Chapter 10 All Roads Lead to Rome

At 9 a.m., the plane docked at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol in the Netherlands, the world's fourth-largest airport in terms of passenger capacity, more like a city, with a lot of people and flights.

At this time, it is the Chinese New Year, but in distant Europe, it does not seem to be too festive.

Many travelers to Italy need to transfer here, and then travel to Rome in just over two hours, making it a good trip.

An oriental woman is extremely eye-catching in the crowd.

She seemed to be in a good mood, wandering around the shopping mall and spotting a lively airport casino in the departures hall.

In exchange for a small amount of chips, the Oriental woman walked into the crowded casino with the chips in hand, there were many kinds of games in the casino, baccarat, blackjack, French roulette, size, silver shaker, etc., she looked and looked, and finally decided to try Texas Hold'em.

Once upon a time, Qiao Yanne once told her that poker is the most elegant way to gamble, the moment the bottom of the card is opened, it is tense and exciting, and there are countless possibilities, so although she is not good at it, she also likes poker the most.

She walked through the crowd and casually walked to the card table, for some reason, there were people standing in front of every type of gambling game, but poker seemed a little deserted.

The waiting time for the transfer was not long, so the Oriental woman looked left and right, and took the initiative to ask the dealer standing on the side in English: "Hey, is anyone here willing to play with me?"

The other party was stunned for a moment, and looked her up and down, the oriental face here is rare, especially the other party is still a young and beautiful beauty.

"I'll come. ”

A deep and mellow voice sounded, with almost no obvious accent, which startled the unprepared woman and hurriedly turned back.

Looking at each other, both of them seemed startled.

This man is very handsome, I can't tell where he is from, but his skin has the smell of Mediterranean sunshine, although he is casual from head to toe, but I don't know why, he actually exudes a sense of luxury.

She has always been very accurate in seeing people, and this time must be no exception.

The man seemed to be more stunned than she was, with beautiful blue eyes that almost poked two holes in her face.

She knew she was beautiful, but it wasn't like that, and to a stranger, this kind of gaze was offensive and extremely impolite.

"Sir, I mind you looking at me like that. ”

The woman straightened her face and said in English.

"Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I...... I recognized the wrong person. ”

Locke awkwardly withdrew his gaze, but his heart was still beating wildly. God, it's so similar, it's exactly the same. Isn't this woman in front of him really the wife of his good friend?

However, looking at her appearance, she really doesn't know herself.

Is there really such a similar person in the world, Locke was stunned, although he also knew about the existence of twins, but seeing it with his own eyes, the impact on him was still too great, so that this little Italian prince, who had always been a gentleman, lost his temper on the spot to cause displeasure to the opposite sex.

The woman was stunned for a moment, as if she didn't expect him to say this, and a hint of embarrassment flashed in her eyes.

"Can you start?"

In order not to arouse the other party's disgust, Locke hurriedly asked.

The woman also returned to her normal expression, nodded and said yes, and the two of them stood at the card table one on the left and one on the right.

Their bets are very small, and they all seem to be just playing, which is simply trivial compared to the huge gamble next door that costs tens of millions.

The dealer silently shuffled the cards, his face seemed to be more nervous than the player's, and the 52 playing cards were unpredictable in his hand, and he handed one card to the two of them, and he reached out to signal that they could open it to compare the size.

Poker seems simple, but in fact, it is the most psychological test, whether it is good or bad, to be able to be moody, which is the most attractive.

"I'm sorry. ”

She followed the man and unsheathed the cards, two points older than him, and the dealer gently pushed over a round plastic plate with the front and back written on the front and back, which the professionals called the "button", and it was up to it later to decide who would post the blinds first.

The Oriental woman stared intently at the table, and when she used the two nest cards in her hand and the five community cards on the table to make the best deck of seven cards, her forehead was slightly sweaty.

"Straight flush. ”

She let out a sigh of relief, and spread out the cards in her hand one by one, in order of spades 8, 9, 10, j, q, the woman was secretly proud of her good luck, when she used to play poker, she rarely had such cards.

"I lost. ”

Locke smiled and shoved all his chips to her, then raised his wrist to glance at the time, as if he was also watching something.

The woman was curious to see the cards in his hand, and was about to ask out loud when the cell phone in her handbag rang.

"Okay, we'll see you in Rome. ”

She put down the phone and was about to say goodbye to this powerful opponent who had been playing for a while, only to be surprised to find that the other party was gone.

