Lord Zhao was shocked in his heart, and said secretly: "What does this Lord Ling mean, this gluttonous mouth refers to greed, does it mean that I am greedy? There is no greed in the bottom...... It seems that this Lord Ling is also not easy to do, so let's wait for him to ask for money, alas......"

After thinking about it, Na Na replied, "Is this...... Xia Guan really doesn't know, Xia Guan has not long been here, and this is still ......built by the former prefect Li Kang Li, Lord Li."

Ling Lingqi saw Lord Zhao's frightened appearance, and comforted with a smile: "Don't be nervous, Lord Zhao, this son just said casually." Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info"

The banquet was set up in the flower hall under the hill in the backyard, although the flower hall was not big but very delicately arranged, revealing a Confucian style of Jiangnan scribes everywhere. Look at the hill again, although the name is called the mountain, in fact, it is a big mound, it may be the accumulation of excavated soil when digging the river in the past, but after many years of modification, it is a decent hill from afar, the trees and flowers on the mountain are lush and green, and the pavilion is also built eye-catching and clumsy.

Ling Lingqi smiled and asked at the pot of small fish that had just come up on the table, "May I ask Lord Zhao, what kind of fish is this, it is so small as a finger but the taste is so delicious, and there are no bone spurs, I have never eaten this fish before......"

Lord Zhao listened to Ling Ling Qizan ask about some fish, and replied excitedly: "The name of this fish is 'cauliflower infatuation', it is still a small fish unique to the local area, this fish is small, the back is black-brown, the abdomen is almost pale yellow, the body side has black-brown markings, fleshy and thornless, the fattest season is still when the cauliflower blooms, and now it is very rare in winter, so I specially brought some for Lord Ling, so that adults can taste the taste." ”

Hearing Lord Zhao say this, Ling Lingqi remembered a little, there was once such a small fish, but with the increasing prosperity of science, this kind of small fish may have long been extinct, at least Ling Lingqi has never seen or eaten, and today he can eat this "cauliflower idiot" in this Great Song Dynasty It can be regarded as making up for his big regret, and he nodded again and again to praise it.

Lord Zhao smiled again and said: "Zhang Han, a Jin man, once sighed: 'Because I saw the autumn wind rising, I thought about Wuzhong mushroom vegetables, ulva soup, and sea bass. The sea bass he said actually includes this 'cauliflower infatuation'......"

Ling Ling Qiqi said: "There was this fish in the Jin Dynasty, such a good fish was extinct, it's a pity......"

"Extinct? There are still a lot of fish here, but there are no extinctions? Lord Ling is interested in coming back to eat at the beginning of spring next year, the fish at that time are very fatty......" Of course, Lord Zhao didn't understand Ling Lingqi's words, and Ling Lingqi thought that this was too wrong for the era, so he smiled and diverted the topic.

Originally, there was an unwritten rule in the officialdom of the Great Song Dynasty to invite guests to drink, that is, they often invited official prostitutes to accompany the wine, and today I saw Ling Lingqi coming over with a woman, this Lord Zhao is not good at inviting official prostitutes, so there is no good place to go and have fun after drinking, which makes Lord Zhao really hurt his brain.

After a few teas, Lord Zhao asked tentatively, "I wonder what kind of pastime Lord Ling has in his spare time?"

"Nothing?" Ling Lingqi replied, not understanding Lord Zhao's true intentions, Lord Zhao grabbed his scalp and said, "Hand talk, dice, pai gow, ?......."

Hand talk is to play chess, Ling Lingqi has never been very good at chess in his life, it can be said that these entertainment activities, he basically rarely participated in his previous life, after all, he is a soldier, a master of national arts, and almost all his energy is used to practice national arts.

"There's a new thing that I don't know Lord Ling is interested in, it's really fun, Xia Guan never gambles on weekdays, but after discovering this game, he studied it very carefully, why don't you give ?......it a try?"

"What is new, take it out and take a look...... Ling Lingqi became a little interested, and it was still normal for people to see strange hunting new things.

Lord Zhao poured out a large pile of small squares made of animal bones in a cloth bag, and the small squares were engraved with different characters......

"Mahjong?" Ling Lingqi exclaimed.

"Huh...... How did Lord Ling know that this was called a sparrow? No......" Lord Zhao was also shocked, and looked even more excited than Ling Lingqi.

"Is there something wrong?" Ling Lingqi asked.

Lord Zhao frowned and replied while thinking, "Actually, Xia Guan doesn't know what the correct name of this thing is?"

It was Ling Lingqi's turn to be surprised again, and asked, "Didn't you say how I knew it just now?" didn't this mean that its name is 'Mahjong'......?"

"Here's the thing, Lord Ling knows that this Jiaxing has always been a place for official grain storage, and the officers and soldiers guarding the granary have always been relatively idle and have nothing to do, and their duties on weekdays are to fight sparrows, carry grain, and sweep the ground, etc.; A few days ago, the lower officials inspected the granary, and the few grain guards were lazy to play with this thing, and when they saw that the lower officials were so frightened that they hid this thing, the lower officials deliberately asked them what they were doing, and they answered blindly with their eyes open, saying that they were 'beating sparrows', and they were searched out by the lower officials and taught a very good lesson. However, when Xia Guan saw that this thing was indeed a fun thing, he taught people to make a set according to the details, and the name was called 'Sparrow'......"

"Oh, it turns out that this mahjong was invented like this?" Ling Ling Qixin said: "Yes, this Jiaxing dialect sparrow and mahjong have the same pronunciation, and when it is spread outside, the mahjong becomes mahjong...... "It seems that this Jiaxing has also made a little contribution to the history of Chinese gambling, hehe."

Next, Ling Lingqi picked up the mahjong again, changed the improperly configured Tiaowan, rearranged it according to the modern more perfect method, and skillfully explained the better use of the gauge, until the Lord Zhao listened to it completely in front of the table, and did not come back to his senses for a long time, and several of the bureaucrats under him were also shocked with their mouths open......

"Lord Ling is really still a god...... No wonder he has become a pillar of the court at such a young age......" Lord Zhao and his subordinates sincerely knelt down in the place at this time and bowed to Ling Lingqi.

Ling Lingqi got up and said goodbye: "This small gamble is pleasant, a big gamble is lost, don't indulge in it, Lord Zhao, you should be a good official, relieve the worries of the people, remember the words of this son." It's the second watch, my son went back to the ship, and tomorrow I will sail to Wangjiagang to stop for a while, and burn incense in the Nuwa Temple, so don't send it. ”

Lord Zhao immediately said: "Xiaguan will accompany Lord Ling into the temple tomorrow to burn incense, I hope that Lord Ling will give him a thin face, and Xiaguan sincerely admires Lord Ling's ......" This Lord Zhao really admired Ling Ling 70,000 points when he came, and he was respectful like his own father and mother. (To be continued.) )