"Fighting bandits? Cousin, how should we fight this?"
In the Yunshan Courtyard, Ye Fashan looked at the pieces of wood that Li Zexuan had cut one after another, which were slightly thicker than paper. He felt puzzled, so he frowned and asked.
"Haha! Everything has its destiny. Of course, there are rules for fighting bandits! Fa Shan, please wait a moment. When I have cut fifty-four wooden cards, I will tell you the rules!"
Li Zexuan responded while showing off his knife.
The piece of yellow-white basswood was like a piece of tofu in his hands. He could cut it easily and shape it at will. There were already four or five wooden signs with exactly the same size and thickness on the ground!
Seeing that Li Zexuan was showing off again, Ye Fashan pursed his lips in silence.
As time passed, about two-quarters of an hour later, there were more and more yellow and white wooden signs on the ground. Ye Fashan suddenly thought of something, and he said: "Cousin, do you want to move the Ye Zi Opera to the wooden signs?" above?"
Li Zexuan couldn't help but be stunned, Ye Zixi? What is this? He had never heard of it in his previous life, and it was not in the memory of this body!
(This can’t be blamed on him, because his predecessor went to Longhu Mountain to study art when he was very young. He may be familiar with Taoist classics, but he knows very little about classics, history, and literature.)
"Fashan, what is Ye Zixi?"
Li Zexuan thought for a while but couldn't figure it out, so he asked.
"Uh! Cousin, you don't know about Ye Zi Opera?"
Now it was Ye Fashan's turn to be stunned. In his impression, his cousin should be the kind of peerless wise man who knew astronomy and geography. How could he not know about Ye Zi Opera?
Being looked at by his "little cousin" like this, Li Zexuan's old face turned red, and he said angrily: "As the saying goes, a wise man will always make mistakes. It's normal that your cousin doesn't know some things! Fa Shan, please tell me!"
Ye Fashan slandered in his heart: A wise man will make a mistake after thinking a lot. This sentence doesn't seem to be used in this way, right?
Although he thought so, his original intention was not to make Li Zexuan look bad, so he explained: "It is said that at the end of the Qin Dynasty when Chu and Han were fighting, the general Han Xin invented a card game in order to relieve the soldiers' homesickness. Because the cards are only the size of leaves, it is called leaf play.
The gameplay of Ye Zixi is very simple. You draw the cards from the back, turn the cards over, and use the big to control the small. When the cards are not out, they are turned into hidden cards to prevent others from seeing them; after the leaves are out, they are all turned up, and the fighters calculate the unout cards from the exposed cards for competitive purposes. "
After hearing this, Li Zexuan was very surprised, because the gameplay of this leaf play is very similar to modern playing cards! He originally thought that playing cards were a Western patent, but now it seems that he has underestimated the wisdom of the ancients! He was sure that Western playing cards definitely borrowed from the ancient Chinese leaf play!
In fact, this is indeed the case. Western playing cards have the shadow of Ye Zixi in both gameplay and form. According to the speculation of most scholars in later generations, playing cards evolved on the basis of Yezi Opera!
Speaking of Ye Zi Opera, we have to mention one person - Empress Li's Empress Dazhou. This is the real master of Ye Zi Opera in history. She has written a volume of "Xi Meng Xiao Ye Ge" and "Partial Gold Leaf Ge". "One volume" and one volume "Little Leaf Cases", unfortunately they have been lost.
However, it was during the Song Dynasty that Ye Zi Opera really became popular. From the literati and dignitaries to the common people, everyone enjoyed playing the game! In the early Tang Dynasty, leaf opera was not yet popular!
"Hey! I didn't realize it, Fashan, you know a lot even though you are young!"
Li Zexuan joked with a smile.
In fact, he was sighing in his heart that Ye Fashan is really a good young man. He is proficient in literature, science, arithmetic, and astronomy. If he comes to Yanhuang Academy to further his studies, he will definitely become a banner figure for the next generation of engineering! It's just a pity that this little cousin is determined to travel around the world and save the world!
"Compared with my cousin, Dharma is far from good~!"
Ye Fashan raised his hands and said modestly.
Li Zexuan smiled without saying a word and continued to cut wooden signs at the dock!
After about a quarter of an hour, all the fifty-four wooden plaques were finally cut. Li Zexuan polished the corners of the wooden plaques on the sand and stone until they were round and smooth, and asked Xiao He and Xiao Xi to bring in pen, ink, and cinnabar. He wrote patterns and numbers on each card. After everything was done, he breathed a sigh of relief. Han Yuxi happened to come back from outside. He hurriedly greeted: "Madam! Come on, come on! We happen to be missing one person. Let’s fight the bandits!”
"Fighting bandits? My husband, where are the bandits in our family?"
Han Yuxi looked around and wondered.
"Haha! This bandit is not that bandit! Madam, come here! Today I will teach you how to fight bandits. I guarantee that you will still want to play after playing it once!"
Li Zexuan burst into laughter.
Han Yuxi came over doubtfully, and Li Zexuan called Ye Fashan, pointed to the numbers on the wooden cards, and said: "Madam, Fashan, you see, there are numbers on each of these cards, three is the smallest, and in order..."
It only took half an hour for Han Yuxi and Ye Fashan to understand the rules of fighting landlords, er, no, fighting bandits. Li Zexuan straightened the wooden cards in his hands and said with a smile: "Okay! You all understand the basic rules. , as the saying goes, you can learn how to swim by standing on the shore, just play for a while, and then you will fully understand after you experience it!"
"Uh-huh!"
Han Yuxi nodded, a little eager to give it a try. She felt that this battle with bandits seemed more interesting than the Ye Zi Opera!
Ye Fashan pursed his lips, showing no excitement or verbal rejection.
The three of them took the cards in order, and they were Ye Fashan's landlord (bandit). Ye Fashan looked at the cards in his hand, frowned, and said: "Don't call!"
When you put your hands together, one point is the biggest, and he screamed like a fart!
Li Zexuan was Ye Fashan's subordinate. At this moment, he smiled happily and said, "Hey! Call me a bandit!"
After that, he grabbed the trump card - a seven, plus a pair of kings.
"Haha! Super double!"
Li Zexuan laughed proudly.
"Cousin, what is a super double?"
Ye Fashan said in confusion, when we talked about the rules before, we didn’t mention this!
Li Zexuan explained: "Well, for example, if I pay one penny per round, if I double up, it will cost four cents per round. If I win, each of you will give me four cents. If I lose, I will give each of you four cents. In the middle If there’s a bomb, one bomb, double that, you know?”
"oh!"
The two nodded, and Li Zexuan asked, "Would you two add more?"
"do not add!"
Facing such a menacing Li Zexuan, both of them shook their heads.
"Three, four, five, six, seven, eight, ninety!"
Li Zexuan threw out a straight, secretly thinking that the seven in his hole card was crucial!
Han Yuxi: "...No!"
Ye Fashan: "Five, six, seven, eighty and ninety circles!"
"Hey! Okay! Bomb! (Four K)"
"don't want!"
"don't want!"
"Three with a couple!"
"Three twos and one pair!"
"Pass!"
"Wang Zha, one three! Haha, sixteen times in total, come on, come on, sixteen cents per person!"
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First update!
(End of chapter)
