Chapter 50 (Catching Bugs) That smile is so funny...

Jiang Yanyi was picking up the black pieces on the chessboard and putting them back into her own chess basket. She asked casually, "What do you want to change it to?"

When she looked up at Feng Shuo's deep eyes, she seemed to understand something and blushed and said, "We agreed that you can't take advantage of me before I agree to yours!"

Wind blew in from the half-open window. Feng Shuo covered his lips and coughed a few times, and asked her, "When did I take advantage of you?"

When Jiang Yanyi heard him cough, she quickly got up and closed the window, "When did you open the window? The doctor said you should stay out of the wind..."

Feng Shuo saw her anxious look, and a smile spread in his deep eyes, "Do you care about me so much?"

"No, I'm afraid you'll die young!" Jiang Yanyi said unhappily.

After closing the window, she returned to the futon and sat down again: "You can place bets again, but you can't use some weird bets."

Feng Shuo's eyes were on Jiang Yanyi and he never moved away, like a hungry wolf, looking at how to eat the piece of meat he had finally got: "What do you mean by weird bets? Does silver count?"

Jiang Yanyi choked and muttered: "Silver doesn't count."

Feng Shuo teased: "I thought you were going to say that I took advantage of you by winning your silver."

Jiang Yanyi: "..."

This guy did it on purpose, I really want to stew him to death with a pot lid!

She continued to pick up the chess pieces with her head down: "How much do we bet per game?"

Feng Shuo said calmly: "Let's go small, ten taels of silver per game."

Jiang Yanyi's hand trembled as she picked up the chess pieces.

Ten taels of silver is considered a small bet? Her hot pot restaurant business was so prosperous, but she only made about ten taels a day.

She complained, "You're just 'eating meat'!"

Feng Shuo raised his eyebrows, "Didn't you say you were good at playing Go? You won my money, so why don't you eat meat?"

Jiang Yanyi thought about it and it seemed to be true, but she felt a little uneasy in her heart. She said, "We're just having fun, and we don't like gambling."

Feng Shuo squinted at her with his narrow eyes, "Then how much money do you say for a game?"

Jiang Yanyi stretched out a slender, white finger.

Feng Shuo frowned, picked up the teacup and drank the tea to moisten his throat: "One or two taels, so be it."

Jiang Yanyi smiled in a very different but polite manner: "I mean one penny."

Feng Shuo hadn't even finished his tea when he started coughing after hearing this: "Have you lost your mind about money? This bet is as if there is nothing, what kind of gamble is it?"

Jiang Yanyi felt a little guilty, but he was also right: "I'm just afraid that you will lose too badly!"

This was the first time that Feng Shuo met someone who dared to openly provoke him. He wiped the water stains from the corner of his lips with the back of his hand: "I'm not afraid of losing."

He was good-looking, and this action was indescribably seductive.

But Jiang Yanyi was frightened by his wild eyes and frightened. Seeing that he didn't seem to bring a handkerchief, she handed him her handkerchief to negotiate with him: "How about... if you win a game, I owe you a meal. If I win a game, you promise me one thing, just a small thing, absolutely not against the law and morality."

Feng Shuo took the handkerchief she handed over and covered his mouth with it: "Why can't you promise me one thing if I win you?"

There was a faint camellia scent on the handkerchief, which was elegant and pleasant. After Feng Shuo wiped it, he put the handkerchief into his sleeve.

"I won't take advantage of you. I just haven't figured out what I'll let you do if you lose."

Jiang Yanyi had just finished speaking when she saw him put the handkerchief away. Her face turned red. "That's my handkerchief."

Feng Shuo supported his head with one hand, playing with a white jade chess piece in his hand: "It's mine now."

Jiang Yanyi: "..."

In terms of shamelessness, she is definitely not as thick-skinned as someone else.

Okay, she has more than just that handkerchief anyway.

After cleaning up the chessboard, Jiang Yanyi said, "Then let's set the bet..."

"Who said it's set." Feng Shuo half raised his narrow eyes: "The bet you mentioned is a loss for me no matter how you look at it."

