Chapter 123 Gambling Debt
The next day, because Tong Tian had been busy with family affairs last night, he only slept for two or three hours at night and was not in good spirits. In addition, he must have some things to deal with in the past two days, so Zhao Dongsheng asked Lu Liang, who had a driver's license, to drive everyone to the venue.
After arriving at the venue, Zhao Dongsheng explained some things to Zhou Jun and Wu Wen and left, and took a taxi to Chinatown.
Last night, Zhao Dongsheng thought about it and thought that if he left Tongjia Hotel, it would be better to live in Chinatown. First of all, Chinatown is not particularly far from the exhibition venue. Secondly, the language is smooth, communication is not a problem, food is convenient, and safety issues can be guaranteed.
Since the acquaintance Lu Liang was looking for had already inquired about it in Chinatown yesterday, almost all the hotels on Chinatown were full of people and there were no free rooms, Zhao Dongsheng did not come to Chinatown this time to find a hotel, but to find a place that could provide sleeping space, such as a warehouse or a basement.
As long as you have a place to live, you can get a floor shop. Although the conditions are a little worse, you can't take care of so many people when you go out. As long as you can get through the exhibition, you'll be fine.
The reason for moving out of Tong's hotel is because Zhao Dongsheng is worried that if the Hongyun Chamber of Commerce and the Eagle Gang are in a fire, it will likely affect the hotel. The people of the Eagle Gang can set a fire in a restaurant, and of course they can set a fire in the hotel. If something happens to the people from the electrical appliance factory, it will not only be life-threatening, but also affect the participation of the electrical appliance factory.
When you enter Chinatown, a familiar oriental atmosphere rushes towards you. If you look at the buildings and Chinese who run shops on the street, this place seems to be a small town in China.
Zhao Dongsheng asked along the shop on the street and soon found a place to live. A grocery store owner was willing to rent one of his empty warehouses to Zhao Dongsheng at a suitable price.
The empty warehouse is in the backyard of the grocery store. It has two or three hundred square meters and is empty inside. The goods ordered by the grocery store owner will not arrive at the end of the month, which is enough for the people from the electrical appliance factory to live in it.
Zhao Dongsheng was quite satisfied with the warehouse. After negotiating a rental agreement with the grocery store owner, he paid a certain deposit and prepared to report to Bai Hao about the Tong's hotel at noon. After obtaining Bai Hao's consent, Wu Wen and others were asked to move over in the afternoon. As for bedding and other items to sleep, they could buy them from the store.
Bai Hao is the head of the delegation, and the residence of the electrical appliance factory has been decided by the delegation. If it is to be replaced, Bai Hao must nod.
It was almost noon when Zhao Dongsheng returned to the venue. He originally planned to report to Bai Hao after lunch, but he saw Bai Hao and He Wei and others in front of the booth. Wu Wen was explaining something to them, which saved Zhao Dongsheng time to find Bai Hao.
Bai Hao and He Wei and his group visited a French electrical appliance factory in the morning. They took advantage of the time to come to the exhibition to inspect the work progress of the electrical appliance factory. Since only the exhibition staff and exhibitors could enter the venue before the exhibition opening, only Bai Hao and He Wei and others who had obtained documents as participants in the electrical appliance factory could enter the venue.
This day was the time for exhibitors to debug equipment, so many exhibitors who came to the exhibition gathered in front of the booth of the electrical appliance factory. These people were attracted by the shocking stereo sound played by the two large speakers at the booth. They were interested in inquiries from the people of the electrical appliance factory about the situation of the Will brand recorder.
Zhou Jun and Lu Liang and other men were all wearing suits, while Wu Wen and Zhao Yuanyuan and other women were suits and skirts. This was a work clothes customized by Zhao Dongsheng for everyone in Paris. The words "China Huangzhou Electrical Appliance Factory" were written in Chinese and English in conspicuous positions, and the factory logo of the electrical appliance factory was also marked.
Bai Hao was very satisfied with the situation on site, especially the booth of the electrical appliance factory. Zhao Dongsheng created the booth to be both fashionable and full of Chinese elements. The prosperous Chinese knots were hung on the shelves on the top of the booth, which was fashionable and festive, and was very eye-catching in the surrounding booths.
At noon, Bai Hao invited Zhao Dongsheng and others to have a meal in a restaurant, fully affirmed everyone's work, and encouraged everyone to continue to work hard and successfully complete the exhibition.
