In the second game, Sun Dahu lost again. The third game is currently underway. It was getting dark, and it was already long beyond the usual closing hours of the store. The store was still crowded, some were thinking about the chess game, and some were whispering to each other. Sun Dahu hadn't played for nearly a quarter of an hour, staring at the chessboard and thinking hard, and finally shook his head and said with a smile: "I lost again." I really can't crack it. ”

When Sun Dahu handed Wang a hundred taels of silver tickets, his eyes were shining, not at all like he had just lost three hundred taels. You must know that three hundred taels can buy a fairly decent house in Jiankang, which is money that ordinary people may not earn after working hard all their lives.

Sun Dahu said to Wang Qian: "Wait until I go back and think about how to solve it, and then come back to play against you." ”

Wang Zhen arched his hand and smiled: "Okay, I am waiting for Sun Dahu's good news!" ”

Sun Dahu separated from everyone and walked out, his face was red and leisurely, as if he had just come out of a bath. After Sun Dahu left, the shopkeeper immediately called Ah Fu to remind the guests that the store had closed.

Because Mr. Xu likes to drink and Ah Fu likes to eat peanuts, Wang Zhen bought 20 pots of wine and 10 catties of peanuts from the shopkeeper. The three of them set up tables and chairs in the courtyard, drank wine, ate peanuts, and celebrated their winnings.

Wang Zhen pushed two ingots of ten taels of silver in front of Mr. Xu and Ah Fu respectively, and said, "Come, share the blessings together, don't be too little for the two." ”

Ah Fu said: "How can it be too little?!" That's three years of my salary. Thank you, Wang! You scared the hell out of me. ”

Mr. Xu took a sip of wine and said, "Wang Zhen, I know that you are not an ordinary person. ”

Ah Fu interjected: "Yes! It's amazing! How can ordinary people remember the drop after just reading it once? ”

Wang said: "Actually, my memory is not so strong, but I don't know how to remember it, as if engraved in my mind, I can't get rid of it." ”

Mr. Xu asked, "Where did you meet those two masters?" ”

Wang said apologetically: "Mr. Xu, I'm sorry, I can't tell you the truth." ”

Mr. Xu said: "I can understand this, masters have strange tempers. Wang Qian, you bought twenty jugs of wine today, and I want to answer you twenty questions, you ask! ”

Wang asked: "I don't want to ask a single question today, I just want to relax." ”

Wang Zhen saw Ah Fu eating peanuts vigorously, so he asked Ah Fu: "Ah Fu, what do you want to do after making money?" ”

Ah Fu raised his head and looked at Wang Qian, and said with a serious face: "I want to go back to my hometown to marry a daughter-in-law and live a good life." ”

Wang Zhen and Mr. Xu laughed at the same time. Wang Zhen took out ten taels of silver from his bosom and handed it to Ah Fu, saying, "Ah Fu, I wish you to fulfill your wish as soon as possible." ”

Ah Fu took the silver tael and said movingly: "Wang Qian, you are too good to me. What about you? What are your wishes? ”

Wang looked at the sky, smiled and said, "I am the same as you." My wish is to have a wife, have children, and have a decent job. For the rest, I don't want to care about anything. Ten thousand green bushes, not a single leaf sticks. ”

Ah Fu said: "More than half of your dream has been realized, and you won three hundred taels today." ”

Wang Zhen shook his head with a wry smile, pointed to the stars in the sky and said, "I'm here, my dream is there." ”

Ah Fu stammered: "Your dreams are so high! Mr. Xu, what is your dream? ”

Mr. Xu drank wine and said, "I'm not a young man like you, how can I still have a dream." If there is one, it is to stay here for the rest of your life. The wine here does not permeate. ”

Ah Fu said: "Mr. Xu is always so pessimistic. ”

Wang Zhen proposed, "Let's play a game." ”

Wang Zhen turned out a wooden plank, drew a circle on it, hung it on the door of the warehouse, returned to the table and said to the other two, "How about we fly knives here, and if we don't fly in the circle, we will punish ourselves with a bowl of wine?" With that, he pulled the dagger out of his clothes.

