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Zhou Ning nodded, and at this moment, Zhou Yue said lightly: "Nephew Ning, come here." ”

Du Shisan bowed respectfully, threw a look of self-seeking blessing to Zhou Ning, and turned to leave.

Zhou Ning walked over with some apprehension in his heart, and Xie An said in a gentle voice: "Zhou Xian's nephew doesn't have to be restrained. Sit. ”

Zhou Ning knelt down and sat down according to his words, and then saw that on the bluestone in front of Xie An, there was a chessboard, and his cheap second uncle Zhou Yue was playing against him.

In his previous life, he not only did not meet opponents in calligraphy and painting, but also had a deep study of chess, only to see the two of them playing chess very fast, Zhou Yue held black, Xie An held white, Heizi and Baizi started a drama fight in the upper left corner, and for a while, there were many wonderful differences, from north to south, and gradually fought for the hinterland of the Central Plains.

These two people, but when it comes to chess attainments, they are not far from him.

The two played several chess moves in a row, and because they lost one move when the white piece was laid out before, they always fell behind, and when they encountered a series of disasters on the ninety-third move, the situation of white chess was already precarious.

Zhou Ning saw it in his heart, and couldn't help but blurt out: "The Central Plains is not a place of long-term war, why not take Jiangdong?" ”

"Take Koto?"

Xie Anxin was stunned, looked down, and saw that there was still a large open space on the east side of the chessboard, if he took advantage of the robbery to win two sons in a row and occupy the key points, even if he abandoned the middle abdomen, he could still try to fight for an undefeated situation.

"Fun, fun, that's a clever trick."

Xie An stretched out his hand and landed a son on the east side of the chessboard, thoughtfully, and then pointed at him and shook his head and smiled: "Zhou Zhongdao, Zhou Zhongdao, who doesn't listen to the real gentleman who doesn't listen to chess?" ”

Zhou Yue also shook his head and scolded with a smile.

"That's it." Xie An dropped the chess piece, glanced him up and down, and said, "If I'm not mistaken, Zhou Xian's nephew should be exactly twenty this year?" ”

Zhou Ning nodded yes. Xie An said: "When the old man was twenty years old, he was still talking with people. Zhou Xian's nephew's talent, in the eyes of the old man, can be called the first in Jiangzuo, and even the old man was beyond his reach when he was young. ”

Xie An called himself over, not just to praise himself, right?

Zhou Ning was stunned for a moment, and didn't dare to say anything.

Xie An said again: "Although Zhou Xian's nephew is talented, but in the old man's opinion, he lacks the heart of a Confucian, and above Confucianism and Taoism, he can't go far after all. Confucius said: If there is the beauty of Zhou Gong's talent, he is arrogant and stingy, and the rest is not enough to see. Among the talented people in Jiangzuo, Zhou Xian's nephew is the most talented, if he can not be arrogant or impatient, and concentrate on studying, his achievements in the future will definitely not be under me, if he is as wild as Li Taibai, Tang Bohu, and Du Muzhi, it will be too much of a pity. ”

Xie An's words were very sincere and sincere, and he warned Zhou Ning a few more words, and then waved his hand to signal him to leave.

Zhou Yue accompanied Zhou Ning to the gate of Zhiyuan, and said happily: "Nephew Ning did a good job today, although Duke Xie is elegant and elegant, and he likes to promote juniors the most, but he rarely tells a junior like this." ”

Zhou Ning frowned and said, "What does Uncle think Gong Xie has for finding his little nephew?" ”

Zhou Yue said hesitantly: "Maybe it's for his niece Yongxu's talented daughter Xie Daoyun to find a fast son-in-law in the east bed." Yes, I have one more thing to discuss with you. ”

After a pause, he said: "Your father went early, before leaving, I asked me to take a good look at you, yesterday I received a letter from Hongyan, the Holy Lord wants to get me up to Daxing City to serve as a waiter of the Ministry of Rites, I don't know if you want to go with me?" ”

Seeing that Zhou Ning was silent for a long time, he frowned and said, "I know that you still have a little resentment towards your uncle, but now that more than a year has passed, how much resentment it should almost dissipate." ”

Zhou Ning was confused, only half understood, Zhou Ning's father in this world seemed to have passed away a long time ago, and he seemed to have a little conflict with his cheap uncle.

But...... Daxing, isn't that Chang'an? According to the book, isn't the hiding place of Yang Gong's treasure house Chang'an?

Thinking of this, Zhou Ning hesitated slightly, afraid that sooner or later he would be in trouble, hesitated for a long time, nodded and said: "What the second uncle said is that the little nephew still has something to do in Yangzhou, and after some time, he got up and rushed to Chang'an." ”

Zhou Yue knew that he was not a man of his own words, so his face turned slightly pale and nodded.

