The literary giants of the late Ming Dynasty began by copying books

Chapter 36
Although Li Dan had been comforting himself after getting advice from Wang Wenlong, he couldn't sleep for several days because of this matter.

A few days later, news came from the West - his ship was hijacked in Luzon, and as Wang Wenlong said: neither the red-haired people nor the local partners helped him.

He felt unlucky for a moment, but then he continued to deceive himself, finding reasons that as long as this incident was dealt with, others would not dare to trouble him.

In order to calm down the incident, Li Dan decided to go to sea in person, and he must shock those young people.

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September, Moon Harbor.

The Li family's big house is a three-story house in a prime location in Yuegang. Although the Li family is wealthy, their cultural level is really limited. Building pavilions and pavilions at home these days is the pursuit of sentimental families, like the Li family. This kind of house built by Dahai Shang has a completely different style of painting.

The Li family does not have any pavilions or pavilions, and the walls are very high, blocking almost all the sunlight. The light can only pass through the open tiles on the roof.

The house built by the merchants of this era was more like a small fortress than a residence for enjoyment. The walls in front of it were all made of large stones weighing hundreds of kilograms. It would take several steps to dismantle them. Ten strong men burned and dug for half a month. There were even shooting holes on the fence. All the designs were to prevent others from robbing.

At this moment, a mahjong table was set up in the center of the flower hall of the Li family mansion. Li Guozhu, Wang Wenlong, Lin Zhirui and Weng Yihuang were sitting around the table playing mahjong happily.

No matter how much Wang Wenlong likes horseback riding and archery, he can't go there every day. In addition, Li Dan recently went to sea and Zhang Hong went out with him to do business. Wang Wenlong didn't have anyone to go hunting with, so he turned to hang out with a rich second generation like Li Guozhu.

Naturally, this group of people can't play anything too elegant together. Even Li Guozhu can't even understand opera and only likes to listen to some storytelling stories.

And Wang Wenlong soon found everyone's common hobby, gambling.

So he moved out the mahjong he designed.

Only then did we realize that since he designed Mahjong on the official ship, the game of Mahjong has become popular among the Zhangquan generation due to the spread of Gao Yin's hooligans, but at this time it was still Wang Wenlong who spread it On the official ship, a playing method using leaf cards instead was designed.

At that time, Wang Wenlong lied to Li Bajin and others that this kind of mahjong was popular in the West, but these gangsters made him famous. It was spread that this kind of mahjong was actually called "Wang Lao Ye Ye" in the Zhangzhou market.

Even Li Guozhu had already learned how to fight, and when Li Guozhu and others learned that the Mr. Wang in the Mr. Wang leaf was Wang Wenlong, everyone was surprised.

Since Li Guozhu had money, Wang Wenlong encouraged Li Guozhu to get a real pair of mahjong tiles. At this time, the mahjong played in the hands of several people was made by Li Guozhu, who had seriously found a carver and made it under the guidance of Wang Wenlong for several days. The patterns were traced one by one. The painting is extremely exquisite. Even the mahjong is made of two colors. The back is made of bamboo slices and the front is made of ox bone.

After such a mahjong was made, Li Guozhu and others fell in love with it when they saw it.

Following Wang Wenlong's recommendation, everyone couldn't wait to sit down and play cards.

How can playing mahjong with playing cards compare with the joy of rubbing, washing and pushing tiles with physical mahjong?
Except for Wang Wenlong, all the people present were gambling addicts. They couldn't put it down after playing for only a few rounds, so Li Dan wasted several days on this matter after he went to sea.

"Four cakes." Weng Yihuang played a mahjong card. He was a stay-at-home employee of Li Dan's family. He was very bored on weekdays. His favorite thing was to gamble with a group of sailors under Li Dan. He was extremely addicted.

"Bang, Dongfeng!" Li Guozhu made a move.

