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

Chapter 1071 Great Zhou Monopoly

After making sure that Yu Nanshu and the others had gone far away, Liang Fu breathed a sigh of relief.

"Those little devils are finally gone... Now, it's up to us old guys to rule the world!" He raised his hand and called out to Shen Xingjian, his eyes shining. "Xingjian, where are the chessboard and chess pieces I asked you to bring? Did you take them?"

“Old Thing” Shen Xingjian: “…I brought it.”

"Quick, put everything out!" Liang Fu rubbed his hands and called Shen Zheng again: "Shen Zheng, play chess!"

"Old thing" Shen Zheng: "My waist hurts, I need to walk around."

"Why does your waist hurt?" Li Shiyuan came over, pulling the willow branch, frowned and asked, "Find a room, I'll take a look at you."

Shen Zheng rubbed the side of her waist with the base of her wrist and shook her head: "I guess I just sat for too long this morning. It's nothing serious. You guys go play first, I'll take a walk along the stream."

For some reason, recently, whenever she sits for a long time, her waist will swell and ache on both sides, but the pain will go away as soon as she wakes up from a nap.

After thinking about it, she felt that her waist was protesting and didn't want her to sit for too long.

Li Shiyuan looked at her for a while, and after confirming that she looked normal, he nodded and said, "Then let's go back home and wait and see. If the discomfort gets worse later, you must not hold it in."

As soon as Shen Zheng nodded, she caught a glimpse of the chessboard on the table out of the corner of her eye.

She paused for a moment and asked Shen Xingjian, "Is this... the 'chessboard' and 'chess pieces' you brought?"

She said that Liang Fu clearly knew that she was a bad chess player, so why did he take the initiative to invite her to "play chess" today?

This "game of chess" is not that "game of chess"...

Looking at the "chessboard" on the table, Shen Xingjian nodded seriously. "Monopoly, you took us to play it on the boat coming to Beijing. We all thought it was fun, so when I returned to Beijing... I improved the game a bit."

As he spoke, he brought Shen Zheng to the chessboard and introduced it carefully: "The property grid has fertile fields, manors, restaurants, chambers of commerce... and there are function grids that can trigger unknown events, such as 'earning one hundred taels of gold without working', 'a day trip to the Ministry of Justice's prison', and 'bandit's den'..."

Shen Zheng: “?”

Looking at the three big words "Bandit's Den", she slowly said: "Bandit's Den is...?"

Shen Xingjian smiled seriously, "I built this road, I planted these trees. If you want to pass through here, you have to pay a bribe. The bribe ranges from one penny to a hundred taels of gold. If you can't pay the bribe, your property will be confiscated. If you lose all your property, you will be sent to prison."

"..."

God.

You bandit, you still want to send people to the Ministry of Justice?

Is this reasonable?

And the Ministry of Justice is so busy, does Minister Luo know...

Shen Zheng laughed dryly. "Where do you get all these wonderful ideas?"

Shen Xingjian suppressed his smile, a look of confusion on his face. "Last time when we played Monopoly, you said we should play big. I went back and thought about it carefully, and I think you're right. This time, the six ministries are all at the top, so I think this is what counts as big."

"Six, six parts..." Shen Zheng stared, her eyelids sore from straining.

It took her a while to accept Shen Xingjian's arrogance.

It seems that there is indeed no mention in the laws of the Great Zhou Dynasty that "you cannot use the six ministries to play Monopoly", so his reform can't be considered extraordinary... right?

On this side, Shen Zheng was still studying the law in depth, and on the other side, Liang Fu was already ready for battle.

"Lao Li, Lao Qiao, Xing Jian, come on!" He put the dice into his palm, fighting spirit high: "I will kill you all!"

Li Shiyuan threw the willow branch in his hand and sat down opposite him, "Come on!"

As the founder of the Great Zhou version of Monopoly, Shen Xingjian had a determined smile on his face and slowly smoothed his robe and sat down.

Looking at their appearance, Shen Zheng suddenly felt dizzy.

or......

Did she figure out mahjong today?

In this way, everyone had one more form of entertainment on the way back to Tongan County.

Mei Rui, who was standing by, was already stunned. After a while, she remembered that she had one more thing to do when she stayed here...

After a moment, she whispered, "Master Shen, your waist is uncomfortable. How about I help you walk along the stream?"

"Just walk. No need to help me." Shen Zheng shook her head and said to her, "Wait for me for a moment."

After that, she took out her purse and walked towards Shen Xingjian, "I want to feed the pigs, this is my pig food."

"Feeding pigs" is the Tongan County term for "betting on winning or losing."

For example, if there are three or four players at the table, the "pig feeder" can choose one player to feed money and share the risk.

If the player loses, the "pig food" fed by the "pig feeder" will be wasted. If the player wins, the "pig food" will increase, or even double.

In essence, "feeding the pigs" is actually the betting behavior of a third party at the gambling table.

"You feed him?" Liang Fu was unhappy before Shen Xingjian accepted the purse. "Why don't you feed me?"

Shen Zheng glanced at them and commented, "You and Mr. Qiao are considered from the Ministry of Works, Doctor Li is considered from the National Medical Bureau, and what about Xing Jian? The Ministry of Revenue! The people in the Ministry of Revenue are very smart, I will definitely feed him."

Take the soldiers led by Ji Benchang, for example, can they be weak?

Shen Xingjian took the purse and asked her with a smile, "How much is it?"

Shen Zheng lowered her eyelids and said, "There's a penny of silver and twenty copper coins in there, totaling one hundred and twenty coins. I'll give it all to you."

"..."

Shen Xingjian's smile froze on his face.

For the first time, Shen Zheng saw disgust on his face.

Even Mei Rui, who was standing next to him, couldn't help but touch his purse - there was at least one tael and two coins in it, totaling one thousand two hundred coins.

Didn't they say Lord Shen received a million-dollar reward? Why is he so... frugal?

"I'm leaving. Huaduo, you stay here. When Su Yan and the others arrive, let them take care of the lamb." After saying that, Shen Zheng turned around and called out to Mei Rui, "Miss Mei, please take me along the stream to see how the crops are growing on the farm."

"Yes." Mei Rui lowered her brows and said softly, "Master Shen, please come with me."

She led Shen Zheng across the small stone bridge over the stream and introduced, "Master Shen, the willow trees on the left bank of the stream are growing better. And to the south, there's a pear tree. Although the pears aren't ripe yet, they're ready to be picked and boiled in water... Roasted lamb causes dryness, and pear water clears away heat. Master, how about I take you to pick some?"

"Pear?" Shen Zheng thought for a moment and nodded. "Let's go. It's a good opportunity to take a look along the way."

The two walked slowly along the bank of the stream. The warm breeze blew, and the willow branches swayed left and right, like a natural pearl curtain.

Shen Zheng stopped, picked a few willow branches, and followed the memory in her mind, weaving willow wreaths as she walked.

"Moo-"

Suddenly, a voice was heard. Shen Zheng stopped what he was doing and frowned subconsciously.

Bullfrog?

"Moo-"

Another voice came, and her brows slowly relaxed.

It turned out to be a cow.

Behind her, Mei Rui heard the two cow moos and a struggle flashed in her eyes, but after a moment, her expression became firm again.