Chapter 62: Mayor Li admits his mistake
The plaster statue was really hard to hold, and it might not be transported home when it was taken to the car. Shen Ruobing finally threw it away. At this time, Shehuo passed by every unit and shop on the street, and everyone began to give Shehuo
The scene of donating money on fire was very lively.
The Shehuo team went through the entire streets of Mengjiawan Township. The actors were also very tired. The sound of gongs and drums gradually disappeared, and people in all the streets began to walk towards the theater.
It was already nine o'clock, and the famous actors from the provincial capital were about to start performing at this time. Baosheng and Shen Ruobing also walked towards the theater. However, when they arrived at the theater entrance, they saw that it was blocked and they could not get in or out. They asked people to follow the crowd and move slowly.
, when I entered the theater gate, I saw that the theater was almost full. The theater covers an area of more than ten acres, and even the outside was full of people.
Some vendors setting up stalls are at the back of the theater, and a family selling glutinous rice is actually here. No one manages the township association. People lose things here every year. There are many thieves. Gao Baosheng always pays attention to his surroundings.
"Baosheng, there are a lot of people there, let's go take a look!" Shen Ruobing loved to watch the excitement, so she pulled Baosheng to squeeze in where there were many people.
“There are a few here, I’ll pay you as much as you press!”
It turned out that this was a small gambling game. The dealer took out a bowl on the table, put a ball in it, and then put the bowl on the ball and asked everyone to guess how many balls were in it.
Many people put out 10 cents and 20 cents in it. Most of them bet one, and two people bet two. These people must be trustworthy. After the boss opened it, it was two. Everyone
They all sighed, and the boss happily took the money back.
"Everyone is optimistic this time. If you press more, you will win more. If you press less, you will win less. This is a rare opportunity!" The boss deliberately let everyone see clearly that there were three balls inside, and then put the bowl on the ball. In an instant, there was another ball.
Several people bet on three balls.
"Baosheng, let's play some too. This time there are three." Shen Ruobing turned to look at Baosheng and said.
"Those are all deceptive tricks, and the tricks of this liar are not very good. You see, these balls are all sponge balls, which can be caught between your fingers. He can get as many as he wants. This is basically cheating money.
"Gao Baosheng said.
But Baosheng's words were heard by the liar, who stopped what he was doing and looked at Baosheng.
"This little brother, you can eat randomly but not talk nonsense. My game is all about your eyesight. If you don't believe in this bowl, you can open it." The liar said to Baosheng.
At this time, many people who invested money had already realized that something was wrong. Seeing that the speaker was Baosheng, everyone looked at the boss with vigilance. This boss is not from Mengjiawan Township. If it is really a lie, they will not do it today.
Will let the other person go easily.
The liar knew that Baosheng said that everyone was already worried. Today was just the beginning. If he could not dispel the concerns of the people around him, it would seriously affect his business.
"Let me drive? OK! As long as you dare!" Gao Baosheng said and stood next to the liar. It may be difficult for the liar to leave today.
"Everyone, it's clear that I'm not the one to win the bowl this time. You all seem to know him, so there's no way he's cheating... Let's go!" The liar put a ball on the table, then clasped it with the bowl and took a step back.
"You can't do this. Roll up your sleeves. I can see that there is something in your sleeves, and you can't reach your pockets with your hands." Baosheng said.
Someone was already about to start betting, but when they heard what Baosheng said, they stopped and looked at the liar to see what he would say.
The liar rolled up his sleeves and turned his pockets upside down. There was nothing inside.
"Is this good?" the liar asked Baosheng.
"Okay, you can start!" Baosheng said with a smile.
The liar opened the bowl and there was no ball in it. Many people were lucky and would have lost again if they had just bet on one.
The liar put the empty bowl on the table and took a step back to let everyone start betting. Everyone looked at Baosheng and wanted to ask him how to bet.
"Don't bet on this one, there should be two or three in this bowl!" Baosheng revealed that there were really three balls in the bowl.
All the people who were supposed to be taking custody broke out in a sweat. The liar looked at Baosheng angrily: "No one has taken custody yet! What are you doing?"
"I'll give it a try. Aren't you very confident? How about trying it again? This time after you dunk the bowl, stretch out your hands for everyone to see, so that everyone can know that you didn't cheat." Baosheng said.
"Okay, look! This is a ball... the bowl is covered, but there is nothing in my hand!" The liar took a step back after covering the bowl.
