The "Western Concubine" in Liu Xie's mouth is sitting at the table reading a book at the moment.

Seeing Liu Xie's visit, she stood up for the first time and saluted the other party.

This woman is about 20 years old, wearing a red lace skirt, her figure is convex and concave, and her face is delicate. There is also a hint of reddish-brown in the black hair, giving people a faint sense of exoticism.

Although the outfit has changed, it is not difficult to find that this woman is actually the mysterious woman who attended the Xingyang secret meeting half a year ago - Jessica.

Jessica arrived in the Eastern Han Dynasty four years ago, and she was arranged by Lu Pu to enter the palace shortly after she arrived.

Because it was Liu Hong (Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty) who was reigning at that time, Jessica knew very well that this person would return to the West in a few years, so she did not deliberately try to please the emperor who was about to reach the limit, but ran to the side of the next emperor Liu Xie to become a palace maid.

Four years ago, Liu Xie had just turned ten years old and was still a child.

Although Jessica has outstanding appearance, she doesn't have much effect in front of a child.

In order to have a good relationship with this little guy, Jessica really put a lot of effort into it.

In the past few years, she has accompanied the young Liu Xie to catch hundreds of insects and play thousands of children's games. finally captured the young man's heart and became the other party's best friend and favorite palace maid.

In the second year of Liu Xie's ascension to the throne, that is, last year, Jessica also waited for the day of her turnover, and was named a noble person by Liu Xie, and finally took off the title of little palace maid.

Seeing Liu Xie enter the house, Jessica got up first and saluted, and then slowly came to the table.

Like a big sister, she touched the back of the other party's hand and asked with a concerned face:

"Why did the Holy One come so early today? Haven't had lunch yet? I'll ask someone to arrange it for you. ”

"The widow is not hungry!"

didn't wait for Jessica to go out, but was stopped by Liu Xie:

"We'll talk about the meal later. Concubine Xi, come and play two laps with me first, I've been looking forward to it all morning! ”

Speaking of this, without waiting for Jessica to respond, Liu Xie called the two maids standing outside the door, Xiaojun and Xiaolu, into the room and ordered them to sit on his left and right.

Seeing that all four of them were seated, Liu Xie immediately picked up the dice on the table, threw them on the table, and instantly entered the role:

"Haha, five self-hands! The widow sits on the bank! Come, come, I'm going to kill all sides today! ”

Compared with four years ago, although Liu Xie is now a lot more mature, he is only a fourteen or fifteen-year-old child. Compared with adults, the heart is still very heavy, and I didn't even eat at the end of the court, so I came to Yongli Palace to play games.

And the game they are playing at the moment is the well-known traditional gambling game - mahjong.

This mahjong tile on the table is made of animal bones, with a total of three suits: tube, strip and ten thousand, and the gameplay is similar to that of modern times.

This game, which was supposed to appear years later, was actually taught to Liu Xie by Jessica a few years ago.

She originally just wanted to have some fun for the little emperor, but on the one hand, it turned out that Liu Xie was young and had a lot of fun; On the other hand, the game categories in the Eastern Han Dynasty were indeed too scarce, and mahjong itself was full of fun and addictive, so Liu Xie couldn't stop playing.

Now almost every afternoon, Liu Xie has to come to Yongli Palace to rub a few laps, which has become a habit of his life.

As the saying goes, a companion is like a tiger, and it is not easy to play cards with the emperor.

In order to make the other party happy, it is neither to win the other party, nor to put the water too obviously, the requirements for card skills are quite high.

In the past few years, not only Jessica, but even Xiaojun and Xiaolu have also practiced super high card skills.

Now, as long as Liu Xie plays more than ten cards, they can roughly calculate what the other party wants and what they don't want, so as to adjust their card order.

Just like now, after three laps, except for Jessica Xiaohu's two, the remaining more than ten games are won by Liu Xie. In less than an hour, almost everyone's "chips" were gathered in Liu Xie's hands.

"Alas! Why did you two lose it first? I've been playing for so many years, and my poker skills are still so bad! There is not a single two-five cylinder on the table, and you dare to mess around? Isn't this looking for a beard? Seeing that Xiaojun and Xiaolu were the first to lose all their chips, Liu Xie shook his head and sighed.

"Holy Lord, you really blame the wrong person for this!"

Seeing that Liu Xie blamed the two palace maids, Jessica immediately spoke:

"They play with other palace maids on weekdays, and they can win several games, but when they meet you, they are confused. So in the eyes of the slaves, it's not their problem, and you can only blame you for being too powerful. Alas! I knew that I wouldn't teach you to play mahjong, and now I not only win us every day, but also teach people after winning. I said, Holy Lord, you are so powerful, can't you let us? ”

After listening to Jessica's complaining boasting, Liu Xie's heart was extremely comfortable, not only did a smile well-up on his face, but his tone was much gentler than before:

"Alas! Alright, well, I'll let you have a few points. Come, come, re-divide the chips, let's fight three more rounds! ”

Taking advantage of Xiaojun's efforts to distribute chips, Jessica ordered someone to bring a few plates of snacks and put them in Liu Xie's hand.

Liu Xie said that he was not hungry, but as soon as he saw the snack, his stomach immediately growled, and he picked up a piece and stuffed it into his mouth.

"Huh? What kind of snack is this? It's pretty tasty. It seems that the widow has never eaten before! ”

"Oh, you mean this? This is a honey cake made by my third aunt, and she brought it by the way when she came to see me in the palace yesterday. If you like it, I'll ask her to do more next time. Jessica replied with a smile.

"Good, good! This snack is really delicious, hehe, then there is Concubine Laoxi. While speaking, Liu Xie stuffed another piece of honey cake into his mouth.

"By the way, when the third aunt came to see me yesterday, she also mentioned a strange thing to me. The slave and maid are in the harem, and they shouldn't be nosy, but if they don't tell you, the slave and maid feel ashamed of the saint, so, so ......"

"Strange things? What's weird? Concubine Xi, but it doesn't hurt to say. Liu Xie said curiously while eating a snack.

"She told me that there was an iron mine near the mountain that was recruiting, and it was said that the pay was not low, and she wanted her son to go down to the mine as well."

"That's a good thing, what's so strange about that?" Liu Xie said puzzled.

"Yes, that's a good thing, I said the same thing to my third aunt yesterday." After nodding, he listened to Jessica's voice and said:

"But this morning, the slave maid went to ask Master Du, but he told me that there is no iron mine recorded near the Luyuan Mountain, so let the slave and maid not believe the rumors."

"Lord Du?" Liu Xie raised his eyebrows and asked, "Which Lord Du?" ”

"That's it...... Lord Dasi Nong Du Xing! ”