Chapter 279 - Chapter 279: Chapter 275: Attending the Wedding Banquet_1 (1/2)

Chapter 279: Chapter 275: Attending the Wedding Banquet_1

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Yingbao sneakily glanced at the girl in the green dress. Sure enough, her face showed surprise, and then she quickly blushed and ran out of the shop without even taking the chestnut cake she had bought.

The girl in the red dress, who was following her, didn’t leave. She stared at Jiang Quan for a moment, covered half of her face with a handkerchief, and pointed at the shelf, saying, “Brother Jiang Quan, I also want to buy a box of chestnut cakes.”

Jiang Quan handed her the chestnut cake that the girl in the green dress had left behind, “The two of you can share a box.”

Both young ladies were daughters of Pan’s silk shop, but the one in green was the legitimate daughter, while the one in red was the illegitimate one.

The daughter of legitimate birth had plenty of silver coins at her disposal, but the illegitimate one was relatively poor.

Jiang Quan knew so much about them because these young ladies often came to the shop to buy things, and his sharp-eyed observations had helped him figure this out.

The girl in the red dress blushed, curtsied slightly to Jiang Quan in gratitude, and ran off carrying the box of cakes.

Yingbao, observing her second cousin, noticed he didn’t change his expression. She realized he was clueless.

She estimated that the girl in the red dress was likely to have her heart broken.

“Yingbao, I don’t want to go home.”, Jiang Quan told his younger cousin, “Business is really good during the New Year. I want to stay here to look after the shop.”

Yingbao said, “But we’ve already sold out of our goods. All the other cake shops are also closed. What would you manage if you stayed?”

Jiang Quan chuckled, “I’ll set up a wheel in front of the shop and run a game of chance.”

“A game of chance?”

Yingbao frowned, “That’s gambling. We aren’t in need of money. How could we rely on that kind of business?”

Jiang Quan scratched the back of his head and muttered, “It’s only for a few days a year, let’s just give it a try.”

The imperial court strictly prohibited the business of gambling, but during festivals, they would relax the rules a little to let people have some fun.

Knowing her second cousin was determined to try gambling as a business once, Yingbao reluctantly agreed, “Fine, I’ll come too, when the time comes.”

“Ha-ha! I knew you would want to play too.” Jiang Quan, seeing his cousin relent, cheerfully jumped up. Then he said in a low voice, “I’ve already bought the wheel. Let’s go try it out.”

“You’ve already bought it? Where did you put it?” He was acting first and reporting later.

Jiang Quan left his younger cousin in the shop, and he ran to the backyard with her. From his room, he brought out a colorful, large spinning wheel.

The wheel was about five feet wide, filled with various colored fan-shaped patterns of different sizes, with smaller patterns offering better prizes.

The colors were divided into black, red, orange, blue, green, and white, varying in size.

“Look at this!”

Jiang Quan demonstrated to his cousin. “You spin the wheel, quickly, that’s right! Just like that. I’ll shoot the arrow at whatever pattern, and that’s the prize I win.”

He lifted a bow and arrow and shot it at the spinning wheel.

Thump!

The arrow hit the wooden spinning wheel. Yingbao stopped turning the handle and looked to see what her second cousin had hit.

The arrow was lodged in a white pattern.

The white section was the most common on the wheel, signifying no prize.

Yingbao pulled out the arrow and threw it to Jiang Quan, urging him to try again.

Resultantly, Jiang Quan shot ten arrows in total. Five hit white, four hit green, and only one hit blue.

“Second cousin, you can set the prizes according to this ratio.”

The highest prize also needed to be regulated. It should neither be too low nor too high in value, or else they would suffer a loss.

Jiang Quan exclaimed joyfully, “I know, I will have everything prepared by then.”

Yingbao glanced at him skeptically before saying, “I don’t want any of the money you make from this, and our elder brother probably won’t want it either. But you cannot become obsessed with this.”