Chapter 231: Playing Chess

Afternoon wind curtains, idle study small house, sun shadows slant down the window lattice.

Peach cakes and fruit wine, shared with Xinghan.

Words and laughter lazily tidy up slender hands, jade fingers break, orange fragrance is thick.

Gauze round fan, lightly shaking fragrant threads, approximately sweeping the brow peaks.

Xie Xinghan shook the fan and said:

"Young Master's words are true. Cao Zijian did not get the imperial throne, and the Wei system was based on the Han's disadvantages, and treated the clan harshly. The world pities him, so they often raise Cao Zhi and belittle Cao Pi. In fact, Zi Huan's poetry and prose have places that Zi Jian has not reached.

Although there are few beautiful words and clever sentences, the feelings are deep and the intentions are thick, which can move people the most. Every time Huan Ziye heard clear songs, he would call out 'what to do'. My ancestor Anshi Gong said 'Ziye can be called having deep feelings at once'. I think the poetry and prose of Emperor Wen are also like this.

'Saying that a hundred years have been divided, can be kept together for a long time; what is the picture between a few years, zero and fall are almost exhausted, saying it is heartbreaking.'

'The years have grown up, the thoughts are ten thousand, sometimes there are worries, until the night is not asleep, when will the ambition be like the past? Already an old man, but not white-headed.'

Such sentences cannot be said by those who are not deeply affectionate. Every time I read "Yan Ge Xing", I feel its twists and turns, lingering and lingering, and I can't help myself. The rhyme at the end of the sentence is like a woman's sigh. However, the tune is suppressed every time, and the voice is always covered. Reading it often has a sense of restraint, as if it cannot be long..."

Xie Xinghan frowned at the end, and a look of confusion appeared in her eyes.

Wang Yang swallowed the peach cake, patted the crumbs on his hands, looked at Xie Xinghan, and sighed:

"You are good at reading. We usually have a word called 'long sigh' in our speech, but sigh is actually the least easy to be long. For example: Alas—"

Wang Yang dragged the tone of sighing, and then continued:

"When this 'alas' is sighed out, the breath shows a downward trend, the breath gradually becomes weak, and the sound gradually becomes weak, and it soon dissipates into nothingness. "Yan Ge Xing" uses rhymes in every sentence, and the rhymes are continuous, just like a sigh. Every time it reaches a rhyme, it is like a sigh ending, which makes the already low tune more suppressed, and the voice is also covered.

Any body that uses rhymes in every sentence, its feelings are easy to be implicit and deep, and its momentum is often full of setbacks, so it is difficult to become a generous and impassioned tune. This is the rhyme characteristic of "Yan Ge Xing", which is the so-called 'short song micro-chant cannot be long' in the poem. Although it cannot be long, the sound is hidden but the feelings are not cut off, the language is broken but the meaning is sought, which is the strength of this body."

Xie Xinghan suddenly realized, and happily patted the small desk on the couch:

"So that's it!! Young Master said I would read, I think Young Master is the one who really knows how to read! Young Master Wang should really come to our Fuzhou Elegant Gathering to make comments, so as not to let us sit in the well and watch the sky! Looking back now, it's quite boring!"

Wang Yang waved his hand with a smile:

"Personal shallow opinion, how can I make any comments?"

Xie Xinghan drank fruit wine and said casually:

"For one comment, the reward is ten thousand coins for the few, and tens of thousands for the many."

Wang Yang coughed:

"Hmm... actually, although it is a shallow opinion, it is not impossible to explore it together."

Xie Xinghan laughed secretly, her eyes shining:

"Then please comment on what I said before that Emperor Wen's poetry and prose have deep feelings. I see that Young Master seems to be quite disapproving!"

"How can it be! What you said is very in place!

Since ancient times, the best poetry and prose are nothing more than three: those who win by skill, those who win by emotion, and those who win by both emotion and skill.

Those who win by skill often chant bitterly, while those who win by emotion often chant quickly.

However, bitter chanting is easy to work, and deep emotion is difficult to give.

Emperor Wen writes about feelings, mostly straightforward and shallow words, less carving, success is beautiful, failure is better than literature, vulgar quality is like alley words, vulgar words are written a bit rough, it is difficult to avoid the slander of the world."

Xie Xinghan listened with bright eyes and clapped her hands:

"Well said! Young Master's words can be said to have obtained the three flavors of poetry! Then does Young Master remember that Wei Wendi has a poem 'better than literature', saying 'like alley words', the first half of which is about killing cattle and eating wine, which is very happy."

