Crossing the Palace Fighting Fox Harem

That night, Ji Anni lay in bed tossing and turning, thinking about how to get through the special training for the princess tomorrow. Is there any way to divert Tian Ning's attention so that she won't be so focused on training herself? In fact, she has completely mastered the walking, sitting, table manners, etc. that Tian Ning taught her, and she is absolutely confident that she will not embarrass herself at the banquet tomorrow night.

The biggest problem now is that if Princess Tianning trains me for another day with the same intensity as today, I am afraid that by then I will be so tired that I won’t even have the strength to walk. How can I attend the dinner?

Ji Anni thought and thought, and finally, at the dawn, her eyes lit up!

Princess Tianning, Huarong, Yuemiao, and myself, there are exactly four of us. The best entertainment for four people is to play mahjong, but unfortunately, due to the current conditions, it is impossible to get a set of mahjong tiles. But even if there is no mahjong, don't we still have poker? Mahjong is too complicated to make, but if it is just fifty-four cards, Ji Anni is still very confident that she can complete it.

So she got up from the bed, rummaged through the boxes, finally found some cardboard, took out scissors and ink, lit a candle, and started to stay up all night to make playing cards. Afraid that the princess would not know Arabic numerals, Ji Anni even wrote the numbers in Chinese characters, JQKA represented the prince, princess, emperor and queen mother respectively, and the two trump cards were replaced by the black and white impermanence.

As the saying goes, playthings will ruin one's ambition. As long as Princess Tianning becomes addicted to playing cards, she will not have the leisure to train herself.

Ji Anni was drawing poker cards while laughing secretly.

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The next morning, without waiting for Princess Tianning to knock on the door, Ji Anni got up early. After washing and combing her hair, she tied her hair into a bun at the back of her head, sat at the table, looking at the deck of playing cards she had made all night long, with dark circles under her eyes, waiting for Princess Tianning to come.

After waiting for about ten minutes, the footsteps of Tianning Gong and Huarongyuemiao were heard from outside the door.

Without waiting for them to knock, Ji Anni took the initiative to open the door for them.

Princess Tianning's hand was just raised in the air outside the door, and she heard a "creak" sound, and the door was opened by Ji Anni from the inside. Princess Tianning was so scared that she took a half step back and almost fell. She stared at Ji Anni and asked in disbelief: "Why did you get up so early?"

Ji Anni perfectly used the smiling and greeting skills she learned from Princess Tianning yesterday, and said, "Knowing that the princess is coming today, Zhao Ji must get up early and wait for you."

Princess Tianning said, "When a man has been away for three days, he should be looked at with new eyes. Concubine Zhao Cong, it's only been one day, and your temperament has changed so much?"

"The princess has taught well." Ji Anni continued to speak sweetly.

But it was a bit embarrassing to ask her to flatter a little girl so much.

"You don't have any plan, do you?" Princess Tianning half-closed her eyes and looked at Ji Anni with a suspicious look.

Ji Anni said hurriedly, "What's the plan? It's just that Zhao Ji remembered a game from her hometown last night and wanted to teach the princess how to play before the training. If the princess likes it, she can use it to kill time in her spare time in the future."

"Oh?" Princess Tianning was at an age where she was curious about everything new. After hearing what Ji Anni said, she became interested and asked hurriedly, "What game is it?"

"Princess, come this way." Ji Anni led Tian Ning into the room and pointed to the deck of cards on the table and said, "These are the cards."

"Cards? What games can be played with cards?" Princess Tianning grabbed a card and took a look. There were numbers written on it, as well as some patterns of clubs, diamonds, hearts, and spades.

Ji Anni said, "This is called playing cards. There are endless variations of the game you can play. The princess needs to slowly experience the fun."

"Oh?" Princess Tianning asked in a high voice, as if she didn't quite believe it, "Then Concubine Zhao, how about we play it?"

"What does Princess want to learn?" Princess Ji Anila sat down with a smile on her face.

She is very good at playing poker. Every time during the holidays, everyone gets together and dares to play anything except poker with Ji Anni, because Ji Anni has played poker to perfection. Someone once praised her for not needing to use any special effects and being able to directly shoot a Hong Kong gambling movie.

Princess Tianning saw playing cards for the first time today. She was a little curious and a little skeptical. She said, "Teach me what you can do."

"Well, let's start with the simple one. I'll teach you how to play 'Run Fast', but this game requires four people to play." Ji Anni looked at Hua Rongmei with a sinister smile and invited her, "Why don't you all sit over and play together?"

How could such a pretty lady dare to sit at the same table with the princess and her concubines? She lowered her head and said, "I dare not."

"It's okay, sit down." Ji Anni didn't mind the difference between the upper and lower classes, and even pulled out a chair for the beautiful girl.

"I really don't dare." The beautiful woman stood there, motionless.

Ji Anni sighed, not wanting to embarrass them. At this moment, there was a sound of light footsteps outside the door. Looking up, she found Yizhen cautiously looking into the room from outside the door.

Yizhen just heard a noise coming from Ji Anni's room, so she came over to see what happened. Unexpectedly, she found Princess Tianning in Ji Anni's room. The timid Yizhen still remembered the last time the princess poured hot water on her head, so she turned around and left in fright.

But Ji Anni rushed over to hold her back and said, "Yizhen, you're just in time. Are you going to Renhe Hall today?"

Yizhen was stunned for a moment, then replied in a low voice, "There is a dinner party today, and Yanniang said there is no need to train."

"That's perfect." Ji Anni was delighted when she heard it. "Why don't I teach you how to play poker? We are short of people."

Yizhen is also a concubine. Since Ji Anni can sit at the same table with Tianning, Yizhen can do so as well.

So Ji Anni pulled Yizhen into the room and arranged for her to sit between herself and Princess Tianning. Yizhen was born not good at rejecting others, and after being forcibly pulled into the room by Ji Anni, she didn't know how to leave. Although Princess Tianning's gaze on her made her feel like a thorn in her back, she had no choice but to sit there and not dare to move.

But even with Yizhen joining, there is still one person missing.

Ji Anni searched for the right person in her mind, but after thinking for a long time, she could only think of Concubine Baogui, with whom she had a good relationship. But Concubine Baogui was so dignified and virtuous that it was really hard to associate her with poker.

Just when Ji Anni was in a dilemma, Princess Tianning asked, "Are we still missing one more person to play?"

Ji Anni nodded.

Princess Tianning immediately ordered Yuemao, "Yuemao, go and invite Concubine Kang here."

Yuemao replied "Yes, sir" and left the room.

Ji Anni then remembered that there was a candidate for Concubine Kang. She had not seen Concubine Kang since the last hunting meeting. Although Concubine Kang was of noble status, she was very approachable. From several contacts with her, Ji Anni found that she had a good impression of her. Moreover, Concubine Kang was also a lively person, very suitable to be a poker partner.

Ji Annie nodded in her heart, thinking that now the four-person card game was complete.