Crossing should also be very low-key

When he came to Zhang Xiaoyue's yard, he was wearing a simple and elegant off-white gown and trousers, tied with a refreshing ponytail, without any decorations on his head, and no makeup on his face. He looked like a handsome and extraordinary nobleman.

And this noble young man is lying leisurely on the recliner at the moment, reading a book and eating fruit at the same time.

"Brother Yue, would you like to come over to play cards at night?"

"You are 30 years old and you still call me brother?" Zhang Xiaoyue glanced at him, but she couldn't feel that this person was ten years older than him.All right!In the open-minded and good-tempered part, it does look a little bit like 30 years old, but the rest of the...

"Hey, elder brother is a respectful title! It has nothing to do with age!" Li Qingjiu looked around, but he didn't see the full luggage he imagined. "Brother Yue, you haven't started collecting yet?"

If it is packed in cardboard boxes, Zhang Xiaoyue can pack five boxes of clothes alone!Not to mention those collectibles or something.

"It's ready," Zhang Xiaoyue said with a smile. "But it's only three boxes!"

"Three boxes?" How is that possible?

"Well, three boxes of jewels."

"..." Three boxes of jewelry alone? "What about the other stuff? Clothes, supplies, books, stuff like that."

"Hey, how troublesome is it to pack those things? Just buy them after you go out." He waved his hand and said.

"...." Brother Yue, how much money did you launder?That is to say, selling the three boxes of jewelry alone can probably make a lot of money. "Hey, that's not right! Didn't you say last month that you haven't got all the money out yet? Why have you already dealt with it in such a short time?"

"Oh, the prince has increased the amount of cash I can carry when I leave the mansion." Zhang Xiaoyue said lightly.

"So good?" Li Qingjiu said enviously. "Is this the privilege of being the number one male favourite? No wonder so many people are vying to be the number one male favourite!"

Zhang Xiaoyue glanced at him, and didn't bother to explain to him.Of course, during the period of reaching an agreement with the lord, he had to assist him in obtaining Li Qingjiu, and it was impossible for him to explain it to the person concerned.

"Brother Yue, the prince invited me to have dinner tonight and play poker together after dinner. Do you want to come and eat together? I'll ask the prince." Thinking of the purpose of coming here, Li Qingjiu said happily.

"No need, I prefer the food here." Zhang Xiaoyue stopped him gently with a slight smile.have a meal together?He didn't want to disappear into the world for no reason one day before or after leaving the mansion.

"You still have to continue to provide food here? You are no longer a son!" They have already resigned and still provide food. The treatment of supervisors is not the same!

"Well, until I leave the residence."

"Oh." Li Qingjiu didn't think too much, and directly asked to play cards. "Then come over after dinner! I will teach the prince how to play while eating. Before you come, Ah Shun and I will practice with him. Don't come too late!"

"Otherwise, let Ah Shun call me when you finish your meal with the lord!" My lord, my lord, Xiaoyue is working very hard to help you create a chance for the two of you to be alone!

"Okay, then it's settled! I'm going to take a shower first."

After making an appointment with Zhang Xiaoyue, he went to the servant's room to ask Ah Shun where he was assigned to work, and then went to tell Ah Shun about playing cards with the prince at night.

"Playing cards with the prince?" Ah Shun was a little panicked. "Then, can you win the prince? Will the chips still be replaced by something to eat? Will those who owe too much be beaten? Will Commander Chen and the housekeeper watch from the sidelines?"

"Calm down." Li Qingjiu patted him on the shoulder. "Just treat him as A Cong! Anyway, it's just a game of cards. I'll make an agreement with the prince first. There is no class, no seniority, and no relatives at the poker table! Even if Commander Chen and the housekeeper are watching It's useless!"

"...." Ah Shun looked at Li Qingjiu, thinking that at that time the prince would probably only recognize him and nothing else!

"For chips, you should use something to eat! Otherwise, if you play for real money, how can we play with Brother Yue and Wang Ye, who are rich in capital? Anyway, come back after eating and taking a shower!"

"understood."

After the two card players made appointments, he took a change of clothes and bath items to the bathroom of the servants as planned, washed his whole body while there were not many people, and then returned to the room to dry his hair Finally, hang yourself on the deck chair in the outer room and take a nap.

He has been busy from morning to now, and the body of this 16-year-old boy still seems to be a bit overwhelmed.Since he will be explaining the rules of those poker games in the evening, he might as well take a nap while there is still some time!He chose to sleep in the outer room because he was afraid of oversleeping. He thought that when the maids came in to prepare dinner for the prince, he would wake up, and it would not be too late to change clothes and tie his hair.

