Wang Lei replied: "I don't like the women that Brother Zhang introduced to me very much. They are mainly because they are too coquettish and too romantic. I won't be able to stay with that kind of woman for long, let alone talk about marriage." ...Anyway, we gather together often, probably once or twice a week, for more than two months in total!"

Hu Pingtao suddenly thought of a question: "Who pays for your usual dinner parties?"

Wang Lei opened his mouth and answered without thinking: "Brother Zhang spends the money every time. I feel bad about it, and I say we should take turns! But he doesn't want to say anything, and every time he pays the bill, he gets ahead of me, or else he has already booked it. The restaurant called me and asked me to come over."

Hu Pingtao was noncommittal and asked: "What happened next?"

Wang Lei said: "One day he asked me to have lunch. After eating, Brother Zhang asked me if I was free in the afternoon? Because when I came out, I had already handed over the business in the store to my dad, so I said I had no other arrangements. Brother Zhang He said that he was idle anyway, so how about we invite two friends to play mahjong together?"

"I said I don't know how. I've rarely been out since I was a child. My dad, like me, doesn't know how to play cards or mahjong. My usual entertainment is playing chess with the old people in the village. Then Brother Zhang joked: No wonder the women who introduced me said I was stupid and couldn't even play something as simple as mahjong."

"I was very unconvinced when I heard it and said that if you don't know how to play, you can learn it. Brother Zhang, just teach me. I'll try it for a while. If I feel good after getting started, I will play with you in the future."

"So he called someone to make an appointment and took me to the teahouse he opened. He asked me to have a separate room and let me learn while playing. Because it was my first time to play that day, and the shot was small, and it cost five yuan a shot. I was As a beginner, they all let me play, and the game ended at seven o'clock in the evening. Not only did I not lose, I actually won more than two hundred yuan."

"Brother Zhang and others said that I was lucky, and I also thought playing mahjong was quite interesting. So I took the initiative to call Brother Zhang the next day and made an appointment to play mahjong in the afternoon."

Hu Pingtao shook his head as he listened, and while taking notes, he said: "You are a typical example of a player who has lost his hands!"

This is an old saying often said among poker players. When Hu Pingtao was on a mission in Binhai, he was responsible for managing underground casinos. Many people who play mahjong say this, which means that people who have just started playing cards generally have good luck. Even if you are not very skilled, you can always get good cards.

Wang Lei was obviously not in a good mood: "That's what they said too... I didn't expect to win money playing mahjong. During that time, I played every day, and it was a bloody battle to the end. I paid five yuan a shot, and I won every time." I can win. Sometimes it’s less than seven or eighty yuan, sometimes it’s more than two or three hundred. It takes more than a week! I won a total of more than fifteen hundred."

Hu Pingtao stared at him with sharp eyes: "And then you became too big?"

Wang Lei was a little panicked. He obviously had other ideas in his mind, and his words became hesitant: "...Well, it's not very big...We, we didn't gather people to gamble, we just had fun."

Wang Weichen couldn't stand listening anymore. He reached out and grabbed Wang Lei's shoulder, shook it hard a few times, and yelled: "How long has it been since people forced debts into their homes? Since ancient times, this loan shark has been You can't borrow it. Look at the white-haired girl, look at Yang Bailao, you are really forced to have your family destroyed!"

"Now that the police are here, what do you have to worry about? Just say what you need to say. Anyway, you have a big scar on your head, and you are dead both in front and behind. No matter what the police do, they can't take your life, right? Gambling is illegal, so

At most they will just arrest you and lock you up for a while. But what should we do with these people who want debts? Can you beat them? Or can you come up with money and settle the matter?"

Wang Lei suddenly woke up after being given a slap in the face by his father. He nodded repeatedly in front of Hu Pingtao: "I'll tell you, I'll tell you everything."

"Later, Brother Zhang said that it was boring to keep playing like this. The bet of five yuan a shot was too small. If they hadn't taken care of me, a newbie, they would have at least played a hundred. I was frightened when I heard this bet.

The difference between a hundred yuan and five yuan is really huge. If you win or lose, the difference is at least 10,000 yuan or 20,000 yuan. With my little money, I can lose completely in a game of mahjong."

"I told my concerns, and Brother Zhang understood them very well. So he suggested lowering the stakes to thirty yuan a shot. This is already a great deal. Thinking about it carefully, I think thirty yuan is barely acceptable.

