Chapter 212: Staying up all night
Ye Jiayao readily agreed: "Then play with everyone for a while. Qiao Xi, go get me some silver."

Youshi said, "I asked you to replace me. If you win, it's yours. If you lose, it's mine."

Yu Shi just wanted to change someone else to take the spotlight, and she didn't expect Ye Jiayao to win. Ever since Ye Jiayao entered the mansion, she had never been seen playing with these things. She only knew how to tinker with food.

Qiao felt unbalanced. She thought her mother-in-law was too partial to her. In order to help her mother-in-law win a few rounds, she didn't know how many decks of good cards she had opened. She lost so much that she almost lost everything, but her mother-in-law never showed any gratitude to her.

Ye Jiayao sat down and You Shi gave her instructions. In fact, Majiang was the predecessor of Mahjong, and the playing methods were roughly the same. Ye Jiayao was not very good at playing Shuangkou, but she was an expert at Mahjong. In order to paralyze her opponent, she deliberately played clumsily while observing the playing habits of the other three players.

Yu Shi was watching anxiously from the sidelines: "How can this card be played?" and was about to take the card back.

Zhou said hurriedly, "Sister-in-law, you will never regret your move."

Yu Shi withdrew her hand in dismay, and then lectured Ye Jiayao: "It's wrong for you to hit me like this. Why did you tear the whole thing apart?"

Zhou was secretly delighted. Ye Jiayao had just played 40,000. If it was a complete card, it would be either 4, 5, 6, 3, 4, 5 or something like that. She just happened to have a pair of 250,000 in her hand, so she wouldn't have to worry about not being able to hit it.

Ye Jiayao said awkwardly: "There are so many cards, I am dizzy."

Liuli joked, "Second sister-in-law, even though it's not your money that was lost, you should still take it easy."

Ye Jiayao said embarrassedly: "I won't do that next time."

Ye Jiayao drew 40,000 and kept it. After another round, she drew another 30,000 and discarded it. After three rounds, Ye Jiayao sighed, "I played a wrong card. Why is it not going well?"

Youshi stopped talking at this moment, staring at the cards nervously. The second son's wife is really tricky. She knocked down 40,000 and waited for 40,000, and it was a bump win.

Zhou also got 40,000 in his hand, which just made up a total of 40,000 or 50,000. He thought that he would not play 20,000 or 50,000, and he had played 30,000 or 60,000, and 40,000 or 70,000. After hesitating for a long time, he decided to play the familiar cards.

A note of forty thousand floated out.

"Wow, I'm lucky. I can win with such cards." Ye Jiayao turned over the cards.

You said excitedly: "Bang Peng Hu, three east winds, three west winds, three white boards, three fan."

This time I made a lot of money.

Zhou looked incredulous and stood up to check Ye Jiayao's cards. It turned out to be forty thousand.

"Mrs. Chunyu, aren't you trying to trick people? You can't tease people like this when you play 40,000 and 40,000." Zhou complained.

Ye Jiayao said embarrassedly: "I was just playing randomly and I can't play well. Maybe it's because I went to the palace and got the blessing of the nobles in the palace."

Zhou reluctantly took out the money.

Liuli sneered in her heart, "Did you get the blessing of being a noble in the palace by chance? It was just an accidental success."

After playing a few rounds of cards, You found that the second son's wife's cards seemed to be irregular, and she didn't win very often, but every time she won, she always won big cards, and most of the time she was sure that Zhou would make a mistake. Was it just because she was lucky? This could be said once or twice, but if it was like this every time, it was not just luck. It seemed that the second son's wife was a master at playing the pig and eating the tiger, and she was a master at Mahjong!

It was almost past the hour of You when they were playing, and everyone's wins and losses were almost the same. Youshi could not bear it any longer. Just then, Niu Niu's wet nurse came and said that Niu Niu refused to sleep and insisted that her mother go home before she would sleep. So Youshi asked everyone to leave.

The most depressed person was Zhou. She had won so much before, but when Ye Jiayao came, she lost it all. It really hurt her.

Xia Chunyu wanted to end it a long time ago, but since it was his father's first time playing with this thing and he was very excited, he felt embarrassed to say goodbye.

