I try not to write the story too hard, but life is not meant to be explained word by word.

I remember that as the saying goes: it takes three years for a person to learn well, and it only takes three days to learn badly.

But how can a bad outrageous person learn well?

My answer is seven friends, seven friends whose names I can't name.

One by one, they walked ahead of me and fell into the abyss for me.

Only then did I know that I was lost and knew how to cherish what was in front of me.

If it weren't for those seven friends, I might be a complete villain right now.

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Q: How did I meet Xiaobai?

That probably starts with the beginning of my depravity.

When I was a kid, I wasn't a fuel-efficient lamp, or I wasn't a reading material.

I've hardly ever done what a good boy should do.

But I almost never stopped doing what a bad boy should do.

It was the winter break of the fifth grade, and my cousin from the countryside was resident at my house.

My cousin was twenty-three years old that year, and he heard that he had come to the city to look for a job.

And I was thirteen years old, in the fifth grade of elementary school.

At that time, during the winter vacation, there was very little homework.

My cousin likes to lean on the bench and flip through the job posting.

And I was placed in his care, and it seems that my cousin was not a good boy when he was a child.

That day he put down the newspaper in his hand and had a whim.

He took me around looking for game arcades, which were not common in those days.

The arcade is located almost everywhere in the city, and I memorized the road almost once.

The road to the Fall.

My cousin only stayed at my house for seven days, after which he seemed to give up looking for a job in the county town and went back to the countryside.

But during the seven days he was in my house, I felt like I was celebrating a holiday every day.

In the past seven days, I have played almost every game in the arcade.

Before he took it away, he gave me all the change.

The huge sum of thirty dollars is a treasure for me who has no pocket money.

And the place where I spent the treasure was the arcade where he took me.

The arcade is located in the business district, and it is a bustling mess.

Five cents a coin, thirty dollars was divided into several parts.

But for a kid like me, who doesn't have pocket money, spending money is always on a budget.

But no matter how careful you are, you can't stand the flowers in the monitor in front of you.

When I was a child, I still thought that I was not reserved enough, but then I went to university. The teacher who taught the market said something that made me feel that everything was normal. He said: "Women, children, old people, dogs, want to make money and look ahead. ”

I was a kid at the time, and I spent that huge sum of money in less than a week.

The days that followed were particularly difficult, and there was still half of the winter vacation to pass.

And I could only stare at the other people playing.

But soon, I found a way to make a fortune.

After the winter vacation, the New Year's money has to be handed over.

But there are always some children of rich families who can still keep them.

I started the first plan, and now I think it's a crime.

It's hard for you to imagine how quickly your child and child can reach a consensus.

Especially when the mind is immature, plus for the money.

Five of us who didn't know each other would squat for the morning looking for a target.

It's the kind of new face that jingles in his pocket or holds a box of copper plates, and these targets are usually exchanged for a pile of coins in one go. If you don't let them play and drive him away at this time, he will hardly be able to refund him.

So as long as you are in a group of five, four people sing black face and one person sings white face.

Almost all of them can knock a sum of money.

Now that I think about it, almost all of the white faces at that time were me.

Game halls generally have only two employees, one to guard the door and one to register the cashier.

The janitor is also responsible for repairing the rocker.

We'll wait for the target to go around to the back of the arcade, and the staff won't be able to see where the target is.

Let me, who is white-faced, go over and talk to the target, and then tell him that I'm very open in this arcade. You can come to me for anything, I like to make friends and so on.

Of course, the goal of playing the game doesn't take me seriously at all.

But after I'm gone, wait a moment for the four blackfaces to go up.

There is a switch at the top of each arcade machine, and four people go up to press the switch first.

Turn off the target you're having fun with, then wait for the target to come back to their senses and start the blackface routine.

"Have you paid the protection money?"

"Are you here for this place?"

"What else are you playing? Get out. ”

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Almost one person said a sentence, and the other party was stunned.

At this time, if the target dares to talk back, the basic black face will scatter.

But when I met someone who didn't say a word, it was my turn to appear again.

Pull these four people to the side and pretend to persuade them, turn to the target and begin to attack the last line of psychological defense of the target.

Probably these people are hooligans here, and their brothers are all gangsters on the road or something.

Then ask the target how much money he has, and he can make friends with him.

These people want to charge twenty, and I persuade them to mean ten yuan and so on.

And then I probably said that I took it, who bullied you here, they can still protect you and so on.

Usually this kind of target carries a bag and a box of coins, and at this time he is honest and does not dare to make trouble.

The coins can't be spent, and they will be given out in a hurry.

Around the Chinese New Year, almost ten can succeed in seven or eight.

After that, leave here to share the spoils, or go to another arcade to play again.

Ask if there are any times when you miss, of course.

