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Chapter 199 Chapter 48: Playing Chess
Li Guanqi walked among the white snow in Zhulou, he would rather walk slower than a turtle, but also walk very steadily.

A passer-by official was eager to help, but he shook his head politely.

This young man is quite contradictory. He is very gifted in astronomy and arithmetic, and he is not proud. He is willing to humbly ask for advice from those who are not as knowledgeable as himself.He was also born with poor bones and extremely poor martial arts qualifications. He has put a lot of effort into alchemy boxing, and he is still accumulating energy and blood after practicing it. He is not congenital, but he is extremely stubborn in this regard.

It is not disgraceful for a person recovering from a serious illness to walk more sloppily, but he will never show the slightest weakness.

Until he got into the carriage, the thread of inspiration in his heart was still looming.The coachman asked where he was going, and he gestured to indicate that he was just going out for a stroll.

The coachman raised his whip, and the carriage left Sitianjian and drove into the market in Yujing City.

The young man raised the curtain of the car and sniffed the cold wind. Although it was a bit cold, it gradually dissipated the stuffy air that had accumulated in the room.The carriage was driving into a bridge of clouds, and he saw the pedestrians and horses under the bridge walking among the vast white snow, like sunspots on a chessboard, his heart moved, and he took out two copper plates engraved with the words "report to the king" Shake it.

Hearing the voice, the coachman reined in his horse at the end of the cloud bridge, and the young man gestured again, and wrote the four characters "Master Yuance" on his palm.

The coachman understood, turned his horse's head to the south, and rushed to Daxiangguo Temple.

The boy's name is Guanqi, but he is not only watching, he is also good at playing chess. At the age of 13, he was able to compete with the chess masters of Beimen who are the most powerful in Dayong Kingdom, and learned the folklore "33 Forms of Zhenshentou" and "Jade Sea Nine Game Maps".Just last year, the national go player from Shenpeng Kingdom came to court, killing all the young players from all walks of life. After playing a game with Li Guanqi, he felt ashamed.

Master Yuance of Daxiangguo Temple is also a master of Go. Li Guanqi calculated the cause and effect of Dayan's sword movement, and it involved the Patriarch of Qingque Palace who was the ninth generation sword solution. Because of this, he was heartbroken and had been in seclusion for a long time. slow.When I came to Daxiangguo Temple, I was going to find Master Yuance to play chess.

As a result, when they arrived at Daxiangguo Temple, they left empty-handed. The monk said that Master Yuance had left Yujing City in autumn.There is a Shiqing Terrace in Zhuling of the East China Sea. According to legend, it was once a place where immortals played chess. Now the vicissitudes of life have been submerged under the sea. Master Yuan Ce went there to find the leftovers left by the immortals.

Li Guanqi felt a little regretful, the word "Endgame" fell into his ears, but it seemed to trigger that thread of inspiration again, making him look to the south of Daxiangguo Temple.

……

In the garden, the black donkey was munching grass behind the fence.Tu Shanxi lost the mirror-grinding business, so he split the firewood until it was evenly weighted, and used it as a knife practice.Hong Yao and Xu Da played scores in the pavilion.Li Chan responded to the flood of greetings, returned to the study, opened the "Longevity", and read it again.

Wupi from the Sitianjian walked outside the garden on snow. Li Guanqi raised his head and looked behind the wall. The black tiles on the roof were brand new. Not far away, the coachman was asking passers-by.

"The people living in this garden are not ordinary people..."

"This garden was completed in a few days, it is really a trick of the fairy family..."

"That Immortal Mo...the recently famous Xie Ningzhi, in that Clear Water Pavilion..."

The conversation was indistinct.

Li Guanqi listened to it, but what he was thinking about was an old matter. He heard that this garden was supposed to be built into the Fengchen General's Mansion, but it was abandoned because of his master's few words.There were rumors outside that the terrain of this garden was not good, and several evil spirits had been committed.Li Guanqi came here to have a look, but he didn't see anything evil.On the contrary, he had heard from his master several times that the former owner of this garden was also a national player a hundred years ago, and he still left a strange mess in this garden.

I planned to go to see the mess again, but the garden was repaired, and it was replaced by someone else, so I probably had to turn around and leave.But Li Guanqi is proficient in spells, and every whim is an omen for him.

Li Guanqi walked towards the garden gate, the coachman bid farewell to passers-by, and followed.Li Guanqi knocked on the door knocker, thinking, I wonder if the owner of the garden has left the mess behind?

The garden door opened, and the red-clothed girl behind the door was stunned when she saw the person coming. The recent guests, except those familiar faces, were all servants who came to send the next post, but the one who came today was an unfamiliar face.

"You are……"

The coachman didn't know Li Guanqi's reason for coming, so he just guessed and replied: "This is the disciple of Si Tianjian Jianzheng. Hearing about Li Dan's reputation, he came here to visit."

Hong Yao muttered Li Guanqi's name in her heart, looked at the young man, seeing that Li Guanqi didn't say a word, she just felt that this guy looked dumb, but he was really arrogant and rude.

