Chapter 28: The Initial Encounter with Zhao Chuan

  "Excuse me, sir. May I ask who you are?" one of the staff members asked Zhang Qingyun with some hesitation.

  "Room 3571, Mr. Zhao's guest." Geng Shuang took over the conversation and said with a big smile, then pulled out a bright red card from his bag and waved it around.

  Geng Shuang's words left Zhang Qingyun bewildered, but the two staff members' faces changed as soon as they heard them. One of them spoke up eagerly:

  "Are you Miss Geng? Mr. Zhao has instructed me, please come this way."

  Geng Shuang casually tossed the car key to one of them, and another staff member immediately led the way in front. The three of them then entered through the gate.

  As soon as he entered, the scene in front of him changed suddenly. Zhang Qingyun only saw clearly the layout of "Honglou Club" at this time. Honglou Club was originally an underground club, and the entire mountain was empty. All the buildings were built inside the mountain, and even the racecourse was all inside the mountain.

  The entire club's building area exceeded 10,000 square meters, with luxurious decorations and unique design, indeed having a special flavor. Entering the first underground floor, Zhang Qingyun clearly felt a kind of noise.

  The underground floor was actually a casino, with Russian roulette, dice, cards and slot machines. Zhang Qingyun was secretly shocked, thinking that Wude was just an inland prefecture-level city, but it had such a large-scale underground casino, which was really unbelievable.

  Casinos were not unfamiliar to Zhang Qingyun, in his previous life he had been to Macau and seen the casinos there. Although the scale here was not comparable to Macau, the gameplay and professionalism had indeed reached a professional level. The service staff, waiters, and croupiers were all well-matched. Zhang Qingyun observed carefully that the stakes here were not small, with most chips ranging from 200 to 2,000 yuan.

  Zhang Qingyun also noticed that there were many small rooms next to the casino hall, and he knew that they should be the so-called VIP rooms.

  "There are four floors underground, and there's more entertainment below. Do you know who the boss of this club is?" Geng Shuang glanced at Zhang Qingyun and said lightly.

  Zhang Qingyun shook his head, the world here was too far away from his current identity, he didn't want to know what was going on, but he carefully observed the environment. He found that everyone in the casino was speaking Mandarin, not the Wu dialect.

  That's to say, many people who play in the casino are not from Wude, Wude is located in Jiangnan Province, which is the central part of the six provinces in the middle reaches of the Republic. The traffic is very convenient, so Zhang Qingyun judged that the target group of Honglou Club may have radiated to the entire Central Plains long ago, because Zhang Qingyun believed that a prefecture-level city like Wude can't afford to support such a club at all.

  Zhang Qingyun's calmness greatly surprised Geng Shuang, a small official who came out of the mountains and saw this scene was able to remain unmoved, without any awkwardness or unnaturalness. Zhang Qingyun's demeanor was indeed beyond Geng Shuang's expectations.

  "Come this way, please." Seeing Zhang Qingyun and the other person stop in their tracks, the staff member hastily smiled and said.

  Geng Shuang hastily and naturally pulled Zhang Qingyun's hand to follow, Zhang Qingyun now saw the target clearly, the place he was going to was the innermost room of the VIP room.

  Zhang Qingyun felt a twinge of regret in his heart, he had originally wanted to take another look at the layout of the lower floors, but it seemed that this goal was unlikely to be achieved. After all, such gatherings were too sensitive, and even if he could make progress in the future, he would likely control himself to avoid getting involved with these things. Regardless of how other officials behaved, Zhang Qingyun had his own way of being an official, and as someone who frequently attended such gatherings, he believed that the risks were too great and not worth it.

  Before long, the staff member led Geng Shuang and Zhang Qingyun to the door of that VIP room. Zhang Qingyun keenly felt that this house was obviously different from other VIP rooms. The door of this house was a little wider than the doors of other houses.

  "Ding, ding, ding" The handsome guy lightly knocked on the door three times, and when there was a response from inside, he took out the key and opened the door.

  "Mr. Zhao, Miss Geng has arrived."

  "Alright, it's none of your business, you go first!" A thick male voice came from inside the door.

  "Hello, Brother Zhao!" Geng Shuang said with a smile as she pushed open the door. She then pulled Zhang Qingyun's hand and they both entered the room together.

  As soon as he entered, Zhang Qingyun saw five people sitting around an oval table. That Zhao brother was facing him, about 40 years old, wearing casual clothes, but his eyes were very spirited, and he sat upright in the chair, indeed a military man.

  The people sitting next to him, except for one who was relatively young, were all around 40 years old. From their demeanor, it could be seen that they were either wealthy or of high social status.

  "Green cloud, come, let me introduce you. This is Brother Zhao, this is my younger brother Geng Zhan, and these few..."

  "These are my friends." Geng Shuang's words had only gone halfway when Zhao Dage took over.

  Zhang Qingyun smiled and nodded at him, politely saying: "Hello Zhao brother, hello everyone, I'm Zhang Qingyun."

  As soon as Zhang Qingyun's words fell, everyone turned their heads to look at him. The youngest brother was Geng Zhan, whose eyes flashed with a hint of unusual color. The others were all somewhat calm and couldn't tell what each person was thinking.

  "Hello, I'm Zhao Chuan. Ah Shuang has mentioned you to me." The man named Zhao smiled lightly and said: "Baozi, take a break first, give the chips to Mr. Zhang, we'll play another round later."

  Zhang Qingyun was taken aback, and only then did he notice that several people were originally playing cards. From the looks of it, they seemed to be playing a game of "Sha Ha". Zhang Qingyun had indeed gambled quite a bit in his past life, and had played Sha Ha before, but never in a casino, and not very much at that.

  But now, from the chips on the table, the lowest are all 500 yuan, it seems that Zhao Chuan and others are not playing small.

  Geng Zhan immediately stood up upon hearing Zhao Chuan's words and smiled at Zhang Qingyun, saying:

  "Come on, come over here, Blackjack is very simple, you should know how to play."

  Zhang Qingyun hesitated for a moment, judging from their temperament, these people's identities were obviously not ordinary, he didn't know if it was appropriate to join them rashly, and for a moment, he couldn't make up his mind. He had no choice but to turn around and seek help from Geng Shuang.

  At this time, Geng Shuang was also a bit embarrassed and at a loss for what to do. However, in her heart, she still didn't want Zhang Qingyun to go on stage, so she kept giving him eye signals, hinting that he should decline.

  "What's going on? Ah Frost, is martial law being implemented now?" Zhao Chuan's face changed as he spoke. Immediately, his eyes shot towards Zhang Qingyun and said: "Let you play a few rounds, just play a few rounds, what's with the fuss of a big man? Obey orders!"

  "Yes!" Zhang Qingyun said, at this moment he suddenly had a feeling of wanting to laugh. As a soldier, obeying orders is his duty, but Zhao Chuan gave him an order as soon as they met, which was really ridiculous.

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