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Ye Yixian and Ye Yizhu sent a message saying that they would be staying at Lu Yuan's house for the next couple of days and that he shouldn't worry.

Ye Yizhu had no objection, only replying "I know," and reminded Ye Yixian not to forget to visit his father, Ye Xinnian, in prison together on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year.

Ye Yixian's wound had already been treated, and she had even used concealer to cover it up, but the effect was minimal. As soon as she stepped into the house, her mother's eyes immediately fell on the injury on her face, and she gasped in shock: "Oh my! Yixian, what happened to you?"

Ye Yixian smiled, shook his head and said that he had accidentally fallen while going down the stairs, and emphasized that he had already gone to the clinic to see a doctor and that there was nothing seriously wrong.

Mom immediately turned her reproachful gaze to Lu Yuan and muttered, "Yuan, you took Yixian out to play, how come you didn't protect her well? You're not acting like a man at all."

"I..." Lu Yuan was about to explain when Ye Yixian quickly interrupted, "Auntie, this is not Lu Yuan's fault. I fell because I was clumsy."

Mom pursed her lips, pulled Ye Yixian back into the house, carefully examined the wound, and then earnestly instructed, "Yixian, young lady, you must take good care of your face. Although I don't mind what you look like, outsiders may not be able to control what you eat. You need to be careful about your diet these days. I'll personally supervise you, otherwise eating the wrong things will leave you with unsightly scars..."

Before she could finish speaking, a sob suddenly broke the silence. Her mother looked closely and saw that Ye Yixian's tears were streaming down her face.

"Oh dear! Yixian, did Auntie hurt you?" Mom panicked and quickly cupped Ye Yixian's little face in her hands to ask.

Ye Yixian quickly shook her head, sniffled, and said in a tearful voice, "I've never had a mother since I was little. Every time I get hurt, I have to bear it all by myself. No one has ever cared for me like you have..."

Upon hearing this, her mother felt extremely distressed and quickly hugged Ye Yixian, coaxing her, "Yixian, be good. Auntie will take care of you from now on. Before you married into our family, you were our Lu family's daughter; from now on, you'll be our daughter-in-law."

"Waaah... It sounds weird, but I still want to thank you, Auntie." Ye Yixian couldn't stop her tears.

Lu Yuan, who was in the living room, heard their conversation clearly and was filled with mixed feelings.

……

The next two days will continue with the usual Chinese New Year activities: exchanging New Year's greetings, visiting relatives and friends, giving and receiving red envelopes...

Many friends invited Lu Yuan to go out, but Ye Yixian had an injury on her face and couldn't go out, so she stayed at home with Lu Yuan and invited Gao Zhe and Wang Qingyu to play mahjong together.

Ye Yixian tried mahjong for the first time during summer vacation and actually won. Everyone thought it was just good luck then, but now she still wins more than she loses. In one morning, she netted over a hundred yuan.

Some people might think that a hundred yuan or so is nothing, but this is a game where it costs one yuan per round. There is no mahjong machine, and all the cards are shuffled by hand. A game takes at least twenty minutes.

Wang Qingyu muttered about how lucky Ye Yixian was, but Ye Yixian said that he could "read the cards," which actually meant paying attention to the cards that had already been played, calculating which cards had not yet been played, and then combining his own hand with other people's playing habits to deduce the easiest combination to win.

Moreover, she is not greedy and does not pursue big hands such as pure suit or thirteen orphans. She focuses on making "chicken hands" and believes that "even a small profit is still a profit".

At this point, some people might ask: Of course you can know your own cards, but how do you deduce other people's cards?

The exact hand is unclear, but we can make some inferences through observation. For example, if everyone plays the honor tiles (East, South, West, North, Center) at the beginning of the game, it means no one is keeping honor tiles. After a few rounds, when the honor tiles are all played and someone starts deliberately avoiding tiles of the bamboo suit, it's a good indication that the opponent might be trying to form a bamboo or character suit.

By avoiding the cards that everyone is vying for, the probability of winning with a winning hand (like a chicken) naturally increases.

Of course, if everyone has their own agenda and hides cards from each other, then it all comes down to luck.

Lu Yuan neither won nor lost, while Gao Zhe suffered the biggest loss. He was just a reckless fool who relied purely on luck, but unfortunately, luck wasn't on his side today.

After playing for several hours, Lu Yuan was a little tired, and he also had messages on his phone to deal with, so he asked his mother to take over his position.

My mother was more than happy to oblige and immediately sat down.

Lu Yuan replied to several messages regarding the operation of "Love Notes". During the Spring Festival, Love Notes mainly launched Spring Festival-themed activities, and there was no special new content to update, so it did not need to be monitored constantly.

After replying to the message, Lu Yuan went to the living room to find something to eat to satisfy his craving, and just then he bumped into his father coming back from outside.

My dad went out to play cards with his friends. I thought he wouldn't be back until evening, but he came back at noon with a big package in his arms.

"Why are you back so soon?" Lu Yuan poured his father a glass of water.

"Hey, bad luck today." Dad put the package on the table, took a sip of water, and said, "Just kept losing. Looks like your uncle was right."

"Oh? What did Uncle say?"

Stay away from gambling.

"..."

Lu Yuan was speechless for a moment, wondering to himself how much his father had lost.

It's common for friends to get together and play cards or mahjong during the Chinese New Year, as long as they don't gamble. The stakes at these gatherings are very small, only tens or hundreds of dollars; how much can they possibly lose?

Later, Lu Yuan learned that his father had only lost 450 yuan in total and stopped when he realized things were going wrong. No wonder the Lu family is good at making money; it turns out his father knew when to cut his losses.

At this moment, Lu Yuan noticed the package his father had brought back: "Where did you get this package during the Chinese New Year?"

"Oh, this is yours." Dad pushed the package in front of Lu Yuan.

Lu Yuan was taken aback: "Mine?"

He picked up the package and looked at it; the recipient's name was indeed "Lu Yuan." He was even more puzzled: "I haven't ordered anything online recently, and besides, aren't courier services suspended during the Chinese New Year?"

"It was sent from overseas," Dad said.

Because of their collaboration with the Thomas Group, the Lu family has made many international friends and met some people who do international business over the past six months.

Although courier services were suspended during the Spring Festival, a friend still helped bring the package back.

"Who sent this to me? They didn't even write the sender's name."

Lu Yuan muttered to himself as he carried the package back to his room.

Just as he sat down and before he could even unpack, Ye Yixian gently pushed open the door.

"Aren't you going to continue?" Lu Yuan asked.

Ye Yixian shook his head: "I've been playing for a while, I'm a little tired, so I asked my uncle to take over for me."

"Alright." Lu Yuan nodded and picked up a utility knife to prepare to open the package.

"Who sent you something?" Ye Yixian sat down next to him and asked curiously.

Lu Yuan shook his head, deciding he could only open it and take a look.

With Ye Yixian's help, the package was quickly opened. Inside was a cardboard box and a letter.

The letter was signed, and Lu Yuan and Ye Yixian were both stunned when they saw it. They never expected that the person who sent the package was her.