Chapter Thirty-Four: Cheating at Gambling

  This is an ordinary old-age activity center set up in a residential area. However, this place is a city-rural junction, and the people living here are quite mixed. Xiaor can wait outside and see Yu Ming, and walk in with Yu Ming to introduce the situation.

  The surroundings were clear, it was just a woman serving tea to the guests. As they walked down the corridor, two burly men were seen leaning against the wall chatting. They gave Ming Yu a cautious glance, then saw Ke Er and didn't say anything. Pushing open a private room, the rush of cigarette smoke almost made Ming Yu dizzy. Ming Yu quickly lit up a cigarette to counteract the second-hand smoke.

  The room is relatively large, with a mahjong table. Four people are playing against each other, and there are two onlookers watching the cards. Apart from them, there's a big guy sitting at one side smoking and surfing the internet, as well as a young man pouring water and buying cigarettes.

  Nie Qiu turned her head and saw Yu Ming, looking at Ke'er with great displeasure. Yu Ming said: "Nie Qiu, I've never seen Mahjong before, so Ke'er specially brought me to take a look."

  "Waiter, bring water. My friend. Yu Ming, sit here."

  "Autumn brother's friend." Ma Zi immediately poured water and handed over a cigarette to light up.

  Then Ming sat down beside Niu Qiu to watch the battle. This is a type of mahjong in the south. The table has four cards, one card for 1,000 yuan. Pinghe can take away one card, self-touch two cards, and there are also youjin, double you, etc.

  Yu Ming only watched three rounds and knew that Niu Qiu was being set up. This is a two-family fight against another two families. Niu Qiu's opponent is just a fat sheep, while Niu Qiu's upper and lower houses are in cahoots with each other. How can you tell? Just listen to their conversation and the movements of their hands. Touching the teacup and drinking water means listening to the cards. Saying "hurry up" means wanting a tube. "Hand air is really rotten" wants a strip. It's just a set of familiar secret language and actions between two people. Slaughter the sheep!

  Three rounds are over, Ni Qiuleng coldly looks at Ke Er, Ke Er nods: "I'll go get the money." After speaking, she took a small package and left.

  About seven minutes later, Ke came back with a stack of money and gave it to the person playing computer games. That person exchanged ten chips for Ke.

  "I'm not coming." Another fat sheep couldn't take it anymore. A very ungentlemanly throw of the mahjong tiles, and he walked away.

  "What's going on with the missing corner?" Nian Qiu turned his head to look at Yu Ming, and threw four chips to Yu Ming: "Yu Ming, substitute."

  "I won't."

  "What's there to be afraid of? It's not like you're spending your own money. We're using Young Master Lin's money."

  As soon as he heard the words, tears gushed out of Nian'er's eyes, but she didn't dare say anything. Yu Mingdao said, "Okay, I'll try." He then picked up four chips and sat down opposite Nian'er.

  Yu Ming didn't like the machine-washed Mahjong, not because he liked to hear the sound of Mahjong, but because he couldn't see the face of the cards. However, people here seem to like washing Mahjong, using manual Mahjong. Yu Ming liked it very much.

  Then start work tomorrow, clumsy hands and feet will pile up hemp.

  He deals, throws the dice. The tiles are distributed. Yu Ming throws the dice again to open the game of Mahjong.

  Yu Ming played his card, Nai Qiu said: "Peng." Then he played a card.

  Arrived at Ming, Ming touched the card and threw out a small bird. The next house ate it. Then they played cards again. After two rounds, it was Niu Qiu's turn. Niu Qiu smiled: "Good luck has arrived, Golden Tour." He picked up the card and looked, and surprisingly, it was another Golden Tour. Niu Qiu was stunned for a second, then threw out the Golden Tour: "Double Golden Tour."

  Playing mahjong with brother, Yu Ming recorded all the cards he cut in front of himself, and then just shook the dice to let everyone take the cards in front of him, knowing exactly what cards he had.

  At the moment of drawing a tile, consider and play one out. Nian Qiu Xiajia called: "Peng."

  Ni Qiu angry: "Yu Ming, I double gold, how are you still feeding the chicken?" Double gold is to take out a gold card and then randomly draw another card to form a pair with the gold in hand. Ni Qiu wants to form a pair, so he must draw one more card.

  Yu Ming clumsily wiped his sweat and said: "Then how can I fight?"

