Hong'er is so scary!
The emperor felt the trembling from his soul! If it weren't for him being too old and unable to fall, I'm afraid he could throw himself out!
Empress Dowager Zhuang rushed into the emperor's study.
Thanks to the more than one year of nursing by Gu Jiao's side, her body was much stronger than before, and she even grew a lot of black hair on her head.
She sat down on the chair opposite the desk, crossed Erlang's legs, and looked straight at the emperor.
The emperor frowned at her bandit-like appearance: "What happened to my mother later?"
"It's alright, I'll come and see you!" Empress Dowager Zhuang said lightly, realizing that she was perfunctory in her attitude, this kind of acting might be about deducting candied fruit, she paused and grinned, "Aijia, come and have a look. Hong'er."
The emperor got goosebumps!
In order to exert her soul-like acting skills, Empress Dowager Zhuang asked Eunuch Qin to guard the door. At this moment, there are only mother and son in the study.
Empress Dowager Zhuang shook her legs and looked at the emperor with deep meaning, as if she saw five walking preserves.
Thinking this way, Empress Dowager Zhuang felt that the emperor was much more pleasing to the eye.
Emperor: Why do I feel that the way my mother looks at me is not right
Empress Dowager Zhuang decided to take care of her candied fruit... Uh no, son, she smiled rarely, and said very gently: "Have you eaten? Are you thirsty? Are you hungry? Are you dressed warmly? How are your days? I have difficulty talking to my mother."
emperor:"… "
Empress Dowager Zhuang took good care of the emperor, not only that, she also accompanied (forced) the emperor to have lunch, invited (forced) invited (forced) the emperor to go to the imperial garden, to ensure that everyone in the six palaces knew that she was today again A loving mother.
Then she leisurely returned to Renshou Palace.
"Where's Jiaojiao?" she asked Eunuch Qin.
Eunuch Qin smiled and said, "Miss Gu has left the palace."
Empress Dowager Zhuang's face sank: "What about Aijia's candied fruit?"
Eunuch Qin shrank his neck: "Take, take away..."
Empress Dowager Zhuang's face darkened for a second!
But she said that after Gu Jiao left the palace, she didn't go back to the medical center immediately. Recently, there was a new doctor in the medical center, so she didn't have to go to the clinic every day like before, which really made it easier for her to do her own thing.
She ran out of saltpeter, and planned to find some saltpeter to come back, but unfortunately this kind of thing is extremely difficult to buy on the market.
Gu Jiao was walking down the street, rubbing her chin thoughtfully.
"baby!"
Suddenly a voice stopped her.
Gu Jiao's steps stopped, she turned around strangely, and saw the old beggar who had played chess with her a few times was trotting towards her.
"It's really you!" The old beggar came to Gu Jiao and said with a smile, "I just saw that the back looks quite similar, so I called out."
Gu Jiao snorted and said, "This is not Liuxu Street, why did you come here?"
If she remembered correctly, the old man was active in the area of Liuxu Street, and it was almost here on Xuanwu Street.
"Oh, I'm not going around casually!" said the old man.
He held a broken bowl for begging in his hand and a basket on his back like Gu Jiao, but his basket was also tattered.
Gu Jiao: "Oh."
The old beggar lowered his face and said, "Baby, why haven't you come to play chess for several days?"
"Didn't I save you money?" Gu Jiao said boldly.
The corners of the old beggar's mouth twitched, as if the little black heart who was willing to wait for ten taels of silver was not you!
Gu Jiao said: "Then you can turn around, I'll go first."
The old beggar held her back: "Hey - don't you play chess?"
Is it easy for him to catch this little doll
Gu Jiao raised her eyebrows lightly: "Do you have any money?"
The old beggar held the bowl on his hips with a sad face: "Do you have the heart to squeeze me as an old man!"
Gu Jiao nodded: "Yeah!"
Old beggar: "… "
The old beggar took off his back basket and stuffed it into Gu Jiao, and the broken bowl that was never used was also stuffed into Gu Jiao: "My stall is over there, you watch the stall for me, I'll be back in a while."
Uh... You beg for a meal and have a stall
Long experience.
After the old beggar explained it, he went in a hurry. Gu Jiao saw him enter an alley. There was a chess club in that alley, and Gu Jiao went there for a medical consultation.
Gu Jiao didn't say anything, she came to the so-called stall with the old beggar's things, and squatted down expressionlessly.
The small body squatted there with a broken bowl in front of him, looking a little pitiful.
She doesn't dress like a beggar, but the more noble people are, the more pitiful they are. After all, who doesn't want face these days? It's not that the family can't survive, how can a good girl's family beg along the street
Everyone looked at Gu Jiao with sympathy.
Gu Jiao didn't think she was attracted by the chess game that the old beggar left on the ground. This chess game was different from the chess game she had broken before.
She began to calculate the movement of each piece in her mind.
Clang!
A copper plate was thrown into the broken bowl in front of her.
Gu Jiao didn't look up and continued to play chess.
Clang!
Another person passed by and threw a copper plate into it.
