After the night, the street market of Jiankang City ushered in a new day of hustle and bustle.

Mi Rucheng wants to visit the officials of Huaidi to discuss the collection of grain, and Yang Lie wants to contact the local Imperial Forest Army spies, in order not to have an accident, Yang Lie has to disguise himself, and he has to contact through some irrelevant intermediaries. Liu Yu had nothing to do, so he walked around the lively street market in Jiankang City alone to learn about the local people's livelihood.

Spying on the defense of Jiankang City is also one of the purposes of Liu Yu's trip, so he walks close to the position under the city wall, looking like a traveling businessman, but he still pays more attention to the city wall and the city tower. Liu Yue was not public, and only brought Lu Chu'er an entourage, and Lu Chu'er did not have sufficient vigilance when he came to this strange place, and he would see sluggishness when he looked at some scenes, and sometimes Liu Yue walked far away and came back to call her.

"Such a careless girl, no wonder your general is always afraid that you won't be able to get married."

Liu Yu said, but Lu Chu'er grimaced in the back, with a disapproving face.

Being in the enemy territory, Liu Yue was very vigilant, and after walking for half a morning, he had already seen some of the defenses in the city, so he wanted to take a leisurely walk in the city, and find a wine shop for lunch by the way. Because the slag on Liu Yu's face is incompatible with the elegance of the Jiangnan people, no one wants to pay attention to this seemingly rude man.

There was only one floor of a wine shop facing the street, Liu Yu went in, ordered a drink and food, and waved his hand to let Lu Chuer sit down. Lu Chu'er was dressed as a maid, and as soon as she sat down, the people next to her were talking, thinking that she was actually at the same table with the head of the family, and then she stood up stupidly.

"What's wrong?" Liu Yu asked.

"Uncle, didn't you listen to what those people said?" Lu Chuer looked at Liu Yu with a look of grievance.

"Are you a subordinate?"

Liu Yu said this, and Lu Chuer smiled on his face. When you think about it, it's really not. She is the guard who leads the court. Uncle is kind. It didn't hurt to sit down, and then the person sat down with a big grin and picked up the chopsticks. Those who were close to the table felt that they couldn't stand it, so they checked out and left.

"Today's people have too much hierarchy, and in a few hundred years, people's mentality will change."

Liu Yu sighed, and an old man at the next table smiled and nodded at him, seemingly agreeing with him. The old man is also extraordinary. Being single seems to be very comfortable, and the table in front of him is not rich, it should be a rich family in the city, a pampered old gentleman.

These days, there are not many people who have the money to come out to eat.

Liu Yu arched his hand, and the man also bowed his hand, but the person was already full, and the old man walked out of the wine shop.

"Uncle, who is that, do you know?"

Liu Yu glanced at Lu Chu'er and said, "You and I know anyone?" Stranger. What does it matter to say hello? ”

Lu Chu'er smiled and began to pull the food on the table. I was able to eat with my uncle. While Lu Chuer felt honored, the way she ate in a chic way on weekdays was also much more restrained, and she felt a little like a maid, but she still didn't have the reserve of a woman's family, and she always had to leak out two rows of teeth with a smile.

"Girls' families, you can't show your teeth when you smile, and you can't show your teeth when you eat, do you know what?"

"Oh."

Lu Chu'er answered, began to chew and swallow slowly, and said after a while: "Uncle, no, how can you eat without showing your teeth?" ”

Liu Yu glanced at her and stopped paying attention to her.

After the two of them finished lunch, they were going to go back to the inn after shopping around, Liu Yu had already discussed with Mi Rucheng, and went to find a yard to rent in the afternoon, and Mi Rucheng would also introduce several famous local merchants to him that night.

Out of the wine shop, I saw a small tea house from a distance, and a bunch of people gathered together, as if playing chess.

Liu Yu doesn't have any special hobbies on weekdays, and when he sees someone playing chess, whether it's Go or chess, he has to go over to see it, and this time he can see his friends in the Jiangnan Water Town, and he can't help but want to join in the fun.

When I walked over, I found that it was chess, and Liu Yu, one of the two sides of the game, still recognized that it was the old man who greeted him in the wine shop before. And the one on the other side is not young, he looks like he is forty or fifty years old, very rich, and he said proudly while playing: "Old Meng, it seems that you go to have a meal and come back from a thatched house, and your chess skills have been cleaned." ”

It is true that the old man surnamed Meng has a disadvantage on the chess side, and under the sunspot, it is nothing more than a lack of a few pawns, and a lack of a cannon and a horse. This is in the middle of a chess game, which has been filled with a lot of passivity. In the master game, a son and a region cannot be abandoned, and at this time, the old man surnamed Meng is still attacking, and the rich middle-aged man is full of red soldiers, and the attack will not improve much.

"If you fight, you will lose."

The old man surnamed Meng said with a smile, very freely, and then began to attack non-stop.

Originally, the two sides still attacked and defended each other on the river boundary, but this back and forth, they were even blacked out several times, and the old handsome man hid in Tibet, and he had the advantage on the chess surface, and he lost very embarrassed. When the old handsome man was checkmated, the middle-aged rich businessman sighed: "It's no problem, I still lost." ”

took out a few copper plates, and the old man surnamed Meng smiled on his face and said, "It seems that today is a sure win." ”

Liu Yu looked at the chess surface again, and felt that the old man surnamed Meng was very good at chess, and the initial loss seemed to be deliberately abandoned, so that the middle-aged rich businessman was paralyzed and careless. And the middle-aged rich merchant was timid, and it would have been no problem to take out a cannon or a horse to get the pawn right, but he felt sorry for his advantages, and let the pawn cause a big disaster, and it was useless to turn back and repent, and the defeat was decided.

