Gambling luck (II) Zhang Baotong 2016.10.5

It's hard to make money, and it's even harder to make a lot of money. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoSo, people want to make a fortune by luck and get rich overnight. However, how many people get rich by buying lottery tickets and playing mahjong? I have never heard of buying lottery tickets and getting rich, but I know that I made a fortune by playing mahjong. One of my golfers who has a very good relationship has won a lot of money by playing mahjong. He told me that he started playing mahjong in the 80s, sometimes taking sick leave to go to other provinces or counties to play. And every fight must win, and the winners are not dozens, but hundreds or thousands. At that time, our monthly salary was only a few tens of yuan. He said that the secret to winning and not losing is to rely on a very magical technique. Moreover, he also showed us that almost all the cards that came out of the stack were one color, and the cards were suspended after one or two chapters. A chapter or two more is the bomb. He said that he had won more than 100,000 by playing cards at that time. Wow, at that time, there could be more than 100,000 yuan, which is equivalent to more than 100,000 households. However, it is a pity that he let a friend deceive him into doing business with more than 100,000 yuan, but his friend said that the money was robbed. But in recent years, he has never played mahjong again, because now he uses an electric mahjong machine to play mahjong.

Facts are also telling us that winning money by playing cards by luck and getting rich by buying lottery tickets is pure fantasy. The lottery machines at the National Lottery Administration are all imported from France. Just like slot machines, they are completely set up and controlled manually. Before each draw, you have to use the machine to search all the lottery numbers, and then determine which lottery number should win the jackpot. Let two or three hundred million players win one or two jackpots, what kind of probability do you think this is. Otherwise, online bettors are shouting all day long that they have never seen anyone who actually wins a prize. In this regard, the people from the lottery management center explained that in order to protect the safety of the winners, they could not disclose the identities of the winners. As a result, players never know who gets the jackpot in each draw.

Speaking of playing mahjong, everyone's way of winning and losing all day long is real. However, when it comes to winning and losing, everyone says that they have lost, and they don't know who won the money. In fact, no one won, and the only winner was the owner of the mahjong parlor. Have you ever thought about it, the owner of the mahjong parlor earns 450,000 or even 70,000 or 80,000 yuan a year, where does all this money come from? And everyone knows that among all industries, the gambling industry is the fastest to make money, and the owner of the casino is also the richest. Their money, of course, depends on the filial piety of the gamblers. While business in all walks of life in China is in recession, the business of mahjong parlors is still booming. There are nearly 100 buildings in our railway community, and if you walk through the neighborhood after 8 p.m., you will find that at least half of the buildings have the sound of mahjong rubbing. No wonder people say that Chinese love to play mahjong and gamble.

Gambling is prohibited in China. However, the kind of game of playing 5 yuan or 10 or 20 yuan is no longer regarded as gambling, but as a kind of daily entertainment. Indeed, many people regard playing mahjong as daily leisure and entertainment, or as a hobby. Some even make it a profession. In the long run, even if gambling is not "nine out of ten bets", at least it is more losses and fewer wins. There is a retired employee who has made such a record, he recorded all the wins and losses of each time he played mahjong in a small book, and at the end of the year, he lost more than 5,000 in total.

I read a French short story called "Gambling Luck". It is said that a gambler, after losing everything, is ready to commit suicide by throwing himself into the river. At this moment, a man stopped him. This man is a big boss and has a lot of money. He was also a gambler, but his gambling luck was very bad, so he called the poor man who was about to jump into the river back to his house, gave him five hundred francs, and said to him, "Your job is to lose these five hundred francs every day in the casino, and if you don't lose them, you can't come back." So, the gambler thought that this job was so easy. So, he took the money and immediately went to the casino. In order to get home early, he put five hundred francs at once. As a result, five hundred francs were lost in one fell swoop. He came back to see the boss. The owner told him to come back tomorrow. The next day the boss gave him another five hundred francs and told him to go to the casino and lose his money. In this way, he easily lost the money for more than ten days. One day, however, the gambler bet five hundred francs at a time, ready to lose. However, he won. So he bet his winnings with the five hundred francs, and he won again. He was a little anxious, so he bet all the money in his hand and lost it all at once, so that his work was completed and he could go back to pay the errand. However, today is the hell, no matter how he bets, he will win. By the next morning, he had won all the money. I thought that the boss would give him a lot of rewards, but the boss asked him to keep the money and leave immediately. Because the boss told him that he could only lose, not win, and he didn't do it, he was fired. The gambler left empty-handed, came to the Seine and committed suicide by jumping into the icy river.

