Xuan has always been good at making friends and likes to make things convenient, so he got up with a cane and said, "I didn't sit, we'll leave in a while." ”

The handsome and elegant son sat down on a seat a few steps away from Zhou Xuan, nodded at Zhou Xuan with a smile, and then looked at the field, seeing the "chicken general" Jia Chang commanding eight hundred fighting cocks to form eight phalanxes, just like a picture of King Wen's innate gossip.

The handsome boy sneered: "Gossip chicken, it's so funny." "The voice is soft and delicate, not like a man's voice.

Lin Hanyun leaned into Zhou Xuan's ear and said, "Brother Zhou Xuan, this son is dressed as a woman." ”

Zhou Xuan deliberately said: "Yes, why didn't I see it?" You pretended to be a little family member for so long, and I didn't see it. ”

Lin Hanyun glanced at him: "Brother Zhou Xuan's eyes are not good, if you look at that son, you can see at a glance that it is a woman, with a high chest." ”

Zhou Xuan was shocked: "Sister Hanyun also knows how to look there, it seems to be a lot more sensible." ”

Lin Hanyun's face flushed, and he reverted to the old state, and came to pinch Zhou Xuan, thinking that the clothes were thick and difficult to pinch, so he reached in from under Zhou Xuan's robe and twisted Zhou Xuan's legs.

This Second Miss Lin is still not sensible, Zhou Xuan hurriedly knocked off her hand and said, "Look, the chickens are starting to fight." ”

I saw Xue Chang in the field, commanding eight teams of fighting cocks to start a two-by-one gladiatorial fight, attacking and defending each other, it was really like marching and fighting.

Jian Yu flown up, the iron beak pecked, the fierce fight for a long time, the whip bell rang, 800 fighting cocks returned to the queue, with the eight boys slowly retreated.

At the end of the large-scale cockfighting performance, the Lantern Festival cockfighting officially began, and a small cockfighting arena of 50 grids was circled with a wooden fence on the wide field. A hundred fighting cocks, led by their respective masters, began to fight.

Gu Changshi saw that the time was not early, and urged: "Gongzi Zhou, the time is approaching, go back, this cockfight will be fought for a month, you can come and see it at any time, and the chess battle can not be delayed." ”

The three idiots and the four idiots scanned the field again, convinced that the five idiots did not come. I had to get up and go back. The four idiots muttered, "It's strange. Why didn't the fifth brother come, was there something delayed? ”

There were outsiders present, Zhou Xuan's leg had to be pointed, and when he walked past the handsome boy with a bamboo cane, the boy smiled coquettishly at him, and Lin Hanyun glared at the boy who was dressed as a man.

Waiting for Zhou Xuan and his entourage to walk out of the cockfighting hall, the two attendants behind the handsome lady asked in a low voice, "Why didn't Miss Lian do it?" ”

The young lady dressed as a man squinted her eyes and did not speak for a long time. The attendant behind him asked again, and then replied: "There are two masters around this person, if I do it, I won't be able to leave." ”

Zhou Xuan didn't know that he was just walking on thin ice and passing by the danger, smiling and joking with Lin Hanyun, but when he came out of the cockfighting hall, he heard the four idiots say: "It's also a woman dressed as a man." ”

The handsome boy didn't hide anything at all except for a man's outfit, and even Lin Hanyun could tell that the person was a woman. The four idiots can see it, and it is naturally not unusual. But why add the word "also"? Who is also a woman dressed as a man? Is it talking about the previous Lin Hanyun?

Zhou Xuan looked at the four idiots twice, and didn't show any daughter's characteristics on him, so he couldn't help but laugh at his heart. How can four idiots be women!

Everyone rode back to Mochou Lake, Judge Fan was already ready to stop, leaving Gu Changshi, and he led Gu Liuquan, Zhou Xuan, Zhou Zhouchi, and Zhou Xiaojian to Nanfu Guozijian.

Guozijian is the highest official school in the Tang State, recruiting the children of officials above the seventh grade as students, and the common people can't enter.

The Lantern Festival chess battle was presided over by Qi Zhangqi, a scholar of the Hanlin Academy and a scholar of the Chinese Academy.

The house of Guozijian is vast, and the lecture hall covers an area of several acres, because the dome span is large, and a total of eight giant wooden pillars are erected, which can accommodate hundreds of people to lecture and debate.

Before the official game, the crown prince Li Jian came to Guozijian to welcome all the chess players participating in the Lantern Festival chess meeting on behalf of the emperor, and smiled and nodded when he saw Zhou Xuan.

Zhou Xuan hurriedly called Judge Fan over and asked him to tell Li Jian to let Zhou Xiaojian come in to watch the chess, just now I told Qi Youxiang, Qi Youxiang refused to be accommodating, saying that only princes and nobles and officials above the fourth rank were allowed to watch chess.

Li Jian immediately said to the left and right, and after a while, the four idiots in Tsing Yi and the little hat came in happily.

At the time of the positive unitary, with a bronze sound, the game began, and Zhou Xuan sat on the first stage to face Sun Xuelu, who was ranked sixteenth among the eighteen major chess players, but Zhou Xuan was an unknown person.

Sun Xuelu is nearly fifty years old, his beard is sparse, and he began to twist his beard as soon as he sat on the chessboard, it seems that the beard is sparse because he was twisted, and he politely bowed his hand to Zhou Xuan, feeling that it was a little strange that the Fenghua Army did not send Gu Liuquan to the first stage, could it be that this smiling young chess player in front of him

Over the ancient six springs?

