In the back courtyard, a stone table, a few stone benches, and a game of chess are enough for a few old men to have a day of entertainment.
It is Qin Lao and Liu Zhixia who are fighting each other, and Master Liu is watching chess.
"The emperor's letter has been chased for three consecutive times. It has been more than a month since you came back. When do you plan to return to Beijing?" Qin Lao Luozi.
"As the ruler of a country, I can take two or three consecutive days off a year, once a few months. My district ministers should also have holidays?" Liu Zhixia Luozi said, "The emperor can still hold it."
That means, let the emperor wait.
When he has no temper
"Oh, playing chess is like playing chess well, what do you always talk about state affairs for!" Old man Liu was too anxious and couldn't get off the court himself, feeling like a cat scratching in his heart.
"Zhi Xia, go here, this position can block Lao Qin and surround him!"
"Tsk! I'll teach you to go here, what are you doing over there! Look, you got eaten, right?"
"You have to listen to me at this step, Old Qin, here and here, let's kill him without leaving a piece of armor!"
Liu Zhixia helped her forehead, "Grandpa."
Old Qin hummed lightly, "A true gentleman watching chess without speaking."
"... Cough!" Old man Liu looked at the sky.
When he is playing chess, he is most annoying when someone is pointing beside him, except when he hints that someone is pointing.
"Zhixia, you've stayed at home long enough, or go back to Beijing tomorrow. Ah, isn't Maodou going to school at the Imperial College? It's not good to leave the school for too long. If you go back, you can't keep up, and you will be totally different."
Liu Zhixia was speechless.
Grandpa wanted to grab a place to play chess, so grandsons and great-grandsons were no longer needed.
Searching through the entire memory, he couldn't remember when he didn't become his own.
In order to restore a little bit of status, Liu Zhixia decided to take a step back and give up the position of chess, "Grandpa, I am not an old opponent of Qin, and you have to come in person."
"No, no, no, he always scolds me for stinky chess, and I am not an opponent. Don't flatter me, I don't believe it." Old man Liu waved his hand again and again.
"But I don't know how to go for the remaining half game."
"... So? That. Then I'll take a look for you, I'll take a look, I can't mention you, a true gentleman watching chess without talking."
Liu Zhixia smiled and shifted the direction of expectation a little.
After a while.
"Maji Xingtian, I don't want to go to the field, I turn here, so you can't guess! I was surprised! Hahaha!"
"Good fellow! You were lured in by me? Did Zhixia understand? This trick is to lure the enemy to go deeper and cut off their retreat!"
"Let's try another horizontal knife to intercept and kill you!"
Liu Zhixia smiled all the way, looking at the sloppy chessboard without changing its color, and secretly beating at the old man Qin in a position where the old man could not see it.
Another drop would be able to end the fight. Old Qin raised his eyes, and the old guy on the opposite side was pretending to be calm, but sweat fell on his forehead, and deep wrinkles formed at the corners of his mouth.
The hand that stopped in the air paused, shifted, and changed the position of the drop.
The old guy was immediately overjoyed, seizing the opportunity to attack and narrowly win.
"Oh, hey! I won! Hahaha! The treasure is not old... No, Lao Qin, did you lose your skills when you get old? You didn't lose so easily before. Or did you let me do it?"
"Let you? Playing chess with you is comparable to punishment. If I still give in, wouldn't it mean extending my sentence." Qin Lao got up, Yun Danfeng said softly, and turned to leave, "Someone is coming in the front yard. Go out now, you can hear new gossip."
"Really? Who's here? I'll go out and have a look, Zhixia, you put away the chessboard, and when I come back, I will kill another one!" The old man rushed to the front yard and disappeared in a blink of an eye.