Chapter 20 Section 19

Located on the shore of the Atlantic Ocean, the "Caesars" casino is magnificent.There is a lot of traffic here, and there is a scene of prosperity, as if the economic depression is insulated from here. New Yorkers love to gamble. In fact, the Chinese are world-renowned gamblers. Standing in the casino, look around. Half of them are faces of oriental people. You don’t need to go up and ask. In all likelihood, it’s either Chinese or old Han.Lao Zhong is always at ease in the casino, more comfortable than staying at home. The casino manager always treats Laozhong very preferentially, that is, his three-point casino lady is extraordinarily attentive to Dongfang Yan.

Because everyone here knows that Lao Zhong is the best gambler who is good at gambling, and he never blinks when tipping at the gaming table, and he is generous. These Chinese people, from restaurants and garment factories, from bosses to workers, from chefs to sewing girls, have all sent their hard-earned money to the United States.Some old overseas Chinese have worked hard all their lives and handed over their only income to the gambling table.If you ask him why he does this, they will smile and say: "Small deposit and full withdrawal, sooner or later I will get it back for me."

Wang Qiming and Ah Chun each used their credit cards to pull out 2,500 yuan in the casino, and sat at the gaming table. Blackjack was played on these tables. Americans call it BlackJack. This is similar to the ten thirty o'clock game that Wang Qiming played in Beijing when he was a child, but the points are enlarged to twenty o'clock. The banker is a casino, this is the rule, there is no escape.On a platform, sit ten people. After Ah Chun sat down, he began to place bets. Ten yuan is a chip, and three or four chips are placed in one round, that is, the winning or losing of thirty or forty yuan.

It was the first time for Wang Qiming to play blackjack on the table today, so he first stood behind Ah Chun to see when Ah Chun called and when he stopped calling. This kind of game is an individual, and you can understand it after watching it for ten minutes.What's more, Wang Qiming is such a smart person! After watching for less than ten minutes, he couldn't help itching his hands, sat on the table, and placed four chips. Forty dollars.Not many, but there are quite a few newbies who are just starting out. Ah Chun smiled at him, and said in a low voice: "Calm down, take your time."

He winked at Ah Chun. By the time he lit his cigarette, four chips became ten.The first time, he won a grand slam blackjack. Before he could speak, the dealer had already given him one and a half times the chips. Hands are really smooth. Before he had time to collect the chips, the dealer had already dealt out the cards. When he took a puff of his cigarette and just wanted to puff it out, the ten chips became twenty-five again. Another grand slam blackjack. It's so smooth. It's so smooth! He is so excited.In less than a few minutes, the forty yuan book turned into two hundred and fifty yuan!

Want it? Doing business, what could be faster than doing this?Come a lot! "Slow down, slow down!" Who is speaking? He turned his head and saw that it was Ah Chun. "Slow down," Ah Chun reminded calmly, "Slow down!" He listened to Ah Chun, took back the more than two hundred chips, and put in four more. It's still 40 yuan, come again. After a while, the chips on his table became a huge pile, and it was too late to count. He noticed that Ah Chun's bargaining chips were constantly increasing. He followed suit and increased. Ah Chun took a few puffs of cigarettes and put down twenty in one breath.

Without hesitation, he also placed twenty. Unfortunately, when the banker counted, it was taken away. Wang Qiming glanced at Ah Chun, who was still very calm.She took another puff of cigarettes and put on forty.He also put forty. This time, he was a little nervous, and his heart was beating "poundingly". The first card is dealt. Ah Chun got K. Wang Qiming got a Q and followed closely behind. The dealer is just an 8. The crucial second card is turned over. It's amazing, Ah Chun and Wang Qiming each have an A. "Great!" Ah Chun couldn't control himself and yelled loudly.

It's strange to say that once the luck comes, it can't be stopped anyway.Before three o'clock in the afternoon, they had each won tens of thousands of dollars. But Wang Qiming was so happy that he forgot everything, the empty commercial building, and the factory was still working overtime to catch the goods. Money, gambling, has great magic power. Beautiful lady, brought cigarettes and wine, and the casino manager also came up to congratulate them on their victory.He also held their hands and said: "You are lucky couple" (You are a lucky couple.) They enthusiastically gave them two cards, one for free meals and one for free senior suites.

