Yu Jian went all the way north, and before he knew it, it took another whole day. He arrived at the border of Yongzhou and entered the city. Guiliu's legs were sore from standing all day, so he hit his calves while walking on the walkway. As a result, he lost his balance and bumped into the city. Wang Sizhi, and whether the claws were unintentional or intentional, they happened to touch Wang Sizhi's "somewhere not peaceful" place.
Fortunately, Wang Sizhi just scolded him as "slutty" and didn't bother to argue with him.
Yongzhou is surrounded by mountains and is located in a dangerous location. It is the only place for the capital's troops to go south, and it is also an important route for north-south commerce. It can be described as a "throat". The imperial court has allocated funds to build this place many times, so there are many restaurants here and it is very prosperous. .
Guiliu had not had any water all day long. Seeing a restaurant was like seeing a brothel. To describe it in four words, he was "ecstatic". He didn't even find an inn in advance. He pulled Wang Sizhi to the restaurant and greeted the waiter. After ordering a table of famous local dishes and two jars of the best Huadiao wine, when the waiter smiled and spread his hands to sign for payment, Guiliu touched his sleeves and pockets, and coughed in embarrassment. Instead of getting money, I only found a deflated brocade bag. Yes, all the money I carried along the way was spent.
What to eat if you don’t have money? Want to eat a king's meal?
So the store owner took dozens of servants throughout the restaurant and coaxed Guiliu and Wang Sizhi out.
Tonight the full moon is in the sky, hanging high. Guiliu squatted on the street, sighing, and rolled up his sleeves as a cold wind blew by. He was hungry and tired at the moment, and his tinkling, let alone poor, could not make any sound at all.
"Sizhi, are you hungry?"
"I'm not hungry." Wang Si spoke concisely and to the point. She looked at the bright moon in the sky and said, "The moonlight is so beautiful tonight."
Guiliu simply lay back and lay down on the street. He was not afraid of others laughing at him and laughed at himself: "I never thought that there would be a day when I, the prince, would have no money and could not afford to eat."
"Are you really hungry?" Wang Sizhi asked.
"You haven't eaten for a day, so it's strange that you're not hungry, right?" Gui Liu said angrily, he didn't even have the strength to speak.
Wang Sizhi thought for a while and said, "Can you play chess?"
Guiliu stared blankly at the silent moon and whispered, "I just want to eat."
Wang Sizhi kicked him lightly and said, "If you can play chess, maybe you will have something to eat."
"Really or not." Guiliu looked suspicious and sat up.
Wang Sizhi said: "I came to Yongzhou once when I was very young. There was a small, dark alley where black chess players were playing. If you win, you can take money from them. If you lose, you have to pay double. money."
Geiliu asked in surprise: "Has a lady like you ever been to a place like that?"
"You are only allowed to listen to music, but you are not allowed to accompany my father to play chess?"
""Then did Uncle Wang win or lose in the end? Guiliu asked cautiously.
Thinking of that bad memory, Wang Sizhi looked unhappy and said softly: "My father likes to bet big, and he won a lot at first, but then he met a down-and-out scholar and lost all three games, losing thousands of copper coins. "
"A few thousand guan?" Even the prince Guiliu, who had no shortage of gold and silver to spend, clicked his tongue. He exhaled a big breath and murmured to himself: "Uncle Wang, you can't spend money like this if you have money." ah."
"But it was more than ten years ago, and I don't know if chess is still played in that alley." Wang Sizhi was a little hesitant, thinking about it again and again, then squatted down and said to Giliu seriously: "Yes. Otherwise, you’d better ask for food.”
Facing the beautiful face so close at hand, Guiliu blinked, "Isn't it more appropriate for you to beg for food than for me? Those rich young men spend a lot of money, so we don't want more. A piece of silver is enough for us to eat and live for the night."
Not to be outdone, Wang Sizhi said with a smile: "Aren't you hungry? With your face as the best in the world, isn't it easy to drink free wine? There happens to be no place to sleep, so you can still sleep in Furong's account One spring night, from this point of view, kills two birds with one stone."
"Okay, as long as you don't get angry." Guiliu stood up, dusted off his clothes, and pretended to look around, "Hey, where is this brothel? Why didn't I see it?"
Wang Sizhi said with an "extremely considerate" smile: "Just turn right at the second street intersection after entering the city."
Guiliu suddenly realized, "That's not right. Where does my little sister live? No, this is not possible. I still have to play chess. I still have to play chess."
This is equivalent to Gui Liu taking the initiative to lose the battle.
Wang Sizhi was obviously in a good mood, her red lips curled up, she held the snowball in both hands, and took the lead in stretching her long legs. Her soft and charming voice kept spinning in Gui Liu's head, "Come with me."
Although Wang Sizhi has a deep impression of that dark and gloomy alley, it was only when he was a child. In more than ten years, even Yongzhou has undergone earth-shaking changes, not to mention the chess players who may move around in the alley at any time. .
Relying on his childhood impressions, Wang Sizhi finally found the alley after going around in several big circles. But in the prosperous Yongzhou, the increasingly dilapidated and desolate alleys seem out of place.
"This is it, do you want to go in?" In the dark and deep alley, even Wang Sizhi was a little hesitant.
"We're all here. If you don't go in and take a look, all your efforts will be in vain." Guiliu put his arms around Wang Sizhi's waist and said with a smile: "I know you're scared. It's okay. I, the tenth-ranked grandmaster in the martial arts review, will protect you." Do you suddenly feel very safe?"
Wang Sizhi just sneered.
So the two of them walked into the alley under the gauze-like moonlight. They walked for a long time without seeing a chess stall.
Geiliu couldn't help but feel a little doubtful, "Are you sure this is where you came?"
