153 Recognizing Relatives (second update)

"Are you here to play cards?" the old lady asked.

The old man was startled.

Play cards?

The old lady said while cracking melon seeds, "We won't play the leaf game today, we'll play Pai Gow, starting at fifty copper plates."

What was the Empress Dowager talking about? What leaf game? What Pai Gow?

The old man looked at the Empress Dowager intently, slowly standing up from the ground, he realized that the woman was a spitting image of the Empress Dowager, but her attire and demeanor were not so.

"What are you looking at?" the old lady asked impatiently.

"You... don't recognize me anymore?" the old man asked, pointing to himself.

Upon his saying this, the old lady began to look at him closely.

He was not a bad looking man.

Somewhat familiar, too.

Where had she seen him before?

The old lady no longer remembered things from the past, and occasionally, fragments of memories came to her, but they were all quite disjointed.

But this old man gave her a slightly unusual feeling.