Jia Yujing of Red Mansion

Chapter 13
That afternoon, Jia Qiong was invited to Rongguo Mansion by a servant sent by Jia Zheng.

However, he was not able to enter the inner house, and only saw Jia Zheng and several of his Qing guests in the outer study.

After some useless encouragement and praise, Jia Qiong returned home with this harvest, a set of exquisite four treasures of the study and two silver ingots.

This was the first time Jia Qiong entered Rongguo Mansion, but it didn't cause many ripples.

Except for Jia Zheng, no one else would be interested in a prodigy who suddenly appeared on the sidelines.

Two days later, after breakfast, Jia Qiong and Xu Shan went out with the manuscripts of the first ten chapters of Condor Shooting.

The palace is also in Xicheng, but it is located in Qingyunfang, which is relatively far away from Ningrong Street. It took the two of them nearly an hour to walk there.

Asking his cousin to wait at a nearby teahouse, Jia Qiong came to the door and sent a greeting card.

Obviously Wang Hun had given instructions a long time ago, but without informing the door, a steward immediately came out and led him into the house and took him to a garden.

There are regulations on the residences of officials of all levels in the imperial court. Naturally, the gate of the palace is not as splendid as the superior Duke's Palace.

However, the interior is also well-proportioned with pavilions and pavilions, which is not luxurious but fully demonstrates the heritage of a thousand-year-old family.

In the garden, Wang Mu and Wang Hun were sitting in the pavilion playing chess. Seeing Jia Qiong coming, Wang Hun immediately waved to him and said, "Jia Xiaoyou, you came just in time to play chess with my father."

Jia Qiong quickly stepped forward and saluted: "Junior, I pay my respects to Mr. Jiechuan, Senior Wang."

Jiechuan is Wang Mu's nickname. When he met Jia Zheng the day before yesterday, he took the opportunity to learn about the Wang family's situation from him.

Wang Mu smiled and asked: "I heard that you are very skilled at Go. Are you interested in playing a game of chess with me?"

Jia Qiong said: "The younger generation is not proficient in chess. I wonder how good the old gentleman is at chess?"

Wang Hun smiled and said, "My father's chess skills are slightly inferior to mine."

"Nonsense, I'm obviously the taller! Leave quickly and don't bother me here."

Wang Mu waved his hand to Wang Hun to get out of here, but Wang Hun didn't care. He took the manuscript from Jia Qiong's hand and sat aside to read it.

Judging from this interaction, the Wang family and his son are not pedantic people, and Jia Qiong knows this.

He sat down opposite Wang Mu and said with a smile: "Senior, since you are interested, I will accompany you to kill a game."

Jia Qiong and Wang Mu played five games in a row. In the first game, Jia Qiong used a trap and horse abandonment method, and the leading rook advanced to three points.

The old man was confused at first sight, thinking that this guy couldn't play chess, and I couldn't be polite to you for giving him a knight for free, so he attacked Jia Qiong without saying a word and took Jia Qiong's knight first.

Jia Qiong continued to drive nine into two. The old man saw that you were still coming.

He felt something was wrong, but after looking at it for a while, he didn't figure out what was wrong.

However, he did not continue to eat horses, but chose to shoot three into two, aiming at Jia Qiong's two cars. Now both of his cars were in a dead end, and one of them was bound to die.

Jia Qiong's shot was eight and five, and the old man immediately shot two and nine to take his car. Jia Qiong's shot was three and five, and the old man immediately shot his car.

Jia Qiong has already seen that this old man is a bad chess player and fell into the trap unprepared.

Jia Qiong quickly formed a series of shots, and then the car leveled and directly killed him. The battle was resolved in just eight moves.

The old man's face turned red. He didn't know whether he was embarrassed or angry.

He secretly glanced sideways at Wang Hun and found that he was concentrating on reading the manuscript, and then he was silently relieved.

Wang Mu said: "Boy Jia, I was careless in this game. Let's try it again."

"In that case, senior, please go first."

Then the two played four games in a row, but Wang Mu didn't last until twenty moves in the first three games. The old man could only watch three moves at most, so how could he be Jia Qiong's opponent.