  "Whatever." Nian Qiu remained silent.

  Ming touched the card, threw it away, and the next house called to eat. Then Niu Qiu touched the card, Ge Lao Zi, and touched another gold card. Niu Qiu's adrenaline surged, and he excitedly shouted "San You" as he played a card. You Jin four cards, Shuang You eight cards, San You is sixteen cards, 16,000. Now pray that everyone doesn't follow suit. Just give him one more card to touch, just one more card to touch.

  Three men came out, and the two pig butchers' faces changed greatly. The ones playing computer games also threw down their computers and gathered around.

  Ní Qiū shàng jiā mō pái, yì zhí zài kǎo lǜ. Tā de duì jiā dào: "kuài diǎn." Zhè shì yào wàn zǐ. Pèng diào Ní Qiū mō pái jī huì. Tā shuō le wǔ gè zì, jiù shì yào wǔ wàn.

  Translation:

  Ni Qiu went home to touch the sign, and was considering it. His opponent said: "Hurry up." This is to prevent Ni Qiu from touching the sign. He said five words, which means he wants 50,000.

  Do you want 50,000? One pair is left in Ge's hand. Yu Ming smiled.

  Ni Qiu gritted his teeth for a while and finally played a useless card. The two butchers looked at Yu Ming together, hoping he would hit it. Yu Ming really hit it, pretending to be stupid until the end. Now even the people next to them couldn't bear to watch. The person watching the computer immediately scolded: "What's wrong with you? Your friend is about to get three strikes, and you're making a scene."

  "Ah......" Yu Ming asked: "I didn't touch?"

  "It's done if it's done." The two pig butchers let out a sigh of relief, and there was a glimmer of hope.

  When the second butcher looked at Ming with eager eyes, Ming's face remained unchanged, staring at his own card moving back and forth. As if he didn't know the situation on the field at all.

  "Haha." Niu Qiu burst out laughing and touched the card. Three tours were successful. His luck was really too good. Niu Qiu shouted: "Again, again!"

  "Niang Qiu, let's stop while we're ahead. Let's go." Yu Ming said as he stood up.

  Ní Qiū said with dissatisfaction: "I haven't had enough fun yet."

  "Actually, I have something urgent and need your help."

  "Too rushed?" Nian Qiu still wasn't satisfied.

  "My mom is missing." Yu Ming glanced at Ke Er.

  Ke'er said with a smile: "There's nothing urgent, let's play for a while. What a joke, your mom at her age would get lost?"

  Ni Qiu stood up and threw away the mahjong tiles in his hand: "Do you know what it means to be brothers? Wei Ge, exchange chips, let's play again another day."

  Wei Ge discovered that the butcher's inquiring expression was a trap. Wei Ge ignored it and smiled: "Alright, I'll come again another day."

  Three people left the mahjong hall smoothly. Niu Qiu asked: "What happened to your mother?"

  "It's a long story, let's go sit in that coffee shop and I'll give you the short version."

  ……

  They sat down in a cafe and each ordered a drink. Yu Ming said, "Actually... nothing's wrong, it's just that Ke Er asked me to come."

  "Are you kidding me?"

  Yu Mingdao said: "I'm just looking at you helping me, I'll help you. If you're not happy, I can leave immediately."

  "Help me?" Nian Qiu asked.

  "Gambling and drugs are two things that absolutely cannot be touched." Yu Ming said seriously: "Moreover, you won't even gamble."

  Nai Qiu took out a stack of banknotes and threw them on the table: "You also owe me four thousand."

  "Hey, would you mind getting a deck of cards?"

  The coffee shop had prepared such leisure items, and the waiter brought over a deck of cards. Yu Ming drew out four Aces from it, then gathered them together and handed the 4 Aces to Ke Er: "Ke Er sister, shuffle."

  "Performing magic tricks, why don't you play a game of cards instead?"

  "I don't have time for that," Yu Ming replied.

  Ke'er swapped the order of the four cards under the table, then spread them out on the table. Yu Ming asked: "Niqiu Lao Da, do you know which one is which?"

  Ní Qiū looked at the card and said, "This is a new deck of cards. How can you possibly tell?"

  "Red Peach." Turn it over, and it's a red peach.

  "Hearts, diamonds, clubs." Yu Ming turned around and asked: "Do you know why I knew?"

  Ní Qiū still shook his head.