Chapter 11 chapter Ten

Jiuzhi Lu Jintong had missed Mei Xiaoou deeply after she left him, and had been in love for several years.In the past few years, he has not been seduced by any woman, nor has he seduced any woman. He has only lived with his nagging wife. He mourns the death of his love with Xiaoou with such a "life is better than death" way of life.Afterwards, he started the magnificent move of the prodigal son. He used nine fingers to do work that ten fingers could not do, and he personally did photography, computer animation, and computer graphic design for advertising agencies.Because he can only count on his nine fingers, the other ten-fingered employees are gone.It was a bit late for him to look back, when the company's profit recovered to 20% of its peak, he got cancer, the kind of cancer that many men suffer from chemotherapy and phototherapy.In his words, from now on even if he makes a comeback, he won't be able to find a decent girl.He told Xiaoou on the phone.The purpose of his call is to ask Xiaoou to take his son to see him.He was going to die and had to see what his life was like a boy living it for him.

Xiaoou sent his son to Beijing, and entrusted a friend to send his son and two catties of caterpillar fungus to Lu Jintong's home.Lu Jintong relied on his illness to sell his illness, and told his wife the secret history of his son with Mei Xiaoou.Because of his cancer, his wife didn't fight him on a large scale.Lu Jintong is an asshole, but his wife knows that once Lu Wan dies, she will lose her asshole.After decades of husband and wife, the bastard is also hot.Therefore, after Lu Jintong met his son, he proposed to keep his son in Beijing to study, but Lu's wife actually agreed.The reason why Lu Jintong kept his son was to let him learn authentic Beijing dialect, and let his son learn calligraphy from his grandfather (Lu Jintong's father learned calligraphy at the age of 50 and became a famous calligrapher in the whole country), and then learn a little bit of manliness. In Lu Jintong's eyes, the current son is a little girl with her head shaved.

"By the way, I still have a lot to learn from you, such as gambling." Xiaoou replied lightly. However, there was something Lu Jintong said that hurt Xiaoou for a long time. He said that he could stay with his son for a few more days, and let his son remember his father's appearance.Xiaoou finally agreed to Lu Jintong, and asked his son to go north to accompany his father during the Lantern Festival, and then take a two-week leave from his son's school to live in his father's house until early March.Lu Jintong also agreed to hire a tutor for his son, trying not to fall behind the school curriculum.

When all this was arranged, Xiaoou had already arrived in Vietnam.This was the sixth day that Shi Qilan brought his distant cousin to gamble.I won more than 3 million on the first day, and lost more than 3 million on the second day.On the third day, he won another one million yuan.On the fourth day, I planned to end up with the winning of more than one million yuan. After two days of sightseeing around the casino, I took the opportunity to return home.But the cousin decided to fight the casino again while traveling in the mountains and rivers.On the day he won more than one million yuan, he felt a rush of air all over his body. The air flowed out from the top of his head, palms, and soles of his feet. It was a warm breath. When the breath was smooth, he knew what to bet.The cousin returned to the casino from the landscape where he was playing, and picked a gaming table to take a seat.Old Shi asked him if he was angry?He replied that he was coming up.

This first cousin bet half a million.Sure enough, I won. Lao Shi followed his cousin with 20,000 when he bet the first bet.After his cousin won, he stomped his feet and beat his chest: He, old Shi, has always been generous, why did he only bet 20,000?You should put all 70,000 chips in your hand.When he recounted to Xiaoou, he explained that he only had 70,000 left at that time. The cousin bet again, and Lao Shi took out all his belongings to increase the weight.The whole family has no more than 90,000 yuan. The results of it? lost. Xiaoou listened to Lao Shi's narration expressionlessly, and his heart was as calm as still water.This situation had been repeated so many times in the gamblers she knew that it seemed tedious to her.It's nothing more than winning a few hands, and then I think I have found the feeling and saw the way, and then I regard the occasional win as inevitable, and the inevitable loss as accidental.Think about it, what will be the end of a person who reverses chance and necessity?It is the inevitable victim.Those who are wise accept the sacrifice; those who are stupid (or who regard stupidity as stubborn, such as the cousin at the moment), do not accept the sacrifice and continue to fight until the last drop of blood and last breath.Old Shi pointed to his cousin on the gaming table, and winked at Xiaoou: his plot is succeeding.The cousin has already borrowed 6.8 million.The chips borrowed by my cousin were of course lent to Lao Shi by the casino.For the 6.8 million chips, Xiaoou can be regarded as his Old Shi returning her.