So I started playing according to this bet."

"That day, I won more than two thousand."

"The next day we played mahjong again. The bet was 30 yuan, and I won 600 yuan."

"On the third day I won a thousand and one..."

Hu Pingtao said sarcastically without emotion: "You are winning every day. It seems that you are really lucky. If this continues, you won't have to worry about the supermarket in the future. You will just play mahjong every day. Young man, are you really

Lie down, you are a winner in life!"

Wang Lei was ashamed, and his voice was lower than before: "Later, Brother Zhang said that I was lucky and it would be a pity not to play bigger. I was already a little confused at that time, because mahjong is so easy to play and really fun.

Especially when you keep winning, it feels like time flies by very quickly.”

Hu Pingtao frowned and asked, "How much did you win in total during that period?"

Wang Lei is particularly sensitive to numbers. He answered honestly: "It adds up to more than 20,000, but less than 30,000."

Hu Pingtao raised his head and his eyes fell on Zhang Yifeng not far away: "You increased the bet later?"

Wang Lei said "Yeah": "The more I win, the more courage I have. I took the initiative to suggest that instead of playing thirty, I should follow the way Brother Zhang and the others played before, playing one hundred."

Hu Pingtao said coldly: "I didn't see it, but you are quite considerate... You are not bold, but greedy. You have already won and you want to win more. Why, do you think you can get rich by playing mahjong?"

?Or have you watched too many gambling movies and thought you were Gao Jin’s apprentice?”

Half ridicule and half warning, this is Hu Pingtao's characteristic of speaking.

Wang Lei did not argue. He said dejectedly: "I don't know why. I never won a hundred yuan bet. The first day, I lost six thousand. The next day, I lost four thousand."

, I lost 11,000 yuan on the third day, and 23,000 yuan on the fourth day... I lost all the money I won before, and I still owe more than 10,000 yuan."

"I dare not tell my dad about this! Otherwise he will definitely beat me to death. I thought that since I lost at the card table, I must win the money back at the card table. After all, it is all about playing and losing.

It's normal to win or lose. And I've observed carefully that Brother Zhang and his two friends didn't join forces, they were all working on their own. Thinking about it, he waived my 20,000 yuan loan before, I think this should

It's just my luck, it has nothing to do with them."

"So I asked Brother Zhang to borrow 50,000 yuan to continue playing mahjong."

"I've always been very unlucky. After playing for less than a week, I lost all my 50,000 yuan." Gu Wei

"I don't believe in evil, so I asked Brother Zhang to borrow money again, which was still 50,000 yuan. At that time, he warned me that losing all the time was not an option. There are no victorious generals on the poker table. I was very anxious at the time, so I asked Brother Zhang if there was anything I could do to make money.

What's the best way? He said there was no way, but he still had quite a lot of experience playing mahjong - if you keep losing and lose a lot, it's best to change one or two mahjong partners, that is, change people."

"Another way is to raise the bet. After all, I lost so much if I bet a hundred dollars, so I simply raise the bet to five hundred. Each person who draws his own money will get one thousand. If he is lucky enough to catch a big card, either a clear color or a dragon.

Seven pairs, the maximum limit for the family is nine, which adds up to 4,500 yuan. The debt of more than 20,000 yuan can be recovered after two pairs of self-draws."

"After listening to Brother Zhang, I made an appointment with a friend to play with us."

"At first, I had doubts about Brother Zhang's mahjong game, and I thought he might be targeting me. But when he said this, I thought it was just nonsense. If it was really a mahjong game, how could they let me bring people in? Then

Aren’t you asking for trouble?”

"I was really afraid of losing and wanted to win money urgently, so I made an appointment with my friends to do some tricks at the card table, feed each other cards, and hit you when you need them, to speed up the playing of cards.

.If you win the money, the two of you will split it half and half, and everyone will benefit.”

"Brother Zhang made an appointment to play mahjong again that night. I offered to play a thousand dollars. The friend that Brother Zhang brought that night said that I had been losing money and insisted that I take out cash or show him the mobile number on my phone.

Just pay the numbers.”

"At that time, I only had 5,000 yuan in cash with me and no money on my mobile phone. I planned to do business without capital. If I lost, I would still go the old way and ask Brother Zhang to borrow money. But when people said this, I also

I'm sorry to continue pretending, so I'll ask Brother Zhang for help before the fight starts."

