The light slanted the shadow on the desk, Xia Ziyuan shook off the pen that was about to run out of water, insisted that it should be able to be used again, he picked up the information and survey data, lowered his head and began to write on the paper quickly.

"Gu Aochen, don't you have anything to do?"

"This time period was originally for homework." Gu Aochen sat on the chair next to her and rummaged through the books on the shelves, but it didn't seem to be interested in any of them, just futile and boring.

The corners of Xia Ziyuan's mouth rose slightly, looking at him in a daze, and continued to retract his gaze, looking at the white paper he had written. Then it's writing, writing, writing to the point that my hands are sore, and my head is also blank, every time I have this kind of illusion, I can't fit anything in my brain, and I'm just keeping repeating a muscle memory action, that's all.

boring, boring, boring, surrounded all the time, can't drive away, can't scold, more loyal than their own shadow. I feel that as long as people are alive, they have never done anything like this waste of time in their lives.

When he looked at Gu Aochen again, he was already reading a book in his hand, and the serious reading appearance fell into Xia Ziyuan's eyes, which made her look a little stunned for a while, and Gu Aochen seemed to have never noticed her gaze at all, but the corners of his mouth rose slightly.

Che, do you really think you're looking at him? This narcissist.

Xia Ziyuan shook the few homework in his hand and said to him: "I'm done writing, this one is better for you to use." ”

"Why did you give it to me?"

"You are Gu Shao, and your talent is naturally invincible to others, of course you want to give you the best article, otherwise the teacher will see at a glance that someone else is helping you with your water homework. When the time comes, if you want to find someone out, then I won't be the first to bear the brunt, and I don't want to be so unlucky. ”

"Good work." Gu Aochen closed the book and looked at the time, it was not early, although it was said that his later arrangements had been delayed because of the little girl, but as long as it was a little girl, it didn't matter.

"My shoulders are so sore." Xia Ziyuan said, and leaned closer to his side, Gu Aochen consciously massaged her shoulder, sometimes the strength was heavy, and the painful Xia Ziyuan frowned, and kept calling him: "You are lighter, hiss~ There is no light start." ”

"I'm sorry, I'm a little strong, do you think that's okay?"

"Well, almost, comfortable."

What?

What is it?

The housekeeper outside the door was stunned when he heard this, so he wanted to ask the old man to see if the young lady had time at night, and the old man had prepared a chess game, but ...... I don't know what my young master is doing inside.

The housekeeper wanted to speak and stopped, why? He complained in his heart that he didn't know how many times, why this kind of thing had to be handed to him every time, he was too difficult. Not only do you have to spread the word, but you also have to eat dog food.

"That's pretty much it, the butler has been waiting outside for a long time." Gu Aochen let go of his hand, and when he saw Xia Ziyuan still enjoying his face, he couldn't cry or laugh.

"Butler? Why didn't he knock when he came? Xia Ziyuan glanced in the direction of the door suspiciously, the door of the study was still closed, so she didn't see anything valuable.

"Guess what." Gu Aochen made a silent gesture towards her, Xia Ziyuan's face immediately turned red, Gu Aochen got up to open the door, talked to the housekeeper for a few words, looked back at the door ajar, and said to Xia Ziyuan: "The old man wants to play against you, do you want to go?" ”

Xia Ziyuan was originally not interested, but she seemed to be in a good mood now, so she agreed, and called Gu Aochen together.

When going to the old man's teahouse, Gu Aochen was still on the way and told her that the key to winning in chess is to look a few more steps than the opponent. How deep is Old Man Gu, just rely on her? Can she do it?

"If I lose, will you laugh at me?"

"You can't lose." Gu Aochen said lightly, hearing Xia Ziyuan's confusion, I didn't know whether it was clear or not.

Passing through the corridor, following the spiral staircase downstairs, passing through the delicate embroidered flower and bird screens, I saw the old man Gu sitting at the round table. Old Man Gu's hair was a little gray, and he was alone in the antique tea hall, incense accompanied by the fragrance of tea, permeating the air, and the rising smoke was ethereal, giving people the illusion of a fairyland. He leaned over to make tea, brew, wash the cup, every movement was so slow, it felt like a pleasure to look at, let alone be an immersive person.

Old Man Gu likes tea and likes to play games, she had heard about this matter a long time ago, but she didn't expect that the first time she saw it, it was actually such a scene.

In the center of the tea hall is a towering peach blossom tree, which is not the season for peach blossoms, but there are still petals falling from it. Xia Ziyuan didn't look up, just the artistic conception in front of her, in fact, she already felt that it was enough, so why bother to get to the bottom of it? Maybe after knowing all the truth, I won't have this feeling now.

