The seventeenth year of the Spring and Autumn period passed like this.

The firecrackers in Lanling City roared, removing the old and welcoming the new, all of which were great joys.

Yi Xiao took Yi Xiaoan to visit acquaintances in Lanling City one by one.

The engagement ceremony of the Second Highness came to many celebrities, and the eldest lady of the Tang family moved to the Weiluo Hall of the Second Highness, and the two lived together, envying others, and almost every family in Lanling City received the candy of the Second Highness.

The Tang Gate is attached to Lanling City, and the eldest lady of the Tang family finally has a good home.

The final wedding date of the two has not yet been determined, because His Royal Highness and Tang Xiaoman are not in a hurry, and this is indeed the reason, now that the two of them have finally met, it is the time to snuggle and snuggle, and the engagement ceremony has also been held, so there is no need to be busy with the wedding, you can drag it back.

The invitations that were sent to Yi Xiao's Jingtao Hall are too many to count.

Large and small cocktail parties were held in Lanling City, and those who could send invitations to Jingtao Hall were also some celebrities and celebrities, except for a few cocktail parties that could not be pushed off, the others were pushed by His Royal Highness.

Mr. Qi Shu invited a group of literati in the Laoshe Tea House, invited Yi Xiao and Xiao Buyi to suppress the suppression, and it was not easy to refuse, this scribe who became famous in a short period of time was only the tenth in the literary review, and now Lanling City is like riding the wind and clouds, and there is a faint tendency to sit on the head of the youngest officialdom in the north and south.

Mr. Qi Shu's cocktail party did not have wine, but replaced wine with tea, paying attention to the word elegant, on books and Taoism, on self-cultivation and rest, and on the Qi family's governance of the country and the world.

The atmosphere of Qi Liang was different from that of the Northern Wei Dynasty. \t

In fact, these large and small gatherings, whether to go or not is a headache.

Some invitations were thrown into the corner after a glance, and some were merciful and returned, politely refused, and a very small number played the due role of the invitation, inviting His Royal Highness himself.

Outsiders only say that His Royal Highness is busy practicing, but Yi Xiao is idle, the way of civil and military affairs is relaxed one by one, and it takes a period of running-in time after advancing to the ninth grade, and it is more necessary to meditate, rather than meditating.

As for the different fates of these invitations......

It all depends on the mood of the great bodhisattva beside him.

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Air castle.

"General. ”

"Again?"

"Pump. ”

"Ah, my car!"

His Royal Highness shouted angrily: "Monk, you can't let me a little, it's boring to play chess with you, and you will only kill me after eating all my chess pieces!"

The young prison master on the other side of the chessboard had a serious face: "Hey, hey, hey, there are no regrets, what is this outstretched hand......"

His Royal Highness, who pretended to be dazed, coughed, and moved back the black horse that Qingshi was running away with an incomparably natural movement, and said with a calm face: "The scholar is called regretful chess, leading the troops to fight, how distressed it is to lose a car, can this be called regretful chess?"

Qingshi was silent for a moment and said, "You, regret the chess, regret the chess...... Again, this is called a car, not a car. ”

Your Majesty is usually busy as usual, but with Qi Shu's assistance, even if the national teacher is not around, he can still save a lot of effort, and now this period is almost the most idle time of the year.

Su Sturgeon accompanied His Majesty for a while, and said to Yi Xiao that His Majesty usually doesn't have many hobbies, and when the three highnesses are not in Lanling City, they are just reading books silently, sitting in front of the Qingyu case, closing their eyes and pondering, more like they are asleep.

Like an old man in his twilight, he sits like this for half a day.

Therefore, His Royal Highness, Second Highness, and His Royal Highness Little Highness took turns to accompany His Majesty.

Today's hall came down early, and also brought the bluestone monk along the way, unfortunately, His Majesty is still correcting the folds, and also called Mr. Qi Shu into the study to discuss state affairs, so he asked His Royal Highness and Qingshi to sit at the chess table for recreation.

At this moment, the game on the table is very different from the black and white nineteen-way Go.

Each chess piece has a seal engraved text on it.

The chariots, horses, artillery, and soldiers looked at each other from afar across the Chu River and the Han Border.

His Majesty said that this is called "Xiangqi", now "Xiangqi" has been popular all over Lanling City, the number of Go games and chess games in the teahouse, about four or six open scenes, compared to the Go that has been studied by scribes for thousands of years and has long been figured out, Xiangqi is more novel and mysterious, the killing method is unpredictable, the confrontation between the fields is like a remote finger to a thousand armies, the insidious moves are endless, and the yang plot can also kill the enemy.

In Lanling City, in addition to the National Teacher and His Majesty, among the chess players who played, Mr. Qi Shu was regarded as a first-class top master, strange to say, Mr. Qi Shu's Go could not be on the table, but the depth of chess attainments was incredible, and his actions were unbelievable.

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If you want to summarize Xiao Wuregret's attainments in chess in a short sentence, it is probably ......

Nothing but regret chess.

Fortunately, the little monk Qingshi has excellent patience, and he can endure frequent regrets on the other side of such a stinky chess basket.

In fact, he was also reciting Buddhist scriptures to pass the time in his heart.

The two sides of the board are not interesting.

