Chapter 62: The Observer
Xiang Kun started playing seriously again, carefully memorizing cards and observing his opponents and teammates. He even began using the way the women picked up cards and where they drew them from to help judge what they had in hand.
However...
He had to admit that Fight the Landlord was still a card game heavily dependent on luck. When your opponent simply had great cards—cards strong enough to crush yours—skill did not matter much. Even if you could directly see the other three players' hands, it would not do you much good.
Especially when Xia Libing was his opponent, winning became even harder for Xiang Kun.
It was fine if he was the landlord, since he had everything under his control. But if he was a farmer... with Yang Zhen'er and Tang Baona as teammates, he also had to factor in their playing habits. He could not simply play according to the cards he had calculated and inferred.
Yang Zhen'er liked getting rid of her own cards, and she happened to be seated before him.
Tang Baona was always hesitant to play big cards and bombs. Often, the game would already be over while she still had one or even two bombs in hand.
So inevitably, whenever Xia Libing was the landlord, if Xiang Kun's cards were too bad or he failed to "coordinate" properly with the two young ladies on either side of him, he basically had no hope of winning.
Naturally, that meant he had to face Xia Libing's "questions."
Perhaps she was not as difficult to deal with as Yang Zhen'er? Could he choose a "dare" like singing or doing push-ups?
However, just as Xiang Kun was about to choose a dare, he saw Xia Libing cast a faint glance at the three