Chapter 56: The Quintessence of the Nation
Tao Yao stood on the side timidly, Ding Muxue was also very relieved when she saw her appearance, and there was no sound in the apse.
"Where are you from?" It took a long time for the queen to squint her eyes and open her mouth.
"Back to Niangniang's words, the folk girl has lived in Panjiang City since she was a child." Tao Xiaoxiao hurriedly knelt down again.
"Oh? Listen to your accent......" The queen frowned.
"Hui Niangniang, although the folk girl grew up in Panjiang City, her mother is from Xiaocheng, and she often travels back and forth to Beigao with her father, so her accent is a little miscellaneous." Tao Yao said tremblingly, and her voice was slightly crying.
Her accent is not like a simple Beigao accent, nor is it like the accent of Nansu, thanks to the place where she came from, so it is understandable.
"I see, but this palace mentioned your sadness." The queen nodded, not much of a reaction.
"Bold, dare to cry in front of the mother, you are guilty!" Ding Muxue didn't have such a good temper, and reprimanded unrelentingly.
"The people's girls are guilty, the people's girls are guilty!" Hearing this, Tao Yaoyao didn't have the slightest hint of rebuttal, and kowtowed in a panic.
"All right, he who does not know is not guilty." The queen waved her hand, seemingly impatient with Ding Muxue's interruption.
"Xie Niangniang is benevolent, no wonder Ah Huang said that the queen is a good person!" Tao Yaoyao directly wiped her tears with her sleeve, looked at the queen with a sincere face and said.
"Oh? Who is Ah Huang? When the queen heard this, she was really interested.
"Ah Huang is his father's partner, in order to protect the people's daughter in the banditry...... However, Ah Huang is well-informed, and always says that today's Niangniang is kind and charitable, and she is a living Bodhisattva. Today, Zhao'er was originally frightened, but when she saw that Niangniang's true face was really such a loving Buddha statue, Zhao'er was not so afraid. Tao Xiaoyao first remembered for a moment, then blinked, trying to make herself look innocent and ignorant.
"Haha, it's a sharp-toothed girl. Say, why did you enter the palace? The queen did not respond directly.
The main topic finally came, and Tao Yaoyao's heart was excited. She lowered her head, if this question was not answered well, it would be a matter of threatening her life. Her eyes drifted left and right, and finally landed on the sack.
Tao Yaoyao was overjoyed in her heart, knelt down three times, and said: "The folk girl doesn't dare, the folk girl is the daughter of a carpenter, and my father taught the folk girl a lot of interesting things." The prince was merciful, and after saving the people's daughter, he wanted to do something with these things, but the people's daughter was helpless, and if she really had a place to stay, it would be considered a blessing. It's just that the folk girl didn't know that it was His Royal Highness King An, and she thought it was just an ordinary rich businessman......" Tao Yaoyao said little by little, very fluently.
"You're lying! Your Highness is wandering around, you haven't seen anything, you haven't heard of anything, and those things of yours are also worthy of the prince's look? It's clear that you deliberately seduce-" Ding Muxue was a little excited when she heard this, if her aunt really believed such nonsense, wouldn't all these efforts she had made be in vain?
"The people don't dare to talk nonsense, every sentence is true, the mother or invite the prince to come to confront her, if there is a mistake, the people are willing to die to apologize, and they will never dare to deceive the mother." Tao Yaoyao looked very aggrieved and kowtowed.
"Your Royal Highness doesn't have to bother with business anymore, since it's something that Your Royal Highness is interested in, it's better to show it to the palace." The queen said softly.
Today, she deliberately took care of it away, if she called someone over at this time, wouldn't she slap herself in the face. Tao Xiaoyao also probably guessed this, so he was bold and ashamed.
"Back to the queen's mother, it's a coincidence, the folk girl just went to get this thing today, and she was invited before she entered the house." Tao Xiaoyao carried the cloth bag in his hand.
"Someone—" the queen commanded.
The little eunuch below immediately presented the cloth bag in Tao Yaoyao's hand in front of the queen.
"Is this it? These jades are all ordinary goods, could it be that you are using this to fool the mother? Ding Muxue looked at the pile of jade pieces of the same shape, and was already waiting for this woman to be sentenced to death.
The queen remained silent, but looked at Tao Xiaoxiao with her eyes.
"Niangniang's mind is Huilan, so she naturally knows that these things are not just jade blocks." In a word, you are stupid. Tao Yaoyao replied to Ding Muxue defiantly in her heart, but she didn't show it at all at this moment.
"Humph!" Ding Muxue is not easy to refute, and she can't refute this, otherwise it will be disrespectful?
"Back to Niangniang, this thing needs four people to play, and I invite Niangniang to come to Fengjia in person." Tao Yaoyao said.
The queen was also aroused, although the jade pieces in her hand were of average quality, there were many different patterns on them.
"Boldly Diao Min, you dare to bother Feng Jia, you are tired of living!" Ding Muxue was a little annoyed, things didn't develop according to her expectations at all, and it seemed that they were going in the opposite direction.
"I heard that the poker brought back by the second brother is really interesting, since it is something he likes, it should not disappoint the prince, and the prince will make up a number." Gu Zhixian, who had never spoken, actually spoke, and still helped Tao Yaoyao, which made Tao Yaoyao a little surprised.
"Your Highness." Tao Yaoyao saluted naked.
Seeing this, the queen also nodded.
Ding Muxue couldn't bear it when she saw this scene, and said: "This princess also wants to see how fresh it is, if you have a trace of deception-" The threat was obvious.
"The folk girl doesn't dare, the folk girl needs a square table and four chairs." Tao Yaoyao said.