"It's going to be a little busier than usual in the study today. His Royal Highness scratched his head, and he didn't even regret the chess, so he simply threw the general to admit defeat, and said: "I also called them cloth, and they should be there later." ”

Qingshi silently helped His Royal Highness to play chess, and began to entertain himself alone, attacking and defending himself, and kept changing roles.

Xiao Buyi and Tang Xiaoman came early, Qingshi played half a game of chess silently alone, and the pair rushed to the study vestibule of the air pavilion.

The eldest lady of the Tang family had never seen such a novel chess piece, so she couldn't help but ask Qingshi about it, and after understanding the rules of the chess table, her eyes were bright, and she seemed to have the idea of eagerly trying.

The eldest lady of the Tang family sat on the opposite side of the chess table and said that Qingshi had played chess, and the confrontation was not fair, so she had to play against her.

Xiao Buyi had no choice but to sit at the chess table.

The eldest lady of the Tang family started the game with a cannon, killing and attacking fiercely all the way, and the second highness looked at the woman opposite with her cheeks raised, smiling and being beaten, looking like kraft candy.

She waved her troops and commanded her to cross the river, and he quietly retreated across the Han realm.

A hint of sadness flashed in her eyes, and he stepped back and gave up.

Spare the beating, let the fighting, protect each other, but protect it very strictly.

When her patience ran out, he deliberately sold a flaw so that she could break the kettle and win the light and momentum.

The eldest lady of the Tang family raised her head with a smile, and just wanted to show off her martial arts, she saw clearly the hateful appearance of the person on the other side with a smile, and dared to let herself go.

The door of the study had already quietly opened a crack.

His Majesty was a little ridiculous and a little funny, put one eye in the crack of the door, and did not look at chess, just quietly looked at the few people in his vestibule, smiling and not speaking.

Mr. Qi Shu stood respectfully beside His Majesty with his hands on his sleeves.

He was a little overwhelmed, because it really didn't look like His Majesty's doing.

The young men who were lying in the crack of the door and peeking at the vestibule.

Qi Shu was a little confused.

He rarely saw His Majesty smile like this.

The man who moved carefully and gently like this was more like a child, not like His Majesty who stood at the highest point of the Nineteenth Dao of Qiliang.

Qi Shu suddenly understood.

Yes.

The emperor's house, the man who sat on the throne, all claimed to be a widow.

A lonely man.

But His Majesty never said so, maybe at this time, he would feel that he was not alone, not a lonely person sitting on a lonely throne, he also had his own home, not the great Qi Liang Nineteen Dao that he talked about in generalities, nor the empty half of the world that had been included in his command.

So few people.

It's not a big home, but that's enough.

His Majesty didn't know what he was thinking, and he didn't go over to disturb the young people's chess game.

The crack in the door that opened quietly seemed to separate a boundary.

lest it disturb their peace.

"I want to take a good look at them. ”

Xiao Wang said softly: "For so many years, the relationship between the monarch and the minister has overshadowed the relationship between father and son, sitting in this position, I can't be hypocritical or close, I just look at them like this, so that I can keep in mind that they have never been restrained." ”

"I'm an unqualified father. ”

He gently raised a finger, put it to his lips, and made a gesture to Qi Shu.

Qi Shu lowered his eyebrows quietly and stepped back to the shadowy part of the study.

He said silently in his heart: "You are a qualified emperor. ”

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A little farther away, there is an invisible blind spot in the door of the study.

His Royal Highness pulled Yi Xiao'an.

Yi Xiao, whose eyes were slightly golden, smiled and pointed to the crack in the door that opened quietly, and quipped, "Oh, Xiao Wang still peeks?"

Yi Xiaoan couldn't help but laugh.

"Your Majesty is such a lovely person. ”

After saying this, Yi Xiaoan thought for a while and added, "I don't want to disturb the Second Highness?"

His Royal Highness shook his head slightly.

He smiled and said, "Lovely people...... This is probably the first time he has been evaluated by others like this, I wonder how he will feel after listening to your words?"

"During the period of the Eight Great Powers, Qi Liang rose from the small countries, slaughtered the Three Kingdoms in the south of the Yangtze River, and laid down half of the Central Plains. Xiao Wang's iron cavalry didn't know how many heads he had broken, and he was called the two biggest butchers during the Eight Great Kingdoms along with the Cao family man. Yi Xiao said calmly: "He is actually a very cruel person, cruel to the enemy, and cruel to himself. ”

"None of us had a mother. ”

His Royal Highness said in a cold tone: "No one knows how they died, when they died, anyway. And being born in Lanling City, sitting in this seat of His Royal Highness, is more cruel than any family in this world. ”

Yi Xiaoan was silent.

Yi Xiao said softly: "I once wondered, is there only three highnesses in Qi Liang?"

There was a pause.

"Could there be any other Highness?"

Now the answer is clear. Yi Xiao lowered her eyebrows and said, "There are only three who are alive and have survived until now." Some speculations have no evidence and do not need evidence, because being able to survive is the greatest evidence. ”

Yi Xiaoan stopped talking

"In fact, there are many dark sides in the world, but there is not all danger hidden in the darkness. ”

His Highness smiled suddenly, and pointed to the eyes hidden in the crack of the door.

The tenderness and compassion in those eyes are hidden in the darkness.

Clumsy and funny.

What a lovely person indeed.

"I think it's very warm, so I don't want to pursue the things that were in the past, and some things have passed, so let them pass. ”