The middle-aged wealthy businessman got up to say goodbye, and the old man surnamed Meng looked around at everyone and asked, "Who wants to try?" ”

An old man who also looked like a rich old man smiled: "Brother Meng has won more than 20 people here in a row in the past few days, and he has never lost, who dares to come?" ”

Liu Yu sat down unceremoniously opposite the old man surnamed Meng and said, "I'll come!" ”

The onlookers next to him couldn't help laughing, and the old man who said compliments before smiled: "Newborn calves are not afraid of tigers, young people be careful, Brother Meng's pantou horse is very tight, don't be greedy." ”

Liu Yu smiled and nodded in the face of the reminder, and Lu Chu'er, who was standing behind Liu Yu, looked forward, and couldn't understand what was on the chessboard at all.

"Please, young man."

The old man surnamed Meng waved his hand, meaning to let Liu Yu Zhihong go first. Liu Yuqian conceded: "The elderly come first." ”

The old man surnamed Meng smiled and nodded. I didn't say anything more. Bring the old handsome and the red son under it.

It didn't take a turn at first. Liu Yu started the game with the first shot, and this move is usually the first move of the head horse, which belongs to the means of playing scoundrels in advance by knowing that the Daoist people are out of the game. The old man surnamed Meng smiled on his face, got out of the horse, and the two sides came out steadily, only a few steps, as soon as the old man came out, Liu Yu shot the middle soldier. The old man marched to the middle, and the head horse has been completed.

Liu Yu directly escaped the cannon and gave Pantou Ma an open field, which made the old man stunned. At the beginning, it really looks like an ordinary young man, impulsive, and a somewhat scoundrel way of playing chess, but it comes and goes quickly. However, he also often plays chess with young people, and he doesn't think anything about it, but still takes it seriously.

Liu Yucai took a few steps. was designated as a beginner by the old man surnamed Meng and the onlookers next to him. When playing chess, he is not so restrained, and the old man's chess path is also orderly. Step by step, he approached in the direction of Liu Yu's black chess. On the other hand, Liu Yu seemed to be constrained, all the cars and horses were piled up, and they couldn't get out by being pressed, but they moved in a small area, as if they were arming.

Immediately afterwards, Liu Yu was accidentally eaten a car, and the situation fell into a huge passivity. In the eyes of others, black is also the losing side.

"Listen to the accent, the little brother is from the north." The old man took advantage of Liu Yu's thinking and asked with a smile.

Liu Yu smiled and nodded: "Hebei people, go back and forth to the north and south of the river to do some small business. ”

Coming down here, Liu Yue had to think about every step for a long time, and he was just blindly shrinking on this side, which made those onlookers feel bored, and many of them left, leaving only chess enthusiasts who were still watching.

"In the north, the old man has been there before, but the time is too long, and the years have passed!"

The old man seems to be lamenting life, but it is not his turn to sigh, Liu Yue has more places to sigh.

Gradually, as the game evolved, Liu Yu's black chess became more and more like a scoundrel. It also made the old man gradually put away his arrogance and contempt, and focused on coping with it.

After all, the chess surface of Xiangqi is not as big as Go, but it is just blindly defending, and it is likely to block the chess road in an area, and whoever has a large activity space has a high chance of winning. But Liu Yu belongs to the kind of alternative type of chess, specializing in special tactics, just like Han Sheng was most annoying when he played chess with him, that is, Liu Yue could pile all the chess pieces on his side, and then wait for others to attack him, no matter how he attacked, he couldn't attack him.

The old man surnamed Meng had apparently discovered this as well.

Obviously, he felt as if he was winning, but after taking more than a dozen steps, the two sides were still stuck in a small area. Liu Yu's chain of horses locked Hongzi's car, so that the red car was blocked outside and couldn't get in.

The horse strip was angry and the car was angry, which the old man surnamed Meng felt deeply. Originally, his pantou horse had attacked Liu Yu's hinterland, but Liu Yu was separated behind, and the old man tried to send the soldiers across the river, and strategically abandoned the pantou horse. Liu Yu's entire black chess defense took the river realm as the first line of defense, not only with a chain of horses, but also with his remaining rooks, making the river realm the most fiercely contested.

The two sides are taking longer and longer to think about it, because both sides have to carefully consider the changes in the situation at every step. Playing chess with a low hand is to take one step at a time, and it is possible to send the piece up only to find out that it is to send it to death. When a master plays chess, one step has to be considered two or three moves, or even more, and with each additional step, the way the battle situation evolves exponentially, and the brain power to be used is also greater. Therefore, in the back, Liu Yu and the old man were silent, concentrating on the chess game.

The number of onlookers also gradually increased, and the chess game, which could have ended in half an hour, still showed no sign of ending at sunset and dusk, and the old man said a few words to Liu Yu one after another, thinking that the two sides had reduced their forces, and he would have an opportunity to take advantage of it. After all, he is equivalent to changing a horse for a rook at the beginning, and the chess board is dominant.

But it was not until the later stage that the old man discovered that Liu Yu, a young man, had a wisdom that did not belong to his age, and even though he tried his best, he failed to win Liu Yu in the end. Seeing that the sky was darkening, Liu Yu smiled and said: "Old man, it's better to draw chess today, let's go back and play!" ”

Those who know chess have experienced a lot of tactics in this chess game, and they have gained a lot. (To be continued......)