"—I think I can still get a ten-kill streak."
A minute later, Jiang Qingzhou imitated Huo Jinyu's expression and tone just now, like a parrot, and repeated the words exactly in a drawling tone.
"Brother Huo, how come your ten kill streak ended in failure so quickly? Xixixi~~~" Jiang Yueying stared at them, the "migrant workers", who finally won back a game, and pounded the table excitedly while laughing wildly.
"Hahaha! Xiao Huo... I told you, our Zhou Zhou never does anything without confidence." Uncle Jiang was also so excited that his face turned red, and his loud laughter could penetrate the ceiling.
"Hahaha... Xiao Huo lost this time. All three players lost." Aunt Jiang also smiled happily. She glanced at the cards that Huo Jinyu had drawn. Xiao Huo actually drew a "ten" for the first time in his life.
Zhou Zhou is absolutely right. Xiao Huo’s good luck has come to an end and is starting to go downhill.
Jiang Yuehong pursed her lips delicately and smiled: "So this is what it feels like to be a landlord."
It’s really extraordinary.
What a coincidence!
At this moment, the extra-large LCD TV in the living room happened to be playing a particularly appropriate song and dance song "Congratulations on Making a Fortune".
The festive and lively cheering song, set against the happy faces of the Jiang family members, immediately created just the right atmosphere.
Huo Jinyu's inner thoughts are: My wife is imitating me~(⊙з⊙), My wife is so cute~~(^з^)-☆, I really want to be close to my wife~~~(*^ω^*)
"The facts are in front of us. You lost." Jiang Qingzhou curled his lips and waved his hand in front of Huo Jinyu, forcibly summoning Huo Jinyu back to his senses. "Don't just stare blankly. Pay up quickly!"
Huo Jinyu's heart began to flutter again. It was so cute that his wife asked for money. He grabbed a handful of golden fruits and counted ten of them. He still refused to admit defeat and said, "You just got lucky this time. I will definitely win the next time."
Jiang Qingzhou replied: "Haha!"
After losing nine games in a row, they finally won one. Several people held the ten golden fruits they won in their hands and counted them over and over again, with the smiles on their faces never disappearing.
"Brother, how do we play this?" Jiang Yueying looked at Jiang Qingzhou eagerly. She decided that she must follow the brother's steps next time.
Defeat the "evil" owner.
The other three people also cast their eyes on Jiang Qingzhou. Before Jiang Qingzhou could say anything, Huo Jinyu interrupted: "Xiao Yueying, bet 10 yuan this time. If you lose too much, I'm afraid you will cry tonight."
Jiang Qingzhou shook his head and smiled: "No, this time I have a premonition, I can still win."
"Young man, I'll listen to you." After saying that, Jiang Yueying paid another thousand.
Huo Jinyu said, "Listen to your brother. Don't cry if you lose later."
Jiang Yueying snorted: "Just a thousand dollars, no way!"
The Jiang family naturally cared about winning or losing, so they all bet one thousand.
Although he failed in the middle of the ten consecutive kills, Huo Jinyu firmly believed that—
"Starting from the next game, I will definitely achieve another success. This time I will definitely get ten kills in a row."
Huo Jinyu spoke with full confidence, and looked calm and composed, as if he had mastered all the knowledge.
"Don't be so sure," Jiang Qingzhou tilted his head slightly, nodded and smiled at Huo Jinyu, and said softly, "My dear~ Boss Huo."
—thump—thump—
Huo Jinyu's heart was beating wildly, and a string of fireworks and firecrackers were exploding in his mind. My wife, he just called me dear~
Dear~Love~~~
If I call you dear, then calling you husband can’t be too far away.
An indescribable excitement surged in Huo Jinyu's heart, and he was shocked. The aura emanating from his body was full of the youthful vigor and high spirits from the inside out.
Then, there is a saying -
"Successful in love, unsuccessful in gambling."
Huo Jinyu gave a perfect explanation for this sentence. He had just boasted that he would make another ten kills in a row, but he died before he could accomplish his mission, and then he caught "Bie Shi" and took him home.
Seeing the banker's trick, Jiang Yueying slammed the table and laughed without hesitation.
Huo Jinyu seemed to be a little bit unconvinced that he had grabbed another handful of the Old Bie Ten with the smallest points, and was dumbfounded for a while.
