Hearing the words of the Empress Dowager Dou, several ladies only looked at each other, as if they were a little worried, the Empress Dowager Dou wanted to 'rejuvenate the teacher and ask the guilt'.

But when they saw the Empress Dowager Dou, the shallow smile that gradually came to her face, and the rare playfulness between her eyebrows, several ladies secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

"Concubines, etc., obey ······"

Bo opera, in fact, cannot be regarded as a product of the palace, at the beginning, it was a thing that arose among the people.

According to legend, Bo opera arose in the time of Yin Shang;

To be precise, most of the entertainment methods preserved in this era are basically the products of the Yin Shang period.

As a dynasty that entertained to death, Yin Shang left only these entertainment methods and novelties to this era and this nation.

And 'Bo Opera', as the earliest dǔ Bo method of Chinese civilization, is naturally widely loved by people all over the world.

Especially during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Bo Opera became a favorite form of entertainment for aristocratic sons.

It was only at the end of the Qin Dynasty and the beginning of the Han Dynasty that Chinese civilization experienced an all-round class reshuffle with no dead ends;

The nobles who used to be 'noble and low' were quickly replaced by the military nobles who established Liu Han Sheji.

Compared with the entertainment method of 'Bo Xi', these new nobles from martial arts obviously prefer some entertainment methods that can stimulate adrenaline and show the manly spirit.

For example, cockfighting~

Fighting dogs~

Or kemari, hunting, etc.

For Bo opera, the aristocracy does not like it;

And the common people are 'can't afford to like it'.

- After all, no matter how you say it, no matter how good this Bo drama is, it is still dǔBo in essence;

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the reason why Bo Opera became an exclusive means of entertainment for the aristocracy, in addition to its thin characteristics and the ability to naturally find the loopholes of human nature, was that this thing was only played by the aristocracy.

dǔ money, you have to have gambling money!

If you don't have any money in your hand, especially if you don't have any spare money, who would dare to go to the dǔ table?

During the Qin and Han dynasties, after decades of war, although from an individual point of view, Chinese civilization experienced an all-round class reshuffle, but on the whole, the productivity and wealth of Chinese civilization were poisoned by the flames of war and suffered a huge blow.

In the words of today's era, it is 'war for many years, devastated everywhere, and the world is in ruins'.

said that at the beginning of Liu Han's establishment, the treasury was poor and could run mice;

The dignified body of the Son of Heaven, Emperor Taizu Gao Liu Bang, could not find eight horses of the same color;

Prime Minister Cao Shen didn't even have a horse, so he could only take an ox cart up and down.

The Son of Heaven and the Prime Minister are still like this, and ordinary people are naturally even more unlikely to have spare money to go to the village entrance to play with others.

In this way, the nobles don't like the opera, and the people can't afford it, and over time, the opera has become a scenery that belongs only to the deep palace and the forbidden middle school.

The reason is also very simple: nobles born in martial arts will dislike Bo opera's 'girls chirp';

But these ladies in the palace, she is a girl herself!

Ordinary people will not dare to like gambling because they have no money;

But these ladies in the palace can be called the most 'rich and free' group in the world.

In addition, on weekdays, in addition to being ready to sleep at any time, the ladies in the palace have nothing else to do, and there is no venue requirement or threshold for this kind of entertainment.

After a long time, the ladies in the palace became 'dǔ sticks', which is a predictable thing.

However, compared with the public opinion that everyone shouted and beat in later generations, in today's era, there is still a relatively relaxed attitude towards the dǔ Bo method of play.

Especially those who like games, most of them are ladies in the palace, which makes public opinion more tolerant of games.

- The ladies in the palace, don't worry about eating and drinking on tidying up days, what's wrong with two dollars?

Even if you lose a fine light, that is, you feel uncomfortable, you will not be delayed in eating, wearing, living, and traveling.

Besides: compared to intrigue all day long, making the harem restless, it is not a bad thing to let these ladies have something to do.

It's just two pieces of jewelry~

If you lose, you can go and be coquettish with the emperor in Weiyang Palace, and ask for two things······

"It's a good thing that the fifth man led the army out to quell the rebellion~"

"It's a matter of earning face for my Liu family and promoting my Liu family's prestige."

