Chapter Twenty-Seven: Trial Play and Puzzlement
In Xiao Mu's subconscious, Wang Jingyuan and Feng Shi, as the masters, of course had to participate in the game, Xiao Mu had already planned to let Yang Tao come over and make up four people together, and let Hu Yun go to continue the "competition" with Li Shiyao. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
But the actual situation is not like this, when the table was set, the mahjong tiles were taken out, and a few people were ready to sit down, Feng took the initiative to make tea for everyone, and did not have the slightest intention of participating in it.
"Won't Mrs. Wang come and play two laps?" Xiao Mu asked puzzled.
Wang Jingyuan, Yang Tao, Hu Yun and others all looked at Xiao Mu and did not speak, and the atmosphere was a little unnatural for a while.
Xiao Mu then thought that this was in the Ming Dynasty in the seventeenth century, and the status of women was certainly not comparable to that of later generations, and Feng, as the housewife of the family, of course, had to serve tea and pour water enthusiastically to entertain guests, rather than personally participating in the business between men - if playing mahjong was also a serious matter.
In order to avoid being regarded as a perverted madman who is also interested in married women, Xiao Mu quickly coughed twice and said: "I designed this thing to relieve the boredom of the queen and other concubines in the palace, but I don't know much about their women's preferences, Mrs. Wang might as well take a closer look and give some advice." ”
Seeing Xiao Mu say this, Feng Shi was respectful and obedient, sat down at the table, and stacked cards together with Xiao Mu, Wang Jingyuan and Yang Tao.
Hu Yun led a few children to practice in the yard, how could he learn such a thing as gambling at a young age? Even if it's just for fun, it's not enough!
After briefly explaining the rules and trying to get familiar with a few handfuls, several people have entered the state, which also makes Xiao Mu feel very happy, it seems that mahjong cards are easy to be accepted and can be easily used.
As for the process of playing, Yang Tao, as a player who makes up the numbers, feels very uncomfortable: sitting under Feng's head, he must be extra careful when shuffling and stacking cards, for fear of touching Feng's hand and causing unnecessary trouble to the other party; And also to look at the cards of the upper and lower families, looking for an opportunity to feed Xiao Mu two good cards - although the casino has no father and son, but this statement is a little inappropriate for this occasion now, after all, if you don't win the house and win the land, the way of the monarch and the minister still has to be taught.
And there is another point that makes Yang Tao even more troublesome, obviously he feels that the emperor needs it, and he specially fed the emperor a good card to play out, but Xiao Mu didn't use it, but several times Xiao Mu played the card that Yang Tao wanted Hu, which made Yang Tao even more painful. Yang Tao even understood the helplessness of Zhuge Kongming to assist the queen Adou but could not succeed for a while, and added a little reverence to Zhuge Liang, and then Yang Tao realized that according to such an idea, wouldn't he be saying that the emperor was a faint monarch who couldn't be supported? This is simply a big rebellion, Yang Tao thinks that he is loyal to the emperor, and silently condemns himself in his heart.
All in all, in the face of this situation, it is definitely not possible to directly announce the winning card, which will definitely make the emperor ugly, if he does not sweep the emperor's Yaxing, it will not be fun to be punished for the crime of bullying the king; Not only can you not win the cards, but also to leave no trace of the existing cards unconsciously dismantled, so that people can not see any clues, otherwise, it was found that deceived the emperor, which is also the crime of deceiving the king.
So before he had just finished a lap, Yang Tao was already sweating profusely, and he felt that he had really consumed a lot of energy, and he didn't seem to be so tired from fighting with others.
Of course, Xiao Mu didn't know the entanglement in Yang Tao's heart, Xiao Mu saw that Yang Tao's expression was not very natural, and thought that Yang Tao didn't grasp the trick of mahjong card play, so he encouraged two sentences such as "Don't worry, slowly master the essentials, and be proficient" and so on.
In this way, Yang Tao's performance is more difficult, not only to feed Xiao Mu cards while not being able to win the cards, but also to pretend that he is not very proficient, and he has not mastered the experience of playing cards, Yang Tao has no choice, so he had to laugh awkwardly twice, "Hehe, I went out in a hurry today, I didn't bring too much silver taels, and the money in my pocket is probably not enough to lose today......"
Naturally, everyone laughed.
Reluctantly covering up the past with the shy reason in his pocket, Yang Tao breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, "No wonder those civil officials say 'accompanying the king is like accompanying the tiger', this is not unreasonable." ”
Compared with Yang Tao, Xiao Mu's situation is not much better, except for the first few games with the advantage of being familiar with the rules (in fact, the rules are Xiao Muding, there is no way not to be familiar with it) Hu twice, Xiao Mu has never tasted the taste of winning cards, but often gives people cards to others, so that people give the cards to Hu. Yes, this "family" is talking about Wang Jingyuan, after all, only an upright person like Wang Jingyuan will not focus on winning or losing depending on the atmosphere of the occasion.
