Chapter 109 Betting
He glanced at Huo Jin and saw his sickly face, then fell on Liang Weiyuan's bright face, jealousy almost bursting out of his eyes.
"Look at the good brother you chose to marry. He looks like a sickly man!"
"Look at me again—"
Huo Siyuan deliberately puffed out his chest to make the prince's jade pendant dangle more clearly. "I'm not afraid to tell you, the prince invited me to a poetry banquet today. He showed great favor to me and even gave me the jade pendant as a gift."
Liang Weiyuan frowned when she heard this, without even looking at it, she just felt it was noisy and sarcastic.
Did he really consider it an honor to hire a ghostwriter?
Huo Jin looked up with a smile in his narrow eyes, a hint of coldness in his eyes. "It seems that even during this long period of time when I was unconscious, my second brother still hasn't made any progress as usual. He loves to show off such trivial things."
"A small matter?!"
Huo Siyuan suddenly bit his cheeks, grabbed the jade pendant from his waist and slammed it down on the stone table. The warm jade hit the chessboard, sending the black and white chess pieces flying everywhere.
"In my opinion, my elder brother is probably jealous of me because I caught the prince's eye. He dares not admit that he is a useless person, so he just uses words to show off his strength!" He smiled with a gloomy look on his face.
When he saw the table full of chess pieces, a plan immediately came to his mind.
"Brother, do you dare to play chess with me? If you lose, kneel down and kowtow to me and admit your mistake!"
Liang Weiyuan just frowned, but Huo Jin saw a sneer on his lips and slowly stood up with the help of his crutches.
His tall body was wrapped in a black robe, and his sharp and cold aura descended with the shadow, forcing Huo Siyuan to take a step back unconsciously.
But the next moment, he suddenly felt his face dull and his expression became ugly.
Huo Jin's eyes were as cold as a pond. When he swept across Huo Siyuan's flushed face, the words that came out of his thin lips were chilling: "Second brother wants to gamble, as the eldest brother, how can I spoil his fun?"
"It also prevents my second brother from thinking that he can gain entry to the family just by begging for mercy."
Huo Jin's voice was hoarse with illness, but sharper than a knife: "But, if second brother loses, what is the point of the bet?"
Before Huo Siyuan could say anything, that compelling voice slowly followed: "Let's bet, how about second brother kneeling down and slapping himself in the face for being disrespectful to you and your sister-in-law?"
He spoke calmly, but Huo Siyuan's heart skipped a beat.
But the words had already been spoken. Huo Siyuan swallowed his saliva with his Adam's apple rolling, still stiffening his neck and shaking his sleeves as he sat down.
"I'm afraid big brother doesn't dare!"
Seeing this, Liang Weiyuan smiled meaningfully, and without saying anything more, she stood up and gave up her seat very considerately.
When Huo Jin saw her lose two games in a row, she realized that when he was in the frontier, even the old chess masters from foreign countries were no match for him.
Isn't Huo Siyuan just trying to embarrass himself?
"I heard that when my eldest brother was in the military camp, he only knew how to wield swords and guns. I'm afraid his knowledge of chess is not as good as that of the nanny in the backyard."
Thinking of this, Huo Siyuan became more confident. As soon as the game started, he grabbed the black piece with contempt and smashed it hard on the corner of the chessboard.
Indeed, what was he afraid of? Could it be that he couldn't defeat a warrior who had fought on the battlefield for many years?
Huo Jin saw the slender knuckles pinching the white piece and slowly dropping it: "Second brother is so confident, is it possible that he thought he could understand the past and present just because he recited a few sour poems at the literary gathering?"
Before he finished speaking, the white piece emerged from its hole like a snake, landing lightly in the center of the chessboard, sparking a burst of fine silver light.
Huo Siyuan's eyes flashed with panic. How could he know this?!
After a moment of distraction, he gritted his teeth and said with a fake smile, "Don't try to bluff me with these provocative words."
But he finally panicked and rushed around under the black piece.
Huo Jin saw the white piece fall like thunder, accurately cutting off Huo Siyuan's chess path. He smiled and said nothing, as if what he had just said was just casual.
This attitude actually made Huo Siyuan feel a little more relaxed.
Looking at the situation on the chessboard again, he found that he was already at a disadvantage, so he hurried to save the situation.
"Second brother, this move is like a three-year-old child drawing an earthworm."
An unintentional sharp momentum spread out. Huo Jin saw another white piece fall, and it was like a sharp blade that instantly cut Huo Siyuan's painstakingly constructed chess position in half.
Huo Siyuan's face turned pale instantly and his eyes widened.
He trembled as he grabbed the chess pieces, only to find the board was completely deadlocked. His Adam's apple rolled up and down, and after a long pause he managed to utter, "Impossible... You're clearly... You're clearly a reckless, sickly person! How could you possibly be so good at such a refined thing as chess!"
Liang Weiyuan leaned over to look at the chessboard, surprise flashing in her eyes.
Huo Jin saw this chess game, and was surrounded by enemies on all sides, with his army defeated and his generals killed.
Compared to this, Huo Jin actually held back when playing chess with her just now.
Liang Weiyuan couldn't help but sneer, "Second Master, if you only regard playing chess as a refined pleasure, then you are simply asking for trouble."
"My husband has simulated the battle of thousands of troops on a sand table in the military tent."
Her white fingertips gently slid across the chessboard, finally stopping at the key piece that Huo Jinjian had placed. "Isn't this chessboard another battlefield?"
One only knows the joy of anecdotes, while the other is into real fighting with swords and guns. They are simply not comparable.
Huo Jin raised his eyes and looked at Huo Siyuan, who looked very shocked, with a hint of contempt.
Huo Siyuan's face turned pale and blue, and he seemed to be speechless. He stood up and was about to leave.
"Wei San." Huo Jin knocked on the table.
Wei San's burly figure suddenly appeared from the shadows, and he pushed himself in front of Huo Siyuan, rubbing his hands together, "Second Master, do you want to kneel down yourself, or do you want me to help you?"
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