Are there any surnames with the color black? That's a really strange surname. In China, a name like "Black Family" would probably be condemned long ago. The underworld is a force to be reckoned with in China, unlike in some other places where they can be so rampant.
However, Johnny gave Zhou Xuan a strange feeling. He was easygoing and could chat with an ordinary person like him for a while. He didn't have the carefree personality of Li Junjie.
Zhou Xuan was unaware that Wang Jue had secretly called Fu Ying earlier and told her about Zhou Xuan's situation that day. Fu Ying was naturally very happy and also told her cousin Johnny about Zhou Xuan. Johnny was also very excited and said he would come over to have some fun and get to know this expert.
Zhou Xuan said sincerely, "Mr. Johnny, your Mandarin is really good, much better than mine!"
"Hehe, I'm very proud of that!" Johnny replied with a smile. "When I was two years old, my mother taught me Chinese. In my cousin's family, if you can't speak Chinese, you probably won't even be able to get in the door!"
Zhou Xuan couldn't help but smile when he heard what he said was interesting.
Johnny picked up his wine glass and said to Zhou Xuan and Li Junjie, "Mr. Zhou, Junjie, let's have a drink! Hehe, in your words, let's have a toast!"
Fu Ying advised, "Cousin, you still have to go to the company, right? Sit down and chat for a while. It's not good to come to the company reeking of alcohol!"
Johnny waved his hand and said with a smile, "Isn't it a pleasure to have friends coming from afar? Since we're having fun, how can we not drink? Come on, cheers!"
Zhou Xuan heard him dangling his backpack, then grinned and clinked beer glasses with him and Li Junjie before taking a small sip.
Li Junjie, on the other hand, finished his beer in one gulp, leaving his glass empty. Then look at Johnny, who had downed a third of his large glass of beer. The three of them were quite different.
Li Junjie, after drinking, frowned and said, "This song is so weak and uninspired. Cousin, Mr. Zhou, how about the three of us go up and sing a song?"
Zhou Xuan quickly waved his hand and said, "You guys go ahead. I'm tone-deaf and have no musical talent. I can only listen, not sing."
Li Junjie muttered to himself, "What kind of show should we watch to perk us up?"
Fu Ying snorted and said, "Cousin, all you ever think about are doing shameless and bad things. Do you even know that Yang Xuan still has her eye on you? This time I was in China..."
"Alright, alright, why do you have to bring up something you don't want to talk about? I was saying..." Li Junjie interrupted Fu Ying abruptly, "It's a rare happy day, let's not talk about anything that might spoil the mood, okay? Or, I know there's an underground casino in Richmond, how about we go check it out?"
Upon hearing Li Junjie's words, Zhou Xuan's heart stirred. The scene on the Neptune last time flashed through his mind. Going to the casino would be better than drinking aimlessly here. Who knows, he might be able to earn back the money that was stolen last time.
Li Junjie then asked the others in English. The Wolf brothers were the first to agree, and Elena did not object. Li Junjie then looked at the Ito siblings, and they both nodded slightly. It seems that gambling is something that people like everywhere.
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Volume One: The First Signs of Growth, Chapter Thirteen: The Decisive Battle of Blackjack
In the United States, with the exception of a very few states that allow casinos, many states and counties do not permit casinos. New York City also has no openly operated casinos.
However, underground casinos are naturally unstoppable, and they come in a wide variety of forms, including regular gambling, as well as underground boxing matches, basketball, football, and many other games. But the most popular games are still the regular ones.
Sun City, which is very close to New York, has casinos; Connecticut, which is very close to Boston, has casinos; and Las Vegas, which is close to Los Angeles, has casinos. In fact, there are quite a few places in the United States with casinos. These are all licensed by the government and are operating legally.
New York's underground casinos are purely tools for organized crime to make money. There are many of them, big and small. But in these places, as long as you don't cheat, or even if you do cheat, as long as you don't get caught cheating, the casino will let you go. Organized crime also has its rules. If you break the rules, you'll lose your source of income.
Richmond is a borough of New York City, primarily inhabited by white and black residents with relatively few immigrants, unlike Manhattan and Brooklyn, which are more diverse in terms of population. However, Richmond has the smallest population of any borough. In contrast, Manhattan, while the smallest of the boroughs in area at only 59.2 square kilometers, has the second largest population after Brooklyn. This is because this narrow, elongated island is the heart of New York City, home to major banks, insurance companies, industrial corporations, transportation companies, and the world-renowned New York Stock Exchange. More than a third of the 500 largest companies in the United States have their headquarters in Manhattan.
Located in the southern part of Manhattan Island, Wall Street is a symbol of New York, and its reputation goes without saying.
The casino that Li Junjie brought didn't look like a casino at all from the outside. It was located on a street in the black neighborhood of Richmond, with a not-so-wide iron gate and a tall black man standing at the entrance, his neck and bare arms covered with disgusting tattoos.