They exchanged the chips into cash and stuffed them into their respective pockets. They came to the restaurant, had a full meal of steak and lobster, and drank most of the bottle of champagne. Ah Chun wiped his mouth with a napkin and said: "I'm very lucky today, but you have to remember this place, you can't come to this place often, it's okay to have fun once in a while, if you come here often, you'll be ruined, your family will go bankrupt, and some houses and land will be sold." "I won't come here often, don't worry." He nodded. "It's all about luck." She continued, "Today we are playing small. If we play big, we can get one hundred thousand and two hundred thousand. Even some bold people rely on this kind of luck to get in all at once. Half a million, a million."

Hearing that, Wang Qiming's eyes sparkled. "However, when gambling, you can neither be greedy nor take a long time. You have to learn to control it. Irrational people are always prodigals, and they are also the most popular people in casinos. Do you think they give you free meals and free accommodation for what? I just want to keep you from gambling." "Then let's leave when we win, isn't it welcome?" "Of course." "Then let's play for a while." Wang Qiming felt that it was not enough. "NO." Ah Chun replied resolutely.

"Based on today's luck, if you fight it again, you might win even more. Luck doesn't come with you forever." He persuaded her. After all, Ah Chun is also a good gambler. She looked at her watch, and when it was not three o'clock, she said, "The condition is that the capital is collected and not allowed to move." He nodded happily, so the two returned to the gaming table. Coming back this time, Ah Chun really placed a big bet, one thousand yuan each time. Wang Qiming didn't care too much, one thousand is one thousand, and he won anyway. But the luck of the bet is gone, and the cards dealt are getting uglier every time, either with a small number of points, or earlier than the dealer's violence. The chips are getting smaller and smaller. If you place a thousand yuan at a time, you will only have ten chances at 10,000 yuan. If you divide by two, you will have 3,000 yuan left after 10,000 yuan. How could Ah Chun hold his breath, Wang Qiming was also jealous. The more you lose, the more you gamble, and the more you lose, the greater the fire, and the remaining 3,000 yuan are all suppressed.And pressed into a circle, two people add up to six thousand. The dealer unhurriedly dealt the cards.The first card came with a 9, which is not bad.The dealer is a 6, smaller than them.The second card was dealt, an 8, for a total of seventeen points.It is very difficult to deal with this point. If you want another one, which is a little higher than the big four, the 6,000 yuan will all be wasted.Ah Chun looked at the dealer's cards again and it was not good. At 6 o'clock, he waved his hand to indicate that he stopped calling. The dealer's second card was a 10, adding up to 16, but he had to ask for another card when he was less than seventeen. The critical moment came, and they waited anxiously for the third card.The dealer seemed to have read the hearts of the gamblers, and tried his best to turn over the third card for as long as possible.Time seemed to freeze. When the dealer slowly turned over the third card, the two of them were dumbfounded. They didn't know where his shit luck came from. Scratched away by the dealer. "Shit" Ah Chun cursed. Wang Qiming also cursed in his heart: "Fuck you." On the way home, both of them were lazy and didn't talk much. The energy consumed in the casino was too great, and both of them were exhausted. Wang Qiming drove the car on the slow street.A Chunyi was on his shoulder, looking at the straight road ahead without blinking. In order to lift his spirits, Wang Qiming said: "It's not bad. I didn't lose at all. It's a free meal and a free game. It's quite fun. If you didn't control the capital, you would really lose." "Gambling is controllable." "What can't be controlled?" "emotion." Wang Qiming was taken aback. "I love you very much," she said. He leaned down and kissed her hair. She leaned her head on his shoulder. "Actually, you don't know, I miss you much more than you miss me." "uncertain." "Definitely. You have a wife, you have a family, and I have nothing, and I will always be alone and alone. I know that the combination of the two of us, the proportion of love, is not more than necessary. In fact..." "You shouldn't have said that," he interrupted her. "Actually," she ignored his words, "the two of us are nothing more than the union of two hearts that can't bear the loneliness, the intersection of two immigrant lonely souls. It's not all true love, the most important ingredient is need." "No no, Chun, I really love you." "True love? Can you divorce Guo Yan and combine with me? Can you abandon everything you have built, career, property, and start over with me? Can you bear to ignore Guo Yan and let her fall into Can't survive? No, of course not. We are all mature people, and we can't say lies." "cheat?" "You can't, and I can't. I can't be a sinner. If I separate you, I'll kill Guo Yan. Besides, even if we really get together, isn't the fate I face the same as Guo