Xiao Chen's face was full of black lines. He wanted to shout, "Auntie, there is really nothing between me and your daughter. It's just pure friendship. Can you not call her mother-in-law all the time? I feel very stressed, okay!"

"Xiao Xiao, you have to make the decision for me... Woohoo, if you don't come, I'll be bullied to death!"

Tong's mother, who had a look of joy just now, suddenly changed her expression faster than turning pages of a book, and tears came down. She looked extremely pitiful.

“…”

Xiao Chen was speechless. Weren't you bragging to others just now? You didn't feel bullied!

"Are you Chen Yuzhen's son-in-law?"

Several burly young men came out, led by a man in his thirties with tattoos all over his arms and a fierce look on his face.

Chen Yuzhen?

Xiao Chen was stunned for a moment, then looked at Tong's mother with tears on her face, and then he realized that this was her name.

"How much does she owe you?"

Xiao Chen didn't respond to the tattooed man's words, but asked instead.

"Three hundred thousand."

Three hundred thousand?

Xiao Chen was stunned again. How could Tong's mother owe so much high-interest loans?

"If you don't pay it back this month, it will become 350,000 next month!" the tattooed man added.

Xiao Chen turned his head and looked at Tong's mother: "Auntie, how did you owe so much high-interest loans?"

“This…this…”

Tong's mother's face turned red, she felt a little embarrassed, and she hesitated and didn't want to say anything.

"How else could it be owed? These are all gambling debts!" said the tattooed man.

“…”

Xiao Chen was completely speechless. He owed hundreds of thousands of dollars in gambling debts?

Originally, he was wondering if something happened at home and he had to borrow the loan shark because of no other choice!

If he had known it was a gambling debt, he wouldn’t have even come here!

"Xiao Xiao, I don't want to do this either. I lost money, and I just want to win it back..."

Tong's mother explained awkwardly.

Xiao Chen shook his head helplessly. What a typical gambler's mentality. How many people have been harmed!

If everyone could win back their original money, then the casino would be out of business, right?

Nine out of ten people lose money when gambling. This is not only a probability, but also a rule. That is, out of ten people who enter a casino, nine will lose money and one will win...

This thing is similar to the Chinese stock market. Most people lose everything, a few people become rich overnight, and then attract more people to jump into the fire pit...

"Besides, I think I was tricked by the casino..."

Tong's mother looked at Xiao Chen's helpless expression and muttered again.

"Hey, Chen Yuzhen, how can you talk like that? You have to accept the consequences of your bet, do you know that?" the tattooed man said with a frown.

Tong's mother trembled, but when her eyes fell on Xiao Chen, she became a little braver. Her son-in-law drove a luxury car worth millions, so he must not be an ordinary person... Why should she be afraid of a few gangsters!

"You guys set me up, and you didn't tell me the interest rate was so high at the time... It's only been a short time, and the interest rate has almost doubled. Why don't you just go and rob me of the money?"

"What did you say?!"

The tattooed man was furious and took a step forward.

Tong's mother turned pale with fright and quickly hid behind Xiao Chen.

Xiao Chen stretched out his hand to stop the tattooed man, looked at him, and said calmly: "You are right, it is only natural to accept defeat and repay debts... We will pay back the money!"

"Oh, rich people are actually open-minded and knowledgeable!"

The tattooed man grinned when he heard Xiao Chen's words.

"But I have to talk to her first, okay?"

Xiao Chen pointed at Tong's mother and said.

"Okay, you guys chat!" The tattooed man agreed readily. He was not afraid of not paying back the money!

"Auntie, let's go inside and talk."

"good."

Xiao Chen and Tong's mother entered the house, but the tattooed man and his companions did not follow them in. Instead, they smoked outside.

"Auntie, why do you go gambling?"

Xiao Chen looked at Tong's mother and asked in a deep voice.

"Well, it's just that my family is not well off, so I want to win some money, so that I can win some dowry money for Xiaoyan..."

Tong's mother said this somewhat evasively.

Xiao Chen secretly shook his head. Win some dowry for Tong Yan? This sounds so fake!

In the past, he thought that Tong's mother was greedy for money and a bit extreme. Now it seems that she is even more helpless than he imagined!

Think about Tong Yanniu. It must be really painful to have such a mother!

However, seeing Tong's mother say this, Xiao Chen did not expose her and nodded: "Then how did they set up a trap?"

"I didn't go to the casino at first, I just played cards with a few friends... One of my friends was quite rich, driving a BMW, wearing mink, and carrying an LV bag..."

When talking about this friend, Tong's mother showed an envious look on her face: "During that time, my luck was pretty good, and then my friend said that I was possessed by the God of Gamblers. With this luck, if I went to the casino, it would not be a problem to win millions in one night..."

“…”

Hearing this, Xiao Chen shook his head. He had already smelled the scent of conspiracy!

"I had no intention of going, but she told me that her family used to be very poor, but her husband won a lot of money in the casino, and then he became a billionaire through business..."

