Chapter 167 Healing and Saving Lives

Xu Que took out a logging saw from the system warehouse, transported the tribe members from the primeval forest, sawed the timber for building wooden houses in half, used a multi-functional power automatic drill to cut it into long strips, and then divided the long strips into small wooden blocks of equal height, length and thickness, about the size of a mahjong tile.

Then, various patterns are carved onto the wooden block using a multi-functional power automatic drill.

This includes 28 honor tiles, 8 flower tiles, 108 numbered tiles, and 8 wild tiles. Wind tiles: East, South, West, North (16 tiles total). Arrow tiles: Red Dragon, Green Dragon, White Dragon (12 tiles total). Flower tiles: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter, Plum Blossom, Orchid, Bamboo, Chrysanthemum (8 tiles total). Numbered tiles: Character tiles, Bamboo tiles, and Bamboo tiles (108 tiles total). Wild tiles: God of Wealth, Cat, Mouse, and Treasure Bowl (8 tiles total).

After carving these on the wooden blocks, Xu Que took off the multi-functional power drill, replaced it with a polishing drill bit, and polished each wooden plaque until it was shiny and glossy.

"What is this thing?" Hou grabbed a piece and played with it repeatedly.

"This is called mahjong! It's for the elderly people in our Black Deer tribe to play with! The old men and women can't jump rope or play cockfighting, and they're all so envious of you young people playing rope and cockfighting!"

"Make them a few sets of mahjong tiles so they can play some when they have nothing to do and pass the time!" Xu Que took the finished mahjong tiles and went to the elderly people watching the game of jump rope.

Four people were randomly selected from the crowd: two men and two women.

Xu Que carried the mahjong set to an open space, laid out the neatly cut cowhide on the ground, and everyone followed Xu Que's example and sat down on the ground.

Xu Que spread out the mahjong tiles and said to the people in front of him, "Now I'll teach you how to play mahjong! First, we'll shuffle the tiles face down. Each person will stack 36 tiles into 18 piles in front of them."

"Next, arrange the cards. After shuffling them evenly, each person arranges 36 cards. Two cards are stacked together to form a pile, and each person has 18 piles. These are arranged into a wall in front of each person's door. The four people's wall of cards are joined together to form a square."

"After the tiles are arranged, the tiles are revealed. In standard Mahjong, the dealer rolls the dice, and the sum of the two dice is the base number for revealing the tiles. Starting with the dealer as the first player, the tiles are counted in a counter-clockwise direction, and the position of the counted tile is the starting tile wall."

"Count from right to left to the stack that corresponds to the number of points. The dealer starts by drawing two stacks of cards. The next player then draws cards in a clockwise direction until each player has drawn three times, for a total of 12 cards. Then the dealer skips one stack and draws the top two stacks of cards. The other players each draw one card in turn. The dealer has a total of 14 cards, and the other players each have 13 cards."

"Organize, examine, and replenish your hand. Sort and arrange your hand neatly, and assess the strength of your hand. If you have a flower card, the dealer replenishes it first by taking a card from the end of the wall. The other three players replenish their flower cards one by one in turn. If the card you replenish is a flower card, you will replenish it again after the round is over."

"Playing cards is the process of playing cards. It starts with the dealer playing the first card, and the process includes drawing cards, playing cards, eating cards, ponging cards, konging (open kong and concealed kong), drawing cards until winning or the game ends in a draw."

Hou watched Xu Que's actions and was completely confused.

The Black Deer tribe chief, Hua, and all the other members of the primitive tribe looked bewildered: "This is too complicated! We can't understand it at all! We can't learn it! This is much harder than skipping rope or cockfighting!"

“I feel like I won’t be able to learn it even in a year!” said an old man from the Black Deer tribe.

"Yeah, Brother Xu Que, this is too difficult! I think it will take me at least a month to learn it!" Hou scratched his head helplessly.

"Well! In that case, let's not play mahjong the way you normally do! Play however you want! Do what you feel like!" Xu Que said to the tribal people.

“Exactly! Exactly! I agree! Let’s play whatever we want!” said an old man from the Black Deer tribe who was about to start playing mahjong.

The old man pointed to the mahjong set Xu Que had laid out and said, "Look, aren't there 10,000 to 90,000 here? 10,000 isn't as big as 20,000, 20,000 isn't as big as 30,000, and 30,000 isn't as big as 40,000..."

"The same applies to the bamboo tube symbol. Nine bamboo tubes are the largest, and one bamboo tube is the smallest! For symbols like East, West, South, and North, the one with the most strokes is the largest!"

"Regarding the order of play: We'll spin this stick. Whoever the stick tip points to goes first! Whoever runs out of cards first will be ranked first, second, third, and fourth! The fourth-place player loses!"

"Those who lose can be appropriately punished! Those who rank first can be appropriately rewarded! We'll decide the punishments and rewards ourselves! What do you all think?" The old man finished speaking and looked at everyone with a questioning gaze.

"I think it's a good idea! I understood it completely! And I've memorized the rules and order of the game!" Hou was the first to agree with the old man.

“Alright! Play however you like! Hahaha, but it’s just a point contest!” Xu Que said, then stood up and made room for the other elderly people in the tribe.

The old man quickly joined in, and the group formed a table and started playing mahjong according to their own rules.

"I'll offer ten thousand!"

"I'll give you twenty thousand!"

"I'll give you 30,000!"

"No! Go ahead!"

"I'll kill you with one big shot!"

"No! Wow! Your gesture looks like it has so much, it must be the biggest one!"

In the Black Deer tribe, more and more people are gathering to watch the mahjong game.

Xu Que distributed the other sets of mahjong tiles to the elderly people who came forward to watch.

They took the cards, spread out pieces of cowhide on the ground, and the four of them started playing.

The tribal elder who proposed the new mahjong rules was the last person to play all his tiles and should be punished!

The old man was pinned to the ground by his fellow card players. The player who was ranked first stretched out his hand, pressed his middle finger into a circle with his thumb, and gave the fourth-ranked player a loud flick on the head!

"That's just one! There are two more to come!" The winning card player put his hand in his mouth, breathed on it, and then gave the old man's balding head another loud tap!

The old man who had been flicked on the forehead wrinkled his nose, trying his best to hold back his tears!

The other cavemen watching were laughing so hard they almost fell over!

"Brother Xu Que, look! Look! He's got a bump on his head! Hahaha! It's so funny! So funny!" Hou said, pulling Xu Que's hand and leaning on his shoulder.

"It looks fun, go play!" Xu Que tentatively pushed Hou toward the card table.

"I'm not going! If I lose, I'll get a flick on the forehead! I'm afraid of the pain!" After saying that, Hou pouted and took out the voice recorder that Xu Que had given her from her animal skin food bag, and started snapping pictures of the surroundings.