Chapter 44: The Chess Game
Not long after the discussion between Yangzhou and sea crabs ended, the outline of Yangzhou City slowly approached the convoy from the horizon, and the figure became clearer day by day.
Many people are secretly much more relaxed in their hearts.
Although I know that this is the beginning of another ordeal, I can take the opportunity to rest for a while...... As for the boring days of drifting at sea after entering Yangzhou City and changing ships, it is better to save it for another headache in the future.
But He Qianwei is not in this group of people.
She complained a lot in front of Xiao Zaiyang, and as early as after the battle between sea crabs and crabs, she successfully won the right to leave the carriage and follow the convoy on horseback.
In the past, when she had a horse race, her palm could be worn out because she was overridden, but now she just got on the horse and walked slowly, naturally fearless.
Although it has been a long time, I can't escape the fate of my skin being rubbed red, but as long as I get back into the carriage and rest for a while, I will soon be able to adjust myself.
He Qianwei, compared with many boudoir ladies, even has a strong physique, so Xiao Zaiyang couldn't find the words to refute it at all, so he had to nod and respond to the other party's request.
Then he rode with her on horseback, and he didn't look back in the wind and sun.
The people who have never come down outside have never come down immediately, and they can only kick their breath when they change their value, naturally they don't understand what these two people do, how cool and comfortable it is in the carriage, why bother asking for hardship?
But in the same way, He Qianwei couldn't understand their reluctance to ride a horse, and how good it was to walk on a horse in the vast world.
After being stuffy in the carriage for a long time, she even had the illusion of not knowing day and night, which was really boring.
It can only be said that the bustle in the city and the scenery outside the city, there are always people who yearn for each other and desperately want to escape from the status quo, but they don't know that they are about to go to another scene.
He Qianwei is in such a state, with her identity, she is a little rebellious, which is simply an ordinary thing.
Right now, she was riding on a horse borrowed from the Imperial Foresters, the reins wrapped around her palm, and the free hand was raised, aiming at the looming silhouette of Yangzhou City in the distance.
"How far is it?" He Qianwei asked with great interest, quite a kind of joy that could be regarded as having survived.
Xiao Zaiyang looked in the direction she pointed, recalled the matter reported by Fang Cai Ji Xiulai, and said a rough idea after consideration.
"If you rush to the road, it will be there in a few days."
In fact, if there is no accident, it will be time to enter Yangzhou City tomorrow night at the latest.
But Xiao Zaiyang has always only spoken for three points, and he is used to leaving some leeway for himself, so he subconsciously replied.
He didn't have any intention of beware of He Qianwei, he was purely accustomed to it, and when he reacted, the words had already slipped out, and it was too late to change it, so he could only follow up and remedy.
As for this behavior that is quite a slap in the face...... Anyway, Xiao Zaiyang did some faceless bastards in front of He Qianwei.
It's like when His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was at a stubborn age, as the only girl among the people close to him, He Qianwei was so angry with him that he secretly sued the emperor several times - whose prince would drag the little girl's beads to play, but he was damaged by too much force, and he hid it weakly, so that He Qianwei was so anxious to look around for a long time!
He even pretended to be innocent and accompanied He Qianwei to look for it, bothered to comfort him for a long time, and finally thought that the matter was over, and relaxed for a while so that the beads hiding in his sleeves fell out, only to discover the identity of the culprit.
He Qianwei almost didn't catch her breath at that time, and she cried silently.
One cried sadly for the bead flower that could no longer be worn, and the other found that it was not good to coax him to comfort and swear, so he also brewed tears, and this battle was so big that even the emperor who was far away in the Qinzheng Palace was alarmed, and hurriedly came over to inquire.
When the two children finally figured out what had happened, the emperor couldn't help laughing, and even began to wonder if he had done such a foolish thing before.
No matter how you think about it, you can't. The emperor has been carved out of the mold of a righteous man and a gentleman since he was a child.
So how did you give birth to such a son?
I'm usually very interested in the prince's education.
The emperor was puzzled, and while doubting himself, he skillfully began to coax the child.
He asked Tang Zhengde to go to the Internal Affairs Office to bring over a case full of pearls, originally intending to coax He Qianwei to choose a favorite one, but the little girl couldn't choose after picking for a long time, so she simply sent them all out.
He Qianwei, who was stunned by the pie falling from the sky, looked at the bead flower that had been exchanged for Ruolan's hand, and then looked at Xiao Zaiyang, who looked at him apologetically and had an aggrieved expression that was about to cry.
Forget it, he didn't mean it either.
"I'll only forgive you this time," He Qianwei said, "If there is a next time, I will definitely not talk to you for a day...... Forget it, half a day. I won't talk to you for half a day. ”
Xiao Zaiyang nodded like pounding onions.
The emperor who achieved the goal waved his sleeves and rushed back to approve the folding, hiding his merit and fame.
How to say it, that Xiao Zaiyang really hasn't touched He Qianwei's bead flower again - not only bead flower, but all the jewelry on her body, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has kept the lesson in mind, and he doesn't dare to get closer at all.
But he found a lot of trouble for He Qianwei in other places, and always made He Qianwei jump left and right in the two circles of anger and tears, but she wanted to laugh a little.
Who made Xiao Zaiyang get into trouble every time, and the speed of admitting his mistakes was not only as fast as ever, but his attitude was so good that people couldn't jump out of the problem...... He's really curious, plus a little bit of movement is faster than thought.
It's really a chaotic and unfriendly past.