Seeing Huo Jinyu's stunned expression, Jiang Qingzhou's laughter revealed a hint of regret: "Sure enough! The most glorious thing can only be history forever."
Huo Jinyu raised his eyebrows, showing off the four boxes in his hand, and said meaningfully: "If you have the ability, win them all."
"People make mistakes, horses stumble. I will definitely win this time and create another glory!"
"I can see that the achievement of ten consecutive kills is waving at me ahead."
Jiang Qingzhou still smiled: "Really? One thousand."
The Jiang family understood everything tacitly and followed at the speed of light.
Then…
After getting the wrong hand for the third time in a row, Huo Jinyu was silent for a few seconds, then quickly cheered up and said firmly: "This time! I will definitely win this time."
"Hey, Brother Huo, you've said this three times, and I'm still betting... Hey? Brother, why are you betting ten dollars this time?"
Just as she was about to bet another thousand dollars, Jiang Yueying noticed that her brother had only drawn a ten-dollar bet, and immediately took back the thousand dollars she was about to bet.
Jiang Qingzhou acted like a master: "Things never happen more than three times, so stop when you are ahead."
What the young man said made sense. Jiang Yueying nodded immediately and changed a ten-dollar note to bet on it.
After the cards were opened, the dealer finally gained strength and grabbed a handful of natural cards, defeating three other players.
Huo Jinyu started to feel proud again, and he boasted, "Look, I'm going to give you ten kills in a row this time."
Then the next time, he lost again.
Win and lose, ups and downs.
Anyway, in the end, the ultimate achievement of "ten consecutive kills" was not achieved.
Because he was too cocky, he won a lot of money, but he also lost a lot. He had four full boxes of gold, and he lost half of it.
At twelve o'clock, the New Year arrives.
The four-hour entertainment event came to a successful conclusion, and the party on TV was also gradually coming to an end.
The two sisters, Jiang Yuehong and Jiang Yueying, were happily counting how much gold they had won.
"... nineteen... thirty-one... fifty-five... seventy..."
"-oops!"
Suddenly, Aunt Jiang clapped her hands, and the two sisters who were counting got stuck. The whole family turned their eyes to Aunt Jiang at the same time, and Aunt Jiang hurriedly said, "I forgot to give you the New Year's money."
Uncle Jiang also clapped his hands and hurriedly followed Aunt Jiang back to the room to get the New Year's money. He gave a red envelope to each of the children in the family, including Huo Jinyu.
"The supermarket made a lot of money this year, so the red envelopes we gave you have increased in value this year."
Jiang Qingzhou held two bright red envelopes in his hands, his fingertips constantly stroking the covers of the red envelopes, his lowered eyes concealing the complex and unclear emotions in his eyes.
He couldn't remember the last time he received a New Year's red envelope. It felt like a long, long time ago... as if it was a lifetime ago...
"—Xiao Huo, I'll return the gold to you."
Uncle Jiang's sudden voice brought Jiang Qingzhou's drifting thoughts back to the present.
Huo Jinyu was slightly stunned, but it was only for a moment, and he put the money he won at the game table and the two red envelopes he had just received into his pocket.
"Uncle, I won these, and you won those with your own ability. If I couldn't afford to lose, I wouldn't have used gold as a chip. Since the rules were agreed upon at the beginning, you are going back on your word now, making it very difficult for me to live my life."
At this point, the expression on Huo Jinyu's face began to change. Finally, he put his hands together and made a great wish: "I plan to continue my efforts next year and achieve the achievement of ten consecutive kills."
Uncle Jiang/Aunt Jiang/Jiang Yuehong/Jiang Yueying: “…” Ah! Are you coming again next year
Jiang Qingzhou: “… ” Which family is the best at giving away money? The Huo family in Kyoto is looking for the Fourth Master.
The ambition has been set.
Huo Jinyu smiled and said lazily, "I heard from Xiao Jiang that you guys will go back to your hometown to visit relatives after the New Year. It's just right to give two to each of your relatives' children as New Year's money."
Jiang Qingzhou: “…” This young master who doesn’t know how to deal with human relationships, in his hometown, it is not common to give two gold pieces as New Year’s money to each of the relatives’ children when visiting relatives.
Relatives are divided into close and distant relatives. If the relationship is close, it is fine and you can just give it. If the relationship is not close, you can give it or not. Even if you give it to everyone equally, it is hard to say whether the relatives will accept it or not.
