After being bound to the learning system in my mother's womb, I became the empress

Chapter 238

"Xiao Wu, stay outside and guard the door for me."

Arriving at the door of the private room on the second floor, He Wentian said to the Fifth Protector.

Lin Xi also told Qin Shuang to stay outside and send her a message secretly: "If there is any movement in the house later, please help me stop the Five Guardians."

At the same time, he shook her hand and handed her the Xiaoqing on his wrist.

Qin Shuang nodded slightly towards her.

Stepping into the private room, you will be greeted by the huanghuali wood furniture.

The furniture has a warm, jade-like luster, which is the patina formed over many years.

Seasonal paintings of pomegranate beauties hang on the walls, and natural wood shanzi inlaid with jade flower bonsais are placed on the table.

Incense curls up from the gold-plated silver bamboo smoker, and the aroma is elegant and quiet.

The shadow of the flowerbed window is cast on the floor by the sunlight, and lively dust particles dance in the light and shadow.

Lin Xi: "This room is so elegantly decorated. If you didn't know it, you would have thought you were walking into some daughter's boudoir."

He Wentian laughed out loud, feeling a little proud: "Senior, thank you very much. I personally decorated this house. If you like it, I will leave it to you from now on."

"I just hope that senior can come to my Golden Scale Pavilion more and walk around in the future. I will be very happy."

Lin Xi responded with a smile: "Then I will be disrespectful."

I walked around the house leisurely and stopped in front of the incense burner.

She noticed something wrong with the scent when she came in, and the closer she got, the more she confirmed her suspicions.

She really thought that He Wentian sincerely wanted to gamble with her, but she didn't expect that he was setting a trap for her in the name of gambling.

The incense in this incense burner is not simple, it contains datura, a hallucinogenic ingredient.

Did He Wentian want to poison her and cause hallucinations, and then take the opportunity to win her?

Lin Xi's intuition was that it would not be that simple.

A pill appeared out of thin air in her hand, and she ate it with her back turned to He Wentian.

This pill is exactly the antidote she developed specifically for psychotropic poisons.

When He Wentian saw her staying in front of the incense burner, his heart skipped a beat and he suspected that she had discovered something.

Then he felt that he was overthinking it. That poisonous fragrance was the only one in Dayong that he bought from a merchant outside the customs. How could Ling Zero One notice it?

He smiled and asked: "I wonder how senior you want to bet?"

Lin Xi turned around, as if she didn't realize anything: "Let's bet big or small, win two out of three games, how about that? If I win, Gang Leader He will give me the crutch."

He Wentian rubbed his crutches with a hesitant look on his face.

"This... okay, what if He wins?"

Lin Xi: "If you win, I will help you with something, as long as it is within my capabilities."

He Wentian: "Okay, it's settled in one word."

The two agreed on this and sat down on the short huanghuali wood couch.

There was already a dice cup placed on the small table on the couch.

As the host, He Wentian said to Lin Xi politely: "Senior, please come first."

Lin Xi didn't refuse, picked up the dice cup and shook it randomly for a while, then put it down with a "dong" sound, "Guess."

He Wentian looked at the way she rolled the dice and knew that she was a novice in the casino and she had no rules when it came to rolling the dice.

And through the sound, he could clearly identify the numbers of the three dice in the dice cup.

Her methods are so clumsy, why can she win every bet?

What method did she use?
Or was she deliberately acting like a novice to confuse him?
Precisely because the answer was too obvious, He Wentian did not dare to confirm it easily.

Fortunately, he didn't invite her here to bet with her, but just to delay time through the bet.

Winning or losing doesn't matter.

Ling Ling Yi wanted his crutches, but what he wanted was her life!
Of course, he didn't want to kill her, but to make her use herself and work for him.

Lin Xi urged: "What are Gang Leader He waiting for? Either big or small, is it difficult to guess?" He Wentian made up his mind: "Small."

Lin Xi opened the lid of the cup, and the score was clearly high.

"He Gang Leader, you lost this round, you have to be careful in the next round."

He Wentian: "..."

He clearly heard that the number was high, but because of doubts in his heart, he chose the opposite answer.

He was clever but was mistaken by cleverness.

Perhaps Ling Zero One was taking advantage of his mentality to create suspicion.

Fortunately, this round it was his turn to roll the dice.

He Wentian shook the dice with one hand, while still holding the crutch with the other hand, as if it was his fate and the consequences would be disastrous if he let go.

After putting down the dice cup, he said: "Senior Ling, it's your turn."

Lin Xi frowned slightly.

She didn't expect that the layer of light golden light on his body could spread, because his hand came into contact with the dice cup, and the layer of light actually covered the dice cup.

Even though his hand has left, the light has not disappeared.

So much so that her mental power could not penetrate and see the situation inside.

Did this old guy do it unintentionally, or was he deliberately guarding her?
Lin Xi made a casual guess: "Big."

He Wentian opened the lid and laughed, "Senior Ling, I disappoint you. I won this round."

In fact, Lin Xi guessed it correctly, but when He Wentian opened the lid, he moved his hands and feet, making the originally big points smaller.

In the third game, it was Lin Xi's turn to roll the dice again.

This time, He Wentian stopped trying to be smart and said what he heard: "Little."

Unexpectedly, as soon as he finished speaking, he heard slight movement from the dice cup. That was the sound of the dice rolling!

He stared at Ling Lingyi opposite him. It was clear that her hand had left the dice cup, so how could the dice in the cup flip?
Could she still be able to control the dice in the dice cup from a distance?

He Wentian himself felt that this guess was ridiculous.

Maybe the dice in the dice cup were stacked on top of each other and were not stable, so they fell?
It's just that the timing of this drop is too coincidental.

He had a bad premonition in his heart.

Sure enough, when the lid was lifted, the score was huge.

Lin Xi smiled and said: "He gang leader, I win, bring me the crutches."

He Wentian did not move, but subconsciously looked towards the incense burner.

It has been a while since I entered the room. This period of time is not long, but it is not short. It is enough for the fragrance to take effect.

Why hasn't Ling Zero Yi been tricked yet?

Lin Xi asked knowingly: "What is Gang Leader He looking at? Is it because he wants to default on his debt?"

He Wentian: "How could it be? It's just that this crutch has been with me for more than ten years. I always put it next to my pillow when I sleep. I really couldn't bear to part with it for a while.

"Senior, please give me some time to take one last look at it."

Lin Xi played with a dice and looked at him leisurely.

"Look, look at it a few times, and soon you won't be able to look at it anymore."

He Wentian: "..."

He stalled for time by saying goodbye to his crutch.

However, all the incense in the incense burner was burned out, and there was still nothing wrong with Ling Zero One!
Could it be that the businessman from outside the customs had deceived him? !

Impossible. He had tested it when he bought it. The effect of the incense and poison was exactly as the businessman said.

Why doesn't it work now?

(End of this chapter)