It was already three o'clock when I got back to the company. All of our couriers are waiting at the company to pick up the goods. I didn't see Xiao Huang, so I asked the thin man strangely. "Why hasn't Xiao Huang come yet?"

Xiao Huang's name is Huang Wei, and he is twenty-eight years old. Two years older than the skinny man.

The thin man's surname is Geng Sulong, but he is really thin, like a bamboo pole. People are thin and tall, so they look extraordinarily thin. Therefore, whoever sees him will naturally call him a thin man. That's what the whole company called him.

When the thin man heard me ask him, his little eyes glanced around, and then whispered into my ear, "Gambling money in the two-eight bar field." ”

When I heard this, I chuckled in my heart. My dad just jumped off the building by doing 28 bars. "Huh? How can he have time to gamble at work every day? I asked the thin man in surprise.

"He, ask you to help him deliver it today, ask him to deliver it tomorrow, and ask me to deliver it the day after tomorrow. In the afternoon, he randomly found someone to deliver the goods on his behalf, and he went to the 28 bar field to gamble. I definitely lost today, and I haven't come yet. If you win, you'll be back. ”

The thin man still spoke in a low voice, afraid of being heard.

I bowed my head and said nothing. I was thinking about it. As soon as this man got into the habit of gambling, he didn't have the heart to do anything. My parents would run an express hotel, and business was good. Later, I was taken to the 28-bar field by a gambler who often lived in my hotel to gamble money.

It was out of control until the family was bankrupt and the family was ruined. My dad's title of gambling king is not because he gambles smartly and always wins. But on the contrary, the more he loses, the more he wants to gamble, and the more he gambles, the more he loses, like he can never lose. That's why people call him the gambling king.

I heard my grandfather say that all the calligraphy and painting antiques that my family passed down from my ancestors were stolen by my father and sold cheaply. That's why he had a steady stream of gambling books.

Dad, did you ever think about me when you bought those antiques left by your ancestors? But leave me a piece or two, alas, Bai followed your surname.

"When did he start betting?" I asked the thin man again.

"It's been a year. Sometimes, when I lose, I don't even have the money to buy cigarettes, so I borrow from others. He is not the only one in our company, there are several others. I've been there too, and I didn't dare to go again after losing a few thousand dollars. As he spoke, the thin man took out a Huangshan cigarette from his trouser pocket and handed me one.

I shook my head and said I don't smoke. He pressed the lighter, lit a cigarette and smoked it.

I remembered that my grandfather told me that I couldn't go to that place, it was just a gold-sucking cave and a bottomless pit. No matter how much money you have, sooner or later it will be sucked up. Ten wins are not enough to lose once, because if you are not greedy, you will be satisfied and don't want to do it. When you win every time you go, you gradually want to win more and more.

Suddenly, one day you lose, you will be unbalanced and even angry, and you will be bent on turning over. And at this time, if your mood is irritable again, you are eager to win back the lost money as soon as possible. Then you will lose your judgment and blindly place your bets. As a result, the money won in the previous ten times will be spit out, and the essence will be put into the capital.

If you have strong self-control, you will think of it, and just stop as if you didn't win before. If you are stubborn and short-tempered, you will gamble and gamble all the time, and if you keep thinking about turning the book, you will fall into the mud pit and sink deeper and deeper.

I remember asking my grandfather at the time, why do those people gamble for money? Grandpa said he was attracted by money. In fact, everyone wants to gamble, but the people who can really sit at the table and officially gamble are bold and smart.

Many gamblers started out as rich bosses, and their clever minds and courage led them to enter the business arena and create wealth with small success.

However, the shopping mall is a place where the weak eat the strong that are constantly innovating and being eliminated. If we want to develop and create greater wealth, we must have more knowledge and the spirit of struggle.

If you want to make yourself an invincible person, you must continue to learn, and only by enriching yourself with knowledge can you have an invincible position in the shopping mall. But they are greedy and lazy, adventurous and lack perseverance.