Wang Yang finished the fruit wine in the cup, tapped the table with his fingers, and chanted:

"How can it be happy, without worry?

But should drink mellow wine, roast fat beef..."

Xie Xinghan took a small sip of wine, learned Wang Yang's movements and expressions, and continued:

"The eldest brother is two thousand dan, the middle brother is covered in sable fur!

Although the younger brother has no official title,

Saddle horse, coming and going to play with princes and elders!"

Wang Yang waved his hand with a smile and said loudly:

"But should be in the prince's hall, happy to play six games, sitting and playing chess!"

Xie Xinghan stretched out a pretty white finger and drew twice in the air:

"Men living in the world, each should work hard—"

When chanting to this, the finger paused, looked sideways at Wang Yang, her eyes were soft and bright, playful, and with three points of interrogation:

"Is Young Master working hard recently? How is your chess practice?"

Playing chess was a popular "board game" at the time. The two sides played against each other. The chess pieces were like soldiers, arranged in formation. Each piece had different status and scores. The center of the chessboard was raised, like a mountain ridge. The players needed to play the chess pieces with their hands, cross the mountain ridge and hit the opponent's chess pieces out of the board. Of course, in this process, their own chess pieces might also be played out of bounds directly.

The two sides came and went, chess pieces flew, and finally the loser was judged by the number of chess pieces left on the board. The winner calculated the total score based on the remaining chess pieces on the board.

A month ago, Xie Xinghan accidentally discovered the chess pieces sent by Le Yue Xiao Pang to Wang Yang at Wang Yang's house, and wanted to play against Wang Yang, but Wang Yang didn't know how to play at that time, so Xie Xinghan taught Wang Yang the rules.

But Wang Yang had no time, and secondly, he was not very interested in playing chess, so since that time, he had never touched playing chess again. Hearing Xie Xinghan ask, he said bitterly: "Ashamed, since you taught me, I haven't practiced."

"It's okay, playing chess depends on talent. Some people are high-minded even if they don't practice. Nothing to do today, let's play a game?"

"Then please give me more advice."

The two set up the chessboard, Wang Yang asked about the rules he didn't quite understand, and then started the battle.

And then,

Wang Yang won.

Xie Xinghan was shocked and asked incredulously:

"Young Master Wang, have you really never learned it before? You wouldn't lie to me!"

"No, no, really never learned it!"

Wang Yang was a little surprised!

This chess game is not difficult! A bit interesting!

"Then you are really amazing, you belong to a genius who is not learned but connected!"

Xie Xinghan covered her mouth with both hands, her eyes were extremely admiring.

Wang Yang said embarrassedly: "Luck, luck."

Xie Xinghan looked serious:

"It's definitely not luck! I'm actually quite good at playing chess. You can win me as soon as you come up, which is quite remarkable! In the past, Wei Wendi was good at playing chess, saying that there were three masters of playing chess in Luoyang at that time, Ma Hexiang Hou, Dongfang Shi'an, and another Zhang Young Master, who said 'always hate not being able to play against them'. I don't know who Zhang Young Master is, but I know that in a few years, among the masters of playing chess in our Great Qi, there must be 'Young Master Wang'!"

Xie Xinghan was various girl worship, repeatedly asked Wang Yang if he had learned to play chess, and reviewed the last high-level "long oblique hit method" that Wang Yang played before, saying that if Wang Yang hadn't learned it, it would be impossible to play such a high-level method. In short, her star eyes were shining, and she praised him endlessly, making Wang Yang's face red.

Wang Yang said: "Come again, come again, let me see if I can be lucky this time!"

He seemed to re-experience the pleasure of killing all sides among his classmates when he first learned Chinese chess in elementary school, and suddenly became interested, preparing to play another game with Xie Xinghan.

Xie Xinghan smiled and said: "Okay, another game, but playing is boring, let's bet on something."

Wang Yang asked while setting up the chess pieces: "Bet on what?"

Xie Xinghan thought about it pretendingly and said casually:

"Actually, there is nothing to bet on, just bet on asking questions. If you win a game, you can ask a question, and the other party must answer, and cannot lie, otherwise there will never be a confidant!"

Wang Yang basically didn't set up any defense against Xie Xinghan, but Xie Xinghan said this, which immediately aroused his vigilance.

Since ancient times, gambling sets are all letting you win first and then lose. Together, I am not a master of playing chess, you are a master of setting sets!

Wang Yang asked with a smile: "Is this truth or dare?"

"Ah? What is that?" Xie Xinghan was confused.

