Chapter 7 5. The Truth Comes Out

what should I do?what can I do? Everyone else went to eat, I walked aimlessly on the street, I don't know how long I walked, I walked to the beach, smoked a cigarette, and slapped myself hard.Only then did I remember that I didn’t know how to face my parents. "What I owed you in my previous life is because of a prodigal like you!" My father's words kept ringing in my ears, along with my mother's begging eyes.What if I let them know that I also lost the house?I slapped myself a few more times, angry, but I didn't know who to be angry with; I was terrified, but I didn't know why I was terrified.

"Little brother, if you lose, you lose. Don't be overwhelmed." I looked up, and it was the outsider who was watching the fun in the afternoon.He came over and sat down with me. I rolled his eyes at him, and asked him angrily: "You think I can't bear to commit suicide? Even if I want to commit suicide, I have to figure out what's going on." He lit a cigarette and said with a smile, "You're doing it too (a tricky term, meaning you know someone is up to something) Well, why can't you handle it yourself?" That's right, I knew there was a ghost and I still rushed up, what's wrong with me?After so many years, whenever I look back on the past, I still don't understand why I was so obsessed with ghosts.

Suddenly, he grabbed my hand, and I was shocked and threw his hand away.He smiled and said, "You think I'm a glass (gay)? I paid attention to your hands this afternoon. Your hands are pretty good. It's a pity that you don't play the piano." I stared at him blankly, thinking about grabbing a big rock and hitting him hard on the head a few times, he continued: "Look at your hands, I know you are a good material for a trickster, don't you believe me?" ?” I was confused by what he said: "Why should I trust you, who do you think you are, President of the country?" He was not annoyed, and said unhurriedly: "I can help you get your money back." My eyes lit up when I heard that, but I could only tell him the truth: "I don't have any money, no room, and no land. It seems that I don't have much chance of making money."

He smiled again, and asked me darkly, "Do you want to know how you lost this afternoon?" "Of course I do, can you tell me?" He took out a pager and handed it to me. After a closer look, it looked like a pager, but it was not a pager. There was something like the top of a thumbtack on it. He took out a few rubber bands and said nothing. Just tie that thing around my arm.Then he fumbled around in his bag, as if he was looking for something. Seeing my confused face, he said, "The old man has an old man ticket (100 yuan), so he dares to say that everyone in the field gets his money." of!"

I asked him, "Why did you help me?" He smiled wryly, and said faintly: "It's not for helping you, but for myself." He took out a small bottle and approached me, and suddenly I felt a tingling pain in my arm, as if something he tied on my arm was electrifying. I am very light, but it is indeed electricity. I grabbed that damn thing and was about to throw it away, but he quickly protected him, took it, and asked me, "Do you understand?" I'm still a bit confused. "This is a special kind of industrial water." He explained.This sentence woke me up.

It turned out that those people smeared this potion on one of the small sticks for betting. When this small stick appeared on the table, the person carrying the small instrument could feel it.For example, if the potion is applied to stick No. 3, and the dealer plays 3, people outside will know that the dealer has played 3 this time; if there is no response, it may be 1, 2, or 4; retail investors can bet on any one, Choose to lose 3.But why is he telling me this? He saw my doubts, smiled wryly twice, and told his experience.His name is Dawei, and he came from Yingkou. Not long ago, he heard people say that the gambling game here is very popular, so he wanted to come here to grab a ticket. He came here with tools to cheat. He also entered the local gambling game through Baolin.

