In the main hall used to entertain distinguished guests in the inner courtyard of the Liu Mansion, Liu Zhi'an happily placed the poured tea in front of the empress and Hu Yanjunyao who had changed into scholar's Confucian robes.
"Two distinguished guests, please have some tea. You're welcome when you get here!"
The two empresses took the tea and put it in front of them without being humble or overbearing.
"You're welcome, Mr. Liu, thank you very much Mr. Liu!"
Liu Zhi'an took a sip of tea and put it aside. He picked up one of the two boxes of chess pieces and gently placed it in front of the Queen and the Queen.
"It's really a blessing for me to play chess with two distinguished guests. I wonder which of the two comes first?"
The Queen adjusted her sitting posture and performed a standard scholarly etiquette towards Liu Zhi'an: "Since Mr. Liu is so elegant, I will show off my embarrassment first. If my chess skills are not good and I can't make Mr. Liu happy, I hope Mr. Liu will not be blamed!" "
Liu Zhi'an happily grabbed a handful of chess pieces and held them in his hand: "Young Master Wan, please be humble. My chess skills are just arty, and I may not be a match for this great talent like you. We just have fun and don't care about winning or losing. "
"Single? Or double?"
"Good things come in pairs, so let me guess the pair!"
Liu Zhi'an chuckled and released his palm, and the chess pieces in his palm fell on the chessboard with a clanking sound.
"It is gratifying to have good things come in pairs, but nine out of ten things in this world are unsatisfactory, and there are only a few things that can truly be perfect. Just like this chess game, no one knows what the outcome will be until it reaches the end."
"Look, Mr. Wan's good deeds did not come true in pairs, but in singles, so I won't be polite!"
Liu Zhi'an picked up a chess piece and put it on the chessboard after a moment's thought.
The queen looked at the position where Liu Zhi'an dropped the chess piece, her pretty eyes were a little stunned, she raised her eyes to look at Liu Zhi'an, thought for a moment and dropped the chess piece in her hand.
"Does Mr. Liu not know how to play chess? Or he thinks that the junior's chess skills are not as good as Mr. Liu, and he is deliberately letting the junior down!"
Liu Zhi'an dropped the chess pieces without hesitation: "Hey! Mr. Wan is joking. Playing chess is a gentleman's behavior. No matter how arty I am, I will never show contempt for my opponent."
"Master Wan, don't think that what I did is unreasonable. It's just my habit!"
"Life is like chess, and chess is like life!"
"Some people! They regard life as a game of chess."
"There are nothing more than three situations in this chess game. One is to give the opponent a layout from the beginning, so that he can gradually fall into his own situation. The other is the middle layout. This middle layout is so important. We need to build on the past and build on the future, and be considerate of everything. If you miss one move, you will lose the whole game!"
"The last one is to live in order to put yourself to death!"
"This last one is also the most difficult, because the first move and the middle game are already constrained, so trying to put yourself to death and survive later seems like a last resort, but it's not!"
The two queens were playing chess pieces back and forth. The queen lowered her head and pondered for a moment while listening to Liu Zhi'an's words to herself while playing chess.
After cutting off a corner of Liu Zhi'an with the chess piece in her hand, the queen looked at Liu Zhi'an calmly: "I would like to hear the details and ask Mr. Liu for advice!"
"Don't take it seriously. It's just a little experience. If it makes me laugh, I hope Mr. Wan won't take it seriously!"
"It seems that we have lost the opportunity to survive, but there is another strategy that is better than to risk our lives and survive, which is to start!"
"It's easy to break the game but hard to start!"
"Because if you want to start the game, you must first control the overall situation!"
"If you want to control the overall situation, you must first lay out the plan!"
"The layout is only for the start!"
"Master Wan, you lose!"
The Queen was startled, and subconsciously looked at the chessboard, only to realize that at some point, all her chess pieces had fallen under Liu Zhi'an's chess pieces, and there was almost no possibility of saving them!
Recalling the first chess piece that Liu Zhi'an played earlier that made her confused, the queen's eyes were a little dazed. It was obvious that the form was great, and she could control the chess game in her own hands at any time, so why did she lose!
"This...this...is this what Mr. Liu said about putting yourself to death and surviving?"
Liu Zhi'an smiled and shook his head, picked up a captured queen's chess piece and placed it on the chessboard: "Otherwise! Look, is your chess piece alive again?"
The Queen looked at the chess piece that Liu Zhi'an had dropped in shock. This chess piece almost revitalized half of her chess pieces: "How...how could this happen? More than half of my chess pieces are actually alive, and they can be found completely." Opportunity turns defeat into victory!”
"Oh, is it so?"
"Now look again!"
Liu Zhi'an pinched a chess piece from the palm of his hand and placed it on the chessboard again, looking at the queen's reaction with a smile.
The Queen's lips trembled as she looked at Liu Zhi'an's fallen chess pieces: "All of them are dead, and the whole game is lost!"
Huyan Yunyao on the side also looked at the chess pieces on the chessboard in a daze. Most of the chess pieces were clearly laid out, so how could one chess piece determine the outcome?
Liu Zhi'an smiled and separated the chess pieces and placed them in their respective chess boxes. He raised his eyes and glanced at the astonished queens opposite.
"So, although the success or failure of this chess game has something to do with the level of chess skills, it is not only the level of chess skills that determines the outcome of a chess game, but there are many keys to victory or defeat. But in the end, it depends on the player who is playing chess. in hand,"
"If the chess player wants you to win, you will live. If the chess player wants you to fail, you will die."
