Reborn in the red age

More than an hour later, Lin Hong, who had gone to the game room, ran back with a victorious smile on his face, his mouth corners stretched to his ears.

Looking at Lin Hongle's gnashing teeth, you can tell that this guy has been doing it a lot in the past hour or so.

Hu Jiadong started the car and asked with a smile: "How is it? How much did you win?"

"Hehe" Lin Hong scratched the back of his head embarrassedly: "According to your instructions, I didn't do much today and only won more than a thousand yuan"

As he spoke, Lin Hong took out a hundred yuan of original capital from his winnings and returned it to Li Qingfeng along with the cheating device.

Before Hu Jiadong went to find Lin Hong, it was already agreed that all the winnings would belong to Lin Hong and they did not want any share.

Li Qingfeng did not refuse, and took the principal and the cheating device from the other party with a smile: "Not bad, not bad, you can resist greed, I am optimistic about you"

"Thank you for the compliment, Brother Li." Lin Hong chuckled and continued to ask, "When are we going to come the second time?"

"Tonight, I'll stay longer this time and win three thousand dollars from him. Tomorrow, I'll stay here all day and win five thousand dollars from him."

After listening to Qingfeng Li's arrangements, Lin Hong rubbed his hands excitedly and repeatedly promised to follow Qingfeng Li's plan.

Li Qingfeng's plan went smoothly, and in just two days he won 10,000 yuan from the bald man.

According to what Lin Hong said when he came out, the bald man who was so cheerful yesterday when he paid the bill, had a face so dark that water could drip out of it when he paid the bill today. His expression was as conflicted as it could be.

"Haha, five thousand yuan is not a small amount. Three times in a row, a total of ten thousand yuan. Not to mention this game room, even the owner of the small casino would feel distressed," Hu Jiadong said with a smile.

Li Qingfeng shook his head: "Brother, you are underestimating this game room by saying that. To be honest, electronic gambling machines make more money than casinos. The main source of profit for small casinos is commission, while slot machines make money from the customers' principal. Under the same scale, small casinos do not make as much as game rooms."

"That makes sense. Many of the former casino owners in the Special Administrative Region have now started to run game rooms. This makes money faster than casinos, and it's not illegal."

"Okay, we don't run a casino, there's no point in discussing this, let's just talk about how we can bankrupt this game room tomorrow."

"Ha ha"

Li Laosan's game room has had slot machines for about four months. Initially, there were only four machines. Due to good business, six more machines were added later, and there are now a total of ten machines.

According to Li Qingfeng's rough estimate, in the past four months, the ten machines brought Li Laosan a profit of about 150,000 yuan.

After Li Qingfeng calculated this number, Lin Hong, who was sitting in the back seat of the car, couldn't help but gasp: "Oh my God, in more than four months, these machines can earn hundreds of thousands?"

"We are still adding machines gradually. If we start with 10 machines, this number will double."

"Hiss, how many people have been deceived by this?"

"Not much. The workers in Gusu are paid well. If we assume that one person loses ten months' salary to the game room, that's only about thirty or forty people," Qingfeng Li answered Lin Hong's question lightly.

Thirty or forty people, that means the savings of thirty or forty families.

Li Laosan cheated them, and then they cheated the money back from Li Laosan. Does this count as they cheated those thirty or forty families?
Thinking of this, Lin Hong suddenly felt that the money he won from the game room was a little hot.

Hu Jiadong, who was driving nearby, shook his head and said, "The gross profit should be this much, but the net profit will be cut in half. Now Li Laosan can only have 100,000 yuan at most."

"How to say?"

"Slot machines are quite expensive. One machine costs about 10,000 yuan in the market. Ten machines would cost 100,000 yuan. With the remaining profits, plus his previous savings, he would only have 100,000 yuan at most."

Li Qingfeng nodded. If his brother-in-law hadn't mentioned it, he would have forgotten about the cost of the machine.

Speaking of which, the profit of this thing is really high. The cost of one machine is only seven or eight hundred yuan at most, but they dare to sell it for ten thousand yuan.

The three of them had a simple meal at a roadside restaurant, and after agreeing with Lin Hong on the time to finish up tomorrow, the three of them went home.

When Li Qingfeng returned to the family compound, his father-in-law and his family had already finished dinner and went out for a walk with their two children. Only Hu Jiabao was cleaning the house.

