Chapter 099: Trying the Knife Against the Eunuch
As expected, within a few days, Meng Xiaoyun, a scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion, couldn't bring a message, "Lu Yuanwai, Huang Gonggong has arrived at Meng's Mansion, and your Excellency asked you to send two chess players to the mansion to accompany Huang Gonggong to play chess." Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"
"Okay, I'll arrange it!" Lu Yuanwai walked into the courtyard and shouted with a raised voice, "Today, Gonggong Huang went to Master Meng, who wants to go to Meng's mansion with me to play chess with Gonggong Huang?"
"Of course it's Jia Gongzi!" As soon as Lu Yuanwai's voice fell, everyone unanimously recommended Jia Mengle.
"Okay, brother, you can go to Mengfu with me!" Lu Yuanwai walked towards Jia Mengle with a smile on his face.
"Okay, I'll go play a few games with him!" Jia Mengle dropped the chess pieces in his hand, stood up, and drove straight towards Meng Mansion with Lu Yuanwai.
Lord Meng is a big member today, but the courtyard is similar to the ordinary eunuchs, only to see the ancient acacia outside the door, the thick shade sprinkles the ground, the courtyard is magnificent, the golden plaque is hanging, simple and not elegant.
"The staff is here, the adults have been waiting for a long time" As soon as Lu Yuanwai and Jia Mengle got out of the sedan chair, the janitor greeted them.
They pass through a door, come to the compound, there are rockeries and springs in the courtyard, the bamboo garden is graceful and rich, it can be seen that the person who designed this courtyard must be the people of idle clouds and wild cranes, but the courtyard wall is high, for fear of letting the rockery, springs, and bamboo forests escape from the general here.
Walking through the second door and looking into the house, it is really an open-air machine, and there is no cave. There are pairs of flower pots, pomegranate trees, and plum blossoms in the courtyard. The five rooms of the main house are three floors, the east and west wings, the matching room, and the ear room are two floors each, which are scattered and ingenious, which is not known how much to be chic with the general flat front door.
"Yo, here? While Jia Mengle was enjoying it, Master Meng had already walked out of the hall to greet him.
Lu Yuanwai was flattered, walked up in three steps and two steps, and walked over with a smile, "My lord, please!" Jia Mengle hurriedly followed, but the hall was surprisingly quiet.
"What's the matter, Gonggong Huang hasn't arrived yet?" Lu Yuan saw that the hall was quiet. The tea and various fruits were already ready to stop, and I looked around and looked around, but there was no one in sight, and I couldn't help asking.
"Shhhhh......h Carefully reminded Lu Yuanwai not to make a sound, and then tiptoed up to Lu Yuanwai, bit his ear and said, "Huang Gongcheng is sleeping, be quiet." ”
The voice was so low that he might not even be able to hear it clearly. Lu Yuanwai hurriedly covered his big mouth with his hand, not daring to make any more noise, Master Meng looked around, then waved his hand, and motioned for Jia Mengle to let them out of the hall.
The three of them walked out of the hall gently and quietly, came to the courtyard, and walked straight towards the study opposite the main hall, the sandalwood furniture in the study was quaint and chic, all kinds of Chen calligraphy and paintings were neatly placed, and the four walls were hung with famous masterpieces. There are Zhang Zhi of the Han Dynasty "Autumn Liangping Good Post", down to the Tang Dynasty Dong Yuan's "Dongtian Mountain Hall", which is dazzling, well-framed, and has everything.
"Your Excellency is worthy of being a scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion today, and with so many treasures in his collection, it can be called a sea of books, which may be even richer than the imperial study of the Imperial Palace. Lu Yuanwai looked at the four walls and couldn't help but admire.
Words of praise will always make people never get tired of listening to them, although Lu Yuanwai's words are a bit presumptuous. But when Meng Xiaoyun heard this, there was still a faint smug smile on his face, and he kept saying, "You can eat indiscriminately." You can't talk nonsense, where can it be compared to the imperial study of the palace?"
"The adults are highly talented and well-informed, I don't know if Dai Song's two paintings are real or fake?" Jia Mengle looked at the paintings on the wall and muttered.
"You're embarrassed to say, where is this authentic work? Treat the painting with wax and pretend to be an ancient painting, you have no eyes, but you don't see it, and you treat the two pieces of waste paper as a treasure!" Meng Xiaoyun sneered.
"What? fake?" Lu Yuanwai was taken aback, his eyes as wide as copper bells.
"No!" Jia Mengle also pretended to be very surprised.