It was almost night, Xiaoou walked gently behind his cousin.My cousin started a small business, earning tens of millions of dollars with difficulty step by step, earning a thick red neck and two purple ears.How much alcohol does it take to get the back of your neck and ears that red?A township enterprise owner in the countryside can only use his alcohol capacity to break through various checkpoints: the township government, county government, and even the provincial government, and he also has to break through the checkpoints of wholesalers in the city.He wronged his liver, drank bottle by bottle of real or fake Yanghe Daqu, Gujing tribute wine, Wuliangye, and Moutai, bought tiny parts of cities one by one, and became the owner of many neighborhoods that never appeared ( Maybe Mr. Duan built the house that my cousin bought).The cousin's territory continues to expand, which directly affects the housing prices in Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou and other metropolises. His neck and ears can witness how hard he is today.His capital would grow, hard but steadily, until his distant cousin set a trap for him.The cousin has fallen into the trap and is becoming his cousin's prey...

And Mei Xiaoou will also participate in sharing this prey. The cousin lost another 400,000, and now the prey is worth 7.2 million.Lao Shi once again gave Xiaoou an appreciative look. "What time is it?" The cousin turned around, probably asking his cousin.When he saw a strange woman appearing beside his cousin, he was embarrassed, and let a beautiful woman watch him go to Maicheng, so he was embarrassed.Maybe he can't take it anymore, can't afford to lose, and he doesn't want women to see that he can't afford to lose.His instant embarrassment made Xiaoou feel even more the last bit of idyllic scenery in his heart.

Shi Qilan introduced his cousin to Xiaoou, and the cousin immediately showed off and invited Xiaoou to eat shark fin.Losing that little money is nothing, it's just the tip of the iceberg.A person like my cousin who made a fortune through hard work most wants outsiders and women to believe in his financial strength, and even proves that strength with painful money consumption, because his strength is far smaller than what he shows.Xiaoou happily accepted his dinner invitation and cooperated with him to verify his strength. Xiaoou felt that the last pastoral in his cousin's heart was gradually disappearing.

Lao Shi anxiously urged his cousin to play a few more games.Ms. Mei is here, and I should borrow her auspiciousness.Before he could reply from his cousin and Xiaoou, he went to get the chips.Xiaoou trotted after him, unable to call him. Outside the counter where the chips were exchanged, she stopped Lao Shi. "That's enough! That's enough! It's 7.2 million, and you still want him to lose?" "Why is it enough?" Old Shi stared at him in frustration, "He still needs to lose another 5.8 million!" "Why are you like this! Are you a human? He is your cousin!"

"It's far away." "You can't cheat him if you are far away! You can't cheat anyone!" "Did I force him to come to gamble? He doesn't need to come! He can win! If he wins, then I'm right to bring him here, right? Oh, if he loses, I cheated him? The money he lost was borrowed from the casino in my name, Shi Qilan, and I, Shi Qilan, will have to pay it back." Xiaoou felt that there was some truth in his nonsense. "It's great that he won! I'm the first to be happy! I remember the few hands he won, how happy I am! I sent you so many text messages to announce the good news!"

