"One against ten!"

"One-on-two, crush to death!"

"Four sevens, bombs!"

"Haha~, Wang Fang, Shunzi, I won!" Li Xiu threw out the last straight, patted the quilt with excitement and shouted, just now he has lost seven games in a row, and it was not easy to get a good deck of cards, and now he can finally turn over.

Li Xiu and Yuechan chatted last night, but slowly felt a little bored, so he thought of an artifact to pass the time, that is, playing cards, so he made a deck of cards with thick paper, and taught them, as a result, the two girls were also very interested after learning, and then felt a little cold, so they simply sat on the bed and hugged the quilt to play.

However, just when Li Xiu finally won a game and was happy, he found that Yuechan and Liu Er suddenly looked behind him fixedly, which made him turn his head, but found that Ma Ye was staring at him with dull eyes.

"Huh? Uncle Ma, why are you here? Li Xiu looked at the still dark sky outside the window, and asked a little strangely, Ma Ye didn't sleep at home on this cold day, and he actually ran to himself, and he didn't knock on the door beforehand, which was a little too rude.

"That's how you kid warms the bed?" Ma Ye looked at Li Xiu and the two maids who were enough to sit, and asked speechlessly, although he didn't know what they were playing, it was definitely not the kind of scene he wanted to see.

"Hehe, we're playing a new game, it's very interesting, Uncle Ma, do you want to play together?" Hearing Ma Ye directly say the word 'warm bed', Li Xiu was also a little embarrassed, and he was also a little unscrupulous at the moment, after all, at this time, inviting Ma Ye to play cards is a little out of tune.

However, Li Xiu was not in tune, and Ma Ye was even more out of tune, he was probably also confused, and he nodded at the moment and said: "Okay, I want to see what you guys are playing, and you kid even gave up the opportunity to sleep with you!" ”

In addition to making Li Xiu feel embarrassed by Ma Ye's words, Yuechan was also blushing, and Liu Er was a blank sheet of paper on the other side, so there was no special feeling, but he was a little nervous in the face of Ma Ye, the general, and Li Xiu got out of bed at the moment and sat at the table with Ma Ye, Li Xiu was responsible for teaching Ma Ye to recognize cards, and then taught some simple rules, because it was four people, so Li Xiu decided to play upgrades, also called playing percentiles, maybe different names in various places, but the rules are similar, and they are also very simple.

With the wisdom of Ma Ye, he naturally quickly learned the rules, and then played a game under the guidance of Li Xiu, and waited until the second game to play cards independently, and he quickly discovered the charm of cards, from the beginning of the disdain began to indulge in it, and finally completely forgot the reason for coming to Li Xiu, shouting and Li Xiu They had a lot of fun, and he screamed the loudest among the four.

Lao Qi is Ma Ye's personal guard, no matter what Ma Ye does, he will follow him, but Ma Ye usually doesn't like people around him, so unless Ma Ye encounters danger or some other special circumstances, he generally will not take the initiative to appear.

Before dawn today, Ma Ye got up and left the room, and Lao Qi also got a report from the night guard, so he followed Ma Ye to Li Xiu's courtyard, but he didn't go in, because he knew that Ma Ye valued Li Xiu very much, and maybe because Ma Ye had never had children, he now regarded Li Xiu as a son, so as long as there was no danger, he generally wouldn't bother Ma Ye and Li Xiu.

But today's situation is a little different, before dawn, Ma Ye went in, but now more than an hour has passed, the sun in the east has risen high, Ma Ye still did not come out, but vaguely heard some noise inside, which made Lao Qi also feel strange, but because he could hear Ma Ye's voice, so he did not rush in.

Another hour passed, seeing that half of the morning had passed, but Ma Ye still didn't come out, which made Lao Qi finally a little unable to sit still, even if he could clearly hear Ma Ye's voice standing outside the courtyard, he was still a little worried, after all, today's events are really a little unusual.

It is precisely because of this that Lao Qi finally decided to sneak over the wall to enter, and then came to Li Xiu's bedroom door, looked inside through the crack in the door, and found that Ma Ye and Li Xiu, and two other maids were sitting at the table, and the four of them were having fun with some small pieces of paper in their hands, and the four of them had some long notes on their faces, which looked a little funny, but looking at Ma Ye's smiling face, it seemed that he was having a lot of fun.

