Chapter 243: Mahjong!
Early the next morning, Su Lingxi went out alone.
Even Yun Qianrou didn’t know what Su Lingxi was doing, but Su Lingxi said that there was something to discuss in the evening.
So everyone didn’t take it to heart.
Su Lingxi gave Su Chen the blueprint and asked him to re-plan the space upstairs according to the design drawing.
Lin Ye also recruited two chefs and began to teach some recipes.
Everything was proceeding in an orderly manner.
Busy time always passed quickly. In the evening, Su Lingxi finally came back holding a box.
Yun Qianrou and the other two seemed to have been waiting at the table for a long time.
Su Lingxi looked at the people sitting on the first floor and couldn’t help but smile. “You seem to have been waiting for me for a long time.”
“Boss Su, we finished our work long ago.”
“Everyone is looking forward to what you have to say tonight.”
“Tell us quickly, what way can change the current situation of the Drunken Old Man Tower?”
Su Chen couldn’t wait any longer. Su Lingxi placed the box in her hand on the table and then pointed to the box.
“The answer is inside.”
Yun Qianrou: “Sister Su, what’s inside?”
“Open it and see!”
At Su Lingxi’s signal, Yun Qianrou opened the box under everyone’s expectant gaze.
“Hiss… what are these?”
Su Chen was puzzled.
Because he saw a whole box of red stones, and the color of these stones was uniformly red.
Each stone had a different shape, all rectangular prisms.
There were also strange patterns on them that Su Chen didn’t recognize.
“This seems to be agate.”
Lin Ye was knowledgeable and recognized the material of these stones at a glance.
Su Lingxi: “That’s right. This is indeed agate.”
The Vermilion Bird Divine Nation was rich in minerals. These agates were not expensive, and few people here used them as decorations.
Su Lingxi bought a large pile of agates at the price of scrap without any effort.
“These agates are not valuable, so Miss Su, its function must be more than just decoration.”
Lin Ye couldn’t figure it out, but still put one of the agates back into the box.
“Yes, our Drunken Old Man Tower doesn’t rely on agates to turn the tables.”
“Let me tell you, actually this thing is called…”
“Mahjong!”
As soon as Su Lingxi finished speaking, everyone was confused.
“Sesame paste (Majiang)? The kind you eat?”
Su Chen picked up a piece of agate and was about to put it in his mouth without thinking.
Su Lingxi couldn’t help but give him a rap on the head.
“Is this for humans to eat?”
“This is for playing. Don’t say you have the same surname as me when you go out in the future!”
Su Lingxi snatched the mahjong tile from Su Chen’s hand and put it back into the box. This was something she had painstakingly found a craftsman to make with extra money in the morning.
“You probably haven’t heard of this thing before. Today I’ll tell you how to play this thing!”
“This is for playing?”
Lin Ye was stunned. There were many entertainment activities in Tang’an City, but no one had ever played with this kind of stone.
“Yes, I’ll teach you. You must learn it.”
“After learning it, you will get the hang of it very quickly.”
Su Lingxi poured all the mahjong tiles onto the table and introduced them while sorting them out.
“There are a total of one hundred and thirty-six tiles in here, divided into characters, bamboos, and dots, etc.”
Su Lingxi picked them up one by one and introduced them.
“Then the game requires four people, and there are exactly four of us.”
Su Lingxi continued, “Now I’ll deal the tiles to everyone. Each person takes thirteen tiles first, and then takes turns drawing and discarding tiles. Whoever forms a specific tile pattern first wins.”
Although everyone didn’t quite understand, they still started following Su Lingxi’s instructions.
In the first round, everyone was in a flurry. Su Chen made many mistakes, either taking the wrong tile or forgetting the order of discarding tiles.
Interestingly, there was a note next to him with the rules of the game clearly written on it.
Su Chen scratched his head anxiously, trying to follow everyone to play cards according to his own ideas.
To be honest, Su Lingxi herself was not very proficient.
But she knew the rules inside. Her roommates used to ask her to play often.
But because they played for money every time, Su Lingxi thought she was poor and didn’t play with them.
Later, her roommate played mahjong until she got tenosynovitis and went to the hospital, and only then did she behave herself.
But this incident was enough to prove what kind of sensation it would cause if this thing was brought to the cultivation world.
Anyway, the four people played by trial and error. If they encountered rules they didn’t understand.
They would ask Su Lingxi.
If Su Lingxi didn’t understand either, she would ask Xiao Bai.
“Hiss…”
Su Chen frowned at his tiles, wanting to speak several times but didn’t.
Su Lingxi saw that he had something to say, so she told him not to hesitate and just say it.
“Boss Su, I think I’ve won (Hu)…”
Su Lingxi: “…”
Su Lingxi was silent for a while, and couldn’t help but lean over to look at his tiles.
As a result, Su Lingxi looked carefully, and he really had won.
Su Lingxi sighed and pushed the tiles down dejectedly.
“Alright, you won again!”
“What…?”
“I won again hahahaha!”
Su Chen, who realized it later, showed his tiles and couldn’t help but show off.
“See my luck? It seems I’m born to play this!”
Lin Ye and Yun Qianrou were a little speechless, but they felt okay.
There are winners and losers.
But Su Lingxi didn’t feel so good.
Strange, Lin Ye, Yun Qianrou, and Su Chen all won in turns.
She was the only one who lost several games in a row.
Fortunately, they didn’t gamble for money, otherwise she would have lost all night.
“Aiya, I’m not playing anymore, I’m not playing anymore. It’s boring!”
Su Lingxi was too lazy to even pack up the tiles.
Su Chen realized that he was too smug and quickly restrained his emotions.
“Aiyo… Boss Su, it’s okay. I was just lucky.”
“Everyone has good luck sometimes. I’m lucky today, maybe you’ll be lucky tomorrow.”
“When the bad luck is used up, the rest is good luck, isn’t it?”
This guy Su Chen had a glib tongue and was quite good at coaxing girls.
Su Lingxi’s mood did improve a little, but she didn’t want to continue playing.
She put away the tiles and said to everyone, “You felt it tonight too. Mahjong has very comprehensive gameplay.”
“The threshold is relatively low, and the rules are complete.”
“My idea is to combine the restaurant with this entertainment method of mahjong to revitalize the Drunken Old Man Tower.”
Only then did Su Lingxi tell everyone her full plan.
Su Chen, who was addicted to playing, naturally agreed. He felt that introducing something like mahjong would definitely succeed.
Lin Ye felt it was okay too, but he still had many questions.
After all, he had failed so many times, and he couldn’t believe all at once that this thing could save the Drunken Old Man Tower.
Su Lingxi said that this was just the first step, and there were still many steps to be completed later.
