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Chapter 834 Gathering at Zhou Mansion, a gust of wind

The next morning, at around 9:00 p.m., Mu Qing came to the door, but what Zhou Chen never expected was.

Mu Qing did not come alone, he brought two people with him, one was Mu Nihuang, and the other was Xia Dong, whom he had met once before.

The appearance of Mu Nihuang and Xia Dong made Zhou Chen very embarrassed, and he glared at Mu Qing with dissatisfaction.

He was already avoiding Mu Nihuang, but Mu Qing, who was more of a hindrance than a help, even brought Mu Nihuang here.

As for the other person, Xia Dong, whom he had met once, he was not an easy person to get along with either. As soon as he came in, he stared at him with dissatisfaction in his eyes.

Mu Qing felt guilty and turned his head away embarrassedly, not daring to look Zhou Chen in the eye.

Of course, he didn't want to bring his sister here, but who made him be controlled by others, and what his sister said, he had no choice but to nod. Instead of suffering himself, it's better to let brother Yu have a headache.

Zhou Chen had no choice but to welcome the guest.

"Princess, Lord Xia, your presence here truly brings honor to my humble abode."

Mu Nihuang responded generously: "Brother Chen, I heard from Qing'er that you made an interesting object. I was very curious, so I came here with Qing'er. Why, are you not welcome?"

"It is my honor that the princess is here. How can I not welcome her?"

Xia Dong clasped his fists and performed a martial arts salute to Zhou Chen: "Mr. Chen, please forgive me for coming to visit you in an intrusive manner."

"Master Xia, you are too polite. Please come in."

Zhou Chen led the three of them into the main hall, and Mu Qing sat down on a chair on the side without any hesitation.

Mu Nihuang frowned and scolded: "Qing'er."

Zhou Chen came to the rescue and said, "Don't worry, Princess. When you come to my place, there is no need to worry about those red tapes. My place may be different from the outside. These tables and chairs are made by ourselves. Guests do not need to kneel and sit. Just sit on the chairs."

Seeing Zhou Chen helping him out, Mu Qing also said with a smile: "Sister, these tables and chairs invented by Brother Yu are very comfortable to sit on, much more comfortable than kneeling. Brother Yu is right. We are so familiar with each other, there is no need to be so polite, just be casual."

He spoke as if this was his home and he was the master here.

Mu Nihuang was helpless with her younger brother, and then she and Xia Dong sat down on the left.

Not long after they sat down, Gong Yu brought two maids to bring tea and pastries to them, and asked the two maids to place them on the table next to the three people.

The moment Gong Yu appeared, Mu Nihuang and Xia Dong turned their eyes away. Mu Nihuang was lucky, as she had seen Gong Yu before, so she just glanced away and then looked away.

But Xia Dong, who is Mu Nihuang's best friend, stared at Gong Yu with an unfriendly look. She had already learned these things from Mu Nihuang, so she was full of hostility towards Gong Yu.

Zhou Chen took the initiative to introduce: "This is my wife-to-be, Gong Yu, Gong Yu, you have met Mu Qing, this is Mu Qing's sister, Princess Nihuang, and this is Master Xia Dong, the Mirror Master of the Xuanjing Division."

"Greetings to the princess, Lord Xia."

Gong Yu saluted the three of them generously, her heart was full of joy, Zhou Chen was able to introduce her as an unmarried wife in front of others, she was really very satisfied.

Although she felt that she was not worthy of Zhou Chen, Zhou Chen's introduction of her in front of his love rival, Princess Nihuang, was the greatest recognition of her.

This was not the first or second time that Mu Qing came to Zhou Chen's place. He had also met Gong Yu twice before. Zhou Chen had introduced them to each other in this way before. Although he was very angry, he gradually accepted it.

Since Zhou Chen is so short-sighted and his sister is not unwanted by anyone, why should he force it? Is he really going to let his sister compete with a prostitute for his affection?

Besides, her sister is so outstanding, where can she not find a good man?

So after that, he came to see Zhou Chen just for fun and never mentioned his sister again.

