The Grand Secretary’s Pampered Wife

Chapter 373: Koi Jiaojiao (Part 2)

This sound is too scary!

The emperor felt the trembling from the soul! If it wasn't for him being too old to fall, he might be able to throw himself out together!

Empress Dowager Zhuang rushed into the emperor's study.

Thanks to the more than a year of recuperation by Gu Jiao's side, her body and bones are much stronger than before, and even a lot of black hair has grown on her head.

She sat down on the chair opposite the desk, raised her legs, and looked straight at the emperor.

The emperor frowned at her gangster-like appearance: "What's the matter with mother later?"

"It's okay, I'll come and see you!" The Empress Dowager Zhuang said lightly. After she finished speaking, she realized that she was perfunctory in her attitude. This kind of acting skills might be a candied fruit. She paused and grinned, "Come and see Hong'er."

The emperor's goosebumps fell all over the floor!

In order to display her soul-like acting skills, Empress Dowager Zhuang asked Eunuch Qin to guard the door. At this moment, there are only mother and son in the study.

Empress Dowager Zhuang shook her legs and looked at the emperor with special meaning, as if she saw five walking candied fruit.

Thinking about it this way, Empress Dowager Zhuang felt that the emperor was much more pleasing to the eye.

Emperor: Why do I feel that the way my mother looks at me is not right?

The Empress Dowager Zhuang decided to take care of her candied fruit... Uh no, son, she smiled rarely, and said very gently: "Have you eaten? Are you thirsty? Are you hungry? Are you dressed warmly? How are you doing?" ? Difficulty speaking with the queen mother."

emperor:"……"

The Empress Dowager Zhuang took good care of the emperor. Not only that, but she also accompanied (forced) the emperor to have lunch, invited (forced) the emperor to visit the imperial garden, and made sure that everyone in the Liugong knew that she was the emperor again today. A loving mother.

Then she leisurely returned to Renshou Palace.

"Where's Jiaojiao?" she asked Eunuch Qin.

Eunuch Qin laughed and said, "Miss Gu is out of the palace."

Empress Dowager Zhuang's face sank: "What about Aijia's candied fruit?"

Eunuch Qin shrank his neck: "Take, take away..."

Empress Dowager Zhuang's face darkened for a second!

But Gu Jiao didn't go back to the clinic immediately after leaving the palace, recently there was a new doctor in the clinic, she didn't have to go to the clinic every day like before, it was really convenient for her to do her own work.

She ran out of saltpeter, and planned to find some more nitrate, but it was a pity that this kind of thing was extremely difficult to buy in the market.

Gu Jiao was walking on the street, rubbing her chin thoughtfully.

"baby!"

Suddenly a voice stopped her.

Gu Jiao's steps stopped, she turned around strangely, and saw the old beggar who had played chess with her a few times was trotting towards her.

"It's really you!" The old beggar came to Gu Jiao, and said with a smile, "I just saw that the back looks like it, so I yelled."

Gu Jiao groaned, and said, "This is not Liuxu Street, why did you come here?"

If she remembered correctly, the old man was always active in Liuxu Street, and this place was almost at Xuanwu Street.

"Oh, why don't I go around casually!" said the old man.

He was holding a broken begging bowl in his hand, and he was carrying a basket on his back like Gu Jiao's, but his basket was also tattered.

Gu Jiao: "Oh."

The old beggar said with a downcast face, "Baby, why haven't you come to play chess for several days?"

"Aren't I saving you money?" Gu Jiao said brazenly.

The corner of the old beggar's mouth twitched, and he spoke as if that little black heart who only agreed to do it for ten taels of silver wasn't you!

Gu Jiao said: "Then you can turn around casually, I will leave first."

The old beggar held her back: "Hey—don't you play chess?"

Is it easy for him to catch this little doll?

Gu Jiao slightly raised her eyebrows: "Do you have any money?"

