Gambling luck (above) Zhang Baotong 2016.10.5

I played mahjong for a few years and bought lottery tickets for three years. Pen%Fun%Pavilion www.biquge.info Although I have washed my hands now, I would like to talk about my experience and experience in this regard. Although these wins, losses, sorrows, joys and sorrows are far away, the mysteries and confusions in them are often evocative. One of the biggest feelings is luck. Because as people get older, they will believe in luck more. And luck is one of the most peculiar phenomena in gambling. A person's luck can be most pronounced and profound in gambling.

That was a few years ago. The school often sends money, has some spare money in hand, and usually does not spend much, so I always play mahjong on Friday and Saturday nights, and buy ten yuan and 5 notes of two-color balls at the lottery betting station every day or two. Mahjong played five yuan and ten yuan, the most won in memory was 480 yuan, and the most lost one was 295 yuan. In addition to winning some 5 yuan final prize and several 10 yuan fifth prize, I also won a 200 yuan fourth prize and a 3,000 yuan third prize. Among them, I think it is the most pity to win the prize of 3,000 yuan, only one of the six red numbers and one blue number did not win, otherwise it would be a grand prize of 7.5 million yuan.

After buying lottery tickets for three years, if I hadn't won the third prize of 3,000 yuan, my luck would definitely not be very good. And after playing mahjong for a few years, it is at least four or five thousand yuan a year. If you count it in five years, a total of 20,000 or 30,000 yuan was sent. For an average educator with a monthly salary of only 3,000 yuan, this money is not a small number.

However, the people who play mahjong and buy lottery tickets with me are all from the same community, and their economic income is similar. If I had to count my wins and losses, I would probably be considered relatively small, because I only buy lottery tickets three times a week and play mahjong twice. And I buy lottery tickets together, they sometimes have to buy 100 yuan at a time in the "three-D", especially when there are hundreds of millions in the prize pool of the "two-color ball", many people are whimsical, excited, and want to collect these hundreds of millions at once, so sometimes they buy four or five hundred yuan at a time. And those who play mahjong with me, they sit in the mahjong hall almost as soon as they are free. Because I have to go out for a walk every day after dinner. After a walk, they like to sit in the mahjong parlor for a while, so they can be seen playing cards every night, even on Saturday and Sunday afternoons and evenings. It can be said that they are more attentive to playing cards than to going to work. Counting wins and losses, which of them will not lose at least nearly 10,000 yuan in a year.

There are also many people who often play cards with me who like to buy lottery tickets, and they have a great gambling heart and addiction. If you're unlucky, almost all of your salary and bonuses are lost to mahjong parlors and betting shops. However, most of our community is railway workers, although the monthly salary and bonus are not very much, but more than 3,000 yuan is still guaranteed. However, we have a man from another county who drives for a private company, and he is in his thirties, and his situation is a little despiseful. He can also earn 3,000 yuan a month. But he didn't say he would go home after work, just eat a bowl of cold skin or meat sandwich buns, just sit in the betting station and start thinking about the number, and the lottery ticket is dozens of yuan and hundreds of yuan. The mahjong parlor usually starts at 8 o'clock, and he often sits in the mahjong parlor at 7 o'clock. I heard that his wife works as a cleaner for a cleaning company, and it is very hard to work and earn money, and the children follow them to school in the city, and they also spend a lot of money every month. However, he eats and lives at home all day long, and has never given his wife a penny for many years. As soon as his wife divorced him, he threatened to kill her and her family if she wanted a divorce. We all despise such a person, and we don't want to sit with him. So, over time, he went to other mahjong parlors.

Because opposite our railway community is the largest Daming Palace building materials market and building materials city in Northwest China, there are many Fujian and foreign bosses living in the community. Among them, there is a small Fujian boss named Xiao Cai, who opened a not too big shop in the building materials market, and his business is average. So, he can only play small cards with us working people. He came to play cards almost every night. However, he was never seen again. We were all very concerned, and someone told us that something had happened to Xiao Cai. He drank some wine that day and "made a golden flower" with a few big bosses in his hometown, but lost more than 800,000 yuan at once. not only mortgaged his shop and car to others, but also owed more than 200,000 yuan to others. Now I'm going back to my hometown to borrow money. We were amazed and thought that no matter how bad our luck was, we would not lose so much money. Xiao Cai's buddy told us that Xiao Cai took a hand of KKK, at this time, he had lost a lot of money, and owed a lot of money to others, and wanted to get back the lost capital through this handful of cards, and he could win a handful of money, so he continued to increase and bet. And the opponent is also increasing and betting. It wasn't until the final showdown between the two that Xiao Cai found out that his opponent was holding a hand of AAA's heavenly card. Listening to Xiao Cai's story, we all suspect that someone took advantage of him to drink too much and dug a big hole for him.

