I couldn't help but be amused by him, and after a while, I thought about it carefully and said, "Then it is necessary to let grandma and uncle know about this." ”

Zhijun nodded, "That's true, but we haven't decided whether to talk to our uncle or grandma." ”

Zhirui said: "Naturally, you have to say, not only to say, but also to say it on an occasion where everyone is there, and the truth must be said indistinguishably, the head is the Tao," he touched his nose and thought for a moment, and said, "But it's better for grandma to pay for this money in the end." ”

I asked, "Why?" ”

Zhirui knocked me on the forehead, "You are stupid," his eyes stared at me again, "Uncle is an uncle after all, not Amma, besides, he has taken us to see in Guangzhou for so many years in the past, and now my uncle has resigned from the post of general in Guangzhou and came to the capital, and now the money he takes every month is not the same as when he is in Guangzhou, how can he still let his uncle pay for us again?" ”

I nodded, "If you want to say it, you have to hurry, otherwise after Ziyu and I enter the palace, won't we lose two mouths that can speak kindly?" After thinking for a while, I said, "Actually, tonight is the best time." ”

Zhirui smiled, "Zixi is right, in the end, if grandma still hesitates, I will play the side drum next to grandma, this matter should be very similar, if there is no Zixi and Ziyu two mouths to help, only our three brothers are really not easy to speak." ”

Zhiqi was full of gratitude, holding Zhirui's shoulder in his hand and didn't know what to say.

Zhirui sighed, brushed off Zhiqi's arm in front of him, looked back at Zhiqi and Zhijun and said, "Let the two of you hide such an important matter from me and Zixi, if this matter is not for me and Zixi to help, how can it be done?" ”

Zhijun said to Zhirui with a smile: "Yes, yes, grandma loves you the most, and everything will be handed over to you that night!" ”

Zhirui frowned and said: "Don't don't, don't, if I mess things up, it will all become my fault, besides, how can I succeed alone, I have to work together." ”

Zhijun angrily pouted at me, "Don't you still have a son?" He sighed softly, "A useless man like me is going to leave the scene." ”

I laughed, "How can Big Brother say that?" Could it be that he offended the eldest brother with Zhirui's words? ”

Zhijun smiled and pinched my face, "What are you afraid of with Zixi's mouth?" ”

Zhirui shook his head with a smile.

After a while, Zhi Qi suddenly raised his eyebrows and smiled, stared at me and said, "Second brother always talks about the game of chess you owe him," looked at me, and then at Zhirui, "Actually, I've always been curious, what kind of game of chess can make the second brother remember it for so long?" ”

I wondered, "Chess?" After thinking for a while, he remembered, "Oh", and smiled affectionately, "You're talking about backgammon!" ”

Chi asked, "Backgammon?" What is Backgammon? ”

Zhijun was also curious, "I've never heard of backgammon. ”

I smiled faintly, "Backgammon is actually a very old kind of chess, but it has not been developed for a long time, but it has fallen behind Go and Xiangqi, and backgammon was originally called 'Lianzhu'. ”

Zhiqi was puzzled, "Lianzhu? What is the source? ”

I said: "There is a sentence in the "Hanshu - Legal Calendar I" that the sun and the moon are like a combination, and the five stars are like a bead', so it is called 'Lianzhu'. ”

Zhijun said: "Take the name of 'the sun and the moon are like a combination, and the five stars are like a bead', and now it is also called 'five-in-a-row', I am afraid that this chess game will naturally change from the sect of this poem!" ”

Zhirui jumped out and said: "That's right! He smiled again: "Both sides of the chess game use black and white chess pieces respectively, and play at the intersection of the straight line and the horizontal line of the chessboard, and the one who forms a five-piece line first wins." ”

Zhiqi crossed his arms and thought for a moment, nodded and said, "This sounds much simpler than Go." ”

Zhijun asked: "Compared with Go and chess, backgammon seems to be really easy to play, but I don't know if this chess set is good or not?" ”

I laughed, "The chess set is fifteen boards, and the chess pieces are black and white chess pieces, and only the chess pieces used in Go can be used," halfway through speaking, he paused for a moment and pursed his lips, "But although the game of backgammon is simple, it is not easy to play well, and there are countless skills and strategies in it." ”

Zhijun said: "Wash your ears and be respectful. ”

I immediately remembered that I had accidentally seen on the Internet that the pioneer of modern Chinese five-in-a-row chess, Nawei Honor Jiuduan, had studied backgammon for many years, and had painstakingly discovered a Chinese folk formation of backgammon, which was called "Na's Five Sons of War". It is unrealistic for me to want to explain the countless skills and strategies of backgammon one by one in front of Zhijun and Zhiqi, and I secretly thought that it would not be just right to use this ready-made "The Art of War of the Five Sons" first, so I said: "Defend the external momentum, attack and gather internal strength, gossip is easy to defend, and angles are easy to attack." Blocking and separation, stable as Mount Tai, not thinking of being the first, winning like climbing to the sky. ”

Zhiqi and Zhirui nodded again and again, as if they had some cheats, and they only thought about it carefully, without saying a word.

After a while, Zhirui suddenly pushed me, smiled at Zhijun and Zhiqi and praised me: "Don't look at Zixi's usual confusion, this five-in-a-row chess game can be regarded as superb, I once played a game with Zixi, and it was a fiasco, so I could only sigh." ”

I raised my eyebrows and said, "What does it mean to be 'counted', it is clearly 'is'." ”

Zhirui nodded with a smile.

Zhiqi and Zhijun couldn't help laughing on the side, and after about a while, they looked up at Zhirui in surprise, with a look of disbelief, and asked with a smile: "What?!" Did I hear me right?! A burst of laughter ensued.

I gritted my teeth and looked at them, and I didn't know how bad his chess skills had been, so that he would be ridiculed so ruthlessly, but I was not him, I couldn't bear to be ridiculed by others like this, so I only said "um" to express my doubts, crossed my hands on my waist and raised my face and said: "What, can't I play well?" ”

Zhijun smiled "hehe", stroked his chest, and joked at me: "Then next time I will definitely ask for advice." ”

Zhiqi hurriedly wiped his face and said, "Big brother, when?" After a pause, he said, "Don't forget to call me!" ”

Zhijun and Zhiqi glanced at each other silently, and couldn't help but laugh again.

I pouted and sulked, hating that this Tala Zixi was a waste of firewood, as if there would be nothing else but trouble, and on the other hand, I secretly planned that one day I would let Zhijun and Zhiqi see how powerful I was!

While he was making a fuss, he saw a maid from a distance and said, "Grandma has passed on dinner." "The twilight is hazy, the moonlight gradually spreads on the clouds, rippling a soft and blurry halo, Bai Ge and a group of maids and maids light the lantern in front of the way, Zhijun hurriedly led out of the octagonal pavilion in the head, turned around and went down the rockery, and I and Zhirui and Zhiqi followed quietly, and the group quickly stepped out of the garden, and then walked west from the back porch.