The previous book said that Master Shen and Miss Xu came to Shen's Mansion to play with the battlefield. On the chessboard, the two sides opened up their positions, two consecutive stars against two consecutive stars.
"Qin, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, wine, flowers, and tea" are eight elegances highly praised by the ancients, especially those who are literary and artistic. Those who are good at playing the piano are understanding and calm, those who are good at chess are wise and wise, those who are good at calligraphy are full of emotion and nature, those who are good at painting are the most perfect and beautiful, those who are good at poetry are rhymed to the heart, those who are good at wine are in love with their close friends, those who are good at flowers have a pleasant character, Tea drinkers cultivate sentiment.
Chess naturally refers to Go, which reminds people of this poem by a Song Dynasty poet.
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Song Dynasty·Zhao Shixiu
During the yellow plum season, it rains everywhere, and frogs are everywhere in the grassy ponds.
I didn't come over at midnight because I had an appointment, so I knocked on the chess pieces and let the lanterns fall.
Go is an intellectual game that originated in China three to four thousand years ago. It is played using a grid-shaped board and black and white chess pieces. Since ancient times, literati have been particularly fond of Go, just because losing in Go is interesting, winning is interesting, and both winning and losing are interesting.
The chess moves from the layout to the middle game to the final conclusion. In the end, the black and white sides compete to see who occupies the most territory. According to the Chinese counting method, in principle, whoever exceeds 180.5 words wins.
However, after a lot of actual Go battles, it was discovered that black has the advantage of moving first, so black has to follow white with two or three pieces. Today, he has six and a half pieces, which is 3.5 pieces.
Speaking of which, Master Shen started to use black to hang into the white corner. White attacked from both sides, and black flew with two flying swallows. Both sides made moves quickly. It can be seen that each of them has already understood the changes in the flying swallows...
"My young lady's black chess situation is good." Xiaoling said proudly.
"You understand too?" Xiaolong was surprised.
"What do you think?" Xiaoling asked back. Xiaolong didn't dare to say anything when he saw her acting like this.
In front of the chessboard, the two sides were going back and forth, fighting inextricably. Master Shen has a steady chess style and plays every step carefully, while Miss Xu is good at winning by surprise and often makes some unexpected moves.
The black chess on the second line is holding up, leaving the white chess in a dilemma.
"Wonderful, wonderful!" Master Shen blurted out.
After assessing the situation, the young master had to abandon his son to build external momentum...
The two were equally matched, and the two people watching were all sweating for them. This chess game not only tests the two's chess skills, but also tests their mentality and wisdom... 灁.
The chess game entered the official stage, and the black stones were clearly in the lead, but Master Shen did not give up. After the upper left corner was glued all the way, he suddenly picked up a stick and slapped it on the upper right corner.
White has no choice but to stick to the eye, and Black's tip double-activates! The situation where Black was leading two stones instantly turned into White's lead.
"Miss Xu, I accept the concession." Master Shen sipped tea, this was a declaration of victory.
"Young Master Shen is indeed very skilled, and I admire him very much." Miss Xu said generously.
After a fierce battle, Master Shen finally narrowly defeated one round and won this exciting duel.
"Come on, come on, eat watermelon." Mrs. Shen came forward with a plate with a smile.
"Thank you, Auntie." Miss Xu said politely.
"Little Dragon brings water from the well."
"Here we come, young master." Xiaolong ran to the kitchen to fetch water.
The edge of the well was very smooth. Xiaolong shook the wheel and lowered the bucket. There was a splash, and the bucket fell on the water. He skillfully shook the rope, and the bucket obediently moved downwards. After a while, Xiaolong suddenly picked it up, then retracted the rope, and the bucket swayed up.
The cold well water poured into the wooden basin. Xiaolong picked it up and turned around and left. He and Xiaoling had a full cup and the water spilled out.
"Oops!" Xiaoling screamed, "Look, you spilled water all over me."
"Sorry, sorry!" Xiaolong's face turned red.
"You pay, you pay."
"What should I pay for? Besides, you stood behind me silently, how can you blame me?" Xiaolong said in panic.
The young master asked Miss Xu to wash her hands first, then chose the best piece from the plate and handed it to her: "Miss, since my mother brought it, you don't have to be polite."
"Yes." Miss Xu turned around and started eating. Everyone gathered around and took a piece...
Besides, when the in-laws entered the big bathhouse under the river, Mr. Xu discovered that it was open day and night. It's so accustomed to taking a shower at night when the weather is hot, but now the in-laws and the family are meeting each other honestly in the hazy sky, soaking in the clear large pool, Mr. Xu feels particularly comfortable, which is a comfort that cannot be felt by taking a shower at home.
"How are you? Are you comfortable?" Mr. Shen asked with a smile. .
"It's so comfortable."
"As the saying goes, skin is full of water in the morning and water is full of water in the evening. You may be surprised to hear this sentence. This is a folk song that has been circulated in Hexia Ancient Town for a long time. It contains the slowness and leisurely life of people in the ancient town." Mr. Shen is very talkative.
"Well, I've heard this saying before. When the fireworks descended on Yangzhou in March, I heard someone say it there, but I never understood what it meant." Old Man Xu responded while enjoying the pleasure of taking a bath.
