In 2009, a city in western Hubei, in a bustling vegetable market, followed a narrow alley up a section, picked up the ladder at the third doorway, more than 30 people in room 201 were excitedly around a rectangular table.
Once the conference room of a leather handbag company, it was turned into an underground casino.
Many years ago, Zhang Xiaoyu used to do “put code (usury) big brother” in this underground casino. The way underground casino owners make money, he says, is not by pumping water per cent, but by “letting go”. An underground casino typically maintains “yard teams” who lend money “as they see fit” when a gambler loses an eye and wants to turn over a new book. The interest is 5% per day.
The underground casino is surrounded by densely populated residential buildings, and the casino owner has taken advantage of this by setting up three minghorns nearby and three outposts. Even layers of “defense”, the boss will “guile rabbit three caves”, in other parts of the city also rented seven or eight venues, so as to change at any time every day. But even then, the police often get it. Once the boss organized an illegal gambling gathering of nearly 100 people in the suburb in order to avoid “severe blows”. He thought he could conceal anything, but he was finally reported by the masses. The police combined with two armed police squadrons quickly dispatched, and even the sentry was caught.
Many fled in a hurry, burying their gambling money under citrus trees, hoping to dig it later. A few months later, the owner of the citrus tree fertilized, a hoe down, actually dug up a pile of transparent convenience bags wrapped in RMB, a count, more than 80,000.
Zhang lives with a dozen younger brothers in a nearby hotel and goes to work at 11:30 a.m. every day. Although he was a “core member” of the underground casino, he never gambled. “I have seen so many people lose their money and their families in the casino. Even if you win today, tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. Why waste time and end up in debt?”
The “theory of probability”, which he was good at, failed here
Under the rules of the underground casino, gamblers must know the inside of the casino, or they will never be allowed in.
During that time, Zhang Xiaoyu often met a bald man with glasses on his way to work. He was in his 40s, wearing a white shirt and carrying a black briefcase. Every time he saw Zhang Xiaoyu, he would smile and nod his head.
One day, he suddenly stopped Zhang Xiaoyu, “Are you doing something in the nearby casino?”
Zhang Xiaoyu was alarmed. “No. Why do you ask?”
“I know you’re from the casino. How big is your place?”
Zhang Xiaoyu is afraid he is a police undercover, dare not say more, leaving only a contact information on the hurried leave. Two days later, the bald man called Zhang Xiaoyu and asked him to dinner. At a fancy restaurant, the man ordered a lot of food.
The man introduced himself as Zhang. After three rounds of wine, Lao Zhang asked: “what do you bet in the field?”
After investigation, Zhang Xiaoyu ruled out the suspicion that he was a policeman and replied: “Push pai Huang Jiu.”
“Push pai gow? How does that work?”
“Just compare points. Ten o ‘clock is the smallest, nine o ‘clock is the largest, and of course the pair is bigger.”
Lao Zhang smiled once: “Is your field normal?”
“Of course normal, this you rest assured.”
Two people drink a cup of white spirit again, Lao Zhang cold surprise ground asks: “your field son is also draw old thousand?”
“No, if you don’t believe me, I’ll go at once.” Zhang Xiaoyu said that and staggered to her feet.
“Lao Zhang quickly got up to hold Zhang Xiaoyu down:” Of course I believe, otherwise how can I ask you to come to dinner?
After dinner that day, Lao Zhang followed Zhang into the casino with 1,000 yuan in cash.
Casino owner saw Zhang Xiaoyu bring people in, gave him a look, Zhang Xiaoyu slightly nodded. This is an important hint from Zhang xiaoyu to the boss, who will use it to decide whether to let customers win or lose money. Instead, let the gambler lose money. This kind of person usually has a lot of cash and is also a regular gambler, so he doesn’t need to make a good impression on the casino.
Mr. Zhang was in no hurry to place his bet. Instead, he took a book out of his pocket and began to write it down. Zhang Xiaoyu looked sideways a few eyes, inside the detailed record of each idle home and banker every time points and win.
