He admitted defeat so gracefully, what else could Xue Huan say? Naturally, she could only say business-like, "Brother Liu, don't underestimate yourself. Your pitching skills are still superb, at least better than most people."
Liu Xian's forehead twitched twice, and the forced smile became even stiffer.
Pei Qian announced: "Zhao Yusheng!"
Everyone cheered and applauded, with a few loud whistles mixed in.
"Brother Zhao, you're awesome!" Wang Tianyou gave Xue Huan a thumbs up.
"I think we don't need to compete anymore. Let Brother Zhao take the prize. After all, even Brother Liu lost. How can we be Brother Zhao's opponent?"
"Brother Zhao is so good at playing, do you have any special techniques? Teach us."
Everyone gathered around and talked at once.
Liu Xian was pushed into a corner unknowingly. He looked at Zhao Yu, who was surrounded by people flattering him, with a gloomy look in his eyes. He felt embarrassed and humiliated as he was severely defeated in public in the field he was most proud of.
But there are still people who come to stab you.
"You are more likely to cause trouble than to help others!" Pei Jingxing was the only one who did not go up to Xue Huan. Instead, he stood with Liu Xian and snorted contemptuously at him.
Liu Xian lowered his eyes and said, "It's my fault that I have caused trouble for the prince. All the money lost should be counted on me."
Pei Jingxing: "Humph, do you think I can't afford to lose? It's just a few hundred taels of silver."
However, he was soon slapped in the face.
Changtian came over and said, "My Lord, you won't refuse to pay the gambling money, right?"
Pei Jingxing felt insulted, "Of course not! Am I the kind of person who can't afford to lose?"
Chang Tian smiled slightly, "That's good. Your Highness just bet a total of two thousand taels. According to Mr. Zhao's three times odds, you have to give me a total of eight thousand taels."
Pei Jingxing looked at him in shock. "What did you say? Two thousand taels? You're lying with your eyes open! There's only a few taels in this purse——"
He took out the purse with a black background and a golden dragon embroidered on it and poured out the silver inside. Unexpectedly, in addition to the silver, there were also two ingots of purple gall!
When he saw the purple gall mixed in a pile of silver coins, his pupils suddenly shrank and he had difficulty breathing.
The gold for praying for an official position is divided into different grades. The highest grade is the "Mole-top Gold", which weighs six taels per ingot and has traces of natural mole-cricket holes on it, just like the traces left by mole-crickets crawling over it.
Some gold ingots have a purple central depression, and this kind of gold ingot has a special name - purple gall.
Because purple gall appears by chance and cannot be replicated artificially, this kind of gold ingot is extremely rare and is more than ten times more expensive than gold of the same weight!
It is no longer simply gold for trading, but a treasure that can be collected.
One ingot is worth at least one thousand taels, and there is no market for it.
Two ingots are two thousand taels!
So when Changtian said he would give him eight thousand taels, it wasn't just a lie, it was the truth! He hadn't even included the rest of the small change.
Originally, Pei Jingxing was sure that he would win. When he got Pei Ji's purse, he only glanced at it and put it away without looking at it carefully.
Who knew there were two ingots of purple gall hidden inside!
Pei Jingxing gritted his teeth and looked at Pei Ji, but found that he was not looking at him at all, but was only talking to Zhao Yu.
Everyone else also looked over. How could Pei Jingxing say that he would break the contract in front of everyone?
He threw the purse back and said, "I don't have that much money on me. I'll have someone deliver the remaining six thousand taels to the Crown Prince's residence later."
Every word seemed to come out from between his teeth.
It shows how angry he is.
Not only annoying, but also painful!
That’s six thousand taels!
Not sixty taels, six hundred taels!
Pei Ji is such a cunning fellow! Why would he put two ingots of purple gall in his purse for no reason? Is he trying to show off how rich he is?
At the same time, Liu Xian was also angered by him. If Liu Xian was not useless and lost to Zhao Yu, would he have to pay so much money!
In short, everything is someone else's fault.
Pei Jingxing snorted angrily, threw up his sleeves, and left angrily.
Wang Tianyou shouted at his back: "Hey, you haven't given me my money yet!"
Pei Jingxing's body stiffened and he walked faster, as if he wanted to throw something off.
The remaining group of people stood there, looking at each other in embarrassment, and said goodbye to Pei Qian one after another.
Xue Huan and Pei Ji did not leave. They came out today specifically to have fun and had not had enough fun yet. How could they give up halfway?
Pei Qian had no choice but to accompany them. He first took the two of them to the polo field to watch specially trained professional polo players play a wonderful game.
Xue Huan was jealous and asked, "Can I go up and try it too?"
Pei Qian asked, "Brother Zhao, have you ever played this before?"
Xue Huan shook her head.
Pei Ji: "It's okay, Ayu is very smart. Although she has never played it before, I will teach her and she will definitely learn it quickly."
Pei Qian gave him a strange look. Why did he sense a hint of doting in those words? Was he seeing someone as gay?
He shook his head, trying to get rid of the scary thought.
Pei Qian, as a guide, took the two of them to play in his villa for a whole day. At the end of the day, they were exhausted both physically and mentally.
He was mainly tired. The more he watched his third brother and Zhao Yu get along, the more frightened he became. He wondered if his third brother had ever been so close to anyone before.
If the third brother really has some kind of ulterior motive with Zhao Yu... In fact, in the aristocratic circle, homosexuality is nothing at all. There are even brothels on Zhangtai Street that are specifically provided for those who love homosexuality.
It's just that the third brother's identity is not ordinary, and his homosexuality can easily be used as a handle to attack him. The most fatal thing is that he has never been close to women and still has no children. A prince who has no children but is homosexual will make his followers lose confidence!
He knows such a simple truth, so there is no reason why Third Brother wouldn't understand it?
But looking at the third brother, it seems that he has no intention of hiding it at all.
Pei Qian shook his head. Forget it. He should not think about these complicated things. The more he thought about it, the more headache he got. It was not something he should care about. He believed that his third brother must have a plan in his mind.
He'd better not worry about it.
On the way back, in the carriage.
Xue Huan was playing with the music box in her hand. The reason why the little figures in the box could move and play music was entirely because they were driven by a mechanism, which was completely different from the mechanical devices invented by modern Westerners.
It seems that the invention of this music box by Mohism was just a coincidence?
She closed the music box and couldn't help but laugh when she thought of Pei Qian's hesitant look today. "He must think there's something more to our relationship!"
Pei Ji chuckled, "What's not simple about it? Huh?"
Xue Huan glanced at him. His hand was almost reaching into her clothes, and she actually asked him? Did she still have any shame?
Pei Ji laughed out loud at her lively little expression.
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