Chapter 7: Slim

After a game of chess, Zhang said that he would definitely not let go this time and admit defeat. The reason why he lost was the same as Xue Chongxun lost Go, and he was not familiar with it.

The two of them put down their chess pieces and had tea to rest. Zhang said he wanted to go to the bathroom, so he got up and left for a while.

When he walked to the aisle, he met the charming woman who greeted them at first, and turned around the aisle together. Zhang Shuo looked back and said to the woman: Why did you come out in person?

The woman said: Didn’t Mr. Zhang send your family to come here? Come and tell me that you want to come to visit the distinguished guest?

Forget it, you can't blame me for this, it's my extravagance.I mean I'm here, you don't have to come out either.What did this guy run over and bring with him without any brains.

Zhang Shuo frowned and said, "But just come out, what do you mean by saying "I am a chess piece"?What do you want to express?What a person the emperor is? Some words are too obvious, you are afraid that he will not know your identity.

The woman said angrily: I don’t understand, since you don’t want him to know, what are you bringing him here to do?

How could I take the initiative to bring him?

Zhang said, it was a complete coincidence. The emperor was coming by himself, so can I stop him?Xiao Xiang could trust me before telling me about you.If the emperor has any doubts, he will ask the inner factory to check it out, and not everything is clear?Why is Zhang so embarrassed to face Xiao Xiang?

What will the emperor do to Xiao Xiang and affect his career?

Zhang Shuo thought for a while and said: That won’t happen. The emperor is not the one who can’t rub the sand in his eyes.But you have to be clear about the relationship here.

He slowed down his speech, and clearly stated that the Cui family was against the emperor. Cui Mingshan was dead, and the others were exiled to Yingzhou, with more than 1,000 people. You were originally Cui Mingshan's concubine, and your relationship with the Cui family was no stranger than that of the exiled thousands of people, right?So where should you be now?After a few moments, the principle is understood at one go, so what else do you have to come out to attract?

The woman said a little aggrievedly: I am just a concubine, I never thought about doing anything against the emperor. What is wrong with me? Why did I have to be sent to Yingzhou?

There are many people who did not do anything wrong.Zhang Shuo glanced at her and said, I have to go through it now, you can do it yourself.

He didn't go to the toilet either. After saying that, he went straight back to the study room and saw Xue Chongxun playing with the expensive Go piece before.

But the two of them didn't ask to buy this chess. Zhang said: "Mr., it's almost time for lunch. I'll send someone to find a quiet place to order a table of wine and food?"

Sanniang said coldly: There are many people in the downtown area, so let’s change the place.

Listen to Sanniang.

Xue Chongxun smiled and said, "I'm almost having fun today, so why not go back and eat Laba porridge."

After saying that, he stood up from the cork chair. At this time, the woman also came in and greeted: Are the two distinguished guests leaving?

Xue Chongxun said: Your place is pretty good, it is hidden in the city.We have a chance to come back.By the way, I haven't asked the little lady for her name yet.

The woman said: I have a bad family background and don’t know my surname, so I am called Yao Niang.

This name changed Xue Chongxun's expression slightly, and he remembered a past event about his family. The heroine in this event was Sun Yaoniang.

But more than twenty years have passed, and Sun Yaoniang has also died for more than twenty years. Even if she is not dead, she should be half-old Xu's mother. Obviously not the same person...

It was during the reign of Wu Zetian. Wu Chengsi was her nephew. At that time, he was doing whatever he wanted. He happened to fall in love with the beautiful Sun Yaoniang. As a result, he failed to possess her and forced her to death, and induced an official family to confiscate the family and exterminate the clan. It was a big tragedy.

The relationship between the Wu family and Xue Chongxun is a big family. Wu Zetian is his grandmother, and his biological mother, Princess Taiping, was also a Wu family for the second time, so Xue Chongxun had known about Wu Chengsi for a long time.

As soon as the woman in the age story was not the same as the woman in front of her, it evoked Xue Chongxun's memories, and he asked casually: What a name is Yao Niang?

The woman said softly: I dare not speak nonsense in front of my husband.

The name is pretty good.Xue Chongxun smiled and covered up his face, and said goodbye with his fists.Yao Niang hurriedly held a gift and gave it to her.

The group went out to take a bus and left the East City. Today, it was just on vacation. Zhang said he didn't have to go to the southern yamen of Daming Palace again. When he arrived at a fork in the road, Zhang said he got off the bus and changed his horse to say goodbye to Xue Chongxun.

Xue Chongxun's pine wood carriage continued to travel north to return to the palace.

There were only Xue Chongxun and Sanniang left on the carriage. Xue Chongxun said: When you meet Zhang Xiao later, you ask him to inform the inner factory to send someone to check the chess hall just now. Don’t be alarmed, but you must find out the ins and outs of it, especially the Yao Niang.

Sanniang agreed, and somehow said something extra today: I guess Zhang said that he would present that chess to the palace in the afternoon.

Ha ha.

Xue Chongxun smiled and said, "Don't just give in, I don't want to be Wu Chengsi."

Seeing that Sanniang was puzzled, Xue Chongxun told the story of Wu Zetian and said, "The girl in the chess hall has a good figure, but there are so many women in the palace, so I don't have to do that."

In the afternoon, Xue Chongxun was reading the memorial in the greenhouse hall. Sure enough, an eunuch came up with the chess piece in his arms, saying that it was presented by the Secretary of the Secretariat Zhang Shuo.

Xue Chongxun opened it and came to observe it. He turned to look at Sanniang. Sanniang also happened to see her, and her eyes were close to her. The meaning was self-evident.

Xue Chongxun found that Sanniang, who was often expressionless, had a smug smile in her eyes at this time, as if she was saying: Look, I guess right.

Xue Chongxun put down the memorial and greeted his sister who was sitting next to the incense table: Don’t worry about those memorials for now, come and practice chess with me. Today I told Zhang that I really lost face when playing Go.

Sanniang blurted out: Didn’t your husband win?

Xue Chongxun said: It’s better to lose.

Princess Hezhong looked at Xue Chongxun for a while and said: Brother, are you really not in a hurry?

Xue Chongxun said: What's the hurry?

Princess Hezhong shook her head and sighed: I admire my brother for being really interested in playing chess.

Xue Chongxun smiled and said: The sky cannot fall, even if it falls, there will be a tall brother to support you.I originally asked you to review memorials to make you have something to do, but you really care about it.I am willing to play chess or not, and I am unwilling to let Yao Wan come.

Princess Hezhong immediately said: I am willing, it is rare for my brother to have leisure.

Xue Chongxun got up and changed his seat, sat in front of a Mumu table, pointed to the chess presented by Zhang Shuo and said: This chess is not simple. Baizi is made of Guanzhong, Heizi Western Regions, Chess Can Hebei, Chess Board and South China Sea, and is made of all directions in the country. It seems to be holding the country in your hand, which is interesting.