Chapter 108: Arrive at the provincial capital
Qiaobei District and the other four districts are divided by a long train lane. If you want to go from the city to Qiaobei, you must pass through an overpass, north of the overpass, so it is called Qiaobei District.
The four districts south of the train lane are the world of Boss Xu’s group, and Qiaobei District is the territory of Boss Jin’s group.
It is rumored that before 1997, taxis in our city would use the overpass as the dividing line and divide into two.
Taxis in the north of the bridge cannot come to the south of the bridge, and taxis in the south of the bridge cannot go to the north of the bridge. This is a struggle between the Xu Group and the Jin Group underground monopoly.
Later, a leader was in a hurry to meet an important meeting. The driver failed to arrive in time and took a taxi. However, when passing by the overpass, the driver refused to solicit customers and drove the leader out of the car.
So, under the furiousness of the leader, Boss Xu and Boss Jin reached a settlement on this matter.
"I've heard of it, could this Gu Nanshan be from the Kim Group of Qiaobei?" I asked tentatively.
"Well, yes." Yan Nini did not deny it and revealed her identity: "Gu Nanshan is the second-in-command of the Jin Group."
Upon hearing this, I roughly understood!
The Qian goalkeeper's goal is just a weapon for the battle between the Jin Group and the Xu Group in the casino.
"I mainly don't understand what the meaning of them making these thousand goalkeepers come out?" Yan Nini thought about it: "I really don't understand what the hell is selling in Gu Nanshan's gourd!
Even the Thousand Goalsmen didn't know that they only knew that the task was to win money and they had to choose the gambling table with the most people."
While starting, he thought about the other party's purpose for Yan Nini.
After thinking for nearly a minute, I came up with an answer that was consistent with logic and meaningful to the Jin Group: "Sister Nini, do you think they will start to spread rumors after the Thousand Goalsmen take action and slander your chess and card room is unsafe, and someone is cheating."
When Yan Nini heard the results I gave, she seemed to be enlightened: "It is very likely that these days they have been shooting and changing places, or even changing two or more casinos a day to gamble. In just a few days, most of our casinos have been played by them."
Upon hearing this, I became more and more sure about my thoughts.
"I think the answer should be like this. Your regular customers in the casino have won all of them by their high-profile methods. If Gu Nanshan took this opportunity to promote, the gamblers would definitely leave your chess and card room through the promotional content and combined with the influence of the Thousand Gatekeepers on them."
I have to say that Gu Nanshan’s trick is really cruel. The only things that gamblers care about are the fairness of the casino, the security of funds and personal safety.
If there are any mistakes in these two points, the gamblers will naturally not come again.
Play cards everywhere you go, why bother playing in a place where cheats often go?
"Then...what should I do now?" Yan Nini was a little worried.
Once the reputation of the casino is destroyed, it will be difficult to recover it in a short period of time.
But in my opinion, this matter is not difficult. If you seize a good opportunity, it may become a big publicity, and it is a blessing to lose it.
"Have those thousand goalkeepers been let go?" I asked.
"not yet."
"That's fine. You can issue an announcement in advance at various casinos, saying that a fraudster has been arrested recently in the casino event. These thousand goalkeepers are the best testimony. If the operation is good, it will not only not lose customers, but will become publicity."
After hearing what I thought, Yan Nini was very surprised and decided on this matter.
"Yan Qiu, I didn't expect that besides being powerful in Qianzhi, you are also so smart. You are really talented under Liu Ye."
"Sister Nini has gone too far."
After a few polite games with Yan Nini, he hung up the phone.
After arriving in the provincial capital and opening a hotel, it was already five o'clock in the morning.
My sleepiness had already blurred my eyes. I lay on the bed and fell asleep soon.
When I opened my eyes again, it was around 11 o'clock in the morning. When I saw the time on my phone, I woke up instantly.
I was thinking of waking up until nine o'clock, but I overslept.
The reason is that the hotel curtains have too good shading effect, which makes me unable to distinguish the approximate time through the sunlight.
On my phone, there was a greeting text message sent to me by Qi Yao, and her itinerary today.
[Fall in autumn, good morning, I miss you very much. Today is holiday. I am going to go to hot pot with my classmates at noon. Remember to have breakfast when you wake up.]
This is an intimate thing she does with me every day. When I wake up in the morning, I say hello and talk about her itinerary today, so that I can feel at ease.
Sitting up, I washed my cold water face and called Qi Yao.
"Hey, Qiu, are you awake?" Qi Yao was very happy when she heard my phone call, and there was a surprise in her voice.
When I heard Qi Yao's voice, my whole mood became much clearer: "Well, where are you?"
"I was on the bus and I was preparing to eat hot pot with my classmates." Qi Yao replied, and did not forget to introduce to me: "The Laokang hot pot in the provincial capital is really great. When will you come to the provincial capital to see me, I will take you to eat."
"It's better to choose a day than to meet the day, just today." I said with a smile.
"Okay, then you come, whoever doesn't come will have a puppy," Qi Yao said.
"Send the location."
"Okay, stop teasing me. I'll say I'll come to see me every day. It's been more than a month, so I won't come." When talking about this, Qi Yao's tone was a little disappointed.
"You send a seat, I'll go later, and you're a puppy," I promised.
She snorted softly: "Okay, if you lied to me, you will be dead."
After a joke, she told me the location.
But as a road deaf who has just entered the provincial capital, I can't even tell the difference between the southeast, south, west and north.
In 1999, I didn’t have map navigation on my smartphone, so I could only choose to ask for directions.
After asking a few people, some didn’t understand, some were blindly directed, and after several detours, they finally came to the Lao Kang hotpot mentioned by Qi Yao.
There must be a sense of ritual among couples.
Before coming, when I passed by the flower shop, I bought ninety-nine roses.
When I arrived at Laokang Hot Pot, I walked into the restaurant and looked around, but I didn’t see Qi Yao.
I think they haven't arrived yet.
Walk out of the hot pot restaurant, leaning against the car door, holding flowers in your hands.
In popular TV series at that time, the male protagonists were always in this position when they were waiting for girls.
It seems a bit non-mainstream now, but in 1999, it was so cool to put it on the street.
After waiting for about ten minutes, Qi Yao and his group came slowly.
There were three men and four women, a total of seven people, and a few of them walked towards Lao Kang Hotpot, talking and laughing.
One of the men wearing glasses caught my eye.
Because he was always by Qi Yao's side, he kept talking and laughing.
As the distance got closer, Qi Yao's eyes also saw me.
Chapter completed!