"I'm here, what are your orders from Concubine Rong?"
"I lost too much silver today, why don't you take my place and play a few rounds with my sisters?"
Hearing this, Liu Mingzhi glanced at the agitated prince next to him and chuckled twice: "Concubine Rong is joking. How dare I sit down when the prince is here? I'd better let the prince take his seat. I can just look at the staff from the side."
Got it!"
The prince looked at Queen Nangong Meng with a slight smile: "Mother, why don't you let me play with you?"
The queen looked at the prince angrily: "You child, as the crown prince of a country, how can you play mahjong with idle concubines like us in the harem and not go to deal with government affairs? Be careful of your father punishing you!"
The prince nodded in embarrassment: "Yes, yes, the mother taught me that the child should go now. Mother, the child has obeyed the father's order and will rush to Northern Xinjiang to deal with some matters soon. I don't think he will be able to return in a few months."
Now that I’m here, why don’t you let Third Sister accompany me for a walk!”
"Yan'er is helping me embroider handkerchiefs. It's inconvenient to go out. Just go by yourself. Besides, I can't go for a walk that day, so I have to go today. Why are you so weird today!"
The prince looked at the queen speechlessly, "My son is weird, but my mother, you are just weird today, okay?"
Usually you have to drag me to play mahjong, but you dislike the Third Sister’s noisy behavior and wish you could let me take you out to hang out every day. Today, it’s all my fault!
"Okay, I won't disturb my mother and the concubines, I'll take my leave!"
Liu Mingzhi looked at the back of the prince exiting the hall and looked at the queen strangely, completely confused. What on earth is going on?
Concubine Rong looked at Liu Mingzhi with a faint smile: "Master Liu, don't you want to help me? Or is it because Master Liu dislikes the poor card skills of my sisters and you can't catch your eye!"
"Concubine Rong is joking, how dare I? Since I have no money left, I will take my place!"
"It doesn't matter, you can sit down. I can sit here with the queen and watch you fight!"
"Empress, noble concubines, I have been rude!"
Under the strange gaze of the queen, Liu Mingzhi began to carefully shuffle the cards.
After each collecting cards, Liu Mingzhi began to look at the expressions of the emperor's wives. He had no choice but to play cards with them. He couldn't even take away the money he won.
Even if he could be taken away, he would definitely be scolded by these women, but Liu Mingzhi had no doubts about women's character.
I didn’t talk much about it, but I just said that after the old man in the family won Mrs. Liu’s banknote, he heard the miserable screams in the middle of the night, which made Mr. Liu feel frightened.
Once a woman remembers her grudge, no one can help her.
"Three cakes!"
"Bump! Shijo!"
Liu Mingzhi tried his best to play the unimportant card while watching the expressions of the three people.
The Queen kept staring at the cake and frowning from time to time, obviously she was missing an important cake and Hu card.
When Concubine Yu heard the word Wanzi, the mahjong in her hand kept rolling, obviously she needed Wanzi.
Your concubine has a bad look on her face and plays cards casually. Apparently the cards are a bit mixed. She can't do anything wrong in this round and is not considered!
"Thirty thousand!"
Sure enough, Concubine Yu was overjoyed when she saw the cards played by Liu Mingzhi: "Bang, Kutiao!"
"Six cakes!"
"bump!"
Paying attention to the expressions of the Queen and Concubine Yu, Liu Mingzhi knocked out all the mahjong cakes in his hand. His own pie could have been repaid a long time ago.
"Four loaves!"
"I'm crazy, one or four cakes!"
The queen happily pushed the pie, and Liu Mingzhi's four cakes were delivered to the queen's hands.
"Your Majesty, you are really lucky. It seems that I can't keep my salary today!"
The queen looked at Liu Mingzhi with a faint smile: "Master Liu, this is only the first round. It's hard to say whether we will win or lose. Are you right?"
"Sister is right, it's only one lap. Mr. Liu won't be reluctant to part with a few taels of silver!"
"Since the empresses have said this, I will give up my salary to accompany the empress. Let's come next. I will pay the empress' money first!"
Liu Mingzhi touched his body for a long time, then awkwardly took out an ingot of ten taels of silver and put it on the table: "What about that? I don't have any broken silver. Why don't you keep it first and we'll sort it out together later!"
The queen squinted her eyes and looked at the silver ingots on the table: "No wonder others say that Mr. Liu has a lot of money. Today, it turns out that it is true. The least amount of silver is ten taels. How can this harem and the concubines of this palace be embarrassed!"
"Sister is right, the shot is only ten taels, Mr. Liu is taking the money improperly!"
"My ladies, please stop teasing me. I went out in a hurry and forgot to bring pieces of silver with me. I usually want to break a copper into two pieces and use it. This is for emergency use!"
The Queen smiled lightly and shook her head: "I am not very smart, and it is easy to misremember ten taels of silver. Let's do this. If any of you have ten taels of silver, please give it to Master Liu!"
"Sister, sister, there are only nine taels here!"
"I have fifteen taels here, but I can't exchange for one ingot of ten taels!"
"Empress, slave!"
"There aren't that many minions!"
"Yan'er!"
The third princess hurriedly put down the embroidery in her hands and walked out of the bead curtain. She stood next to the queen with a red face and lowered eyebrows: "Queen Mother!"
"Do you have any scraps of silver?"
"Well, I have my son!"
The third princess shyly took out a purse, put it on the desk, and pushed it in front of Young Master Liu: "You can use it first. If it's not enough, I still have it in the room!"
"Thank you, Your Highness Princess!"
"It should be!"
After saying that, he hurriedly walked into the bead curtain and sat down, keeping the needle and thread in his hand motionless.
Anyone with a discerning eye will know at a glance that this is a typical girl's love for spring, and she feels like she belongs!
"Master Liu has no shortage of silver. He only gives out ten taels of silver ingots. The third princess is even more generous. She can use more than ten taels of silver at will. What is this called? I suddenly thought of a word and forgot it again!"
"A perfect match!"
“A match made in heaven!”
The queen glared angrily at the concubines and the three of them and glanced at the embarrassed Liu Mingzhi, who looked a little constricted: "You guys, don't talk nonsense. Yan'er hasn't left the palace yet. If outsiders hear about it, how will you get married in the future?"
"This is not simple. Just recruit Mr. Liu as your consort. Mr. Liu is a talented young man, and the third princess is a beautiful woman. She is a talented man and a beautiful woman!"
"That's right, it just so happens that the third princess hasn't left the palace yet, so it's a perfect match!"
The corner of Liu Mingzhi's mouth twitched as he looked at Yu Fei and the other three who were making noises, and he cursed secretly, "I won't accept it until you die, right? Can this joke be made casually?"
"Mother, silver, let's continue playing cards!"
Concubine Yu and the other three were shuffling the cards, and Young Master Liu smiled and looked at Mr. Liu, who had his head lowered and remained silent, and gave the queen a wink.
"Queen, I can't believe that the famous person in front of your Majesty is so shy!"
"Sister Yu Fei, you are wrong. My sister is embarrassed to see that Mr. Liu has been cheated on!"
"Okay, okay, enough is enough, let's play cards. Mr. Liu usually has many things to do, and it's rare that he has the pleasure to play with us today, so don't spoil the fun!"
Liu Mingzhi really wanted to lift the table and angrily scold several lonely, empty and cold concubines, asking them if they knew how to chat, and if they couldn't chat, just shut their mouths.