Chapter 31: Choosing the Way (2)
"Let's go to Guansong Cliff to find Uncle Shang Rong, Uncle Lu You is a sword idiot, and he is uncertain all day long and he doesn't like to be disturbed when he is practicing swords. ”
After leaving the Dan room, Lu Zijiao thought about it a little and felt that it was safer to go and find Senior Brother Shang Rong first.
"Before going up the mountain, the master said that Senior Brother Shang Rong followed Uncle Yu Dahai to major in martial arts, and he was the closest to nature among the several senior brothers, and he looked like a very good person to get along with. ”
Previously, when Master Mu Sanqian and the two traveled to Northern Xinjiang, Zhang Mingjun would often talk about the things on Wudang Mountain, and when he mentioned the second senior brother Shang Rong, he would always inadvertently express admiration in his words.
"Yes and no. ”
Lu Zijiao thought carefully about Uncle Shang Rong's appearance on weekdays, and felt that the words "getting along very well" were not too appropriate.
"I only know that Uncle Shang Rong is from Chuyi, and in addition to practicing with Uncle Yu Dahai on the mountain, he will only be in a daze at a game of chess. I heard my master say that the chess game was also set up by Uncle Shang Rong in Guansong Cliff after he went up the mountain, and it has been ten years now, and there are only five pieces on the chessboard. Except for watching chess and practicing, Uncle Shang Rong rarely talks to us, but when we meet him, I always see him smiling and greeting us. That's why I said yes and no. ”
"That's a weirdo. ”
Mu Sanqian listened to Lu Zijiao's detailed words, and overturned the image of the second senior brother in the mouth of the previous master.
"We're here, watching the pine cliffs. ”
After coming out of the Danfang and walking half a pillar of incense to the back mountain, I arrived at the pine cliff.
There are many kinds of pine trees growing on the back mountain, and the Taoist priests built a pavilion next to the edge of the mountain cliff, and the pine forest under the mountain can be seen here, so it is called the pine cliff. ”
When Lu Zijiao took Mu Sanqian to walk the trail behind the mountain, and he could see a small pavilion on the cliff from a distance, Lu Zijiao talked about the origin of the song cliff called Guansong Cliff here.
"That pavilion is called Guansong Pavilion?"
"No, the pavilion doesn't have a name. ”
Mu Sanqian wanted to be clever, but he didn't expect to step on the air.
"It's okay, then it's going to be called Guansong Pavilion in the future. ”
Fortunately, Mu Sanqian's face is not thin, and if you guess wrong, you can go back and make up for it.
"Hey, looks like we're going to have a trip for nothing. ”
Turning the trail, Lu Zijiao saw no figure in the pavilion from a distance, and immediately sighed that he ran in vain, and the soles of his shoes had to be rubbed off.
"Since Uncle Shang Rong is not here, let's go back, I am tired of walking for half a day, so I just take you to the place where you live. ”
"Won't I live with you?"
"Uncle Zhang's uncle has built another one next to the senior brother's thatched hut, I live in a wing room with other senior brothers, you are a junior uncle, and the treatment is different from ours. ”
When Mu Sanqian first entered Wudang, he went up the mountain as a disciple of the master's personal lineage, and he was everyone's little uncle in terms of seniority, and he could live in a small courtyard by himself, Lu Zijiao was still quite envious of these.
And what Mu Sanqian didn't know was that the inheritance of the position of the head of the Wudang Mountain has always been the head of the teaching, the previous one and the sword god Ning Xiaoyao did not distinguish between the old master of the victory and defeat of the old master of Zhang Mingjun accepted Zhang Mingjun as a disciple, and then Zhang Mingjun became the head of the sect, and now Zhang Mingjun has accepted Mu Sanqian as an apprentice, who knows if the master intends to train Mu Sanqian to become the next head of Wudang.
"Oh, I want to live in a grass hut. ”
The same thing is not so happy in Mu Sanqian's eyes, after all, he has been the emperor for ten years before, and his food and clothing are not only extremely luxurious, but he is also very particular about quality, and now he is good, and he is about to go to the grass house to spend the rest of his life.
So Mu Sanqian couldn't help but feel sad from it.
"Let's go and see that game of chess and come back, wouldn't it be a pity to come here and leave without doing anything. ”
Mu Sanqian proposed to take a second look at the chess game that made Senior Brother Shang Rong only play five pieces in ten years. Although Mu Fang wants to govern the country of Buddhism, he also likes the calligraphy and painting of the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting of the Confucian scholars in the Central Plains, and the Buddha head Wenkong monk is a master of the nineteen paths, so Mu Sanqian has been smoked and drewn, and he has a good chess power since he was a child. In addition, Mu Sanqian was born with Huigen and was extremely smart, even if he played against Monk Wenkong, he would not fall behind.
"You can also play chess?"
Lu Zijiao was surprised.
"So-so, some. ”
Mu Sanqian replied as he walked into the pavilion.
When I arrived at the pavilion, there was a chessboard carved from stone on the stone table in the middle of the pavilion, and the two chess pieces on it were black and white.
