Chapter 47
After waking up, I haven't been able to sleep in for a single night.
The birdsong woke me up, and the sound of the sea rose and fell. My hearing is more sensitive than most people's, and even the faintest sound sounds like it's hitting my eardrums.
I leaned against the window, never tiring of the view outside.
Wu Qi slept next to me.
Over the past few days, I've figured out the layout of the guesthouse. It's a mini two-story detached house. Downstairs, there's a bedroom and a living room, where Zhou Huai stays. Upstairs, there's just an attic with no door, only a thin curtain, where Wu Qi and I sleep.
There's a yard outside the door, where the landlord has planted flowers and plants. Every day, the first thing Wu Qi does is yawn and go water the flowers.
With only a handful of water left, I went downstairs to wake Zhou Huai.
I ran downstairs after hearing Zhou Huai's wailing; I see this spectacle every day.
In the morning, stray cats would come to the yard begging for food, and Wu Qi would feed them as well.
Sometimes the stray cats get confused and think I'm food too, so they come over with their mouths watering, only to be chased away by Zhou Huai.
Later I learned that Zhou Huai no longer possessed any demonic energy; his master had stripped him of all his abilities and sent him to the human world to experience life.
You say the world is full of stench? Then come and see for yourself.
Sure enough, Zhou Huai never uttered those two words again after he arrived.
He couldn't resist the sunlight either.
Life is too comfortable now.
My body is gradually recovering, and sometimes when I run around freely, neither of them can catch me. The two boys are so eye-catching that they attract a lot of attention.
The grandmother next door always sat in the yard, smiling at the two of them with a kind expression.
Wu Qi didn't care, but Zhou Huai felt uneasy under her gaze. One day, he couldn't help but put his hands on his hips and say to her, "Grandma, what are you grinning about?"
The neighbor's grandma wasn't annoyed by being addressed like that. She pointed at Wu Qi, then at him, and made a heart shape with her hands.
I:"?"
Wu Qi: "..."
Zhou Huai: "…………"
"old lady!!!"
Zhou Huai was on the verge of losing his mind, nearly going insane, and shouted, "I don't like men!!!"
Wu Qi was also devastated, questioning her taste: "How could I be interested in him? Has your aesthetic sense deteriorated that much? Do you get regular checkups?"
The old lady remained silent, only repeatedly bumping into things.
...
I can't take it anymore.
I can't be a rabbit for another day; it seems my partner is about to come out.
Over the next few days, I felt more and more uneasy.
Every time a little girl passes by the courtyard, she looks inside with a shy smile and takes a picture of the two of them together.
Then they treated me like a pet, and petted me as they passed by.
They've truly lost all sense of reason!
I'm furious! From today onwards, I'm going to be inseparable from Wu Qi and defend my happiness.
However, the two of them are avoiding each other very much. Now that they live under the same roof, they don't speak to each other and act like strangers.
Unexpectedly, the old lady next door was still laughing, so Zhou Huai had to spend half a day standing in the yard confronting her.
Wu Qi gradually got bored, so he fixed me on his shoulder and rented an electric scooter from a rental shop.
He bought me a little helmet from the store's decorations and then took me for a walk on the beach.
The buildings along Erhai Lake are all white, the flowers are clustered together, the bicycles have canopies, and the tourists are wearing skirts.
The sky was a blue I had never seen before, a slightly deeper shade.
As I cycled by, the wind carried the scents of Yunnan.
I remembered what Wu Qi said when I first woke up.
"This place can help you let go of many things."
It seems that it really is.
On my way back to the guesthouse, I came across a group of middle-aged women playing mahjong.
I had heard before that mahjong was a human art, and the person who invented it must have been a genius, filling a void in the lives of many people. Wu Qi stopped the car and watched for a while.
I gave him a look: "Can you understand it?"
"What does that look mean?" Wu Qi raised an eyebrow. "You think I can't understand it?"
I nodded.
Wu Qi sneered: "You think I'm an idiot? I can learn that in two seconds."
He took off his helmet, and then mine too, stacking them together—one big and one small—and leaned against the electric scooter to start learning.
