Chapter 45 Zhang Jingshan Was Angry
"I've sold the last homestead in the countrysideside in exchange for tens of thousands. I heard that there is quite a lot of good stuff this time around, so I want to come and have the last bet. It depends on these tens of thousands as to whether I can change my fate or not!"
Old Huang did not hide that either.
Grinning, he said directly in absolute honesty.
Unexpectedly, Ye Chen knitted his brows when he heard that.
"Are you out of your mind? Are you courting death?
Old Huang was originally a person who had no experience in stone gambling.
But he used the money he gained from selling his homestead to engage in stone gambling?
Was that not courting death?
Ye Chen thought of the fact that he had never met Old Huang after that incident during his previous life.
He then linked it with what Old Huang had said, claiming that he wanted to have the last bet.
Ye Chen seemed to have understood something in an instant...
Old Huang smiled bitterly.
"Since we've come to this state, I don't mind you knowing about it. I still owe An Da, that loan shark, three hundred thousand. It's due tomorrow. And my mom is still waiting for a kidney transplantation in the hospital. I'm running out of options! These tens of thousands are only a fucking drop in the bucket. I can't save my mom. I can't pay off the loan either. I thought of borrowing money from my relatives and friends. But when they heard that I wanted to borrow money from them, they either hung up on me or blacklisted me!
"So, what do you think I should do? What can I do? I can only try my luck again. If I'm not supposed to die, God may be kind to me. My mom and I can still survive. If I'm unlucky, I'll resign to my fate. I'll work extremely hard for my mom during my next life!"
Hearing that, Ye Chen was tongue-tied.
As a gambling addict, he could entirely sympathize with Old Huang.
He did not want to defend and whitewash a gambling addict at the tiniest bit.
He was also aware of the fact that all gambling addicts in the entire world should be blamed for their bad situations. They deserved to die. They were the ones who caused every misfortune.
But when a desperate state befell them, all of those principles of regretting one's actions and one could not avoid reaping what one had sown were all but meaningless.
It was because there was only one single path in front of them and that was to risk everything and bet on everything.
It was just like Old Huang's current situation.
A loan of three hundred thousand and an old mother who needed money urgently.
Tens of thousands were indeed a drop in the bucket.
If he did not gamble and try his luck, there was only one dead end.
He was running out of options. There was no choice left for him.
"Alright. I won't talk about this anymore. Go and look for General Manager Zhang. Work properly. Don't fucking follow in my footsteps! If I'm lucky today, we may meet again in the future. If I indeed can't, then we'll never meet again. Ha! Ha!"
Old Huang patted Ye Chen's shoulders and laughed loudly as he said so.
However, that laughter was filled with a sense of sorrow.
He might also know that he had little chance of having good luck.
"Alright. Don't make a rash move later. Listen to me. I'm quite lucky recently. You may be able to ride on my success too!" Ye Chen gave a nod.
"Sure. Ha! Ha!"
Ye Chen smiled and said nothing more.
He then turned around to walk to Zhang Jingshan.
But before he reached Zhang Jingshan's side, he heard Zhang Jingshan's deeply angry voice.
"Fuck! I do rely on The Old Master's power and influence. What can you do about it?"
After Zhang Jingshan had just said that, another playful and sarcastic voice was heard.
"There's nothing I can do about it. But I just look down upon you. Your whole family relies on the old clerk's connection and reputation. Don't you and your father feel embarrassed? And could it be that you and your father truly think that you guys can rely on the old clerk's remaining reputation for your whole lives? When the old clerk dies, and he is no longer in power, do you think that there is anything else for you to take advantage of?
"But then again, you're slightly better than your father. At least, you do care about your prestige. Your father often goes around shamelessly, making use of the connections and provoking others under the name of the old clerk. Hmm... You're better than your father in that aspect!"
It was not a sarcastic remark at all.
That person was indeed challenging him.
"Li Mu, fuck you!"
If that person was only talking about him, then he might still be able to endure it.
But when it came to his father, Zhang Jingshan could not endure it anymore.
Even if he disliked his father, and even if he and his father were just like enemies at daggers drawn whenever they met...
It did not mean that he could tolerate others humiliating his father in that way!
It was because no matter how much he disliked, despised, and was disgusted by his father, Zhang Xingguo was still his father.
He could no longer hold himself back, and he was fuming with anger.
Zhang Jingshan lifted his leg to kick him.
Luckily, Li Changfeng stopped him at the last moment.
He hurriedly said, "Jingshan, calm down. Stay calm. Don't act rashly!"
"To hell with that!" Zhang Jingshan was filled with great wrath.
Unexpectedly, the man called Li Mu continued to raise sarcastic remarks just like he was unmoved.
"Come on! Kick me! I guarantee that I'll stay and let you kick me to your delight without moving! But let me advise you. You'd better consider the consequences. Try and think about your grandfather, the old clerk. He's quite old, but he still needs to go around and submit to using his connections to get you out of this mess. He even has to condescend to negotiate with me for reconciliation. Don't you feel ashamed?"
"Motherfucker!"
After such a statement was raised, Zhang Jingshan soon calmed himself down.
Although he still struggled with Li Changfeng's obstruction, he was not as impetuous as he was just now.
"How ill-mannered! You embarrass your grandfather!"
Li Mu was not affected by Zhang Jingshan's foul language.
He smiled and said sarcastically.
It made Zhang Jingshan feel like he had made a futile attempt.
How sullen!
Similarly, the mocking smile on his face also indirectly caused another critical damage to Zhang Jingshan.
"General Manager Zhang, General Manager Li, what's wrong?"
Ye Chen, who had just walked there, asked in bewilderment.
"It's fine. Mr. Ye, we've embarrassed ourselves!" said Li Changfeng awkwardly.
Huh...
Panting vigorously, Zhang Jingshan also calmed down slightly after he saw that Ye Chen had come. "It's nothing!"
"Hmm? Aren't you that guy at Maple Leaf a few days ago? Tsk! Tsk! Oh, Zhang Jingshan. You've become worse as time goes by. You even made friends with such a worthless gambling addict?"
Li Mu planned to leave. But when he suddenly saw that Zhang Jingshan was acquainted with Ye Chen, he stayed again.
There was a tinge of bewilderment on his face.
"Mr. Ye, do you know him?"
Hearing that, Zhang Jingshan, whose anger was hard to quench, looked at Ye Chen.
At the same time, he was puzzled inwardly.
Maple Leaf... He knew that it was referred to Maple Leaf Hotel.
He knew what kind of place that was.
But he had never been there.
It was because The Old Master had once told him that if he dared to take a step into that place, his legs would be beaten up and broken.
And Ye Chen had appeared at Maple Leaf Hotel before?
Before Ye Chen could make any replies...
Li Mu, who looked gentle and refined, sneered.
"I'm not as tasteless as you since you can befriend anybody. I just bumped into him by chance. He cursed ceaselessly when he had just lost a million. I even wondered where this kind of bumpkin came from at that time. But when I asked around about it, I learned that he's a low-end gambling addict who is indebted to a loan shark every few days. I didn't know if he had won a lottery or had gained some money from the demolition of his property. He was introduced to work at Maple Leaf Hotel as a low-end worker by the big silly An Da. He's such a person like that. But you're Zhang Weimin's grandson. Do you even befriend such a person? Zhang Jingshan, oh, Zhang Jingshan! It's not that I want to mention it, but you've deeply embarrassed your grandfather!"