As soon as he said these words, Qi Wu Di's face changed immediately and he looked at Liang Yan carefully from head to toe.
"Hehe, it seems that the old saying is true. The so-called hero comes from a young age. I, Qi Wu Di, have not been born for a long time, but I didn't expect that there would be a rising star like you in the world. The smelly monk, the 'sword-backing man', 'Yu Banxian', Xuntiansi
Chief Director, which of these four people is your master?"
Qi Wudi obviously regarded Liang Yan as the secret disciple of a certain martial arts master, and his attitude changed a lot.
Liang Yan laughed loudly, raised his hands and said, "I won't bother you with this. As the saying goes, first come, first served. If I come one step earlier than you, I should be the one who makes the first move."
After he finished speaking, he was about to reach out to hold the sunspot, but Qi Wudi hurriedly stopped his hand and said with a smile: "No, little brother, haven't you heard that elders are respected? Qi is twenty years older than you."
Sui, the first son should be given to Qi."
"You also said that it was too long." Liang Yan said with a half-smile but not a smile: "More than twenty years have passed in a blink of an eye. How can I get the qualifications to be the first?"
The maid next to me felt quite embarrassed when she saw the old man and the young man competing with each other on the chessboard. She quickly stepped forward and said, "You two don't have to argue. Just guess."
"Right!"
Qi Wudi nodded slightly, reached out and dug out a handful of white stones in the chess jar, and said with a smile: "Little friend Tang, please guess."
Liang Yan glanced at him and saw a slight exertion in his hands, and knew that this person must be cheating.
However, Liang Yan was not afraid at all. He stretched out his hand and took out a black piece from the chess jar, which meant, "If the number of white pieces in Qi Wu Di's hand is an odd number, his side will hold black, otherwise he will hold white."
When Qi Wudi saw that Liang Yan was holding a black piece, he smiled slightly, secretly using his inner strength in his hand, he immediately collapsed a white piece into powder.
"What a pity! What a pity!" Qi Wudi shook his head, threw the white pieces in his right hand on the table, and pretended to sigh: "It's a pity that the kid guessed wrong. The white pieces in my hand are an even number."
As soon as he finished speaking, the palace maid next to him chuckled, looked at him with a strange expression and said, "Does this gentleman not know how to count? The number of white stones here is obviously an odd number, how come it becomes an even number when it comes to the gentleman's mouth?"
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"nonsense!"
Qi Wudi scolded angrily, but still subconsciously looked down and saw thirteen white stones neatly arranged on the table, which was an odd number.
"impossible!"
Qi Wudi's face changed drastically, and he subconsciously shouted: "I have obviously already"
Halfway through his words, he stopped abruptly and just looked at Liang Yan in disbelief.
"One of them has obviously broken, right?" Liang Yan smiled slightly, pointed at one of the thirteen chess pieces and said, "Mr. Qi, look at this one?"
Qi Wudi looked in the direction he pointed and saw this white stone. Although it was completely white, if he looked carefully, he could faintly see the slightest crack.
"you!"
Qi Wudi looked at Liang Yan in disbelief, obviously in disbelief.
"Accepted!"
Liang Yan smiled slightly, stretched out his hand, took out a black stone, and settled it on the chessboard.
In a game of chess between masters, every penny was determined. The two of them tried their best, but in the end it was Liang Yan who took the upper hand. Qi Wu Di had a look of annoyance on his face, like a child who had lost the first battle in a quarrel, feeling very dissatisfied.
He was angry and thought secretly:
"It doesn't matter if I let you strike first. I'll catch you from behind and kill you without leaving a trace!"
It's just that Qi Wudi's idea is destined to be unsatisfactory.
He always prided himself on his chess skills and looked for people to play chess everywhere. He thought that no one in the entire Yue Kingdom could match him. This time he tried every possible means to sneak into the "tea tasting party" just to have fun and see if he could
I met a few good ones and used them for entertainment.
Unexpectedly, I was really "entertained" this time.
Liang Yan entered Taoism through chess and formation. Although he was tortured by Kuchiki in Yixing Pavilion for several years, compared with Qi Wu Di and his like, he was three points better.
At the beginning, the two of them were going back and forth, attacking each other. But after two hundred moves, Qi Wudi was already thinking hard, and it took him a long time to make one move, while Liang Yan was still as relaxed as usual, and his moves were flying.
By the time of the 336th move, Qi Wudi was already sweating on his forehead and he was undecided. After thinking hard for a long time, he suddenly stretched out his hand to push the chessboard and shouted:
"It's not going down! It's not going down! You brat, it's so unreasonable, I can't beat you!"
He surrendered and turned around. He had already jumped out of the pavilion, leaving only one voice shouting: "After you finish the game, Lao Qi will go to you to fulfill the bet!"
The maids nearby couldn't help but look at each other when they saw the middle-aged Confucian scholar just leaving. But they also knew that there were too many people here, so they didn't bother to chat. Instead, they walked to the bamboo frame and took the piece of wood with Liang Yan's name engraved on it.
The sign was hung one level higher.
There were a total of 128 people who came to the chess art pavilion to compete. After five rounds of chess fighting, only four people were still in the pavilion.
Among the remaining four people, one more will be eliminated, and the remaining three can enter the palace to face the saint.
Liang Yan had just sat down in front of the stone table when a thin scholar wearing a blue robe and a turban on his head walked across from him.
This man was quite handsome in appearance and polite in manners. He even had a maid by his side.
The maid was quite tall, wearing a gray linen outfit, and had a round hat on her head for some reason, giving her a strange look.
There were a lot of people here. Liang Yan was so focused on playing chess just now that he didn't notice these two people. But now that they were sitting together at a stone table, Liang Yan couldn't help but have a strange look on his face.
Seeing Liang Yan's strange expression, the thin scholar asked, "Hu Lin, do you have any advice for me?"
Liang Yan glanced at him and said lightly: "Advice is not a big deal, I'm just curious as to why the spirits today are so bold and dare to sneak into the palace in broad daylight!"
When the thin scholar heard what he said, his face changed drastically, his eyes turned again and again, he didn't even play chess, he turned around and ran away!
The maid he brought was obviously much clumsier. She remained stunned for a while. When she saw that the thin scholar had rushed out of Qi Yi Xuan, she realized what she was doing and hurriedly fled out.
Liang Yan took his time, stood up from the stone table, and told Miao Suwen:
"Just wait for me here. I'll come back as soon as I go."
After saying that, he flicked his sleeves and found that the person had disappeared.
The maids in the Chess Art Pavilion were all looking at each other in shock. They never expected that the two parties who were going to play chess would leave in an instant!
"What can happen now?" One of the palace maids asked anxiously: "Your Majesty wants to decide between A, B and C. Now that two of the top four are gone, how can we compete?"
Another palace maid who looked like the leader listened, thought for a while and said: "Didn't Mr. Hu leave first just now? Suppose he gave up on his own initiative. As for Mr. Tang, he left a little later, so naturally he was not allowed to leave.
He won the battle and was promoted successfully, but his name must be ranked at the bottom and counted as 'C' grade."