"Mr. Lu, the journey is lonely and boring. Why not, let's play cards?"

Su Su reached out and patted Lu Xiyan's arm gently.

Sure enough, a woman is a restless animal. Once she calms down, she feels uncomfortable all over, especially when she feels that her self-esteem has been severely damaged.

Although one of the three men who lived with showed a beautiful expression to her, he definitely looked down on his fat body and greasy sweat.

The man who gave her the lower bunk to her was a good child, young, fair and gentle, like a scholar. He said he was a doctor, but he didn't seem to have the smell of disinfectant.

If something could happen, she wouldn't mind.

There is another one who has a mustache and a gloomy face all day long. When everyone sees him, he seems to have owed him five dollars in French currency. He always covers his hat on his face and doesn't even look at him.

"It's good to play cards, I like this." The bald man turned over and showed a light of cunning and greedy.

"Mr. Lu, can you play?"

"Isn't someone playing with you?" Lu Xiyan said with his eyes closed.

"It's boring for two people to play. Come down to play together. There are brothers on the upper bunk. Come down to play too. I have nothing to do anyway, so I'll kill time." Su Su had already taken out a deck of cards from under the pillow.

Tan Si pulled down his hat, glanced at Lu Xiyan, and pulled it up again.

"Mr. Lu, aren't you really not playing?" Su Su said in a ladder and spitted hot air into Lu Xiyan's ear.

"Miss Susu, do you really want to play?" Lu Xiyan raised his legs and sat up.

"Of course, there are still several hours at night. I'll go to bed now, and I won't be able to fall asleep at night?" Su Su smirked.

"What to play?"

"Shuha." The bald and greasy man took the lead.

"It's better to be blackjack at 21 o'clock, how about taking turns to be a dealer?" Su Su objected.

"Three people, are there a little missing?" Lu Xiyan smiled, "Brother, come down to have fun together, anyway, I'm idle."

"Not interested." Tan Si turned his back.

"Brother, are you afraid of losing without bringing money?" The bald man sneered.

"Who did you say that he didn't bring the money? Who did you say that he was afraid of losing?" Tan Si was furious when he heard this, and sat up and questioned.

"Then are you here?" the bald man provoked.

"Come on, whoever is afraid of whom?" Tan Si snorted coldly and jumped off the upper bunk. "It's 21 o'clock, right? One deck of cards is too few, why do you need four decks of cards?"

"Four decks of cards, no problem." Su Su, a woman from the cheongsam, took out three decks of playing cards from under her pillow like a magic trick. "These three have not been opened yet. Should you test them? Don't say that I'm trying to play cards at that time?"

"Give it to me." The bald man hummed, almost snatched the playing cards from Su Su's hand, opened them, and checked them, "Mr. Lu, do you want to check the cards?"

"I don't understand, this brother should come?" Lu Xiyan really didn't understand this, but Tan Si is a man from the martial arts world. His gambling skills are very superb. This kind of card verification is not a problem.

Tan Si passed by and nodded slightly: "There is no problem with the card."

"Do you know the rules?" Su Su asked, and the other three nodded. Nowadays, even if you don't go to the casino often, you know how to play.

"In the first round, I will be a dealer, and then we will turn counterclockwise and take turns to be a dealer. Do you have no objection?" Su Su asked, "How many bets are there?"

"At least five fiat currencies."

"Five yuan, isn't it a little big?" Lu Xiyan frowned slightly. He said that a five yuan fiat currency is not small. If he loses badly, he may be able to get in for a few hours.

"If Mr. Lu doesn't bring enough money, you can get a little less. What if you want to pay three yuan per bet?" The bald man smiled, as if he was mocking Lu Xiyan, thinking that he was a master of money, but he ended up doing it with the strength on the outside.

"I either didn't bring money, or I was afraid that someone would lose money by then." Lu Xiyan smiled. He had no money, so he carried at least five thousand cash and gold bars. Of course, the gold bars were kept by Tan Si and not placed on him.

"Then come on."

If you pay five yuan per bet, no one has any objections, so let’s start.

"Have you asked this brother for his name?" The bald man asked Tan Si in a pleasing tone.

"Call me, the fourth brother." Tan Si said coldly, "Where are you?"

"Coincidentally, my surname is Yang, and I am ranked third in the family. The fourth brother just calls me Yang Lao San." The bald child smiled.

"Is that true?" Tan Si said lightly. Yang Laosan's mouth is really worthy of beating. He probably has become accustomed to taking advantage of it, so he can take advantage of it when he catches it.

The small cabinet at the head of the bed was moved over and could be used as a card table.

The cards were shuffled and placed there, and no one cut the cards. In the first round, Su Su was the dealer and started dealing cards.

Lu Xiyan was very lucky. He grabbed a blackjack and won the first card as soon as he came up.

Then he won several cards intermittently. The fiat currency cash in front of him had already reached two or three hundred yuan. The dealer lost the most, at least most of the money was the money.

