TGDS Chapter 43.3

Good Dad System (Arc 5) Chapter 43.3: Her Gambler Dad (3)

Surprisingly, the location of the gambling house was not mysterious at all. It is located in the resettlement housing area after the demolition of City B years ago. The resettlement housing was built a long time ago, and each building was only eight or nine stories high. As the houses were old, most of the original residents left and rented them to outsiders. Gradually, some good and bad people came into the area.

 

He followed Brother Qiang upstairs. The casino was small but fully equipped. It was two suites connected together, with a total area of only two or three hundred square meters. The living room on the first floor was full of people playing mahjong. There were thick chips in the drawers and the air was filled with smoke. There was a long sofa against the wall, and many people were sitting there waiting for their turn. Brother Qiang explained that the chips were counted as money. He didn’t know how to play mahjong, so he didn’t ask much. Upstairs, it was even more diverse, with scenes that he had only seen in early Hong Kong movies, such as poker, dice, and strange-shaped tables. There would be more than ten or twenty people sitting around a table, with red faces and excited expressions. The room in the suite was used as a private room, and there were special people watching the scene inside.

 

The original person had a bad habit, which was that he loved his face. When he saw Brother Qiang calmly and generously find a dice table to place his bets, he followed him. With today’s revenue in his pocket, he carefully followed suit and placed his bets. Like all newbies, he only dared to place the minimum bet, and kept telling himself that he was just here to take a look and would leave soon.

 

But this environment inexplicably made people feel sinking. The surrounding voices were bustling. Before each market opened, one could hear the sounds of people’s discussions. Some said they had lost money, some said they had made a lot of money… and there was no tool to tell the time, so Pei Naochun was immersed in it unknowingly.

 

He won twice at first, and the money he bet had doubled, so he carefully put in a little more and won again… When he bet a thousand yuan at a time, he suddenly lost. This time, he lost a full thousand yuan. He wanted to leave with a pale face, but was held tightly by Brother Qiang. His eyes were full of encouragement: “Hey, brother, try again, you are lucky tonight, maybe your money will come back right away!”

 

He was worried that his money would be wasted, and his previous win gave him confidence. After some hesitation, he put in another thousand, but this time he won and made his money back several times.

 

When the phone in his pocket vibrated, he picked it up and realized that it was already 2:30 in the morning. At this time, the money in his pocket had changed from 2,000 to 32,000. His wife on the phone asked him why he hadn’t come home yet. All his madness was dismissed at once. He stood up tremblingly. His legs were numb and his voice was hoarse from excessive nervousness and excitement. Brother Qiang accompanied him out. He felt the cold wind and could feel the thickness of the banknotes in his pocket.

 

How many thousands did this make? His shop makes a lot of money during the week, but he has rarely seen this kind of money except when he is speculating in real estate.

 

When he got home, he found an excuse that was not very convincing, and fell asleep under his wife’s gaze. That night he tossed and turned, dreaming that his thirty thousand turned into three hundred thousand, and three hundred thousand turned into three million… In the end, he was sitting on a towering pile of money.

 

When he woke up, his senses recovered a little, and his impulsive heart immediately cooled down. It’s a good thing! But at night, he unknowingly walked to Brother Qiang’s shop, hearing the other party’s voice saying that he would go to play again, he nodded again unconsciously.

 

Then, he was completely addicted to it. The casino provided chips on credit, and they kept accounts every day and counted them at the end of the month. Every day when he had time, he would go to the front desk to get a big bag of chips. If he won a lot, he would hand the chips to the front desk and let her register them. If he lost a lot, he would take some more…

 

Days passed, and by the end of the month, he listened to the gentle voice of the receptionist and could hardly believe his ears. The receptionist told him that he had lost a total of 500,000 yuan during this period. The other party took out the account book with his signature and the chip exchange agreement signed in advance, just waiting for him to transfer the money. He panicked, looked around, his legs trembling, and wanted to run, but was blocked by the security guards hired by the casino. He signed an IOU for 500,000 yuan, and this time when he walked out of the casino, he couldn’t even stand steadily. He was sweating profusely, and felt that a month seemed like a dream.

 

How could he do this?

 

The original body did not dare to tell his wife, he chose to embezzle the savings. At that time, the couple still trusted each other and always kept the bank card at home. There was a deposit of 550,000 yuan in that card. He decided to go all out and directly withdrew all the money to pay off the debt immediately.

 

Then… he went again. At that time, he could no longer accept the steady lifestyle of earning a few hundred or a thousand dollars a day. He knew that he was able to make a lot of money just because he was unlucky before.

 

The original body told himself again and again that he would stop as long as he won back the money he lost, and then he fell into it again.

 

He felt like he was two different people during the day and at night. During the day, he was a good-tempered shop owner praised by everyone. At night, he was a gambler with red eyes, pushing money onto the gambling table, and his brain stopped thinking. Every time he re-entered, the price he paid became higher and higher.

 

The original body kept playing and losing money, and he ended up losing a store. At this point, things had become a dead end, and he had no choice but to explain to his wife.

 

It seems that all gamblers in the world have learned superb acting skills without any guidance. He knelt in front of his expressionless wife, crying bitterly, slapping himself, saying that he was not a human being, that he was bewitched by the devil, and that he would never do it again. He grabbed his wife’s legs and told her that he was helpless.