Chapter 174: The Cards
Romeo and Hermes had a worse time, as they were busy dealing with the fishy fish, while Romeo marinated the lamb, sliced and grilled it, and set up the oven. Fortunately, Hermes is a great helper, much more reliable than Macucciio, with flexible movements, nimble hands and feet, and incredible speed.
When two people make eye contact, they understand each other's thoughts. Milk sea bass soup, golden eel cakes, cumin lamb rolls, sour olive salad, buckwheat cheese cake, foie gras caviar were completed one after another, and the two of them smiled tacitly and served the fruitful and hearty food to the table.
The princess tasted the sour olive salad and said with a smile, "You two made it." Hermes complimented Romeo: "I'm just helping with the ingredients, it's all your man's own hands." โ
The princess joked, "The position of the head chef of the palace has been vacant, do you want to give it a try?"
Romeo was tempted, "No problem. The princess still smiled, kicked him under the tablecloth, and said in his ear: "This is the last time you cook, and in the future you will be the general in command of the imperial soldiers and horses, and you are not allowed to have the twisting posture of a little woman." โ
Romeo smiled bitterly, it was normal for men to cook in their time, and they began to eat with their heads bored, and Aphrodite said with a hint of emotion: "I can't see that you still have a delicate and tender side, what a good man."
The princess smiled lightly: "When we defeat the Church of Light, this man will be useless, and my sister-in-law can play as much as she wants." โ
Romeo choked and coughed violently, and the princess tapped him lightly on the back: "Don't worry, my brother is dead and will not settle accounts with you." โ
Hermes whispered to Romeo: "Look how terrible a wolf-like woman is, defeating the Supreme God, my father never had this idea, brother, I am really deeply worried about your fate. โ
Romeo ate vigorously, and at this moment, a light and elegant young girl, with a flowery and moonlight appearance, an otherworldly and beautiful temperament, and always a lingering sorrow between her eyebrows, Yingying sat down beside Aphrodite.
Aphrodite lovingly took the girl into her arms, "Posephoena, haven't you already returned from the underworld? โ
The girl sighed and said, "What a pervert that old guy from Hades, as long as I ask him to go home, he will torture me with torture instruments and bruise all over my body, and then forcibly ยทยทยทยทยทยทยท with me." A tear slipped down her delicate face, and people gradually cried silently.
Hermes comforted her: "It's not only four months, Hades has been in hell for a long time, and it's normal for him to be perverted."
He still loves you very much, and the jewelry he has entrusted to God to create for you is the best in the world. For thousands of years, there has always been only you in my heart, and there has never been another woman. โ
The girl said angrily: "He exudes a kind of corpse smell all the time, no matter people or gods, they are afraid to avoid it, how can any woman want him, if it weren't for my simple ignorance, how could I fall for his tricks." โ
The princess smiled contemptuously: "That old puppet of the Hades, the battle of the gods chose Mingzhe to protect himself, and he volunteered to become a dog of God to guard hell, I have long looked at him unpleasantly." This traitor must be cleared. โ
Hermes interjected: "Father has forgiven him, after all, a family, why are you bothered?"
The princess glared at Hermes, and Romeo's face sank: "I once had a relationship with Lucifer on the River Styx, is he in charge of the underworld with Hades?"
The girl raised the corners of her mouth and said, "Hades is actually still the master of hell, and Lucifer is just his subordinate. However, Hades commanded Lucifer, and Hades was often so angry with him that he vomited blood.
My greatest pleasure in the underworld is watching the two of them fight. The fighting method can barely be a draw; if you talk about the kung fu of the dispute, Lucifer's mouth can say that the dead are alive, and the living say that they are dead; and the Hades King hides when he sees him, and the scene is quite comical. โ
Romeo couldn't believe it, "Hades can make a tie with Lucifer, isn't he very powerful?" The princess disdainful: "Powerful coward, I've never seen him such a cowardly god." โ
Hermes raised his thick eyebrows, "Let's not talk about this, let's play cards." He began to clean up the table, a beautiful deck of playing cards quickly washed through his skilful fingers.
The princess frowned, her waist and knees were sore: "I don't play, you can play." Getting up to go back to the temple to rest, Romeo immediately stood up, and Hermes grabbed him suddenly: "Pandora, that stupid girl can't play, and the game of cards for four people can also be fun." โ
Romeo scratched his head, and the princess smiled indifferently and said, "I can do it alone, don't worry about me." โ
Romeo had no choice but to sit down again, and Hermes said casually: I partner with Aphrodite, you partner with the Queen of Hades, 100,000 gold coins per game, bridge rules.
Pandora, you can bet on who wins, and if you win, you can also win 10,000 gold coins. โ
Pandora muttered, "I bet you won, who doesn't know that your gambling skills are the most brilliant among the gods." โ
Hermes smiled evilly: "After so many years, you have become smarter, come, sit next to me, my brother will teach you." Pandora leaned over curiously, and Hermes shuffled the cards while teaching Pandora numbers.
Romeo stared at the 54 playing cards, and with great mental power, he imprinted all those cards in his mind, and no matter how clever Hermes shuffled the cards, he remembered all the colors and numbers clearly.
Romeo smiled at the queen and said, "Can you deal the cards?" Ladies first, let the two of them guess the fist, who will win the first card." โ
Hermes took out the dice Gu and flew up and down on his slender fingers: "Guess the odd and even numbers, two wins in three games." โ
Romeo listened carefully to the sound of the dice, winked at the girl, and whispered shyly, "Single." โ
Aphrodite smiled lightly: "Then I guess double." โ
Hermes unveiled the dice, and Pandora was surprised to find that the two dice turned over strangely, and the original number of six became three, and the number of three became five.
Romeo snatched the dice Gu and shattered the dice, and there was a magnet mixed with mercury inside, Romeo smiled: "It turns out that you want to roll as many points as it is, and you deliberately deceived me, uncle, I won't play." โ
Hermes frowned: "You win the first hand first, you deal the cards, the initiative is in your hand." โ
Romeo snorted, "That's pretty much it. "The action is skillful and the cards are dealt, and after a few rounds, a few small wins are a few handfuls, and the pride between the eyebrows can not be concealed.
Hermes proposed to play "stud", where the higher hand came first, and the bet was made, and each time a new card was drawn, a raise was made, which could be doubled.
Hermes began to shuffle the cards again, and he saw that he was skillfully playing with the cards between his hands, and the thin pokers flew like butterflies, dazzling and almost like a magic show.