Phoenix Queen

"..." After thinking for a long time, Wan Qing finally shook her head, "No... I don't know! But I'm sure this game is correct. It seems that someone guides me to play these chess moves. I don’t feel anything in the game, but once I see the beginning, I don’t know how to come up with the ending... But, I don’t remember how I remembered.” Wan Qing gritted her teeth and said to herself , "What's going on here?"

Jing Lan was taken aback, and quickly went to help Wan Qing press her temples, "Xiao Tong, you are not like Xia Ying, are you... I will not be wiped out of memory when I am not paying attention."

"What are you thinking about, you?" Wan Qing didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

Jing Feng looked at Wan Qing's expression, wondering if she was lying...

Originally, she was unwilling to confide the truth to him from the first moment.

Like a professional masseur, Jing Lan beat Wan Qing's shoulders and pressed her back. After a while, Wan Qing suddenly opened her eyes, "I remember...it's that old woman!"

"What old lady?" Jing Lan was full of doubts.

Wan Qing turned her head and grabbed Jing Lan's hand that was helping her, "You forgot... it must have been five years ago, when we traveled around the world, we passed by Huali Village, where the emperor was guarding, and met an old lady, She looks like she is in her seventies, but she played seven games of chess at the entrance of the village, with a pair of sevens, and a gold ingot for each game."

"Ah! There is such a thing!" After saying this, Jing Lan had an impression, "Is that the old woman?"

Huali Village?Jing Feng frowned... If it was Huaxing Village, then there might be nothing wrong!

If he remembers correctly, Huali Village is the place where Jing Yuan met Mei Yizhi...Mei Yizhi became the third-rank minister of Huachu, neither hereditary, nor did he go through the imperial examination. When promoted.

"It's been so many years... It's hard for you to remember." Jing Lan looked at his wife's face, and her ability to never forget is really admirable.

Five years ago, it should have been a winter!

Jing Lan heard about the Michelia flowers blooming in the South City of Huachu in spring. The fragrance of the flowers floated thousands of miles away, and everyone who heard them was drunk, so she planned to take Wanqing to have a look. The lotus in the pond with infinite lotus leaves sinking into the sky...

From spring to summer, I walked all the way, and before I knew it, winter had come quietly. This time I saw the flowers and smelled the fragrance, I traveled in this beautiful river and mountain for a whole year...

Spring flowers, summer rain, autumn wind, winter snow!

Thinking about it carefully, what he pursued in his life... was just such a day.

In the winter of that year, they went to Shouhuang.

It was a poor small village, but the folk customs were simple and honest, every household was full of laughter and hospitable, the whole village was self-sufficient, there was no inn, and there was no trading market... At that time, there were only about fifty households in Huali Village People, more than 200 villagers.

When the two foreigners came to Huali Village for the first time, they thought it was an empty city.

Heavy snow covered the whole village, there was no popularity at all, and no sound could be heard in the whole village.

Jinglan searched for a long time but couldn't find a place to board and lodging. It was still raining heavily at the time. They went out for an outing without a horse. Jinglan could bear it on her own, but Wan Qing couldn't. She is so delicate, how could she? Withstood that cold.

The first sound of anger flowed out from a twisted corner, it was the sound of a child sneezing.

In the dead city of ice and snow, the child's sneezing sound is not to mention how kind it is.

"Children..." On a snowy day, in Huali Village, which is like a dead city, all households are closed, and you can't even see a wine shop. It was hard to see a seven or eight-year-old girl, so Jing Lan went to ask her , "Children, where is there an inn here?"

The child was pink, white and fat, gasped, staring at him with innocent eyes, "What is an inn?"

"It's a place where you can eat and sleep." Jing Lan explained with a smile, and saw that the child was wearing thin clothes, so she untied the jacket and put it on the child.

"Oh! Then I know." The child's eyes lit up, he looked at Wan Qing and asked, "Is my sister a fairy? So beautiful?"

Jing Lan smiled with crooked eyebrows, "You kid has such a sweet mouth."

The child stepped on the snow, leaving footprints after taking a step. She took Wanqing's hand, "Sister Fairy, can you make a lot of apricot blossoms? Bao'er likes soft apricot blossoms."

While talking, the child took Jing Lan and Wan Qing around to his house, "Daddy, mother."

"Bao'er!" The child called out, and footsteps came from upstairs.

It was the child's mother who came out. She was obviously taken aback when she saw the stranger.

"Mother...I saw Sister Fairy." Bao'er ran over, untied the jacket that Jinglan gave her and put it on her mother, "This one is very warm."

"Bao'er, don't make trouble, give it back to others." The gentle woman said and lit the oil lamp.

