Forced to be a concubine, I went to my husband's place to become a wealthy merchant

Chapter 132

Ye Xi was indeed afraid of the cold, but not to that extreme an extent. She didn't take a shower simply to disgust someone.

But even though someone was angry, he would still give her a bath himself and even like to touch her during the process, which made the situation difficult to handle.

Finally, she compromised and promised to take a bath regularly in winter, and Wei Jue gave up.

According to the regulations of the Zhou Dynasty, officials had long holidays around the Chinese New Year. The holidays usually started seven days before the Chinese New Year and lasted until the Lantern Festival. It could be said that they were quite blessed. [1]

On the first day of the first lunar month, officials in the capital city would go to the palace to pay New Year's greetings to the emperor.

Local officials of higher ranks who are closer to the capital also need to return to Beijing, but those who have a long journey do not need to do so. However, these officials will still prepare gifts for the emperor.

Suzhou City is far away, so Wei Jue has no need to return to Beijing. In addition, due to the special circumstances of his transfer, he cannot be uncalled to Beijing.

With such a long vacation, he naturally had a lot of fun.

During the Chinese New Year, except for the first day when families reunite and stay indoors, people like to take their families out shopping or visiting relatives at other times.

In addition, with the developed economy, many businessmen will do business during the Chinese New Year and take the opportunity to make a fortune.

So the streets are very busy and there is no curfew during this period.

No matter they were rich or poor, the people of the Zhou Dynasty would wear clean new clothes during the New Year. Ye Xi was also required to wear new clothes and celebrate the first day of the new year in the mansion with Wei Jue.

Ye Xi didn't know how to fight with Wei Jue, but Wei Jue had obviously already thought it through. He pulled Ye Xi to play chess.

This really put Ye Xi in a difficult position. She didn't know how to play chess. She didn't have any such thing as chess skills.

Looking at the enthusiastic Wei Jue, she gritted her teeth and made her moves randomly and without any plan.

Wei Jue was troubled. At first he just frowned, but later he glared at Ye Xi angrily.

At one point he suspected that Ye Xi was deliberately going against him and wanted to make things difficult for him during the New Year.

Finally, when he saw Ye Xi looking at him with an innocent face, as if she didn't understand why she was angry with him, he gave up.

Ye Xi later realized that it might be because his chess skills were too poor that made Wei Jue unhappy, so he explained that he really didn't know how to play Go and asked him if there was anything else he could play.

Wei Jue thought about it and said chess.

Ye Xi was embarrassed, why was it chess again, but she thought she could give it a try.

Wei Jue didn't expect that Ye Xi, who knew nothing about Go, could play chess so well. He even suspected that Ye Xi was pretending.

"Are you sure you didn't lie to me?" Wei Jue asked after Ye Xi captured another of his pieces.

"No, I really don't know how to play Go. This chess is more interesting. It has simple rules."

Ye Xi was so happy that she danced with joy because she had eaten a few of Wei Jue's seeds.

"The rules of Go are also very simple." Wei Jue felt that Ye Xi was just fooling him.

"That's too complicated. Only a very smart person can play it. For someone like me, forget it.

Moreover, the chess pieces only have two colors and no words on them, which is too monotonous.

You see, chess is different, they have their own roles, how to move, who can capture whom is very clear. "

Ye Xi's eyes and eyebrows never stopped smiling.

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In daily games between friends, most people play Go, because this game was popular in the Zhou Dynasty and was considered more elegant, so Wei Jue basically focused his attention on this.

There was chess at home, but he neglected to practice it and couldn't remember some of the rules clearly, so he kept losing to Ye Xi.

He felt that it was unwise to drag Ye Xi to play chess, which made him lose face. He touched his nose unconsciously.