Silly Bride

Chapter 180

Winnie knew how to play.There wasn’t a hint of fear in Winnie’s voice when she answered, “I’m fine with it, too! It’s rare for me to lose.”“Hah!” Yolanda couldn’t help but roll her eyes. “Your head is so far up your butt that it went all the back to its original position!”On the other hand, Winnie smiled silently.Without delay, Sebastian asked the monkey to grab a second item, which was a traditional painting.He announced, “For the second round, you two will compete in a traditional drawing contest. Are you two okay with that?”Winnie didn’t even blink when she responded, “Yes.”However, Yolanda paused for a second before asking, “What’s the theme?”“We’ll decide later on.” That question prompted Sebastian to think about it. “Maybe the competition will test your improv skills.”“Sure, I’m good with that. What will the third round be about?”Soon, the monkey decided on the topic for the third round of competition.It was holding a bow and even performed a shooting motion while aiming in Josiah’s direction.He glared at the monkey. “When are you going to return my briefcase, huh?”Ignoring the human, the monkey shot an arrow toward him.Thankfully, the arrow didn’t have an arrowhead. Otherwise, Josiah’s other leg would’ve been rendered useless.Sebastian didn’t expect the monkey to treat his guests that rudely. Thus, after he reprimanded it, he chased it away.Since Winnie didn’t want to waste too much time, she directly asked Yolanda, “When do you plan to start the competition?”After studying her, Yolanda uttered coldly, “I’ll give you three days at most.”“Three days?” Winnie frowned.“What, you think the time is too short? You need more to prepare?” Yolanda smiled.The edges of Winnie’s lips curved upward. “I think you’re underestimating your opponent, Ms. Xander. How about we just do it today? Although, you’ll have to wait until after my husband’s acupuncture session is over. I don’t want our competition to affect his treatment. I hope you’ll understand.”“Are you sure?” Yolanda’s eyebrows furrowed. It had been a long time since she drew a traditional painting, so she needed some time to practice.“I’m very sure. Is that a problem for you, Ms. Xander?”That came off as an insult to Yolanda, so she subconsciously tightened her fists and gritted her teeth. “Not at all.”After that, Sebastian started teaching Winnie how to prepare the medicine.To avoid humiliating herself, Yolanda sneaked back to her room to prepare.During that period, not only did the old man teach Winnie how to prepare medicine, but he also taught her many foundational lessons about the field.She was able to understand everything thoroughly. Not only that, she only needed him to tell her everything once. In addition, she inferred even more things as a result of her newfound knowledge.Sebastian didn’t hesitate to shower her with praise.Even Yolanda couldn’t help but admit Winnie was an excellent learner.As she stared at Winnie, a complicated feeling surfaced in her heart. Why couldn’t she show up earlier? If she did, she would’ve become Grandpa’s favorite student. My brother and I wouldn’t have ended up the way we are today.A few minutes passed, and Xavier’s acupuncture session finally came to an end.Winnie followed Sebastian inside and saw Xavier lying on the bed, unmoving.Initially, she thought something bad had happened to him.When she got closer and heard his snores, she realized he was just asleep. No wonder he didn’t say anything when I was talking about the competition with Yolanda earlier.Seeing how he was sleeping peacefully, Winnie let out a sigh of relief. “He didn’t sleep well for the past few days. Even with sedatives, he could only sleep for about an hour, and it was never peaceful. I didn’t expect the effects of acupuncture to be that effective. He looks tranquil. There really is a big difference between traditional medicine and western medicine. It seems like the side effects of traditional medicine are not as severe as western medicine. If traditional medicine can be widely used in clinical practice in the future, it’ll benefit all of the humankind greatly.” When she said that, she was speaking from the bottom of her heart.Sebastian could sense that she was being sincere.It further solidified his desire to take Winnie in as a disciple. Even if she loses to my granddaughter during the competition, I’ll still take her in. I know Winnie didn’t say it willy-nilly. I’m not an old man cut off from the rest of society. When I first saw her and heard her name, she seemed familiar to me because I had seen her on the news before. However, I only cared about her watch back then, so I didn’t pay attention to her. When I had some free time afterward, I investigated her and found out she was the famous Ms. Garland, who was loved on the internet. The netizens referred to her as a principal because she had helped build hundreds of primary schools in poor communities. That number only increased as time passed.Additionally, she also set up a few foundations for disabled children and adults. If no one had intentionally talked about her nationality, her good deeds might’ve never been exposed. It’s so rare to see a noble youngster like her anywhere who’s willing to contribute so much to charity without asking for anything in return. So, if she really does want to learn traditional medicine, be it to save her husband or to help out even more patients in the future, I’m willing to teach her everything I know without asking for anything in return.When his train of thought ended there, he was touched.Sebastian carefully removed the needles from Xavier’s head and spoke to Winnie. “He may still need to sleep for a few hours. Just let him rest here for now.”“Okay!” Winnie was fine with it since it meant she could focus on her match with Yolanda.The first match was chess.Yolanda was confident she could win because she had been playing it with her brother since they were children.Sebastian loved chess, so the siblings started learning from him when they were seven or eight years old.Her brother, Harrison Xander, was much more talented at chess than her. When he was sixteen, he won the national championship for chess.While her chess skills weren’t as great, it was far from bad.So, she decided to let Winnie have the white pieces.In chess, those with white pieces went first.Winnie went along with it and moved the bishop first. It was a standard opening move.Seeing that, Yolanda thought her opponent was an amateur and was confident she would win easily.It was as though Winnie had no clue about the bigger picture as she put her pieces randomly on the board. Soon, many of her pieces were taken out.As Yolanda observed her opponent’s awful skills, she sneered, “This round will only take at most five minutes to conclude.”Winnie lifted her rook and chatted calmly, “I like to cut to the chase when it comes to real life. However, I prefer to start out weak before making a comeback when I’m playing chess.”“A comeback?” Disdain was present on Yolanda’s face. “You already lost! Take this!”“Is that so?” Winnie intentionally lost a pawn so her rook could take out Yolanda’s bishop. “Check!”“You’re too careless!” That prompted Yolanda to move her queen to block the rook’s path.To her surprise, Winnie moved another pawn and cornered the king. “Check.”“Impossible!”“Try, if you dare.”Yolanda moved her