The old beggar put a bowl on his hip, with a sad expression on his face: "Do you have the heart to oppress an old man like me!"

Gu Jiao nodded: "Yeah!"

The old beggar: "..."

The old beggar took off his pannier and stuffed it to Gu Jiao, and the broken bowl that was never used was also stuffed into Gu Jiao: "My stall is over there, you watch the stall for me, I'll be back in a while."

Uh... Do you have a meal and a stall?

I have learned a lot.

The old beggar left in a hurry after explaining, Gu Jiao saw him enter an alley, there was a chess club in that alley, Gu Jiao had been there for outpatient consultation.

Gu Jiao didn't say anything, she took the old beggar's things to the so-called stall, and squatted down expressionlessly.

The small body squatted there, with a broken bowl in front of it, looking a little pitiful.

She doesn't dress like a beggar, but the more noble a person is, the more pitiful he is. After all, who doesn't want to show face these days? It's not that the family can't make it through. How can a girl's family beg along the street?

Everyone cast sympathetic looks at Gu Jiao.

Gu Jiao herself didn't feel that she was attracted by the chess game left on the ground by the old beggar. This chess game was different from the ones she had broken before, and it was very weird, but I couldn't tell why it was so strange.

In her mind, she began to calculate the position of each chess piece.

clang!

A copper coin was thrown into the broken bowl in front of her.

Gu Jiao didn't look up and continued playing chess.

clang!

Someone passed by and threw a copper coin into it.

Gu Jiao still didn't raise her head, she concentrated on breaking the situation.

She finally knew what was wrong with this chess game, it was so murderous.

How hostile is the person who created this chess game? Although the chess game is basically two chess pieces fighting each other, it is too rare to kill like this.

Gu Jiao was so engrossed in the chess game that she didn't notice that there were many copper coins in the broken bowl.

If the old beggar knew that he could not get a few copper coins for a whole day, and Gu Jiao had a bowl full without doing anything, he would probably vomit blood.

"My lord, look!"

Gu Jiao slanted to the second floor of a teahouse behind her, the guard in gray pushed open the window, leaned half of her body out of the window, and pointed to Gu Jiao in front of her.

The man also leaned out, looked in the direction of the gray-clothed guard's finger, slapped his folding fan, and said, "What's so interesting about a little beggar?"

The guard in gray hurriedly said: "No, sir, it's her!"

The man asked, "Which one is she?"

The guard in gray said anxiously: "The little girl who was with that little monk!"

The man paused his hand playing with the folding fan: "The one who blew you up with the black fire ball?"

"Yes, my lord, it's her!" The gray-clothed guard scratched his head, "It's strange, why did she come out to beg?"

The man hooked the corner of his lips meaningfully: "Go, go and have a look."

The guard in gray closed the window and followed the man.

"What are you doing here?" the man asked angrily.

The guard in gray said, "Didn't you tell me to go and have a look?"

The man snorted coldly: "I went to see it, but I didn't let you see it. Wasn't it exposed enough last time?"

The guard in gray pursed his lips, and stayed in the wing unwillingly.

The man wore a crescent white robe, covered with a dark blue gauze robe, and a jade belt around his waist, wearing a handsome, elegant and unparalleled elegance.

Gu Jiao guarded the stall for the old beggar, and there were people coming and going in front of her from time to time, but they wouldn't stay here.

When the light above Gu Jiao's head dimmed, she didn't pay attention at first, and the shadow didn't leave after a while, she raised her head a little irritatedly.

A handsome and elegant face came into view, with extremely deep eyebrows and eyes, a high bridge of nose, light lip color, and the corners of the lips evoked a nice arc.

Is this man of barbarian descent?

Not bad looking.

The man showed a smile: "Girl..."

Gu Jiao: "You're blocking the light."

man:"……"

After Gu Jiao finished speaking, she ignored him and continued to think about the game of chess.

The man touched the bridge of his nose curiously. He was so good-looking, how could any girl turn a blind eye to him?

