Chapter 06: The Heavenly Chess Building
In the early morning of the next day, Ji Xia deliberately got up very early and got up cautiously, so as not to wake up Zhongqiu. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biqugeγ info
Ji Xia tiptoed to get dressed, sat in front of the mirror, and gently opened the rouge box that his second brother bought for him. Ji Xia in the Heavenly Realm has never seen these things, but he saw a woman use them when he was looking for someone in Liangcheng yesterday, and Ji Xia also learned to use them when he got up this morning.
Ji Xia dipped a little bit of rouge and applied it evenly on his face, and found that his face was really not so dark, but it was still not white. Ji Xia stained it a little more and wiped it again, but unfortunately it was still not half as white as mid-autumn.
After a few times, Ji Xia felt that his face was already like this, so he simply practiced how to laugh, so he made all kinds of strange smiles in the mirror, and even pretended to raise his orchid fingers, but Ji Xia found that no matter how he smiled, it was not as good as Zhongqiu's casual smile.
Ji Xia could only reluctantly accept the rouge, thinking that Ji Hai was fortunately his eldest brother, and if it was his lover, he would have been snatched away by Mid-autumn.
When Ji Xia was sighing, he suddenly heard a commotion outside the house, opened the door to look, and found that it was an old man smoking a dry cigarette and a bunch of young girls in colorful clothes.
Seeing that Ji Xia opened the door, the old man who smoked dry cigarettes hurriedly stopped smoking and asked Ji Xia: "Has Master Ji Hai woken up?" β
The bunch of girls also hurriedly asked Ji Xia: "Has Master Ji Bin woken up?" Can you paint right away today? β
Ji Xia knew there, so he had to go to the next room to wake up Ji Hai and Ji Bin, who were still sleeping. Ji Hai and Ji Bin learned that someone had come to call them, and knew that today was another busy meal, so they hurriedly washed their faces and went to earn silver.
Here, because Ji Bin had given the old lady enough money yesterday, the two of them could finally travel freely. The two girls freshened up and walked slowly after going out.
Ji Xia began to find that Zhongqiu was not very similar to her, and Zhongqiu was not interested in rouge, maybe she didn't need it. Ji Xia didn't have any interest in rouge before, and when Ji Xia was in the Ji Yang realm, no one said anything about her even if she was unkempt every day, only Ji Bin didn't allow her to enter her library.
But after meeting Mid-Autumn, Ji Xia became interested in Rouge.
Ji Xia and Zhongqiu first went to find a place to eat with a full pocket of silver, and then packed three roast chickens, one for Ji Bin, who worked hard for painting, and two for Ji Hai, who worked hard for iron.
After this matter was over, Ji Xia began to watch Ji Bin paint, and Zhongqiu was watching Ji Hai strike iron.
Ji Xia didn't understand why those people liked to paint this other than their own at first, but then they thought about applying rouge to themselves.
At this time, Ji Bin, who had finished a painting, suddenly said to Ji Xia: "You have a clear heart, I taught you to play chess when you were in Ji Yangjie, and now you find a chess hall to play chess to make money, and by the way, bring that mid-autumn with you." β
Ji Xia looked at his second brother's serious appearance, and reluctantly took Zhongqiu to find a chess hall, and Ji Hai, who was strong in iron on the other side, suddenly lost his energy when he saw Zhongqiu leave.
There is only a chess hall in Liangcheng, called Tianqi Building, Ji Xia and Mid-Autumn enter the chess hall and play chess first.
The rule of the chess building is that when others play chess, the surrounding spectators can not speak, and can only watch from the side, so that the cheapest only ten cents can enter the chess building to watch chess, but if you want to play bigger, you have to gamble on chess.
There are two ways to gamble on chess, one is the gambling of the people who play chess, each side puts at least one or two pieces of silver on the side, the person who wins takes the other party's silver, and the chess building supervises on the side, which is called betting. The other is to play a game in the chess building, and the spectators bet on the victory or loss of the chess game or draw, and arrange the odds according to the number of silver bets between the three parties, which is called public music.
Ji Xia and Zhongqiu came to the chess building and watched others play a few games first. Zhongqiu watched seriously from the side, and Ji Xia asked, "Haven't you played chess before?" β
"No, I'm the only one in the Zhongyuan Realm, where can I find someone to play chess." Mid-Autumn replied.
