Zhou Dongdong was playing on a tablet while Zhu Juntang, Shangguan Dandan, and Zhou Shuling played Fight the Landlord. The four of them sat around the heated table, one on each side.
Zhu Juntang had initially found those slippers highly suspicious, but when Shangguan Dandan called her over to play cards, she temporarily put them aside. She still suspected that, like Lychee Can and the like, the slippers might be Mie Mie's mortal enemy.
After all, she was a filial goddaughter and granddaughter, as well as a senior colleague of the Nine Provinces Wind and Thunder Sword Sect. It was her bounden duty to play cards with Deputy Sect Master Dandan.
"Cards must have stakes." Zhu Juntang declared imposingingly to the impoverished Empress Dowager and the owner of a rice noodle shop.
Shangguan Dandan's only assets that could fetch any money were a vending machine, an electric scooter, and a television, while Zhou Shuling had only an old rice noodle shop, shares in a new rice noodle shop under construction, and a rundown house.
"What should we wager?" Shangguan Dandan touched the payment QR code placard tucked into her sleeve pocket. She did not underestimate Zhu Juntang or Zhou Shuling; after all, Zhu Juntang was a formidable opponent who could conjure endless rules out of thin air and would stop at nothing, from stealing cards to peeking at them.
"Let's slap palms. If I lose, you can slap my palm, or Dongdong's." Facing Zhu Juntang and Shangguan Dandan, Zhou Shuling felt that she needed to join forces with Zhou Dongdong to have even a little confidence.
Hearing her name, Zhou Dongdong looked up at her mother, raised both hands, and let out an excited "Awoo!" to show that although she was playing on the tablet, she could still eagerly join