Seeing that Ma Ye was fine, Lao Qi was relieved, and quietly withdrew again, until it was almost noon, Ma Ye went out of the yard with a displeased face, because he hadn't played enough, but he was driven out by Li Xiu, but this can't be blamed on Li Xiu, the three of them played all night last night, and they didn't even eat breakfast today, and they were sleepy and hungry when it was almost noon, so Li Xiu decided not to play, and let Liu Er and Yuechan go to cook, and he also had to go to Liu Lao's family and ask him to help buy a bed and bedding.

Ma Ye left Li Xiu's house angrily, and when he left, he took the cards with him, and as soon as he returned to his residence, he immediately called his two concubines to his bedroom, but as soon as the two concubines came in, Ma Ye immediately ordered: "Take off your shoes!" Go to bed! ”

"Master, it's still daytime!" When the two concubines heard Ma Ye's words, they all blushed and said.

"What Lao Tzu wants is during the day, and he can't see clearly at night!" Ma Ye said very eagerly, people who have just played cards are more addicted, especially people like Ma Ye who are usually extremely bored, and even need to use fishing to kill time every day, the charm of cards is undoubtedly revealed, resulting in his mind now full of ideas of playing cards, and he didn't notice the reaction of the two concubines at all.

Hearing that their master was so "interesting", the two concubines were a little moved while being shy, looked at each other and finally took off their shoes and went to bed, and then began to untie their clothes.

Ma Ye finally discovered the movements of the two concubines at this time, and he was also stunned at the moment, and then laughed and stopped them: "All give Lao Tzu an honest moment, and I want to clean you up at night, but today I called you to play cards with me, hurry up and sit down and I will teach you how to play, this thing is simply too fun!" ”

"Playing cards?" The two concubines were all stunned when they heard this, Ma Ye pulled them to sit down at this time, and then sat on the bed with the quilt like Li Xiu and Yuechan, and began to teach the two concubines to play cards, but after they learned, they were also deeply attracted, and finally they didn't care about eating lunch, and they didn't eat anything hastily until the evening, and then started to play.

In this era of the Tang Dynasty, not only is the material very scarce, but also the entertainment is very backward, even the aristocracy, usually just watch singing, dancing and drink wine, and the elegant can also read and play music, in addition to some entertainment activities, but either on a specific day, or the fun is not strong.

In contrast, the playing style of the card is changeable, interesting and entertaining are very good, otherwise it will not last in the future generations, and it is precisely because of these reasons, so after Ma Ye and these people have come into contact with cards, it is naturally easy to indulge in it, and it soon became popular in the princess courtyard, and then spread to Chang'an City through the people of the princess courtyard, in just a few months, the card has become a popular entertainment weapon in Chang'an City, up to the princes and nobles, down to the peddlers and pawns, everywhere is a noisy sound of playing cards.

For the impact of solitaire, Li Xiu was also unexpected, but this is not a bad thing, people need material guarantees to survive, but also need entertainment and relaxation, and with the spread of solitaire, the Arabic numerals on it have also begun to be known, and now no one may have realized the meaning of Arabic numerals, but sooner or later there will be smart people to apply to arithmetic, which is also an unexpected joy.

In the blink of an eye, the vegetables in the greenhouse are also growing well, and it is time to harvest, Li Xiu has always dreamed of counting money these nights, and counting it is a night, and when he has money, the first thing he did was to rebuild the yard, not only to build a few more houses, but also to add some living facilities, after all, some of the backward living conditions of the Tang Dynasty made him very uncomfortable, and there were too many places that needed to be transformed.

The sun was very good on this day, and the sun was warm, Li Xiu moved a bamboo couch to the yard, spread a blanket on it, and then lay on it himself, the well-behaved Liu Er rode on his back and was massaging him, Xiao San kept trying to climb up around the bamboo couch, but his legs were too short, and he failed to try countless times, but he still persevered and jumped up, Yuechan also sat next to him, and was making clothes for Li Xiu to wear for the New Year, in this era, there was no ready-to-wear store, and all the clothes worn by men were sewn out by the women of the family.

Feeling the massage of Liu Er's little hands on his back, Li Xiu couldn't help but breathe a long sigh of relief, he found that he had begun to degenerate, this kind of feudal small landlord's life was simply too comfortable, now he didn't think about anything in his mind, and his body was fluttering as if he was in the clouds.

But just when Li Xiu was enjoying this leisurely time, suddenly there was a heavy footstep outside the gate, and then the door was suddenly pushed open, which made Li Xiu also startled, and hurriedly sat up, only to see a guy covered in flashing golden light striding in!