Chapter 17: The Jester's Gambit
Yi Chen and Fata Deo stood on the highest deck, indifferently looking at the countless crowds that came to cheer the 'Duke of Windsor''s virgin*s voyage. Fata Deo's trembling hand carefully held a cigar, pointing and saying, "These people, really, really boring, but it's just a ship going out to sea, where is there anything to see?"
Yi Chen smiled and said, "It's human nature, they are able to participate in any important events, and later on they have some bragging capital to show how different they are from the people around them, probably thinking that this will raise their status a little bit, right?"
Fata Deo smiled cheekily and said as he greeted the red sun in the east, "Well, soon we'll be out of the dear old English lady's waters, so how about we go down for a little fun? Hee hee hee, the boss doesn't allow us to gamble more than a million dollars at a time, but less than a million is still okay, hmmm, let's play a few small hands?"
Yi Chuan smiled, "I'm also a bit interested, just in time to get some pocket money." Yi Dust was forcing Kane and the others to play mahjong with himself every time, there was no flavor to it, this time it just happened to be a good game. Among his several cronies, Phyllis is not interested in playing with money at all; Phil, Gore, and Kane are all sensible people who won't use money recklessly; Jester doesn't have the concept of money at all, anyway, he can eat and wear well, and basically muddle through; as for Chekov, he's a miser, don't think he'll ever leave a penny out to gamble.
Whistle long sound, countless colorful confetti flying in the sky, a ribbon link in the bed between the people as well as the hands on the pier, and then raw was pulled off, half broken ribbon fell into the water, immediately lost the original bright colors, into gray obscure incomparable color. Large masses of salutes exploded in the air, subsequently leaving behind a cloud of white smoke, the destruction and spoilage of nature by mankind was exposed in an incomparably clear way at this moment.
Yi Chen looked at the dozen or so private yachts following the 'Duke of Windsor' as they swam around nearby, and couldn't help but raise his hand and aim his palm at those yachts. Fata Deo chimed in from the side, ''Aha, Mr. Yi, if you were Superman, you could smash these yachts like eggs right now. Hoo hoo hoo, oh, superpower." Wouldn't you kids still be scared shitless?"
A flock of seagulls followed the back of the cruise ship with great sophistication, and from time to time one of them undulated on the white trails at the end of the cruise ship, its small claws seeming to bring up a little bit of scaly light. The Jester standing beside them stuck out his bright red tongue, licked it around his thin lips, and slurped, "Do cruise ships provide air rifles? Would love to shoot them down."
Phyllis quit and complained to him, "Jester, these birds are so cute, how could you want to hit them?"
Jester shrugged his shoulders and looked at Phyllie with a soft-hearted little girl I-don't-care-to-talk-to-you look. Hate Phyllis is a kick over, almost like in the old home, waving his hand to make hundreds of icicles to smash Jester.
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Yi dust dissatisfied muttered a few words: "Sven, Sven. This outside are not vulgar gentleman big sister, damn, do not give old man shame." The two people who were preparing for a small fight on the side looked at each other, grunted a few times and ignored each other. Jester followed Fata Dio's two assistants to the pool, to see if you can get a little fishy Xidong eat eat, easy dust wrapped around Phyllis, and Fata Dio sat back a circle of sun loungers, drinking juice, off the end of the rambling busy chat.
A young man wearing a sky blue uniform with a few circles of gold trim embroidered on the cuffs and a handsome face came over and said softly to Fata Deo, "Sir, you reserved a private room, right? We'll be leaving English waters soon, so you can prepare, there are three guests from New York who would like to play a few games with you."
Fatadio casually slipped him a banknote and waved him away from the gate, shivering with excitement, he said, "Aha, ugly country ghosts, ****, winning anyone's money is not as enjoyable as no winning theirs. ah. China Yi, you, you have to help you testify, a few days ago to see the boss, you did not have to bet too little, you have to let these New Yorkers lose clean pants."
Yi dust laughed: "Fata Dio, dear Fata Dio, do you have a grudge against the Americans?"
Fatadio said with hot indifference, "All of Russia has no grudge against them love. How could your weak country suddenly disintegrate without them?"