In the last round, Jia Qiong saw that the old man was losing his temper, so she could only let go and slowly spend time with him.

The old man was also much more cautious, racking his brains and using the technique of regretting his moves.

The result is that the chess pieces on both sides are almost gone, and the old man is left with only one veteran plus a bishop and a cannon, and Jia Qiong still has a horse and a rook.

Jia Qiong said tentatively: "Senior, let's call this game a draw."

"Hmm...that's good. Your chess skills are really good. You can even tie with me."

"...?" Jia Qiong.

Then the two stopped playing chess and chatted over tea.Although Wang Mu is not good at chess, he has been in the officialdom for decades and has been able to reach the top of the civil service as the chief cabinet bachelor. His wisdom and experience are far incomparable to others.

And Jia Qiong also has insights that are hundreds of years beyond this era, and he is not an ordinary child.

In addition, the old man has an easy-going attitude, does not put on airs, and feels a bit like an old naughty boy, which makes people feel like spring breeze.

Jia Qiong was not as cautious as others in front of the old man, so the two of them unexpectedly had a very good chat.

After Wang Hun read the entire manuscript and finally came to his senses, he saw two people, an old man and a young man, looking happy and happy.

"You said the earth is a ball, how do you prove it?"

"It's easy. Have you ever seen the sea, senior?"

"Of course I have. I once served as the prefect of Taizhou Prefecture in Zhejiang Province for three years."

"Senior, you should have seen big ships on the sea. People always see the sails first, and then the hull.

There are ups and downs on the land, but the sea is full of water, so how can this happen? "

"Oh, it does seem to make sense."

Wang Hun was confused. He stepped forward and asked, "Jia Xiaoyou, what are you talking about? How can the earth be a ball?"

Jia Qiong smiled and said: "Senior, you don't need to worry about it. I'm just discussing it casually with the old gentleman."

Wang Hun no longer cared about this, and asked expectantly: "You have finished playing chess, what was the result?"

Jia Qiong glanced at the old man and found that he was looking at her meaningfully.

He thought to himself that he had better save some face for the old man, so he said: "The old man is very good at chess, and I am no match for him."

After hearing this, Wang Hun's face looked like you were making me laugh, and he immediately questioned: "How is this possible? How can my father beat you?"

Wang Mu's face turned red, and he coughed and said, "Ahem, this kid is indeed very good at chess.

We were evenly matched, and I didn’t win. "

Wang Hun still didn't believe it. Just when he was about to continue asking, Wang Mu asked first: "You have been reading it for so long. How is this boy's writing?"

This trick was indeed effective, Wang Hun immediately said excitedly: "This book is very wonderful, with novel themes and twists and turns, which is very different from previous works.

How did you come up with it? "

Jia Qiong was well prepared and described it as follows: "Well, I have liked to read legendary stories since I was a child, and I am very yearning for things in the world.

I often think wildly, and slowly I come up with a lot. The younger generation calls this genre martial arts novels. "

Wang Hun nodded: "Martial arts, yes, yes, very appropriate.

How many chapters does your book have? These ten chapters seem to be just the beginning. "

Jia Qiong said: "About 150 chapters, about 80 words."

Wang Hun clapped his hands and praised: "It's magnificent. If the standards of the following chapters can be similar to the first ten chapters, this book will definitely be popular all over the country.

It pioneered martial arts novels, just like "Journey to the West". "

"Oh, you think so highly of this book, show it to me."

Wang Mu took the manuscript from Wang Hun and started to read it. He read it very quickly and put it down after briefly reading a few pages.

"It's really good. It's really rare that you can achieve such a level at such a young age."

Wang Mu didn't appear as excited as Wang Hun, which Jia Qiong expected.

After all, "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" cannot compete with works such as the Four Great Classics, and martial arts novels are more popular among young people.

If what he copied was a masterpiece like "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", I'm afraid the old man wouldn't be so calm.

Despite this, Wang Mu already looked at Jia Qiong in a new light.

He secretly thought that this young man was really amazing and talented. He was as talented as pure gold and jade, but he had something else in mind.

　If you like the book, please take care of it, thank you!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)