After about half an hour, Lao Zhang began to bet behind the idle house. Now and then in this idle home bet 200, now and then in another idle home bet 300, occasionally in the banker behind the four idle home bet on the amount of difference, sometimes a point also do not bet, take the book to calculate. Lao Zhang played for less than three hours and won more than 2,000 yuan.
When he left, Zhang Xiaoyu in accordance with the casino rules, gave Lao Zhang 200 yuan, the name is “tea money”, this is the casino unwritten rules, the first time to the casino guests, no matter win or lose, the casino will give 200 yuan, in order to let the gambler next time.
Three days later, Lao Zhang came to the casino again. Like last time, he took out his notebook and wrote down the details for half an hour before he began to bet. This time he won more than 7,000 yuan.
In the evening, Lao Zhang asked Zhang Xiaoyu to go to a restaurant for dinner. After they drank a bottle of Wuliangye, Zhang Xiaoyu asked: “What do you write down on the court every time?”
“To tell you the truth, I’m calculating the probabilities. In fact, learning math and gambling is not guaranteed to win, but from the probability, I have a great chance to win money. You saw me the first two times, didn’t you?”
“And what do you do?”
“Teacher, high school math teacher.”
After dinner, the two men came back to the casino. This time, Zhang Xiaoyu shook her head gently at her boss.
Although Lao Zhang drank a lot of wine, he still took out his notebook and pen from his clothes bag and began to record. It was more than half an hour before he began to bet. But probability didn’t seem to work tonight. Zhang lost by thousands and eventually he bet more and more.
Later, he asked Zhang Xiaoyu to put 5,000 yuan, but he lost his shirt in less than 10 minutes. Out of the casino, Zhang took out 5,300 yuan from the bank card to Zhang Xiaoyu, Zhang Xiaoyu as long as 5,000 yuan capital, the other 300 yuan interest did not ask.
Then Lao Zhang lost more and won less, just 20 days, lost more than 70,000. Later, Lao Zhang did not appear again, but sent Zhang xiaoyu a text message:
“In fact, there is also a ‘gambler loses all’ theorem in probability science. In a fair gamble, any gambler with limited capital will lose all one day as long as he gambles for a long time, let alone if the ‘fair’ is not fair.”
Men to pay gambling debts, even his wife dare to sell
Xiao Li is in his mid-20s and often hangs out in underground casinos. Zhang Xiaoyu and he met in someone else’s yard.
Then the police in a short period of time down a few underground casino, Xiao Li had no place to go, had to call Zhang Xiaoyu: “There is no push pai Huang Jiu court? Introduce me to one.”
Zhang xiaoyu picked up Li and took him to the gate of the casino, where the “younger brother” asked to be searched.
Xiao Li said, “It’s not necessary, is it? I’m old enough not to frisk anywhere else.”
Zhang Xiaoyu said: “This is our rules, in fact, to protect the personal safety of the guests, in other words, to protect you.”
Xiao Li had to take out a ten centimeter long switchblade from the pocket of underwear and give it to “little brother”.
After entering the casino, Xiao Li began to “fight shrimp” (bet money) behind the idle home, less than two hours, won 3,000 yuan. Probably feeling lucky, he asked to be a farmer. Pai Gow took turns sitting at the farmhouse. After waiting for almost an hour, Xiao Li sat at the farmhouse. The result goes down to compensate, after compensate to finish the hand left a few hundred dollars, other people ask, “you this only have a few hundred dollars, return dozen can go on?”
Xiao Li takes one look at Zhang Xiaoyu, who then gives him 5,000 yuan. But once the dice were thrown down, they lost almost all of them. In the evening, Xiao Li withdrew money from the bank and returned the whole amount to Zhang Xiaoyu.
