DWGL _ Chapter - 27

Chapter 27: The Fen Xing Game 

The Ancient Chess Game

Tao Rende was even more disgusted when he heard this: “You have to join in this kind of excitement, do you still want to go on stage and compare yourself to others?”

“If you have nothing else to do, it's better to have fun than to be bored in the house." Liu Da Jiong worked tirelessly, “I heard that it was very lively, and some people came from other places deliberately just to take a look."

Tao Rende was stunned when he heard this. As a Master Taifu who had done his best, he never knew that the people of the Chu Kingdom were so idle.

So when Chu Yuan was busy with the affairs in his hands and thought about discussing political affairs with Taifu, he was told by Sixi that Lord Taifu and Lord Liu had left the palace half an hour ago, and it was said that they had gone to Tai Ci Road to see beauty contest.

Chu Yuan: “......”

Si Xi asked, "Should I send someone to invite the two lords back?"

Chu Yuan waved his hand, "No, I am a bit bored in the imperial study all the time, so I will stop here today."

Eunuch Si Xi hurriedly helped him up and said, "Does Your Majesty want to invite the imperial physician to take a look?"

"What for?" Chu Yuan shook his head, "It's too hot in the room, just take a walk in the imperial garden."

The summer is hot, it is the time of flowers and willow green, and the breeze in the pavilion in the centre of the lake, it is reasonable to say that it should be refreshing to the soul. But Chu Yuan sat for a while, but it seemed ...... not much cooler.

Si Xi said empathetically: “Does Your Majesty want to go out of the palace for a walk?”

Chu Yuan looked at him with a smile.

Eunuch Si Xi was all smiles: "It's good to go and see Lord Tai Fu and the others." Tai Ci Road is not far from the Yuet Lai Inn, and it is possible to meet Xinan Wang.

Chu Yuan hit him on the stomach with his fan: "Swing away, leave the palace!"

"Yes!" Eunuch Si Xi's voice was loud and clear, it was good to go out, it was nice and cool to go out.

The road to Tai Ci was really busy with people coming and going. The ring was as tall as two men, and the red and green on it was very eye-catching, but it was not for a beauty contest, as the rumour had it, but for a chess match.

Lord Liu feels he has been deceived.

But Lord Tao was delighted. He had always been a chess fanatic, having studied Go for decades, and had broken many ancient dead games passed down by his predecessors.

Liu Da Jiong said angrily, "What does this have to do with Sai Pan An?" Why don't we call it Yuan Qing, then I won't come in the sun.

Yuan Qing was a chess saint of the dynasty, with a pockmarked, ugly face.

But Lord Tao had pushed his way into the crowd and began to study the game in detail.

Sai Pan An wore a half-mask to cover his eyes and looked like he was only in his twenties. Seeing that Tao Rende had been studying a game of chess, he smiled and said, "Would this old man like to give it a try? One tael of silver for one game."

Liu Da Jiong snorted, "That's expensive."

“But if the old man wins, he can get a hundred taels of gold. This is a unique good business.” Sai Pan An pointed back, and sure enough, he saw dozens of gold ingots dangling on the plate, and as soon as the sun shone, it was difficult not to attract attention.

Liu Da Jiong pounded him with his elbow and said, "Lao Tao, go try it?”

Tao Rende said: “This game is a dead end.”

"How can you say it is a dead game before you have tried it?" Sai Pan An laughed and said, "If you don't dare to try, then say you don't dare, why do you have so many excuses?"

Liu Da Jiong was worried, knowing that Taifu was notoriously cautious and that the head of the imperial guard in Tai Ci Road was his nephew, so what would happen if he was overturned?

"It is not good for a young man to be too arrogant." Tao Rende didn't bother with him, "Otherwise you will inevitably be disadvantaged in the future."

Sai Pan An shook his head, "There is no one in this world who can make me suffer."

Some of the onlookers recognised that it was the Lord Taifu of the dynasty, so they whispered to the young man to be careful what he said. Tao Rende waved his hand to stop him and walked out of the crowd with Liu Da Jiong.

"Lao Tao, are you alright?" Liu Da Jiong tried.

"Naturally, I'm fine, but he's not." Tao Rende said.

