The weather was cold in winter, and my hands were numb from the cold even after knitting twice. However, Jiang Yuegu and Aqin were so fresh that they warmed themselves up over the fire before continuing to knit.
They are all clever little girls, and soon several fresh "scarves" were produced.
Emperor Qi Heng and Ji Xun were playing chess in the tent nearby.
"Do you have a letter from King Xuan?" Emperor Qi Heng asked as he dropped his son.
"I just received a letter from him a few days ago. He is fine." Ji Xun replied.
Since the conversation between the two yesterday, they have tried their best to avoid the topic of children and talked about other things here and there.
Soon the topic seemed to be over, the two of them had nothing to say, and the atmosphere became a bit dull.
"Axun, you lost this game of chess." Emperor Qi Heng suddenly said.
Ji Xun had something on his mind so he played carelessly. When he looked at the chessboard, he was indeed almost out of luck and seemed to have lost.
But he quickly said, "I won't admit defeat." He raised his head and stared at Emperor Qi Heng, "Father, why don't we take a gamble? If I lose this game of chess, I will listen to you in everything. If I win, please do the same.
Father, listen to your son. "
Emperor Qi Heng's eyes swept across the chessboard again, with a smile on his lips.
"If you can win this game of chess, then I will not interfere in that matter, otherwise it will be up to me.'
"Okay, it's settled." Ji Xun nodded firmly, his face suddenly becoming solemn.
When Shen Yuyu and Jiang Yuyu came in, Ji Xun and Qi Hengdi were playing chess with great immersion, one holding black stones and the other hot white stones.
How did they know about the conversation between Ji Xun and Emperor Qi Heng just now? The two of them ran in happily holding a scarf.
"Your Majesty, your Majesty, this is the scarf I knitted for you. Wear it quickly and see if it suits you." Jiang Yuyu said and handed the towel to Emperor Qi Heng.
"Surround me." Emperor Qi Heng didn't even raise his head, his eyes were fixed on the chessboard for a moment.
Shen Yuyu was puzzled. She thought the ancients would resist scarves. After all, according to their aesthetic taste, they would find them ugly and in the way.
Besides, warm fox fur collars and scarves are only for the poor, and seem to be superfluous items for the rich.
So although scarves are the best to knit, Shen Yuyu didn't knit them for everyone.
She was going to give the half-knitted one to Aunt Bai.
She didn't expect Emperor Qi Heng to accept it so quickly. After surrounding him, he sincerely praised him: "Not bad, warm, thank you Jiang Yatou." He didn't raise his head when he spoke, playing chess very seriously.
"Axun, do you want to wear it?" Shen Yuyu also held a scarf in his hand, the one he planned to give to Aunt Bai, and took it over to ask Ji Xun casually.
Unexpectedly, Ji Xun didn't even raise his head and said directly, "Please put it on your husband."
Shen Yuyu hurriedly put it on Ji Xun, and Ji Xun also praised him sincerely.
His expression was the same as that of Emperor Qi Heng, without raising his head, looking at the chessboard as if he was involved in a war.
Shen Yuyu watched in surprise for a while, and found that Ji Xun had never been so cautious before, thinking carefully about every move he made, as if every move he made was related to his own life.
The same goes for Emperor Qi Heng. What is the rivalry between father and son?
No one knew what they were fighting about. The game of chess continued until evening, and neither of them even had dinner.
They all seemed to be playing this game of chess with all their strength.
Outside the camp, Wang Chang and other generals originally wanted to report something. They opened the curtains one by one and found that a war without gunpowder seemed to be going on inside the camp, so they hurriedly retreated.
"What's going on?" Niu Zhi looked puzzled.
"Look at how serious they are, they must have gambled money." Lin Yi joked.
"Haha, that's at least a million dollars bet." Wang Chang also joked with a smile.
The three of them were talking when the shadow came over with a warm scarf around his neck.
"Hey, Brother Shadow, what is that around your neck?" Wang Chang asked with a smile.
Shadow blushed, feeling a little happy, "This is called a scarf, sister Aqin gave it to me." For fear of everyone making fun of him, he quickly changed the subject, "By the way, the chess game between the Emperor and His Highness hasn't finished yet?"
"It should be soon." Wang Chang said, raising his eyebrows and glancing at everyone, "How about we make a bet, who will win, the Emperor or His Highness?"
"I bet that the emperor will win, hehe." Niu Zhi said, taking out ten taels of silver and holding it in his hand, "Who wants to bet with me? I'll give you one tael for the ten taels of silver."
Everyone shrugged and no one answered.
Everyone had just gone in to take a look, and it was obvious that His Highness the Night King had lost.
"You really don't want to gamble? Maybe His Highness the Night King can come back with his superb chess skills?" Niu Zhi glanced at everyone with a smile.
Everyone was silent when Shen Yue came up from behind and said, "General Niu, I'll bet with you." He took out a hundred taels of silver note and put it in Niu Zhi's hand, looking at him with a raised eyebrow and a smile, "One hundred taels." I’ll give you ten taels for two.”
"Haha, okay." Niu Zhi smiled heartily and did not forget to whisper to Shen Yuyu, "If the princess loses, please do not embarrass Your Highness.
"I won't lose." Shen Yuyu replied with certainty, "Axun is my husband, I believe in him."
She had also seen the chess game, and it was clear that Ji Xun was bound to lose, but she just believed in Ji Xun. She couldn't explain why. Maybe it was because he seemed to have the real confidence and belief that he would win.
Knowing that the game of chess would not be finished in a while, Shen Yuxi invited everyone into the camp to drink tea and warm up the fire.
"Brother Shadow, come here." Aqin called Shadow aside, measured his feet and trousers, and prepared to knit woolen socks and trousers for him, which made all the soldiers envious.
In the camp next to him, Emperor Qi Heng's expression became uglier and uglier. Finally, he reluctantly put down the white bag in his hand, put his hands on his knees, and let out a long sigh.
"You were able to fight back in such a desperate situation and win the game step by step. Alas, this may be God's will."
"That's it, I won't interfere in this matter anymore. Let's go and have dinner. I'm hungry."
Emperor Qi Heng stood up as he spoke. He felt relieved for some reason, as if the big stone weighing on his heart had fallen to the ground.
After all, they are his own imperial grandsons. Who would be willing to kill them if possible?
When he stood up, he glanced at Ji Xun, who had beads of sweat on his forehead, and sighed.
"It seems that Girl Shen is carrying at least two boys in her belly, otherwise you wouldn't be so desperate."
"I hope that you and Princess Ye will be lucky enough to be able to control that child, bring peace to the royal family, and bring peace to the world of Great Zhou."
"I don't look at fate, only that things depend on man-made things." Ji Xun said firmly, "How can a little baby be responsible for disasters? If a disaster happens, it will be either natural disaster or man-made, I still say the same thing, I don't believe in witches Tongzhi said.”
"One day, I will find out what happened back then and get rid of the theory of witch boy."
Emperor Qi Heng did not speak, but nodded silently, completely convinced by his persistence.
It's up to the Night King to decide whether it's a witch boy or not.
After all, isn't it his fault as the emperor that the world is in such chaos? Perhaps his temperament, views and structure should be changed.
