Chapter Ninety-Seven: The Game and Malaise
However, the facts soon proved how wise Empress Zhang's decision to choose to watch the game instead of going to the battle in person was wise, because Concubine Yuan, the "genius mahjong girl" of the Ming Dynasty, had a mahjong talent that was simply too demonic. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info didn't play a few laps, and Xiao Mu, Lin Yi and Tian Concubine won the ghost crying wolf howl. Even Empress Zhang, who wanted to be steady, couldn't stand it anymore, and while watching the battle, she also reminded Lin Yi how to play her cards with her eyes, even so, it did not stop Concubine Yuan's firm pace of winning money.
Soon Xiao Mu and the others all lost doubtful life, and the originally very interesting mahjong tiles didn't seem to be so fun, so Xiao Mu proposed not to play mahjong tiles for the time being, but to continue to play the cards he designed.
When Wang Chengen was helping to clean up the mahjong tiles, Xiao Mu's mouth was not idle, and he bragged to Queen Zhang about the process of designing the cards: why use "Heaven and Earth Xuanhuang" instead of "East, West, North and South" or "Green Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, Xuanwu" and the like to represent the four suits, "Beauty Card" and "Famous Minister" which card should be bigger.
In fact, on the size of the "beauty card" and "Mingchen card", Xiao Mu really hesitated for a long time, analogy with the later generations of playing cards, "beauty card" is equivalent to "Q", and "Mingchen card" is equivalent to "J", it is obvious that "beauty card" should be greater than "Mingchen card". But in this way, it seems that the values of people in this time and space are different, Xiao Mu feels that he can just go to the street to stop a person and ask him Zhuge Liang or Diao Chan whose status is higher, and he is afraid that he will be looked at by the other party with the eyes of a fool. So if you let the "famous minister" be greater than the "beauty brand", but Xiao Mu is from the future, and knows that the future world advocates equality between men and women, and he designs it like this, I am afraid that it will attract dissatisfaction and criticism from feminists, and become ironclad evidence that feudal dregs discriminate against women.
However, in the current time and space, there is no such thing, and although the people sitting in front of Xiao Mu are all women, Empress Zhang, Concubine Tian, and Concubine Yuan are a little puzzled why the emperor would hesitate on the size of the "famous minister card" and the "beauty card". In their eyes, the status of famous ministers in history must be much higher than that of beauties, although they are women themselves, but their views on this issue are undoubtedly that the "famous ministers" should be bigger than the "beauty cards". As for Ringo's point of view? I'm sorry, Xiao Mu didn't think that Lin Yi was a normal woman at all, so her point of view could naturally be ignored.
All in all, since the women here also feel that the "celebrity brand" should be greater than the "beauty brand", then Xiao Mu also accepted this suggestion "according to the local customs", after all, he came to the Ming Dynasty, or he still has to respect the local customs, isn't it? As for whether there will be protests from feminists in the future, it will be hundreds of years later, and Xiao Mu feels that it is not necessary to take such a long-term view.
After agreeing on the size of each card, and briefly introducing some ways to play and rules, Xiao Mu skillfully shuffled the cards, and won the appreciative attention of several women, and the card game officially began.
But the truth is as cruel as ever, mahjong and cards are essentially gambling tools, and the skills and talents required are similar, so although the things played have changed, the person who dominates the table has not changed - whether it is playing fast, competing for the top, or tractors, Yuan Fei is not refusal, and there is a tendency to win the chips in front of other people's eyes.
Lin Yi nervously observed the situation of the player's card game, considered how to play the cards, and sighed in his heart: Concubine Yuan continues to do this, it is easy to have no friends in the harem......
In the end, in order to make the game go smoothly and not turn into a one-sided slaughter, several people unanimously decided to let Concubine Yuan watch the battle and act as a referee at the same time, in short, they couldn't let her continue to win.
After that, the atmosphere at the poker table suddenly became a lot more harmonious, after all, except for Concubine Yuan, the level of several people was half a catty, and no one had any obvious advantage, and after a fight, it was late at night before I knew it-happy times always passed so quickly, which made Xiao Mu more convinced of the correctness of Einstein's theory of relativity, after all, this "genuine" great scientist "once" said: When you sit next to a hot stove, time will pass very slowly; But when you sit next to a beautiful lady, time flies. Now that Xiao Mu was sitting next to the three beautiful ladies, time naturally passed at a speed of three times "very fast".
