So I play chess

Chapter 29 Stone Carving
When the few people were talking, Wenliang Zhoutong had been standing beside him, and he couldn't help but look sideways at this moment.

Although Wen Gu grew up in Liangzhou, she had seen the eunuchs and supervisors sent by the Emperor of Wei when she was young, and she knew a thing or two from the gossip of the maidservants.

Hearing that Nan Chu wanted the future pillars to act like this, he couldn't hide his surprise.

Zhixia was even more startled at the side: "They are willing?"

The county magistrate said: "There is always someone who is willing. In our county, Xu Jiasanlang, who was enlightened at the age of three, studied day and night, and has been studying for 18 years today. What else can he do besides taking this road? If you tell him that he will not succeed in the imperial examination, Can he bear it? In the end, he gritted his teeth and stomped his foot, maybe he can still cope."

When the people heard it, they were also sighed, but Wen Gu heard other meanings from the words: "So, these people didn't know about this before they went to Beijing?"

The county magistrate said: "Maybe I have heard a few or two sentences, and I have said something on the sidelines, but I always have a little luck, and I have to go to it myself to feel at ease."

Everyone sighed for a while, but Zhou Tong kept looking at the magistrate's waist: "So, if you become an official in Southern Chu in the future, you have to..."

The county magistrate groaned, and said, "Of course I don't have it," but then thought it wasn't clear enough, and added two sentences, "I have it," and "I don't know it."Instead, it became more and more difficult to explain over and over again, so I just stopped talking.

Wen Liang looked at the laughing Zhou Tong with distaste, smoothed things over and chatted a few gossips, and then the female county lieutenant arrived.

Although Zhixia deliberately didn't show it on weekdays, her skills were not weak. Seeing the female county captain's body and movements, it was obvious that she also had skills.Then he whispered to Wen Gu to know.

It wasn't just a "horoscope", Wen Gugang also thought that the county magistrate had a good heart, as if he could be a parent and official, but he was a little confused, and now it seems that he is not.

The county magistrate said a few more words of courtesy, and then took his leave. Before leaving, he gave Zhou Tong a stare.Let the female county lieutenant take them to the strange man's residence.

The female county lieutenant just passed her twenties, her name was Jin Wan, and she was from Shangtang County, south of Tongcheng. Her father and three elder brothers had all served as soldiers in the Dingyi Army, but at the highest level she was only a captain.My mother has also practiced martial arts, and her kung fu has not fallen behind.

In the past two years, in order to find such a county magistrate, the magistrate of Gong County asked Tongcheng's connections to find her.

Jin Wan held a sword in her hand and a whip in her waist, and she looked neat and energetic in her official uniform.They didn't talk much, they found someone to help them take care of the carriage, and took the lead to take a few people up the mountain.

Wen Gu asked the man's name, and Jin Wan said, "His name is Li Xun, and he said that he was Mr. You Fang earlier, and he lived in Qianlong County after swimming."

Wen Gu asked again: "I just heard from the county magistrate that this person is a bit... yin and yang. This sounds strange, I don't know why?"

But Jin Wan said that when she came to Qianlong County, the theory of yin and yang had been handed down. She said that Li Xun had just lived here when a lady from Lianzhou came to her. After approving a hexagram, when he left, he left these two words for him.So it spread like this.

But Jin Wan felt that these two words might have other meanings.

Wen Gu asked again, Jin Wan didn't say anything, just let her go to see her first, and she should have a clear understanding.

The five of them went up the mountain all the way, and they walked for nearly half an hour. It was not until Wen Gu was a little tired that he saw a solitary hut on the mountainside from a distance. In front of the hut, there were more than a dozen figures standing upright, not moving against the wind.

Wen Gu saw that Jin Wan was fine, so he didn't ask any further questions, knowing that Xia Wenliang, Zhou Tong and the other three were on guard.Thinking about it, with them around, a dozen or so experts would not be enough.

It took another cup of tea to get close, and everyone could see clearly, those figures were all carved out of stone, pasted with mud, standing or sitting, at different heights, their postures were lifelike, except that there was no engraving on them. It's just the five senses.

"These are all from Li Xundiao?" Wen Gu asked.

As soon as the words were finished, there was a sudden noise from Wen Gu's side. Wen Liang and the three of them were on guard, knowing that Xia immediately stood in front of Wen Gu's body, and when he folded his long sleeves, he was about to pull out the dagger hidden in the sleeve.

At this time, Jin Wan suddenly threw away the long whip and hit a stone sculpture not far from Wen Gu's side.

There was only a sound of broken stones cracking and falling, and the "stone carving" hurriedly avoided it.

The four of Wen Gu were startled.But the "stone sculpture" said: "What are you doing, you do it without saying a word."

Jin Wan replied: "I told you to pretend to be a ghost."

"Stone Carving" wanted to slap the broken soil on his body, but he stretched his hand halfway and stopped, lowered his head to see if there was any possibility of repairing the cracked mud on his body, but the mask on his face suddenly fell off and fell to the ground , broke into several pieces.

"Stone Carving" yelled again, and scratched and scratched casually, shaking all the broken mud off his body after a few strokes.It turned out that he used a whole piece of satin, brushed it with mud, wrapped it around his body, let it dry in the air without moving, and then put on a mask, so that he was no different from the stone sculpture next to him.

During the movement, Wen Liang touched more than ten other stone sculptures one by one, and confirmed that they were all solid stones, and then he was relieved.

At this time, when the "stone carving" mask was off, although there was still some dirt on his face, he was still a handsome character with long eyebrows like willows, and he was quite good-looking.

"Li Xun, someone asked you a few words." Jin Wan casually sat down on the stone bench beside her and said.

Li Xun looked one by one from near to far, and when he saw Wen Gu, his eyes stopped for a moment, then he brushed his hair, found a place farthest away from Jin Wan, sat down, said goodbye, and said, "Ask." .”

Seeing him like this, Wen Gu felt suspicious, and asked, "We are bothering you, sir, please don't take offense. I will fully compensate for today's loss, but there are some things I would like to ask sir to look into."

Then Li Xun didn't turn his head back, and replied loudly: "I don't know how to read!"

Zhou Tong frowned, and was about to scold, but Wen Gu stopped him, and asked again: "I don't want Mr. to see anything..."

Before Wen Gu finished speaking, Li Xun interrupted: "I look at it for a while and don't look at it for a while, the little lady's ideas change so quickly, it's so strange."

Jin Wan flicked the long whip in the air, made a crisp sound, and reprimanded: "Speak well!"

But Li Xun said: "Jin Wan'er, you are bullying people. If you ask a few words, you will use the whip. If I don't speak well, why don't you kill me right away? How dare I?"

"Alright, if you ask me to kill you, then I won't be polite." Although Jin Wan said so, she was not annoyed, she stood up and was about to walk closer to Li Xun, and raised her long whip as a gesture To fight.

Li Xunming pretended to be afraid of the female county captain, and hurriedly said: "Don't move! If you move again, I don't care about the bloody disaster of this little lady!"

(End of this chapter)