Chiba Salted Fish Legend

Chapter 20 Damn this rubbish game!
When Natsuki walked out of the bathroom, Ryoko Yamamoto had already placed the map on the coffee table, next to a stack of random event cards and a stack of Monopoly banknotes. She sat cross-legged on the tatami.She waved to Xia Zhi.

"Xia Zhijun, hurry up, hurry up." He looked very interested.

Shiraishi Rika was sitting next to her, her eyes flashing with interest. She was probably brainwashed by Ryoko Yamamoto in just a few minutes.Xia Zhi walked over. On the coffee table to the left of Yamamoto Ryoko were her cups and the box containing Monopoly. Xia Zhi went straight to sit opposite her.

For some reason, Ryoko smiled as if she had succeeded in her conspiracy. After a while, Shiraishi Rika turned her head and glared at her.Xia Zhi, who has no idea what the girls from the island country are thinking, has given up trying to understand their way of thinking.

Although it is called Monopoly, strictly speaking, this board game should be said to be an adventure game. It lacks the core part of buying and selling real estate in Monopoly, and instead occupies most of the random event positions on the map.Xia Zhi subconsciously glanced at the random event deck, probably having the thickness of a set of five people and three kingdoms.

The classic field map has many special event grids, which can be said to be quite large with three players.Judging from the five player symbols placed next to the box, Xia Zhi's idea was not wrong.

"So, what about the rules?"

"There are no special rules. I will start one round at a time, and at the end the points will be calculated according to the situation. There is no punishment game, because Lihua will definitely be angry." Ryoko Yamamoto spread her hands helplessly.

"It's best not." Xia Zhi picked up his coffee cup.

"Well, here we go! Hey!"

Ryoko Yamamoto threw out the two dice in his hand, flicked them twice on the map, and finally gave a two and a three, moving forward five spaces.One, two, three, four, five...

"Event Grid... You went to the mountains behind the school to look for treasures. You were discovered by your parents while preparing equipment. You were detained for three days and stayed at the starting point for three rounds. Nani!?"

Ryoko Yamamoto's face was full of shit, and Xia Zhi was shocked when he looked at it.

"In the first round... what did you do that was so outrageous?"

"How do I know? I've always been a good kid who likes to help others."

She moved the chess pieces back to the starting point dejectedly, and then motioned to the snickering Rika Shiraishi to take the next step.

Shiraishi Rika picked up the dice, threw it on the map, and moved forward seven spaces.The same is the time grid.Picking up the card on top of the deck, Lihua read it softly.

"I met a stray dog ​​running around in the back mountain. I was chased and retreated two spaces. Well... here's another picture. I sprained my foot while walking and stayed there for two rounds..." Shiraishi Rika looked embarrassed, and Yamamoto Ryoko was teasing from the side. She said, "Lihua, it seems that your luck is not going to go there either."

"Just a small defeat."

Xia Zhi picked up the dice, then threw it out, eight squares, fixed event squares, and picked up a thousand yen that fell in the grass.Xia Zhi unceremoniously took away a thousand yen, and then picked up the dice again with a calm expression.Ryoko Yamamoto stopped three times, Rika Shiraishi stopped twice, and Natsuki could throw twice.

Just throw it away, three squares, random events.

"Indulge in fishing by the river and stay for two rounds... hiss..." Xia Zhi stared at the malicious card with wide eyes, and Yamamoto Ryoko on the side laughed directly.

"Based on this calculation, it should be me." Bai Shi Lihua picked up the dice again and threw a five-square, random event. "I found a resting place during the march, which increases the chance of action." Lihua picked up the dice again, and suddenly thought of something: "It's so visual..."

Throw out four grids, a random event—"I was addicted to the beautiful scenery, and I got lost without knowing it. I stayed for two rounds...it really has a sense of déjà vu."

Ryoko Yamamoto laughed again.And then the next one is... who's coming?Xia Zhi thought about it, counted on the table with his hands and found that it was Ryoko Yamamoto again, and then urged her to throw the dice quickly.

A ten was thrown out, and he walked over, a random event grid.

"The speed of advancement is so fast that it consumes too much energy and stays for one round..." Yamamoto Ryoko was stunned.

"Did you put all the bad cards on it?" Xia Zhi expressed doubts.

"Then will I still cheat myself?" Liangzi refuted this baseless accusation.

Then go to Xiazhi, five grids, encounter a snake, retreat three grids, fix the event grid, see a rare beetle, get lost in the process of catching it, and stay for one round.

"No way..." Ryoko Yamamoto sighed on behalf of Natsuki.

Then we came to Liangzi, seven squares, a random event square, was chased by a bear, advanced three squares, a random event square, stepped into a puddle, couldn't extricate himself, and stayed for one round.

"Wait a minute, my memory is a little messed up...Who should come next?" Xia Zhi covered his head, "There are too many stop cards."

"It should be your turn, right?" Ryoko Yamamoto said uncertainly.

"It's Zhijun Xia." Baishi Lihua gave a definite answer.

Next, the game continued with several steps of throwing dice, recalling how many rounds it was, and calculating who should act. Half an hour later, Xia Zhi found that they had completed more than half of the map.

"Who did such a heartbreaking thing?" Xia Zhi held the coffee cup in his hand, watching himself being stopped for two more rounds, and then suddenly felt the intention to kill.

