Before the Eastern Han Dynasty, chess has always been rejected by Confucianism, Confucius said: "It is difficult to be full of heart!" Isn't there a game? It's just a matter of being virtuous. In other words, playing Go is a little better than doing nothing and being full of lust. "Huainan Honglie" has "a chess game is not enough to see wisdom; Playing a string is not enough to see sorrow. "Thinking that playing chess is a waste of time shows that there is no importance to Go or even music.

At the time of the Wei and Jin dynasties, Go was gradually refined, separated from "Bo", got rid of the humble status of gambling equipment, and calligraphy, music was regarded as the art of self-cultivation by the scholars and scholars, and attached Go to the five elements of yin and yang, heaven and earth induction, making Go mysterious and sublime, Ge Hong's "Xijing Miscellaneous Records" recorded that the Western Han Dynasty Duling Master "is good at playing chess, the first in the world, people or ridicule its time, the master said: fine reason, enough to be a great saint." "I think that Go can also educate the public like poetry books.

In the past 40 years, because of Wang and Xie Gaomen's attention to Go, Wang Dao and Xie An are all masters of the game, so the children of the Jiangdong Shi clan also generally learn Go, and it is a shame to not be able to play chess and not to be able to "Luo Shengyong".

After Zhu Yingting finished playing a hand of chess, he sat with his arms crossed and looked coldly at Chen Caozhi, who was sitting opposite him.

Chen Caozhi judged the situation, this game of chess has been played more than 30 hands, a piece of white chess in the middle of the belly has no way to live, fortunately, the four corners are still empty, there may not be no chance to fight, and he watched Zhu Yingting and Ding Chunqiu under the more than 30 hands, now Zhu Yingting is far better than Ding Chunqiu, but many moves in Chen Caozhi's opinion is still inappropriate, so Chen Caozhi thinks that Zhu Yingting's level should be slightly inferior to him, Zhu Yingting is more arrogant, seeing him take Ding Chunqiu to continue this game, he must be angry in his heart, and he has a huge advantage in the chess game, Playing chess is bound to be calm, and the most important thing is that he has the backing of dozens of formulas that have been summed up by professional chess players in later generations, and he believes that he can redeem Ding Chunqiu's disadvantage.

Of course, Chen Caozhi will not go to the middle of the belly of the almost dead chess, he occupies the corner in the upper left corner, Zhu Yingting hangs high, the two sides quickly formed a similar "small avalanche" of the pattern, of course, Zhu Yingting chess order is wrong, Chen Caozhi's white chess has taken a lot of advantage, the corner is also taken, the middle belly can also come out, of course, this income is not enough to make up for the huge loss of the middle belly dead chess, Chen Caozhi thought for a moment, resolutely took off the first and then occupied the lower right corner.

Zhu Yingting raised his eyebrows, and said in his heart: "Chen Caozhi, you are too greedy, the piece of chess in the upper left corner is still floating without roots, so you will seize the lower right corner, aren't you afraid of being attacked?" He now saw that Chen Caozhi's chess skills were far above Ding Chunqiu, and he was a little interested in the game, so he began to attack the upper left white chess, Chen Caozhi followed a few moves, and once again took off the first place to occupy the only remaining upper right corner.

Zhu Yingting was angry, Chen Caozhi's chess strength is not low, but a lone chess piece dared to take the lead twice, this is definitely despising him, is it tolerable or unbearable, he must kill this piece of chess, and give Chen Caozhi a heavy lesson-

People are angry, short-sighted, Zhu Yingting is now staring at the upper left white chess to annihilate and then fast, Chen Caozhi also knows that it is powerful, no more off the first, and then take off the first will die, Chen Caozhi at this time cast a hand tendon, this piece of white chess cleverly made a robbery, on robbing the material, white chess has the middle of the belly of the dying chess as a robbery, black chess can not beat, at this time Zhu Yingting's rational response should make up a hand to eat the middle abdomen, that is still the advantage of black chess, but Zhu Yingting stared at the white chess on the upper left, must kill this chess, There is a faint thought in his heart, these chess pieces on the upper left are under Chen Cao, and the middle abdomen is Ding Chunqiu's, killing Ding Chunqiu's chess is not interesting, and he wants to kill Chen Caozhi, so Zhu Yingting angrily disappeared in the exclamation of his brother Zhu Yingtai, and killed the twenty-three white pieces on the left in one fell swoop, and the price paid was that the fifteen white chess pieces trapped in Chen Cao's middle abdomen broke out head-on-

On the surface. Zhu Yingting kills the big and abandons the small land, and the choice is correct. But Zhu Yingting killed this piece of chess after Chen Caozhi got rid of his first two hands, and then caused the robbery and killing. The losses themselves are already significant. Not to mention the mid-belly white chess to live. The black pieces that had surrounded it had become papier-mâché lanterns. Break with a single stab. The losses are enormous. Difficult to measure.

Zhu Yingtai sighed slightly. The right hand jade Ruyi kept knocking on the left hand tiger's mouth. His eyes stared at Chen Caozhi. Seeing Chen Cao's calmness. Sit dangerously when you think. When the child falls, it is light and decisive. Never look left and right when playing. The figure is very elegant.

After all, Zhu Yingting's chess strength is not low. Soon, he was in the place of Chen Cao because of his momentary mood. The situation on the board has changed from a big advantage for black to a slight decline. I can't help but be angry, anxious and frustrated. Impetuous and irritable. I don't know how to reverse this decline?

