Chapter 145 Always Triumphant
As soon as Yao Deyi passed away, Yu Chengwen appeared. Neighbors all came to help, and he blended in without drawing attention.
Bai Hui's gaze, which seemed to want to kill someone, fell on his busy figure, following him like a shadow.
After the noisy funeral, the courtyard returned to silence.
When Li Chunying came to her senses, she felt like she had just woken up from a dream.
As time went by, she didn't want to stay cooped up at home all the time, so she went to the alley to play cards. From then on, besides watching TV dramas, she also developed a hobby of playing cards. However, she dared not let Yao Weimin know about playing cards. She had once deeply resented Yao Weimin's card playing and had scolded him many times for it.
Several elderly women were playing cards together. Yu Chengwen, not minding that he was a man, also joined in to watch Li Chunying play. As the weather grew hotter, he would use a fan to cool himself and shoo away mosquitoes. All the elderly women glanced at Li Chunying, occasionally making a teasing remark.
Li Chunying is no longer a teenager or a young girl in her twenties. These teasing remarks don't bother her. She'll just do what she wants. Her husband is dead, and Yu Chengwen is divorced. Anyway, they're both single. Let whoever wants to talk, talk. She's figured it out now. She'll just follow her heart, not go against her conscience, not say things against her conscience, not do things against her conscience. As long as she's not upset, that's enough.
A few old ladies would gamble for a dime or two. Sometimes they would be lucky and win a dollar or two, and sometimes they would be unlucky and lose a dollar or eighty.
Later, Li Chunying felt that the 1.8 yuan wasn't enough, so she started hanging out at the mahjong table.
Old Zhao, who lived alone in the alley, set up two mahjong tables in his room and charged a small fee for each table every day. His room was always packed with people, and many couldn't get a seat; most people just watched rather than played.
Years ago, during Chinese New Year, Yao Deyi and her siblings would gather to play mahjong. Yao Deyi never won, and she got quite annoyed by it. Little did she know that she would be sitting at the mahjong table herself now.
I'd seen mahjong played years ago and learned how, but never actually played it. Now I was itching to try it, and it seemed so simple, so I jumped into the mahjong world. But as soon as I started, disaster struck. On the first day, I lost three to one, losing several tens of dollars, which really hurt me. Now I'm not satisfied with just that much excitement.
She glared at Yu Chengwen, who had been sitting behind her all afternoon. Maybe he was the one who ruined her luck. He was fanning himself, and he had fanned away her good fortune!
Yu Chengwen touched his nose, "You won't let me speak again."
Li Chunying retorted angrily, "The moment you spoke, all the other card players started yelling for me to get off the court! What did you say?! Are we even going to play anymore?!"
Yu Chengwen: "How about I come tomorrow and I'll win it back for you?"
"You?" Li Chunying didn't really trust men when it came to mahjong. Yao Deyi was a consistent loser, and Yao Weimin wasn't much better. Well, except for her own son-in-law, who was a great mahjong player, she had confidence in Wu Peng in everything he did and inexplicably trusted him.
"Can you do it?"
"Whether it works or not, we'll find out tomorrow by trying."
The next day, the two met up and headed straight to the mahjong parlor.
Finally, someone was waiting to leave the field, and Yu Chengwen stepped up to take their place.
Li Chunying stood behind Yu Chengwen, even more nervous than if she were going to play herself.
Until Yu Chengwen won the first hand.
Li Chunying excitedly grabbed Cheng Wen's shoulder and exclaimed, "It's a smear! We've won!"
Back then, she had stood behind Yao Deyi like this, watching him lose time and time again. It seemed that she had never won a single time in her life since getting married.
"We've won!" Li Chunying smiled brightly.
She nudged Yu Chengwen, "What are you looking at me for? Hurry up." Everyone else had already finished setting up their tiles.
That afternoon, Yu Chengwen felt incredibly lucky, getting everything he wanted. Plus, he was good at card counting and memorizing. He won hand after hand, ultimately losing three out of three.
Li Chunying's laughter echoed throughout the card room.
With summer vacation approaching, Wu Peng suggested taking the three children on a trip, mainly to help Yao Fanghua relax.
Yao Fanghua recently read several books on the origin of life and the meaning of life, all about life and death. She also read Buddhist scriptures. In short, the books she has been reading lately are either about life and death or about taking a detached view of life and death. They have made her feel somewhat world-weary, and she feels like she is radiating the light of the profound meaning of life and death.
It would be good for her to go out for a walk; she really needs to broaden her horizons.
So when Jiang Wei came out of the research and development room in a daze, he found out that Yao Fanghua had taken Wu Peng and three children on vacation. His vision went black again, and he stabbed his chopsticks into the ribs.
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