Chapter 108 Guanpu
Cheng He touched his nose guiltily and said, "You think too much. How could I do such a thing? We met by chance on the street purely because we are destined to meet."
Liu Xiaoru added: "What's even more coincidental is that we met by chance after we had finished shopping."
Cheng He took a look at the bags in Zhang Yunniang's hands. They were buying clothes and gold and silver, which were unaffordable for most people.
"Xiao Ru, did you buy anything you like? If not, I'll go shopping with you again." Cheng He said sweetly.
Liu Xiaoru is not really a gold digger. She just feels annoyed when she sees this man. If Cheng He didn't have some influence in the county, she would have turned against him long ago.
At this moment, the stall owner of the next stall suddenly called out, "Look, look, I've taken out all the treasures from the bottom of the box, the golden sheep! Ten cents, just ten cents, and you'll have a chance to take this golden sheep away!"
The golden sheep held high by the stall owner for everyone to see was about the size of a little finger. It weighed only about 0.2 taels of gold by naked eye, which means it was worth about two taels of silver.
Most of the games in Guanpu involve betting ten coins for a prize of one hundred coins. The stall owner offers a prize worth two taels of silver, which is really a huge investment.
Of course, there is only one jackpot of this kind, and the probability of getting it is extremely low.
Niuniu suddenly looked excited and said, "Mom, I want to play this!"
Zhang Yunniang frowned slightly. No matter what others said, in her eyes, Guanpu was gambling.
"My dear, this is for adults to play with. Children are not allowed to play with it."
Niu Niu lowered her head with a depressed look on her face.
Cheng He was reluctant to spend a lot of money, but he was happy to spend this little money. He said to Niuniu, "Niuniu, call me uncle and I'll pay you to play Guanpu, okay?"
When the little girl heard this, her delicate eyebrows knitted together and she said, "Why should I call you uncle?"
Liu Xiaoru said unhappily: "Why did you tell a child such a nonsense? Aren't you afraid of polluting her ears?"
Cheng He misunderstood her unhappiness as shyness and said, "This is only a matter of time. When the time comes, Niuniu will have to change her tune."
Liu Xiaoru glared at him fiercely and said, "If you continue to ruin my reputation like this, I will go to the government office to sue you!"
Cheng He thought she was being petty: "Okay, okay, I won't say anything. Don't be angry. It's all my fault."
Liu Xiaoru used to think Cheng He was being humble and submissive, but now when she saw him behaving like this, she wanted to vomit it out right there and then.
She couldn't even figure out why she had taken a fancy to such a thing in the first place.
"Niuniu, don't worry about him. If you want to play Guanpu, I'll pay you." Liu Xiaoru pulled Niuniu over and said.
Niuniu sighed and said like a little adult: "Why do you all think I have no money?"
Liu Xiaoru was stunned. The way Niu Niu begged Zhang Yunniang just now didn't look like she was rich at all.
Zhang Yunniang explained: "She just wanted my consent."
Liu Xiaoru couldn't help laughing and said, "Our Niuniu is such a good girl. If you take a fancy to something on the stall, I'll go get it for you."
Cheng He also said, "I can help you with this. I'm an expert at it and I can hit the target eight out of ten times."
Niuniu shook her head and said, "I'd better get what I want myself."
Liu Xiaoru stretched out her hand and gently pinched the little girl's fair and tender face, and asked, "You little brat, what do you want? Why do you have to do it yourself?"
Niuniu tilted her head and pointed at the golden sheep in the stall owner's hand: "I want that one."
Liu Xiaoru sighed and said, "Little girl, you are quite thoughtful. You went straight for the most valuable thing on the stall."
Niuniu explained, "I was born in the Year of the Rabbit, so Aunt Liu bought me a golden rabbit. Aunt Liu, you were born in the Year of the Goat, so I also wanted to give you a golden goat to pray for you."
When Liu Xiaoru heard this, her heart seemed to be burned by something.
The little girl had pure eyes, but she complained: "It's a pity there are no other zodiac signs, I could win one for my parents, grandparents and brothers!"
Niuniu had good intentions, and Zhang Yunniang felt that she couldn't set the rules too rigidly, so she said, "Forget it this time. I'll give you three chances, but this won't happen again."
Niu Niu was so happy that she wanted to jump up.
Cheng He watched Liu Xiaoru's touched expression from the side. He didn't expect that a little girl could coax people better than him.
"Niuniu, you are a child. I always give in to you at other times. Let me spend the money first. I also want to pray for your Aunt Liu." Cheng He felt that if he could win the Golden Goat before Niuniu, he would surely charm Liu Xiaoru to death!
If it were in the past, Liu Xiaoru might really think that he was considerate and that by doing this he was protecting Niuniu's small treasury.
But now, Liu Xiaoru just felt that it was disgusting that Cheng He was snatching things from the child.
Because of the big jackpot of the Golden Sheep, even though the stall owner raised the stakes from ten cents to twenty cents, his stall was still packed with people, and a group of people were trying to rush in, all thinking that they were the lucky ones.
But after standing around for a long time, all that could be heard were various voices of regret, "Ouch!", and the stall owner's fanning the flames, such as "The Golden Sheep will come out soon" and "It must be in the next bet".
Cheng He shouted loudly from the outside: "I'll jump ten times!"
When the stall owner heard this, he hurriedly pushed the onlookers and said, "Make way, a big customer is coming!"
The crowd squeezed out a path for the four people to enter.
Cheng He only spent two cents and enjoyed everyone's attention. He felt that even if he didn't catch anything, the money was worth it.
Then he really didn't catch anything.
The grand prize of Guanpu is the Golden Goat, but there are also some smaller prizes to help people make back their money, such as a piece of cake, a fan, a headscarf or something like that.
Forget about the pastries. Cheng He tried ten times but didn't even get the cheapest hairband.
"Oh, this husband has such bad luck."
"You're right. I looked at him for a long time just now. There was a dark cloud over his head and a black spot on his forehead. He looked very unlucky."
Listening to the discussions of the people around him, Cheng He became more and more angry. He just didn't believe that he couldn't do anything.
"Ten more times!" Cheng He shouted.
The game mode this time is a dart wheel with different patterns painted on it. The stall owner spins the wheel and the buyer throws the darts. The reward depends on the pattern they hit.
Seeing that Cheng He was already drunk, the stall owner smiled and pulled out the dart that Cheng He had just shot from the turntable and handed it to Cheng He.
The turntable turns again.
The ten darts in Cheng He's hand were soon empty again.
"Impossible, this is impossible!" Cheng He's eyes turned red. It was not the first time for him to play dart wheel, but he had never been as unlucky as today.
When Cheng He turned around, he saw Liu Xiaoru holding Niuniu and looking at him with strange eyes.
He made up his mind and said, "Give me another ten, no, twenty darts!"
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