Chapter 48: The Time Gambled in Jingzhu Garden

  "Looking and looking for chicken legs, found a big chicken leg..." I hummed the revised "Looking for Chicken Legs", leisurely gnawing on the fragrant chicken leg "taken" from the kitchen, ignoring Tang Gu's Nth resentful glance.

  Tang Gu looked at the few peanuts in her bowl, extremely indignant! After all, she was a guest too! How could they treat their guests like this? Humph, she wanted to kill with her eyes the person opposite her who was happily gnawing on chicken legs!

  I really can't stand her gaze, wiping my mouth and handing over the thing in my hand: "Alright alright, if you want to eat it that much then have it!"

  Tang Gu's eyes were still resentful: "Yue'er, I'm not a dog, what does this bone in your hand mean!" He slammed the table fiercely.

  I reluctantly put down the bone in my hand: "You don't eat it, I'll give it to our family's Wang Cai instead."

  "Hmm, no way, you have to go to the kitchen and steal some delicious food for me too!" Tang Gu said with a wrinkled nose.

  "Hmm, this is hard labor..." I said with a thoughtful expression.

  Seeing me still hesitating, Tang Gu sneered and chuckled twice: "If you're not willing to... hehe..."

  "What do you want?" I looked at her with a vigilant expression.

  "I, I...". Suddenly, Taigu Xue burst into loud wailing: "Ah, bullying! The Prime Minister's wife is bullying the princess! Wuuu... I'm being bullied so badly..."

  "Shut up! Shut up!" I stepped forward and covered her mouth: "Like this, I'll play cards with you. If I lose, I'll help you steal things!"

  "Ah, playing cards?" Tang Gu suddenly narrowed his eyes and said excitedly: "Sounds like it's going to be interesting, deal!"

  ……

  "Madam, madam, the paper has arrived!" Little Qian excitedly ran into the bamboo courtyard, proudly waving a thick stack in her hand - grass paper?!

  "Xiao Qian, I asked you to get thicker paper, and you brought me back these?" I said with a dark face.

  Xiao Qian's face was full of innocence: "Of course, I ran through the entire Chancellor's toilet to get so many papers. Look, Madam, a few sheets stacked together are quite thick, aren't they?"

  "Xiao Qian, I order you to throw these papers 100 meters away from the bamboo forest right now, and then go wash your hands ten times. Otherwise, I'll kick you out!" I commanded fiercely.

  Xiao Qian's head shrunk back, her expression extremely resentful, and she walked out of Jingzhu Garden with her head hung low.

  In the end, I had to get the four treasures of the study and stack the cut xuan paper layer by layer. It seemed a bit soft, so I used the mud from the backyard and mixed it with water to make a thin, rectangular shape and applied it to the back of the paper to prevent it from changing the original color of the paper cards. This way, there was more weight to it.

  Then let Tang Gu write 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7... and Da Wang Xiao Wang. Of course, since it's ancient times, a god of wealth was drawn on top, holding the ingot is Da Wang, and empty-handed is Xiao Wang!

  After finishing the paper card, I began to teach the two good babies in front of me who were ignorant of the paper card with an old hand.

  It's been many years since I last touched cards, and back then it was only because I had a task to complete. Of course, with these things, you can become an expert in just two or three days! (Yue: Everyone is being too humble, due to Xueming's intelligence not being comparable to ordinary people, so...)

  While teaching them, I also recalled how to play cards.

  "This time, let's play landlord, I'll be the landlord and you two can rebel against me." He chose this one because it was simpler and he was afraid they wouldn't be able to handle anything too difficult. Of course, mainly because he only remembered two or three ways to play anyway...

  "If I win a game, you can make a request for me to help you get something delicious from the kitchen, whatever it is, as long as it's there. If I lose, there are no conditions." I proposed such an unfair condition because I'm quite confident in my skills!

  At first, because I wasn't familiar with the gameplay, I was winning so much that my mouth was stretched to my ears, but those two gradually grasped the rules and gameplay, the two of them were perfectly in sync, invincible, very soon, on the stone table, you could see a person with their head buried between their hands, pretending to be dead. How is this possible? How could I lose? And lose so badly?!

  "Heh heh, you already owe me thirteen delicious dishes, come on, Xiao Qian, follow me to the kitchen, and you, follow behind us!" As she said that, she pulled Xiao Qian along, strutting past me with her head held high.

  I'm so pathetic! Now, I've learned a lesson at the cost of blood: never mess with gambling!