Passing through the quiet stone road and walking to the gate of Zhiyuan, I saw Du Shisan standing at the door with his hands behind his back.

Zhou Yueqing coughed and said, "Although my place is not big, there is still a quiet room, so nephew Ning will go back with me." ”

Zhou Ning shook his head and said, "The little nephew still has two friends in the inn, wait for me to settle them, and then come to see my uncle and aunt." ”

Zhou Yue sighed, nodded, and stepped into the carriage. After a while, the carriage was gone.

Zhou Ning watched Zhou Yue's carriage go away, his heart was a little chaotic, Du 13 patted Zhou Ning's shoulder and said, "Let's go, great talent." He smiled bitterly and said, "From today onwards, our Qinglou Shuangxia will be headed by you." ”

The two talked and laughed, and the carriage slowly drove away from the park.

At this moment, Zhou Ning heard an inaudible "click" from the base of the carriage, as if a stone had gently knocked on the base.

……

It was a chaotic night.

When most of the talented people who came back from Zhiyuan returned to Yangzhou City, the chaos caused by the demon marquis Lu Xun and the mountain pusher Shilong had already affected half of the city.

Occasionally, groups of monks were escorted into the city, which caused a riot among the people. The soldiers of Beifu who continued to arrive, the official officials chased after the demon marquis Lu Xun who had outstanding achievements in chaos here, and there were several fights during the period, and the demon marquis Lu Xun easily killed more than a dozen people.

Zhou Ning didn't care much about the sound of the right talent, the carriage ran all the way to catch up, it didn't take much time, and when it came to the vicinity of the South Gate Inn, Zhou Ning stopped the carriage and said goodbye to Du Shisan, and then got out of the carriage.

When the carriage was far away, Zhou Ning found that on the ground in front of the inn, there was a monk wearing a coarse cloth monk's robe, covered in blood and seemingly unconscious.

Zhou Ning hesitated slightly, but still went over and helped the monk up.

"Who?" The monk struggled a little alertly, and when he looked up, he saw that the monk was kind and kind-eyed, and did not look like a bad person.

"Good Samaritan." Zhou Ning replied angrily and helped him into the inn.

The monk smiled bitterly and said, "I'm a prisoner of the imperial court, aren't you afraid that I will affect you?" ”

"I'm afraid. So if you get a little better, let me go. Zhou Ning said casually.

"Hey, brother, you're a bad guy." The monk smiled and said, "I was hit by the ice of the Yuwen family, and I couldn't move, so my brother helped me to sit down on the chair." ”

When he said the word tired, his tone was a little weird, and he seemed to be used to giving orders, Zhou Ning didn't think it was wrong, and helped him to the Hu chair according to his words. After thinking about it, he took out a bottle of high-strength liquor from the side, unscrewed the cap, and handed it to the monk.

"What is this?"

The monk was a little surprised and smelled the wine on the mouth of the bottle, and said happily, "What a rich aroma of wine." ”

Picking up the wine bottle, he took a few sips, his face suddenly improved, he breathed a sigh of relief, and sighed: "What a strong wine." ”

Putting the wine bottle aside, he glanced up at Zhou Ning, and crossed his knees.

After a while, he let out a sigh and sighed: "It's so dangerous, I almost died here, I don't change my name, I don't change my surname, I thank my brother for saving my life." ”

"Zhu Chongba?" Zhou Ning was slightly stunned, he remembered that he had read Zhu Chongba's wanted warrant, how did he look like this?

Zhu Chongba seemed to see his thoughts, smiled, stretched out his hand to reveal a pockmarked horse face, and said with a smile: "Wearing a mask all night, I really suffocated Lao Tzu." ”

Zhou Ning couldn't help but be amazed, Zhu Chongba stuffed the mask into his arms, smiled at him, closed his eyes, and began to vomit luck.

On the second day, Zhou Ning got up early, Zhu Chongba was no longer in the room, and left a note on the table, which read: "I Zhu Chongba has written down my brother's life-saving grace, if you have a drive, you can come to Mingjiao Yangzhou to find me." In addition, seeing that you are quite interested in this mask, I specially left one for you, which is the most convenient when walking the rivers and lakes, and no one can see through it. As for the bottle of spirits, Lao Tzu left first. ”

Zhou Ning reached out and picked up the small box on the table, and in the box, there was a mask as thin as a cicada's wings.

couldn't help but smile dumbly, this Zhu Yuanzhang is really a wonderful person.