After a game of chess, Zhang said that he would definitely not let go this time and admit defeat. The reason why he lost was the same as Xue Chongxun lost Go, and he was not familiar with it. The two put down the chess pieces and had a tea to rest. Zhang said he wanted to go to the bathroom, so he got up and left for a while.

When he walked to the aisle, he met the charming woman who greeted them at first, and turned around the aisle together. Zhang Shuo looked back and said to the woman, "Why did you come out in person?"[]

The woman said, "Didn't Mr. Zhang send your family's name? Come here to tell me that you want to come to distinguished guests?"

"Forget it, you can't blame you for this. I'm adding to it. I mean I'm here, you don't need to come out. What does this guy come over and brings with him without any brains." Zhang Shi frowned and said, "But come out when you come out. What does it mean to say 'I'm a chess piece'? What do you want to show? What kind of person is the emperor? Some words are too obvious. You are afraid that he will not know your identity."

The woman said angrily: "I don't understand, since you don't want him to know, what are you bringing here to do?"

"How could I take the initiative to bring him?" Zhang said, "It was a complete coincidence. The emperor was coming by himself, so could I stop him? Xiao Xiang believed me and told me about your affairs. Now if the emperor has any doubts, he asked the inner factory to check it out. Not everything is clear? Why is Zhang so embarrassed to face Xiao Xiang?"

"What will the emperor do to Xiao Xiang and affect his career?"

Zhang Shuo thought for a while and said, "That won't be the one who is too damnable to rub the sand in his eyes. But you have to be clear about the relationship here." He lowered his speed of speech and said clearly, "The Cui family was against the emperor. Cui Mingshan is dead, and the others are exiled to Yingzhou, with as many as 1,000 people. You were originally Cui Mingshan's concubine, and your relationship with the Cui family is not as unfamiliar as those exiled, right? So where should you be? The truth after a while, you can understand it at one time, so what else do you have to come out to attract?"

The woman said a little aggrievedly: "I am just a concubine and I never thought about doing anything against the emperor. What is wrong with me? Why did I have to be sent to Yingzhou?"

"There are many people who did not do anything wrong." Zhang Shi looked at her and said, "I have to go through it now, so you can do it yourself."

He didn't go to the toilet either. After saying that, he went straight back to the study room. Seeing Xue Chongxun playing the expensive Go pieces before. But the two of them didn't ask to buy this chess, Zhang said: "Langjun, you see, it's time to lunch. I'll send someone to find a quiet place to order a table of wine and food?"

Sanniang said coldly: "There are many people in the downtown area, so let's change the place."

"Listen to Sanniang." Xue Chongxun smiled, "I'm almost having fun today, so why not go back and eat Laba porridge." After that, he stood up from the cork chair. At this time, the woman also came in and greeted, "Are the two distinguished guests leaving?"

Xue Chongxun said: "Your place is pretty good, it's hidden in the city. Let's come back with a chance. By the way, I haven't asked my little lady for her name."

The woman said, "I have a bad family background and don't know my surname. I am called Yao Niang."

This name changed slightly, and he remembered a past event about his family. The heroine in this incident was Sun Yaoniang. But more than twenty years have passed, and Sun Yaoniang has been dead for more than twenty years. Even if she was not dead, she should be half-old Xuniang, obviously not the same person... It was during Wu Zetian's reign. Wu Chengsi was her nephew. At that time, she was just doing whatever she wanted. She happened to fall in love with the beautiful Sun Yaoniang, but she failed to possess her and forced her to die, and induce an official family to confiscate the family and exterminate the clan. It was a big tragedy. The relationship between the Wu family and Xue Chongxun is also a big family. Wu Zetian is his grandmother, and his relative Princess Taiping's second marriage was also the Wu family, so Xue Chongxun had known about Wu Chengsi for a long time.

As soon as the woman in the age story was not the same as the woman in front of her, it evoked Xue Chongxun's memories. He asked casually: "What a name is Yao Niang?"

The woman said softly: "I dare not speak nonsense in front of the gentleman."

"The name is very good." Xue Chongxun smiled and covered it up, clasped his fists and said goodbye. Yao Niang hurriedly bowed her knees and gave her a gift.

The group left the East City by car. Today, Zhang said he didn't have to go to the southern yamen of Daming Palace again. When he arrived at a fork in the road, Zhang said he got off the car and changed his horse and said goodbye to Xue Chongxun. Xue Chongxun's pine wood carriage continued to travel north to return to the palace.

There were only Xue Chongxun and Sanniang left on the carriage. Xue Chongxun said, "After meeting Zhang Xiao, please ask him to inform the inner factory to send someone to check the chess hall just now, don't disturb people, but check the ins and outs of it, especially the Yao Niang."

Sanniang agreed, and said something more today: "I guess Zhang said he would present that chess to the palace in the afternoon."

"Haha." Xue Chongxun smiled, "Don't just give people in. I don't want to be Wu Chengsi." Seeing that Sanniang was puzzled, Xue Chongxun told the story of Wu Zetian's period and said, "The Yao Niang in the chess hall has a good figure, but there are so many women in the palace, so I don't have to do that."

In the afternoon, Xue Chongxun was watching the memorial in the greenhouse hall. Sure enough, an eunuch came up with the chess piece, saying that it was presented by the Secretary of the Secretariat Zhang Shuo. Xue Chongxun opened it and looked at Sanniang. Sanniang happened to see it, and her eyes were facing each other, and her meaning was self-evident. Xue Chongxun found that Sanniang, who was often expressionless, showed a smug smile in her eyes at this time, as if she was saying: Look, I guess right.

Xue Chongxun put down the memorial and greeted his sister who was sitting beside the Shouxiang table: "Don't worry about those memorials for now, come and practice chess with me. Today I told Zhang that I really lost face when playing Go."

Sanniang blurted out: "Didn't your husband win?"

Xue Chongxun said: "It's better to lose."

Princess Hezhong looked at Xue Chongxun for a while and said, "Brother is really not in a hurry?" Xue Chongxun said, "What's the hurry?" Princess Hezhong shook her head and sighed, "I admire my brother for being really interested in playing chess."

Xue Chongxun smiled and said, "The sky cannot fall, even if it falls, there will be a tall brother who will support you. I originally asked you to review the memorials to make you have something to do, but you are really concerned. I am willing to play chess or let Yao Wan come."

Princess Hezhong immediately said, "I am willing, it's rare for my brother to have leisure."

Xue Chongxun got up and changed his seat, sat in front of a wooden table, pointed to the chess that Zhang said in the presentation and said, "This chess is not simple. Baizi is made of Guanzhong, Heizi Western Regions, Chess Cans, Hebei, Chess Boards, and South China Sea. It is made of all directions in the country. It seems to be holding the country in your hand. It's interesting."


Chapter completed!