When Hu Jiabao saw Li Qingfeng coming back, he asked unhappily, "What have you been doing with my brother these past two days? He leaves early and comes back late every day, and when relatives come to visit, we can't even find him."

"Hmm? Your relatives are here?"

Li Qingfeng raised his eyebrows, having a premonition that trouble was coming.

"Yes, many relatives came to your house this afternoon and wanted to see you, but you were not there. They left after a while and said they would come back tomorrow. Don't run around tomorrow, or else the relatives won't be able to find you when they come."

The bankruptcy operation had been planned for several days, and tomorrow would be the closing stage. Li Qingfeng was planning to see it with his own eyes, so he didn't have time to meet these relatives who came to see the giant pandas.

Li Qingfeng immediately refused without hesitation: "Not tomorrow, I have something to do, let's wait until the day after tomorrow"

"What can you do in Gusu?"

"Eliminate social bad practices and clean up social pollution sources"

"Virtue" Hu Jiabao rolled his eyes at Li Qingfeng, sighed and said, "If they don't want to meet, then forget it. They don't have anything important to do anyway. They just came here to ask about the satellite out of curiosity."

In order to avoid being blocked by relatives and affecting today's activities, Li Qingfeng drove out shortly after breakfast early in the morning.

He met up with his brother-in-law who also wanted to watch the fun, and the two drove straight to "Li Laosan Game Room".

At this time, Lin Hong, who was full of confidence and vowed to beat Li Laosan, had already rushed to the game room. Under Li Laosan's tangled eyes, he exchanged one hundred yuan for game coins and started a passionate battle.

The goal was to win big today, so Lin Hong did not come alone. He was accompanied by two fat and strong co-workers, with steel pipes hidden in their trouser legs, as they were worried that Li Laosan would get angry after losing and play tricks on Lin Hong.

"Hey, isn't this Boss Hu? How come you have time to come to my place today?"

Having done business in Gusu for several years, Hu Jiadong was quite well-known on the streets of Gusu. As soon as the two men came in, Hu Jiadong was recognized by Bald Li Laosan, who quickly stepped forward to greet him.

Hu Jiadong smiled and said, "So this game room is owned by Boss Li. My brother-in-law and I were bored today, so we came to play at your place."

After listening to Hu Jiadong's introduction, Li Laosan turned his attention to Li Qingfeng.

After seeing Li Qingfeng's face, Li Laosan recognized him immediately. After all, Li Qingfeng won 900 yuan in one game from him last time, which left a deep impression on him.

After recognizing Li Qingfeng, Li Laosan smiled and said, "Oh, so you are Boss Hu's brother-in-law. Last time you won money and didn't come for several days, I thought you left Gusu."

Gusu was a big city with a population of over a million, after all. It was not like a small county town where everyone in the city would know about any incident in someone's family. The only people who knew Qingfeng Li's true identity were the neighbors in the family compound, and at most, the information spread to a few surrounding streets.

Li Laosan knew Hu Jiadong, but he didn't know Hu Jiadong's family background, so naturally he didn't know what Hu Jiadong's brother-in-law represented.

"I finally get to go back to my wife's hometown with her, how can I leave so soon? I still have to stay in Gusu for a few more days," Li Qingfeng said with a wry smile.

"That's great, we have to play more today."

Without chatting with Li Laosan for long, Li Qingfeng exchanged one hundred yuan worth of game coins, and took Hu Jiadong to find the slot machine room where Lin Hong was.

Lin Hong has been a celebrity in the game room these days. Behind Lin Hong at this moment, there are gamblers watching him play the slot machines.

Lin Hong, who was playing the slot machine casually, saw the two people come in. He pretended not to know them, just glanced at them and then looked away, focusing his attention on the slot machine again.

The two of them didn't even say hello to Lin Hong. They just found two idle machines and started playing.

Not long after the visitor sat down, Lin Hong's rough voice rang out in the room: "Li Laosan, come here, I want to exchange currency"

"I'm coming"

Li Laosan responded while running into the room with a tray of game coins. He took a hundred yuan from Lin Hong with a smile and gave him five hundred game coins.

According to the agreed plan, today we have to lose first and then win. In just half an hour, Lin Hong has lost three hundred yuan.

Taking the basket of game coins from Li Laosan, Lin Hong glared at Li Laosan and said angrily, "Li Laosan, are you doing anything to the machine?"

"Lin Hong, you can't say that. These are all high-tech things. Winning or losing depends entirely on luck. What can I do?"