"So you were attracted to her and went to the casino with her?"

"Um."

"Haha, did you go to the casino and win money at the beginning?" Xiao Chen smiled helplessly.

"Yes, how did you know?" Tong's mother was a little surprised: "At the beginning, my luck was very good. In more than an hour, I won more than 100,000..."

“…”

"On the first night, I won more than 200,000 yuan in total. I was very happy. This was the first time I felt that making money was so easy... Then the next night, my friend and I went again. At the beginning, we won more than 50,000 yuan... But later we lost all the money."

When Tong's mother said this, her face turned bitter, with some regret: "If I had stopped playing when I was ahead, how great it would have been!"

Xiao Chen looked at Tong's mother's frustrated expression and sighed in his heart.

Gamblers usually have two mindsets. One is that after winning money, they think they will continue to win and never stop when they are ahead.

The other situation is that when you lose money, the more you lose, the more your eyes become redder, and you always want to make up for the loss and win the money back!

It is precisely because of these two mentalities that casinos are able to make a lot of money!

"After I lost all my money, I borrowed another 20,000 yuan from my friend, but I lost it all again soon! Later, my friend had no money left in his pocket, so he told me that casinos usually have loan sharks, and I can just borrow money and pay them back after I make back my investment. It's just a temporary loan, and there's not much interest..."

Xiao Chen shook his head. It’s already this late, and he still hasn’t realized it’s a trap?

"I borrowed 100,000 yuan and lost it soon after, so I borrowed another 100,000 yuan... I think the casino must have cheated me because they saw that I was so lucky. Besides, the interest rate they mentioned at the time was not that high..."

"Auntie, this isn't the casino cheating you out of luck, it's that you've been falling into a trap from the beginning to the end without even realizing it."

"Pit? What do you mean?"

"I mean your friend who deliberately led you to the casino..."

"Impossible! My friend is very kind. I lent her 20,000 yuan and she didn't even ask me for it!"

"You already owe three hundred thousand, what's that twenty thousand? What's the bait? That's it!"

Tong's mother's face changed. After Xiao Chen's reminder, she also realized that something was wrong!

"Xiao Xiao, what should we do? Aren't they just cheating us? No, I have to call the police and catch these bastards!"

The more Tong's mother thought about it, the more she understood, and then she became furious.

"Call the police? First of all, we don't have any evidence, and you also participated in gambling. If you call the police, you will also have to go to jail... And these people who run casinos and loan sharks have already made connections, and their relationship with some police officers is closer than that with brothers... So, calling the police is useless."

"What should we do? We can't let this happen, right?"

"Since I didn't see it at the time, I have to accept the loss... I have to take this loss!"

"ah?"

"Haha, Auntie, don't worry about it. Let me handle it." Xiao Chen smiled, and then thought of something and asked, "By the way, does Tong Yan know about this?"

Tong's mother nodded helplessly: "I know, these people came here yesterday and happened to run into Xiaoyan. They said they wanted to sell Xiaoyan to a nightclub or something and let her entertain customers. Later, Xiaoyan said she would call the police, and then they left... Later, Xiaoyan cried all night, and when she left in the morning, her eyes were swollen."

“…”

"Xiao Xiao, aren't you working in the same company as Xiao Yan? Didn't you notice that her eyes are swollen from crying?" Tong's mother asked, thinking of something.

"Um, I didn't go to the company today...so I didn't see her."

"oh."

"Hey, are you done talking? Damn, Chen Yuzhen, didn't you say that your son-in-law is a rich man? Does he drive a Maserati? Why is he driving a Hyundai off-road vehicle?" The tattooed man came in from outside, cursing.

"Ah? A Hyundai SUV? Xiao Xiao, where is your Maserati worth several million?" Tong's mother asked hurriedly when she heard this.

Xiao Chen rolled his eyes. Why are you still thinking about this at this point?

"My car is at the company and I haven't driven it out..."

"Oh, did you hear that? My son-in-law's car is in the company. He's a rich man, so he must have several cars!" Tong's mother yelled at the tattooed man again: "And I tell you, I already understand everything, I..."

"Auntie, let me talk to them."

Xiao Chen interrupted Tong's mother.

"Okay, Xiao Xiao, come and talk to them!"

At this point, Tong's mother had already regarded Xiao Chen as her backbone.

"Let's go outside and talk."

When they arrived at the yard, the tattooed man looked at Xiao Chen and said, "Boy, how are you going to pay back three hundred thousand?"

"There's a bank outside the shantytown. I can give it to you anytime!"

"Okay, that's great. As long as you pay me back the money promptly, I'll be your friend!" The tattooed man grinned.

"Haha, let's just make friends." Xiao Chen's eyes swept across the broken plates and bowls beside the sink: "Auntie, how did these plates and bowls break?"

"They just broke it."

"Oh." Xiao Chen nodded, bent down to pick up a piece of porcelain, his face full of regret: "What a pity, this is a treasure from the Ru Kiln, the first of the five major kilns in the Northern Song Dynasty, and it was broken..."