Chapter 135: The Embroidered Uniform Guards Also Get Addicted

A Si sighed, and having no other choice, he could only continue to take out money.

In the hours that followed, the few of them lost more than they won.

Among them, Ada did the best; although he only won three hands, he was also very good at avoiding dealing the winning tile, and aside from a few times when others drew their own winning tiles, he only dealt the winning tile once.

A'er also did alright; although he dealt the winning tile three times, he only drew two winning hands himself, so he did not lose much.

A Si was the most miserable; from beginning to end, he never won a single hand, and he was frantically dealing winning tiles to Zhu Gaoxi.

As long as Zhu Gaoxi was waiting for a tile, even if it was the very last one left in the deck, A Si would definitely discard it for Zhu Gaoxi.

At first, Zhu Gaoxi thought A Si was doing it on purpose.

Just when Zhu Gaoxu thought that A Si was a person worth befriending, and that although he had lost at cards, he had already won his heart,

Zhu Gaoxu soon discovered that this was not the case.

A Si's tiles were truly useless; one could only say that A Si had bad luck.

And the biggest winner was, of course, Zhu Gaoxu, who had basically been winning consecutively from start to finish.

He had already won back the fifty taels of silver notes he had just rewarded A Si with, and had even pocketed A Si's original capital of over ten taels of silver.

Seeing that he had no money left, A Si could only look pitifully at A-San behind him and say, "Third Brother, lend me fifty taels of silver..."

A-San could be said to have watched from beginning to end; let alone lending A Si fifty taels of silver, even if he lent him a hundred, he would still lose it all today.

Besides, he had been watching for over an hour, just waiting for A Si to lose and step down; having finally gotten an opportunity, how could he possibly lend money to A Si again?

Thinking this, A-San immediately shook his head to indicate he would not lend it, and urged A Si to hurry up and give up his seat.

Seeing this, A Si unwillingly turned his gaze toward his eldest and second brothers, but the two of them thought the same as A-San; seeing A Si look at them, both men turned their heads away.

Seeing this, A Si could only secretly curse his brothers for being disloyal, then reluctantly stood up.

And seeing A Si stand up, A-San immediately sat down in his place.

The group continued.

With A-San joining the game, the brothers gradually began to improve.

After all, every time Zhu Gaoxu was waiting for a tile, A Si would immediately discard the winning tile for Zhu Gaoxu, so even with the best tiles, it was all in vain.

And A-San clearly had better luck than A Si; for a time, although the three brothers still lost more than they won, they finally began to win some hands.

Just like that, the group played for another hour. Zhu Gaoxu had won back over a hundred taels in total. Seeing that the sky had turned dark and everyone was hungry, they decided to stop for a while and battle again after eating.

Just like that, five days passed without anyone noticing.

During this period, the group spent most of their time playing Mahjong in Zhu Gaoxu's large tent.

And while playing Mahjong, the men also managed to heal their injuries almost completely.

It is worth mentioning that Mao Xiang also joined in on the second day.

The cause was that Zhu Di had sent someone to report the situation in Jingcheng to Zhu Gaoxu.

Mao Xiang brought servants from the Prince of Yan's Wangfu to find Zhu Gaoxu.

At that time, Zhu Gaoxu happened to be playing Mahjong with Ada and the others.

Mao Xiang, who also had nothing to do, saw the group playing this novel game and immediately expressed his curiosity.

After watching them play a few hands, Mao Xiang squeezed A-San out and began to play himself.

After paying "tuition" for two days, he also slowly began to win money.

Of course, no matter how the others played, Zhu Gaoxu always won more than he lost.

In these five days, he not only won back the two hundred taels of silver he had previously given out, but also earned an additional fifty-plus taels.

Among them, more and more Embroidered Uniform Guards discovered this fun game.

This was mainly because ever since Mao Xiang learned to play, he would come over to Zhu Gaoxu's side whenever he was free.

And other Embroidered Uniform Guards who were idle, or those who had matters to report to Mao Xiang, would naturally come to Zhu Gaoxu's large tent to find him.

Just like that, word spread from one to ten, and ten to a hundred.

Any Embroidered Uniform Guard who was free would come to Zhu Gaoxu's large tent to watch Zhu Gaoxu and the others play cards.

During this time, Ada and his brothers had long since lost all their money, and in such a situation, there was naturally no shortage of people to take their places.

Who knows how many Embroidered Uniform Guards were waiting on the "bench" for their turn to play.

Later, Zhu Gaoxu naturally found an excuse to return the money to Ada and the others; of course, they were too embarrassed to use that money to keep playing.

Naturally, these Embroidered Uniform Guards who came to play were those who were currently off-duty.

Previously, Zhu Yuanzhang had already issued an imperial decree to increase the number of people in Zhu Gaoxu's Military Camp from one thousand to two thousand five hundred.

At this time, the number of people in the Military Camp was just enough.

So there was no need to implement any elimination system anymore.

Of course, the necessary training still had to be done.

But there was no longer a need for so many Embroidered Uniform Guards to keep watch.

Zhu Gaoxu divided the Embroidered Uniform Guards into six groups, with each group having one day of rest within seven days.

The seventh day was the Military Camp's grand inspection, where Zhu Gaoxu would examine the troops' training results for that week, and the last-place group of Embroidered Uniform Guards would have their rest time cancelled.

One must know that the Embroidered Uniform Guards now all looked forward to playing a few hands of cards on their rest day; in order to be able to rest normally, they naturally would not slack off in their training.

At this moment, inside Zhu Gaoxu's large tent, Zhu Gaoxu was meeting with the house servant sent by Zhu Di in the inner room.

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