Becoming a Russian Oligarch After Rebirth
Chapter 804 - 803: A Comedy of Errors (Major - )

Chapter 804: Chapter 803: A Comedy of Errors (Major Chapter)

In the VIP room, there were men and women, several staff members from the Xiao Ying Group.

Han Xiaodan discreetly looked around and noticed that there were not only Russians but even more Asians. It seemed that the background of this gambling center was quite complex...

"Miss Han, hello. I’m the person in charge of this gambling center, and first of all, congratulations on winning the First Prize at the slot machine. This is also the first time this has happened since our gambling center opened! You are a very lucky girl..." a middle-aged woman in a professional suit said to Han Xiaodan with a smile.

She spoke in Mandarin, but it sounded a bit awkward, like a Hong Kong and Macau accent.

Han Xiaodan was a bit nervous and held her mother’s hand tightly, her small nose was covered with beads of sweat.

It all happened so suddenly, she still felt like she was dreaming, unable to believe she had won the First Prize by just casually playing?

Her mother was a bit more composed, her lips trembling slightly as she carefully asked, "Um... I’d like to ask, how much money is the First Prize?"

Obviously, the question that concerned Han Xiaodan’s mother the most was the exact same one as her daughter’s!

The female manager smiled and held up a finger, "One million!"

"Hiss..." Han Xiaodan’s mother gasped.

That much!

Initially, she thought slot machines were just like the game machines in domestic arcades, even the so-called First Prize would only be tens of thousands at best, a few tens of thousands of CNY at most!

She had never expected it to be as much as one million!

She paused for a moment, then subconsciously asked, "CNY?"

After all, this was Moscow, where it was said that Rubles were used. Before the travel group came here, the tour leader had mentioned it.

According to the exchange rate at the time, one CNY could exchange for more than three Rubles!

Since it was the prize from a Moscow gambling center, naturally it would be in Rubles.

One million Rubles roughly equated to three hundred thousand CNY.

Unfortunately, if it were in CNY, that would be great, thought Han Xiaodan’s mother secretly...

To her surprise, the woman in charge shook her head, "No, it’s in US dollars!"

That made Han Xiaodan’s mother lose her composure, almost jumping up.

One million US dollars?!

These days, people didn’t call it "US Dollar," but "US Dollar!"

The significance of this value was self-evident.

One million US dollars, even at the official fixed exchange rate, would be over eight million and six hundred thousand CNY!

If changed at the Black Market, the exchange rate could reach an astonishing 10:1!

That meant one US dollar could be exchanged for ten CNY...

Of course, Han Xiaodan’s mother did not know this because she had never dealt with US dollars before and had no need for them in her life.

But students studying abroad like Wang Ye did know.

Because they needed US dollars for studying abroad, for tuition and living expenses.

But at the time, according to regulations, even if studying abroad, when going to the bank to exchange US dollars with a Passport and an invitation from a school, one could only exchange up to two thousand US dollars a year...

As for what to do if that wasn’t enough, unfortunately, one had to figure it out for themselves.

After all, at that time, the country’s Foreign Exchange reserves were not high, and there were plenty of areas where foreign exchange was needed; it wasn’t possible to completely liberalize personal exchanges.

So before Wang Ye went abroad to study, his father had found Scalpers to exchange US dollars, and got him an additional three thousand US dollars, plus the two thousand from the bank, he brought five thousand US dollars with him in the first year.

When exchanging US dollars with Scalpers, the exchange rate was based on 10:1...

......

"One million US dollars? That much..." Han Xiaodan widened her eyes and said in disbelief.

"Of course, after all, it is the First Prize. With the strength of our Group, anything less would be insufficient," the female manager said jokingly.

In fact, she wasn’t joking at all. A million US dollars was already a tremendous sum in the eyes of Han Xiaodan and her mother.

But in this gambling center, there were often bets larger than this one being placed.

In the Diamond VIP Gambling Hall, the stakes were quite high, and although not exaggerated to the point of millions of US dollars every time, such bets were not rare.

Of course, that was the clients betting against each other, and the Xiao Ying Group only organized these bets as well as provided services and took a cut, they did not participate...

Although the gambling center didn’t allow locals to enter, don’t forget that many wealthy Russians basically held foreign passports, which counted as "foreigners"!

The common people were not the target customers of the gambling center at all.

"So... is this money given in cash?" Han Xiaodan’s mother finally came to her senses and promptly asked.

She was a little worried.

If they really did give her one million US dollars in cash, she wouldn’t know what to do with it!

Carying that much money around was definitely not safe, but how to bring it home, she didn’t understand either; it would become a hot potato.

"No need to worry about that, our Group has a branch company in your country’s capital. When you return home, the staff from our branch company will meet you at the Airport, and you will go to the bank together to deposit the Bonus into your designated account," the manager said calmly.

This was also a service provided by the Xiao Ying Group.

For wealthy clients coming from abroad, if they won big, transferring the money back home was indeed troublesome.