Royal Kindergarten

Chapter 206 Playing Chess
"His Royal Highness, there are people from Jianzhang Palace today."

Xiao Ziyi stopped drawing in her hands, raised her head in surprise and asked, "Jianzhang Palace? What's the matter?" She was startled when she heard about Jianzhang Palace. Although the empress dowager seemed kind, she was Afraid of something happening, one more thing is worse than one less thing.Now the sky has completely darkened, and the children have gone to bed early. She just sat down in the study and took the time to draw something when Ruozhu walked in.

"Princess, the day after tomorrow is April [-]th, exactly one month since the last blessing at Dongyue Temple. Because it rained a while ago and relieved the drought, the Empress Dowager wants to fulfill the wish in person." Ruozhu explained softly.

Xiao Ziyi threw the charcoal pencil in her hand on the table, and sighed, "It can't be such a coincidence that I need to go too, right?"

Ruozhu nodded, knowing her princess's temper, smiled lightly and said: "Princess, just go out for a walk to get some air. The Empress Dowager basically visits Dongyue Temple once a month or two. This time I want Xiaoyun to show her Go with her, and by the way, I will call you, the princess, and our two new ladies from the Su family. The other empress dowagers will not take them with them."

Xiao Ziyi raised her eyebrows, but she didn't expect that she was incidental. "So the Queen and the others won't go either?"

"Yes, the Empress Dowager has her own arrangements the day after tomorrow. It is said that the Empress Dowager only notified us here, but if boys are not wanted, girls are required." Ruozhu said with a slight smile.

Xiao Ziyi relaxed her body and lay back on the back of the chair, curled up her mouth and said with a smile: "That's not bad." Without those brats going out, it will be much easier.

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The next day, Cai Kongming finished today's class and stayed to give Ye Xun a literacy class.Today, there were two more little guys with Ye Xun. Cai Kongming couldn't help softening his voice and prolonging the tone in front of the cute and invincible Su sisters, which made Ye Xun amazed.

But this pair of little sisters are not so childish after class, they are too young to be able to read and write, not to mention their temperament is relatively pampered.

Seeing this, Xiao Ziyi took a comic book she drew and walked over, intending to let them learn by recognizing pictures and characters.As soon as he walked to the side, he saw Cai Kongming wrote the words "Trembling with Trembling" on the paper, and asked one of the twins to come over and say, "Read it."

Xiao Ziyi knew it was Su Linglong, because she liked to wear pink clothes, so she was easy to recognize.Su Linglong poked her head over and said crisply, "Zhan Zhan Ke Ke."

Cai Kongming frowned.

Su Linlang also leaned over and echoed, "It's called Zhan Zhan Keke, that's right."

Ye Xun looked over curiously, shook his head and said, "No."

Cai Kongming was overjoyed, thinking that the literacy classes for so many days were not in vain, and asked Ye Xunlai to set a good example for these two little guys. "Ye Xun, then read it."

"Battle ke ke ke ke."

"..."

Xiao Ziyi laughed so hard that her stomach ached, she quickly pulled away Cai Kongming, who was covered in black lines, and threw a few comic books for them to read.

"Women...women don't need to learn so many words. Uh, Ye Xun still has to work hard." Cai Kongming took out a handkerchief to wipe the sweat from his forehead. The hot weather made him feel more and more unbearable.

Xiao Ziyi shrugged her shoulders. In this era, there is no saying that "a woman is virtuous without talent", but it is a common practice that girls do not need to be highly educated. Not every woman is as familiar with poetry and books as her mother and concubine.As for Ye Xun, he has never learned or even spoken Chinese since he was a child, so it is already very good to be able to reach this level.

Cai Kongming shook his head and sighed at the three unteachable children.

"Is there nothing wrong now? Master will play chess with me again?" Xiao Ziyi said with a smile.She wants to be ashamed!
It happened that several children were playing checkers on the other side of the classroom. Cai Kongming sighed softly: "It can't be that kind of chess, can it? An official can't play it yet."

Xiao Ziyi shook her head, walked to the side of the Go board and sat down, and stretched out her hand to invite Cai Kongming to sit across from her.

"Gobang? Go?" Cai Kongming lifted his robe and sat down in a well-behaved manner.

Xiao Ziyi still shook her head, stretched out her hand and grabbed twenty black chess pieces in front of her, and said happily: "It's a very simple way to play. There are twenty chess pieces here, and each of us takes turns to take out one of them at will. Two or three pieces, whoever gets the last piece wins." Hehe, let's see if she can't beat him to death!

Cai Kongming narrowed his eyes and thought for a while, then nodded and said, "I understand, but isn't this very simple?"

