Chapter 16 Gambling Talent
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Born in the world, there are two big hobbies: food and color, and gambling is not the same. Stealing and gambling, there is no shortage of people who are addicted to small people. However, although the hobby is small, it cannot be passed, and if it passes, it will be lost. The so-called indiscriminate eaters mess with the stomach, those who are obscene with sex are ruined, those who are lazy gamblers lose their will, and those who are confused by thieves lose their deeds. The indiscriminate destruction of the corrupt cannot be saved by medicine. Ma Shengli was addicted to gambling, lacked money, stole and continued, and finally lost his job and broke his family, and he was imprisoned.
At a very young age, Ma Shengli showed a talent for gambling.
Ma Shengli's family has more than 30 bungalows, and in a huge house, in addition to Ma Shengli's mother and son, there are also more than 20 tenants. People born in the sixties and seventies of the last century know that people's spiritual life was relatively poor in those years, television was not yet popular, and there were only a few movies every month. After work, everyone gets together to either play poker or rub mahjong, and there is no other pastime.
Ma Shengli's father died early, and Ma Shengli's mother has not worked since she entered the city, and she has nothing to do all day. This orphan and widow from morning to night in the house, it is inevitable to feel bored panic, so Ma Shengli and his mother will often hold a small victory out of the door, the east to the west, meet the card, or come to mahjong, can also stand behind each other, sometimes a stand is half a day. Ma Shengli his mother's cards, Ma Shengli is not idle, don't look at the age, but also in his mother's arms, two small eyes open to the thief pull the round, east Zhang, west look, from time to time with the finger card, the mouth is babbling, almost from the hand of the card player to draw the card out of their own.
When he was three or four years old, Ma Shengli didn't need his mother to hold the cards, and after eating every day, he lost his job and squeezed into the card field. Sometimes the uncle who plays poker will tease him, say small wins, tell the uncle what card to play next? Ma Shengli stood behind him and pointed with his hand in an old-fashioned manner, and did not speak, and the uncle looked in the direction of his finger and thought about it, hey! It's really a little interesting! Sometimes the aunt who plays mahjong will also make him happy, say a small victory, and tell the aunt how to play the next card? Ma Shengli usually points to his hand without thinking, and the aunt looks at it, God, just what I want! I can't help but admire this kid's eccentricity from the bottom of my heart. Later, my uncle and aunt had an internal urgency or something in the card field, and if there was a shortage of manpower, they would use him to fill the number. I didn't expect this kid to climb to the position like a dog, and the small card was doubled, and it was really a bit impermeable.
Ma Shengli is so young, and the cards are played so smoothly, naturally he has won a lot of praise from adults. Uncle and aunt said to Ma Shengli and his mother that Xiao Shengli has been so smart since he was a child, he must be a piece of study material, and if he goes to school in the future, his grades will definitely not be bad! Kuadma's victory his mother's mouth was almost closed, thinking that he had been in a nest for a lifetime, and if the child really had a chance, it would be more or less a compensation from God for himself. Rejoicing that Ma Shengli and his mother's mouth was like eating candied fruit, she couldn't stop thanking the people who praised her son, saying that she borrowed everyone's good words, borrowed everyone's good words.
It is one thing to have good words, and it is another thing whether good words can produce actual effects. Soon, Ma Shengli was eight years old and it was time for him to enter first grade. Ma Shengli's mother was full of hope and paid someone to choose a top elementary school in the city. Throughout the entire primary school stage, Ma Shengli's academic performance can be described in four words, that is, a mess. When other children go to school, there are only two books in the schoolbag, Chinese and mathematics, plus two homework books, and one or two comic book villain books; Ma Shengli's schoolbag contains a lot of contents: paper bags, matchbox skins, glass beads, and playing cards.
A paper bar is a kind of square folded with paper, which is divided into front and back. During recess activities, two or more classmates gather around to break the paper, and the way of the game is to smash the other party's paper with their own paper, and smash the other party's paper to the ground, and the other party's paper will belong to themselves.
The matchbox skin is the cover of the matchbox. At that time, very few people used lighters, lighters were too expensive, they were all made of iron, many of them were imported, and ordinary people could not afford to use them. The match box leather is divided into front and back, with a print on the front and a light on the back, without any pattern. The way of the game is similar to that of a paper bag, except that after a beat, you have to shoot it with your hands, and use the wind to turn over the opponent's matchbox skin to win.