After all, these are not small things, but real gold. None of the gold that Huo Jinyu got today has a gram weight less than 10g. According to the current market value of gold, two gold bars are equivalent to 10,000 yuan in cash.
Jiang Qingzhou didn't dare to judge human nature, nor did he want his family to use gold to test human nature.
Obviously, Uncle Jiang was thinking the same thing as Jiang Qingzhou, and he stuttered, "Xiao Huo... In our place, the New Year's money given to children is only one or two hundred at most. There's no need to give gold."
Who would give gold to relatives when visiting them? I'm not trying to be a sucker.
"One or two hundred... That's too little." Huo Jinyu shook his head, then dragged his chin and said, "It seems that since I can remember, my annual New Year's money has never been less than seven figures."
"Wow! A seven-digit lucky money, that's one million."
"Aunt, to be precise it should be an eight-digit number, including my dad and my mom, my three brothers and their sisters-in-law, and my two sisters and their brothers-in-law. Adding them all together, it's over seven digits." Huo Jinyu explained sweetly.
He hasn’t become a son-in-law yet, but he already has the awareness and obedience of a son-in-law.
Aunt Jiang was shocked.
"So, Auntie, have you summarized a key point?"
"What's the point?"
"I'm not short of money. I won the gold with my own strength, so just keep it."
Huo Jinyu showed Aunt Jiang a cute smile, and after finishing his key points, he raised his hand and waved and said -
"Good night!"
After following all the formalities, he took Jiang Qingzhou back to the room.
As soon as the bedroom door was closed, Huo Jinyu couldn't wait to present a treasure and stuffed the remaining two boxes of gold in Jiang Qingzhou's arms: "Here you go."
Jiang Qingzhou suddenly felt a sinking sensation in his arms.
Pure gold is heavy to begin with, not to mention two full boxes. Jiang Qingzhou lowered his eyes, and after a moment, he looked up at Huo Jinyu, his eyes vaguely revealing a hint of surprise: "Why are you giving it to me?"
"It's useless for me to keep it," Huo Jinyu shrugged and said bluntly, "You know I don't like gold, so who else should I give it to if not you?"
Huo Jinyu's tone of voice was so matter-of-fact that Jiang Qingzhou was speechless for a moment and could only sigh.
"It's New Year's Day, why are you sighing? Just smile~" Huo Jinyu stretched out her hands, wanting to manually make Jiang Qingzhou's face into a cute smile.
"Huo Jinyu."
Jiang Qingzhou shouted, his tone serious.
"... Hmm?" Huo Jinyu's heart trembled for some reason. The two hands that were pulling Jiang Qingzhou's lips paused slightly, and he coughed lightly. He asked uncomfortably, "Why... are you suddenly looking at me like this?"
Jiang Qingzhou stared at her for a while, the corners of his lips rose slightly, and he suddenly smiled at Huo Jinyu and said, "Thank you for today!"
Huo Jinyu blinked quickly.
The smile on his lips did not fade. Jiang Qingzhou spoke softly, his tone more serious than ever before: "They have never been so happy in the New Year as they are in this one."
"Ah..." Huo Jinyu dodged Jiang Qingzhou's gaze and said vaguely, "What are you saying? I don't understand."
"Your game table has a very high IQ and can even understand 'human language'."
In a word, Jiang Qingzhou stopped there.
Cough cough cough—
Huo Jinyu coughed violently, his eyes widened, and he asked in astonishment, "How did you know?"
"Guessed." Jiang Qingzhou lowered his eyes and glanced at the two boxes of gold in his arms, and sighed again in his heart. If Huo Jinyu hadn't been so dramatic tonight, this operation would have been too fake, and the intention of giving gold would have been too obvious.
Maybe he wouldn't think too much about it.
"You can 'guess' this?" Huo Jinyu looked incredulous on the surface, but secretly he was very smug and proud. His wife was so smart. She was worthy of being the top student who could be admitted to Peking University with her intelligence.
Unlike him, who smashed two teaching buildings and used his connections to force his way in through the back door.
"You repeatedly emphasize that we can only look at this gold, but it's not true... You spent so much effort to get these chips back, it's impossible for us to just look at them. - You just said it yourself, you don't like gold."
