Transmigrated into a female county magistrate during a famine, leading her country to prosperity

Chapter 1086: The First Game of Mahjong

Yu Shizhang’s call received a hundred responses.

The first mahjong table was set up on the deck.

Yu Shizhang, Shen Xingjian, Liang Fu and Qiao Lao sat on each side, and the scene was solemn.

Shen Zheng was invited to be a consultant, watching them roll the dice, draw the cards, sort the cards, and then start to determine the vacancies.

Up to this point, everything was proceeding smoothly.

Until the game officially begins.

"Three cakes."

"Five items."

"Twenty thousand."

They gently placed the cards on the table.

It was Liang's turn to play again.

He brushed his fingers across the cards, struggling: "Which one should I play..."

Yu Shizhang frowned. "You can choose the suit you want first. Why bother? Hurry up."

Liang Fu was even more confused: "But I don't have a card of that suit."

Just one simple sentence immediately aroused public anger.

Yu Shizhang stared at the cards in front of him, his eyes widening. "I have several, and you don't have any? How can that be possible?"

Liang Fu chuckled: "I'm afraid it depends on my good luck."

His smile was truly provocative, and Yu Shizhang gnashed his teeth as he asked Shen Zheng, "So, when playing this card game, winning or losing depends on luck?"

Shen Zheng smiled and said, "Mr. Liang's hand is called a flawed one. We can only say that we have won at the starting line for now. What will happen next is unknown."

Yu Shizhang calmed down and urged Liang Fu: "Hurry up and play your cards."

"Wait, wait..." Liang Fu took out the "Winning Formula" and began to compare the card patterns.

"..."

I don't know when the game started to get chaotic.

Yu Shizhang and Mr. Qiao either forgot to touch the cards or forgot to draw the cards. Shen Zheng was so thirsty from talking that she had to drink two cups of tea.

When the game was almost over, Shen Xingjian picked up a card, paused, and said, "I think I won."

Yu Shizhang and the other two gritted their teeth and insisted on drawing the remaining cards.

"Okay, the first round is over." Looking at the cards that had been drawn, Shen Zheng said, "Let's start to determine the winner. Let's start by looking at Xing Jian's cards."

She slowly walked behind Shen Xingjian, and after seeing the cards on the table clearly, her expression suddenly froze.

"What's wrong?" Yu Shizhang and the other two came over, took out the formula cheat sheet, and started comparing the card patterns.

"That's not right..." Old Qiao looked at the cheat sheet, then at Shen Xingjian's cards: "Why is there only one suit? Did you specify two missing suits? Is this a proper way to play?"

Yu Shizhang's eyes flashed, but he said nothing.

Shen Xingjian smiled and turned to look at Shen Zheng: "With only one suit, we can still win, right?"

Shen Zheng was completely numb.

Which good guy made a perfect hand the first time he played mahjong?

She spoke with difficulty: "Well..."

Qiao was shocked and read the cheat sheet over and over again. "But you didn't say that you can win with only one suit!"

Shen Zheng paused, then pulled out "Cheat Sheet No. 2" from her sleeve. With a strange expression, she said, "Blame me. This kind of nonsense is called a clean slate... This is only the first round, and I never thought I'd get this far."

On the first day of learning mahjong, in the first game, I relied on the rules I had figured out to win a single set...

Shen Zheng felt that she had underestimated Shen Xingjian after all.

"All the same color?" Looking at his chaotic deck, Yu Shizhang was devastated and asked Shen Zheng, "All the same color...how many points?"

"A perfect match, two points." Shen Zheng handed them "Cheat Sheet Number Two" and said hesitantly, "But Xingjian drew a perfect match himself, so it counts as three points..."

"Third time?" Yu Shizhang's eyes widened.

Taking Cheat Sheet No. 2, he stood behind Shen Xingjian and compared it carefully, then...

He took out eight copper coins and said, "Here you go!"

Shen Xingjian smiled shyly and was about to pick up the money when Shen Zheng stopped him: "No hurry, the cards haven't been checked yet."

Yu Shizhang was stunned: "I've already paid, what else do you need to check?"

"Check to see if you have a winning hand. That means checking your cards to see if you're just one card away from winning." Shen Zheng smiled and stood behind Yu Shizhang. The evil spirit whispered, "If you haven't got a winning hand yet, you'll have to pay another hand. Four hands... sixteen coins."

Yu Shizhang was so scared that he broke out in a cold sweat.

Considering that he is the Earl of Yongning, what has he not seen?

But the situation that made him so nervous was when Shen Zheng disappeared last time!

Shen Zheng just glanced at his cards.

"I'm not winning, give me the money, uncle."

"Okay, okay..." Yu Shizhang laughed in anger, gritted his teeth and took out eight copper coins from his purse, "More!"

Shen Zheng helped Shen Xingjian count the copper coins and said earnestly, "Uncle, the quality of the players' cards is very important. You must not be impatient."

Now Yu Shizhang was both angry and aggrieved.

Losing money is not enough, but also getting scolded...

Shen Zheng checked the cards of Mr. Qiao and Liang Fu again.

"Mr. Qiao didn't draw either, so he gave me sixteen coins. Mr. Liang played a draw, so he gave me eight coins."

"I heard it?" Liang Fu was overjoyed and asked Shen Zheng, "Where did it go? How come I didn't see it myself?"

Shen Zheng: “…”

It turned out to be a blind cat catching a dead mouse.

I have to say that Liang Fu had pretty good luck in this first round of mahjong.

As for Shen Xingjian...he's just a brainiac.

Shen Xingjian earned forty cents in anger, but his expression remained calm.

At Yu Shizhang's urging, several people started the second round, and the scene was in chaos.

The sounds of mahjong tiles colliding, exclamations, frustration, and cheers filled the bright morning.

Two days later, everyone was able to play mahjong quite well, and Yu Shizhang also got his wish of making a perfect hand, thus fulfilling his dream from three days ago.

But overall, Shen Xingjian won more and lost less.

So on the afternoon of the third day, he was kicked off the table by the others.

......

Four days later, at noon.

The ship slowly docked at Jingzhou Wharf. As soon as Shen Zheng and others got off the boat, several people surrounded them.

"Would you like to stay at the hotel? We have several rooms upstairs. They're clean and have hot water at all times! It's right near the pier, so you can go now!"

"Sir, would you like to try some Jingzhou cuisine? The chef in my restaurant is a descendant of an imperial chef! His cooking skills are so good, I guarantee you won't want to leave after eating this!"

"Everyone..."

"..."

A quarter of an hour later, Shen Zheng and others finally broke through the siege and walked out of the dock.

Fang Ziyan patted his chest and sighed: "The people of Jingzhou are so welcoming..."

"That's because they think we're not short of money. Didn't you hear what the waiter said? He was sure we'd get a room." Cui Jinyin touched the hairpin on her head and said, "If we were dressed more casually, they wouldn't be so enthusiastic."

Fang Ziyan swallowed his saliva, "But I really want to eat that Eight Treasure Duck they mentioned..."

Come to think of it, they haven't had lunch yet.