Glass beads are used to flick. During the game, dig five small pits in the ground, use your thumb and index finger to play into the pit, and pass the level in order, whoever bounces their glass beads into the fifth pit first wins.
There are many ways to play poker, so I won't repeat them here.
The school is good, and there are more children from rich families, and there are more delicious things in their school bags. Ma Shengli carries these gambling equipment to school every day, and he really wins a lot of pocket money by relying on them, as for the free candy, needless to say, he can't eat it every day. Sometimes Ma Shengli and his mother will sort out Ma Shengli's schoolbag, and when they find these things in the schoolbag, they will pour them all out and throw them away mercilessly. But this is not difficult for the horse to win, things are dead, people are alive, don't you still have a pair of hands? Scissors, rock, paper, still bet on winning or losing. In two days, the things that were thrown out will have a complete variety in the school bag.
If you don't study well in elementary school, you can't get better in junior high school. After graduating from primary school, Ma Shengli reluctantly entered the No. 7 Middle School, which is known as the "hooligan school". The so-called hooligan school means that the students' learning quality is generally poor, and they are the object of fighting and brawling on weekdays, and the class is like a duck arguing pond, and No. 7 Middle School is such a school. When Ma Shengli arrived at such a school, it can be said that he is like a fish in water, and he is even more crazy.
As the last stop of Ma Shengli's academic career, the only impression left on him by No. 7 Middle School was that he had gained three difficult brothers. These three brothers and sisters later became a prop at a certain stage of his life, which happened when he was working at Jiaxin, and under his careful direction, these three classmates staged a thrilling farce. Of course, these are all things that happened later.
Ma Shengli and his classmates have other things to do at the moment, and the pediatrics in elementary school, such as breaking paper, slapping match box skins, and playing glass beads, have long been out of luck, and instead they are pounding billiards. Every evening after school, the four classmates would get together and wrap up a billiards table to gamble. I was tired of playing at night, and I dozed off in class during the day to recuperate, and waited for the evening to gamble, and then I thought that gambling at night was not enjoyable, so I simply skipped school to gamble during the day.
Ma Shengli's mother also went to school for this matter, but she only went once, and no teacher dared to let Ma Shengli take his parents. Ma Shengli and his mother arrived at the school that time, and was severely criticized by the head teacher, who thought that she not only did not blame Ma Shengli, but turned around and went to the principal's office to sue the head teacher, saying that the head teacher was not strict in discipline, delaying the child's learning, and asked the principal to change the teacher, and the head teacher was so angry that he did not come to class for half a month.
With his mother's protection, the teacher naturally didn't bother to ask, and Ma Shengli played more unscrupulously. Sometimes a few classmates meet and can gamble for a few days and nights without going home. As a student, he was always absent from the classroom, and the school was no longer polite, first with a warning, then with a demerit, and then with the expulsion of these black sheep.
Ma Shengli did not graduate from junior high school, so he lived on the streets and became a gangster in society, which Ma Shengli and his mother never expected. Seeing that after his son was expelled from school, he had no intention of repenting, and he was a hanger all day long, and he didn't return at night, how could he go on like this? She wondered if her son was used to being overdone by herself, and he should discipline him well? By the time she realized the seriousness of the problem, it was actually too late. Once, Ma Shengli came back from a night and asked her for money and flowers, she said no, and began to count him bitterly, who knew that he not only did not listen to her, but also glared at her, which made her angry, and stretched out her hand to beat him, but her son raised his head, and her hand could not reach her son's face, so angry that she sat down on the ground, while patting the ground with her hand, while crying and scolding Ma Shengli's dead ghost Lao Tzu.
After scolding Ma Shengli's dead ghost father, she thought that her son would not be the same thing in the long run, so she went to find Ma Shengli's fourth uncle. After listening to his sister-in-law's crying, Sikui's guilt in his heart increased another layer, and he said to Ma Shengli's mother, sister-in-law, if you are willing, let Shengli follow me to do it. Ma Shengli's fourth uncle is the captain of an engineering team under the Municipal Power Supply Bureau, responsible for the field wiring work, and his subordinates often need to recruit some temporary workers to drag the line pole, Ma Shengli and his mother heard this, thinking that the child has his fourth uncle staring, naturally a hundred willing.
