Himemoto's interpretation

It took longer than Xingqi expected to find Grandma Liu.

And the location made her even more nervous.

"Hospital? What's going on?"

"Yeah." The detective put down the phone, raised his hand and put on Xingqi's unfurled coat, "I didn't go into details about the specific situation, the hospital is not far from here, go and have a look."

"Oh." Xingqi hurried out, feeling that there was something to do but didn't.

The detective grabbed the assistant by the tail of the pony, "Change clothes."

The hospital is indeed not far away, it takes only 10 minutes by car.

Xu was Ma Jinwei's special instructions, and the staff sent by the hotel would meet him at the door, leading the detectives and assistants all the way to the intensive care unit.

Seeing the old man half lying down looking out the window, Xingqi called out in Haicheng dialect: "Grandma Liu."

The old man turned his head slowly, squinted his eyes to see who was coming, and smiled on his haggard face, "It's you, little sister."

"Grandma, did Yila bully Nong?" Xingqi squatted beside the bed and asked softly, speaking in Haicheng dialect.

The hotel staff at the back looked at her suspiciously, wanting to ask the detective something, swallowed the words, and then said: "Mr. Ma is in a meeting and sent Vice President Yao here. She went to check with the doctor about the situation." , Mr. Ma himself will arrive later."

As he spoke, the sound of high heels hitting the floor came from the corridor.

"Our vice president Yao is in charge of entertainment." After the staff introduced, they bowed to the returning vice president Yao and retreated outside the ward.

Over there, Grandma Liu straightened Xingqi's tucked-in collar slowly, and asked her back: "Ira? Sanin will bully my old woman?"

"A black and fierce old man, a hypocritical smiling tiger." Xing Qi made two gestures, "Black and white are evil."

Grandma Liu smiled and shook her head, "No."

"Oh..." Xingqi put down a big rock, but then picked it up again, "Then why..."

"Heart attack has nothing to do with the hotel." A high-pitched female voice behind her eagerly explained to the detective, "We also only found out that she was hospitalized two hours ago."

The detective said calmly: "Two hours is enough to talk about a lot."

Vice President Yao squinted at the hospital bed, "I tried to communicate with her, but this lady refused to use Mandarin."

Grandma Liu made a face at her, and then said to Xingqi: "Yi is arguing to death, the gossip doesn't make sense, I want to help her gossip."

Xingqi couldn't help laughing, "Well, I won't tell her."

She didn't know why she was so close to Grandma Liu, maybe it was because her hometown dialect had the innate advantage of being closer, or Grandma Liu had a special temperament.

"Little sister, grandma asked you something." Grandma Liu pulled La Xingqi, motioned her to come closer, and asked in a low voice, "You and your companion, aren't you from the hotel?"

"No." Xingqi said, "We are here for tourism... um... just happened to be staying in their hotel."

Grandma Liu nodded, "I see."

Do you know what happened?

Xingqi was confused.

After saying hello to Grandma Liu, Xingqi went back to find the detective, "Who is our client this time?"

"I'll be there in a while." The detective pushed the chair under the window by himself, put on the earphones and basked in the sun.

Xingqi stuffed a piece of nougat into her mouth and thought about it.

First of all, the hotel is definitely not the entrusting party;

Secondly, Grandma Liu did not know the identity of the detective;

then……

There's no after that.

Ma Jinwei, the general manager of the hotel, appeared in the ward. Vice President Yao called Miss Xia twice, but the detective who was wearing earphones and closed his eyes to bask in the sun did not respond.

Xingqi made Mr. Ma, Mr. Yao and the six hot eyes of the outside staff stare uncomfortably. She turned her back and poked the detective, "Mr. Ma is here."

The detective flickered, slowly opened his eyes, and covered his mouth to yawn.

Xingqi: "..."

Can this fall asleep? !

"Little sister." Grandma Liu called Xingqi, staring at Ma Jinwei, her expression was completely different from just now, with more forbearable resentment, "That man, is their big boss?"

