Ultimate Village Doctor

Chapter Two Hundred and Ninety-Three

"Poker, let's play with small stakes, starting at 20, and capping at 100," Lin Xiao suggested.

"Capping at 100 is still small for you? We usually play with just 10. Rich folks really are different," the classmates around him complimented.

"That big, huh? Maybe we should just cap at 10." Xiaoshan feigned reluctance.

"Big Brother Xiaoshan, you're so bad."

Xu Le giggled into Xiaoshan's ear like a little fox, clearly aware that Xiaoshan was doing it on purpose. Xiaoshan could summon all the luxury cars in the county with just a phone call; 100 yuan was nothing to him. Her warm breath tickled Xiaoshan's ear and made his heart itch.

"Playing for 10 is bullshit. We're all adults here. Mr. Li, Liu Ming, don't you agree?" Lin Xiao, seeing Xiaoshan and Xu Le being so close, felt even more jealous and suggested with a meaningful glance.

Li Zhijun laughed, "I don't have that much change in my bag, let's just stick to 100."

"Come on, let's play for fun," Liu Ming, a classmate and business associate of Lin Xiao who often gambled with him, understood Lin Xiao's glance and joined in.

"Alright then," Xiaoshan agreed with apparent reluctance.

The poker game started quickly.

Xu Le explained the rules to Xiaoshan while showing him which chips to use.

Xiaoshan really hadn't played cards before.

He simply followed whatever Xu Le told him to do.

Maybe it was beginner's luck, but Xiaoshan won his first hand, earning several hundred yuan.

The second hand, the third hand.

Xiaoshan won three games in a row and earned over a thousand yuan, elated by his luck.

"You're pretty good for someone who claims not to know how to play," Lin Xiao said with a purpose.
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"I really don't, maybe Xu Le is the one who's skilled, making money for me. Here, take this to buy some candy. If I earn more, Brother will share the profits with you, haha." Xiaoshan, basking in his minor success, pulled out two red bills and handed them to Xu Le.

"Thank you, Brother Xiaoshan," Xu Le said.

The allure in her eyes was nearly overflowing.

Lin Xiao fumed inside, thinking this little bitch just declined a VIP card worth tens of thousands, but this stinking peasant gives you two hundred and you're that happy, damn cheap.

Several more rounds went on.

Xiaoshan had won almost five thousand yuan, and even the classmates on the side grew envious and declared their intention to join.

Looking frustrated from the losses, Lin Xiao challenged, "Dare to raise the stakes?"

Seemingly addicted to winning, Xiaoshan slammed the table and retorted, "What's there to be afraid of?"

"Good, let's go with higher stakes then: 100 to start, no cap," Lin Xiao declared.

"Bring it on, who's afraid of whom?" Xiaoshan challenged back.

A sly smile flickered across Lin Xiao's eyes, thinking smugly that this peasant couldn't keep his head straight after tasting a little sweetness. Xu Lu tugged at Hong Xiaofei, who shook his head at her. Although Hong Xiaofei didn't know what Xiaoshan was up to nowadays, with so many important figures showing respect towards him, he had an intuition that Lin Xiao was trying to play Xiaoshan, yet it wasn't clear who was playing whom.

The poker game resumed.

Xiaoshan won over four thousand in the first hand.

In the second hand, Xiaoshan lost two thousand.

In the third hand, Xiaoshan lost five thousand.

In a blink of an eye, several hands later, Xiaoshan's earlier winnings had been spent, and he was down three thousand more.

Seeing Xiaoshan's red-eyed appearance,

the onlookers felt pity for him.

He had almost made ten thousand just a while ago, and in an instant, he lost it all and was down three thousand. Anyone would struggle to cope with that. This small-time farmer would have to work for so long in the fields to earn that much money.

"What's up, it looks like you're out of money. Maybe you shouldn't play anymore," Lin Xiao said with a smirk, thinking that three thousand might not be a lot, but it depended on who you were talking about. To a stinking peasant, losing three thousand would probably hurt for months.

