Chapter 283: Mahjong and Passwords
Envoys to foreign lands, picking bones in eggs in the inn, domineering and scolding Huai, swaggering is swaggering, but the soldiers and horses who are anxious to escort you beat you up, and you can't find anyone to administer justice in a foreign country. In Yue Qianqiu's opinion, Ya Zhu, the inner servant Ya Zhu, who was given to the three princes of Beiyan by the eldest princess of Beiyan, has proved with a bloody lesson that this is not a swagger, this is a cheap mouth.www.biquge.info
Thankfully, his master, who was sometimes very reliable and sometimes unreliable, very much agreed with this.
People just beat that Beiyan's chamberlain in the post house, can you disagree?
Therefore, under the support of the army, they slowly marched north, whether they stayed in the post house or slept in the wilderness without a choice - in fact, their master and apprentice could rest comfortably in that luxurious carriage - Yue Qianqiu and Yan Xu did not have any moths. In fact, for most of the day, the master and apprentice never got out of the car at all.
Because the paper in these years is not up to par, and the popularity of Arabic numerals is still limited to the Jinling business district, so although Yue Qianqiu has made a variety of chess and card games for the Qin family, only the playing cards cannot be made. So now sitting in this bumpy carriage, the entertainment he and Yan Xu chose was naturally not checkers or flying chess, but ...... Mahjong!
Even if the two of them have good martial arts skills and can hold the cards as closely as possible to avoid the bumps in the carriage causing the dominoes or the cards in front of them to be overturned and seen by the opponent, it is naturally impossible for only two people to play mahjong.
At this moment, the carriage specially made by the eldest princess of Dongyang became a mobile chess and card room.
The first to be pulled as a brand partner were Qing Fengnian and Little Monkey. It's just that the little monkey is just that, but Qing Fengnian is not good at this kind of game, even if the rules are the simplest, he is embarrassed to lose, and in the end he can only get out of the car and drag Zhen Ronglai.
And Zhen Rong is also not much better, and he doesn't know if he is absent-minded, or he is really not interested in board games, so he excused himself after a few rounds. At this moment, Yue Qianqiu could only smile and pull the other attachΓ©s and guards in the mission, except for the eldest master, everyone else was pulled by him. Although they are all beginners, there are also those who are extremely quick to start and have a lot of addiction.
But more importantly, because of this unexpected entertainment, the mission that was originally escorted by those Northern Yan soldiers and horses as prisoners finally found fun, and finally had a little leisure opportunity.
Whether it is a mahjong enthusiast who can understand it at all, or a mahjong player who can't play at all, almost everyone enjoys a good time every day to avoid the sight of the Beiyan generals, and then get into the carriage to have fun.
After entering the territory of Beiyan for five consecutive days, the Beiyan generals who escorted their group saw that people were constantly invited to Yan Xu's luxurious and spacious carriage every day. Some people have a bitter face after a while, but some people can get off the train happily for most of the day, and over time, even the sergeants who have undergone rigorous training can't help but wonder what is going on in this carriage.
On the sixth day, the middle-aged Beiyan general in his early forties with a fierce face finally couldn't hold it back. When he stayed at the post house again in the evening, he ignored the people of the Wu Dynasty envoy and came directly to the carriage. Seeing Yan Xu get out of the car yawning, he bluntly burst out with a question.
"Lord Yan, I can hear the noise in the car every day, what are you doing here?"
"What? Every day, I am blocked by you before and after, and I can't even see the scenery, of course, only mahjong! β
Yan Xu stretched lazily, and then said with a smile: "If you want me to say, Beiyan is stingy, although your mission in our Dawu also has soldiers and horses to escort, but it is a generous escort, how can it be like you, I can't wait to even follow Izugong, as if one of us doesn't look at us, we will go to your field to pull radishes and steal root vegetables, there is no great country demeanor at all!" β
"Ahem!"
Seeing that the middle-aged general had a rigid face, he was clearly angry, and when he heard the old man coming from behind, he suddenly coughed very loudly, and Yan Xu said without looking back: "Qianqiu, go, look in the drawer, if there is any extra mahjong, give a pair to this general whose name I don't even know until now to open his eyes!" β
This time, even the older man Yue who heard this had a very ugly face: "Lord Yan, this is General Wu Gou, who has already signed up, and you were absent-minded when you introduced it before!" β
"Really? It was originally called Wu Hook...... Tsk, I must not have heard it at that time, otherwise I would have to talk to him if I knew it was such a name. Isn't there a poem in the original ancient book donated by Old Lady Yue to Wuyingguan? Why don't the men take Wu Hook and collect Guanshan Fifty Prefectures. Please go to Lingyan Pavilion temporarily, if you are a scholar and a marquis. What a heroic poem! β
Yan Xu raised his eyebrows very unseriously, and then shouted impatiently: "Qianqiu, just looking for something, it takes so long?" β
At this moment, Yue Qianqiu finally poked his head out from behind Yan Xu: "Master, let's bring several pairs of mahjong this time, the one that gave him ivory, or jade, or agate, or bamboo?" β
"Nonsense, send the valuable ones out, wouldn't Beiyan want to doubt the integrity of this General Wu, and turn around to accuse us of bribing him and plotting against him? Go, just send the least valuable pair! β
Although Wu Gou is now a native of Beiyan, his ancestors were originally relics of the Wei country, and later the Northern Yan was established, and the Wei people in his ruling area multiplied from generation to generation, and he still used the ancestral Han surname, and he still spoke the southern official dialect, and he was the same.