Zhu Yingtai said slowly: "Yingting." Throw in the towel. Black is not much behind now, though. But your mentality is already impetuous. You can't talk about being smart or small. Not to mention being in a trance, sitting in a photo. If you keep playing, you'll only lose more. ”

Zhu Yingting is arrogant. But it won't be as rigid and jealous as the 6 birds

And he listens to his brother very much. I looked at the game again. Although he still said, "I lost." Then the disadvantage of the earth is reversed by white. I've already lost. Brother Zizhong is indeed very witty. But I also blame myself for being blind. Didn't go down well. Tomorrow, I will ask Brother Zizhong for advice. I believe that such a big mistake will not be made again. ”

Chen Caozhi secretly admired Zhu Yingtai's decision, looked up at Zhu Yingtai, and appreciated it, Zhu Yingtai was also looking at him with a smile, and said: "Brother Zizhong is really a hidden high chess, scheming and chess skills, I want to ask Brother Zizhong for a game, how about it?" ”

Chen Caozhi looked at the moon shadow of the old cypress tree outside the window, and said: "Let's change the day, it's the end of the time now, tomorrow the Xu School will officially start, and it won't be beautiful if Yan Qi is late." ”

Zhu Yingtai nodded, and Zhu Yingting sent Chen Caozhi and the three of them out, and when he said goodbye to Chai Fei, Zhu Yingtai said: "Brother Zizhong is going to come to play chess, and my two brothers are waiting at any time, but don't come to watch the idlers." ”

Zhu Yingtai is so faceless when he speaks, he has always looked down on people who are not as good as him, and he will never say anything polite to the snake, which makes Liu Shangwei and Ding Chunqiu very embarrassed.

Chen Caozhi said lightly: "Then I won't come, farewell." "Give a little bow and walk away in the moonlight.

On the way back to Taolin Xiaozhu, Ding Chunqiu said: "The Zhu brothers are too rude, more rude than 6 birds and He Zhu, so they should be taught a lesson." ”

Liu Shangzhi said: "That Zhu Yingtai only values Zizhong alone, and he doesn't care about others at all, and now Zizhong has offended the Zhu brothers for the sake of the two of us, I wonder if the Zhu brothers will be so angry that they will go back to Shangyu early tomorrow morning?" Ha ha. ”

Ding Chunqiu said: "It's best to go, these two brothers are too unpleasant to look at, their words are harsh, and there is no one in their eyes." ”

Chen Caozhi smiled and said: "The Zhu brothers should have come to learn Luoyang Zhengyin, how could they leave because of this little thing." ”

After a night of silence, Dr. Xu started to talk about Lu Jing's "Collection of Rhymes" and Luo Shengyong the next morning, and the brothers Zhu Yingtai and Zhu Yingting arrived early, although they also sat in the grass hall facing north with other scholars, but the two brothers were alone in a corner and did not talk to others.

He Zhu saw that the Zhu brothers had a very good taste in incense and applied their faces, and after Dr. Xu finished speaking Luo Shengyong, he stepped forward to talk, and the Zhu brothers also ignored it, He Zhu said angrily: "Shangyu Zhu's family, a mere low-class scholar, dare to ignore me and Ji He's family!" ”

Zhu Yingtai didn't look at him, and said: "Let me ask you, what is the meaning of 'White Dragon and Red Tiger, Battle and Anger' in "Jiao's Yilin"? Only if you can answer can you associate with my brother. ”

He Zhu laughed angrily and said loudly: "It's funny, why should I answer your question-"

Zhu Yingting said coldly: "If you can't answer, then please go back to your futon and sit down, don't hate it." ”

He Zhu was simply furious, he was obedient, his temper was extremely short-tempered, and he rushed up to open the small bookcase in front of the Zhu brothers-

Zhu Yingting held down the bookcase with one hand, and pushed He Zhu away with the other, I really can't see that this Zhu Yingting is not small, pushing He Zhu to stumble, almost falling, and when he was about to rush up, he was persuaded by other students.

He Zhu shouted: "Shangyu's surname Zhu, apologize to me quickly, otherwise—"

Zhu Yingting sneered: "Otherwise, what can I do, don't you let the two of you enter the product?" ”

Zhu Yingtai got up and said, "Yingting, don't say more, let's go." The two brothers walked away, and two servants of the Zhu family came to pack up the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone.

Ding Chunqiu saw it on the side, quite happy, and said in his heart: "This Zhu brother is really arrogant, not only to me and the monk, but also to He Zhu dare to be so arrogant, if it were me, I really don't dare to contradict He Zhu so much, He Zhu's grandfather is known as the current Confucian He Xun, the official to the great Sikong, although he has long since died, but as far as the Jiangdong clan is concerned, the power of the He family in the court is second only to the 6 clan and the Gu clan, I really can't afford to offend, the Zhu brothers are only afraid of future troubles." ”

Xu Miao saw the dispute between He Zhu and Zhu Yingting in Nancaotang, so he went to report to his father Xu Zao, and when he talked about "Little Dai Liji" in the afternoon, Xu Zao warned He Zhu and the Zhu brothers that if there was another dispute, the three of them should not come to the school to listen to the lecture again, and the three of them were only.

In the next two days, Xiang'an had nothing to do, and the Zhu brothers did not come to invite Chen Caozhi to play chess, Chen Caozhi took care of reading, learning calligraphy, and painting, waiting for 6 Weirui to come back from Huating.

February 22 is a day off, this afternoon, Ding Chunqiu invited Liu Shangzhi to go into the city to play, Chen Caozhi alone in the peach forest small building painting "Bixi Peach Blossom Map", two more days, this painting was painted, I feel that there is progress compared to the last time "Mountain Dwelling Snow Scene", is painting, I can hear the footsteps of the peach forest path is broken and close, my heart moved, put down the pen, walked to the front of the cottage, I saw 6 Wei Rui with a short hoe and hairpin two little maids lightly walked from under the peach tree.