When Xiao Zaiyang overturned his previous words, he was lucky not to remember this past, but he was intercepted by He Qianwei, who was used to his way of speaking.
"Then I understand, I'll be there tomorrow, right?" He Qianwei automatically analyzed the meaning of Xiao Zaiyang's words in her heart, and immediately said it, "The first thing you do when you enter the city is to take me to eat crabs, do you still remember?" ”
I'm still thinking about crabs.
Xiao Zaiyang reluctantly expressed his determination again: "Remember to remember, no matter what happens, I will definitely let you eat crabs first." ”
At the end of the exchange, He Qianwei immediately turned the horse's head, found a place to turn over and dismount, and returned to the carriage with a sullen head.
Xiao Zaiyang stayed outside, talked a few more words to the leader of the Imperial Forest Army who was in charge of guarding this trip, and then ordered Ji Xiu to get into the carriage.
He Qianwei's frame has no problems at all, but the two of them tacitly ignore this matter out of common selfishness, and He Qianwei can really only stay on the prince's frame to be much easier, still riding together, and will only be separated when they rest at night.
When Xiao Zaiyang lifted the curtain, He Qianwei, who was one step ahead, was already leaning on the soft couch in the car leisurely, but she was not holding a military book in her hand, but a chess game that Xiao Zaiyang was still studying before.
Xiao Zaiyang was a little surprised, looked down and looked again, the chessboard didn't know when it had been turned over, and there was even a game of residual chess on it.
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has always had a good memory, and he recognized it at a glance as an exercise given in the chess game.
The kind he hasn't figured out yet.
Xiao Zaiyang sat down opposite He Qianwei, picked up a sunspot placed on his side, didn't speak, rubbed the chess pieces and began to think.
Instead, He Qianwei kicked his toes lightly first: "How is it, Your Highness, have you figured out how to solve it?" ”
"There's a little bit of an idea." Xiao Zaiyang replied.
He still trapped the sunspot at his fingertips, and asked with a smile, "What about Qingqing?" Seeing that you seem to be very interested in this game, you even put it out yourself. ”
He Qianwei was very modest: "I just have a little idea." ”
When I first came in, there was only this chess game on the table, He Qianwei was also curious, so she picked it up and looked at it, who knew that she was attracted to it at this time, and even turned the chessboard out by herself, and set up the chess game for easy thinking.
Although Go is not in the six arts of gentlemen, it has a good status among literati and scholars and high-ranking officials, and He Qianwei has naturally been in contact with it, but it has not reached the level of mastery of this way.
Xiao Zaiyang can be called a sentence that is good at chess, but the difficulty of this chess book is only medium, and He Qianwei has been thinking hard for a long time, but he can also figure out how to break the game.
It's just that it's the same method, but there are high and low levels.
Hearing He Qianwei's words, Xiao Zaiyang put the sunspot in his hand back into the blue and white five-clawed dragon pattern Go jar, and pushed the jar in front of the other party.
"Qingqing showed his hand first?"
If Xiao Zaiyang is allowed to demonstrate the method of breaking the game first, there will be no fun.
He himself knew this fact, so he simply gave the opportunity to crack to He Qianwei, intending to say a few words as a guide after the other party broke the game.
He Qianwei can't do anything else, but her self-knowledge is not bad at all. She understood Xiao Zaiyang's unfinished words, so she unceremoniously detected a sunspot, and did not hesitate to take the next step: "Sacrifice ugliness." ”
On the chessboard, black and white each circle a piece of territory, entrenched on it, on the surface it seems to be a division of court, but in fact, white has the advantage, and black is lagging behind, dying and trying their best to maintain their position.
With the intervention of He Qianwei, the chess player, one after another sunspots were thrown into the game, and Xiao Zaiyang, who was in charge of Baizi, did not deliberately compete with her, but just followed the steps that had been given in advance on the chess game.
In view of the current situation, He Qianwei had already thought of a countermeasure before, and followed up according to her own ideas without hurrying, and pondered a little from time to time.
It didn't take long for Kuroko, who was originally driven to the end of the road, to become a hero who broke through the encirclement, fought his way out of a desperate situation, and finally won the victory.
It can be said that there is no way out of the mountains and rivers, and the willows and flowers are bright and another village.
He Qianwei looked at Xiao Zaiyang with a smile, her eyes full of pride.
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince cooperated and said a few words of congratulations, and when He Qianwei's expression returned to normal, she felt that it was almost time, and then she raised her hand and pointed at the chess game: "Although it is said that it is a successful breakthrough, there are indeed a lot of redundant steps, if I come to play against you, I am afraid it will fall short." ”
He Qianwei believed this.
In terms of chess skills, Xiao Zaiyang beat all over the study when she was still hammered on the ground by Taifu.
What an enviable and jealous talent...... Although there is also the reason why Xiao Zaiyang himself works hard enough.
"Tell me?"
She made a deferential appearance.
Xiao Zaiyang talked about the ideas he had just finished a game of chess, and the ideas he had accumulated in his heart not only carefully criticized He Qianwei's method from beginning to end, pointed out the shortcomings, and finally showed his own way to break the game, and the action was smooth and there was no sense of blockage.
He Qianwei was empowered, and immediately turned over another game of chess with great interest.
It's so addictive to something that I'm not interested in in the first place.
And in the sad study of Go by these two people, the day's journey passed in a flash, and the convoy finally approached the gate of Yangzhou City, and met the local Taishou who had been waiting here early.