The entire village of Dashutun, both east and west, is located on both sides of a north-south ravine, which is somewhat similar to the West Ravine of Wahou. However, there is no mountain but only a river at the mouth of the Wahou Ravine, while the entrance of Dashutun faces the highest peak of Nanda Mountain. In the early years, a Feng Shui master said that the Feng Shui of Dashutun is bad and it is a turtle holding breath game or something like that, and that men here gamble and women support men.
The Feng Shui master was right. This was indeed the prevailing trend in Dashu Village. More than half of the men gambled. As for the women, Wan Feng was not very clear. Although he had heard of some messy things, it seemed that they were not known to the whole city.
Chen Wenxin's father, Chen Cang, is one of the half of the gamblers in Dashutun. He loves to gamble and his eyes will grow three heads and six arms when he hears about gambling.
Chen Cang had been gambling at home for several days in a row, but unfortunately, he was unlucky and lost so much that his face was bruised and his pockets were slicker than his butt.
If his daughter hadn't handed him two dollars in the afternoon, he wouldn't have had any money to make up for his losses.
Two dollars for a four-on-one fight of 246 should be enough, anything bigger would be a problem.
"Dad, the Wahou Brick and Tile Factory is hiring. Go and work there. They say you can earn three hundred yuan a year."
"Bullshit! They're still making 300. If they can make 30, they'll be lucky. Is this money so easy to make? Winning is more fun. If I'm lucky, I can win 10 or 8 dollars a night, which will add up to thousands in a year. Dad will definitely win back thousands one day."
Gamblers all have a mysterious self-confidence. They firmly believe that their luck will eventually turn, and they don’t know who gives them the confidence.
Chen Wenxin shook her head. She knew that her father would never go to work. It would be so tiring!
"Dad, if you want to play again tonight, you should go somewhere else. Our family has been completely wiped out by your gambling. How can you have any luck here? Maybe going somewhere else can change your luck."
What his daughter said was exactly what Chen Cang was thinking.
"That seems to be the case."
"Dad, you're not in a good mood when gambling. Look at my deskmate. He won over ten yuan last night and has won twenty or thirty in the past few days. I'm going to treat the whole class to candy today."
Chen Wenxin mumbled something and went through the motions.
"Your deskmate? Which team?"
"He said there's a party going on every day in Wahou these past couple of days. It seems to be at Liang Wan's house."
Chen Cang immediately became alert.
Chen Cang walked out of the house, thinking as he walked. What his daughter said made sense. If he kept losing money at home, he should really change places. There is a saying in casinos that changing hands is like changing knives. The same principle applies to changing places.
Listen to my daughter tonight. If you want to change, change to a tougher one. We are not playing with our own team tonight. If you want to change, change to a team far away and try your luck. Maybe you can win a few back.
However, he was a little worried about going alone. It would be unfair if someone else teamed up to slaughter the pig. At least he had to find a companion.
It may be difficult to find other people in Dashutun, but there are gamblers everywhere.
If you meet someone on the street in Dashutun, and if it's not a woman, there's a 50% chance that she's a money-swindler.
If you meet three people on the street in Dashutun, you can be sure that one of them is a gambler.
Chen Cang had not walked fifty meters out of his house when he met a man staggering towards him.
Seeing the newcomer, Chen Cang was delighted and went to greet him: "Third Monster, have you eaten?"
"Three Stranges" is the nickname of a man named Zhao Wenjun, who is in his thirties and one of the registered gamblers in Dashutun.
This guy has been having bad luck in the past two years. His wife was originally a young man from Bohai. When she returned to the city last year, she divorced him unceremoniously on the grounds that Zhang Chengjun loved gambling.
One daughter was also taken away by his wife.
When Zhao Wenjun had a wife, he would not go home unless someone called him at night, and would not get up unless the sun shone on his butt during the day. Now that he has lost his wife, he has become even more unruly. He does nothing all day long and wanders around, making a living by gambling. He is probably one of the first professional gamblers after the reform and opening up.
"I've eaten." Sanguai agreed vaguely. In fact, what he meant by "eating" was lunch. As for dinner, he was too lazy to make it.
Anyway, if he is full, the whole family will not be hungry. He will not cook unless he is extremely hungry. This saves food.
"Want to play tonight? If you want to, let's go to another place today."
"Change place? Where?"
"My daughter said there's going to be a big event in the next couple of days. How about we try our luck?"
Zhao Wenjun hesitated: "Isn't this a bit far?"
The straight-line distance from Dashutun to Wahou is three or four miles, and if you walk along the road, it would be about five miles.
"Winning money is still a long way to go. We've both been losing a lot these past two days. Why don't we try a different place and try a different luck? I've played against those guys in Wahou a few times before, and they're a bunch of lousy hands. Maybe we can turn the tables tonight."
Zhao Wenjun was tempted: "It would be nice to have a bicycle."
"Oh, don't think about those useless things, let's go!" Without saying anything, he pulled the three monsters and walked towards the back of the depression.
When Chen Cang and Zhao Wenjun began to march towards Wahou, Wan Feng also walked out of his grandmother's house. It was not yet six o'clock in the evening and the sky was hazy.
Zhang Xian was already waiting for him at Luan Feng's house. After school, Wan Feng asked Zhou Xiaowen to tell Zhang Xian to wait for him at Luan Feng's house in the evening. Zhang Xian took Hao Qing to Luan Feng's house to work every night without having to walk any extra distance.
Hao Qing's face was rosy, and he seemed to be immersed in a kind of joy. The two guys came back in the afternoon of August 16th. Wan Feng was busy with the tractor all day yesterday and didn't see them.
Not only did I not see them, I hadn't even seen Jiang Min.
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