Throughout history, there were two industries in the world that had spanned thousands of years and remained standing.
One was the casino, and the other was health care.
For the past few years, Shanghai had been cracking down on these two industries every year. In the past few years, the crackdown was the heaviest. There were very few "professional" clubs left, and the few that were still standing were not places that ordinary people could afford to enter.
Only a big shot like Huang Yicong had the ability and the means to go in and save the young ladies.
The other closed clubs had lost their territory and were generally relying on the hotels to survive. (Keep quiet, I won't tell the average person.)
The casino was the same. Its stronghold was even more secretive. Some were in private villas, while others were in hotel buildings. Those who had connections and were confident. But ordinary people could never find the door in their lifetime.
Xu Guang had been down for many years. Without an acquaintance to lead the way, he could not find such a place.
To reach the 19th floor, he had to pass through the front desk. After bypassing the front desk, countless gamblers were excited and wanted to settle down here.
Entering the hall, the smell of smoke mixed with alcohol and perfume assailed his nostrils.
The hall was connected by a few rooms. Different games were divided into different areas. Sensual and tall waitresses shuttled between the tables with drinks in their hands. There were also blonde foreign beauties.
For Xu Guang, who had seen Macau's casino with no end in sight, the scale of this place was relatively ordinary. But after all, the mainland was not Macau.
There were not many people, but each of them was definitely worth a lot of money.
And the scene in front of him was not the entire casino. There were also some VIP rooms that ordinary guests could not enter. Xu Guang had heard that it was common to lose or win millions in a day in a game there.
This was Xu Guang's third time here. He sat at the baccarat table with ease. Boss Chen sat down with him. "I'll play a few rounds with you today. You're not afraid of losing money, right, Old Xu?"
Xu Guang curled his lips.
The most popular games in the casino were baccarat and blackjack. Xu Guang either played baccarat or blackjack. He did not touch the others.
There were wins and losses. After a few times, he did not enjoy the thrill of getting rich overnight or enduring the pain of losing money. He just wanted to satisfy his cravings.
People of the previous generation were more or less addicted to gambling, whether in the city or in the countryside.
The way to play Baccarat was very simple. The dealer dealt the cards. Everyone had three cards in their hand (there were places where two or five cards were played). The flower cards and 10's were counted as zero. Finally, whoever had the most penalty points in their hand added up to 9 would win.
Xu Guang's luck was especially good today. Half an hour into the game, he won 200,000 yuan.
When he won 500,000, Old Chen scolded him in a low voice, "Old Xu, did you find a master to consecrate you? Why are you so lucky?"
There were nine people at the small table, and each of them had their wins and losses. Xu Guang had won the most so far.
"Old Xu, let's change to Texas and have some fun?" After losing more than 100,000 yuan, Boss Chen said, "You're lucky today. It's more exciting to play that game. I'm done warming up. If you want to stay here, we can continue."
According to the saying among gamblers, when one's luck is good, one must not get up and change seats. Otherwise, the feng shui will be gone.
However, Xu Guang thought for a moment. This was a small table, so it was indeed not a big deal. He nodded and stood up with Boss Chen.
There were not as many people playing Texas Hold 'em as Baccarat, but it was a big deal. It looked more glamorous. They smoked cigars, drank champagne, and had beautiful female companions beside them.
The table was not full. Xu Guang and Boss Chen waited for the first round to end before sitting down.
The dealer dealt the cards. Everyone had two face cards, and then the dealer dealt three face cards. Everyone at the table put in their chips one by one, either hating or discarding.
In the first round, everyone chose to follow. The dealer flipped the fourth card.
"Tsk, bad luck." Boss Chen gave up his face card in anger.
The fourth card was an ace.
There were two aces in Xu Guang's card, which meant that he had three of a kind. Xu Guang calmly followed. When the fifth face card was dealt, he did some calculations. First of all, excluding the flush and straight, he had a high chance of winning with three of a kind.
"100,000 yuan." Xu Guang pushed out a pile of chips.
Among the remaining three people, one of them gave up, and the other two followed.
"100,000 yuan." Xu Guang pushed out his chips again.
Another person gave up.
"200,000 yuan, open," Xu Guang said.
Xu Guang's three aces won against his opponent's three nines.
"Boss, you don't look familiar. Did you just come here?" The man who lost the money smiled faintly, as if a few hundred thousand yuan was not worth mentioning at all.
"I used to play in other places, so I rarely come here." Xu Guang bit on a cigar and said with an arrogant manner of "I'm a big boss".
Of course, he couldn't say that he was a newcomer. Now that he was a big boss, he waved goodbye to the loser of the past. That dark history was also hidden in the deepest part of his heart. Acting cool was a necessary quality for a boss. It was the same for cigars. Xu Guang didn't know how to smoke cigars at all, so he just held it in his mouth without lighting it. This thing was simply not for people to smoke. He once tried to smoke a whole cigar like smoking, but then he got drunk and vomited for a long time.
Boss Chen flattered, "Boss Xu is Qin Ze's uncle."
Everyone at the table looked at Xu Guang in a different way. They were surprised and a friendly smile appeared on their faces.