"As a mother, Cheng Ji is worried about her son's safety, which is human nature."

"But worry is worry, it's really a critical juncture, Cheng Ji, and he shouldn't stop it."

"——The general seal of the fifth child was given by me personally."

"If you have any grievances, Cheng Ji, you can ······ at me"

Taking advantage of the time when the palace people went to get the game equipment, the Empress Dowager Dou seemed to say something casually, which caused Cheng Ji to hurriedly get up and kneel down in front of the Empress Dowager Dou obediently.

"The Queen Mother taught ······"

"As the biological mother of the prince, I should have known the severity;"

"-But the concubine was born in a small family, and she is very stupid on weekdays."

"When I thought of the son I gave birth to in September, I was going to the place where I was going to fight, and the concubine couldn't help but tremble······"

After three or two sentences, Cheng Ji's tone was already choked;

Quietly raised her head, and saw that the face of the Empress Dowager Dou gradually swelled up with a little sympathy, Cheng Ji simply lowered her head, knelt in front of the Empress Dowager Dou, and wiped her tears miserably.

Seeing Cheng Ji like this, Empress Dowager Dou couldn't bear it, so she hurriedly groped for the palace maid beside her, and stepped forward to help Cheng Ji up.

When Cheng Ji got up with a sob, Empress Dowager Dou took a deep breath, sighed bitterly and shook her head.

"What Cheng Ji said, I understand ······"

"-Don't say it's Cheng Ji, it's my old bone, and I'm also worried about my son who is traveling far away······"

"I'm also worried that the dangerous battlefield will take my son's life······"

With a mournful expression, she let out a lament, and was stunned for a moment, before the Empress Dowager Dou withdrew the worry and sadness on her face;

groping and stretching out her hand, when Cheng Ji took the initiative to step forward, Empress Dowager Dou took Cheng Ji's hand and patted it gently on the back of Cheng Ji's hand.

"Cheng Ji, don't be too sad;"

"Because this is the fate of the dragon son and the phoenix grandson······"

"——In the peaceful years, the dragon son and the phoenix grandson naturally have the world to support;"

"But when the country is in trouble, we need these clansmen, sons, princesses, and lords to stand up and ······ for the world."

"Cheng Ji, gave birth to a good son to the emperor;"

"Give me Liu's family, and give birth to a big husband who stands up to the sky."

"Even if this battle is a battle, the fifth child really has three longs and two shorts, Cheng Ji should be proud······"

The tone was full of gentle persuasion, which also provoked Cheng Ji to nod with sobs, and then saw Empress Dowager Dou squeeze out a smile and nod to Cheng Ji in front of her.

"Besides, the fifth child is raised well by Cheng Ji on weekdays;"

"—the bones of the body, as strong as a calf."

"Even when it comes to the crown, it has to be praised: it is a great husband!"

"Come to think of it, it is a place of life and death on the battlefield, with that body and bones, such a brave and martial spirit, plus the blessing of the ancestors, the fifth child, there is no mistake······"

"Huh?"

Feeling the authority of Empress Dowager Dou's words, Cheng Jizi also wept and nodded;

But seeing Empress Dowager Dou smiling, she pulled Cheng Ji's hand down, turned her head sideways, and looked in the other direction: "Wang Meiren, sit next to me too." ”

As soon as these words came out, the rest of the ladies were still as usual;

Only Li Ji had not recovered from the surprise that Cheng Ji was pulled by the Empress Dowager Dou and sat beside her, and when she saw that Wang Meiren was also called by the Empress Dowager Dou, she pulled down her face in an instant.

Regarding the change in Li Ji's complexion, Empress Dowager Dou seemed to be unconscious, and only took care of Cheng Ji and Wang Meiren by herself, and sat down on both sides of her;

Then, he looked at Cheng Ji with embarrassment.

"Wu and Chu rebelled, and Cheng Ji sent his son to quell the rebellion;"

After saying a word softly, Empress Dowager Dou turned her head again and looked at Wang Meiren on the other side.

"Earlier, the Huns sent an envoy to make peace with my Han family, Wang Meiren, and almost lost her daughter."

After that, the Empress Dowager Dou was just turning around, and her unfocused gaze only landed aimlessly outside the pavilion, among the inconspicuous weeds.