"Don't let him play anymore, I beg you!" "How can I pay you back if he doesn't play?" "If you pay me back like this, you might as well rob the bank to pay it back! At least the money in the bank belongs to everyone, and I don't know who they are. If you cheat, you will cheat. Seeing you steal your cousin's money like this, what kind of person am I?" gone?" "What does it mean to rob you of money?" Xiaoou saw him holding back a bad smile: his badness and passion are the same thing. "You can think about what it means for a man to rob a woman." Means he likes her.Confessions of love by a robber.Don Quixote fought crazily, all for the imitation of Shuyuan in his heart.While negotiating with the people at the counter to get chips, Lao Shi curled up his right leg, half bent down, and raised his right trouser leg to scratch a mosquito bite.Xiaoou couldn't bear to see Shi Qilan in this action, the degraded appearance of a gambler and a debt-runner, all in this posture.She stretched out her hand to give him a hand, and the pen he just landed on the paper to sign made a slant. "No sign." "The name is mine, why don't you let me sign it?" Xiaoou pulled him to the right of the counter by the inertia of pulling him. "Listen to Shi Qilan, I don't want you to pay me back. If you don't believe me, I'll make a written statement for you now." "why?" "Nonsense. You have to sign the paper, and promise not to enter the casino in this life. If you don't enter the casino, I won't ask you to pay back the money." "I can't pay you anything else if you want me to. Those precious wooden raw materials and finished products have already been repaid to the creditor. Xiaoxiao doesn't know, so I asked you to move it." The situation was worse than what Xiaoou had seen and calculated.She wanted to get a few works of Lao Shi, which were Lao Shi's soul and spirit anyway. "I don't want you to pay it back." Xiaoou said word by word. "As long as you don't go into the casino." "Why don't you want me to pay it back?" Xiaoou couldn't answer.Sorry to answer.Is she a talent or a lover?Love him because he is a talent?Seems to be all, seems to be neither.The benevolence of Xiaoou's woman is not enough to save all sentient beings, but I hope it is enough to make Laba a Shi Qilan.Lao Shi was pulled up, and all the losers seemed to get a little compensation: the losers who lost through her, Mei Xiaoou.Over the past ten years, she has gradually developed a sense of indebtedness to the losers, faintly. The shopkeeper behind the counter asked Lao Shi loudly in Cantonese if he still had the chips.Old Shi replied loudly, of course.He was about to turn around, but Xiaoou hugged him.This sweaty old history.The old history of bloodshot eyes.When the cousin lost or won, his adrenaline was secreted desperately, and his pulse beat as fast as a person running a long distance, or a person with a 38-degree fever.Xiaoou buried her face in the arms of the feverish scum, she was only fit to be in heat for this kind of scum. Lao Shi felt the changes inside Xiaoou's body, and he also had some changes.A sculpted hand stretched out and touched the delicate neck, the thirty-seven-year-old cheek above the neck, he and she never admitted what was going on with each other.Maybe not admitting it, because they didn't know what had happened to each other over the years.Their bodies admit that it is.Do as the body admits, and everything will become clear. It just so happened that no one came to exchange the chips at this moment.The counter is inside the window, and people inside cannot see both sides.Xiaoou is willing to follow the wishes of his body, even just this once, as long as he can hold this scumbag.To hinder one inferior activity of human nature by another, let her body do it. Unable to be tempted by her body, Shi Qilan gently untied her arm.He talked so softly about love, saying that her arrival might turn his cousin's fortunes around and win back what he had already lost. You Xiaoou have no right not to let him make money, right? Xiaoou felt that everything was ready and was left naked on the bed.Lao Shi abandoned her at the most critical moment, and she abandoned her body.Every pore is in full bloom, and suddenly forced to shrink, that unspeakable discomfort...it turns out that lust can also be traumatized. While Xiaoou comforted his wounded lust, Shi Qilan signed the form for borrowing chips.The cousin had already stood by Lao Shi's side at some point, perhaps he had seen the struggle between the couple just now.It is impossible to let him understand that they are not dogs and men, and the love between them is much more than the love that many people give and receive. In short, my cousin looked at Xiaoou differently from below, a little more frivolous, a little more playful, and a little closer to the nameless sister-in-law.Fortunately, she, Mei Xiaoou, is used to people not treating her as a decent person, and fortunately, she is willing to be misunderstood that she is Lao Shi's love interest. Old Shi put his arm on his cousin's shoulder and went back to the casino.It's late at night, and it's a good time to gamble.The cousin sitting on the gaming table looked like he was about to wrestle with the croupier.The croupier is a thin, black and yellow Vietnamese girl, with slightly sunken eyes staring forward, like an anti-beauty warrior ambushing a tank. The cousin rolled out 500,000 chips and bet on "idle".One of his two gambling partners bet on "player" and the other bet on "banker".From the electronic display screen, three blue "idle" are connected together.Xiaoou couldn't help sneering, if this is the way the distant cousins ​​see, people in the world don't have to farm and work and sit in an office to do business, and money can lay eggs on this platform.The cousin's face was fixed on a smirk, one of the cards in his hand was 3 and the other was 2.The dealer's cards are not good either, a J and a 4.The cousin