novelraw Chapter 400 - 187: Monopoly Dice, Income Multiplied Randomly!!
Chapter 400 - 187: Monopoly Dice, Income Multiplied Randomly!!
"Three ten-thousands."
Jiang Tao shuffled his fingers over a row of mahjong tiles.
He casually picked up a ’three ten-thousands’ and tossed it to the center of the table.
"..."
Seeing the tile he played, Xu Li sighed and rubbed her forehead silently.
The ’three’ and ’seven’ in mahjong are known as "golden three and silver seven," both very precious tiles.
Because they can pair with any other numbered tiles to form sequences or pairs.
Anyone who knows a bit about mahjong wouldn’t easily play these two tiles.
Jiang Tao threw away threes, fives, and eights without any pattern today, not following the playbook at all.
"Oh dear! Sorry, Jiang Tao, I’ve won again!"
Du Yongmei, Jiang Tao’s mother-in-law, pushed her tiles forward with a brilliant smile on her face.
In just over two hours this morning, she’d won over 30 hands with self-draws and discards.
Her luck today was even better than Jiang Tao’s and Xu Li’s, who wore "River Stone"!
"Mom’s luck is too good today! Honey, quick, pay up~"
Looking at her cheerful mom, Xu Li felt happy, too.
For a pregnant woman, a good mood is beneficial for the baby in the womb!
Even though it wasn’t confirmed whether her mom was really pregnant.
Xu Li had decided to treat her like a pregnant woman for now.
"Oh, Mom’s luck is too good, having her as the previous player is so stressful!"
Jiang Tao didn’t hold back, smiling as he said this, and swiftly picked up 100 yuan to place in front of his mother-in-law.
He’d already made over twenty payouts to his mother-in-law this morning, like a true scatter-brained child.
On the surface, his luck seemed a bit down.
In reality, it was because he intentionally eased up.
With a big BUG like River Stone that increases the "luck" attribute.
He had several heavenly hands but quietly broke them apart.
His purpose in playing mahjong today wasn’t to gamble, nor to win money, but purely to contribute to the atmosphere.
The main goal was to keep his mother-in-law amused.
Losing a few thousand was trivial to Jiang Tao now.
Clatter, clatter, clatter~
After a round finished, the four of them quickly reset the tiles, ready to continue.
They played until it was over 11 AM.
Among the four at the table, three were winners, with only Jiang Tao as the loser.
At 100 yuan per win, he lost over 6,000 yuan in the morning.
The mother-in-law was the biggest winner, gaining over 3,000 yuan.
Xu Li and Xu Sha each earned over 1,000 yuan.
Eventually, even Du Yongmei felt a little embarrassed winning from Jiang Tao’s tiles.
"No more, no more, my luck’s too bad today, if I keep playing, you’ll ladies sweep me dry."
At 11 AM, Jiang Tao, the biggest loser, proposed to end the game.
"Haha, darling, is it really your luck or your skill that’s lacking?"
"It’s definitely the luckless! My skills are top-notch."
"..."
Watching her brother-in-law insisting, Xu Sha shook her head, thinking that indeed he was top-notch in letting off tiles!
Throughout the morning, he was the one feeding tiles to the other three.
He was truly a scatter-brained child in every sense.
"Haha, it’s about time to make lunch."
"Jiang Tao, would you like to rest at home for a bit or go to the supermarket with us?"
Du Yongmei, as the biggest winner, naturally had no objections, and her gaze at Jiang Tao became increasingly kind.
"I’ll just wait for you at home."
"Oh right, Mom, I quite like this dice, could you give it to me?"
"I’ll buy you a better mahjong set another day."
Jiang Tao, after setting up tiles all morning, finally revealed his true intentions, targeting the mahjong dice.
He reached for the die on the table, which shimmered with a dark golden glow in his vision, and made his request.
"Take it if you want! Why the talk about giving or not between us, I have a few spares!"
Having won over 3,000 yuan that morning, Du Yongmei was in great spirits and wouldn’t mind a tiny die.
She could buy two of those for one yuan on Pinduoduo.
"Then I’ll keep it, thank you, Mom."
Jiang Tao tossed the dice in his hand a few times, his face as beaming as ever.
For ladies like his mother-in-law, without an intelligence system, it was just an ordinary dice.
To them, it only served as entertainment and to determine numbers.
But to Jiang Tao, it was an extraordinary item, akin to a protagonist’s golden finger in a web novel, with significant meaning!
Neither Xu Li nor Xu Sha found anything strange about Jiang Tao asking their mom for a die.
Such trivial matters didn’t concern them at all.
"Oh, you’re being all polite, just rest at home, have a smoke, check your phone, while we go shopping, and we’ll make dumplings for you when we return."
Du Yongmei said while starting to clean the mahjong tiles from the table, with the Xu sisters helping out.
Soon, the three of them tidied up the mahjong tiles, chatting and laughing as they went out for a big grocery run.
Click~
The door closed, leaving only Jiang Tao at home.
Only then did Jiang Tao turn his attention back to the dice in his hand.
[Detected no other observers around the host. Bind special item and activate random attribute?]
Seeing the system’s prompt, Jiang Tao reflexively felt a twinge in his thumb.
"This time I won’t poke you, let’s change it."
Jiang Tao skillfully opened his phone’s back cover, removed a needle stored inside it, and pricked his index finger to squeeze out a drop of blood.
Then he dabbed the dice into the blood drop.
In Jiang Tao’s view, a faint red mist enveloped the entire dice.