He Bai turned to Bao Min and said with a smile:
"How about this, Young Master Bao? I really want to know the result today, so I'm willing to pay double to book a table of food and wine at Zuixianglou."
"Let's take the dice from that table and finish this last round of gambling. That will satisfy my curiosity, how about it?"
Bao Min gritted her teeth inwardly. She didn't want to agree, but since Manager He had already said so, it would seem insincere for her to refuse again.
"Alright! Manager He is so generous, I'll send someone back to fetch it right away!" Bao Min forced an extremely unnatural smile at the two of them.
Take it if you want. Anyway, she has an identical set of dice cups and dice. We can bring them over together and use a new set so there won't be any more accidents.
In the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, the items were brought over.
"This time we brought a complete set. The dice cup we just dropped on the ground has some small cracks. We'll use new ones for the last round to avoid any accidents!"
As Bao Min spoke, she handed the original dice cup to the servant behind her and placed the new set on the oxcart, without any intention of seeking Su Qinghe's consent.
“I have no objection!” Su Qinghe replied calmly.
No matter how many she changes, she doesn't believe that Bao Min, with her brain, can come up with a second trick!
“I’ll go first this time!” Bao Min said first. She dared not let Su Qinghe go first again. If she crushed Su Qinghe again in this last round, who would she cry to?
"Please go ahead!" Su Qinghe nodded and said.
"Knock knock knock!"
The sound of dice being shaken rang out again in the quiet space, but this time the atmosphere was more tense than before, with everyone staring intently at the shaking dice cup.
"Open!" Bao Min flipped the dice cup open.
"Wow!" A murmur rippled through the crowd as everyone stared in astonishment at the numbers drawn.
"Two 1s, one 2, three 3s!"
"They're all small numbers!"
"Young Master Bao's luck is just too good today!"
"Now the other side is in serious trouble again..."
The crowd of onlookers chattered excitedly, and Bao Min, who had been on edge since the second round, finally felt completely at ease.
"Hahahaha! My luck is just that good today, Su Qinghe, I'm definitely taking this wild boar today!"
Bao Min laughed arrogantly, a stark contrast to her earlier attitude when she had told Su Qinghe to stop.
Su Qinghe ignored her and picked up the dice cup again. She had seen Bao Min's little actions just now, so she wasn't surprised at all by the number rolled.
So what if they're all low numbers? The weight of a die with one to six dots varies depending on the number of grooves on it.
With her skill, even without the weight guidance of the inner iron plate with the small dots, she can still roll out even if there are six identical dots!
Su Qinghe shook her hand, carefully feeling the weight change at the bottom of the dice inside the cup. She stopped shaking it when it reached the weight she wanted.
"Young Master Bao, you can bring out the land deed for Zuixianglou first!" Su Qinghe said with a smile as she opened the dice cup.
"Hmph! Let's wait until the results are in before saying that!"
Bao Min had already decided in her heart that she was the final winner. Without even glancing at the points in Su Qinghe's hand, she spoke up sarcastically.
"Three ones, two twos, and one three!"
"Another total of small points! Hers is even smaller!"
"She won! That's amazing!"
The gasps of surprise from the crowd reached Bao Min's ears. She seemed to think she was hallucinating. Incredulously, she rushed to Su Qinghe, her mouth agape, staring in astonishment at the number the crowd had rolled in her hand.
"Impossible! You cheated!" Bao Min roared angrily, his whole body trembling, looking like a madman.
"Young Master Bao, are you trying to deny it? You accuse me of cheating, but do you have any evidence?" Su Qinghe said calmly.
"Impossible, this can't be, you must have cheated..."
Bao Min did not answer Su Qinghe's question, but just kept repeating those two sentences to herself, and then reached out and snatched the dice cup from Su Qinghe's hand.
"The dice cup and dice are both from Young Master Bao's own company. If there's a problem, it's your fault!"
Su Qinghe let Bao Min take away the dice cup and dice, watching her examine them over and over, and then spoke coldly.
Bao Min looked at it for a long time but still couldn't figure out the reason. The dice cup and dice were exactly as she had imagined, and there had been no unexpected problems. How could this be...?
"It's getting late, Young Master Bao. If you can't produce evidence that I cheated, then please honor our bet! Manager He is a very busy man; it wouldn't be good to keep him waiting!"
Su Qinghe smiled and tightened her arms around Lin Xi's waist. She hadn't expected to have this unexpected gain on her trip to the city.
Although she had originally planned to take back the restaurant from the original owner, things didn't go as planned. Before she could even go looking for them, they just happened to run into her trap, saving her the trouble of trying again!
"This... Hehe, Miss Su! This Drunken Fragrance Pavilion is worth far more than a wild boar. This bet was unfair to me from the start. How about I give you double the price of the wild boar, and we can just forget about the Drunken Fragrance Pavilion!"
Bao Min walked up to Su Qinghe, put on a fawning smile, and said in a low voice.
Those around Bao Min, hearing her obvious attempt to renege on her debt, all wore disdainful expressions and began to mock her.
"What kind of person are you? If you think the bet is unfair, why did you agree to it in the first place? Now that you've lost, you're denying it!"
“You’ve gambled with plenty of people before, and when they lose, you’re relentless in demanding repayment, not daring to pay back a single penny. But now that it’s your turn, why don’t you have that same guts?”
Bao Min knew she was in the wrong, but hearing these people hurl such vile insults, she couldn't help but retort:
"You don't know anything! How can they be the same? The debts I usually collect are just small amounts, which those people can easily scrape together and pay off. How can that compare to Zuixianglou? Do you even know how much silver Zuixianglou earns each month?"
"Pah! Could you be any more shameless? What does this have to do with how much money you have? If you have no character, don't make these excuses!"
When Bao Min retorted, the surrounding insults intensified, with spittle flying everywhere. To avoid being implicated, Su Qinghe pulled Lin Xi away from Bao Min.
She didn't say anything, but turned to look at Steward He.
Things had already progressed to this point, and Su Qinghe had already won, so He Bai had no more hesitation. She cleared her throat and said:
“Young Master Bao, this bet was set from the beginning. At that time, Boss Su said he would only bet with you on Zui Xiang Lou, and when he saw you hesitated, he didn’t insist on betting.”
"You agreed to it yourself later. Didn't you know at the time whether it was worth it or not? Since you wanted to gamble back then, what's the point of saying all this now that you've lost?"
He Bai spoke with an extremely displeased expression, and his words carried a sense of blaming.
"If it weren't for the exciting stakes, do you think I'd be so idle as to waste so much time standing here with you?"
"Manager He, I...I..." Bao Min was sweating profusely, but she was reluctant to actually give up Zuixianglou.
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