Anyone who has ever played mahjong knows that people who don't know how to play mahjong have no interest in this activity at all. But once you learn it, play it through, and bring the lottery head, it won't sleep and you can't stop.

I remember seeing a lot of pictures and videos in my previous life, even if the children's shoes in China, especially in Sichuan, even if they braved the heavy rain and sat in the puddle, they had to complete the mahjong game in their hands, what kind of spirit is this?

It took me about an hour to teach the gang the rules, and another hour to familiarize them with it, and by the third hour, that is, at two o'clock in the night, the three of Kite, Nine Ghosts, Masako, and Qiao Hansheng already had the ability to play a normal game, so we added the lottery on the basis of playing cards for free.

Now everyone's interest is even higher! The kite even rolled up its sleeves and put on a posture of fighting to the death! The Nine Ghosts Zhengxiao and Qiao Hansheng also rose up, clamoring not to go, and the decisive battle was until dawn! I'm dizzy! How does this sound so familiar?

After nearly twenty or thirty laps of this night, I won more and lost less from the beginning, and the winning rate became lower and lower, and by the time the rooster was announced, everyone was almost evenly divided!

I stretched my tired waist, and although I was dizzy and dizzy, I was mentally satisfied like I had not been in the past two years. This can be regarded as a kind of remembrance of my past life! Eating the frozen pears that Qiao Hansheng asked the back hall to bring to wake up, I suddenly remembered my favorite ice cream when I used to stay up late, especially the sundae! No, cone!

For a moment, my taste buds seemed to recall the sweetness that penetrated the soul, and suddenly the frozen pear felt sour and couldn't get into my mouth. I pushed the frozen pears away and complained, "There's no ice cream to eat!" ”

The kite asked, "What is ice cream?" ”

I felt the scorching fire in the room, and listened to the cold wind howling outside the window, and felt that the time was ripe to tell them how to make ice cream, so I stopped Qiao Hansheng when he shuffled the cards, and said with a smile: "Old Joe, thank you, let the kitchen bring us a new gadget!" ”

Since seeing my whole mahjong, Qiao Hansheng has been full of interest in the new gadgets in my mouth, and suddenly stood up and said, "Young master, you say!" I'll do it! ”

I asked him to bring a pen and record it on the spot, not to mention milk, fruit, eggs, starch and the like, the only thing that made me scratch my head a little was how to solve the cream. I suddenly remembered a post I had read on the Internet about turning milk into cream. I don't know if it's good or not, but I thought I could give it a try, so I said so.

I talked for more than ten minutes, Qiao Hansheng remembered for more than ten minutes, and after he roughly understood the meaning, he went in a hurry. In his heart, which is not young, he was suddenly awakened by the "new gadget" of this magical young master.

When the watch passed again, I pinched my fingers and counted, it was six o'clock! After losing a game, I pushed the cards into a mess and yelled to sleep! In the nine ghosts of political filial piety, kite and into the replacement of the unrepentant "Mr. cheating! In the shouting of "Qilan is cheating", he walked away.

When I went back to my room, I didn't wash my face and brush my teeth or anything, and I just slept with my head bored when I took off my shoes.

Sure enough, just after sleeping for more than two hours, I was woken up by Qiao Hansheng, very simple, according to the customs of the Ming Dynasty, on the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, the Beijing officials are going to worship the New Year. So at eight o'clock and less than nine o'clock, the courtyard gate was called open by the team who came to pay New Year's greetings! The leader is none other than Zhang Juzheng, the first assistant of the dynasty and my second uncle.

He entered the courtyard with a smile, followed by a large number of officials, who were more familiar with Wang Guoguang, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, Li Zaixing, the secretary of the Ministry of War, and the stubborn old man Hai Rui also followed the team. A large number of Beijing officials bustled in, and the sound of blessings was endless.

Zhang Juzheng looked at me, just smiled, and said a word of blessing, and the crowd was public, and he didn't want to say too much, so he took the lead and walked into the main hall. Qiao Hansheng had already set up a large table in the main hall, which was covered with fine rice paper.