Ma Jinwei frowned, and replied in Haicheng dialect: "Yes, I am the person in charge of the hotel."

Grandma Liu shivered and pulled out the pillow that was placed behind her waist. Her muscular hands sank deeply into the soft pillow, and the alarm light on the instrument on the side of the hospital bed suddenly lit up.

"Grandma, grandma." Xingqi held the old man's hand comfortingly, "Don't get excited."

The old man held Xing Qi tightly, flaring his nose a few times, trying to calm down.

"Auntie, your health is important. We can communicate slowly if we have something to do. Don't worry." Ma Jinwei stood far away, "Miss Xia, can we take a step to talk?"

"No," the detective lazily refused, "everyone is here, let's talk here."

Ma Jinwei was a little hesitant.

Seeing this, Vice President Yao said coldly: "Old lady, we are deeply sorry about your son's matter, but we have sealed the conclusion of this matter many years ago and published it in the newspaper. Your actions are not only in vain. What is the effect of increasing the losses of both parties?"

Vice President Yao's condescending attitude made Xingqi feel very uncomfortable, but Grandma Liu regained her composure, "Your stamped conclusion is your unilateral decision, and I don't agree! What did your hotel lose? Nothing is lost!"

"Aunt Liu..." Ma Jinwei said hesitantly, "I know something about that matter, but your behavior in the casino a few days ago was also inappropriate."

Vice President Yao said impatiently: "Stealing chips is equivalent to stealing property. The hotel has the responsibility to hand you over to the public security agency. What's more, if you destroy the hotel's business facilities and cause the machine to malfunction, we have the right to claim compensation from you."

"Wait," the detective waved to Ma Jinwei, "Uncle Ma, I remember you said that the slot machine cannot be modified, so let's skip this."

"Uh……"

Vice President Yao persisted: "We thoroughly checked the monitoring records, and there is evidence that Ms. Liu was related to the machine failure that day. You can't get away..."

Xingqi blocked the aggressive Vice President Yao, and asked softly, "Grandma, why did you do that?"

Grandma Liu covered her chest with one hand, and took several deep breaths, "It's because of this that I can see the senior management of the hotel. Ask him, do you sleep peacefully at night?"

"They..." Xingqi's hand was hurt by Granny Liu's grasp, she turned her head to look at Ma Jinwei, and then at the indifferent detective, wondering if she should ask the old man what happened.

Ma Jinwei's expression was loose, and he said patiently: "All the contact information of the hotel is publicized. You can send emails and make phone calls. The hotel has customer service personnel who are responsible for feedback. Why must you find a senior leader?"

"You sound good!" The old man said angrily, "Your hotel blacklisted my youngest son, refused to let him into the hotel, refused to answer the phone, and never answered emails. Do you know how many times he has contacted you?"

Ma Jinwei looked at Vice President Yao in astonishment: "Is there such a thing?"

"Your son's body was found by the sea, and he left the hotel very early. His death has nothing to do with the hotel. Your troubles will affect the reputation of the hotel. Of course, we must take corresponding measures."

The value of the monitoring instrument is approaching the danger line again.

The opponent was attacking from both sides, Grandma Liu was in dire health, Xingqi looked to the detective for help.

It's all here, don't sit still!

"It's so annoying." The detective took off the earphones, raised his legs, and kicked Vice President Yao with the tip of his shoes, "You, get out."

"Mr. Xue." Ma Jinwei tilted his head and winked.

Vice President Yao left the ward angrily.

"Aunt Liu, do you think this is good? Let's sort things out." Ma Jinwei switched back to Haicheng dialect, "As far as I know, as of the day when the incident happened, your son has been in the casino for eleven days. You know, People's spirits are highly tense for a long time, and it is easy to cause hallucinations..."

"It's not a hallucination," Grandma Liu waved her hand weakly, "You guys have talked enough, it's time to listen to me."

"Okay, tell me." Ma Jinwei moved a round stool to the end of the bed and sat down.

