boyutpedia #265 - Qi Yun is at a loss
#265 - Qi Yun is at a loss
The jade ornament Qi Yun had chosen during the blind box game was this jade snake. She hadn't expected Lu Jing to be so attentive to her affairs, even noticing such trivial matters, and then specifically winning this jade snake for her.
The meaning contained within was self-evident.
Even with Qi Yun's usually carefree personality, she couldn't help but feel a little flustered at this moment, her face flushed, unsure whether to accept it or not.
However, Lu Jing, immersed in his "fortune buff," didn't notice the change in her expression. He didn't even wait for her answer before tossing the jade snake over.
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Qi Yun's mind went blank, and she watched as the jade snake flew towards her, about to fall to the ground. But her instincts as a martial artist kicked in at that moment.
Qi Yun reached out and caught it just before it hit the ground. When she came back to her senses, the jade snake was already in her hand.
"This… this doesn't count," Qi Yun said anxiously, stammering.
"Hmm, it doesn't count. We need to keep trying," Lu Jing casually replied, still focused on testing the probabilities.
Qi Yun's face flushed even redder, and this time her breathing became rapid.
Because she had been working in the Imperial City Division, her personality was somewhat masculine. However, she had had pursuers before, but most of them were cautious and at least polite in her presence.
She had never encountered such an overbearing and direct man (after all, Qi Yun had a saber and was a second-rate expert), which brought her an unprecedented and intense shock!
She felt like the Monkey King falling into the palm of the Buddha, unable to escape no matter how hard she struggled.
Especially the thought that Lu Jing would "keep trying" later made her feel even more helpless.
Heavens, this… this is too fast, too direct!
Qi Yun knew that she couldn't stay near that man any longer, otherwise, she was afraid she would fall even faster.
Her immediate priority was to calm her overheated mind and quickly escape from this terrifying man.
So, Qi Yun forced a cupped fist salute towards Lu Jing and said, "This… it's getting late, I… I have to go home."
Lu Jing also came back to his senses at this time, wondering what Qi Yun meant by "it's getting late." She had been unwilling to leave just now, insisting on standing by and watching him play the blind box game.
But after only a short while, she had suddenly changed her tune and was in a hurry to go home.
However, Lu Jing was eager to get away from Qi Yun. After all, although his human skin mask was very delicate, he hadn't learned much about disguise techniques, and Qi Yun was from the Imperial City Division, skilled in detection and observation.
Although nothing had happened yet, Lu Jing was worried that staying together for too long would allow Qi Yun to see through something.
So, upon hearing her words, he didn't pretend to persuade her to stay and nodded, saying, "Okay."
But Qi Yun's heartstrings trembled again upon hearing the word "okay."
Lu Jing had just declared that he would launch an all-out offensive against her, but then he could let her leave without any hesitation. This action showed his strong confidence, putting on an attitude of already having Qi Yun in his grasp, which made Qi Yun even more unable to resist, and her chest rose and fell with her breath.
To think that she, a dignified official of the Directorate of Astronomy, could face even the most ferocious fugitives without fear, but at this moment, she felt a sense of powerlessness in her hands and feet.
After all the irrelevant people had left, Lu Jing also enthusiastically planned to start a new round of ten consecutive draws.
However, this time the stall owner refused to take his money, saying with a wry smile, "This friend, I'm a small business with meager profits. Setting up a stall for the whole night only earns me a little tea money, and I can't afford big losses. So, my stall has a rule that once a guest wins something, they are not allowed to play again."
"Actually, after you won the jade rabbit, I should have asked you to stop, but because you paid for ten draws in one go, I didn't speak up. But tonight, friend, your luck is too good, and I can't handle it anymore. Now, I can only ask you to be merciful and go to another stall."
"Okay," Lu Jing said, hearing the stall owner's plea, and reluctantly withdrew the copper coins in his hand.
However, he didn't go to harm the other small stall owners in the night market.
Instead, he simply chose a gambling house, deciding to rob the rich and help the poor. After all, the owners behind the gambling houses must be rich and powerful, and most of them are both rich and powerful. They wouldn't feel too bad about losing a little.
But just as Lu Jing rolled up his sleeves, intending to make a fortune, his newly acquired luck seemed to be failing again.
To better test his luck, Lu Jing didn't choose any complicated gambling games, just a simple game of guessing big or small. As a result, after forty rounds, he lost more than he won, and he lost almost twenty taels of silver.
This time, even Lu Jing felt a little heartache. The money he had earned from the jade rabbit and jade snake was just a drop in the bucket, and he had happily thrown the jade snake to Qi Yun.
So, Lu Jing couldn't help but wonder if the luck he had just obtained was really related to wealth.
However, at this moment, Lu Jing noticed a figure at the gambling table beside him.
It was a beautiful woman with a floral butterfly hairpin on her head, wearing a date-colored silk robe, with her chest pushed very low, looking quite charming.
Like most people, Lu Jing's eyes were involuntarily drawn to the large expanse of white flesh in front of her chest, but soon he saw something else in the beautiful woman's appearance.
His heart stirred.
Zhang Sanfeng had found four more masters for Lu Jing to better practice his basic skills. Among them, Madam Qi, the master who taught him eye techniques, was a gambling house supervisor, so Lu Jing's eye techniques were also trained in the gambling house.
This made him particularly sensitive to cheating. Although Lu Jing didn't have any evidence yet, he was already sure that the beautiful woman must have used some trick at the gambling table.
So, he stood beside the beautiful woman like the other onlookers, but his focus was different from most gamblers.
Lu Jing watched for a full cup of tea's time. The beautiful woman was playing Pai Gow, and the stakes were very high. The people at her table had already lost a lot of money.
The beautiful woman's table was now piled high with gold and silver, making the surrounding gamblers drool.
After winning another hand, the beautiful woman was clearly in a good mood. She stretched out two fingers, picked up a small gold ingot from the table, and threw it into the crowd.
Everyone showed greed upon seeing this and reached out to grab it, but the gold ingot landed in Lu Jing's arms.
The beautiful woman licked her lips at Lu Jing.
The small ingot weighed about five taels, which was equivalent to fifty taels of silver. After getting the ingot, Lu Jing not only made up for the money he had lost before, but also made a net profit of more than thirty taels.
This made him stunned. Could it be that the luck on his body was about this?
No, that's not right. Lu Jing immediately thought of something else. He took the ingot and walked towards the beautiful woman. The smile on the latter's face grew, and her gaze towards Lu Jing became bolder.
However, after Lu Jing leaned close to her ear and said something, the expression on the beautiful woman's face suddenly froze.