At this time, a eunuch came from outside the door: "Your Majesty, Lord Nie Qiuyi outside the palace asks to see you." ”

Hearing the words, Feng Yulu was overjoyed, and put the small stove in his hand aside: "Master Nie came just in time, please hurry up." ”

After the eunuch who passed the message retreated, Nie Qiuyi, who was wearing a special costume made by the national hand and holding two chess games in his hand, walked in from outside the hall.

Five years ago, at the age of twenty-one, Nie Qiuyi was already the empire's premier chess player. Last year, due to Xiao He's recommendation, he became the chess tutor of Fengyulu, and since then, he has been on the rise. Half a year ago, he was married by Emperor Pingxi, and he married Yan Ke, the daughter of the Yan family who he had admired for a long time, and completely embarked on the peak of his life.

Although Feng Yulu exempted him from kneeling, Nie Qiuyi still knelt respectfully in front of Emperor Pingxi: "Minister, Nie Qiuyi, please say hello to the emperor." Congratulations to the Emperor, congratulations to the Emperor. ”

Nie Qiuyi's parents were merchants who immigrated from the Kingdom of Detesgaard, so he grew up in the Qianyuan Empire with fair skin that was different from the people of Qianyuan, with a tall nose bridge, turquoise eyes, and naturally curly short blond hair......

Feng Yulu sat on the chair and said with a smile: "No courtesy." What good news did Master Nie bring to me today?"

Nie Qiuyi's voice was deep and magnetic, and it sounded quite comfortable: "After a year of revision, the minister finally completed the ancient score "Life and Death of the Chess Game" in the Qianqian period, and now brings it for the emperor to review. ”

"Hahaha, okay!" Feng Yulu took the chess game passed by the eunuch and turned a few pages and said to Xiao He on the side, "Arrange for printing and selling it to major bookstores across the country immediately." ”

"Yes!" Xiao He immediately responded, because it was much easier than asking a nobleman for money.

Feng Yulu closed his eyes and thought for a while: "Nie Qiuyi has made a contribution to revising the ancient score, and I will reward you with a pair of carved dragon chessboards and a copy of "Forgetting Worries Chess Game". ”

"Emperor Xie!"

Feng Yulu picked up the fan next to the chessboard, knocked on the square table, and said, "Hmm...... I just played a game of chess with Xiao He, you can tell me about it. ”

Nie Qiuyi replied and walked to the chessboard to observe it carefully, sometimes smiling, sometimes frowning. And the wind whisper just watched quietly and didn't bother.

"Although this corner was besieged by white, it still managed to play and took advantage of the situation. Nie Qiuyi said and pointed to another corner, "On this corner, the black chess piece has fallen into the trap of the white chess piece, and it has become a dead chess piece." However, in the next few hands, white made several bad moves in a row, and black seized the opportunity to take off a corner of white's discs and seal the victory. ”

After a brief commentary, Nie Qiuyi took two steps back and said respectfully: "Judging from this chess game, the emperor's layout, life and death, and tendon strength have all improved compared to two months ago. As long as you play against opponents of equal strength, your chess strength will definitely improve by leaps and bounds. ”

"Hahaha, that's good. Being praised like this, Feng Yulu happily clapped his hands with a fan, "Is my chess strength already there...... The law of yin and yang, through the longitude and latitude, refers to the point of the avenue?"

"Uh...... The minister did not dare to deceive, His Majesty's current chess strength should be similar to that of the chess players in the chess academy who have been studying chess for two years. ”

"Oh......" Feng Yulu nodded, weighed it in his heart, and turned his head to look at Xiao He, "It feels very far behind." ”

Xiao He's hand trembled, and he quickly explained: "The slave is talking about talent, it is His Majesty's talent, hehe, hehe." ”

Feng Yulu seemed to think of something annoying, and suddenly knocked on the table with a fan: "Hmph, the old men in the Qilin Academy are all like monkeys, and none of them can get off the table." Where can I find an opponent with equal chess strength? ”

In this conversation, Xiao He seized the opportunity to speak: "The slave just brought a folk chess player today, who can play against His Majesty." ”

"Oh... Folk chess players... What is this person's name, and who is his name?"