made a chic gesture to the croupier to ask for a card, Xiaoou found that the gesture was quite foreign, which showed that he was not a kid on the gaming table. Now is the time to decide whether he will stay or give birth to the cubs he bet on for half a million.The cousin's rough-looking hands began to pick one corner of the card, then turned the card around, and picked the other corner.The female Vietnamese guerrillas in the ambush were motionless, like posters.Cousin Wu Duan's fingers twisted the vertical edge of the card, and a small blank gradually expanded and widened... The cub that Wu Duan's fingers can't get out of the delivery card, the cub with dystocia, this cub is likely to die in the mother's womb, mother and child Double death... The cub and mother finally separated: a heart 2.The dealer turned out a 9 of spades. Cousin won. Xiaoou seems to be his lucky star.Old Shi gave her a hug. The croupier gave him the half a million that his cousin had won.The cousin was ecstatic and flustered, digging back the money he had won and the money he had put out, the chips were clattering, it sounded like he had won far more than the reality, almost made the cousin forget the money he had paid, thinking I won a million by myself. In the next round, my cousin actually won a million dollars.Lao Shi warmly encouraged his cousin who didn't know how to make the third bet. It seemed that it was the road of "long leisure" and he would definitely be able to pass the third hurdle.This means that all the 1.5 million won will be pushed up.The cousin smiled pitifully at his cousin, as if being pushed by his cousin to jump off the cliff.Xiaoou interjected to say why there is a need to go through three levels, isn't it good to play slowly?Lao Shi said that it is a big problem not to bet when you win, so you can't do much business, just speculate in real estate.The cousin began to provoke the cousin.A purple tendon protruded from the cousin's temple, and he was twisting, his brain was thundering and lightning.The cousin made a hand gesture to the croupier.Old Shi paused hard, walked away, walked around the other two tables, and then returned to the original place.But the two gamblers both bet on "idle". "Xian" leads one by one and connects them into a string of blue beads.This is the weirdness of the gaming table: it occasionally allows you to get a little bit of something relatively elusive in the absolute elusiveness. Both the player and the banker have to pay their cards, no matter whether they win or lose, they have nothing to do with their cousins.In the last flip, the player wins again.If my cousin had listened to his cousin and bet 1.5 million just now, it would be amazing now that there would be 3 million that belonged to him on the table. Old Shi stumbled and scolded: You are worthless, you have a small nose and small eyes, and you will never achieve great things in your life. Why don't you just go back and make your jeans and sneakers! Xiaoou then knew that his cousin was a township boss who started out as a manufacturer of jeans and sneakers.The more the cousin scolded the cousin, the more comfortable he felt. Those were all words he wanted to scold but couldn't bear to scold himself.Now that you have missed the great opportunity, go back to your room and sleep.Old Shi resentfully led the way to the guest room elevator. The next morning, Xiaoou, who had slept for six hours, was woken up by the phone ringing in the guest room.Lao Shi told her that after his cousin went back to the room last night, he thought and regretted so much that he let him go with the 1.5 million he had at hand, so he woke up Lao Shi at one o'clock in the morning, and the two went back to the casino together.The first three wins in a row, and the next one was a crushing loss.Lost until 7 o'clock in the morning, a total of 8 million. "Successful! Man!" Old Shi said. Xiaoou was silent. "Are you secretly happy?" Old Shi said again, "Your trip to Vietnam was not in vain, and you finally recovered your debt. Right?" "You're a jerk! I've never seen a bigger jerk than you!" "I haven't seen it either." "Isn't that only eight million? You still owe me five million. Pay it all back." "I have to pay it back! Cousin is still playing hard on the edge of the table!" "You still let him play, you want him to play bankruptcy?" "If you don't play, how can you pay back your remaining five million?" During the ten minutes of washing time, Xiaoou had only two words in his mind: bastard.When she rushed to the casino, she saw that her cousins' faces were all oily, and their hair was all greasy in clumps. All the foolish gamblers in her memory had this description, almost all of them were exactly the same.At this moment, you can't get close to your cousin and Lao Shi, because once they become this description, they will stink.Body odor, bad breath, brain oil, abnormal digestive function and endocrine and body fluid circulation, evaporate at the same time, the smell you smell is necrotic life.She stopped five or six meters away from them, and vomited out the "bastard" that she had been chanting in her heart. "Shi Qilan, you bastard!" Old Shi turned his head, showing no surprise on his face.He was not surprised that someone had publicly declared this to him.His only reaction was to shake his chin in disgust and point to his cousin beside him, meaning not to affect his concentration on state affairs, life and death matters. When my cousin saw Xiaoou, he acted as if he hadn't seen him.His mind is already melting, and his rationality has already gone out with the urine.The cousin in front of me is the wreckage of the cousin from last night, a wreck doing mechanical actions: betting, receiving cards, and flipping cards.Perhaps this is right, gambling in the absence of spirit, with eyes closed, is more fateful and reflects the essence of gambling. The cousin won two hundred thousand in this game.Every win