"It must be here." Wang Sizhi affirmed.
"Then walk further inside."
The two of them continued to go deeper, and they still didn't see a chess player after one or two sticks of incense. Seeing endless darkness in front of him, the environment was so small and cold, Wang Sizhi frowned, feeling a little uncomfortable, and said, "Don't leave, let's go back."
With that said, she turned to leave, but was held back by Gui Liu for some reason.
"You saw him, right?"
Wang Sizhi lowered his head and said softly: "You can't win. He is the down-and-out scholar who defeated my father three times in a row."
"Believe me, let alone three games, I can win all thirty games."
Wang Sizhi slowly turned around, still lowering her head, like a child who had done something wrong, biting her red lips and whispered: "I'm sorry."
"Idiot, what are you talking about? I should be the one to say sorry. As a man, there is no reason for his woman to suffer and starve with him. He doesn't even have a place to live. Later..."
Guiliu stopped talking and suddenly bullied Wang Sizhi, forcing Wang Sizhi to the wall. One big hand firmly held her hands and raised them high. The other hand pinched her chin, and then closed her eyes. Kissed her.
Wang Sizhi couldn't help but groan.
After a long time, the two finally "peeled off". Wang Sizhi felt her lips were numb and itchy. She knew that this was Gei Liu's deliberate "masterpiece", but no matter how unbearable it was, the most she could do was purse her lips, because she knew that if she let this man If he succeeds, he will definitely narrow his eyes and say to himself with a look of shame and frivolous words: "You are not satisfied with your desires, right?"
Seeing that she didn't respond for a long time, Geiliu smiled and praised sincerely: "Okay, it's really amazing."
The result was Wang Sizhi's "unsatisfied" hard kick.
At the deep end of the alley, Guiliu and Wang Sizhi finally saw the chess stall clearly with the pale moonlight.
As Wang Sizhi said, the person setting up the stall was a down-and-out scholar.
How depressed is it? He couldn't even afford candles or oil lamps, so he made others think there was no chess stall here.
Geiliu sat down without saying hello and said, "According to your rules, how much will you pay if you win?"
The scholar replied: "At least five copper coins, bet it on me first. If you lose, it will become mine directly, which will save you trouble. If you win, I will give you double the amount."
Guiliu picked up a white piece from the chess box and said, "Play chess first. If you win, I will give it to you."
"Give me the money first, otherwise I won't be able to give you the money." The scholar said firmly.
After a moment of silence, Guiliu stood up, facing the moonlight to make the money-hungry scholar in front of him widen his eyes, and said loudly: "Take a good look at my clothes, a few stinky copper coins, is it possible?" Can I still give it to you?"
The scholar is obviously an old man, and he won't accept your trick. He sneered: "If you are really rich, why bother showing off your clothes? Nothing is as convincing as the sound of copper plates hitting the table. After spending half a day, I can't do anything for you." You poor man, hurry up and leave, don’t bother me here.”
Seeing that he had been exposed, Guiliu sat down calmly, placed the white piece he held with his fingers heavily on Tianyuan, and said with a smile: "You can't even afford an oil lamp, and you are so desperate for money from me, so why don't you give me a penny?" None, right?"
The scholar laughed loudly, "Looking at it this way, it's a pauper versus a pauper."
Guiliu had already pinched the second white stone and said with a smile, "Who says it's not the case?"
The black piece falls on the plate.
The scholar also picked up a second sunspot with his slender fingers, stared at the arrogant Gui Liu, and said with a smile: "I have been playing chess in the alley for more than ten years, and I have never lost."
Gui Liu dropped a piece and said, "I've been playing chess with a bunch of old monsters all day long, and I haven't won."
Guiliu paused and added: "However, I have never died."
Wang Sizhi stood beside Guiliu, watching the chess game without saying a word.
I saw both sides moving very fast, and the nineteen paths vertically and horizontally were densely packed with black and white.
Through the faint moonlight, Wang Sizhi could barely tell that the scholar was slightly ahead.
But the battle over the chessboard was like two armies confronting each other. The situation changed in an instant, and Geiliu soon took the advantage again.
What Wang Sizhi didn't know was that Guiliu had learned to play chess under Qin Fang's guidance since he was a child. When he was young, he often played chess with the national master in Qintian Prison. Now his strength far exceeds the ninth level and is comparable to the national master.
Just now, Geiliu said something that seemed unbelievable, making people confused.
What does "playing chess with a bunch of old monsters all day long, but I never die?"
Wu Peixian, Xie She, Yao Tiao, Yu Jiaxin, which one is not an old monster?
Along this journey, where is the chessboard? When are you not playing chess?
Nine Dan? national champion? Compared with "never died", it's nothing.
There were not many black and white chess pieces left in the chess box, and the chessboard was full of black and white. Later, it was extremely difficult for the two of them to make moves. Every step had to be done carefully, like walking on thin ice, and they had to be more careful.
A round is an hour.
It ends with the scholar winning half the battle.
But in the second game, Guiliu made a wonderful move, forcing the scholar to surrender in a very short time.
When the third game was about to begin, Wang Sizhi suddenly interrupted, "Wait a minute."
Both of them looked at Wang Sizhi in confusion.
I saw Wang Sizhi spreading his palm, and inside was a silver ingot. It looked so cold and so hot under the moonlight.
Guiliu and the scholar swallowed their saliva at the same time.
Wang Sizhi looked at Guiliu, blinked his eyes, and said sincerely and innocently: "I forgot that I also have some money on me."
Hearing this, Guiliu seemed to have lost his soul. He slumped from the stone bench to under the table, and said in a sinister tone of death: "Si Zhi, why didn't you tell me earlier?"
