Chapter 32 30. The trip to Changsha

For a long time I had nothing to do all day long, and there was nothing left for me to play in this town.Then came the incident of catching thousands mentioned in the opening chapter. Before Tianjin catching thousands, I was a cheater who needed to beware of dark lights in casinos. Since Tianjin Casino became famous in the battle of catching insiders, I have now become a "non-staff" who specializes in catching cheaters. dark light". It should have been in the winter of 2001. I had nothing to do all day to help my friends watch games. This day, I was lying down and reading a martial arts novel. Suddenly, the phone rang. I checked the number, and it was an unfamiliar long-distance call.Then, a man with a southern accent spoke broken Mandarin to me on the phone and asked me, "Are you the third child?" I said, "Yes, what's the matter with you?"

He murmured a while, as if it was a polite remark like long admiration.Then turn to the main topic and say: "I also open a gambling stall, and I got your phone number from a friend's recommendation. I have encountered some abnormal things recently, and I haven't figured it out. I have invited many people one after another, but I have not solved it. It’s gone.” Then he said some more words, roughly speaking that he sincerely hoped that I could go over and take a look. I was baffled by what he said, so I asked him: "You said you were recommended by a friend, who is this friend?" He said a name, and I felt strange, so I said to him: "Don't talk to me , I don’t know this person at all.” After speaking, he hung up the phone.I am also afraid of being fished.

But the southerner was very persistent, and he called several times, and I was so annoyed by him that I told him: "I don't know your friend. If he knows me, ask him to call me and say, I want to see which great immortal it is!" After talking about this, the southerner really didn't call again. At around 7:00 p.m., I received another long-distance call, the area code is Tianjin, probably from Dajun or Dabin, but I didn’t expect a woman’s voice on the phone, asking me: “San’er, I heard you don’t know your sister Li anymore? "When I heard it, it was the second boss lady in Tianjin!I hurriedly laughed and said, "I don't know other people, how can I not know you, Sister Li?" Sister Li said bluntly, "Go ahead, if someone mentions my name on the phone, tell them that you don't know me." know."

I was taken aback by her question, and said, "Absolutely nothing!" Sister Li asked me, "Have you received a call from a southerner?" Only then did I realize that I was in a hurry to make amends, and finally I said to her: "Actually, I can't blame me for this. I only know your surname is Li, but I really don't know your full name. When Dajun introduced me, he just said--this It's Sister Li. Where do you want me to know your name? Besides, that southerner's Mandarin is terrible, even worse than mine. At that time, even if I wanted to break my head, I wouldn't think of this southerner as being with you."

Sister Li laughed when she heard this, and she hoped that I would help him.Sister Li opened her mouth, how could I not agree?Not long after talking with Sister Li on the phone, the phone rang again, and it belonged to the southerner.After a brief exchange on the phone, I flew there the next day and he picked me up at the airport. This is my first time to go to Changsha, the winter there is really strange, it is drizzling all day long, I stayed there for more than 20 days, but I didn't see what the sun looks like.It was raining all day long, cloudy and cold, which made me very irritable, and when I came back to see the sun, I was so happy that I couldn't close my mouth for several days.

At the airport, I met the caller, and after a few pleasantries, they took me to the city and found a hotel to arrange me to stay.To welcome me in the evening, three middle-aged men came, the big one was Brother Yan, the owner of the casino, the middle one was Brother Xia, the boss of a real estate company, and the small one was Brother Wang, the owner of a private club. My Mandarin is not very good, and the three of them speak poorly, and the communication is very awkward. It took a lot of effort for me to understand: the three of them are classmates and good friends, and this time I am not calling me to Brother Yan's casino Catch a thousand (according to Brother Yan, no one dares to go to his place to cheat), I was called to help Xia brother catch a thousand.

Brother Xia has some status in the local area, and he often plays poker with a group of people of similar status in Brother Wang's club (Brother Wang's club is a private club, only members can enter), and the game they play is called pull magu.He has lost a lot of money playing until now, and he didn't care if he lost so much money, so he quit playing.Later, I heard from Brother Wang that there must be something wrong with a person who wins money almost every day.Brother Xia also became suspicious. He is also a stubborn ass, and always wants to understand when things happen, so he joined in again. According to his own words, he must understand how to die after death.But after playing for a while, I lost a lot, and I didn't see anything wrong.I asked Brother Yan to see it again. Brother Yan was very interested in gambling, but he didn't notice it.But Brother Yan said that if he dared to guarantee it with his head, there must be something wrong. He asked many experts to look at it, but he didn't understand what was wrong.Just in time for Sister Li to go to Changsha to do business, Brother Yan knew Sister Li, Sister Li told Brother Yan about the ghost in the casino in summer, so they decided to ask me to check, if I really can't see anything, he Also admitted.

