Chapter 15 You are really calculating with an abacus as you wish!

After entering the nightclub, it was daytime and it was not the time for the show. Charles asked the staff, "Excuse me, does Alan Stewart work here?" The staff looked at Charles and Dave and asked, "Who are you to him?" "Oh, we are his friends." Charles replied. "He works in the casino in the basement. It's useless for you to see him. You'd better go back!" Charles became vigilant and asked the staff, "What happened?" "He owed usury and didn't pay the money, so he was forced to work in a casino. If it weren't for the fact that he is my hometown fellow, I wouldn't have told you this. Since you are his friends, you'd better leave now. This is Harry's territory." Charles thought for a while and asked, "How about we play some games in the casino?" "Okay. But do you have enough money? It will cost at least ten thousand to exchange chips." "Don't worry!" Charles said confidently. He had one hundred million dollars in his bank account. Two days ago, he had a car accident and got another twenty thousand dollars. Charles directly transferred the twenty thousand dollars to Dave. "Young Master, why did you transfer money to me again?" Looking at the message on his mobile phone, Dave asked in confusion. "It's your pocket money." "But I have money already!" Charles ordered, "Just take it!" "Yes, Young Master!" After entering the underground casino, Charles changed ten thousand dollars chips. In this so-called underground casino, there were only a few mahjong tables, poker cards, dices, and a few slot machines. Alan was young, but he had beard. Therefore, as soon as Charles entered the room, he saw Alan dressed as the casino’s staff and serving the guests inside. A staff member came up and asked Charles with a smile, "Bro, what do you play?" "Five-card Stud! Any tables?" "Yes!" The staff led Charles to a table, where three people were already playing. Five-card Stud was a kind of poker game, from 8 to A, a total of four colors, 28 cards, generally 2 to 4 players. Since Chow Yun Fat's movie God of gamblers became popular, it was the most popular game in all the casinos. Charles's father, Albert, had a friend who knew cheating. Charles had learned it from that man for nearly two years when he was a teenager. Alan was playing mahjong. When he looked up, he saw Charles. He came forward and greeted, "Mr. Garcia, you're here!" "Hey!" Charles nodded and asked Alan, "How much money do you owe?" Alan was slightly surprised. He didn't expect that Charles would know that he owed money. After a while, he muttered, "About two hundred thousand dollars!" Charles frowned and asked, "How?" "Well..." Alan pulled Charles aside and said that his mother was hospitalized a few months ago and needed 100,000 dollars for treatment. He wanted to borrow money from Rosemary, but her company was sued for trademark infringement. After the production of B&C Packing Design Company stopped, Alan had no source of living and borrowed usury. In just a few months, the debts of 100,000 dollars had reached more than 200,000 dollars including the interests. Since he couldn't pay the debt, he agreed to work in this casino for free for two years to pay the debt. Therefore, he couldn't go back to work in Rosemary’s company. After listening to Alan's narration, Charles said, "I'll pay your debt first. You go back to work in Rosemary’s company, and I'll pay you 2000 dollars a month as living expenses. You can pay me the debts slowly." "Mr. Garcia, if what you said is true, I am willing to go back to work." Alan was overjoyed. If he continued to work here, he would fall deeper and deeper, and he wouldn't be able to get out of this trap. What Charles said undoubtedly gave him hope. Charles said to Alan seriously, "But I don't have so much money now. I have to gamble with them. Don't tell my wife. She hates gamblers the most. Including your experience of working in the casino, don't mention it to her." "Don't worry, Mr. Garcia. I won't tell it to her. But if you don't have so much money to redeem me, are you playing me?" "Not yet. I'll have it soon!" With a confident smile, Charles walked towards the Five-card Stud platform. "Shall I?" Charles sat down and asked the three people at the same table. A bald man nodded and said, "okay.". He winked at another thin man. Charles knew there must be something fishy between the bald man and the thin guy. They might gang up on the man with glasses opposite. The man with glasses spoke with an alien accent and asked Charles, "Bro, let's play a bet of one hundred dollars." "Sure!" Charles threw a white chip on the table. The chips were divided into three types: white, red and blue. One white chip means one hundred dollars; one red chip means five hundred dollars; one blue chip means one thousand dollars. The dealer was a female about thirty years old, wearing a black business suit short skirt. Although she looked ordinary, her figure could definitely be described as hot and sexy. After dealing one card to each of them, Charles had the trump card of K. In the second round, the poker face was J, and the bald man's poker face was A at most. The bald man threw two white chips directly, followed by Charles. The card in his hand was A. He directly threw a red chip worth five hundred dollars. The thin man's card was not good, so he directly abandoned it. Both the bald man and the man with glasses threw a red chip! In the end, Charles won the other two with the black dragon, winning thousands dollars in one round. Others thought Charles was lucky this time, but Charles almost won every round but he lost three rounds. In the end, he won two hundred and ten thousand dollars in total. Although there was still several thousands dollars needed left for Alan to pay off the debt of two hundred and eighty thousand dollars, he planned to make up for the rest. In this way, Alan would not doubt that he was very rich. Charles received the transfer of two hundred and ten thousand dollars and said to Alan, "Alan, take me to see your boss. I'll pay the money for you." Alan didn't expect that Charles would win. He led him through two iron gates and entered an office. In the office sat a fat man who weighed two hundred pounds. After Alan came in, he said to the fatty, "Mr. Fish, my friend is here to pay the money for me." The fatty's surname was Fish, and his nickname was "Fatty Fish". His real name was called Theodore Fish. In the monitor, Theodore had already seen Charles win. He narrowed his eyes, stared at Charles and said coldly, "Bro, win money in my casino and use it to pay off your friend's debt. You are really calculating with an abacus as you wish!" Hearing Fatty Fish’s words, Charles smiled. He took out a box of cigarettes worth 15 dollars from his pocket, pulled out one and lit it. He puffed out a smoke ring. Charles said to Theodore , "Boss Fish, since you run a casino here, don't you allow guests to win?" "I didn't mean that. I just want to ask if you are interested in working here." "I'm not interested!" Charles refused with a cold face. "Mr. Fish, can you show me Alan's IOU note? I'll pay for him!" Theodore rummaged through the drawer and found the IOU note written by Alan. Alan nodded at Charles, indicating that he had written down the IOU note. Charles transferred the 286,000 dollars that Alan owed with interest to Theodore. Just as Charles was about to leave with Alan, Theodore sneered and said, "If I let you go like this, I will be too embarrassed. Win my money to pay your debt. Damn it! Money is all mine, isn't it?" Charles raised his eyebrows and said, "What? You wanna act wildly?" "So what?"As soon as Theodore pressed the button on the table, four brawny men pushed the door open and came in. "Give them a lesson!"