Han Zhimin nodded in agreement with Chen Xu's opinion, looking at Zhang Kundan's sad and distressed appearance, Chen Xu composed a poem to relieve his sorrows, he looked at the scenery in the mountains combined with his own feelings, and chanted:

The spring river shoots the ancient city, and the valley road is difficult to walk

Wild apes take the mountains and moons, and the magpies fall into fruit

The horse's hooves are dark and dusty, and the butterflies are light

After many years of sadness, there are gradually guests on the way

Han Zhimin said: "The poems made by Brother Lu are of great significance, and I think that in the near future, there will not only be a "Kedengtu" here to build this mountainous area into a prosperous, stable, and prosperous homeland, but also possible." Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info"

When they came down to the mountain, Chen Xu and Han Zhimin sang poetry and harmony with each other, talking and laughing, only Zhang Kundan seemed to have something on his mind and couldn't let go, looking sad, even Han Zhimin asked Chen Xu, Chen Xu didn't know what was going on, and if a person hadn't experienced this kind of thing, even if a person was extremely smart, he couldn't think of a reason.

A few days later, the three of them returned to Burdock Village at the foot of Sanqing Mountain, at this time when Chen Xu and two friends waved goodbye, Zhang Kundan showed a clue and said: "Brother Lu, at this time, you go up the mountain and learn art from your master, I don't know when, you and my brothers can come out with you to play together, during this time, Brother Fool also has something to go, Uncle Zhimin and I have important things to solve, so I don't want to disturb you to Qingxiu on the mountain." ”

Chen Xu asked with a smile, "What the hell is going on?" ”

Zhang Kundan said: "Of course, it is a lifelong event. ”

Chen Xu couldn't understand what was a lifelong event, shook his head to say that he didn't understand, Zhang Kundan said "ah", and laughed: "Brother Lu, you are so wise and foolish, you are about to become a vulture after scratching your scalp for a long time on your face, you still can't figure out what it is, it really makes people laugh and cry." ”

Han Zhimin said: "Brother Kaihe, don't laugh at Brother Lu anymore, Brother Lu is young and rarely has a noble heart, hiding the sun and the moon in his chest, but I don't want me to wait for the red dust on my body, an adult who is stumbling on my heart, take me step by step, and make the words a little clear, if he doesn't understand, I can't help it." ”

Han Zhimin put his hands on the waistband of his trousers, shook his body, and said with a wicked smile: "Brother Lu, you see, Kaihe is already twenty-three years old, and I am also in my twenties, I am not young, guess what personal affairs the two of us will do." ”

"Ah, I know, it turns out that you two want to marry a wife, do you want to be straightforward, why are you talking so hidden, I can't think of it for a long time." The two of them couldn't help but stand on the side of the road loudly and laugh when they saw Chen Xu scratching his scalp, and the laughter shook like a silver bell in the forest, making people feel envious when they heard it. ”

After Chen Xu left Liwan Village by the Spiegel Creek and left the local villagers, Han Tong followed a bag left by Chen Xu, found the date marked on it, and when he tore it open, he found that it was Chen Xu's words to explain and ask him.

In the content that Chen Xu wrote to him, he comprehensively described in detail the power of the artillery developed by Han Tong for several years, and put forward his own concerns: once this kind of extraordinary artillery spread in the world and fell into the hands of the official and military enemy, the use of this form of weapon on the battlefield will inevitably cause great casualties.

The north wind is whistling and blowing

Shoot Ma Wanli on the field

The banner should be the cross

The long sunset is close to the White River

The sound of artillery purified the intestines again and again

Volunteers serve the country without fear

The remnant sun drips with blood

The wild soul of the wilderness burns with fire

One of the 100 loyalists of the loyal soldiers

The general returned to invite meritorious service

There is mercy in the sky and snow falls

The long burial rift turns into a secluded spring

The eagle cried and died

Human intestines are mistakenly used as cage horse ropes

The court officials regarded this as idle

An Zhi died after the family

Chen Xu also hoped in his heart to Han Tong that he could lead the villagers to protect the relics of Liuniang and the teacher on the other side of the stream, and develop it into a historic site, so as to comfort the souls of the lovers who love each other in the world but can't stay together for a long time to rest in peace, and also hope; The villagers of Liwan Village are able to stretch out their diligent hands to open up wild lands and turn the rugged mountain roads in the mountains into beautiful and rich places.

