After breakfast the next day, Yu Wuya came to invite him to play chess again, but was rejected by Chen Xuyi's words, and rushed into the laboratory to take out wooden boards and knives and axes and began to chop and chop.

An hour later, Chen Xu called Wang Wu and Wang Qi into the laboratory, then took out a bag of Guanyin soil and poured it into a large clay basin, added water and half-dried mud, and then put a small piece of white mud into a wooden frame like a small brick mold that had just been made, pressed it tightly, scraped it very flat on both sides with a copper knife, and poured it out, so he got a white mud brick the size of a boxy mahjong.

"See clearly!" Chen Xu pointed to the small mud brick and asked.

"See clearly!" The two nodded together.

"Ridian doesn't have to build a small house, but it's a little small, isn't it?" Wang Wu grinned and said.

"Who said to build a house, this is another kind of game, you can play with three people and four people, it's simple and brainless, it's much more fun than chess!" Chen Xu explained.

"Really?" Wang Wuwang and Seven Great Joy, yesterday four reckless men watched chess for a long time, and now their heads are still confused, so they can only stand next to them and play in vain.

So Wang Wu and Wang Qi took a small mold and began to expand the small bricks of Guanyin, while Chen Xu took out a knife and axe to set up a wooden horse under the pergola outside, and called Wang San and Wang Si out to help chop and saw wood, preparing to build a special table for mahjong, and in the living room, Yu Wuya had already pulled the water and started to play chess gently, and Xing'er and Yu Ji sat next to them obediently to help Chen Jiang's yarn ball, and the scene was peaceful and happy.

"Let Jean, don't step on me!"

Half an hour later, Chen Xu used a wooden board to carry dozens of small square squares into the living room, and placed them in the corner of the kang head to prepare to be slowly dried with the kang.

"Brother, are you going to make cubes of tofu?" Xing'er thought that Chen Xu was putting tofu blocks, so she squatted down and asked curiously.

"This is not tofu, this is mud, take Yu Ji well, you can't eat it!" Chen Xu hurriedly explained.

"Engong, what are you doing playing with mud, come and play chess with me, my junior sister is not skilled enough, and I can't be interested in playing against her!" Yu Wuya turned his head and said expectantly.

Chen Xu's face turned black in an instant, and he refused with a twitch: "Don't play, chess is not fun!" ”

The contemplative water on the chessboard gently glanced up at Chen Xu, and then covered his mouth and sneered.

"Who said, chess is the most fun game in the world, Engong, you said that this is a contest between wise men when we asked us to make chess, I played for two days and found that it is not false at all, chess is like two armies against the army to kill, the chess player is like a strategist in battle but the enemy, can not have the slightest difference, if there is a chance to meet Shizun next time, I will definitely send Xiangzun, Shizun must like ......" Yu Wuya nagged, obviously has been poisoned too deeply for chess.

"When my mud blocks are ready, there will be more fun games at that time!" Chen Xu pouted and said.

"There is absolutely no way, if there is a game that surpasses chess, there is no end to grinding the stone outside...... Well, eat this chess game! Yu Wuya remembered the last time he caught a little bee, and instantly reduced the difficulty of eating and grinding by ninety-nine percent.

The last time he caught a little bee and bet on half a stone mill, Chen Xu almost easily put a nest of tens of thousands of bees into the beehive, and now the beehive is still hanging on the wall behind the house, just wait for the beginning of spring, you can herd bees to get honey, and there will be honey to eat every year after the beginning of spring, and according to Chen Xu, after the beginning of spring, find the queen bee nest in the beehive, you can breed a few more queen bees, and then you can let the bees divide the nest and make a lot of boxes of bees, and the honey can't be eaten.

So even if Yu Wuya absolutely believes that chess is the most fun game in the world at the moment, but in view of Chen Xu's half-immortal attributes, he doesn't dare to be too arrogant in betting, otherwise he will be calculated by Chen Xu to do hard work at that time.

"If you don't believe it, just wait and see!" Chen Xu turned around and went to the laboratory, and after half an hour, he brought over dozens of small squares made of Guanyin soil.

Soon half a day passed, Wang Wu and Wang Qi continued to build bricks with mud, and made five or six hundred small bricks, which were densely piled up with half a kang.

"Xiao Xu, these little mud bricks you make are really more fun than chess?" Not only was a room full of people looking at these small bricks confused, but even Chen Jiang couldn't help but ask curiously.

"Mother, this kind of game is very simple and fun, you don't need to use too many brains, you can also play together when the time comes!" Chen Xu said with a smile.

"With so many chess pieces, I'm dizzy to look at, and my mother will definitely not be able to play if she is stupid!" Chen Jiang's face blushed slightly.

"That's right, Engong, your new game has hundreds of chess pieces, I'm afraid you need a big house to put down the chessboard, right?" Yu Wuya couldn't help but have a full stomach full of questions, and Wang Wu, the four guards and Shui Qingrou also looked at Chen Xu together.

