The crops in the fields have been harvested, and the makeshift rice silos are filled with newly harvested corn.

Gong Ji, who was delighted, ran to the entrance of the village with the bark.

In front of Liu Heng, he happily recounted the harvest that was much richer than in previous years.

Liu Heng stared at the chessboard in front of him with a solemn face, and he didn't look at the old peasant in front of him.

After Gong Ji finished speaking, he waved his hand impatiently.

"That, General, General......"

Turning his head to look at Gong Ji's slightly depressed back when he left, Yougen, who was sitting opposite Liu Heng, asked with a teasing expression.

"Hmm~. ”

With his mouth closed, a long muffled sound came from between his tongues, Liu Heng sat in place, his head lowered, and his eyes stared at the chessboard in front of him without blinking.

"Otherwise, let's count it as a draw. ”

After waiting for a while, Liu Heng still didn't fall, he smiled with an eyebrow, and his eyes narrowed into two thin slits.

“......”

After a moment of silence, Liu Heng put the "army" in his hand outside the chessboard.

Then, under the smiling Yougen and lazy gaze, Liu Heng stretched out his hand to the chessboard.

Picking up the chessboard and placing the "general" in the main position, Liu Heng frowned and stretched out his arm again.

"Smack!"

Dropping the chess pieces, Liu Heng hugged his arms, looked up at Yougen, and showed a harmless smile on his face.

"You lost. ”......

Looking at the "general" chess that fell on the "handsome" chess in front of him, the smile that bloomed on Yougen's face immediately froze on his face.

Moving his dull gaze, Yougen landed his gaze on the center of the board, which was placed on the other side of the river boundary, on the "cannon" chess piece in the middle line.

"You, you, you, you!"

Jumping up from the ground, Yougen pointed at Liu Heng angrily and said, "You are cheating, this chess can't be played like this!"

"Then why can some be beaten, and some can't? Is this one smaller than that?"

With a smile in his eyes, but a confused look on his face, Liu Heng pointed to the "artillery" chess on the chessboard, located on the middle line.

"It's a rule, we didn't say it a long time ago. ”

"But you said it, this is shogi!"

Reaching out to grab the "general" chess piece placed on the "handsome" chess, Liu Heng gently threw the chess piece with one hand, and then held it.

"As a general, how can the combat power be compared with a pawn, and he should be on the battlefield and kill in the chaos. ”

"How can it be confined to these four squares? ”

Pointing to the four spaces in the top center of the chessboard, Liu Heng's eyes showed a trace of disdain.

"Nonsense!"

Hearing this, Yougen looked excited, and his face flushed and refuted: "As a general, you must put the overall situation first, if you take risks lightly, not to mention the danger of the battle, your fists and feet have no eyes, just if the army does not have a general to guard the curtain, what should happen to the lives of its soldiers?"

"Humph!"

With a cold snort in his mouth, a sharp look flashed in his eyes, and Liu Heng clenched his fists hard.

The red glow penetrated through the gaps in the five fingers, and the scattered heat flow surrounded the fist, and a crisp "cluck" sound came from between the fists.

Yougen's face tightened, and a hint of iron blue appeared on his reddened cheeks.

"As long as the commander of the enemy army can be killed for the general, the war is won, and the lives of the soldiers can be preserved. ”

Spreading out his hand, Liu Heng stretched his neck and blew towards the palm of his hand.

Pale white ashes, with the cold wind, drifted towards the cheeks of the roots.

The expression on his face returned to normal, and one of them frowned, looking up at the ashes floating past his cheeks, carried up by the breeze, and he was in a trance for a while.

Overhead, among the lush branches, two tender yellow leaves were blown off by the wind.

The young leaves fell downward, one on the ground next to the chessboard, one on the paper covered in red clay.

Liu Heng stretched out his hand to dust off the tender leaves on the mud seal, grabbed the wine jar next to him, and tore open the red paper.

Raising his head and taking a sip, Liu Heng casually placed the wine jar next to the chessboard.

After thinking for a moment, Yougen picked up the chess pieces on the chessboard one by one, and put the picked up chess pieces in the wooden box that had been prepared long ago.

"Going to risk alone is not the way to go. ”

Shaking his head, Yougen looked at Liu Heng in front of him, and his eyes flashed with determination.

"Today, you asked me to come to the village, I'm afraid it's not just to play chess and drink, it's that simple, right?"

Turning his head to look around, the wilderness is vast.

After more than ten days of exposure to the sun, the rain-soaked soil has dried up.

In the mud and the wreckage of the heavy rain, countless lives grew tenaciously with slender branches, and in a very short time, the wilderness was dyed with new green.

The four fields are green, and the sound of insects and frogs is endless, even in the daytime.

Surrounded by the surrounding greenery, Yougen and Liu Heng sat under a tree with a curved trunk and dense branches like an umbrella cover.

Both of them sat cross-legged on a thin, soft stalk, and between them was a chessboard filled with charcoal squares.

At this time, although he had already made a judgment in his heart, Yougen still asked with a pretense of doubt: "

What are you waiting for?"

"Although the rainy season has passed, it has had a very bad effect on many aspects of the wasteland, such as the fact that most of the roads that used to be visible have been washed away by the rain. ”

Hearing this, Liu Heng showed a smile in his eyes, but his tone was very flat.

"The spies I sent out only reported back yesterday the situation around us. ”

"Oh?"

There was a strange color in his eyes, and he asked curiously, "What did you find?"

Hearing this, Liu Heng collected the smile on his face and put his hand into the belt around his waist.

After rubbing for a while, he took out a piece of silk cloth folded into a square.

Liu Heng tore the silk cloth and placed it on the chessboard where there were no chess pieces.

Yougen looked at the silk cloth on the chessboard with a puzzled face, and his brow gradually furrowed.

The oval-shaped, rotten flag cloth was stained with large blood marks, and the color of the blood was already so dark that a large part of the flag was cemented into a black lump.

Between the dark red and jet black, a small piece of flat circular strip can be faintly discerned.

Carefully observing the pattern on the silk cloth, Yougen pondered for a while before looking at Liu Heng with a puzzled expression.

"What's, what is this?"

"Flying Snake Flag. ”

Liu Heng's face was solemn, his expression was grim, and his voice began to go out of tune.

"The flag dedicated to Mochuan County. ”

"This, this Mochuan County?"

Looking at Yougen, who was still puzzled, a flash of brilliance flashed in the depths of Liu Heng's eyes.

"Their military advisor, five months ago, was kicked and crushed by you, and his head was cut off by Li Xi. ”

“......”

Hearing this, Yougen was silent for a while before he cautiously asked, "This, there won't be any problems, right?"

Hearing this, Liu Heng pursed his mouth, a strange smile appeared on his face, and his eyes narrowed into two thin slits.

The two were silent for a while, and then secretly swallowed and spit at the mouth before they said uneasily: "Could it be that someone will come to seek revenge?"