Chapter 395: Childe
"Winning ......"
Hearing the examiner announce that name, the cultivators who had been quiet and the surrounding people instantly exploded.
Even Mr. Mengyang, who had been sleeping on the high platform, opened his eyes and glanced at the audience.
Everyone was caught off guard by the dramatic opening.
"I didn't expect it to be an internal war of the former Qin royal family......"
"This former princess Qin is going to lose this time."
"Don't say lose, she can't win or dare to win, right? If this wins, where will the face of the former Qin royal family be placed......"
"After all, the eldest prince is the one who can inherit the throne......"
The onlookers standing outside the platform were full of discussions.
"This is probably the most bizarre battle in the history of the cultivation world." Jiang Yuanyuan, who was on the high platform, looked at this scene and couldn't help but sigh to Ji Jiashu.
He and Ying Xun are both princes, and they can somewhat understand Ying Xun's situation, but even he has never seen such a magical duel.
No one has ever seen it.
In fact, it is not uncommon for the children of the royal family to fight each other, and in the case of a king having many sons, each prince will always fight openly and secretly.
At family banquets and safaris, the princes faced each other under the noses of their fathers and the people, and various chess and sword competitions were very common.
But this is the first time that the duel between the princess and the princess has been.
It's very new.
The huge gap in status between the two will also bring great controversy to this battle.
Jiang Yuanyuan looked at the people who were talking about it below, and his eyes were deep.
"If the eldest prince of Qianqin loses to the eldest princess, this meeting will be exciting!"
"Nonsense! How could a princess be Childe's opponent! The cultivation received is different......"
"Originally, that woman couldn't be the opponent of the former Qin stepson!"
As soon as this remark came out, the surrounding cultivators and the people echoed it.
The sons of the princes are called sons.
At a time when princes and kings were becoming kings on their own, this title was also used to refer to young men of wealthy families in general, and was an honorific title for the sons of bureaucrats and nobles, and the sons of kings were also called princes.
Ying Xun lived in Southern Chu, and the current former Qin king was his equal, he was neither a prince nor a son of a family, but out of respect for his identity, the former Qin people called him the eldest prince.
But whether it is the former son or the current family, the so-called qin, chess, calligraphy and painting and the six arts of the child, these were originally used to cultivate the child.
Yingxun, who is a man, is highly anticipated, but no one will look forward to Yinghuyue as a princess.
Knowing some skills is naturally the icing on the cake, but the royal family will not look for famous people to teach princesses carefully, princesses are generally taught by female officials, and they can recognize words and understand etiquette. The famous masters are all for the childe, and all the power will be put on the cultivation of the child.
After all, the prince has the right to inherit the throne, but the princess does not.
And in this case, Ying Xun, the current second-in-line heir to the throne of Qianqin, naturally cannot lose to a mere princess.
Whether it is in the truth, or in the etiquette and humility.
That being said.
But if everyone said this before today's chess battle, they still had confidence, but the performance of Ying Baoyue in the morning chess battle was beyond everyone's expectations, and it made everything subtle for a while.
There are many people around who look lively.
"The eldest prince ......" Listening to the rumors around him at this time, Huo Zhan's pupils shrank beside Ying Xun, and he suddenly looked at the young man beside him who was calm and couldn't see his anger.
Ying Xun quietly looked at the examiner on the stage, his expression calm, but the clenched fist under his sleeve revealed his uncalm emotions.
The first round of the draw caused such a stir, but the draw of the examiners continued.
The cultivators left behind on the cloud platform were all very famous, and soon the appearance of other candidates' opponents took everyone's attention, and Huo Zhan's opponent was also called next.
"Gone." Ying Xun didn't say anything, said lightly, climbed onto the cloud platform and walked to the chessboard that belonged to him and sat down. And across from him, Ying Baoyue was already seated.
Not far away, Zhao Guang, who was still waiting for the examiner to call his name, watched this scene from afar, and his eyes were helpless.
When Ying Xun's name was shouted just now, the people around Ying Baoyue were also shocked, and he wanted to say a few words to her, but when he turned his head, he found that there was no one around him.
When she was called to herself, Ying Baoyue walked to the first chessboard, as if she didn't worry about who her opponent would be, and Ying Xun didn't stop when she was called in the middle.