"Let's play and watch first!" Xiao Ziyi stretched out her hand with a smile and said, "Master Cai please first."

Cai Kongming reached out to take a chess piece and put it back on the chessboard on his side.

Xiao Ziyi then took three pieces, and the two of them went back and forth for several rounds. Cai Kongming watched speechlessly as Xiao Ziyi took away the last piece on the chessboard.

"Come again!" Cai Kongming did his part and started to catch the ball first again. He believed that this time was just a coincidence.

The two fought several times again, and Cai Kongming was defeated repeatedly. The children also found out that a new game was being played here, and they stopped playing checkers and watched around.

Xiao Ziyi curled the corners of her lips proudly, the secret of this game is to let the opponent take the first move every time.If Cai Kongming took one, she would take three; if he took two, she would take two.The total number of chess pieces taken by two people each time must be four, so that the remaining chess pieces can be guaranteed to be divisible by four, and there will be four left in the end. No matter how many pieces the opponent takes, the last chess piece will always be taken. she got it.

Gadgets!She played it once when she was a child and stopped playing after she knew the trick, but this was a big problem for Cai Sanguo who seemed to be not very good at mathematics.Seeing more and more fine sweat on his forehead, Xiao Ziyi let out a lot of anger.

Nangong Xiao next to him looked at it a few times and saw the way, and said with a smile: "Princess, why don't I play with you? You go first?"

Xiao Ziyi laughed dryly, and evaded: "You'd better play with Zhan'er and the others, and I'll go and write the homework Master Cai left for me." Sigh, it's not a good thing for the little devil to be too smart.

Nangong Xiao smiled triumphantly, patted Xiao Zhan on the shoulder and said, "Come on, we will win you in this game! If you can't beat me, give me the little red flag you got in class this morning!"

Unconvinced, Xiao Zhan grabbed a handful of white chess pieces, counted out twenty pieces, and dragged Nangong Xiao to another table.Ye Xun thought for a while, then turned around and went back to practice calligraphy, just practicing the "Zhan Zhan Ke Ke Ke Ke" just now.

Seeing this, Xiao Ziyi shrugged his shoulders, giving Nangong boy another chance to show off.She looked at the big form posted on the wall. She made the red flag list overnight. Every day for each class, the teacher will select a small red flag and send it to a child. Awards will be given out every seven days. This is the most important thing in kindergarten. Good incentives.

But what is the prize? She hasn't figured it out yet, because they didn't ask what the prize is, and they are very happy just to get the little red flag.

Uh, kids are really easy to please.

Xiao Ziyi looked at Cai Kongming on the opposite side who was sweating profusely thinking about why he lost, and was extremely happy.Mr. Cai, who is said to be young but eager to learn, has a wide knowledge of classics and history, is upright but not sociable.But in her opinion, she is just a nerd, and she is very partial to science.How can someone who has never been in touch with mathematics, physics and chemistry know about reverse thinking?In the final analysis, even if he is asked to become an official now, it is estimated that he will not be flexible.

"Master Cai, how long have you been teaching Zhan'er?" Xiao Ziyi couldn't help asking.

Cai Kongming raised his head when he heard the words, and replied solemnly: "It's been almost a year since I returned to the princess."

"I remember that you were the champion of literature last year, right?" In her opinion, a champion who came to be the first teacher of a four-year-old child was overqualified, but in Cai Sanguo's heart, he probably felt that he had a bright future.After all, he can be regarded as a future emperor teacher.

Cai Kongming's elegant face flashed a trace of complacency, and he cupped his hands and said: "Over three generations came from learning; The imperial examination. The lower official is the number one scholar in the last imperial examination."

"Who is the No. [-] martial artist? Is it Dugu Ye?" Xiao Ziyi endured listening to his long speech, but he couldn't forget that Ye Zhiqiu was once the No. [-] martial artist.But you can't ask directly, you can only insinuate.

Cai Kongming shook his head and explained slowly: "Martial arts are mainly for the children of officials. Candidates must be the full-year children of civil and military officials below the sixth rank who have paid tribute for 13 years, and the children of honorary officials below the third rank and above the fifth rank. .”

Xiao Ziyi was stunned for a moment before she realized, "So Duguye wasn't full three years ago?"

Cai Kongming nodded slowly.

On the contrary, Dugu Ye looks like he is 22 or [-] years old. It seems that it hurts his skin if he does not practice martial arts.But her skin seems to be well maintained, and her internal strength is not too strong, probably at most it is the lightness kung fu used to escape is very powerful.

Cai Kongming continued to speak slowly: "I remember that the champion of martial arts who is in the same class as me seems to be named Shen, and his name is Shen Yuhan."

(End of this chapter)