novelhk Chapter 205 Zhenlong Chess Game
Chapter 205 Zhenlong Chess Game
She waited year after year, until she was sixty years old, but the man she had been thinking about still did not come. Until the moment she closed her eyes, she seemed to see her husband coming to pick her up on a colorful cloud.
In the end, the two got married, and the colorful auspicious clouds became farther and farther away until they could no longer be seen. At this time, someone suddenly heard sobbing softly.
Everyone came to their senses at this moment. The wind blew and they felt a chill on their faces. They subconsciously touched it with their hands and found that tears were streaming down their faces without them noticing.
So he looked at Li Xiaoxiao in disbelief. He didn't think her piano playing was anything special at first, but later it made people indulge in it unconsciously, as if he had witnessed the regretful and miserable life of that couple with his own eyes, making people unable to come back to their senses for a long time.
The look in Li Xiaoxiao's eyes changed from disdain at first to admiration later. Yes, it was admiration. It was not easy for a person to play the piano to make people feel as if they were in the scene. Moreover, it was even more precious that so many people were so engrossed in it at the same time.
The piano skills are extraordinary. Qiao Yueru plays the piano well, but practice makes perfect. Her piano skills are not on the same level as Li Xiaoxiao's. If they must be compared, Li Xiaoxiao will definitely win.
The result is self-evident. Qiao Yueru's cheeks turned red with anger. She must have won by luck. Unconvinced, she said, "Let's continue the competition."
She just couldn't believe that she could lose to a country bumpkin.
With the above results, the atmosphere suddenly became lively. The Censor's wife thought of her relationship with the Censor. They were both from farming families, but she was lucky. Her husband had a bright career, and he brought her to the capital just a few years after they separated.
It has been a long time since she got to her current position. It has not been easy along the way. She was deeply moved. Li Xiaoxiao's piano skills are indeed superb. As the saying goes, a sword is given to a hero. The censor's wife is not a stingy person, so she decided to give the piano to Li Xiaoxiao.
Li Xiaoxiao accepted it with a smile, which made everyone jealous again. It was obvious that the guqin was extraordinary. Qiao Yueru was so angry that she almost vomited blood. That guqin was the best one she had ever played. She was so jealous that her eyes were about to spit sparks.
The second game was a competition of chess skills.
Li Xiaoxiao could be said to be a little worse in this regard, but fortunately she had often played chess with Si Chengxu before, so she was not unfamiliar with the game. Moreover, Si Chengxu was very good at chess, and she learned a lot from playing chess with him. Playing chess requires a calm mind, and Qiao Yueru did not look like someone who could calm down to play chess, so she was 50% sure of this game.
Li Xiaoxiao won the first game, so Qiao Yueru was much more cautious this time. Although she was spoiled, she was not stupid. She would carefully observe the chess game before making a move. The two of them went back and forth on the chessboard, neither giving in, and they were inseparable for a while.
It can be said that the two are evenly matched. Li Xiaoxiao looked at Qiao Yueru's indecisive look and could see that she was very nervous, but he couldn't defeat her for the time being. Suddenly, an idea flashed in his mind.
She seemed to have seen a chess game on TV before, called Zhenlong Chess Game. She had studied it out of curiosity at the time. It was a game of chess in which one had to risk one's life in order to survive. Maybe she could give it a try.
So Li Xiaoxiao suddenly changed her strategy and led the chess pieces towards the chessboard she set up. Qiao Yueru had been playing carefully to begin with, and seeing the way Li Xiaoxiao played, she became even more unsure and considered each chess piece for a long time.
The ladies who were watching were also very curious. Originally the two of them were chasing each other, but now they were scattered. If you look closely, it seems like they are planning something, but you can't understand it.
Time passed by little by little, and the two were still chasing each other. Li Xiaoxiao's chess game was almost set up. Qiao Yueru was more certain that Li Xiaoxiao was definitely planning something, but she hated playing chess the most, so she really couldn't tell what kind of game she was going to set up, so she could only take it one step at a time.
After the last chess piece fell, Li Xiaoxiao neatly put the chess piece in her hand back into the chess box, convinced that Qiao Yueru could not solve this chess situation, and she would lose no matter where she put it.
"You..." Sure enough, after Qiao Yueru thought for a long time, she found that there was no solution to this chess game. She thought about every corner, but none of them worked.
Not only her, but even the ladies who were watching the game were shocked. They had never seen such a chess game before. Even the most powerful chess master in Tianwu Kingdom had never heard of any chess game that he could not solve.
"Sister Qiao, aren't you very capable? You can't even solve such a small chess game. It turns out you are just a show-off, all for show." Li Xiaoxiao said with contempt. She has always believed in revenge on the spot, not that it is never too late for a gentleman to take revenge, and she rejected all mental exhaustion.
"You just won two games by luck. I will definitely beat you next time." Qiao Yueru was so angry that her nose was almost crooked. How could a country girl from the countryside be better than her?
"Okay, I'll wait and see. Next, let's compete in poetry writing. We'll use plum blossoms as the theme. What do you think?" This time Li Xiaoxiao took the initiative. Her handwriting with a brush was really ugly, but she was good at writing poetry. During the nine years of compulsory education in elementary school, she learned a lot of ancient poems and was still familiar with them.
Qiao Yueru had no idea of Li Xiaoxiao's cunning mind. When it came to writing poetry, she felt that she knew a little bit, but after losing two games in a row, she had lost confidence. She didn't know how much Li Xiaoxiao knew, and she was unsure for a moment.
Even if she was unsure, it was no longer up to her to decide at this point.
"I think this is a good suggestion. Why don't you two write a poem?" Zhou Lingfei suddenly spoke and blinked at Li Xiaoxiao.
Li Xiaoxiao also blinked, and the two of them smiled at each other tacitly.
The second scene is compared to poetry.
The so-called writing poetry means writing poetry on the spot. Li Xiaoxiao waited leisurely for Qiao Yueru to start first. She could recite poems about plum blossoms at will, and they were all written by great poets. She had been here for quite some time and was very familiar with this place.
She once asked Si Chengxu vaguely about the names of several great poets she admired, but he didn't know any of them. It was obvious that this world and the one she lived in were not under the same sky.
So it's okay for her to take out the poet's masterpiece occasionally to meet urgent needs, Li Xiaoxiao comforted herself in this way, without any guilt at all. Isn't the purpose of poets writing poems to spread them widely? What she is doing is spreading culture in disguise, but it's spreading it in a different time and space.
Since Zhou Lingfei had already spoken, Qiao Yueru naturally didn't know what to say. But when she saw Li Xiaoxiao looking confident, she felt anxious and annoyed.
Writing poetry generally requires finding inspiration, and the time is set at one stick of incense. Qiao Yueru was feeling depressed, so she decided to take a walk in the plum garden. Speaking of writing poetry, it is actually both difficult and easy, it just depends on the quality of the artistic conception of the poem.