Yasao Text Chapter 218 Listening to Chess in the Daytime
There is a couplet hanging in the atrium of Leikexuan, which Chen Jiru drew up and handwritten:
"Heaven compensates for the poor and strengthens the healthy, but man mistakes it for being too lazy."
Chen Jiru's calligraphers, Su Shi and Mi Fu, were both skillful and plump. Zhang Yuan thought to himself: "God really takes good care of Chen Meigong. How many people are poor and sick? Chen Meigong, who is nearly sixty years old, is both poor and healthy."
Jian, as for laziness, that is modesty. Meigong's laziness lies in listening to the spring, tasting tea, gathering plum blossoms, sitting on futons, collecting herbs in the mountains, playing with the moon on the roof, dancing with cranes, playing with fish, um, and the following
chess--"
Zhang Yuan saw a set of chess sets under the long window on the south side of Leike Xuan. The torreya chessboard and bamboo chess pot were quiet and spotless in the morning sunshine.
Zhang Yuan and his eldest brother Zhang Dai sat down respectfully, and an old servant served tea. Xuande white porcelain cups were white and elegant, with a light tea fragrance. Chen Jiru smiled and said: "Weng Su is good at delicious food, and he is also good at tea ceremony. You guys
Have the two juniors ever learned from it?"
Zhang Yuan can only distinguish between good and bad tea. As for tea and water, he cannot taste it. Zhang Dai took a sip of tea and said, "Mr. Mei, is this Tiger Hill tea?"
Zhang Yuan said: "Good wine can relieve worries, and good tea can soothe troubles and clear the mind. Meigong tea has this effect." Zhang Yuan's evaluation emphasized the meaning and rhyme, which was very clever.
Chen Jiru said with a smile: "It really comes from family studies." He asked them why they came to Songjiang.
Zhang Dai is his brother, so Zhang Dai answered, and Zhang Dai said: "The three younger brothers are going to Nanjing to study this time. The Lu family in Qingpu is my Zhang family's in-laws, so I took a roundabout way to visit, especially to listen to Meigong's teachings."
Chen Jiru said with a smile: "Are you three brothers going to the Imperial Academy together? Since I have a grandson like this, I must be more generous and fat." Suddenly he raised his eyebrows and said to himself: "The Lu family in Qingpu and the Zhang family in Shanyin are related by marriage.
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Chen Jiru travels for several months every year and lives in seclusion in Sheshan for the rest of the time. He is not indifferent to worldly affairs. He is also concerned about the pros and cons of the place and the suffering of the people. He has made suggestions to officials for disaster relief. The dispute between the Lu family in Qingpu and the Dong family in Huating was very troublesome.
Xiao, he also heard about it, but he didn't understand it clearly. He immediately asked: "I heard that there is a rift between the Lu family in Qingpu and the Dong family in Huating. I don't know how good it is. Can you two friends tell me?"
Zhang Dai looked at Zhang Yuan and said, "Jiezi, tell Meigong the whole story in detail."
Zhang Yuandao: "It's a long story -" It starts from last year's Lantern Festival conflict with Dong Zuchang at the Longshan Lantern Festival in Shaoxing. Chen Ming, a rebellious slave of the Lu family, defected to the Dong family. His friendship with Zong Yishan was outside the Jingci Temple in Nanping Mountain, Hangzhou.
There was another conflict with Dong Zuchang... Let’s talk about everything that happened in the past few days——
When Zhang Yuan was speaking, Chen Jiru had been observing carefully. He felt that Zhang Yuan spoke calmly and unhurriedly, his tone was neither fast nor slow, and there was no obvious praise or criticism in his words. It was as if a bystander was narrating, leaving the listeners to judge for themselves——
Chen Jiru asked: "What kind of scripture does Mr. Zhang specialize in?"
Zhang Yuandao: "The original scripture of this younger generation is the Spring and Autumn Annals."
Chen Jiru smiled and said: "It is indeed the Spring and Autumn Annals. Mr. Zhang can apply what he has learned. What he said just now is rigorous and credible."
Zhang Yuandao: "Mei Gong is wise, who dares to lie in front of Mei Gong?"
Chen Jiru said: "Dong Gong concentrated on calligraphy and painting and seldom interfered with worldly affairs. Some of his descendants were domineering."