No one dared to bet casually at this time. Everyone in the village knew Gao Baosheng and looked at him, but Baosheng took out 100 yuan from his pocket and threw it directly on the table.
"I spent a hundred yuan to buy this place for nothing." Gao Baosheng said with a smile.
When other people saw this, they all bet that there was no ball in the bowl. Suddenly, the boss was sweating. He wanted to come over and open the bowl, but was stopped by the people around him.
"I promised that I would open the bowl, what's wrong? Do you want to do anything?" Gao Baosheng said with a smile and opened the bowl, and there were indeed two balls inside.
"lose money, lose money..." Everyone shouted to compensate, and Gao Baosheng pocketed his 100 yuan. In fact, he had already sent it to the space warehouse. He had to guard against thieves at this township meeting.
The liar saw everyone gathered around him. This time, not counting Baosheng's bet, others had bet more than 100 yuan. He wanted to turn around and leave. How could the others be willing? Even if the liar spent all his money, it wouldn't be enough for everyone present.
People compensate.
"Don't even think about leaving until you lose money!" Several people who had not received the money surrounded the scammer and refused to let him leave.
"I really don't have any money left. I came out today to contradict the master. It's my fault. Give me some time. I will raise money now and I will pay you back later." The scammer was surrounded and kept explaining.
Baosheng held the 100 yuan that the liar paid in his hand. He smiled when he saw the liar being surrounded, turned around and walked away. It was unlucky for the liar to meet Baosheng today.
"Let's go! All gambling games like this are basically scams. As long as you play, you will lose. Some people get better and better as they play, and in the end they are unwilling to lose all their money." Gao Baosheng said to Shen Ruobing.
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"How did you know there was nothing in that bowl just now?" Shen Ruobing asked curiously.
"Haha! Look!" Gao Baosheng stretched out his hand, and six balls appeared in his hand. Shen Ruobing opened his mouth in surprise!
"Why are there so many?" Shen Ruobing thought there were only three balls at most!
"I asked the liar to roll up his sleeves and not let him put his hands into his pockets. Every time he played, he could only put the ball in the pocket at the corner of the table.
There should be three sponge balls in this game, and the other three are the liar’s spare ones. He put them in his table pocket and I took them out and put them in my pocket." Baosheng said.
"Haha! And you are so bad, how can he play after you have taken the ball!" Shen Ruobing laughed after hearing this.
In fact, Baosheng opened the bowl for the first time to reassure the liar. After the liar placed the bowl for the last time, he put all three balls in the bowl into the space warehouse and took away the spare balls from the liar's pocket.
"You are really good. There is a pinball player here. You can play for 10 cents a time. If you can get the pinball from the top to the far left, you will get 10 dollars. The order is five dollars, two dollars, one dollar, fifty cents, two cents.
, one dime, zero yuan for eight holes, how much does it cost to roll the pinball into which hole?
According to the probability, the probability of falling into the eight holes is the same. If the boss is not cheating, he will definitely lose his pants, but how can he cheat!" Shen Ruobing started to analyze based on the previous experience.
"This is too simple, come and see!" Gao Baosheng said and walked over. There were others behind him. When they saw Baosheng going to the next stall, they also walked over.
"Boss, can this bounce into a hole worth 10 yuan?" Gao Baosheng came to the pinball game stall and asked, pretending to be interested in the game.
When the stall owner saw Baosheng dressed in ready-made clothes and with a beautiful girl beside him, this kind of person is the easiest to fall in love with, so he was enthusiastic about Baosheng.
"This one can go in, but why can't it? Let me give you a try!" The boss said and pulled some ejection equipment. The marbles shot up and ran around, and finally came to the 10-dollar position on the far left.
"It's a dime a time. If the marble enters the place on the left, it's ten yuan. As long as you hit it once a hundred times, you'll earn. Hurry up and play!" The stall owner said and looked at the crowd around him. There were already people there at this time.
Eyes are shining, no matter how you calculate this game, you will not lose money.
"I'll come, I'll come, I'll come first! Boss, give me ten yuan, and see if I don't make you cry, boss. Don't deny it then," Baosheng said.
"I charge you ten yuan, and you can eject a hundred times. I will keep the account here for you. If you can eject 10 yuan for 100 times, I will give you 1,000 yuan." When the stall owner saw Baosheng, he took out ten yuan.
