"I sold the last remaining piece of homestead land in the countryside for over a hundred thousand yuan. I heard there are a lot of good materials this time, so I'm thinking of taking one last gamble. Whether I can change my fate against the heavens depends on this hundred thousand yuan!"
Old Huang didn't hide anything.
He said with a completely frank grin.
Little did he know, Ye Chen frowned upon hearing this.
"Are you crazy? Are you trying to drive yourself to a dead end?"
A guy who had absolutely no experience with stone gambling.
Taking the money from selling his homestead land to gamble on stones?
What is this if not driving himself to a dead end?
Thinking back to his previous life when he never saw Old Huang again later.
Then connecting it with Old Huang's words about taking one last gamble at this moment.
In an instant, Ye Chen seemed to understand something...
Old Huang gave a bitter smile.
"Since it's come to this, I'm not afraid of you knowing. I still owe Anda thirty thousand in usury loans, and it's due tomorrow. Also, my Mom is in the hospital waiting for a kidney transplant, I really have no other choice! This hundred thousand yuan is just a drop in the bucket, it can't save my Mom, nor can it repay the usury loans. I tried to borrow from relatives and friends, but as soon as they heard I wanted to borrow money, they either hung up on me or blocked me!"
"So what do you think I can do? What should I do? I can only try my luck one more time. If my life isn't meant to end, maybe the heavens will look after me this once, and my Mom and I will still have a way to live. If I don't get lucky, I'll accept it and be a beast of burden for my Mom in my next life!"
Hearing this.
Ye Chen didn't know how to respond.
As a gambler himself, he completely empathized with Old Huang.
He didn't want to make any defense or whitewash for gamblers.
He also knew that all gamblers in the world brought ruin upon themselves, deserved death, and all their misfortunes were self-inflicted.
But when despair arrived, all those maxims about 'if only I had known earlier' and 'those who bring ruin upon themselves cannot live' were meaningless.
Because there was only one path before them, which was to risk everything and bet it all.
Just like Old Huang's current situation.
Thirty thousand in usury loans, and an elderly mother in urgent need of money.
A hundred thousand yuan was purely a drop in the bucket.
If he didn't gamble and try his luck, there was only a dead end.
There was no choice, no room for any alternative.
"Alright, I won't talk about this with you anymore. Go find President Zhang, work hard, and for heaven's sake, don't follow in my footsteps! If I get lucky today, we can still meet in the future. If I don't, then we won't meet again, haha!"
Patting Ye Chen's shoulder, Old Huang laughed heartily.
But there was a sense of sorrow in that laughter.
Perhaps, he also knew that the possibility of him striking it rich was minuscule...
"Okay, don't make a move easily later. Listen to me, I've been quite lucky recently, maybe I can bring you some good fortune!" Ye Chen nodded.
"Alright, haha!"
Ye Chen smiled and said no more.
He turned and walked towards Zhang Jingshan.
However, before he could reach Zhang Jingshan.
He heard Zhang Jingshan's exasperated voice.
"Fuck your Uncle, I'm just relying on the influence of my Old Master, what can you do about it!"
Immediately after Zhang Jingshan's words fell.
Another voice rose with a teasing and sarcastic tone.
"Nothing much, just a bit of contempt for you. Your whole family is living off the Old Secretary's connections and past favors. Don't you and your Dad feel ashamed? Also, you father and son wouldn't think that the little bit of old capital the Old Secretary has left can really sustain you for a lifetime, would you? When the Old Secretary closes his eyes and is gone, and the tea cools, do you think you and your Dad will still have old capital to rely on?"
"But then again, you are slightly better than your Dad. At least you have a bit more shame than your Dad. Your Dad shamelessly uses the Old Secretary's name every day, freeloading on connections everywhere and trying to extort people... Hmm... In this regard, you are much stronger than your Dad!"
These words could no longer be described as mere sarcasm.
It was clearly a blatant act of provocation!
"Li Mu, fuck your Uncle!"
If it was just about him, Zhang Jingshan, he might have been able to bear it.
But when it involved his father's generation, Zhang Jingshan couldn't tolerate it.
Even if he didn't like his Dad, even if he and his Dad were like enemies seeing each other and turning red with anger when they met.
But this didn't mean that he, Zhang Jingshan, could allow others to humiliate his Dad like this!
Because no matter how much he disliked, hated, or was disgusted, Zhang Xingguo was still his Dad!
Under the uncontrollable rage of unbearable provocation.
Zhang Jingshan raised his leg to kick the other person.
Fortunately, at the last moment, he was stopped by Li Changfeng.
He quickly said, "Jingshan, calm down, calm down, don't be impulsive!"
"I'll calm his Uncle!" Zhang Jingshan was furious.
Little did he know, the man named Li Mu was unmoved and became even more teasing.
"Come on, kick me, I guarantee I'll stand still and let you kick to your heart's content! But I advise you to consider the consequences. Think about your Old Secretary Grandpa, at his age, still having to humble himself and pull strings everywhere to help you out, and even condescending to talk to me about a settlement. Don't you feel ashamed?"
"Fuck your Mom!"
Upon hearing this, Zhang Jingshan immediately calmed down.
Although still struggling against Li Changfeng's restraint, he was clearly not as impulsive as before.
"No class, you're really embarrassing your Grandpa!"
Not affected by Zhang Jingshan's vulgar trash talk.
Li Mu smiled mockingly.
This made Zhang Jingshan feel like he was punching cotton.
How stifling!
Likewise, the mocking smile on the other person's face also dealt him critical damage invisibly once again.
"President Zhang, General Manager Li, what's wrong?"
Ye Chen, who had just walked over, asked in surprise.
"It's nothing, Mr. Ye, please excuse the scene!" Li Changfeng said awkwardly.
"Whew..."
Breathing heavily, after seeing Ye Chen come over, Zhang Jingshan's emotions also calmed down slightly, "It's nothing!"
"Hmm? Aren't you that guy from Maple Leaf the other day? Tsk tsk, Zhang Jingshan, you're getting more and more trashy as you go along. Now you're even hanging out with this kind of loser gambler?"
Suddenly, Li Mu, who was about to leave, stayed after seeing that Zhang Jingshan and Ye Chen knew each other.
A look of surprise appeared on his face.
"Mr. Ye, you know him?"
Hearing this, Zhang Jingshan, who was still seething with anger, looked towards Ye Chen.
At the same time, he felt puzzled.
Maple Leaf... He knew it referred to the Maple Leaf Grand Hotel.
He also knew what kind of place that was.
But he had never set foot there.
Because Old Master had said that if he dared to step inside, he would break his legs!
And Ye Chen had actually appeared at the Maple Leaf Grand Hotel?
Before Ye Chen could respond.
Li Mu, who looked refined and talented, had already started to sneer.
"I'm not as low-class as you, hanging out with just anyone. I just happened to run into him. He lost a million and started cursing his Mom. At the time, I was wondering what kind of bumpkin this was. Who would have thought, after asking around, turns out he's a low-level gambler who constantly owes usury loans. I don't know if he won the lottery or made money from demolition, but he was introduced to Maple Leaf as a leek by that big idiot Anda! This kind of person, Zhang Weimin's grandson can hang out with him? Zhang Jingshan, Zhang Jingshan, seriously, you've completely shamed your Grandpa!"