Gu Shi and Shang Cheng, both of them are a hand of chess, and the chess products are also half a catty to eight taels, I want them to be like Chang Xiu and Zhenxiang, winning or losing is like a spring breeze, and the victory or defeat is like a passing cloud, and they can't do it at all; They can't learn the chic bearing of a celebrity. However, their chess style is very tough, and there is rarely any calm layout when they are playing, so as soon as the four seats fall, they come up and fight aggressively; The "inferior people's struggle" in the chess book refers to people like them. The two of them didn't have any chess skills to speak of, they just took a small advantage in the corner, and immediately rolled up their sleeves and stretched out their arms to carry the pot to pour water, holding the tea cup with a calm face, and looking around proudly, they were completely like the appearance of a national player; But as long as the situation falls into passivity, in the blink of an eye, it is a sad face with frowning eyes, or gritting his teeth with a porcelain cup in his hand to plan a countermeasure, or a wonderful hand with a tense face and thinking hard about solving the situation, or a pair of hands holding the table and leaning over the face, hoping to condense his gaze into an iron sword and gather into a sharp axe, chop those damn chess pieces into slag and chop them into foam and drift away with the breeze...... However, the final solution is usually to regret the move. The so-called "watching chess without saying a true gentleman, not letting regret chess and fake celebrities", if anyone does not let people regret chess, then he is not worthy of being a county marquis or county uncle, not worthy of being a pillar country, not worthy of being a general, not worthy of the world's hope; If you are willing to make people regret chess, then it is easy to say anything, the opponent is a good Hou Bo, a good pillar of the country, a good general, and he is really a man of great courage, broad-mindedness, and great appearance...... In short, when the two of them play chess, there is rarely a time for peace!

However, the atmosphere in the Shangshan Pavilion today is a little abnormal. After forty or fifty steps on both sides, Shang Cheng successfully dug up a corner of Gu Shi, and ate four white seeds by the way, and his mood suddenly soared. He took a sip of tea soup and pretended to be concerned and said: "Gu Lao, I don't think your state is very good today, and I estimate that the ending of your game of chess can't escape the word 'negative'." Otherwise, we won't play this chess today, and you will surrender one by one. Surrender and lose half, I only need those Arhats, and you keep the Buddha statues. ”

Gu Shi answered without raising his head, and continued to stare at the chessboard and think.

Shang Cheng was bored. He took advantage of the situation to talk about things again, and found an opportunity to ridicule Gu Shi, but people just ignored it, and he also felt that it was boring to talk to himself, so he had to bury his head and concentrate on playing chess.

The two of you come and go, and then twenty or thirty sons, Shang Cheng has already seen that Gu Shi is not in a state at all, although there are more than a dozen white seeds in the bureau that are intermittently implicated, as if there is an advantage, in fact, there are faint signs of falling into a heavy siege. He was overjoyed in his heart, but his face was completely silent, and he stared at the chessboard with round eyes, as if he was quite worried about the current predicament, but in fact he was struggling in his heart how to make a plan to lure the enemy into the depths of the battle.

Gu Shi fell again, and suddenly asked, "You are very familiar with the person from the Ministry of Rites just now?" ”

Gu Shi's new white son was completely unexpected by Shang Cheng, and there were several possible changes in the situation. While considering Gu Shi's back hand, he casually asked, "Who?" Which is from the Ministry of Rites? ”

"It's the Chinese New Year just now."

"Oh, you mean him." Shang Cheng said. He held a sunspot in his hand, and gently slammed the stone tabletop, and he couldn't make up his mind whether to immediately "slaughter" Baizi's little dragon, or wait a few more hands to make it more affordable. "I just know him. Acquaintances can't talk about it yet. ”

"What kind of mind is this man, do you know?" Gu Shi casually laid a piece of cloth and asked again.

"Where do I have the leisure to inquire about this?" Shang Cheng said. Ha! Gu Shi didn't see the crisis of these dozen whites at all, and actually changed his direction, wanting to eat Shang Cheng's three sunspots. The old man didn't understand, his dozen whites were gone, and the blacks were naturally relieved.

Gu Shi's face fell suddenly, and he said, "Then you shouldn't take three mouthfuls in front of He Bonian...... What money to ask for! He hesitated, but still didn't use the phrase "blatant bribery".

"Why?" Shang Cheng asked casually. He didn't look up until now, just stared at the chessboard. As soon as the black spot in his hand dropped, these dozen white seeds were all in the middle. If Gu Shi doesn't save these pieces, it will be difficult for him to recover the situation in this game of chess; If he wants to escape these dozen pieces, he can only lose faster and more completely!

"Don't you even think about it, will He Bonian keep it a secret for you?" Gu Shi said. There was already some sternness in his voice, and it was completely a tone of hatred that iron could not be made of steel. "I think that although this person is a little frivolous in his speech and demeanor, he is not a loss of dignified and solemn, but he is also clever and skilled......"