"This person's surname is Mu Mingxing, and he is a child of the Mu family. ”

Mu Xing...... Well...... Mu Xing" Feng Yulu closed his eyes and thought for a while, "I have an impression, it seems to be ...... Mu Yun's little nephew. ”

"Yes, yes, the slave saw this Mu Xing in the Songfeng Chess Academy a few days ago. He said that he wanted to be a chess player as much as he could, so the minions brought him in. ”

"I will do my best to be a chess player, okay, I have ambition! ”

Soon after the eunuch spoke, Mu Xing came from outside the palace. His pale face was full of angular coldness, his arrogant eyes were glowing with a charming luster, and under his ethereal and handsome expression, there was a cold heart.

Mu Xing is wearing a blue and white scholar's costume that is currently very popular in the circle of young chess players, his hair is tied up with a wooden hairpin, there are yin and yang fish accessories around his waist, and he is wearing classic Xingzhou cloth shoes on his feet, all of which can highlight his low-key and elegant temperament.

I saw Mu Xing come forward and kneel down on one knee: "Grass people, Mu Xing, see the emperor." ”

The laws of the Qianyuan Empire clearly stipulate that when the children of the family meet the emperor, they can not bow down on both knees, but instead worship on one knee, but this is generally the right enjoyed by the disciples of the family by default.

Emperor Pingxi didn't care about the wind and words, and after avoiding Mu Xing's salute, he tapped his palm with a fan, thinking: In ancient times, there were ancestors who used stars to refer to chess, and later there were young people who took stars as their names. Looking at his appearance, he is quite like Mu Yun when he was young, and he will definitely be a man of the year in the future.

"I heard...... You want to be the best chess player in the world. ”

"Yes. Mu Xing answered the emperor's question quite succinctly.

Feng Yulu glanced at Nie Qiuyi beside him and asked Mu Xing, "Then do you know Nie Qiuyi?"

"I have studied his book "Autumn Game Examination". Mu Xing replied coldly.

Feng Yulu nodded and asked, "What do you think?"

"But that's it!"

"What did you say!"

Nie Qiu was furious at once, he could tolerate the incompetence of a fourteen-year-old young chess player, but he would never allow others to underestimate his hard work.

But at this time, Xiao He, who was beside Nie Qiuyi, pulled him and signaled Nie Qiuyi not to act rashly.

At this time, Feng Yulu smiled deeply, as if he had some plan in his heart.

Feng Yulu then asked, "How do you think you are at chess?" ”

Mu Xing sneered confidently: "The law is yin and yang, through the warp and weft, and refers to the avenue." ”

Feng Yulu was stunned for a moment when he heard this, then glared at Xiao He, and continued to ask, "Is there an exam?" ”

There are nine levels of chess players in the Qianyuan Empire, with the highest being level nine. After reaching the ninth level, you have to pass the "Imperial Palace Examination", and you can only become a national player after the exam. At the age of fourteen, being able to be admitted to the first-class chess player is also quite remarkable.

"I haven't taken the exam yet, but I'm ready to participate in the 'Chess Holy Road'. ”

"Hmph" Nie Qiuyi's cold snort was to mock Mu Xing's indiscretion.

The so-called "Chess Holy Road" is to select four chess academies among the many national chess academies in the country to challenge, and if you successfully challenge three chess academies in a row, you can be promoted to the ninth level of chess players, and if you successfully challenge four in a row, you will become a national player.

"Chess Holy Road" does not limit the challenge time, and the strength is strong enough to be completed in a month. However, it has been more than 100 years since the establishment of this "chess holy road", and only one person has successfully passed it. The reason why it is so difficult is because all the national chess academies have national players.

"Okay, ambitious!" At this time, Feng Yulu had already guessed the thoughts in Xiao He's heart, "I will give you a chance today, as long as you can win against Nie Qiuyi, I will give you the priority to challenge the 'Chess Holy Road', do you dare to agree?"

Although Mu Xing felt that he didn't need the right to challenge first, he came here today to play against the national players, so he naturally agreed.

