Chapter 200 Game Bet
When Cheng Jiao and Jing Wei were driving the carriage back to Zilanxuan, Xueyi Hou left Ji Wuye's general's mansion and secretly went to Xueyi Castle.

Marquis Xueyi walked outside Xinzheng City. Soon, a tall castle that looked like an iceberg rose from the ground. He stepped onto the only suspension bridge leading to the entrance of the castle and walked in in the blink of an eye as if he were walking on flat ground.

There are blood-red bats painted on the city gate, and several meter-high statues of soldiers stand on both sides, like heavenly soldiers and strong men in ancient mythology.

Marquis Xue Yi walked closer and reached out to touch the blood-red bat flag fluttering in the wind. He had watched these things grow up and had put in countless efforts to master them.

The area around Snowy Castle originally had distinct four seasons, but since it became the fief of the female marquis Snowy Marquis, it has become an area with constant snow and wind all year round.

Marquis Xueyi stood in the empty hall and waited quietly. He knew that as long as he came in here, his mother would definitely notice it.

"Why are you disturbing me in the middle of the night?"

A lazy and slightly charming voice came from the distance, causing the always proud Blood-Clothed Marquis to lower his head slightly.

"Mother, I came to you this time to ask for your help."

There was no one in the hall. After the Blood-Robed Marquis finished speaking, his lazy voice turned a little cold and stern.

"Bai Yifei, I trained you to help me solve problems, not to cause me trouble. Don't you understand?"

The Blood-Clothed Marquis' originally pale complexion inexplicably took on a hint of redness. Just a cold shout made his blood boil.

"Mother, our opponents this time are two top martial arts masters, who are suspected to have reached the realm of heaven and man."

"That's enough! If you can't even handle these in Xinzheng, then change someone! Besides, the realm of heavenly beings is not what it was hundreds of years ago. In today's era, it is almost impossible to achieve heavenly beings without opportunities. Moreover, even if you achieve heavenly beings, you can't do it without you. So step down."

Marquis Xueyi was somewhat unwilling. He had wanted to take this opportunity to let the female marquis take action and test her current situation, but he did not expect to be directly rejected and warned.

After leaving Snow Robe Castle, Blood Robe Marquis gritted his teeth in hatred, then thought about what his mother had just said. It seemed that something was needed to break through the realm of heavenly beings. Could it be that his mother had not completely achieved heavenly beings?
The morning arrived peacefully, and a horse-drawn carriage, escorted by hundreds of Qin soldiers in black armor, slowly drove into Xinzheng.

Zhang Kaidi led the way in front to welcome him. Zhang Liang remained silent. He did not expect that the person who came this time would be Han Fei's fellow junior brother Li Si. As soon as they met, he had an aggressive aura and did not have good intentions.

Li Si lifted the curtain of his carriage and looked at the bustling Xinzheng, frowning slightly. He had traveled day and night to build momentum before Tianze was captured in Han State. He did not expect that as soon as he arrived in Xinzheng, the prime minister Zhang Kaidi told him that the murderer Tianze had been captured, which caught him off guard. But thinking about it carefully, it didn't matter whether Tianze was there or not.

Cheng Jiao was dozing off. He had played with Lady Hu and Honglian all night long and had not had a good rest yet. Early in the morning, he was invited to the Korean court by Wuliang Fei.

The handsome young man Li Si was talking eloquently in the main hall, and occasionally had verbal battles with Ji Wuye and the Blood-Robed Marquis Han Fei.

Li Si argued: "Even if Tianze was captured today, the Qin envoy was killed outside the Han royal city. Moreover, I entered Xinzheng from the ferry bridge through the west gate. It was very lively there. It seemed that no one remembered that the previous envoy, the Qin envoy, was assassinated there!"

Han Wangan clenched his knees tightly with both hands. "Han has always treated Qin with courtesy. This kind of accident is definitely not what I want."

Li Si held the cane with a flag in his hand, which marked the identity of the Qin envoy, and turned around to look at the ministers of Han in the court: "In all diplomatic relations between the princes, there are annual greetings, invitations to each other, and visits to each other for generations. Qin followed the Zhou rituals and sent envoys to invite Qin. However, Han did not fulfill its responsibility to protect it. Is this how Han treats Qin?"

Han Wangan looked at Cheng Jiao who kept dozing off. "The remnants of Baiyue are good at using sorcery, which makes it hard to guard against. Chang'an Jun has also dealt with the remnants of Baiyue. If the envoy does not believe it, you can ask."

Li Si frowned, he knew that King Han must have some ulterior motive when he invited Cheng Jiao to the court.

"Lord Chang'an, is this true?"

Cheng Jiao stretched himself and said, "Oh, yes, yes. This is all Tianze's doing. He wanted to start a war between Qin and Han."

If it weren't for Han Fei's sister Honglian's face, he wouldn't want to leave Zi Nu and Jing Wei's bed and come here early in the morning to watch Li Si show off.

Wang Xi deployed his troops on the border, seemingly to demonstrate to South Korea, but in fact the ultimate target was his brother. Of course, if he could capture a few cities in South Korea without bloodshed, it would not be impossible to turn the fake into real.

