Chapter 16 Invitation to Chess

Thank you for your reward...

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Seeing Shen Zhongqi turn around and have a great intention of inquiry, Zhen Shiniang's head was blank, "General!" She heard her slightly trembling voice and shouted, "...can you play Go?" She was in a trance and remembered that Magpie seemed to say that he was a chess fan.

"Whose child?" I didn't notice that Zhen Shiniang looked wrong. Shen Zhongqi still looked at the direction of the front yard, as if he was hesitating whether to go there or not.

"It's a short-term worker." Zhen Shiniang was in a hurry and said, "I'm going to collect lotus seeds. My concubine has only hired two short-term workers."

Oh, Shen Zhongqi turned his head.

Zhen Shiniang has sat down on the stone bench, "...I'm coming. Is it good for the general to accompany my concubine to finish this game?" In an instant, she had calmed down.

What kind of chess does a woman play?

Disdainful, Shen Zhongqi's eyes still fell on the chessboard in front of him, and his body shook:

Is this what she put on?

I've never seen her play chess. I don't expect her chess skills to be so advanced!

The way of Go is like the image of heaven and earth. It is ever-changing and dangerous. It is similar to his fighting with the enemy in front of the battle, which makes him particularly fascinated. Especially when every row of soldiers arrange meditation tricks, he likes to sit in front of the black-and-white chessboard and meditate.

"...I've never seen you play chess before?" Sitting down opposite Zhen Shiniang, Shen Zhongqi looked at her in surprise.

Zhen Shiniang pointed to the chessboard, "In this square inch, the game is round, the virtual and the real are intertwined, and the black and white are born. I like his endless changes, and the interest is endless during the addiction."

"You..." His voice stagnated, "and five years ago... it's like a different person." In front of her, he just hugged her and was reluctant to give up, but she couldn't wait to break free from him, which was contrary to her temperament five years ago in her memory.

"Five years can change a lot of things." Zhen Shiniang didn't move her eyelids at all. She reached out and picked up a white seed and fell down calmly.

Looking at her deeply, Shen Zhongqi picked up a black man and fell into meditation.

This chess game is so profound that he may not be able to solve it if he concentrates on it. Shen Zhongqi didn't find that she gave up the black man who had a hidden momentum of winning to him.

Listening to the endless noise of Jian Wen and Jian Wu in front of her, Zhen Shi Niang looked up at Shen Zhongqi, who was holding a piece of chess and refused to fall, "... My concubine is going to make a pot of tea for the general?"

"Go ahead..." Shen Zhongqi waved his hand and didn't raise his head.

Zhen Shi Niang slowly stood up.

"Mother!" Jian Wu and Jian Wen were clamoring to go to the backyard. When they saw Zhen Shi Niang coming, they both rushed over.

"Brother Wen and Brother Wu are all awake." Zhen Shiniang pulled the two into the house with a smile.

"... My mother secretly played chess again!" As soon as he entered the room, Jian Wu asked, "Why don't you wake me up? I also want to follow my mother!" Both children love to play chess. As usual, Zhen Shi Niang took chess before they woke up. Today, she was tossed by Shen Zhongqi, so she didn't come back in time. Knowing that she was playing Go in the back, Jian Wu and Jianwen naturally struggled desperately to be pestered.

"...My mother is playing chess with an old friend." With the thoughts of modern people, Zhen Shiniang does not want to lie to her children.

"Who, let's go and have a look!" Jane Wen pulled Jian Wu and was about to run out.

"No way!" Zhen Shiniang grabbed the two people.

"Why not?" Jian Wen asked with one voice.

"Um..." Zhen Shiniang thought seriously, "I'm afraid he will take you away... I won't let my mother see you again..." This is also true.

He came to divorce her. If Shen Zhongqi knew that he still had two sons, he would definitely take them away.

Zhen Shiniang has always respected her children and never whispered. If she looks so serious, it must be true. Jian Wen and Jian Wu suddenly jumped up, "I don't want to be separated from my mother!" Mother..." Jian Wu hugged Zhen Shiniang's waist, and his voice was faintly crying, "Mom, don't abandon Wu'er, Wu'er is obedient..."