Is his hair messed up?

Or is his face dirty?

"girl?"

He called again.

However, Gu Jiao simply ignored people.

The man took a step to the side, trying not to block Gu Jiao's light, and by the way, he also looked at what Gu Jiao was doing.

It turned out to be playing chess.

It's a bit far-fetched to say it's chess, it's just a chessboard drawn crookedly on old wooden boards, with stones as chess pieces, each of which is irregular, and the black stones are just a drop of ink on the stones.

The corner of the man's mouth twitched.

so poor?

Didn't you say you live in Bishui Hutong? It was near the Guozijian, and the house price was very high.

Besides, he has seen the little monk's things, and any one of them can be sold for a sky-high price. If life is really hard, he will sell the little monk's things!

Why beg along the street?

Having said that, if you are so poor, can this girl know how to play chess?

The man just glanced at the chessboard with the mentality that if you don't know how to play, I can barely teach you one or two.

I didn't feel much at first glance, only vaguely uncomfortable.

He glanced again, a third, a fourth.

His expression froze.

No way? Is he wrong? How could he see this chess game in the hands of a little beggar and a little girl here, on the streets of Zhaoguo...to be precise?

Everyone knows that Mr. Meng, the chess sage of the Six Kingdoms, created countless chess games in his life. Among them, the eight games are the most famous, and there are very few people who can solve them, especially the second game of Qiankun. The person with the most eight rounds.

But no one knows that Mr. Meng actually has another set of chess games - six games of life and death!

This is truly a ban that no one can crack.

The reason why the game is banned is because the six games of life and death are too murderous, and often the chess players go crazy before the game is solved.

He was lucky enough to see the first game of the six games of life and death, and he chose to give up before driving himself crazy. Unexpectedly, after a few years, he was able to see it again.

Why is there nothing wrong with this girl?

Seeing how relaxed she looks, isn't she affected by the murderous intent of the chess game?

"You..." The man looked away from the chess game.

Gu Jiao pointed to the broken bowl in front of her.

The man froze for a moment, seemed to understand, took out two gold ingots from his pocket and put them in.

Gu Jiao finally managed to be reasonable now: "What's the matter?"

Sure enough, money can make ghosts turn millstones, and money can make people speak.

The man patted the folding fan speechlessly, and said, "This chess game...how do you feel?"

"Well, it's quite interesting." Gu Jiao said.

interesting? That's it?

"Don't you find it difficult..."

by?

"Well, it's a bit difficult." Gu Jiao admitted this.

Men are all fascinated, am I asking you if it is difficult? There is another subject in the back!

What kind of freak is this girl, how can she talk about such a heavy game of murderous intent so calmly?

No, what he should be curious about is not where did this girl learn the chess game?

The six games of life and death are not like the eight games that have been widely circulated in the six countries. They have been banned by the royal family of Yan country, and ordinary people have never seen them.

For a while, it was the Black Flame Pearl of the royal family of the Yan Kingdom, and for a while, it was Mr. Meng's six rounds of life and death. What is the relationship between this girl and the Yan Kingdom?

"baby!"

The old beggar came out of the alley with silver in his hands.

The man didn't want to have more contact with people for the time being, so as not to leave messages that shouldn't be left, he turned and went back to the teahouse.

The old beggar came to Gu Jiao, squatted down, handed a bunch of white silver in his hand to Gu Jiao, and said with a smile: "Baby, look, I won!"

Then he lowered his head and saw the broken bowl at his feet, and there were actually two gleaming gold ingots lying in the bowl!

In addition to this pair of gold ingots, there are also many copper plates and broken silver.

The old beggar was dumbfounded: "Where did these come from?"

Gu Jiao thought for a while, then said lightly, "Well, passers-by gave it to me."

The old beggar looked at a bowl of gold, silver and copper plates, then at the few scattered silver ingots in his hand, and suddenly felt that the silver ingots were not fragrant!