Li Guanqi seemed to see what Hong Yao was thinking, pointed at his mouth, and shook his head.

Hong Yao was taken aback, and tentatively asked, "You can't speak?"

Li Guanqi nodded.

Hong Yao said to wait a moment, then returned to the garden,
Arriving at the window of the study, he called out, "Ah Lang, here is a guest. He said he was the disciple of Yuan Jianzheng."

"Yuan Jianzheng? His disciple?" Li Chan was taken aback, and put down the letter. He had always wanted to find Yuan Shuo to kill him, but he had never had any interaction with this Sitian Supervisor. "What is he here for?"

……

The coachman was watching the carriage outside, Li Guanqi was led into the garden by Li Chan, and looked around.There was a crow standing on the top of the wall, this bird should be noisy, but it was neither loud nor noisy, it was so quiet that Li Guanqi felt inexplicably kind.

Out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of the tip of the pavilion again, and when he saw the wisteria-clad chess pavilion, he left the crow behind and looked at the chessboard in the pavilion.

"This garden has been abandoned for many years, and it was recently renovated. There is still some grass ash on the ground..."

Li Chan didn't know why Li Guanqi came, so she chatted casually, but saw Li Guanqi stopped by the pavilion.

"This pavilion hasn't been renovated much, only the vines have been trimmed, cleaned up, new tiles have been added, and new paint has been added."

Li Guanqi nodded, walked into the pavilion, saw that the chessboard was still full of white pieces with a black piece embedded in it, he was relieved, and then thought that the black piece was dead and should be removed, but although there were many white pieces , In fact, he also lost his breath, this is the weirdness of this chess game.

He looked at the chess game, stayed for a while, then turned around and made a few gestures to Li Chan.

……

Under the window of the hut, Chi Yasha bumped into Qing Yasha and asked, "Guess what he's talking about?"

"Who knows?" Qing Yasha glanced at Chi Yasha, and carefully studied the boy's gestures in the pavilion, watching the boy's fingers draw a few times, then clasped his palms into a circle, pressed down, and then let go , with palms facing the sky.

Xu Da thoughtfully, flicked his tail, suddenly his eyes lit up, he stood up, imitating the boy's gestures, "It's easy, what he said is, such a round thing grows in the ground, if it breaks, You can hold it in the palm of your hand..." Spread your paws apart, "Okay, okay, isn't it watermelon?"

"Oh?" Chi Yasha frowned, "Mr. Xue Shi'er said, there is indeed some truth, but why is it watermelon, not winter melon?"

"You don't understand, the winter melon needs to be cooked before you can eat the watermelon." Xu Da proudly looked at the slim old man in sackcloth beside him, "Military teacher, what's the matter? Is this the truth?"

"This..." Mai Wang chuckled, "This young man is using 'image language'. The book says that there are countries of image language overseas, where words cannot be spoken, but images are used to describe each other. This kind of communication is much more convenient than talking. .”

"Adjectives?" Xu Daqi asked, "What adjectives, why haven't other dumb people used them?"

"The idioms are not easy to learn." Mai Wang sighed, "Even if the dumb people in this world can survive by chance, there are not many who can read, let alone the idioms."

"The military master is really well-informed and well-informed!" Xu Da exclaimed, "What did the boy say?"

"I don't know adjectives either." Mai Wang smiled wryly, "However, from the boy's gestures, we can tell a thing or two. What he gestured is probably heaven and earth, square inch, yin and yang, black and white... Let's see, Mr. Xue Shier , he is right next to the chessboard, Fang Cun Xuansu, all he talks about is chess, that's what it means."

"Playing chess..." Li Chan shook her head, "I can do it a little bit, but I can't play it well."

Li Guanqi pursed his lips, pointed to his feet, and made gestures for a while.

Li Chan rubbed her chin, thought for a while, and then asked half-guessed, "You said that the former owner of this garden was also a national champion?"

Li Guanqi nodded.

At this time, Hong Yao said: "Recently, I just learned chess and played a lot of games. Do you want to play chess?"

Li Guanqi hesitated for a moment, then nodded.

"This is not a place to play chess. Don't look at the unremarkable chess pieces here, they are firmly embedded." Hong Yao muttered, and then walked towards the west room, where there was a chessboard newly carved by Tu Shanxi.

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In the west room, a wooden chessboard was placed beside the charcoal basin, and the kettle in the corner was emitting white steam.There are many figures hidden between the beams under the window. Just now, Chi Yacha said, "The Goddess Empress is going to play chess with Yuan Shuo's disciple", and summoned all the monsters in the garden.

Hongyao placed two wooden jars beside the chessboard. The chess pieces in the jars were all made of wood, the yellow ones were of natural color, and the black ones were painted with ink.She was quite looking forward to it. After all, since Xiang Bijun learned chess, she has only played against Xu Da, and has never faced a foreign enemy.