Inexplicably a little confused, she didn't find the tall figure after scanning around, the woman put away her mobile phone, and held the chips on the table in her hand to redeem them, this is her first good luck this year, no matter how much money there is, it can't be wasted.

Seeing the woman walk away, the dealer who was silent just now went to open the few cards left by the man, and it was as he expected.

It is the largest hand of A, K, Q, J, 10, five cards of the same suit, commonly known as "royal flush".

Locke has been in casinos since he was sixteen years old, and the first time he saw Zhan Xingchuan was in the casino, and that time, Zhan Xingchuan, who has always regarded himself as a master, almost lost his underwear. It was also from that time that the two established an extraordinary friendship.

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For more than two hours of flying, the woman was in a daze looking at the bill she had won by good fortune in the casino.

At this time, she didn't know what Qiao Yanne was doing, she sighed, thought about it, and carefully folded the money in her hand and put it into the inner layer of her handbag.

She couldn't show up with him just yet, that would be too big.

She flew from Hong Kong to the Netherlands and from the Netherlands to Italy. Qiao Yanne, on the other hand, was more troublesome, he went from Zhuhai to Macau, and then flew from Macau to Italy. Both of them used fake passports, and they had to be terrified along the way to avoid being discovered. You know, now in the whole of Zhonghai, and even all over the country, I don't know how many people are looking for him.

The Qiao family wants to find this unfilial son, and the Wen family also wants to find this negative man.

With a sigh, the woman closed her eyes.

She has never been a superstitious person, she has always believed that "my fate is up to me, not heaven", but when she is above 30,000 feet, she still hopes that she can be safe and happy, even if it is temporarily out of the current situation.

Go abroad to avoid the limelight first, and the most important thing is that he can be with Qiao Yanne, and he can't belong to any other woman.

However, when the plane landed at Rome's Fiumicino airport, something unexpected happened.

After she couldn't get her suitcase, she took off her sunglasses and asked the airport staff what was going on.

"Sorry, your baggage didn't have a connecting flight when you checked it in. ”

She stood aside, a little unintelligible, and asked again, and the ground staff said timidly: "It's that the luggage didn't go to Rome with the passengers, and it's still in Amsterdam......"

This is not uncommon, especially on connecting flights, where the baggage is left at the previous transfer point because the passenger does not carefully confirm the baggage check at the time of baggage check-in.

She was stunned, this once-in-a-century thing was actually put on her own.

I wanted to leave immediately without luggage, but unexpectedly, the airline people seemed to be more nervous than the passengers, and someone immediately took her to the office to negotiate.

"What, the luggage search period ranges from the same day to six months,"

After listening to the explanation of the airline staff, she was irritable and said several times that she could not have luggage, and this matter should not continue.

It's a pity that the Italians, who have always been unreliable, went against the norm and began to investigate at all stages, and repeatedly promised to determine where the luggage is in the shortest possible time.

There was no way to leave customs immediately, so she had to buy a cup of coffee and walk outside the hallway to get some air.

Looking at the tarmac in the distance through the floor-to-ceiling windows, the planes rose and landed, carrying the sorrow and farewell of countless people, and she was inexplicably a little sad.

"It's you,"

She heard a slightly familiar male voice, turned around, and faced the foreign man again.

What a coincidence.

After a pause, the woman reluctantly pulled the corners of her mouth and smiled, and nodded slightly, "Hi." ”

The man changed his clothes, no longer casual clothes, but a standard three-piece suit, he put his coat in the crook of his arm, and carried a black document bag in one hand, and his hair looked a little messy after a few hours of flying, but this did not affect his aristocratic air from the inside out.

"I'm in trouble,"

The anxiety and helplessness on her face did not escape the eyes of the other party, and it was impossible for an oriental woman to fly to Italy alone, not even a suitcase.

"The luggage was left at the transit airport. ”

Sure enough, I guessed it right.

"All roads lead to Rome, maybe they can find them themselves. ”

He curled the corners of his lips slightly, said something meaningful, and then bowed his head at her lightly, counting it as a farewell.

It was just a stranger who met in the water, and she also nodded in greeting, watching the man walk away in style.

After making sure that he was out of the other party's sight, Locke let out a sigh of relief. In the second contact, he could almost confirm that this woman was definitely not Diao Ranran, although she looked exactly the same as Diao Ranran, but the temperament of the whole person was completely different. This woman was arrogant and cold, and she was wary of people, not to mention that she was wearing high heels, drinking coffee, and obviously not pregnant.

With all that said, Locke concluded that she should be one of the twins.

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