In the Curtain Rollers’ booklet, Jing Jiu was ranked seventeenth and Tong Yan first in the chess tournament. Jing Jiu believed the odds should be about the same in the private betting games.
If someone bet on him being the first in the chess tournament, and he did actually win, he should be able to make a lot of money.
Though he could give this family a box of gold leaves, the betting win would be clean and secure.
It was a natural thing to do for the Jing family to bet on their own son.
He wasn’t sure if the family would believe him about wagering a great amount of money unwaveringly or foolishly on his winning.
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