This sound is terrible!

The Emperor felt a tremor from his soul! If it weren't for the fact that he was old and couldn't fall, he was afraid that he would be able to throw himself out together!

Empress Dowager Zhuang entered the emperor's study in a hurry.

Thanks to more than a year of recuperation by Gu Jiao's side, her body is really much tougher than before, and she can't even grow a lot of black hair on her head.

She sat down on the chair across from the desk, crossed her legs, and looked straight at the emperor.

The emperor frowned at her gangsteric look: "What happened to my mother?" ”

"It's okay, I'll come and see you!" Empress Dowager Zhuang said lightly, after saying that, she realized that her attitude was perfunctory, and this kind of acting skills was afraid that she would have to deduct candied fruit, she paused and grinned, "The mourning family came to see Hong'er." ”

The emperor goosebumps fell to the ground!

In order to give full play to her soul-like acting skills, Empress Dowager Zhuang asked Gonggong Qin to guard the door, and there were only mother and son in the study at this time.

Empress Dowager Zhuang shook her legs and looked at the emperor with deep meaning, as if she had seen five walking candied fruits.

Thinking about it like this, Empress Dowager Zhuang felt that the emperor was much more pleasing to the eye.

Emperor: Why do I think the way the Queen Mother looks at me is wrong?

Empress Dowager Zhuang decided to care about her preserves...... Uh, son, she smiled rarely, and said very gently, "Have you eaten?" Thirsty or not? Hungry or not? Dressed warmly or not? How's life going? There is difficulty with the queen mother. ”

Emperor: "......"

Empress Dowager Zhuang cared for the emperor a lot, not only that, but she also accompanied (forced) the emperor to have lunch, invited (forced) the emperor to visit the imperial garden, and ensured that the whole of the six palaces knew that she was a loving queen mother today.

Then she returned to Renshou Palace in a graceful manner.

"Where's Jiaojiao?" She asked Father-in-law Qin.

Gonggong Qin smiled and said, "Miss Gu is out of the palace." ”

Empress Dowager Zhuang's face sank: "What about the candied fruit of the mourning family?" ”

Gonggong Qin's neck shrank: "Bring and take away ......"

Empress Dowager Zhuang's face darkened in a second!

But said that after Gu Jiao left the palace, she did not return to the hospital immediately, and recently the hospital has a new doctor, so she doesn't have to sit for the clinic every day like before, which is really convenient for her to do her own thing.

She ran out of saltpeter and planned to find some nitrate again, but unfortunately this kind of thing was extremely difficult to buy in the market.

Gu Jiao walked down the street, touching her chin with a pensive face.

"Doll!"

Suddenly, a voice stopped her.

Gu Jiao's steps stopped, she turned around strangely, and saw the old beggar who had played chess with her a few times was trotting towards her.

"It's really you!" The old beggar came to Gu Jiao and said with a smile, "I just saw that the back was quite similar, so I screamed." ”

Gu Jiao sighed and said, "This is not Liufu Street, why did you come here?" ”

If she remembered correctly, the old man was all active in the area of Liuwu Street, and it was almost Xuanwu Street.

"Well, I don't just go around!" The old man said.

He was holding a broken bowl of begging in his hand, and he was carrying a basket on his back like Gu Jiao, but his basket was also tattered.

Gu Jiao: "Oh. ”

The old beggar lowered his face and said, "Doll, why haven't you come to play chess for several days?" ”

"Didn't I save you money?" Gu Jiao said unashamedly.

The corners of the old beggar's mouth twitched, as if the little black-hearted liver who was willing to pay ten taels of silver next time was not you!

Gu Jiao said: "Then you can turn around casually, I'll go first." ”

The old beggar grabbed her: "Hey—don't you play chess?" ”

Is it easy for him to catch this little doll?

Gu Jiao raised her eyebrows lightly: "Do you have any silver?" ”

The old beggar took the bowl and crossed his waist, with a sad face: "Can you bear to squeeze me as an old man!" ”

Gu Jiao nodded: "Hmm! ”

Old beggar: "......"

