Chapter 7: A Defeat

The palace ladies set up the chessboard, Li Chaoping and the prince began to compete, this is the first time Li Chaoping and people real swords and guns in actual combat, it turns out that the reason why he knows chess is not because he played at home, but he has seen a few ancient chess books in the library, plus he has a deep study of the art of war, so he dares to take this uncertain job. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info Li Luoyun didn't know that his grandson could play chess, so he also sweated for him, this is not an after-dinner show, but a matter of honor between countries.

In the first game of chess, the prince let Chaoping take the lead, Chaoping used a move as the opening of the first cannon, the prince used a cannon to fight, I thought that Chaoping could be at a loss with a fierce play, but I didn't expect Chaoping to always be a step ahead, and he has been pressing the prince to have no room to fight back, the prince saw this and thought to himself how this kid's chess skills are so powerful, he has to compete with the Song people this time, but he lifted a stone to hit his own feet, and there is no way to work hard to play a few more games to save the situation, the first game Chaoping won one step faster, which makes everyone have the bottom in their hearts, the emperor, his grandfather and all the ministers, all had smiles on their faces, only the prince of Tubo was sweating profusely and was in a hurry. In the second game, the prince said: "This little brother's chess is really good, and I will take the lead in this game." After speaking, he took the first step, but also the first cannon, Chaoping thought that if the normal way to deal with it was not enough to defeat the prince's arrogance, so he responded with a-for-tat and a cannon, his move made the prince a little resentful of him, because the deception was too much, but there was no way, but the prince still had luck in his heart, thinking that his family did not have the opportunity to let Chaoping rehabilitate the first, if it was a master of chess skills like the two of them, it would be difficult to fight first, but this game of chess Chaoping still won without a doubt。 Time passed quickly, it was already dark, and the prince said sullenly, "You Da Song are really capable people, and you have been taught." After saying that, the prince got up, stood up and returned to the post house after the trip with the Yellow Emperor.

After the prince left, the emperor praised Li Chaoping, saying that he was worthy of being the queen of the general, and he would also be a pillar of talent in the future, saying that he had to reward him, and asked him what he wanted, which made Chaoping embarrassed, he shirked and said not to reward, the emperor disagreed, and he stiffened, saying that the emperor rewarded him, if he didn't want it, he would not respect the emperor. Chaoping thought left and right at this time or didn't know what to order, he looked east and west and found that there was a knife hanging on the left side of the emperor's dragon chair, a knife with gold, he thought so, he felt that he had asked for this knife to be a general in the future, the knife is the honor of a soldier, and the emperor is not short of gold, although this is a golden knife, which object in this palace is not priceless. Thinking of this, Chao Ping said casually: "Your Majesty the Emperor, the grass people want to serve the country and make achievements in the military, if the emperor must reward the grass people, then the grass people dare to ask Your Majesty to reward the golden knife hanging on the dragon chair, hoping that they can fight bravely on the battlefield in the future." ”

The emperor almost didn't spit out the tea in his mouth when he heard this, his golden knife was prepared for his favorite daughter Sixteen Princesses, and he was going to seal it to the concubine, and the two of them knew about it, the emperor and Tan Gonggong, Li Luoyun were still waiting for his grandson to be rewarded. The emperor specially ordered Gonggong Tan to build the golden knife a while ago, and planned to give a golden knife and a horse when the sixteenth princess Zhao Biying got married in the future. Princess Biying is only five years old now, and Chaoping is ten years old, but I don't know what happened to the old emperor, maybe I like Chaoping too much, so I gave Chaoping a golden sword and a horse on the spot, the government and the opposition were shocked, and the civil and military officials didn't know how to persuade the emperor, Li Luoyun said: "Your Majesty, no, the princess is still young, and the marriage can't be decided so hastily." The emperor said: "Although Princess Biying is still young, you have no jokes, and I also like Chaoping very much, so it is decided, today you will be named a golden sword and horse, and I will give you a marriage when you grow up." Li Chaoping was stunned after hearing this, and it took a long time to slow down, and he said helplessly, "Thank you, Lord Longen." Li Luoyun also thanked His Majesty, the emperor said that he would play a few games with Chaoping the next day, and then Chaoping took the golden knife and his grandfather back to the post house, from this holy decree, he was full of thoughts, because he did not expect that these things would involve his marriage, and he never considered these things. That's it, he plans to see the emperor's uncle alone the next day to talk to him.

The next day, Li Chaoping was invited to the palace alone, and was brought to the imperial garden by the palace people to see the emperor, he sat in the pavilion with the emperor and chatted, he said to the emperor: "Uncle Emperor, can I stop my marriage with the princess, because I have a humble status, how can I marry the princess, and the age difference is ten years, yesterday's golden knife matter is really unintentional, the emperor's uncle punished me, only ask that the marriage contract can be dissolved." The emperor understood what Chaoping was thinking, and he was not angry, but he refused to abolish the marriage contract, and Chaoping had no choice but to stop mentioning the matter when he saw this. At this time, Princess Biying came to play in the imperial garden, Chaoping saw this girl who was ten years younger than him, in his eyes, this little girl will become his wife in the future, in Biying's heart, this big brother is the one who will marry him in the future, in other words, they are young and have no love, they only know that there is such a thing, but Chaoping knows a lot of things when he is old, so he is sad, and he doesn't want to marry this girl he doesn't like.

The emperor gave an order, and after playing a few games with him, Chaoping asked Chaoping to accompany Biying to play in the imperial garden, and there were several princes together, and for several days, Chaoping was playing with several princes and this Biying princess. One afternoon, these children had to compete together, Chaoping and everyone else, played together, several princes discussed, wanted to use his sister Biying's butterfly-shaped jade pendant as a bet, the princess was very generous and agreed. Several people threw the pot together, and as a result, they played for two hours, and Chaoping won, so Xiao Biying was very reluctant to give the butterfly-shaped jade pendant to Chaoping, Chaoping thought that this was just a joke, and wanted to return the jade pendant to Biying, who would have thought that the little princess would also have a temper, Brother Ping, what is yours is yours, and if you win this jade pendant, it should belong to you, Chaoping had to put it away, knowing that this is the princess's belongings and a priceless treasure, keep it well.