Gong Yu also felt Xia Dong's hostility, but she did not react. She saluted Mu Nihuang, Xia Dong and the others, then left the main hall.

Xia Dong wanted to speak for his friend, but when he saw that Mu Nihuang didn't react at all, he didn't say anything.

"Brother Yu, why don't you show us the mahjong you mentioned? I really want to see what it is that makes you say it's so interesting."

The most interesting Mu Qing, who had no ulterior motives, immediately asked what was on his mind.

Zhou Chen smiled and said, "Don't worry, wait until Jing Rui and Yu Jin come, and then watch it together, so I don't have to say it again."

Xiao Jingrui and Yan Yujin didn't let Mu Qing wait for long. In less than half an hour, they all arrived, and they also brought Mei Changsu with them.

After everyone met, they said a few polite words. Everyone had met each other before, only Xia Dong and Mei Changsu were a little 'unfamiliar', and everyone else had met many times.

Zhou Chen didn't let them wait long and asked Butler Lu to bring out the mahjong. After he made it yesterday, he polished the mahjong. Now it doesn't prick your hands when you hold it. Although it's not as smooth as those mahjong in later generations, it feels pretty good.

"This is Mahjong. There are 144 tiles in total. There are many ways to play it. Let's start with the simplest one..."

Zhou Chen spent nearly half an hour explaining the basic rules of playing mahjong. The people present were all smart people. Except for Mu Qing who seemed a little dazed, everyone else had already understood.

"Okay, no matter how much I say, it's better to just play. Mahjong requires four people. Come with me to the side room and sit down to play."

The square table in the side hall had been set up. As the host and the only one who knew how to have fun, Zhou Chen was naturally the first to sit down.

"We have a lot of people here, four of us, me alone, and three spots left. Who will come?"

Mu Qing was the first to shout, "I'll do it, I'll do it."

But before he even sat down, Mu Nihuang pulled him aside and asked, "Come here, did you understand what I just heard?"

Mu Qing said depressedly: "I don't understand, but I can play it."

Although he said it, the fear of being dominated by his sister for a long time made him give up his seat, and Princess Nihuang sat down opposite Zhou Chen.

"I'm quite interested in this mahjong game, so count me in."

Naturally, no one would have any objections, so there were only two positions left.

Xiao Jingrui and Yan Yujin looked at each other, and finally Yan Yujin said: "Brother Su, you are the smartest among us. You learn faster than us. Please sit down."

Mei Changsu said modestly: "I didn't understand much either, so I won't embarrass myself. Jingrui, Yujin, you guys should just sit down."

Yan Yujin said, "It would be embarrassing if I sat down. I think Jingrui is not much better than me. Brother Su, please sit down first and show us how to do it. Then we can save some face later. If I go ahead now, it will be embarrassing. I am shy, so forget it."

Xiao Jingrui agreed, "Yu Jin is right, Brother Su, don't be so modest, take a seat."

Mei Changsu had no choice but to sit down with a smile, so there was only the last seat left.

This time, before anyone could speak, Xia Dong sat down without any hesitation: "Seeing that you are all procrastinating and dawdling, if you don't want to sit down, then I'll take it. It happens that I'm also quite interested, and two men and two women are also suitable."

Well, the four-person mahjong team has sat down, so Zhou Chen said, "Let's start sorting the cards now."

Among the four people, except for Mei Changsu, who had a slower hand speed, the others arranged the cards very quickly. They didn't even need to do such a simple task, they just had to watch how Zhou Chen did it.

The first three games were played very slowly, with no winners or losers. It was mainly because Zhou Chen was explaining while he was playing. He is definitely an expert in teaching. He has so many children, and many of them are taught by him, so he has plenty of patience.

Mei Changsu and the other two were all intelligent people. After Zhou Chen taught them almost hand-in-hand for three games, they all understood a lot, and then they officially began.

In the first game, Zhou Chen won without a doubt. In the second game, he started to let the opponent win, and finally Xia Dong won, but he only won with the smallest card.