Forget it, he's here to earn money today.

The old beggar took down his back basket and stuffed it to Gu Jiao, and the broken bowl that had not been used at all was also stuffed to Gu Jiao: "My stall is over there, you look after the stall for me, and I will be back in a while." ”

Belch...... Do you have a food stall?

I have seen it for a long time.

After the old beggar finished explaining, he went in a hurry, Gu Jiao saw him enter an alley, and there was a chess club in that alley, and Gu Jiao had gone to the clinic.

Gu Jiao didn't say anything, took the old beggar's things and came to the so-called stall, and squatted down expressionlessly.

The small body crouched there, with a broken bowl in front of him, looking a little pitiful.

She doesn't dress like a beggar, but the more noble a person is, the more pitiful she is. It's not that the family can't go down the road, how can a good girl's family beg along the street?

Everyone cast sympathetic glances at Gu Jiao.

She herself did not think that she was attracted by the chess game left on the ground by the old beggar, which was different from the chess game she had broken, and it was particularly strange, but it was impossible to say what was strange.

Her mind began to calculate the position of each piece.

Bang!

A copper plate was thrown into the broken bowl in front of her.

Gu Jiao didn't look up and continued to play chess.

Bang!

Someone else passed by and threw a copper plate into it.

Gu Jiao still didn't look up, concentrating on breaking the game.

She finally knew what was wrong with this chess game, so murderous.

How angry was the person who created this chess game? Although the game is a game of two chess pieces fighting each other, it is too rare to kill like this.

Gu Jiao was addicted to the chess game, and suddenly realized that there were many copper plates in her bowl.

If the old beggar knew that he couldn't get a few copper plates all day, and Gu Jiao had a full bowl without doing anything, he would probably vomit blood.

"Childe, look!"

On the second floor of a teahouse behind Gu Jiao, the gray-clothed guard pushed open the window, leaned out of the window with half of his body, and pointed to Gu Jiao in front of him.

The man also leaned out, looked in the direction of the gray-clothed guard's finger, folded his fan, and said, "What's so nice about a little beggar?" ”

The gray-clothed guard hurriedly said: "No, Childe, it's her!" ”

The man asked, "Which she?" ”

The gray-clothed guard said anxiously: "The little girl who is with that little monk!" ”

The man played with the hand of the folding fan and paused: "The one who blew you up with a black fire bead?" ”

"Yes, Childe, that's her!" The gray-clothed guard scratched his head, "Strange, why did she come out to beg?" ”

The man hooked the corners of his lips meaningfully: "Let's go, go and see." ”

The gray-clad guard closed the window and followed the man.

"What are you going to do?" The man asked angrily.

The gray-clothed guard said, "Didn't the prince say to go and see?" ”

The man snorted coldly: "I went to see it, and I didn't let you see it, wasn't it exposed enough last time?" ”

The gray-clothed guard pursed his lips and remained in the wing room unwillingly.

The man wore a crescent white robe, covered with a dark blue gauze robe, and a jade belt around his waist.

Gu Jiao guarded the stall for the old beggar, and there were people coming and going from time to time in front of him, but they would not stay here.

The light above Gu Jiao's head dimmed, she didn't care about it at first, and the shadow didn't leave for a while, she raised her head a little irritably.

A handsome face with a gorgeous and noble face, extremely deep eyebrows and eyes, a high nose bridge, light lips, and a good-looking arc at the corners of the lips.

Is this man of Hu blood?

It's not bad.

The man smiled: "Girl......"

Gu Jiao: "You blocked the light." ”

Man: "......"

After Gu Jiao finished speaking, she ignored him and continued to ponder the game of chess.

The man touched the bridge of his nose curiously, he was so good-looking, how could a girl turn such a blind eye to him?

Is his hair messy?

Or is his face dirty?

"Girl?"

He screamed again.

However, Gu Jiao ignored people at all.

The man took a step to the side, trying not to block Gu Jiao's light, and by the way, he also looked at what Gu Jiao was doing.

It turned out to be playing chess.

