Legend of the Demon Emperor of Kyushu

Chapter 136 Baicheng Frost (5)

In the 16th year of Wuxuan, Shangguan Lingbo, the empress of King Ju, died of illness in the palace.

During the last years of her life, the queen has not recorded several episodes of illness.His face was peaceful when he was dying.

After all, she is crazy, but not stupid.Baichengshuang pulled out the cold soul gun, and there was no possibility of abolition. No one would stimulate a royal master who might become a god general.She will never be restless again.

Although Han Po is not a medicine for curing diseases, it eliminates the cause of the disease.

After the funeral that caused a sensation in the whole city, Baichengshuang walked alone in Hanye City.

After passing a remote mansion, knock on the door knocker.

"It's Shuang'er, come in." A deep voice came out, and Baicheng Shuang opened the door and walked into the main room. There was an old man in a gray robe sitting in the room. .

"It's a good time for you to come to play chess with the old minister to relieve boredom." Old Qi said with a smile.

Baichengshuang replied to the old-faced expert: "The younger generation is not good at chess, I'm afraid I won't be able to let the old man enjoy himself."

"It doesn't matter, no one in the city can catch the eyes of the old minister. It doesn't matter how good you are at chess."

Baichengshuang sat down and took Hongzi first.After a few moves, she lost the game, but she didn't care, as if her mind was not on the game.

"May I ask Old Qi, do you still remember what you promised Shuang'er?"

"what do you wish to ask?"

Baichengshuang pushed Cheqi straight down, even though the situation was not dominant, she still stormed forward and defeated the first army.

"Why doesn't the father love the queen mother?"

The only time the chess master didn't move immediately.

Baichengshuang had asked him such questions a long time ago, as well as why the mother queen married the father, why the father preferred the young concubine, and what kind of person the father was.

These questions have filled Baichengshuang's head since she was a child, but she didn't dare to ask her mother directly, for fear of stimulating her illness, so she could only pester old man Qi who took good care of her.

He kept saying that he would not tell her the answer until after her mother left.

It's just that I didn't expect that I, an old thing waiting to die, would last longer than that woman.

Taking shogi back a step, Old Chess Zhang opened his mouth, speaking eloquently——

"Let's start from the beginning. When your father was young, he was an inconspicuous one among the princes. His mother clan had no power, no ministers to support him, and he himself had no talent in martial arts. No one thought he would become King Ju in the future.

But only in the way of chess, the talent is very great.At that time, the old minister was also young and energetic. He left his hometown and traveled around the world, looking for an opponent who could play chess with him. Under your father's hands, he suffered the first defeat among his peers. "

Baichengshuang withdrew his rook and chess, restrained his attack, and stopped playing risky chess, as if he was listening to the chess master's words with all his attention.

The old chess player also moved slowly, and continued: "After losing, I will stay in Hanye City, pestering your father every day to discuss chess skills.

Your father is an ambitious man, but he has nowhere to show it, so he can only play chess and drink with me to get by.In addition to Shaoying, who was still his personal servant at that time, we drank and had fun in the market all day long, as if no one was around. "

Bai Chengshuang's expression moved slightly, the young concubine Shaoying was the most prominent woman in the Ju Kingdom today, the mother of a guard chief Bai Chengyan.My own mother has hated the person for half her life.

"Later, the two of us groped deeper and deeper in the way of chess, so we simply left the country of Ju and went to Zhongzhou to visit the master of chess, Master Chi Qinggong."

Baichengshuang heard the words and said: "Senior, you mean, the expert who said 'I am invincible since I came out of the cave, I have to forgive others and forgive others' (Note)?"

Old Chess nodded: "It's him. He read the chess records for ten years in seclusion, and after he came out of the cave, he was invincible in the world. The saying "to forgive others and forgive others" has been passed down to this day, but he has never spared the fire in the hearts of chess players in the world.

Your father and I were only eighteen or nineteen years old at that time, we traveled thousands of miles to the Budeng Mountain Chess Palace, we played chess all the way, and finally met the face of the chess master.Master Chi and I made an appointment to fight three rounds, concentrating on our thoughts, arranging the formation and luck, and only seeking one victory. In the end, we lost three games and three games. "

"And your father..." Old Chess played heavily: "One fight and one draw."

