Reborn next door twins first grow up

Chapter 101 Board Games Are a Good Thing

On a summer night shrouded in rain, the clouds are thick and the stars are sparse, the hazy moonlight quietly disappears in the sky, and the buildings are superimposed with the lights of thousands of houses, and the city is reflected in the bright lights.

In the community of Binhai Normal University, in the home of teacher Zhao Jiaquan, the rain knocked on the window at night outside. After a group of students feasted, they stayed in the living room of the teacher's house, waiting for the sound of the rain to fade away before leaving.

The TV was still playing "Prehistoric Park", and the Zhao family's twins put on Lu Man's handmade carton dinosaur suits in front of the TV, and howled face to face with the Parasaurolophus on the screen.

Luman's large dinosaur carton was forcibly "borrowed" by graduate student Xiao Zhen, and there were even graduate students queuing up to reserve the right to use it later. The seniors became very playful and accompanied Xiao Shuxian Shuhui in the living room Play around.

"It's rare to be so lively today, I brought you something to entertain you."

The teacher's mother, Bellina, came out of the study and arranged a bunch of boxes on the coffee table: "Do any of you know how to play Monopoly? Let's pass the time together."

Everyone took a closer look at the tea table, and saw several sets of chess and board game props in different styles.

"Hey, I can't tell that Mrs. Ma is very trendy."

Some graduate students flipped through these objects, Chinese chess backgammon and military flags, not interested, fighting beast chess, skipping, and a small rug of flying chess, which made his eyes shine.

"Anyone come to Ludo? Make a team!"

Immediately there are responders.

"I'll do it." "Count me in."

Bellina opened the Monopoly board game she wanted to try: "Li Jie, Jia Quan, do you want to play?"

She then asked Lu Man and the others who were sitting on the sofa: "This board game can be played with a few more people, can you try it?"

Many people like to have fun when they get together, and everyone nods to join in.

Only Gu Lingyi, watching Monopoly's game, timidly hesitated.

She approached Lu Man cautiously: "Brother, you know, I'm not used to... this kind of game..."

Gu Lingyi's social fear reappeared. For things like board games, games that require interaction with other players hit her weakness of fear.

This girl, who just had dinner with everyone, has already performed well. Fortunately, Lu Man and her younger sister are with her, so she can calmly eat by herself.

And the next activity involved talking too much to strangers, she was even more afraid.

Gu Jiaer touched her elder sister Ling Yi's little hand, feeling that her forearm was tense because of tension: "It's okay, Ling Yi, the two of us count as one player, I'll be in charge of the end game, and you'll come up with ideas behind me. "

Hearing her sister's plan, Gu Lingyi relieved a lot: "Well, that's good..."

As long as she doesn't socialize with a bunch of strangers, everything is fine.

Mr. Hua was in a good mood, and he came here to join in the game. He moved a small round stool: "It's been a long time since I played this game. This is very interesting. Our country plays mahjong, and foreigners play this kind of board game."

Bellina deftly unpacked the box, and distributed the figurines that symbolized the players, as well as the original banknotes, to everyone.

"It's a pity that board games are not very popular in our city." Mr. Hua helped spread out the paper map, "Last year in Shanghai, we co-produced a film with a foreign film team, and the foreigners on the opposite team pulled We played a board game called... Dungeons and Dragons Run."

Lu Man let out a sigh in his heart. He couldn't see that although Mr. Hua was old, he was still willing to accept new things, and he was still a board game player.

However, although it is a new thing in China, the Dungeons and Dragons he mentioned, or DND for short, was released abroad in the 70s, and it is not an exaggeration to call it a hardcore board game.

Teacher Hua held the dice in Monopoly and recalled: "At first I was afraid that my spoken English was not good and I would make jokes, but after a round of playing, it was like writing a movie script. I had the fun of making up stories and also had the fun of being an actor. It’s really interesting to play and participate.”

Bellina became interested when she heard it: "Mr. Hua, didn't you buy a set and bring it back?"

"I bought it and kept it at home to eat ashes." Teacher Hua said with a smile, "This game requires reading a lot of rules first, so it's not suitable for beginners to play together. It's an easy-to-learn game like "Monopoly" , easy to popularize at parties, even if you don’t know how to do it, just teach it for 2 minutes and play it once, and you’ll be fine.”

Lu Man stared at the other assortment of board game boxes on the coffee table, most of which were of the same style as the puzzle game Monopoly, and he was thoughtful.

"Mr. Hua, this is also related to the local infrastructure." Lu Man asked, "There should be quite a lot of board game shops in Shanghai. People who like to play board games have more opportunities to gather and socialize. A virtuous circle, expanded."

Teacher Hua nodded: "At least it is more than all the cities in Shandong Province combined. Last year we experienced it in a board game shop. On that street, half of the board game restaurants are open, and the other half are board game restaurants under renovation. .”

"According to the time, these two years are almost the golden period of board game development." Lu Man thought in his mind.

The development of board games in China has some unexpected twists and turns.

Lu Man remembered that before he went to college, the offline games he played with his friends were products of the last century like Monopoly, and the time came to the year when he first entered college, which is now 2006. The coming killing game became popular overnight in first-tier cities.

Due to the need for the support of offline board game venues and venues, according to the normal business trend, this kind of venue and prop restrictions undoubtedly raised the threshold for trial play, and shut out a large number of players from other cities. In Shanghai, which has the most restaurants, a large number of commercial board game halls have sprung up like mushrooms in two years, and nearly [-]% of them closed down in the following five years.

However, among them, there is an imitation killing game "bang! "The domestic board game was born out of nowhere. With a set of lightweight cards, it set off a wave of family-oriented board games and ruled an era of social entertainment.

"Just this year."

Lu Man stood up and put the props in Gu Lingyi's hands first: "Lingyi, please help me set up the props first, I'm going to use Jiaer's laptop in the study, there is something urgent to check."

"Oh..." Gu Lingyi picked up the board game props, her almond eyes were dull, and she looked cute and at a loss.

Lu Man went to the study to turn on the computer and jumped to the Taobao website.

A large pile of densely packed text is arranged in a mess on the homepage of Taobao at this time, like a group of ants occupying the entire interface.

From electronic digital, men's bags and women's clothing to the flower and bird market, hundreds of categories are filled, and you can't wait until you are dazzled.

"It's too old, this kind of interface."

Lu Man complained and continued to work.

In the search bar on the Taobao website, he entered a three-word keyword.

Three Kingdoms kill.

【No corresponding product found】

"not yet."

Lu Man's heart beat faster.

"Board game cards are a good thing."

Coming out of the study, Lu Man sat back in front of the Monopoly map.

Gu Lingyi, who was sitting sideways on the cardboard on the floor, filled his hands with cards and toy banknotes as if fleeing.

Then, moving her knees, Gu Lingyi hid herself behind Lu Man.

Her small, crisp hands rested on Lu Man's shoulders, and her upper body was slightly close to Lu Man.

Behind Lu Man's back, he felt slightly the soft texture of a ball of new cotton wool.

"I, I have drawn two penalty cards for you..."

Gu Lingyi lowered her head, resting her forehead on the back of Lu Man's neck.

Feeling the back and neck, Gu Lingyi's warm breath and heat enveloped him like an open pistil.

"It's okay, it's really okay."

On the contrary, Lu Man smiled cheerfully.

Thank you for these two penalty card!

Board games are really good stuff.

(End of this chapter)