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Chapter 203 52: ​​Chess Companion
Li Chan added tea leaves, orange peels, etc. to the pot, handed it to Hongyao to add water to make tea, and returned to the chess table to sit down.

Li Guanqi was a little puzzled, looked around, but did not find the shadow of the white cat.So the right palm was covered, and the left hand stroked the back of his hand, asking where the raccoon slave was going.

Li Chan didn't need to look at Li Guanqi's hand gestures to know that he was asking Xu Da. He squinted to the east and saw the shadow of a cat on the window paper. Chess, hung his fist on the chess table, smiled, "I'll do it."

Li Guanqi came here for the white cat today, but Li Dan is the owner of the white cat, so his chess skills should be stronger.He stared at Li Chan's fist, thought for a while, then reached into the chess jar, picked up a black chess piece, and put it on the chess table.

According to the rules of guessing first, this black stone is guessed that the number of white stones in Li's hand is odd.Li Chan smiled and let go of her palm.There are three white pieces on the table, Li Guanqi guessed it right.So he put away the white chess pieces and said please.

Li Guanqi picked up a black chess piece and pressed it to the star position on the upper right corner of the board.

This piece falls, and the chess game begins.Yesterday, when Hong Yao and Xu Da were playing chess, there were occasional discussions in low voices. At this time, the chess player was replaced by Li Chan, and the monsters could watch the chess without saying a word. The rumble, Hong Yao's footsteps, and the breeze outside the window are all very obvious.

Li Chan picked up a white piece, waited for a while, but there was no movement in her ears, and looked around, but there was no sign of Mr. Bi.Then I knew that Mr. Bi asked him to try it himself first, so he played the white piece to the star position in the lower left corner of the chessboard.

Li Chan is good at Danqing, and knows the world's monsters. As for chess skills, he just read a few chess records in his spare time.However, Taoist cultivators are far more enlightened than ordinary people, even if they haven't studied chess very much, it won't be too bad to perform on-the-spot deduction.At the beginning of the chess game, the focus was on the layout again. After several rounds like this, the black and white sides have not yet confronted each other.In the sixth move, Li Chan took the position of "Ren Ri".At this time, there was still a lot of space on the chessboard, Li Guanqi was unwilling to lose the chess yesterday, but no longer arranged the layout, and played the black chess to the "Renzhou".This move showed its sharpness, Li Chan hesitated for a while, and saw that there were sunspots on the two right corners of the chessboard, echoing each other from a distance, and felt that the situation was not good.Just as he was planning to avoid the battle, he first stabilized the situation on the left side. As soon as he picked up a white piece, Mr. Bi's voice sounded in his ear, so he paused his hand and went down to the position of "Ren Ren".

Now that Mr. Bi is on the field, the next chess game is out of Li Chan's business. Although he is a chess player, he is also a chess spectator.The black and white sides start from this piece and fight on the right side of the chessboard.Every time Li Chan made a move, it took at most one breath, and Li Guanqi followed closely, fighting fiercely.After twenty moves, the black chess began to decline, Li Guanqi didn't hesitate and turned to another place, but from then on, the moves became slower and slower.

At move 120, the black and white pieces on the four sides of the board were still entangled, and Li Guanqi was holding a white piece, unable to drop it for a long time.

Chess games are like fighting on the battlefield, and the brave wins when they meet on a narrow road.Even if he loses, as long as there is still something to contend for on the chessboard, there may not be room for a comeback.But the chess strength is as high as Li Guanqi, he can already deduce it in the middle game, even if he can have the upper hand in the middle game, in the final game, he will lose at least four eyes.After wandering around for a long time, finally a piece was made, but the white piece fell outside the chessboard.

Li Chan was taken aback, "Is this admitting defeat?"

Li Guanqi nodded, and picked up the chess piece into the jar.When the chessboard was empty, he made a gesture to come again.

"Another day." Li Chan shook his head, picked up the bamboo slips at his waist, "I planned to go to Lantai to borrow books, but now I'm delayed."

Li Guanqi was stunned for a moment, a little unwilling, and made some gestures.At this moment, Hong Yao brought a pen and paper and put it on the chessboard.Although the little dumb guy was a bit dumb, he knew etiquette very well, which made her look very pleasing to the eye, and smiled courteously: "Come on, use this!" As he spoke, he left in a hurry. The ink in the ink has not dried for many years, but it is a little frozen, and it melts after being heated by the charcoal fire for a while.

Li Guanqi glanced at the red medicine gratefully, dipped in the ink, and wrote, "Too much trouble today, come visit again tomorrow."