Gu Shi spoke highly of the Chinese New Year, and this teacher was a little surprised. He looked up and interjected in confusion, "That's good." I just said that I hadn't dealt with Lao He a few times, and I didn't say that he wasn't authentic......"

"He's not all authentic; I'm afraid that he's 'fine'! Gu Shi glared at Shang Cheng fiercely, "I'm afraid he won't keep secrets for you." The news that you ask for money from the first three will soon reach the ears of those who have a heart! ”

"Oh, that's what you say?" Shang Cheng understood. But what is there about it? Looking for the first three people to ask for bribes, he didn't think about keeping it secret, let alone letting He Nian keep it secret for him, so he couldn't talk about anyone who had a heart and didn't have a heart at all. Besides, can this be hidden? Before another day, the three really gave him dozens of catties of gold, and he would definitely speak for others everywhere, and everyone would naturally know that he had received the money from the three people.

Gu Shi was so angry with his nonsense that he almost flipped the chessboard. He gasped a few breaths, suppressed the fire in his heart and said: "Others take the initiative to give gifts to you, and you take the initiative to ask for bribes, these are two different things!" He squeezed a chess piece and banged on the stone table, obviously angry. When someone else gives a gift, you accept it, and help when you can, this is a gift exchange, and no one can blame it. But if you take the initiative to ask for money, you are asking for a bribe, and you will be punished according to the law! If someone makes a bad mistake in the middle, it is not impossible to win the medal! The more he spoke, the more excited he became, his words slurred and he didn't say anything, and his saliva almost sprayed on Shang Cheng's face; The chess pieces also knocked louder and louder, and finally there was a "snap", and the exquisite porcelain chess pieces were broken into three or four pieces by him.

Shang Cheng listened to his lesson in a daze, and it wasn't until Gu Shi stopped talking that he wiped his face, grinned and said, "What do you mean by talking and spitting at people?" ”

Gu Shi was suddenly irritated by his lazy tone, so he couldn't catch it in one breath, he held up the stone table and breathed, and the halberd pointed at Shang Cheng and gritted his teeth and said, "You ......"

"Daddy!" The cicada also came to the pavilion at this time. When her father and Shang Cheng played chess, they not only quarreled and shouted, but sometimes they would lift the chess scales and raise the chess pieces, she was afraid that the two of them would no longer communicate because of this, so every time Shang Cheng came over, she had to come over and hide by for a while; Sometimes the two of them really don't talk to each other, and she has to stand up and act as a peacemaker. Now, seeing that the two of them were about to quarrel again, she hurriedly stepped forward to stop it.

With his daughter present, Gu Shi was not too embarrassed by Shang Cheng, so he had to snort angrily, and waved his hand to sweep a few pieces of broken porcelain on the table to the ground one by one!

Shang Cheng nodded at the cicada and said with a smile: "Your father is already old and confused, don't worry, I don't have the same knowledge as him." Seeing that Gu Shi was about to get angry again, he rushed forward and said, "Gu Hou, what you said is indeed reasonable, and I am also very grateful for your intentions." However, you are not thinking about it from my point of view. I'm Shangzhu Guo......" He paused, looking at Gu Shi's face in a trance, as if he didn't understand the difference between the two people's Shangzhu State titles, so he had to finish his words. “…… I am a Shangzhu country that led troops to fight, and after fighting so many battles, I also brought out a lot of people. Being able to fight, being famous, having many comrades-in-arms, that's where I am now. Therefore, I have to take at least one of the four things of wine and wealth. ”

His words did not match the preamble, and the cicada could hear everything clearly, but he didn't know what Shang Cheng was doing. Her father, Gu Shi, completely understood. In fact, Shang Cheng's words were only halfway through, and he knew that he had misunderstood Shang Cheng. Why would a merchant openly solicit a bribe from a Japanese monk? Could it be that he coveted the gold and silver money? No, it's not! Asking for bribes is just a means, and Shangcheng is protecting himself. Shang Cheng's ability is undoubted, but he can be both civil and military, and there are few strong people in the army, and there is no one who can stand out from the right; On this point, all the prime ministers and ministers are very clear. It is said that having such a person here can be described as a great blessing for Da Zhao. But the problem is that when this person arrives at the age of establishment, the generals in the court such as Xiao Jian and Yang Du are strict, but they are all dying and old, and now there is Zhang Pu and Xiao Jian's joint suppression, Shang Chengcai is forced to hibernate, but if one day when the veterans are gone, Shang Yanshan will gradually become a big trend, who else can stand up and balance and restrain him at that time? Rely on Guo Biao, Sun Fu and Zhang Shaoximen to beat them? Apparently impossible. These are all people made by Shang Cheng, and some Shang Cheng is still taught by hand, and they will never turn against their own handsome and teacher. As for Wang Yi, who is being cultivated by the Prime Minister's office...... Thinking of the righteousness of the Duke of Yiguo, Gu Shi couldn't help but let out a sneer in his heart. This is just a false person, he will be so valued by Xiao Jian, and he doesn't know what old Xiao Jian is thinking about all day long! Wang Yi, that stupid man, where can he compare to Shang Cheng; How can Xiao Jian's vision be compared with his Gu Poyang?

