Jia Wanlin and Jia Wanqing started playing chess, this time they were playing backgammon.

The chessboard is divided into four areas. The winner is determined by the person who moves all the chess pieces off the board first. Two dice are rolled each time. You can move two chess pieces according to the points, or add up the points and move one chess piece.

Xia Chu didn't like playing these brain-intensive games, but she enjoyed watching others play. She also followed the principle of watching chess without saying a word and never spoke too much.

Jia Wanqing was more easily excited, making noises from time to time, either expressing frustration or anger. Jia Wanlin was calmer, and didn't seem to care much about winning or losing.

While they were playing chess, the place suddenly became lively. Xia Chu glanced over and saw Tian Mier coming over. She looked unhappy, probably because she was forced by her sister.

"Three sisters," Tian Mier saluted curtly, "My eldest sister asked if you want to play tossing pots."

Xia Chu didn't care; she was just bullying. Jia Wanlin could go or not, but Jia Wanqing seemed a bit tempted. Her luck wasn't good today, her points weren't high, and she was almost losing.

But she wanted to follow her sisters more, so she looked at them, "Are you going, cousin and sister?"

"It's up to you." Xia Chu said indifferently.

"If you want to go, I'll accompany you." Jia Wanlin said.

Jia Wanqing was about to agree, but when she saw Tian Mier's face full of impatience, she changed her mind and snorted, "No."

Tian Mi'er's face changed, and she turned to leave. But thinking of her sister's method of punishing her, she gritted her teeth and stopped. "The prize is the music sheet of the plucked-string warrior. This sheet is only available in Lin'an. It's very rare in Huizhou. Don't you want it? Even if you don't win first place, I can lend it to you to circulate."

"I don't want to." Jia Wanqing's piano skills have improved slightly recently, but she is not very interested in it.

But Jia Wanlin thought of his aunt's love for these things, so he pulled Jia Wanqing's sleeve and said, "I want to go."

"Okay." Jia Wanqing originally just wanted to piss off Tian Mier.

Xia Chu followed behind, trying to figure out how to explain why she'd played all the music in the sheet music. It was easy to fool two children, but if Jia Qingwu saw them somewhere else, it would be hard to hide it. She should think about how to explain why she'd called on the warrior.

Touhu involves throwing wooden arrows into a double-handled pot. Two players compete at a time, each with eight arrows. The player who lands the most arrows wins, and landing all eight arrows is called a full pot. If two players land the same number of arrows, they can compete again.

Experienced players can also try some tricks, throwing multiple arrows at once, or the most impressive one is to have an arrow enter the pot, bounce up, and then fall back into the pot, which counts as two arrows.

Xia Chu had played with it at home before, but our family wasn't so disciplined about pots and arrows. They'd just used chopsticks and vases. One time, Wang Yong used too much force and broke the vase. Dong Xiaohuan scolded him for days, and as a result, they all stopped playing for a few days.

But after all, she has been playing it since she was a child, and she is very confident in her skills in throwing pots.

But she wasn't going to participate today, she didn't want her own sheet music.

When they arrived, they were already playing there, with two women they didn't know. However, she found that the women present were almost divided into three groups.

One group was led by Tian Ruier, and the other was led by someone she knew, someone she had met at Dongli Villa and had clashed with. She was unfamiliar with the other group, but she knew almost no one here.

"Xia Chu, Wanlin and Wanqing, come here quickly." As soon as Tian Ruier saw them, she called them over.

Jia Wanlin looked at his cousin, saw her walking over, and followed her.

Tian Mi'er rolled her eyes and said with a smile, "Wan Qing, would you like to compete with me in the same group?"

Jia Wanqing glanced at her and said, "Let's compete!"

"It's just a game, don't be angry." Tian Ruier said with a smile.

These words were obviously directed at Jia Wanqing. Xia Chu touched Jia Wanqing's head, and Jia Wanqing snorted without saying anything.

After the two of them finished competing, Tian Ruier took two steps forward, fanning herself with a round fan. "Fang Miaomiao, are you coming?"

"Come on!" Fang Miaomiao was the woman who had clashed with Tian Ruier at Dongli Villa. She hated Tian Ruier's contempt for everyone. The two were about the same age, but they had been at odds since childhood, always fighting each other.

Xia Chu stood aside, watching the excitement. Tian Ruier's confidence was justified; except for the first arrow, she had hit all seven targets. Fang Miaomiao was a little worse off, hitting only six, clearly a loser.

Tian Ruier smiled triumphantly and gave Fang Miaomiao a provocative look. Fang Miaomiao was not as skilled as her and went back angrily.

"Is your little tail here?" Tian Ruier looked behind her. In fact, she had already seen the person. She asked this deliberately to humiliate Sun Zhixia with words.

"What do you want?" Fang Miaomiao asked vigilantly.

"I didn't think anything of it." Tian Rui'er glanced at Wang Xiachu out of the corner of her eye. Although she wanted to befriend the Jia family, she preferred to see Sun Zhixia make a fool of herself. Wang Xiachu looked like Aunt Jia's daughter. Regardless of her appearance or temperament, she was nothing like that lowly girl who cowered and pretended to be pitiful all day long, which was disgusting to watch. "Isn't my cousin from Aunt Jia's family here too? I heard that Sun Zhixia had pretended to be Aunt Jia's daughter before. Shouldn't she come out and kowtow to apologize?"

When Xia Chu heard Sun Zhixia's name, she realized she was being dragged into this. She narrowed her eyes and glanced at Tian Ruier. Sure enough, she had no good intentions. She used her as an excuse to humiliate Sun Zhixia without even saying hello. She made a note of this.

However, although the mistakes of adults shouldn't be blamed on children, and Sun Zhixia's background wasn't her own choice, Xia Chu wouldn't actively seek trouble with her. But she wouldn't come to her rescue either. As long as she thought of Jia Qingwu when they first met, Xia Chu couldn't forgive anyone in the Sun family.

Everyone's eyes fell on Wang Xiachu, who was with the Jia sisters. She was the most unfamiliar. And she came with the Jia sisters. Could this be the cousin who had cost the Jia family a fortune and offered a bounty for her for years?

Jia Qingwu hadn't been out and about in years, and the garden was mostly young, so they'd only met when they were children. So no one had noticed Wang Xiachu's resemblance to Jia Qingwu, but Sun Zhixia was different. She had just seen her, and then she remembered the last time they'd met at Baiyun Temple, where she was also. She hadn't dared recognize Jia Qingwu back then, even after she'd recovered, but she had a deep impression of her as a child.

She was a woman completely different from her own mother, with a gentle and dignified temperament. Even when she was sick and her face was haggard and pale, her beauty could not be concealed. She had originally really wanted to be her daughter, but... Jia Qingwu did not recognize her. The two did look similar, but Sun Juexia had a more lively and lively aura than Jia Qingwu.

Sun Zhixia knew that Tian Ruier disliked her, and she had no right to come to the Li family's banquet. If she hadn't calculated the time, deliberately pretended not to understand Fang Miaomiao's intentions, and insisted on coming, she would not be able to enter the Li family's gate. She expected to meet Tian Ruier and expected to be given a hard time, but she didn't expect Sun Juexia to be there. She had thought that if she was given a hard time today, she would just endure it and then show her pitiful appearance. People always favor the weak.

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