The four of them entered the inconspicuous Efu Mansion, and the people on the door wanted to go to the court, but they were stopped by Kangxi, so they were led by the people on the door, and went straight to the back hall through the narrow sandwich road. Along the way, it was dark and damp, and the moss was mottled. Wei Dongting and Wolf Eyes pressed their swords left and right, just like walking with Kangxi. Kangxi also felt that this mansion was really strangely repaired, and he was afraid that someone would suddenly pop out of a black hole. Only Zhou Peigong didn't seem to mind, swaggering and following behind, and every time he crossed a sandwich, he had to look around curiously.

When he came to the back hall, the chief went in to take a look, and came out with a smile: "Ladies and gentlemen, the forehead is not in the back hall, and it must be in the garden Haochun Xuan, and the slave will go to report!" ”

"Let's go together!" Wei Dongting did not let the report. This courtyard is too weird, I can't let this person leave if I don't see Wu Yingxiong, so I smiled and said: "My master and son are very familiar with the forehead, and I don't need those politeness at all." ”

The chief smiled, let his hand to the west, and led them to the garden, saying: "This is the house of Zhou Yanru, the cousin of the concubine of the former Ming Dynasty. ”

Out of the moon cave door, suddenly feel enlightened, welcome the door is two sparse branches of the acacia tree, in the middle of a fine stone flower road, all the way forward, is a delicate and clear Taihu Lake stone mountain, the pavilion next to the bamboo around the tree is a high earth platform again, this is the "stargazing platform". There are twenty bonsai scattered around the rockery, four three-wing eaves of the mountain-style house in the north, a small door in the east, a row of more than a dozen weeping willow trees at the root of the wall in the south, and nothing else. Although the garden is not big, it is arranged in a patchwork manner, and if it is in spring and autumn, it is very interesting to come here to read and play chess.

"Go back!" Wei Dongting didn't have the intention to look at the scenery at all, and saw at a glance that Wu Yingxiong was playing with a person under the bean shed in front of Haochun Xuan, and it was Lang Tingshu, who was in charge of copywriting in the Internal Affairs Office, who was watching the battle from the sidelines. He relieved himself and sent the door back.

Lang Tingshu saw four young people pacing slowly from a distance, and saw Wu Yingxiong bowing his head to play chess without paying attention, and hurriedly drew his fingers on the chessboard and whispered: "Forehead, Xiao Weizi in front of the emperor is here." Wu Yingxiong had already seen it, holding the chess pieces in his hand and pretending to ponder, listening to Lang Tingshu's words, he said without looking back: "Old acquaintance, why be polite?" ”

"The forehead is really good at arranging," Kangxi gradually approached, and said with a smile, "I can't see that there are two worlds in this mansion of yours!" Huangfu Baozhu, who was playing against Wu Yingxiong, looked up, but he didn't know anyone, so he hurriedly got up and asked Wu Yingxiong, "Who are these four ......?"

"Your Majesty!" Wu Yingxiong suddenly shouted in fright, dropped the chess pieces in his hand, pulled the stunned Baozhu and Lang Tingshu to kneel down together, kowtowed, "The slave Wu Yingxiong didn't know that the dragon's toe was coming, and he failed to take the drive, long live the beggar and forgive the sin!" ”

Kangxi was full of spring breeze, helped Wu Yingxiong up, and said: "You're wrong, if I want to blame these people, wouldn't it be as good as Emperor Jin Hui?" Arise, all arise! As he spoke, he looked at Baozhu, and saw that Baozhu was clothed and felt-crowned, his air was magnificent, his eyes were like stars, and his eyes were shining, and he couldn't help but be secretly surprised: there was such a character in the small forehead mansion! But he smiled in his mouth: "This person watching the battle heard Xiao Weizi say that it was Mr. Lang Tingshu!" What's this person's name? ”

Baozhu was also looking at Wu Sangui's "emperor" who was chanting dozens of times a day, and seeing that Kangxi was dressed so plainly and behaved gracefully and generously, he couldn't help but think in his heart: This is obviously an old and young man. But the prince is still a "doll" every day! Hearing Kangxi ask himself, he hurriedly bowed down and replied: "The slave is the deputy general of the standard battalion under the command of Wu Sangui, the king of Pingxi, Huangfu Baozhu!" ”

"Oh, Baozhu!" Kangxi raised his face and pondered for a moment, and then said, "Is it the general who stole Qiu and beat the tiger?" Loyalty and courage are commendable! ”