"It's not so practical, the rules are completely different from chess, it's very simple, you'll know it when the time comes, and you'll like it!" At the moment, mahjong has not yet been made, and Chen Xu also feels a little unclear, but in view of the popular entertainment attribute of mahjong, he fully believes that this simple and fun game will definitely beat chess and become the most popular form of entertainment.

Chen Xu found a pen, ink, paper, inkstone, sat on the kang and began to design the graphics on the mahjong, these must be designed first, and after the small bricks of Guanyin soil are dried, let Yu Wuya and Shui Qingrou help to carve them with a seal knife, and they must know the style.

In addition to the conventional graphics designed by Chen Xu to open the cake strip Wan and the tabula rasa in the southeast and northwest, he also added the four holy beast cards of the green dragon and the white tiger Xuanwu according to the fancy mahjong instead of Meilan Zhuju, originally he was also ready to use the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire and earth to replace the five elements of the southeast and northwest, but after thinking about it for a while, he gave up, the five elements are now the theory studied by the Yin and Yang school, although it is relatively easy to be accepted by the ordinary people of Daqin today, but the five elements theory is not deep enough after all, not enough to show his identity as a disciple of the immortal family, Once it is in the same stream with the Yin and Yang family, it is estimated that it will offend many people, because many schools such as Confucianism and Mohists do not believe in Yin and Yang and the Five Elements at all, and even they do not believe in ghosts and gods, they are completely atheists, and they are not easy to fool, and the Taoist disciples who believe in the Five Elements of Yin and Yang are all idle clouds and wild cranes who seek immortals and ask questions, and they want to invite them to play mahjong It is estimated that they will not be able to get together a table in a year.

Therefore, after thinking about it, Chen Xu still honestly copied the mahjong tiles of later generations, too lazy to do such a thankless task, and basically it has no meaning at all, just a boring game.

Because there is no shortage of wood in the mountains, Wang Wu and others cut a lot of firewood before winter, and the big kang at home is burned warm all day and night, so it is only one night, and the small mud bricks made of Guanyin soil are all dried, so the next day a room of people sit on the kang and start to do mahjong, and the water is gentle and Yu Wuya is responsible for carving words and patterns on it with a seal knife.

"The tube is a copper coin one by one, the strip is a string of copper coins, ten thousand is naturally tens of thousands of copper coins, the southeast and northwest are also called the wind card, indicating the direction, the tabula rasa represents a poor and two white, the fortune naturally means the wealth, the four holy beasts represent the guardian ......"

Chen Xu explained the mahjong tiles he designed in his mouth paradoxically, and carefully polished the corners of the four corners with fine linen to make it look round and smooth, and put the polished ones into a small wooden box next to them, and also let the apricots carefully separate them layer by layer with fine linen cloth and wool, all of which did not involve Wang Wusi himself, because these small mud bricks were not strong, and they would be crushed by the four rough men if they were not careful.

These good mahjong clay blanks should be sent to the town's pottery workshop to be fired into ceramic mahjong, so they must be careful, although Chen Xu knows that ceramic mahjong may not be strong, not resistant to falling, and there will inevitably be cracking and damage in the process of firing, so he deliberately made a full five, I want to finally make up a complete pair of mahjong without the slightest problem, and the excess can also be spared, broken and broken can also be matched.

It took several people two days to finally finish these mahjong, and finally made more than a dozen dice.

Seven or eight days have passed since the last snowfall, and the snow on the mountains and on the ground near Xiaohe Village has completely melted, except for the rolling Funiu Mountain in the distance, but the weather is still cold, and the melted mud and water on the ground have condensed into white ice edges, and there is a clattering sound when you step on it.

"Anyway, the four of you stay at home and are idle, send these mahjong pottery blanks to the pottery workshop in the town and hand them over to Gao He, let him help me fire them as soon as possible, this piece of paper is written in the color of the mahjong pattern, let him paint it with paint so don't be mistaken." Chen Xu handed Wang Wu a few pieces of paper with mahjong patterns painted on them, and asked the four guards who had nothing to do all day to bring the mahjong to the town to be burned.

"By the way, the road is slippery, don't ride a horse, just walk, it's time to exercise! When you come back, remember to get more tea tree fruit oil, remember to go to the blacksmith shop to have a look, and bring it back with you if the iron pot is cast. Chen Xu reminded.

"Don't worry, it's only twenty miles back and forth, and we'll be there in one go!" Wang Wu, Wang Qi, and the four people nodded again and again.

To be honest, the home is warm, but every day the four big men have almost nothing to do except for the slashing exercise with a big sword, the cold is not terrible at all for them to be young and strong, the most terrible thing is boredom, the most terrible thing is to be bored together, and the four people are also very happy to be able to go out and let the wind out, the most important thing is that Chen Xu said, this mahjong is fun and simple, and it is completely suitable for them to entertain people with developed limbs and simple minds, so their hearts are also full of excitement and curiosity.