The sun and the moon alternate, and the cycle continues.

Chen Xiaomo stayed here for a few days and gradually became familiar with the environment here.

Stone Village is located in the center of the Ming Kingdom, only one mountain away from Xuanhua, the capital of the Ming Kingdom. But if you want to cross that mountain to Xuanhua, you have to walk at least half a day's mountain road, and the mountain road is dangerous, so the villagers of Stone Village rarely go to Xuanhua, and it can be regarded as having no quarrel with the world.

There are only a few villagers in the village, only about 100 households. The villagers grow a variety of corn and wheat, and usually grow all kinds of vegetables, although they can't catch up with the bliss of the peach blossom garden, but the people in the village are self-sufficient and self-sufficient.

I heard that Zhang San rescued a stranger, and the people in the village came to visit. Zhang San introduced Chen Xiaomo to everyone, Chen Xiaomo also knows how to be polite, and his uncles and aunts keep calling him, and he is deeply loved by everyone.

There are a lot of children in this village, from a sensible little doll to a teenager as big as Chen Xiaomo, there are about 50 people, and everyone usually likes to play together in groups. Of course, since Chen Xiaomo came, they couldn't forget to call Chen Xiaomo when they played together.

In the past few days, when Chen Xiaomo first arrived here, he had nothing to do, so he went out with them to wander around, and also took this opportunity to familiarize himself with the environment here.

As the saying goes, "A dragon can't be without a head." This sentence is very appropriate even when applied to this group of children. Among the children in this group, the first of the boys was a boy named Bai Yao, who was two years older than Chen Xiaomo, but in terms of physique, Bai Yao was as strong as an adult. The first of the girls is a girl named Shan Honghua, who is very smart, outgoing, eccentric, although she is two years younger than Chen Xiaomo, but in fact she is much more mature than adult girls. Chen Xiaomo has known them for a short time, but he has great respect for these two people.

Although Chen Xiaomo played with everyone, he was an outsider after all, and he didn't have a friend to talk to. And he looked thinner, unlike the strong and mature White Scythe, who had a large group of boys and girls following him to his left and right.

"Hmph, why is it that in ancient times, there was still such a difference of respect and inferiority between children!" Chen Xiaomo said dissatisfiedly.

That morning, Zhang San went to work in the field, and Wang Cuihua went up the mountain to collect medicine, leaving Chen Xiaomo alone at home. He couldn't sit or stand, and he was bored, so he decided to go out for a walk.

As soon as he took a few steps out of the door, Chen Xiaomo saw Bai Yao with a large group of boys and girls preparing to go fishing by the river.

Seeing Chen Xiaomo, Bai Sickle smiled all over his face, and said quite generously: "Chen Xiaomo, let's go fishing with us!" Chen Xiaomo didn't refuse, nodded, and walked towards the river with them.

When they came to the river, everyone was busy fishing, and only Chen Xiaomo was sitting by the river in a daze.

The flowing water is murmuring, the white flowers are dotted, the breeze is blowing, and the scenery is full of scenery. A gust of wind blew, ruffling Chen Xiaomo's hair and pulling away the sad string in Chen Xiaomo's heart. Chen Xiaomo remembered the past scenes in the modern world again, and his thoughts couldn't help drifting away with the wind.

Mom, are you okay?

Fifi, are you happy?

Thinking, thinking......

Suddenly, a "plop" sound interrupted Chen Xiaomo's thoughts, it turned out that a stone fell into the river, splashing Chen Xiaomo's body and wetting his clothes.

Chen Xiaomo was angry and just wanted to have a seizure, but he saw the person who threw the stone, with a beautiful face and a smile like a flower, who is it not a single red flower?

Seeing the single red flower, Chen Xiaomo's anger disappeared by half. He just glanced at it, didn't say anything more, and then stepped back away from the river.

Shan Honghua walked over with a smile and said, "Chen Xiaomo, you are really as good as your name, why don't you go to play with everyone?"

"That, it's the first time I've been to Daming Kingdom, and I'm a little uncomfortable. Looking at Shan Honghua's handsome face, Chen Xiaomo said with some embarrassment. Then, looking up into the distance, his face returning to its original expression.

Looking at the shy teenager in front of him, Shan Honghua intuitively felt that he was different from other boys, at least he didn't think anything wrong about himself.

Maybe Shan Honghua was a little curious about Chen Xiaomo, she took Chen Xiaomo's hand and said mischievously: "Let's go, let's go play with my sister!"

Chen Xiaomo was held by a girl he had just met, and he was inevitably a little embarrassed. So he hurriedly withdrew his hand and said, "I'm sorry, I, I want to be alone." At this time, his heart was thinking of another person, the person who had sworn to him. So no matter how Shan Honghua teased him, he couldn't arouse any interest.

Shan Honghua is also the best-looking girl in Stone Village, not to mention that boys of the same age covet her, and there are not a few people who go to her house to propose marriage. In normal times, many boys, including Shiraku, would have wished she had a smile on their faces. But today, her enthusiasm was coldly rejected by Chen Xiaomo, how could she not be angry with her strong self-esteem?

However, Shan Honghua is a smart person, she did not have a seizure immediately, but said to Chen Xiaomo with a smile: "Chen Xiaomo, since you are the first time to come to Daming Kingdom, then I will introduce you to a fun game!" Chen Xiaomo couldn't resist her, so he had to follow her to the middle of the crowd.