Baozhu didn't expect Kangxi to even know these things, so he couldn't help but be stunned, and hurriedly replied: "Meng Sheng is wrong, it is Weichen!" ”

Kangxi let out a light in his eyes, stared at the Baozhu movement, and suddenly dimmed again, and said with a smile: "You still play your chess, don't disturb your Yaxing!" I watched the game from the sidelines - Lang Tingshu, Wei Dongting, as well as Wolf Blind and Zhou Peigong - come, we are silent watching the chess, sit and watch you***! ”

This game has reached the middle game, and the fierce battle is fierce. According to the chess face, Wu Yingxiong's white sons occupy the triangle at the four corners, and they meet through the heart, and more than 30 sunspots in the middle of Tianyuan are surrounded and helpless, and there is no hope of life, so it can be said that Wu Yingxiong's victory has been decided. Baozhu looked a little uncontrollable, and was afraid that Wu Yingxiong would invade the last corner, so he hesitantly took a step back under the star position with the chess piece, Kangxi didn't know anything, but Zhou Peigong shook his head slightly and sighed.

Wu Yingxiong had already heard it, he glanced at Zhou Peigong, and threw another white son on the third road with a smile, invading the pillar position. Although Baozhu and Wu Ciyou learned a few tricks in Yanzhou, after all, they were good at killing, so they concentrated their forces on the siege, intending to save the defeat, but they were moved a few steps by Wu Yingxiong lightly, and they were deeply penetrated into the hinterland. Baozhu knew that there was no hope of victory, so he got up and said with a smile: "Baozhu's entire army is annihilated, and he doesn't dare to fight!" ”

"Your chess skills seem to have been taught by the high fingers." Wu Yingxiong said, "The disease is that the desire to win is too eager, and the killing intention is too heavy, and the first move will be lost." After that, he glanced at Kangxi, his face was not without pride, and after thinking about it, he added, "Don't you hear that there are clouds in the "Rotten Ke Sutra", "Those who are weak but not subdued are more yielding, and those who are impatient and seek victory are more defeated"? ”

Zhou Peigong's heart is high, because Kangxi has words, he has already kept the purpose of "watching chess without saying a word", seeing Wu Yingxiong grinning with thick lips, and teaching people "too much murderous intentions", and quoting scriptures, with a smug look on his face, his heart was slightly angry, and he chuckled and said: "Wu Jun, the avenue is deep, is it between the tongues?" Don't you hear the "Book of Changes" that 'if you are poor, you will change, and if you change, you will be successful, and if you are general, you will be long'? Mr. Huangfu's chess is that he wants to admit defeat, and the battle is on the board in front of him, and the winner is not yet known! ”

"Oh?" Although Kangxi also felt that Wu Yingxiong's words implied ridicule, after he examined it again and again, he felt that there was no possibility of winning the Baozhu chess position, and when he heard Zhou Peigong say this, it seemed that there was still room for another battle, so he turned his face and asked, "Can such a situation be reversed?" ”

"Wu Jun's chess momentum is hopeless." After careful observation, Zhou Peigong was already familiar with Wu Yingxiong's chess moves, so he smiled and said, "It's a pity that Mr. Baozhu's trial is unknown. ”

"Then please Mr. Zhou continue!" Wu Yingxiong felt that this scholar was really arrogant, swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said with a smile, "You must be a national player, don't you can also use this to ask for advice!" ”

Zhou Peigong looked at Kangxi.

Kangxi smiled: "You slave has made a big statement, why don't you hurry up to fight?" Zhou Peigong took a seat at this time, and as soon as he made a move, he made up for it next to the white son invaded by Wu Yingxiong.

"Brilliant hands!" Wu Yingxiong looked at it, although it was the first move, it was not surprising, so he retreated backwards, and said with a sincere smile, "Jun can be said: the one who is serious and honest wins!" ”

Zhou Peigong knew that he was making fun of himself, and when he saw that his position was already stable, he smiled slightly and threw another shot, cutting off the connection between Wu Yingxiong's hinterland and the chess root.