Easy dust into the bone said, "However, if the Soviet Union did not disintegrate, you can have such a large amount of money now? Can your boss have the power of the first in this scenery? Oh. My dear, everything has to be looked at in two different ways: you hate the Americans for plunging your country into darkness, but the Americans' behavior has lifted you into heaven. What a strange quirk of logic is that?"
Fattadio froze halfway to the ground, thought hard for a long time, nodded his head and said, "You admit that what you said is not true, if there are no ugly countrymen to mess up, you are afraid that you are still in East Bolia as a high school teacher. Can, you also whether hate love ugly country people, so, you want to win all the money under them." It looked like Fata Deo was very unconfident about his gambling skills.
Yi Duan said in disbelief, "It is better to conquer them at the card table than to destroy them physically. Some people like to say that conquering one's opponent mentally is the most wonderful thing, but I think that only completely destroying the other party physically is the safest and most secure. It is possible for a psychopath to stab you, but a person whose body is in pieces is unlikely to be able to do harm to himself in any way, isn't it?"
Fata Deo froze again, showing his teeth, he said sullenly, "China Yi, you can't say it, your words are always whether full of white dark philosophy. Can not, you can not destroy each other under the cruise ship, so, only bad let them wear underwear to Beijing to see the Olympic Games. If not in Eastboria." Fata Deo face sinister, hands little circle: "If not in East Berea, you will let them come to dig uranium mine, you will bad bad entertain these ugly countrymen."
Easy Dust smiled and whispered, "Uh-huh, is the hatred between nations and peoples that strong? Truly, unthinkable."
Fata Deo flinched for the third time in this land, he groaned up, "China Yi, you suddenly remembered to go, you no Chinese?"
Yi dust face a little gloomy up, nodded his head and said, "Yes."
Fata Deo tilted his head to look at Yi dust half of the ground, Yi dust without a little strange measure on their own clothing, seems to have no nothing wrong with the East ah?
Yi dust hard glared at Fatadio: "What in the world you are looking at? Is there anything wrong with me?"
Fata Deo nodded his head repeatedly, "No ah, very wrong ah. Have you heard, have you heard that you are splitting up with the Japanese? Strange, what Chinese person have you come across that is not hard on the Japanese to the bone? Strange, strange, are you falsely working with the Yamaguchi group?"
Easy dust nodded, the body to the chair a leaning said: "Yes, your news channel is very well informed, but. The Japanese and the Chinese, is there some kind of hatred in that as well? Hm? A hatred that makes all Chinese hate Japan? Strange, I didn't know about these things before."
Fata Deo almost fainted, this go on no point of nervousness of his throat outside issued a 'cackle cackle cackle' miserable howling sound, fortunately bad next to a crew member to see the wrong, fierce day pounced over to him hard hammer a few on the back, Fata Deo only gasped for air. Easy dust no point depressed still gave the crew a few small bills, looked at Fata Dio said: "pro hate, you can be sure to pay attention to, do you words make you so. Hard to.... Unbelievable?"
Fata Deo grunted miserably, shook his head repeatedly and said, "Dear China Yi, you should look up China's recent history books, God, God, I can't imagine...."
Seemingly whether out of consideration for Yi Duan's self-esteem, Fata Deo skipped the topic, shook his head and said, "Huh? Shouldn't we be at the private sea? Those public yachts are all back, well, you guys can come up now."
The handsome young man from earlier was already coming this way, and the crew along the way greeted him very respectfully, "Good day, Mr. Second Mate." Yi Chen snapped his fingers and said, "Well, so young to take the second mate's seat, looks like this kid has a promising future."
Fata Deo sneaked in and said, "Second mate? No, is he a pimp, someone who is quite unknown in certain fields. If you're not interested in one of the men on the ship, he's the man to see, and he can even arrange for some special ladies to meet you. Oh, Shimodei, you didn't mean nothing else." He held up his hands and begged for mercy from Phiri.
Yi Duan didn't bother with the acid-eating Fili and the constantly pleading Fata Deo, pondering in his heart, "Damn, modern Chinese history? I am familiar with the history of the seven ancient warring states. Modern history? That's about five hundred years or so, right? I really need to read some books about China sometime, otherwise I don't look like a Chinese in any way."
Inside the gilded VIP room, beside a very small gambling table, three middle-aged men wearing fancy short-sleeved dresses with a pair of gray and black beach pants on top of them, with their arms wrapped around three blonde ugly men who didn't know if they were their wives, lovers, or socialites, were sipping champagne and flicking a few banknotes out of their hands.