Indeed, "morning water foreskin" is a major feature of life in Yangzhou, which is Yangzhou's morning tea culture. Perhaps water transport brought this way of life from the south to the ancient town of Hexia in Shanyang County, Huai'an Prefecture. When having morning tea in Yangzhou, you must go slowly and "leisurely". Find a teahouse and brew a pot of good tea. The entrance will be warm and the refreshing fragrance of tea will spread throughout the body, starting a beautiful day.
Go to the bathhouse and take a bath in the evening. This is what is called "water foreskin". Yangzhou is well-known as the "hometown of back rubs". Yangzhou back rubs are an important part of Yangzhou's bathing culture and a unique traditional Chinese medicine method.
"It's almost time to soak, Master He, give my in-laws a back rub." Mr. Shen shouted loudly. Master He is the Yangzhou chef he must order every time he comes, because he is a Yangzhou native and has good skills.
"Mr. Shen, come on, come on." Master He came over from a distance, his voice was like a bell. At first glance, Master Xu looked like a stocky man, with big muscles and round waist from rubbing his back for a long time.
Lying on the edge of the pool, Mr. Xu thoroughly enjoyed the skills of the Yangzhou master. Perhaps it was too comfortable, and after a while he was snoring like thunder...
"You fell asleep now?" Mr. Shen asked in surprise, and immediately shouted, "Xiao Li, come and wipe me."
Xiao Li, who is in his twenties, is not tall, but looks quite cheerful. As soon as he heard Master Shen calling him, he rushed over excitedly...
"One more game." Xiaoling said unconvincingly while helping to collect the chess pieces.
"Okay, Miss Xu, let's take turns. This one is a black plate of ego." Master Shen Wei quickly ate the watermelon and agreed immediately.
After finishing the meal, Miss Xu took a sip of jasmine tea, and a familiar fragrance filled her heart. She smiled in response, and Xiaolong also stepped forward to help collect the chess pieces.
The young lady sipped her tea and pondered. In the game just now, Master Shen was very confident. His layout was magnificent. He was strong and soft when competing in the Central Plains. He was flawless in the official stage. In the end, he was reversed by his double life. From this, it is not difficult to see that Master Shen's extraordinary strength.
In particular, the hand rest that he was so proud of put Master Shen in a difficult situation for a long time. He actually abandoned his pieces decisively and built up a strong momentum, which shows the flexibility of his opponent.
In the game just now, I had the advantage of taking the black position. In the new game, Master Shen will take the black position. Let’s see how he can make full use of this advantage.
"Master, put it away."
Master Shen picked up the cloud and patted it on the star in the upper right corner. Placing it in the upper right corner showed respect for his opponent. Miss Xu immediately picked up the white piece and placed it on the diagonal star position. Black started to form a three-star formation. The white piece immediately flew sideways, black clipped, white jumped, and black also jumped to strengthen the corners.
Bai Xiaofei entered the corner, Black pointed three and three, and Bai suddenly shouldered the Hesot he had just pinched to test Black's choice...
Black unexpectedly took off and hung into the upper left corner first. After White defended the corner, he opened three high and connected with the three consecutive stars on the right to form a black mass.
White points into the black corner three-three in the upper right corner. Black chooses the outside force, and white uses the queen hand to activate the corner.
Looking at the overall situation, black has formed an external force, and white has competed with it on the ground. The black and white sides are evenly matched.
Suddenly, Black suddenly dropped a piece and Tian Yuan, and White was shocked. Tian Yuan's son has great ambitions to encompass the whole world and conquer all the eight wastelands. This son is like a dragon going out to sea, having access to both sides, advancing and retreating, attacking and defending.
The Tianyuan person symbolizes the "North Star" set off by the stars, and can also symbolize the most dazzling star in the competition among the stars. In ancient Chinese books, the word "Tian Yuan" has long been cited in "Historical Records and Almanacs": "When a king changes his surname and is ordered to do so, he must be careful about his beginning. Correct the new moon, change the color, push the origin of Tian Yuan, and inherit Jue's intention."
The word "Tian Yuan" has such a vast and profound meaning that later emperors were happy to use it as a title. Emperor Xuan of Zhou Dynasty in the Northern Dynasty called himself "Emperor Tian Yuan". Later, "Tian Yuan" was also used to refer to the "king" in a certain field.
The opponent's structure was so big that he was worthy of being a tough and bloody man, and the young lady felt ecstatic in her heart. This kind of man is exactly what she dreams of.
Facing the opponent's fierce attack, White dropped a stone into the black formation resolutely, and a desperate battle began. One attacked, one defended, one wanted to live, and the other was determined to kill...
Hundreds of moves were played between the two sides, but seeing black and white intertwined on the chessboard, and the flames of war in the Central Plains, the onlookers' hearts were filled with emotions.
Master Shen and Miss Xu stared at the chessboard, and their bodies couldn't help but get close to the chessboard. Obviously, both black and white had an arrow on the string and had to shoot...
White has collected the last official, and the game is over.
"I'll play chess." Xiaoling has been trained by the young lady for a long time, and the master and servant often play games at home.
I saw her accurately and quickly filling the black chess empty space with pieces, and the spaces where there were not enough pieces were made into groups of ten empty spaces...
"Ten, twenty, thirty...one hundred and seventy..." Xiaoling was really shrewd. She was surprised to find an unexpected result, "a draw!"
It is true that one day in chess means a thousand years in the world. The sky had darkened, and a man's voice suddenly came from outside the door: "Xiaoling, where is the lady?"
Everyone followed the sound and saw two men walking over while talking.
If you want to know what happens next, listen to the explanation next time.
