I was frightened, and the defenders of Kugit were questioning us from above, and when they learned that we were a caravan to Svadia, a soldier came up with a sword. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

I was the only one with my face covered, and I was afraid that someone here might have seen me.

He walked up to me and hesitated for a moment, but he didn't lift the veil that covered my face.

He waved his hand and asked the city defenders to let us into the city.

That was the first time I had seen the towns of the Kujits, nomadic people, the inhabitants wore nomadic hats, the horse dealers were the most popular, the arms merchants only sold scimitars, and the armor merchants sold fish scale armor and nomadic shields.

The caravan said it was going to buy some velvet here and sell it to Svadia, it was a big deal, and if nothing else it would have been good to earn 3,000 dinars, I had grown so old and had heard of so much money for the first time. It's a bit staggering.

But Mondstadt added: "Don't be too happy, this road is full of robbers and bandits, and it will be difficult to reach your destination unscathed. With that, he unbuttoned the clothes on his chest, and two deep scars came into view.

I was taken aback, these people are people who lick blood on the tip of a knife every day, and they have a bit of vicissitudes and a bit of blood.

We were going to rest here for a day, so we went to the tavern in the town, which was overcrowded, and there was the sound of clinking glasses from time to time, and we walked in and naturally became the object of attention, and more than 70 people went in at once, and the whole tavern seemed extremely crowded, because of the strong opposition of the others, we had to divide into three teams, and live in three taverns in the city.

I got to the youngest one in town, it was quiet, the tavern was opened by a couple in their 40s, they were very welcoming, and the guests of this tavern were not as noisy as the other two.

In the upper left corner of the tavern, a traveling entertainer is playing melodiously with a guitar, and I feel relaxed when I come here, sometimes the tavern doesn't have to be luxurious, as long as there is a comfortable environment, it is also excellent. I found a place to sit down, and Mondstadt sat next to me, and in front of me was an old man with a white beard and a hair that had fallen out, staring intently at the chessboard in front of him.

He saw someone sit down, raised his head, and said to me in a very oriental accent: "Friend, come from the desert." I was shocked, but I didn't know what to do, so I could only cater and say, "How do you know? The old man chuckled and said, "Why don't you know, your lips are dry and your skin is yellow, but you don't look like a plateau person." ”

I could only nod my head after hearing his words, but Mondstadt next to me immediately realized that something was wrong, this was the territory of the Kujits, he raised his head and looked at the old man vigilantly, but the old man did not have any expression, and then said: "Don't be nervous, come and play a game of chess, and if you win, I won't tell you." I complained to him and said, "But I don't know how to play chess." “

He raised his head again, laughed evilly, and said, "I can't learn." ”“.......”

He taught me: "The rules are very simple, each side holds a chess piece of one color, the empty table starts, black first and white later, a chess piece is on the chessboard, and the empty point next to it is the "qi" of the chess piece."

If there are pieces of the same color on the points immediately adjacent to the line, the pieces are connected to each other to form an inseparable whole. If there are discolored pieces on the points immediately adjacent to the line, there is no qi here. If a piece loses all its energy, it cannot exist on the board. The method of clearing the airless child out of the chessboard is called "grape". There are two types of grapes:

1. After the move, the opponent's chess piece is out of gas, and the opponent's piece without gas should be extracted immediately.

2. After the move, the chess pieces of both sides are in a state of no gas, and the opponent's pieces of no gas should be extracted immediately.

At any point on the board, if a player makes a move, the piece is immediately in a state of exhaustion, and at the same time it cannot extract the opponent's piece. This point is called the "forbidden point". After having a child, the other party must not be faced with the situation that has occurred repeatedly. The game is final when both players agree to confirm the completion of the move. When one of the players concedes in the middle of the game, the game is final. Both sides use the virtual game consecutively, which is the final game. “

After he explained, I still didn't know much about it, but I had to fight.

I don't know where I got my talent, we came for a total of two hours, during which I often hesitated, but I could also deal with his strange tricks, but in the end I still took the initiative to admit defeat, the old man's chess method is sharp, do not follow the routine, do the opposite, after all, it is still an old fritter.

When I threw in the towel, the old man laughed, he stood up, patted me on the shoulder, and said, "It's good to be like this for the first time." I looked up hopefully again, and said to him in a pleading tone, "Then you still denounce me?" He laughed again and said, "I didn't say I was going to denounce you." After listening to his words, I breathed a sigh of relief.

He gave me his chessboard and asked me to study it when I had time, but I didn't dare to refuse, so I hurriedly took it, and as for whether I would specialize in it in the future, that was my own business.

We spent the night in the tavern, and I slept soundly that night I hadn't slept so well in a long time, and life away from the war beckoned to me.

The first rays of sunlight in the morning shone into my guest room and into my heart, and my heart cleared for the first time.

After getting out of bed and getting dressed, I went downstairs, because it was still early, it was not dawn, so there were not many people in the tavern, but the man who played the guitar in the corner got up early, and at the moment he was caressing his instrument affectionately.

I walked up to him and asked him, "Sir, can you teach me an instrument?" He stopped what he was doing, slowly raised his head, looked at me excitedly, and hurriedly asked me to sit down.

It turned out that he was a mute, and because of his love for music, he did not give up and pinned all his hopes on the instrument, and the couple at the tavern had a good heart and took him in to play here.

He longed for the understanding of others, which is why he looked at me so excitedly, he taught me several songs, and gave me a harmonica that he loved so much, and I bought him a dagger in return.

Then I left with the caravan, and in the days that followed, I practiced the harmonica and played the songs I learned to the caravanserais, and I discovered the charm of music for the first time as I watched them relax and revel.

I also studied that chessboard, but after all, I didn't have much perseverance, and I only stayed at the level of half-understanding and stopped studying it. The rest of the journey was pleasant, but a new challenge arose, a forest with bandits stationed there, and the Svadians had said that no one would survive here.