Chapter Ninety-Five: An Unusual Game of Chess
If you ask when Pang Tong is most reluctant to see Ma Hong, then it must be now, because Pang Tong is accompanying Jia Ru. When you accompany a beautiful woman, you must not want someone who looks more handsome than you to stubble.
This time, Jia Ru and her eldest brother Jia Mu came to congratulate Mr. Shui Jing on his birthday, and she also happened to want to meet Mr. Shui Jing's apprentices. Pang Tong and Jia Ru knew each other well, and when his brother Jia Mu was talking to Mr. Shui Jing, he took Jia Ru to play around the villa.
"Shi Yuan, I brought a pot of good wine, do you want to taste it."
Ma Hong walked towards Pang Tong from the other side of the pond, holding a wine jug and waving to Pang Tong.
Pang Tong rubbed his nose, the wine can be drunk at another time, but the beauty can't be accompanied by another time, Pang Tong glanced hard at Ma Hong and asked him not to come.
Ma Hong looked at Pang Tong and glanced at him, there was still a handsome son standing beside him, I didn't know what he meant, but he was a little more interested, walked quickly to the two of them, and saluted Jia Ru: "Under Ma Hong, dare to ask the ......."
When Ma Hong said the word "Gong", he suddenly found that what was standing in front of him was not a handsome son, but a woman, because no man's chest muscles were so prominent, Ma Hong subconsciously changed his words and said: "In Ma Hong, dare to ask the father... Mother's surname. ”
Jia Ruben saw that Ma Hong was dignified, with affectionate eyebrows, and quite romantic, who knew that he actually said that he was a mother in person, and couldn't help frowning, pouting and not speaking.
Pang Tong laughed in his heart, and still introduced Jia Ru's identity to Ma Hong. Ma Hong met Jia Ru in Wancheng, and after Pang Tong introduced him, he smiled and said that he had not yet visited the teacher when he returned to the village, so he left.
Liu Ye and Mr. Shui Jing greeted the guests together, and Yang Yi was from Xiangyang, so they welcomed the guests with Liu Ye. When the two saw Ma Hong coming back, they pulled Ma Hong to welcome the guests. Ma Hong came a day early, and there were not many guests that day, in addition to Huang Chengyan and his daughter Huang Yueying, there were also Xi Zhen and Xiang Lang and Jia Mu brothers and sisters. Xi Zhen and Xiang Lang are both half of Mr. Shuijing's apprentices, and after meeting Mr. Shuijing, they stood together and talked with Ma Hong and others.
In front of Mr. Shui Jing's house, the peach tree transplanted by Ma Hong two years ago has sprouted, and in another month, there will be a fragrance of peach leaves in front of the door. As soon as Huang Chengyan arrived, he pulled Sima Wei and said that he wanted to play until dark, Sima Wei pointed to Ma Hong, Liu Ye and others on the spot and said, My apprentices are all here, why don't you choose my apprentices as your opponents?
Huang Chengyan saw that Sima Wei was not playing against him, so he laughed and said, "I already knew that you would do this, so I brought my daughter here, Yueying, you choose someone from among them to be your opponent." ”
Seeing that Huang Chengyan asked Huang Yueying to choose an opponent, Ma Hong's heart trembled, three years ago, he had learned Huang Yueying's power, this woman was smart and clever, Huang Chengyan dared to let her play against Ma Hong and others, so it means that Huang Yueying's chess skills are definitely not low. And Ma Hong has had contact with Huang Yueying, and he is the most familiar person among the brothers, and Huang Yueying is very likely to choose him as his opponent. The status of women in this era is extreme, and playing against a woman, whether it is winning or losing will not be too glorious, especially if the opponent is Huang Yueying, it will not be too easy to win.
Well, fate is predestined, Zhuge Liang and you are a destined couple, Yueying! I think you'll pick him. Ma Hong comforted himself in his heart.
Huang Yueying's gaze swept over everyone's faces, stayed on Ma Hong's face for a few seconds, his gaze was a little hesitant, and finally stopped on Zhuge Liang's face.
Ma Hong secretly said in his heart: It seems that Yueying still has a good impression of me, and she can't bear to make me ugly, hurry up, go to your family Xiao Ming!
