Chapter 180: Tacit Understanding
After Wang Ziren came back, he looked for Huang Youcai everywhere. Huang Youcai was not found in the two acquisition stations he was in charge of, so he returned home.
Wang Ziren ran upstairs and saw that Huang Youcai's bedroom was also the door of General Tie, he frowned, and said in his heart, where can this kid go?
"Brother Wang, what are you doing in a hurry?" Qian Yongqiang saw Wang Ziren running up and down, sweating on his face, so he asked.
"I'm looking for Huang Youcai!" Wang Ziren hurriedly said, "Did you see him?" ”
"I haven't seen him in days!" Qian Yongqiang said, "What are you looking for him?" ”
"My master is dead!" Wang Ziren said with red eyes.
"Dead?" Qian Yongqiang exclaimed, "Boss Cheng is dead? ”
"Hmm!" Wang Ziren nodded.
"How did you die? What disease do you have? Qian Yongqiang said, "I met him some time ago, and I saw that he was in good spirits!" ”
"Heart disease!" Wang Ziren said.
"What heart disease? Why don't you go to the hospital? ”
Wang Ziren smiled bitterly: "My master knows about the ancient paintings we found from Panhe's acquisition station. Because of holding back the money for so many years, seeing that the large sum of money that should have belonged to him was gone, he didn't want to open it, and hanged himself the night before yesterday! ”
"How is that possible?" Qian Yongqiang was very puzzled, "It's been more than a year since the incident, and I have told everyone in the know, so no one should leak it out." How did he know again? ”
"Qi Xiaofei told them!" Wang Ziren secretly clenched his fists.
"Qi Xiaofei?" Qian Yongqiang said angrily, "It must have been revealed by Huang Youcai!" Someone told me that Huang Youcai rarely took care of business during this time, and spent most of his time hanging out with Qi Xiaofei in the casino. I also wanted to talk to him, but I never found a chance. Unexpectedly, he still got into trouble! ”
"I searched everywhere but couldn't find him!" Wang Ziren said, "It turns out that he went with Qi Xiaofei. I'll go to Lao Jia's to find him! ”
"Brother Wang, I'll go with you!" Qian Yongqiang said, "I also want to take this opportunity to talk about him fiercely!" ”
Wang Ziren sat in Qian Yongqiang's car, and the two came to Lao Jia's rental house together.
"Qi Xiaofei hasn't come back for several days." Lao Jia sat alone at a small table, with his thighs on his legs, and a plate of peanuts, a plate of pig ears, half a bottle of liquor, and a semiconductor radio next to him were placed on the small table. The radio was playing babbling music. Lao Jia held a bull's-eye wine cup in one hand, poured himself a drink, and sometimes hummed a sound or two with the radio, enjoying himself leisurely.
"Then did you see Huang Youcai?" Wang Ziren asked anxiously.
When Lao Jia heard Huang Youcai's name, he suddenly felt unhappy, and said angrily: "I didn't see it!" ”
"I heard that Huang Youcai and Qi Xiaofei have been together recently, you really didn't see it?" Qian Yongqiang handed a cigarette to Lao Jia. Lao Jia took it in his hand and looked at it carefully for a while, then put it to his mouth, and took out a match in his pocket.
Qian Yongqiang hurriedly took out a lighter and lit a cigarette for Lao Jia. Lao Jia took a hard breath, and then slowly exhaled a long string of faint smoke.
"Let's go to the casino." Lao Jia said.
"Casino?" Wang Ziren asked, "Which casino?" In what place? ”
Lao Jia took a sip of wine to himself, then picked up a peanut, put it in his mouth and chewed it slowly, without the slightest intention of taking care of Wang Ziren.
When Wang Ziren saw Lao Jia like this, he rubbed his hands angrily, but if he asked for help, no matter how big his anger was, he had to endure it.
Qian Yongqiang took out a ten-yuan bill from his pocket and gently placed it on the table.
"Where is the casino?" Qian Yongqiang asked.
"Even if I tell you about that place, you won't be able to get in!" Lao Jia glanced at the banknotes on the table and said, "You have to have an acquaintance with you before they can let you in." ”
"You take us in!" Qian Yongqiang took out another ten-yuan bill and handed it to Lao Jia.
"Okay, I'll take you there." Lao Jia turned off the radio and said happily, "It's easy to talk about anything if you have money to make!" ”
Lao Jia brought Wang Ziren and Qian Yongqiang to the casino.
It is said to be a casino, but in fact it is a private house. Pushing the door in, I found that the courtyard was brightly lit, and there were four billiard tables in the small courtyard, and there were two or three people playing on each table. As soon as the three of them entered the courtyard, two men stepped forward to stop them.
"I often come, Qi Xiaofei's friend!" Lao Jia said with a grin.
"Qi Xiaofei is a friend of the boss." The other two people who were playing billiards said, "Let them in." ”
"Thank you!" Lao Jia thanked him repeatedly.
Lao Jia led the way in front and took Wang Ziren and Qian Yongqiang to a large room upstairs. There was a table of mahjong in the big room, and four people were sitting there smoking and playing cards, and there were five or six people around them.
When Qian Yongqiang and the three walked into the room, although some of the onlookers saw it, no one cared, and their attention was on the card table.
Qian Yongqiang saw that Huang Youcai was sitting at the table with his back to him and touching the cards, Huang Youcai had half a cigarette in his mouth, his face was solemn, and he was careful to touch every card, only showing a little bit of the corner, secretly glanced at it, and then played hard. At the same time as the waste cards were played, Qi Xiaofei behind him also sighed.
