What Linglong didn't expect was that the big wooden box contained a set of chess. "Is this a new arrival in Jinzhenxuan?" Linglong said as she laid out the chess.

She can play chess, but she is not proficient.

Yan Xu saw that she was skillful in chess, and knew that she must be able to play, how many things about this little thing he didn't know? A lady who even plays ten games and loses ten games of Go actually knows how to play chess, so she simply teases her and sees what she says. "Of course not, even this king can't play something, how can anyone buy it in the capital, this is sent by Mao Shizi." Of course, he wouldn't say that this chess piece was just something used to hide people's eyes, and there was a silver ticket of 100,000 taels hidden in the chess box.

Since it was something sent by the impostor, Linglong didn't ask much, although she was very interested in the impostor's affairs, she also knew that she couldn't be too curious in the palace.

Since the prince wants to play chess, let's play with him, she is not stupid enough to bombard her father-in-law to the concubine's room to play.

"This is the king, who can walk sideways, straight, diagonally, like this, but only one step at a time; This is the queen, and she can also walk horizontally and diagonally, with no limit on the number of steps, but she can't cross other pieces; The queen is the biggest in this."

"Why is it the queen who is the greatest, shouldn't it be the king's greatest?" Yan was puzzled.

"There's no why, it's the rule."

"These barbarians are really unreasonable, there are such rules, it's a big rebellion!" Yan Xu was indignant and hated to kill the person who invented chess.

Linglong patiently comforted him: "No, the king is the most important in the whole chess deck, if the king dies, this game of chess will be lost, no matter how powerful the queen is, it is useless." ”

Yan Xu nodded unhappily: "Well, this is still polite and courteous, these barbarians are really afraid, knowing that the king is the most important, and they want to make the queen so powerful, let's just play this chess by ourselves." Do not spread it. ”

Linglong hated to find a piece of tofu and died, I was sick, why should I tell the truth, he didn't know Western characters. I can just swap the roles of king and queen, and that's good, for such a good amusement has been simply and rudely stifled.

While Yan Xu was learning to play chess with a delicate appearance, he asked casually: "Who did you learn chess from?" Is there still a master in the capital who teaches this? ”

Linglong smiled: "This is what I read from the book." ”

"Which book?"

"Forget."

Well, count you hard-mouthed!

I have to say. Although Rui Wang Ye despised Western chess, he learned very quickly, and within two days, he played well, and Linglong, the master, was not his opponent.

"How can you play so well?" Linglong envy, in her previous life, she could play many kinds of chess, but they were all limited to being able to play, and none of them were good for her.

Yan Xu was complacent, and nothing made him more proud than being praised by his little wife: "But everything that is fun, this king can learn it as soon as he learns it." And he's proficient in everything. It's like gambling money, whether it's playing dice or pushing pai gow, as long as I go out, others only have to give money. ”

Is that why you've been gambling in the house for a month?

You don't have the money to spend.

But she soon thought of something, and seemed to understand something.

She asked, "Do the other princes also like to play?" ”

Hearing this, Yan Xu glanced at her deeply and said softly: "Some of them love to grow flowers, some of them love to read, and they are even more feminine, in short." Everyone has their own preferences, but not all of them are as fun-loving as I am. ”

In short, there is no such thing as a wise and martial artist.

You people are so good at pretending. Does your Emperor Lao Tzu know?

A smile overflowed on Linglong's face, and she let out a long breath, why didn't she understand the stakes until today.

She suddenly noticed one thing, it turned out that she was quite disgusted that he was greedy for fun all day long and didn't do business.

"Can the prince enter the palace these days? I made a new purse for Little Seventeen and adorned the little golden pigs on it. Give it to him for me when you enter the palace. ”

Yan Xu agreed with a smile, and said, "You remember everything that others like, what do I like?" ”

Linglong was stunned, blinked her big eyes, and her face was full of confusion: "Lord Wang, do you also have a favorite object to add?" ”

Yan Xu said: "Wu Xuanzi's hands have been scrapped, and his things are already superb. Now there is a treasure ship carved by him in his early years, and the price has reached 10,000 taels, shall we buy it? ”

Ten thousand taels!

Linglong thought of the thirty-six ivory carvings of Wu Xuanzi that she had stolen with Master Shi Er, and sighed secretly.

Shi Er would never spend 10,000 taels to buy it.

10,000 taels is enough to buy a house in the inner city.

Yan Xu, how a loser you are!

She gritted her teeth and tried to make herself appear virtuous and virtuous: "Lord, you only have so much money a year, and you have to support the concubine and hundreds of people in this house, you can take out 10,000 taels, but it is too much, the concubine doesn't even dare to wear a silk garment, if people know that the treasure boat was bought by you, and you don't know how to chew your tongue, it will reach the ears of your father, maybe you will think that we have made friends with the ministers and received benefits." ”

Yan Xu looked very depressed, like a child who wanted to eat candy but couldn't eat it, but the sugar he wanted to eat was too expensive, and Linglong said that he must persuade him.

"But this king dreams and wants, and I dreamed last night."

"Wu Xuanzi must have other things circulating, if there is a cheaper one, let's send someone to find it again."

"I just want that treasure ship, nothing else."

Linglong closed her eyes and opened them again, she remembered those customers in her previous life, they should all have the same psychology as Yan Xu.

"Whose hands is that treasure ship now? Why don't you bring that guy over and talk about it so that he can be cheaper? ”

Yan Xu shook his head: "That person definitely didn't agree, he made his fortune by digging people's ancestral graves, Wu Xuanzi owed him five hundred taels of silver when he was alive, and as soon as Wu Xuanzi died, he took all Wu Xuanzi's belongings in one pot on the grounds of debt collection, including this ivory treasure boat." He just wants to sit on the ground and start the price, and if he wants to make him cheaper, it is more difficult than climbing to the sky. ”

Linglong frowned: "Why did this person do this, isn't this a robbery?" Don't the officials care? Why didn't the Wu family report to the official? ”

"Wu Xuanzi never married, before his death there was only one room to serve him, let alone an heir, I heard that a few years ago he received an apprentice, but that was the young master of a large family, just learning to play, and did not inherit his mantle. The man came to collect debts, Wu Xuanzi's room was scared half to death, I heard that he could use things to pay off debts, and he couldn't give them with both hands, how could anyone report to the official. ”

When Yan Xu said this, he glanced at Linglong, and saw that there was anger in her eyes, and he breathed a sigh of relief.

Wu Xuanzi's apprentice is Xu Tingshen, she may not know.

Of course, Linglong knew that she used to have a small ivory bamboo picture, which Xu Tingshen carved and gave to her by hand, and when she returned the token two years ago, this bamboo picture was also returned.

"Since this kind of person is the kind of person, he shouldn't be allowed to earn 10,000 taels for nothing, let's not buy this treasure ship, okay?" Linglong persuaded softly.

Yan Xu flicked his sleeves angrily, but he seemed to suddenly think of a good idea: "Why don't we hire someone to steal the treasure ship, and we can save a sum of money without knowing it, and we can save a sum of money if we don't let that person's trick succeed." ”

One by one

(To be continued.) )