He worked so hard playing chess with a group of idiots, but in the end he didn't earn as much as a baby squatting here for a while!

Gu Jiao opened her mouth, wanting to ask him if he plays chess?

The old beggar raised his hand sadly: "Don't talk to me first, I need to calm down!"

It's so heartbreaking!

"Good."

Gu Jiao continued to squat on the side of the road, drawing circles with chess pieces.

Suddenly, a very gorgeous carriage stopped in front of them.

The curtain of the car was lifted, and a gust of fragrant wind hit, Gu Jiao's nose itched and she sneezed!

A female official in a tender pink court dress came down from the carriage, covered her nose with a handkerchief, stopped three steps away from the old beggar, and never stepped forward again.

She didn't look at Gu Jiao who was squatting on the ground, but looked down at the old beggar sitting on the side of the road, and said: "Your Excellency, my master has an invitation, please come with me to Qingfeng Tower."

"No." The old beggar refused without thinking.

The female official said: "I heard that your Excellency was kicked out by Qinghuan Chess Club, and you can no longer go to Qinghuan Chess Club to play chess. My master is very sorry for your Excellency when he hears the news."

Gu Jiao just took a look at the old beggar, the old man was kicked out by the chess club? No wonder it changed to a chess club.

The old beggar put his hips on his hips and said, "They didn't drive me out! It was the old man. I decided not to go to that kind of rubbish chess club again! Let me pretend to lose? Is there such a thing as embarrassing!"

This is not a lie, it is the truth, he really doesn't know how to lose to a group of rookies!

The female officer took a lot of effort to keep her expression from breaking down: "My master sincerely invites you to play chess, please follow me to change clothes, and go to Qingfeng Tower to meet my master."

The old beggar said with a chuckle: "Seeing that your master has to change clothes, who is your master? The emperor or the queen?"

The female official said solemnly: "It is inconvenient to disclose the identity of my master, but it is definitely a noble status that you did not expect. With my master's protection, no one in the chess club in the capital will dare to drive you out from now on."

"No!" The old beggar still refused without thinking.

There was a hint of impatience on the female officer's face: "Your Excellency may wish to think about it."

The old beggar waved his hand: "If you don't want to go, you won't go, are you bothered? You interrupted me playing chess with the baby! Let's go!"

The female officer was blown away, she frowned coldly, looked at Gu Jiao who was squatting on the ground studying the chessboard, her eyes flickered.

is her?

The female officer went to a wing of the Qingfeng Tower to return to her command: "I will report to the Crown Princess, he refuses to come."

"Why don't you come?" The princess was puzzled.

The old beggar was the princess who hesitated for a long time before deciding to extend the invitation to the other party. At first, he didn't pay much attention to him, but he won the layman Maoshan time and time again, so the princess couldn't care less.

The female officer respectfully said: "He wants to play chess with someone."

"Who?" The princess put down the teacup in her hand and asked.

The female official replied: "The daughter of Ding'an Hou's mansion, the one who grew up in the countryside."

The Crown Princess once saw Gu Jiao playing chess with the old beggar with her own eyes. At that time, she didn't care, but now she couldn't help being curious, how did she know the old beggar?

The female officer thought for a while, and said: "I heard that the old beggar used to play chess games on Liuxu Street, but everyone thought he was a lunatic, and no one went to play chess with him. Maybe Miss Gu happened to go, and came and went. Only a vulgar girl from the countryside can do such a humiliating thing. She is the daughter of Ding'an Houfu and the wife of the new champion. Don't care about the family's face."

The princess is about face, she will never lower her status to associate with a beggar in the street.

"Forget it, it doesn't matter if you don't come." The princess did not think highly of him, "Is there any news from Mr. Meng?"

The female officer said: "Yan Guo hasn't heard yet, Liang Guo, Chen Guo, Zhao Guo..."

The Crown Princess interrupted her, and said in a high voice: "What I want is news from Yan, and what I need is Mr. Meng's attention."