Mr. Xu noticed the dagger and said to Wang Qian, "Wang Qian, let me see the dagger." ”

Wang Zhen handed over the dagger suspiciously, Mr. Xu took it and looked at it carefully, flicked the sword with his fingers, tried the blade on the table, and asked Wang Qian: "Where did you get this dagger?" ”

Wang Zhen felt strange and said, "An old man gave me self-defense, saying that this is his son's relic. What's wrong? ”

Mr. Xu returned the dagger to Wang Zhen and said, "This dagger is made of 'hundred steels', although it is not a rare thing, but it is very expensive because of the complicated production procedure and long production time. This dagger is worth about a hundred taels. ”

Wang Zhen and Ah Fu said at the same time: "One hundred taels?!" ”

Mr. Xu said: "The dagger consumables are less than one hundred taels, and if it is a sword, it is more expensive." ”

Ah Fu hurriedly stepped forward to watch and exclaimed, "I didn't expect this little dagger to be worth half a house." ”

Mr. Xu said: "If you don't believe it, you can go to the craftsman's workshop by the Qinhuai River and ask." ”

Wang Zhen looked at the dagger and said with a wry smile: "It seems that Uncle Nine doesn't know the value of this dagger, otherwise he wouldn't have given it to me for self-defense." ”

Mr. Xu said: "Although the sword made of 'Bailian Steel' is good and sharp, it cannot be produced in large quantities because it is time-consuming and laborious to make, and it usually takes five or six blacksmiths to temper it day and night, and it takes a year to a year and a half to make one. ”

Wang Zhen was stunned again, threw the dagger in his hand with his hand, and then threw it hard, and the dagger shot through the wooden board in the center of the circle, leaving only the hilt of the sword.

The next day was July 14, the shopkeeper stood at the door early in the morning and looked at it, the king felt strange, did the shopkeeper really believe that ten thousand ghosts were coming? Later, the shopkeeper welcomed a person in quite respectfully. After the shopkeeper personally beckoned the man to sit down, he called Wang Zhen over and said to him, "Wang Qian, this gentleman wants to play chess with you, and bet fifty taels of silver for each game." What do you think? ”

Wang Zhen agreed, but looked at the visitor curiously, the person who came was about forty years old, with good facial features, decent clothes, and good maintenance, and he was the kind of person who was serious and meticulous in his work. After Wang Zhen sat down and sorted out the chessboard, he wanted to find out the details of the other party, so he said to the visitor: "Sir, could it be Sun Dahu?" So come and get revenge today? ”

The person on the other side did not talk, but stretched out his hand to signal Wang Zheng to go first. Ah Fu saw the shopkeeper introduce chess friends to Wang Qian, and felt that the sun was playing in the west today. Although Mr. Xu knew who the person was, he did not know the purpose of his gambling with Wang. The people on the other side came prepared, and each of them was very slow and cautious. Wang Zhen is still the same as yesterday, he will go down immediately, and he will never think. The person on the opposite side seemed to have just come to try chess, and he did not admit defeat in the case of obvious disadvantages in the later stage, and played a full game with Wang Qian, and lost more than 20 pieces. After the final game, the person on the opposite side looked at the chessboard and thought for a quarter of an hour before raising his head and saying to Wang Qian: "I use whites, you use blacks, how about we play another game?" ”

Wang Zhen readily agreed, so he exchanged chess pieces. The person on the other side copied Wang Zhen's chess move just now, Wang Zhen smiled slightly, and used another immortal's chess move to deal with it. Wang Zhen has missed a hundred years in the world, and this hundred years of time he has spent all his time watching the game between the two immortals. The chess moves of the two immortals have been engraved in Wang Zhen's mind, so naturally he can use whoever he wants. The person on the opposite side just drew a gourd in the same way, and he didn't really remember the chess path before Wang Qian, and the sunspot chased and beat Bai Zi fiercely in the form of a tiger and wolf, and did not give Bai Zi a chance to breathe, Bai Zi quickly collapsed, and the person on the opposite side surrendered and admitted defeat. The man took out a silver ticket from his sleeve and put it down, his face was calm as usual, not affected by the victory and defeat just now, and then stood up and prepared to leave. The shopkeeper hurriedly greeted him and whispered a question, and the man whispered a reply and walked out of the store and got into the carriage. The shopkeeper kept greeting at the door until the other horse's carriage left.

Wang Zhen asked curiously: "Shopkeeper, who is this person?" ”

The shopkeeper said, "Go to work, and you'll know later." ”