Thousand Tricks of the God of Gambling

Episode 3

The game started, and I wasn't in a hurry to cheat.

I play relaxed, following the order of the players usually.

Maybe Brother Ananda and the guy across the table think of me as a newbie.

As they asked for cards more often, their movements also became bolder.

As a result, after a few rounds, Kak Mei lost another twenty million.

Sometimes, I also try to win a few rounds in order to limit my losses to around two four million.

As time went on, the game slowly approached the end.

In the last round, it is Kak Mei's turn to be the banker player.

Without waiting for him to throw the dice, Ananda said.

"I'll have to work soon, for the last round, don't tell me I'm winning money and not giving you a chance. You bet as much as you can, if I lose, I can still pay..."

Brother Ananda seems to be being generous.

I know the time has come.

It's time for me to shine!

But my goal today was not to make me win, but Kak Mei who won.

I have a good impression of Brother Mei. When I first arrived in Kombi, I was responsible for receiving the male bath guests.

Since I never smiled, I got a complaint from a drunk customer who said that I had a bad attitude.

According to the rules, I should have been fired.

But Kak Mei gave me a chance and assigned me to the back service department to distribute the supplies.

It also gives me a chance to live.

And now is the time for me to repay his kindness.

The dice Kak Mei threw were seven, and she picked up the tile in front of me.

Before he took it, I quickly thrust the tiles forward.

This is a very common action on the Mahjong table.

But this seemingly ordinary act instead had a great meaning behind it.

While thrusting the tiles, I quickly hid a pair of identical tiles in hand. Then I used this pushing opportunity, putting the tiles that Kak Mei would reach.

Like this, it can guarantee that each tile taken by Kak Mei is a pair of identical tiles.

This technique is known as "moving mountains and dismantling hills" among gambling fraudsters.

It means silently changing the position of the tile without anyone knowing.

If Kak Mei's dice throw doesn't match the tile in front of me, I can still use this technique to make sure she picks up tiles with four or more identical pairs of tiles.

All the tiles have been taken, and it's Kak Mei's turn to play.

But Mei seemed surprised in disbelief.

He didn't move at all for a while.

"Why don't you play your tiles? Can't you not play Mahjong anymore?!" Brother Ananda took out a cigarette and shook the front of his body, and urged Kak Mei impatiently.

The man across the table also spoke, "Hey, beautiful Mei are you thinking about men or something? Play your tiles ..."

Kak Mei looked up and glanced at me at a glance.

But his gaze immediately turned back to Brother Ananda.

Before he spoke, Ananda's sister angrily said, "What do you see? Is there a Mahjong on my face? Hurry up play already ..."

Mei still looks surprised.

Looking at Brother Ananda, he said in a somewhat incredulous tone, "I, I won, won the Heavenly Hand, there are seven pairs of identical tiles, there is even Tanyao chuu..."

Heavenly Hand refers to the banker player who immediately wins after finishing taking the tile.

And the chances of winning this Heavenly Hand were extremely low. Some have ever calculated, the odds are one-third hundred thousand.

Coupled with identical pairs of tiles and Tanya chuu, the odds are even lower but Kak Mei instead says she won.

"You don't joke. Heavenly Hand's? You're kidding me again..." Ananda and the man did not believe. They think Mei's kidding.

But Mei slowly pushed the tile.

And there are seven pairs of pacifiers that do not have a neat nine.

"No way!"

Brother Ananda and the man exclaimed simultaneously.

They tilted their heads to the front of Kak Mei's tiles, checking one-on-one carefully as if unable to trust their own eyes.

But no matter how they looked at it, those tiles would not change.

The seven pairs of identical tiles get 32 points, while the Heavenly Hand here we get 168 points. Elsewhere, Heavenlu Hand also had 108 points and 32 points counted. The rules of each place are different, as well as the calculation of points.

By adding 32 and 168, plus two points for Tanya chuu, the total was 202 points.

It means that the two of them every single person defeated four million four hundred thousand.

The forty million that Kak Mei had defeated earlier had also been won back, in fact she had also won twenty million more.

The face of Ananda and the man grew grim.

After cheating all afternoon, they instead ended up losing.

Suddenly, Brother Ananda glared at me shouting, "Heh young man, is there something between you and Meyra?"

My heart slipped slowly.

Did Ananda know?

Where is my mistake?

Did I underestimate Ananda?

Does he suspect that I am cheating?

But that can't be happening.

Moving mountains and unloading slabs, it's all about speed.

When I reached my peak, Mr. Seis once said that my speed was one of the fastest he had ever seen before.

Even he also had a hard time realizing this change if he did not know before.

"What could happen between us?"

Brother Mei immediately explained.

Brother Ananda squinted, sneered and said, "Tsk! I'm guessing you two have something. Meyra, did you sleep with this little guy? Otherwise, how could his arrival bring you such luck?"

Hearing the words of Brother Ananda, the nervousness within me instantly disappeared.

Kak Mei also did not dispute Kak Ananda's jokes and continued to talk.

"After playing Mahjong for so long, I just won the Heavenly Hand this time, let alone getting seven pairs of identical tiles, even I still can't believe it..."

Ananda's brother grieves briefly, but keeps it in shape.

Mei continued to be a banker.

This round, I didn't let him win too big, just win a little bit.

In the next few rounds, Kak Mei continued to win a few more rounds in a row.

Although not so big, but he also managed to win six eighteen million.

Mahjong's game also ended in the voice of Kak Ananda's complaint.

Not only did they lose all the money they won, but they each beat twenty million.

After they left, only the rest of Kak Mei and I were in the office.

I stood up and put the remaining few million before Brother Mei, and said.

"Sorry, Brother Mei. You lost over six million because of me, not including that Heavenly Hand..."

Mei didn't see the money and didn't talk either.

Instead, he was watching me from top to bottom, his eyes full of sense of knowing and also confusion.

After a while, he suddenly spoke asking, "Six, how long have you been in Kombi?"

"Half year!"

"It's like you never smile, is it?"

I was silent and gave no answer.

Seeing the father lose a leg in plain sight, then live in the family of others receiving torture, not even knowing where the mother herself is... I honestly don't know what else could make me smile in this world.

Seeing me not talking, Brother Mei asked again.

"How do you think I'm treating you?"

"Not bad!"

I'm telling the truth.

"Then let me ask you something, can you tell me the truth?"

"Please!"

"Are you playing with trouble?"

I was surprised, looking up at Brother Mei.

The word "guilty play" is the lingua franca of the gambling world in the north.

This refers to someone who knows how to gamble and commit fraud.

I think Kak Mei is just a manager at the bathhouse who enjoys playing Mahjong occasionally.

I did not expect that he could use this gambling language.

Could he also be a fraud in the gambling world?

But he doesn't look like that at all.

I shook my head.

"Sir Mei, I don't understand what you mean..."

Brother Mei laughed.