Wentang

Chapter 60 The Whack-A-Mole Machine
"Horse...horse...want...to..." Li Lizhi stretched her two little hands and struggled vigorously, but how could she break free from her mother's palm.

Seeing that she couldn't break free, she used her trump card again: crying.

The tears came as soon as they said it, and the big tears fell down like a string: "Mother is bad, mother is bad."

It would break the eldest grandson Wugou's heart to cry.Seeing that Yue Shan was still playing with the little brothers over there, she became angry: "Is this your solution?"

Yue Shan couldn't help seeing it. Both women, one big and one small, were offended, so he hurried to make amends.He took Li Tai off the wooden horse and let the two brothers stand aside and admire slowly, and he opened another smaller package by himself.

Inside this package is a cylindrical low wooden box with six round holes and a small wooden hammer.Yue Shan put the wooden box in front of Li Lizhi, but the little girl was so focused on the wooden horse that she didn't even look at it.

On the other hand, the eldest grandson Wugou touched it curiously, not knowing what it was.

Yue Shan picked up a small wooden hammer and turned a button next to it, and a small wooden stick the size of a child's arm emerged from a hole on the top of the wooden box.

"Pa" He tapped lightly with a hammer, and the wooden stick sank and made a crisp sound.But as it fell, another stick emerged from a hole next to it.

Yue Shan knocked down the new stick, and a small stick emerged from the third hole again.If there's one poster here that posterity will definitely recognize, it's a whack-a-mole machine.

Yes, what Yue Shan prepared for Li Lizhi was a whack-a-mole machine.

We usually see whack-a-mole machines that rely on electricity to run automatically. Few people know that there is also a purely mechanical whack-a-mole machine that can be played without electricity.

The principle is very simple and can be made with a little knowledge of physics.Connect one end of the sticks with a lever, and when the first one is struck, the second one comes out, and when the second one is struck, the third one comes out.

Every time a wooden stick is knocked down, a new wooden stick emerges from the next hole, and the cycle repeats.The disadvantage is that the gameplay is single, and the order in which the sticks appear is fixed.

But don't forget that this is ancient times, and the person playing with this thing is another two or three-year-old child.What's boring to grown-ups isn't necessarily so to them.

Changsun Wugou lost interest after reading it twice, what is this?Not as fun as that Trojan horse.However, her daughter's reaction made her dumbfounded.

Li Lizhi, who was going to ride the wooden horse with teary eyes, was quickly attracted by the continuous sound of "papapa", and stared blankly at Yue Shan knocking on the wooden stick.

Every time Yue Shan knocked on her face, the expression on her face changed. Gradually, the small mouth stopped flattening, and the tears stopped falling down. Soon, the smile returned to her face again.

As for the Trojan horse, what is that?She said she had no idea.

"Hit, hit, hit..." Li Lizhi beat the air vigorously with her small arms.

"Do you want it?" Yue Shan handed her the hammer.

"I want... I want to hit..." Li Lizhi took the small wooden hammer and began to hit it with a 'dong dong dong'.Just playing the game for the first time, she knocked on the boxes nine times out of ten.

"If you see this stick, knock it." Yue Shan instructed from the side.

"Bang." Another hammer hit the cabinet.

"Knock slowly, don't worry, knock on the right aim." Yue Shan said patiently.

"Crack." This time it hit the red heart, and the small wooden stick was smashed down.

"Little lady is amazing, come again." Yue Shan encouraged with an exaggerated tone.

"Hehe..." Li Lizhi let out a cheerful laugh.

Bang, bang, bang... bang, bang... bang... bang...

As the number of taps increased, Li Lizhi's taps became more and more accurate.She let out a string of silver bell-like laughter every time she hit it, and every time Yue Shan took the trouble to praise her once.

The big one and the small one had a lot of fun playing, the whole garden echoed with the crisp laughter of the little girl.Even Li Chengqian and his younger brother, who were still talking about the Trojan horse just now, were absent-minded and kept peeking over here.

And the elder grandson Wugou who was standing next to him looked at the warm scene in front of him, and he actually had the feeling of "it should be like this" deep in his heart, and his favor towards Yue Shan increased by three points again.

But when she saw her daughter who was waving a hammer like a claw, this feeling disappeared immediately.My daughter is a gentle and lovely little lady, who is this little lunatic in front of me?
Seeing the culprit who turned her daughter into a little lunatic made her palms itch.

Yue Shan, who was having fun with the little girl, felt a chill behind him, turned his head quickly, and saw a beautiful face with a kind smile.

He breathed a sigh of relief, it seemed that he was suspicious.

But when he saw his eldest grandson Wugou, he thought that he had prepared other gifts, got up and took out two small wooden boxes from the last package.

"Sister, this is a gift from me." Yue Shan said mysteriously.

"Oh, and my gift? Let me see what it is." Looking at the two simple wooden boxes in his hand, Changsun Wugou didn't dislike them at all, but instead showed an expression of interest.

She didn't care much about the things Yue Shan gave her, as Princess Qin, what things had she not seen?I was just simply curious about what this young man who never took the usual path would give me, and he also looked mysterious.

Yue Shan opened one of them first, only to see that it was stuffed with cloth strips, and when he removed the cloth strips, two brown balls the size of eggs were revealed.

Huh?The eldest grandson Wugou showed a surprised expression, it was really something she had never seen or heard of.

Reaching out to pick one up, she felt that her hands were delicate and smooth. Looking carefully, it looked a bit like beeswax but was cloudier than beeswax. She speculated that even if it wasn't beeswax, it should have something to do with it.

At this moment, a gust of breeze sent a wisp of fresh fragrance into her nostrils, Changsun Wugou immediately put the ball under his nose and sniffed it gently, and he smelled exactly the same fragrance.

Does this thing have a scent?A possibility came to her mind, and she asked, "Is this spice?"

"Ah?" Yue Shan showed a surprised expression.

It's not because she hit the mark, but because she didn't expect her to guess the right direction so quickly.Shouldn't she be very surprised, then think it's something from the heavens, and then tell her the real answer herself?

Why don't you play cards according to the routine?

But his expression made the elder grandson Wugou mistakenly think that he guessed it right, he chuckled and mocked: "A little bit of spice is still mysterious."

"This is not a spice." Yue Shan subconsciously said.

"Huh? Then what do you think it is?" Changsun Wugou thought he was refusing to admit defeat and deliberately quibbling.

"This is soap, for bathing." Yue Shan said.

"Soap? What does it have to do with saponin?" Changsun Wugou immediately grasped the point of the matter.

"The use of this thing is basically the same as that of saponin. Except that it can't be used to wash hair, it can be used to wash other things, and it's cleaner than saponin." Yue Shan cheered up and began to explain the use of this thing.

(End of this chapter)