dream of red mansion

Chapter 63 Catch a Thief in Jia Mansion
"no!"

Hearing that Jia Qing wanted to renege on the debt, everyone denied it with one voice.

It seems that there is no way to escape.Well, if you don't let you see what a joke is, you won't be convinced.Silently took the cardboards handed over by Xiren, and put them on the table, Jia Qing began to think about new jokes.

Hey, yes, don't you think the previous one is vulgar and lacks connotation?Give you the whole meaning!

He said slowly: "There are three people, one is Shangshu, one is Shilang, and the other is Yushi. They are good friends. They often talk about Fengyue together.

One day, they were drinking tea in a teahouse and joking with each other.

At this time, I saw a dog walking slowly across the street.

When the minister saw it, he immediately had a plan, pointed to the dog and asked the servant beside him, "Is it a wolf or a dog?" '

How could the waiter not know that he was scolding himself.However, he was not someone to be manipulated by others. He glanced at the dog and instantly had a countermeasure.

I only heard him reply: "My lord has read books for decades in vain, how can I not know that there are two differences between wolves and dogs!"

First, watch its tail.Drooping is a wolf, combing is a dog! '

When the Shangshu heard it, his face turned black.It's just that the censor next to him didn't realize what they were talking about for a while, so he asked, "What about the second one?" '

The servant smiled mysteriously and said, "The second is: wolves only eat meat, but dogs eat meat when they meet meat, and shit when they meet shit!" '

Only then did the censor come to his senses, and his face immediately turned as if he had eaten shit..."

"Ha ha ha ha."

"Ho ho ho"

Sure enough, they liked such jokes with more "connotation". After hearing Jia Qing's sentence "The imperial censor eats shit", they all blushed.

"Second elder brother who lost money came up with such a narrow joke, if it spreads, wouldn't it offend all the censors and ministers at once?"

While Tanchun was amused, he joked again.

Jia Baoyu also interjected: "Second brother's joke is good, the wolf's tail is really down, isn't the dog's tail upturned?
Especially the second point, this censor eats... censor..."

When Jia Baoyu said this, he seemed to have suddenly realized something, and quietly turned his head to look at Lin Daiyu.

Originally, Lin Daiyu was also laughing, because this joke is really narrow.But seeing Jia Baoyu's eyes drifting over and his stopped words, she thought for a while and vaguely understood what Jia Baoyu was thinking...

His face suddenly sank.

Jia Qing was about to suffer at the first sight.Why didn't I just expect that Lin Ruhai, the official residence doctor of Lantai Temple, is not a censor?Still the big guy!Didn't he even scold me for this joke?

But how do you explain this? Could it be: "Sister Lin, I didn't mean that your father would eat...

That's going to be a big deal!
While the sisters were still thinking about the joke and Jia Baoyu hadn't made a big mistake yet, Jia Qing decisively changed the subject and said, "Okay, that's the end of the joke, and I'll teach you a game. Come, let's make tools first."

Jia Baoyu also recalled it at this time, and he almost got involved in a big event!Hearing Jia Qing change the subject, he immediately gave up what he hadn't finished, and said flatteringly, "Oh? Tell me what it is?"

Jia Qing didn't look at him, this guy almost cheated him.

"Sister Xiren, please bring me some scissors..."

So, under Jia Qing's guidance, all the sisters worked together, and quickly cut out 54 cards of normal size.

Jia Qing took all of them back, well, fortunately, they are only about twice as thick as the playing cards of later generations.

"Second brother, what should we do next?"

Seeing Jia Qing weighing the pile of cardboards there, Jia Baoyu asked.

Jia Qing smiled mysteriously and said, "Then I will borrow my second brother's desk for use."

So he moved to the desk in the corner of the room.All the sisters also surrounded Jia Qing.

After that, Jia Qing wrote the size of the 54 cards according to the appearance of the playing cards in memory, but did not draw the pattern.

