Chapter 80: 在恕心殿斗地主

Chapter 80: in Shu Xin Hall, play the Fight the Landlord (card game)

Lu Yunluo’s eyes lit up when she heard this, “The Emperor isn’t coming tonight?”

The palace maid thought about it, the Emperor should mean this, so she nodded her head. 

“Then can I go back to the Cold Palace now?” Lu Yunluo asked with an expectant face.

That palace maid, Lu Wei, slightly shook her head, interrupting Lu Yunluo’s just-ignited thoughts, “Answering Niang Niang, the Emperor’s meaning is to let this servant take good care of you.”

Lu Yunluo immediately looked disappointed. 

I can’t go back to the cold palace yet he left her alone in this empty room, how boring ah. Now, it’s estimated to be around eight or nine o’clock in the evening. At this time,tell her lie on the bed, how could she sleep?

Her gaze suddenly landed on that palace maid, Lu Wei. 

Lu Wei was extremely uncomfortable by her look, tentatively asked, “Your Highness, do you have any other orders?”

Lu Yunluo smiled brightly, “Of course I do!”

The night was already deep, inside the imperial study, the incense burner was rising in spirals. 

The imperial guard commander, Ye Feng  had already yawned for the eighteenth time in a row, “Your Majesty, look at this time, it’s not early, there’s still an early morning court tomorrow, if you stay up all night like this, it will injure the emperor’s health!”

Ji Wu Jue looked at him with a sidelong glance, “You are disgusted that Zhen called you into the palace?”

“Your Majesty, this servant dare not!”

This imperial guard commander, Ye Feng, had been Ji Wu Jue’s footman since he was a child. When Ji Wu Jue was still the Crown Prince, he had been thrown by Ji Wu Jue into the Divine Demon Camp to run its course. 

It was only after two years that he finally climbed out of that hellish place.

After Ji Wu Jue ascended the throne, he entrusted him with a heavy responsibility and became the commander of the imperial guard, in charge of 50,000 imperial guard troops to maintain the security of the capital.

“You lost again.”

Ji Wu Jue put away the chess pieces and set up another game.

Ye Feng had a lifeless look on his face, how much longer do they have to play?

He had already gone to bed, when his subordinate informed him that the Emperor had asked him to enter the palace now.

He thought something had happened, he did not expect that the emperor on that very night, summon him into the palace; actually, just to accompany him to play chess!

After Ye Feng lost thirty-six games of chess, Ji Wu Jue finally asked Cao Zhong Quan to come and asked him about the situation in Shu Xin Hall. 

“Answer this emperor, Shu Xin Hall where Niang Niang is staying, she stays there quite well.” Cao Zhong Quan struggled to think of more suitable words.

“What does ‘quite well’ mean?” Ji Wu Jue asked with a frown.

“Your Majesty, this servant thinks it’s better and appropriate for you to go and take a look at the person by yourself.” Cao Zhong Quan said cautiously.

Ji Wu Jue got up, he wanted to see how good she was. 

Inside the side hall within the Shu Xin Hall.

Lu Yunluo was sitting in circle around a table with three palace maids, and in the hands of several people, each of them was holding a deck of cards.

“Three fives with a pair of sevens!”

“Aaah, it just so happens that I have a three in my hand, three nines with a pair of fours!” Xue Wei said, following out by taking out the cards in her hand.

“Three twos with a pair of threes!” Lu Yunluo was overjoyed.

She was the landlord this time, “Does anyone want it? I’m going to take out my cards if no one wants it!”

“Do you have any bombs in your hands? If you have bombs, hurry up and throw them away, or the cards in Niang Niang’s hand will be gone again.” Xue Wei reminded.

Previously, there were clearly eight or nine cards left in Niang Niang’s hand, and all of them went out in one straight flush.

“I have, I have four eights!”

“Four eighths are useless, a King Bomb (a pair of jokers, which can beat everything in the game)!” Lu Yunluo smiled and threw out the cards in her hand.

Seeing Lu Yunluo play the King Bomb, several people immediately sighed again, this time, it was expected to be another win for Niang Niang.

“One pair of three!”

“Yay, I win again!” Lu Yunluo didn’t feel the slightest bit of suspicion that playing poker with novices was bullying them.

Don’t underestimate these girls, she had just lost three times in their hands.

Getting up, she picked up the writing brush and added a few more strokes to the faces of a few people.

Glancing from the corner of her eye, she saw that someone seemed to be coming over, and when she raised her head, she happened to see Ji Wu Jue looking towards her.