The first round passed quickly. After the reshuffle, it was Yang Laosan's turn to be the banker.

Lu Xiyan's luck was a little worse. He lost half of the money he won in the first round, but the dealer Yang Laosan won a lot. In the scene, he and Yang Laosan both won. Su Su and Tan Si lost more. Su Su had to lose more, and Tan Si also lost more.

The third round will soon arrive, and Tan Si will be the banker.

This round is very average, and the winner is not very big. Lu Xiyan won some more, and the fiat currency in front of him looks like more than 200 or less than 300.

Yang Laosan lost a little, but he still won. Tan Si and Su Su were on the same level.

In this fourth round, Lu Xiyan was lucky. The fiat currency in front of him doubled at once, almost five hundred. Susu, Yang Laosan and Tan Si both lost money. Susu lost the most, about three hundred, followed by Tan Si, who lost more than one hundred, and Yang Laosan was the least, about forty or fifty.

This first lap took less than an hour to play.

"I'll go and get rid of it." Yang Laosan stood up and said.

"I'll go out to smoke a cigarette, Mr. Lu, let's go together. Come back, let's continue playing?" Su Su invited Lu Xiyan.

"Okay." Lu Xiyan nodded. Anyway, with Tan Si here, he didn't have to worry, so he followed Su Su out of the cabin and came to the deck.

"Mr. Lu, do you smoke?"

"Occasionally."

Susu took out a steel cigarette box, opened it, and said, "Come on one?"

"I'm not used to smoking this kind of cigarette." Lu Xiyan took out a bag of three cannons from his pocket and was about to tear open the tin foil. Su Su said, "Then can I try Mr. Lu's cigarette?"

"You want to smoke my cigarette?" Lu Xiyan laughed, pulled out one, and handed it over, "I'm afraid you won't get used to it."

"Try it." Su Su skillfully took it, took out the lighter, lit it for her, then lit it for Lu Xiyan and put it away.

“The lighter is good.”

"Mr. Lu likes it, I'll give it to you." Su Su took out the lighter from her pocket openly and said.

"Forget it, a gentleman is not a good person." Lu Xiyan stretched out his hand and pushed the lighter. He was not without it, but he saw that Su Su's lighter was very unique, and he was afraid it was not an ordinary thing.

"Mr. Lu is from Shanghai. How did he think of going to Annan to do business? Shanghai is a paradise for adventurers. There are wealth and business opportunities everywhere?" Su Su took a breath, and might feel a little choking, and she couldn't help but cough slightly.

"Shanghai was occupied by the Japanese, and we Chinese were not even as good as third-class citizens. How could we have any chance?"

"What kind of business does Mr. Lu do? Can you disclose it?"

"wood."

"Wood?" Susu said in surprise.

"What, don't you want to?"

"How come you, a medical practitioner, think of doing a wood business? This span is too big, right?" Su Su asked curiously with wide eyes.

"You know that China and Japan are fighting now, and people are dying every day. The rich and poor are the same in front of bullets. When people die, they have to be buried in peace. The coffins in the market are always in short supply. There are many primeval forests in Annan, and many precious woods are imported from here in the past, including nanmu, mahogany, and redwood, etc.." Lu Xiyan explained with a smile.

"Mr. Lu is in this business?" Su Su looked in disbelief.

"I am only responsible for transporting the wood back. As for what these woods are made, it has nothing to do with me, but the demand in this area is indeed not small in China."

To smuggle, you must have a cover-up business. If you go through formal channels, you must first be skinned by the French. This is not what he wants.

"I really didn't expect that Mr. Lu's business vision was so unique." Su Su exclaimed.

"I'm just making a living in this troubled world. Without money, there is nothing, Miss Su Su, what do you think?" Lu Xiyan said.

"You have really subverted the image of scholars in my heart."

"Hahaha, scholars are also human beings, and they also have to eat, drink, defecate and urinate. I support myself and have not made money from the national crisis. Isn't this possible?" Lu Xiyan laughed.

"Let's go, go back and continue playing. In this game, I will win back all the money you won." Su Su said at Lu Xiyan with her fist.

"I'll wait for you."

Win first and then lose, what the ancients summarized makes sense.

One afternoon, after four laps, Lu Xiyan won at the beginning, but lost at the beginning of the third lap, and eventually lost more than 400 fiat coins.

Tan Si was even worse than him, losing more than 600, Yang Laosan won the most, nearly 800, and Su Su also won more than 200.

Yang Laosan won the money, so he held the money in his hand, and there was nothing to say. However, Su Su won the money and was very happy to invite Lu Xiyan and Tan Si to dinner.

The restaurant on board can support ordering, but the quantity is limited and you need to book in advance.

Tan Si made it clear that he couldn't go, and Su Su was reluctant to take Lu Xiyan to the restaurant for dinner. Lu Xiyan had no choice but to follow her to the restaurant.
Chapter completed!