Si Mo sat leisurely on one side, sipping his tea without joining their conversation. The little fox insisted on finding out the truth through normal means. Otherwise, given him a day, he could have completely restored the truth of that time.
"I'm telling you my whereabouts in advance because I'm going to a mountain area. The signal may not be very good there. So if you can't reach me, don't panic," Wang Tong said.
Rong Lan hesitated for a moment. "Do you need a bodyguard?" She paused, then opened one of the drawers and took out a talisman. "Or, wear this talisman?" This was a talisman she learned to make from Si Mo. Its effect might not be as good as those made by Si Mo, but it was still quite useful. At least, if Wang Tong was in danger, she might be able to rush over to save him.
Wang Tong, an atheist, saw the talisman and resolutely shook his head. "No way!"
Seeing Wang Tong looking at the talisman as if it were a useless ornament, Rong Lan couldn't help but give him a full - fledged demonstration of her talisman. "My talisman is something you can't even buy with money!" Before Si Mo taught her how to make talismans, he specifically told her that whether it was for giving away or selling, the talismans should never go to villains.
Not knowing about the business of the fortune - telling shop and not realizing that Rong Lan wasn't exaggerating, Wang Tong didn't believe her. "I still don't want it. And I'm just going into the mountains to find someone. I won't be in danger." Of course, he wouldn't go into the mountains alone. After all, he didn't know the way, and he wasn't sure if the navigation would work. But he would surely arrange everything properly when he got there.
"Fine then." Rong Lan knew that Wang Tong didn't like such things, so she didn't force him to take the talisman. She put the talisman back into the drawer and took out a deck of playing cards from the same drawer. "Wanna play cards?"
Normally, it was just her and Si Mo. With only two of them, there wasn't much entertainment. They could only practice on their own or receive guests if there were any. But with Wang Tong around, the three of them could barely form a card game.
Si Mo, who was bored, said, "I'm in."
Seeing that Si Mo had agreed, Wang Tong didn't want to disappoint Rong Lan. "Let's do it."
"Okay." Rong Lan took out a cartoon sticker like those given to kindergarten kids as rewards from the drawer. "Just playing cards is boring. If you lose, stick a sticker on your face voluntarily."
"Sure." Si Mo agreed quickly because in his opinion, the possibility of him losing was slim.
Wang Tong, who also thought he wouldn't lose, nodded.
So, after three rounds of cards, Rong Lan had three stickers on her face. She looked at herself in the mirror, then cast a resentful glance at Wang Tong. Seeing that Wang Tong was shuffling the cards with his head down and ignoring her, she then resentfully looked at Si Mo.
"Don't tell me you guys cheated? Or did you secretly team up against me?" This was nothing like what she had imagined. She had thought she could make Si Mo lose just one round. Even if it was just one round, seeing the Dragon God with such a childish sticker on his face, she could take a photo and keep it for thousands of years. She could show the photo to people and introduce the god she knew who lost a card game to her.
But! Si Mo didn't lose a single round! Even Wang Tong didn't lose a single round!
This was a world where only she got hurt!
Si Mo waved his folding fan and faced the little fox's suspicion head - on. "I'm not the kind of person who would cheat in a card game. I just know how to calculate the cards." Moreover, it wasn't just him. The only one who didn't know how to calculate the cards on the scene was probably this silly little fox.
"You guys are both calculating the cards?" Rong Lan looked at Si Mo and then at Wang Tong.
Both of them nodded.
Seeing them nod, Rong Lan flopped down on the chair in anger and stared at the ceiling. "Isn't playing cards just for fun? Can't you guys play it just for entertainment?"
Wang Tong shook his head without stopping the action of dealing the cards. "If there were no punishment, I could play for fun. But since there is a punishment, I can't. I care about my face."
Si Mo, who also calculated the cards because he cared about his face, nodded in agreement. He didn't know when Song Wanyue and Ji Zhoutong would come. What if they came and happened to see him with that childish little sticker on his face? Where would he put his face?
Rong Lan, who didn't know how to calculate the cards, was speechless. "This is too much!"
"However, calculating the cards isn't all - powerful. If you're lucky enough, you might get a winning hand. Even if we can calculate the cards, it won't help." Calculating the cards just increased the chances of winning, but in a game with such a high degree of randomness, luck was also an indispensable factor. It just seemed that from the first three rounds, their boss's luck was quite average.
Hearing this, Rong Lan immediately regained her confidence, and her fighting spirit soared. She sat up straight, picked up the cards in front of her, took a deep breath, and said, "I've always had good luck. I'm sure I can win a round!"
Si Mo, who had already seen his own cards and found two of the biggest ones, gave the little fox a pitying glance. "Then good luck."
Rong Lan firmly believed that her luck wouldn't be too bad. However, round after round, she lost so much that she began to doubt her fox - life.
"I'm done." Si Mo put down his last card, spread his hands, and easily sat back to watch the show.
Wang Tong, who still had five cards in his hand, and Rong Lan, who only had two cards left, glanced at each other. Wang Tong smiled and said, "Can you follow Si Mo's card?" If Rong Lan's card was bigger than Si Mo's, she could play it. If not, it would be his turn to play according to the dealing order.
Rong Lan lowered her eyes to glance at the cards in her hand and shook her head with a straight face. "I can't play. You go." She had lost so many rounds. Although she hadn't learned the complete logic of calculating the cards, she still secretly remembered whether the big cards on the table had been played.
She had a great chance of winning this round because she had a pair left, which was the biggest unplayed card on the table so far. It was only a little smaller than Si Mo's last card. No matter whether Wang Tong played his five cards one by one or in pairs, she could handle it easily.
Unless Wang Tong's remaining five cards were a straight, she was sure to win!
Wang Tong knew what cards Rong Lan had in her hand. He hesitated for three seconds and finally put the five cards on the table together. "I was thinking that as a qualified employee, I should probably let the boss win at least one round so that the boss wouldn't lose face. But after much thought, I decided that my own handsome face was more important. So sorry about that."
Between social etiquette and his face, he chose his face.
Seeing Wang Tong put the five cards together, Rong Lan held her breath. Those five cards were indeed a straight, and it was such a small straight as '34567'. Taken individually, none of his cards were bigger than hers.
Rong Lan was completely devastated. She flopped down on the chair and tremblingly put down the two big cards she had left. "This is too much!" She had lost for an entire morning! Si Mo and Wang Tong had turned a simple entertainment activity into a mental - exercise activity. Her luck had never been able to outshine their brains.