Li Yuan carried Xu Xiaowen back to the lobby, and did not find her parents under the glance.

"Where's your parents?"

"They said to wait for me outside. ”

Probably because of the brightly lit environment that gave Xu Xiaowen the courage, she finally spoke, but everything that happened before was too exciting after all, and her legs trembled when she walked, and she accidentally hit her feet.

Li Yuan was worried that Jiang Xiaoliang and the others would bump into each other after they came out, so he simply picked Xu Xiaowen up horizontally and strode towards the outside of the hotel.

……

Pang Jianguo and Guo Xiaobao returned to look for Li Yuan, and as soon as they walked to the bottom of the steps in front of the main entrance, they saw Li Yuan walking out with a girl in his arms.

Guo Xiaobao's eyes were straight at that time, and he recognized that the girl was Xu Xiaowen that the child's mother said, and thought that Li Yuan pretended to be an innocent teenager, and he was really unambiguous.

The two were still hesitating to step forward, when they saw a man and a woman rushing forward.

Fang Xuemin was waiting in a hurry, but suddenly saw her daughter being carried out, and Li Yuan, who was still holding her as a little rascal, was suddenly furious and pounced on her like a lioness.

"Put my daughter down!"

Fang Xuemin grabbed Li Yuanyuan's hair, if he wasn't afraid of hurting his daughter, he would scratch his other hand.

"Wenwen, what's wrong with you?"

"Don't get excited, don't get excited!"

The two voices sounded in no particular order, namely Xu Bin and Guo Xiaoliang, Pang Jianguo was slow to speak, and he didn't have time to speak, so he grabbed Fang Xuemin's arm first.

"What's going on?"

A majestic voice came, and it was Guan Xuedao.

……

"Her foot is broken. ”

Li Yuan said, carefully put Xu Xiaowen down to the ground, and waited for her father to hold her before letting go of his hand.

"What's wrong with your foot?" Fang Xuemin asked anxiously, "Is this stinky boy bullying you?"

"Let's go first. Li Yuan said that he was leaving.

"Let's go!" Fang Xuemin grabbed his arm and said angrily: "Don't think about leaving if you don't make it clear!"

Fang Xuemin made up the cause and effect in his mind, it should be Li Yuan who pestered Xu Xiaowen and didn't let go, so she accidentally hit her foot, and the more she thought about it, the more angry she became, and she wanted to give him a lesson that she would never forget.

"Enough!"

Li Yuan let out a low snort, suppressed his voice and quickly explained: "Jiang Youde's son wanted to insult her, but he was frightened by me, hurry up!"

As soon as these words came out, except for Fang Xuemin's dazed face, everyone else's expressions changed suddenly, especially Guo Xiaobao, who couldn't wait to find a crack in the ground to get into, and urged eagerly: "Let's go, hurry up!"

Xu Bin picked up his daughter again, and rarely said hard to his wife: "If you have anything to say, I'll talk about it later!"

Walking down the steps, Guan Xuedao grabbed Li Yuan: "You come with us." Li Yuan didn't know why, so he waved his hand to Pang Guo and the others, signaling that he didn't have to wait for him.

Guan Xuedao's car was on the other side of the square in front of the hotel, Li Yuan was walking, feeling that something was wrong, and when he looked back, he found that Zhao Min was also following behind.

"Why are you coming along, aren't you going home?"

"There's no one in my house today. Zhao Min shrugged his shoulders indifferently and said, "I'll testify to you, otherwise you're afraid you'll be scratched in the face." As he spoke, he grabbed him, leaned into his ear and whispered, "How does it feel?"

"What's going on?" Li Yuan looked dazed, and couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart. This Zhao Min, what should you say about her? This is what a girl should say?

After she mentioned it, she couldn't help but think about it, but found that there was no charm in her memory.

"Just pretend. ”

Zhao Min threw him a contemptuous look and chased after him, and his uncle and aunt called him affectionately.

……

Yingzhou City Guest House.