Look at other people's business Yanshan, talented but not self-assured, meritorious but not arrogant, living in peace and thinking of danger, only seeking self-defilement with villain behavior, even if everyone knows that this "blatant bribery" is pretended, but it is a handle no matter how it is said; Shang Yanshan gave the handle to the princes of the imperial court, which was to show his heart to the imperial court......

Thinking of this reasoning, Gu Shixin's worries immediately disappeared.

He only now found out that with the black seed that Shang Cheng fell, the situation of the white son suddenly became extremely dangerous, if he lost these dozen white seeds, he had no second way to go except to throw the son to admit defeat!

He was turning countermeasures in his mind, but he beckoned to his daughter in his mouth: "Cicada, your eldest brother's tea soup is cold, why don't you make a new one?" ”

Cicada immediately obediently took the tea cup in Shang Cheng's hand, walked out of the pavilion and poured the residual tea next to the bamboo root, and poured a new cup of fresh soup.

Shang Cheng smiled and said thank you, turned around and took a black black and planned to strangle the "big dragon" of Bai Zi, and suddenly found that these dozen or so white seeds, which he originally regarded as the belly of the meal, actually had a foundation. Could it be that he had been dazzled just now? Impossible! He clearly remembered that this was a sunspot, and he cut off the connection between the two whites, why did the sunspots suddenly turn white?

He jerked his head up and stared at Gu Shi.

Gu Shi turned a blind eye to his murderous gaze, took a sip of tea with a calm expression, and raised his face and instructed his daughter: "Prepare more such tea for your eldest brother." Then he said, "I'm afraid that your eldest brother is going to lose this game of chess, so you can accompany me when you go back, and we will go to his house to move some things." No matter how much you move, it will be a dowry with you. After saying that, he lowered his head and drank water.

Shang Cheng smiled and said, "Gu Hou, it's a bit too much for you to play such a trick, right?" ”

"What? What do you say in? Gu Shi asked knowingly.

Shang Cheng lit the white piece and asked, "What about the black one?" ”

"You're dazzled, this is Baizi." Gu Shi shook his head.

"Hand it over."

"What to hand over?"

Seeing that a fierce quarrel was about to take place, the cicada had no choice at all. Just now, she saw her father take advantage of Shang Cheng's turn to take over the teacup, and quickly exchanged a white piece for a black one, but she couldn't stand up and "expose" her father's bad behavior. But she didn't want her father to win chess by such a small means, even if the things he won back would be used as her dowry. She was in a dilemma, so she had to help no one, standing next to her and watching the two of them quarrel at a loss......

Because the quarrel could not solve the problem, Shang Cheng and Gu Shi finally reluctantly reached an agreement, Shang Cheng no longer pursued the inexplicable white seed, and Gu Shi also generously said that he would send the Golden Buddha and the Golden Arhat to Shang Cheng; This game doesn't count, one more game.

When the two of them drank water to quench their thirst, the cicada had already put the black and white seeds on the chess scale into the small rattan basket.

Gu Shi said: "You see how sensible my cicada is, she is smart and clever, and she looks very ...... Peugeot" He leaned down and whispered again, "Teacher Zhidi of Gu Chengyuan told her fortune too much, saying that she has a prosperous husband; Dou Xian'er also said that she has a suitable male appearance, and she will take her three sons with her. ”

Shang Cheng laughed dryly. Even though it wasn't the first time the old guy had said this in front of his daughter, he still felt very uncomfortable.

The cicada had already blushed, but stubbornly did not leave.

In order not to embarrass the cicada, and at the same time to shut up Old Man Gu, Shang Cheng pulled him and quickly started the second game of chess.

But he didn't miss a few moments before he suddenly stopped.

He held the chess pieces in his hand and did not fall for a long time. He neither spoke nor spoke, sitting there like a statue.

Cicada doesn't know what happened to him, he's a patient, can't it be a sudden illness? How good is that!

She anxiously wanted to touch his forehead. Zhang Huangzhong, she could only think of this simple method that would not have any effect.

Fortunately, her reckless move was stopped by her father in time.

Gu Shi made a silent gesture at her, and silently beckoned her to leave. At the same time he quietly called the two maids and several servants to come with him.

The cicada pulled her father by the way, took two steps and turned back, and then walked a few steps and then looked back. She was worried about Shang Cheng. Don't let anything happen to him!