Baichengshuang's body trembled slightly. She had never heard of this incident. Her father, the king, even at the age of less than 20 years old, defeated the world-famous chess master.Is this really something that her father, who uses human life as a chess piece, disrupts the rules of the chess game, and plays like a fool, can do it?
"One game of chess between your father and the Chess Master was played in one day. Of course, counting the three games before me, we really tired the old man of the Chess Master that day, but the old man seemed very happy. It made us even more unexpected What's more, when we left, he also gave us the chess treasure 'Yitianpu'."

"That is the magic weapon that carries the soul of famous chess games such as 'Yangma Caotian', 'Bring into the Dynasty' and 'Big Nine Links'. In the last game of the spectrum, 'Seven Star Gathering', even the chess master himself has not solved it. He knows that there are not many years left, and he wants to pin his hope of unraveling this eternal mystery on your father."

"But what really surprised us at that time was not this treasure, but when we left, a woman also came out and said that she wanted to travel the world with us.

This woman, we met her once when we broke through the mountain and climbed the mountain at first, but at that time your father won her bet without much effort, so we didn't pay much attention to it at the time, only later did we know that she is Chess master's daughter, Chi Lingyan. "

Baichengshuang was slightly taken aback. When Qi Lao said this, his tone was very ordinary, but she just felt that there seemed to be something profound in these words, which made her whole body feel awe-inspiring.

Old Qi said indifferently: "After that, I, your father, Shaoying, and Chi Lingyan, the four of us traveled together, searched for ancient chess records in various places, and thought about ways to crack the 'Seven Star Gathering', and later added a Little chess boy Zhou Hui."

Baichengshuang said: "Senior, you mean that after the death of the chess master, he was born and swept the Zhongzhou chess world, leaving only the four-character prophecy 'the king of chess is in the north', and the 'chess immortal' Zhou Hui who disappeared from all corners of the world?"

Old Qi laughed and said, "Hmph, Qi Xian, that's what people in Zhongzhou seem to call him."

"Later, when we were traveling in the rivers and lakes, when we passed Shuofang City in Langya Kingdom, we got involved in a local celebrity event. I remember it was called the 'Feng Lei Lun Cai Conference'.

Because we are from the Northern Kingdom, we were dissatisfied and conflicted when we heard them comment on the people from Leizhou, only respecting the Langya people and looking down on the talents from the Northern Kingdom.The people with the highest status at that meeting were a group of young people from Shangguan's family, who made things difficult for us. "

Bai Chengshuang's expression tightened, and he interrupted: "Is the queen mother also among them?"

Old Qi nodded: "Yes, and he is one of those young people with a high status." Seeing Bai Chengshuang's nostalgic look because he heard about his mother's past, the second half of Old Qi's sentence "is also a part of mocking us very fiercely." One" held back and continued:
"Shangguan's family and Zhao's family are the two most prominent families in Langya, and they are the right-hand men of the Xiao family of the royal family. Therefore, when they got into trouble, the restaurant was full of people coming towards us.

However, your father is smart, he figured out a way to solve the trouble, and even made the Shangguan family severely humiliated.Although they are powerful, they are inferior to your father in terms of brains and inferior to me in terms of martial arts, so they can only suffer at that time.Afterwards, we have to hide from Shangguan's house to make trouble, leave Shuofang as soon as possible, and continue to walk in the rivers and lakes. "

"On this road, Lingyan has always liked your father. Your father's dead head has gradually opened up, and he has fallen in love with this chess master's daughter. But your father's favorite will always be himself, and him. That unfulfilling resentment, the unrelenting ambition."

When Qi Lao said this, his face was slightly condensed, and there seemed to be hidden anger in his eyes.

"Later, the Marquis of Ju State was ill, and the princes were vying for the throne. At a critical time, your father finished his travels and returned to Hanye to try to get involved, but he couldn't do it. At this time——

Your mother is here. "

Baichengshuang was very energetic.

"None of us would have thought that your father offended your mother and the others so much at the Talent Discussion Conference, but your mother not only didn't hold any grudges, but was actually overwhelmed by your father's courage and wisdom, and fell in love with your father completely. Through the family He took the initiative to propose marriage to your father, and secretly promised that as long as your father agrees to get married, the Shangguan family will do their best to help your father win the throne."

Bai Chengshuang was slightly lost in thought. Although she was extremely concerned about the content of the old Qi saying, she couldn't ignore the sudden and obvious change in Qi Lao's tone at this moment. It seemed that after decades of time, the gloomy air that still could not be dispelled , Ling Qi's voice at this time sounded a bit sad.

