Chapter 78 Night Talk
"Brother Tiangang, why do you think of playing chess here?" Zhang Xuanqing was pulled and sat opposite Yuan Tiangang, looking at the chessboard on the stone table a little confused.
It was already dark today and there was no moon. At this time, the stone table where they were located was three or four feet away from the room.
There were no electric lights in ancient times, and the dim candlelight in the room could not shine here through the screen windows.
Even though Zhang Xuanqing had cleared his eyes, his eyesight was far beyond ordinary people, and he could not see the grid on the chessboard.
How can I play chess?
With the clinker, Yuan Tiangang laughed, and a faint light flashed in his eyes: "Brother Dao, today we not only have to compare our chess skills, but also our cultivation level."
Compare cultivation?
Looking at the faint light in Yuan Tiangang's eyes, Zhang Xuanqing immediately understood: The other party was going to check his qi-seeing technique!
Although he focused on practicing light skills these days, his Qi-seeing technique has not fallen behind.
Anyway, he can stay up day and night for more than ten days, so he has time.
Although the Qi-seeing technique refers to the Qi-seeing technique, it also has the effect of night vision. Moreover, the cultivation of Qi-seeing technique is based on the eyes and orifices and the innate Qi-seeing technique. Zhang Xuan had these two points early in the morning, so his cultivation progressed very quickly.
Thinking about this, Zhang Xuanqing became interested, and a faint light flashed in his eyes and his vision changed suddenly.
The originally dark world became gray, similar to the scene where the light was clear in the early morning. A thin or rich five-color gas floated in the field of view, and the chessboard on the stone table gradually became clear.
This clarity is different from normal clarity, just like this chessboard was originally made of mahogany, but at this time it was gray in Zhang Xuanqing's eyes.
The other stone tables and stone benches are also. Anyone with no life characteristics in the yard has turned gray. Those with life characteristics, such as big trees and Yuan Tiangang, all have their own colors.
While Zhang Xuanqing was "opening his eyes", Yuan Tiangang had already pinched a black piece and pointed it at the small eye on the upper right side of the chessboard. This is not only a politeness in the Go world, but also the most common starting style. It can be said to be a fair and orderly.
Seeing this, Zhang Xuanqing didn't delay and picked up the white chess and was on the lower left side of the chessboard. In this way, you two, you and I will quickly make a move on the chessboard.
However, unlike ordinary people playing chess, they play chess with their right hand, but their left hand is on their knees and quickly calculate.
This is the way to change chess!
Easy is the ease of the Zhou Yi and the ease of change, not the chess of the game.
Anyone who learns Yidao can do nothing to play chess.
In order to learn arithmetic, Zhang Xuanqing also worked hard to learn chess skills and memorized a lot of chess scores. The chess path he and Yuan Tiangang now took is to use the chess path to calculate the Book of Changes, combined with the right time and place, using chess as hexagrams and hexagrams as chess. Not only do he put on the chessboard, but also considering things outside the chessboard.
Just like the two of them, Zhang Xuanqing is in the north and Yuan Tiangang is in the south. Today is New Year's Eve, the year of Yiyou, the month of Wuyin, and the day of Guihai, the God of Wealth is in the south, the God of Joy is in the southeast, and the Gate of Joy is in the north. On the last day of Zhang Xuanqing's life, his blessings are low, and his evil spirit is in the rush, and he is in the Gate of Joy, and he is in the Gate of Joy. It is difficult to win. On the contrary, Yuan Tiangang is in the position of God of Wealth, and he is accompanied by the God of Joy. It can be said that as soon as he sits in the beginning, Zhang Xuanqing loses.
This is the real competition for cultivation. If you don’t calculate anything, you will fall into a disadvantage.
At first, Zhang Xuanqing hadn't noticed this point, but when he found out, it was too late. He had not been able to finish a game of chess, and was in a dilemma. He had no choice but to admit defeat and smiled bitterly: "Brother Dao is really a scheming!"
"I dare not take it, I dare not take it, and I am lucky to take it while my fellow Taoist is unprepared." Yuan Tiangang laughed, stretched his waist and yawned: "Ha--it's getting late, and I'm tired, so I won't accompany my brother Taoist." After saying that, he stood up and walked back one step and three times.
After walking a few steps, I suddenly turned around and my face was hidden in the darkness, and I couldn't see it clearly: "Brother Dao, in life, be happy."
Is this comforting yourself?
Watching Yuan Tiangang's figure disappear, Zhang Xuanqing was stunned for a while, and suddenly laughed silently.
He lowered his head and looked at the endgame on the table. He picked up the wine jar next to him and sipped his head with a big mouthful of pain.
happy!
Suddenly, a sense of sleepiness came: the use of Qi-seeking technique is extremely mentally exhausting, and playing chess and calculating is even more mentally exhausting. Even Zhang Xuanqing could not help feeling tired at this time.
He shook his head and felt dizzy. He yawned, forced himself to take the wine jar back.
However, just as I turned around, I saw a flash of light from the corner of my eyes and saw a figure on the roof next to me.
The man was half-squatting and half-sitting on the eaves, and there was something black next to him, circling and thundering, as if it was a wine jar.
Zhang Xuanqing calmed down and looked at the lucky Qi-seeking technique. Although the five-color aura faintly blocked the man's face, he still realized that the man was - Liu Jiannan.
"What did he do when he ran to the roof of the house?"