With such wishful thinking, Li Qingjiu fell asleep peacefully.

It's a pity that he overestimated the physical strength of this body.Because Ah Shun called him before, he can sleep until he wakes up naturally most of the time. He has never woken up by himself after taking a bath and cooling down after a busy day like today. .So Li Qingjiu fell asleep very unexpectedly.

From the time when the first maid came in with the dishes and saw him sleeping on the recliner in an inelegant posture, until the last maid came in and put all the dishes back, Li Qingjiu showed no signs of waking up.

Therefore, when Xu Lichen came to Li Qingjiu's room after taking a shower after a day's trip, what he saw was him wearing a loose white singlet, with his hair loose, lying on a recliner in a large font.Looking at some parts of him that were looming under the unlined clothes due to his poor sleeping position, the thought of "I really shouldn't say that I don't need him to sleep in the future" flashed through Xu Lichen's mind.

Oh, it's hard to be a gentleman...

After sighing, Xu Lichen finally made up his mind to shake him awake after feasting his eyes.

"Get up and eat."

"Huh?" Li Qingjiu heard a somewhat familiar and unfamiliar call in a trance, and was thinking about whose voice it was, when he suddenly woke up when he thought of his date with the prince. "My lord, my lord? Did I oversleep? Tsk, I'm sorry, I'm sorry!"

"It's okay, this king just came here." Xu Lichen brought Li Qingjiu to the table. "Eat first! You should be hungry too."

"Yeah, I'm a little hungry." Li Qingjiu said with some embarrassment.

"Sit down, eat first." Xu Lichen moved his chopsticks first as he said so.

"Thank you, my lord." Seeing him eating, Li Qingjiu couldn't help moving his index finger, so he also sat down and started eating.

Xu Lichen secretly glanced at Li Qingjiu frequently while eating.The reason why he was so eager to urge him to eat first was to hope that he would forget that he was still wearing unlined clothing, but unexpectedly it really worked.

This guy just got out of the shower with his hair in his unlined clothes and looks really good!Xu Lichen finally realized what it means to be beautiful and delicious today, but the current situation is that he can see but not eat, so he can only look at the plum blossoms to quench his thirst.

During the meal, in order to prevent Li Qingjiu from remembering that he hadn't changed his clothes, Xu Lichen kept asking him about his world, and also asked him how to play the board game.

"Oh, let's play poker today. Poker is a four-player game, and three people can play it by changing the rules of the game. Different games require different winning conditions, some rely on luck, some rely on skill, and some Some rely on memory, some depend on character..."

While eating, Li Qingjiu explained the several poker games that Xu Lichen was expected to play today. He continued until the meal was over and the maids cleared the table.On the one hand, it is because the clothes he usually wears are actually similar to unlined clothes, but the material and degree of newness are different; There was nothing to be concerned about, so he didn't take it too seriously.

If Li Qingjiu knew how Xu Lichen looked at him in the unlined clothes, he would definitely put the title of "pervert" back on him.

When the explanation was almost finished, Ah Shun just came back, so Li Qingjiu asked Ah Shun to call Zhang Xiaoyue over.After all four people arrived, the prince's first board game experience began.

"Today's chips are honey sugar balls. In the basic game, one, two, and three." Li Qingjiu explained while giving everyone a bowl, a spoon, and a large pack of three-color sandwich balls. "My lord is a novice, everyone should make room for him. My lord, there is no difference between seniority and inferiority at the poker table. Winning or losing is a matter of the poker game. You can't seek revenge afterwards, you understand?"

"Yeah." Xu Lichen nodded slightly in agreement, but was not satisfied with that bargaining chip. "Why sugar pills?"

"Gambling hurts feelings!" Li Qingjiu continued to explain. "Because it's the first time for the prince to play, so if you owe candy pills, you don't have to hit the soles of your feet. Others have to hit every ten you owe." He took out the belt that was the treasure of the box, Ah Shun and Zhang Xiaoyue laughed when they saw it up.

After distributing fifteen sugar pills to each person, the poker game officially began!

Time flies like an arrow, and the years fly by. Amidst the clanging sound of sugar pills and the laughing and cursing of the four people, the game went on for half an hour without knowing it.During the period, Lin Tang and Chen Ying came to watch for a while when they had time, but after watching a few rounds, they went back to work.Hu Sanbi also wandered over from his room and watched with relish, but later he didn't know who was passing by outside the door, so he chased him out and never came back.

Although the game seemed calm on the surface, there was one person who became more and more dissatisfied as the game progressed.Even though their game has changed from picking up red dots to ranking seventh and then to number two, his dissatisfaction has not diminished, but has intensified.Until the game went on for a full hour...