Ma Shengli heard that he was going to work by himself, but at first he refused to go. Si Kui persuaded him, you follow your uncle, I won't let you suffer, at best, it's just errand work, I won't send you to do heavy work, and you will still be paid at the end of each month. Ma Shengli and his mother also helped on the side and said, yes, yes, all the wages are yours to spend, and your mother doesn't want a penny. Ma Shengli heard that it was not hard to go to work, and his salary was all at his disposal, so he happily agreed. When he arrived at the engineering team, as Ma Sikui said, Ma Shengli was shaking his arms all day long, pouring tea, handing water, and basically doing nothing. Sometimes they even fish for three days, dry their nets for two days, and wander around outside the operation area. The attendance clerk is hindered by his uncle's face, he opens one eye and closes one eye on weekdays, and never dares to test him for being late and leaving early, so he is full of attendance every month, and he gets a lot of salary and bonuses.
In the engineering team, Ma Shengli got acquainted with Wu Youwei, who was also doing temporary work. Wu Youwei is seven or eight years older than him, and his biggest hobby on weekdays is dancing. In fact, dancing is just a disguise, and it is true to bubble more women when you are young. When Wu Youwei works during the day, he always feels wilted, and he has to go to the toilet eighteen times for eight hours. To paraphrase a common saying in rural people, lazy cows have a lot of feces and urine on the field. When I got off work, I was like a different person, I cleaned up, and my hair was combed so slippery that flies were gone. Wearing a medium-length black coat and a pair of sunglasses, the shape resembles the strong brother played by Chow Yun-fat in the old version of "Shanghai Tang". Wu Youwei is indeed a handsome young man, the jade tree is in the wind, graceful, every time he stands on the dance floor, it is like a bombshell, which is quite lethal.
I heard that Ma Shengli is a good gambler, and during a small talk, Wu Youwei said to him, when will I take you to open your eyes and let you see what it means to gamble. The place where Wu Youwei wants to take Ma Shengli is the Crystal Palace. Crystal Palace is the entertainment aircraft carrier of H City, and I heard that the boss inside is a woman, and she has some background. There are many entertainment items in the Crystal Palace, and if you have some improper hobbies, you can find fun in it. There are chess and card rooms, bathing centers, dance halls, and tea bars...... Each project has its own characteristics, and the content of the service is mostly despised by the righteous and gentlemen.
Wu Youwei brought Ma Shengli to the Crystal Palace for the first time, and left him to play on the dance floor alone. Ma Shengli spun around the labyrinth, making himself dizzy, and finally found the chess and card room he was looking for. That night, he stayed in the chess and card room and did not return all night, not only losing all the salary in his pocket for the month, but also understanding what gambling is in the real sense. I used to pay my salary, and I could always last for three days and five days, but when I got here, I realized that money, his mother is not money at all, it is simply waste paper; When counting money, you don't count it with your hands, but measure it with a ruler. The hundreds of yuan in his pocket, just one bet, was taken away by others in a daze.
Since the first time, Ma Shengli's soul has been lost in the Crystal Palace. After that, as soon as he got off work, he took Wu Youwei to the Crystal Palace for recreation, and he had no money in his pocket, even if he watched others gambling, it was a kind of enjoyment. Later, Wu Youwei got married, I heard that he was married to the daughter of a powerful family, and soon, Wu Youwei left the engineering team, as if he was transferred to some company to run sales, without Wu Youwei as a companion, Ma Shengli himself is already familiar with the road, and he is right every night.
The day when he gets his salary every month is the day that Ma Shengli looks forward to the most after going to work. Because you have money, you can go to the casino to try your luck, although after entering the society, your luck has not been as good as when you were in school, but for the hidden mystery behind the playing cards and mahjong tiles, you can never let go, you only hate yourself for not working hard in school, you have no ability when you grow up, and you get too little salary. Every time I go to the Crystal Palace, I often spend it with others when I just pay my salary in my pocket and I don't cover it, which is really unwilling! Every time he loses all the money in his pocket, he will have an illusion, thinking that maybe he will be able to turn it over in the next handful, but there is no money in his pocket, who will give you the opportunity to turn it over?
In pursuit of the thrill of getting rich that night, Ma Shengli began to try to borrow money from everywhere. In the first few months, the comrades of the engineering team were willing to lend him money, but later, the repayment deadline he promised was always not paid, and gradually the workers refused to lend him money. Since you can't borrow money, you can only cheat, of course, outsiders are not easy to deceive, and ghosts pick acquaintances! If you want to deceive, you can only deceive acquaintances. So, he went to deceive the tenants of the family and asked everyone to hand over the rent to him, and this method was only implemented for a month, and then it was exposed by his mother. Unable to get money, Ma Shengli was like a headless fly, wandering around, anxious.