Slowing down, Grandma Liu continued: "The last call my eldest son made was to tell me that he had won the jackpot, 700 million, and he reported the ratio and combination twice, and I heard , is the sound of winning the lottery, I can hear it very clearly."

"That may be the machine next to it..." Ma Jinwei suddenly realized something in the middle of speaking, and stopped.

"You talk about it, let's talk about it." Grandma Liu sat up straight, looking at Ma Jinwei at the same level, "Your hotel is unwilling to cash out the 700 million jackpot, and within 15 seconds of the big prize being released, you forcibly shut down the machine— — Just like this time, it was said that it was a machine failure, and because you were local snakes, you said that my son had a mental problem and kicked him out of the hotel. Whether my son couldn’t think about it, or you said he had a mental breakdown, do you think my son’s Does death have anything to do with your hotel? If it really doesn’t matter, why did you refuse to communicate with us? Why did you put my youngest son on the blacklist? On the day he came to pick up his brother home, he called your hotel and asked him Is there any belongings left in the hotel? Over the past four years, my youngest son has made 210 phone calls and written 97 emails to you, which is divided evenly, that is, one phone call per week and one email every half a month. Has he made trouble at the entrance of your hotel? Yes..."

"Grandma, grandma!" The immature child's voice from far and near interrupted Grandma Liu. Following the voice, a six or seven-year-old boy rushed onto the hospital bed, "Grandma, why are you in the hospital? Grandma, I miss you so much." You..."

"Hey! Baby?" The old man was also surprised, "Why are you here, where are your parents?"

A young couple panting heavily then entered the ward. The moment he saw Grandma Liu, the man's eyes turned red, "Mom...Mom, you are sick! What are you doing..."

Staring at the young man who was crying instantly and the woman who handed him a tissue, Xingqi felt a little familiar for some reason, as if she had seen it somewhere.

The detective who had been quiet for a long time stood up and patted the silent Ma Jinwei at the end of the bed, "Uncle Ma, I believe you will handle this matter properly." Before he could reply, the detective walked out, "Xingqi, we should go. "

Xingqi glanced at the couple and the child again, remembering their looks, and bid farewell to Grandma Liu at the urging of the detective.

"Simple probability, a math teacher like her can figure it out just by doing some calculations."

Asked why the casino jackpot blowout on New Year's Eve, and how Grandma Liu knew, the detective replied.

"Simple...probability...learning?"

"That kind of machine has a fixed winning combination. If one pulls 100 million times, it will definitely win the first prize once, and if it pulls 1000 million times, it will win the first prize ten times."

"100 million times, 1000 million times?" Xingqi was speechless, "But why are they all concentrated on New Year's Eve?"

"It's going to be reset."

"why……"

"Wait a minute." The detective stuffed a piece of green leaf candy into the assistant's mouth, "I'll think about how to explain it."

Xingqi waited obediently.

"First of all, the winning probability of that kind of machine is fixed, limited to local laws and regulations. It cannot be manually manipulated when the jackpot will be won, and the combination of winning the first prize cannot be deleted from the machine preset. This is the premise."

"Ah."

"But casinos want to make a profit, legally."

"Ah."

"So the casino can design when not to win the first prize. For example, the first 100 times out of 99 million times, and the last one thousand times. Is this understood?"

"I probably understand."

"Then, as long as the machine is restarted before 99 times, the odds of the casino will return to the first 100 times of 99 million times. If there is a jackpot once in a while before the restart, the machine will automatically update the probability and return to 100." Thousands of times..." The detective dragged out the ending, looking at the assistant with anticipation.

Xingqi understood, "The first 99 times."

"That's right." The detective nodded in relief, and continued, "The gambler's son reported the combination and odds to the old lady's coordinate value. Using this inversion, we can conclude that there will definitely be an explosion before New Year's Eve this year." Lots and lots of awards."

"But..." Xingqi still couldn't figure it out, "Since the betting...that...Grandma Liu's son won the first prize and the machine restarted, why are there so many first prizes awarded before New Year's Eve?"