Zhang Juzheng took the lead in the past, picked up the brush that had been prepared, and wrote seven words in the middle of the rice paper: "Ten Thousand Horses Galloping" on the top, and his name "Zhang Juzheng" on the bottom.

This is the custom of New Year's greetings in the Ming Dynasty, there is no such money and that ceremony, to write a word, hang a name, even if it is a New Year's greeting! After a few acquaintances finished writing, it stands to reason that they were going to come over to say goodbye to my master, and they were about to speak, when they suddenly heard a "crackling" sound in the backyard, and men and women were either excited or depressed yelling!

Zhang Juzheng showed a strange expression on his face, and asked me with his eyes, what is this for!?

I knew he would be wrong, and said with a smile: "This is a gadget I invented, called mahjong, which is very interesting, presumably the family members have divided the winners and losers, so they shouted!" ”

Li Zaixing leaned over and smiled: "Shoufu, Qilan, this kid has the most ideas, he said it was interesting, it must be interesting, let's go and take a look!" ”

Zhang Juzheng smiled and glanced at me, meaning, is it convenient?

I shook my head with a wry smile and made a gesture of please, heading towards the backyard.

So a few old acquaintances with a group of half-familiar officials entered the backyard of Wenhai Pavilion in such a hurry, and when they saw so many people coming, they immediately stopped what they were doing, and the three tables of people stood up one after another! ——In this half day, the finished mahjong product has been smoothly changed from one to three, this is the power of the masses!

Zhang Juzheng smiled and arched his hand: "New Year's greetings to you!" Today is the big festival, let's continue to play! ”

I suddenly had an idea in my mind, so I took the lead and sat in the corner of the table and said, "Don't stand stupidly, fight!" ”

When they saw that I didn't care, they didn't care even more, so the men and women went back to the table to look, and the Great Wall was stacked again! I gave Qiao Hansheng a look, and Qiao Hansheng immediately understood that the chairs had not been long enough to move in for these officials to sit on. Qiao Hansheng still followed Zhang Juzheng and kept explaining the truth of mahjong.

These officials of the Ming Dynasty were governed by rules and regulations like sons, where have they ever seen such an interesting thing. After watching a few games and listening to the explanation, several people couldn't hold it back, and they were going to fight.

But the mahjong table is not about the old and new, regardless of family affection, since ancient times there is no father and son at the gambling table. The rise of these officials playing, losing so many taels or a dozen taels of silver, they don't frown at all, but the more they play, the more they feel the rise.

Zhang Juzheng is hindered by the identity of the first assistant, so naturally he will not get off the table in public, Hai Rui, an old stubborn looking at it, is itchy, but he is usually used to it, and he is embarrassed to come out. So I watched the excitement of everyone's fighting, and saw that at eleven o'clock, there were still half of the officials' families in this Beijing division who did not pay New Year's greetings! Hai Rui reminded Zhang Juzheng in his ear.

Zhang Juzheng thought about it, he still had to do business, so he shouted, which meant that don't play, let's get down to business first. The stubborn lord led by Li Zaixing is having fun, where is he willing to leave? For a while, his face was extremely depressed.

I knew it in my heart and said with a smile: "Adults, let's go to pay New Year's greetings, and I won't go back when I come back in the afternoon. ”

The officials cheered! In fact, who cares about this meal? What I care about is the fun stuff of mahjong!

After hearing what I said, the officials followed Zhang Juzheng out of the smoke, and kept urging: Hurry up! Shousuke! Hurry up, hurry up, go away!

Zhang Juzheng smiled helplessly, pointed at me with his finger, but took the lead and turned around.

As soon as they left, I immediately called Qiao Hansheng, Qinglian, and Yuhe, and asked them to immediately bring all the jade plaques in the treasury and carve them all into mahjong. Then choose a good wooden box and finish it as soon as possible! At the same time, he instructed Lan and Qiao Hansheng to immediately send someone to move all the jade plates from the surrounding warehouses!