Li Laosan was happy, thinking to himself, "Is your luck finally over? You've won so much money from me, and now you're finally going to pay it back."

"Impossible." Lin Hong pretended to be a gambler who was losing a lot of money and said angrily, "If you didn't do anything, how could I lose so badly today based on my luck?"

"Nonsense, if I can do something, can you win 10,000 yuan from me in these two days?"

Lin Hong pretended to be speechless and hesitant for a long time without continuing to argue.

Seeing that Lin Hong didn't say anything, Li Laosan began to comfort him again: "Old Lin, I think your luck is not going away right now. Don't play so big for now. Make some adjustments. Maybe your luck will come back soon."

Lin Hong snorted, pretended to be unwilling, waved his hand to chase the man away, and started the battle again by tossing coins.

Li Laosan chuckled and asked his wife to exchange coins for people outside. He stood behind Lin Hong and watched Lin Hong's operation with other customers.

I have been losing money for the whole afternoon, and so far I have lost a thousand dollars.

The inside of the machine was opened twice and the coin box was taken out.

Lin Hong became more and more impatient, his eyes were bloodshot, and he stood up suddenly, causing the chair to fall backwards with a loud clanging sound.

Lin Hong roared at Li Laosan like an enraged bull: "Li Laosan, you must be doing something stupid!"

Li Laosan, who was laughing so hard at the back, was startled by his sudden action, but quickly calmed down.

Li Laosan spread his hands and said innocently: "Lin Hong, you are being unreasonable. How can I play tricks with so many eyes watching? You are unlucky today, you can't blame me."

The huge commotion here attracted even the guests who were playing video games outside and came in to watch the excitement.

Many people knew Lin Hong and knew his performance in the past few days. Naturally, they did not believe what he said about the boss playing tricks. They all spoke up to help Li Laosan and told Lin Hong to be more open-minded. There are wins and losses, and there is no such thing as only losses.

Listening to what the people around him said, Lin Hong was secretly happy, but he gritted his teeth and said viciously: "I won't believe this today. I will change another 2,000 yuan of currency."

Li Laosan was secretly delighted, but pretended to be embarrassed on the surface: "Lin Hong, you have lost so much, why don't we stop here today? I am doing this for your own good. You are obviously unlucky today, so don't get carried away."

“Stop pretending like that and just tell me whether you want to change it or not.” Lin Hong’s eyes were red as if they were about to spit fire.

"Okay, okay, since you insist on playing, then I can only play with you. However, two thousand yuan worth of coins is too much. I don't have enough here. I can only exchange it for one hundred at a time."

One coin is 20 cents, and two thousand yuan worth of coins is 10,000 coins. If you want to take out these 10,000 game coins, you need to take out the coins from all the machines.

If we give him all the money, how can others play?

Lin Hong waved his hand and said, "Two cents per coin is too little. One coin is one dollar. Do you dare to exchange it with me?"

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone in the room was shocked. What a big deal, what a big deal.

Everyone looked at Li Laosan excitedly, waiting for his answer.

The expression on Li Laosan's face changed. One coin was worth one dollar, and if he won, he would win a lot.

Thinking of Lin Hong's good luck two days ago, Li Laosan was undecided for a moment.

Lin Hong looked at Li Laosan provocatively, with a hint of disdain in his eyes: "What? You don't dare?"

The onlookers saw this rare grand scene and also began to persuade Li Laosan to switch with him.

Li Laosan gritted his teeth and made up his mind: "Humph! What's there to be afraid of? But, Lin Hong, let's be frank, this is what you asked for, so don't cheat if you lose."

"Don't worry, I, Lin Hong, won a lot from you the other day. I can afford to lose just two thousand yuan."

"Okay, it's a deal"

In the presence of everyone, Lin Hong took out two thousand yuan and got two thousand game coins from Li Laosan.

Li Qingfeng and Hu Jiadong on the side looked at each other, and both of them had smiles of success in their eyes.

After getting the coins, Lin Hong suppressed his excitement and said loudly to the crowd: "Brothers, I have been chasing the big dragon for the whole morning, and it has never appeared once. I will continue to chase it now. I don't believe that I will not catch it after chasing it twenty times."

As he spoke, Lin Hong asked the people next to him to put coins into the machine, and he began to press buttons frantically.

Li Laosan, who was watching from behind, was watching Lin Hong's operation with fear and trepidation. (End of this chapter)