my old life

Chapter 2125 A Leaf Flying Flower

My intention to get Hu Meizi to leave as soon as possible is very simple, I don't want her to get into troubled waters, and I don't want her to be an existence to restrain me.

The biggest fear of going out into the rivers and lakes is entanglement. Once people have entanglements, they will become timid...

After hanging up the phone, I took out a cigarette and lit it, quietly looking at the rippling swimming pool in front of me, waiting for Bai Xingchen's return.

I know that it will not be so easy to stay here and make money, at least I have to go through some tests, and only after passing the test will Mike share my share.

In fact, the thing I can't get around is the relationship with Bai Xingchen. He has helped me so many times in the past, and even almost lost his life in the kingdom of drug lords. I will never end this kindness...

"Sanming, Mike invites you to dinner."

"Have a meal?"

"Everyone hasn't had dinner yet, let's go together! Just let me introduce you, but you have to be careful of that Mexican guy."

Bai Xingchen lowered his voice and gave a warning, and I immediately became curious, because a special warning must mean danger!

"Which one is the Mexican?" I asked in a low voice. To be honest, I couldn't tell the specific nationality of those foreigners.

"It's just a guy with brown hair, his name is Jones, he likes to make trouble for others... Just be careful."

"No problem, brothers work together to cut gold! No matter who he is, as long as he dares to cause trouble, I promise to kill him!"

"Let's go."

Bai Xingchen said hello, and I stood up and saw the open-air dining table on the other side of the pool. There was a barbecue grill smoking, and there were some desserts and drinks.

A few foreigners in white chef's clothes are busy, they seem to be chefs in a villa, and they look like a rich man's life.

There is a silver candle holder in the middle of a long table, and seven white candles are burning slowly. In fact, it is unlucky to place white candles in China...

"Xiong Sanming, please sit down." Mike took the initiative to get up and greet him, this small gesture was regarded as a welcome and a way to save face.

"Thank you." I replied politely. I never hesitate to thank others for their politeness, because one must know how to be sensible.

Mike was sitting alone on one side of the long table in a black bathrobe. I thought that position should be the main seat, but the seats on both sides of him were filled with people, and no seat was reserved.

Sitting on the other side of the long table is Tanisa in a white bathrobe, with beautiful flaxen hair, and there is an empty seat on her right.

"Sit down." Bai Xingchen greeted, but I felt a little awkward, and felt that it was a kind of intentional irony.

The empty seat is far away from Mike, and Jones is opposite me. I feel that I have been arranged in the most inconspicuous position at the bottom of the table.

At the same time, there was no tableware in the reserved place, and there were all tableware in front of other people. It seemed that this meal was not so easy to eat.

"Are you sure this is reserved for me? Is this how you treat guests?" I asked with a smile, and glanced at the other people present.

"Sanming, this position is the position of the guest of honor..." Bai Xingchen reminded in a low voice, I was slightly surprised.

It stands to reason that the two people sitting next to Mike are the guests. Perhaps it is due to the differences between Chinese and Western cultures...

"I'm expressing my gratitude to Mike for the hospitality!" I said with a smile, and at the same time, I secretly looked at the other people present, especially focusing on Ono's expression.

If this was a position where he deliberately teased me, he would have secretly laughed at me, but I didn't see anything wrong.

Beside me is Bai Xingchen, he just told me to be careful of the Mexican guy opposite, I nodded after taking my seat as a greeting.

"Kyushu country old man, do you want to challenge Mike?" Jones, a black-haired man, asked in blunt Chinese with a teasing look on his face.

"It's not a challenge, I'm just invited by Mike to discuss and learn from each other." I said with a smile, I don't know if he can understand.

There was a lot of chatter in the Jones room. It didn't sound like English, and I couldn't understand any language.

"What did he say?"

"Jennifer." Mike waved his hand to signal the blond foreign girl to come and translate, but Nisha voluntarily gave up her seat.

The blond Jennifer sat on the side of the long table, facing Jones, and she was like a dealer.

"Jones asked you to pass his level first, and he wants to compete with you first, asking if you dare." Jennifer explained, and I couldn't help laughing when I heard this.

"OK! Come on!" I nodded to show that it was okay, I knew this meal was not so delicious, and this is also a test of whether I can have a set of tableware.

If I can't show my strength, then they won't give me a set of tableware...even if Bai Xingchen is present, this is the law of the world where strength rules!
Jones took out a deck of tarot cards, I was a little surprised, this is the first time I heard that there are people who can play this kind of cards!
"Jones asked you to pick a king card from this deck, and if you find it, you will pass." Jennifer explained, and Jones had already started shuffling the cards.

"Can I switch to poker?" I asked calmly, and I would not easily try something I hadn't touched before.

"Poker and tarot are the same. Jones said that the test is your eyesight!"

Jones drew out a tarot card and shook it in front of me, then quickly put the card back, and then began to quickly shuffle the cards with both hands.

The moment he put the cards back, I saw the small movements in his hands, the veins on the back of his hands burst into force, and then returned to normal when the cards were shuffled.

In an instant, I judged that he hid a card, and then shuffling the cards in a dazzled way was all confusion. This technique has the same effect as Qianshu'One Leaf Flying Flower'!

Flying flowers is a very common trick, and many people who perform street magic are proficient in it.

To put it bluntly, it is to let people choose a card, show the face of the card in advance and then mix it into the deck. After the cards are shuffled, the card can be accurately found.

Soon Jones put a deck of tarot cards in front of me. This kind of card is longer and wider than ordinary poker. Although I have never played it, I understand the principle.

I think the test Jones gave me will not allow me to easily get this card, and there should not even be the card shown just now among these cards. There are nine out of ten that card is hidden in him!

"How many cards are used in a deck of tarot cards?" I asked casually, then took out a cigarette and lit it.

"Two."

"Okay." I slowly picked up a stack of tarot cards, and counted the number of cards by shuffling them.

The feeling of different shuffling in poker is completely different, but counting the number of cards is no problem. After shuffling, I am sure there are only 77 cards!

As expected, the card just now was hidden by Jones. I couldn't find the card just now, but it didn't bother me at all.

After I shuffled the cards, I kicked out a card on the table, and then turned the deck of cards in my hand on the table.

"There is no king card just now in this pile of cards." I motioned everyone to check the 76 cards in the pile, and a hidden card was under my hand.

Jones looked at me inexplicably, he never expected that I would use such a simple method to break the situation!

Bai Xingchen quickly flipped through the cards in the deck. He didn't know what the hole card I was pressing down was. In fact, I didn't know what the card in my hand was.

But I only left one card in the deck, and there is no king card shown just now in the other cards, so I found it!
"No, as expected!" Bai Xingchen jumped up excitedly. He didn't know that Jones had hidden cards just now, because the lines are like mountains!

Other people present looked at me with strange eyes. In fact, those who know how to do it can understand what's going on at a glance, and those who don't know how to do it can only be kept in the dark.

"Sanming, you are too powerful, how did you do it?" Bai Xingchen turned around and wanted to come over to take a card from me, but I shook my head to express my rejection.

"Everyone is just exchanging ideas, this card should be left to Jones." I smiled and mixed the cards under my hands into the deck, and did not show them from the beginning to the end.

Jones smiled at me. He knew that a card in my hand was not a king, but he was dumb and couldn't tell.

I didn't directly expose Jones' trick, and he couldn't just say that he hid the cards in advance, and this test was passed without tearing his face...

(End of this chapter)