The author is back. I hope everyone will forgive me for the interruption in the past few days. I will write a big chapter to compensate everyone in the future.
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Concubine Liu's house is very large, without too many partitions, and is only separated by two screens.
Because she was playing chess, she did not meet Xuanyu outside as formally as in the morning, but at the back of the room.
Xu Nuo walked all the way in and found that there were no complete utensils for ordering tea in Concubine Liu Defi's room, which showed that she was not a tea lover. It was speculated that she drank tea soup once a day at most, not three times a day like Lu and other noble ladies. .
In this way, Concubine Liu Defi used tea soup almost as often as she wanted to save Xu Nuo's days in the palace.
When Concubine Liu Defi heard Xu Nuo ask this question, her eyes became more serious, thinking that Xu Liu Niang was a bit smarter than her mother, and she had the capital to enter the palace.
"Let's talk tomorrow. You just entered the palace today, so you need to familiarize yourself with the environment first." Concubine Liu Defi sat lazily, her expression as usual.
The implication is to let Xu Nuo stay for now and order tea without any rush.
As soon as these words came out, Xu Nuo was even more sure that Concubine Liu Def wanted to keep her in the palace for a long time, but what was the use of keeping her?
She has no power and power, and she is even new here, so she can't really help Liu Defei in her "grand ambition" of taking the back seat.
"Can you play chess?" Seeing that Xu Nuo didn't say anything, Concubine Liu asked casually.
Xu Nuo's eyes lit up. She remembered Concubine Liu Defi as a talented and virtuous person. If she could get her approval and negotiate with her about leaving, there might be some hope.
With a plan in mind, Xu Nuo temporarily abandoned the practice of talking less and listening less. He said respectfully: "I have read a few chess books and learned a little bit."
"It doesn't matter if you have some skills, I just have a lot of free time. How about a round of hand-to-hand talk?" Concubine Liu pushed the black man in her hand forward, thinking that if she could have such good calligraphy, the so-called "learning from the skills" must be modest.
Xu Nuo glanced at the chessboard, nodded, saluted and sat opposite Concubine Liu Def, putting the black piece at hand.
"If I'm lucky enough to win against you, can you let me stay in the palace for three days and then leave?" Xu Nuo asked boldly before taking the chess pieces. She didn't dare say anything about leaving tomorrow or leaving immediately. That would be too arrogant and showed too much purpose.
After all, she is not a little girl who forgets who she is just because something happened at the banquet, and she doesn't have the capital to say certain things. She won't tell.
The palace maid who was waiting on the side looked at Xu Nuo with a strange expression, wondering whether the sixth lady of the Xu family was really stupid or pretending to be stupid. Concubine Liu Defi's chess skills were so good that even the great Confucians would be ashamed of herself, and the officials even praised her many times. Who in the capital doesn’t know that Concubine Liu Def is good at chess?
How dare Xu Liuniang say such nonsense!
Aren't you looking for a fight?
The maid was very disdainful of the promise. Thinking that the promise is overestimating one's ability, a look of contempt can't help but appear on the face. But Concubine Liu's face remained the same as before, and she just stretched out her hand to ask Xu Nuo to sit down. Although he didn't say anything, his actions showed that he acquiesced to the promised proposal.
Xu Nuo was overjoyed, and then he adjusted his breathing, abandoned his distracting thoughts, let his heart regain calm, and then picked up the black stones and dropped them on the chessboard.
She was very good at chess in her previous life. Moreover, I have read many chess records summarized by predecessors, and after time travel, I have read many unique copies that have not been passed down to later generations. He often competed with Xu Gucheng on chess skills and constantly applied what he read in the book into practice.
With her current chess skills, as long as nothing unexpected happens, she will have no problem beating Concubine Liu Defi.
After playing more than twenty moves, Xu Nuo found that Liu Defei's chess style seemed familiar. After thinking about it for a while, she remembered that Xiao Yuan played chess in the same style.
How could there be such a coincidence that Xiao Yuan works for Concubine Liu Defi and at the same time the two have the same chess style.
Did Xiao Yuan learn chess from Concubine Liu Def and develop such a chess style?
Or maybe Xiao Yuan often competed with Liu Defi to get Liu Defi accustomed to this way of playing chess?
Although Xiao Yuan often entered the palace when he was young, he always went to Empress Guo and King Zhou. Concubine Liu Defe had no chance to teach Xiao Yuan. As for after the death of King Zhou, Xiao Yuan did not enter the palace for many years. The contact between the two was mostly Concubine Liu De. If you send someone to pass the message, you really don’t have a chance to play chess or even teach.
