Zhong Ming remembered Mr. Guo's advice before leaving, ignored it, stayed at home, and did not cause trouble in the turbulent waves.

But sometimes you don't want to find trouble, but trouble comes to you.

On the morning of the second day, in the courtyard of the Zhong family's fence.

Zhong Ming personally watched Fei Dacheng and them carry their hoes to the east ridge of the city, making sure that the group of little green skins would not cause trouble for him, and watched Liang Yu ride into the city and go to the school captain's mansion for drills.

Zhong Ming relieved himself and returned to the courtyard to practice knives.

Halfway through the knife practice, Old Man Sun entered the courtyard with his hands on his sleeves, and he entered the courtyard without making a sound, sitting on the stone bench at will, watching the young man practice the knife.

It wasn't until the young man rolled up the yellow sand with a move and flew the roots and leaves of the weeds on the grass that the old man Sun smiled and said, "Xiao Zhong, I see that you have practiced the knife well during this time, and you have far surpassed the old man and me." ”

"What's the matter, Uncle Sun praised it. ”

Zhong Ming put away the knife with a smile, his mouth was modest, and his heart was also very proud.

Indeed, during this period of time, his sword practice was good, and with only the move of rolling the wild sand, he was on par with Old Man Sun, especially after practicing the knife for a long time, he could touch the mysterious and mysterious things, which was probably called the realm of knife intent.

The strength of the knife in the rolling sand is intended to be strong and strong, and the young man has already understood six or seven points.

Everything pays attention to talent, and in some aspects, Zhong Ming's talent is also outstanding, not only because the young man is smart, but also because he is a later generation, and there are many tricky angles to understand the problem, which is incomparable to the contemporary geniuses.

Zhong Ming put the knife horizontally on the stone table, poured himself a cup of tea, and also poured a cup for Old Man Sun, and he asked, "Uncle Sun, what are you looking for me today?"

Old man Sun usually has nothing to do but go to the Three Treasures Palace, he drank two sips of tea, and said: "It's not a big deal, isn't it clear tomorrow, I don't think about going to the barren hill tomorrow to worship, let you know." ”

Zhong Ming said with a smile: "Uncle Sun, you just have full authority to handle such things, you don't have to tell me." ”

Old man Sun shook his head and said: "No, you are the village official in the village, the sacrifice is a major event, I must inform you, besides, you still have an important position tomorrow." ”

Zhong Ming frowned slightly, he hadn't heard about the sacrifice and him, so he asked, "What is my duty?"

Old man Sun replied: "Someone needs to recite the sacrificial words for the sacrifice, I think about it, and our silt village will be able to do its great duty, and no one else can do it." ”

With a little doubt in his heart, Zhong Ming asked again: "Pick up the seniority, I'm just a descendant boy, shouldn't you come to this kind of thing like reciting sacrificial words?"

Coughing, Old Man Sun took a sip of tea to hide his embarrassment, and said: "I haven't read this sacrificial word, and no one can say one or two when I ask the old people in the village, I don't think Xiao Zhong You know a lot, maybe you know how to pronounce this sacrificial word." ”

After saying half a sound, Zhong Ming also understood, it turned out that Old Man Sun didn't know how to read the sacrificial words, and he asked himself for advice.

Let Zhong Ming go to the sacrifice, this is indeed not in line with the etiquette, Zhong Ming thought for a moment and said: "I think Uncle Sun is not right, according to the etiquette, my seniority is not enough, it is better to do this, I will write a poem for the sacrifice, and then Uncle Sun you will read it." ”

"That's great!"

Seeing Old Man Sun's eyebrows and smiles, Zhong Ming knew that at the beginning of the fight, Old Man Sun came with this idea.

The matter of asking for words is still simple, Zhong Ming asked Old Man Sun to wait for a while, he went to the house to take the pen and ink, and when he returned to the small courtyard, he held the pen and waved it, sprinkled with a few crosses, after writing, Zhong Ming blew the ink and handed it to Old Man Sun.