If the target starts shouting, or run to the cashier that side of the view.

After that, the janitor would come and chase us away with a big broom.

But when we come back after a while, the big brother who guards the door will tacitly let us in.

Later, I also asked the janitor why he let us in.

According to him, whose money is not earned.

Besides, you're all getting acquainted, and you don't know what will happen if you get rid of the new faces.

In this almost semi-determined situation, we became gangsters in this game room.

At first, it was still a fraud, but then this method of making money soon became unusable.

The newcomers are mixed up with the old people, and almost all of them are familiar faces.

In the absence of pitfalls, we invented something else.

This method is rarely used, and it is also used in unfamiliar game halls.

If you are caught, you will not only be driven away, but you may also be beaten.

The five people looked for it first in the game hall they didn't know, and they could always find a single game coin on the ground.

This is such a way that when I grow up, I can still dream of myself looking for coins in the game hall from time to time.

One is just the beginning, then look for a target who will place the box on the table and play the game.

Generally, only the target of the order is found, and make sure that there are a lot of coins in the target box.

Toss a coin at the target's feet and pats the target to signal that the coin has fallen to the ground.

Usually the goal of concentrating on playing the game is to look at the ground.

If there is a coin, it will bend down to pick it up.

At this time, he immediately pressed on his body and pretended to help him play a game, and the other person immediately stuck to him and reached out to pick up his box.

Grab a handful and leave immediately, and when he comes back to his senses, you'll find that you're playing for him.

As soon as you let go of the joystick and leave, he will almost immediately pick it up and continue.

By the time he did notice that something was missing, we were almost far away.

I've only used this kind of thing three times.

It's true that your hands are itchy to get dry, but in fact, you really want to find a coin on the ground first.

This first step is already difficult, and then find a child who is alone and focused on playing, and who is rich and stupid.

It was so hard that for a while later the children who dared to put a bunch of coin boxes on the countertop were almost extinct.

It was a really mixed up time, and I also discovered a secret door in the permanent game hall.

This secret door is next to the cash register, and all kinds of adults will enter the secret door.

But as children, we didn't dare to go inside, until that day I saw Xiaobai.

That's right, it's the little white of the title.

He was my first friend I couldn't name.

Xiaobai is not really white, but he is holding a white Nokia mobile phone in his hand for a long time.

At that time, Nokia's mobile phones were a rarity.

White Nokia, that's even harder to see.

Because he was almost as tall as me, he was the only person I could see a child of my height fit in.

I finally couldn't help but follow him through the secret door that day.

There are all kinds of colorful slot machines inside.

And Xiaobai sat in front of one of them and played slowly.

I'm not interested in these red-green blocks that spin round and round, I'm interested in the people who sit here and play.

Almost all of the people here have piles of dollars in their boxes, and Xiaobai is one of them.

A dollar is two coins, and the people here are almost constantly throwing a dollar into the box.

The red and green marquee, I don't understand how to attract them at all.

Later, every time Xiaobai came over, I would almost follow him in.

I gradually noticed that Xiaobai came almost every day, and the box was full of coins almost every time.

I used to secretly count almost all of them in a hundred change.

And although he plays slot machines, he rarely makes a shot.

It's all about watching others play, and then people go to pick up other people's plates.

But every shot is not a small amount, and his gameplay is different from everyone here.

I followed him for a week, watching him put coins into the box again and again.

He loses most of the time, but when he earns, the coins pour down from the outlet.

It's rare for me to see someone take out so much money from a box at once, but I've seen it three times in Xiaobai.

In just one week, I saw it three times.

In front of a kid like me, who has to think about everything for a long time to spend a coin, this pouring dollar is simply unimaginable.

Until one day, Xiaobai seemed to notice me too.

He asked, "Do you want to learn from coming to see it every day?"

I nodded and said, "I don't have any money." ”

"I can teach you, but you have to pay for the tuition yourself. Xiaobai said.

I followed him for another week, this week of contact.

I just learned that Xiaobai is a junior high school student, and I started playing slot machines at about my age.

Instead of teaching me horse racing on slot machines, he taught me the only way to make money on slot machines.

By the way, the horse race is similar to the treasure hunt of the glory of kings.

It's just that you have to check what you want in the box first, and the light is pressed to it.

But Xiaobai told me that this is a pit, and the only thing that can really make money is the size of the press.

It's a very simple rule, fifteen points is the boundary.

More than fifteen is big, and less than fifteen is small.

Fifteen is directly doubled, no matter how big or small you press.

A dollar is ten.

There is no limit to the number of points, and winning once is doubled.

Xiaobai told me that all the slot machines here.

Almost only those who press the size are likely to make money.

I once asked why he said that the only thing that could really make money was the size of the race, but he had to play the horse running in the upper lap.