The third game was Mei Changsu, the fourth game was still Mei Changsu, and the fifth game was still Mei Changsu.

"Hey, great talent, you can do it." Xia Dong has a straightforward personality. Seeing Mei Changsu win three times in a row, he began to praise him.

Mei Changsu smiled and said, "It's just good luck. Besides, Brother Yu gave in on purpose."

After two more rounds, Mu Nihuang and Xia Dong won respectively. Even though Mu Nihuang was calm, she smiled happily when they won.

Zhou Chen stood up at the right time and asked Yan Yujin, who had been watching for a long time and couldn't wait to sit down. The four fledgling "Mahjong Gods" began to play chess.

The more they played, the more addicted they became. They played until noon, then had lunch at Zhou Chen's place. At the urging of Mu Qing and Yan Yujin, they didn't eat for long, and then started playing mahjong again.

Except for Zhou Chen, all six people came on the field, each playing two rounds, taking turns.

After getting familiar with the game, Mu Qing was the first to shout for money, and Zhou Chen then helped them count the cards, explaining to them in detail how much they would win or lose.

Because they were there to make money, the positions were fixed in the end. The Mu siblings were on one side and took turns fighting, Xia Dong was on one side, and Yan Yujin and Xiao Jingrui were on one side. When Mei Changsu was tired, he would hand it over to Xiao Jingrui and Yan Yujin.

Even with a calm personality like Mei Changsu, he quickly became addicted to mahjong. He always had a smile on his face. The side hall was also very lively, with Mu Qing and Yan Yujin shouting the loudest.

The fight lasted until the hour of Xu. In the end, the ones who lost the most were the Mu siblings, followed by Xiao Jingrui, Yan Yujin, Mei Changsu and Xia Dong.

The Mu siblings lost so many games simply because Mu Qing was too weak. If Mu Nihuang hadn't won a few more games, they might have been the loser.

The reason why Mei Changsu was able to win was because he was really powerful. Zhou Chen saw it very clearly. Wow, he started memorizing the cards when they were shuffled. With such memory and intelligence, how could he not win?

Xia Dong won money by relying on observation rather than memory. When playing cards, her eyes were always on the faces of her three playing partners. Except for Mei Changsu, whose expression she could not judge, she could more or less see some clues from the other four.

How could she not win money if she used her ability to solve cases in playing cards? She even won more than Mei Changsu because she never played.

"It's fun, it's really fun, will you come again tomorrow?"

After dinner, when they were getting ready to leave, Yan Yujin and Mu Qing were still reluctant to leave. Yan Yujin was really addicted, while Mu Qing loved to play more and more as he got worse.

Mei Changsu shook his head and said, "I've been sitting all day, and my body is a little stiff. I have to go to decorate the new house tomorrow, so I won't come over."

Yan Yujin asked in surprise: "Brother Su, have you bought a new house? Where is it?"

"It's in Changzhifang. It's a house that was introduced to me by Commander Meng. I thought it was suitable, so I bought it. But it's still a bit deserted now. I plan to tidy it up before moving in."

Mei Changsu smiled as gentle as the breeze and spoke calmly.

Xiao Jingrui's expression changed slightly. He knew best why Mei Changsu wanted to move out, but he couldn't dissuade him.

Yan Yujin said with a smile: "Brother Su, when you move, I will definitely give you a big gift."

Mei Changsu smiled and said, "You don't need a big gift. As long as it's from you, Yujin, even if it's just a flower, I'll be happy."

Mu Nihuang said: "Please inform me when Mr. Su moves to a new house."

"Okay, Princess."

"Great talent, although we haven't met a few times, you played cards well today. Remember to ask me to play cards on the day you move in." Xia Dong said suddenly.

Mei Changsu was flattered: "I will definitely send someone to inform Lord Xia."

After saying that, Zhou Chen sent them to the door. Mu Qing and Yan Yujin both felt sorry that no one would play mahjong with them tomorrow.

"Everyone, I will go buy some more jade tomorrow and make some mahjong sets. If you don't mind, I will ask the butler to send them to you in a few days."

