Chapter 44: The Gambler
Shen Yunshan finally found Haizhou Yang Church, and when he inquired, he learned that Jack had left with Li Dexi before the revolutionary army captured Haizhou.
Shen Yunshan returned to the gate of Haizhou City, and Shen Ding was still kneeling beside Shen Yunxi and crying—Shen Yunxi was dead.
Shen Yunxi's body was dragged home.
Shen Yunshan insisted on staying for Shen Yunxi's funeral, but Shen Ding asked him to return to Chunan Town immediately, because she didn't want and didn't dare to let Shen Laiqiao and Xie Zhengzhong see him.
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Jack's mother is Chinese, and in the cathedral of New York, she met Jack's father, and the two fell in love at first sight and got married.
Jack's father was a trader on a Wall Street stock exchange, had a high income, and the family lived in a wealthy area.
When Jack was eighteen years old, his father's exchange was exposed to fraud, and he faced investigation and accusations.
Jack's father fell to his death. The police opened an investigation, but could not determine whether it was suicide or homicide, and the result was inconclusive.
However, the court's sentence against Jack's father was still severe, and even the house was confiscated.
Two years later, Jack entered the exchange where his father was during his lifetime, inheriting his father's career.
After another five years, Jack unknowingly took millions of dollars and managed to send his boss to prison.
In 1912, Jack brought his mother, who was suffering from mild schizophrenia, to Haizhou, where he was unaccompanied.
According to his mother's wishes, Jack used half of his own money to build a church, which also served as a shelter for mother and son.
At this time, Haizhou City had just been returned to the Republic of China, and Li Dongtai and Shen Yunshan's Li Jiajun had become a new army. Li Dongtai is also the deputy mayor of Haizhou City.
Seeing that Jack wanted to build a church, the Li Dongtai brothers gave their full support. Because their ancestor Li Xiucheng was a follower of the "son of God" - Hong Xiuquan.
In this way, the brothers Jack and Lee Dongtai became "brothers in the Lord". In order to support the Revolutionary Army, Jack gave almost everything he had.
A few months ago, Jack's mother became ill, so Jack took his mother and Lee De-seok to Los Angeles, USA.
Sending his mother to a neurological hospital, Jack was penniless. In order to survive, he had to get enough money.
However, Jack's "fundraising" this time was not to go to the exchange, but to make a bet with someone.
Seeing that it was very easy for Jack to get money, Li Dexi opened his eyes and admired Jack very much, and was envious.
Jack often said to Lee De-seok: "As long as the motives are noble, no matter how despicable the means are, there is nothing to blame." ”
Jack wins, and Lee follows him to an HSBC bank in Los Angeles for three days to make a deposit.
Jack always writes "wun by betting" in the "Funding Source" field. Finally, at one point, the bank teller was surprised: "How can you win so often and so much on a bet?"
The teller called Henry, the general manager, to report his opinion.
Henry, too, was surprised, put down the phone and went downstairs to ask Jack about the bet.
"If you don't believe me, we can make a bet, how about it?" laughed Jack.
"How to bet?" asked Henry.
"That's right, listen up: I conclude that there is a large black mole in the groove between your buttocks.
If not, I lose, and if there is, you lose. Do you dare to bet? Jack said calmly.
"This kind of bet is too low-level. The probability of being right or wrong is 1 in 2, and it doesn't require any wisdom and learning, so it's boring.
Let me tell you, the laws of this city have regulations: lucky gambling is illegal, and smart gambling is legal. Do you know that?" said Henry with a smile.
"Of course I do. Jack pretended to be profound, "My gambling method is very intelligent and technological, and it requires advanced knowledge such as physiology and psychology, which is purely intelligent, and it is wisdom in the field of high technology." ”
"I'm sorry, I went up to work. Goodbye!" Henry said, turning and going up the stairs.
"Goodbye!" replied Jack, "when you're interested in making bets, tell the teller that I often deposit money here." ”
Henry went upstairs, quickly went to the floor-to-ceiling mirror, took off his pants, turned his hips against the mirror, and turned his head repeatedly from the left and right sides, but found no of the big black mole that Jack said.
He hurried out of the office, and when he saw that Jack was still downstairs in the hall, he hurriedly said, "I thought about it, I can make a bet with you." ”
"Okay!" Jack came to his senses, "bet on what?
"It's still the same gambling you said. Henry said, already downstairs.
"Okay, how much to bet?" asked Jack.
"Three million dollars. You're not afraid of big, are you?" asked Henry.
"Hahaha......" laughed Jack, "it's a piece of cake! Let's sign the contract!
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For the next week, Henry focused all his thoughts on his hips every day, and he lost count of the number of times he looked in the mirror.
In order to see it realistically, he also bought a mirror and held it in his hand to look at the floor-to-ceiling mirror.
He had never felt that time had passed so slowly—a week was harder than a year.
Finally waiting for the agreed "opening" time, Henry let out a long sigh of relief, with a bright smile on his face, lifted his pants and went downstairs.
Jack and Lee De-seok have arrived, and they have brought quite a few people with them.
Jack read out the bet contract. Henry triumphantly took off his pants and let others witness whether he had a large black mole on his buttocks.
The people in the hall laughed, and some people took pictures with cameras.
"Nope. Lee looked at Henry's buttocks carefully, and then said to Jack, "Mr. Jack, you lost. Please fulfill the contract!"
Jack pulled out his checkbook, wrote a $300,000 and handed it to Henry: "You won." Congratulations!"
Henry got carried away with joy, holding his pants in one hand and taking the check in the other.
"Ladies and gentlemen," said Jack again, "let's fulfill our contract!"
This time he made a bet, and Jack made a total of $1.15 million.
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It turned out that after Jack left HSBC that day, he immediately found "Los Angeles Finance".
The editorial office of the newspaper published a bet advertisement:
"Six days later, I was able to get Mr. Henry, the bank's managing director, to take off his own pants and have his buttocks look at him in the lobby of the HSBC Bank in Los Angeles.
If you don't believe in miracles, you can make a bet with yourself with a bet of not less than $300,000.
Notary Public: Mr. Tom, Editorial Director, Los Angeles Financial News. ”
Betting, like gambling, is legal in Los Angeles, but U.S. intelligence agencies have found Jack.
Jack had to be instructed by American intelligence agencies to return to China to try to get close to and prevent Japan or Tsarist Russia from making a fuss about Pu Yi.
At that time, the revolutionary program of the League to drive out the Tartars allowed Tsarist Russia and Japan to take advantage of the loophole - Tsarist Russia took the opportunity to win over the Mongols and frantically invade and divide Chinese territory, while Japan wanted to control the Qing Dynasty and depose the emperor Puyi.
In the face of the frenzied division of China's fat meat by the great powers, the United States has never been willing to sit idly by.