Card Room

Spades 3 Part 1

The man thought about it before nodding. "Deal."

He had no reason to refuse a mutually beneficial exchange of information.

He turned and pointed to the high-end coffee store down the street. "Let's go get a cup of coffee and sit to talk."

Xiao Lou was more realistic. "We are in a world where a financial crisis is going to break out and we need to save a bit of money. Wouldn't it be better to go to the restaurant over there and eat lunch directly?"

Yu Hanjiang naturally listened to Xiao Lou and repeated, "Go and have lunch."

The man, "..."

One person couldn't go against two and he could only follow them to the small restaurant.

Fortunately, this restaurant might be small in size but the environment wasn't bad. The tables, chairs and tableware were very clean.

There were only a few home-cooked dishes on the menu. Hot and sour shredded potato, simmer-fried eggplant and other vegetarian dishes were 1,500 gold while potato roast beef, sweet and sour pork and other meat dishes were 2,500 gold coins. In addition, rice was 500 gold coins.

This price...a simple way to understand it was to directly remove the 'gold' part and remove two zeroes, then convert to RMB. It was around 15 yuan for a vegetarian dish, 25 yuan for a meat dish and 5 yuan for a bowl of rice. This price was still affordable.

Xiao Lou was moved.

He ordered two dishes and a bowl of rice. He took the initiative to pay for the guests and spent 8,500 gold coins.

In this world of cards, Xiao Lou had only one goal: live to the end and leave.

Therefore, he would rather make more friends instead of offending an enemy.

No. 5's identity was unknown but his performance in the 2 of Clubs room was excellent. He was definitely a master of playing cards. Xiao Lou showed him enough sincerity. Not only did Xiao Lou pay for the meal, he also took the initiative to say, "Let me introduce myself first. I am Xiao Lou and I was formerly a teacher at a medical school."

Group Leader Yu's words were simple. "Yu Hanjiang, policeman."

"......" The man hesitated before he smiled. "Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang, the ones who refreshed the records for 3 of Hearts and 3 of Diamonds. I'm very fortunate to meet the two of you."

The world record being refreshed was advertised in large letters and seen by all challengers. Unknowingly, Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang had become famous but they hadn't yet noticed it.

The man reached out and shook hands with Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang. "Shao Qingge, my profession is a stock trader. Playing card games is my hobby."

Originally, he had some wariness towards these two people but the other side were great gods who could refresh the records of the secret rooms and his scores in Hearts and Diamonds were often partial to Cs. There was no need to hesitate to cooperate with the great gods.

As long as they had a brain, anybody who encountered masters such as Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang wouldn't refuse.

Xiao Lou heard Shao Qingge's name and his expression slightly changed, but he soon restored his calm expression and smiled. "Mr Shao, let's talk about 3 of Diamonds. What type of mechanisms did you encounter?"

He talked about 3 of Diamonds first because they had been to the secret room. During the process of exchanging information, they could determine if the contents of the secret rooms were consistent or not.

Shao Qingge spoke simply, "The first mechanism was a very simple two character puzzle, the second was fill in the blank to make an idiom and the third was fill in the blank to make poetry. The character missing from the idiom was 'person' and the answers were help people to be happy, etc... The word missing from the poetry was 'moon' and the answers were 'who, pining away, on the moonlit rails would learn', 'don't allow an empty goblet to face the moon', etc."