After Chen Xu left, Han Tong was also working hard according to his words.

Chen Xu and his friends went down to the mountain, and saw a lot of new things outside, which also greatly broadened his horizons, increased his knowledge, exercised his ability to solve problems, and cultivated his habit of thinking with his brain, and a month later he returned to the Yuxu Peak of Sanqing Mountain, lived with the master, and listened to his teachings in the morning and evening.

One day, there are no clouds in the sky, the wind and bamboos are slinging, the birds are chirping, and the trees are flowing and the spring is sounding. Chen Xu and Master Xuanling sat on the stump reflected in the shade of a tree outside the thatched house, he was playing gossip yin and yang chess with his master, Master Xuanling only saw a chess piece between them, and saw Chen Xu's eyes contemplative, his hand raised in the air and did not fall.

After observing Chen Xu for a while, he asked, "Disciple, do you have any worries that you haven't let go, are you homesick again, homesick and homesick?" ”

Chen Xu came back to his senses: "Master, no, I thought of something just now, and I couldn't help but think about it." ”

Master Xuanling slowly put the chess pieces in his hand in the chess arena and said: "Lu Er, do you know why the teacher invented this kind of mysterious, difficult and difficult to understand gossip yin-yang chess, the original intention of the teacher is to exercise your intelligence, don't underestimate the one hundred and eight chess pieces on this small chessboard, the knowledge involved in it is very wide, the teacher can know through him the degree of mastery of the secret art I taught, if you can understand the mystery above the head, the future in the metaphysics will be perfect." ”

Chen Xu sat down and bowed deeply to Master Xuanling, and said: "The teachings of the master are always remembered by the apprentice, and he does not dare to forget it, and the apprentice has not neglected his studies Just thought of a few things just now, which are also related to chess pieces. ”

Master Xuanling waved lightly with an immortal whisk to signal him to stand up and continue, Chen Xu said: "What the apprentice was thinking about just now was not his business, but remembered the last time he and two friends got off the stone bench on the Jade Girl Peak and got this kind of chess piece, those two friends of mine are also smart people, but I have been enlightened for a long time and have not been able to let them learn how to play this kind of chess piece, I was thinking just now, if even the smart people in the world can accept this kind of chess piece, then after a few years, no one in the world will be able to play this kind of chess piece, Wouldn't it be a waste of Shizun's hard work after it was lost, so the disciple just made a bold decision to dare to improve this chess piece to make it simpler and easier to understand, and it can be widely spread in the world. ”

The old man stroked the hair of the shawl and said with a smile: "The disciple is really diligent in thinking, and what he said is very reasonable, if it is not as expected by the teacher, there are only five people in the world who can play this kind of hidden mysteries, containing mysteries of gossip yin-yang chess, one is my ancestor's eighty-two generations of descendants of the disciple named Li Chunfeng, and now he is also a white-haired old man like me, he once served as the Taishi Ling in the previous dynasty, he has been intelligent and studious since childhood, well-read, especially proficient in astronomy, yin-yang, calendar, arithmetic, etc. There is another junior brother I have never mentioned to you, that is, Li Chunfeng's master Yuan Tiangang, he knows the past thousands of years in the future, can pinch and calculate, conspire with heaven and earth, learn heaven and man, understand the mysteries, and his proud disciple Li Chunfeng is also unique and talented, but he can also know everything for hundreds or even thousands of years, I and him have long had no correspondence, as early as more than ten years ago, they were warned by the Seven Star Douren because of the leakage of the heavenly machine, and then he was afraid of disasters from the sky, The most recent correspondence was ten years ago, they said in the letter that he had been writing a book in anger, and was about to complete the earth-shattering "Tui Bei Tu", a long time ago, and now I don't know if they are still in the world. ”

Chen Xu knew that the other three people were the uncle Xuanling Daoist who had mentioned to him but had never met, and the other two people were him and Xuanling Dao.