"Well, you two are playing a game of chess in my south study. Feng Yulu stood up and walked outside, "Xiao and you go outside with me, don't disturb the two of them playing chess." ”

In the middle of the rivers and lakes, if two monks look at each other unpleasantly, then there is no need for any reason, the two will face each other with swords. It's the same with chess, what you say is false, and if you have the ability, you have two moves under your hands.

And the so-called Go, simply put, is two gangsters fighting on a turf, and whoever finally occupies more territory is the winner.

After "guessing first", it was decided that Nie Qiuyi would take the black first, and Mu Xing would take the white first.

At the beginning of the chess game, each side occupies two "star positions", and the game starts with "two consecutive stars", both in order to seize more territory. The first black disc now hangs the "star position" of the white disc, with the aim of seizing white's territory.

What he didn't expect was that Mu Xing's white chess did not care about the attack of black chess, but placed a "point three three" on the corner of black chess. Mu Xing's move was like burying an assassin behind Nie Qiuyi, making Nie Qiuyi have to deal with it carefully.

The first encounter between the two on the chessboard was not as fierce as expected, but more like a test of strength. In the first corner of the battle, in the end, Mu Xing grabbed Nie Qiuyi's territory in one corner, and Nie Qiuyi took the "external potential", so that he could have a greater advantage in the battle in the center of the chessboard in the later stage.

Nie Qiuyi saw that the situation on the corner was still stable, and decided to seize more territory, so he hung a corner on another star position of Mu Xing, preparing to capture the territory on the white chess corner. Mu Xing calmly responded to the "Xiaofei Guarding Corner", which was used to defend his own territory while expanding to the side.

Nie Qiuyi saw that Mu Xing was defending but not attacking, so he hung another corner on the white chess that had been hung with a corner, forming a "double flying swallow". Nie Qiuyi was ready to forcibly seize the territory on Mu Xingjiao, so that Mu Xing had nowhere to hide.

Mu Xing's white piece "jumped" and pressed on top of the black piece, announcing the beginning of the turf battle for the second corner. Black has a backhand "pull", and white has a "stand". This Nie Qiuyi's chess move is like a spearman, one inch long and one inch strong, wide open and closed and orderly. And Mu Xing's chess path is more like a swordsman, one inch short and one inch dangerous, flexible and changeable, and hiding a knife in his smile.

The two fought hard in the corner turf, and in the end black succeeded in grabbing the turf on the corner, but the space was a little smaller. White, on the other hand, is to win the "external momentum" and prepare for the mid-to-late stage to seize the territory in the center of the board.

Suddenly, a black piece on the side suddenly "splits two" and marks a piece of territory on the edge of the chessboard. But playing this chess move at this time made Mu Xing feel a little strange. But Mu Xing still decided to squeeze the black chess in the corner, but the black chess "split two" again made Mu Xing have to frown.

After two "splits" of the black pieces, Nie Qiuyi not only carved a large territory on the edge of the chessboard, but also struck two white pieces in the other corner. Mu Xing was caught in a dilemma of whether to limit black's expansion or protect his own turf.

So far, although white has great potential for development in the middle and late stages, it is indeed Nie Qiuyi, who is holding black, is leading in the situation. Just when Nie Qiuyi was about to take the lead all the way and strike a blow at Mu Xing's arrogance, a eunuch beside the Queen Mother suddenly walked outside the hall.

"The Queen Mother has a will, and Nie Qiuyi, the hand of Xuanguo, will immediately go to the Palace of Heart Cultivation to meet the Queen Mother, and there must be no mistake. ”

Nie Qiuyi, who heard the order, clenched his fists a little unwillingly, but finally stood up: "Obey the order, please ask your father-in-law to lead the way." ”

But of course, it is impossible for the Empress Dowager to suddenly summon a national player, because behind this is actually the deliberate arrangement of Emperor Pingxi's wind and law.

At this time, Feng Yulu was standing in the distance, looking at the eunuchs and Nie Qiuyi who were walking in the direction of the Qilin Courtyard, and thought to himself: Hmph, Mu Fan!