The next day, Xiao Li came again, and with him came a girl of twenty-four or five, tall and pretty. Xiao Li said to Zhang Xiaoyu: “Brother Rain, today this woman give me a dice no problem?”
“Sure.”
Xiao Li sat zhuang, let the girl play dice, a succession of several have won. When it was time to have dinner, Xiao Li won more than 40,000 yuan. He refreshed, called on Zhang Xiaoyu to go to the restaurant for dinner, Xiao Li suddenly asked: “Rain brother, what do you think of this woman?”
“Pretty pretty.”
“You think pretty good, I go back to play a few, after play let her good accompany you, you want to play how to play.”
Zhang Xiaoyu smiled and shook her head in denial.
Xiao Li took the girl back to the casino again, this time, he personally, but only half an hour, the money lost almost. He is trying to decide whether to continue to “dozen zhuang”, the girl in the side said, “anyway has lost so, to no longer find rain brother take some money.”
Xiao Li asked Zhang Xiaoyu to put 5,000 yuan, but not surprisingly, he soon lost it all. That night, Xiao Li only withdrew 3000 yuan from the bank, then pointed to the girl and said: “Brother Yu, I really have no money, or you take her away tonight?”
Zhang Xiaoyu did not respond, but asked him: “When will you return the remaining 2000?”
“A week.”
“Yes, just for a week.” Then Zhang Xiaoyu and a group of “younger brothers” left — of course, did not take the girl.
Over the next ten days, Zhang called Li several times, but could not get through. So, Zhang Xiaoyu with a gang of “younger brothers”, driving three cars to find xiao Li home. Xiao Li’s house was a bungalow with rice drying in the sun on the ashram in front of it. A gaunt man of about 50, who was sitting on the eaves smoking, was Xiao Li’s father. Zhang Xiaoyu asked, that Xiao Li is not at home.
At that moment, a woman came out of the room with a little child two or three years old in her arms. Zhang Xiaoyu saw that it was the girl xiao Li had brought into the casino. It turned out to be Xiao Li’s wife.
Xiao Li’s father said, “My son has no job and no source of income. Why do you lend money to him?”
Zhang Xiaoyu was so speechless that he could only take out the iou and show it to him. Li’s father sighed deeply. “Ok, you wait for two days, I will dry the corn in the Ashram, and then I will sell it and pay you back.”
A “fake rich woman”, but dare to gamble
Du elder sister is 35 years old or so, draw soft China, wearing the gold necklace with thick thumb, dress up let a person always think of “gangdom” member.
As soon as Du entered the underground casino, she asked to be zhuang. She put the twenty thousand cash on the table and shouted to the people around her, “I have enough money. You push hard. It doesn’t matter to me how much.”
The first card lost more than ten thousand, Du jie took out a cigarette in his mouth, Zhang Xiaoyu immediately came forward to her light. The second card Du Jie won nearly twenty thousand, the people watching around shouted “spirit!” As soon as Du jie was happy, she handed over a small stack of money and gave Zhang Xiaoyu a tip of 1000 yuan.
After losing more than 20,000 cards, She handed Zhang Xiaoyu a card and said, “Go to the bank and withdraw as much as you can.”
Zhang Xiaoyu took 50,000 to the bank counter for her, checked the balance, there are 420,000 in the card.
That day, Du jie lost a total of 80,000. In addition, she owed Zhang Xiaoyu 10,000 yuan. Du said generously, “I will get the money back to you later. This money means nothing to me. Let’s go to dinner first.”
Zhang Xiaoyu saw Du Jie lost money, really embarrassed to go together, Du Jie did not force, just go to the bank to withdraw money “code money” back.
After four or five days, Du jie came again. She still asked the zhuang, from 2 o ‘clock in the afternoon until the early morning of the next day, a total of 190,000 lost.
In the following month, Du jie lost a lot of money in total — but she also “won” some times, the most of which was 150,000 yuan. Last time, Du asked Zhang Xiaoyu to put twenty thousand yuan, but she didn’t return it for more than ten days. Zhang Xiaoyu called her, but she was rejected every time.
