Chapter 315: Talent for Playing Cards
"Mingxiu, you don't have a fever, do you?" Tian Zhenzhen touched Mingxiu's forehead and asked in confusion.
Mingxiu pushed Tian Zhenzhen's hand away: "Of course not."
"Then why do you want to hire Zhou Wen as your coach? Aren't you supposed to defeat him and become famous in Sunset College?" Tian Zhenzhen said.
"I have fought with one of his students." Mingxiu said.
"Shouldn't your opponent be him? Why did you fight with the student he trained? What was the result?" Tian Zhenzhen asked three questions in a row.
"It's a draw. I tried my best but couldn't win. The man's swordsmanship is too powerful." Mingxiu said excitedly.
Tian Zhenzhen and the students of Mingcheng College were all shocked. Mingxiu was such a strong man, but he could only tie with the students trained by Zhou Wen. This was really hard to believe. In their opinion, Mingxiu should be invincible. How could he only tie with the students trained by Zhou Wen? Then how strong should Zhou Wen be?
Mingxiu continued, "That student only took three private lessons from Zhou Wen. According to him, two or three months ago, his strength wasn't even enough to withstand ten of my moves."
"What?" Tian Zhenzhen and the others felt their brains weren't working properly.
To them, it sounded like a fairy tale that he could tie with Mingxiu after only three private lessons.
"Mingxiu, is what you said true?" Tian Zhenzhen really couldn't believe it.
"There's no mistake. Feng Qiuyan is the type who won't lie at first glance. And among his mentor's four students, Zhou Wen can only be ranked last and is the weakest one." Mingxiu said again.
"Is this the famous Sunset College? What kind of monsters are these?" Tian Zhenzhen and the others were stunned.
Mingxiu, the invincible academic genius in their eyes, seemed to be not so outstanding in Sunset College.
Mingxiu was very excited: "I originally thought it would be a boring trip, but I didn't expect that I came to the right place. Sunset College is worthy of being called Sunset College. There are so many powerful students here. This feeling is really great."
In Wang Mingyuan's laboratory, there were only Zhou Wen and Zhong Ziya. The two were playing cards face to face, and there were several notes stuck on Zhou Wen's face.
Zhou Wen originally came to ask Wang Mingyuan some questions about cultivation, but Wang Mingyuan had not returned from Longjing yet, so Zhong Ziya suggested that the two of them would be bored and play cards first.
Zhou Wen originally refused, thinking that playing cards was worse than playing games.
But Zhong Ziya said that if Zhou Wen could beat him in a card game, he would give Zhou Wen an epic body movement crystal.
Although Zhou Wen didn't know how to play cards, he thought that playing cards, especially with two people, was 30% dependent on skill and 70% on luck. Even if his skills were not good, as long as he was lucky enough, he would definitely win.
But he didn't expect that Zhong Ziya was playing with heads and tails cards, and if he played the wrong card, he would lose. The three slips of paper on Zhou Wen's face were all stuck on him because he lost because he played the wrong card.
Zhou Wen had watched Zhong Ziya and the other two play before, so he roughly knew how to play. However, watching was one thing, and playing by himself was another. It was too easy to be led astray and make the wrong hand with this kind of cards.
Zhong Ziya plays the regular cards, while Zhou Wen plays the reverse cards. For example, if Zhou Wen plays a 7, then Zhong Ziya needs to play a card higher than 8 to beat him. However, Zhou Wen cannot play a 9. Instead, he needs to play a card smaller than 8 to beat Zhong Ziya's 8.
This style of play was very special. It was Zhou Wen's first time playing it, and he started by playing the opposite cards. Zhong Ziya was talking to him while playing cards, which made it easy for Zhou Wen to play cards according to normal card-playing thinking. He lost three times because of this, not because his cards were bad.
Zhong Ziya said with a smile while playing cards, "Little brother, it's not that easy to play against the cards. When Jiang Yan first taught Hui Haifeng and me how to play, he put a lot of notes on us. Just think of it as paying a little more tuition."
"I already know how to play, let's do it again." Zhou Wen said.
"You can play as many rounds as you want." Zhong Ziya said with a smile.
It is not so easy to change the inertia of human thinking. If someone has lived for more than ten years and has been playing cards the right way, and suddenly asked to play the wrong way, it is easy for him to be led astray.
It took Zhong Ziya a lot of time to fully adapt to this way of thinking that interchanges positive and negative. It would definitely not be easy for Zhou Wen to adapt to it immediately.
What's more, Zhong Ziya had been deliberately talking to Zhou Wen, distracting him from thinking about the topic, making it easier for him to make mistakes.
When Zhong Ziya first learned to play cards, she didn't dare to talk to Jiang Yan. Once she was distracted and talked, she would make mistakes.
It took a long time before he was able to chat with Jiang Yan and the others while playing cards. Hui Haifeng was in a similar situation. The only person who could play cards head-on and tail-off cards and chat with them without making any mistakes was Wang Mingyuan.
Zhong Ziya didn't know whether Wang Mingyuan had played this kind of cards before or for some other reason, but he had never seen Wang Mingyuan make any mistakes when playing cards.
As for Jiang Yan, who first proposed playing cards like this, Zhong Ziya did not miss it. But after all, it was he who proposed it, so he must have played it for a long time before, so it was not surprising.
Zhong Ziya originally thought that Zhou Wen would definitely need some time to adapt, or maybe he would not talk to him, concentrate on playing cards, and think slowly, so as to avoid making mistakes.
But Zhou Wen didn't do that. He continued to chat and play cards with him, playing cards at a normal speed without deliberately slowing down to think.
But starting from the fourth game, Zhou Wen did not make any more mistakes. Although Zhou Wen still lost in the end, it was because his cards were not good and he had no skills in playing the cards.
"Have you adapted so quickly?" Zhong Ziya was a little unconvinced and continued to play a few more games with Zhou Wen. He soon found that Zhou Wen had really adapted. No matter how he talked to Zhou Wen, even if he talked about distracting topics, he couldn't make Zhou Wen make mistakes.
"This guy's talent in this area might be better than Hui Haifeng and me." Zhong Ziya was a little surprised.
"I'm not going to play anymore. It's so boring." Zhong Ziya saw that Zhou Wen was no longer making mistakes and his card skills seemed to be getting better and better. He was really afraid that he would capsize in the ditch by accident, so he laughed and said.
"Let's play two more rounds. If you lose, I won't take your crystal." Zhou Wen had just started playing and was finding it interesting, so he naturally didn't want to let Zhong Ziya go.
Zhong Ziya had no choice but to agree to play two more games because of Zhou Wen's pestering.
When Wang Mingyuan came out of Longjing, there were a lot of notes stuck on Zhong Ziya and Zhou Wen's faces, which surprised Wang Mingyuan a little.
As far as he knew, this was probably Zhou Wen's first time playing with heads and tails, but he was able to play back and forth with Zhong Ziya. It seemed that he had a very good talent in this area.
(End of this chapter)
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