"You guys are in collusion!" Li Qingjiu, who was extremely upset in his heart, finally couldn't help standing up and throwing his cards. "How can anyone be so lucky and never lose anything? You alone have the most sugar pills in the whole game!" He pointed to Xu Lichen's bowl full of sugar pills and said angrily.

Although he didn't win all the time, whether it was playing red dots, ranking seventh, or the second best, Xu Lichen either didn't lose, or won a big win. It was rare to win back immediately after losing once or twice.

This is not the point, the point is that he is almost the only one who loses from the beginning to the end!

"Ah Shun! Why do you pass every time it comes to you? You obviously have a better card than the prince!"

"I, I want to wait for the release later, I don't know that there will be no chance later..." Ah Shun said with some guilt, and after speaking, he stole a glance at the prince, which was appreciated by the prince.

"And you, Brother Yue! You obviously have a lot of good cards, why do you have to kill yourself from the beginning?"

"I want to play with thirteen fully covered ones, but unfortunately I fail every time..." Zhang Xiaoyue sighed, and shrugged without blushing or panting.

"The three of you are in collusion!"

""Absolutely not.""" The three said in unison.Because "let the prince win" is the consensus of everyone, there is no need for collusion!

"Brother Jiu, your brand is better." Ah Shun said with a smile.

"I didn't turn over the table, it's a good brand!" He would never admit that the table was too heavy for him to turn it over.

"Man, you must be willing to admit defeat!" Zhang Xiaoyue said irrelevantly.

"I don't want to accept it!" Li Qingjiu picked up the bowl and spoon in front of Xu Lichen, scooped a spoonful of sugar pills from it, and stuffed them into his mouth. Honey juices of different flavors flowed out. "I ate the chips! Let's see how you count the money."

It turns out that there is another way to use food as a bargaining chip!Ah Shun and Zhang Xiaoyue finally learned a lot today.

"It's useless to eat." Xu Lichen said with a slight smile, without rushing. "You currently owe me 57 sugar pills, and I don't care about the last seven. So you owe me five on the soles of my feet. Do you want to pay it off now or earn interest?"

"Repay interest? Are you a prince or an underground bank?" Li Qingjiu stared at him with wide eyes.

"If you don't hit the soles of your feet, you can use other methods to resist." Xu Lichen said pointedly.

"If you ask for money, you will die!" Li Qingjiu hastily declared.

"Your money and life belong to this king. Is there any difference?"

Ah yes...he gave the money, and he saved the life...

"Observed first, owed first!" After hitting the soles of his feet five times, he wouldn't have to sleep tonight.

Seeing Li Qingjiu angry and helpless, Xu Lichen unconsciously smiled deeper.

Before today, he had never imagined that this 30-year-old boy could have so many facial expressions, not just the same tone of voice as "the little people are panicked", "the little people have self-knowledge", "the prince forgives sins" and so on. , the same emotional response.

If I had known that he was such an interesting person, I really shouldn't have started with that kind of relationship.

However, that kind of relationship is actually pretty good in retrospect....

"I'm just joking with you." After finally admiring Li Qingjiu's angry and cute appearance, Xu Lichen stood up and announced, "Tonight I'm just practicing with this king, and winning or losing doesn't count. But I'm not allowed to play again later. Don’t release water on me again, otherwise I will definitely punish you severely.”

"Yes." Ah Shun and Zhang Xiaoyue quickly followed suit and nodded respectfully to the prince.

"The two of you really have water!"

Writer's words:

Originally, I wanted to wait for the printing and then do DM, but I don't know how many copies will be printed, so I want to estimate the quantity first.

●Current Information●

※The number of words is about 19. Currently, it is tentatively divided into two volumes, including two episodes, and will not be sold separately.

※A5 size, 400 pages in total, the price should be within 450 yuan.

※If you pre-order, if there is nothing to send, there may be a discount or something.

※CWT31 has booths for two days, and they can be mailed after the sales meeting, and Xiao Qi's whole family can use them.

※Taipei (every Wednesday after school starts), Nankan (anytime after school starts), and downtown Tainan (8/13~25) can be handed in.

Recently, the prices of many things have increased, and this time the cover may also be printed, so I don't know how to estimate the price.That, friends who are willing to buy, please leave a message to let us know.

I will donate half of the profits from books to cats and dogs, and I will keep the other half to pay taxes next year...Q口Q

After the 7/23 pre-order information comes out, the remittance information will be announced, and then fill in the official pre-order form and remit the money.Thank you all....>/////