While eating, Zhao Dongsheng reported to Bai Hao about the dispute between the Hongyun Chamber of Commerce and the Eagle Gang. Bai Hao attached great importance to this. He was the head of the delegation this time, but he did not want anything to happen to the delegation.
After learning that the Hongyun Chamber of Commerce and the Eagle Gang might have a fire, Bai Hao also believed that Zhao Dongsheng and others were not suitable to stay in the Tong family's hotel anymore, but he really had no choice now. This is Paris, not Hedong Province, and he is just a tourist in Paris.
"You must pay attention to safety and buy whatever is missing to ensure everyone's accommodation environment." Bai Hao thought that Zhao Dongsheng was preparing to move to Chinatown was a good solution, so he instructed Zhao Dongsheng in a deep voice.
"Don't worry, Governor, I will take good care of everyone." After getting Bai Hao's approval, Zhao Dongsheng answered solemnly.
After dinner, Zhao Dongsheng and Bai Hao split up the road in the restaurant. He left a few people to watch the venue, took the others back to the Tongjia Hotel to move their luggage, and prepared to go to the warehouse in Chinatown to arrange the arrangement.
When Zhao Dongsheng rushed to the Tong Family Hotel, many people from the Hongyun Chamber of Commerce were holding meetings at the Tong Family, as if they were studying countermeasures, and the atmosphere was very serious.
The people from the Tong family expressed their understanding of Zhao Dongsheng and others' decision to move out. After all, no one is willing to face such a situation.
Since the electrical appliance factory booked the room in Tongjia Hotel until the end of the exhibition, although the people from Tongjia only planned to charge Zhao Dongsheng for the past few days of stay, Zhao Dongsheng still paid the full amount according to the booking days. After all, the Tongjia is in trouble now and it is time to need help.
As a compatriot, Zhao Dongsheng can only do his best to help the Tong family a little bit.
People from the Tong family knew that Zhao Dongsheng was kind, so they were full of favor for Zhao Dongsheng and introduced a restaurant in Chinatown to Zhao Dongsheng, which was run by someone from Tong Tian’s brother-in-law’s house.
When he arrived at the warehouse in Chinatown, after an afternoon of busy work, Zhao Dongsheng finally led everyone to decorate the place to live. In the evening, he led everyone to the restaurant introduced by the Tong family. The owner of the restaurant was named Lu, and he was the father of Tong Tian’s brother-in-law.
Due to the Tong family, Boss Lu warmly welcomed Zhao Dongsheng and others, and took out the signature dishes in the store, which made everyone feel full of food.
Since the people in the electrical appliance factory have no language barriers in Chinatown, everyone couldn't help but reveal their thoughts of wanting to stroll in Chinatown. Zhao Dongsheng did not want to smug everyone's enthusiasm, so he asked every two people in the electrical appliance factory and one of the international students to form a three-person group to play in Chinatown and return to the warehouse before 10 o'clock in the evening.
The reason why each group is equipped with an international student is Zhao Dongsheng from a safety perspective. Although he believes that people from electrical appliance factories will not encounter any trouble in Chinatown, if there is anything unexpected, it is crucial to have a French-speaking person, at least call the police.
Zhao Dongsheng's decision immediately attracted cheers from the people in the electrical appliance factory. After dinner, everyone divided into several groups and started shopping in Chinatown with great interest.
Unlike the enthusiastic Zhou Jun, Wang Jianjun and others, Zhao Dongsheng did not go shopping. He returned to the warehouse to read the product introductions he received from other exhibitors in the past few days. In this way, he could judge the technological level of this era and help him plan for the future of the electrical appliance factory.
Wu Wen did not go shopping, but stayed to accompany Zhao Dongsheng to help Zhao Dongsheng sort out the product introductions. She liked Zhao Dongsheng's appearance when she was working, and she had a special charm.
Although Wu Wen really wanted to help Zhao Dongsheng, she didn't understand the foreign words on the product introduction, so she had to do it and silently accompanied Zhao Dongsheng. She couldn't help but feel more determined in her heart.
Starting from 9:30 pm, several groups of people came back one after another. Everyone was talking and laughing, and they seemed very happy. They brought back a lot of food to Zhao Dongsheng and Wu Wen as midnight snacks.
At 10 o'clock in the evening, most of the people came back, but the group where Zhou Jun was located was missing. Zhou Jun's group had only two people, one was him, and the other was an international student named Zhang Shaojie.