Zhang Xuanqing muttered in his heart, straightened his chest and raised his breath, and leaped onto the beam of the house, leaving silently.
But the sound of the wind still made Liu Jiannan feel shocked and shouted softly: "Who!" When he turned around, he saw that it was Zhang Xuanqing, and then he breathed a sigh of relief: "Why are you here too?"
"If you don't see you squatting here, come up and take a look." Zhang Xuanqing walked to him with a smile. Seeing that he looked wrong, he sat beside him and asked, "Why, do you miss your loved ones?"
Liu Jiannan looked dazed, nodded without saying anything.
"Tsk, I'm alone in a foreign land and miss my family more during festivals." Zhang Xuanqing sighed, and smiled and stuffed the wine jar into the other party's arms: "Come more?" Seeing that Liu Jiannan's wine jar was empty, there was still a lot of wine in his wine jar, so he hadn't been willing to throw it away just now.
Liu Jiannan was stunned for a while, took the wine and drank it, and praised loudly: "Good wine, good words!" But his expression was still full of depression.
Zhang Xuanqing smiled and said, "Actually, we know that if you don't say it, your parents should have died in an accident, right? The three people we met last time were your enemies?"
"Why..." Liu Jiannan turned around in shock, suddenly reacted again, his face full of bitterness: "I almost forgot that you are Taoist priests, and you can calculate, how can you hide this matter from you?"
Zhang Xuanqing shrugged, neither denying nor admitting: "Do you mind telling me?"
Today, the two of them were talking straight to each other from beginning to end, without saying anything about Taoist priest, Brother Liu, it was like two friends chatting.
A few months are enough to cultivate a certain friendship.
Liu Jiannan was silent for a long time, finally nodded and said, "Liu Chongwang is my father..."
At first, Zhang Xuanqing hadn't reacted yet, who was Liu Chongwang? Then he suddenly remembered the "Sword Immortal" that Yuan Tiangang once said that day.
Zhang Xuanqing can guess the following things without listening to Zhang Xuanqing. According to Yuan Tiangang, after Liu Chongwang's death, the five tigers of Jizhou disappeared, and Liu Chongwang's brother, Dadao Wang Wu, no longer enters the world. Now the five tigers of Jizhou are dead, and Liu Jiannan did not deny that Jizhou Wu was his enemy just now, but he never showed that he had to take revenge from beginning to end. I think the real murderer is someone else, and the most suspicious one is the Bigdao Wang Wu.
Sure enough, Liu Jiannan took a sip of wine and said hatefully: "I originally thought that the Five Tigers of Jizhou poisoned my father and killed my father, but later I found out that it was Wang Wu who poisoned him. The Five Tigers of Jizhou would have been taken over as his subordinates. If I hadn't been traveling abroad under my father's order, I would have been killed by him. But even so, I was deceived by him and joined forces with the Five Tigers of Jizhou to set me off, almost letting me die under his hands. It's hateful that my father treated him as his younger brother, but he planned my father's immortal sword and sword-controlling technique..."
"Your father is really a sword immortal, and he knows the art of sword control?" Zhang Xuanqing didn't catch the key points for the first time and was very shocked.
Originally, in this situation, we should have comforted others first. However, Liu Jiannan did not blame him. He sighed deeply, smiled bitterly and shook his head: "I don't know, I really don't know. Those who are sons don't know whether their father's unique skills are true or false. Isn't it ridiculous?"
"Uh..." Zhang Xuanqing didn't know how to comfort the other party for a moment.
Liu Jiannan did not wait for his comfort, and took a sip of wine and said, "But Wang Wu must know that, and he must have gotten something from my father, otherwise he would not have disappeared in the past few years. With my ability, it was not enough to make him so afraid, and something must have bound him. I remember when my father passed away, he tested me with a short battle that his father often carried with him. I guess there must be a relationship between the two..."
Short battle? Fairy sword?
Zhang Xuanqing was a little confused and thought he had heard it wrong. But at this time, his head was a little heavy. It should be because he had just played chess with Yuan Tiangang and his mind was exhausted. So he didn't ask.
After listening to Liu Jiannan chattering for a while, he couldn't remember what he said in detail. He only remembered that Liu Jiannan had said enough and went down, but he couldn't help but feel sleepy and tired, so he just lay on the roof and fell asleep slowly.
After awakening, I have returned to modern time and space.
...
Bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang-
"It's time to get up, it's time to get up, open the door for me." In the early morning, Zhang Xuanqing was awakened by a series of knocks on the door.
"Here you come." He agreed while putting on his clothes. He opened the door and stood outside the landlord's elder sister.
"Why are you so slow? Are you hiding people in the house?" The landlord said, pulling him away, walking into the house, and looking around.
Zhang Xuanqing's lips twitched: "How can you? You see, there is only such a house, how can you hide the people?" After a pause, he said: "Sister is here to collect rent, right? You can wait a little longer, I'll get you money..."
"No need!" The landlord stopped him: "I came here to inform you today. I have rented it to someone else. You can move out today."
"What? Sister, are you making trouble? I rented it well. Why did you rent it to someone else?" Zhang Xuanqing was very angry, very angry.
The landlord looked at him squintly and was very calm: "Didn't you say last month? If I want to rent something out, you can pack up and get out of here immediately."
Zhang Xuanqing: “…”
He seemed to remember that last month the landlord had to raise the rent. He argued that it was so expensive and no one rented it. He left if someone rented it, and he was excused.
Now...don't!
Chapter completed!