Could it be that they both learned from the same person?
After thinking about several possibilities, Xu Nuo felt that this was the only reasonable answer.
These are just fleeting thoughts in his mind, Xu Nuo is still playing chess seriously.
Liu Defei's chess skills are indeed good, and her methods are both secretive and weird. She always uses unexpected moves, but overall, she has an air of taking the overall situation into consideration, and Xu Nuo spent a lot of effort to break the game set by Liu Defei.
It seemed that Concubine Liu had never been defeated in the previous game. After being defeated, her chess moves were not as calm as before. By the time she came to her senses and started to adjust, the situation was over.
"I didn't expect that you still have such a hidden skill." Although Liu Defi lost, she looked satisfied. She looked at Xu Nuo with a somewhat scrutinizing look, and then shook her head and asked the palace maid to remove the chessboard.
The palace maid moved the chessboard as it was, very cautiously, not daring to move the pieces on the chessboard.
The palace maid was well aware of Concubine Liu Defe's habits. Every time she lost, she would carefully study the previous chess game. She would not take away the chess pieces on the chess board until she was sure she could beat the opponent. Otherwise, they would always be placed in the side room.
There are two chessboards in the wing of the courtyard that have not been collected. One chessboard has chess pieces that are twenty years old, and the other one was put in seven years ago.
The palace maid placed the chessboard in the back room with a blank look on her face, then snorted angrily.
A young lady who is more than ten years old can actually win against Concubine Liu Defi's three sons. It is really unbelievable that Concubine Liu Defi actually agreed to her request!
Xu Liuniang, what kind of palace is this? Is it a place where you can come when you want and leave when you want?
The owners of the other two chessboards are both worthy of admiration, and Xu Liuniang actually has the opportunity to be on par with these two!
Unbelievable, unbelievable, it must be a coincidence, or Concubine Liu Defi did not play chess with a child carefully.
Although the maidservant knew that Concubine Liu Defi would go all out no matter what opponent she faced, she thought so in order to tell herself that Xu Nuo was not good at playing chess.
"My son likes this way and is willing to put some thought into this aspect." While taking away the chessboard, the palace maid replied Xu Nuo and looked directly into Concubine Liu Defe's eyes.
Concubine Liu De smiled, took the tea cup on the table, and drank half of the warm water in it. The tea cup left her lips, and a palace maid immediately took it, and then another palace maid handed over a handkerchief.
Concubine Liu Defi wiped her mouth and then said: "Okay, it's up to you."
She didn't ask Xu Nuo why she made this request, and she didn't go back on her words or use other words to excuse her. No matter what she had planned in her heart, as long as she didn't say it out loud, she could prove some problems.
Xu Nuo didn't expect Concubine Liu to give up so easily. She was originally prepared for a long war.
Concubine Liu Defei's straightforwardness made Xu Nuo's respect for her increase. Such a person should sit in the back seat and reach the pinnacle of life if he has the strength.
Concubine Liu Defi naturally had a lot of speculations about the promised proposal, but she didn't show it at all. She just planned to do what was originally done in seven or eight days in three days.
"In that case, you can go to the main hall and prepare some tea in an hour. The officials will also be there by then. Just follow the maids' instructions regarding clothing. If you need anything, just ask and someone will prepare it for you." No matter because of the promise. She was Lu's daughter, or perhaps because of Xu Nuo's good calligraphy and chess skills that were different from her age, Concubine Liu Defi admired Xu Nuo.
The reason for appreciation comes from her belief that Xu Nuo knows how to advance and retreat.
However, she will not be soft-hearted when the people she appreciates should act as chess pieces.
Xu Nuo got the order from Concubine Liu Def and went down to prepare. Before she left, Concubine Liu dismissed all the maids in the house and called a young eunuch in.
The young eunuch looked about fourteen or fifteen years old, with a dark face and extremely bright black eyes. He walked with almost no footsteps. He was obviously a martial arts practitioner.
The little eunuch bowed to Concubine Liu Defi after coming in. There was no expression on his face, and he listened quietly to the instructions.
"Tell him to advance the time by three days and let Jing Ping know the news as soon as possible." Liu Defei whispered. (To be continued...)
ps: Counting various additional updates, I currently owe my sisters a total of seven additional chapters. Although I will still be a little busy in the future, I will definitely work hard to update. Every time I stop updating, I will add one more chapter. Please supervise me.
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