Wang Jianjun and others did not know where Zhou Jun was going. They had never seen Zhou Jun after they left the restaurant. Faced with this situation, Zhao Dongsheng couldn't help but frowned slightly. He knew Zhou Jun's character and was not coming back at this time. He must be enjoying the game outside. It is estimated that the only one among everyone who dared to take his words as a warning.
Chinatown is so big that Zhao Dongsheng didn't know where Zhou Jun went, so he had to wait for him to come back.
Tomorrow is the opening time of the exhibition. Zhao Dongsheng didn't want to distract Wu Wen, Wang Jianjun and others, so he asked them to sleep first. He sat at the door of the warehouse while waiting for Zhou Jun while watching a science and technology magazine. He would not be at ease for a minute if Zhou Jun didn't come back for a minute.
More than an hour later, Zhao Dongsheng saw Zhang Shaojie running over in a panic, with a look of horror on his face, but Zhou Jun did not follow him, so he thought to himself that something was wrong and quickly got up to meet him.
Zhang Shaojie told Zhao Dongsheng in a stern and steadily that Zhou Jun was detained in a casino in Chinatown. The people in the casino said that if Zhou Jun could not use 200,000 francs to repay the gambling debt he owed, then they would take Zhou Jun's life.
"Twenty-hundred thousand? What's going on?" Zhao Dongsheng was shocked when he heard this. He never expected that Zhou Jun would go to the casino and owed 200,000 gambling debts. He still had about 50,000 francs on hand, so he could not get Zhou Jun out of the casino.
After finding out the cause and effect of the matter from Zhao Shaojie, Zhao Dongsheng couldn't help but smile and shook his head. Zhou Jun and Zhao Shaojie were originally walking around the street, but they didn't expect a thin man to come over and ask Zhou Jun if he wanted to try his luck, and went to the casino to play for two games.
Zhou Jun had played mahjong and poker with his friends before, but that was all the entertainment for his friends. He had never been to a casino, so he followed the thin man to a casino excitedly.
The casino is very large, including mahjong, dice, roulette and poker, etc., with a complete range of types, which opened the eyes of Zhou Jun.
Zhou Jun did not want to bet at first, but he could not withstand the temptation of the bloody atmosphere on the scene, so he bought two thousand francs of chips and started playing with great interest. At first, he was lucky and won almost five thousand francs, but unfortunately he lost all of them later.
The two thousand francs were all the property of Zhou Jun. After losing, he had no money in Paris, so he seemed very upset. The thin man who brought him here told him that he could borrow money from the casino.
So, in order to make a profit, Zhou Jun began to borrow money from the casino. Zhang Shaojie could not stop him and wanted to come back to report to Zhao Dongsheng, but was taken to two big and thick guys in the casino and lost their freedom. It was not until Zhou Jun borrowed 200,000 from the casino that he was taken to see Zhou Jun.
Zhou Jun was hung in a small house. The casino people told Zhang Shaojie that if Zhang Shaojie could not bring the 200,000 that Zhou Jun owed within three days, then wait to collect Zhou Jun's body.
Zhang Shaojie has been in Paris for three or four years, so he naturally knew that gangsters were indispensable behind the casino. Zhou Jun might really die, so he came to Zhao Dongsheng in a hurry to find a way.
Zhao Dongsheng knew very well that Zhou Jun had fallen into the trap set by the casino. It seemed that if he wanted to escape, it would probably not be so easy.
Although the disaster was caused by Zhou Jun, since Zhou Jun was a member of the electrical appliance factory, Zhao Dongsheng naturally could not ignore it. So he went to Boss Lu to find out the details of the casino and see if there was room for reversal.
Boss Lu was very sympathetic to Zhou Jun's experience, but he was helpless. He told Zhao Dongsheng that there was only one casino in Chinatown, which was run by Liu Ye, the boss of the Chinatown gangster.
There are only two ways to get Zhou Jun out. One is to get the casino owner, Li Wu, the second son of the Sixth Master, nodded, and the other is to pay back the money. Otherwise, according to the rules of the casino, only if a person dies, the account will be ruined.
Zhao Dongsheng frowned and pondered for a while, and soon made up his mind, turned back to the warehouse to get money, and prepared to go to the casino to save Zhou Jun. If it really doesn't work, then ask Bai Hao for help. After all, this is ultimately an internal affairs of the electrical appliance factory, and family scandals should not be made public.
Chapter completed!