However, this young man is a disciple of the famous Si Tianjian Jianzheng, who is proficient in astronomy and arithmetic, and is good at deduction. This young man's chess skills must not be much worse, so she was a little nervous, sitting on the west side of the chess table, holding A handful of sunspots were pressed onto the board, "It's your turn."

The rule of guessing the first in Yujing City is that if the player who catches the chess later can match the odd-even of the first-grabber, he can choose black and white. Deliberately grabbed three chess pieces and pressed them onto the chessboard.

"I won!" Hong Yao cheered, picked up a sunspot, and played it to the upper right position of "Shishi" on the chessboard.

Li Guanqi only glanced at it, and went down to the position of "Xiangshi" on the left without thinking.

Although Hong Yao has not been learning chess for a long time, she has learned it seriously, and has firmly remembered Professor Bi's set moves. Although it is the first time to play chess with others, she still plays well.

Li Guanqi only played a few rounds, and he could see that his opponent was a beginner.Beginners have memorized some chess records, and their chess skills are already good. At least they can play against others in the various monasteries and monasteries in Yujing City. For Li Guanqi, they are still vulnerable.

But since he was visiting as a guest, he didn't have to kill the other party completely, so Li Guanqi put some water on purpose.

Come and go, there are more chess pieces on the board.

On the beam, Xu Da looked down at the game below, and said in a low voice: "Okay, okay, you are indeed a goddess! Even the legendary closed disciple of Yuan Jianzheng can fight back and forth."

After a while, Hong Yao dropped a drop and killed the opponent, a big dragon. He couldn't help but looked at Li Chan with a bright smile and asked for praise.

Xu Da couldn't help but roared, "Wonderful, wonderful!"

Li Guanqi on the opposite side of Hongyao was calm, and suddenly dropped a piece.

When the ball fell, Hong Yao frowned slightly, thought for a while, and then responded, and made a few more moves, and couldn't help showing embarrassment.

Xu Da on the beam also opened his mouth wide. The young man had lost a big dragon, but instead of retreating, he moved forward. With just a few moves, it seemed that many foreshadowings of the previous layout had been uncovered, and the situation was immediately reversed.

Hong Yao's brows were furrowed, and she played slower and slower. The young man made the "time phase". She pondered for a long time before hesitating to put the chess piece in the "Xing Song" position.Xu Da on the beam jumped anxiously, but he was relieved when he saw Hong Yao moved the chess piece again.In the end, seeing Hongyao's son "Human Pheasant" again, he couldn't help but yelled out.

"Wrong, wrong!"

As soon as he called out, he knew something was wrong, so he quickly shut up.But it was too late.Li Guanqi below opened his mouth, looked in the direction of the voice, and saw a white cat.

"It's a bad thing, Mr. Snow Lion." General Huo Huo lowered his voice, "Let that boy hear it!"

Xu Da felt apprehensive, glanced at Li Chan, and whispered: "What are you afraid of, this guy is dumb, like a thousand years old crow."

General Huo Huo sighed, "Mr. Xueshier, he can write!"

Xu Da hissed.

"Xu Da!" Hong Yao was in a difficult situation, and was interrupted by Xu Da at this time, her face turned red with anger, and she glanced at her, "Watch the chess without saying a word, do you understand the rules?"

Xu Da met the gaze of the young man, and looked at Li Chan tentatively, but saw that Li Chan just smiled, so he was relieved, and simply kept doing nothing, and jumped to Hong Yao's feet, "Goddess, don't be angry, Don't be angry, we are also outspoken, outspoken!"

Hong Yao blushed even more, and argued, "What's wrong?"

Xu Da said: "Hey, Goddess is also a fan of the authorities, we are onlookers, this move should be in the position of 'Wang Wang'!"

"Onlookers are clear!" Hong Yao's breath did not hit one place, "Come on, you come!" He said to get out of his seat, "See how powerful you are."

"Ms. Goddess, this...hey, that's fine!" Xu Da was itching, thinking, if he could beat Yuan Jianzheng's first disciple, it would be a great honor, so he rushed to the seat of Hongyao.

Hong Yao didn't expect that this guy would really take his place, the word "you" popped out of his throat, and walked away angrily.

Li Guanqi stared blankly at the person and the cat, and then glanced at Li Chan, the owner of the garden had a talking cat.

And Xu Da waved his claws, held up a black flag, looked at the situation on the field, thought for a while, and also encountered difficulties.Watching from the beam, I felt that the chess was played normally, but it was really in my hands, but I felt that it was not appropriate to play it in 'Shi Wang', so I couldn't help scratching my ears and scratching my head, and dared not make a move.

"Official month."

A chess piece sounded in Xu Da's ears, Xu Da was agitated, trying to find this little monster who didn't know how to watch chess and didn't speak a word, he also imitated Goddess Empress, pretended to be angry, and then ran away.

Suddenly, he felt that the voice was familiar again, Xu Da looked around, and saw Mr. Bi looked over in the chess pavilion outside the window, and smiled slightly.

(End of this chapter)