Wang Yang briefly explained the rules to Xie Xinghan and said:

"This game is so fast! Let's guess fast punches, guess ten games in a row, ten games count as one game, and the winner of five games wins. We can play a few more games, and if you win a game, you can ask the other party a question."

Xiao Han, your direction is too obvious...

Wang Yang said: "A game of chess takes too long, then how many questions can you ask? It's better to play rock-paper-scissors."

Xie Xinghan was stunned: "What is rock-paper-scissors?"

Wang Yang explained the rules to Xie Xinghan and said:

"This game is so fast! Let's guess fast punches, guess ten games in a row, ten games count as one game, and the winner of five games wins. We can play a few more games, and if you win a game, you can ask the other party a question."

Xie Xinghan thought secretly, if she strongly requested to play chess, Wang Yang might be suspicious. Although she praised him for a long time, he only won once in total, and his confidence was insufficient. If it was a bet, he might not be willing to play. This rock-paper-scissors has no skills, all rely on luck, and the time of a game is fast. She can ask the answer in at most a cup of tea time.

"Okay!" Xie Xinghan's fighting spirit was high!

Wang Yang looked at Xie Xinghan preparing to punch, like a big gray wolf seeing a little white rabbit.

He had four unique skills before transmigrating:

One is air hockey, also known as desktop ice hockey. As long as he is on the field, there are few defeats.

Two is a poker game called "bragging". In a four-person game, he is usually the first to win, and there are few exceptions. After winning a few games, the situation is usually besieged by everyone, but this game is useless for many people. Sometimes the more besieged, the faster he wins. The most impressive thing is a bet, several decks of cards mixed together, more than a dozen people playing together, besieging him alone, and he is also high-spirited, saying that as long as he is the second to leave, he will lose.

As a result, he lost!

Later, the people in the same game admitted that several people joined forces to hide cards!!!!!

Three is memory. According to his mother, when he couldn't speak yet, he listened to her reading fairy tales. As long as he listened once, he had to read exactly the same when listening for the second time. If she missed a word, Wang Yang would cry endlessly. When he was in kindergarten, the teacher played fables for everyone, and then let the children retell them. When it was his turn, he recited them exactly, word for word, shocking the teacher.

Four is guessing punches. This unique skill is often actively highlighted by him to provoke war, and then kill a piece.

He is good at grasping the "inertia" in the opponent's punch path during the guessing process, or rather, the law. This law is sometimes single and sometimes complex. However, compared to "law", he still likes to call it "inertia". As long as he grasps the opponent's inertia rhythm, he can basically win to the end, even if it is not rare to win ten games in a row.

Most people have this inertia, but a small number of old oily sticks are difficult to be grasped, especially after playing a few games with him and suffering losses, they can quickly reflect and break their own laws. There are those who, even if they realize it, cannot break it. There are those who can temporarily break it, but soon return to inertia. But there is that kind of strong-willed person who can keep the chaotic rhythm to the end!

Encountering such a difficult opponent, either change to slow punches, use psychological tactics, tell the opponent that you want to play rock, and set it game by game; if you continue to play fast punches, then winning or losing depends purely on luck.

Such an opponent who lets Wang Yang rely purely on luck to win or lose, Wang Yang has encountered three, and most of the others have been defeated by Wang Yang's unique skills. It's just that this unique skill has limited conditions, that is, Wang Yang needs a process to grasp inertia, and cannot decide the outcome at once. And the speed of both sides must be fast and coherent. The faster and more coherent, the less time the opponent has to think, and the easier it is to enter inertia.

Therefore, Wang Yang has always played with people with ten games as a game, and ten games are every game must have a winner or loser, and a tie (such as both playing scissors) does not count as a game.

Therefore, when Xie Xinghan agreed to ten games as a game, Wang Yang had already begun to prepare the questions he wanted to ask.

In a cup of tea, the two played four games, including asking questions, answering questions with twists and turns, and fighting with mouths.

Xie Xinghan lost all four games, and even her childhood name was told to Wang Yang...

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Note: "Dream Creek Pen Talks, Techniques": "Bai Letian's poem: 'Things on the chess board, the most wonderful is the long oblique. Long oblique refers to the corner oblique play, one shot over half the board, this method is in the spectrum today.'" ===== CHAPTER 232 =====

Note: *Dream Pool Essays: Skills*: "Bai Letan's poem: 'On the board of the chess game, the most wonderful move is the long diagonal.' The long diagonal refers to a diagonal shot across the corner, clearing more than half the board in one go; the current manuals contain this technique."