Time Travel: I'm a Flower Thief

Hu Bazi's face was as black as the bottom of a pot. He gritted his teeth and shouted fiercely, ordering his men to quickly go to the accounting office and fetch 160,000 taels of silver notes.

Before long, stacks of silver notes were presented to him, and he slammed them on the table.

Xie Xiaoyi tossed the dice cup back to Mei Hua Yaoyao, then casually gathered up the silver notes, waved them in front of Mei Hua Yaoyao, and raised an eyebrow with a roguish grin:

"Will I be able to see the boss now?"

Mei Hua Yao Yao's gaze was cold and deep as she uttered three words indifferently: "Not enough."

Xie Xiaoyi raised an eyebrow, tossed the silver note to his side, and said simply, "Again!"

Mei Hua Yao Yao's eyes darted around, and she made up her mind.

He picked up the dice cup, spun it on his wrist, and swept it across the table. Three dice landed in the cup with a thud. Then, he raised his wrist high, and the dice cup flew through the air, the dice inside making a series of crisp sounds as they collided.

The dice cup was slammed down on the table with a loud tap, firmly pressing down.

"Bet!"

Xie Xiaoyi glanced at the dice cup and slowly shook his head: "I'm not betting."

Mei Hua Yao Yao's face darkened, and she said coldly, "What? You don't dare to bet? Where's your confidence from before?"

Xie Xiaoyi laughed heartily:

"Don't rush, Sister Yaoyao. I just have one question. According to the rules of your Qianjin Pavilion, what happens if the dice are stacked together in the cup?"

Upon hearing this, Mei Hua Yao Yao's heart sank.

Oops!

It seems this kid is indeed a master!

It's one thing that he could recognize the leopard, but he could even recognize my technique?

It turns out that when Plum Blossom Yiyao was shaking the dice, she deliberately used a clever force to make the dice stack up in layers.

He thought he could win with this special skill, but he didn't expect that his method would be seen through.

She tried to remain calm, but her tone was still defiant: "Of course, it's just a few dots showing, no matter how many."

After hearing this, Xie Xiaoyi pushed all the silver notes in his hand out, raised an eyebrow, and said, "Alright, I'm going all in!"

Mei Hua Yao Yao was taken aback.

All in?

What the hell is that?

"Hey kid, speak like a human being. You can only bet on big or small with dice. Don't tell me this old lady doesn't understand."

Xie Xiaoyi was stunned.

Having two sets of memories is really troublesome; when I get excited, I tend to throw out modern references. It's really annoying.

He gave an awkward laugh: "I bet on small!"

A cold glint flashed in Mei Hua Yao Yao's eyes. This time, she didn't give Xie Xiao Yi a chance to open the dice cup. Her fingertips pressed firmly on the dice cup, and a hidden force silently seeped into her fingertips.

The three dice, which had been neatly stacked beneath the dice cup, were instantly flipped over by her internal force.

The number of points went from a tiny "one point" to a whopping "eighteen points".

All of this happened in the blink of an eye, and none of the gamblers in the room noticed.

With the enhancement of his cultivation, Xie Xiaoyi's ears were now sharper than a dog's. He raised an eyebrow and smiled, casually pressing his finger on the table.

An even more domineering internal force surged along the wood grain and struck the bottom of the dice cup.

With a soft click, the dice in the dice cup trembled violently again. When they finally quieted down, the number quietly returned to a tiny "five".

Mei Hua Yao Yao's expression changed drastically. She felt a strong force rebounding from the dice cup, making her wrist go numb.

She gritted her teeth and channeled her inner strength, while Xie Xiaoyi, not to be outdone, continued to channel his true energy. The two forces of inner strength clashed fiercely under the small dice cup.

The gamblers were all dumbfounded. The dice cup hadn't been touched, yet it was making a buzzing sound. Was it some kind of ghost?

Suddenly, with a loud "bang," the dice cup shattered!

The three dice bounced off the ground with a "clink-clink" sound, and before they hit the ground, they shattered into pieces in mid-air.

Xie Xiaoyi withdrew his hand, stroked his chin, and looked at Mei Hua Yaoyao, whose face was ashen, with a sly grin:

"Sister Yaoyao, we can't even find a single die. Do you think it's big or small?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the gamblers in the room started discussing it excitedly.

"How can we calculate without dice? Are we supposed to count to zero?"

"Exactly! No points means zero! Zero means small! Little brother wins! Little brother wins!"

The commotion grew louder and louder, making the entire Qianjin Pavilion vibrate.

Mei Hua frowned.

This kid is hiding his true strength. I have a second-grade cultivation level, while he is at least a fifth-grade one. He's really not easy to deal with.

No wonder he won fifteen games in a row; he'll have to be more careful today.

She picked up a fragment of the dice cup with her fingers, smiled, and bowed slightly: "May I ask your honorable name?"

Xie Xiaoyi raised an eyebrow, clenched his fist, and punched his left chest with a "thud":

"My surname is Ba, the Ba of domineering. When I was a child, my father didn't give me a name because he wanted to raise me well. He just named me according to my birth order in the family. I am the eighth child."

Mei Hua Yao Yao brushed a strand of hair behind her ear and smiled sweetly: "Daddy?"

"Yes!" Xie Xiaoyi responded immediately.

The surrounding gamblers were stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter.

"This name is good; it'll make you recognize sons all over the world—no, no, daughters."

"Haha, when my wife and I are in bed at night, I love it when she calls me 'Ba Ba' (a derogatory term for a man who is overbearing)! It gets me all excited when I hear it!"

Mei Hua Yao Yao's smile froze instantly, her pretty face flushed red, her almond eyes widened, her eyebrows shot up, and she shouted sharply:

"How dare you mock your great-aunt!"

Xie Xiaoyi remained completely calm, spreading his hands with an open and honest expression, his tone as sincere as could be:

"That's really my name, I'm not lying to you, I swear!"

"Alright, so how do we proceed with the betting, Dad... spit!"

Just then, Li Qiaoyun, who had been standing behind Xie Xiaoyi, finally couldn't hold back any longer and cried out in a trembling voice, "Benefactor! Please, save my daughter!"

Upon hearing this, Xie Xiaoyi turned around and nodded steadily to Li Qiaoyun behind him.

"Don't worry, I remember."

He then turned around, his gaze falling on the neatly stacked silver notes on the table, and said in a clear voice:

"These silver notes on the table total 160,000 taels. I don't want a single penny. Just return this woman's daughter to her. Consider this money as an apology."

Mei Hua Yao Yao raised an eyebrow, a hint of mockery flashing in her almond-shaped eyes, and sneered, "If you want to see our boss, you can bet all your money and win another round."

Xie Xiaoyi slammed his palm on the gambling table with a "smack," causing the broken silver coins on it to bounce three times, and the silver notes to fly into the air, only to be drawn back into his palm by his Azure Dragon Absorbing Water internal energy.

"What are we betting on? You mark the lane, and I'll catch it."

The surrounding gamblers fell silent instantly, followed by a chorus of gasps and hisses.

"My goodness! This skill is divine!"

"Yeah! He was sucking up dice just now, and now he's sucking up silver notes. Turns out this 'father' is a hidden martial arts expert."

"Mmm! Even Sister Plum Blossom might not be able to do that skill just now."

Mei Hua Yao Yao scoffed and turned to Hu Bazi beside her, shouting, "Go, bring me two more sets of dice and two more dice cups!"

Hu Bazi didn't dare to delay and quickly replied, "Okay!" He then ordered someone to run to the back room.

Before long, two brand-new dice cups and dice were brought out and placed in the center of the gambling table.