Xu Guang's posture with the cigar in his mouth was even more arrogant.
When fortune came, it couldn't be stopped. Xu Guang's luck today was like the water of the Yellow River, flowing endlessly. In two hours, the chips beside him were piled up like a mountain, at least 2 million yuan.
In this round, Xu Guang and the man were left to compete. Their cards were two eights, a seven, and the rest were jacks and aces.
The two cards under Xu Guang's hand were 8 and 7. He was a calabash for this round.
The middle-aged man looked at Xu Guang and smiled, "I don't believe you can keep winning, all in."
He pushed out all the chips in front of him.
Xu Guang frowned. Looking at the cards, he was almost certain to win, unless the opponent had a straight flush. The odds were like dog sh * t luck.
At this time, Boss Chen whispered in his ear, "His surname is Zhang, and he has several finance companies under his name. He's a rich man, so he knows about naked loans. "
Xu Guang had an unresolvable resentment towards those who lent him money. Back then, he was almost drowned in the Huangpu River. He was already in a gunny sack when a fishing boat took him to a remote area. If it wasn't for his last pleading and finally agreeing to give him half a month to raise money, he would have been a skeleton under the Huangpu River.
That year, his son had just learned to walk, his daughter was in elementary school, and Qin Ze was in the first year of junior high school, which was about 10 years ago. Xu Guang owed a lot of money, and that group of people was the worst to provoke. When he borrowed money, someone warned him that this group of people liked to drown people in the Huangpu River, and it wasn't a bluff. There was an example.
They never hit people, nor did they threaten to push you off the rooftop. They liked to pack up the old people who owed money and throw them into the Huangpu River. When the person died, the debt would be cleared.
The other party had a very deep background, and there was no other way. His sister could only sell her house to help him pay off the debt. After that, Xu Guang ran away because he still had other loan sharks to pay off.
Xu Guang laughed coldly. He was trying to scare him. He was trying to put on a confident front to scare him. Rich people had this kind of confidence because a few million dollars was really nothing to them. Hence, their imposing manner was very good at scaring the poor and short-sighted country bumpkins.
In fact, it didn't matter if they lost. They enjoyed the pleasure of gambling at the gambling table.
Xu Guang thought to himself, I'm not the same person anymore.
"All in." He expressionlessly pushed out the chips in front of him.
Both of them flipped over their hidden cards.
The dealer took a look and said, "Straight flush, guest number 4 wins." He used a small stick to push the chips to Boss Zhang's side.
"Admit it, admit it." Boss Zhang looked at Xu Guang with a contemptuous smile.
Xu Guang's eyes widened as he stared blankly at the other party's cards.
Dog sh * t luck really happened. Just like that, he lost all the money he won previously. He came from the gambling table and returned to the gambling table.
Boss Zhang lit a cigarette and didn't even look at the chips in front of him. It was as if a few million was nothing to him. He chuckled and said, "Yo, Boss Xu is out of money. Why don't you give up your seat and let the friend next to you play?"
His arrogant tone made Xu Guang very uncomfortable. His face was ashen as he exchanged for more chips and continued to play.
When fortune came, one couldn't stop it. But when it left, one couldn't stop it either.
Xu Guang's fortune was like a woman's period. It was bleeding!
In the next half an hour, he lost five million. Including the money he won previously, it was close to seven million.
Of course, Xu Guang didn't have that much money. Although Qin Ze was very good to his uncle, Dongfeng Technology had started to make a profit. It hadn't even been a month. Xu Guang didn't even have five million when he sold his kidney. But it didn't matter. The casino had always been generous to customers with good reputation.
Xu Guang didn't have money now, but he would have a lot of money in the future. Because his nephew was Qin Ze, he was the nominal leader of Dongfeng Technology.
"Boss Xu, I'm all in." The man surnamed Zhang once again pushed out all his chips and looked at Xu Guang with a smile.
The look in his eyes was very annoying, and it was filled with arrogance and condescension.
This time, Xu Guang, who had a straight flush in his hand, didn't dare to call. His forehead was sweating.
At the gambling table, everyone looked at Xu Guang.
Xu Guang was silent. His straight flush was basically a sure win. However, in the past few rounds, his cards weren't small either. He had a gourd and a straight. Every time he felt that he had a sure win, the man surnamed Zhang would always be able to kill him.
Xu Guang's mentality collapsed. Even if he had a straight flush in his hand, he didn't dare to go all in again.
Boss Chen muttered, "With this name card on the table, whoever wants a straight flush will win."
Xu Guang had a straight flush, but the words of his companion, Old Chen, struck him like a bolt of lightning.
Thinking back, he had been poisoned by Old Chen several times.
I had such good cards before, but I was suppressed by him every time?
This was the first time I met this Zhang guy, but he seemed to be intentionally or unintentionally targeting me.
A loaner …
Although Xu Guang was pompous and unreliable, and he didn't accomplish anything in the first half of his life and only caused trouble for his family, he had been in the underworld for more than ten years and had dealt with all kinds of people. This experience was real.
He quickly came to the conclusion that he had been tricked.
Was this the casino's trick?
Did they think he was a fat sheep?
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