"Look!" Meng Xiaoyun walked to the desk in three steps and two steps, took out the two paintings from a pile of scattered paintings, and quickly spread them on the desk, "First of all, look at this paper, how could there be such paper in the Tang Dynasty? This is clearly the rattan paper in Jiangsu and Zhejiang now, how can there be such a thing in the Tang Dynasty?" Master Meng looked at Jia Mengle and Lu Yuanwai proudly, and continued, " Dai Song's master is out of Han Rong, the outline is small, refined and free, heavy ink splashing, dignified and elegant, you look at these two paintings, the lines are thin and weak, the ink splash is not fine, and there are signs of re-splashing, where will it be Dai Song's work?"
When Lu Yuanwai heard Lord Meng say this, his eyes almost fell off, and Jia Mengle also tried to look at it again and again, as if he could see every stroke and every painting clearly.
Time passed minute by minute, and after more than ten minutes, Jia Mengle sighed and stretched his waist, "When the Lord said this, it is really a fake." He looked up at Lu Yuanwai and said very guiltily, "I'm really sorry to let you waste a hundred taels of silver in vain." ”
"Young people, don't think that after reading a few calligraphy and painting appreciation books, you think that you understand calligraphy and painting, there are many things in it, but you can't talk about it! This is not something you can afford, this calligraphy and painting is as little as a hundred taels of silver, and I am thousands of silver, do you have silver to play?" Meng Xiaoyun taught Jia Mengle a lesson, and walked to the coffee table next to him and tasted tea.
"The lesson of everyone is that the grass people must remember it and study hard when they go back. Jia Mengle laughed and said, "It's just a hundred taels of silver outside Lu Yuan......
"He? He still cares about the hundred taels of silver? It doesn't matter, Lu Yuanwai has money, he lacks everything, just don't lack silver!" Master Meng said to Lu Yuanwai with a smile.
"What's the matter with the adults, it's all thanks to the cultivation of the adults! If it weren't for you......" Lu Yuanwai was about to say something, when the people of the Meng Mansion came to the study, "Master, my father-in-law is awake!"
"Okay, you arrange tea immediately, and we'll go!" Lord Meng stood up like a spring on his buttocks, and followed the footsteps of his subordinates and rushed out.
"Play chess for a while, don't mess around. Meng Xiaoyun said cautiously. Lu Yuanwai only nodded submissively, but Jia Mengle was different in his heart, chess meets opponents, Fang is one of the great pleasures in life, what is the solution of this "rule point"?
As a member of the imperial court, Lord Meng's speech is different, and this "rule point" is all-encompassing, referring to the rules of chess playing "watching chess without saying a word, a true gentleman, and a husband with no regrets"? Or is it the humility of "being the first to be the first"? He did not speak, it all depends on Jia Mengle's self-analysis.
Jia Mengle walked into the main hall with a nervous heart, and a thin old man with silver hair had just finished washing up in the main hall. "Why did you sleep for so long and get up?" Lord Meng bent down and greeted him with a smile.
"Alas, don't mention it, I'm on an errand all day. I thought that you would have a good rest in the house, but I never thought that our family was thin, and we were thinking about the trivial matters in the palace when we fell asleep!" Huang Gonggong's voice was extremely harsh, and it was difficult for him. How else can you manage the eunuchs in the palace?
"Yes, sometimes it's hard to rest!" Meng sighed.
"Where do I have you to be happy and happy? After retiring from the court, I will go back to the house, and I will be safe and sound. We are engaged in internal affairs, and there is no specific matter, but once there is something at the top, including eating, drinking, and Lazar, it is all our business. Huang Gonggong said, a little in tears.
"Alas, every family has a scripture that is difficult to read. Master Meng was also sentimental, "Don't say it." If you come, you will be safe, why don't we come to two rounds?"
Master Meng finally talked about playing chess, "Just a few of us, what's the meaning of this!" It seems that Huang Gonggong is not at ease playing chess, and said inexplicably, so that Jia Mengle was embarrassed to hear it, and he didn't understand a word.
"Just the four of us, you and this young man bet, me and Lu Yuanwai bet, what do you think?"
"Who buys me to win?" Huang Gonggong's spirit immediately became vibrant, and a pair of small eyes kept turning.
"I'll buy my father-in-law, you win!" Master Meng smiled, it seemed that opening this chess game was all his thoughts.
"I bet 100 taels, Lu Yuanwai. What do you think?" said Master Meng with a smile.