So, on the first day of the Lunar New Year, Wenhai Pavilion became a processing workshop, and a room full of people were busy carving mahjong! By the time Zhang Juzheng and the others came back, the meal had already been prepared, and more than 20 mahjong pairs had been carved!

Everyone ate very little at this meal, and everyone knew what they were doing today.

I also made arrangements in advance, and according to factors such as the size of the official position, the quality of the relationship, and the age of the family, I used more than a dozen rooms in the family, and only then did I arrange all these officials one by one! Each table arranges a "journeyman" from the government as a coach to lead them to further familiarize themselves with the rules, and then arranges a family member to watch, serve tea and pour water, etc., and the officials who serve them are very comfortable.

This night is destined to be sleepless, even Hai Rui, who is playing against Wang Guoguang, Li Zaixing, and Jiugui Zhengxiao, is snoring and drinking, shouting and screaming when he wins, and screaming when he loses, and his white beard trembles with excitement. Anyway, the door is closed, no one can see anyone, there are acquaintances all around, and who cares?

This battle was fought until dawn, and these adults were not happy, but there was a new trouble-the family members and daughters of these officials, seeing that the lord of the family did not return all night, although someone came to report that the lord was drinking in the Sun Mansion, but who knows what kind of wine he drank? Men, when they have money, they become bad, so these ladies and wives came in groups early in the morning to find a husband!

When they entered the courtyard, they were greeted by someone and guided them to the rooms where their husbands were. After these mothers-in-law and aunts entered, they saw that it was really four old men playing, and their hearts immediately settled down, sitting on a chair on the side, eating fruits, drinking tea, and watching the old men play.

After looking at it for a while, these ladies realized, wow! So much fun! I'm going to play too! So a table was added to each room, and it became a table of men and a table of women, and they fought separately!

I've long since withdrawn from the battle group, and at this moment I don't care about the game, but the next step, how we should use mahjong to make a good profit!

In this way, on the afternoon of the second day of the Lunar New Year, when these officials left Wenhai Pavilion with red eyes and their wives' hair scattered, I had already cultivated a large number of loyal fans of the "quintessence of the country" as I wished, and at the same time, they also fell in love with the summer artifact of the bitter and hot war - ice cream. Of course, before leaving, I also gave them a set of mahjong as a sign of friendship.

And the next development of things turned out to be as I expected, these officials returned home, just on vacation, mahjong and really interesting, so they formed a group to fight, but there was always a situation where three were missing, so they called the old and young in the family to participate. Coming and going, more and more fans, the mahjong I gave them is obviously not enough, but I don't play and itchy, so I asked my master, where did this mahjong come from?

When I asked, it was given by Sun Fu, and I don't know who said it first, it seemed to be sold in Qingyu Pavilion, so the bustling fans flocked to Qingyu Pavilion.

The size of this group is quite large, and the number of people is like a snowball! It is conceivable that by the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, Qingyu Pavilion has been surrounded by fanatical "national quintessence" fans! Due to the large population base of Jingshi, mahjong made of jade cards has been in short supply, so we began to replace it with wooden and bamboo boards! In this way, the speed of processing cannot keep up with the speed of purchase! It can be seen how fanatical the fans are!

By the 10th day of the Lunar New Year, mahjong as a form of entertainment had spread to Gyeonggi and other places, and some imitators had appeared. The problem of piracy is easy to solve in this era - local officials come forward and announce that this product is the exclusive agent of Qingyuge, and violators are regarded as smuggling!

Of course, this is also a decision made based on who I am and the face of my promise of an extra 10% of tax money.

So the problem is largely solved! That's the power of power plus money! Since then, the word "green jade" has been added to the back of the mahjong we sell, and I told them that this is called a registered trademark!

This ticket, I made a lot of money, but all this has just begun - sitting in the study, I wrote in detail the "Wanli Ten Year Spring Festival Jingshi Mahjong Competition Rules" to understand?

Life is all about creating your own fun!