Guess first, Zhou Xuan guessed the white chess, suddenly relaxed, in the case of not close to the eye, guessed the white chess, it is equivalent to making a cheap first move for nothing, for Zhou Xuan, an amateur five-stage strength chess player, in the case of being given the first he can compete with the professional high section, according to Zhou Xuan learned from Gu Liuquan, he gave the eighteen chess players the chess power according to the rank hierarchy of later generations, the bottom eight of the eighteen chess players should be the level of amateur five sections, ranked tenth to sixth, should be the strong five, The level of the strong six or the low level of the profession, and the top five should have the strength of the high level of the profession, which is different from the understanding of the history of the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties of Go in later generations.

Sun Xuelu's chess style is quite steady, for the chess players who are weaker than him, he can win steadily, and the possibility of the horse stumbling is very small, but if the opponent's chess strength is stronger than him, it will be difficult for him to win in an upset, his chess has been set, and there is no way to break through the long chess upward.

Zhou Xuan is different, his chess is energetic, impulsive, the disadvantage is not stable enough, for chess players who are weaker than him, sometimes he will miss if he kills too much, and for chess players who are obviously stronger than him, he can often swing horizontally, giving strong pressure to the hand.

After the last time in Lushan Shimenjian and the three idiots of life and death chess battle, Zhou Xuan's impetuous chess style has been changed a lot, no longer so easy to miss, this game he is white, the beginning of the game with a Tang chess player has never seen the star ** Yan Ding's change of tricks to take the lead, the advantage of the first into the second first, and then firmly grasp the situation.

Although Sun Xuelu knew that the situation was not good, he was unable to counterattack, and the opponent's strength was hidden above him, so this game of chess went on so smoothly and lost smoothly.

Zhou Xuan's fall is relatively fast, Sun Xuelu is neither fast nor slow, chess has entered the stage of big officials, Zhou Xuan's advantage in the five sons of the board has been unshakable, but Sun Xuelu does not admit defeat, hard support, I don't know whether he wants to wait for Zhou Xuan's faint move or does not want to admit defeat in the middle game, and he wants to survive until the final game?

Zhou Xuan got up leisurely and walked to Gu Liuquan's side to watch chess, and immediately a student who acted as a referee came over and warned him that he was not allowed to walk around when playing chess, otherwise he would violate the rules of chess battles.

Zhou Xuan said: "After sitting for a long time, my legs are sore, what rules are broken when I stand up and walk?" ”

The Tai student was about to exercise his power majestically and want to expel Zhou Xuan from the scene, when a guard officer of the East Palace came and whispered a few words to the Tai student, and the Tai student suddenly lost his voice.

Only then did Zhou Xuan come to his senses, and took a closer look at the game between Gu Liuquan and Lan Xueting, a class B chess player of the Zhaowu Army, and now this Lan Xueting's chess strength is quite high, and he has a difficult fight with Gu Liuquan, and the situation is very complicated.

Lan Xueting is about forty, and Gu Liuquan is over seventy years old, this difficult situation is not good for Gu Liuquan, after all, he is old and weak, his energy is low, and the second half of the game is relatively easy to make mistakes.

Zhou Xuan went to see the game between the three idiots and Yang Zhao again, the three idiots had already won, and the four idiots stood behind the three idiots with a smile.

Zhou Xuan walked back to his chess table, but now that Sun Xuelu had already admitted defeat, a student came to register, and asked both parties to sign after the game record, indicating that they recognized the result of the game.

The game was easily won, Zhou Xuan was in a good mood, got up and was about to look at the chess of Huang Xingjian, who ranked fourth, and saw how powerful it was?

The previous guard officer of the East Palace came over and said, "Gongzi Zhou, Your Highness is invited." ”

Zhou Xuan followed this Marquis Yu to another hall, the prince Li Jian was looking at the "Analects" engraved on the wall, saw Zhou Xuan come in, walked quickly to meet him, and said with a smile: "Brother Zhou is really like a god, the father and the emperor saw your five words, very surprised, especially the "dark incense", this song card has never been seen in ancient times, and the waiter urgently summoned you to the palace, and learned that you were going to participate in the Lantern Festival chess battle, and immediately passed the decree, please Brother Zhou to finish the chess, and enter the palace overnight to see the driver, the father is very anxious in this regard, and today even when worshipping the Yuan Tianguan, he is worried about the "dark incense" of the Que. ”

Zhou Xuan immediately said to Judge Fan, and then followed Li Jian to the forbidden city.

Tonight is the Lantern Festival, the weather is fine, the whole Jinling City has become a *** city, fireworks rise into the sky, oil lamps, lacquer lamps, incense, wax, all color lights compete to win, even the trees on the side of the road, there are thousands of small round lights, this is the fire tree silver flower, even the cold moon in the sky has lost its brilliance.

Li Jian saw Zhou Xuan's dizzying appearance, and laughed in a low voice: "Brother Xuanjiao learned that the lanterns are put on seven days before the Lantern Festival in the Tang Kingdom, and the lights set at sunset on the seventh day after the Lantern Festival, the most prosperous place is in the Qinhuai River, the lights and moons are bright, and the lights and water reflect each other, just like the fairy land of the Dragon Palace, and I will accompany my brother to the Qinhuai River tomorrow night to watch the lanterns." ”