"Tall!" Wu Yingxiong saw that his ability was nothing more than this, he was a little overjoyed, shook his sleeve and pulled out a son, and said with a smile: "Rather than forcing it for nothing, it is better to make up for it because of it." ”

"Wu Jun!" Zhou Peigong had to curb his arrogance, so he said with a straight face while throwing his son, "You are familiar with the "Thirteen Articles of Go", and one of them is well said: Conspiracy and deceit are the theory of the Warring States. Although the chess is small, it is really a combination with the soldiers. Those who are under the quality are thoughtless, and they become deceitful at every turn, or use their hands to influence their momentum, or speak to vent their opportunities. Those who are above the product are different, they are all thoughtful and far-sighted, because of the metaphysical use of power, in the iQue Bureau, the intention is to be the first, because it is better than the immortal, and the extinction is not in the future, how can it be the chatter of words, the fluttering of gestures! Zhou Peigong hated Wu Yingxiong's boasting very much, and he quoted the words in the "Evil and Righteous Chapter" in the thirteen chapters of the Book of Chess. When Wu Yingxiong heard this, he turned red on the ground, then stopped speaking, and sneered in his heart: "When I was young, I told you to be clean and white, and let you read the "Evil Chapter" again!" Gritting his teeth, he clicked two or five kills on Zhou Peigong's only horn.

Who knew that Zhou Peigong didn't pay attention to it at all, and saw that the connection between the large piece of white chess in Wu Yingxiong's middle abdomen and the corner had been broken, so he pressed and encircled and slashed.

Wu Yingxiong sneered slightly, raised the white son with one hand, threw it high, and in a few moments, he collected all the more than 30 sons surrounded by Zhou Peigong's middle abdomen, and held it with both hands and put it in Zhou Peigong's hand. The blackspots on the side of Zhou Peigong's chess box suddenly piled up, and the chess table was really "white". Wu Yingxiong looked up at Zhou Peigong, who was expressionless, but didn't dare to say anything more.

Kangxi had expected this fate, and hurriedly said to Zhou Peigong: "Victory and defeat are commonplace, push the table!" ”

"Your Majesty," Zhou Peigong said calmly, "why not vote?" As he spoke, he picked up the sunspot and gently fell into the white array that he had just mentioned.

Only then did Wu Yingxiong realize that the large white piece of his besieged mid-abdomen was a break point. Zhou Peigong's investment is the key point. When he scrambled to make amends, where was the time! In an instant, he was killed in two, and he was slaughtered by Zhou Pei like two dead snakes. The white sons on the ground in the corners around them were also in danger because of the tightness in front of them. Zhou Peigong was ruthless, rushing, chopping, slashing, dating, flying, passing, slashing, sticking, clamping, slashing, and fluttering everything handy, and everything was accurate, but Wu Yingxiong was tired of running for his life and coping with difficulties. At this time, even the wolf who didn't know how to play chess could see that Wu Yingxiong had completely collapsed.

Kangxi was happy in his heart, seeing that Zhou Peigong had captured Wu Yingxiong's last corner of land, as if he wanted to make the white chess disappear, and seeing that Wu Yingxiong was full of sweat, he was embarrassed, and said with a smile: "A gentleman is not for himself." Zhou Pei stopped with a smile. After all the calculations in one game, Wu Yingxiong only got more than 80 sons, and his face turned pale with anger. Zhou Peigong was silent, got up and retreated behind Kangxi, seven people with fourteen eyes, looking at the chessboard of white children and black crows with mountains of corpses.

After a while, Wu Yingxiong suddenly changed his face and smiled: "Mr. Zhou is really a chess player!" I'm disrespectful! "He's back to normal, and the fierce confrontation just now doesn't seem to have happened at all.

Huangfu Baozhu was even more impressed, thinking that Wu Ciyou might not have this means, and couldn't help but praise: "Wu Eyu is also a famous player in Liaodong, and he has never met an opponent like Mr. Zhou - I didn't expect that after killing more than 30 of my black chess, Mr. still has a follow-up method!" Kangxi was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth. He thought that today's battle was really auspicious, and at this time, if he was in the palace, he would immediately reward Zhou Peigong with gold.

"Forehead, it seems that people are self-aware. Your defeat is because of 'too much murderous intent'! Zhou Peigong said with a smile, "The chess path is in harmony with humanity, humanity is in harmony with the way of heaven, and the chess pieces are three hundred and sixty, which is in the number of Zhou Tian; Black and white are half in harmony, in combination with the change of yin and yang; The calm is as quiet as the ground; The chess moves in a circle, like the sky changing! The soldiers are in danger of fighting, and they cannot start the killing machine lightly, and they should be careful, as if they are facing a deep valley, and they are walking on thin ice. If you play the game calmly, be reasonable and reasonable, and follow the road with all your might, why did you lose so badly? Brother Huangfu doesn't have to be false! ”