Jiang Yanyi: "...Then you say how to set it? We have agreed that you are not allowed to make weird bets and you are not allowed to take advantage of me!"

Feng Shuo said, "If I win, you have to promise me one thing. This is called fairness."

Jiang Yanyi was a little hesitant at first, Feng Shuo said dimly, "Didn't you say that you are a great go player?"

Jiang Yanyi: "..."

Although she knew that this was a provocation, she still agreed: "Okay!"

If someone doesn't get beaten up, he won't know the saying in this world that "there are always people better than you"!

Jiang Yanyi took the black piece and placed it on the board first: "There is nothing special about Gobang. You can place the pieces anywhere on the board. As long as five pieces of the same color are connected, you win."

Feng Shuo was unfamiliar with the first game and was defeated soon.

Jiang Yanyi was proud of herself for once and said with a smile: "Your Majesty is a genius. You are pretty good among beginners."

Feng Shuo looked at her boastful look and said: "I've learned a lot."

At the beginning of the second game, Jiang Yanyi was thinking about whether to give up the game appropriately to avoid hurting someone's self-esteem. However, she was blocked by someone after a few moves and fell silent.

Feng Shuo spoke calmly: "One thing."

Jiang Yanyi seemed to have suffered some great humiliation. She stared at the chessboard for a long time, wishing she could stare two holes in it.

How could she lose! How could she lose?

She rolled up her sleeves: "I was careless this time, let's do it again!"

Feng Shuo's eyes stayed on her jade-white arms for a moment, then he quickly looked away and drank a sip of tea without making a sound.

After a moment, the game was decided, and he spoke quietly: "Two things."

"Let's do it again!"

"Three things."

"Let's do it again!"

...

"One hundred and one things."

Jiang Yanyi wilted and put down the chess piece silently: "I'm not coming."

She rested her chin on the chessboard, looking hopeless. Her hair, which was neatly combed in the morning, had been tugged like a bird's nest.

Feng Shuo said: "You don't have to give in to me on purpose."

Jiang Yanyi: "..."

This guy is definitely doing it on purpose!

Feng Shuo looked at her calmly and said: "I owe you one thing, and you owe me one hundred and one things. Tell me first, what do you want me to do?"

Jiang Yanyi's chess pieces rolled around, and she climbed up from the chessboard and said: "I want to make the one hundred and one things I owe you count."

Feng Shuo curled his lips and smiled lightly, but that smile looked sinister no matter how you looked at it: "Are you dreaming?"

Jiang Yanyi has been sighing since she returned to the store from Feng's mansion.

She sat at the counter looking at the accounts. Qiu Kui moved a small stool and sat next to her. While wiping the dishes with a clean cotton towel, she asked, "Why does Huahua keep sighing?"

"Hey," Jiang Yanyi turned a page of the account book in her hand with a helpless look, "I owe others a lot of debts."

Qiu Kui widened her eyes, "Do I have to pay back a lot of money?"

Jiang Yanyi held the brush, looking up at the sky in silence, "It's harder to pay back than owing money."

Feng Shuo said that the thing he owed her could only offset the one she owed him. Jiang Yanyi thought that even if she offset it, she would still owe others a hundred things, so she might as well not offset it.

The first thing Feng Shuo asked her to do was to massage his shoulders for half an hour. He looked thin, but his shoulders were as hard as stones. Her hands were almost useless!

Jiang Yanyi couldn't help but start to reflect on herself. If she had bet on silver from the beginning, it would have been great. Even if it was one or two silvers per game, she would only owe Feng Shuo one hundred silvers now...

Ah, one hundred silvers?

No, no!

Jiang Yanyi changed her reflection on herself. Why did she play chess with him...

If she didn't play chess, there wouldn't be such a miserable day.

Jiang Yanyi complained to herself while flipping through the account.

When she saw today's account, she suddenly realized that someone had bought ten servings of roasted lamb at noon.

She had used up all the chili powder she had when grilling meat a few days before the store opened. Now, if she wanted to make things grilled on the grill spicy, she could only brush them with a layer of oil-sprinkled dogwood sauce. The only two things that tasted delicious without adding chili were garlic eggplant and garlic vermicelli.