"Come on, I still have money. I've got a hundred thousand in this card," Xiaoshan bluffed, showing a bank card with a red-eyed look.

Lin Xiao's eyes lit up, thinking this stinking peasant had some money after all.

Damn it, once I win that hundred thousand from you, you'll be left with nothing.

In the following deal, as Lin Xiao saw his hand, he knew he was guaranteed a win; it was one of the highest possible, and Liu Ming had just signaled him subtly.

Xiaoshan, with the desperate look of a gambler, continued to match the chips.

The chips on the table had quickly surpassed an astonishing three hundred thousand.

Liu Ming and Li Zhijun had already folded.

Watching Long Xiaoshan and Lin Xiao battle it out.

Even for a wealthy businessman like Lin Xiao, this round was thrilling enough.

But he knew that with a top-tier triple in his hand, he absolutely wouldn't lose.

By this time, Long Xiaoshan had no more chips to follow.

Show your cards.

Lin Xiao revealed his hand, three kings.

A gasp went through the crowd, three kings, the second highest triplet. Everyone looked at Long Xiaoshan with pity, thinking that this farmer was done for, that the hundred thousand might represent several years of toil, all lost in an instant. "Alas, why would a farmer gamble against a multi-millionaire businessman? Isn't that courting death?"

Long Xiaoshan revealed one of his cards with a helpless expression.

An Ace!

The crowd was momentarily stunned, holding on to a sliver of hope, though it seemed very faint. Lin Xiao was unperturbed, thinking it was just an Ace.

Long Xiaoshan flipped over another card.

An Ace!

A murmur rose from the crowd as Lin Xiao's eyes narrowed with unease. He glanced at Liu Ming, who gave him a confident look. They had worked together for so long, there couldn't be a mistake with the cards.

Long Xiaoshan's hand paused over the third card!

Everyone held their breath.

Long Xiaoshan lifted a corner of the card, then suddenly put it down and said, "Le Le, help Big Brother Xiaoshan reveal the card."

Xu Le was also very nervous—this was over three hundred thousand we're talking about.

Her slender fingers trembling, she took a deep breath and forcefully flipped over the card.

An Ace!

Three Aces!

The highest triplet!

Boom!

The entire restaurant seemed to shake.

A look of disbelief appeared on everyone's faces.

Cries of astonishment filled the room.

Lin Xiao's eyes bulged as he exclaimed, "Impossible!"

His triplet of kings had been defeated by a triplet of aces.

Playing poker for so many years, he'd seldom encountered such a situation. Today, a little farmer had turned the tables, drawing cards that were nearly impossible. He glared at Liu Ming, who was just as baffled, unable to understand how Long Xiaoshan could have snagged the aces.

Lin Xiao panted heavily, his eyes reddened.

He had just lost over a hundred thousand; the money was a small matter to him, he could afford the loss, but his pride was wounded.

And the fact that a stinking farmer won the money was what irked him the most. He could have let that stinking farmer bleed dry, forced him to roll back home penniless, but now he had let the farmer profit two hundred thousand and steal the limelight.

"Mr. Lin, I won't stand on ceremony," said Long Xiaoshan with a smile.

Lin Xiao gritted his teeth as he transferred the money to Long Xiaoshan's mobile phone.

With a smile, Long Xiaoshan pushed the tens of thousands of cash on the table towards Xu Le: "Le Le, your luck is really good. This is your share of the winnings."

Xu Le hadn't expected that helping to reveal a card could earn her so much money.

There were tens of thousands on the table.

She was just a high school student and her family wasn't very wealthy, so to her, this amount was astronomical.

"Thank you, Big Brother Xiaoshan," Xu Le said, kissing Long Xiaoshan forcefully on the face in her excitement.

After the kiss, she seemed to realize what she had done, let out a low gasp, and hung her head down, her cheeks flushed with a drunken glow, not daring to meet Long Xiaoshan's eyes.

Upon seeing this scene, Lin Xiao's anger flared up and he roared, "Do you dare to play another round with me, just the two of us? A one-on-one challenge!"