Although he said very calmly, to Wu Yingxiong's ears, every word was mean and sarcastic, and his heart couldn't help but catch fire, and he said with a light smile: "Under the listening of Gao Zhi, Shu Jue suddenly opened his mouth. However, according to humble opinions, whether it is heaven or humanity, in the final analysis, it depends on whose heart is far-reaching. If you seek deep and calculate far, you will win; If the strategy is shallow, the calculation is small, and the victory will not be won. Man will win the day, so the art of war says, 'More is to win, less is not to win'. ”

"It is a small trend for people to win the sky, and it is a big trend for the sky to win over people, and if you don't respond to the situation, you will forget the big trend because of the small trend!" Zhou Peigong talked about it vigorously, and he looked radiant, "Wu Jun, there are many people who mislead people, and there is only one way to succeed!" - Go is divided into nine qualities: entering the spirit, sitting photo, concrete, quiet, using wisdom, small, fighting power, foolishness, and clumsiness. According to what you just said, at most it is a five-grade, and it can't be connected. If you don't know the way of heaven, you won't know humanity, and if you're afraid, you'll be afraid of losing this foundation! For example, Mr. Huangfu's weak meat was eaten by Jun Yongqiang, and when he met a strong opponent again, he fought you with high quality, and he was not defeated? Huangfu Baozhu pondered Zhou Peigong's incisive discussion, looked at Kangxi with a calm look, and suddenly thought of Wu Ciyou, and felt moved in his heart. Wei Dongting couldn't help but secretly boast: Although this person is not as dignified and bold as Wu Ciyou, his calmness, meticulousness, accessibility and pragmatism seem to be above Wu Ciyou!

After a few rounds, Wu Yingxiong knew that he was definitely not his opponent, so he didn't want to talk about this topic anymore, so he suddenly changed his face and smiled: "Long live, let's just talk about chess!" Long live the Lord came to the snail house in person, and he didn't even offer a glass of water, the slave was too careless! As he spoke, he instructed Lang Tingshu, "Go and bring the 'scared killing' tea sent by the county lord last year, and ask Long Live to taste it." ”

Kangxi hadn't even heard of this tea name, so he hurriedly asked: "What is 'scaring and killing people', is it so powerful?" ”

"This tea is produced in Biluo Peak of Dongting Lake," Wu Yingxiong looked at Lang Tingshu in the distance, and said slowly, "There are only a dozen acres of tea mountains with the purest taste." When the tea girl returned from picking tea, she put the tea in her arms, and the tea got hot, and the strange fragrance suddenly came out, and the pickers were frightened, so it was called 'scaring the incense' - the sister bought several catties every year to honor the old father, and the bear had to share this bit of blessing. ”

As he spoke, Lang Tingshu had already brought a bag of tea leaves. Kangxi learned "daughter tea" in Aobai Mansion, where is he willing to eat here "scare people", and said with a smile: "You don't have to make it, this tea is so good, just keep it and take it back to the palace to eat it slowly." Wu Yingxiong had also heard about the incident in Aobai Mansion, and knew that Kangxi was suspicious, so he just smiled. But I heard Kangxi laugh and said: "I came out to hang out today, and I came here to take a look, and by the way, I want to ask you one thing - how is your father's body and bones all these years?" ”

When the emperor asked his father, his courtiers had to kowtow. Wu Yingxiong hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed and replied: "The slave father often comes to the house to write, and his body has become more and more poor in the past three or four years, he often has dizziness, and his eye disease is also very serious, the article has long been unable to read, and it is difficult to see things, I fell last time, and almost had a stroke, so it was easy to recuperate a little better......" Kangxi listened to it for a long time, and said: "That is the case, it is not suitable to give him the old ginseng last time." If you go to the Internal Affairs Office tomorrow to receive ten catties of good gastrodia and send it back, you will say what I said: ginseng should not be used lightly. Wu Yingxiong kowtowed again and again, seemed to be a little choked with emotion, and said in a trembling voice, "Long live the kindness of the minister's father and son as deep as the sea, and it is difficult to repay three lives!" ”

"Don't do that!" Kangxi said sincerely, "There are some things that I can't say clearly. Your father sent an excerpt requesting the removal of the feudal domain, and I have already approved it, so I will do so. Some of the ministers thought that King Pingxi was not sincere, and there would be people on your father's side who were suspicious-" Speaking of this, he coughed, and several people around him were so nervous that they couldn't breathe, and after a long time, Kangxi said again: "These words can't be written in the edict, and it's not good to spread to Yunnan, Guangdong, and Fujian." ”

Wu Yingxiong heard it as if he was thorned in his back, and he couldn't find the words to deal with it, so he just kowtowed again and again.