It's a pity that Li Si and Wang Xi were arranged by Lu Buwei. If it was arranged by Zheng Ge, he would have found a way to let Han give Nanyang County to Honglian as a dowry.

Li Si looked at Cheng Jiao who was indifferent and snorted, "Chang'an Jun is the brother of the King of Qin. The people of Han State are fooling Chang'an Jun like this. Do they not take Qin State seriously?"

Cheng Jiao shrugged his shoulders. As expected, none of the old man Xunzi’s students were good people, and most of them had bad intentions!

Han Fei saw Cheng Jiao speak, "When Chang'an Jun came to Xinzheng for study, my father personally invited him to the palace."

Cheng Jiao was lost in thought and had little interest in the verbal battle between Li Si and Han Fei. He was thinking about when to go to Madam Mingzhu's place to hang out.

Near noon, Cheng Jiao, Han Fei and Zhang Liang returned to Zilanxuan side by side.

"Brother Han, I have done what I should do. I have already said that Li Si, as a retainer of Lu Buwei, would definitely not care about me, a Chang'an Lord in name only."

Han Fei smiled and said, "Junior brother, you are using the situation to pressure Han. Although you don't care about Master Cheng Jiao, as long as Master Cheng Jiao shows up, Han will avoid the danger of ceding territory. Other trivial matters are just a distraction and will not affect Han at all. From this point of view, Han needs to owe a favor to Lord Chang'an."

Cheng Jiao drank the orchid wine that Zi Nu poured for him, "Brother Han has already given this love to me before, don't worry about it."

Zi Nu poured another glass of wine for Cheng Jiao. "Since Li Si arrived in Xinzheng, I have just received news from various places. Ji Wuye strictly ordered the city guards to impose martial law in Xinzheng, and the Blood Robe Marquis also dispatched his personal guards and elite cavalry to cooperate with Ji Wuye. Originally, this would be nothing, but what is abnormal is that these city guards and the Blood Robe Marquis' personal soldiers have unknowingly formed a siege on Zi Lan Xuan."

Han Fei frowned slightly: "Ye Mu is still unwilling to let go?"

Cheng Jiao held the wine glass and looked at the reflection in it: "Maybe there is another deeper meaning."

Before Han Fei could think deeply, a voice came from outside the door: "Sister Zi Nu, there is a man named Li Si who is here to see the Ninth Master."

Seeing Cheng Jiao nodded gently, Zi Nu said, "Bring him over here."

After a while, Li Si walked in.

He bowed respectfully to Cheng Jiao and said, "Li Si greets Lord Chang'an."

Cheng Jiao: "You are now an envoy of Qin, so you don't need to be polite."

Li Si sat upright, "Inviting me here is really my senior brother's style. Just like when I was studying with you, I never forgot about romance and always lingered in places of romance."

Han Fei smiled bitterly and said, "Brother, don't expose my shortcomings as soon as you get here. There are other people here."

Li Si looked at Zi Nu, who was almost leaning on Cheng Jiao's arms, and knew that she was the hostess of Zi Lan Xuan.

"Chang'an Jun is planning to travel around the world to study, so why is he staying in Xinzheng?"

Cheng Jiao glanced at Han Fei and put his arm around Zi Nu's slender waist: "Isn't this what I am learning from Brother Han?"

Li Si's mouth twitched, and he looked at Cheng Jiao, not knowing what to say. He decided not to pay attention to Cheng Jiao. He was now a retainer of Lu Buwei, so it was not easy for him to get too close to Cheng Jiao.

"Senior brother's brilliant debate in the court really surprised Li Si."

"I admire your performance, too."

After some polite exchanges between Han Fei and Li Si, another tit-for-tat exchange began.

"It's a pity that what Senior Brother said was all sophistry."

Han Fei snorted, "You are still so competitive."

After that, Han Fei took out a few gold coins and placed them on the table. He had just received the money from the Night Treasure Pavilion, and he was now very wealthy.

"Since you are not convinced, why don't we play a game together?"

"Brother, did you invite me here just to play a game?"

Li Si was a little confused. He thought Han Fei asked him to come over so that he could use the identity of Chang'an Jun to debate with him again.

Han Fei chuckled and said, "You'll know later."

Li Si pondered: "Since you are interested, I will accompany you. Please tell me the rules."

"You and I each show a gold coin. If both are heads, I'll give you three gold coins. If both are tails, I'll give you one gold coin. If the heads and tails are different, you have to give me two gold coins. This is a limit of eight times. The one who has the most gold coins at the end wins."

Li Si picked up a gold coin and smiled inexplicably: "If I can win once, I can get three gold coins. Wouldn't it be a loss for you, Senior Brother?"

Han Fei laughed and said, "The game hasn't started yet, how can you know the result?"

Cheng Jiao felt it was too boring and whispered in Zi Nu's ear: "It's boring, why don't we go out?"

Zi Nu was held by Cheng Jiao's waist, and was a little surprised: "Don't you want to know who will win in the end?"

Cheng Jiao shook his head repeatedly and whispered, "Needless to say, considering Han Fei's evil intentions, it would be strange if Li Si could win."