Whether it is playing mahjong or playing cards, the original intention is to relax and let the emperor get a better rest, at least Wang Chengen has always thought so. Now that it is time to rest, letting the emperor continue to play will not only fail to achieve the purpose of relaxation, but will also affect the emperor's sleep. So when Wang Chengen was in Xiao Mu's high spirits, he reminded him with an extremely careless look: "Your Majesty, it's late at night, it's time to go to bed, why don't you get here here today?" ”
"There's no hurry, it's okay to play a little longer." Xiao Mu is on the rise, of course he will not be obedient.
Xiao Muxin said that it is at most about ten o'clock in the evening now, which is nothing at all, in his later life, the nightlife has just begun, even if it is to play an all-nighter at night and then go to the final exam the next day, it is like a commonplace, and if there are so many beautiful seniors and sisters to play with, it seems that there is nothing wrong with not going to take the final exam the next day. Therefore, Xiao Mu at this moment has the meaning of a decisive battle until dawn.
However, Xiao Mu's good wish did not come true, because Empress Zhang also thought that the time was not early, and it was only right that the emperor should go back to rest early: "The time is indeed not early, the emperor should also pay attention to the dragon body, it is better to go to bed early, sisters, let's go first." ”
After Empress Zhang said this, she left with Concubine Tian and Concubine Yuan, without giving Xiao Mu any room for bargaining at all-Originally, Xiao Mu thought that he could at least rub it out for another half an hour.
When Empress Zhang and the others left, and Wang Chengen and the others cleaned up the card table with their hands and feet, Xiao Mu glanced at Lin Yi with helpless eyes, as if to say, "It seems that I am the son of heaven of the Ming Dynasty, right?" How do you feel that what Empress Zhang said is more effective than me? ”
Lin Yi also gave Xiao Mu a look in return, as if to say: "This is the gap in aura......"
Although Xiao Mu felt that what Lin Yi "said" should be mocking himself, he still thought that there was some truth in it. As for why there was such a tacit understanding between him and Lin Ye, Xiao Mu didn't realize this question at all.
Due to obvious reasons - the emperor's body has not fully recovered, it is not appropriate to consume too much energy, and the queen mother is also pregnant, so after Wang Chengen and they cleaned up the card table, Xiao Mu also left Lin Ye's bedroom, such a move is very normal in the eyes of Wang Chengen and other eunuchs and palace maids, and there is nothing wrong with it.
In short, Xiao Mu had nothing to do after he went back, and under Wang Chengen's "supervision", he had to lie down and sleep obediently.
So there was nothing to say all night, and when Xiao Mu woke up again, it was already early the morning of the next day, and when he opened his eyes, Wang Chengen was already waiting beside him.
"By the way, today is planned to go to court." Xiao Mu remembered what was going on, so he didn't continue to sleep in bed, but got up directly, dressed and washed under Wang Chengen's service, dressed neatly, and after a simple breakfast, he began his third trip to the court since he crossed.
Coming to the Golden Palace, the ministers are all waiting, this is actually nonsense, is there still a reason to let Xiao Mu, the emperor, wait for the courtiers below? Xiao Mu sat down on the throne, and the courtiers below began to salute.
"Long live my emperor, long live, long live, long live......"
Because the body of Emperor Chongzhen, who Xiao Mu crossed the sustenance, was only seventeen or eighteen years old at this time, and there were no eye killers such as TV and computers in ancient times, Xiao Mu's current body was not like in his previous life, a myopic eye that needed to wear glasses. In fact, when the courtiers shouted long live, Xiao Mu also found that as long as he wanted to, he could see the appearance and expression of every minister kneeling below.
So Xiao Mu found that the mental state of the ministers below did not seem to be very good, and they looked like they were in a trance and did not wake up.
"It seems that in order to go to the early court, the courtiers got up very early, and they have to wait here in advance, which is really hard." Xiao Mu thought in his heart, and he was even more determined to resolutely not go to court if there was nothing important in the future. After all, the ministers are all old, and getting up so early to participate in this early dynasty full of dogmatic formalism will not solve any real national affairs, not to mention any real national affairs, and it will not be good for the ministers' health.
Of course, this is just Xiao Mu's wishful thinking, if he can think about it a little carefully, he can find that when he went to the court twice before, the courtiers below were not in such a mental state, especially when he went to the court for the first time, a fierce war of words broke out between the Qingliu officials and the remnants of the eunuch party, and finally all the cabinet scholars were impeached, and the entire court was as lively as a vegetable market, where are any officials who are languishing?
It's just that maybe because he just woke up, and his smart IQ continued to play chess with Zhou Gong and was not online, Xiao Mu didn't notice the abnormality of today's ministers compared to before.
In fact, the reason why the ministers of the DPRK and China seem so deprived of energy is that they have hardly slept well in the past two nights, but have spent the night with their respective allies and aides to analyze the impact of the resignation of the first assistant and what actions they should take.