Zhuge Liang didn't wait for Huang Yueying to speak, and immediately stood up and said: "Mr. Huang, as soon as Ling Yuan entered the villa, he asked Senior Brother Ma, I think it is appropriate to ask Senior Brother Ma to play against Ling Yuan." ”
After listening to Zhuge Liang's words, Huang Yueying looked at Ma Hong again and did not open her mouth to speak. However, Huang Chengyan stroked his beard and looked at Ma Hong with a smile, and Ma Hong felt cold in his heart.
Ma Hong sighed in his heart: Bright! Why are you so lacking in heart and eye, pushing your future wife outward?
Huang Chengyan hadn't spoken yet, but Mr. Shui Jing smiled and said, "Ma Hong, you will accompany Miss Huang to play a game." ”
The teacher still spoke, although Ma Hong complained in his heart that the teacher was cheating the students, he had to go up hard, Liu Ye took out the Go game and placed it under the peach tree, and put cushions around it. Everyone knelt in a circle and watched the two play against each other. Ma Hong sat in front of Huang Yueying, entangled in whether to play against Huang Yueying seriously, or let Huang Yueying win, and let the onlookers see that he deliberately let Huang Yueying win.
Huang Yueying stretched out her fingers as white as shallots and pinched a white child, and said softly: "Young Master Ma, please settle down first." ”
Ma Hong took out a sunspot from the chess box and put it upside down in front of Huang Yueying, and said, "Please also ask Miss to drop the piece first." ”
In this era of male superiority and inferiority of women, and an era full of rules, there are few games between men and women, and there is no rule on who will fall first. The first player to fall in Go will have a certain advantage, Ma Hong is a man, if he goes first, he will have an advantage, even if he wins, it will be dishonorable. Huang Yueying is a woman, in this era of inferiority to women, women are already ranked behind men, so she took the sunspot first and let Ma Hong go first, but she didn't expect Ma Hong to let her go first.
Liu Ye, who was watching the game from the sidelines, licked his lower lips and said secretly in his heart: The chess has not fallen, and the move has been made. In turn, persuade the woman how to do it?
Zhuge Liang held the bamboo pole tightly and smiled: "Oh! Senior Brother Ma has a lot of eyes, on the surface, it seems that he is letting this woman go first, but in fact, he is forcing her to ask the elders if they should drop the chess pieces first?
Huang Yueying pinched Ma Hong's chess pieces, fell, did not hesitate, did not stop, and then held Bai Zi between her fingers and middle fingers and handed it to Ma Hong.
Mr. Shui Jing looked at Huang Yueying's son, looked at Huang Chengyan, and passed a sentence with a smile, will you raise your daughter as a man?
Huang Chengyan's eyes swept over the disciples who were watching the chess, and he smiled at Mr. Shui Jing, as if to say, all of your disciples were shocked at once.
Zhuge Liang smiled slightly, and said secretly in his heart: Unruly people are either not fools, or they are not outstanding people, it seems that this girl is the latter, interesting, I like it.
Yang Yi frowned, Zhu Ran looked at Ma Hong with wide eyes, Ma Hong smiled at him, smiled like water, stretched out his fingers to take the chess pieces, and put them down on the chessboard.
"This young man has a good heart." Huang Chengyan said secretly in his heart.
Mr. Shui Jing rotated two cobblestones in his palms and sat watching chess.
Quiet, the sound of the wind is very clear, the sound of breathing is low, and the clatter of chess pieces falling on the chessboard beats everyone's hearts. There are more and more chess pieces on the chessboard, black and white are intertwined, and it is difficult to distinguish the winner from the loser. The chess spectators watched intently, they didn't expect this woman to have such chess skills and be able to compete with Ma Hong.
Ma Hongsui also expected that Huang Yueying's chess skills were very high, but he didn't expect to reach such a realm, if it weren't for the fact that he had been mixed with Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong all day long in the past few years, often playing chess, and his chess skills had progressed rapidly, maybe he would have been defeated long ago. Ma Hong's chess skills are slightly lower than Pang Tong, and Pang Tong is inferior to Zhuge Liang, while Huang Yueying's chess skills are very close to him. Before falling behind the thirtieth son, Ma Hong was still thinking about whether to choose to deliberately let Huang Yueying win, but now this thought has long disappeared, in the face of such an opponent, after the thirtieth son, he has taken it seriously and seriously considered every step.