Chapter Seventy-Six: The Game

Since the next morning, Rui Wei has never spoken to Wang Shaoting, before I was driving with my father, the two of them sat in the car, and suddenly she was the co-pilot, and my father had to restrain his smoking addiction and sit in the car. Because Miss Rui also said that although she was no longer sitting in the car, she didn't want any smoke in the car.

Not only that, but when it was time to eat, the atmosphere at the dinner table was also extremely dull, which was the biggest torture for a talkative character like me! But what's even more terrifying is that these two people will still talk to me, but they will talk to each other, as if they are secretly scrambling, to see who I can deal with better, so that I am caught in the middle, and I am simply exhausted of splinting.

Although I also used my three-inch tongue to try to mediate again and again, but this time it was obvious that Rui Wei was really angry, and he couldn't listen to persuasion at all, Wang Shaoting also began to be stubborn, oil and salt did not enter, and the dead pig was not afraid of boiling water, and in the end, even I couldn't stand it, so I simply let them go.

After walking for less than two days, the eastern capital of Luoyang was already close at hand, and that night, we slept in a forest less than five miles outside the north city of Luoyang. After dinner, Rui Wei and Wang Shaoting immediately dispersed and sat under two trees far apart, one looking into the distance, and the other bowing his head in contemplation, both looking listless.

Seeing that the atmosphere was a little awkward, I took out a stack of pieces of paper from my bag and shouted, "Come on, come here, let's discuss the next step!" ”

When the two of them heard this, one looked helpless, and the other looked reluctant, but they both stood up and gathered together to me and my father.

Rui Wei walked up to me, saw the piece of paper in front of me, and asked in surprise, "What is this?" ”

I smiled mysteriously and said, "This is amazing, it's called playing cards, I made it myself, it's relatively simple, but it's still very fun!" ”

"Fun?" Wang Shaoting also looked surprised, "Didn't you say that you would discuss the next plan?" ”

"Oops, hey, let's play it first, and you'll understand when you get back." I shouted.

They knew I liked to be funny, so they stopped being picky and sat down honestly.

The paper was smeared with paste, then dried and flattened, and finally the simple version of the playing cards with the pattern drawn on them was washed, and the rules were explained to the four of them.

This card game that I recommend to them is called "Arch Pig".

The rules of the game are simply four people in each round of each card played, the first person played what suit, the rest of the people also have to follow what suit, and then whoever has the highest point, these four cards contain some specific cards will belong to this person.

There are three categories of "specific cards", the first of which is a good card, with only one, the J of diamonds, known as the "sheep", which represents +100 points.

The second category is the bad hand, which includes all the cards of hearts, and the 10 and below hearts are -10 points each, the jack is -20 points, the queen is -30 points, and so on.

And the biggest bad hand, the soul character in this game is the queen of spades, known as the "pig", which represents -100 points.

The last category is the neutral card, and there is only one, club 10, which means X2, regardless of whether the rest of the cards obtained are positive or negative, it will be doubled when it comes to club 10.

A deck of cards to remove the king is exactly divided into four parts, and after playing to the end of the cards in everyone's hand, calculate their respective scores, and the person with the most points wins.

Rui Wei, Wang Shaoting, and Father Yan are all very smart people, and although these rules sound a bit fancy, they quickly understand them. There is only one place that has caused a relatively large question, and that is the problem of negative scores.

"When you say minus 100 points, do you mean 100 points less?" Rui Wei first raised the question.

I thought about it, drew a coordinate axis on the ground, dotted a dot in the middle, and explained: "If 0 is this point, to the right is positive, to the left is negative, and negative means less than 0." ”

Rui tilted her head, as if she was not satisfied with my abstract explanation.

Wang Shaoting seemed to understand a little more, and said: "The meaning is like the reflection of a tree in water, the tree is physical and positive, and the reflection is virtual and negative." ”

Father Yan also interjected on the side and said: "It can also be understood in this way, plus 100 means that you owe me 100 yuan, and negative 100 means that I owe you 100 yuan." ”

I clapped my hands and laughed, "You are all geniuses!" The explanations are all correct, and the most familiar saying is that yang is positive, yin is negative, and yin and yang are mutually excesitive, and they can cancel each other out. ”

At this moment, Zi Rui Wei said as if he had been inspired all of a sudden: "Ah...... I wouldn't have understood if you had said that! ”

Wang Shaoting also said: "Counting the score is even the score, why do you have to make any positive or negative!" ”

Rui Wei also nodded and said, "That's it!" ”

I saw that these two people seemed to have forgotten each other's suspicions for the time being, and stood on the same front, and I couldn't help but laugh in my heart.

