Chapter 17: The Man with the Gold Watch
The big fat man's eyes instantly scared my soul away, I don't know what I did wrong, or if that sentence was wrong, but his eyes were too ...... Wait, no, he doesn't look at me.
I looked back and saw a person walking in at the door, looking Sven in his forties, with a briefcase under his arm and a gold watch on his wrist, it seemed that he had come to the mahjong parlor to escape the rain, and his shirt was soaked.
It is pouring rain outside the mahjong hall, the air conditioning is turned on inside, the cards are played, and the mahjong is not lively, so it is definitely a wise choice to come here to hide from the rain.
The middle-aged man felt a little restrained, at first stood at the door and tidied up the clothes on his body, and then began to look around, the entire mahjong parlor was overcrowded, and no one noticed his appearance at all.
But someone next to the big fat man immediately stood up, stretched his waist and scolded and left, a table of mahjong became three missing one, a little thin man came to the middle-aged man's side, handed over a cigarette and began to talk.
I don't know what's going on, but I have a vague feeling that something is wrong.
Just now, the big fat man and his group just played the dice and rubbed mahjong, and just started playing, because a person came in, they immediately pushed down the mahjong gang, and some people deliberately went up to talk to the middle-aged man, is it difficult to ......
In the past, I didn't hear my second uncle talk about the deception on the rivers and lakes, my favorite story is the bee sparrow, all kinds of deception tricks are difficult to guard against, but it is the first time I have seen it with my own eyes, and I can't help but feel a little nervous.
I don't know what the little thin man said to the middle-aged man, and pointed to the vacant position here, obviously to let him come and sit down, the number of mahjong players who are missing one is enough, I can already be sure in my heart that a scam is happening in front of me, but this kind of scam is really not very clever.
If it were me, I wouldn't easily play cards with strangers, but this is in a mahjong parlor, and it's normal for people to play cards together, so I'll look at it patiently to see if middle-aged people will be fooled.
However, the middle-aged man waved his hand and refused, his eyes swept the table next to him to play push pai gow, the little thin man did not speak again, and glanced at this side casually, but the big fat man said: "Mahjong three missing one can't play, who will make up a hand push pai gow?"
The mahjong on the table was taken away by the person next to him, and immediately replaced it with a black pai gow, neatly placed on the table like building blocks, I already knew in my heart that these people were all in a group, and it was obvious that the middle-aged man was going to sit down and play.
But what I didn't expect was that someone stood up next to him just after changing to Pai Gow, a guy with long hair, who laughed at the big fat man, which attracted the attention of many people.
"Haha fatty, you can't even count how many pai gow there are, and you still have to push pai gow, aren't you afraid of losing your pants again?"
The big fat man replied angrily: "What do you like to play, it's your second!"
"Okay, I'll play with you. The guy named Ermao stood up with a smile, but the big fat man immediately said: "Go and go, I won't play with anyone, don't want to win a dime from me in the future!"
Talking about the big fat man and gritting his teeth, it seems that the big fat man and Ermao know each other, the two of them talk very casually, I can hear that the big fat man used to lose a lot of money to him, and at this time the little thin man came to the middle-aged man again.
"Does the boss play push pai gow? There's an empty table over there, and none of them are very good at playing. The last sentence of the little thin man obviously lowered his voice, and the middle-aged man was still a little hesitant, maybe he didn't think about playing cards when he came in.
I said in my heart don't come over, once I come, I will fall into someone else's trap, and I will blatantly trap people in the mahjong parlor, don't Brother Long care?
I saw Brother Long sitting next to the bar drinking tea, his eyes occasionally drifting to this side, I felt that he should know about it, and he should acquiesce, is it the unspoken rule in the mahjong parlor?
"I'll wait a little longer, and I'll see for a moment. The middle-aged man didn't mean to play, I think he must have seen that something was wrong, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief for him, just now I really pinched a cold sweat for him.
From the very beginning to now, I feel like these people are acting, because I've been here watching, but everyone else is playing cards and doesn't care about what other people are doing.
The middle-aged man in front of him came in later, and he should have come for the first time when he looked restrained, just like when I first came, I could see that he was a little rusty and nervous, and he shouldn't come to a place like a mahjong parlor often.
I originally thought that the little thin man would say something and persuade the middle-aged man to sit down and play, but the little thin man turned around and left, leaving only the middle-aged man to look casually.
Everything happened in an instant, everything was calm again, and the mahjong parlor was still lively, as if no one but me had noticed what had just happened.