In those years, Xi'an's real estate business was still booming, and the building materials business was also quite good. So, those who are in the building materials business have made some fortunes. However, there are also some who have closed their doors. At that time, I was a secretary at the school, and I often handled the enrollment procedures for these non-residents. So, get to know a lot of parents of students. Although the parents of these students are very rich, their education level is very poor, and some parents of students can't even write their own names, so they have to ask me to help them fill out the forms for their children. But they love to play mahjong, both men and women. Their business is a little bigger, and it is not uncommon for them to lose three or four thousand in one night. Moreover, I heard that some of them have stopped playing mahjong and are hooked on slot machines. I don't know about this, but I heard that there is such an underground casino in the community, and I ran it with someone from a police station. One of my students' parents was planted in this. not only lost the store, but also owed hundreds of thousands of dollars. In the end, my wife and children couldn't stay here anymore, so I had to go back to my hometown empty-handed.

And that's not the worst thing, the scariest thing is not only gambling, but also drug use. Once, a parent of a student came to me and said that my child was no longer in school and asked me to return the money to him. Our school is very famous in the local area, and it is very difficult for children from other places to want to go to our school, except for paying money, they cannot enter without a very reliable introduction. When his child entered the school, another boss approached me several times before I agreed. Now it is of course easy for children to withdraw from school, but they do not give money back. This is the school's rule. But he was very tough and insisted that I give him his money. So, I called the introducer. The introducer said that he played cards and took drugs, his family was bankrupt, his wife was divorced, and no one could do anything about him. So, I called his wife. His wife said that they had divorced and the child had been awarded to him. Hearing this, I consulted with the principal. In the end, it was decided to give him a refund of 4,000 yuan and leave 2,000 yuan, because his child had been in school for two years. I thought that this would end the matter, but within half a month, the man came again and asked for another 2,000 yuan. If he didn't give it, he squatted in front of the school and refused to leave. But we couldn't call the police station because it was illegal for us to collect money from students. There was no way, so after discussing with the principal, I returned the 2,000 yuan to him.

Sometimes, I think people know that gambling and playing cards and buying lottery tickets will not make a fortune, but will only lose. However, people still flock to it and talk about it. From my mentality, the lottery is small and big, only spending 30 yuan a week, if I can win a multi-million jackpot, then I will be rich in my life. Even if you can't win, you can only dedicate yourself to the country. However, the vast majority of people who buy lottery tickets don't have the same peace of mind as I do. They see buying lottery tickets purely as a way to get rich overnight. If you think about it carefully, you should know that there are millions or even tens of millions of lottery betting stations in the country, and there are two or three hundred million people who buy lottery tickets in each period, and there are only one or two jackpots in each period. Experts have calculated that the probability of a person winning the jackpot is much smaller than the probability of a person being accidentally hit by a car while crossing the street when buying a lottery ticket. In fact, buying a lottery ticket is just buying hope, and that hope is only one in a few hundred million. There are four or five betting stations around our community, and at six or seven o'clock in the afternoon every day, the betting stations are crowded with lottery ticket buyers, but in the past few decades, I have never heard of anyone winning the jackpot, but one person has won the second prize of 180,000 yuan.

Playing mahjong is sometimes considered gambling, but people see it more as a form of entertainment. In fact, people don't play that kind of one-two-dollar card anymore. No matter where you go, five yuan and ten yuan are almost the smallest price. We played ball with a guy whose family was in the countryside. They said that when they went back to their hometowns to play cards, they played fifty hundred and fifty, and sometimes they brought all the same colors and side chapters to bomb. He said that once he won more than 800 with a hand. If so, playing cards is pure gambling. But people who usually play cards still use this as entertainment, playing a five-dollar, ten-yuan or one-ten-twenty yuan, although winning or losing once is up to three hundred and five hundred, just playing a heartbeat, but it will not hurt the muscles and bones. But such things cannot be accumulated over time. For our wage earners, who only have 3,000 or 4,000 yuan a month, and for retired workers who only have 2,000 or 3,000 yuan a month, such high consumption is still unbearable.

Our Xi'an side is not bad, but it is very different when we get to our hometown of Yueyang. People over there have two hobbies, one is to play mahjong, and the other is to buy Mark Six lottery. Especially in the past few years, people over there have been crazy buying Mark Six lottery, even if they only have two yuan in their hands, they have to try their luck. In those years, the Miluo people were poor and crazy, and the world was full of debtors and borrowers. Moreover, it has become a common practice for Miluo people to play mahjong, even in the countryside, men have gone out to work, but the elderly and women stay at home all day to play mahjong. Two years ago, I took my bank card back to my hometown for the New Year, and I couldn't withdraw money at the counter, because there were too few people who saved the New Year, and too many people withdrew money, so there was no money in the bank for a long time. So, when I go back to my hometown, I always have to bring cash. (To be continued.) )