"Coming?" Old Man Gu glanced at them with a smile and placed the brewed tea in front of each seat. Under the huge peach tree, there is a round table that looks a little old, there are some cracks on the round table, it doesn't look very beautiful, but there seems to be no way to remedy and modify, Old Man Gu doesn't seem to have any intention of replacing it, it seems that this round table must have some special meaning for Old Man Gu, right?

When I looked at it, I felt out of place, and when I looked at it again, I actually felt that the crack was not unsightly, but with a kind of beauty that was incomplete and uncracked, and the winding and rugged crack was like a graceful twisting peach blossom tree trunk. The contrast is very good, but I feel that my feeling just now is a little too worldly. I always think that everything has to be perfect.

"Grandpa." Xia Ziyuan politely greeted Old Man Gu, followed Old Man Gu's gesture of "please sit", and sat opposite him. Xia Ziyuan caught a glimpse of the halfway chess game on the round table, and a trace of panic flashed in her eyes.

No way? Go? Since she was a child, she has been the least good at Go, how can she win like this? Xia Ziyuan secretly looked at Gu Aochen for help, Gu Aochen's expression did not change in the slightest, and he didn't know if he saw his eyes asking for help.

"I've been sleeping hard lately, and last night, I had a dream. I dreamed of such a chess game, you can help me see it. While drinking tea in a leisurely manner, Old Man Gu threw the problem to Xia Ziyuan and Gu Aochen.

This...... Xia Ziyuan tried to guess and walked a few steps, but she didn't expect to be self-contained, and she really couldn't think of any way. She wanted to shirk a little, she thought that the old man was just bored and wanted to find her to pass the time, if she wanted to let her play chess together and divide the competition, she could still give it a difficult try, but how could she do it if she broke this game?

"Master......" As soon as Xia Zichen wanted to speak, one of Gu Aochen's hands was on her shoulder, Xia Ziyuan looked at him blankly, feeling that Gu Aochen seemed to write something behind her back. Xia Ziyuan was overjoyed in her heart, and immediately became interested, only to see that she picked up the white child very confidently, and slowly buckled it on the chessboard under the gaze of Old Man Gu.

A hint of surprise flashed in Old Man Gu's eyes, but he was more excited, he didn't say a word, picked up the chess piece and surrounded Xia Ziyuan directly above him.

And Gu Aochen's hand movements on Xia Ziyuan's back were also non-stop, giving her strokes and teaching her how to deal with it. Before you know it, there are only a few chess positions left on the chessboard. Just when Xia Ziyuan was still worried that she would lose, Gu Ao pointed out the last son to her, and when Gu Aochen hinted at her, Xia Ziyuan's heartbeat accelerated a little, thinking in her heart that Gu Aochen was really a strategist, at first she looked at the chess game with a blank face, but it was like this, he was easily pointed out the direction step by step, and she was able to see the moon, and when the first ray of dawn of victory shone on Xia Ziyuan's face, her heart, not to mention how happy she was.

Yue Shumin doesn't like to play chess, every time Xia Ziyuan goes to find her, she is politely rejected by her for various reasons, and then she directly changes the topic and uses other things to divert her attention. So in the game part, Xia Ziyuan also knows a little about it, fortunately, the young masters and young ladies I knew before were very interested in musical instruments and something, but they were not so interested in playing chess. Otherwise, she probably will really make a fool of herself.

"Good chess." Old Man Gu said that he already knew that he would definitely lose, so he had no intention of falling again. He nodded with satisfaction and said to Xia Ziyuan: "Little kite, grandpa didn't expect that your chess skills are so exquisite. ”

"Grandpa, in fact, I ......" Before Xia Ziyuan finished speaking, she was poked in the back by Gu Aochen, so she stopped talking again, looking at Old Man Gu with some embarrassment, not knowing what to say.

"What's wrong with you?"

"I, my chess skills are not exquisite, I don't dare to get an axe in front of my grandfather, my grandfather let me go too much."

"Hahaha......" Old Man Gu smiled with satisfaction, and he nodded, as if he recognized Xia Ziyuan. Xia Ziyuan was confused by this inexplicable chess game, what does it mean? How can I play chess with her in a good way. And she just said some polite words according to her usual habits, why did the old man seem to be very happy.

I really want to ask Gu Aochen to understand, but it's not appropriate now.

Seeing that Old Man Gu was about to start the next chess game again, Xia Ziyuan suddenly retreated, but Gu Aochen didn't seem to have any intention of letting her leave. What the hell are the people of the Gu family doing? Xia Ziyuan was puzzled in her heart, looking at the meaning of the old man, where did she look like she was going to play against herself, she was clearly staring at Gu Aochen, but Gu Aochen was also strange, if she wanted to play chess, she didn't do it, but she conveyed her meaning.

What are you doing? Dare to love her, Xia Ziyuan deserves to be caught in the middle as a tool, right?

Xia Ziyuan suddenly remembered something, something she had heard about the Gu family......