Chapter 58: Mortgages

Huang Laoxie circled around the car, and then directly got the license plate of the military car. The four guards saw that Huang Laoxie took off the license plate, so they also followed Huang Laoxi's example and took off the license plate of their military vehicle.

Huang Laoxie looked at the four dressed guards again and said, "You take off all your clothes and change into civilian clothes." ”

These guards carry a set of casual clothes with them in their cars so that they can adapt to various situations when they are on duty.

Underground casinos have a long history in Songshan. It can be said that wherever there are people, there will be about pornography and gambling, which is dictated by the dark side of human nature. Because the high-level officials of Huaxia Kingdom have a deep taboo about gambling, even the most powerful people in Huaxia Country will not openly open casinos.

In Songshan, martial arts and gambling have always been closely linked. Even in the early days of the establishment of the Huaxia Kingdom, there was still the phenomenon of gambling on life - two enemies signed a life and death contract to fight, and the dead party was not allowed to solve the problem through legal means.

As a tourist city, attracting tourists from all over the country and even the world to Songshan, there is not only the famous Shaolin Temple, but also the underground casino of Songshan.

This semi-open and semi-underground industry brings huge passenger traffic and tens of thousands of labor jobs to Songshan every year, coupled with high taxes, so the Songshan municipal government has also adopted a tacit attitude, on the one hand, to strengthen public security management, on the other hand, to crack down on those small underground casinos with no background and fraudulent nature.

Therefore, these underground casinos in Songshan are huge and formal in the mainland, both in terms of scale and management.

The casino is basically not open during the day, and it will only open at night, Huang Laoxie looked at the smiling welcome lady at the door, and couldn't help but snort heavily.

"You guys, go play and don't get in the way of me winning. ”

"Yes, Chief!" several people immediately dispersed around Huang Laoxi, and they seemed to be a few unrelated people.

"Wait, who of you brought the money?" Huang Laoxie touched his pocket, and then remembered that the tens of thousands of yuan were thrown to the pharmacy, and he was now penniless.

Of course, the four guards didn't know about this situation, and when they came out on a mission, where would they bring so much money? At most, they would bring a few hundred yuan, how could they have enough for this old man to gamble?

"Damn!" Huang Laoxie burst out with a foul mouth very dissatisfied, and untied a jade pendant from his neck: "Go to the mortgage office over there and exchange it for one million for me!" Tell them not to break it, Lao Tzu will get it back later, and the interest will be calculated." ”

The old man was all over the place, and it might be only 200 yuan for a piece, and the Puma's jaguar logo was the same as a cat, and it was obviously a super fake that was not distracted by counterfeiting, and it would cost a million to break the glass? The guard took the foggy-looking pendant and swallowed his saliva, turned his head and looked at the strong man who was holding his arm and watching the field.

The guard took the jade pendant and walked towards the material mortgage.

Every underground casino will have such a collateral office, because the local government cracks down on usury, so for those who gamble red, they can only mortgage their own valuable items.

All items will be kept for fifteen days, after which the property will be disposed of by the casino. If the mortgaged items are withdrawn within the specified time, then the management fee of the items and the interest on the gambling funds must be paid in accordance with the rules of the casino. Usually, after a watch worth 100,000 yuan is mortgaged, the money in the hands of gamblers will not exceed 30,000 yuan.

The collateral office is completely comparable to the bank.

The windows of the mortgage are the same as those of the bank, all of which are bulletproof glass. Moreover, the anti-theft door adopts double anti-tailgating anti-theft, and can even resist small *. More than a dozen surveillance cameras are monitored 24 hours a day, and the other warehouse in the mortgage office is full of large and medium-sized safes, which are used to store the things mortgaged by the red-eyed gamblers.

Basically, half of these things that are mortgaged will eventually be pocketed by the casino because of the expiration date, or take the watch of 100,000 yuan as an example, the money in the hands of gamblers is only more than 30,000 yuan, so if this watch casino is sold, you can earn at least 50,000 to 60,000 yuan, so this business has always been operated by major casinos as the top priority.

A considerable number of these things are stolen or stolen things, and the only trouble with the casino is to communicate with the local public security department to prevent these things from being returned as stolen goods.

Therefore, the major casinos will pay a sum of money to the local public security departments every year, and these departments will turn a blind eye to the past.

In the mortgage office, a few people who looked like masters were chatting. Because there are all kinds of things to be mortgaged, these masters also specialize in the art industry. Some are proficient in watch machinery, some have considerable research on gold and jade, and the most powerful is to be able to identify the master of antique calligraphy and painting, that thing is as fake as a cow's hair, and with the improvement of counterfeiting technology, many things have to be identified with the help of instruments.

Seeing a plainly dressed young man walking over, a master in his fifties with glasses asked, "Young man, is it a mortgage or a redemption?"

"Mortgage. The guard said with a blank face.

"Oh, what do you want to pledge?" asked the master quietly, but his eyes glanced at the other master sitting next to him.

This young man's accent is a local, and the locals rarely participate in gambling, and this young man's eyes are clear and his demeanor is free, and he does not have the posture of a gambler who kills red eyes, nor does he have the fluttering eyes of a thief or robber, so how can he come to the casino to mortgage things for no reason? These people usually come into contact with too many gamblers, so they have a considerable study of people's demeanor and speech.

"I'm going to mortgage a piece of jade. As he spoke, the guard handed over Huang Laoxi's jade pendant.

The bespectacled master's heart suddenly sank.

He is the master of gold and jade, and according to the unwritten rules of the casino, if a piece of jade is overdue and no one comes back to redeem it, then the master can get a lot of money. However, the premise is that you can't look away from the eyes when appraising.

Not long ago, the master walked away. An ordinary piece of broken jade was regarded as Hetian jade, and he paid out of his own pocket, not to mention, his reputation fell a lot at once.

Therefore, the young man in front of him, who does not look like a gambler at all, makes people even more suspicious of his motives.

"Young man, are you here to play by yourself? young man, I advise you not to mortgage these things, a small gamble is a big gamble and a big gamble hurts your body!"

The guard naturally didn't know about these twists and turns, and when he heard the master's words, he just shook his head expressionlessly and said, "It's not that I want to play, it's us...... Relatives of our family are going to play. ”

"Oh, which one of your relatives?"

Seeing the impatient look on the guard's face, the master hurriedly explained: "Young man, it's not that I deliberately get to the bottom of it, this is the rule of the casino, in case we receive stolen goods, we can't eat them and walk around." ”

The guard nodded, pointed to the filthy old man who was tiptoeing to watch other people's bets not far away, and said, "That is our family's relative." ”

The master was relieved when he saw Huang Laoxi's appearance, and the general fanatical gamblers who originally intended to mortgage things were unkempt and a little obscene people, but the master couldn't help but despise the jade in the hands of the guards.