

I won’t recognize your bomb at all.”

Hu Pingtao said: "What then?"

"I felt confident, so I paid 20,000 yuan in one go. That was all the money I had and all my savings."

"According to our rules, there will only be two people left in the end. If one of them proposes that both parties place the same bet and open the cards together, and the other party agrees, there is no need to continue betting."

"Zheng Qianshan agreed, and he also put 20,000 yuan on the card table."

"I was so happy at the time. I turned over the cards hard and reached out to get the money."

"The person next to me stopped me...yes, it was Yang Dafu. He pointed to the opposite side and told me to look carefully."

"Nah, two, three, five...it's actually two, three, five!"

"I was stunned at the time. I couldn't think of anything in my mind. I was so dizzy."

"I will remember what Zheng Qianshan said at that time. He said that when he looked at the cards, he wanted to throw it away, but when he saw that there were only two people left, he wanted to bluff me, so he followed me twice.

.If the card in my hand was a straight or a flush, it would be impossible to raise 5,000 at once. Thinking about it carefully, I felt that I should have got a bomb, so I boldly followed."

"He also said: The game of gambling is about heartbeat and excitement. Two, three, and five are designed to chop bombs. If I don't have a bomb in my hand, then he will admit defeat."

Li Jianbin shook his head disdainfully: "That's nonsense! This is obviously a trap, deliberately deceiving you."

Zhang Ligen's face was dull: "I felt something was wrong at the time, but there were many of them, and almost everyone stood with Zheng Qianshan, saying they were willing to admit defeat, and no one forced me to play cards, and no one forced me to play cards.

Add."

There was no emotional change on Hu Pingtao's face: "What happened next?"

"That's more than 20,000 yuan. It was more than 20,000 yuan in 1998! In the village, let alone building one house, even three large tile-roofed houses are enough. I originally wanted to build a house as a wife.

, it was all over in one fell swoop.”

Zhang Ligen sat on a chair and cried with his head in his arms. He cried loudly and shed tears. It didn't seem like a deliberate show, but an outburst of true feelings.

Li Jianbin frowned and was about to speak when Hu Pingtao, who was sitting next to him, raised his hand to stop him and shook his head slightly.

Hu Pingtao handed over a cigarette and made a "wait patiently" gesture towards Li Jianbin.
To be continued...