Old man Sun took the rice paper, stared at it for a while, and then sneered: "This, you wrote Xiao Zhong, I don't know it!"

Zhong Ming smiled, spread the rice paper on the stone table, and taught the old man Sun to read: "I will enjoy me, Wei Niu and Wei Yang, and Wei Tian is the right." The ritual punishment of the Tang King is the rite of the Quartet. The king of Yi Tang is the right to feast. I have been dreaming of the night, fearing the power of the sky, and protecting it at the time. ”

After teaching Old Man Sun to read it a few times, and after confirming that Old Man Sun had written it down, Zhong Ming smiled and said: "This was originally read by the ancestor of Qianchen when he sacrificed to the sky, I modified it slightly, I think it is not bad to use it for sacrifices, in short, it is all about asking for smooth wind and rain, and the meaning of peace and peace." ”

kept chanting the song "I Will" in his mouth, Old Man Sun was very satisfied, holding rice paper and self-absorbed, he didn't even say hello to the young man when he left.

Looking at Old Man Sun like a child learning poetry, Zhong Ming looked at his back and smiled.

Just as the young man was about to turn back to the courtyard, a carriage drove in the distance, two red horses with reins on them, followed by a carriage of pear blossom wood, on which colorful silk fluttered, and the curtain was embroidered with large field characters.

Sun Bo's quest for poetry is really not a trouble, but the carriage that comes now is really troublesome.

In the carriage was a little girl dressed in ayara, who looked to be only seventeen or eighteen years old, but her face was very gloomy, as if everyone owed him a hundred and eighty ingots of silver.

This person Zhong Ming recognized that she was Tian Xingjian's personal maid, smiling, with a gloomy face, but she called her by this name.

The eldest son of the Tian family has a big business, and there are many maids and servants, but he only likes this little maid, and when he has nothing to do, he has to take her to the street.

In this way, Tian Xingjian didn't come to find fault with Zhong Ming today.

Finding fault and fighting, fighting and arguing, Tian Xingjian never brought a maid, only his Bai Yujing's senior brother, Li Que.

While Zhong Ming was thinking, the carriage had arrived in front of the fence courtyard, and he stopped with a smile and said in a low voice, "Childe, we have arrived." ”

I only heard Tian Xingjian's lazy answer from the carriage, he opened the curtain, looked at Zhong Ming's fence courtyard, and pinched his nose and said: "Zhong Ming, you still have this bad appearance, you want to live with stinky fish and rotten shrimp." ”

Zhong Ming smiled and said, "In the place of the Chicken Coop Duck Society, I can still have the honor of having Tian Dagongzi come, and Tian Gongzi is really wronged." ”

The two choked when they met, Zhong Ming didn't want this trouble to find him, Tian Xingjian looked down on the poor people in the mud village in his bones, he thought that people were born into three, six, nine and so on, and a noble person like him should not meet people struggling in the mud.

Even if the poor people looked at him more, it was an insult to him.

But life is always strange, but such a Tian Gongzi met Zhong Ming, a young man who seemed to have gold and jade in his belly, but his appearance was muddy.

If it weren't for Zhong Ming, Tian Xingjian would never have been able to stay in a place like Mud Village for the rest of his life.

Tian Xingjian pinched his nose and got out of the carriage, followed by Li Que in blue, Li Que stood on Tian Xingjian's shoulder with one foot, just stared at Zhong Ming twice, and did not make a sound.

His blue eyes were so clear that Zhong Ming couldn't tell what he was thinking.

Tian Gongzi traveled, brought a personal maid to smile, and brought his senior brother Li Que, there is only one possibility, to find Zhong Ming.

The tricks mentioned here do not refer to killing, but to fighting on the chessboard.

A year ago, the heavy snow closed the mountain, and there was no food to eat in the mud village, Zhong Ming took Liang Heizi to Tianfu to exchange food, and gold, silver and jewelry were not in Tian Gongzi's eyes, but Zhong Ming heard that Tian Gongzi liked new things, especially things to play.