Zi Nu smiled and said, "Li Si is Han Fei's junior fellow apprentice, so he won't necessarily lose. And I calculated the game, and their chances of winning or losing are about the same."

Cheng Jiao smiled and squinted his eyes: "How about making a bet? The loser has to promise the winner something."

Zi Nu rolled her eyes and said, "You are just like Han Fei, you have bad intentions. But we haven't gambled for a long time, so let's give it a try."

Li Si and Han Fei were so focused that they didn't hear Zi Nu and Cheng Jiao betting on their game not far away.

In the early stage, Li Si had good luck and won six gold medals in a row, taking the lead.

Zi Nu laughed softly and said, "It looks like I won this time."

Cheng Jiao didn't take it seriously: "Han Fei is very smart. It seems that he let Li Si win a few gold coins, but in fact he wanted to see Li Si's habits and psychological tendencies."

Although he had almost forgotten what he learned in high school, after taking the enlightenment pill, he remembered a lot of the forgotten knowledge.

After Han Fei explained the rules, he calculated that the probability of winning or losing for both sides was the same, and if he remembered correctly, this game came from the Nash equilibrium theory in game theory.

Whether you can win or not does not depend on probability, but on people's hearts.

Han Fei's subsequent performance surprised Zi Nu a little. She didn't understand why Li Si suddenly suffered a series of defeats and was defeated so easily by Han Fei.

Han Fei threw the gold coins on the table and said with a smile: "Sorry, I won three gold coins from you."

Li Si smiled helplessly: "Senior brother's gambling luck is always so good. Let's do it again."

Zi Nu opened her mouth slightly and looked at Cheng Jiao in confusion: "Why is this happening?"

Cheng Jiao watched Li Si and Han Fei continue to play games with great interest. "Didn't Li Si say that Han Fei's gambling luck is always so good? It can be seen that Han Fei has been a gambler since he was studying under Master Xun. Sometimes gambling seems fair and even beneficial to one's side, but in fact it is murderous. How can Li Si beat Han Fei, who has all the five poisons, in this regard?"

After Han Fei and Li Si finished playing the game, they looked at Cheng Jiao and said, "Brother, how about going out for a walk?"

Li Si knew that Han Fei wanted to talk to him alone. "That's exactly what I meant. It seems that your gambling skills have not been abandoned."

"Junior brother admits it. Thanks to your cooperation, you figured out the secret of the game early on and were willing to give it a try."

Han Fei and Li Si walked out while talking.

Zi Nu's charming purple eyes were filled with a smile: "You win, tell me, what do you want me to do?"

Cheng Jiao whispered, "If I'm not mistaken, my brother will arrive in Xinzheng in the next two days. I plan to go back to Xianyang with my brother."

Zi Nu was startled: "King Qin? Coming to Xinzheng? Is that true?"

It's not that Zi Nu doesn't trust Cheng Jiao, but the son of a wealthy family should not sit still in the hall. And this body worth tens of millions of gold left the country and came to the capital of another country, which is like a dragon entering shallow water. It can be said that he is in imminent danger.

"Do you remember what Ye Yanri said to me that day?"

Zi Nu thought for a moment, "He wants you to be the King of Qin. Could it be that the reason he came to Xinzheng was not to assassinate you, but to assassinate the King of Qin? If so, it makes sense why Yan Ri was so decisive in joining you."

Cheng Jiao: "If not, how could the current leader of Luowang be so easy to bet on me?"

Zi Nu's eyes flashed, "Then you."

She didn't know what kind of person the King of Qin was or what his attitude towards Cheng Jiao was. If there was no risk, she didn't mind taking a chance with Cheng Jiao.

Cheng Jiao shook his head slightly: "Brothers fighting against each other is not good for the country. Besides, I'm afraid Lu Buwei is waiting for me to do this."

Zi Nu sighed softly: "That's fine. You, like Han Fei, are not fit to be king."

Cheng Jiao looked at Jing Wei who was meditating by the window sill and said, "With you guys here, if I become the king, I won't be able to accompany you."

Zi Nu thought about it and said, "Oh, right, you haven't told me what you want me to do yet? Do you want me to go back to Xianyang with you?"

Cheng Jiao smiled evilly and said, "Is it okay?"

Zi Nu was a little embarrassed: "Does it have to be now?"

Cheng Jiao began to show his true colors, "Since this doesn't work, you see we have to be apart for quite a while this time, how about tonight?"

Zi Nu rolled her eyes at Cheng Jiao and said, "I thought it was something else."

Cheng Jiao muttered, "You promised to accompany me with Jing Wei?"

Zi Nu stared at Cheng Jiao with eyes wide open, "Are you still thinking about this?"

Cheng Jiao chuckled and said, "After all, I love you guys the most. If I could spend a night with you guys, I would have no regrets even if I died."

Zi Nu glanced at Jing Wei who was meditating. He had a noble temperament and a cold expression. She suddenly narrowed her eyes and said, "I don't have any objection. But you have to convince Jing Wei."

She had thought it all out. This way, she wouldn't have to break the bet and she could also use Jingwei to make Cheng Jiao give up.

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