Fattadio shivered and walked in, with a smile on his face that made people feel extremely uncomfortable, and his trembling hands reached out and gripped the hand of the New Yorker closest to the door, saying excitedly, "You're Americans? That's great, come on, come on, Americans are all hoity-toity, haha, green American money, it's so beautiful."
Yi Dust smiled at Fata Deo's moist and hot hands making that ugly countryman frown and draw back his hand without any point of slowing down. The middle-aged woman sitting in the middle seat with long Elvis-like sideburns pointed at Fata Dio: "Mr. Fata Dio? Mr. Fattadio? Very bad, very bad, your name is Bill, they call you Boar Bill, well, cut the crap, y'all ain't going to have no fun."
Fata Deo smiled and sat down in the chair across from Bill, looking up and asking Yee Dust, "China Yee? Aren't you coming? Think about it, these American friends are all rich people with a lot of American money."
Yi Duan smiled and nodded: "What do you want to play? You don't know how to play poker, but.... You can play a few games with me, are you still better at dice and roulette." Easy Dust smiled as he sat down, and Phyllis leaned against his side.
Jester, as well as Fata Deo's two accompanying assistants were approached by the crew, carrying two small leather cases containing a total of two million dollars in cash.
Bill's two bodyguards standing outside the corner also carried a large suitcase down, but could this suitcase be smaller than Fata Dio's as well as Yi Duan's? Fata Deo hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee
Cruise arranged the dealer is a beautiful woman, very shrewd and capable look, she hands a point, smiled and said, "Gentlemen, in order to avoid future trouble as well as disputes, you can now check the gambling table as well as the nearby facilities. Our cruise ship guarantees that everything is under the most perfect surveillance, and it is hard to cheat with us. However, we do not guarantee that certain extraordinary means may be used here, so I can only guarantee my absolute fairness. Is that okay?"
Fatadio didn't care and said, "You never go without fear of others cheating, so whatever." Yi Chen smiled, pulled out his own piece of jade pendant heavily turning still in the palm of his hand a few times and nodded his head. Bill they cared even less, shooing the man outside the arms away, signaling Guan end to close the cards.
Easy Dust's luck stunk, a lot, and he wasn't very good at blackjack, so even though he was able to see Bill and the others' cards directly, Easy Dust, who wasn't very good at counting cards, still lost.
But Fata Deo is not a smooth sailing, his hand is good, technology and psychological warfare is not first-class, in the easy dust of the suitcase half empty before, Bill their suitcase is all empty.
Fata Deo proudly rubbed his hands, his nose in front of his own large pile of U.S. currency in front of him, fiercely inhaled, intoxicated, said: "U.S. currency of the ink is really good quality, especially in the hands of Americans flow out of the U.S. currency, oh, God, too wonderful, this flavor, too wonderful." Easy dust and Phyllis almost laughed out, while Jester was chilled to the bone, as if he had seen Chekov's slug again.
Bill's face was hard to see to the extreme, especially when Fata Deo returned Yi Duan's five hundred and twenty thousand to Yi Duan, he angrily slapped the table and yelled in a low voice: "Are we two a gang?"
Fata Deo eyes rolled, as if a trembling rattlesnake stood up, viciously said: "What do you mean? Don't you want to lose your money? We are friends, of course we are in the same gang. Aren't you three boars also together?"
The two bodyguards in front of Bill's back as well as the other two companions aggressively took a few steps back, Yi Chuan slowly picked up a piece of poker from under the desktop, two fingers flicked heavily, black light flashed, and a bloodstain appeared under Bill's nose. Bill froze a on, Yi dust heavy shake Jing finger under the jade pendant, said with a fierce smile, "pro hate Mr. boar, if your subordinate is still not so nonchalant, your this jade pendant, will hit your eyes, you say whether the right eye or whether the left eye?"
The lady dealer quickly separated the fist-pumping Jester and Fattadio's two assistants, and said amiably, "Gentlemen, this is the Duke of Windsor, and you don't want the scandal of a mutual fight to spread over half of Europe tomorrow, do you? Gentlemen please restrain yourselves, our cruise ship does not want something unpleasant to happen."
