Chapter 8 Dou Dan Yu
Don't look at it as just the sixth century AD, but the jigsaw puzzle game produced by Han Wangfu is by no means ambiguous.
Knowing that this was something that the king wanted to give to the children of the Liang family, Chen Mu personally went out and made ten wooden planks with great thought - both light and strong, and after Sun Peng personally painted the pen, he carefully divided it into different numbers of puzzles.
The simplest, only a dozen pieces.
But the most complicated one, a plank was divided into a full seventy-two pieces!
You know, now there is no help from those precise cutting machines in the future, pure manual cutting, and the edges must be polished very smooth, so as not to hurt the delicate hands of children, which is not an ordinary effort.
So when Chen Mu proudly took out the finished product and told the difficulty of making it like a meritorious person, Li Yuanjia immediately dispelled the idea of investing in a puzzle workshop. This thing has to be painted by hand, and then cut and polished by hand, and it costs several times to make a pair, how many people can afford it?
Even if there are many powerful people in Chang'an City, it is too much of a toss to earn those hundreds or thousands.
So just like the liquor distilled by himself, Li Yuanjia can only "seal" this idea...... No, it's not quite the same in comparison. Although the cost of liquor is also very high, so high that even the powerful people in Chang'an City may only be able to afford it, but after all, it still has the value of existence.
It's okay to brew a small amount and give it away.
And now the cost is high or the technology is not up to it, and after the blacksmiths of the palace further improve the stills and control the temperature more accurately, the value of liquor will definitely be highlighted. After all, history has proved one point, that is, the Chinese nation is a staunch supporter of liquor, and this market capacity will be a sea of stars......
Far from it.
The two children played with the puzzle with great interest, and the box contained a full ten, enough for them to play all day. And for the other few people, of course, Li Yuanjia will not let them be idle, for example, what he is playing with Fang Fengzhu and Fang Yiai, a game made of pieces of cardboard......
The standard fifty-four cards!
The absolute masterpiece made by the Hanwangfu Paper Mill is hard and tough, cut into pieces of paper of exactly the same size, and then designed by Li Yuanjia himself, printed with four patterns: plum blossoms, squares, triangles and peach hearts. Although considering that the red color is not stable enough this year, Li Yuanjia finally gave up using color to distinguish between red and spades, and instead used the triangle symbol, but the cost of such a deck of playing cards is still as high as two dollars!
Because on the back of the card, he printed a picture of the tiger descending the mountain that he had drawn.
In these years, as long as it involves printing, the price will definitely not be cheap, and for some of his ulterior purposes, Li Yuanjia has asked the craftsmen to make this playing card desperately expensive, as gorgeous as it is, and does not consider the cost at all.
If you get it in your hands, you will have a face!
For the same playing cards, Li Yuanjia directly brought ten pairs, and played with Fang Yiai on the spot.
The rules for fighting landlords, tractors, and even connecting bamboo poles are quite simple, and you can learn them as soon as you are smarter. And this kind of game that will be popular all over the world in the future has also captured everyone's hearts immediately - it can't be said that there were no entertainment projects in the Tang Dynasty, after all, the literati played very elegantly, but the playing cards were too fresh after all.
And it's classic enough to never get tired of playing.
So after Li Yuanjia briefly explained the gameplay, everyone began to fight the landlord...... Dou Dan Yu.
Li Yuanjia didn't dare to directly make fun of the current foreign leaders, let alone the word landlord, so after thinking about it, he had to invite the Xiongnu Shan Yu, who had long since died out in the long river of history, anyway, everyone is fighting, as long as there is a name.
After a few handfuls, the Fang family sisters and brothers were all interested.
Fang Fengzhu just got married a few days ago, and she didn't know that her husband had "invented" the game, and she had finished reading the book "Tianzhu Numbers", so it was naturally not difficult to play. But Fang Yiai is a little unaccustomed, obviously it is easy to write it in Chinese characters, Li Yuanjia has to use Tianzhu numbers, it took him a long time to figure out their size.
As for the Lu family, he was always at a loss.
She is not like her son, her teenage years are the most receptive time, and she can remember the meaning of each number with a little snack. Especially when you put a combination like a straight flush together, you almost immediately look confused.
"It's actually very simple, you can write words on it."
Seeing that his mother-in-law's face was a little dark, Li Yuanjia smiled in his heart, but his face quietly asked the subordinates of the house to prepare pen and ink, and then wrote the traditional writing from one to thirteen on the playing cards.
It's just that seeing him writing on the card, even Lu Shi is a pity.
A good deck of cards, beautiful as a set of art...... No, they are just a set of works of art, so gorgeous that people are reluctant to pinch hard, but after Li Yuanjia wrote a few words on it, that feeling was completely destroyed at once.
The youngest Fang Yi's love couldn't be hidden, and he immediately smacked his lips and sighed: "Alas, it's a pity! ”
"It's okay, it's just a deck of cards."
Glancing at his brother-in-law, a trace of an inexplicable smile appeared on the corner of Li Yuanjia's mouth: "This time I brought a full ten pairs, and when you get used to these Tianzhu numbers, just change them to play." ”
"Ten pairs? That's great! ”
Hearing Li Yuanjia say this, Fang Yiai was suddenly overjoyed, and his eyes also rolled around.
After just playing a few games, he had completely fallen in love with this Dou Danyu, and then immediately remembered his friends who usually played together. Although the eldest brother-in-law looks quite kind, but the identity of the other party is there, and Fang Yiai always has a sense of restraint. It would be a lot more fun to play with those brothers with playing cards, right?
Looking at his expression and eyes, Li Yuanjia immediately guessed what Fang Yiai was thinking.
But he wasn't angry, and the smile on his face was even bigger.
Everyone was probably over a dozen or so, and even when the Lu family slowly saw a little way, they saw Fang Zhong walking in from the outside at a trot: "The king, madam, the prince and the big man are back." ”
"Oh?"
Li Yuanjia was overjoyed, and hurriedly put down the playing cards in his hand and stood up from the chair.
It's just too painful to play with a bunch of super rookies to fight the landlord.
Fang Yi loves to play is fascinated, he didn't hear Fang Zhong's words at all, and when he saw Li Yuanjia throw the cards in his hand on the table, he immediately became anxious: "Brother-in-law, why did you throw all the cards?" I'm going to win soon......"