Zhang Yuan smiled slightly and did not argue with Chen Jiru about Dong Qichang's character. He said: "I'm sorry, Mr. Mei. I'm so embarrassed that I disturbed Mr. Mei by saying such a lot of trivial things. I have a request. I have a request with Zong Yishan."
We are good friends, but Zong Yishan was wronged in the Dong Mansion because of me. I want to see Zong Yishan, but if I go to the Dong Mansion, I will definitely be hit with a stick and chased by vicious dogs, so I would like to ask Mr. Mei to help me."
Chen Jiru said: "The day before yesterday, I went to Dong's Mansion and saw Zong Yishan answering the door. I felt sorry for him and asked Mr. Dong to treat him well, and Mr. Dong agreed."
Zhang Yuan frowned and said, "Since Mr. Mei has already begged for Zong Yishan's favor, I'm afraid that Zong Yishan's situation will be even worse."
Hearing what Zhang Yuan said, Chen Jiru was a little unhappy. But he didn't show it on his face and said with a smile: "Master Zhang, please don't have any prejudice against Dong Gong."
Zhang Yuandao said: "If Meigong has not interceded with Zong Yishan, then send someone today to tell Zong Yishan to come to Sheshan. The Dong family may ask him to come. Since he has already interceded, Zong Yishan will not be able to come."
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Chen Jiru said with a smile: "Is that so? Let's verify it." He wrote a letter and sent it to the Dong Mansion. He asked Zong Yishan to come to Dongsheshan Residence to help him copy the rare book "Jin Ping Mei".
Chen Jiru was very confident in his friendship with Dong Qichang. Dong Qichang built a building next to Bailongtan on the outskirts of Huating City the year before last. It was named "Lai Zhong Tower". It was built specifically for him, Chen Jiru. His nickname was Zhong Chun, "Lai Zhong Tower".
It means welcoming Zhong Chun. How can the friendship of nearly forty years be ordinary——
However, Zhang Yuan expected that Zong Yishan would not be able to come, so he had to find another way to contact Zong Yishan——
It is more than ten miles from Dongsheshan to Huating County, and it takes more than an hour to go back and forth. Chen Jiru asked Zhang Dai and Zhang Yuan: "Can you two know Go?"
Zhang Dai said: "The juniors know a little bit about Go, but their chess skills are not as good as mine. Jiezi is a famous player in Shaoxing and can play blindfolded chess."
Chen Jiru asked: "Do you want to play Go blindfolded?"
Zhang Yuan bowed and said: "Yes."
Chen Jiru was a little surprised and said, "Then I need to learn a lesson."
Zhang Yuandao: "How dare I blindfold myself and play chess with Mei Gong? I am very happy to have Mei Gong guide me in a game."
Zhang Yuan respectfully walked to the edge of the chess board, picked up a white stone and went first. The elder went first when doing other things. He played chess as a sign of respect. In the first game, the younger generation always went first. Zhang Yuan didn’t know how good Chen Jiru was at chess, so he tried his best to play chess steadily. Three
After more than ten moves, he felt that Chen Jiru's chess skills were not very good, so he used a trick in the lower right corner. This kind of trick would not be available in the Ming Dynasty. Sure enough, Chen Jiru fell into a trap. The so-called falling into a trap does not mean that the big piece of chess pieces were lost.
He was about to die, but was partially taken advantage of by Zhang Yuan's white chess. Chen Jiru's chess skills were not weak, and he could see the obvious and dangerous deception. Only this kind of advanced deception could make him fall for it. Gradually, Zhang
White's original advantage changed from one first to two first——
After playing more than a hundred moves, Chen Jiru felt that there was no room for victory on the chessboard. He shook his head and said: "Mr. Zhang is a better chess player. I am no match for you. I have a female disciple, Shanyi, and I will call her to play a game with you."
"Then he ordered the boy to call Wei Gu——
Zhang Yuan and his eldest brother Zhang Dai looked at each other, both of them were looking forward to it. Everyone would be willing to take a few more glances at the girl with a bamboo crown and cloth robe.
After a while, with the sound of footsteps and the faint fragrance of orchids, the girl with a bamboo crown and cloth robe came to Leike Pavilion and saluted Chen Jiru Yingying. Her beautiful eyes glanced briefly, and the pavilion room was filled with light.
Chen Jiru stood up and said: "Wang Guan, this is Mr. Zhang from Shanyin Zhang Yuan. He is talented and has great chess skills. I just lost to him. You play a game with him and I watch."