"He's just a reckless kid who hasn't seen the world before, and you're really getting into it with him?" Liu Da Jiong was surprised, not to mention the personal vendetta.

"Do you know the origin of that game of chess?" Tao Rende asked.

Liu Da Jiong said, "I don't know."

Tao Rende nodded: "I also guess you don't know."

Liu Da Jiong: "......"

Then why do you ask?

"That game is called Fen Xing Game." Tao Rende said, "There are people who would like to break all the deadly games in this world, but only this Fen Xing Game is avoided by everyone."

Liu Da Jiong wondered, "Why?"

Tao Rende said, "It is only because this Fen Xing Game will make people become demons."

Liu Da Jiong laughed out loud.

Tao Rende: "......"

"You can't be serious. A game of chess can make a person become a demon." Liu Da Jiong was clearly not convinced.

Tao Rende said, "You are a vulgar and uneducated person, I won't talk to you."

"Look at you, you think I'm uneducated even though you say so." Liu Da Jiong, who was used to fighting with him, didn't get angry and looked around and asked, "Want to go eat noodles?"

"What noodles?" Tao Rende said, "I'm going to the Da Lisi."

"What's the point of going to the Da Lisi?" Liu Da Jiong shook his head, "It's so dark and windy there, I get a headache every time I go there."

But Lord Tao had already gotten into the sedan chair.

What's the hurry,...... Liu Da Jiong was puzzled and turned his head to look at the ring, and saw that Sai Pan An's eyes were slightly closed, as if he was taking a nap.

Chu Yuan went out of the palace in disguise and arrived at Tai Ci Road in a sedan chair. When Eunuch Si Xi looked in front of him, he said, "Aiya, why are there so many people?"

Chu Yuan did not say anything inside.

"It seems that the two lords are not here either." Eunuch Si Xi instructed the sedan driver, "Go further, there are many people here, don't scare the holy servant."

The sedan driver took orders. Chu Yuan looked out of the window, and there was a smile in his eyes.

The soft sedan crossed Tai Ci Road and ahead of it was Yuet Lai Inn, and coincidentally, Duan Bai Yue was walking this way.

"What a coincidence." Eunuch Si Xi was surprised, his face full of emotion.

Chu Yuan lifted the curtain of the sedan chair.

Duan Bai Yue looked at him and smiled.

"His Majesty has come out to look for Lord Tai Fu." Eunuch Si Xi explained, "He just happened to be passing by."

"It just so happens that I bought a goose with cinnamon and soya sauce." Duan Bai Yue was carrying a paper bag in his hand, "Do you want to eat it together?"

Naturally, he wanted to. Eunuch Si Xi smilingly said, "Cinnamon-marinated goose is good, His Majesty likes to eat cinnamon-marinated goose."

Chu Yuan: "......"

Duan Bai Yue stepped forward and reached out his hand.

Chu Yuan slapped him away and jumped down himself.

Eunuch Si Xi saw the two of them go upstairs together, so he took the sedan chairman with him to the teahouse across the street for tea and sent someone to buy some red and greasy pig's trotters to munch on - the Imperial Physician had refused to allow the meat to be eaten in the past few days, and there was only cabbage and bean curd to feed the hungry, so his belly was really hungry.

There is a good Pu'er brought from Xinan Mansion. Duan Bai Yue asked Xiao Er to cut the braised goose, served it with some other side dishes, and sent it into the room with a pot of wine.

Duan Nian guarded the door with his sword in his arms. Wang Ye finally brought a person back to his room. At this time, even if there was a big matter, he couldn't be disturbed.

"Try it?" Duan Bai Yue put a piece of meat into his bowl, "I heard it tasted good and light. I originally wanted to send a few of them to the palace if they were still viable after I tried them."

Chu Yuan took a bite and found a light sweetness and a hint of cinnamon.

Duan Bai Yue asked, "Do you like it?"

Chu Yuan nodded: "A good cook."

"Then I'll tie him up and take him to the palace?" Duan Bai Yue suggested.

"Then I will let Xiang Lie take care of you." Chu Yuan put down his chopsticks, "How is the investigation of the person who made the deal with the Tian Sha Sect going?"

