HLnovel Chapter 496: Try Something New
Chapter 496: Try Something New
The village head's wife, Mrs. Dou, said: "Why didn't you inform us in advance? If I had known you were coming back, I would have waited for you to eat together."
Tang Yanyi's wife also said, "It's okay. It's not too late to come back now. I'll cook a few dishes for you, sister-in-law."
Everyone said all kinds of things, but she could feel the real concern.
This level of enthusiasm made Xiao Qingxue, who was usually not willing to interact with the villagers,
I actually feel that it is not bad to go back to the village to celebrate the New Year, rather than to stay in the intrigue-filled Bo's Mansion or my own deserted mansion.
"Stop working, we ate some on the way back."
"Okay, don't be shy to tell me you're hungry. Eat some preserved fruit first. I'll cook dumplings in the middle of the night."
Cooking dumplings at midnight on New Year’s Eve is called “changing the year and changing the year”, which means the replacement of the old with the new.
It symbolizes "joyful reunion" and "good luck".
When Tang Yanli and Shen Zhiqiu got together, Tang Yanli insisted on playing chess with Shen Zhiqiu.
As a result, Shen Zhiqiu said: "Let's not play chess. If we want to play, why not play something new?"
"What's new?"
Shen Zhiqiu didn't directly answer what it was, but called Fugui and the others to get the mahjong that he had asked the boys to make.
He originally started doing mahjong because he felt that sometimes people who came to purchase goods were afraid of not being able to wait in line, so they came very early.
Their business was good, and those customers would stay all day long, so they wanted to find something to entertain them.
Shen Youyou asked her brothers to make mahjong tiles.
After a while, Shen Fugui and his companions brought it and packed it in small bamboo boxes.
This thing is new and no one has ever seen it before, so many people were attracted by it.
But there were only ten pairs made in total, so they were divided up and most people just looked at them.
However, both Shen Zhiqiu and his wife are good at playing mahjong, so the man Shen Zhiqiu taught himself and the woman learned from Li Jingshu.
They first explained in detail to everyone: "Everyone, please listen carefully, there are exactly 136 tiles in this mahjong!
This includes the following major categories: Wan, Tiao, Tong and Zipai.
Come, everyone, take a look at these ten thousand cards, arranged from the smallest ten thousand to the largest ninety thousand;
The same is true for the strip cards, which increase from one to nine; the tube cards are no exception, which increase from one to nine.
As for the character cards, there are seven types: East, South, West, North, Center, Fortune, and White.
While saying this, Shen Zhiqiu and Li Jingshu kept explaining,
While he kept picking up the corresponding mahjong tiles and showing them to everyone,
Then, Shen Zhiqiu continued: "Let's play mahjong.
In fact, to put it bluntly, you have to find a way to combine the existing cards in your hand to come up with some useful hand patterns.
For example, a straight is like 10,000, 20,000, and 30,000. Three consecutive cards are considered a straight.
Another example is Ke Zi, which is three identical cards put together.
And only when the cards in our hands meet certain requirements and conditions, we are eligible to win the game."
As soon as he finished speaking, he quickly presented various winning styles to everyone, and then explained the relevant rules in detail one by one.
So that everyone can more intuitively distinguish what Wan, Tiao, and Tong are, as well as what those "character cards" look like.
Everyone is quite curious about mahjong. After all, in this era, there are very few activities that can provide entertainment for everyone.
Therefore, everyone listened very carefully.
Shen Zhiqiu and his wife continued to introduce: "This game requires four people to play. We each occupy the four directions of east, west, south and north. We first decide where to start drawing cards by rolling the dice.
It has a wind circle sequence, first everyone takes turns to draw cards and play cards,
During the process, you can eat (use the cards played by the previous player to form a straight), touch (use the cards played by other players to form a triplet), and gang (if you have three identical cards,
The rule is to open a gang when someone else plays or you draw the same card. "
Finally, the rules of winning were explained.
"There are many types of winning hand patterns, such as Ping Hu, Qing Yi Se (all cards of the same suit), etc. When your cards form a pattern that meets the rules, you can win the game."
Although the couple both like to play mahjong, they never thought that one day if they wanted to play mahjong, they would have to teach others how to play mahjong first.
When we first started playing, there were ten mahjong tables and forty people playing.
Shen Zhiqiu and Li Jingshu were the type who went through each table one by one, directing them how to play.
But mahjong has a lot of rules and regulations, so it is a bit difficult for two people to teach forty people.
I could only call back Shen Youyou, who was sweating profusely from playing wildly, and ask her to follow along and teach.
Shen Youyou is actually okay at playing mahjong. She can't be said to be obsessed with it. It's okay to kill time, but the main reason is that not many people are willing to play with her.
Her parents are not willing to take her to play, mainly because she is smart and always wins money.
"Aunt, why are you just standing there in a daze?
Look, the pancakes that were just made are four pancakes!
Why aren't you confused? Come on, take a closer look at this.
Here are two loaves, three loaves, four loaves, five loaves and six loaves. Do you see them?
This means that not only one cake can make a hand, but also four cakes, and even seven cakes are no problem!
So, don’t always focus on the cards on the sides, the cards in the middle are sometimes very important too!”
After saying this, she turned her attention to Aunt Ma Zi beside her and continued to give instructions enthusiastically:
"Auntie, you play cards well! Keep it up. No matter which cards come from either side, just be bold and make a fool of yourself!"
At the beginning, everyone was a little unfamiliar with the game, and the movements of playing cards were a little clumsy.
Occasionally, some small jokes would occur because we didn't understand the rules.
However, after a few rounds of playing, everyone gradually became familiar with the process and rules of the game.
Before long, the originally somewhat bumpy scene became much smoother.
At this moment, the entire plastic shed was filled with the sound of playing cards.
"forty thousand"
"Three Articles"
"bump!"
Listening to this voice, it's so intimate.
As Shen Youyou and her family of three were teaching, they felt a little itchy to play, after all, they hadn't played for a long time.
However, Li Jingshu and Shen Zhiqiu refused to sit at the same table with Shen Youyou no matter what.
Tang Yanli and his wife, as well as everyone else in Tangjia Village, thought that the two people were embarrassed to play with their children and thought that their victory was unfair.
But only the people of the Nine Clans had a vague feeling in their hearts that there might be something else going on.
So on the table that Shen Youyou finally made, there were Tang Wenzheng, Mr. Tang Sanye, and Mr. Tang Qiye.
"Two loaves."
"bump!"
"Four"
"Confused!"
In the first round, Shen Youyou got the cards quickly. The three old men felt like they hadn't played a few rounds of cards yet.
She was confused. Was it the kind of fraud that Xiao Sanzi just mentioned?
We have to look carefully, in case we are trying to fool those old men.