"I didn't expect us to really meet in the first set," Ying Xun took a deep breath and straightened her posture, looked at Ying Baoyue on the opposite side and said lightly, "Is this lottery really no one doing anything?" ”
When they met on the mountain road before, Ying Baoyue said to see you on the chessboard.
But this is just a greeting, who would have thought that it would become a prophecy.
Among the sixty-four people, there were only two of them surnamed Ying, and they met them when they came up. Such coincidences inevitably reminded Ying Xun of the obviously wrong order of the lotteries he drew on behalf of Qianqin during the Dance War.
"There may or may not be," Ying Baoyue smiled, she was only in rank seven now, and she couldn't tell so accurately if someone was doing anything in the box.
Ying Xun was stunned when she heard this, staring at the girl with a calm expression in front of her and frowning, "Why are you ......?"
He paused and said, "Why don't you seem to care who you draw at all?" ”
With their relationship and status, this lottery could be regarded as a lottery for her, but the woman on the opposite side of his chessboard did not seem to be affected at all.
Doesn't care who her opponent is.
"After all, I'm going to take the first place," Ying Baoyue smiled and said, "That's not the same as anyone else." ”
Everyone is the opponent she will eventually defeat, and what difference does it make if she meets her sooner or later.
Moreover, being able to play against Ying Xun is also a rare experience for her. Of course, she won't say this to Ying Xun.
"If we want to take the first place, we will meet sooner or later, even if I can't meet you, I will meet someone who is stronger than you who beat you," Ying Baoyue smiled and said, "It makes no difference to me." ”
Ying Xun was stunned when she heard this. He glanced at the girl opposite, and suddenly understood the complaint that Huo Zhan had inadvertently confided in him after he was drunk before. Sometimes this woman is really good at leaving people speechless.
If someone really thinks of it just to let him and her match, I don't know if I want to vomit blood after listening to her words at this time.
What is afraid of his identity as the heir to the throne and does not dare to win anything, afraid of winning and being put in small shoes by him or something.
Those people thought that this woman would have contradictions, scruples, and entanglements, but she didn't have them at all.
I guess I haven't even thought about it.
But that's a problem, so at least think about it......
Ying Xun said in his heart.
There is not a trace of apprehension or wavering, what does this man think of him......
Ying Xun took a deep breath, and her mood was a little complicated.
At this time, all the examiners' signatures had been drawn, and the thirty-two huge chessboard sides had all been filled.
"The fourth game of the wargame battle, begin!"
With the ringing of the bell on the high platform where the examiner was, the practitioners on the chessboard grabbed the chess pieces and guessed first.
Although it was the fourth game of chess, it was the first game of open-air chess that was made public in front of the public. The Beginner Ceremony has always been focused on viewing, and on the high platform where the examiner is located, thirty-two large vertical chessboards have been erected, and each step of each practitioner is posted in real time for the public to discuss.
Thirty-two chessboards begin at the same time, and everyone who looks at them is dizzying.
And almost everyone's eyes were the first to look at the big chessboard numbered No. 1, which was the chessboard that belonged to Ying Xun and Ying Baoyue.
"It's the first time I've played chess with you."
The result of guessing first was that Ying Xun took the black first, and Ying Xun quietly put the first chess piece on the chessboard, and then he suddenly spoke.
"I didn't even know you could play chess."
"Really?" Ying Baoyue looked up at him and smiled, "After all, we didn't know each other well when we were in Afang Palace before. ”
"Do you know," Ying Xun said lightly, "I was in Afang Palace back then, and I never lost to anyone in chess. ”
Of course, he didn't say this to boast of his own chess prowess.
After all, he has been playing chess since he was three years old, and no one has ever lost to him. Even if he just understood the rules and was in a mess, whether it was a palace person, a minister, or a distant cousin, those adults who were several times his age had never won against him.
When he was a child, he thought he was extremely talented, but when he grew up, he understood.
It's not that he can't lose, it's that he can't win when others face him.
Because he is the eldest son and sister-in-law of the emperor of Great Qin.
No one dared to offend him, and of course no one dared to win.
"But there's only one person, and I've never beaten her in chess."
Ying Baoyue touched the hand of the chess piece when she heard this, looked up slightly at the young man on the opposite side of the chessboard, and naturally could only ask, "Who is that person?" ”
"It's my mother," Ying Xun smiled, "more specifically......"
"The one who almost became my stepmother."