Ji Xia couldn't help but feel sad for Zhongqiu and said, "Then I'll teach you the rules." β
"No, I already understand." Zhongqiu said, making Ji Xia stunned.
After watching another game of chess, Zhongqiu suddenly said to Ji Xia: "Ji Xia, I think I can take a gamble." β
"Okay." Ji Xia agreed, "I'll bet on you to win on Zhongle." β
Zhongqiu smiled, and the two women walked up to an old man in Tsing Yi who did not play chess, and Zhongqiu asked, "Old man, can I play a game with you?" β
The old man in Tsing Yi was stunned for a moment, and when he looked at the person who came and found that it was a little girl, he was even more surprised: "Girl, you are the first time to come to Tianqiao today." β
Mid-Autumn nodded.
"Then do you know why no one plays chess with me?" The old man in Tsing Yi asked.
"I don't know." Zhongqiu shook his head, Ji Xia thought for a moment, and understood.
"Because none of these people can beat me." The old man in Tsing Yi smiled slightly.
"Well, maybe it's a little more interesting." Mid-autumn refused to give up.
"Okay, I'll make a bet with you, and I won't bully you, but only bet a tael of silver with you, so that your little girl can have a longer memory, and it's enough to know that there is a sky outside the sky." The old man in Tsing Yi said that no one had played chess with him for a long time, and his hands couldn't help but itch.
After saying this, the old man in Tsing Yi and Zhongqiu saluted each other.
Seeing this scene, a chess boy on the side immediately came over to ask Zhongqiu's name, and after knowing the name, the chess boy hurriedly went back to report.
After a while, a gorgeously dressed middle-aged man stood up and shouted to the chess player: "Today, there is a mid-autumn girl who challenges Uncle Liancheng, the odds, bet one to one." β
As soon as these words came out, the spectators below couldn't sit still, first, there were still people challenging chess veterans like Liancheng, and second, there was no money to be made in this chess.
Some shouted: "What's the point of such a gamble? You have to make a little bit of money anyway. β
The gorgeously dressed middle-aged man was helpless, he didn't believe that anyone could win against his uncle, so he simply set the odds that were not called odds.
"No one will bet on Uncle Shi to lose, so where will the money be shared by Uncle Gambler? Isn't it still your own money if you win a bet? The middle-aged man asked rhetorically.
The following was suddenly speechless, gambling chess is like this, everyone wants to make money, then there must be fools willing to give silver, if there are no fools, then no one wants to make silver.
Just when the chess building was quiet, I suddenly heard a woman's voice: "I bet on this girl to win, I bet fifty taels." β
The crowd of spectators immediately took another breath of cool air, and everyone looked in the direction from which the voice came from and found that it was a dark and thin little girl.
Ji Xia was a little frightened by everyone's staring, but he still held up fifty taels of silver and emphasized: "I bet on this girl to win." β
At this moment, the middle-aged man upstairs took a breath and said, "Since someone loses the bet, then Zhongle starts." β
After a cup of tea, the game of public pleasure is good. If Liancheng wins more than 3,000 taels, if Liancheng wins the owner of more than 3,000 taels, he will divide Ji Xia's silver according to the proportion, of which five taels will belong to Qilou, and only forty-five taels will be divided among these people.
And if Zhongqiu wins, Ji Xia alone owns the more than 3,000 silver, and naturally he has to take out one-tenth of it to pay for the cost of the chess building.
Zhongqiu and the old man in Tsing Yi sat in the center of the chess building, and the chessboard they used was also a finely carved jade and black jade chess.
One black and one green, both sides opened.
In the first few moves, Zhongqiu played very badly, and was at a disadvantage at the beginning in front of the experienced Liancheng, and many spectators looked at the chess game and sighed a little: Although Zhongqiu was defeated by Liancheng, it was rare in the world to have such chess strength.
Ji Xia chuckled on the side, how could those people know that it would only take half an hour to learn chess in mid-autumn.
As time passed, the situation of the chess game began to reverse, and Liancheng looked at the little girl in front of him with some surprise, unexpectedly that she had mastered her routine in just a few moments.
Playing chess is all about calculation, and the more moves you calculate, the stronger you are. The people in the Tianqi Building can generally count four or five moves, and the master can often count more than ten moves, as for the old monster like Liancheng, he can already count more than twenty moves.
