As for the temperature, because there was no thermometer in the Ming Dynasty, Qin Xiao couldn't measure how many degrees below zero at this time. But the situation is already in place.

A charcoal brazier was lit in the tent that was temporarily erected, and Qin Xiao, Zhu Youzhen, and Yang Yinglong gathered in front of the brazier to roast the fire. Zhao Xiaowu couldn't bear the cold anymore, and gloriously had a cold, fever, runny nose, and was bedridden. 、

"Godfather, it's been another three days, can you still come at the age of nine thousand? If you don't come, let's go back! Qin Xiao said tremblingly.

"Don't say it's three days, even three years have to wait! Lao Tzu went from a nobody, step by step to become a feudal official with 100,000 heavy soldiers, this glory and wealth are all given by 9,000 years old, and when you learn about Entu, you can't forget your roots! After Yang Yinglong finished speaking, he got up and went out of the account.

Qin Xiao: "Knowing the kindness of the retribution, you can't forget your roots...... When these words came out of his mouth, why did I feel so awkward? ”

Zhu Youzhen: "What is the importance of love and righteousness, it's just a habit of patting sycophants." ”

Qin Xiao: "I can't go out for a walk on such a cold day, and I don't know that his old man surnamed Wei can only arrive in the Year of the Monkey and the Moon, it's really boring." ”

Thinking about this time of the 21st century, Qin Xiao's favorite thing is to play the glory of kings with her roommates in the bed.

The Ming Dynasty had no electricity, no mobile phones, and no glory of kings. What entertainment did she like to play in the past, and the Ming Dynasty had? …… That's right, fight the landlord!

"Hey, do you know how to fight the landlord?"

"Fighting the landlord? How to play? ”

"Play poker!"

"What is poker?"

"Don't you have any playing cards, one by one." Qin Xiao even gestured and said, Zhu Youzhen was still confused.

Qin Xiao, who is a novice in history, didn't know that playing cards were only introduced to China at the end of the Qing Dynasty, how could Zhu Youzhen of the Ming Dynasty know what this was?

However, playing cards are nothing more than a paper card, and they can be made by handmade DIY. Qin Xiao decided to make two decks of pokers for fun.

She found several large sheets of brown paper and cut them into palm-sized cards with scissors. Counted, exactly the number of two decks of cards.

"What are you doing with such a big stack of papers?" Zhu Youzhen asked curiously.

"Make playing cards, I'll show you how to play later!"

Starting from the Ace of spades, Qin Xiao finished writing two decks of cards in one go with black ink and Zhu Mo in turn. Fortunately, her painting skills are okay, and the drawn spades and spades and plum squares are not very ugly.

"Alright, you're done!" Qin Xiao put down the brush and rubbed his somewhat stiff arm.

"You can play with these weird symbols written on small pieces of paper?" Zhu Youzhen pinched a card and looked at it curiously in his hand.

"The one you take is called the king. I'll tell you how to play, you'll have to wait! Qin Xiao rushed out of the tent, and after a while, she dragged Yang Yinglong with one hand and Zhao Xiaowu with the other. Zhao Xiaowu was still wrapped in a quilt.

"Godfather, Uncle Xiao Wuzi, aren't you bored now!"

Yang Yinglong: "Lao Tzu is idle every day now. ”

Zhao Xiaowu: "I drink medicine every day in addition to sleeping. ”

Zhu Youjian: "Although I don't pick my feet or drink medicine, I also sleep every day." ”

Qin Xiao pulled the four of them to the Eight Immortals table, and put the homemade playing cards on the table one by one.

"This is called poker, I'll teach you how to play it......" Qin Xiao told the name of each poker card one by one, and then gave a detailed explanation of the gameplay of "fighting landlords", what "landlords", "civilians", "king bombs", "double flying", "three belts and one pair...... Zhu Youzhen and the three listened with great interest......

"In short, whether it is a landlord or a commoner, whoever plays the cards in his hand first will win!"

Yang Yinglong rolled up his sleeves and prepared for a big battle, "Come on, hurry up and shuffle the cards!" ”

"Godfather, wait!" Qin Xiao covered Yang Yinglong's hand that was about to shuffle the cards, "It's too boring to just play like this, it's better to place some bets." Let's be so good, the losing side, a card and a tael of silver, who has a few cards left in his hand, who will give a few taels of silver to win! ”

Playing for money is a new idea.

Qin Xiao is too poor, as a deputy five-grade official of the Ming Dynasty, her annual salary is only eighty-four taels of silver, and the average is seven taels per month, which is too much for her who likes to spend lavishly. When Daddy and Grandma were in Tusi City before, Qin Xiao could not think about money at all, and was extravagant and wasteful at will. But as soon as Daddy and Mom left, in addition to herself, she also had to raise Xiaoluo Xiaohong, two girls, and at this moment she felt that she was back in the era of extreme poverty.

is so old, it is indeed a little difficult to reach out to Daddy and Aunt to ask for money, so I can only tighten my belt to live...... Although the ancients said that "one year Qingzhi County, 100,000 snowflakes of silver", Qin Xiao has become an official one and a half grades higher than Zhixian County, but he still has not found a reasonable and legal way to embezzle and corrupt one or two silver.

