Ji Yuan looked at the time. It was three o'clock in the afternoon. According to the schedule of Shen Antu that Secretary Chen had sent him before, Shen Antu should have woken up from his nap by now.
Ji Yuan took a deep breath and was about to reach out to ring the doorbell when the door suddenly opened by itself. Xie Wenxuan poked his head out and scanned Ji Yuan like a searchlight: "I've been watching you on the surveillance camera for a long time. What are you doing dawdling at the door?"
"Why are you here?" Ji Yuan was shocked.
Xie Wenxuan did not answer this idiotic question and went back to the house with the door open.
Ji Yuan's scalp tingled with embarrassment, his left foot almost tripped over his right foot, and he stumbled into the door.
Ji Yuan was once a rich second-generation after all, and he did not show too much surprise at the various valuable furnishings in this villa. However, when he saw a card game that looked like a "Kitten Fishing" on the coffee table not far away in the living room, he could not help but close his eyes.
"Ji Yuan, come quickly, we are short of one person." Shen Antu waved at him, and Xie Wenxuan was already sitting on the sofa.
Ji Yuan walked to Shen Antu a little stiffly, put the red wine gift box in his hand on the coffee table, and picked at the corner of his clothes uncomfortably: "Thank you for helping me so much yesterday. This is my thank-you gift... I only have enough money to buy this kind of red wine. If you don't like it, just throw it away."
"Don't mind, we can drink together now." Shen Antu said as he opened the box, took out the red wine and went to the kitchen. A moment later, he brought out three wine glasses.
In order to make it easier to drink and play cards, the three of them moved to the dining table. Xie Wenxuan suggested that if they played poker frequently in the future, they could buy a special card table at home. Shen Antu nodded in agreement.
Ji Yuan didn't really come to Shen Antu's house to play cards. He needed to test Shen Antu's attitude over the next few days to see how much he remembered, and then report to his client Xie Duo. Coming to send him red wine to express his gratitude was just a cover.
Ji Yuan shuffled the cards and said tentatively, "Let's play something else. Let's not play anything too difficult. How about the most classic Landlord? Shen Antu, you used to be the best at playing cards. Don't you have any impression of that?"
"I have no impression, but since you said so, I can give it a try. Tell me the rules." Shen Antu picked up the red wine and took a sip, and a look of confusion suddenly appeared on his face.
Xie Wenxuan was intrigued by his expression, so he also picked up the wine glass and took a sip, then said lightly: "Not bad."
Shen Antu also nodded in agreement: "Indeed."
Since then, the two have never touched glasses again.
"..." Ji Yuan went over the rules of playing Landlord with a gloomy face to Shen Antu.
Xie Wenxuan said: "Don't worry, sister-in-law, I'm a terrible poker player, so strictly speaking we are on the same starting line, you can play boldly."
Ji Yuan placed the shuffled cards in the middle of the table: "Then let's get started."
The three of them drew cards quietly. Ji Yuan was racking his brains to think of a topic. Before he could come up with anything, Shen Antu took the lead and asked, "Did we play cards often before?"
"That's not the case," Ji Yuan thought for a moment and said, "At a friend's party, I watched you play poker, and you won eight out of ten times."
"Really?" Shen Antu said in a surprised tone, "So how did we meet? I only remember having a few drinks with you in the bar."
Ji Yuan answered quickly this time: "You wanted to rent a house near the school, and my family happened to have a suitable one. You found me through a friend's introduction. Although it didn't work out in the end, at least we got to know each other."
"Are you also from H University?" Shen Antu asked again. Xie Duo had told him before that he had studied at H University.
Ji Yuan whispered the name of a school, a third-rate university located next to H University. Shen Antu responded calmly and changed the subject.
Ji Yuan couldn't help but feel annoyed. The rhythm was completely in Shen Antu's hands and he didn't even have the chance to ask questions.
After the three of them finished drawing their cards, Ji Yuan looked at his own cards and said, "Then the landlord..."
"Call the landlord!" Xie Wenxuan raised his hand without hesitation.
Ji Yuan held the Joker, the Big Joker and the Three Twos and cast a suspicious look at Xie Wenxuan: "Are you sure?"
Xie Wenxuan grabbed the gray hair on his head and smiled like a villain with his baby face: "Wealth and honor are sought in danger. You can't get a tiger cub without taking the risk. Come on!"
"Wait, let's calculate the stakes. What if we win? What if we lose?" Shen Antu showed a pair of fox-like eyes above the cards.
Xie Wenxuan slammed the table and said, "You two have no money, so let's not use money as a bet. How about this, tell the truth? The loser must answer a question honestly."
Ji Yuan looked at Shen Antu and saw him nod indifferently.
Three minutes later.
"King bomb." Ji Yuan and Shen Antu won easily, and the two of them high-fived to celebrate.
"Now I'm going to ask questions," Shen Antu cleared his throat, his tone filled with strange joy, "How old were you when you last peed in bed? Tell the truth."
Xie Wenxuan gritted his teeth: "Ten... eleven years old."
"Poof." Ji Yuan really couldn't help it.
Xie Wenxuan looked at Ji Yuan with red eyes as if he was looking at a fool born in 1982: "Come again!"
After three rounds, the landlord Xie Wenxuan didn't win once, but the situation on the field changed subtly because Shen Antu, who was familiar with the rules, also started to get excited.