"This is the key to determining the outcome of a chess game!"
"If you want to be a chess player, you must first control the overall situation!"
"This brings us back to the topic of chess being like life, and life being like chess. Life is like this, and so is the game of chess!"
"The chess game has a beginning, and so does life!"
"The chess game is in the hands of the chess player, and life is also in the hands of the chess player!"
"As the saying goes, a chessboard is like a battlefield, but there is actually not much difference between a chess game and life!"
"The black and white chess pieces are like two armies confronting each other. Don't you think the outcome is a trivial matter in the hands of the chess player?"
"Master Wan, can you see how your chess piece came to life now?"
The Queen nodded silently: "This chess piece will split your chess offensive in two, and it can delay the time when my chess pieces are swallowed up!"
"Then how did your chess pieces lose all the games?"
"Two combined into one, one move cuts off all my escape routes, leaving me with no way to retreat but death!"
Liu Zhi'an nodded happily: "Young Master Wan really has a bright eye and is extremely intelligent!"
"When the chess pieces fall to the ground, it's like an army setting up their formation, so chess is like life!"
"Destroying a chess piece is like wiping out a country's soldiers and horses. So tell me, I'm mainly attacking one side. I can obviously defeat your chess game in one fell swoop and plunge you into a place of eternal disaster. Why do you have to divide your troops into two groups?"
The Queen's delicate body trembled, and she looked at Liu Zhi'an blankly: "In order to give Jin... to leave a chance for the younger generation?"
Liu Zhi'an laughed and drank the tea in the cup.
"You're a teachable boy! Let's replace him!"
"The chess game has only begun halfway. If you want to be a chess player, how can you only play half of the game! Mr. Huyan, how about a game?"
Huyan Yunyao nodded blankly, looking at the somewhat lost queen, and felt a little scared when she saw Liu Zhi'an's narrowed eyes. Senior brother's father is too hard to see through!
"It is better to obey orders than to be respectful!"
Liu Zhi'an grabbed a handful of chess pieces and was about to let Huyan Yunyao guess the first move. Liu Yuan walked in with a solemn expression and whispered in Liu Zhi'an's ear.
Liu Zhi'an raised his eyebrows slightly, glanced in the direction of the palace and smiled faintly,
"How can you get the fragrance of plum blossoms without experiencing a bone-chilling cold!"
"The trend of the times is beyond his control. If you want to be a chess player, you must first step out of your identity as a chess piece."
"Just do what you want, but don't go out of your way!"
"Yes, old slave, please resign!"
After Liu Yuan left, Liu Zhian looked at the confused Huyan Yunyao with a smile: "Master Huyan, single or double?"
.............
"Lian'er, can Lao Zhou's innate master's skills suppress the Gu worms in His Majesty's body?"
"Yes, you can, but you can only suppress it for a moment. After all, Your Majesty has no internal strength and cannot cooperate with Mr. Zhou. You can let Mr. Zhou try, so that I can judge what kind of Gu worm is in Your Majesty's body!"
Liu Mingzhi nodded solemnly and walked towards Lao Zhou: "Old Zhou, suppress the Gu worms in His Majesty's body and don't get close to His Majesty's heart. Give Lian'er time to observe the Gu worms!"
"good!"
Lao Zhou nodded with an unusually solemn expression, and pointed his withered fingers towards Li Ye's chest.
Li Ye groaned and looked down at the bulge in front of his chest: "Grandpa Zhou, I can't feel it anymore. Help me get it out!"
An invisible breath poured into Li Ye's body from Lao Zhou's fingertips: "Girl, do it quickly!"
"good!"
Qinglian took out a bronze tripod from the purse on her waist, and quickly walked towards Li Ye with a dagger. In Li Ye's mind, a dagger cut Li Ye's fingertip, and blood drops fell towards the bronze tripod. go.
Qinglian held the bronze tripod, took out a porcelain bottle from her arms and poured it towards the tripod. A fishy smell instantly hit her nostrils.
Qinglian dipped her fingertips into a little black blood and put it under Qiong's nose and sniffed it.
"Rotten Heart Gu, it turns out to be Rotten Heart Gu!"
"Ah.........Zhou...Master Zhou...Grandpa...save me...save me ....."
Li Ye, who was sitting on the chair, suddenly changed his face. His pale face turned extremely red, and his body was rickety and writhing on the ground while gnashing his teeth.
After a while, sweat poured down Li Ye's face, and he looked like he was in pain.
"Help...save me...ah..."
The hoarse voice of pain made several people in the royal study breathe quickly. How much pain can make people sweat like rain in the winter.
Lao Zhou was also a little overwhelmed by this surprise.
"Your Majesty! Your Majesty!"
"Lian'er, what's going on?"
"The man who raises the voodoo is nearby, and he is controlling the voodoo to corrode His Majesty's heart!"
Liu Mingzhi looked at Li Ye, who was in pain on the ground, and his face became impatient.
"Hurry and help His Majesty get rid of the poison!"
"Okay, I will take out the little dragon right now!"
Qinglian took out a weird piccolo from her cuff and started playing. A bright red snake's voice shot out from Qinglian's cuff, hovering on Qinglian's bright wrist and swaying to the sound of the flute.
"There is a strange noise in the imperial study. Quickly send an order to the other brothers to come and gather to investigate the situation."
"Got the order!"