The three in front of him are all top tyrants. Qin Xiao felt that he should slaughter them so that he could improve his living standard. I don't dare to say more, it shouldn't be a problem to win them one hundred and eighty taels of silver.

But who knows, Qin Xiao's proposal was rejected by the Governor.

"I haven't seen what a tael of silver looks like for many years, ten taels and one piece!"

"Deal!" Qin Xiao shuffled the cards with joy.

……

Zhu Youzhen and the three of them just played, and their skills were naturally not as good as Qin Xiao's, so they naturally lost all the way, and at the end of the day, Qin Xiao won three hundred taels of silver in one fell swoop. Of course, in order to "appease" them, Qin Xiao still occasionally released water to give them a chance to win. Lest you lose and win, no one will be interested in playing all the time.

The godfather was very unconvinced that he had lost one hundred and forty taels of silver yesterday, and as soon as it was dawn, he called Qin Xiao, Zhu Youzhen, and Zhao Bin to continue the fight.

Always play a game, and if you play too much, you will naturally get tired, and Qin Xiao taught them several poker games such as "enough", "running fast", "red three and red five". Yang Yinglong: They are playing even more hilarious!

The so-called upward and downward effect, the officials saw that the governor was playing so well, so they simply came to "investigate and study", and the three layers of the table of the eight immortals were full of people. Within three days, poker games also quickly became popular among them, and they also compared the gourd to draw a scoop of homemade poker, and dozens of big tents under the sword gate have become poker casinos.

Until the moment before the age of 9,000, they were still playing cards. This was five days after the second report from the 9,000-year-old.

The officials didn't bother to clean up the card field, so they rushed out of the big tent to welcome the 9,000-year-old.

So far, this is the most luxurious honor guard Qin Xiao has ever seen, Qin Xiao can no longer use words to describe the luxury of this honor guard, anyway, it is at least twice as exaggerated as the emperor's travel lineup in any film and television drama. There were twenty-eight eunuchs accompanying him, one hundred and eight Jinyi guards, and three hundred and sixty Yulin soldiers accompanying him.

With the support of Wu De and other four little eunuchs, Wei Zhongxian stepped down from the dragon. Walking along a laid red carpet, slowly walked to the kneeling officials.

"Nine thousand years old auspicious!" The officials spoke in unison.

"Auspicious!"

The sharp-eyed Wei Zhongxian pushed away the four Wu De who were supporting him, bent over and ran all the way to the kneeling Zhu Youzhen, and hurriedly helped him up.

"Master, this is a tormenting old slave! The young master is the prince of a country, how can he bow to the old slave! I can't help it, I can't help it! ”

Zhu Youzhen disagreed, and said loudly: "You are my future father-in-law, Lord Taishan, I am your son-in-law, as a son-in-law, kowtow to my father-in-law, what is wrong!" Do you think it's appropriate? ”

"Right! Excellent! Excellent! Officials echoed with smiles.

"Good son-in-law, really a good son-in-law of our family!"

"Father-in-law, how is my father?"

"The emperor's dragon body is very good. This dragon bowl was given to our family by the emperor before leaving, and he was afraid that our family would be tired on the road. This dragon is comfortable inside, eating, drinking, and sleeping can be solved in it! Wei Zhongxian smugly glanced at the officials in front of him, and said in wonder, "Why didn't my cousin Qiu Chengyun come?" ”

Yang Yinglong looked at the officials behind him, and sure enough, he didn't see Qiu Chengyun's shadow, "I haven't paid attention yet, what about Lao Qiu?" ”

"He put me in confinement." Zhu Youzhen said dissatisfied.

Wei Zhongxian: "Beloved son-in-law, this father-in-law of our family did it, and Cheng Yun is your serious father-in-law, why are you still locked him up?" Could it be that something was wrong? ”

"Although your father-in-law did it, in Yujian's heart, you are closer than your relatives! Please father-in-law to give you a comment on the reason, some time ago he was disrespectful, scolded by the thrift is a mediocre and lascivious person, said that by the thrift is not able to support Adou, he also said, if one day I inherit the unification, it must be a faint king, Ming will definitely die in the hands of the thrifty! Father-in-law, you say, should I lock him up! ”

"This hasn't become a prince yet, so he dares to scold the prince, if he really becomes a prince, he won't be able to go to the sky and the dragon! It's time to close! ”

"Hmph, father-in-law, when You Jian becomes the emperor, you are not allowed to say that You Jian is a faint king! Otherwise, you will be locked up by frugality! ”

"Yes!" Wei Zhongxian took two steps back and gave Zhu Youzhen a look.

……

After the reception banquet, Yang Yinglong impatiently pulled Wei Zhongxian to the card field.

Wei Zhongxian only watched it for a while, and was attracted by this unheard of entertainment project.

Yang Yinglong hurriedly called Qin Xiao and asked her to teach Jiu Qian-year-old to play cards.

So, Wei Zhongxian joined the poker team that day, and it was the middle of the night when he played a dozen games.

At the end of the game, everyone went back to their tents to rest.

Zhu Youzhen also went back to his bed, he had just fallen asleep, but he felt in a daze that someone had gotten into his bed. He was about to shout, but the man covered his mouth.

Zhu Youzhen's first feeling was: It must be Wei Zhongxian who sent Jinyi Wei to assassinate him, and my life is over!