Ma Hong paused slightly and replied, "The student has read it three times." ”

Mr. Shui Jing snorted and said, ""Liutao" is titled Wen, Wu, Dragon, Tiger, Leopard, and Dog respectively, each in one volume. Do you know how many chapters are in each of these six volumes? ”

Ma Hong calmed down and thought for a while before replying: "Teacher Hui, there are twelve articles for Wen Tao, five articles for Wu Tao, thirteen articles for Long Tao, twelve articles for Hu Tao, eight articles for Leopard Tao, and ten articles for Dog Tao. The total number of words in the six volumes is nearly 20,000 words. ”

Mr. Shuijing hummed again and said, "You come with me." ”

Ma Hong followed Mr. Shui Jing into the inner room, Mr. Shui Jing took out a large wooden box, pointed to the books in the box and said, "Move this box out." ”

Ma Hong struggled to pick up the wooden box and followed Mr. Shui Jing out, putting the wooden box on the ground. Mr. Shui Jing pointed to the stone tablet in the room and said: "There are a total of thirty stone tablets in this room, you have engraved all the words in the three volumes of Wenwu Dragon in the six Taos on the stone tablet, and the engraved books can not only learn the art of war, but also practice calligraphy, if there is anything you don't understand, come and ask me." ”

Ma Hong hurriedly responded: "The students obey the order, but the students are afraid that the carving will not be good." ”

Mr. Shuijing snorted and said, "It doesn't matter, it's better than what I carved." ”

After Mr. Shui Jing finished speaking, he walked out, Ma Hong sighed and sat on the wooden box, looked at the wooden box with his eyes and said secretly: "It seems that this is the teacher's punishment for me!" This work is more tiring than Pang Tong's! ”

Mr. Shui Jing's teaching method is very peculiar, Pang Tong and Ma Hong are both juvenile, so he asked the two of them to grind stones and carve stone tablets. Pang Tong sweated under the sun and grinded stones one by one, exercising his patience in the process of grinding stones; Ma Hong held a hammer and carved knife in the house day and night, and figured out the art of war in the process of carving.

That night, when Ma Hong dragged his tired body back to the room, Pang Tongzheng was sitting barefoot on the mat and drinking, and Xu Shu and Liu Ye were also sitting casually with wine glasses. When the three of them saw Ma Hong coming back, Liu Ye and Xu Shu both stood up and invited Ma Hong to take a seat.

Liu Ye saw Ma Hong's tired expression and asked, "Senior Brother Ma, what did the teacher let you do when he saw you?" ”

Ma Hong said: "Let me engrave words on the stone tablet and engrave "Liutao". ”

Liu Ye was stunned for a moment and said, "This will take a long time." ”

Pang Tong, who was sitting on the side, laughed and said: "Ma Laosan, your handwriting is so bad, who can understand it engraved on the stone tablet." ”

Ma Hong was too lazy to take care of Pang Tong, sat on the mat and served a bowl of wine, and drank it slowly. Xu Shu leaned over and drank a glass of wine with Ma Hong, smiled and said to Ma Hong: "Senior Brother Ma, there is a lack of entertainment in this mountain and wilderness, Senior Brother Pang said that you have improved the chess and made your own chess out of wood, so it is better to take it out for us to have a pastime." ”

Liu Ye smiled at this time: "Senior Brother Xu, I see that Senior Brother Ma is tired, why don't we come tomorrow and ask Senior Brother Ma to teach us to play chess." ”

Ma Hong heard Xu Shu talk about chess, and said secretly in his heart: "Hmph, they don't understand the rules, I can just take the opportunity to teach them to play chess to brush up their prestige and kill them." When Ma Hong heard Liu Ye say that he would come back that day, he quickly stood up and took out his homemade chess and said: "Two senior brothers, I'm not tired, I'll teach two senior brothers to play chess." ”

At this time, Pang Tong also came over, and put the chess pieces on the chessboard with Ma Hong, there is a legend that the chess was created by Han Xin, and the middle of the chessboard is written on the Chu River Han Boundary. After continuous evolution, Xiangqi was basically finalized during the Song Dynasty and developed to its heyday in the Qing Dynasty.