It's not so easy to calculate, a game of chess when it's your turn to play has dozens of moves, and the opponent has dozens of kinds, in addition to the complete impossibility, you can calculate four or five moves at least to calculate dozens of possibilities, and more than ten moves may be hundreds of possibilities, more than 20 moves is almost an astronomical number, because the more you get to the back, the more difficult it is to think of what crooked moves the opponent may use.
Liancheng confidently calculated those thousands of possibilities, what he didn't know was that Zhongqiu could only count dozens at first, then hundreds, and now he can calculate thousands of possibilities.
Up to now, each move on the chessboard will be calculated for a long, long time, and the chess building has to light a stick of incense, and then light a stick after it is extinguished, stipulating that one side must move when each stick of incense burns out, otherwise it will be considered a loss.
The situation in Qipanshan is becoming more and more uncertain, and the advantages of Liancheng at the beginning have been lost, and now they are in a bitter battle. Liancheng kept scratching his white hair, and continued to scratch a few of them.
In the end, Liancheng suddenly made a strange move. All the spectators exclaimedβthe chess boss was serious.
Liancheng often plays some strange moves at certain critical times, so that the opponent's original calculation will completely collapse, and if you start from scratch, it will be difficult to calculate all the possibilities due to lack of time.
As soon as Liancheng's strange chess came out, Zhongqiu suddenly frowned, she took a few steps and found that the chess game was getting stranger and more difficult to calculate, and she couldn't help but feel that the other party was really spicy.
Zhongqiu is now a stick of incense, and after the incense is burned, she can calculate a hundred algorithms at most, and she is not the opponent of the other party at all.
When it came to the key step, Zhongqiu suddenly found it difficult to fall, and the position where her seed fell was directly related to the situation after dozens of steps, and it was difficult to choose for a while.
Ji Xia is also paying attention to the situation of the chess game, but Ji Xia is not as nervous as Zhongqiu, and he doesn't think Liancheng's move is weird. For Ji Xia, who has calculated ten thousand possibilities, any move is expected, if it is not expected, it is the other party's suicide.
Zhongqiu saw that the pillar of incense was about to run out, and the beads of sweat the size of soybeans on his forehead were dense, and he became more and more nervous. At this moment, Ji Xia walked in front of Xiang, and then walked away to the right.
Mid-autumn instantly understood, to the right.
Liancheng frowned, and after more than ten steps, the power of this step gradually came out, and when the battle reached more than twenty steps, Liancheng abandoned the son laughed and left the chessboard.
The spectators didn't know who won this chess game, only three people could see that it was Zhongqiu who won.
In the end, Qilou gave Ji Xia a silver ticket of three thousand taels of silver, and Ji Xia took the spectators who saw the red eyes and wanted to leave this place quickly.
Who wants to take a tael of silver in mid-autumn and buy a pair of chess.
Ji Xia hurriedly took Zhongqiu away, and there were inevitably red-eyed people along the way, so Ji Xia had to turn around and say to them: "Big brother Ji Hai, Chengnan strikes iron, second brother Ji Bin, Chengnan paints." β
After speaking, everyone stopped following, thinking of the man who could dance with a hammer of twenty or eighty pounds, many people were frightened.
Zhongqiu and Ji Xia returned home, Zhongqiu took out the chessboard and put the chess pieces on the table, and said to Ji Xia, who was still apprehensive: "Ji Xia, I want to play a game with you." β
Ji Xia looked at the serious Zhongqiu, and finally nodded and played a game with Zhongqiu. Halfway down, I suddenly heard someone shouting outside: "Burning Yan City has released the news, Yun Yang Gongzi of the Yun Clan and the princess of Yan Kingdom are married!" All the immortals who arrived were waiting for them. β
Ji Xia, who heard the news, was silent and continued to play chess, and finally lost to Zhongqiu slightly.
After playing chess, Ji Xia slowly walked out of the house, tears flowing out of Ji Xia's eyes, not for Yunyang, not for herself. Ji Xia touched the white dragon in his sleeve and said to it, "Xiaobai, I'm going to send you back." β
This time, Ji Xia didn't hear the whimper of the white dragon, but felt that it was so tightly wrapped around itself that it was about to break its own arm.
In the house, Zhongqiu didn't understand: she could have won, so why should she lose?