The chivalrous spirit is fickle

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Inside the inn, Su Xue sat cross-legged on the bed, circulating her true energy and entering a state of meditation.

Shen Yue sat at the table, facing a chessboard, thinking hard. She held the black and white pieces in her hands, and kept replaying the chess game she had played with Wan Ye during the day.

Shen Yue hated Wan Ye very much, but she had to admit that Wan Ye had indeed gone much further than she had in the way of chess. She reviewed the game for a long time, but was disappointed to find that the winner had been decided shortly after the game started.

Wanye had anticipated all her moves and wove a big net to pull her into the trap step by step.

Moreover, this was definitely not Wan Ye’s full strength, and he was not playing chess with Shen Yue seriously.

Shen Yue's brows were getting more and more furrowed, and her little face was squeezed into a ball by her hands. Just when she was in despair, someone suddenly pushed the door open. Shen Yue subconsciously looked up, only to see Xiao Jiu holding a Zen stick, sitting opposite her very naturally.

"You... hello."

Shen Yue suddenly became nervous and stammered as she greeted Xiao Jiu, almost biting her tongue.

Xiaojiu looked calm. He raised his head slightly and looked at Shen Yue carefully. There seemed to be a gleam in his eyes.

After a moment, Xiaojiu's expression softened and he spoke softly.

"Sit down, this is your room and you are the master."

Hearing this, Shen Yue was still uneasy. After slowly sitting down, she clasped her hands together, as if she didn't know what to say.

Xiaojiu picked up a chess piece, placed it gently on the chessboard, and spoke softly.

"Want to play a game of chess with me?"

Shen Yue was stunned when she heard this. After she came to her senses, she nodded repeatedly, picked up a chess piece in her hand and placed it on the chessboard.

After the game started, Shen Yue gradually calmed down and devoted herself to the game. To her surprise, Xiaojiu was very good at chess.

As the two of them continued to make moves, Shen Yue, who had only lost to Wan Ye during the day, gradually fell into a disadvantage.

Xiaojiu gently pinched the chess piece and made his move while secretly looking at Shen Yue.

Shen Yue was wearing a white dress, with willow-shaped eyebrows, cherry lips, and skin as white as snow. Although she was young, she was already a stunning beauty.

Why, even though he is such a blockhead, there are always beautiful women around him?

Is it really as he said, that I have a romantic fate and cannot escape or avoid the romantic calamity that befalls me?

Xiaojiu couldn't help but sigh, then put the thought behind him and spoke softly to Shen Yue.

"you lose."

After saying that, Xiaojiu made his move, the outcome was decided, and Shen Yue suffered a crushing defeat.

Shen Yue looked at the chessboard with a frown on her face. After a moment, she threw in the towel with a look of defeat.

Xiaojiu said softly as he collected the chess pieces.

"Don't be discouraged. Although I am not well-known, I am also a chess master."

"I have been playing chess for several years, but I rarely meet an opponent."

Hearing this, Shen Yue's eyes lit up, she leaned forward slightly, and asked Xiao Jiu with some anticipation.

"Then... Sister, have you ever played chess with Wanye?"

elder sister?

This intimate name made Xiao Jiu slightly absent-minded. She subconsciously felt that it was inappropriate, but when she looked up, she saw Shen Yue's eyes, which were clean and bright, without a trace of magazines.

Xiaojiu's eyes flickered, but she felt that this name was quite good. She smiled and said softly.

"Of course it has."

Shen Yue was delighted when she heard this, and when she was about to ask in detail, she heard Xiao Jiu speak slowly.

"I played ten games against him and didn't win a single one. At that time, I knew that I could never beat him in the art of chess."

Shen Yue's face turned pale, and she sat back down, grabbing her head with both hands, ruffling her hair, and said in distress.

"What should I do? I can't even defeat his defeated men. I'm doomed to fail tomorrow."