Gu Jiao still didn't look up and concentrated on breaking the game.
She finally knew what was wrong with this chess game, she had a lot of murderous aura.
How cruel is the person who created this chess game? Although the chess game is basically two pieces of chess pieces fighting each other, it is too rare to kill like this.
Gu Jiao was so engrossed in the chess game that she didn't notice that there were many copper plates in the broken bowl.
If the old beggar knew that he couldn't beg for a few coins all day, and Gu Jiao had a bowl full without doing anything, he would probably vomit blood.
"Sir, look!"
Gu Jiao leaned on the second floor of a teahouse behind, the guard in gray pushed open the window, leaned halfway out of the window, pointed to Gu Jiao in front and said.
The man also leaned out, looked in the direction of the grey-robed guard's fingers, slapped the fan, and said, "What's so beautiful about a little beggar?"
The gray-clothed guard hurriedly said, "No, son, it's her!"
The man asked, "Which is she?"
The gray-clothed guard said anxiously, "The little girl with that little monk!"
The man played with the folding fan's hand and said, "The one who blew you up with the black fire bead?"
"Yes, son, that's her!" The gray-clothed guard scratched his head, "It's strange, why did she come out to beg?"
The man hooked the corners of his lips meaningfully: "Let's go and have a look."
The grey-clothed guard closed the window and followed the man.
"What are you doing?" the man asked angrily.
The gray-clothed guard said, "Didn't the young master say to take a look?"
The man snorted coldly and said, "I was the one who went to see it, but I didn't let you see it. Wasn't the exposure enough last time?"
The gray-clothed guard pouted, and reluctantly stayed in the wing.
The man wears a crescent white robe, a dark blue gauze robe, and a jade belt around his waist.
Gu Jiao kept the stall for the old beggar. People came and went from time to time, but they would not stay here.
The light above Gu Jiao's head dimmed, she didn't care at first, and the shadow didn't leave after a while, she raised her head a little irritably.
A handsome and elegant face came into view, with deep eyebrows and eyes, a high nose bridge, light lips, and the corners of the lips evoked a beautiful arc.
Is this person of Hu bloodline
Not bad looking.
The man showed a smile: "Girl..."
Gu Jiao: "You're blocking the light."
Man: "… "
After Gu Jiao finished speaking, she ignored him and continued to ponder the game of chess.
The man touched the bridge of his nose curiously. He was so good-looking, how could a girl's family turn a blind eye to him
Is his hair messy
Or is his face dirty
"girl?"
He called again.
But Gu Jiao didn't care about anyone at all.
The man took a step to the side, trying not to block Gu Jiao's light, and by the way he also looked at what Gu Jiao was doing.
It was actually playing chess.
To say that it is chess is actually a bit far-fetched. It is just a chessboard drawn crookedly with an old wooden board. Stones are used as chess pieces. Each piece is irregular.
The corners of the man's mouth twitched.
so poor
Don't you mean living in Bishui Hutong? It was near the Imperial College, and the house price was very high.
Besides, he has seen the little monk's things, and any of them can be sold for sky-high prices. If he can't survive, he will sell the little monk's things!
Why go begging on the street
Having said that, if she is so poor, can this girl play chess
The man just glanced at the chessboard with the mentality that if you don't know how to play, I can reluctantly give you one or two pointers.
At first glance, I didn't feel much, just a little uncomfortable.
He glanced again, a third, a fourth.
His expression stopped.
No way? Did he see it wrong? How could he be here, on the streets of Zhaoguo... To be precise, he saw this chess game in the hands of a little beggar and little girl
The world knows that the Six Kingdoms chess sage, Mr. Meng Lao, has created countless chess games in his life. Among them, the eight major games are the most famous, and very few can solve them, especially the second game of Qiankun. The person with the most innings.
But no one knows that Mr. Meng actually has a set of chess games - six games of life and death!
This is the real ban that no one can crack.
The reason why the game is banned is because the six games of life and death are too murderous, and often the chess game has not been cracked, and the chess player goes crazy first.
He was lucky enough to see the first chess game of the six rounds of life and death. Before driving himself crazy, he chose to give up. Unexpectedly, after a few years, he was able to see it again.
Why is this girl okay
Seeing how relaxed she looks, isn't she affected by the murderousness of the chess game
"You..." The man looked away from the chess game.
Gu Jiao pointed to the broken bowl in front of her.
The man was stunned for a moment, and seemed to understand, took out two gold ingots from his arms and put them in.
Gu Jiao is finally reasonable now: "Is something wrong?"
Sure enough, money can make ghosts turn the mill, and money can make people speak.
The man silently patted the folding fan and said, "This game of chess... how do you feel?"
"Well, it's interesting." Gu Jiao said.
interesting? That's it
"Don't you find it difficult..."
by
"Well, it's a bit difficult." Gu Jiao admitted this.
The men are all fascinated, I am asking you is it difficult? There's a catch in the back!
What kind of freak is this girl, how can she tell such a light-hearted chess game as murderous
No, he should be curious, isn't it where this girl's chess game came from
The six games of life and death are not like the eight games that have been widely circulated in the six countries. They have been banned by the royal family of the Yan Kingdom, and ordinary people have never seen them at all.
