Carrying a Jurassic on me
Chapter 1435 - 695: The Back Garden

Chapter 1435: Chapter 695: The Back Garden

After calling Old Niu, Yan Fei was ready to take Xu Xiaoyan out for some fun—regarding those two bugs, he had as many as he wanted, so it really wasn’t a big deal. Besides, those researchers at the institute took even better care of them than he did, so there was no need to worry.

But Xu Xiaoyan wasn’t at ease.

Ever since the girl found out that the two bugs Yan Fei had caught were of ’great significance’, she became even more concerned than Yan Fei. She firmly disagreed with going out to play with Yan Fei, insisting on staying here until the institute returned the bugs.

So, two days later...

"I’ll take another card!" Xu Xiaoyan carefully separated the two playing cards in her hand, and after seeing the card that followed, she bit her lip and thought for a long time, finally speaking with determination.

"Alright! This card is yours." Yan Fei efficiently picked up a card from the stack between them and placed it in front of her. "I’ll stay, raise five hundred."

Xu Xiaoyan took the card seriously, stacking it neatly behind the two in her hand before carefully separating them once more. She looked just as professional as the gambling gods in the movies.

"I’ll match five hundred... make it a thousand, I won’t reveal my cards." Upon seeing the numbers on the cards, she couldn’t help but grin triumphantly, counting out five bills from a stack of money beside her, hesitating for a moment before adding five more and tossing them to the center.

Yan Fei looked at his own cards, then at the girl’s cheerful expression, casually tossing his cards onto the messy pile on the table: "I’m out, you win this round."

"Yay!" The girl delightedly threw her hand of cards, swiftly collecting the money from between them toward her side, while sneakily reaching for the cards Yan Fei had just thrown out. "Let’s see what you had, daring to raise five hundred..."

"Cheating again, huh?" Yan Fei quickly reached out to stop her, but conveniently ’slowed’ down just enough to let the girl grab his discarded cards.

"Hahaha..." The girl burst into laughter as soon as she saw the cards. "Yan Xiaofei, you really have some nerve! Raising money with eleven points, aren’t you just giving me money for free? Try to bluff me, hmph!"

Yan Fei’s face showed a helpless expression: "Alright, alright, let’s keep going. Today I’m definitely going to win all your money..."

Plans don’t change as quickly as situations do. With Yan Fei’s travel plans completely shelved, he finally convinced the girl to roam around Provincial City with him for a whole day, visiting acquaintances like Professor He and Senior Brother Wang. As the start of school approached for the girl, they simply stayed home and enjoyed their world of two—this was already quite good. According to the girl’s wishes, they would have gone to the institute every day, worried that something might happen to those two bugs.

Actually, whether they went out or stayed didn’t make a difference to the two of them. When they were together, no matter how boring the activity, they could find immense joy in it.

For example, the card game they were playing on the bed now was modeled on the Stud poker seen in movies, even though they didn’t know the proper rules, they just modified their hometown’s ’Half Past Ten’ card game and imitated that style of play.

The rules of Half Past Ten were quite simple—each person starts with one card, then decides whether or not to draw more. The numbers one through ten have their face values, while the picture cards count as half a point. The highest is ’half past ten.’ If you get five cards without surpassing ’half past ten,’ that’s a big hand; even if the opponent has ’half past ten,’ they lose if they don’t have five cards. Getting exactly ’half past ten’ with five cards is the biggest possible hand.

The rules were simple, requiring both strategy and luck. When playing with his wife Yan Fei, he definitely relied on luck, while the girl would seriously calculate her moves.

So now, underneath the girl’s feet, there was a big pile of money—because they were both sitting cross-legged on the bed while playing.

The more the girl won, the more enthused she became, not even feeling hungry at noon with a large pile of bills at her feet, still eager, and determined to play until Yan Fei was ’without a stitch to wear’—she had no idea that in Boss Yan’s cave on Vegetable Garden Island, there was money piled up and going moldy.

Just then, a round of barking came from outside.

There were also shouts. The girl paused, then exclaimed, "Oh no, I completely forgot Laoda said he was coming over for lunch today. Quick, quick, let’s tidy up, I’ll go open the door..."

"Oh no, I’m not even dressed yet..." She ran a few steps in her pajamas, then quickly returned. Not minding Yan Fei’s gleaming roguish gaze, she swiftly changed clothes and tied up her hair before dashing out, not forgetting to remind Yan Fei to hurry and tidy up as well.

What could Yan Fei tidy up? Even if he were quick, he’d merely get dressed, then casually flip the blanket to cover those cards and cash, and walked out nonchalantly.

Just in time to see Xu Xiaoyan leading her dorm’s Laoda, Jiang Xueling, and a young man laden with big and small bags into the house.

Yan Fei greeted the young man with a smile: "Is Chen He not busy today either?"

"Busy with what!" Chen He chuckled, handing the stuff he carried to his girlfriend, instructing her to take it to the kitchen. "I’m just busy with nonsense, unlike you big boss, always too busy to be seen."

After exchanging some pleasantries, Xu Xiaoyan dragged Jiang Xueling to the kitchen to help, leaving Chen He and Yan Fei sitting together. Thankfully, Chen He was a chatty guy, and they kept up a constant stream of conversation.