The Three Kingdoms in the Ya Nei

Chapter 42: Competition

"Well, the general is so strong, even stronger than my donkey, to carry such a big piece of bluestone. It's amazing! It's amazing!" Liu Zhang nodded, did not answer him immediately, but praised his strength sincerely. Come.Passionate picture feast
Well, very sincere!Except that the object of comparison is somewhat special... >

When everyone heard him compare Wu Anguo with his donkey, they couldn't help but have a strange look on their faces, trying to hold back a laugh that was about to cramp in their stomachs.

Wu Anguo's body trembled slightly, his big fist clenched and then let go, let go and clenched again, panting like a cow. [

"As for me, there happen to be some small gadgets, which are also related to the art of war in the army. So I use this big bluestone to make a show of shame. It's not about winning or losing, but I want to make you gentlemen happy." He didn't even look at him. , Liu Zhang suddenly smiled slightly, stood up calmly and said with a smile.

The moment everyone saw him, they suddenly showed a calm and steady look, and they couldn't help being stunned.Chen Deng and Zang Hong also had a flash of light in their eyes at the same time.

"Mr. Wen Ju, I want to make some gadgets. I need to remove a branch from your tree to use. I hope Mr. Wen Ju will not be surprised." He walked to a hibiscus tree and pointed to a section of it. At Hengcha, Liu Zhang turned his head and pleaded guilty to Kong Rong.

"But it doesn't matter." Kong Rong was also aroused by him, and when he waved his hand, he replied with a smile.

Nodding his head, Liu Zhang turned around, looked left and right, then asked a servant standing beside him for a sword, and with a wave of his hand, he cut off two pieces of paulownia wood.

After knocking off the thin branches, he cut the two wooden branches into a pile of small pieces on the ground, each more than half an inch thick.After more than 30 pieces, he returned the sword and leaned over to hug the pile of cut logs back.

Chen Lin and others looked at it strangely, but Zang Hong, Zhang Chao, and Chen Deng focused their eyes on each other, and they all saw a trace of surprise in each other's eyes.

Liu Zhang swiped his sword to break the wood, but he didn't see him exert any force. When the long sword rose and fell, pieces of logs were cut open one after another.The three of them are the generation of Yunwen Yunwu, and they immediately caught the strangeness in it.This Liu Jiyu is by no means as frail as he looks, but possesses impressive martial arts skills.

Smiling, he sat down in front of the big bluestone and scattered the pile of logs on top of it.Gently flicking the big sleeve, the hand moved slightly.

Everyone felt a blur in front of their eyes, and there was already an extra knife in Liu Zhang's palm.The knife was three inches long, with a faint blue light shining on the edge of the blade, obviously extremely sharp.

It is unknown how he hid such a sharp knife on his body.No one in the crowd was a fool. Thinking of this question, he couldn't help but feel suffocated, and his face became serious.Even that reckless Wu Anguo couldn't help but shrink his pupils, and his face became a little confused.

He picked up a log with three fingers, flipped through it a little, and suddenly the knife in his right hand moved.The blade meandered, and in an instant, it turned into a halo like a living thing.

Under the refraction of the bright sunlight, the blue shadows are colorful and dazzling.When the blade was on the log, it was suddenly like a giant ax cutting a mountain, and suddenly it was like a bee and a butterfly scurrying around, on a small square inch, there is no way to change.

The urgency and urgency of the light and heavy, even in the light and shadow that turn into a ball, also give people a feeling of clear appearance.Even if the singers and composers are in a hurry, the libretto is clear in paragraphs.

Everyone stared blankly, but saw his slender fingers moving mysteriously.In the stagnant place, it is like dragging a heavy sand, but in the soft place, it is like flicking the dew on the petals.

The breeze is coming, and the flowers and trees are swaying.In the small vermilion pavilion, the young man was dressed in white clothes like snow, and his fingers kept moving lightly.At a certain moment, in a trance, Liu Zhang in the eyes of everyone was like a big man holding flowers and smiling, graceful and luxurious, with a majestic and intimidating appearance.

There was silence in the garden, except for the hissing of the knife across the wood.When the sawdust fell, not long after, 32 round flat wooden blocks appeared in front of everyone.

With a light wave of the big sleeve, all the debris was scraped to the ground. Liu Zhang picked up the made wooden block again, and began to carve on it with a knife.

He carved very fast, he carved one in a few breaths, and then picked up the next one.Everyone was curious and gathered around to watch.But when he saw the words general, handsome, chariot, and horse engraved on the log, he couldn't help but a trace of doubt flashed in his eyes. [

Among the crowd, Chen Lin was the one who read the most. She picked up a chess piece carved by Liu Zhang and flipped through it. She pondered for a while, and suddenly said, "Isn't it like a play made by Ji Yu?"

When everyone heard what he said, there was a flash of surprise in their eyes.Immediately, a deeper confusion emerged.

The Xiangxi mentioned by Chen Lin is the predecessor of Xiangqi in later generations.Elephant opera originated in the Warring States Period and was popular among literati and bureaucrats.However, there are only twelve chess pieces.The two sides each hold six pieces, take the number of six lines, and fight on a specific chessboard.

On the chess pieces, the engraved words are not today's chariots, horses and cannons, but owl, Lu, pheasant, calf and other characters.The rules are also quite different from those of later generations of chess, consisting of three utensils: chess, chopsticks, and games.

The similarities between ancient Xiangxi and today's chess are that the appearance is similar, and it is also made of round wood with a square inch and a thickness of half an inch.That's why Chen Lin made this guess.

When Chen Lin finished asking, Liu Zhang could barely carve all the chess pieces, raised his head and smiled slightly, and said, "Yes, and no."