"Qi Xiaofei, are you sick?" Huang Youcai said angrily, "Lao Tzu is playing cards, what do you mean by sighing next to you?" Wish I had lost, right? ”
"No, Brother Cai!" Qi Xiaofei said, "I'm sighing that you have bad luck!" ”
"Get out!" Huang Youcai shouted, "I'm very lucky!" ”
"Okay, good," Qi Xiaofei said with a salivating face, "Brother Cai is lucky, he will be able to win a lot of money tonight, hehe!" ”
Sitting under Huang Youcai was a thin middle-aged man with gloomy eyes. Hearing Qi Xiaofei say that Huang Youcai won money, he hurriedly said hatefully: "Qi Xiaofei, you said that your brother won a lot of money, which means that we all have to lose money, right?" ”
"Boss Zhao, you can also win a lot of money!" Qi Xiaofei hurriedly said with a smile.
The middle-aged man who was called Boss Zhao was happy, and he praised Qi Xiaofei: "Qi Xiaofei, you are a clever ghost!" When I win, I'll give you some reward! ”
"Thank you, Boss Zhao!"
"Shut your stinky mouth, Qi Xiaofei!" Four people played cards, Qi Xiaofei said that two people could win a lot of money, and the remaining two people were not happy, one of them said angrily, "They all won money, is it indicating that Lao Tzu lost money?" ”
Qi Xiaofei looked at the four people on the table, he couldn't afford to offend any of them, so he hurriedly snorted haha, and then closed his mouth.
Lao Jia pointed at Huang Youcai and whispered to Qian Yongqiang: "There." ”
Wang Ziren was about to shout, but was stopped by Qian Yongqiang. Qian Yongqiang shook his head at Wang Ziren, lowered his voice and said, "It seems that this kid is in a critical moment. We'll wait until he's done playing this hand! ”
My Ziren nodded. Qian Yongqiang took advantage of the fact that others were not paying attention and quietly moved behind Huang Youcai. Qian Yongqiang saw that no one noticed him, so he stood quietly behind Huang Youcai, wanting to wait for him to finish playing this hand, and then drag him home.
Not to mention that Huang Youcai, who was concentrating on playing cards, didn't notice that Qian Yongqiang came behind him, and even Qi Xiaofei, who was watching the excitement, didn't notice Qian Yongqiang, but felt that there was one more person around him, Qi Xiaofei also moved his body to the middle of Huang Youcai and Boss Zhao, giving some space to Qian Yongqiang.
Qian Yongqiang found that although Qi Xiaofei was talking and laughing with Huang Youcai and acting very affectionately, he had no intention of helping Huang Youcai at all, and he also gestured to Huang Youcai's next boss, Boss Zhao, from time to time.
Slowly, Qian Yongqiang found out that Qi Xiaofei and Boss Zhao were in the same group, and Qi Xiaofei would quickly notify him of any card Huang Youcai caught.
Qian Yongqiang saw Huang Youcai's solemn face and slightly trembling hands, and knew that they would not play too little. Qian Yongqiang looked at Huang Youcai's cards, and then quietly moved to his next boss Zhao, and looked at the cards in his hand, as expected, the card he was waiting for Hu was a free card in Huang Youcai's hand.
I don't know what's going on, Huang Youcai never played that idle card. Boss Zhao was very anxious, and Qi Xiaofei behind Huang Youcai was also very anxious.
When Boss Zhao was calculating the cards in his hand, he would sneak a glance at Qi Xiaofei from time to time, and Qi Xiaofei would also nod to him slightly.
Only the last stack of cards remained, Huang Youcai was nervous, the people playing cards were nervous, and even the people watching from behind were nervous.
Suddenly, Qian Yongqiang found that Qi Xiaofei secretly took out a card from his pocket, and then quietly stretched out his hand to Boss Zhao.
Qian Yongqiang knew that Qi Xiaofei was trying to play tricks with Boss Zhao.
Qian Yongqiang sneered in his heart, gently took the card in Qi Xiaofei's hand, and took out another card from Qi Xiaofei's pocket, and then handed the card to Boss Zhao's hand, and gently touched Boss Zhao's hand.
Boss Zhao quietly stretched out his hand to take it, then hid it under his wrist, and smiled at Qi Xiaofei.
In fact, this series of actions was carried out quietly in the electric light and fire, and the eyes of the four people playing cards and the onlookers did not leave the table. Boss Zhao and Qi Xiaofei didn't even tilt their heads, or lower their heads. They believe in their own tacit understanding.
The moment Boss Zhao received the card, he immediately smiled and didn't even look at it. He quietly replaced the cards he had drawn on the table, then stood up the cards in front of him, poured the cards in his hand into the table, and yelled: "Self-draw, nonsense, hahahaha!" ”
When everyone looked at each other, they all looked at each other, not knowing why. When Boss Zhao looked at the cards in his hand again, he was suddenly shocked and said incoherently: "No, no!" ”
"You don't have a winning card, you're cheating!" Huang Youcai lit up the last card he had drawn, poured it heavily on the table, and said with a wild laugh: "Haha, I'm really nonsense, all the same, blooming on the bar," "Come on for money!" ”
"Humph!" Boss Zhao threw out a lot of money, and then looked at Huang Youcai and Qi Xiaofei with a grim face.