As the two signature dishes of the restaurant, some diners who are afraid of garlic would never order them, while others would come to eat hotpot for several days in a row just for these two dishes.

Although roasted lamb is also favored by many dignitaries, the sales volume is not particularly good now because it lacks the fragrance of chili peppers. Some dignitaries even said that the roasted lamb in the restaurant is not as delicious as before.

Overnight, many people criticized the food in her restaurant, saying that the taste is not good, the ingredients are not fresh... There must be someone behind these remarks.

But no matter what people say, the source of ingredients in Jiang Yanyi's restaurant is a cooperation with several households in Xizhou City. When people say that the ingredients in her restaurant are not good, Ma the butcher who sells lamb will be the first to disagree with him with his butcher knife.

If you want to ruin her store with this trick, you will have to offend the people who sell her ingredients first.

After all, Jiang Yanyi's hot pot restaurant is famous, and the customers who come to the restaurant to eat are all dignitaries. They feel proud when they say that Jiang Yanyi bought ingredients from them, and they unconsciously raise the level of the things they sell.

Jiang Yanyi introduces a few new dishes from time to time, and the business in the store is never sluggish.

Old customers often come to eat, and they know whether the food tastes good or not. The reputation in the circle of dignitaries is much more important than those rumors in the market.

After all, Jiang Yanyi's customer base is middle and high-level, not those people in the market who secretly took a few money from others and started talking nonsense without even stepping into her store.

Only occasionally, there would be wealthy merchants who came to the store because of its reputation. In order to show off how impressive they were, they would ask in a haughty manner: "People say that the food in your store is not delicious?"

Whenever this happened, Jiang Yanyi would smile and say: "Sir, you will know whether it is delicious after you try it. As for those rumors, our store has never received those guests, so I don't know how they know it is not delicious."

There were many people asking this kind of question, and sometimes Qiu Kui would directly reply without Jiang Yanyi having to come forward: "Those who say these things have never even stepped into our store, how do

they know whether the hot pot in our store is delicious?" Any diner with a little bit of brains would know that this store might have made other stores jealous.

Since Jiang Yanyi opened the shop, it was the first time that he saw someone buy ten servings of roasted lamb at once. He was curious and asked, "Qiu Kui, do you remember who the customer was who bought ten servings of roasted lamb?"

It was almost closing time and there were no customers. The cashier and two guards who came to help from Feng Mansion had also gone back. Aunt Guo was busy in the kitchen and definitely didn't know what the customer who ordered the dishes looked like. Jiang Yanyi had to ask Qiu Kui.

Qiu Kui gestured, "Three people, with big beards on their faces, ordered a lot of meat, and even made fists and drank."

Since the shop opened, most of the people who came to eat hot pot in the shop were respectable people. Qiu Kui was particularly impressed by the three diners who looked like wild men.

Jiang Yanyi could imagine what the scene was just by hearing her say big beards on their faces, making fists and drinking.

She stared at the account book for a while and found that they had settled the meal bill. She asked casually, "Did anyone cause any trouble when you settled the bill?"

Qiu Kui shook his head and said, "No."

Hearing that he didn't seem to be a ruffian, Jiang Yanyi was relieved and thought he was just a casual outlaw. She said, "We should hire two waiters who know kung fu as soon as possible."

Today was lucky. He didn't cause any trouble, and there happened to be two guards from Feng Mansion here.

But what if someone causes trouble another day? There were only three women in the store, which made others think they were easy to bully.

Before closing the store, Jiang Yanyi checked every corner of the store as usual, and made sure there was nothing wrong before closing the door.

The next day, she got up in the morning and made breakfast as usual, and Qiu Kui went to the front to open the store.

The pickled cabbage that Jiang Yanyi had made earlier had already fermented, and she was going to make some noodles with pickled

cabbage and shredded pork. Before she started kneading the dough, Qiu Kui suddenly screamed outside.

"What's wrong?" Jiang Yanyi was startled and hurried to the shop outside.

Qiu Kui stood at the door, looking at something on the steps with a pale face.