"Just treat it like a gambler haunting the hotel and cast a curse on the hotel, waiting for his mother to beat the drums to complain about him." After the detective finished speaking, he smiled sadly, "Are you afraid that the gambler's son will become a real gambler for revenge? "

"It's so scary..." Xingqi rubbed the non-existing goosebumps on her arm very cooperatively, "Then why..."

The detective raised his index and middle fingers, "Two, only two more questions."

"..."

Xingqi thought for a long time, and reluctantly chose the first one she thought she had to ask, "Why does Grandma Liu take other people's chips?"

"Attention." The detective took out a coin from nowhere, and smoothly flipped out a series of afterimages between his fingers, and finally caught it between his little finger and ring finger. Disgraceful thing. Like her anonymous threatening letter, in order to have a chance to communicate face-to-face with the person in charge of the hotel. Didn’t you see that she only took one at a time, and it was the smallest denomination?”

"I saw it."

When they won the first prize, Grandma Liu came to help her clean up the chips spewed out by the machine, and finally took the one with the smallest denomination.

Seeing that the assistant hadn't moved for a long time, the detective reminded, "There's one more."

Xingqi pursed her lips, "Keep it for now."

There are many things she doesn't understand.

Calculating the probability of one in a million, tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions, combined with the time factor, how much effort did the elderly spend?

Even if it is calculated, if there is no detective involved, the casino—at least Vice President Yao doesn't care about the life and death of an ordinary person.

The older brother passed away, but all the younger brother could do was call and email the hotel over and over again.

even--

If it weren't for the detective, he wouldn't even have noticed that in the same building, a sick old man was desperate for the worst in order to get an explanation.

Xingqi suddenly shuddered.

The detective glanced at the inexplicably depressed assistant strangely, and after a while, she reluctantly said, "Okay, can you ask two, three...well, four more questions?"

Entering the boarding gate, Xingqi suddenly remembered why she always felt that Grandma Liu's youngest son's family seemed familiar.

When boarding the plane to Macheng, it was this family of three who separated her from the detectives!

"Detective." The plane ascended into the stratosphere, Xingqi unbuckled her seat belt, turned around and quickly stated the conclusion she had been thinking for a long time, "Grandma Liu's youngest son is not the client either."

The detective's ears turned red, he took out a magazine and flipped through it twice, "What are you talking about?"

"Japanese restaurant, you asked me to go to the flight attendant to get the contact information of Grandma Liu's youngest son from her. If he is the client, you don't have to go through a lot of trouble to find someone else. You must have listened to the husband and wife when I went to the bathroom The two said something, for example, I was worried that my mother would go to the hotel, and then you went to the casino to find Grandma Liu."

The detective looked at the advertisement without raising his head, "Imagination is good, I commend you."

"There is no client for this incident," Xingqi bit each word seriously, "Then, what is your purpose for going to Macheng?"

"It's nothing..." The detective changed another large-format magazine, and opened it to the position that almost covered his face.

Xingqi stared at the detective intently, seeing that the skin on her neck was flushed between light pink and peach pink.

After a long time, a vague answer came from the rustling paper, "A date."

"A date?" Xingqi approached with interest, "With whom?"

The detective put down the large-format magazine, and put down four words stiffly: "With a dog."

"Dog?" Xingqi was taken aback, "The loyal dog Hachiko?"

No, no, this is not important, she found something more worthy of attention, "Detective, you have been blushing so easily recently."

"Really?" The detective turned to look at her with a blushing expressionless face, "Maybe it's because I have developed superpowers recently."

"What?"

"Activate the heat anytime, anywhere to burn the virus in the body."

Xingqi only extracted the two keywords of fever, and reached out to touch her forehead, "Do you have a fever?"

It feels a little hot, but not too hot.

She simply put her forehead on it and felt it carefully.

"Will your heart beating wildly when you activate super powers to burn to death the virus in your body?"

"...when you put your chest on me and hold my chest."

The author has something to say: Although Valentine's Day has passed, spring is here, and I can't get better.