"I have no clue." Duan Bai Yue said, "That day, that person only said that when Lan Ji arrived in the Wangcheng, someone would go and find her. But now everyone in the Jianghu is saying that the Tian Sha Sect has been destroyed, so I'm afraid it won't be easy to get him to come forward again."

Chu Yuan frowned: "Wangcheng is too big, there are foreigners coming in and out every day, if they don't come out, I'm afraid the government will have no way to do so."

Duan Bai Yue poured a cup of wine for him.

Chu Yuan said, "Why don't I write a letter to Wen Aiqing?"

"Why do you want to write a letter to Lord Wen?" Duan Bai Yue was immediately dissatisfied with his words.

He was a good-looking scholar from the south of the Yangtze River, a gentleman, white and clean, loved by the emperor, and often stayed at the palace.

"He is the most talented scholar in Chu, not only does he read a lot of books and have a quick mind, but he is also very clever, so he might have heard of the Thousand Loops." Chu Yuan said.

Duan Bai Yue said to himself ‘If he is talented, he can say he is talented.’

"What are you thinking about?" Chu Yuan waved his hand in front of him.

"Hm?" Duan Bai Yue returned to his senses: "Lord Wen is far away in Shu, so I'm afraid it will take at least a few months for this correspondence to come and go." By that time, it was still uncertain whether he would be in the Wangcheng or not, and there was no guarantee that he would die of old age.

"That's better than having nothing to do." Chu Yuan took another bite of his food and wondered, "Why is it all meat?"

"Eat more meat to grow meat." Duan Bai Yue gave him another piece of goose leg, "Your Majesty should be fatter, richer and more powerful."

Chu Yuan was amused by him.

"Are you really so busy these days?" Duan Bai Yue looked closer at him, "The circles under my eyes are getting a bit dark."

Chu Yuan unconsciously ducked back: "Yes."

"I knew that Lord Tao wouldn't let you go easily." Duan Bai Yue sat up straight and knocked on the table, "But since we're all out today, why don't we go out for a stroll after dinner? I think there are many good places to go in Wangcheng."

Chu Yuan nodded his head, "That's fine."

The smile in Duan Bai Yue's eyes intensified as he lowered his head to help him cool a bowl of soup.

Duan Nian sighed outside, why did he have to go out again? Shouldn't he have used his inner strength to force out a mouthful of blood, and then fallen unconscious and had to double-treat his injuries?

After all, it is written like this in the script.

Perhaps it was because the braised goose was really delicious, Chu Yuan had a good appetite, and even felt a little... support.

Duan Bai Yue asked him to finish drinking a pot of Pu'er for digestion and then went out the door together.

Although there are no recent festivals, the city is always bustling with activity. Even at night, there were many sights to see. Red lanterns hung high above the river, reflecting in the sparkling blue waves like an illusion, willow trees were in full bloom, and crowds of people were everywhere.

Duan Bai Yue bought a windmill from a stall and handed it to him.

Chu Yuan put his hand behind his back.

Duan Bai Yue smiled: "If you don't take this, I'll buy you another candy man."

"Only children would like that." Chu Yuan sat down on a big stone, "I'm tired."

"You are tired at heart." Duan Bai Yue squatted down in front of him, "It's better to go out and wander around once in a while than to be bored in the palace all the time. If you have time in the future, I'll take you back to Xinan for a while, that's really leisurely and happy."

Chu Yuan just ignored it and turned his head to look at the river.

Why not go to Xinan, but back to Xinan?

There was a noise from the other end, and Duan Bai Yue stood up and looked at it: "It seems that something happened in the ring.”

"What kind of ring?" Chu Yuan asked, but then remembered and said, "The one about the beauty contest?"

"What beauty? Although the person who set up the ring is called Sai Pan An, he is a chess player." Duan Bai Yue said, "He played a deadly game of chess and brought a hundred taels of gold with him, saying that if anyone could break it, he would give the gold to them. He has made a lot of money in the past few days."

"Chess game?" Chu Yuan understood, "No wonder Lord Tai Fu wanted to come and watch."

"I guess this is not a good thing." Duan Bai Yue asked, "Do you want to go and take a look?"

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