When they encounter difficulties or are eliminated, they do not want to learn more, but choose to move the business battlefield to the casino. It is believed that the casino situation is easy to control, and the gambling money can be infinitely magnified, and it can even get rich overnight.

Do you know how many gambling money are won by luck? It's all about cheating. Grandpa said that especially now gambling money is not about luck, but about whose cheating skills are better.

I asked my grandfather again, how do you know this if you don't gamble? My grandfather told me that his father owned one of the largest casinos in the town of Lakeside. He was 14 years old helping his father in the casino and had seen too much darkness in the casino.

My grandfather was also a household name in Panhu City when he was young. After the liberation of China, my grandfather worked as a teacher in Panhu Town Middle School. Later, he became the principal of Panhu City No. 1 Middle School.

When I think of the happy time with my grandfather, my heart suddenly feels sad. I miss grandpa.

"Hey, Xiao Huang is back. It seems that he lost badly again. ”

I was looking down and thinking about what was on my mind, when the thin man suddenly poked me in the arm, pointed his chin at the door of the company and said to me. I looked towards the door. I saw Xiao Huang with a sad face, and walked into the company gate listlessly with a cigarette in his mouth.

There are dozens of people who deliver couriers, most of whom are bowing their heads and playing with their mobile phones. When he saw me and the thin man sitting on the couch looking at him, he walked up to us. He sat on the arm of the couch next to me and smoked a cigarette.

"Damn, look at you burning the chimney on both sides, trying to choke me to death?"

The thin man was smoking next to me, and I couldn't speak. Now Xiao Huang came to smoke again, and in an instant I was filled with smoke in front of my eyes, and the smell of smoke was terrible. I was about to get up and leave, but I was grabbed by Xiao Huang.

"Men are still afraid of the smell of smoke? Is it a man? Xiao Huang bit the butt of the cigarette with his teeth, raised his head and squinted at me with one eye, and looked at me with the other eye, speaking with a ruffian.

I was also unconvinced, and squinted at him and was about to say: Is this fear of smoke related to whether it is a man or not?

But thinking that he must be in a bad mood when he lost money today, he didn't care about him. Swallowed the words back.

"Here, smoke one. If you smoke it, you won't choke. Xiao Huang suddenly handed over a box of Chinese cigarettes, one of which had already exposed a large part of the cigarette box. It means I'll take that and smoke it.

Obediently, smoking Chinese cigarettes? What about forty or fifty yuan a pack, can you smoke such an expensive cigarette if you lose money? I pondered in my mind. He pushed away the cigarette he handed him with his hand. "I don't smoke."

Just then, the big truck arrived. We rushed to pick up the goods. I have very few items tonight, only about forty pieces. Xiao Huang's goods are piled up like a hill. I said in my heart that this is the punishment for the lazy. At noon, you can ask someone else to send it, and at night when you get to these, I see who you are looking for?

"At noon, there were few goods that I asked others to deliver on my behalf, so I immediately made up for them this evening. God just tells you not to be lazy. I look at you, it's still a down-to-earth delivery. ”

I said to Xiao Huang while talking to the list. It means to persuade him to stop gambling.

He seemed to hear what I meant, looked at me and said, "Alas, it's really a back today, and he always loses money when I don't stretch out my hand." But as soon as Lao Tzu deposits money, he will eat it all. Lao Tzu almost lost his breath in the past, and today he lost Lao Tzu miserably. Xiao Huang scolded while moving the goods.

"How much did you lose?" I put my head in front of Xiao Huang and whispered.

Xiao Huang made an eight-eight gesture with his hand. "Eight hundred?" I asked.

"Add zero."

"Eight thousand? Oh my god, you don't have enough for a month's salary. Where did you get that much money? "I was amazed.

"A paw in the field." Xiao Huang said disapprerovingly.

I was stunned when I heard this. The paw is the usury in the casino. 10,000 yuan a day 300 yuan a high interest. My dad was forced to jump off the building by the owner of these paws.