Chen Xu never thought that he actually had two other world-famous fellow uncles and brothers, he was very excited, he had heard of Yuan Tiangang for a long time, and he admired him very much when he was a child. “

Master Xuanling nodded, let Chen Xu continue, he said: "This story has to start from decades ago, when Li Chunfeng and Yuan Tiangang were both holding official positions by the emperor's side, there was another time, a gust of wind blew from the south, Yuan Tiangang knew how to use the wind and pinched his fingers and thought that someone must be crying five miles away from the south, and Li Chunfeng thought that there must be music there. The people around Emperor Taizong rode horses to check, but they came across a crying funeral procession, and there were drummers playing mourning music in the procession. Yuan Tiangang once said to the emperor: "The seven Big Dippers are going to become people, and tomorrow they will go to the West Market to drink." You can send people to wait there and invite them to the palace, so as to ward off evil spirits. Emperor Taizong believed his words and sent people to wait. Seeing that there were seven Kushamen monks entering the city from Jinguang Gate, they arrived at the Xishi Restaurant, went upstairs, asked the shopkeeper for a stone of wine, took the bowl and drank it, and drank all the stone wine in a short time, so another stone was added. The envoy sent by the emperor came upstairs, read the emperor's edict, and said, "Now please go to the palace. The monks looked at each other, and then smiled: "It must be this kid Yuan Tiangang who exposed our secret here." Then he said to the messenger, "When we have finished drinking, we will go with you." When they had finished drinking, they were about to go downstairs, and the messenger led the way down first, and when the messenger looked back at them, the monk was nowhere to be seen. The envoy went back and told the emperor the truth about the above situation, and Taizong was very surprised when he heard it. When the monk first drank, he did not pay for the drink, but when the shopkeeper packed up the utensils, he found that there was 2,000 yuan under the monk's seat. ”

Master Xuanling said: "What the disciple said is good, since you want to reform this kind of chess piece, then do it, if you can improve this kind of chess piece, you can make it spread in most of Tongyi, it means that your intelligence is superb, and the master will see that you worship your uncle so much, and then he will teach you the production method of agarwood ink with a hundred miles of incense that he developed." ”

After Chen Xu pondered hard in the mountains for a month, he invented a chess piece with strange and elegant feelings.

Chen Xu followed the original specifications of the Bagua Yin and Yang chess pieces, changed the one hundred and eight grids on the chessboard to sixty-four grids, and divided them in the middle with the Chu River Han Boundary, at the beginning, he divided the flags into thirty-two, separated by two groups of red and black, each group has a total of sixteen, a total of six kinds, all arranged in different positions, among which the red flag: handsome one, rook, horse, phase, soldier each two, soldier five. The corresponding black chess pieces: one will be one, two rooks, two horses, two elephants, two soldiers, and five pawns.

He also stipulates different rules for different chess pieces, and Shuai (general) is only allowed to take one step at a time, forward, backward, and sideways, but he cannot go out of the "Nine Palaces". The commander and the commander are not allowed to face each other directly in the same straight line, and if one side has occupied it first, the other side must avoid it.

Each taxi is only allowed to take one step along the "Nine Palaces" diagonal line, and can advance or retreat.

Xiang (Xiang) can not cross the "river boundary", each diagonal two steps, can advance or retreat, that is, commonly known as "Xiang (Xiang) walk Tian Zi". When there are other chess pieces in the center of the field, commonly known as "plugging (phase) elephant eyes", it is not allowed to walk over. And so on, the methods are complex and difficult to outline one by one.