He hurriedly put it into his wallet as if he was afraid of running away.
"Okay, let me start! Ten yuan...ten yuan! It's really ten yuan! I'm so lucky!" Gao Baosheng ejected once, and everyone behind him shouted together. This first time, Baosheng earned ten yuan. He
The 10 yuan I spent has already been earned back.
"The first time was ten yuan, the second time let's go! Ten yuan...ten yuan..." When Gao Baosheng's second marble entered the hole of ten yuan, the boss realized it.
"Wait a minute! The two times just now don't count!" The boss kicked an inconspicuous wooden board in the corner of the wooden box, and found that it was stuck.
"Why don't you count it? I finally hit it twice!" Gao Baosheng said as he ejected for the third time, and this time he still entered the 10-dollar hole accurately.
"Stop, there is something wrong with my equipment today, I won't set up this stall anymore!" The stall owner took out Baosheng's ten yuan from his pocket and returned it to him, picked up his equipment and was about to leave.
"Eh... I'm afraid this won't work. I won three times, so that's 30 yuan. I still have 97 times to play without playing. What do you mean by giving me ten yuan?" Mr. Gaobao pressed his hand on the pinball machine and refused to let it go.
The Lord leaves.
Everyone in the distance laughed loudly when they saw that the stall owner couldn't afford it. The stall owner came to Mengjiawan Township to cheat people, so he was certainly not a local. When he saw Baosheng's look, he knew that he needed an expert today.
"This little brother, it's my fault today, please spare me this time, I only have 18 yuan!" The man looked at the people around him and started to subdue Baosheng.
"It's better not to do this deceptive thing in the future. This is my 10 yuan. I'll take it. I'll put the 18 yuan here. Who was playing this pinball game just now? Come and get the money!" Baosheng said.
Only then did someone realize that this stall owner was a liar. The stall owner who had just lost money surrounded him and started beating him. The situation almost got out of hand.
In this era, people are poor and uneducated, and everyone is easily impulsive. The stall owner knelt on the ground and kept begging for mercy. When Baosheng saw this, he pulled Shen Ruobing away.
"Baosheng, how did you do that?" Shen Ruobing still doesn't know why Baosheng can bounce into the 10-dollar hole every time.
"The left side of this pachinko machine is for big prizes, and the right side is for no prizes. There are two pedals behind the machine. Step on one and the other will rise. If you step on the left, the pinballs will go to the left, and if you step on the right, the pinballs will go to the right. The stall owner can even control it.
You bounce into every hole he wants you to bounce into.
I just took advantage of him not paying attention and blocked both of his pedals with a small stone, so that he could only run on the far left!" Baosheng said with a smile.
"Haha, you are so bad. The stall owner's face turned green! Those young men smashed his pinball machine!" Shen Ruobing looked back at the excitement behind him and said to Baosheng.
Baosheng's performance has attracted the attention of other people in the village. Everyone never thought that the entertainment facilities that come to the festival every time are actually a lie. More people followed him to see what he would do next.
There are more than a dozen stalls selling this kind of small gambling games here. Some stall owners pack up their stalls and leave when they see Baosheng coming. However, there are still some stall owners who are reluctant to part with this busiest time. Generally, they are lucky enough to make money at such rural fairs.
Hundreds of dollars.
"There is a big turntable here, how can Baosheng deceive people?" Shen Ruobing asked when he saw a turntable game machine.
"Girl, don't talk nonsense. There's nothing fishy here. You guys have to play for 10 cents a time. Wherever the pointer goes, the thing will be yours." The stall owner didn't seem to be worried that Baosheng would find him.
The secret of the game was that he was deliberately far away from the device to indicate that he was not controlling it.
"Are all the prizes on your carousel there? There are three big toy cars, six toy pistols, and a Barbie doll. I'll spin them for one dollar." Gao Baosheng said with a smile.
"Okay, one dollar ten times, you can spin it!" The stall owner took the money and deliberately brought the things Baosheng said for everyone to see. These things are worth more than 300 yuan, and they are the three most valuable prizes in the big carousel.
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"In case you don't admit it, I won't come over and just stand here. Then go and press the child once!" Baosheng stood in the distance and said to the child about ten years old next to him.
The child heard this and pressed it once. The turntable pointer began to rotate rapidly, and soon it slowed down, reaching the position of the toy pistol and finally stopped.
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