Chapter 144 Playing Landlord, Loser Will Be Punished
When it comes to ginseng, Changbai Mountain ginseng is the best.
The ginseng in the palace was also a tribute from Changbai Mountain. Ginseng that is a thousand or a hundred years old is the most rare.
When they heard the word Changbai Mountain ginseng, Xu Cefei and Tao Chenghui looked over, wanting to know what kind of ginseng it was.
In the brocade box in Li Liangyuan's hand lay a ginseng that looked very much like a radish and was slightly longer than the woman's palm.
Tao Chenghui was born into a merchant family and had seen a lot of ginseng from Changbai Mountain. She smiled and asked, "Li Liangyuan, this ginseng is good. Is it a hundred years old?"
Although Tao Chenghui's rank was three ranks lower than hers, he had a good relationship with Consort Shen Liangdi and Consort Xu. Li Liangyuan also smiled and said, "Tao Chenghui is amazing. This ginseng is less than a hundred years old. My father said it is eighty-eight years old."
"Although a hundred-year-old ginseng is rare, this eighty-eight-year-old ginseng is also rare and good for nourishing the body." Tao Chenghui looked at Shen Chuwei with a smile.
"I'm sorry to have let Li Liangyuan spend the money." Shen Chuwei looked at Chunxi and motioned for her to accept it.
Chunxi stepped forward, took the brocade box from Li Liangyuan's hand, and then stepped aside.
Li Liangyuan smiled and said, "It's fine if Shen Liangdi doesn't mind throwing it away."
Concubine Xu suddenly turned her head and looked at Shen Chuwei, "Shen Liangdi, now that Li Liangyuan is here, there are four of us, how about we play cards?"
Shen Chuwei had taught them to play cards a few days ago, mainly to entertain her and to kill time when she was free.
Shen Chuwei was just sitting around doing nothing, so she glanced at Tao Chenghui and Li Liangyuan and said, "I don't have any problem, do you guys want to play?"
"I have no problem either." Tao Chenghui turned to look at Li Liangyuan and asked, "Does Li Liangyuan have any questions?"
Interaction is the best way to increase friendship and affection, and Li Liangyuan certainly would not miss the opportunity to interact with them.
"I don't have any problem, but what kind of cards do you play? I don't know how to play."
Concubine Xu put down the melon seeds in her hand, clapped her hands and said, "It doesn't matter if you don't know how to do it. It's very simple. We will teach you."
Li Liangyuan agreed readily, "Okay."
Seeing this, Shen Chuwei ordered Guixiang to take out the cards and put them on the table, and the four of them sat around the dining table.
Concubine Xu and Tao Chenghui took turns teaching Li Liangyuan how to fight the landlord.
After teaching for a while and making sure that Li Liangyuan knew how to play, I started playing.
Concubine Xu suggested, "How about playing stickers this time? Each time you lose, you get to stick a piece of red paper."
Tao Chenghui agreed immediately, "Okay, this is the way to play more exciting."
Li Liangyuan smiled and said, "I have no opinion."
Shen Chuwei had no objection either. She also liked playing stickers because she never lost.
Concubine Xu called out, "Come on, take the cards."
There are two piles of cards on the table. The top card of one pile is turned over. Whoever gets that card becomes the landlord.
Four people took turns taking cards, and Li Liangyuan became the landlord.
Concubine Xu laughed and said, "Oh, Li Liangyuan is lucky. She is the landlord for the first time."
Li Liangyuan didn't understand. When she heard Concubine Xu say that she was lucky, she really thought that she was very lucky. "No, no, the landlord sisters take turns to do it."
After Tao Chenghui sorted out the cards, he reminded, "The landlord plays his cards."
"Okay." Li Liangyuan looked at the cards in her hand. The landlord could play whatever he wanted. She looked at the 3 of Spades, pulled it out with her fingers and placed it on the table. "I'll play 3."
Xu Cefei: "It's easier to play cards following the landlord. I'll play 5."
Shen Chuwei: "I'll bet 10."