He planned to draw a sample later when he had time, and let the bookstore in the city mass-produce more exquisite cards.

Looking at the cards marked by Jia Qing on the table, Tan Chun said: "What the hell is Second Brother doing? Two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, ninety, these are all numbers, but I don't know what these four are. . Huh? King and Xiaowang?”

"It feels very interesting!"

After Jia Qing marked the last two cards with king and king, although she didn't understand, Daiyu still commented like this.

Jia Baoyu asked, "What's this called?"

"Poker."

"Puke brand?"

"What kind of gameplay?"

"There are many ways to play, now I will teach you to recognize these cards..."

……

An hour later.

"Three belts and one, I'm done with it again."

"Brother Bao, how did you play the card, and let the thief, the second brother, run away again. Let me see your card... You are really good! Why don't you bomb him if you have Wang Zhan?"

After losing another game, Lin Daiyu began to blame Jia Baoyu, a pig teammate
Jia Baoyu defended in a low voice: "I thought it wouldn't be too late..."

That's right, the first game Jia Qing taught them to play was "Fighting the Landlord", which became popular in later generations.It’s just that calling this name in this day and age is obviously inappropriate. After all, dignitaries like the Jia Mansion are big landlords!Because the Jia family has more than [-] mu of land under their name.

So Jia Qing called it "catch the thief".

Because the thief stole three treasures, everyone came together to catch the thief, and this is the name!

But what's interesting is that Daiyu is very talented in learning this, and she basically mastered the essentials in an hour.On the other hand, Jia Baoyu didn't seem to be enlightened. After playing so many rounds, he was always ridiculed, "Your cards are really good..."

"Brother Bao, get up, it's my turn."

Sure enough, Tanchun also agreed with Daiyu's words and automatically sentenced Jia Baoyu to end.

Jia Baoyu stood up reluctantly.

"Second Master Bao, Second Master Qing, girls, where is the old lady passing the meal?"

A woman's voice came from outside the house.

Only then did everyone in the house realize that the sky had darkened at some point, and the oil lamp next to it was also lit at some point.

So everyone got up and went to Rongqing Hall.

"What have you guys been playing all afternoon? I don't even know what to eat..."

As expected, Mother Jia had already prepared a meal here, and after Jia Qing and his party came in, Mother Jia complained.

In front of Jia Mu, it has always been Jia Baoyu's special performance. I saw him running a few steps to Jia Mu's hands and sitting down, and replied: "Back to the ancestors, we are catching thieves."

Mother Jia was calling for Jia Qing and the others to sit down too, and she couldn't help but be taken aback when she heard the words: "Catch the thief? Where did the thief come from?"

Jia Baoyu chuckled and said, "My ancestor, you're not that kind of thief. It's a game my second brother taught us to play. Speaking of it, it's the same as your ancestors playing cards, but our game is played by three people."

Seeing Mother Jia's eyes looking over, Jia Qing took out the poker cards from his arms, handed them to Mother Jia and said, "Look, ancestor, this is the game."

Jia Mu took it and said: "You guys made it? It's unique!" After looking carefully, she still didn't see anything, so she returned it to Jia Qing and said, "You will also teach me later. Teach me the old woman. Now we shall eat."

"Yes!"

All the masters in Jia's mansion ate alone, but Jia's mother liked to be lively and kept Baoyu and her sisters by her side, so they ate together.

Generally, the two wives of King Xing, Li Wan and Wang Xifeng don't eat here, unless Jia's mother stays with them.Tonight is equivalent to having one more Jia Qing.

Eat without speaking, sleep without speaking.

After eating dinner in silence, Mother Jia really became very excited and asked Jia Qing and others to teach her how to "catch a thief".

The old man's comprehension ability is always poor, and everyone dared not ridicule Jia Baoyu like they did to Jia Baoyu, so they had to patiently explain the rules to Jia's mother repeatedly.

(End of this chapter)