"Okay, just 100, father-in-law, you have to be merciful. Lu Yuanwai smiled like a peach blossom and readily agreed.
The chess game officially began, and this Huang Gonggong is indeed true. At the beginning, he jumped with the horse as the head, menacing, Jia Mengle was unhurried, and stuck to the river boundary with two horses, one gun and one car, and trapped Huang Gonggong's men and horses on the other side of the river boundary, Huang Gonggong saw that the horse jumped head-to-head and failed to break through the opponent's defense, and immediately turned the two cars to the intersection and killed them directly, Jia Mengle understood that this is a concentrated advantage, it seems that he must find a breakthrough on the right side, if he breaks through, the consequences are unimaginable, and this game of chess is basically lost.
But everything has two sides, a strong offensive position, must have poor defense, it is better to defend than to attack, the best defense is to attack, Jia Mengle thought, raised a cannon to kill Huang Gonggong's cannon, which made Lu Yuan present, Meng Da was taken aback, did not defend, but exchanged chess pieces with the other party.
At the same time, Huang Gonggong was unexpected, if he didn't kill his cannon, let him pick up a bargain, kill it, the double-car cannon on Xiangkou Road would be meaningless, and the tough offensive would come to naught.
"Why do you play this chess like this? You ignore the rear so much, what will you do if your father-in-law's double rook kills you?" was when Huang Gonggong was in a dilemma, Lu Yuanwai said worriedly. It is not so much that he is reminding Jia Mengle, but rather reminding Huang Gonggong that things are like this, there will always be coaxing, and everyone will always favor the rich and powerful.
Sure enough, Huang Gonggong ignored Jia Mengle's advance into the cannon, and insisted on entering Jia Mengle's rear, the second step will be to enter the cannon, the third step is to cannon the soldier, and then there is the double car trouble, that is, the appearance of four moves, and Jia Mengle's defeat in front of him has been decided.
Jia Mengle looked at the chess game, and had to say that the authorities were confused, and the onlookers were very powerful, if it wasn't for Lu Yuanwai to wake up, Huang Gonggong would never have succeeded easily. "Well, young man, admit defeat!" Lord Meng danced like a child as if he had won the victory.
Jia Mengle thought about it carefully, the three moves were obviously in front of him, but they were not unsolvable, as long as he could protect the soldiers, he moved the cannon to the edge in a hurry, this step puzzled everyone, it was too late to save his life, and he had to protect the cannon, I really don't know how high the sky is and how thick the ground is.
"What? Do you still want to come down and become a general?" Huang Gonggong was a little unimpressed, and couldn't help but look at his defense.
"It doesn't matter, even if he comes over to the general, it will be very early, and when his car comes, the daylily will already be cold, and it will be cannon!" Lord Meng couldn't help but shout.
"Don't be busy, see what he's going to do. Huang Gonggong was also thinking about Jia Mengle's thoughts, and looked at the chess carefully.
"Don't be afraid, he won't die! Come down, general, just fly a face." Lu Yuanwai also analyzed for Huang Gonggong, where is this chess, it is clear that the three old men are studying how to kill Jia Mengle, alas, playing chess, they are also talking about popularity, talking about group picking, everyone is biased towards the strong, even if they look at the situation of the strong side.
Under the persuasion of the two, Huang Gonggong finally made up his mind, and proudly moved the cannon to the bottom edge of Jia Mengle, Jia Mengle confidently entered the artillery general, Huang Gonggong could only be a corporal, at this time Jia Mengle moved the car to the four corners, just to keep his taxi, his cannon could not attack, even if he attacked, he had a car protection.
The chess game changed rapidly, Huang Gonggong never expected Jia Mengle to have such a move, just one step away, Jia Mengle lost, but never thought that as soon as his car went like this, Huang Gonggong's double rook and one shot were equivalent to a pounce, but he himself is now in a predicament, and the chess game has formed a double horse nest, and there is no power to return to the sky.
A game of chess was played for two hours, and finally ended with Jia Mengle's small victory, "Look, it's you who are chattering and arguing here, and now you have nothing to say?"
"It's all our fault, why don't you pay back the next plate?" Master Meng asked with a grin when he had nothing to say.
"No, it's not too early, and I'll come and play chess with this young man when I have time. Huang Gonggong lost the chess, a little dissatisfied, and stood up, "It's dark, I have to go back to the palace early!"
In the midst of everyone's shouting and embracing, Huang Gonggong left Meng's mansion, Jia Mengle and Lu Yuanwai said goodbye to Lord Meng and rushed back at night. (To be continued.) )