I also stood on tiptoe to look.
Wu Qixuan's position is better; he can see both players' cards directly, making it easier for him to learn.
The cards were played very quickly, and a lot of them were taken away in no time.
The middle-aged woman at the card table on the left, wearing gold-rimmed glasses, first glanced at the cards above her glasses to see what cards everyone had played. After hesitating for a moment, she flicked out a two of bamboo on her right.
Unexpectedly, the second tile was discarded by the player who then discarded the winning tile. The curly-haired woman on the right immediately revealed her hand and exclaimed, "I won!"
"Oh dear, oh dear, you actually went for it! You're going to die!" The woman with the gold-rimmed glasses slammed her fist on the table, furious that she had chosen the wrong option among the two choices.
We were completely baffled watching from the sidelines.
Wu Qi tilted his head and asked me, "Did you understand?"
I really want to say, "I can't understand you, you big-headed idiot."
Wu Qi simply smiled, then focused his gaze back on the card table, listening to them calculate the final winnings and losses.
What kind of flat win is this? You double your two yuan to four yuan, and the dealer points to eight yuan... I'm even more annoyed.
I don't believe Wu Qi learned faster than me. Look at his reaction, and then at his eyes—a hint of dullness amidst his wisdom. He probably doesn't even understand who won.
“I understand,” Wu Qi said. “She could win with two or five of a kind, but those are relatively small wins, so she won’t win much money.”
"?"
I looked up abruptly.
impossible.
Absolutely impossible.
He not only figured out who won, but also realized that this particular winning method had a smaller margin of victory.
That's outrageous.
My darn competitive spirit is kicking in; I really need to study harder.
They played another round.
This time, it was the lady with the gold-framed hand on the left who won with a "double win," and only then did I finally understand.
She has a three of bamboo and a five of bamboo, and is just missing a four of bamboo to make a set of four "threes". Only when she has a set of four "threes" can she call it "Hu".
The "three" can be three of the same pattern or consecutive patterns, and these four "three" must all be different colors.
A "夹胡" (a winning hand in a game of chance) is worth one point more than a "平胡" (a winning hand in a game of chance), so this time you'll win more money.
The entire mahjong table was finally clear in front of me, though I was still a little annoyed that someone surnamed Wu had figured it out before me.
It seems that rabbits' brains are indeed too simple in structure.
faint.
I don't even know how to evolve myself and reflect on why I made spicy rabbit heads.
At that moment, the middle-aged woman sitting opposite suddenly stood up.
"Not playing anymore?" asked the short-haired woman on the right.
"I lost, I lost! My son gave me 238 yuan and I lost it all!" she said. "I have to hurry home and cook something nice to shut him up!"
The group of people chuckled along.
One of the older women said in a slightly shrill voice, "Really leaving? Can't you afford to play? How are we supposed to play if you're one short?"
"Don't try to persuade her, everyone knows how much she loves her son," another older woman said with a smile, waving her hand. "I think that young man over there is quite nice, why don't you sit down and play a game?"
Wu Qi trembled slightly, seemingly not expecting to be called out.
He confirmed, "Me?"
"Or what?" the older woman chuckled, covering her mouth. "Is it the rabbit on your shoulder?"
The people around laughed even louder.
I was the only one who heard Wu Qi say, "Her? She's really something."
He sat down casually, then suddenly realized he hadn't brought any banknotes. Not worried, he snapped his fingers while shuffling the tiles, and banknotes began to emerge from the bag in front of the mahjong table.
Then he reached up from below and grabbed a handful of mahjong tiles, arranging them in a row.
Seeing that he seemed quite skilled, the older woman on the right, whom we'll call the "next player," asked, "This isn't your first time playing, is it?"
"They might be an expert, be careful."
Wu Qi was unusually modest and remained silent.
The older women probably thought he was young and not a true mahjong veteran who had played for a lifetime. During the game, they talked about many possible scenarios, such as having three wind tiles or red, green, and white tiles in his hand.