Xiaojiu raised her eyebrows slightly. She was sure that Shen Yue had no ill intentions in what she said, and she was even more certain that Shi Gu was not a good master.

No, why would a master teach his apprentice how to be rude?

Xiaojiu couldn't help but secretly rolled his eyes. When he was about to speak to comfort her, he saw Shen Yue put down her hands, picked up another chess piece, looked at Xiaojiu with burning eyes, and said.

"I have to hurry up, sister, let's play another round."

After saying that, Shen Yue took the lead and placed the chess piece on the board. Xiao Jiu looked a little strange, and while picking up the chess piece, he whispered to Shen Yue.

"You can probably guess that he doesn't care about this kind of thing at all. Even if you lose tomorrow, he will find a way to make people laugh at him instead of you."

Shen Yue looked determined, shook her head without any hesitation, and made another move.

"Master is a fool, he doesn't care about reputation."

"But I care."

"Master has done so many good things and saved so many people. Why can those people laugh at him? They are not qualified to do so."

"They are confusing right and wrong and throwing all the dirty water on the master."

"I just want to prove that Master is not the kind of person they think he is."

After hearing this, Xiao Jiu was silent for a moment, then placed a chess piece and whispered a reminder to Shen Yue.

"I mean... is there a possibility... that your master has done a lot of bad things."

Shen Yue frowned, glared at Xiao Jiu, and spoke in a protective manner.

"There is no... such... possibility."

Halfway through her words, Shen Yue seemed to remember something, and her voice became weaker and weaker, less and less confident, until at the end it was even as thin as a mosquito's sound.

Seeing this, Xiao Jiu was amused by Shen Yue's appearance. He couldn't help but cover his mouth and chuckle, and his pretty eyebrows relaxed.

"Hahaha...you're so cute."

Shen Yue blushed slightly, and lowered her head shyly, not daring to refute anything. She realized it later, and only now did she realize that Shi Gu had indeed done too many bad things.

You have to know that Shi Gu even deceived his own apprentice. Last winter, he told Shen Yue to put the iron sword outside the house to freeze overnight, and then lick it the next day, it would taste like sugar.

Su Xue didn't believe it, but Shen Yue did and actually did it.

For example, there was a young man in Lin'an City who fell in love with Su Xue at first sight. He wandered outside the house every day, playing the piano and reciting poems.

Shi Gu disliked the man for being noisy, so he gave the young man a strange medicine. Shen Yue didn't know what the medicine was.

After the young man was poisoned on the first day, his voice suddenly became shrill.

The next day, two lumps of soft flesh grew on the young man's chest, and they were bulging.

On the third day, the young man with disheveled hair and wearing a skirt began to flirt with Shi Gu, which frightened Shi Gu so much that he quickly gave him the antidote.

In Shen Yue's memory, Shi Gu did such bad things almost every day, making people in the entire Lin'an City avoid him when they saw him.

In this case, Shi Gu is really not innocent.

Thinking of this, Shen Yue held her forehead with both hands with a helpless look and sighed.

"Forget it, forget it. As long as Master is alive, he will definitely have a constant stream of enemies."

Chapter 55: Longevity Fruit

Half an hour later, in the inn.

"You lost again."

Xiaojiu gently pushed the chess piece to decide the outcome. It was another big win. Shen Yue lowered her eyebrows and looked at the chess pieces on the board. After a pause, she put away the chess pieces and spoke softly.

"One more round."

Xiaojiu did not refuse. He silently gathered the chess pieces on the board and made another move. The black chess piece fell on the board, making a crisp sound.

Shen Yue held the chess piece, but her moves became slower and slower, completely different from the her who made moves without hesitation during the day.

Xiaojiu looked at the chessboard and said lightly.

"Didn't you give up the idea of ​​standing up for your master? Why are you working so hard now?"

Upon hearing this, Shen Yue tilted her head slightly and spoke frankly.

"I hate Shen Zhui and that Wan Ye. I won't be able to sleep if I lose to people like them."