For a while it was the black fire beads of the royal family of the Yan Kingdom, and for a while it was the life and death of Mr. Meng Lao. What is the relationship between this girl and the Yan Kingdom
"baby!"
The old beggar came out of the alley holding the silver.
The man did not want to have more contact with people for the time being, so as not to leave information that should not be left, he turned and returned to the restaurant.
The old beggar came to Gu Jiao, squatted down, handed a handful of white money to Gu Jiao, and said with a smile, "Look at the baby, I won!"
Then he lowered his head and saw the broken bowl beside his feet. There were actually two golden ingots lying in the bowl!
In addition to the pair of gold ingots, there are also many copper plates and broken silver.
The old beggar was dumbfounded: "This, this... Where did these come from?"
Gu Jiao thought for a while, and said lightly, "Well, passers-by gave it to me."
The old beggar looked at a bowl of gold, silver and copper plates, and then looked at a few sparse silver ingots in his hand, and suddenly felt that the silver ingots were not fragrant!
He worked so hard to play chess with a bunch of idiots, but he didn't earn as much as a baby sitting here for a while!
Gu Jiao opened her mouth and wanted to ask him if he played chess
The old beggar raised his hand sadly: "Don't talk to me first, I need to calm down!"
So sad!
"Good."
Gu Jiao continued to squat on the side of the road, drawing circles with chess pieces.
Suddenly, a very ornate carriage stopped in front of them.
The curtain of the car was lifted, and a gust of fragrant wind came in. Gu Jiao's nose tickled and she sneezed!
A female official in a pale pink palace uniform stepped down from the carriage. She covered her nose with a handkerchief, stopped three steps away from the old beggar, and never stepped forward.
She didn't look at Gu Jiao, who was squatting on the ground. She only looked down at the old beggar sitting on the side of the road, and said, "Your Excellency, I have a request from my master. Excuse me, please come to Qingfenglou with me."
"No." The old beggar refused without thinking.
The female official said: "I heard that your Excellency was kicked out by the Qinghuan Chess Club. Since then, I can no longer play chess in the Qinghuan Chess Club. My master is very sorry for your Excellency when he heard the news."
Gu Jiao just glanced at the old beggar, the old man was kicked out by the chess club? No wonder it changed to a chess club.
The old beggar said with his hands on his hips: "It's not that they kicked me out! It's the old man that I decided not to go to that garbage chess club again! Let me pretend to lose? Is it so embarrassing!"
This is not a big talk, it is the truth, he really doesn't know how to lose to a group of rookies!
The female official took a lot of effort to keep her expression from breaking: "My master sincerely invites you to play a game, please follow me to change your clothes and go to Qingfenglou to meet my master."
The old beggar said: "I have to change clothes when I see your master. Who is your master? The emperor or the queen?"
The female official said sternly: "It is inconvenient to disclose the identity of my master, but it is definitely a noble identity that your Excellency did not expect. With the blessing of my master, no one from the chess club in the capital will dare to drive you out in the future."
"No!" The old beggar still refused without hesitation.
There was a hint of impatience on the female official's face: "Your Excellency may wish to think about it."
The old beggar waved his hand: "If you don't want to go, don't go, are you bothered? You're bothering me to play chess with the baby! Let's go!"
The female official was blown away, she frowned coldly, and glanced at Gu Jiao, who was squatting on the ground studying the chessboard, her eyes moved.
is her
The female official went to a wing of the Qingfeng Building to reply: "Qi reported to the Crown Princess, he will not come."
"Why won't you come?" The Crown Princess wondered.
The old beggar was the Crown Princess who hesitated for a long time before she made up her mind to invite him. At first, he didn't pay much attention to him, but he won the Mushan Layman again and again.
The female official said respectfully, "He wants to play chess alone."
"Who?" The princess put down the tea cup in her hand and asked.
The female official replied, "The daughter of the Marquis of Ding'an, the one who grew up in the countryside."
The Crown Princess had seen Gu Jiao playing chess with the old beggar with her own eyes. She didn't care at that time, but now she couldn't help but wonder, how did she know the old beggar
The female officer thought for a while and said, "I heard that the old beggar used to play chess games on Liuxu Street, but everyone thought he was a lunatic, and no one went to play chess with him. Maybe Miss Gu happened to go there, and they went back and forth. Only a vulgar girl from the countryside can do such a humiliating thing. Fortunately, she is the daughter of the Ding'an Houfu and the wife of the new champion of the new division. I don't care about the face of my family."
The crown princess is about face, she will never drop her identity to deal with a beggar on the street.
"Forget it, it doesn't matter if you don't come." The Crown Princess didn't look down on him too much, "Is there any news from Mr. Meng?"
The female official said: "There is no news from the State of Yan for the time being, from the State of Liang, the State of Chen, and the State of Zhao..."
The Crown Princess interrupted her and said with a clear voice, "What I want is news from the country of Yan, and what I want is Mr. Meng's attention."
(End of this chapter)