"And my son is also in Suiyang at the moment, waiting for ······"

"This is our life······"

"——Since you are married to a woman of the Liu family, you should be prepared for this day and for the loss of your son and daughter······"

Some sighs and feelings also made the atmosphere in the pavilion gradually become a little tragic;

Coupled with Cheng Ji's occasional sobs, the area around the pavilion was occupied by an inexplicable sadness and sorrow.

After a long time, when the palace people took the 'dǔ tools' needed for the game, Empress Dowager Dou took a deep breath and looked at Cheng Ji beside her again.

"Since the fifth child is out on the expedition, then Cheng Ji, don't play this 'game show';"

"Otherwise, if this matter spreads, I'm afraid that someone will say that I, a blind old woman, disregard the safety of my grandson and Cheng Ji's worries about my son, forcibly pull Cheng Ji and accompany me to have fun in the palace······"

Empress Dowager Dou said softly, but Cheng Ji raised her head leisurely.

Chu Chu looked at the Empress Dowager Dou pitifully, and quickly wiped away the tears on his face with his hands, before he forced out a smile and shook his head slightly at the Empress Dowager Dou.

"The concubine is stupid, the queen mother's teachings, the concubine doesn't understand it very well;"

But the concubine thought about it and vaguely understood some truths.

"——The son is on the expedition, and the concubine, as the mother, if she is depressed all day long, the son who is away on the expedition is afraid that she will also worry all day long."

"Distracted by worrying about his mother, and finally having a business trip on the battlefield, then this sin, the concubine is absolutely unaffordable······"

"Therefore, the concubine should perhaps make herself happy, so that her son, who is away on the expedition, does not need to be distracted by his depressed mother;"

"While concentrating on killing the enemy, you can also protect yourself from accidents on the battlefield?"

The slightly sad and faintly tentative words came out, which only provoked the sympathy on Empress Dowager Dou's face.

In the end, he just stretched out his hand, patted the back of Cheng Ji's hand again, and lamented again, but did not speak again······

After sitting like this for a while, Empress Dowager Dou still forced herself to get out of this inexplicably low mood;

Qiang Yan smiled happily and greeted the ladies sitting around the wooden case, and they were about to start today's 'game'.

"Since I called you here, then let me sit in the village;"

said a word softly, and without waiting for the Empress Dowager Dou to stretch out her hand, the wooden cup used for the game was picked up by Cheng Jiren beside her and handed to the Empress Dowager Dou.

Seeing this, the ladies on the side also hurriedly cheered up and forced themselves to adjust from the previous sad mood to the joy and relaxation that the game should have.

——At this moment, even as a dǔ technique, the meaning of the existence of Bo Opera has been pushed to a level that does not belong to it······

Click;

Click.

As the Empress Dowager Dou held the wooden cup with both hands, she symbolically shook it back and forth, and in the wooden cup with the opening facing up, a wooden strip with black characters was thrown out.

Knowing that Empress Dowager Dou's eyes were inconvenient, Mrs. Cheng on the side hurriedly stretched out her hand, picked up the wooden stick and took a look, and put it in front of Empress Dowager Dou with a smile.

"It's six;"

Hearing Cheng Ji's words, several ladies shook their heads and smiled, and each looked for the jewelry on their bodies that could lose to the Empress Dowager Dou······

At this moment, the Empress Dowager Dou and several ladies are playing the 'six games' in the game;

The six blogs are divided into big blogs and small blogs.

In between, Xiaobo is a bit more complex, consisting of six chopsticks and twelve chess pieces.

Twelve chess pieces, each side gets six pieces, which are located on the chessboard in the 'main array';

The six chopsticks are roughly equivalent to the dice of later generations, with the words one, two, three, four, five, and six written on them.

When playing Xiaobo, the two sides alternate 'dice', sifting out a few, you can move one of your chess pieces a few steps, one step can not be more, one step can not be less.

In the end, whichever side takes the lead in dropping its six pieces to the opponent's 'home formation' will win.

In this way, this 'Little Liubo' can also be said to be the original version of flying chess.

And today, what the Empress Dowager Dou and several ladies are playing is obviously Da Liubo.

- Because of the small six bo, only two people can play, and the big six bo has no limit on the number of people.