"I asked the master before, is it difficult for Uncle Shang Rong to solve this game of chess until now, is it some kind of ancient score fragment or something, the master said no, he said that Uncle Shang Rong is playing against himself, I don't understand, the master said that I am stupid, and he is not willing to bother to teach me to play chess. ”
"Playing chess, it's a job that compares the eyes of the heart, every inch is full of intrigue, intrigue and deceit, whether it is a conspiracy or a conspiracy, it is for people to stumble and calculate each other, you are simple and honest is simply a copy of Senior Brother Guo Datie, if Senior Brother insists that you learn these nineteen vertical and horizontal, it is difficult for a strong man. ”
Mu Sanqian pouted and immediately put the game of Go at the bottom.
Lu Zijiao was happy, because simplicity and honesty always didn't sound bad.
Now the situation on the chessboard seems to have reached the final stage, white is nearly seven points, and sunspots only account for a little more than three points.
I believe that anyone who can play Go will not lose at the moment, the winner is clear, black and white is simple, such a chess game still needs to be considered?
Mu Sanqian pinched his chin and couldn't figure it out, he really couldn't figure it out.
"Is this really hard to play?"
Lu Zijiao saw Mu Sanqian staring at the chessboard, and thought hard with his brows, thinking that this chess game was really difficult.
He would never have thought that what made Mu Sanqian puzzled was not the chess game with a clear situation at the moment, but the second senior brother Shang Rong, who had only played five sons in ten years in the face of such a chess game.
"It's not like the second senior brother is a chess master, and he deliberately increases the difficulty for himself to relieve boredom, right?"
Seeing the end of being black-bound to die, but still being able to think about countermeasures for ten years, this second senior brother Shang Rong is either an extraordinary person or a person who is extremely boring.
"Uncle Shang does have a lot of experience in chess, but why do you deliberately increase the difficulty to relieve yourself of boredom?"
Lu Zijiao didn't understand what Mu Sanqian meant.
"Let me tell you this, there is nothing to think about in this game of chess, I have thought of more than a hundred solutions for black chess, but in the end they are all dead words, the second senior brother Shang Rong is proficient in chess, and it is impossible not to see it, so I will say that." ”
"What would you do if you were a black man?"
"What else can I do, throw in the towel. It is impossible to play only one game of chess in a lifetime, and it would be nice to win it back. ”
"But do you know that many times, it's like playing chess, but there is only one chance, and no one can afford to lose?"
Only then did Mu Sanqian notice that it was not Lu Zijiao beside him who was talking just now, but someone else.
"Uncle Shi. ”
The two turned around and found a young man who looked like a scholar who didn't know when he appeared behind the two, and Lu Zijiao hurriedly called Uncle Shi.
"The little junior brother just said that if he loses, he will lose, so if it is a confrontation between the two countries, it is also like a chess game, can the weaker side who holds the sunspot also throw in and admit defeat?"
Shang Rong was the only disciple on the mountain who did not wear a Taoist robe, because he was an old man of Chuyi and the son of Shang Chunhou, the general of Chuyi.
"The little junior brother dares to ask the second senior brother, is the ending of the confrontation between the two countries clear?"
Mu Sanqian had already guessed that the person who came was his second senior brother Shang Rong.
"Yes, a weak country has been slaughtered, and the end is decided. ”
"In this case, I think it's okay to accept this ending, people live for a lifetime, if people are still there, even if the country is not there, there is still a time to start another chess game, the chessboard is all unusable chess pieces, it is better to keep it, and it is better to collect it to free up space for the next game. ”
"Clean up and make room for the next round?"
Shang Rong repeated what Mu Sanqian had just said, and seemed to have realized something from it.
Immediately, Shang Rong came back to his senses and returned to his former calm and calm.
"I almost forgot about business, Uncle Zhang's master asked you to clean up the cottage, and then told you about the Wudang Sect Exam in half a month. ”
"The master called me, then let's go. ”
Mu Sanqian, Lu Zijiao, and the two of them closed their hands and saluted Shang Rong.
"Then senior brother, let's go first, and we'll come back another day to disturb. ”
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"Clean up and make room for the next game, it is really worthy of the natural wisdom root, so simple to see through the root of the problem. ”
After Mu Sanqian and the two walked away, a short and fat old Taoist priest appeared out of nowhere, looking at Mu Sanqian's face with relief.
"Master. ”
Shang Rong respectfully bowed to the old Taoist priest.
The old Taoist priest is Shang Rong's master, one of the oldest people on Wudang Mountain, Yu Dahai.
"The elder brother accepted the emperor Tsar Zimu Sanqian as an apprentice, the two of you have very similar experiences, you are the son of General Chuyi, he is the prince of the Emperor Sha Kingdom, and now they are all remnants of the old country, Xu is still young and does not understand the hatred of the country and the destruction of the family, but his sentence that can only be cleaned up before the next game is reasonable, you, you are too obsessed with the year, you can't let go so you can't afford it. ”
The disciple knew that the words of the little junior brother had already made Shang Rong feel enlightened, but there were some things that he had forgotten, and the disciple was unwilling. ”
"Alas. ”
Over the years, Yu Dahai has not known how many times he has persuaded Shang Rong, and heart disease still needs heart medicine. Yu Dahai sighed and stopped talking.
The mountain wind is howling, the nineteen chessboards on the stone table in the Guansong Pavilion, the black and white chess pieces, and the old generals who have been watching the chess game for ten years seem to have become the unchanged scenery of the mountain behind Wudang.