On the fifth day after leaving Qingyuan Town, in the early morning, snowflakes drifted, and the northwest wind blew, and the temperature dropped suddenly.

Xiao Jiu didn't want to ride a horse outside and get cold, so he pulled Wei San and Cen Hongmian and came to sit in Su Lingfeng's carriage again.

The wind in the carriage can't blow, the snow can't be drenched, and the crowd will dispel some of the cold, Jingshuang found out that it was snowing in the morning, and carefully made a stove, and at the moment the carriage is very warm.

Xiao Jiu squinted comfortably, and felt more and more that the decision to squeeze the carriage was correct.

When Wei San was taking refreshments from Yingxue's small cabinet, he noticed that there were two chess jars, and he couldn't help but be interested, and said to Cen Hongmian: "Idle left and right are also idle, Hongmian, let's play a game, how about it?" ”

Cen Hongmian naturally would not refuse, nodded and said: "Okay, since the third prince has this Yaxing, Hongmian will naturally accompany him." ”

Yingxue secretly scolded herself in her heart: The eyes are sharp enough! Although I was reluctant, I could only take out the chess jar and chessboard and set them on the table.

The chessboard is folded, originally not a large quad, after opening, it is a thin chessboard, not heavy, very light, just suitable for travel and carrying.

Wei San, Xiao Jiu Brothers, and Cen Hongmian couldn't help but show amazement when they saw this exquisite chessboard.

"This chessboard is very cleverly made!" After Wei San exclaimed, he immediately looked at Cen Xiyan again and asked, "I don't know where Miss Cen Liu got this chessboard?" ”

"Oh, there was a time when the housekeeper of the Cen Mansion in the town went to Yangcheng to buy something, and happened to encounter this chess set, looking at the freshness, he bought it back for me to relieve my boredom, the material is ordinary, only in the exquisite, not worth much." The housekeeper of Cen Mansion in Cen Xiyankou, of course, is talking about Cen Quan, but in front of others, it is not good to call Uncle Quan.

This chessboard, of course, is not really Cen Quan unintentionally bought back, this thing is from the hands of the disciples of Yuanyinmen, some shops under Yuanyinmen are sold, but it has not yet reached the capital, so Wei San and others have not seen it, if Wei San has the heart to make people pay attention, they will buy it sooner or later, and if she is not very honest, it will naturally be over.

"Oh? Is it a set of chess equipment that you bought? So there is something special about chess pieces? Wei San didn't ask Fang Cai's topic deeply, but turned over the lid of a chess jar, took out a chess piece from it, and looked at it carefully.

Cen Hongmian and Xiao Jiu also took a chess piece each, and when they looked closely, the three of them looked at it, it was just an ordinary Yunzi chess, and the material was indeed not special.

"Huh?" Xiao Jiu suddenly spoke, "What is this?" ”

When Wei San and Cen Hongmian heard this, they both looked at Xiao Jiu's hand and saw that he had turned the chess pieces over, and there seemed to be a small dot on the back, exuding a ghostly light that belonged to metal.

Seeing this, Wei San and Cen Hongmian also turned over the chess pieces in their hands, and sure enough, the back of the chess pieces in their hands also had that dot, in fact, not all the chess pieces in the chess jar were frontal, and the reverse side was upward, revealing this kind of dot, but the chess pieces they opened were black, and the dots were also black, so it was not easy to find for a while.

"Is it iron?" Cen Hongmian rubbed the chess pieces with his fingers for a while, and spoke.

Cen Xiyan smiled slightly and said, "That's right, the bottom of this Yunzi chess piece is inlaid with iron. ”

"Why iron?" Xiao Jiu asked questions.

Cen Xiyan did not answer this question directly, but took a chess piece, put it on the chessboard, and said, "Nine Princes, you can try to move this chess piece." ”

Xiao Jiu went to get the chess pieces as he said, but was surprised to find that the chessboard seemed to have a kind of suction, sucking the chess pieces on the chessboard, and it took a little force to move the chess pieces!

"This chessboard ......"

Cen Xiyan explained: "This chessboard is regularly rubbed with magnets, there is a certain magnetism to attract iron, but the magnetic force is not very strong, using this set of equipment on a moving carriage, the chess pieces will not jump because of the bumps of the carriage, and it will not be inconvenient to move the chess pieces because the magnetism is too strong, it is a very suitable thing for travel and recreation." ”

Magnets, in ancient times, were more useful, one was medicinal, and the other was to make Sinan (compass), but in the hands of those who were proficient in the mechanism of the Yuanyin Gate, there were countless ingenious uses.

Wei San and Cen Hongmian listened to Cen Xiyan's explanation, and couldn't help but try to drop and take the pieces on the chessboard, and they both felt that this chess set was extremely practical and ingenious.

"Come to think of it, the person who made this chess set should also be an elegant person who loves chess!" Cen Hongmian sighed.

"He's a guy who works hard for comfort." After Wei San said this, he couldn't help but glance at Cen Xiyan, and said secretly in his heart: This sixth lady of the Cen family is also a person who can use her brain for comfort......

Cen Xiyan lowered her eyes, blocked the light under her eyes with her eyelashes, and thought to herself that she would use her brain to make her living environment more comfortable, but more often than not, she would use her brain to make money.

Wei San and Cen Hongmian each held chess pieces and played against each other, but Cen Xiyan didn't pay much attention to the battle situation on the chessboard.

After Wei San fell, he looked up by chance and saw Cen Xiyan teasing the bird, and couldn't help asking, "Miss Six usually likes to play chess?" ”

Cen Xiyan shook his head and said, "I'm not proficient, I don't play often." ”

Is it modesty? Or are you really not proficient? Wei San thought for a while, and felt that maybe she was really not proficient, this Miss Cen Liu grew up in Qingyuan Town since she was a child, even if she ran a shop and had some spare money, but in terms of piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, she was weaker than those ladies carefully cultivated by big families, and it was not surprising that there were chess sets in the carriage, and she might only have occasional pastimes.

Jingshuang added warm herbal tea to a few people, then picked up the embroidered bandage, embroidered the handkerchief, although the improved carriage is not very bumpy, but it will shake when it moves, this girl is embroidered stitch by needle steadily, and her fingers have not been pierced once, which makes people not admire.

Wei San and Cen Hongmian were playing chess, and Xiao Jiu, who was idle, looked at the Jingshuang embroidery, and was stunned, counting in his heart how many needles of the Jingshuang embroidery would be pierced, but unfortunately he never saw the scene he was looking forward to.

Yingxue lifted the corner of the curtain of the car window and looked out, the snowflakes were still fluttering in the sky, and she muttered: "This snow is getting bigger and bigger!" ”

Qingyuan Town is located in the south, it rarely snows in winter, even if Jingshuang and Yingxue follow Cen Xiyan and go out a few times, there are not many times when they can see snow, and the cold and dangerous places in Raya Snow Mountain are rarely taken to them, so Yingxue, who has a lively temperament, still has a sense of novelty when she sees snow, and her tone can't help but bring a little exclamation.

Little Amy has been mixed with Cen Xiyan, Jingshuang, and Yingxue, the three masters and servants, and from the tone, you can hear the mood of the people it is familiar with, and at this moment, when it hears Yingxue's voice, it knows that she doesn't seem to be in a good mood, so the little guy starts to play good again!