Compared with the small six games that count the dice first and then move the chess, the big six games are also simpler: only the dice are counted, and no chess is played.

Generally, the person sitting in the banker first sifts the number, and then the other players screen the number in order.

If the number screened out is larger than that of the banker, the player wins;

If the number screened out is smaller than that of the banker, the banker wins;

If the number screened out is the same as that of the banker, the banker still wins.

In this way, the big six Bo is actually equivalent to the size of the original version of the dice cup.

And this one, Empress Dowager Dou, as the banker, has taken the lead in scoring the largest 'six';

As the ladies of the player, no matter which number of the dice is one, two, three, four, five, six, it is the Empress Dowager Dou who wins.

Therefore, after seeing the dice chopstick with 'six' written on it in front of the Empress Dowager Dou, the ladies did not struggle much;

Those who only admitted to losing the bet each took out a piece of jewelry and put it on the wooden case in front of them.

In the next few handfuls, the situation was not much better.

- the second, the Empress Dowager Dou made five;

Except for "Again", Tang Ji, who was lucky and scored six, won back the hairpin she had exported from the Empress Dowager Dou, and the other ladies lost to the Empress Dowager Dou again.

In the third, the Empress Dowager Dou took out six, and the ladies paid for it.

Fourth, Empress Dowager Dou rarely scored a three, but only Tang Ji made a five, and once again took back her slightly shabby hairpin from the case.

By the fifth, Empress Dowager Dou played two, and all the ladies finally won once, but when Li Ji was unlucky to play 'one', the atmosphere gradually became a little wrong······

"When I went out, I was fine, but after a while, I didn't have any jewelry on my body!"

"Just like this, I went back to the palace, and those who don't know are afraid that I will say that I have met a villain!"

complained without suppressing his voice, but only caused the Empress Dowager Dou to let out a sneer indifferently.

"There's no jewelry, Kurihime can stop playing."

As soon as these words came out, several ladies turned their heads sideways, and in their eyes at Li Ji, there was also a little worry and persuasion;

Unexpectedly, when she heard Empress Dowager Dou's words, Li Ji snorted coldly, turned away, and put on a posture of 'if you don't play, you won't play'.

The body is not to pass, but Kurihime's mouth obviously hasn't had time to turn his back on everyone.

"Your Majesty only gave us a piece of jewelry for a year and a half, which is not as good as the Queen Mother, and there are so many jewelry that we can't use them up······"

Regarding Li Ji's muttering, Empress Dowager Dou didn't pay attention to it anymore.

continued to play several times, and the Empress Dowager Dou was still as lucky as ever, and she pulled out several fives and sixes in a row, and basically won the jewelry on several ladies.

At this time, Wang Meiren, who was beside the Empress Dowager Dou, spoke.

"On weekdays, concubines don't go out of their palace very much, and concubines don't know how to play this game;"

As she spoke, she saw Wang Meiren lower her head, took out a cloth bag wrapped in jewelry from her arms, and put it on the table in front of her without hesitation.

"There is only so much jewelry on the concubine's body."

"It's really not good at playing games, and I hope that the Queen Mother, don't blame ······"

Seeing Wang Meiren's posture of 'I admit defeat, all for you', although Empress Dowager Dou's face was as usual, she couldn't help but have a faint look of appreciation between her eyebrows.

On the other side of the Empress Dowager Dou, there was a burst of Mrs. Jia's trivial confession.

"How?"

"Mrs. Jia, this can't play me, so you have to send someone back to move the rescuers?"

"I still want to call the emperor here and call the shots for you~"

Looking at the palace people who had been ordered to leave, Empress Dowager Dou asked softly, but Mrs. Jia shook her head with a wry smile.

"The Queen Mother is rarely happy, and the concubine wants to play with the Queen Mother for a while;"

"It's just that I'm in a hurry when I go out, and I don't know how much jewelry I want to play, so I really don't have much jewelry on me."

"Then I sent my own people around me back, and then took some jewelry, so that I could have a good time with the Queen Mother······"

As she said, Mrs. Jia did not forget to turn her head slightly and smiled at Cheng Ji beside her.

"Mrs. Cheng, that's what it means······"

(End of chapter)