The dark clouds were entangled, and a thin moon with a faint red light loomed in the dark night, like a blurred and sad eye, shedding blood and tears.

Duanjiazhai, which is sleeping in the depths of the valley, is already a clean place compared to the Beacon Fire Ridge, which is making a lot of trouble in the dark.

The cold chess pieces silently pounded on the stone table, and leaked even more.

The west wind is strong, and it is whimpering. The guards of the night watch were also unbearable to the wind of the corridor and hid without a trace. But in the roar of the wind, the two confronted each other by the fire. Between the intricacies of black and white, Baizi's defense is simply collapsed.

Chu Tao smiled lightly, gently put the chess pieces in his hand back into the box, skimmed the tea, drank the cold tea, wrapped the white fox fur on his body, got up and roasted his hands that were almost stiff and cold to the stove: "Qin Da Shao's chess skills are extraordinary, and Chu is willing to bow to the wind." ”

Qin Shi's eyes almost lit up with joy, but he didn't dare to be too proud: "Losing three games in a row is really not like what Master Chu did." ”

Ye Xiaosheng, who was silent watching the battle, interjected suddenly: "I asked someone to play chess, but I didn't want to fight, and I made frequent strategies, I really don't know what I have in mind!"

Duan Shiyu poured hot tea for Chu Tao while throwing back a roll of his eyes and said loudly: "The head of Chu has always been frank, above the chess game, he is just humble, why bother to be serious." Who is as aggressive as Childe!"

Ye Xiaosheng just picked up the plum blossom cake on the table and took a bite, and was suddenly blocked speechless, only to feel that the half of the cake choked on the throat and couldn't go up and down the ground, and he choked and coughed for a long time and still didn't get back his breath.

Chu Tao raised his eyes and looked back at Duan Shiyu, and sighed: "Miss Shiyu's dim sum is getting more and more exquisite......

The edge of the right talent suddenly converged without a trace, the autumn waves flashed in his shy eyes, and Shi Yu suddenly lowered his head and skimmed his head.

Qin Shi smiled faintly: "At present, no wonder the head of Chu has repeatedly missed ......"

"Qin Dashao's joke is ......" Chu Tao saw that Shi Yu withdrew his dim sum before he had time to taste it, took the tea bowl, and went to the depths of the night with a fruit bowl, which could not be saved.

In front of Duan Shiyu's face of the word "beauty", Qin Shi suddenly felt that he was too much. The age of flowers and jade is the time to love beauty the most. The nightmarish scars on her face locked her youth in Duanjiazhai, which was surrounded by swords and swords. The inferiority caused by the burning of the fire could no longer be erased from her heart. Her face ...... It's a pity......" Qin Shi shook his head slightly. I don't know how many passers-by have commented on Duan Tingyuan's daughter like this.

"But she is Duan Tingyuan's daughter in the end. Chu Tao stood in the wind, looked at the direction in which the shadow left, and said with a smile, "Qin Dashao only knows one thing. ”

"Oh?" Qin Shi and Ye Xiaosheng were suddenly whetted, waiting for Chu Tao to say the second in confusion. Unexpectedly, Chu Tao looked up to the sky with his hands behind his back and smiled, but he didn't answer anymore, making the two of them uncomfortable.

"It's just strange, what is the reason for the scars?"

"Fire, the study was inexplicably on fire. Shiyu, who never goes to the study, is even more inexplicably trapped in it. Luckily for the Song family's fire, only Mrs. Duan did not come out of the flames. In order to rush into the fire and pick up his daughter, he was trapped by the smoke and fell by the door only half a step away from life. At that time, everyone couldn't hear the child's cry, and they all thought that Shiyu had no chance of survival. But unexpectedly, she just hurt her face - after this fire, Uncle Duan put down his sword from then on and put the word 'heavenly punishment' on his lips. I also listened to my father. ”

Qin Shi sighed softly: "Mrs. Duan's heart for saving her daughter touched the heavens?"

Chu Tao suddenly sneered out of place, and said to the sad moon in the sky: "If the heavens were so easy to be moved, Beacon Fire Ridge would not be the picture it is today!"

However, the night remained silent, and nothing changed by the resentment of the world.

The silence was frighteningly unpleasant. Absent-minded - Qin Shi used these four words to evaluate and silently beat the chess pieces and count Chu Tao, who was even more missing. It was unimaginable that Chu Tao, who could advance and retreat freely in the Beacon Fire Ridge, would actually lose to him on the chessboard. Unless he doesn't have the heart to play chess at all – but if he doesn't, what can he ask him to play?

