Pregnant After Healing the Alpha-Chapter 199 - 192 Qiao Jing’s Eidetic Memory

Chapter 199: Chapter 192 Qiao Jing’s Eidetic Memory

Su Manhan’s eyes widened, truly surprised that Mother Lu would speak so highly of Qiao Jing.

Before Mother Lu could finish, she said, “I think this girl is quite good, beautiful, and kind-hearted. Plus, I’ve heard Qiao Jing is also at Professor Qiao’s Research Institute, and she cooks delicious meals, very diligent too. A girl like her is hard to find these days, so I was thinking, how great would it be if she were my daughter-in-law!”

Mother Lu hadn’t expressed it directly, but anyone with ears could tell that she wanted Qiao Jing as her daughter-in-law.

Su Manhan looked at Qiao Jing again, who was sitting on the couch holding a thermal mug, looking totally indifferent, the very image of a fierce daughter-in-law.

She just couldn’t understand it. It was one thing for Qiao Jing to have so many suitors, but even an elder like Mother Lu seemed to really like her.

This girl was clearly so unrefined.

By evening, Su Manhan and the others hadn’t finished playing mahjong.

Zhan Nanqing had run out to watch the snow and fireworks, leaving only Zhan Qipei and Qiao Jing.

“Ouch, my stomach hurts!”

Su Manhan suddenly felt a stomach ache and turned to look at Zhan Qipei.

“Qipei, take my place for a couple of rounds. I need to use the restroom.”

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“No way, no way. Your son is so good at mahjong. Last time he played with us for a while, he cleaned us out, like he had a cheat code. We’re not playing with him.”

Mother Lu and the others quickly refused, and then Mother Lu’s gaze fell on Qiao Jing.

“How about we let her play?”

“That’s a good suggestion.”

Mother Lu and the others agreed, but Su Manhan was not pleased.

However, she really couldn’t hold it any longer, feeling a bit of indigestion from what she ate.

“Just don’t lose all the money for me!” Su Manhan instructed apprehensively.

“I won’t.” Qiao Jing sincerely replied.

She had never played mahjong from childhood to adulthood, not to mention mahjong, the recreational activities people her age engaged in, she had barely tried any of them.

She didn’t care to participate in those childish activities, thinking it better to spend the time reading medical books, or thinking about how to improve grain yield or how to breed new varieties of crops. Those were the issues she found more meaningful.

“You don’t know how? You don’t even know how to play mahjong? You’re truly—”

Dumb, these two words Su Manhan held back out of consideration for Zhan Qipei’s feelings.

After all, it was the holiday season, and so many relatives and friends were visiting. Qiao Jing might not care if she embarrassed herself, but Su Manhan would feel ashamed.

“Qipei, maybe you—” Su Manhan turned around only to find Zhan Qipei had disappeared.

Zhan Qipei had intentionally left to create a chance for Su Manhan and Qiao Jing to get to understand each other better.

With Zhan Qipei gone, and the other younger members outside, Su Manhan had no choice but to let Qiao Jing step in.

“I’ll teach you. These three together, and then…” After briefly explaining the rules to Qiao Jing, Su Manhan, unable to hold it any longer, urged her.

“I can’t hold it anymore; sit down and play a couple of rounds for me, I’ll be right back.” With that, Su Manhan covered her stomach and dashed towards the restroom.

Qiao Jing stood by, frowning slightly, headache intensifying as she glanced at the mahjong table.

She really didn’t want to play.

Mother Lu waved at Qiao Jing with a friendly and smiling look in her eyes.

“Qiao Jing, come here, come here quick!”

Qiao Jing always reciprocated respect as much as it was shown to her. Su Manhan was rude to her, so she felt no obligation to be pleasant.

But with Mother Lu, who clearly showed kindness, she would respond politely.

“Hmm.” Qiao Jing nodded her head and walked over to sit at the mahjong table.

Mother Lu continued to watch Qiao Jing with a beaming smile, growing fonder of her by the minute.

“She taught you too fast, didn’t she? You didn’t understand, did you? Let me go over it again.”

“Thank you, no need, I got it.”

Qiao Jing’s words surprised Mother Lu very much.

Understood?

Su Manhan had rushed through the explanation just once, and she had understood it? That couldn’t be, could it? Was she that smart?

Or was it that Qiao Jing actually knew how to play mahjong and had pretended not to, not wanting to play for Su Manhan?

Mother Lu figured that must be the case, but the development that followed made her start to doubt again.

Qiao Jing kept staring at their hands, and when she saw them shuffling the mahjong tiles, she imitated them, shuffling the tiles in the same way, and then watched slightly behind the beat to see how they sorted the tiles.

Qiao Jing was quite fast, arranging a whole set of mahjong by herself into a long line, leaving the three slower players, clearly short of tiles, stunned for a moment before they each took some from Qiao Jing’s set.

“You really haven’t played before?” Mother Lu couldn’t help but ask.

“First time,” Qiao Jing replied.

Su Manhan had only told her how to form hands, not how to sort or sift the tiles.

Now Mother Lu believed her, Qiao Jing really hadn’t played before.

“Then do you know how to form a hand?” Mother Lu asked with interest.

“Yes, Madam Zhan explained it to me very clearly just now,” Qiao Jing remembered very clearly.

Madam Zhan… that title… The three of them exchanged glances, but no one spoke.

As for how well Qiao Jing did in the game, it didn’t matter anymore, as long as Qiao Jing just kept playing her tiles, which Su Manhan should be done with soon.

“Three of circles,” Mother Lu played a tile.

“Pung,” Qiao Jing placed her tile.

Mother Lu was stunned for a moment, thinking she learned quite fast.

“Five of bamboos.”

“Chow,” again Qiao Jing placed her tile.

“Red Dragon.”

“Mahjong,” Qiao Jing pushed her tiles forward.

Silence.

Mother Lu and the other two fixed their eyes on the tiles Qiao Jing had pushed forward, wondering whether she really had a winning hand, or if she misunderstood and thought she had won when she actually hadn’t.

Upon closer inspection, hey! She really did have a winning hand.

“You learn incredibly fast!” admiration filled Mother Lu’s eyes.

Considering Su Manhan’s impatient explanation, frankly speaking, even for those who understood the game, it was a bit tough to follow, let alone for an outsider like Qiao Jing.

“It’s nothing surprising, I generally remember everything I learn right away,” Qiao Jing said, not boasting but merely stating a fact.

That impressive?

The other two ladies might have been skeptical about Qiao Jing’s claim, but Mother Lu truly believed it.

Because she had heard from the Lu brothers that Qiao Jing became a professor at Imperial Capital University at the age of twenty and, if she wasn’t mistaken, Qiao Jing was likely a prominent disciple of Divine Doctor Jing.

How could someone like Divine Doctor Jing easily accept a disciple?

No wonder, Qiao Jing’s talent was even more formidable than she had imagined!

This Su Manhan, she definitely doesn’t know these things, otherwise, her attitude towards Qiao Jing would not be like this.

“Next round, next round.”

The mahjong tiles were reset, but this time Qiao Jing didn’t rush through sorting the tiles as before, but did so accurately and precisely.

Mother Lu noticed this detail as well and felt even more certain of her guesses.

“I’ll start, nine of circles.”

“Shuffle—” Qiao Jing pushed down her tiles.