Chen Xu also made a very interesting poem, vividly outlining the interaction of different chess pieces, the skills played in different places, and the wonderful situation of the two sides fighting each other:

The handsome man is deep in the palace, and the two phases are protected by miraculous skills.

Luck is like a lot of money in all directions, and stumbling horses can imitate diamonds privately.

If the cannon has to be carried and beaten, the car will also be sent to anything.

Stopping the unknown soldier Mo Xiaoxiao can capture the general for the car artillery.

Later, Chen Xu found that if there were only these six kinds of chess, it would definitely cause the attack and defense of the chess pieces on both sides to be seriously restricted, and he would not get the required fun, and later he would think of Zhang Kaihe, Liu Wenxu to Changyi City and Baojing Town when Mingjing Creek drove crocodiles, Han Tong had used artillery to defeat the crocodiles, so in order to make the chess pieces on the chessboard more perfect, the structure is more reasonable, but also to commemorate the friendship and experience in that period, he created another chess game named "cannon", It is stipulated that it can move in the same way as a rook without eating a piece, but when a piece blocks it, it can hit the opponent's piece in the air.

After Chen Xu developed this kind of chess piece, one day he met the old man who came up to the woodwood in the mountains, it was the golden autumn season, although the wind blew the high post, the ground received the cool air, but the day was noon, unconsciously walking in the high places in the mountain, also felt a little hot, when he was hungry and thirsty, the old man saw a thatched house, he saw Chen Xu was walking on the stone platform and pondered, so he went forward to ask for water to drink.

Chen Xu saw that the old man had white hair on his cheeks, high cheekbones, and a dark face but his eyes were bright, so he had a plan in mind at this time.

Chen Xu welcomed the mountain picker into the house, holding a bowl of lively tea in his left hand, holding a piece of chive cake in his right hand, and gave this mountain picker, after the mountain picker was full, Chen Xu carefully took out a pair of chess pieces from the inner room of the house, at this time Chen Xu wanted to see if the chess pieces he invented could really be accepted by ordinary people, and could spread in the world and ordinary alleys.

The mountain picker thanked Chen Xu again and again for his kindness, and when he saw him come out with another box, he waved his hand and said: "Thank you, little brother, I have eaten and hugged now, and I can't eat anything you have now." ”

Chen Xu said with a smile: "Uncle, this is not any food, but a chess piece, I see you panting and tired, today you happened to rest in my hut, I want to have nothing to do with you to play chess pieces." ”

The mountain picker said, "I am a dull and shallow man in the mountains, if you don't think I can't play chess, you can teach me." ”

After Chen Xu taught the mountain picker to set up the chess pieces on the chess apron, he explained the rules and principles of chess in detail and patiently. ”

The mountain picker has never seen this kind of chess piece, only feels that this is a kind of intellectual, entertaining and educational cultural and sports activities, unconsciously immersed in the joy of playing chess, and Chen Xu killed three games in a row, he began to ask where Chen Xu's chess pieces came from, which dynasty produced, and who invented it.

Chen Xu thought: "This old man doesn't know much about me, if I open my mouth to tell him that the chess pieces were invented by me, he will not be very much, today I have worked hard to invent this kind of chess pieces is to let him spread among the people, so that the poor people, farmers and poor people can relax when they are physically exhausted, and they can get happiness from it. ”

Chen Xu thought about it carefully, and then said: "Uncle, this kind of chess piece was invented by Han Xin, a famous general of the Western Han Dynasty who is known as a "soldier immortal". ”

"Really, will this kind of chess piece be invented by Han Xin, the god of war, the commander of the victory, and the prince and general, I went and asked what I have lived for most of my life, and I have never heard anyone say it, will you lie to me."

Chen Xu saw that the mountain picker didn't believe it, so he quickly changed a story in his mind and told him about it-

After Han Xin defeated the overlord of Western Chu, he was demoted to the Marquis of Huaiyin because of his unparalleled achievements, and was later lured to prison by Empress Lu and Xiao He. One day, when a jailer brought food to Han Xin, tears rolled in his eyes, as if he had something important to say to Han Xin, and he held back again. When Han Xin saw his expression, he felt bad, so he asked the jailer, "Brother, is that woman going to poison me?" The jailer couldn't help but cry.