It's a bit far-fetched to say that it's chess, it's just a chessboard drawn crookedly with old wooden boards, with stones as chess pieces, each one is irregular, and the sunspot just dots a drop of ink on the stone.

The corners of the man's mouth twitched.

Is it so poor?

Didn't you say you lived in Bishui Hutong? It was near Guozijian, and the housing prices were very high.

Besides, he has seen the little monk's things, any one of them can be sold for a sky-high price, and if the life really can't go on, he will sell the little monk's things!

Why beg on the streets?

Then again, if she is so poor, can this girl play chess?

The man just glanced at the chessboard with the mentality that if you didn't know how to play, I could reluctantly point you out.

At first glance, I didn't feel much, only vaguely uncomfortable.

He glanced again, a third, a fourth.

His expression froze.

No way? Did he read it wrong? How could he be here, on the streets of Zhaoguo...... To be exact, to see this chess game in the hands of a little beggar and a little girl?

The world knows that Mr. Meng, the chess saint of the Six Kingdoms, has created countless chess games in his life, among which the eight major bureaus are the most famous, and there are very few people who can crack them, especially the second game of Qiankun, it is said that the crown princess of Zhaoguo recently cracked the Kun game and became the person who cracked the eight major bureaus in the six countries.

But no one knows that Mr. Meng actually has a set of chess games - six games of life and death!

This is the real ban that no one can break.

The reason why it is forbidden is because the murderous spirit of the six games of life and death is too heavy, and often the chess game has not been cracked, and the chess players go crazy first.

He was lucky enough to see the first chess game of the six games of life and death, and he chose to give up before driving himself crazy, but after a few years, he was able to see it again.

Why doesn't this girl have anything to do?

Look at her relaxed appearance, isn't she affected by the murderous aura of the chess game?

"You ......" the man looked away from the chess game.

Gu Jiao pointed to the broken bowl in front of her.

The man was stunned for a moment, seemed to understand, and took out two gold ingots from his arms and put them in.

Gu Jiao finally took care of people now: "Something?" ”

Sure enough, money can make ghosts grind, and silver can make people speak.

The man patted the folding fan speechlessly and said, "This game of chess...... How do you feel? ”

"Well, that's interesting." Gu Jiao said.

Yes...... Meaning? That's it?

"Don't you find it hard to ......"

Accept?

"Well, it's a little hard." Gu Jiao admits this.

The men are all lost, am I asking you is difficult? There's another one in the back!

What kind of freak is this girl, how can she talk about such a heavy chess game as murderous as it is so indifferent?

No, shouldn't he be curious about where this girl learned her chess game?

The Six Bureaus of Life and Death are not like the Eight Bureaus that have been widely circulated in the Six Kingdoms as early as possible, they have been banned by the royal family of the Yan Kingdom, and ordinary people have never seen them at all.

For a while, it is the black fire bead of the royal family of Yan Kingdom, and for a while, it is the life and death of Mr. Meng, what does this girl have to do with Yan Kingdom?

"Doll!"

The old beggar came out of the alley with the silver in his hand.

The man didn't want to have more contact with people for the time being, so as not to leave information that he shouldn't have left, so he turned around and went back to the teahouse.

The old beggar came to Gu Jiao, squatted down, handed a handful of white silver in his hand to Gu Jiao, and said with a smile: "Look, doll, I won!" ”

Then he looked down and saw the broken bowl at his feet, and there were actually two glittering gold ingots lying in the bowl!

In addition to this pair of gold ingots, there are also a lot of copper plates and broken silver.

The old beggar was dumbfounded: "This, this, this...... Where did these come from? ”

Gu Jiao thought about it, and said lightly: "Hmm, passers-by gave it." ”

The old beggar looked at a bowl of gold, silver and copper plates, and then looked at a few sparse silver ingots in his hand, and suddenly felt that the silver ingots were not fragrant!

He was tired of playing chess with a bunch of idiots, and it turned out that he didn't earn as much as the doll squatted here for a while!

