bookrebus Chapter 185: Busy supporting the family in the foreign land
Chapter 185: Busy supporting the family in the foreign land
At this moment, the whole club was boiling.
People upstairs and downstairs, those smoking opium, eating, and taking baths together, all got the news and crowded over.
I want to witness this gamble with my own eyes.
Some people sighed, some didn't care, some had calculating eyes, and some had a calm expression and were not surprised.
No matter how bizarre the things that happened to Mr. Zeng Si, they were not surprising.
They just want a result.
Let’s see whether this suddenly appearing young master of the Lu family will win, or whether the prodigal Fourth Master Zeng will win.
The casino took advantage of the opportunity and immediately opened an off-site gambling game.
The spectators suddenly became interested in participating and placed bets one after another.
Sister Yu was so happy that she couldn't suppress the smile...
The casino's revenue should work wonders tonight.
The club is destined to go down in the record books after tonight.
With her deliberate manipulation, the news leaked out, and celebrities, politicians, socialites and reporters who heard the news all flocked to the scene.
To enter the gambling house, you need 200 chips as an admission ticket. The person in front just said that the chips were not enough, so he wrote a paper ticket immediately.
Wei Miao also wanted to secretly place a bet that Lu Pingsheng would win, but looking at the huge crowds of people, he just sat there obediently and didn't move.
"Hey, clever kid, you're here too?"
Durand found Wei Miao sitting alone outside the gambling table outside the crowd.
Wei Miao turned his head and saw Durand's chiseled face, smiling at the white rose beside him.
"Miss Bai."
Bai Meigui saw that she was wearing a nice little suit and had her hair waxed, looking like a well-behaved young lady from a wealthy family, and her heart melted instantly.
"What's wrong with your brother Lu today?" Bai Meigui sat next to Wei Miao.
Wei Miao spread out her hands and said in confusion: "I was eating upstairs, and when I came downstairs, I saw this scene."
Durand said to Rose and Wei Miao with his eyes shining:
"I'll go in and take a look, and help you ask LUKA why he's so crazy today!"
After he finished speaking, he squeezed into the crowd and said in half-familiar Chinese:
"Make way, please make way!"
Everyone wanted to witness this moment. If there hadn't been thugs from the gambling house in front maintaining order, the gambling tables would have been flooded.
Durand shouted in a hoarse voice: "Move aside, move aside, I was invited here as a witness! Without me, the gambling game cannot be held."
As soon as he finished speaking, the crowd became agitated and a group of thugs dressed in black came over.
A path was opened in the dense crowd.
"It's Uncle Zhang!" someone exclaimed.
Uncle Zhang, who was surrounded by people, was wearing a satin gown. He had a round face, thick eyebrows and big eyes. He was tall and strong and looked very imposing.
Wei Miao also recognized the person following him. It was Master Zhang!
White Rose lowered her eyes to suppress the disdain in her eyes, and sneered softly: "Selling thief, bastard J"
If Wei Miao hadn't had sharp ears, she would have thought she had misheard.
She was quite familiar with this Uncle Zhang, a typical pro-Japanese man who had risen to prominence by making money from the country's disaster during the war a few years ago.
After that, he was involved in both black and white affairs, and with the support of the Japanese, he became a ruthless figure who could call the shots in the foreign concessions.
As a leader of the Green Gang, this one is really not a good person. He sells opium, forces women of good families into prostitution, and acts tyrannically.
Those two are low-key and have some bottom line among Chinese people, but this one is notoriously cruel and ruthless and has no bottom line.
No wonder White Rose despises him.
"Aren't you in a hurry?" Bai Meigui raised her eyebrows and asked Wei Miao.
Wei Miao looked at her innocently and said:
"It's no use for me to be anxious. If I had known that Brother Lu was going to the casino, I would definitely not have come. It's all his fault that he lied to me and said that the food here is free."
The white rose giggled and shook.
I don’t know how lucky Lu Pingsheng was to meet such a good child.
Smart but not materialistic, generous and insightful, well-behaved and lovely.
Wei Miao didn't know that Bai Meigui was looking at her like this in her heart. At this moment, the scene in front of the gambling table was in her mind.
Uncle Zhang walked into the crowd, greeted Master Zeng Si first, nodded slightly to Lu Pingsheng, and sat down beside him without saying anything else.
Zhang Er looked at Lu Pingsheng with eyes as cold as a poisonous snake, without any restraint. Anyone with a discerning eye could tell that there was a grudge between the two.
At least this Mr. Lu has offended Mr. Zhang.
At Sister Yu's signal, the people in the casino prepared to start rolling the dice.
"The contract has been concluded. The winner will be decided in one round. You two gentlemen can change your mind before I pick up the dice."
The person shaking the dice had an ordinary face and a skilled technique, but when he asked this question, there was still a barely perceptible tremor with his face, and the sweat on his forehead was faintly visible under the light.
Just as his slender fingers were about to reach for the dice, Lu Pingsheng suddenly spoke:
"Wait!"
Suddenly, all kinds of voices came from the crowd. Some said that Lu Pingsheng had changed his mind, some said that he couldn't afford to play, and some said that Mr. Lu must have discovered something wrong.
There was a mixture of various sounds and a group of celebrities chattering, just like a vegetable market in the early morning.
Lu Pingsheng looked at Uncle Zhang who was watching from the sidelines. He stood up, bowed and said with a smile:
"Uncle Zhang, I have an unwelcome request."
Zeng Baoyi was already very emotional, and when he was interrupted, he said impatiently without waiting for Uncle Zhang to speak:
"Stop hesitating. Aren't you afraid?"
Lu Pingsheng ignored him and continued to smile at Uncle Zhang:
"I heard that Mr. Zhang next to you is very good at playing dice. I wonder if we can let Mr. Zhang play this time?"
The others didn't expect this kind of request, and their eyes were all on the young man standing behind Uncle Zhang.
Some regular customers of the casino talked in low voices with the people next to them.
"When the casino was first established, this person was not Mr. Zhang Er. He was Zhang Er, a waiter at the entrance of the casino."
"Then why is he so popular now?"
"Yes, if you hadn't told us, we would have thought he was a descendant of Uncle Zhang's family."
"The casino had just opened, and it had taken away other people's business, so naturally some people came to mess it up. They won every time they gambled. In just three days, not only did they not lose, but they also gambled more and more."
"This? Cheating?"
The man who was speaking shook his head. “He only placed bets and didn’t touch anything else.”
"So that's great luck?"
These people hang around in casinos and have seen everything. They can become rich overnight and poor the next. There are countless gamblers haunting the river in front of the casino.
No one jumped into the river that day, and the fish in the river felt like they had missed a meal!
"What happened next?" someone asked anxiously.
The man raised his eyes to look at the young man who was talking to Uncle Zhang with his head down, and whispered:
"Later, Mr. Zhang bet his life with him."
Someone gasped. Mr. Zhang was alive. That was the result.
Bai Meigui rested her elbows on the table, her delicate hands supporting her forehead, and said to Wei Miao in a light tone:
"That man was a well-known gambler in our Northeast. He always won every time he gambled. When he was down and out, Zhang Er gave him a full meal. In order to repay him, he taught him his unique skills and promised to set up a game for him. In the end, he became a stepping stone and died with regret..."
After hearing this, Wei Miao felt nothing in his heart. In this place, if one wanted to stand out, one either had to have a good background and be smart, or have the means and be smart.
People who are ruthless and smart always climb faster than others.
"Then I think he is in trouble." Wei Miao said.
Bai Meigui looked at the little boy with a half-smile, "You have such confidence in your brother Lu."