After the chess pieces were placed, Liu Ye carefully observed the chess pieces by the light of the oil lamp, and then pointed his finger at the cannon on the chess and asked: "Senior Brother Ma, I don't understand the meaning of the 'cannon', but I can still understand other chess pieces." ”

'Cannon' represents firearms, if Ma Hong's guess is right, it should be in the Song Dynasty, because of the invention of gunpowder, the cannon was added. It is normal for Liu Ye and others not to understand the meaning of cannon, but Ma Hong can't tell him about the invention of gunpowder! I'm afraid this sounds a little too strange to the two of them. Pang Tong once asked Ma Hong about the meaning of the cannon, Ma Hong was not prepared in advance, and explained it to Pang Tong casually, and afterwards Ma Hong thought seriously about how to answer, and then said: "Senior Brother Ziyang, the meaning of this 'cannon' is similar to the siege weapons in siege warfare, such as catapults, rushing cars or ladders, which can be used as siege tools." ”

Liu Ye nodded thoughtfully, and continued to listen to Ma Hong's explanation of the rules of chess. Ma Hong explained the rules of chess, Liu Ye and Xu Shu had already understood, Liu Ye asked Ma Hong and Pang Tong to play the game first, and let him and Xu Shu observe. Ma Hong readily agreed, but Pang Tong sat down a little reluctantly, he and Ma Hong played a few games, but they lost a mess at that time.

When Ma Hong picked up the 'cannon' in his hand, he suddenly thought of a thought in his heart, his waist was cold, and the chess pieces in his hand almost fell on the chessboard, he actually forgot Liu Ye's identity, he actually forgot to cover up, if Liu Ye is a contemporary like him, then when he saw the chess he played, he should have known his origin, how should this be?

Pang Tong saw that Ma Hong had been holding the chess pieces and refused to drop them, so he urged: "You used to play chess so fast, what's wrong today, didn't you say that you want to demonstrate it for the senior brothers?" ”

Ma Hong listened to what Pang Tong said, and then the cannon was two-two-five, and after Ma Hong's chess pieces were settled, he suddenly raised his head and said to Liu Ye: "Senior Brother Ziyang, Iloveyou."

After Ma Hong finished speaking, he looked directly into Liu Ye's eyes, if Liu Ye had fleeting surprise in his eyes, it meant that Liu Ye and Ma Hong were from the same era, if Liu Ye's eyes were only doubtful, it meant that he was not from the same era as him.

Liu Ye said with some doubts: "Senior Brother Ma, what did you say?" I didn't hear you. ”

Ma Hong didn't see a trace of surprise in Liu Ye's eyes, and said secretly in his heart: It seems that this Liu Ye is not a person of the same era as me, if he is really acting, then he must be the actor, then let me test him again.

Ma Hong said with a smile: "Senior Brother Ziyang, have you ever heard the poem 'Pick up the lamp and look at the sword when you are drunk, and dream of blowing the horn and the camp'?" ”

After Ma Hong finished asking Liu Ye, he secretly said in his heart: This poem is a famous sentence of Xin Qijian in the Song Dynasty, if Liu Ye is a modern person, if he wants to deceive me, he will not hesitate to say that he has not heard of it. If Liu Ye was just a person of this era, he would definitely search his memories carefully, and it would take some time to answer my question.

Liu Ye held his forehead and thought for a moment, and said with some embarrassment: "This poem is really good, but I really haven't heard it." Dare to ask my junior brother, who is this poem from? ”

Ma Hong frowned, pretended to think for a moment and said, "I remember that I saw it from an ancient book a long time ago, and I forgot, haha." ”

Pang Tong tapped the wooden chessboard with his fingers at this time, and said, "Hey, Ma Hong, are you playing chess or chanting poetry?" ”

Ma Hong smiled and picked up the chess pieces and said, "Even if I play chess with you while reciting poems with Senior Brother Ziyang, you are not my opponent." ”

Pang Tong touched his nose, snorted, and thought seriously for a long time before picking up the chess piece.