One day, Ma Shengli was listlessly dragging cables in the field, dragging and dragging, and suddenly he had an inspiration, thinking about why he was so stupid? Isn't the thing you hold in your hand just money? People say that the living will be suffocated by urine, but it should be themselves, right? Thinking of this, strength came from under his feet. From that day on, he kept an eye on how to cut a few loops of cable when people were not looking, hiding them in the villagers' haystacks or throwing them in nearby ditches. After work and dinner, he thought it was the dead of night, so he sneaked over quietly and took the cable to the scrap yard to sell.
With the first time, there is a second time. Pocket money is endless, waiting for a certain amount to be made, Ma Shengli will go to the Crystal Palace table to show his skills.
Crystal Palace is a bottomless pit that cannot be filled! The little money that I bought in exchange for my own fear, when I got there, I couldn't withstand a few rounds, and I whined and lamented, which was a drop in the bucket. Once Ma Shengli hacked a little, and the matter of losing the cable aroused Ma Sikui's vigilance, when he spent a lot of effort, and finally found out this inner ghost, he found that it was his nephew, and he was angry, he didn't dare to make a noise, but just pulled Ma Shengli aside and scolded him fiercely. Worried that he would lose his job in the future, Ma Sikui told Ma Shengli's mother about it. Ma Shengli's mother was angry and hateful when she heard this, and she was angry that her son was not angry, and he dared to steal things; What I hate is that I failed to discipline my son strictly when I was a child, and now that something like this has happened, what can I do? It's really a big deal, I can't beat it, I can't scold it, I can't do anything, what can I do except be anxious?
An elderly tenant gave Ma Shengli and his mother an idea, saying that you see that in today's society, many men are afraid of guilt and wife, and you can't control your son, so it is better to arrange a room for her daughter-in-law, and let the daughter-in-law take care of him, maybe she can use it. Ma Shengli's mother listened, thinking that Ma Shengli was also in his early twenties, although it was early to get married, but it was a good way to be able to control his son and let him get on the right path from now on, so Ma Shengli and his mother began to beg grandpa everywhere, sue grandma, begging people to introduce her son to the object, and repeatedly stated that the Ma family's requirements are not high, as long as the future daughter-in-law can be spicy, it doesn't matter if she looks ugly and handsome.
Ma Shengli was married at the age of twenty-one. The daughter-in-law is three years older than him, and as the saying goes, a female junior holds gold bricks. Ma Shengli's wife is not bad-looking, and her temper is also fierce, quite a bit of Hedong lion. She stood at the door, a voice can shout a few miles away, I heard that when she was in junior high school, she practiced wrestling in the city gymnastics team for two years, and she was very confident in managing the horse well.
In general, when people live, it is the mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law who fight, but the Ma Shengli family is different, it is the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law who join hands to fight with their son. In the first few months of marriage, Ma Shengli's behavior was somewhat restrained, and the number of times he fooled around outside at night was significantly less. Occasionally, he was locked out of the yard by his mother-in-law and daughter-in-law and did not let him in, so that Ma Shengli had to climb over the wall and beg in a low voice, and the daughter-in-law opened the door for him. Later, Ma Shengli's wife had a big belly, so she was a little powerless, Ma Shengli, probably because he had no physical and mental sustenance, and the number of times he didn't return at night increased, and then later, Ma Shengli's wife gave birth to a daughter for Ma Shengli, and Ma Shengli gradually returned to his previous state.
Ma Shengli, who became a father, did not make any progress in words and deeds, and in the face of the union of his mother and daughter-in-law, he also had his own ways to deal with it. If it is his mother's chatter, he never speaks back, but enters the left ear and goes out the right ear; If his wife chewed her tongue, he immediately pushed back a sentence, saying that there is a kind of you who gave birth to a son for me and raised a money-losing goods, and was still so arrogant? When his wife heard what he said, she was a little discouraged, and after that, she didn't bother to care about his.
On the night of Ma Shengli's daughter's first birthday, Ma Shengli did not come home all night. This can make his wife and daughter-in-law anxious, not because he is worried, but because he is thinking about the money in his pocket, because Ma Shengli is carrying the gift money of the day's guests, and his mother asked him to deposit it in the bank, a total of more than 8,000 yuan!
In the next half month, Ma Shengli seemed to have evaporated from the world.
Ma Shengli is missing. (To be continued.) )