supports him for a long period of loss.The bridge pier is the winner, and the bridge body is the loser. The long bridge barely extends, but the pier is getting thinner and thinner, and the bridge body that needs to be supported is getting longer and heavier. A winning game needs to support ten twenty One game was lost, the ratio was out of balance, and sections of the bridge collapsed... With the support of winning 200,000, my cousin made a big bet, 500,000, and lost.Bet again, lose again.After losing seven or eight rounds, he didn't dare to bet too much. He bet 50,000, but won.The 50,000 winning game supported him to bet 100,000, and the whole army was wiped out... Now Xiaoou is standing opposite to his cousin.The cousin has lost his characteristics and personality, and has been purified into a pure gambler. In their highest state of gamblers, he meets the living Shi Qilan, Lu Jintong, Duan Kaiwen, and the dead Mei Darong's soul.Any human activity can be sublimated to this ethereal state, the activity itself is not important, what is important is that this activity obliterates all distracting thoughts and utilitarianism and exists independently.The red-eyed soldiers on the battlefield, the selfless believers in the church, and the people who have entered the ultimate state of yoga are all the results of this sublimation.Cousin is now refined to a belief, which is "struggle". The ancestor of the Mei family has traveled through more than a hundred years and is meeting his soul with his cousin, Shi Qilan.They are as simple as single-celled animals, doing the most monotonous movements, which are their instincts, the simplest instincts needed to maintain their survival.There is no need for IQ here, IQ is too mundane. The blood that Mei Wuniang contributed flows through Mei Xiaoou, even if it is a tributary of a tributary, a dark passion surges in her heart: knock down the cousin and the cousins ​​around him, use a chair or Use that vulgar faux-Renaissance sculpture by the wall.Those who are mentally ill, possessed of evil spirits, and those who cannot get out after entering the magic realm of yoga can be re-naturalized in the normal human race with this blow. There is still more than five million short of paying off Xiaoou's debts.This is the afternoon of Xiaoou's second day in Vietnam.Cousin and cousin are creating a miracle of human physiology without eating or sleeping.My cousin is now fighting hand-to-hand with another female Vietnamese guerrilla.This woman is in her forties, her teeth are slightly buckled, and her lips cannot be closed, giving people the illusion that she has been grinning grinningly.The cousin bet 50,000 on this hand and lost.Bet another 30,000 and lost again.After losing more than a dozen hands, he became impatient and pushed up to 200,000. The dealer's score was seven and he was six.He beat him at seven points, and it was so dangerous to win. The cousin has long forgotten his invitation to Xiaoou's shark fin feast, and if he loses, he can't even afford the shark fin. Finally won a hand, 50,000.The cousin twisted his buttocks on the chair and shrugged his shoulders.This means that he is exercising his body and relaxing his tendons.Next, he won another 100,000.Not only the cousin became active, but even the cousin followed suit.Unanimously, the two raised their heads and glanced at Xiaoou.The cousin recognized her at this moment, but the rest of his mind was not enough for him to express anything, so he didn't need to say hello.It's time to bet again, my cousin pushed all 150,000 up, and got back 300,000.After winning three hands in a row, my cousin glanced at the big clock in the hall: six o'clock.He certainly didn't know if it was six o'clock in the evening or six o'clock in the morning.There are four seasons outside, but only one season in the casino, day and night outside, and one hour in the casino.For a moment in the hall, it has been a thousand years in the world.There was an expression on the cousin's face, an expression that didn't match the gambling text: he thought of his hometown, his wife, and children, and where they were now. Xiaoou looked at his cousin who was slowly standing up, at the inappropriate nostalgia on his face.The cousin cleaned up the remaining chips on the table for him, and went up to help the cousin.The backs of the two cousins ​​became a pair of disabled soldiers in Xiaoou's eyes, walking out of the battlefield full of casualties. No need to count, she knew that her cousin lost only the last four hundred thousand or so chips left.Shi Qilan's 10 million loan line in this casino has basically been exhausted.It is not her, Mei Xiaoou, who is chasing after Lao Shi to repay her debts, but this casino where countless anti-beauty guerrilla fighters are lurking.The old rascal's scheme succeeded, and the debt was passed on successfully.The cousin will remit the chip money (about 9.5 million) that the cousin lent him to the account designated by Xiaoou within ten days.The old rascal used his terrible way to show Xiaoou a sincere love, and robbed his cousin's money to make up for what he owed her. Cousin is very trustworthy, just like Duan Kaiwen has no credibility at all.On the seventh day, Xiaoou received a call from Lao Ji Bank, and several sums of money remitted from the mainland arrived one after another, totaling 9.53 million.Lao Shi owed Xiaoou 13 million, and the remaining fraction was the discount Xiaoou gave him.Lao Shi said in the text message: "I owe you so many years, I feel like a hole has been rotted in my heart. The longer the time, the bigger the hole is, and now it is finally filled. You can forget about me." At the end of the message, there is a sad emoji. He hoped that Xiaoou would remember him as a symbol of grief.He has surpassed the cure, hope and disappointment, and all the turning points of the prodigal son, so he has also surpassed sorrow, and Xiaoou should not mourn for him.