So he brought a flute that couldn't be blown at all, as well as a chess piece that he personally carved to find this Tian Gongzi.

There are novelty gadgets as bait, knowing that this is a set, Tian Gongzi still jumped in with a smile.

The grain bell was exchanged, but maybe Tian Xingjian made a promise to play nine games of chessboard with him.

In the past three months, eight games have been played, and it is precisely because of the two of them talking in chess that Zhong Ming can recognize Tian Xingjian when he was in the yamen.

This last game of chess has dragged on for a long time, and since Liu Chengyin made a big fuss in the border town, this Tian Gongzi has been at home and has not shown his face, even his favorite Hongxiang Pavilion.

I don't know what kind of Yaxing Tian Gongzi started today, and he actually went to the mud village to play chess with Zhong Ming in person.

After dismounting, Tian Xingjian pinched his nose and said, "Zhong Ming, you still have a hand-to-hand talk with me, do you remember?"

"I remember that I made a promise to others, and I never forgot it. ”

Zhong Ming nodded, he stretched out his hand and made a gesture of invitation, letting Tian Xingjian enter the courtyard.

The maid next to her smiled and took out the chessboard from the carriage, walked into the courtyard, and skillfully set the chessboard on the stone table.

Tian Xingjian and Zhong Ming both sat down at the stone table, Tian Xingjian held the general, and said: "We have nine rounds of appointment, the previous eight games, I have seven losses and one draw with you, recently I have been thinking for a long time, I want to have seven points to win you, so I came to you." ”

This Tian Gongzi is a smart person, and his title of little unicorn is not in vain, and when it comes to the ability to talk with his hands, it is also a must.

In this era, there was no chess, it was just a gadget specially carved by Zhong Ming for rice grain, and the hand talk between the literati was Go, and the nineteen vertical and horizontal chessboard held black and white pieces to fight.

Tian Xingjian has always been known as a prodigy, this Go is also the ability to enter the house, I heard that he and the unicorn Tian Yizheng can also kill hundreds of rounds, can slay the dragon, can return to the sky, after the age of thirteen, even if the unicorn talks with him, there are also wins and losses.

Now that the two of them are playing chess on this chessboard that seems simple, but the rules are different, Tian Xingjian is very inconsistent.

Compared with Go, Xiangqi pays more attention to the strategy of changing the pieces, although there are not many pieces, but it is also ever-changing, Tian Gongzi and Zhong Ming played eight games, and the first seven games ended in defeat.

It was still late in the eighth game, Zhong Ming was in a hurry to go home for dinner, so he sent him a car and a cannon, and it was a draw in Kankan.

Not convinced!

As smart as Tian Xingjian, he has been touted by the world for more than ten years, and he has never won a game in small chess, which makes Tian Xingjian how to speak.

Hearing that Tian Xingjian was not very confident, and only had seven points to beat me, Zhong Ming laughed and said: "If you are seven points sure, you want to win me, you are afraid that you will underestimate me, I advise you to go back and ponder more, and come back when you have more than nine points, don't waste this last opportunity." ”

Tian Xingjian sighed and said abruptly: "If it weren't for the fear that I wouldn't have the opportunity to talk to you again, how could I come in such a hurry, I, Tian Xingjian, would never lose in the hands of a country boy with you." ”

Stunned for a moment, Zhong Ming heard what Tian Xingjian said, and he asked, "Are you leaving?"

"A gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall. ”

Tian Xingjian only replied with such a sentence, and his expression was also very melancholy.

Li Que, who was standing on his shoulder, frowned slightly, and said coldly: "Don't say much, junior brother, you quickly complete the chess contract." ”

The strange words and deeds of these two people made Zhong Ming think deeply.

It seems that what Mr. Guo said is very right, the sky is about to change here, and even Tian Xingjian has to leave.

On this day, it became very powerful, and maybe it was going to be a violent storm.