"Sixty thousand." Lin Zhirui searched for a long time and finally made a move. Although this guy was born in a family of scholars, he was spoiled by his parents since he was a child and his tutoring was very average. He was the poorest among the people here, even less rich than Wang Wenlong, but he was addicted to gambling. maximum.

In the past few days, Li Guozhu and Wang Wenlong's people were tired from playing and went to rest, but Lin Zhirui continued to play mahjong with other servants in Li Guozhu's house.Just as Wang Wenlong was about to take the card, Lin Zhirui suddenly said in annoyance: "Straight bitch, you made the wrong call."

As he said this, he was about to reach out and take back the [-] yuan card. Li Guozhu glared at him: "Put it down. You will have no regrets if you drop the card. How can you take it back?"

Li Dan wanted to curry favor with Lin Shizhang, so he treated Lin Zhirui like a distinguished guest, but Li Guozhu was not used to this problem of his.

Lin Zhirui looked embarrassed, but thinking that he might lose a few taels of silver if the card fell out, he could only bite the bullet and look at Wang Wenlong.

Wang Wenlong would not offend Li Guozhu for this fool, so he took Lin Zhirui's cards with a smile and said: "Mr. Lin, you made me a lot of money last time!"

Lin Zhirui smiled awkwardly and was speechless by Wang Wenlong.

These people are still in the stage where novices are unwilling to leave the table. How can they match Wang Wenlong's poker skills?

In the past few days, Wang Wenlong's net income has been almost 20 taels in winning or losing. This is still a situation where he is unwilling to win more.Lin Zhirui had already lost more than 100 taels, mostly to servants and subordinates of Li Guozhu's family. These rough guys would not be polite to Lin Zhirui. If he lost again, Lin Zhirui would have to go home and steal money.

Everyone played mahjong for more than ten rounds. Seeing that it was getting late, Wang Wenlong looked ashamed when he saw Lin Zhirui. He probably spent all the money he got. Li Guozhu and Weng Yihuang also played almost equally well. Wang Wenlong didn't want to think about this guy either. It was so frustrating, so I took the initiative to stretch after a round of mahjong.

Wang Wenlong went to the table next to him and took a plate of longan while eating it: "It's getting late, it's time to go back."

Seeing Wang Wenlong leave the table, Li Guozhu also stood up: "I'll see you off."

Wang Wenlong saw that Weng Yihuang wanted to fight again. Lin Zhirui actually hesitated for a while and then continued to sit in his seat: "I won't go back under the curfew at night, and I will bother Brother Li for a meal."

Wang Wenlong thought that he couldn't help him anymore, so he should respect the fate of others.

Wang Wenlong and Li Guozhu walked out of the house together. They had just arrived at the door of Li's house. Li Guozhu was instructing his family to prepare a sliding pole for Wang Wenlong, when he saw Li Guoxian's maid running down from the attic next to him.

She handed a letter to Wang Wenlong and said with a blushing face: "This is... someone gave it to you..."

The little maid handed over the letter and ran away quickly. Li Guozhu belatedly shouted "Stop" twice from behind, but the little maid ran faster and faster directly upstairs.

Wang Wenlong and everyone were dumbfounded.

Who else could have written the letter sent by Li Guoxian's maid?
Although Gao Yin asked him to inquire about Li Dan's daughter, he really didn't want to get involved in the mess between Gao Yin and Li Dan.

Although he and Li Dan's daughter had met several times, they had never exchanged a single word in private. What letter did this girl write to him out of nowhere?He also handed it over to himself in front of his brother.

Seeing Li Guozhu looking at him with a suspicious look on his face, Wang Wenlong was also embarrassed. He really didn't dare to open the letter in front of Li Guozhu. If there were some love poems written in it, Li Guozhu might be able to arrest him directly and put him in jail.

Seeing Li Bagin running over holding the sliding pole, Wang Wenlong coughed twice to cover it up and said, "It's getting late, I'll leave first, please don't send me away." Yan Bi got on the sliding pole and ran away.

Only after he was far away did he dare to open the letter sent by the maid.

(End of this chapter)