This girl is called both "Wei Gu" and "Wang Guan". What is her name? Why did Chen Jiru call her out to play chess with a strange man?
The girl in the bamboo crown and cloth robe was not shy, she agreed, glanced at Zhang Yuan, walked to the chessboard to take a closer look at the game played by Chen Jiru and Zhang Yuan, and said: "Master Zhang, please invite me." Just on the chessboard.
While sitting down, Zhang Yuan helped collect the black and white chess pieces. Seeing that the girl had soft and slender hands, the skin on the back of her hands was as white as jade, whiter than the white clouds on the chessboard, and her nails were rounded and flawless. This would definitely be seen in future generations.
Top hand model——
This girl was about 17 or 18 years old, with a calm temperament. She occasionally touched Zhang Yuan's hand when collecting the chess pieces, but she remained calm at all. She quietly collected the chess pieces and said: "Master Zhang has already held the white game. This game
Let the little girl go first."
Zhang Yuan responded: "Please."
The girl in the bamboo crown and cloth robe has a slender waist. She picks up a white piece with two spring-like fingers on her right hand and knocks it on the quince wood chessboard.
The sound of chess is a pleasure, not to mention such a beautiful girl sitting in front of him. Zhang Dai stood behind Zhang Yuan watching the chess, but his eyes couldn't leave the girl's face. Zhang Yuan thought: "Beauty is indeed a sharp weapon.
, used for playing chess, it has the power of at least two pieces."
This girl was so beautiful that Zhang Yuan, who was sitting across from Wen Ping, was distracted. He had to lower his eyes and look inward, as if an old monk was in trance. He spread out a chessboard in his mind and only glanced at the chessboard at the moment when the piece was placed. The girl's chess skills were indeed as good as Chen Jiru's.
She looks pretty and elegant, but when she plays chess, she attacks and kills fiercely, twisting wrenches, and is extremely ferocious. Zhang Yuan knows that women are often more aggressive than men when playing chess. Women are all aggressive in chess, and this girl especially
very.
Zhang Yuan cheered up and calmed down. Although Zhang Yuan's chess skills were far from reaching the state of trance and sitting in a photo, his mental arithmetic ability allowed him to maximize his chess skills. Tit for tat, the black and white chess pieces were almost entangled and killed by the dragon.
, the corner battle affects the whole situation.
Chen Jiru watched the two playing chess with a smile, enjoying the atmosphere. He heard the sound of chess playing in the quiet, and thought to himself: "Entertainment with sex and sex is like playing a chess game with a clear window."
The chaotic battle in the middle game is inextricable, and one careless move will lead to the loss of the whole game. When Zhang Yuan closed his eyes and thought about it, the girl looked at Zhang Yuan with her hands on her forehead and thought to herself: "It's really rare to think about chess with your eyes closed."
Chen Jiru on the side said: "Zhang Jiezi can play blindfolded Go and has an extraordinary memory."
The girl said "Hmm" and thought to herself: "I heard that Zhang Jiezi, a young Sanyuan from Shaoxing, has the ability to remember things he has heard. I wonder if the rumors are exaggerated?"
Chen Jiru saw that the two of them could play chess for a while, so he walked outside Leikexuan and asked why the man who went to Dong's Mansion to deliver the letter hadn't come back yet. It was already noon, and the manservant who had gone to Dong's Mansion to deliver the letter had been gone for an hour and a half.
Got——
After another half an hour, the chess game in Lei Kexuan ended. Zhang Yuan won one and a half pieces with black. This girl was very powerful at chess. Zhang Yuan played the game very well, taking advantage of his four hundred years lead.
Chess knowledge is only a small victory. Of course, at this time, the first move is not close to the eye, and the girl plays white first, which is a big advantage. If the later generations' follow-the-eye counterattack method is followed, Zhang Yuan's black chess will win much more
Some.
The girl lost the chess piece, her beautiful eyes widened with surprise, but she didn't say anything, put away the chess pieces, and left Leike Xuan.
Chen Jiru left Zhang Dai and Zhang Yuan had a meal. When they were drinking tea and chatting after the meal, they saw that the servant who had sent the letter to Dong's Mansion had come back, but he came back alone. Dong Qichang didn't reply, but only brought back one sentence, saying that Mr. Dong is a noble man.
I was not feeling well, so I came to visit Meigong another day, without mentioning Zong Yishan's affairs.