Han Xin laughed and said: "The high bird is good and the bow is hidden, and the enemy country is ruined!" Rabbits and dead dogs are cooked, it has been like this since ancient times, there is nothing to be afraid of. ”

After that, he asked the jailer to sit down, Han Xin took a chopstick, drew a box on the ground, and drew a "boundary river" in the frame, and wrote the words "Chu River" and "Han Boundary" in the river, and then drew thirty-six small grids on each side of the river boundary, saying: "I am just thirty-six years old this year, and I have helped the Han Dynasty to destroy Chu all my life, and I have made many great achievements, but in the end I died at the hands of such women." I will never have a chance to repay you in this life and this life, so I will teach you the thaumaturgy I have learned in my life. So saying, he called the jailer to fetch silk and a pen, and cut the silk into thirty-two small pieces, and spread them on both sides of the river within the box. The sixteen pieces of silk on one side are written with the words handsome, official, phase, car, horse, artillery, soldier, etc., and the sixteen pieces of silk on the other side are written with the words general, soldier, elephant, car, horse, cannon, pawn and so on.

After setting it up, Han Xin told the jailer while moving the silk piece: "This box is a battlefield of thousands of troops, and each side represents the military strength of one side. The way of using soldiers, you are the commander is resourceful and fickle, overall planning, Qi Zheng cooperation, and the ...... to respond to all changes with the same" From that day on, Han Xin and this jailer guarded the box (chessboard) every day to study the art of war. Soon, Han Xin was beheaded by Empress Lu in Changle Palace, and the jailer also fled. He hid in a deep mountain, and whenever he had free time, he concentrated on studying the thaumaturgy that Han Shin had taught him. Because of the long time, the silk piece is easy to rot, so it is replaced with a flat round small wooden mound, which is dyed red and black for good distinction. According to the homonym of "Qi", he called "Qi" "Qi", and wrote a "Chess Book" and passed it to his son. Later generations believed that although chess could be arranged, it was not really a battle between the two armies, but only a symbol, so they called it "Xiangqi" - Han Xin became a veritable inventor of Chinese chess, and his Qi (chess) skills have been passed down from generation to generation by later generations

After listening to Chen Xu's story, the mountain picker believed it a little, but he said again: "Listening to you tell this story, I also think that this story should not be a lie that you, a half-grown child, can weave, I believe it, but I don't know where you got it from when you think of you." ”

Chen Xu immediately said: "This is what I dug when my partner and I were digging a well in the mountains, if you don't believe it, there is a poem to prove it." As he spoke, he handed over a worn-out piece of yellow rattan paper to the mountaineer.

The mountain picker unfolded the paper, and when he saw that it was indeed a poem, the poem said:

In his early years, he was poor and did not decline, and he was immersed in the market to forge talents

As soon as he became handsome, he was like a rainbow, and no one in the world could be called a success

The great merit was awarded to Qi Wangxun, and the plan was sent to Ma Chu to dominate the banner

If the ambition and ingenuity are used, the death is only due to the ignorance of wisdom

In fact, this poem was quietly written by Chen Xu while the mountain picker was not paying attention, and he expected that it would come in handy later, as expected.

The mountain picker said: "From this yellow rattan paper and verses, it can be seen that this chess piece has really been buried in the land for a long time, but I don't know that the people of that dynasty lost it here. ”

Later, the mountain picker was moved by Chen Xu's enthusiasm, and the two walked on the bed and played six or seven games of chess in a row, Chen Xu found that the mountain picker was very talented in playing chess, which could not only be accepted quickly, but also gradually entered the wonderful realm, using it like a god, from the beginning to lose to Chen Xu four or five games, and gradually he was able to play a draw with him, Chen Xu couldn't help but admire.