imperial psychologist

Chapter 385
"The night Chengqian Palace welcomed the little prince back," Bo Ling said softly, "You told me about General Shen, do Mr. Hengyuan still remember what you said at that time?"

"I advise Si Yao to let go of his hand and not to cure him."

"Yes, it turned out that Shen Jichuan left Beijing this morning, and he still got the emperor's transfer order..." Bo Ling said softly, "Mr. Hengyuan is really good at it, and everything is in your calculation."

Mr. Heng Yuan smiled slightly, "Bosi Medicine has a bad reputation, it's not my fault... It's just a blunder in the dark."

"..." Bai Ling frowned slightly.

Mr. Hengyuan picked up the black and white pieces on the chessboard and took them back to the chess basket. There was no winner on the chessboard, but he was no longer in the mood to play alone.

"Come to play chess?" Mr. Heng Yuan said softly.

"I won't." Burling replied.

"If Si Yao wants to learn," Heng Yuanjun said, "I can teach you."

Bai Ling raised her eyes slightly, and she laughed lowly, "...don't you strategists like to talk about serious things when playing chess, and you will be speechless if you don't play chess?"

"Anyway, there is no one else to see Si Yao now," Mr. Heng Yuan said in a low voice, "Since I have such leisure, why don't you do it."

"The rules of Go are complicated and changeable. Even if you teach me now, I can't learn the level of playing against you in one go." Bai Ling smiled, "What's the fun in killing novices? Mr. Hengyuan must really have a sense of elegance , why don't we change the game..."

Mr. Heng Yuan looked at Bo Ling.

Bai Ling took the chess basket pushed by Mr. Heng Yuan, and said softly, "Have you ever played backgammon?"

Mr. Heng Yuan shook his head.

Bo Ling continued, "Just like Go, backgammon is also played at the intersection of horizontal and vertical lines. Whoever first connects five pieces on horizontal, vertical or diagonal lines wins."

This rule is simply too simple.

"that's all."

"For novices, that's it," Bo Ling nodded and said, "You can get started after hearing it, Mr. Hengyuan can try it first."

Mr. Heng Yuan made a gesture of invitation.

Bo Ling opened the chess basket, saw black pieces inside, and looked at Mr. Hengyuan, "Are you sure I'm black?"

"...It doesn't matter."

"Okay." Bo Ling picked up the chess with two fingers, and landed directly on the Tianyuan in the middle of the board, "Then this game is not considered a victory or defeat, let Mr. Hengyuan experience the game of backgammon first."

Mr. Hengyuan chuckled—although he had never tried this kind of rule before, Bo Ling's tone of victory still made him feel a little youthful and fun.

Mr. Hengyuan held the white, and followed the sunspot placed by Bai Ling diagonally above.

"...What do you mean by the 'mistake' you just said?" Bai Ling asked.

"Bai Siyao is extremely intelligent...couldn't you guess it?"

"Heng Yuan-jun means nothing more than that Song Bozong led the deployment of troops." Bai Ling said softly, "And then? I don't believe you will be indifferent to all this."

On the chessboard, Bai Ling moved very quickly, almost without thinking. Every time Mr. Heng Yuan made a check, she immediately followed up with the next move.

Mr. Heng Yuan was not moved by Bo Ling's aggressive rhythm, he always maintained his own thinking rhythm.

However, he soon discovered that something was wrong.

Around the time of move No.13, he fell into a certain kind of passivity.On the chessboard, Bo Ling's moves showed a certain pattern, not only connected to each other, protruding from all sides, but also always cutting off his chess moves appropriately.

It is as fast as the wind and aggressive as fire.

Mr. Heng Yuan fell into a long test. He looked at the black and white pieces that had filled half of the chessboard, and began to calculate the next changes. Soon he found that no matter where the pieces were placed, Bo Ling could move them in nine moves. End this game of chess.

But how did things get here?

Mr. Heng Yuan frowned, he sighed softly, and decided to vote.

On the other side, Boling threw the sunspot in his hand on the chessboard one step ahead of him.

"As I said, the game just now doesn't count." Bai Ling said softly, "It's just to let Mr. Heng Yuan experience the game of backgammon.

"In backgammon without forbidden moves, there is a way to play first and win. The moment Mr. Heng Yuan asked me to hold black, I had already lost."

Mr. Hengyuan lowered his eyes, "Please Bai Siyao and so on, give me some time to review."

Bai Ling sat quietly on the opposite side of him, looking at Mr. Heng Yuan's slightly serious face because of deep thinking.

Maybe there is a reason why these people like to play chess with others.

In fact, not only playing chess, but all competitive events can make people see some temperaments that cannot be seen in ordinary times.

Faced with all kinds of provocations by himself, Mr. Heng Yuan's position was not in the slightest. After seeing the defeat, he was not aroused by any desire to win or lose, but started his own resumption of the game.

Or, he has long learned to hide all the turmoil in his heart tightly.

After a long time, Mr. Hengyuan finally raised his head, "...In this rule, going first does have a great advantage. I don't think there have been any major mistakes, but I have always missed a move."

"Yes, that's why a forbidden move was set up for the black chess, but if there is a double live three in the first move—"

Burling placed three sons on the chessboard that could form a live four.

"Double Four—"

With a slight movement of her fingertips, she moved the chess piece into one to bring out the situation of two four pieces.

"Or Changlian--"

Burling dropped a word between the three sons on the same line, making them a connected six-son line.

"They are all judged to be defeated immediately. This kind of rule is called 'Lianzhu'."

Mr. Heng Yuan put his arms around his arms, staring at the chessboard, his eyes moved slightly for a while.

Bo Ling raised his head and said softly, "But even so, the advantage of Heizi still cannot be curbed. In the following ten years, chess players added 'three-handed exchange' and The 'five hands, two strikes' rule."

She softly explained what a three-hand exchange is, and what is a five-hand two-hit, and demonstrated it with moves.

Mr. Hengyuan watched her gesture on the chessboard, with a faint smile on his face.

"Interesting," he said softly.

Mr. Heng Yuan narrowed his eyes slightly - these means of restriction are more interesting than playing chess itself.

"Yeah, because the balance of this game was not good from the beginning."

Bo Ling looked at Mr. Heng Yuan with calm eyes.

"I was thinking before that Mr. Heng Yuan probably thought it was very interesting..."

"Really?" He also looked at Bo Ling, "Why?"

"Because, even after making so many forbidden moves, Heizi's advantage remains undiminished."

Bai Ling's eyes turned cold, "People changed the nineteen-way game into a fifteen-way game, requiring the black side to make three moves at the beginning of the game, but there are still more black players than white players... ..."

She sorted out the black and white pieces scattered on the chessboard, and put them back into the chess basket.

"... Isn't this very similar to what has been happening in this palace?"

Mr. Heng Yuan was slightly taken aback.

He suddenly laughed, laughed for a long time, and even clapped his hands lightly involuntarily.

"I don't know if Bai Siyao thinks who is in charge of black and who is in charge of white?"

(End of this chapter)