Tao Chenghui: "I'll play A."
"Why did you choose such a big one?" Li Liangyuan looked at Ding in her hand and saw no chance of winning.
Tao Chenghui smiled and said, "Because you are the landlord, if you don't play big cards, will you let your landlord run away if you play small cards?"
Li Liangyuan reluctantly drew a card and said, "I'll play 2."
Shen Chuwei, "Xiao Wang."
Li Liangyuan: "Your Majesty."
Shen Chuwei, "Four 7s."
Li Liangyuan looked at the four Ks in her hand, thought for a moment and said, "No."
Shen Chuwei laughed in her heart, but on the surface she was very calm, "3456 is correct."
Li Liangyuan hesitated for a few seconds and still shook her head, "No."
Shen Chuwei, "Three nines with a pair."
Li Liangyuan saw that Shen Chuwei only had one card left in her hand. If she didn't blow up Shen Chuwei, she would leave. She drew a four-card card: "Four kings."
Shen Chu shook his head slightly, "No."
Li Liangyuan, "One to four."
Tao Chenghui, "One to 2."
Li Liangyuan: "No."
Tao Chenghui, "A 3."
Li Liangyuan saw that there was no chance to play the single ticket, so Tao Chenghui came to her door and said, "10 for one."
Xu Cefei shook her head, "No." She turned to look at Shen Chuwei,
Shen Chuwei chuckled twice, "The last A."
Concubine Xu happily put down the cards in her hand and laughed happily, "Li Liangyuan, you lost."
Li Liangyuan just remembered that Shen Chuwei only had one card. She looked at Xu Cefei in confusion, "Why don't you hold on?"
"Why should I stop you? The three of us are commoners, and we are here to fight you, the landlord." Concubine Xu said as a matter of course.
"Oh." Only then did Li Liangyuan realize that she was the landlord and the three of them were fighting against her alone.
"Come on, put on the red paper." Concubine Xu picked up the red paper that she had prepared in advance, dipped it in water, and put it on Li Liangyuan's face.
After Xu Concubine finished applying the stickers, she stared at Li Liangyuan's face for a few seconds and couldn't help laughing out loud, "Okay, continue."
Li Liangyuan didn't have a mirror in her hand, and she didn't know what her face would look like with the red paper on it, so she had to continue playing.
Li Liangyuan's luck was extremely good, as she was the landlord three times in a row. But her luck was also not good, as she lost all three times.
Concubine Xu loved to stick red paper on people, and she stuck them on Li Liangyuan's cheeks and forehead.
Li Liangyuan drooped her shoulders, wondering why she always lost?
She looked at the cards in front of her and decided she had to win this time.
After one round, Li Liangyuan lost again.
Concubine Xu couldn't wait to pick up the red paper, dip it in water, and stick it on Li Liangyuan's nose.
Li Liangyuan lost four times in a row, and her face was covered with red paper. She was a little impatient and said, "I don't want to play anymore."
Concubine Xu said, "Why? Isn't that how playing cards works? There are wins and losses. It's normal that you lost just now."
"But I always lose. Look at my face. Do you still want it?" Li Liangyuan said, pointing at her own face.
Tao Chenghui soothed her, "Li Liangyuan, this is normal. When Shen Liangdi first taught us how to play, we both had our faces covered with it, more than you did."
Li Liangyuan looked at Concubine Xu in disbelief, "Really?"
Concubine Xu nodded, "Of course it's true. We both played it several times before we figured it out."
Li Liangyuan then continued playing.
After playing for an hour, except for Shen Chuwei who didn't have a red sticker on her face, the three of them all had different amounts of stickers on their faces.
This was the scene that Chang Liangdi saw when she arrived.
She looked at them in surprise, "What are you doing?"
When Li Liangyuan saw Chang Liangdi coming, she thought of her face covered with red paper and felt extremely embarrassed for a moment. Who knew that Chang Liangdi would actually come to Xiyun Pavilion?
Concubine Xu raised the corner of her lips, "We are playing cards, does Chang Liangdi want to play?"