"Really, that would be great."

Mu Qing and Yan Yujin were both very happy.

Not long after, Miaoyinfang on Luoshi Street took the lead in launching mahjong. In just a few days, Mahjong became known to many people. People in the square, in order to see what mahjong is, all went to Miaoyinfang.

Mahjong is very simple to make. Miaoyinfang sold countless sets of mahjong in a short period of time, and then a mahjong craze swept the capital.

Finally, it spread to the palace and became the favorite pastime of many concubines.

After mahjong was introduced into the imperial palace, even palace fighting became less frequent. If anyone strolled around the harem, they would hear the sounds of mahjong playing.

There are even rumors that even Emperor Liang was addicted to mahjong and often dragged people in the palace to play mahjong together, which caused a group of censors to jointly petition Emperor Liang to stop playing with things and lose their ambition. Emperor Liang was so angry that he even smashed several incense burners...

The sale of mahjong brought a large amount of income to Miaoyinfang. However, as the mahjong was sold, various pirated copies appeared, and the sales were very average afterwards.

Mei Changsu has not been idle during this period. He first used some means to help Prince Jing obtain the position of chief judge of the Qing State case, and thus entered the sight of court officials.

What followed was the Lanyuan corpse-hiding case, which implicated the Minister of Revenue Lou Zhijing, the Crown Prince, and Prince Yu.

Under Mei Changsu's persuasive persuasion, Yu Wang, who has always been shrewd, was also confused by what he said, and unconsciously acted according to Mei Changsu's rhythm.

Playing with people's hearts is a skill that a good strategist should have, and Mei Changsu is also very good in this aspect, not to mention that he has studied the Crown Prince and Prince Yu for a long time, and he always finds the right medicine for the right situation and understands Prince Yu's mind, so he can calculate Prince Yu so easily.

During this period, Mei Changsu also moved out of Xie Mansion's Xuelu and moved into a three-in-one courtyard house in Changzhifang.

However, his move was not a big deal, but he just moved there quietly. At that time, only Zhou Chen, Xiao Jingrui and Yan Yujin went to help.

After Mei Changsu moved into the Su Mansion, Xie Yu sent out two more waves of assassins, but unfortunately, the assassins didn't even get to see Mei Changsu before they were dealt with by the Jiangzuo League masters hiding in the Su Mansion.

So Xie Yuqi was extremely worried during this period, but he had no idea what to do. Many of his men died, but Mei Changsu was not killed at all.

At this time he began to understand Zhuo Dingfeng's dilemma at the time. Even Zhuo Dingfeng and Zhuo Qingyao had taken action, plus so many martial arts masters were brought in by Tianquan Villa, but they had never succeeded once. The power of the Jiangzuo League was really too strong.

Sometimes he was so angry that he wanted to take hundreds of his soldiers and rush directly into the Su Mansion to capture Mei Changsu.

But in the end, I could only suppress this crazy idea.

Su Mansion!

Zhou Chen Yungong helped Mei Changsu relieve the cold illness. After finishing the work, he said: "It's already winter, you should pay attention in the future, go out less, and wear more clothes. If it's not that your body can't hold the internal force, I really want to Give you more internal strength, so that you don't have to suffer so much."

Mei Changsu's body was too weak, and he had to be very careful when using his internal energy to heal Mei Changsu. How could he dare to transfer his internal energy into Mei Changsu's body? Without his control, Mei Changsu's body could not withstand the overbearing pure yang internal energy.

Mei Changsu wiped the sweat from his forehead. Every time Zhou Chen treated him, he would feel warm all over. It was just his body problem. It couldn't always be like this, otherwise he wouldn't suffer so much.

"This is already very good. After you helped me, I don't need to sleep by the fire anymore."

Doctor Yan came in and began to take Mei Changsu's pulse.

"Doctor Yan, don't you believe in my ability?" Zhou Chen said quite dissatisfied.

Doctor Yan said solemnly, "Neither of you is a worry-free person. I really don't know what's wrong with you two. You were poisoned by the same poison, so why are your conditions so different?"