I have never played Magu before. After their explanations and actual combat exercises, I have a general understanding of how to play: a pair of poker removes the big and small kings, and several people can play. One person is dealt 5 cards, and 3 of them are added to one. "Dou" (10 or 20, for example, the sum of 1, 2, and 7 equals 10, and these 3 cards are a bucket;), deduct these 3 cards, and then add the remaining two cards to compare the size , the maximum can be increased to 10 (10 is the meaning of Magu), which is a coincidence to kill. There must be "Dou" in the 5 cards. If there is no Dou, it is definitely a loser.

In the end we made an appointment with each other. I will pretend to be Brother Xia's brother-in-law. This time I have nothing to do to come to Changsha to play. Brother Yan will not show up, and Brother Wang pretends not to know me.Brother Xia took me there the next night. They have to go to work during the day, so they usually only play at night, not every day, but three or four times a week. At that time, I negotiated a good condition with them first: if you don't catch them, let it go, and if you catch them, you are not allowed to hurt others.With the experience of the two croupier girls in Tianjin in Xia Tian, ​​I have to negotiate good conditions before I catch Qian.Brother Xia reassures me that they are all respectable local people and will not do anything out of the ordinary. If caught, just ask for the money back and make compensation; come out.

The next night, I went to Brother Wang's club with Brother Xia. It was really good there. There were saunas and fitness facilities. The chess and card lounge was upstairs. After waiting for a while, everyone arrived. After everyone arrived, I took a closer look, and everyone looked very handsome, and greeted each other.They all spoke Changsha's local dialect, but I couldn't understand a word, as if I was in a foreign country.Brother Xia introduced them to me and introduced me to them.Those people shook my hand very enthusiastically, chatted a few gossips, drank tea for a while, and then went to the private room to start a war.I continued to eat snacks on the sofa outside, and after sitting for a while, I found an excuse to go in, pull a chair and sit behind Brother Xia to watch the excitement.

I've learned that poker is club stock, standard bee poker.I sat down to watch the fun, and everyone didn't seem to mind, they were still joking with each other, looking like they were singing and dancing.They gambled in a very civilized manner, without the yelling and shouting of ordinary gambling games. Brother Xia asked me to observe a very fat middle-aged man, he is the general who always wins in this game, Brother Xia suspects that he is cheating.Still the same sentence, look at the hands when you are out of a thousand, I looked at his big hands like cattail fans, and I thought happy, such hands can also be out of a thousand?It doesn't look like the hands of working people at first glance. But it's a bit strange that he wins every day, no matter how lucky he is, he can't be so strong.These people gamble very civilized, but I feel uncomfortable watching them: they all have a problem, they like to flop their cards.The so-called halo is to slowly and little by little open the side of the card.It annoys me that they can watch a card for at least a minute. After looking at it for a while, I didn't see anything wrong. According to my observation, at least the fat man didn't steal or hide cards.And no matter who shuffles the cards, there is nothing wrong with it. I carefully watched everyone's shuffling actions on the field, and there is nothing wrong with it. The blame is here, there is nothing wrong with the game, the fat man can always win money.At that time, cheating under my nose usually couldn't escape my eyes, no matter how fast you were, I could still see it.After watching it for about an hour, I pretended to go up and hold the teapot to refill everyone's tea, and then took the opportunity to sit down at a different angle, still looking like watching the excitement. At first I sat across from the fat man, and then I sat on his side.The fat man sat in the inner seat, so it was unlikely that he would watch the scene behind him.Generally speaking, sitting behind gamblers without knowing each other will be disgusting, and this kind of gambling game is not a game in a casino, and anyone in the casino can go behind other people. After changing positions, I still didn't see anything wrong. The fat man was always very happy, and he won a lot of chips in a short time.I found that he has a habit, he faints very slowly, which is normal (most people who gamble are like this, the slower the cards are played, the more interesting they are).But he was ridiculously slow, and he always had to be dizzy for a long time before showing his cards after everyone had finished showing them.That day, I didn't understand where he cheated. I knew that his winning posture was abnormal, but I couldn't tell what was abnormal. This made me very upset. I watched it for more than a week, but I didn’t see what was wrong. At this time, Brother Xia lost a lot of money again. If you can't catch it again, how can you feel happy? Brother Xia didn't seem to care at all, he always comforted me and told me not to worry, but I knew he was more anxious than me, and it wasn't just a matter of a few pennies for entertainment.