Actually, as they say, I could have changed these rules a little bit and changed them all to positive scores, and the same is true for the calculation of victory and defeat. But I deliberately kept this to keep the game as it is.

As for the meaning, I'd like to wait until the end of the game to explain.

So we started playing cards in a circle. I also took a long branch and was responsible for marking the ground next to everyone.

At first, it was very slow, because the three of them needed to constantly familiarize themselves with the rules, and there were some subtle rules, such as if someone no longer had someone else's suit, they could substitute another suit, and they would be considered the smallest.

And as the game progresses, everyone begins to understand the basic skills of winning cards, for example, strive to play a game other than hearts, and then when others come out of this door, they will stuff those "unfavorable cards" to others, or after the K and A of spades have appeared, try to find a way to play spades, and force the queen of spades, that is, the biggest dead star, to the person holding it, etc.

As I expected, games are the most forgettable, making it easier to focus on an atmosphere that everyone creates. Although it takes strategy to win, after all, everyone understands that this is just a game, and you will be happy when you win, and you won't be too frustrated when you lose. However, they often laugh together because of someone's mistake or embarrassment, and the mood is completely relaxed, and all worries are forgotten.

Of course, the protagonist of this mistake and embarrassment is basically me.

But when I played a certain round, I don't know why I played a hand of Tianhu, each of which was pitifully small, and there were almost no hearts, and I couldn't get any points if I wanted to. Rui Wei, on the other hand, seemed to have become particularly unhappy, catching up with her to score points in every round, and soon she had hearts piled up in her hand. As soon as I saw her little face tightened, her brows frowned, and I thought that something big was not good, this "little pig" was not the aunt and grandmother, she was not the lowest score among us, but with this one, it must be broken, I don't know how to let her go?

It's a pity that sometimes things are so coincidental, the more I want to save the field, the more I can't save it, sure enough, when it comes to the last round, the four people will light up the cards respectively, and Rui Wei left a "pig" in his hand!

Rui Wei threw the cards in his hand, and showed frustration on his face, I suddenly stood up, clapped and said, "Congratulations, you won!" ”

She was stunned for a moment and asked, "Obviously, I lost this point to the sky, where did I win?" ”

I pointed to the stack of splitting cards in her hand and said, "This is the last rule, when a person gets a pig, a sheep and all the hearts, it's called a 'pig and a sheep', and all the negative cards will be positive!" That's why you've overtaken us all! ”

They were a little surprised when they heard it, and Wang Shaoting immediately said: "Such an important rule, why didn't you say it earlier?" ”

I smiled and explained: "If you had said it earlier, you would have been mentally prepared, then you might not have been able to create such a situation, how can you be deeply impressed?" ”

Immediately sat down again and put away the cards in their hands, slowly spread them on the mat, and said: "Don't underestimate this simple set of cards, the words in this are very deep, such as this black and red, that is, yin and yang, that is, the poles of night and day." The four colors of hearts, squares, spades, and plum blossoms are the four seasons, and JQKA has a total of 12 cards, representing 12 months, which corresponds to some of the concepts of time that we are familiar with. ”

Because they are familiar with the lunar calendar, I didn't mention the points corresponding to the Gregorian calendar, and the meaning is enough.

"You just asked me, why don't you describe it all in positive and negative terms, and have to be so troublesome to divide what is positive and negative. That's because everything has yin and there must be yang, plus 100 and plus 200 are both yang, which are the same in nature, while minus 100 and plus 100 belong to the two poles of yin and yang respectively, which are completely opposite things and cannot be confused at will. I took the Pig and the Sheep in my hand and continued: "You must have felt that although the Sheep is a good card that everyone wants, it is very easy to get the other negative cards and even the Pig in your hand when you are desperately trying to get the Sheep. ”

After all, they had experienced it themselves, and they immediately understood and nodded.

"So, back to what we're going to do now, what is the Bloodrock Furnace? In my opinion, it is this sheep, everyone wants to get it, some people have reached the point of almost madness, then their biggest weakness, will be exposed when this thing is about to arrive, we just make full use of this condition, we can stuff the negative score to him, and finally get the sheep back intact! ”

Their eyes lit up when they heard me say this, and they were full of anticipation for what I was going to say next!

"Well, if the Blood Rock Furnace is a sheep, what is a pig?" I asked the question first.