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 an electric heated table, one on each side.
Zhu Juntang had originally found those slippers highly suspicious, but when Shangguan Dandan invited her to play cards, she temporarily put them aside—though she still suspected that, like Lychee Can and the like, the slippers might be Mie Mie's lifelong 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.
"When playing cards, there must be stakes." Zhu Juntang spoke imposingly to the impoverished Empress Dowager and the owner of a rice noodle shop.
Shangguan Dandan's assets amounted only to a vending machine, an electric scooter, and a television that might fetch a little money, while Zhou Shuling had only an old rice noodle shop, shares in a new rice noodle shop under construction, and a shabby house.
"What should we bet?" Shangguan Dandan touched the payment-code placard in her sleeve pocket. She did not underestimate Zhu Juntang and Zhou Shuling; after all, Zhu Juntang was a formidable opponent capable of inventing endless rules out of thin air, using every possible trick from stealing cards to peeking at them.
"Let's slap palms. If I lose, you can slap my palm—or Dongdong's palm." Facing Zhu Juntang and Shangguan Dandan, Zhou Shuling felt that she needed Zhou Dongdong on her side to have even a little confidence.
Hearing her name, Zhou Dongdong looked up at her mother, raised both hands, and let out a delighted "Awoo!" Though she was playing on her tablet, she could still enthusiastically join everyone's game.
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