The black man clearly knew Li Junjie. He nodded and said a few words, and was very respectful to Li Junjie, which was rare. Zhou Xuan knew that Chinese people did not have a high status in the minds of Americans.
Li Junjie's three men were left in the car. The black man opened the iron gate, and Li Junjie waved to the people behind him and shouted, "Dogs, dogs!"
Inside, there's a long, dark corridor, leading to a huge hall where it gets lively. Men and women mingle, with the majority being black and white people, and the fewest being people with yellow skin like Zhou Xuan and his friends.
The Wolf brothers, Elena, and Yuriko Ito all received an advance payment of $500,000. Only Zhou Xuan did not receive it, but after arriving at the villa in the Queens district, Fu Ying left him $10,000 for daily living expenses.
The main hall is at least 300 square meters, with 40 or 50 tables and a staircase leading to the second floor, which also appears to be a gambling hall.
As soon as Zhou Xuan entered, he noticed that most of the people playing at these tables were playing blackjack, roulette, baccarat, and Texas Hold'em. Of course, Zhou Xuan didn't know how to play Texas Hold'em, but he had seen it on Neptune.
Roulette also involves placing bets before spinning, which is not what Zhou Xuan needs to play. In Baccarat, bets are placed first, then the cards are dealt to the banker and player, and then the points are compared. In this game, Zhou Xuan can see the base number of cards in the box through the ice energy, but he has no control over which side will call or not call after the cards are dealt. Therefore, this game is also uncertain.
Finally, Zhou Xuan stood by the blackjack table for a long time. This game also involves placing bets first, then the dealer deals the cards, and you decide whether to call based on the cards dealt. If you know what the next card in the box will be, your chances of winning are already very high, because you can also estimate what the dealer's next card will be and whether it will be a bomb. If both sides are going to call again, then estimating the hole cards is especially important.
Blackjack has been a subject of much study and practice, with many people believing it to be a complex mathematical problem where calculation and exceptional memory can significantly increase one's chances of winning.
Blackjack, also known as 21, is a card game where an Ace and a Ten are higher than any other hand. The game originated in French casinos around 1700. In 1931, when Nevada legalized gambling, Blackjack first appeared in Nevada casino clubs. Within 15 years, it replaced dice games and became a very popular casino game involving the house.
Initially, blackjack only allowed a maximum of six players per game. Later, to prevent highly educated math whizzes from calculating and memorizing cards to win their money, casinos increased the number of decks used in blackjack to eight, mixing them together to make card counting more difficult.
Zhou Xuan watched for a while. Although he couldn't understand the dealer's terminology, the cards were the same as those in China, with no difference. Moreover, he understood the meaning. It was the same as the blackjack he used to play back home, except that he wasn't playing with real money. Here, he was playing with real money, specifically US dollars.
The gambling table was about five or six square meters in size, about four meters long, but only two meters wide. Zhou Xuan placed his left hand on the edge of the table and channeled his icy energy into the glass card box of the dealer's puppet. He could clearly see the suits and numbers of the cards in his mind. If he wanted, he could see the number of any card.
Zhou Xuan made up his mind to play this game, and then turned around to exchange some chips. When he turned around, he saw Fu Ying and Wang Jue standing beside him and couldn't help but ask in surprise, "What are you two doing here? Didn't you go play with your cousin and the others?"
Fu Ying shook her head and said, "They went to gamble on their own. I don't play this game and I don't understand it. Apart from a few of us, everyone else who came went to gamble. I guess you don't gamble either, so I just went with you."
Zhou Xuan blushed and said awkwardly, "Actually, I was just about to exchange for chips to play a few rounds!"
"Oh!" Fu Ying glanced at Zhou Xuan, genuinely surprised, and then said, "Alright, you play, I'll just take a look around."
Zhou Xuan looked around and saw that, apart from the two of them, everyone else had scattered around to play games, even Elena and Ono Yuriko were at the gambling table.
Zhou Xuan took out the US dollars from his pocket, counted out two thousand, and then went to the counter to exchange them for chips. Although he couldn't speak English, he didn't need to say anything when he got to the counter; the staff would know what he wanted and neatly stack the chips before handing them to him.
Zhou Xuan went to the blackjack table where Fu Ying and Wang Jue were, took a seat, and then counted out a hundred dollars' worth of chips and placed them in front of him.
This isn't like the dice game played on the Neptune, where you can be 100% certain. Blackjack isn't so certain; there are always slight variations. That's why Zhou Xuan didn't dare to bet all his chips at once.
There are seven players in this round, including the dealer.
Each player was dealt a face-down card, and then another face-up card. Zhou Xuan was in the third position. His face-up card was a nine, and his face-down card was a ten of diamonds, which added up to nineteen points, not a small number.