Wu Qi listened attentively, taking every word to heart. The older women treated him like a beginner, encouraging and coaxing him along.
However, many games cannot escape a curse called—
"A beginner's luck."
"Pong Pong Hu".
Wu Qi pushed aside the mahjong tiles and said in a coquettish tone, "My sisters are being too lenient with me."
"Oh my." The older "sisters" chuckled, a little embarrassed. "You're so lucky."
"I'll let you off this time, but not next time."
"We're going to have to show our true skills now."
Study hard.
In other words, the aunties only used 40% of their strength just now, but now they're going to go all out to 100%.
result……
"Seven pairs".
Wu Qi raised an eyebrow and smiled slightly, looking somewhat smug.
"Ouch!" The older women's faces started to darken. "Again!"
Next, it was Wu Qi's turn to be the dealer.
The older women exchanged glances, their knees bumping together, their movements so exaggerated I thought an earthquake was about to occur.
I read in a book before that many card games involve secret "alliances" to cheat other players.
Although the older women don't need to deliberately "form alliances" in private, they've been playing cards for so long that they understand each other's meaning with just a glance.
To do something bad.
At first, I didn't realize what was going on and just watched the fun like the previous rounds. It wasn't until the older woman opposite me took and then discarded a one-of-a-kind tile that I realized something was amiss. Looking up, I was even more horrified—the older women's eyes were practically contorted with rage!
I ran under the table and looked.
Goodness.
They're up to no good underground.
I quickly jumped onto Wu Qi's shoulder to complain, but he pulled me off and grabbed my bunny ears, telling me to behave.
...
Hey, I have a short temper, I can't stand seeing others being bullied.
I jumped onto the card table with a thud, intending to give these middle-aged women a hard time, but I landed in the wrong spot and knocked over three of Wu Qi's cards.
Red center, white board, 10,000.
Oh, this.
The air froze instantly.
The older women weren't about to let this opportunity slip by. After realizing what was happening, they immediately said, "We have to stop now. That's the rule; we can't reveal our hand."
"Yes, yes, yes, the hand has stopped. We can't let this round go. Um... Lao Zhang, you're the dealer."
After saying that, he made a move to shuffle the cards.
Wu Qi, however, remained calm and said, "Wait a moment."
The older women: "?"
"I thought my hand was a mess, but then my little rabbit pounced on me and I realized I had won."
Wu Qi pretended to have just noticed, even his embarrassment was perfectly acted. He pushed aside his cards, and the older women craned their necks to take a look—
Ten thousand, nine thousand, one strip, nine strips, one cake, nine cakes, east, west, south, north, center, fortune, white.
Everything is there.
This is.
Thirteen Orphans.
The legendary Thirteen Orphans, a game so popular that even a dog on the street would give it some money, was beaten up by some unknown kid on a street in Yunnan.
The older women's faces were as black as hell.
He appeared calm on the surface, but inwardly he was probably cursing Wu Qi's ancestors.
And they even said "I just thought the cards were messy"... Pshaw, they were clearly matched.
That brat has such a lucky life.
The older woman clutched the money in her pocket, reluctant to part with it.
She plopped back down on the stool and murmured, "How did you know about Thirteen Orphans?"
Wu Qi: "Didn't the older sisters just tell me that?"
The older women: "..."
Wu Qi said innocently, "Actually, I don't know either. It's my first time playing."
The older women: "…………"
first.
The older women looked quite happy.
He had actually been dead for some time.
He was even whipped after his death.
The older women had no other options, so they eventually focused their attention on me.
One of them pointed at me and said, "What breed is this rabbit? It just randomly pushes out a Thirteen Orphans?"
I pricked up my ears.
I'm suddenly a little glad I can't speak. If I could, I would have ruined Wu Qi's cards just now.
"Hmm."
Wu Qi grabbed my stomach with both hands and lifted me up, then poked his head out and said, "You've hit the nail on the head."
"Is there a story behind this too?" the older woman asked.
“Yes,” Wu Qi said. “It’s a rabbit, the God of Wealth.”
Silent pride: "I really couldn't have won without her."
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