"I won!" a man wearing a white shirt and rolling up his sleeves put all his cards on the table, then smiled and took all the chips on the table into his arms. He won 155 yuan in the card game just now.


    After several discussions in the process of learning from the theocracy law, the empire finally left a provision on the prohibition of gambling. But in fact, what this clause really restricts is that kind of open gambling. It doesn''t matter much whether a few people play cards in a private place. No one will take the initiative to report themselves, or report people involved in gambling.


    A little-known sociologist believes that "hatred sprouts in jealousy". Without jealousy, no one will meddle in reporting his neighbors unless you damage his interests.


    Walter frowned and threw his cards on the table. We have long been used to this kind of anger. His sleeves had also been rolled up, holding a glass with ice, he poured less than two ounces of wine into his mouth, tilted his head and lit a cigarette.


    He has lost all afternoon. As a qualified gambler, he thinks he can win all the losses he lost before next, so he still sits at the gambling table.


    The gentleman sitting opposite him glanced at the chip box in front of Walter and looked back at the young man sitting on a sofa looking at the tape. The young man immediately stood up and went to the box where the chips were placed, took out 200 chips of different denominations and sent them to Walter, "the third box, sir."


    Walter took the chips from the young man, took out the few chips left in front of him, and replaced them.


    The bottom bet is two yuan. Although there is a maximum of 50 yuan for each game, sometimes others won''t say anything. Especially a "friend" like Walter who has lost a lot of money always gives him a chance to revenge. He smoked a few cigarettes and looked at the next house on the left. He stood up, said "I''ll wash my face", lifted his belt and went into the bathroom.


    One afternoon, he lost 500 yuan and owed 600 yuan. The huge loss made him a little uncomfortable and blocked his heart. He seems to have run out of luck since he rolled two thousand dollars one time. Over the past six months, he has won less and lost more intermittently. He rarely asks the person who organized the gambling game how much he owes. He is a little afraid that it will be a huge amount. However, I have to say that his friends are good. They not only organized such a gambling game for free, but also did not urge him to repay the money he owed. On the contrary, as long as he needed it, the other party would lend him money.


    Now there are few such good people in this impetuous philistine society.


    Patted his face wet with cold water, looked at himself with deep sockets in the mirror, smiled at himself, and then waved his fist to cheer himself up. Today he was going to win!


    When he returned to the table, the cards had been washed. At his next house, a gentleman in his thirties asked him to check the cards. He smiled and shook his head. "We are all friends. There is no need."


    Although he said so, his next gentleman still washed the cards in front of him. The people at the gambling table were smoking, which made it a little miasma. His eyes were fixed on the flipped and crossed poker until it was completely washed.


    Some people play cards more elegant and relax by calculating scores and adding a bonus. Most of the time they play cards more skillfully and have better requirements for calculation and psychology. But there is also one, just like the card game participated by Mr. Walter, the method of playing is relatively simple. Use everyone''s hand with the public card on the table to compare the size, which is simple and easy to understand. Even those who can''t learn it can learn it in a short time.


    The game has multiple stages, which is also the stage where people bet or choose to give up. There are only two bottom bets, but many times when it''s time to decide whether to win or lose, there are often dozens or hundreds on the desktop.


    Mr. Walter threw the chip with the lowest bet on the table as the bottom bet, and then the winner of the last game began to "work" and distributed cards to each participant''s hands. Mr. Walter looked at the hand and breathed a little faster.


    This is a good hand. If only from the perspective of hand, he is almost the biggest. When he sees the public card, he feels that he will win this game! The probability of such a big brand is very small. Sometimes a gambling game may only appear two or three times in seven or eight hours.


    He tightened his face, making himself look as if he had a bad hand, and even frowned. The gentleman sitting opposite him smiled.


    "Wow, that''s a beautiful order. I''m lucky." he didn''t seem to care that he had exposed the size of his card. Mr. Walter glanced up at him and squeezed out a smile.


    He said with a smile, "then we can lose our cards because you are sure to win."


    The person opposite seemed to really think so. He nodded and said, "maybe this is the best choice."


    Walter quietly threw a five dollar chip on the table. When he first came into contact with such a game, he really believed it, but several times he found that others didn''t have any good cards at all. He was completely cheating him, so he foolishly stuffed the biggest card in the game into the pile of cards. From then on, he gradually realized that sometimes the decisive victory in a card game was not on the table.


    Have you heard anything like that?


    Yes, the decisive victory is outside the court, which shows the same truth and indirectly reflects the essence of society. It tells the truth of the world.


    "It seems that Mr. Walter doesn''t believe..." the man who just won shook his head, and he also lost a chip. "I don''t believe it. The card in my hand is also good. Maybe I''m bigger!"


    The opposite player laughed again. He directly picked up a ten dollar chip and threw it on the table. "We all think our cards are better. Why don''t we have more fun?"


    Next, in the process of suspension and betting again and again, each player put 80 chips on the gambling table. It seems that everyone feels that they have the biggest card. When the last card was put down, Mr. Walter breathed a sigh of relief. The cards in his hand are very big. If there is no accident, he should win this game. As a winner, in addition to his money, there are 240 yuan on the table. You can win back what you just lost, not to mention how much. This makes him very happy. Winning money always seems to be a happy thing.


    The face of the player sitting opposite him became severe. He sighed and put down the card in his hand. It was really a good hand. He would win at other times, but not this time! The last person who won his money also put down the card, which was larger than the card in the hand of the gentleman opposite Mr. Walter. When he opened his arm to take back the chips, Mr. Walter put his card on the table.


    His biggest, he took a cigarette, lit the fire, smiled and said, "thank you for your help. I''m always not fast enough to sort out my chips." when he reached out to grab the chips, his last player, who didn''t say a word this round, put down the cards. Mr. Walter glanced and his hand to get the chips froze in the air.


    He lost!


    ……


    It''s normal for gambling to win or lose. Mr. Walter knew this for a long time, but today he lost again. The principal of 500 yuan plus five chips this time is 1000 yuan.


    Fifteen hundred dollars was lost cleanly. Sitting in the car, he smashed the steering wheel, and the car also sounded a harsh whistle.


    Standing on the balcony and watching Mr. Walter drive away, the three sat down. The man who organized the gambling took out 400 yuan from his pocket and gave it to the other two players, "you deserve it. You can''t do wrong. Don''t forget to come on time on Wednesday." they nodded and took the money and left happily, The man who organized the card game looked at the clock and said, "call our friends and start the next card game in 15 minutes!"


    Mr. Walter, who drove home, sighed when he parked his car in the garage. He put on his clothes and made himself smile. After he looked less worried, he took the key to open the door.


    "Walter?" as soon as he entered the door, he heard his wife''s gentle voice in the living room, which made him feel guilty and more upset in his Inexplicable heart, not just because he lost money.


    He took off his shoes, answered, changed his shoes, walked into the living room, looked at his wife with her back to him, and was tidying up some small furnishings, such as photo frame photos and souvenirs sent by others or bought by himself these years. The last time this happened was when they moved here. Did they have to move again?


    He went behind his wife and watched her fiddle with these things. He couldn''t help asking, "what''s the matter? Don''t you like them?"


    Her wife didn''t look back. She was still seriously packing up these things. She smiled and replied, "I''ve changed a new job and want to leave sterly. We may have to live in the north or the West."


    "Why?", Walter suddenly heard the news and couldn''t accept it. "Isn''t it good here? Or do they want to send you away?"


    "What about the house here? What about our daughter''s studies? I don''t think she can adapt to the environment and school there quickly. Can we not go?!"