“…… Li Yuan said to him, 'If you have the opportunity to come to Beijing, I will invite you to drink', and we came out with a swagger. ”

Zhao Min recounted what happened just now, and there was not much difference from the actual situation, that is, when she mentioned herself, she described a dog-legged woman as a woman who saw uneven roads.

After listening to this, several people had different reactions.

Xu Bin was silent, but his clenched fists betrayed the anger in his heart; Guan Xuedao's eyes were deep and seemed to be in a long exam; Li Yuan, as one of the parties involved, couldn't help but be afraid in retrospect.

As another party, Xu Xiaowen leaned on the bed with a pillow, her eyelashes drooping, and she was soft in the quiet, like a small white flower.

Xu Xiaowen couldn't tell what she felt in her heart, and when she was most lonely and helpless, Li Yuan stepped forward to protect her...... He said he was his girlfriend at the time?

Did he say it, didn't he? Even if he didn't, he hinted at it, right?

Why do you care so much about this, I obviously hate him. No, think about it carefully, he hasn't done anything out of the ordinary except staring at himself, he doesn't look ugly, and he doesn't study badly, well, it seems that there is no reason to hate him?

It's not that I hate it, but I like it?

Xu Xiaowen hugged the pillow tightly, looked at the others weakly, and found that no one noticed her, so she quickly lowered her eyelids.

No, no, no, no, it has nothing to do with liking! I'm just grateful, yes, I'm grateful! I'm grateful that he protected me, he was so handsome at that time, more handsome than my father, and very gentlemanly...... Hold the pillow tight.

Fang Xuemin noticed that her daughter's body was shaking, thought she was scared, comforted her a few words, and scolded: "These little bastards are really not things!"

She knew that she was wrong to blame Li Yuan, but her prejudice against him had not been eliminated, and she couldn't say anything about thanks, but said with a little blame: "Since they have scared people, why do you have to be ruthless?"

She was talking about Li Yuan smoking Huang Er with a stick.

"Is it to stall for time?" Guan Xuedao asked suddenly.

"There is a reason for this," Li Yuan said, "he must be let out, otherwise the hotel will also suffer." In his words, he was sure that Jiang Xiaoliang would be angry with Huang Er.

"By the way, kill chickens and make an example of monkeys," Guan Xuedao said, "Huang Er was severely beaten, and others naturally didn't dare to mention this stubble again." ”

That's pretty much what it means. ”

"Aren't you afraid of causing trouble?"

"I only care about the people I care about," Li Yuan said nonchalantly, "It doesn't matter who I live or die?"

……

Guan Xuedao sketched Li Yuan's every move in his mind, and his words and deeds had deep meanings, recalling what he saw and heard when he was in Beijing, which was no different from some of the second ancestors in his memory.

Guan Xuedao asked curiously, "How did you do it?"

"I usually like to read, and I like to ponder after reading it. ”

"Read any books?"

"Read everything. Li Yuan nodded and said: "Actually, I don't know what the real second generation of officials is like, I just wanted to take one step at a time, but I didn't expect to be able to really bluff him." ”

"The word second generation of officials is used well!" Guan Xuedao nodded and praised: "I have to say, I can't do better if I change it." ”

"You have won the award, in fact, in my opinion, it is not difficult for the second generation of officials to act. ”

"Oh? ”

"If you want to play the second generation of officials, you just need to remember one sentence, that is, 'don't treat people as people'. ”

"Don't treat people like people. Guan Xuedao chewed on this sentence and sighed: "In a word, the world is hot and cold, so don't treat people as people." Do you know how to play chess?"

Guan Xuedao's abrupt turn of words makes people scratch their heads.

"A little. Li Yuan said modestly.

"Have a game?" Guan Xuedao pulled out a box of plastic chess from his briefcase.

"It's so late. Li Yuan's face was embarrassed.

"I'm going to call Aunt Li!" Zhao Min jumped down from the chair and said heartlessly: "Don't go back at night, it's rare to stay in a hotel!" After speaking, he ran out without waiting for Li Yuan to speak.

Li Yuan looked helpless, what is there to be excited about, not to mention that the Yingzhou Guest House is old and dilapidated, and there is not even a phone in the room, what kind of hotel is it?