He laughed and told me that size was no longer interesting to him.

Because he couldn't see the falling coins, he just liked the sound of the rain of coins.

I didn't think so.

Xiaobaijiao's method of pressing the size is very simple.

Prepare five pieces.

Start with five minutes and only press big.

If you win, you will re-score five points.

If you lose, it will be changed to 10 points, and if you lose again, you will lose 15 points.

And then twenty, twenty-five.

If you win, start with five more points.

If you lose, you go home, and if you earn, you continue.

A few days later, I scraped together five dollars and set out on this path.

Xiaobai's method really worked, and I won more than 20 yuan on the first day.

Twenty small half-grooves that were piled up.

I looked at the money, and I actually had the idea of not continuing to do so.

And I can't understand why Xiaobai doesn't feel distressed every time he spends most of his money.

Until one time I tentatively asked him how much he spent on slots.

He laughed and told me that I was afraid it was in the thousands.

When I was in sixth grade, I could barely understand the concept of thousands of units becoming money.

When I asked him where the money came from, he just laughed and didn't say anything.

I started to think he was a rich man, but later I realized that I was thinking too much.

After that, I kept in mind what Xiaobai told me, and I would go every time I got five yuan. Leave when you lose, and continue when you win.

Of course, I added an extra rule to this rule, leaving a piece of electric to go out and play outside.

At that time, I played slot machines in a small house with a secret door almost all day long, and I watched those people play slot machines when I didn't have any money.

And my luck seems to be slowly running out, and I am gradually losing more and winning less.

It wasn't until school started that I went from coming every day to coming on weekends.

And the opportunity to see Xiaobai is getting less and less.

That day, I spent all the five dollars I had brought.

And Xiaobai also came as scheduled, and he watched others play slot machines in front of me.

Xiaobai told me so much that I almost forgot about it.

But I remember him saying that he should only press the size and never play horse racing.

He told the story that the man who led him to the entrance was called an old man.

The old man was very old, forty or fifty.

The old man loved slot machines very much, and he sat for two hundred dollars for coins all day.

This bet on the size of the game is also what the old man told Xiaobai, and Xiaobai told me again.

And the old man also taught Xiaobai a trick, that is, to watch a person play almost.

If he kept losing, he got up after twenty rounds.

Just sit in his place and play about five rounds, and all five rounds of five yuan at a time will be pressed seven.

Seven is the biggest chip on the slot machine, which is rolled ten times at a time.

That is, 50 points can be multiplied by a hundredfold, a full 5,000 points.

Ten yuan a penny, that is, five hundred yuan.

This is the secret of how often he can be heard playing slot machines and coins pouring down.

25 yuan for 500 yuan.

I've asked how many times I've been playing for so long.

He told me that I couldn't count them, and that I would dream of this in my dreams.

Even because he has succeeded too many times, five yuan at a time was improved by him to ten yuan at a time.

When I asked him if he made all the money he played every day.

He told me that it wasn't.

From elementary school to now, he owes more than 2,500 yuan to loan sharks in two years.

There are times when you pay it back, but you always owe more than you pay.

The thugs knew his school, the address of his home.

Even until his parents' phone number, and his parents' workplace.

These are all things he said himself when he borrowed money.

After saying this, I realized that the white Nokia that he usually likes to pinch in his hand is gone.

And he told me that the white Nokia was sold a long time ago.

That day, Xiaobai stood up after watching a wronged boss lose twenty rounds, and Xiaobai told me that his good opportunity had arrived.

Xiaobai sat in the position of the wronged leader, and ten yuan came ten times at a time.

But he didn't hit the seven he had picked once, and he got up and left in frustration.

Before leaving, Xiaobai said that he would never come again, and the gangster who owed money said that he was going to find his parents in the past few days.

After that day, I really never saw Xiaobai again.

And I haven't touched a slot machine since that day.

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(It's a small long story, about seven chapters.) It's also the rhythm of writing only one chapter at a time, which I should have written a long time ago. Write along with "Mountain, Sea". It's just people and things to talk about, and this is the first time I've written about this narrative. I try to be as true as possible, but if there are any similarities, it is purely coincidental. You don't have to guess, these seven stories are taken from seven different people who confide in me. ）

(Author group number: 181708341, group payment.) Joining the group will be banned for five minutes, welcome to join. Author's Weibo: Come on, welcome to follow. ）

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Voice-over:

Because of the end of the first volume, I launched the first "Let's Go" Cup Resurrection Contest in the group yesterday.

The winner is: "This Killer 36 Degrees 9"

I'm going to re-create it, which is the next story.

This resurrection contest is held at the end of each volume, or on a special day.

I hope you can have your favorite works resurrected, and thank you for always supporting "Light, Short, Scattered"