Seeing Shan Honghua and Chen Xiaomo pulling and pulling, Bai Sickle put on a look of the boss's displeasure, and said with a straight face: "Honghua, you are ...... this"

At this time, Shan Honghua let go of Chen Xiaomo's clothes and whispered a few words in Bai Sickle's ear. Bai Sickle was surprised at first, then turned to joy, and said with a smile: "Honghua, is this true?"

Shan Honghua said shyly: "Of course, there is still a fake!"

Seeing the ambiguous appearance of Bai Sickle and Shan Honghua, the people next to them immediately began to coax.

Bai Yao coughed a few times and said loudly: "Brother Chen Xiaomo has just arrived in our Daming Kingdom, we should teach him some new things." With that, he took out a large piece of paper and some small pieces of wood from his clothes.

Then, he turned to Chen Xiaomo and said, "Chen Xiaomo, this is the quintessence of our Daming Kingdom - are you interested in playing a few games against chess?"

"But I won't go down!" Chen Xiaomo refused.

"It's okay, I can teach you. As he spoke, Bai Yao spread out the big paper, arranged the small wooden blocks, and began to explain the rules of the game for Chen Xiaomo.

Chen Xiaomo listened carefully, and couldn't help but secretly laugh, isn't this Chinese chess! The layout is the same, the chess pieces are the same, and even the way of moving chess is exactly the same. But seeing the weird smile of Bai Sickle and Shan Honghua just now, Chen Xiaomo paid another extra eye, he pretended to be a novice, and listened carefully to Bai Sickle's explanation of the rules of chess.

As soon as he finished explaining, Bai Kao said, "Let's have the next game!"

Chen Xiaomo didn't know how Bai Sickle's chess skills were, so he acted as a puzzle: "Brother Bai, I just finished listening to your explanation, and it's the first time to play this kind of chess, you have to let me!"

"Haha, that's a must! I'll let you have a car and a gun, what do you think?" said Hakusha confidently.

"Alright then, I'll be respectful and obey. Chen Xiaomo smiled secretly.

"Wait, I'm a good gambler by nature, and the same is true for chess, so let's gamble something!"

Chen Xiaomo secretly said in his heart: "Brother, how old are you, how can you talk like an old man." ”

Just when Chen Xiaomo hesitated, Bai Sickle had already used the fishing bucket to beat half a bucket of water, and said, "If anyone loses later, drink this half bucket of water." ”

"This, it's my first time playing!" Chen Xiaomo said with a face full of grievances.

"Well, haven't I already let you have a cart and a cannon? Don't you dare to get off? Or I'll let you have another horse?" said the white sickle defiantly.

Someone next to him shouted: "Chen Xiaomo, still not a man!"

Another person said: "If it's a man, it's a game!" After that, everyone followed and coaxed together.

"Okay, okay, I'll just do it. After speaking, Chen Xiaomo sat down in front of the chess game.

Bai Kao said gracefully: "You are a guest, you come first." ”

"Okay!" Chen Xiaomo shot at the head, Bai Sickle hurriedly jumped off the horse, and the two suddenly fell into a tense fight. From time to time, slogans such as "Come on, white sickle" and "white sickle will win" are heard from the side. looked around, but no one was cheering for Chen Xiaomo.

Chen Xiaomo frowned slightly, anger suddenly grew in his heart, and he stepped up the offensive in his hand, forcing Bai Sickle into a desperate situation in a few rounds. The white sickle is missing a cart and a cannon, and he complains bitterly, but he can only be beaten.

Finally, under Chen Xiaomo's three-sided attack, Bai Sickle's chess game was no longer able to return to the sky, so he declared defeat.

The white sickle actually lost!

Faced with such an ending, Bai Sickle had nothing to say, but he couldn't play tricks, so he had to drink the half bucket of water.

"Hiccup!" Hakuga, who had finished drinking the water, hiccups involuntarily. Everyone watching the battle from the sidelines was shocked, especially Shan Honghua, whose face turned red with anger.

Bai Sickle came to Shan Honghua's side and said aggrievedly: "Honghua, I was too careless just now, Hiccup, you give me another chance, Hiccup, I will definitely win, Hiccup!"

"Hmph, I'll give you another chance, don't embarrass me again!" Shan Honghua said angrily.

"Hiccup, that promise is still ......" Bai Kao's face suddenly showed a trace of joy, and it looked a little lewd when he looked closely.

"As long as you win him, I will depend on you for everything. Shan Honghua said impatiently. Remembering that Chen Xiaomo ignored him just now, Shan Honghua said: "Men really don't have a good thing!"

"Chen Xiaomo, I asked you just now, Hiccup, I won't show mercy to my subordinates this time, Hiccup!" Bai Sickle said, and he actually brought a bucket full of water from the river, as if he wanted to be ashamed.

"Let's drink a bucket this time, do we dare?" This seemingly righteous Ling Ran's words seemed so funny when they came out of Bai Sickle's mouth at this time.

Everyone next to him laughed, and Shan Honghua said angrily: "I think who dares to laugh!" Everyone immediately stopped laughing as if they had eaten a closed door.

Chen Xiaomo happily responded. The loser has to drink a bucket full of water, but in fact, Chen Xiaomo is still a little stunned. But judging from Bai Yao's chess skills just now, even if he is given another rook and a gun, he is by no means his opponent.

Bai Sickle was determined, couldn't hold back the hiccups anymore, and once again started a tense game with Chen Xiaomo.

"Honghua, can the white sickle work? If he drinks another bucket of water, he will have to come out of it. A girl next to her asked with concern, but there was a bit of schadenfreude in her heart.

Shan Honghua said firmly: "Bai Sickle is the best chess skill among us, I believe he will win this time!"