Under the guidance of the little official, two people came to the arena along the gravel paved path, the arena was temporarily renovated from the conference hall used by the original Hanlin people when they held a meeting, the space is large enough, especially the number of players participating in this competition is limited, only twenty in total, so the first round of the game only set up ten chess tables, each chess table is more than a foot apart, it must be no one can hinder anyone's business, even if you want to see the progress of other people's chess games, it is difficult to do without a pair of good eyes, And according to the rules of the game, each round is the winner, the defeat is under the single elimination method, everyone only has one chance to advance, the number of players is an odd number when the method of drawing lots, draw the empty number of the bye rest, so the game will be less and less until the top four are decided (who can be selected in the final among these four people), it can be called a decisive battle in front of everyone's eyes, and the estimation of tolerance is almost panicked.

The so-called Mo Daojun is early, and there are more early pedestrians, when the two people walked into the arena, there were already many people who arrived first, some chatted with each other, some gathered in front of the list to discuss the opponent of the game, and there were also curious people looking around, of course, such people are mostly children participating in the game, you must know that it is the greatest pursuit of many people to enter the Hanlin Academy as a chess player, and the person who can realize this ideal may not reach two or three out of ten even if the quality of the players participating in this competition may not reach two or three out of ten, so for most children, I'm afraid this is the only chance for them to enter the Hanlin Academy in their lives, and if they don't take it carefully, they will be too sorry for themselves.

"Brother Liu, Brother Chen, I haven't seen you for a few days." Zheng Xing often runs outside, has a lot of acquaintances, and when he looks up, he sees two people he knows, and hurriedly salutes and greets people with a smile.

"Oh. It's Brother Zheng, it's rare, I heard that Brother Zheng, you have been proud of the spring breeze recently, and you are responsible for more and more things in the Zheng family, no wonder it is difficult for our brothers to meet each other. The two people also returned the salute and said to Zheng Xing with a smile.

"Hehe, it's easy to say, I've been a little busy lately, and I should be able to relax when I'm busy, and I'll be free. The brother invited the two to drink to accompany the sin, and hoped that the two would not shirk at that time. Zheng Xing said with a smile.

"Haha, if you don't eat for nothing, you don't know if you eat for nothing, Brother Zheng is a treat, how can the two of us not go, it's just that Brother Chen and I have good tastes, not that we can't get used to the wine banquet in Qingfeng Building." The middle-aged man surnamed Liu made a request with a half-truthful smile.

"Hehe, isn't it Qingfeng Building. One meal or two meals are still invited. So it's a foregone conclusion. "Qingfeng Lou is one of the well-known restaurants in the capital, and the chef is the imperial chef who has cooked for the emperor for ten years in the palace. But the grade of the restaurant with the hat of the imperial chef is naturally very high, and another manifestation of the high grade is the high price of the dishes, and the most ordinary banquet at a table costs at least one or two silver, not to mention the kind of beasts in the mountains and geese in the clouds. The high-end banquet of land cattle and sheep under the sea, the other party proposed to treat himself in Qingfeng Building, and it was clear that he wanted to slaughter himself, but then again. For him, the real power steward of the Zheng family, this degree of slaughter is actually nothing.

"By the way, I don't know who the two brothers brought this time? This selection of teachers for the princess can be called a rare opportunity for many families in ten years, presumably the Chen and Liu families want to do their best to compete for the championship, right? "Since he accepted the slaughter, he naturally has to get some compensation, Zheng Xing is a shrewd person, and a shrewd person will not make a loss-making business, in addition to the four major families, there are countless small and medium-sized families, the two in front of him are called Chen Jianren, and the other is called Liu Bensheng, who are the people of the Chen family and the Liu family of the Beijing Go family, the Chen family and the Liu family are incomparable with the four major families in terms of strength and fame, and the more important opportunities are basically monopolized by the people of the four major families, Therefore, they will cherish this kind of opportunity that is relatively not so important to the big family, if the people of the four great families can not break through the monopoly and grab some benefits when they only send second-rate candidates, then they don't want to have a good performance in front of the big opportunity.

"Hehe, since you are standing by the river, you are expected to be Jingxin, since you have sent someone to participate in the competition, if you say that you don't have the purpose of being selected, I'm afraid you can't even believe yourself when you say it. But in the final analysis, the background of our small family is limited after all, and it is not as big as your Zheng family's great business and talents, and you can just pull out someone and walk sideways with us. Liu Bensheng said with a smile, with both self-deprecation and helplessness in his tone.

"Brother Liu, you are too good at telling jokes, where is there a crab in the world, who can walk horizontally? Don't be modest, the game is about to start, and it's not a secret who you bring here at this time, is it possible that someone knows who you sent who can be temporarily replaced? Zheng Xing joked with a smile - the list of people who participated in the selection competition had been handed over ten days ago and reviewed and confirmed by the Ministry of Rites, since then there are only two choices for the people on the list, either to participate or to abstain, there is no such thing as a temporary replacement, you must know that all those who participate in the selection have the possibility of entering the palace and getting close to the royal nobles.

"Hehe, aren't you afraid that you will lose face in front of your brother Zheng and want to hide it? Since Brother Zheng wants to know, let's just say it. This time, the candidate sent by the Liu family is Liu Zhengfeng, the son of my eldest brother, and my nephew, eleven years old this year, although his identity is special, but this opportunity is that he stood out from more than thirty people after five rounds of competition. Liu Bensheng said with a smile, he saw the situation of this selection competition very clearly, and the hope of winning the championship did not lie in how strong the people sent by the Liu family were, but in how much importance the four great families attached to the competition.

Liu Bensheng said that Chen Jianren naturally can't hide it anymore, otherwise it will be obvious that he will not give Zheng Xing face, although Zheng Xing's identity is just a housekeeper, but as the so-called seven-rank official in front of the prime minister, the housekeeper of the Zheng family has much more influence than them in some things. (To be continued.) )