Chapter 45: Writing an IOU
Six hundred and forty million is no small amount, even if the three of them pooled all the money in their bank cards, it would only cover a fraction of it.
Losing sixty-four million in a single game of Dou Dizhu, they must be cursing their luck!
What can they do now?
They can only soldier on and keep playing, hoping to win the money back.
"Come on, let’s keep playing!" Durant was the first to speak up.
"Playing is fine, but do you still have money?" Lin Tian said this while knowing full well the three of them were out of cash.
"It’s not like we’re not gonna pay you if we lose!" Durant, afraid Lin Tian wouldn’t play, quickly said.
When playing cards, people fear not that you win, but that you won’t play; if you don’t play, you’ll never lose, and hence won’t have the chance to win back.
Lin Tian had grasped this psychology, clearly pushing Durant to put up the cash.
"Miss Bai, this is your turf, shouldn’t you say something fair?" Durant turned his gaze to Bai Shishi.
"Mr. Durant, Lin Tian now has at least six million in chips on the table, asking for money before continuing to play isn’t wrong, you need to put up the money to keep playing!" Bai Shishi showed a helpless expression.
Durant gritted his teeth in frustration, then turned to Curry and Green, "How much money do you guys still have?"
Curry and Green both shrugged and shook their heads, indicating they were broke.
Durant did have a bit of money, but in this critical moment, tens of thousands were of no use.
"What? Out of money?" Seeing Durant’s worried expression, Lin Tian chuckled inwardly, knowing his guess was correct.
"I’ll let you off today, let’s go!" Durant, with no money to continue, knew staying would only humiliate himself further, so decided to come back tomorrow. As long as Xianglong Tea House was here, he wasn’t afraid of not winning the money back.
"You can go, but shouldn’t you settle the account first?" Bai Shishi playfully looked at the three of them.
Durant glanced at the black-suited men surrounding the table and understood that leaving without paying today was impossible. He stiffened and said, "Miss Bai, we don’t have that much money on us, we’ll go back and ask our boss for it!"
"Ask? You say you’ll leave, you say you’ll ask, what if you step out of this door and don’t own up?"
"How could that be? Our boss is Fu Dahai, a tycoon in Kanyue City!" Durant mentioned his boss with a smug expression.
"You can leave, but you need to sign an IOU. You can leave once you sign it!" Bai Shishi relented, for sixty million was a mere trifle for Durant’s boss, Du Dahai.
"Alright!" Durant agreed with a nod.
"Bring paper and pen!" At Bai Shishi’s command, a beautiful waitress immediately went to fetch the items.
The paper and pen were brought and placed before Durant.
Durant just picked up the pen when Bai Shishi suddenly said, "I’ll dictate, you write!"
"On X Month, X Day, 2017, at 18:59, Durant, Curry, and Green racked up a debt of sixty-four million while playing cards at Xianglong Tea House, which will be personally repaid by their boss, Du Dahai!"
As Bai Shishi finished dictating, Durant twitched but obediently wrote it down.
"Sign here!" Bai Shishi pointed at Curry and Green, "You two sign as well!"
The three obediently placed their signatures under the IOU. Durant awkwardly smiled and said, "Miss Bai, we’ll head off then and return with the money for you soon!"
After Durant spoke, he and his two companions were about to walk out the door, when Bai Shishi panicked.
Though Lin Tian had won a fair amount of money, if they weren’t taught a memorable lesson, they might return to wreak more havoc at the tea house.
"Hold on~ Aren’t you going to leave behind what you stole?" Bai Shishi panicked, and Lin Tian suddenly slammed the table.
"What are you talking about?" Durant turned his head and cursed.
"What am I talking about? Don’t you get it?" Lin Tian smiled deeply.
Durant saw the smile on Lin Tian’s face and felt a jolt, wondering if Lin Tian would expose them again.
Panicked, Durant told his companions, "Let’s go, ignore him!"
"Hold on!" Lin Tian slammed the table again.
"Stop them!" Bai Shishi shouted fiercely, seeing Durant trying to escape.
Eight young men in suits and sunglasses immediately appeared at the exit, blocking it firmly with their arms crossed behind them.
No one in the hall could exit now.
With Bai Shishi causing such a commotion, everyone in the hall suddenly lost interest in playing cards and focused their attention on Bai Shishi.
"Miss Bai, what are you doing?" Durant asked coldly, a bad feeling bubbling up inside him.
"You say they stole something?" Bai Shishi asked Lin Tian as if acting.
"Yeah, they stole some cards from here. Shouldn’t they leave the cards behind?" Lin Tian pointed at Durant and the others.
The moment this was said, the entire room went silent; many already had complaints against Durant and his gang for their rampage at Xianglong Tea House.
Although Lin Tian spoke obliquely, even a fool could tell he was accusing Durant’s group of cheating.
"What nonsense!" Durant’s composure shattered, and any gentlemanly demeanor went out the window.
"Nonsense?" Lin Tian pointed at the discard pile, "Miss Bai can check that deck of cards!"
The deck Lin Tian pointed at was the one used earlier when comparing high cards with Curry.
"Nobody leaves this door without my permission tonight!" Bai Shishi seemed to be addressing everyone, but in reality, she was speaking to the group of black-suited men blocking the door.
Bai Shishi picked up the deck of cards tossed into the discard pile and began inspecting it closely. Soon, many more cards appeared on the table!
A deck has fifty-four cards, excluding the Jokers, there are fifty-two cards.
But damn, this deck had a total of sixty cards.
It would be tough to notice the trickery in this deck without careful inspection.
"Could you explain this to me?" Bai Shishi coldly said, holding seven Ace of Spades, directed at Durant.
"Trying to frame us, you’d~ have no trouble doing so?" Durant sneered coldly with an innocent look, "Miss Bai, we’ve indeed won quite some money at the tea house these days, but you shouldn’t use such tactics to drive us away?"
"If you don’t want us here, we can choose not to come next time!"
"Humph! Still being stubborn!" Lin Tian sneered.
"You previously mentioned that trying to frame you with a few cards is a stretch, right?" Lin Tian smiled and shouted, "I believe we all hate card cheats, don’t we?"
"Right!" Everyone answered almost in unison.
"What if I told you these three won your money through cheating, any thoughts?" Lin Tian grinned, a chilling smile to Durant and his group.
"Break their hands!"
"Cut their fingers!"
Emotions ran high as Lin Tian successfully roused everyone, who stared at the three like wolves eyeing prey.