Li Chan looked at the words on the paper, then at Li Guanqi, "Then tomorrow, or this hour."

Li Guanqi bowed his hand to express his thanks, but was sent out by Li Chan.

After a while, the carriage bell rang far away from Li's house, and Li Chan returned to the house. Xu Da said to a group of little monsters: "That little mute is indeed Yuan Jianzheng's apprentice, and he is very polite, but unfortunately, his chess skills are a little weaker." A little worse, even we can't beat, how can he be A Lang's opponent?"

Hong Yao put away the chessboard and gave Xu Da a blank look.

Mr. Bi picked up a sunspot, put it in front of his eyes, and said, "This chess piece is not bad."

"Mr. Bi finally has a chess partner." Li Chan smiled.

"He is Yuan Shuo's apprentice, and he will enter the Qianyuan Academy in the future. You will get to know each other sooner or later." Mr. Bi put the chess pieces back into the pot and said to Li Chan.

"Since he is Yuan Jianzheng's disciple, can he also tell my fortune?"

"It doesn't count."

"The gods in the market will also read palmistry." Li Chan took off the windbag on the wall and joked: "My fate is so difficult to calculate, why can't I even count Yuan Jianzheng's apprentice?"

"It's not just your life, anyone's life is hard to count." Bi Jun said, "Just imagine, if it is counted that one person will be killed by a sword, it is not only the fate of one person, but it will involve the country, thousands of people, and tens of thousands of people. Human fate."

"It's really difficult to calculate." Li Chan smiled, "When I was writing essays at the foot of Fuyu Mountain, the fortune-telling next door only charged two yuan. At that time, I thought it was expensive, but now that I think about it, it's too cheap."

Mr. Bi shook his head and laughed, "There are many fortune-tellers at the foot of Fuyu Mountain, because the big green lotus has the number of heaven on it. The three talents of heaven, earth and man are in harmony. If you want to count people, naturally you can't leave heaven and earth aside. No matter whether it is Bagua Liuren, Qimen Taiyi or Zizi Weidoushu, without exception. However, since the "Demon Star" appeared in the world, the celestial phenomena have been in chaos, and the inheritance of magic numbers in the world has also been greatly damaged. Up to now, only Yuan Shuo can deduce the real celestial phenomena. There is only one person in the world, so it can be seen Difficulty, that boy is very talented, but it is still too early to get Yuan Shuo's true biography."

"It's not worth mentioning, it's good to learn some chess." Li Chan smiled, put on her windbreaker, turned and left.

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Uninvited guests from the Sitianjian came to the garden of Guangzhaifang, but Li Chan's life was not disturbed at all. He continued to study and practice, and perfected "Mountain and Sea Supplements" with bookworms, but there was an extra game of chess every morning.

The wintersweet in Yujing City is gradually blooming, and news of the emperor's approach comes from the mansion every day. Although the weather is getting colder and colder, the streets and alleys are more lively.

The day-dividing and celestial instruments in the Sitianjian are constantly turning around every night, and the calendar calculations related to the fate of the country are still in full swing.And Li Guanqi left Guangzhaifang every day and returned to Sitianjian, only concentrating on deducing the game of chess in the morning.

Liu Wenqian, the young superintendent of the Sitian Supervisor, is getting more and more worried. Spring is about to begin, and Li Guanqi's situation has not improved. ?

When the winter was about to pass, Li Chan's chess strength also improved greatly, and she was able to play more than [-] rounds with Li Guanqi without losing the wind.But he also noticed that when Mr. Bi and Li Guanqi played chess, the moves became a little slower.

In the morning when Lichun was still eight days away, Li Guanqi came to Guangzhaifang as usual, and played a game of chess with Li Chan by the side of the charcoal basin.This round came to an end, Li Guanqi's white piece was defeated by two eyes.

This is already the most beautiful loss of Li Guanqi.

When the chess game was over, he put away the chess pieces.Hong Yao took the pen and paper with ease and put them on the chessboard. Li Chan said with emotion: "You are only two eyes away, and you almost won."

Li Guanqi shook his head, he is proficient in spells, even if the three chess candidates in the palace are current national players, Li Guanqi can win a game or two from time to time against them, but on the chess table in this garden, he has not won a single game.The difference between these two goals cannot be counted.If he hadn't come to Guangzhaifang on a whim, he would never have thought that there would be someone in the world whose chess skills could almost match his master's.

He picked up the pen and wrote on the paper: "The skills are not as good as others, and if you lose, you lose. But you have indeed improved in your chess skills, and I would like to thank you and that senior for your guidance."

(End of this chapter)