Book 49 Draw
Although Hana, the princess of the dead country, chatted smoothly with her newlywed husband, she was actually trembling in her heart. She grew up in a group of slaves, and although she was detached, the slave traders made her more like a slave than a princess in order to make her obedient and obedient, and these people would tell her something about her family from time to time to make her feel inferior. Although Hana can maintain the bearing of a princess of a country on the surface, this is actually just acting.
Il felt that he had talked enough about books, and the topic shifted to other interests. Only after this question did I know that in addition to reading, Hana also likes to play the piano. The harp, a harp-like thing in her mouth, has a single syllable and is incapable of playing complex tunes, and is usually used to provide a simple accompaniment to the singer. Il thought it was funny that Hana could play the piano. Would the princess of a country learn this kind of market skill? When she asked, she learned that the slave traders had forced her to learn it.
These guys, who had never seen the market, really thought that the princesses were like those shoddy stage plays, and they regarded playing the piano and chess as a hobby. How can such ingenious things as music, painting, and sculpture be worthy of a princess? Il has seen a real princess, and that princess has some business exchanges with the Kou Chi Trading Company, that is, the third princess of the White Moon Kingdom, the princess of Randy, the current Grand Duchess of Sonia. Il once admired the sassy and casual style of Princess Rapunzel, and the most rare thing was that this woman actually encouraged her father to make several loss-making transactions one after another, and of course she made a lot of money herself.
Yier knew his father too well, and he probably needed to hone ten years if he wanted to become a businessman like his father. But the promiscuous-haired princess, who was a year younger than herself, made her father suffer again and again. What kind of skill is this? Only a true royal family can cultivate that kind of character. And the vulgar slave traders can only raise Hana, a Xibei who plays the piano and sings. However, he did not dislike his little wife, but was very interested in hearing how accomplished she was in music.
When the harp is plucked by Hana's fingers, the melodious sound reverberates in the spacious bridal bedroom. With a ceiling height of six meters alone, there's plenty of room for sound to reverberate. Accompanied by the light sound of the piano, Hana opened her mouth to sing the story of a knight and a farmer's daughter. This story is widely sung among little girls, and it is the traditional story of a sparrow turning into a phoenix, but it is a little inappropriate for Hana to sing it. First of all, she was a princess who, in principle, had the inheritance of White Night City, and the knight was supposed to be at her feet. Secondly, she is still a slave, and slaves are not human beings, but human property, and should not dream of such unrealistic fantasies. But Il didn't care, just felt a little funny about this decent-looking little wife who was actually a stupid girl, the kind of kind.
Il, who stopped Hana from repeating the endless chorus, grabbed the piano himself and began to play. He still liked this kind of gossip, and he felt that this kind of thing was very appropriate to his status as a merchant's son, so he also learned some when he was young. The songs he sings are classics, one of the hundreds of dragon slaying stories. Although Il looks a little girly, he has some aura when he sings this song, and his figure instantly becomes a little magnificent. In contrast to what Hana sings, this song is very popular among boys who dream of martial arts, dragons and magic, and it is also a somewhat childish song.
After listening to her husband's singing, Hana couldn't hold back, and her mouth was a little flat when she had been smiling decently. Playing the piano and singing was what she was best at, and it was also the place where the slave traders praised her the most besides her face, but now she was compared to her own master. As a princess of the dead country, she has some inferiority complex, and she was hit a bit hard.
Yier's emotional intelligence is limited, and he has been in contact with his wife until now, and this emotional intelligence has almost been used up. As it was getting late, the Red Lady and the Green Lady were swept away, and the next time was for their master to go about his conjugal business, and Il, the son of the merchant, was not yet in the habit of having people see the course of the house. He took Hana's hand a little jerkily and led her to the bed. Both of them are first-timers, and although they have mastered the skills of intercourse in theory, they have never actually operated it. A big man in Il is suddenly a little afraid that he is not skilled enough to satisfy his wife, which is very embarrassing. Not to mention Hana, who has low self-esteem, and has the same concerns.
The two of them were halfway off their clothes, and they were in a stalemate. In the end, they both sat back at the long table and continued to chat and cultivate their feelings. This is the first time that the two of them have expressed a tacit understanding on a certain matter.
"Well, do you have any other hobbies?" With Yi'er's emotional intelligence, he held back for a long time and walked on the old path again. Hana was still trembling, and hesitantly said the word 'chess'.