At this moment, he couldn't help but tilt his nose angrily, who would not misinterpret Yan Xu's meaning at all. When he saw the young man behind Yan Xu jumping out of the car with a wooden box in his hand, his eyes fell on it, but when Yue Qianqiu opened the lid and saw rectangular objects neatly stacked inside, and there were all kinds of patterns engraved on them, he couldn't turn his eyes around.
Is this really a plaything? Not a code? Not something that's used to convey information?
No, this thing should be handed over to the Akikaji secret agent who is quietly accompanying him, and he will check it out!
At night, most of the rooms in the inn were lit up, but a few were brightly lit. One of the rooms that originally belonged to Yicheng was full of people at this moment, in addition to the partial general Wu Hook and a few captains, there was also a division officer and a few spies sent by the Autumn Hunt Division.
The dozen or so people gathered around a table, their eyes fixed on the pile of bamboo. The bamboo blocks were engraved with patterns that they only felt were like secret codes, and a careful spy was sorting these bamboo blocks according to the different patterns. It was easy to divide the piles neatly into a dozen piles before he glanced back at his immediate boss.
"Lord He, this thing looks a little similar to Shuanglu and other games, but the complexity is very different. Those people from the Southern Dynasties said that they were here to send envoys, but in fact, they must have a purpose that outsiders did not know, and they had to prevent them from cheating. According to the previous investigation of the Autumn Hunting Division, the deputy envoy Yan Xu is the son of the eldest princess of Dongyang in the Southern Dynasty, and the eldest princess of Dongyang is extremely wise, and this person may also be deliberately paralyzing us. Even that young man is also the adoptive grandson of the second prime minister Taichang, which should not be underestimated. β
"That's right, you can't be too wary of these people! General Wu, you did a good job this time! β
In order to monitor the Southern Wu Mission, the Akikami Division sent a full eight people led by the official He Wanxing this time. Although He Wanxing is surnamed Han and his ancestors are Weiren, he is also a native of Northern Yan, and he can only be vigilant against the Southern Dynasty.
And while he was thinking about it, a lieutenant couldn't help but speak: "Since Lord He and General Wu can't understand the subtlety of this thing, and the deputy envoy of the Southern Dynasty before said that we are stingy, why don't we also send someone to that carriage, pretend to be curious and want to play together, and explore the truth and reality?" Since they said that this is just a game, we will accompany them to play! β
He Wanxing and Wu Gou's eyes lit up at the same time, and they praised almost in unison: "Good idea!" β
Although there was a three-watch eaves in the middle of the night in the Ansu military camp, but in the Beiyan Post House, whether it was more Qianqiu or Yan Xu, it would not be so public, and after giving out a pair of bamboo mahjong, the master and apprentice all slept a good night.
When they got up early in the morning to change their clothes and freshen up for breakfast, and were ready to leave, they saw a lot of haggard dark circles on Beiyan's side, and the two couldn't help but look at each other and smile.
A small pair of mahjong makes others suspicious, a good omen, a good omen!
But when the master and apprentice were about to board the car as usual as a few days ago, the road in front of them was suddenly blocked. Seeing that Wu Hook, who was still smiling this time, Yan Xu raised his eyebrows and asked, "Is there anything wrong with General Wu?" β
Wu Gou tried his best to hide his hostility towards these envoys of the Southern Dynasty, and tried his best to make his tone appear kind and gentle: "Lord Yan, I am really sorry for the offense I took yesterday. I see that the disciples are pulling people into the carriage along the way, but the total number of people in the mission is so small, and it is too boring to always play with these fixed people. If you can, my generals are willing to accompany you! β
"Oh?" Yue Qianqiu suddenly came over, and said with sparkling eyes, "Is this true?" General Wu, I have something to say first, we don't play mahjong for pure fun, we have to gamble money! β
Wu Gou smiled disapprenosingly: "Since it's a game, isn't it boring not to gamble?" β
"Okay, General Beiyan is really refreshing!" Yue Qianqiu immediately gave a thumbs up, and then smiled with an eyebrow, "Then I can put the bet in front." A penny for a game is not a copper coin, it is a silver coin! β