"This promise is very important. Your mother has a high status in the clan, and she is also very much loved by the old head of the Shangguan family."

"Your father agreed. He ran to Langya and knelt in front of the head of the Shangguan family. From then on, everything we worked hard in the past is over."

Qi Lao still maintains a steady tone, but the rhythm of his words is like rushing water, no one can stop him, and he speaks quickly:
"Chi Lingyan was heartbroken by this incident, and went back to Zhongzhou by herself. After all, she could tolerate Shaoying, but she couldn't bear being under Shangguan Lingbo. Zhou Hui said that he would continue to search for ancient chess records, Leaving a book to say goodbye, after all, running around too much, life is not long.

Your father finally got the power he wanted, so he let go of chess, after all, in his eyes, chess is always a small way.It's just that the throne came easily, and in the first few years, it was inevitable that he would rely on others, and his previous unyielding arrogance was also worn away.

And I... the old minister has no place to go, no place to go back, just stay in this city, wasting some time. "

After the old chess player said this, his old eyes hung down on the chessboard, and he moved silently. Baichengshuang was shocked, and he could not make a decision for a long time.

Everything is clear.

The king's father married his mother's queen just to exchange for the benefits of fighting for the throne, so no matter how infatuated his mother was, he would be treated coldly. He really didn't love the queen he married back at all.

The person that the father really loves is the daughter of the chess master, not even the young concubine Shaoying, but Shaoying spent at least a period of youth with the father, so their tacit understanding and experience are exchanged for a little tenderness.

And his mother, who was originally born noble and pampered, married her father and king is already married, but after she came to a foreign country, she was treated indifferently by the only husband she could rely on, and she even had to worry all the time that she would be killed by a servant. The woman who was born as a maid took her status, so she was forced out of madness.

After thinking about all the things he wanted to know, Baichengshuang raised his head and asked Old Qi:
"and after?"

Although he knew it had nothing to do with him, Bai Chengshuang was attracted by the characters in Qilao's story, and wanted to know what would happen to these people in the future.

Old Qi replied blankly: "It's nothing."

In the old man's cloudy old eyes, it seems that countless old events flickered in an instant:
For example, he put the blade on Baicheng Jiong's neck and roared angrily ordering him to get Chi Lingyan back;
For example, a few years later, he received Chi Lingyan's wedding invitation, traveled thousands of miles to attend the banquet, and watched the woman he loved the most in his life marry someone else;

For example, on the day of the big wedding, the enemies of the groom's family came to seek revenge. He held the Tianshu and stood outside the city to forcefully break the seven-star chess game. Hundreds of people also caused my realm to plummet from now on, and my mana could never return to the past; but a few years later, I received the news that the woman died of depression...

Countless earth-shaking, life-or-death calamities, in the end, in the old man's mouth, they all turned into a faint "it's nothing." Disappeared.

If you have counted all the chess moves, but missed people's hearts, then it is a bad move after all, what else can you say?
It's just pity that the lingering clouds in the past are now all loess dust.

Baichengshuang hangs the chess for a long time, and has no more pieces to move.

"The junior is defeated."

Baicheng Shuangtou admits defeat, and Qi Lao tidies up the chess game.

"The junior has something to ask."

Old Chess raised his eyes.

Baichengshuang said sternly: "The younger generation used to serve the queen mother and had no other intentions. Now, I hope to do something else to gain a foothold in this city, and I hope the old master will guide the way."

Old Qi pondered for a moment, then replied: "The old minister heard that recently there were evil apes hurting people in Chongwu Mountain, and the government couldn't deal with it, so they issued a notice asking for superiors to eliminate the monsters, and Xu Yi was appointed as an official in the army."

Baichengshuang bowed and said: "Thank you, Mr. Qi."

Xie Bi, Bai Chengshuang got up to bid farewell, when he came to the door, he stopped, then turned around and asked, "Is Old Qi also hating me?"

Old Qi was startled when he heard the words, the child's thoughts...

That's right, after all, she has a father who doesn't love her, and a mother who doesn't love her.

Such children are always more sensitive.

After a long silence, Old Qi whispered, "It would be great if you were Shaoying's child."

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Note: The words come from Song Yu Wenbao's "Spittle Jade Collection Changtan Source".

　The pace is slower this week, and the weekend will give a well-deserved climax

　　
　
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