Gu Jiao opened her mouth, wanting to ask him if he played chess?

The old beggar raised his hand in pain: "Don't talk to me yet, I need to calm down!" ”

"Okay."

Gu Jiao continued to squat on the side of the road, drawing circles with chess pieces.

She didn't think there was anything to be ashamed of.

Suddenly, a very ornate carriage stopped in front of them.

The curtain of the car was lifted, and a gust of fragrant wind hit, Gu Jiao's nose itched, and she sneezed!

A female officer dressed in a pale pink palace dress stepped out of the carriage, covered her nose with a handkerchief, stopped three paces from the old beggar, and never stepped forward again.

She didn't look at Gu Jiao who was squatting on the ground, she only looked at the old beggar sitting on the side of the road condescendingly, and said, "Your Excellency, my master is invited, please drive Your Excellency to follow me to Qingfeng Tower." ”

"No, no." The old beggar refused without thinking.

The female official said: "I heard that Your Excellency was kicked out by the Qinghuan Chess Club, and since you can't go to the Qinghuan Chess Club to play chess, my master is very sorry for Your Excellency when he hears this news." ”

Gu Jiao glanced at the old beggar, the old man was kicked out by the chess club? No wonder I changed to a chess club.

The old beggar crossed his waist and said, "They didn't kick me out!" It's an old man, and I've decided never to go to that garbage chess club again! Let me fake a loss? Is there such a hard time! ”

This is not a big talk, it is the truth, he really doesn't know how to lose to a group of rookies!

It took a lot of effort for the female official not to let her look collapse: "My master sincerely invites your Excellency to play a game, please follow me to change your clothes and go to Qingfeng Building to meet my master." ”

The old beggar said, "Seeing that your master still has to change his clothes, who is your master?" Emperor or Empress? ”

The female official said: "The identity of my master is inconvenient to disclose, but it is definitely an unexpected noble identity for Your Excellency." With the blessing of my master, no one in the chess club in the capital will dare to drive your Excellency out in the future. ”

"Don't go!" The old beggar still refused without thinking.

The female officer's face showed a hint of impatience: "Your Excellency may wish to think about it." ”

The old beggar waved his hand: "If you don't go, you won't go, are you annoyed?" Disturb me playing chess with the doll! Let's go! ”

The female officer was blown away, she frowned coldly, and looked at Gu Jiao, who was squatting on the ground studying the chessboard, and her eyes moved.

It's her?

The female officer went to a wing room in Qingfeng Building to return to her life: "Qiyu Crown Princess, he refuses to come." ”

"Why don't you come?" The crown princess was puzzled.

The old beggar was the crown princess hesitated for a long time before deciding to send an invitation to the other party, and at first he didn't pay much attention to him, but he won the Maoshan monks again and again, so that the princess couldn't pay attention to it.

The female officer said respectfully: "He wants to accompany someone to play chess." ”

"Who?" The crown princess put down the tea cup in her hand and asked.

The female official replied: "The daughter of the Ding'an Hou Mansion, the one who grew up in the countryside." ”

The crown princess had seen Gu Jiao and the old beggar playing chess with her own eyes, she didn't care about it at the time, but now she couldn't help but be a little curious, how did she know the old beggar?

The female officer thought for a while and said, "I heard that the old beggar used to set up a chess game on Liuwu Street, but everyone else thought he was crazy, and no one went to play chess with him. Squatting on the side of the road to play chess with a beggar is something that only a coarse girl from the countryside can do. It's a shame that she is the daughter of the Ding'an Hou Mansion and the wife of the new champion, so she doesn't care about the face of her family at all. ”

The crown princess is face-saving, she will never surrender her identity and associate with a beggar on the street.

"Forget it, don't come." The crown princess didn't think too highly of him, "Is there any news from Mr. Meng?" ”

The female official said: "Yan Guo has not heard from it for the time being, Liang Guo, Chen Guo, and Zhao Guo are ......."

The crown princess interrupted her words and said clearly: "What I want is news from Yan Kingdom, and what I need is Mr. Meng's attention." ”