Zhang Xiaoyu asked her to work in the hotel, after inquiry, that Du Jie is a buyer of the hotel, her husband is the chef hotel. in front of the hotel for three days, Du Elder sister finally appeared, Zhang Xiaoyu quietly followed her, know her home address.
the next morning at 5 o ‘clock, Sister Du went out as usual to buy food for the hotel market, and Zhang Xiaoyu had been waiting in front of the door.
Go into the home of Du Jie, there is an old color TV set in the living room, covered with gauze, the sofa is also worn out of shape, the faucet in the kitchen has been “tick tick” to leak. All of this and Du Jie in the casino on the performance of the splurge is completely incompatible.
As Soon as Zhang Xiaoyu sat down, a 10-year-old girl came out of her bedroom and asked, “Mom, who are these people?”
Du jie said: “Friends, you don’t worry about it, go to sleep.”
When the little girl returned to her bedroom, Du said, “Could you please let me buy some food first? Besides, my daughter is also here.”
Zhang Xiaoyu agreed and stayed with Du for 24 hours. She even slept in a hotel at night, so Du kept calling her to borrow money.
Two days later, In the morning, Du went to the vegetable market to buy some food, while Zhang Xiaoyu was still not far away. Du’s husband suddenly appeared. Zhang Xiaoyu saw Du crying in front of her husband and finally slapped himself: “Husband, I’m sorry, I lost all my money, or you can kill me…”
Du’s husband scolded her a few words, or helplessly took out the phone, to help his wife to borrow money.
Du jie gave Zhang Xiaoyu the 45,000 dollars she owed and said: “Gambling really harms people. That’s nearly half a million dollars I’m going to buy a house with.”
A misbehaving woman gambles for the rest of her life
Zhang Xiaoyu remembers The appearance of A Li at that time 27 or 28 years old, pretty face, was introduced into the underground casino by a friend. Although she is not a banker, but sometimes she plays bigger than the banker, will bet on each idle home on two or three thousand.
On the first day, Ali won more than 20,000 yuan. Before she left, she gave Zhang Xiaoyu 1,000 yuan in tips and stayed in the best hotel in the city.
The next day, Ali lost more than 60,000, she did not care, feel is his bad luck. Then she lost tens of thousands of dollars and won only ten or twenty thousand dollars once in a while.
One night, Ali called Zhang Xiaoyu out for dinner, two people drank a lot of wine, Ali said, “Rain brother, come on, I’ll take you to take a look at my room.
Zhang Xiaoyu followed Ali to the hotel, Ali said, “Are you first to take a bath or me first?”
“I won’t sleep here. I have something to do tonight.”
“Is there something wrong with your casino? Why do I always lose?” Ali sat on Zhang Xiaoyu’s lap and began to act in love.
“I don’t know. But Let me remind you, I had a math teacher once who told me that the more you bet, the more likely you are to lose.” Then Zhang Xiaoyu got up and left.
Ali as usual into the underground casino gambling, occasionally with a man more than 30 years old. Once Ali lost a lot of money, let the man go to the bank to withdraw money. Zhang Xiaoyu drove him there.
Zhang Xiaoyu advised in the car: “Ali lost a lot of money? If you’re unlucky, come back for two days.”
The man cold hums 1: “tube my nothing matter, lost just as I take her to Dongguan.”
“Dongguan?”
“She’s just a lady, she thinks she’s made some money, she wants to go home and start a business, and she doesn’t want to do it anymore. But you see she’s going to lose it all, sooner or later.”
Before long, Li intermittently lost more than 600 thousand, and then find Zhang Xiaoyu “put code” 50 thousand. But more than 10 days passed, Ali also did not return as scheduled. Zhang Xiaoyu had to take a few people to follow her every day. Finally, Ali sold the property and returned the money to Zhang Xiaoyu.