My dad sold out all the antique calligraphy and paintings at home, and without backing up the gambling funds, he began to work with his paws in the casino. I heard my mother say that at first, I took 300,000 yuan from Huang Shiren (actually called Huang Shiren), who had already taken away my villa. He was paid nine thousand dollars a day in interest. After two months, when the profit exceeded the capital, my father discussed with him to reduce the interest, and it was reduced to 200 per day.

Later, when my dad pushed the 28 bars (that is, to be a banker), he fell down (that is, lost) millions at once. The money was all taken from all the paws in the field. Your 100,000 and his 400,000 make up millions.

The next day, Huang Shiren told my father that he could lend him another million and ask him to pay back the scattered money in the field, and the interest would be calculated at 100 per day. But the condition is to write a note and take the villa as a mortgage.

My dad said that if he wanted to mortgage the villa, he would have to borrow 3 million to be able to do it, otherwise the mortgage interest would be much lower at the bank. Although it is a small city, my villa is worth at least eight or nine million.

Because it is located in the center of the city, it covers an area of five or six hundred square meters. If this is demolished one day, how many facades and houses will be divided?

Originally, there were three families living in this villa, my family, my uncle's family and my aunt's family. My uncle died in a car accident shortly after he got married, and my aunt remarried.

After my uncle died six years ago, my aunt followed my cousin to Canada. My dad gave my aunt 500,000 yuan, which is equivalent to buying her house. That's why it's such a large area.

That Huang Shiren lent my dad 3 million. A year later, it was not enough to give him my villa.

These things were told to me by my mother when Huang Shiren first came to my house to ask for debts.

I looked at Xiao Huang with frowning brows, and I was a little irritable and absent-minded about the goods. I thought, buddy, if you take the grab, it will be like carrying straw on a rainy day, and the heavier you will be, you will never be able to lift your head again.

Hey? Why is there an express delivery from Yang Sanbao of the cement factory? It's still that shipping address, or it's the same size as a document, thin and light with almost no weight.

When I lowered my head and went to the list in my hand again, I saw Yang Sanbao's express again. This one has been sent from Guangzhou for several days in a row.

It's two copies at once today, what the hell is here? I'm curious, I really want to take it apart and take a look. But this is the biggest taboo of the courier, and I shouldn't even think about it, but I'm here to think about it.

After finishing the list, I rode three wheels and left first.

From near to far, in the end, there was only the farthest one of the short old man of the cement factory.

By this time it was getting dark. I rode a tricycle to the cement factory, and it was almost five o'clock. In winter, it gets dark early, and in the afternoon it gets dark, so it's especially dark early.

The snow in the city is melting quickly, and the snow on the mountain and on this half of the slope is still thick. The earth was snow-white.

I knocked on the door of the old man's house, and this time he came just in time to open it.

"Old gentleman, courier." As at noon, I put the slip on the courier and handed it to him, meaning to ask him to sign.

"Come in, it's too dark outside to see." The old man did not pick up my courier, but turned around and walked towards the house.

I followed into the house. The old man walked towards the room.

"Young man, move this box again and see if you can move it?" The old man stood beside the large closet and pointed to the box on the top of the closet.

This old man is demented, right? Why do you keep asking me to move boxes? I have to move even if I know I can't move, what does it mean?

"Sir, I'll help you pick the lock open." I got straight to the point with my thoughts.

The old man stood there still, not saying yes or no, just pointing to the box with his finger to tell me to move.

Alas, this man's temper has become stubborn as he gets older. Not to mention the old and the young, when you are old, your way of thinking is the same as that of a child, and your temper is also very stubborn.

Young people are numb, so they should respect the old and love the young. In our dialect, it means to spare the old and the young. There's no way, if you suffer a loss, you will suffer from the young, who will make me a young person? Just forgive him for being an old man who is ignorant and move it.

I walked over to the closet and posed and reached out to carry the box. I was still thinking unconvincingly, it's not in vain, old man, if you don't believe it, I'll show you.