Entering the palace the next day, Yu Zuo really chatted with Fu Xuechen about the royal family's desire to buy out the secret recipe for the manufacture of telescopes, but fortunately, under Fu Yuchen's reminder, Fu Xuechen had already received instructions from his parents, and he reached a consensus with Yu Zuo very smoothly, and verbally agreed on the conditions for cooperation with each other.

When the two of them go back to report home, the follow-up will no longer have to be worried about the two young children, and the parents behind them will take over and intervene, and their main current task is still to study.

In Fu Xuechen's memory, she has been in school for more than 20 years in her two lifetimes combined, and she has been working in the society for less than two years, and she has long been used to it, but she is also very tired, but fortunately, she only needs to replace Fu Yuchen for three months in this life, and the time has passed in a little more than a month, and there will be three days off on the Holy Birthday Day later.

Holy Birthday Festival is not a fixed holiday, it is celebrated on which day of the year, determined by the birthday of the Queen Mother, each dynasty and each generation is different, and it is not a must be celebrated every year, but once every ten years.

In addition, there is the emperor's birthday longevity festival, the queen, the imperial concubine, the crown prince's birthday thousand autumn festival, as long as the person is there, every ten full birthday must be passed, so that there can be a lot of holidays, so that the subjects of the world come to rest and celebrate.

During the period when Fu Xuechen was a companion, the nearest holiday was the Holy Birthday Day of the Queen Mother's 70th birthday this year, and it was only seven days away from today.

There is a folk liveliness among the people, inside and outside the court, up and down the court, all the royal relatives, noble and high-ranking officials, are thinking about how to give birthday gifts to the queen mother.

Birthday gifts should be given in line with their own status, neither can surpass the status of people higher than themselves, but also decent and not rude, it is best not to spend too much, and let the main owner of the gift appreciate and remember, this is really a very brain-burning worry, many people ponder for many days, and in the end may not come up with new tricks, and they can only ignore everyone.

The interesting story that Fu Xuechen can think of about giving the queen mother's birthday gift is that in the film and television dramas of his previous life, he Shen gave a pair of longevity characters made of pearls, inlaid on the screen, which is extremely luxurious, and the other extreme is Ji Xiaolan, who is known as a poor literati, who gave a pair of birthday couplets.

As the Holy Birthday Day approached, the princes couldn't help but talk about it with their companions, not only curious to find out what kind of birthday gifts would be prepared by the companions, but also to find inspiration for their own gifts.

Even Yu Zuo was not exempt from vulgarity, and between classes, he chatted with Fu Xuechen for a few words.

"The imperial grandmother has always been kind to my mother, and when I was young, I was even carried by the imperial grandmother to her yard to raise her for a lot of time."

When Yu Zuo mentioned this, he admired the Queen Mother, but this also made him quite annoyed: "In previous years, the imperial grandmother liked the birthday greetings written by my mother, and also liked the various essays and essays hand-copied by my mother, but in the past two years, the imperial grandmother's eyes have been a little spent, and the words are not very refreshing, and it is a little inappropriate to send these things again!" Even if the imperial grandmother doesn't mind, my mother is also afraid that others will make irresponsible comments about it, alas! It's so hard! ”

The ancient materials are not abundant, far from being compared with later generations, except for the dry goods of the mountains and seas, nourishing and nutritious, gold, silver and jewelry, classic calligraphy and painting, there are probably only antiques and curiosities.

In addition to these gifts, you can also choose many technological products! Before Fu Xuechen crossed, there were even companion simulated smart pets designed for the elderly, not to mention other electronic products that can help the elderly in their daily lives, such as chatbots, smart heaters, and so on.

"I'll give you a gift sample in two days!" Fu Xuechen thought about it and felt that he could help Yu Zuo.

For Fu Xuechen, who has experienced the endless emergence of various rich materials in later generations, fresh gifts can really come up with several things in the blink of an eye.

At the same time as giving Yu Zuo ideas, she even thought of the birthday gifts that her parents could give, and she could go back to give her parents ideas, and I believe that they would happily agree after listening to her ideas.

Yu Zuo originally just spit out, and he didn't think that he could help with any ideas, but when he suddenly heard Fu Xuechen's affirmative words, he was stunned: "What kind of gift is it?" ”

Fu Xuechen smiled: "It is a kind of pastime that is very suitable for the ladies of the rich and noble families." ”

Yu Zuo was puzzled: "Leaf card? ”

"It's almost, but it's not a leaf card, I can't understand it before I make it." Fu Xuechen didn't know if there was mahjong in the Darong Empire, so he had to find out first.

But most of them are not, the formation of mahjong in the previous life seems to be in the late Ming and Qing dynasties, before that, mahjong is not called mahjong, called leaf cards, it is the appearance of solitaire, only the preliminary tube Suowan, there is no white and eight flower cards in the southeast and northwest, the total number of cards is not much, and the rules of play are very simple.

Yu Zuo glanced at Fu Xuechen in surprise, in the Darong Empire, the leaf card is a very popular pastime, from the dignitaries to the ordinary people, almost all men, women and children can play, he can't think of what kind of new pastime Fu Xuechen can make, it can be said that it is similar to the leaf card, but it is not the leaf card?

After all, he could see the sample soon, and Yu Zuo didn't continue to ask.

Two days passed in a blink of an eye, and on this day, Fu Xuechen brought the sample mahjong into the palace smoothly and handed it to Yu Zuo in the air.

This is a pair of mahjong tiles made of sandalwood, the size and weight are similar to the mahjong tiles of later generations, the first half of the white primer is painted, depicting the standard of various suits, and the back half is brushed with dark red paint.

"This is called mahjong tiles, also called finch tiles, in order to draw a quick word, I let people use small leaves of rosewood to build, if you want to pursue luxury and luxury, you can change to jade white jade or ivory and other materials to make."

Fu Xuechen first gave a brief explanation to Yu Zuo, and then carefully provided him with the basic rules of mahjong tiles, four people open a table, eat bumper bars and listen to Hu, as well as the most basic rules of counting.

"There are many variations of mahjong tiles, and if you are tired of playing this one, I can also provide you with other ways to play." Fu Xuechen confidently concluded.

After thinking about it, Fu Xuechen reminded again: "Because the rules of the game include the number of chips, this thing is the same as Pai Gow, it is very easy to be taken to the casino and become a new gambling device. ”

That is to say, the people always like to imitate the aristocracy, mahjong tiles if they are prevalent among the nobility, it is difficult to prevent its play and form from spreading to the people at the bottom, people who like to gamble, bet on anything can be gambled, there is no mahjong tiles they can play pai gow, this is very helpless, the problem of the century, can not be solved.