It was not until the servants said that the lady had already left and asked the marquis to go to bed early that the marquis ended the party in disappointment and said they would play again another day.

When she returned to the room, Ye Jiayao had already gone to bed and was looking at the toys the emperor had given her as a reward: a pair of exquisite jade pendants, a string of East China Sea pearls, a coral screen, and various other things. They were all interesting things, and it was worth her hard work for most of the day.

"Where do all these good things come from?" Xia Chunyu sat down beside the bed and picked up the string of East China Sea pearls. They were as big as quail eggs, each one was shiny and plump, and obviously extremely precious.

"It was a reward from the emperor, and the queen also gave some." Ye Jiayao said, "Father is willing to let you come back?" "His family is the only one winning, and they still don't want to rest. I've never seen a father so happy to win money from his son." Xia Chunyu sneered.

"How are you? I heard that as soon as you came back, your mother dragged you to play mahjong." Xia Chunyu asked.

Ye Jiayao said calmly: "I didn't win much. My mother lost too much. It's good enough to get back what I lost."

Xia Chunyu was surprised. He thought both families would lose tonight.

"I've never seen you play mahjong before! Do you know how to play this?"

Ye Jiayao raised her eyebrows and said, "I'm just lucky!"

I won’t tell you, I was a mahjong master in my previous life.

Xia Chunyu smiled and said, "Of course, you are the Goddess of Wealth."

Qiao Xi brought in the midnight snack: "Second Young Madam, this is the bird's nest porridge you ordered."

Xia Chunyu just remembered: "You haven't had dinner yet?"

Ye Jiayao said angrily, "The palace doesn't provide food, and as soon as I got back, my mother dragged me to play mahjong. How could I have time to eat?"

"Then you must be starving, Qiao Xi, go to the kitchen and see if there's anything delicious, or ask Jiang Yue to make some noodles."

Ye Jiayao said hurriedly, "Don't bother. Yue'er is also tired after a day. I asked her to go back to accompany Uncle Jiang and Aunt Jiang. Besides, she ate some cakes while playing mahjong, so she's not very hungry."

Xia Chunyu waved his hand and told Qiao Xi to go out, then snatched the bird's nest porridge from Ye Jiayao: "I'll feed you."

Ye Jiayao snatched it back: "I'm not paralyzed. I don't need you to feed me."

"It's New Year's Day, don't say such unlucky words." Xia Chunyu deliberately frowned and looked stern.

Ye Jiayao laughed: "Okay, I'm in good health and full of energy, so you don't need to feed me, I can eat by myself, go wash up!"

Xia Chunyu then smiled, his black eyes sparkling with a sly smile in his eyes: "Dragon and horse spirits? Well, then I'll go wash up."

Ye Jiayao almost choked. With that suggestive look, what evil idea did this guy have?

After a while, Xia Chunyu changed his clothes and came out, crawling into the bed, and said in an ambiguous tone: "Yaoyao, we have to stay up all night to celebrate the New Year! The night is long, let's find something to do."

Ye Jiayao put her hands on his chest and said, "I don't want to do anything. If you want to stay up all night, go get a book and read it yourself."

Damn, you even sound legitimate. In the past, when we didn't stay up all night, wasn't it endless? It sounds good, but it's not what you want.

"We have to do it. You're not here tonight, but parents said they want to have a grandchild! They're hinting that we brothers should work hard. Maybe they're already working hard now, so we can't be lazy, right?" Xia Chunyu shamelessly grabbed her hand and pressed his whole body on her.

Ye Jiayao put up a futile resistance, but he succeeded in two moves.

……

Ye Jiayao wanted to cry but had no tears. Who could stand such a way to stay up till the New Year?

She was turned over again, and by the end, Ye Jiayao's voice was almost hoarse, and what she saw in front of her eyes was not white light, but golden stars.

Damn, don’t you even consider the issue of recycling?
"Chun Yu...you should just get a concubine." Ye Jiayao said in a daze before falling asleep.

Xia Chunyu wiped the sweat from her forehead, kissed the tip of her nose tenderly, and said in a low and gentle voice in her ear: "Except for you, I am not interested in anyone else."

(End of this chapter)