More than half an hour later, several large boxes of ice were delivered to Mei's house.

Li Tao and the county lord of Xiyang, as well as the sixth master Zheng Hao, also came to the house to visit.

Mei Jishan took the four Mei Zhiyuan brothers to see Li Tao and Zheng Hao, and sincerely thanked Li Tao, thanking him for his kindness in the snow.

Ruoxue welcomed Murong Baotong into the inner courtyard and led her to meet Mrs. Cao on the sickbed, and then met the Tian, Yang, and Tao families, as well as several young ladies of the Mei family.

In a village on the outskirts of the capital, Duan Jie was looking at the dozen or so building blocks that had just been made, which were modeled after the building blocks of the Mei family, and the size was the same as the original building blocks, but there was no lacquer or carving pattern.

Duan Jie tried to put it together, and felt that the house he had put together was a little loose and not compact enough.

Duan Jie looked at the house put together on the table, frowned and said, "Why is it so loose, what's going on?" ”

The two carpenters looked at the building blocks of the Mei family again, and one said: "The original one seems to be made by setting the size, but what we do is just comparing the size, and there should be a little gap in the size, so the spelling looks loose." ”

Duan Jie compared the Mei family with a few pieces he asked him to make, and there was really a slight difference, although the gap was not very big, but it was a millimeter difference.

He asked the two carpenters to re-measure the size, re-select the planks and draw the lines, and set the size and make them.

Duan Jie was drinking tea in the house, while slowly fiddling with those building blocks, and after a while, he put together four or five styles of houses.

So he ate tea and played with interesting toys in the house, and the two carpenters went outside to make the little wooden blocks under the sun that could bake people.

Less than half an hour later, the carpenter came in with the blocks he had just made and saw Duan Jie, "Master, how about you come and see these pieces." ”

They put five or six blocks on the table and pushed them forward, then took a few steps back, raised their hands to wipe the sweat from their faces, and enjoyed the shade of the room.

The two carpenters glanced at the teapot on the table and swallowed a few sips of water, if only they could drink a few sips.

Duan Jie put a few blocks together, looking tighter than the ones made in front, "Just do it like this, do as much as possible, I will give it to a few more of you tomorrow, and in the future, you will only make one building block, and you don't have to do anything else." He said.

The two carpenters bowed and turned to retreat.

Duan Jie got up, put the building blocks he brought into a small box, and let his entourage carry them out of the house with him, and go outside Zhuangzi to take a carriage back to the city.

After entering the north gate of the capital, Duan Jie asked his entourage to go home first, and he went to the Happy House on Chang'an Avenue.

He hadn't learned that poker yet, so he was going to learn it from the girl named Pomegranate, and by the way, he would ask who came up with these toys.

At this time, there was a lot of laughter in the happy house, and the two young ladies were around a table, playing with Pomegranate to fight the landlord.

These two young ladies, one is Miss Liu from the Prime Minister's Mansion, and the other is Miss Qiao Si from the Shangshu Mansion of the Ministry of War.

The two of them made an appointment to come together to learn how to play poker.

At this time, the two of them were arguing, Miss Liu said that Miss Qiao Si should not play two eights, if two circles, the cards in the pomegranate's hand, and then two fours, she can put the cards out, and they won.

Miss Qiao Si was so aggrieved that she was about to cry, "I don't know what cards my sister has in her hand, how do I know which one is good!" I just thought that I could control her, who knew that she was all straights behind her! ”

Miss Liu opened her mouth and didn't say anything, and if she said a few more words, she might really be about to cry, "Okay, shuffle the cards again." She said.

This handful of pomegranates was deliberately released to Miss Liu, which made her happily win, which was considered to calm her depression because she lost the last handful.

Miss Liu felt much more comfortable when she won, and thought about playing two more times, but when she saw a guest come in, the shopkeeper let the man into the house and led him to the table next to her.

Miss Liu pulled Miss Qiao Si to get up, paid five taels of silver for a box of poker, and left in a carriage.

Pomegranate sent the two young ladies away and turned to come in, muttering in a low voice: "These two ancestors are really difficult to serve, one is strong and invincible, and the other is cowardly like a snow ball, and if you touch it, you will drop golden beans!" ”

Duan Jie looked at her with a smile and asked, "Who are the two people just now?" It looks a little familiar. ”

Pomegranate stood opposite him, looked at Duan Jie and said, "The one wearing the bean-green skirt is the young lady from the Prime Minister's Mansion, and the other one is the fourth young lady from the Shangshu Mansion of the Military Department." ”

Duan Jie subconsciously looked back at the door, this shop should not be underestimated, this contact is all the relatives of the dignitaries' families!

Duan Jie sat down at a table and explained his intention to Pomegranate, wanting to see how the poker was played.

Pomegranate has a bitter gourd face, she has been playing with the two ancestors for most of the day, and she is really a little tired, but looking at the extraordinarily dressed man in front of her, it is not easy to refuse his request.

They still have to do business, and it would be unwise to refuse customers.

Pomegranate had to sit down again, let Yang Guang in the backyard serve her and Duan Jie a cup of herbal tea, and then picked up a pile of pokers, washed them twice, and put them on the table.

Duan Jie watched those pokers flying in the pomegranate's hand, feeling quite interesting, and also took them over and washed them twice, barely like that.

Pomegranate took a sip of tea before she started talking about the way she was most familiar with fighting landlords.

Just talking about it without putting it into practice is still half-understood.

Pomegranate wanted to call Wei Youde to play together, but Duan Jie refused, Pomegranate couldn't, so he could only divide the cards of three people, two people played, and the other person's cards were not played.

Duan Jie listened to Pomegranate talk about the method of fighting the landlord, while playing the cards in his hand, the first few hands were practiced, and the third card began to really fight.

After Duan Jie played more proficiently. He first praised the novelty and fun of poker, and then asked Pomegranate what kind of whimsy this is, and he actually has such a delicate heart.

The pomegranate opened her mouth and was about to say that the third lady of their family came up with it, and suddenly remembered that the third lady said that no matter who asked who thought of it, she couldn't say it, but it could only be said that a craftsman in the house came up with it.

Pomegranate put the words to his lips and said, "It's an old gentleman in our family who thought of it, it's fun, right?" ”

Duan Jie didn't believe her words and asked, "Did that person also come up with that building block and checkers?" ”

"Yes!"