Before leaving, Zhang Xiaoyu asked: “What are you going to do next?”
A Li bai his one eye: “return ability what?”
The running water of a restaurant is not worth the interest of gambling debts
In addition to the math teacher, Zhang remembers another gambler, also surnamed Zhang. Mr Zhang, a restaurateur in his 40s, is low-key and wears modest clothes. He does not stand out in the underground casino, but only makes a few bars occasionally. His luck seems to be on the up and up, winning days on end. The luckiest day, actually won more than 300 thousand.
But the next day, he lost more than half a million.
Just like those gamblers who fall deeper and deeper, After more than two months, Zhang has been playing more and more. One night, Lao Zhang lost 200,000 yuan and asked Zhang Xiaoyu for 500,000 yuan, but he lost all of it that night.
A week later, Zhang Xiaoyu took his “younger brothers” to Lao Zhang’s high-end restaurant to ask for money. Lao Zhang treated them well and said, “As you can see, my restaurant has at least 20,000-30,000 yuan of water a day, and I will pay you back 500,000 yuan in one month.”
Zhang Xiaoyu picked up the calculator at the front desk of the restaurant and calculated the interest for Lao Zhang. After Lao Zhang saw the number above, he immediately stopped speaking. Zhang Xiaoyu said, “If you have money or hurry to return it, I do not count the interest roll, the yards of money, a day’s interest will be 25 thousand.”
“Brother, can’t you not calculate this high interest rate? I invested 7,800,000 in this restaurant, and I worked with 20 or 20 people a day, and I didn’t expect to earn more than the interest on my gambling debts.”
“I am only a part-time worker, the boss set the rules, I dare not mess around.”
He had no choice but to sell the restaurant at a low price. This thought can dish 1 million, did not think of the buyer seems to know his background, adhere to the highest only 450 thousand, Lao Zhang feel too deficient. Looking at the interest roll up day by day, had to sell more than 140 flat houses first, but there are nearly 100 thousand yuan hole.
Mr. Zhang can only sell restaurants, and restaurants don’t sell in a day or two.
That day, Zhang Xiaoyu took people and went to Lao Zhang’s restaurant to urge the bill. When Lao Zhang fought with his wife, his face was covered with fingernails and blood, and there were fingerprints on his wife’s face. The woman, with messy hair, sat at the door of the restaurant and murmured, “When we started our business, it was only a small restaurant. You would go to the vegetable market at four or five o ‘clock every day to buy vegetables. Then you would come back as a cook and come home at about ten o ‘clock in the evening. When you get home, you have to coax the children and often buy me presents.”
“Then we bought a house and opened a restaurant. I thought life would be better, but you’re gambling, the restaurant business, me and the kids, you’re not paying attention. After losing money, he hit me in front of the kids…”
“Lao Zhang, let’s divorce.”
Hearing the word “divorce”, Lao Zhang immediately knelt down in front of the crowd. “I will definitely not gamble any more in the future and do business honestly. Just give me a chance, and I’ll make it up to you and the baby…”
Lao Zhang’s wife shook her head firmly.
The couple divorced on the same day, and two days later, the restaurant was sold for 400,000 yuan.
Afterword.
Listen to Zhang Xiaoyu talked about so many things about the people who lost money, I can’t help but ask him, really no money?
“Yes, there was a young man in his 20s who started with 20,000 yuan and bought a Volkswagen Passat in 10 days with 200,000 yuan in cash in his bag every day.”
“Why is he so lucky?”
“There’s no such thing as luck in the casino, but he’s a sucker. At first, the boss didn’t realize that he won almost every day and only lost about ten thousand yuan. The boss sent someone to watch him, but he couldn’t see his way, so he had to let him in. Later, the boss chatted with other bosses and bosses, only to learn that this man was an expert in ‘smoking thousands’, but he had already run away.”
‘Is there no more winner?
Zhang Xiaoyu shook her head.
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