Chapter 423

Xie Qian placed the ball unceremoniously, but within three or five rounds, all the blacks were surrounded by white characters, and there was no possibility of turning around.

After this game of chess was played, the two cleaned up the mess. Although the emperor lost, he had a smile on his face, looking in a good mood.

Xie Qian raised his eyes to look at the emperor, his fingertips inadvertently collided with his fingers, and felt that the other party retracted quickly.

The emperor no longer sorted out the sunspots in front of him, but fixed his eyes on Xie Qian.

It wasn't until Xie Qian finished collecting his white pieces, and put all the emperor's black pieces into the jade box, that he calmly said: "The emperor has not only improved his chess skills, but also has a much more open-minded style of chess."

The emperor somehow heard a bit of approval from his cold voice, so he smiled and said, "If you win, you will praise me. What if I just refused to give up and forced you to retreat, so that you lost?"

Xie Qian shook his head, and said seriously: "This has nothing to do with winning or losing. Just now, the emperor clearly made a mistake, but he was willing to give up the victory, and the minister was very happy."

Since the collapse of the Xie Mansion, Xie Qian has been living like a living dead, nothing can attract his attention——

But now that he is devoting his heart and soul to the court, he clearly seems to be a different person.

Why did he change?What will it look like again?Will he return to the gentle, humble and high-spirited look when he was young?

The emperor's fingers moved uncontrollably. He didn't ask anything at the end, but said: "It's just a game of chess. If Aiqing is happy to win, I will let you win in the future."

Xie Qian shook his head lightly, with a faint warmth in his eyes.

How could he be happy because he won a game of chess?It's just that in the past, the emperor had a bad temper and tended to go to extremes in his actions, quite like the early emperors.

Xie Qian was worried all the time. He was always worried that the emperor would follow in the footsteps of the late emperor. He was sensitive and suspicious in his later years. In the end, he had no judgment of his own and began to wantonly kill loyal and good people.

It wasn't until the emperor gave up that game of chess that he didn't care, and he realized that the person in front of him was completely different from the late emperor.

Putting down a big stone in his heart, Xie Qian only felt a lot more refreshed, so he said to the emperor: "If the emperor is in a good mood today, how about playing a few more rounds?"

The emperor laughed loudly: "On weekdays I pull you to play chess, but you refuse in every possible way. Now that you have tasted the sweetness of winning, you hold me and refuse to let go? It's all right, as you wish!"

The two had just picked up the black and white chess pieces, but they heard Da Gonggong's soft voice from outside: "Your Majesty, Mr. Xu Gui is begging to see you."

……

Mrs. Xu came gracefully and gracefully, completely destroying the atmosphere of the game between the monarch and his ministers.

Xie Qian remembered what the emperor said to him in a low voice just after the emperor should give the order to his father-in-law - "Xu Guiren is pregnant"

Xie Qian couldn't understand what your majesty meant.

Xu Guiren is the emperor's concubine. He wanted her to enter the palace, so he allowed her to come in. Why did he deliberately explain to himself?

Xie Qian could only take the emperor's words as a reminder.

After all, Xu Guiren came out of his house, and now she is pregnant, maybe he should avoid it.

After Xu Guiren greeted the emperor, Xie Qian got up and said to the emperor: "Your Majesty, I will take my leave."

There was no expression on his face, he was still so deserted, the emperor changed his expression, and said angrily: "Just now you said there will be another game, why are you leaving when she comes? I might as well not let her in! "

Xu Guiren bowed his head and said nothing.

On the contrary, Xie Qian was startled, and realized that he had guessed wrongly what the emperor meant, so he sat down again.

"That minister will not leave."

The emperor smiled "puchi", and his handsome face turned from cloudy to sunny.

Only then did he have the time to pay attention to Xu Guiren, so he turned his head and asked her: "You are not raising your baby in your own palace, what are you doing here looking for me?"

Mr. Xu Gui couldn't say that he had heard the news of Xie Qian's chess game with the emperor, so he couldn't help but want to come and see his lord, so he could only say: "The concubine has nothing to do, I'm really bored, so I walked over unconsciously, thinking Let's see if the emperor is here."

Now that she is pregnant with the only child in the harem, she has a lot of confidence in speaking and doing things. The emperor's tolerance for her is much more than before, and it is much more than the concubines next to her.

The emperor frowned slightly, and quickly let go, ordering the Dagong beside him to say: "Go, bring a chair for Xu Guiren."

Eunuch Da quickly moved the chair, which was still covered with a thick layer of cushions, and followed the emperor's gesture, and lifted it to his side.

