Chapter 27: The Art of Chess

Ning'er and the others watched Shen's father and Shen Yanling play chess, almost holding back their internal injuries, but Shen Yanling still looked flat and forced Shen's father to death step by step. Father Shen finally got angry and scolded: "Dead boy, you can't let me a little!"

Shen Yanling said innocently: "I asked if I wanted to let you have a son before Luozi, but you said no." ”

Father Shen glared at Shen Yanling, "Isn't that equivalent to my own admission that my chess skills are inferior to yours." Where is my face going?"

Shen Yanling looked up at the sky, didn't his father deliberately embarrass him! Still thinking about how to make Shen's father give up playing chess with him, he heard Shen's father say to Ning'er: "Can the third daughter-in-law play chess?"

Ning'er was talking to Ah Lian, and without thinking about it, she replied, "Yes." ”

Looking back and seeing Shen Yanling's expression of 'you are a fool', Ning Er finally understood what she had just said, but Shen's father's words had already sounded: "Then the third daughter-in-law will accompany my old man in the next game!"

Shen Yanling stepped back from the chessboard and patted Ning'er on the shoulder helplessly. Ning Er sighed, although she had never played chess with Father Shen, she knew that Father Shen's chess skills were not very good.

In the face of his daughter-in-law, Shen's father still has some grace, and Ning Er is the first to hold the black son. Ning'er learned Go from her grandfather since she was a child, but her chess skills are not good, she has never won against her grandfather, and she has always been known as a stinky chess basket, thinking that she should not be appreciated by him and be pulled to play chess against Shen's father, so she played with Shen's father at will. However, Ning Er ignored one thing, that is, her chess skills are indeed not very good, but it does not mean that Ning Er's chess skills are not good, on the contrary, although Shangguan Shuiyun is not like the average girl from elementary school, but the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting are all first-class, especially the chess skills, which are trained by the national teacher of the Phoenix Country, and basically few people can beat her in chess skills. Even if Ning'er has lost her memory now, just by playing chess with Father Shen by instinct, Father Shen has no chance to win.

Shen's father originally wanted to move back to the hands of his daughter-in-law, but he died faster in Ning'er's hands, with a look of chagrin on his face, Shen Yanling looked funny, but when he saw Ning'er's expression of asking for help, he still helped Ning'er out of the siege. "Dad, something interesting happened today!Daddy, do you want to hear it?" Shen Yanling shook Ning'er's hand soothingly, and opened her mouth to divert Shen's father's attention.

Although he usually looks like Shen's father is strict, but in private, Shen's father is an old naughty character, and when he heard Shen Yanling say something interesting, he hurriedly asked Shen Yanling what was the matter.

Shen Yanling watched her father's attention be attracted, and hurriedly glanced at Shen Yanxiang, and at the same time described the events of the day to her father. Shen Yanling originally just told her father about the new thing, after all, they were just ordinary people, and they didn't have their share in rebellion or quelling the rebellion, so they naturally didn't care much. But when Father Shen heard Shen Yanling say, 'King An is orthodox, and the world is in the heart', his expression was dignified, and he looked at Shen Yanling fixedly, without speaking.

Shen Yanling noticed her father's expression, couldn't help frowning, and asked, "What's wrong?" Dad, is there something wrong?"

Father Shen still didn't speak, only looked up at the sky, and said to Shen Yanling for a long time: "Do you know, who is King An?"

Shen Yanling was slightly stunned when she heard this, and then said: "Isn't it the crown prince who disappeared more than twenty years ago? "Maybe because Ning Er was born in the royal family and suffered so many difficulties, Shen Yanling had a subconscious rejection of the palace.

Father Shen sighed, "It's also a poor person, and an identity has to be used by people." After that, there was silence again. The atmosphere was a little heavy, and no one else dared to speak, even Ah Zheng and Xiao Yun seemed to subconsciously lower their voices.

After a long time, Father Shen sighed heavily and asked, "Soon, you have to go to the township to try again, right?"

Shen Yanling and Shen Yanxiang didn't understand why their father suddenly mentioned this, but they still nodded honestly, "This year is the tenth day of August, and it will be the Mid-Autumn Festival after the township test." Shen Yanxiang replied.

It seemed that after thinking for a long time, Shen's father looked at Shen Yanling and said, "Yanling, this year, you can participate in the township test!"

Hearing this, Shen Yanling and Ning Er were both shocked, and they didn't understand why their father suddenly wanted Shen Yanling to take the township exam, but at this moment, Shen's father didn't say a word, "Do your best, you must be qualified for the exam, understand?"

Shen Yanling stared at his father with wide eyes, when he was bent on asking for the title of the gold list, his father did not allow him to enter the official career, but now, his heart has calmed down, and when he has no intention of being rich and noble, his father wants him to participate in the imperial examination, and he must obtain the qualification for the examination, how can he not be surprised. In the Jinlong State Imperial Examination, including the lowest level of the township examination, then the provincial examination at the state and county level, then the capital examination, and finally the palace examination, his father asked Shen Yanling to obtain the qualification for the examination, which meant that Shen Yanling needed to pass the guò township examination and the provincial examination in one breath. The township examination is held once a year, at the beginning of August, and the provincial examination is held once every three years, and at the beginning of October, just this year to catch up with the triennial provincial examination.

Compared with Shen Yanling and Ning'er's surprise, Shen Yanxiang was happy, he participated in the township examination three years ago, and he was already a talent, but he had not passed the provincial examination, and Shen Yanling was the most optimistic student of his previous husband, but for some reason, his father would be obsessed with opposing Shen Yanling's participation in the imperial examination, so that Shen Yanling is still white, and he is still very sorry in his heart.

Although he was puzzled, Shen Yanling would never disobey his father's will, since it was his father's request, he nodded and agreed: "Yes, the child must do his best." ”

Father Shen heard Shen Yanling's promise, nodded, and said, "Yanxiang is a bit restrained, and it is good to have more experience, so you should go to the countryside as soon as possible." Yan Ling is very intelligent, it is inevitable to be impetuous, the officialdom is complicated, and if you are not careful, you will take your life, so let you sharpen your temperament for a few years, and then you can enter the official career!"

Shen Yanling and Ning Er both lowered their heads and listened to their father's teachings, the corners of their mouths trembling slightly, but it showed that they were holding back a smile. Father Shen's words are good, and they are reasonable and reasonable, but after Shen Yanling said the carp incident, it was inevitable that there would be some taste of wanting to cover up, not to mention that Father Shen also asked Shen Yanling to be qualified for the examination. It's just that what does this matter have to do with him, and why his father seems to want him to participate in this matter.

Father Shen naturally saw Shen Yanling and Ning Er's expressions, glared at Shen Yanling and Ning Er with a rather embarrassed face, put away the chess pieces and turned around to go back to the house.

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