"Then hide and don't be found by him." Zhen Shiniang took the opportunity to say.

"Hmm..." Jian Wu Jianwen nodded repeatedly and searched around, "I'm hiding in the wardrobe!" Jianwen first found the wardrobe on the kang.

"My cat is under the table!" Seeing that the wardrobe was occupied by Jian Wen, Jian Wu's eyes fell on the table on the ground.

Finally, it was a child. When it came to hiding, the two immediately remembered the usual hide-and-seek game and successfully found the favorable terrain they thought.

Zhen Shiniang couldn't laugh or cry.

Grab the two little guys and move, "No, if he comes in and sits for two hours and doesn't leave, won't it suffolicate you?"

"It's right!" Jianwen Jianwu's little face collapsed in an instant, "... Where are we hiding?" His eyes searched everywhere again.

"You go to Aunt Magpie's house first, wait for him to leave, and then my mother will pick you up." Zhen Shi Niang rubbed their hair affectionately, "... okay?" Thinking that their mother and son would have no fixed place from now on, Zhen Shiniang's words unconsciously brought a little gloom.

Jianwen Jianwu just thought that she was afraid that they would be robbed, so he nodded in frustration. That's the only way." With the generosity of grievances in his tone, he suddenly became a pair of little adults.

Is that all right?

To tell the truth, you don't even have to cheat?

Seeing that Jian Wu Jianwen answered so quickly, the magpie blinked and looked at Zhen Shiniang's eyes full of worship. That's what she had planned just now. However, even if she and Qiu Ju tried their best to cheat them, she didn't want Zhen Shinang to send them out with just a few simple words. Unexpectedly, she Kung Fu is really amazing. The hand subconsciously pressed the slightly raised lower abdomen, "In the future, when the child is born, you must also learn from the young lady."

There was no tea at home, so Zhen Shiniang found some dried lotus hearts to make, tasted some bitterness, and added some rock sugar.

He came to the backyard with him. Shen Zhongqi's black son just fallen down. While waiting for her, he looked at the chessboard and frowned and pondered. Seeing her coming, he said, "I found that the chess momentum just now seemed that the black man was about to win."

"You just know that I let you!" Zhen Shiniang was in her heart. She gently put down the tray, picked up the pot and scooped a cup and handed it to Shen Zhongqi, "...General, drink tea." He drank another cup for himself, sat down on the opposite side, picked up a white man and fell down. Then he said, "When the general came before, my concubine had just finished the black man, and it was time for the white man to leave..."

That means that she didn't mean to let him, it was just a coincidence.

Look at her thoughtfully, Shen Zhongqi picked up the teacup and said nothing.

Even if she deliberately gave in, he was at a disadvantage for more than 20 hands, and he really had nothing to say. He reached out and picked up a black man. Just as he was about to fall, he suddenly frowned, "... What kind of tea is this?" It's bitter, with a trace of sweetness.

"Lotus heart tea, I'm afraid it's too bitter for the general to drink, so I added rock candy." This kind of lotus heart tea was sold in supermarkets in the previous life.

"...Lotus heart tea?" Shen Zhongqi looked down at the floating green lotus heart in the cup.

Zhen Shiniani immediately remembered that the people of Da Zhou didn't use the lotus heart as tea.

She said without changing her face, "The lotus heart can clear the heart and relieve the fire, relieve the summer heat and eliminate the annoyance, which is helpful for sleep. My concubine often has insomnia, so I have been drinking this all the time."

She doesn't have money to buy tea, does she?

Looking at the white clothes washed on Zhen Shi Niang's body, Shen Zhongqi sighed quietly, but did not break it. He just said, "It tastes okay, but it's sweeter." He has always disliked sweets. As he spoke, he gently dropped the chess pieces in his hand.

It's really hard for you to serve!

Zhen Shiniang glanced at her lips in her heart, took out a grain of white seeds and fell down, and rudely intercepted a big dragon.

In the dark, Shen Zhongqi's hand stopped there in an instant. He took a breath and looked up at Zhen Shiniang in astonishment.

For the first time, he lost to a woman!