……

In China, Xiangqi and Go are both board games and have the same status, but in the eyes of the public, they are completely different.

In the secular view, Go is the spring and snow, Xiangqi is the Riba people, Go is the elegant art, Xiangqi is the culture of the market, Go is the old man holding the purple clay pot, and Xiangqi is the big man who shakes the broken fan.

When people talk about playing chess, they mean playing chess, but that's for ordinary people.

Xu Bin heard Guan Xuedao say that he wanted to play chess, thinking that he was going to play Go, but he didn't expect that what he took out was a pair of chess.

Everyone knows how to play chess, but Xu Bin has never seen Guan Xuedao play, so he put down his depression and came up to watch the game.

Xu Bin's chess skills were mediocre, and he couldn't see the depth of the two, so he turned to pay attention to the chess style.

From the perspective of chess playing style, one is as steady as Mount Tai, and the other is stormy, but it is also equal.

The only thing that puzzled Xu Bin was that it was Li Yuan who was as stable as Mount Tai, and it was Guan Xuedao who was stormy.

The layman looks at the bustle, and the insider looks at the doorway.

As soon as he played a few moves, Li Yuan realized that he had met a master.

Li Yuan can play Go and chess, Go is self-taught for ulterior purposes, the level is not high, at best he can only bully Xu Bin, a stinky chess basket, but the chess strength is really good.

There's a reason for that.

Although Li Yuan's father, Li Zhenhai, has a lot of vices, his chess skills are very superb, and his playthings have been lost all his life, and he still goes to the street to gamble on chess when he is old, and cheats some money for tobacco and alcohol. However, he has an impulsive personality and speaks badly, and many people stop talking to him after playing with him a few times.

Li Yuan later came to see him pitiful, and often accompanied him to play chess to relieve his boredom, but unfortunately he broke up unhappily in his abuse every time.

The past is unbearable, but the chess skills are perfect.

……

Chess originated in ancient times, no matter which way it is said, it is inseparable from the affairs of the soldiers, and it is the way to evolve the battle formation between square inches.

Therefore, a person's chess style can also be described by the art of war.

To borrow the words of "The Art of War", Guan Xuedao's chess style is "as fast as the wind, and as fast as fire." Li Yuan, on the other hand, is "as slow as a forest, immobile as a mountain." ”

One is good at attacking, the other is good at defending, such a game between two people, it is naturally wonderful, Xu Bin watched it from the sidelines, and the resentment in his heart has long been thrown out of the clouds.

Halfway through the battle, Li Yuan suddenly admitted defeat.

"Why throw in the towel?"

Xu Bin glanced at the chessboard, Li Yuan's chariot and horse artillery each left a son, but Guan Xuedao only had two horses left, judging from the situation, Li Yuan still had the advantage in the scene, and he didn't understand why he wanted to admit defeat.

"If you can't do something, why bother doing it. ”

Li Yuan dragged an ancient sentence and moved Guan Xuedao's chess pieces a few times, and sure enough, he fell into a dead end.

Xu Bin suddenly realized, and said with a smile: "Who said that sentence, you know that you can't do it, and you don't do it, and the sage is too." ”

This was said by Zhang Dai, a famous writer in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, and Xu Bin praised Li Yuan as a smart man.

Li Yuan didn't know Zhang Dai, but he knew the meaning of this sentence, his mouth was modest, and his heart was happy.

At this time, Guan Xuedao suddenly spoke.

"Zhang Dai also said a word," Guan Xuedao said unhurriedly, "I know that I can't do it, and so do the saints." ”

As soon as his words fell, Li Yuan was suddenly stunned, looked down at the chessboard, and always felt that there was a big mystery.

"You're a man. Xu Bin pointed at Guan Xuedao, shook his head and smiled, and asked, "Why don't you play Go?"

Without waiting for Guan Xuedao to speak, Li Yuan suddenly raised his head and said with a solemn face: "Teacher Guan is teaching me to do subtraction." ”

"Hahaha......" Guan Xuedao stood up, pinched his shoulder, and laughed: "Yes, you are really good!"

"What do you do?" Xu Bin looked dazed.