Yan?" "What's the meaning?" "Do you still need me to say it? I have learned a lesson. I know a truth. I deeply understand the hearts of men, deeply understand the hearts of rich men, and especially in this society, American men. heart, and the heart of a rich man in America." "but I……" "But you are different, aren't you?" She didn't wait for him to continue, "You are from mainland China, you received a different education, grew up in a simple environment, and have a simple structure of thought, are you different from those men? You are wrong, In fact, you have been assimilated, don't you see a huge change in yourself?" "My changes..." "However, I can't control my feelings. No force can stop me from thinking about you. I need you." "I need you too. I don't understand the distance between need and love." "...A love without an end may be sweeter than a love with an end." Wang Qiming sent her back to the store, stepped up the accelerator and drove home.After entering the house, I remembered that Guo Yan was still in the factory, so I immediately called her.Guo Yan yelled over there: "I have to work overtime tonight, you can get something to eat yourself first, it seems that after the first batch of goods are shipped, you have to drive late every day." "You have to take a break, let Xiumei support you for a while." "No, people are indispensable here." Guo Yan hung up the phone. Wang Qiming lay on the sofa and thought for a long time. The commercial building still stood there coldly, no one came to rent it, no one came to inquire, and there was not even a single phone call for consultation. This building is like an outcast. It is the woolen factory who often calls.Three or four calls a day, nothing else: asking for money. However, this is still manageable, and what makes him most nervous is that it is time for the biweekly workers to be paid. He is very aware of the importance of paying wages on time.Once workers can't get their wages, they put down their work and leave without saying a word.I'll leave you with a bunch of improper work, and at that time, it will be too late to find someone to make up for it. Wang Qiming was really anxious. He doesn't have a dollar of working capital, so he has to sell these goods to pay wages. He looked at the calendar—in fact, he knew it without looking at the calendar—the delivery was due today. When the goods are shipped, they are exchanged for money. Don't care how much, at least the wages of the workers can be paid. Bank loan interest notices were stuffed into his mailbox one after another. The amount of interest, the donkey rolled, and the more it rolled, thinking about it, he would be sweating all over. How can you not be afraid? He knew all too well the horrors of bankruptcy.As soon as you went bankrupt, the tax bureau immediately sent someone to seal your factory.The workers will not be ambiguous, and they can dismantle all the things in your factory that can be exchanged for money. At that time, you can cry in front of the empty workshop and those torn paper threads falling on the ground. No one cares about you! Every time Wang Qiming thought of this tragic scene, he couldn't stay at home and rushed to the factory in a hurry. "Quick! Quick! It's the weekend!" He ran around here and there coaxing and driving everyone to work, and everyone could clearly see that Boss Wang was really in a hurry, so they really worked hard, which can be regarded as exhausting all their skills. In order to deliver the goods before 3:00 p.m., Guo Yan was so tired that she was stumbling around, looking like she was about to fall apart. This batch of goods really gave her a hard time, and she lost a lot of weight. For more than ten days, she didn't go home to live at all. She couldn't hold on at night, so she fell on the bench in Wang Qiming's office and closed her eyes for a while. She didn't have time to eat either. She kept the biscuits in her jacket pocket, and whenever she was hungry, she would take out two to eat. It was past two o'clock in the afternoon. Wang Qiming looked at his watch and asked Guo Yan: "OK?" "Row." Guo Yan asked questions while ordering goods.Her voice was weak, casual, but sure. Looking at her haggard face, Wang Qiming felt pity and enthusiasm in his heart.He felt that she was his protector.He wanted to hug her, to tell her all the guilt, all the pain, all the love in his heart. Three o'clock sharp. Guo Yan got the goods into the car on time. Wang Qiming started the car and drove towards Manhattan quickly. Guo Yan breathed a sigh of relief. She wiped the sweat with the back of her hand and called Xiumei" "Sister Yan, what's the matter?" Xiumei seemed quite tired, shaking. Guo Yan took out a wad of money. "Go to a good Chinese restaurant, order food according to the head, and everyone has to eat well and rest." "Okay." Xiumei agreed. "Don't forget to buy a drink." "I can't forget." That night, the workers ate happily in the restaurant, chatting and laughing.Everyone said that working with Guo Yan made me happy and open-minded, and it didn't matter if I was tired, I felt good. Guo Yan didn't listen to their compliments much.She pressed the glass to her forehead.She slept for a while and was on the mat, which she had never done before.