"Brother Zhang said it's okay to borrow money, but he has helped me many times, so he can't do this every time. Since I asked for a thousand, just do as I say. But the bet is quite big, it can easily be tens of thousands.

He can win or lose hundreds of thousands in one night when he is not lucky. He has no idea about me. If he wants to borrow money, he should take the formal way - write an IOU and follow his company's lending rules. Every day

Interest is a medium-sized loan among loan sharks."

"At that time, I was only thinking about winning money. I felt that with my friends helping me at the table, it would be difficult to lose even if I wanted to. So without thinking much, I signed a loan contract with Brother Zhang, totaling 200,000, and left.

The path of China Loan.”

"His friends were only willing to play when they saw that I had money."

Hearing this, Hu Pingtao interrupted him again and asked puzzledly: "Wait a minute. You brought your friends to play mahjong together. Although you had agreed to do some tricks at the card table and feed each other cards. But...

A thousand yuan bet is too big. Besides, the mahjong table is not yours. Once someone tampered with it, the winning or losing will be a huge number. It's okay to win, but if you lose... Are you sure that your friend

Do you have the ability to bear this?”

Wang Lei looked down at the ground under his feet, feeling very depressed: "...I asked him to come out to help. He also plays mahjong, and his skills are very good. I said that we would form a partnership, and I would pay for his share of the money, and he would lose.

It's mine. If he wins, he gets one-third and I get two-thirds."

After saying this, Hu Pingtao understood. He sighed: "It seems that you really want to make a fortune from this. You can even think of such a crooked idea, but you never thought that you would fall into it?"

Wang Lei raised his head, his young face full of bitterness: "I admit that I was indeed dizzy, but at that time I trusted Brother Zhang very much and never thought that something would happen. Regardless of whether he exempted or exempted the loan of 20,000 yuan from the beginning,

Later, he invited me to dinner, and he kept lending me money after losing in mahjong without charging interest, which all made me think he was a good person."

To Hu Pingtao, the comment "good guy" sounded harsh and funny.

He couldn't help but turn his attention to Zhang Yifeng again.

This man was very quiet, sitting on the sofa without saying a word. No matter what the Wang family and his son said, he never argued or interrupted. He just sat there and slowly smoked his cigarette, puff after puff, filled with smoke.

Turning his attention to Wang Lei, Hu Pingtao asked calmly: "How much did you lose that night?"

Wang Lei's face turned pale. This was definitely an experience that he wanted to forget, but it had already formed a mark in the depths of his mind, like bloody wounds that kept turning, and an extremely painful experience.

"...I lost 110,000, and my friend lost almost the same amount. Anyway, the total added up to more than 220,000. I emptied all the money I had, plus the 200,000 I borrowed from Brother Zhang.

It doesn’t add up to enough.”

"Brother Zhang and his friends were really lucky that day. Almost every hand was played by themselves. They made at least ten full cards of the same color, and there were several flowers on the bar. My friend and I had discussed feeding each other cards, but the result

I found that this kind of trick is not useful at all. Many times the cards are very bad and there is no use in touching the cards. It is good to be able to win the bid."

"I was frightened that day. I didn't dare to tell my dad when I got home. The next day I took the initiative to call Brother Zhang and make a mahjong appointment."

Hu Pingtao asked in disbelief: "You have lost so much, you still want to fight?"

Wang Lei's face showed a stubbornness that was inconsistent with his youth... No, it should be crazy: "As the old saying goes: Where you fall, you get up. Two hundred thousand is a lot of money, my dad

I can't pay it back no matter what. Anyway, winning or losing is only one game of cards. As long as Brother Zhang is willing to lend money, I will have a chance to turn around."

Wang Gui stood behind Hu Pingtao and kept filming with a law enforcement recorder. Hearing this, he couldn't help but raise his hand to touch his forehead and let out a gentle sigh.

Zhang Juan and the photographer were also stunned.

Anyone with a little bit of brainpower will more or less think that there is something wrong with this kind of poker game. You have already fallen into it so deeply, why do you want to continue to delve into it?

Are you out of your mind?

Hu Pingtao asked coldly: "How much did you borrow from him later?"

He no longer had the initial pity for this young man.

Greed is an original sin.

Getting something for nothing is an unrealistic idea.
Chapter completed!