Is it really playing the piano and playing chess? Yir made a rare expression of helplessness. Fortunately, he also has some understanding of chess, and even some confidence. This kind of game of calculating each other's gains and losses, as a businessman, he is the best at it. But when he proposed to play against his wife, Hana hesitated to refuse. She doesn't like to fight people, even if it's just a game of chess. She feels that as long as it is a competition, there will be friction between the two sides of the competition. She is a slave and a wife, and she only wants to cater to her master and husband, and she does not want to fight with him for anything.
The slavers had invited some of the tavern chess players to play chess with Hana, and she played against them many times, and at first the chess players would often glare at her for the gains and losses of several chess pieces, which she did not like.
"Let's make a bet!" Il, trying to throw some bets to get his wife motivated. "If you win, I'll grant you a wish, anything. He spoke loudly, for he could probably guess what kind of man the slave traders had asked his wife to teach his wife how to play chess, so he was absolutely sure.
Hana saw that the master had said this, and she couldn't bear to spoil him, so she reluctantly played a game with him. In this game of chess, Il's wanted to put down the water a little and let his little wife please her, which he was best at as a businessman. As a result, although he made it cleverly, his wife still showed no signs of winning. Yier's IQ soon found out that Hana was actually letting herself, which made him a little angry.
It's a bad feeling to be looked down upon by others in what you're good at.
Il's face suddenly turned cold, and for the first time he smiled and spoke to his wife. "Next round. You win, I promise you a wish. If you lose, the red girl and the green girl are not allowed to eat for three days. ”
How so?!
Hana's reluctance to play chess is fearful of such a situation, and she knows a lot about chess, which will inevitably add to the gap between the players. After the second game of chess, the corners of Il's eyes and temples trembled with anger. This second game turned out to be a draw. It is very difficult to draw chess in this world, and he tried his best to play this game, but this time he was in harmony!" When Il said this, he didn't realize that he had used the command sentence very rudely. He was accustomed to seeing his father speak in a commanding tone to his mother, so he had a great dislike for it, but now he unconsciously saw it come out.
Hana became more and more trembling, and in the third game she was already sweating on her forehead after a few moves. It seems that she is under a lot of pressure.
To Il's surprise, this game turned out to be a draw again!
"Again!" he couldn't say anything other than those two words.
Hana had not been watering since the auction ended, and she was a little thirsty, but she did not dare to ask for water. She knew that she had made her master angry, very angry, so she didn't dare to say even a word more.
Draw. The fourth game was another draw. Il has fully confirmed that it is the woman in front of her who is leading her nose on the chessboard, and she does not seek to win at all, but only to draw. And herself, she actually let her achieve her goal three times!
"I said it. If you don't know who wins or loses, you have to keep playing against each other!"
"Hmm. Hana said only one word, and set up the chessboard.
When the butler Ebel came to Il to handle the trading company's business, it was already the afternoon of the next day. He had never seen his master sleep lazy, and he hadn't even gotten up yet. Normally, Ilr will leave the bed the moment his sleep needs are satisfied and start his day. He didn't plan to stay in the Defeated City for long, in fact, he should have left for the southern magic city of Rozeravin early tomorrow morning, and there seemed to be some new magic happening there, and the Kou Chi Trading Company wanted to invest in the capital in order to share some research results. But there are still a lot of things that need to be dealt with on the side of the defeated army city, and even if it is in the past, Yir will find it difficult to deal with these.
That slave princess, is it really so charming?
Ibel knocked on the door of his master's room. This was the first time he had asked his master to wake up since he had served Kou Chi Trading Company. From the other side of the door came Eir's voice, "Please come in." Iber had no idea that when he pushed open the doors, he saw a tired owner with dark circles under his eyes. He obviously didn't sleep all night, and he actually played chess with the princess of the dead country all night!
"Go get me something to eat. Just one serving, your mistress she doesn't need it!"
Iber, who had never heard his master speak in such a tone, was shocked to look at her hostess, whose lips were now chapped and weak, and her face was covered with sweat, as if she was about to faint.
Hana played 20 games of chess that night, during which Il ate some snacks and fruits from the room, but she didn't even drink saliva or even go to the toilet. This kind of chess is very mental to play and very mentally demanding. After calculating these 20 games, Hana's body and brain power have been severely overdrawn, and she is on the verge of collapse.
Il is not a sadist, and he doesn't want to torture himself and his new wife with something like chess. But he couldn't swallow this breath, and the woman in front of him was so stupid that she thought that she could be happy without losing or winning. She didn't dare to win because she was afraid that she would be angry, and she was afraid that the red and green women would have nothing to eat, and she didn't want to fail. Can't she see that she's angry right now?
But such a stupid woman actually forced herself to draw 20 games in a row.
If you don't want to win me, die on the board!
At this time, in the eyes of the housekeeper, the president of Kou Chi Trading Company was no different from his dead father.