After returning to the Holy City, Esteban Zaragosa and Dulcina Calvo first returned to the City of Ronda to talk to the two elders about the wedding and pick up Dulcina Calvo’s account book so they could register the marriage with the RegistroCivil.
Dulcina Calvo, who has been out of work for too long, and who is planning her wedding soon and will go on honeymoon with Esteban Zaragosa after the wedding, listens to Esteban Zaragosa and quits her job.
It is not too late to look for a job once everything has stabilized.
Dulcina Calvo asked Estrella Berrocal to look at wedding dresses and Esteban Zaragosa asked Adam Rouco to do the same, Estrella Berrocal helped Dulcina Calvo with her wedding dress and Adam Rouco helped Esteban Zaragosa with The Groom’s Suit.
Instead of a wedding dress and suit, the four ended up playing cards in a cafe and a restaurant, with Dulcina Calvo losing the game and playing dirty.
“No, I’m unemployed now, Esteban Zaragosa is out of work, President Adam you won me so much money, good for you?”
Adam Rouco was about to say something, but Paulita, who was picking up a cone next to him, said surprisingly, “Aunt Dulcina, you don’t have a baby yet, my father has two little ones, me and my brother, who cost a lot of money, and you and Uncle Esteban don’t have to raise children.”
Dulcina Calvo blushed a little at the remark and Estrella Berrocal said to her with a parting smile, “Dulcina, hey, there’s no shame when we earn your money.”
Besides, as Adam Rouco said before, Esteban Zaragosa has several pits, so what’s the difference!
Aggrieved and disconsolate over her meager fortune, Dulcina Calvo returned home in the evening and muttered, “No more meat tonight.”
Esteban Zaragosa was astonished and a little bewildered, thinking she was unwell, he hurried to her and wrapping his arms around her small waist asked her worriedly, “What’s the matter, don’t you feel well?”
“… No, today I have lost too much money and I have decided to save a little”.
Esteban Zaragosa shouted, “You can’t save all that money if you don’t eat meat for a week.”
“One week is not enough, let’s save for a month! Esteban Zaragosa, next time I won’t play poker with them again, President Adam is too good at poker, why didn’t you tell me before, tell me before, I won’t play with him at any bad guy!”
Dulcina Calvo considers herself a badass, when she was in college she played baddie every day on her cell phone, and she got the idea to play cards. Adam Rouco is a businessman, a businessman who is interested in profit, but he knows how to do this kind of card counting, compared to her and Esteban Zaragosa, who are a bit miserable.
Esteban Zaragosa looked amused at the bitter girl, “Aren’t you the one who’s going to fight the bad guys with people?”
“Yeah, I asked President Adam what he knew and he said he knew a little bit about beating up bad guys, I thought he was just really good at it and I thought about saying we could earn some bride price with him or something, but who knew when he said he knew a little bit, he was that good!”
Esteban Zaragosa couldn’t help but laugh out loud as he stroked Dulcina Calvo’s little head with his big hand and reassuringly told her, “It’s okay, we’ll get her back next time.”
Dulcina Calvo’s little head shook: “I’m not playing rough with him again! It’s a travesty, I’d give him money if I played cards with him again!”.
“We can practice our skills at home in the meantime.”
Dulcina Calvo’s face scrunched up as she tilted her chin and said, “I don’t feel like I have the talent of a king of the game, you said you’ve never played against the bad guys before, you were better than me the other day in your first game, maybe you can still beat Adam Rouco with some practice, but let’s not play poker with him, he’s too good at counting cards.”
“We’ve also lost a little over a thousand dollars.”
Dulcina Calvo was immediately puzzled when she heard it was more than a thousand dollars, “More than a thousand dollars is less? How many steak meals can we eat for a thousand dollars?”
Esteban Zaragosa wiped away his sweat and refrained from telling her that Adam Rouco had wanted to bet with him for a mina, but that he had been wise enough to know that his wife was stingy and had not bothered to bet with him, otherwise he would have lost not a thousand dollars, but a mina.
Dulcina Calvo patted the meat, “I think I’ll just have the vegetables tonight.”
Esteban Zaragosa pulled two thousand in cash from his wallet and handed it to her. “I just stole them from Adam Rouco’s pocket when he wasn’t looking.”
Dulcina Calvo: “Is … really a bargain?”
Esteban Zaragosa raised an eyebrow, “Here, we didn’t lose any money and we made hundreds.”
Dulcina Calvo counted the money like a miser and frowned, “But that’s not a good idea, if Adam Rouco finds out you stole the money from him, will the plastic brotherhood fall down on you?”
“…”, Esteban Zaragosa’s mouth twisted.
As plastic as his bromance with Adam Rouco was, he couldn’t have gotten rid of it for two thousand! At least ten duros is more like it.
But she didn’t actually steal Adam Rouco’s money, for what it’s worth, a couple of thousand, which her family, Dulcina Calvo, treats like a treasure.
This fool has no idea how much money her husband has.
It didn’t take Esteban Zaragosa long to change the subject and Dulcina Calvo forgot about losing money, next time Dulcina Calvo couldn’t lose money again, even if she had to pay Adam Rouco to lose to Dulcina Calvo on purpose. If she loses money, she won’t eat meat, she’s so skinny now, and if she doesn’t eat meat, when will she get better?
Esteban Zaragosa cooked a table in the evening and made soup, which Dulcina Calvo ate with a bulging belly.
“We’d better go tomorrow and have our own wedding dress fitting, it’s too unreliable to go to them.”
Dulcina Calvo nodded, feeling the point was well taken.
By the end of the night, Dulcina Calvo was lying in Esteban Zaragosa’s arms, clutching a cell phone and beating the bad guys.
Esteban Zaragosa looked at her with dark eyes and kissed the girl’s forehead, saying softly, “Dulcina, it’s not good for your eyes to play with the phone like that.”
“I want to work on my bad guy skills and next time take down Adam Rouco and get back all the money we lost, no, we want Adam Rouco to lose money with us!”
“… Tomorrow we will practice during the day, be a good girl and go to sleep”.
Esteban Zaragosa took the phone from her hand and Dulcina Calvo rubbed her little hands together and looked at him with bated breath, “Just this one game! Let me finish the game.”
Once Dulcina Calvo had finished the set, Esteban Zaragosa quickly dropped his phone and turned around to hug his little wife, his breath rolling against the girl’s ear. “Dulcina, let’s get some exercise.”
Dulcina Calvo pointed with her little finger, “But I’d rather hit the bad guy.”
Esteban Zaragosa wanted to curse, curse Adam Rouco for starting something, making Dulcina Calvo lose money not to mention that she was now worried about beating the bad guys.
For several nights in a row, Esteban Zaragosa stayed out in the open, Dulcina Calvo was excited to play badass in her bed with her cell phone and said her skills had improved so much that she asked Esteban Zaragosa to invite Adan Rouco out to play badass again, this time to make Adan Rouco lose all his money.