Jiang Qingzhou explained in a gentle voice, matching the tone and transitions of his speech, sometimes chuckling, sometimes shaking his head, and sometimes nodding.
Huo Jinyu was stunned by such a well-reasoned and smooth analysis. It turned out that he had been seen through a long time ago
"Why are you so nice to my family?" Jiang Qingzhou asked this question, with obvious confusion and deep doubt in his eyes.
Why do I need a reason? My future father-in-law, mother-in-law, and elder sister-in-law and younger sister-in-law, even a fool knows that they have to please each other—
Bah, bah, bah, bah! Why are you scolding me? The fool is not as smart as him, nor as rich as him, and not as handsome as him.
Of course, these cannot be said.
Tsk~ Got it.
Huo Jinyu rolled her eyes and said, "I still need to learn from you how to be a good husband. Of course, when asking for help, you have to be nice to your family."
As he spoke, he even lifted his hair, like a narcissistic male peacock spreading its feathers, and proudly spoke of his experience and understanding: "I am good to your family, and in return you will definitely teach me everything you know and teach me how to be a good husband."
"When I have completed my studies and achieved my goal, next year... It seems like it is already the first day of the first lunar month, so it must be next year..."
Huo Jinyu muttered to himself, and then the style of painting suddenly changed.
"—I'm sure I can bring a son-in-law back to my parents, and everyone will be happy."
The last sentence is the key point.
Jiang Qingzhou didn't want to make any comments after hearing this long sentence. He just reminded Huo Jinyu, "Why don't you go find your brother, sister-in-law, and brother-in-law? They should be happy to teach you."
"I get annoyed when I hear them nagging, so let's just forget it." Huo Jinyu groaned, with a look of disdain on her face. When she turned her gaze to Jiang Qingzhou's face, she instantly turned into a beaming smile, "I still like you the best."
Jiang Qingzhou: “…” He is obsessed with looks, so he is beaten to death.
"Well, even if I didn't do anything great today, I've worked hard..." Huo Jinyu stole a glance at Jiang Qingzhou's bright and smiling eyes, and took the opportunity to ask, "Can I hold you while you sleep tonight?"
Jiang Qingzhou: “…” Do you want to hold me while sleeping again
"Is it okay?" Huo Jinyu asked again in an expectant tone.
"What are you thinking about? That's definitely not possible." Jiang Qingzhou rolled his eyes and told Huo Jinyu clearly not to have such wild thoughts.
It's easy to say, hold her while she sleeps, what if the effect of those two bowls of nourishing soup hasn't worn off yet, and it's like last night again...
Huo Jinyu is thick-skinned, so he has the nerve to do it. But that doesn't mean everyone is as thick-skinned and ashamed as him. He can solve it by himself, but he refuses to do it! He insists on asking him for help, and even says righteously: [I don't feel anything if I do it myself. ]
When Jiang Qingzhou heard that explanation, he said nothing, but just pinched the strange thing in his hand hard.
As I wished, I heard a "howl".
Probably because he pinched her too hard, Huo Jinyu sobbed and complained about his evil deeds: [If I become incapable in the future, you can't escape either, I will definitely rely on you for the rest of my life. ]
The words "I will definitely rely on you for the rest of my life" were like a spell that followed Jiang Qingzhou everywhere, making him dare not make any small moves. He was afraid of the worst.
If something bad happens, Huo Jinyu's words just now didn't sound like a joke at all, and he might really have to rely on him for the rest of his life.
Having suffered a loss once, he would not make the same mistake a second time.
Huo Jinyu was not disappointed when he saw that his request was not met. He knew that a God-given opportunity like the one last night was hard to come by.
When pursuing your wife, you should take one step at a time and be down-to-earth. If you think you can achieve success overnight, you may end up with a bruised and battered face.
Well! I got disfigured. Not worth it.
Huo Jinyu kept comforting himself, even though he was not allowed to hold her, he still had the same bed to sleep in, and sooner or later he would be able to hold her in his arms openly and do whatever he wanted.
Sleeping in the same bed on the first day of the new year is a good start.
On the first day of the Lunar New Year next year, he will surely be able to hug his sweet and soft wife with a legitimate reason, and call her "husband" sweetly.
"You go take a shower first, or should I go first?"
"I don't mind. We can take a shower together."
