"yes, Boss. After seeing Wayne help him, Elton was much more confident, and then he looked at James expectantly.

Bonnie, who heard this, also had a little star in her eyes, and said excitedly:

"I've never been to a gambling house since I'm so old, boss, why don't we go see it on Thursday." ”

Although Bert and Bonnie's deceased father ruined the family property because of gambling, only Bert knew about these things, and he protected this sister very well.

James saw that there were already three people supporting him, and Chris and Bert must have listened to Bonnie, and Jeffrey and Paul were on good terms with Chris.

Shaking his head helplessly, James had no choice but to agree:

"Alright then, I'll stay at the police station on Thursday, and you guys can go over and relax. ”

"I'll stay at the police station too. Bert began, "I'm not interested in that. In fact, Bert only developed an aversion to this activity from a young age.

Elton looked at Bert with some surprise and sighed:

"God, you're not interested in this?"

It's no wonder that Elton was so surprised, they all knew that Bert and Bonnie were from the defeated aristocracy, and Chris recalled some of the newspapers he had read before, and found that the nobles here were indeed very fond of gambling.

One of the important reasons is that most of the aristocrats and high society here like to stay up late.

Since Arnold the Great launched the Industrial Revolution, the upper classes of the entire Republic of Ireland have been soaring from one victory to the next in terms of day and night reversal with the help of technology.

With the passage of time and the advancement of technology, especially the spread of gas lamps throughout the country and even the entire northern continent, the performances of theaters and concert halls on the street became later and later, and the restaurants, cafes, and bars after the end of the show were open almost all night, and the degree of reversal of day and night among the people of the upper class became more and more serious.

The biggest difference between nobles and commoners is that they are rich and they are idle, so they do not have to follow the rules of life from sunrise to sunset.

Upper-class people who don't need to work only wake up close to noon each day and go out in the afternoon for salons and afternoon teas, probably looking at newspapers and books in between.

In other words, these nobles basically have to sleep until ten or eleven in the morning, so they go to bed at about two to three in the morning.

The nobles had time, and they reversed the day and night, which determined that the nobles had a lot of time to pass the time at night.

But if you look closely, you will find that in fact, the things that the aristocratic class can do have not exploded for a long time. What they are capable of is actually eating dinner, going to the theater, listening to music, dancing, chatting and drinking.

If a person has such a long night to pass the time, but there is really nothing to do, most people like to listen to chatting.

So it's better to just play cards.

And Arnold the Great invented more ways to play playing cards, and there is even a new product called mahjong.

Golden coins were placed on the table, flowing from one person to another as the playing cards changed.

It's the most exciting game and the best way for a group of people to pass the boring nightlife.

As a result, there are many casino-like entertainment and leisure venues in the South and North Districts.

Like the Earth in the previous life, the casino here is also the birthplace of the ugliness and tragedy of human nature.

Chris once read a "Noble Almanac" in the library of the University of Federenburg, which told many details of the life of the upper class of the Irish Republic, and one of them recorded that there were two types of bridge games for men, which were used for gambling money, and women's bridge, which were used for entertainment.

Another important reason why gambling is popular with the aristocratic class is because of the culture of the aristocratic class.

A few hundred years ago, the aristocracy was different from the bourgeoisie, the wealth of the aristocracy was innate, the nobility did not need to make money, and the aristocracy looked down on the act of earning money.

There was once a "loss of status law" that was quickly discarded, that is, if a nobleman committed an act of dishonor, he would lose his nobility.

Business is one of them, and the other is intermarriage.

If your money is earned by you, then it can be a very shameful thing.

Bert and Bonnie's father can see this old thinking, and he squandered it until the end of the day to lend money to trade, but unfortunately in the end, he lost all his money, and the siblings lost their home and estate in the North End.

Of course, because Arnold the Great ushered in a new era of industry, many of the old aristocrats were replaced by new aristocrats, so the open-minded aristocrats invested in various businesses, and would also give some of their properties to trusted bankers, giving them a lot of money.

Chris remembers that in the "Aristocratic Almanac" also recorded that although the aristocracy liked money, they could not show it.

Spending a lot of money is aristocratic style, bending down to pick up money? That's not aristocratic style.

Once an archbishop died and his nephews and nieces inherited his estate because he had no children.

Once they found a huge cupboard in the mansion he left behind, which had never been opened. They could not find the key, so they ordered the servants to smash the cupboard open. When they opened it, they found that it was full of gold medallions collected by the archbishop, so they asked the servants to help them stand at the window and throw them into the street.

When an aristocratic couple found a cabinet of gold, their first choice was to stand at the window and sprinkle it on the street.

So how can these aristocrats, who think that there is nothing wrong with sprinkling gold, feel that they should not gamble?

Chris has seen in the newspapers more than once that some of the new writers have satirized this old aristocratic notion, and one of them reads:

If a nobleman says to you, "Brother, I'm so unlucky, I invested in the tea factory business this year, and I lost all of it." Then he may be ridiculed coldly.

But if he says, "I lost what little I had while I was playing!", then he may get sympathy and praise.

From this it can be seen that gambling has occupied an unshakable place in the hearts of the aristocracy.

Of course, it is also the norm to write IOUs if you lose too much.

It's also an interesting and classic spectacle to think about watching a group of aristocratic lords spread out the card tables after dinner and place bets, and then endure the pain and pretend to be indifferent to write IOUs.

As the saying goes, "three generations produce a nobleman", which means that the aristocracy is not the same as valuable commodities, it is not enough to have money, but to have money and time, the first two generations cannot be broken, otherwise at best it will be the son of a landlord and a turtle.