"These are villains!" Kangxi was a little excited, got up and paced a few steps away from his seat, and glanced at the endgame, "I have been studying since I was a child, and I have learned that 'the world is for the public'. Your father used to be as successful as a mountain, and now he has asked to withdraw the domain, where can such a virtuous king who knows the righteousness be found? He accentuated his tone, "This is a one-sided statement; On the other hand, when your father entered the customs from the dragon, he swore an oath to kill horses in the imperial court, and he would never lose up. People are based on faith and righteousness, Wu Sangui does not live up to the court, how can I be the unrighteous king? ”

Kangxi said it sincerely, and every sentence was true, and even Lang Tingshu and Baozhu were secretly suspicious: Is the prince too careful? Thinking about it, Kangxi seemed to be answering his question, and said:

"Even if I take out my heart, I may not believe it if I have different aspirations. If it is righteousness, you are my courtier; When it comes to personal affairs, you are my uncle. You write to your father to pass this word on to him, so that he can make up his mind, first of all, don't doubt himself, let alone listen to the instigation of the villains, and it is boiling salt and smelting copper, I don't think it is necessary. Is that right? ”

"Yes!" Wu Yingxiong kowtowed heavily and replied, "The master is so heart-to-heart, the conscience of heaven, the slave and the father should repay with death!" ”

"You've been in Beijing for too long, it's not good." Kangxi said again, "It's like I'm holding you hostage-do you say?" ”

"Y-no!" Wu Yingxiong's chest thumped, his pale lips moved, and he was so flustered that he didn't know what to answer. Zhou Peigong and Wei Dongting heard these words, as if they wanted to let Wu Yingxiong out of Beijing, and suddenly raised their hearts to their throats.

Kangxi smiled secretly in his heart, but his tone turned painful: "The person who said this, I really don't know what kind of heart he is!" Am I a dumb man who kills people indiscriminately? You have seen it, what a crime Ao Bai has committed, I didn't kill him, and his fourth brother was still promoted! You are my dearest relative, and you are an elder, can I bear to harm you? ”

This is also the truth, and everyone can't help but look at each other.

"Your father is not in good health, you are a son, you should go back and see, this is human nature!" Kangxi said casually, his tone changed, and he became more warm and lovely, "Everything is okay now, I will build a palace for him in Liaodong, and you will go back to wait, and you will also do your filial piety, and you will also block the mouth of the villain." When you want to go to Beijing to have fun, if you want to go out for a walk, just tell me. The world is so big, there are many good places you haven't been to! Concubine Hui Nara is about to give birth and give birth to a prince, you, the crown prince, have to take care of it, and I have to rely on you more places......" He tried his best to paint a beautiful future for Wu Yingxiong. When Wei Dongting heard this, his pale face turned bloody again, and he breathed a deep sigh of relief, and the hearts of the wolf and Zhou Peigong hanging in the air also relaxed.

"Yes." Wu Yingxiong's hot blood quickly cooled, "The slave obeys the order and is ready to wait for the prince!" He was angry and hateful in his heart: "You may not be able to have a 'prince', maybe it's a girl, maybe it's a freak!" Thinking about it, his eyes glanced at the Huangfu Baozhu and Lang Tingshu who were standing beside him.

Huangfu Baozhu and Lang Tingshu have completely different feelings, and they are not sure that Kangxi's words are not false, but you are the Son of Heaven, the king of all times, come to this mansion in person, say these words, every sentence is reasonable, even if there is a fake, it is also to persuade people to be kind, and it is no harm to work well with the imperial court!

"Don't listen to people's gossip here, write a letter to the king of Pingxi, the Qin mission is about to go, and you must do it to the satisfaction of the court, Sangui, and the people." Kangxi thought about it and said, "We monarchs and ministers must work together to govern the country and secure the people, if we take the wrong idea, we will accumulate corpses like mountains and rivers of blood!" He smiled and fiddled with the remnants of the game with his hand.

Kangxi earnestly admonished, repeatedly preached many truths about governing the country and securing the people, and only then brought three people out. Wu Yingxiong sent out the door, only to find that his underwear was all soaked with sweat.

"Long live the almost frightening minister!" Zhou Peigong said, "The slave still thinks that he really wants to return to Yunnan!" ”

"It's a deception and a righteous way, which is exactly the same as the change of yin and yang in the heavenly principles of Go you talked about." Kangxi lightly whipped and said coldly, "You go back and pass the decree, the Ministry of War and your patrol Yamen officials will hand over the sign tomorrow, and I will discuss the defense of the Yangtze River in Yuqing Palace." ”