As soon as Huo Jinyu finished speaking, Jiang Qingzhou glared at him and went to the bathroom with his pajamas.
When Huo Jinyu came out of the shower, he found that Jiang Qingzhou was lying on the bed, counting gold coins... 22, 23, 24... with his legs bent and raised up towards the ceiling.
The pale yellow light is soft and quiet.
A section of calf protruded from the pajamas, the skin was as white as cream and crystal clear, and under the light it reflected a jade-like luster.
Maybe it was having a lot of fun counting the gold, as its two little feet would occasionally touch each other.
The moment the screen opens, you're struck by beauty.
With his mind agitated, a current of heat rushed straight to his brain, and above him—
Huo Jinyu suddenly felt his nose getting hot, as if something was flowing down his nostrils.
… Nose, itchy.
I unconsciously reached out my hand and wiped it, only to feel something warm and sticky all over my hand. I unconsciously rubbed my fingers together again, and the slippery feeling became more obvious.
His nose opened and closed slightly, and it seemed as if another stream of heat flowed down his nostrils. Huo Jinyu then felt something was wrong. His eyes sank and he lowered his head slightly.
With a slight "pop" sound, a drop of blood from his nose dripped onto the back of his hand along with his movement.
As Huo Jinyu lowered her head a little more, one drop, two drops, three drops...
The blood from my nose dripped down like a faucet that had been opened.
What Jiang Qingzhou saw when he looked up was such a supernatural scene. He was so frightened that he dropped all the gold in his hand. He was stunned for several seconds before he reacted. He quickly got off the bed and gave Huo Jinyu emergency treatment.
After a few minutes, the nosebleed finally stopped.
Jiang Qingzhou finally had time to ask Huo Jinyu how he felt now: "How is it? Are you dizzy?"
Huo Jinyu had just shaken her head halfway when Jiang Qingzhou held her head down: "Lie down properly and don't move your head."
Huo Jinyu said "oh" and said obediently: "I'm not dizzy, I don't feel anything."
Jiang Qingzhou stretched out a finger in front of Huo Jinyu and asked, "What number is this?"
"!" Huo Jinyu's peach blossom eyes widened and he growled, "I just had a nosebleed. I didn't have a cerebral hemorrhage. My brain was also bleeding."
Jiang Qingzhou glared back with a fierce expression: "I asked you what number it is? Just answer it. Who knows if your brain has been drained out?"
Huo Jinyu lost most of his strength in an instant, and said weakly, "1."
Jiang Qingzhou slapped his hands again: "What's this?"
Huo Jinyu smiled: "5."
"What about this?"
"0." Outrageous.
"What about this?"
"Two 2s, 22." Yes, he is 2.
"… "
"… "
Jiang Qingzhou observed and found that except for the nosebleed, all other symptoms of Huo Jinyu were normal.
If everything is normal...
Jiang Qingzhou seemed to be asking Huo Jinyu, but also seemed to be talking to himself.
"I was fine... Why did I suddenly have a nosebleed? - Could it be that the turtle soup I ate yesterday was too good a tonic, so I got angry again today... and had a nosebleed?"
“… Probably.”
Hearing this, Huo Jinyu pinched his throat and agreed in a false voice, not daring to mention that he had just been obsessed with beauty and got too excited, causing his nose to bleed.
You absolutely cannot say that, it's too embarrassing.
In the end, Jiang Qingzhou could only blame the turtle soup for Huo Jinyu's nosebleed.
"You'd better eat less of this kind of tonic in the future. You almost scared me to death just now." Thinking of the scene just now, Jiang Qingzhou was still frightened and his heart beat faster.
Fortunately, it turned out to be just a false alarm.
Huo Jinyu blinked her peach blossom eyes, and Jiang Qingzhou suddenly felt as if he was "electrocuted". His heart missed a beat, and his eyebrows jumped. He subconsciously avoided looking at Huo Jinyu's overly dazzling black eyes.
Huo Jinyu suddenly asked, "Are you worried about me?"
Jiang Qingzhou lowered his head and asked instead of answering: "Isn't it obvious?"
In response to him, Huo Jinyu said a series of hehe~hehehehehehe…
He is so stupid, I don't know what he is laughing at.
Following the paranoia, Jiang Qingzhou thought to himself: Another hidden character of Huo Jinyu has been uncovered.
-stupid.