Xiaojiu smiled when she heard that. She really liked Shen Yue's straightforward and honest character. She was not as hypocritical as Shen Zhui, who was obviously a very narrow-minded person but insisted on pretending to be a magnanimous and good person.

"If you want to win, you won't have time to rest tonight."

Xiaojiu made a light move, but her expression became serious. She looked at Shen Yue and said in a deep voice.

"Tonight, if you can't beat me in one round, then you can't sleep. You have to play with me until you win."

Shen Yue was startled when she heard this, and subconsciously retreated a little, but then she clenched her fists and said with high spirits.

"Sister Xiaojiu, you underestimate me. I can't lose all the time."

Xiaojiu squinted his eyes and smiled, shook his head repeatedly, and stopped talking. Instead, he lowered his head, looked at the chessboard, and started calculating quickly.

After a while, the room was silent, with only the sound of the two people making moves.

At the same time, under the same night.

Shi Gu was in a dilapidated temple, with murderous eyes, staring quietly at the two corpses on the ground.

The two corpses were pale and bloodless, their palms were like claws, and there were scraps of flesh between their nails. They were two zombies.

Shi Gu looked back and forth between the two zombies, but finally sighed helplessly.

These two zombies are a decoy. They are brought out to lure Shi Gu, but Shi Gu has to come. If he doesn't come, these two zombies will attack ordinary people.

It would only be a waste of time to release the bones and kill these two low-level zombies.

The opponent's hands and feet were very clean, and there was no trace of zombies at all on the two zombies.

The same was true in Zongming Mansion. The group of Mo Luo's followers did not encounter the zombies of the zombie force, and Shi Gu's previous attempt to sow discord had obviously failed.

If this goes on, everything will be in vain.

Shi Gu sighed, reached out and touched his head, and talked to himself.

"Looks like it's time to get some help."

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The next morning, when the sunlight broke through the clouds, it poured into the guest room through the gaps between the windows.

Snapped!

Shen Yue looked tired. She dropped her last move with a crisp sound. Her hair was extremely messy and her face was pale, but she had not slept all night.

However, at this moment, Shen Yue didn't care about her tiredness. Looking at the last piece falling on the chessboard, she couldn't help but let out a long sigh and sighed softly.

"Finally... I won."

Xiaojiu looked calm, without a trace of fatigue. She frowned and stared closely at the chess pieces on the board, and her brows gradually relaxed.

A narrow victory.

After a whole night, Shen Yue defeated Xiao Jiu for the first time, but this round was not won smoothly. Instead, it was quite stalemate. It was only at the last step that she won.

Xiaojiu smiled and slowly stood up. Just when he was about to congratulate Shen Yue, Shen Yue suddenly leaned forward and fell directly on the chessboard. However, he could not resist his sleepiness and wanted to sleep directly on the chessboard.

However, before Shen Yue could lie down, Xiao Jiu reached out and grabbed her ear, frowning and saying.

"You can't sleep yet. You have to remember how you defeated me just now."

Shen Yue was sleepy and tired, and begged for mercy with dark circles under her eyes.

"Sister Xiaojiu, please forgive me. If I don't sleep now, I'm afraid I won't be able to think straight when the battle starts."

Xiaojiu was startled when she heard that. She had forgotten that Shen Yue was only at the fourth level of martial arts. If she didn't sleep all night, she would still feel sleepy.

But how can she play chess in this state?

Xiaojiu sighed, stretched out a white finger, put it to his lips, but gently bit his finger, and a drop of golden blood slowly flowed out from between his fingers.

In an instant, a strange fragrance filled the air, which made Shen Yue, who was about to fall into a deep sleep, suddenly alert.

Without waiting for Shen Yue to react, Xiao Jiu roughly stuffed his finger into Shen Yue's mouth. Shen Yue subconsciously wanted to resist, but when the drop of golden blood fell on the tip of her tongue, Shen Yue was in a trance.