At first they agreed that Dawei would give something, and Baolin cooperated to bet money, and the winnings would be split in half.But after coming here, he soon found out that Baolin had tricked him. Every time he told Baolin the secret codes that the dealer wanted to play, but when he started gambling, Baolin always seemed to be a bit slow in responding to his secret signals, and was always caught by the dealer. Others on the field bet first.So he suspected that Baolin gave the water to others. When Dawei was in the dealership, Baolin didn't win any money at all. Dawei is not an idiot. He saw that there was something tricky in it, so he immediately terminated the cooperative relationship with Baolin and cooperated with Goushengzi. Goushengzi brought this small machine to the field. The difference between the dealer's loss on the field is very different.Later, after Dawei's observation, Goushengzi released the water (that is, he deliberately told others the bottom of the dealer).Because I am a foreigner, and I can't talk about this matter publicly, I have suffered from being dumb, and I am not reconciled to going back.

Dawei also told me that most of the people who bet on the field today were in the same group as Baolin and Goushengzi. When I started the game, everyone flocked up and said behind my back that I was very "Xuan" (the jargon of old Qian, Datou the meaning of).The reason why he helped me was to vent his anger and make some money before leaving. Now I understand that I was tricked by Baolin! I told him again that we used to play stare and lose money together, Dawei stood up, patted the sand on his body, pulled me up and said: "Little brother, let's go, I will take you to the place where I live, and You chat well."

When we arrived at the small hotel where he was staying, he asked me to buy some decks, saying that he would teach me something. As soon as I heard that, I ran out and bought some decks. He first explained to me how to cheat by staring: "Do you know 'Water Cloud Sleeve'?" I had never heard of it. He didn't say much, he shuffled the poker several times, threw it on the bed, and asked me to cut the cards casually.He sat across from me and asked me: "Look at what time it is in front of me?" I picked it up and saw a K and a 2.He picked up the card, looked at it in his hand, and threw it in front of me, God, there was a 4 and a 5 in front of him!I could hardly believe my eyes.

He smiled and said disapprovingly: "Actually, when I touched the cards, I had already flicked the 3 to 5 cards on the top of the cards into the sleeves. Now you have fewer cards in this deck of poker." The moment he took the cards, he already had 5 more cards in his hand, plus the 2 cards dealt to him, a total of 7 cards in his hand. He held all the cards in his hand, so I couldn't see that he had How many cards.After he selected the required points, he placed all the unnecessary cards on it, and the moment he put them on the table, all the unnecessary cards had been bounced back into his sleeves with his fingers.

He asked me to stand behind him, slowed down and demonstrated again, and this time I could see it clearly.The truth turned out to be like this. It turned out that my money was won away in this way. Like performing magic tricks, he showed me the common ways to get out of the game.He collected all the cards in his hand, and showed me the suit of the top card, which was a 4 of clubs, and then he put the 4 of clubs back on the card, and dealt four cards in a row, and let me guess whose house the 4 of clubs belonged to. . I flipped over the first card he dealt without hesitation, and said, "It's right here!" It turned out to be no, I was shocked, and I flipped all the cards up to see, none of them.He smiled darkly and said, "That 4 was not issued." As he spoke, he turned over the 4 of plum blossoms and showed me.I didn't believe it, and asked him to demonstrate it again. I stared at him without blinking. He looked funny and said, "Don't say you stared, it's the same thing if 1,000 people stared." He sent another After reading it again, I still can't see where the cheating is. He taught me a lot that night. Although those tricks seem to me today to be the tricks of some beginners, but at the time, I was completely impressed by his tricks and thought I had met God. He taught me that night how to keep the top cards of a deck until they are needed; how to keep the best cards at the bottom until they are needed; Of course, he also talked about the sleeve work of "Shuiyun Sleeve". Beginners usually like to hide things in the sleeves. This requires the old man to deal with the sleeves of the clothes. At first, most of them put a paper shell in the sleeves as a slideway. , It is convenient for the poker to come out and go in, or the sleeves are scalded with water to make a fuzzy slide. These elementary thousand skills are also kung fu work, and they cannot be learned in a short time, nor can they be practiced in a day.He just demonstrated slow motion to me, asked me to practice more frequently, and told me a principle: your hand must be faster than the eyes of the players on the field, or you will be caught. He said a lot, but at that time, I only cared about one question: how to get the money back?