"If you guessed correctly, Master Chu is waiting for news from Xie Daxia, right?" Qin Shi suddenly spoke, trying to trap his words.

"Don't worry about that? I haven't seen anyone who can clean him up. Chu Tao said calmly, "There is still something in my heart that is still in doubt, but I am thinking about how to make Qin Dashao speak." ”

Unexpectedly, the problem was kicked back, and it was so neat and tidy, which really made Qin Shi and Ye Xiaosheng confused. I had to pretend to be generous and said: "Master Chu, but it doesn't hurt to ask." ”

"The Pear Flower Sword can be described as the most ruthless in the rivers and lakes, but back then, the Qin family was able to kidnap Jiang Shaoyun's master and threaten him to commit it. And in the next two or three years, the powerful Pear Flower Sword Sect was dismantled, how could it be done?"

Qin Shi was really not happy to be asked, and his face stiffened like frost.

Ye Xiaosheng said impulsively: "Could it be that the head of Chu thinks that the Qin family has something unspeakable?"

"I'm only curious about how the Qin family foiled the Pear Flower Sword......"

"Maybe the answer will disappoint the head of Chu......" Qin Shi sighed, stopping Ye Xiaosheng's rude anger, "The Qin family's methods are sometimes unremarkable. At least on the North Shore, I've never seen a sword move better than the Pear Blossom Sword. ”

"After all, it's also a means. Chu Tao said calmly. He's not surprised anymore.

"Back then, no one from the Pear Flower Sword Sect and the Qin family and the Tang family agreed with the marriage between Jiang Shaoyun and Tang Yafu. Of course, including Jiang Shaoyun's master. Originally, this was just a means of cooperation to force Jiang Shaoyun to return to the north shore, but the old gentleman didn't expect that the Qin family would fake it - that tempting pear flower sword score was something that many people in the rivers and lakes dreamed of. Under the unwarranted framing of the Qin family, the disciple was charged with betraying the north shore, and the voices of condemnation from all sides suddenly rose. The old gentleman became the target of the North Shore overnight, drowning in the tongues of the Jianghu people. Empty and arrogant, in the end, it still can't stop the strength of the heroes, and when they are in exile, it is a good opportunity for the Qin family to secretly make a black hand. As for the Pear Flower Sword Sect, it is much easier to deal with: one move, two peaches kill three soldiers, and use the bait of supporting the successor to the head of the sect is enough for them to fight their own heads. As if he was talking about something that happened to other families, Qin Shi said a few words lightly, dealing with everything Chu Tao wanted to know.

After speaking, Ye Xiaosheng sighed quite cooperatively: "The Qin family is also a last resort, how can they sleep peacefully when they are accompanied by the tiger on their pillow?"

Chu Tao secretly laughed: "The Qin family is really familiar with these methods. Attacking the enemy's vital points without sending a single soldier, talking about power and strategy, it is difficult to meet the opponent. However, in the end, the Pear Flower Sword disappeared into the rivers and lakes, and the Qin family finally did not get its true inheritance. ”

"That's right, it's just a futile effort—" Qin Shi's words changed, "How does Master Chu know that what he did today is not in vain?"

Chu Tao's face was suddenly covered with dark clouds, and in the haze, the corners of his sharp mouth were still raised, but he was a little sad: "Maybe it's in vain, but you know that it's futile and you have to do it-just like when Jiang Shaoyun knew that the Qin family was eyeing him, and he had to go back to the north shore to fight-he was not completely wrong." Not every thing on the rivers and lakes can be calculated with benefits and losses. Not every person on the rivers and lakes is as Qin Ye thinks......"

It was Qin Shi who was stunned. I don't understand that Chu Tao, who is as bright as the sunshine and simply makes the opponent feel that he is omnipotent, would actually answer in such a sad tone. "Do it when you know you can't do it?" he tried to answer, but couldn't.

The white dove whistled overhead, circled down, and came to a stop at the courtyard wall. Chu Tao's eyebrows frowned unobtrusively, and then stretched: "Let's stop here, it seems that today is really not a good day to play chess." In the future, I will let Qin Ye know that what Chu Tao did was not in vain. The gloom on his face dissipated at some point, and his eyes were so bright that Qin Shi didn't dare to look at them directly.

"Xie Daxia's news has arrived?"

"Haha!" Chu Tao laughed loudly, "If that ruffian is too idle to touch my pigeons, he must be hungry." ”

When Qin Shi left the courtyard, he saw Wang Hong's serious and unusual figure at the gate of the courtyard, and he couldn't help but be full of indignation: never want to take out what he didn't want to say from Chu Tao!