So after a few laps, Wang Jingyuan was full of loot in front of him and became the biggest winner; Feng won a little bit; Yang Tao relied on his superb acting skills and extraordinary talent to accurately maintain the situation of not winning and losing, and while several people felt that it was a coincidence, Yang Tao also secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart; As for Xiao Mu, the loss is not small, the chips in his hand have basically been won, if Xiao Mu knows that there are actually several times that Yang Tao can also win cards from his hand, it is estimated that he will definitely be "displeased", I have to say that Yang Tao's choice is still very wise.
Xiao Mu finally fully understood why Wang Jingyuan, an upright person, could be the shopkeeper of the restaurant for so many years, after all, he could win so much money, it can be seen that Wang Jingyuan's thinking is very clear, his mind is very flexible, and he is naturally handy when he becomes a shopkeeper and does business. Thinking that Wang Jingyuan had failed to take the Xiucai test many times in the past, Xiao Mu also understood better, this person's talent was not in reading and writing, Xiao Mu felt that if Wang Jingyuan went to his own world and went to Huiyuan University to study economics like himself, he would definitely become an excellent graduate in the end, at least he would not think about himself, for a graduation thesis, so that he could not graduate for two years.
In fact, the most clever person at this table is of course Yang Tao, but because his performance is so perfect and realistic, that junior players like Xiao Mu don't see it at all.
Although the mahjong experiment was very successful, but because Xiao Mu lost a lot, he didn't have any intention of continuing to play again, thinking that mahjong was almost the same, so he announced that he would suspend and rest for a while, and later try his newly created "playing cards" gameplay.
Feng served tea to a few people, and after taking a few sips and resting, Xiao Mu couldn't wait to take the playing cards out of his pocket, after all, the mahjong cards were not playing well, and Xiao Mu wanted to find the field from the playing cards at this time.
It's just that compared with mahjong, playing cards are more difficult for people in the Ming Dynasty.
From the Arabic numerals 2 to 10, to the "J", "Q", "K" and two JOKERS at the back, and then to the "hearts", "squares", "spades", "clubs" and several suits, Wang Jingyuan and others looked at it and felt foggy, and they didn't understand what it was at all. In fact, the people Wang Chengen found to make these cards didn't know what this ghost-like thing was. For the sake of the heads on their necks, for the numbers and letters written by Xiao Mu, the masters tried their best, and compared and traced the whole night, accurately depicting the slightest difference, the hard work contained in such a small deck of playing cards, Xiao Mu did not know at this time.
Xiao Mu began to explain patiently: "These crooked ones are a kind of number, called 'Arabic' numerals, this one means two, this one represents three, followed by four, five, six, seven, eight and nine, and so on." ”
"Arab?" Wang Jingyuan was still very puzzled in his heart, "Among the earls I have been awarded since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, there seems to be no such 'Arab', and I have never heard of such an earl in all dynasties, I don't know what the emperor said, what is the deep meaning." ”
When Wang Jingyuan was distracted, Xiao Mu pointed to "J" and "Q", and continued to explain with the names of his previous life: "As for this, it is called 'hook', and this is called 'circle'. ”
These two cards made Yang Tao and Feng also completely confused, Xiao Mu saw that the response was not good, and began to make up nonsense to forcibly explain: "The hooker is also a fish hook, and the circle is also a trap, of course, it is bigger than the general number card, as for this, it is called "Kai", Kai, Triumph also, of course, it is bigger than "hook" and "circle". ”
As for the A in the back, Xiao Mu really didn't know whether to call it "point" or "gun" or something else, and he didn't know how to explain that this card can sometimes be used as a "1", so he irresponsibly said, "As for this card...... Anyway, this card is the biggest! ”
After finishing speaking, he saw two bigger JOLERs, that is, the big and small kings, and the four suits in the back waiting for him to explain, Xiao Mu felt that this was simply an impossible task, even if he had eight mouths, there was no way to explain it clearly for a while.
At this time, even Wang Jingyuan, who was not afraid of the imperial power before, found that the atmosphere was wrong, so he came out to play a round and said: "This thing is very wonderful, I think it must be a heavenly thing, but I am a mortal, and my qualifications are dull, and I don't know the essentials." ”
Wang Jingyuan's level of playing the round was really very amateurish, which made Xiao Mu even more embarrassed, and when Yang Tao and Feng were thinking hard about how to find a step for Xiao Mu, and the whole room was filled with an embarrassing atmosphere, Li Shiyao ran in and broke this complicated situation in one fell swoop.
"Oh no, the second brother's head is caught in the door!"
Someone broke the deadlock, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief, but then their hearts were lifted again: What? Head caught in the door? What's going on?
Xiao Mu and the others hurriedly walked out of the room and came to the courtyard, and what caught their eyes was Zhao Qizhi's writhing buttocks, and his head was stuck in the door panel of the firewood room. Zhao Qi's illness with his buttocks makes people feel the urge to run over and kick it.