"I'm sorry." Wan Qing coughed twice, and Jing Lan went to help her pat her back again and again, and then looked at the little woman again, "My wife and I didn't mean to bother, but we came here occasionally, but we couldn't find the inn. talent……"

"That's right." The little woman said with a gentle expression, "You two are from other places. I think you are all new faces. We have 58 families here... There is no inn. The nearest inn is also outside the village. There are about three It's the footsteps of the sky."

"So far!" Jing Lan warmed Wan Qing's hands while giving her some internal energy to keep her warm.

"If you two don't dislike it, you can stay here." The little woman is easy to talk to, "I see you have traveled a long way... let me get you something to eat, this snow... I'm afraid it will have to fall again Two days!"

"Okay! Okay!" Bao'er nodded again and again, "I want to eat too!" As he spoke, he lay in Wanqing's arms and asked, "Is the fairy sister also hungry?"

The little woman was amused by Bao'er, and she glanced at Wan Qing again, "No wonder Bao'er regards you as a fairy...Young girl is really a sign."

Wan Qing was a little embarrassed to be praised, but Jing Lan was full of pride.

Later, Bao'er's father also came down from upstairs.

Seeing outsiders, Bao's father was also a little surprised.

The man was capable, with sharp eyebrows and starry eyes. When he saw Jing Lan, he passed him a roll of dry tobacco without asking any further questions.

"We haven't had outsiders in our village for a year." Coincidentally, this man happened to be the village head of Huali Village.

This place is remote, in the territory of Shouhuang, but... the local government doesn't control them. It takes a month's journey to go back and forth from the government office. His ancestors came to such a place and established Huali Village.

The two men puffed and smoked, and their bodies became much warmer.

Wan Qing hugged Xiao Bao and told the doll a story, not long after... Bao'er fell asleep in Wan Qing's arms.

It snowed heavily for three days, and the sun didn't come out until the fifth day... It took two full days to melt the snow.

However, after staying for seven days, Wan Qing and Jing Lan played with the villagers of Huali Village. Although the place was not very rich, it was a paradise in the true sense.

In their small village, they only go down the mountain once every six months. The men in the village pick up some silk and go down the mountain to exchange for some necessary things.

That place can make people feel peaceful...

I stayed for about a month, even if I was reluctant to give up, I still had to leave!

Jing Lan prepared some banknotes and scraps of gold, intending to tell the villagers, but found that...the hundred or so households all ran to the flat land where the millet was sunned on weekdays. Jing Lan only found out after arresting Grandpa Fu that this month, their village A second stranger came.

"Grandpa Fu, didn't Niu Er brothers just go down the mountain to change things a few days ago? Why...don't see everyone now? Did they go down the mountain again?" Jing Lan's eyes were full of doubts.

Grandpa Fu smoked a pipe, "No, an old lady came to the entrance of the village, playing chess with gongs and drums."

Grandpa Fu looked at the two of them with a smile, "Go and have a look! I can't walk anymore, so you can help me along the way... We don't have any other hobbies in this village, but everyone can play chess, not only , and everyone can play a good game of chess, which one is bold enough to dare one-on-seven, hurry up...I don't want to miss it."

At the entrance of the village, she turned out to be an old woman with white hair, but in good spirits...

"Okay, you all lost." The old lady smiled and looked at the seven people in front of her, "You played well, but you still have a bit of a hard time winning."

The old lady is obviously modest, this hour, one against seven, the most powerful one also lost nine and a half to the old lady!

The old lady played another seven games of chess by herself, "Is there anyone else to compete with me?"

Before the seven chess games, an ingot of gold was placed on the side of each chess board, "There is a chess idiot in Huali Village. For 20 years, I have an unfinished game of chess with him. Today, I traveled thousands of miles to meet the appointment, but... ...Hua Wuying died, which is really a great regret for my old body. But I heard that although he is dead...but he taught all of you to prosper in chess, so I want to ask for advice!"

There was a school in Huali Village 20 years ago, which taught nothing but chess...

The person who ran that school was none other than the grandfather of the village head. Unfortunately... he died five years ago, and it was Hua Wuying that the old lady was talking about!

"It's the man that my father-in-law mentioned!" The little woman whispered next to the village chief, "It's been a while."

Sighing, the treasure father stepped forward, took out a booklet from his arms, and handed it to the old lady...

"Senior, grandpa Hua Wuying asked his grandson to hand this to you."

"Sure enough, he looks very much like him." The old lady glanced at Bao's father a few times, her eyes were too full of meaning, which made Bao's father feel uncomfortable.

After a long time, the old lady took over the chess record that Baofu raised his hands above his head.

This village is full of chess idiots, and I don't know what the village head and the old lady are talking about, so I jumped onto the chess table, "Let me try it with you, but my family doesn't have gold and silver, if I lose... Can it be changed with sangma?"

"Of course." The old lady also loves to learn chess skills, "Play chess with me, you will get money if you win, and you won't pay anything if you lose...Since Hua Wuying's death, I am always looking for a defeat."