Ryoko Yamamoto was shuffling the cards aside, and the random event card pile had been exhausted once.Among them, there are five positive incidents, ten normal incidents, and the remaining 45 are all stay punishment incidents with different patterns...

"I will never buy board games produced by this manufacturer again..." she gritted her teeth.

"This is the first time I'm so tired from playing this kind of game..." Shiraishi Rika said with a sigh.

"Do you want to continue?" Xia Zhi asked.

"Go on, you have to start and finish everything." She spoke in the style of Shiraishi Reika.

"Then continue..."

In the second half of the game, the game becomes even slower due to skilled calculations... It always moves forward and backward in a three-step cycle. The brain is already very tired, and there is no interesting feeling at all.

Finally, when it was almost twelve noon, the game was over.

"Death to this rubbish game!" Ryoko Yamamoto angrily picked up the map, crumpled it into a ball, stuffed it into the box, and headed to the trash can along with some other things.

Xia Zhi picked up the cup and took a sip, only to realize that there was no coffee in the cup.Reika Shiraishi on the side looked like she was dying.

"Eh? What is this?"

Yamamoto Ryoko's confused voice came from behind. Xia Zhi turned around and found that she was staring into the garbage basket.What's inside? ...Haha, the corners of Xia Zhi's mouth twitched.

"Is this wine?" Ryoko Yamamoto looked up at Xia Zhi in surprise, "Is Xia Zhijun drinking?"

"Well, once in a while." Xia Zhi lives alone, and this matter is basically known to everyone, and there is no good excuse for him, so he can only admit it openly.

"Hey, does Xia Zhijun drink? Minors shouldn't be allowed to drink, right?" Shiraishi Lihua looked at Xia Zhi from the side.

"The situation is slightly different from Japan..." Xia Zhi clasped his hands and lowered his head to Shiraishi Rika, "Please, please keep it a secret for me! I'll treat you to delicious food later!"

"Drinking is wrong..." Baishi Lihua sat upright, about to persuade her classmates who had set foot on the road of no return.Although it was impolite, it was nothing compared to the other party's future.

"Hey, Natsuki-kun, are there any more? Can I drink?" Ryoko Yamamoto, who was standing at the back, betrayed her friend in an instant.

"Liangzi!" Bai Shilihua looked at her dumbfounded.

"No, minors are not allowed to drink." Xia Zhi refused without hesitation.I'm an international student from China, so I'm a little special, so it's fine to drink some wine (should).But the native island girl is different. It is against the law to give her alcohol.

"Xia Zhijun, do you have the right to say this?" Ryoko Yamamoto was shocked.

"It's probably nothing to me, it's against the law for you to drink."

"Shameless!" Ryoko Yamamoto pointed at Xia Zhi. This was the first time she had seen such a shameless person.

"It's not a big problem for Xia Zhijun..." Shiraishi Lihua no longer knew how to persuade him to return from his lost path. It was all the fault of a traitor who interrupted on the way.

"If you drink juice, I can treat you to a drink."

"How stingy, Natsuhi-kun." Ryoko Yamamoto looked at Natsuhi with disdain, "You are already a drinking adult, but you still treat us to drink juice."

"The formula that drinking makes you an adult doesn't hold true. If you don't drink juice, there is tea and coffee. Do you want that?"

"I'd better drink juice." Yamamoto Ryoko threw the box into the trash can, covered the can, and then walked back to the coffee table.

Xia Zhi stood up, picked up their cups, and walked towards the kitchen.

"Speaking of which, where does Xia Zhijun work? You don't seem to have mentioned it."

"Me, I'm over there in the opposite direction to the school. I'll be there in more than ten minutes. I'll go over and help you later. There are quite a lot of people in the store on weekends."

"Then let's go there together later. Go to the coffee shop to kill some time, and go directly to the concert in the evening." Yamamoto Ryoko suggested, but Xia Zhi always felt that she had already planned everything.

"Okay, okay, but where are you going to have dinner?" Xia Zhi came over with the juice, put it on the table, looked at the time, and it was almost time to prepare lunch.

"Just find a nearby restaurant for dinner. Lihua and I are not picky eaters. As long as it's clean."

"Then I have a good place to go." Xia Zhi immediately thought of the food cooked by the store manager. Although there is a certain gap compared with the five-star chef, it is better than nearby restaurants and the like. A lot, which is one of the reasons why it gets more foot traffic on weekends.

"Oh, I'll leave it to you!"

Xia Zhi walked back to the kitchen and put on an apron. He originally planned to make something to eat at noon today, but now there are two more people, one of whom is the eldest daughter of a wealthy family who has been fed by the five-star chef since childhood. , although I am not picky about food, it will not work if I just deal with it casually.

"Do you have anything to eat?"

He turned to look at the two girls.

"Ah, I'll just do whatever I want." Shiraishi Lihua replied politely as before.

"I want to eat the golden smile and the four-shen seafood eight-treasure buns." This was the answer of Ryoko Yamamoto, who should pay attention to etiquette.

"Do you think I am Master Xie or Logan? It's a shame that you can use such an old joke. I almost forgot about it."

"A little bit."

"Ryoko, please pay attention to your etiquette."

"Hi~"

Xia Zhi decided to ignore her and think about what he should do.

(End of this chapter)