I lit a cigarette myself, looked at the middle-aged man curiously, and saw that he should be a serious person when he looked honest, at least the shirt and trousers were very upright, and it should be an accident to come into the mahjong parlor to hide from the rain, and I was even a little worried in my heart, afraid that he would fall into a trap.
I can't tell you what I think in my heart, maybe it's the sense of justice in my heart, maybe I still have a little conscience, and I can't get used to seeing deceptive things happen......
After more than ten minutes, suddenly a bald head jumped up and laughed, holding a lot of money in his hand, it seemed that he had won a lot, turned his head and didn't know whether he was intentional or unintentional, and deliberately bumped into him when he passed by the middle-aged man, and looked at him with very contemptuous eyes.
"Didn't you see Lao Tzu winning? Don't you hide when you see it!" The bald head looks very scary, and the tattoo on his arm reaches his wrist, like wearing a piece of clothing.
The middle-aged man didn't speak, but I felt that he should go, the mahjong parlor was not suitable for him at all, and the people here were not serious people, but what I never expected was that not only did he not leave, but walked towards the big fat man.
"A few friends, do you want to get together at the table?" the middle-aged man asked politely, and the big fat man raised his head and glanced at him, and said, "It's three missing one, but we play too small, so we play fifty, and the five hundred are capped." ”
Listening to the tone of the big fat man's words, it seems that middle-aged people are not welcome to sit down and play, and the table next to him is playing pai gow for hundreds of yuan, I can't understand it for a while, is it that I think wrong?
If the big fat man and the group are deliberately letting middle-aged people come to play, then they will definitely play a little bigger and win a little more, and playing so small makes me a little confused, I remember just now the big fat man rubbed mahjong, it was a pair of two hundred!
"Okay, how about playing two games together?" The middle-aged man took the initiative to start playing, the big fat man nodded in agreement, and no one else refused.
At the moment when the middle-aged man sat down, I suddenly had an idea in my heart, could the words of the big fat man just now also deliberately deceive?
However, I didn't dare to draw conclusions until the end, so I had to watch patiently, and I felt more and more interesting.
The luck of the middle-aged people is not bad, and they won a few at first, but then they lost a few to win a handful, and finally lost a dozen to win once.
But middle-aged people don't lose all the time, they can win a few times in a row from time to time, but they can only win dozens to a hundred yuan, but he can lose more than two hundred yuan at a time, and slowly lose more and more, and his head begins to sweat.
But he is not the only one who loses, the big fat man is also constantly losing, and the two people next to him are winning, but the big fat man's face has never changed, as if he doesn't care about losing money at all, I think the big fat man and the other two people may be in a group!
Time passed little by little, the middle-aged man kept smoking, one cigarette after another would not stop, his face became worse and worse, and his wallet became more and more deflated, and soon his wallet bottomed out, leaving only a pair of colorful bank cards.
In just an hour, the middle-aged man's face has changed dramatically, I have been watching it with my own eyes, looking at his face that began to turn red because of anxiety, there is an indescribable complexity in my heart, I know in my heart that he has been fooled!
Vaguely I can also see a little bit, the big fat man and the gang must be cheating, as if they can control the win or lose, but I can't see through how they change the cards, because the second uncle didn't teach me mahjong pai gow and other hard cards before.
Seeing that he couldn't take out any more money in his wallet, the middle-aged man said embarrassedly: "I don't have much money on me today, can I owe a handful first?"
"There is no owe on the table, you owe him and he owes, how can you play?" The guy who won the money next to him had a cold face and no intention of negotiating.
The middle-aged man was a little unwilling, I don't know if he saw this trap, he had no money and could only stand up and leave.
The big fat man suddenly took out five hundred yuan and put it in front of him, saying, "Use it first, today we are the two of us, we must win the money back!"
I couldn't react to the sudden change, and I wondered if the big fat man was confused? The partner cheated the middle-aged man out of all his money, and he would even give him money again? What is the reason?
The middle-aged man was also surprised, hesitated for a moment but continued to play, and said, "How embarrassing this is, I'll write you an IOU." ”
As he spoke, the middle-aged man began to rummage through the briefcase, but the big fat man said nonchalantly: "No, no, what kind of IOU? ”
I was a little shocked, I didn't expect the big fat man to be so bold, the middle-aged man continued to play cards, and the words became more, and slowly chatted with the big fat man without a word.
I watched the middle-aged man walk into this scam step by step, and he didn't notice it in the slightest......