The story is a bizarre and authentic story about the humanity and mentality of gamblers, as well as their cruel and tragic fate. Whether in the story or in reality, the fate of gamblers has always been like this, and there is never a good end. Because even if you win today, you can't guarantee that you will win tomorrow. And gamblers have never gambled until the end. And the end is when he is abandoned by fate. This is the case with Sir Stanford in the American film "The Adventure of the Heart", who is a gambling addict, and after squandering all his family assets, he frantically uses his beloved youngest daughter Sarina as the last bargaining chip. As a result, he lost again, and in desperation, he ended his life with a pistol in desperation. If people are in a hurry and crazy to gamble, they will be the same as when a drug addict is sick, he will be frenzied, unscrupulous, and desperate. Therefore, the fate of gamblers will not only be abandoned by fate, but also bankrupt and bring disaster to their families.

Of course, such typical and special cases are extremely rare in our reality, and even do not exist. However, gambling has led to bankruptcies and family breakdowns. Of the many divorces I know of, almost the vast majority are due to men gambling who make life at home unsustainable. Because gambling is a kind of high consumption, and this high consumption is unaffordable for the average family. As a result, the most common divorces are migrant families. Their ability to afford this high level of consumption is limited.

However, gambling is in people's bones. Because there is that kind of luck, speculation, risk-taking, strength and greed mentality in human nature. It can be said to be the most active cancer in human nature, this cancer indulges in the sensitive parts of human nature, and when tempted, it will activate and explode arbitrarily. Therefore, playing mahjong is very addictive like other forms of gambling, just like smoking or even taking drugs, as long as you are addicted, it is difficult to quit. This addiction is the same as your lifestyle habits and your daily work, and when the time comes, your nerves will subconsciously remind you that it's time to go to the mahjong parlor. A woman named Gan Xuemei in Jiangxi suffered a car accident and was seriously damaged to the central nervous system of her brain, and she was rescued for more than 20 days, and she has been in a deep coma. In order to wake her up from her coma, her family knew that she usually liked to play mahjong, so they insisted on shouting to her every day, "Xuemei, get up and play mahjong, three are missing one, you come quickly." After being in a coma for more than 20 days, one day, Gan Xuemei suddenly woke up and said, "Play mahjong." It can be seen that playing mahjong occupies what position in the hearts of people who love to play mahjong. Therefore, many people lose too much money, so they ruthlessly want to wash their hands in a golden basin, but if they don't lose and lift their pants, they really don't have a penny in their hands. Almost no one is able to quit. Among the people I know, how many people went bankrupt and finally divorced their marriages and did not quit mahjong.

A few years ago, when I decided not to play mahjong, it was because the unit didn't pay much money, and the pitiful pocket money of a few hundred yuan a month didn't dare to let me play mahjong anymore. And then I was a school secretary, and there were almost no people in the community who didn't know me. No one will be surprised and talked about when others soak in a mahjong hall, but a teacher or leader of a school will feel very different when they stay in a mahjong hall. Therefore, I always hide in the mahjong parlor in the basement of my family's mahjong game, because there will be no parents here. But the air here is not good, and there are many smokers, so the smoke cannot be discharged at all. A single mahjong game takes about four hours of secondhand smoke. In addition, the electric car is stored in the next room, and the boss locks the big iron door outside at night. This makes people very worried that if there is a fire in the basement, people will not even be able to run. Because of all the above reasons, I decided that I could no longer play mahjong.

I told the mahjong parlor owner and my poker friends that I had a problem with my shin and could no longer play cards, and asked them not to call me again in the future. However, this is easier said than done. For two or three weeks, I would come to the door of the mahjong parlor like a ghost every night after dinner, but I was able to keep myself from entering it at the last moment. Because as soon as you enter it, you can't help yourself. It wasn't until two or three weeks later that I slowly got used to it and stopped wanting to go to the mahjong parlor.

After not going to the mahjong parlor, I had a feeling of disgust and a clear understanding of playing mahjong. I feel that playing mahjong will be a waste of money and a waste of time, and it is easy to quarrel with others. Because some people like to throw the cards very loudly when playing mahjong, which makes people feel very harsh and upset. I've had a lot of fights with several people about this. Once, when we were playing cards together, two friends next to me who had a good relationship got into a fight because of the cards, and one of them pulled out the fruit knife he had brought with him. If we hadn't pulled away hard, something would have happened. Therefore, if you don't play mahjong, you feel that you have lost a lot of troubles and saved a lot of money. Subsequently, I didn't even buy lottery tickets, thinking that my luck was not very good, and there was no need to expect to make a fortune by buying lottery tickets. Because I think the idea of winning the jackpot by buying a lottery ticket is not only self-defeating, but also ridiculous.

I haven't played cards for three or four years, but I can play ball, surf the Internet, and watch TV every day. Since this year, I have signed a contract with Qiqi Chinese to write works, so I don't even think about playing mahjong and buying lottery tickets. However, I would like to say: don't trust your luck and don't believe that you will win the jackpot. If you want to make money and make a fortune, go get down to business. Because gambling luck will not make us rich, it will only make us ruined. (To be continued.) )