Start with the humble bridegroom

Chapter 187
【Wish all book friends a happy Lantern Festival】

Black and white pieces intertwine, and the chess game begins to become clear.

Xiao Chan'er's hidden smile rolled in her eyes. Although she purposely only looked at the chessboard, she was looking at the woman on the other side of the chessboard from the corner of her eye.

With a haggard face, slightly pale complexion, and loose hair, Meng Xiaowan's condition is obviously not very good.

But that is always distracted, but it is also extraordinarily charming and distressing.

Especially Mrs. Shentu, she wanted Xiao Chan'er to play chess with Meng Xiaowan to relax, but Meng Xiaowan was always distracted.

Meng Xiaowan was about to lose this game of chess.

Xiao Chan'er stretched out her hand to help the colorful bead bait beside her ponytail, looked at the situation on the chessboard, and glanced at Meng Xiaowan's absent-minded look.

"Senior Sister, why don't you just let the little girl go for this game, the chess situation is like this, life and death are fate, or if you play a new game, maybe it will be better."

The double meaning of this statement can be called vicious.

Mrs. Shentu quietly glanced at Xiao Chan'er, but closed her eyes.

Meng Xiaowan finally took a serious look at Xiao Chan'er.

Not because of her chess, but because of her words.

"The beads are very beautiful," Meng Xiaowan finally smiled for the first time in the past few days, although the smile was a bit careless, "Go on."

Xiao Chan'er's hand on the Bu Yao colored beads froze slightly.

Meng Xiaowan's chess speed increased.

Xiao Chan'er sneered in her heart, she wanted to force me into confusion with fast chess, but it was a good idea.She didn't care about Meng Xiaowan's rhythm, she just followed her own rhythm.But after playing more than 20 moves, she found that Meng Xiaowan's chess style had changed drastically.

Meng's chess style used to be dexterous and delicate, but now it has become dry, emotionless and clumsy.

However, the advantage in the situation was brought back bit by bit by Meng Xiaowan.

Meng Xiaowan turned into a preoccupied accountant, and began to compete for every point of chess. The chess moves are ugly and confusing.

But Mrs. Shentu, who was watching the battle, showed a clear look in her eyes.

Meng Xiaowan's style of chess is clearly Zhang's style of chess, people who don't have a certain level of chess ability to watch, I am afraid that they will get dizzy and have chest tightness.

The chess game was dragged into a game of numbers by Meng Xiaowan.

Xiao Chan'er's hands trembled a little, she had already eaten five of the extremely sour plum preserves, but the overwhelming feeling and nausea in her heart did not ease in the slightest.

Finally, when the chess is full, start counting.

"Yimu!" ​​Mrs. Shentu was the first to calculate the result, "Chan'er has made great progress, this time I only lost to your senior sister Yimu."

Xiao Chan'er's face lacked the slightest trace of color, and it seemed that she had changed her expression from the previous Meng Xiaowan.

She suppressed her nausea and told Mrs. Shentu before letting the maid help her to the clean room. She was going to vomit.

Mrs. Shentu looked at Meng Xiaowan with a smile.

"What a Zhang style of chess. It's really disgusting. I'm afraid Chan'er will have to take a good rest today. You can be considered quiet this time."

There was no smile on Meng Xiaowan's face.

"If it wasn't for her being unrestrained and cursing my husband, I would not use my husband's chess style to deal with her. However, I am curious, why did the teacher accept her? It seems that her chess aptitude is not the best. top choice."

Seeing that there was no one around, Mrs. Shentu gave a low laugh.

"She thinks you are a pitiful person, but she doesn't know that those who pity others will eventually pity themselves. When I accepted you two, I have long ago decided not to accept apprentices. As for her, you don't need to pay too much attention to her, but just walk around with me , so that someone can use it in the future.”

Meng Xiaowan is extremely clever, and almost immediately thought of who "someone" is.

"Teacher, it is said that the battle has already started today, and even a scholar can't fight. Even cats and dogs may not be able to win. Why do His Majesty keep him?"

Mrs. Shentu understood the emperor's mind very well.

"Naturally, we must keep him. If the Son of Heaven succeeds in the first battle, he must have poems and poems. But now, who can compare with your husband in terms of poetry and literature in the Manchu Dynasty?"

Mrs. Shentu patted Meng Xiaowan's hand.

"And don't worry, your husband's poem name is enough to protect himself. If this battle really ruins your husband's life, even if you win a big victory, you will be easily criticized. In fact, even if you didn't guess His Majesty's plan, His Majesty would still I will find a way to get him to my side. The king will personally conquer, how can we not have the best ministers around him?"

The new camp of Zheng Jun on the South Bank.

In the imperial tent of the Chinese army, two rows of guards guarded the door with their heads held high and swords in their arms.

The imperial tent is divided into two parts, inside and outside. The interior is huge, and the high-ranking officials of each department are given seats on both sides.

The emperor is not here and is summoning someone at the back of the account.

A person was kneeling down on the scarlet carpet in the middle of the back room.

It was Zuo Xian, the right servant of the Ministry of War who stayed on the north bank before.

"Get up, I'm not a fool, you only have merit today, so how can you apologize for it?"

Zuo Xian didn't get up, but bowed his head and played.

"It's disrespectful for me to be good at monopolizing the dragon flag. Now the world is not unified, and wolf-hearted people are everywhere. This may be meritorious, but the legacy is also serious. Please punish the crime of the minister. Otherwise, the world will be full of shame. First too."

"You guys have cooperated well, and you have given me the reputation of being the first to predict the enemy. I will not hide it from you, the first contribution will be given to the Mianjiang Army who captured the two large ships, and the second contribution will be given to the horse immediately. Jiang Zuo's transshipment envoy Labor Jieci. How do you think you and that Zhang Xinzhi will be rewarded?"

"The subject and the letter are just doing things according to His Majesty's orders, and the success of the work is just fulfilling the duties. How can there be any credit for it?"

"If you have meritorious service, you will be rewarded. You and that letter are actually the first two meritorious service. I don't want to reward you clearly, so I can only reward you graciously. You raised my dragon flag. After you return to Beijing, there will be a censor to make noise about you. Find a copy of ginseng yourself, and then go to manage Taichang Temple. Your mother is still a third-rank lady, I vaguely remember that it will be seventy, and then a second-rank wife will be promoted; Boy, give me a Luanyi knight. Besides, I am going to point out your daughter-in-law to the son of King Fuyang, what do you think?"

Zuo Xian was overjoyed and immediately bowed down again.

The emperor touched his forehead at this moment, feeling a little annoyed.

"It's just that Zhang Xinzhi is not easy to deal with. He was going to take it with him to prepare poems, but there was something that made it difficult for him to see me, so he was detained for a few days in the civilian camp. I didn't want this person In order to survive, he made such a big commotion. I was preparing to read his exam papers, but I don't want to let him really enter the official position at this time. Zuo Qing, is there a way?"

As the emperor's confidant, Zuo Xian came as soon as he opened his mouth.

"Zhang Xinzhi is talented, mostly because of his parents' upbringing. Why don't your majesty pursue him? Since your majesty thinks that this son will grow up in the field of science, if you don't want to reward him with some gold and silver farms, don't make him go to other paths. Or you can send someone to ask him. , to see what his long-cherished wish is, as long as it doesn't involve the law, it will be fulfilled for him."

The emperor nodded: "That guy is not short of money, and the land in the south of the Yangtze River can be divided into several hectares for him. In addition, if there are any unreasonable demands, he is also allowed. Go and do it!"

(End of this chapter)