Gu Shi comforted his daughter and said, "He's fine, don't worry." He was just thinking about something. "That's all he can say. He didn't know what Shang Cheng was thinking, but he felt that it should have something to do with the affairs of the Wa Kingdom.

He stopped and glanced back at the Shangzen Pavilion. Shang Cheng had already stood up and was walking around the pavilion, occasionally standing still and thinking about it, and then flicking his two arms and continuing to circle around the pavilion......

He suddenly asked thoughtlessly: "Cicada, dad does this, you won't blame dad in your heart, right?" ”

The cicada snapped. But she immediately understood, and shook her head quickly.

Gu Shi nodded with satisfaction.

Giving the cicada to Shang Cheng, and the Gu family marrying the merchant was a decision he made in Layue. However, at the beginning, this was just a means of self-preservation for his stability, and he didn't really plan to give his daughter to Shang Cheng. Leaving a little mistake for others to grasp the handle is actually a way to win the trust of others, especially for a wealthy family like the Poyang Valley family, which is a little bit of a small problem, but it is easier to get along with others.

However, when the prince's condition deteriorated rapidly, and news broke in the hospital that it was impossible to delay for more than three months, he immediately changed his mind. When Shang Cheng left Yanshan, he adopted an attitude of standing by and even being happy to see him, but when the crown prince died and the other two princes refused to accept him, he immediately took the initiative to reconcile with Shang Cheng, and quickly got close to Shang Cheng through the relationship between Guo Biao, and also helped Shang Cheng and Yang Du to play a good show in the Great Dynasty. At the same time, he did not hesitate to show the greatest sincerity, fake the show, and give his daughter to Shang as a concubine; It's actually an indication of the heart. As long as Shang Cheng agrees to accept the daughter of the Gu family and is willing to lend a helping hand to Gu Shi, then the Poyang Gu family will only be Shang Cheng's head in the future! Even if the Gu family can't survive this time in the end, for the sake of the cicada's affection, Shang Cheng can't sit back and watch Poyang Valley fall to the point of ashes, and even if it is not good, it can help the Gu family retain some vitality......

It's a pity that Shang Cheng has always refused to nod and agree to the marriage.

Earlier, he thought about it and couldn't figure out why Shang Cheng disagreed and did not directly oppose the marriage of the two families. It wasn't until they became neighbors that he and Shang Cheng slowly became truly acquainted. Through knocking on the side, he was surprised to find that this new neighbor, who made Zhang Pu extremely jealous, had no idea the profound meaning of his daughter sending his daughter to the merchant's door. This guy also tactfully told himself that the cicada should have a better family. It's all fucking bullshit!

Is there a better family for cicadas?

No way!

He is the father of the cicada, he said that Shang Cheng is the best, and that Shang Cheng is the best! Because he can see clearly, Shang Cheng's current status is transcendent, and no matter who ascends the throne, it is impossible to snub him. First, Shang Cheng started with military merits, although his rise was fast, but out of Yanshan, there were few people who knew him, and there were no complicated personnel relations with branches, so naturally he could not talk about party affiliation; In this way, it is easy to gain the trust of the new emperor. Second, he enlisted in the army because of Li Shen's appreciation, was promoted because of Xiao Jian's blue eyes, and was strongly recommended by Chen Pu to supervise Yanshan, but the reason why Li Shen and Xiao Jian looked at him differently was that the former was a random general in the chaotic army, and the latter was a helpless move in a desperate situation, so they couldn't say how much appreciation they had for him, so neither of them took him into the account after the incident. As for Chen Pu's recommendation, those who know the inside story know that it is just a pretext used by the court to cover up his face. At that time, the situation in Yanshan was almost out of control, and several generals in Beijing refused to go to the town, and the imperial court could only use Chen Pu's recommendation to push the boat down the river. has no background, no backer, he is outstanding, and his age is just right, he can go out to fight when Xiao Yang is there, Xiao Yang is not there, and his meritorious prestige has accumulated enough, and he just happens to be in Beijing; With these advantages and advantages, as long as there is no unspeakable mind, it will be the pillar of Da Zhao in the next thirty years. With him, it is enough to ensure that the Gu family has no worries for forty or fifty years, so for such a long time, maybe the Gu family can be turned up again?

In order to maintain the vitality of the Poyang Valley family, Cicada must marry into a business; Marriage with the merchant is the inevitable and only choice of the Gu family!

It's just that no matter how he tries and hints, Shang Chengcheng doesn't nod. This guy would rather come to play chess with his old man than reluctantly accept his good daughter.

Thinking of this, he spat hatefully.

Bah! Why doesn't this bastard want to be a woman, but he wants to covet some money?

…… Not long after he left the bamboo forest, his family came to tell him, and Uncle Ying left Zhuangzi and went home without saying a word.