The emperor motioned Xu Guiren to sit down behind him, turned his head and said, "Since you have nothing to do, you can watch me play chess with your lord. Just one point, don't make a sound."

Xu Guiren showed a smile on his face, and his eyes were filled with joy, he just nodded repeatedly.

After hearing the emperor's words, Xie Qian couldn't help but raised his head, seeing the emperor said the words "your lord" indifferently, he was a little startled.

When he sent Fu Que into the palace, he originally intended for her to balance power and find a way to solve the smog in the harem so that the emperor could free up his energy to do other things; On the dragon son.

Today, there are not many children. It turned out that the imperial concubine gave birth to the second prince, but the son and mother left one after another, and there was no movement of the child in the palace.

Today, there is only one eldest prince, but due to foot disease, he is unable to inherit the throne.

If Xu Guiren really gave birth to a dragon son, it would be possible to settle the emperor's knot.

The emperor had already picked up the sunspots again, signaling Xie Qian's whites to go first.

Xie Qian no longer thought about whether he should resign to avoid suspicion if Mr. Xu Guiren gave birth to a prince.

He collected his mind and made the first move on the chessboard.

When the two began to play chess, everything around them was completely forgotten. Only when the black and white pieces were slowly fighting together on the chessboard, could the silent fighting between the two be seen.

Xu Guiren was born as a servant, although he learned some piano, chess, calligraphy and painting in Xie's residence, it was just superficial.

Now that the battle between the two is getting fiercer, the speed of the moves is getting faster and faster, and soon the brain can't keep up.

She looked at the chessboard for a while, but felt dizzy. She couldn't help raising her eyes, and glanced at Xie Qian quietly——

Your lordship is still as cold as snow, and your phoenix eyes are clearly calm and indifferent, but they are brighter and more dazzling than all the treasures she has seen in the palace.

Xu Guiren was looking at Xie Qian secretly, but she was startled by the sudden sound of the emperor beside him: "Ah Qian regrets the game? Let you play."

Xu Shi put all his attention on the chessboard, and the emperor naturally called Xie Qian by his nickname.

Seeing that the emperor was not talking to him, Xu Guiren suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly lowered his eyes to look at the chessboard to cover up his peek at Xie Qian's behavior just now.

Only Xie Qian refused: "I don't regret it."

The emperor chuckled: "Then I ate it?"

Xie Qian said nothing.

Xu Guiren watched helplessly that the originally evenly matched black and white pieces on the chessboard suddenly turned into white pieces and were besieged with the emperor's last piece, without even a breath left.

Xie Qian looked at the chessboard quietly for a while, and gently threw the white piece at his fingertips back into the jade box, which meant to admit defeat.

The emperor laughed "haha", with a cheerful voice, pointed at an empty space on the chessboard with his fingertips, and said to Xie Qian: "You, you have to behave like this when playing chess, didn't you say it a long time ago? You should eat it!" Just eat, if you just ate my half, you won't lose so quickly."

Xie Qian followed the emperor's train of thought for a while, then nodded and said: "The emperor said yes. But even if I come down here, I will only delay the decline."

The emperor "tsk tut" twice, shook his head and said, "You can live if you keep your breath. How do you know that I will be able to guarantee the state, and it will always be like this? As long as you are alive, there is hope for a comeback."

Xie Qian's fingers paused slightly, and his breathing also stagnated for a moment.

Only then did the emperor realize that what he said might have touched Xie Qian's restricted area——

He just said it casually, without any other meaning.

But Xie Qian responded in a low voice: "En."

The emperor remembered that he had quietly left the palace after he ascended the throne, and made a special trip to see Xie's mansion after the previous emperor ordered his house to be ransacked.

The glory of the past is long gone, but within a few years, even the gate of Xie Mansion is dilapidated, not to mention the appearance of all kinds of weeds growing in the gaps in the high walls paved with green bricks.

He felt a slight pain in his heart, and was afraid of causing Xie Qian's bad memories, so he hurriedly changed the subject and continued talking about the chess game, "Although I have been too busy to play chess all these years since I became the throne, I have also collected a few excellent chess records. , the move just now is the secret on the chess record. If Aiqing is interested, I will give you the book."

Xie Qian did not refuse.

The emperor said again: "This is my martial arts secret book. It is passed on to males and not to females, and it is only passed on to our own people..."

Xie Qian let him gossip and didn't pick up on it, and only occasionally heard serious words, so he should say a few words...

(End of this chapter)

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