With a look at the queen, someone went to do it, and the work efficiency was very high, and she immediately moved to a square table with pear wood carved phoenixes.
"Please sit on the four sides of the table." Tao Yaoyao commanded, and after everyone sat down, he finally fell off the table.
"Let's talk about it, how to play." Ding Muxue urged, obviously dissatisfied with Tao Yaoyao's step-by-step operation like setting a trap.
"Princess, don't worry, this rule should be said in advance, there are a total of one hundred and forty-four jade plaques here, and forty-two patterns in six categories. Wanzi cards, cake cards, strip \ / sub cards are from one to nine each four, wind cards east, south, west, north each four, arrow in the middle, hair, white, each four, flower cards spring, summer, autumn, winter, plum, orchid, bamboo, chrysanthemum each one. Each of the four people sits once in a circle. Every four rounds or the specified time is reached, one game......" Tao Yaoyao said one by one, and as she spoke, she also found the jade pieces in her hand and showed them so that they could better understand.
Tao Yaoyao explained the card type, how to win, how to punish the card, and how to calculate the winner's chips, and surprisingly Ding Muxue did not interrupt a word or word throughout the whole process, but listened carefully, and looked at some jade pieces in his hand from time to time, and nodded subconsciously.
Several people are smart people, and they will naturally understand it after explaining it, and the next step is the actual operation.
"Mother, can you try to play around?" Tao Yaoyao asked softly with some caution.
The queen nodded, and shook the jade pieces on the table in the way Tao Yaoyao said, and then disrupted them. As a result, Tao Yaoyao's first song card game in this world came into being.
"Look, I am the quintessence of Great China, famous all over the world, and I can't attract a few of you ancients? Hehe. Tao Yaoyao smiled secretly in her heart, as long as the other party took the bait, she was not worried about the other party not being attracted at all.
Because, this is mahjong!
"Hongu—Huh." The queen lightly pushed the cards in her hand down, although she looked very calm, but the slight trembling of her jade fingers revealed a trace of excitement in her heart, all of which were right to Hu.
"Niangniang is really smart, she deserves to be the phoenix mother of the country, and her luck is beyond the reach of ordinary people!" Tao Xiaoxiao immediately patted the horse's ass.
This ancient woman is really too idle, there is no TV, no computer, no mobile phone, so I give them a pair of mahjong, they can fight until they are old. Tao Yaoyao felt extremely happy in her heart for her clever plan, if these people had something to do, they wouldn't be thinking about trouble with her all day long.
"Huh." In the second game, Gu Zhixian didn't take long to knock down the cards.
"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is amazing! It is worthy of the hope of the future of my South Sudan! The vague meaning of Tao Xiaoxiao made Gu Zhixian look at her deeply.
Unconsciously, it was evening, and the four of them devoted themselves to the mahjong business without sleeping or eating, and the queen even saved lunch. The result of a few laps is that the queen is the big winner, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is close behind, Tao Yao Hu has two cards that can not be smaller, and Ding Muxue is lost from beginning to end, not a single card Hu.
"No more playing! Don't play anymore! Ding Muxue was angry, she was finally about to win, and she stopped the other party from the right pair, and she finally vented her anger after holding back all afternoon.
"Mu Xue must not be rude, as a princess, she doesn't know how to accommodate it!" The queen is also not happy, she is a hand of all cards, can she be happy with a push for Ding Muxue.
"Auntie forgive sins." Ding Muxue hurriedly admitted her mistake after reacting.
"The hour is not early, and the mourning family is lacking. This thing is left here to relieve the boredom of the mourning family, come on, reward! Seeing this, the queen didn't say much, but directly left mahjong, rewarded a set of glazed porcelain vases, and let everyone disperse.
Tao Yaoyao also lost a sigh of relief in her heart, and it seems that she used the right trick. She is the daughter of a carpenter, so it is not uncommon to know some such things, and it is not surprising that His Royal Highness is interested in these things, and the two hit it off. It seems that in the queen's heart, her threat is much smaller.
Tao Yaoyao was right, the queen was indeed thinking like this, not only that, but Tao Yaoyao's actions also made the queen relax her vigilance against Gu Zhiqi. But there was one person who looked at her from beginning to end, intentionally or unintentionally, and Tao Xiaoxiao didn't notice it.
When Tao Xiaoxiao returned to the palace with a big box of wealth and splendor, Gu Zhiqi had been waiting in Taoxiangyuan for a long time.
"But the queen is embarrassed by you?" Gu Zhiqi saw that people were safe, and hurriedly stepped forward to take a look.
He was inexplicably recruited into the palace early in the morning, but there was nothing important, and when he returned to the palace, he saw that Tao Xiao was gone, and asked the next person only to say what the wooden girl was going to do, and after waiting for a long time without seeing a figure, he sent someone to Linglong Pavilion to inquire, only to know that the person had already left. Only then did it suddenly dawn, I was afraid that something bad would happen to the peach.
"No, no, the queen is very good to me, look! I was also rewarded with a pair of expensive vases! Tao Xiaoyao shook her head, for some reason she just couldn't care much about this man.
"Zhao'er is really smart!" Gu Zhiqi was stunned, looking at the big box a little distracted, and suddenly chuckled for a while.
"Shall we make a deal?" Tao Xiaoyao also smiled.
"What's Zhao'er's idea again?" Gu Zhiqi looked at her.
"Mahjong, we're five or five!" The confident and bright smile of the peach blossom is like a red glow under the reflection of the peach blossoms in the garden, but although the peach blossoms are beautiful, there are times when they fall.
Tao Yaoyao doesn't want to be the scattered mud, what she wants to do is the sky eagle! The eagle is finally in abundance and is flying in the air!