The second mate led a few low-ranking crew members to retreat, smiled and said, "Pro-hate friends, the luncheon is about to end, don't we want to enjoy a top French chef's well-cooked escargot?" The crew smiled and stepped between the two sides that were about to clash.
Bill angrily led the men out, and when he reached the door, he suddenly turned around and yelled, "Tonight, there's a boxing match tonight, let's bet on it again, and I'll single you out. Fattadio, remember, I'll single-strip you for the bet. Mr. Second Mate, I hope you can set me up." The second mate smiled and nodded in agreement.
Fata Dio laughed and went, and Yi Duan also laughed. Fata Deo casually threw a dozen stacks of bills to the dealer as well as the second mate, followed by the former tilted his head, trembling hand on the second mate's shoulder, revealing a smile that made the second mate a little creepy, face to the second mate face behind less than ten centimeters, asked him in a heavy voice: "Kissing hate, wild boar Bill. No what's the deal? Is it so arrogant?"
The second mate laughed, "Mr. Fattadio, we can't divulge any information that is private to our guests." The female dealer already had the sense to walk out with a few other crew members, closing the door of the room with her hand, and the camera lenses in the four corners of the room, also suddenly turned 180 degrees in unison, focusing on the wall.
Fata'dio smiled and said, "Well, no, go ahead, say it, you're dying to know!" Casually grabbing a bundle of bills under the table, he shoved them back into the second mate's pocket.
The second mate insisted, "Sir, oh, don't do that, we have principles, we can't divulge anything related to our guests..."
Easy Dust interrupted, "Mr. Pro-Hate Second Mate, principles and even chastity have no price, you've always believed in that. Oh, give you no open Bill's all information, you.... You can have half the ugly gold in your suitcase."
The second mate did not have any twisted posture, directly smiled and began to escape the bills inside the suitcase on the table, and when there were still fifty stacks inside the case, he closed the lid and lifted it in his own hands. Easy Dust raised his eyebrows and said with a smile, "Is that all right? Give us the information we want to know, right?"
Mr. Second Vice did not have no nonsense, smiled and said in a high voice, "His surface information is not the manager of a New York stock exchange, can no one among your crew know him, he is not ugly country New York a.. Well, a lowly cadre member of a family originating in Italian Little Italy, a very not bad person to mess with. Gentlemen, the Lower Empire testifies that you didn't say anything."
Easy Dust smiled, "Oh, an American family member of the Mafia? You can go now dear, we won't spill the beans on you."
The second mate closed the door and walked out, suddenly turning back and smiling, "You agree with what the gentleman from China said, everything is no no cost. Even the nobler sisters, their chastity denies no price, and you agree with that so much that it simply denies all the false reasoning in the world." He laughed and walked out with his suitcase.
Fata Deo cursed in a low voice, "Damn, this bitch."
Yiduan laughed, "He's a pimp, isn't he? What's the difference between a pimp and a whore? The next fight is tonight. Fata Deo, do you have any bad opinions?"
Fata Dio helplessly said, "****, if I had known that there is such a thing, I would have brought the boss's personal bodyguard over, what black market boxing, he is also a master ah. Unfortunately, unfortunately, damn, boxing this thing, can be different from gambling cards, there is no way to control yourself."
Yi Dust smiled and looked at Jester who was bouncing around like a monkey next to him showing his teeth, smiled and said to Fata Dio, "Is it possible for you guys to send someone to compete?"
Fata Deo nodded repeatedly, "That's good, we can send fighters to fight with their chosen fighters, of course, it has to be requested in advance. However, usually such fighters are trained like hell, where are we going to find such people now? Do. Dear Chinese Yi, could it be that you have a solution?"
Easy Dust smiled, pointing a finger up at Jester and said, "Jester no a bad boxer, and he'll be happy to win you a small amount of scandalous gold...."
Jester grinned contentedly and punched through the three-inch thick teak table to the shocked eyes of Fata Dio and his two assistants.
Easy Dust applauded heavily, "Mr. Jester, you will be the star of the show under this night, I hope I don't disappoint you oh? You will put 20 million ugly gold bills under me, or not you lose, just jump on the sea, swim to the sea by yourself. Of course, not too much together." The very first sentence, No admonished Jester to never use power beyond normal human imagination, and Jester nodded in agreement.
