Taking advantage of Kangxi's time to flip through the manuscript, Gu Zhenguan wandered around the rest of the house and saw the small wooden chess table opposite the door with half of the endgame. Gu Zhenguan is also a chess fan, and he was immediately aroused, and walked over to look down at the situation in black and white to study.

After looking left and right for a long time, he always felt that Bai Qi had no chance of winning, but he couldn't think of why the endgame that ended so well was still placed here, and he asked curiously: "This chess game is so weird!" This sunspot is obviously already lingering, why is it still there? ”

Kangxi and Nalan were originally standing at the desk, listening to Gu Zhenguan's question, they both turned their attention to this side, Kangxi walked over and looked down first, and then laughed: "You are still thinking about this endgame, to say that the game that day was really exciting, but it's a pity." Kangxi's words fell, he pointed at Gu Zhenguan with one hand, and continued with a smile: "You weren't there that day, but you missed a wonderful game!" Huh"

When Gu Zhenguan heard Kangxi say this, he became even more addicted to chess, and hurriedly asked Rong Ruo the reason, so Rong Ruo told Gu Zhenguan about the game between Zhang Tingyu and Huai Sleeve that day, winning first and then losing miserably.

Gu Zhenguan's eyes lit up when he heard this, he rubbed his hands and feet, and regretted only beating his chest and knocking his head. sighed again and again: "It's a pity, it's a pity, to miss such a wonderful scene, I have been fighting against Master Zhang for a long time, and I haven't seen him lose a game!" ”

Kangxi suddenly remembered that it seemed that the day had passed, and he had never seen the elegant and quick-thinking young man again, so he said: "That talented and quick-witted boy with sleeves, I don't know how to dissolve this weather?" Why don't we go to the Markhan Mansion and see him! ”

Kangxi is a do-it-all character, and he just said that he was going to Malhan's mansion on the front foot, and then urged Rong Ruo to change his clothes and go out.

When Rong Ruo heard this, his face suddenly changed suddenly, and he wanted to send someone to inform Huai Sleeve at this moment, Kangxi was in front of him, and it was already too late, but he went to the Shangshu Mansion of the Ministry of War, and the crime of bullying the monarch by disguising himself as a man with Huai Sleeve was implemented, and if Kangxi was annoyed by then, I don't know what serious the consequences would be......

Rong Ruo didn't dare to think about it anymore, and said: "Your Majesty, the Shangshu Mansion of the Ministry of War has never taken over the drive, let's go like this, I'm afraid that Lord Ma will neglect the holy drive, do you want to send someone to Tongbing first?" When Rong Ruo spoke, he looked at Kangxi nervously.

Kangxi waved his arm and said with a smile: "Needless to say, I just have to visit so unexpectedly that I can visit the special feelings of the master, otherwise they deliberately prepare, it will be boring, let's go to play, I am not going to his house as the emperor, even if I eat Wowotou and drink vegetable porridge, I don't blame him Malhan." ”

When Rong Ruo heard this, he felt helpless, so he had to hurriedly change his upper outer body, ride a horse with Kangxi and Gu Zhenguan, and go to the Shangshu Mansion of the Ministry of Officials.

At this time, it was close to noon, most of the people on the street went home to cook soup and cook rice, the street was much quieter than when Kangxi and Gu Zhenguan walked by just now, and the light blue cooking smoke curled in the distance, slowly hovering and rising, gathering together in the sky above the entire capital, forming a blue-purple mist, shrouded in bare branches.

Between his noses, the aroma of porridge and rice lingered, and Gu Zhenguan subconsciously touched his belly, feeling a little hungry. Kangxi smiled: "Let's spare Lord Ma a meal today, hehe." ”

Gu Zhenguan and Rong Ruo both laughed, and Gu Zhenguan quipped: "If the emperor really says it, what if Lord Ma eats Wowotou and vegetarian porridge at noon?" Does the emperor want to praise Master Ma for being honest and honest? ”

Kangxi smiled leisurely and said, "That's not for sure, maybe I'll check what he did with all his money?" Why can't you even fill the stomachs of your wife and children? ”

Gu Zhen laughed when he heard this: "It's still the emperor's opinion!" In the laughter, Gu Zhenguan secretly glanced at Rong Ruo's face. I saw that although Rong Ruo was also smiling, looking closely, it was not difficult to find that the smile was just for the occasion, just on the surface, or to be precise, it was more like a cover-up.

Gu Zhenguan also carefully found that Rong Ruo's eyebrows were always slightly frowning when Kangxi said that he was going to come to the Shangshu Mansion of the Ministry of War, and he concluded that Rong Ruo must have something on his mind.

Rong Ruo was indeed worried about his sleeves all the way, he hadn't seen her for a few days, since the Hongyu incident, she was unhappy in her heart, and she was sick for a while, and now she was approaching the end of the year, she sent a letter to say that Shang Shu Fujin had instructed her to go out less......

In addition, the weather is freezing, she is either practicing Chinese at home at the moment, or playing music to relieve boredom, but nine times out of ten, she must be at home, how can this be good...... Rong Ruo has never been like today, and he earnestly hopes that they can pounce.

Soon, the horses of the three stopped next to the stone lion in front of the Shangshu Mansion of the Ministry of War, and Kangxi, Rong Ruo and Gu Zhenguan turned over and dismounted. A guard at the gate had already come to take the reins and lead the horse away.

Although the little guy guarding the door didn't know Kangxi, he was very familiar with Rong Ruo and Gu Zhenguan, seeing that these two adults were walking on both sides of the strange man in the middle, he guessed that the one in the middle who had never seen it must be not small, and the guards didn't dare to ask more, so they respectfully let the three into the mansion.

After entering the mansion, Kangxi said directly to Rong Ruo: "You are familiar with Huai Gongzi, you must know his residence in this mansion, let's not alarm Master Ma, go directly to him." ”

Kangxi likes to be casual, he doesn't like to be surrounded by a circle of people everywhere he goes, and when he goes out of the palace, he often acts more low-key, and now he comes to Marhan's mansion The same is true, visiting friends is visiting friends, and he doesn't want to get involved in anything else, just like every time he goes to the Ming Mansion to only look for Nalan, but never sees the pearl.

Rong Ruo walked in the front to lead the way, and Kangxi looked at Malhan's mansion as he walked.

Kangxi is still the first time to come to the mansion of the Lord Shangshu of the Ministry of War, but he saw that although the courtyard is not too big, the trees are neatly trimmed, with the height and height are coordinated, and the layout of the house is staggered, and the courtyard is probably because of the cold weather, and there are almost no maids.

Kangxi found that although there were not many servants in this house, he couldn't see the idle women who took time to gag and grind their teeth. I thought: It seems that the people in the Malhan Sect are quite right.

Where did Kangxi know that this mansion was taken care of up and down, but Master Ma was a hands-off shopkeeper, all relying on Zhu Hetana alone to control this mansion inside and out, up and down and down in a clear manner, and the servants were all convinced.