Xu has a wife and four concubines, and has three sons and five daughters. His three sons are idiots. His five daughters are smart and beautiful. The eldest daughter and the second daughter are married to the son of the governor of Chizhou and the son of the governor of Shuzhou. Xu Danyuan is the third daughter, the same age as Qin Que. He had asked Qin Que to play chess before, but later Xu Danyuan's chess skills improved. Qin Que was no match, so he had less contact.

When the female young man in Xu's family plays with others, there is a special game room. There is an elegant room at the west end of the hall. The game between Miss Xu Danyuan and Feng Yuan is held here. The number of places to watch the game is limited, only governor Xu, Gu Liuquan, Zhou Xuan, and two other Qingkes of Xu's family.

Dr. Qin doesn’t know how to play chess, so Manager Ji accompanied him to the tea room to drink tea.

Sitting opposite the chessboard, Feng Yuan asked, "What kind of chess game is Miss Xu and Mr. Gu?" He asked Gu Liuquan if he could let her do it?

Xu Danyuan glanced at her master Gu Liuquan and said, "It's time to let her go first, Mr. Feng, please let her go first." In fact, Gu Liuquan usually asks her two sons, but before Gu Liuquan comes, he tells her to let her go first.

Feng Yuan nodded and asked Ms. Xu to start.

Black and white intertwined, and more than ten pieces were quickly laid on the chessboard.

Zhou Xuan felt that this ancient layout was really too backward. Like the land encirclement movement, you are one by one, and I focus on the big game and not the urgent matters. However, ancient chess has never been good at layout. What is powerful is the killing power of the middle game. The chess score of the national player Huang Longshi in the early Qing Dynasty was later circulated to Japan. At that time, Japan's largest chess club "Fangyuanshe", organized a research on experts. It concluded that the layout of Huang Longshi was about three stages, but the attack and killing in the middle game had thirteen stages, and the highest level of modern professional Go was only nine stages. The rating of Huang Longshi as thirteen stages means that Huang Longshi's killing power was so powerful that it was beyond the mountains, which was intimidating.

Zhou Xuan is also an admirer of violent Go and doesn't care much about the layout, so he does not contempt for Feng Yuan's looseness in the layout. He leans against the window and watches chess leisurely.

As the chess game entered the middle game, the gap between the two sides began to become obvious. Feng Yuan's chess power was obviously higher than Xu Danyuan. He didn't feel that when he was in the middle game, the white chess would be unable to do so.

Feng Yuan glanced at Gu Liuquan coldly and thought to himself: "This old fox actually instructed the female disciple to test me first. If the old fox can only let the female disciple first, then he will definitely not be my opponent. He must have given up the two sons, deliberately saying that he would let him first."

Feng Yuan took the method and became fierce. He wanted to defeat Xu Danyuan in the middle so as not to let Gu Liuquan see his official skills in the second half of the game.

It was difficult to play the white chess. There was a big dragon that couldn't even find a single eye. Xu Danyuan's fair cheeks had fine beads of sweat, and she hesitated.

Zhou Xuan, a bystander Qing, found that the female young man from governor Xu liked to blink, especially when she encountered difficulties in chess game, her eyelashes flapped quickly like butterfly wings, which was quite fun.

Feng Yuan's moves are always far from the fatal hole of the White Dragon, forcing Xu Danyuan to escape, but there is a thick wall of the Black Dragon in front, with no way out and there are pursuers behind, and there are only one way to die.

Zhou Xuan looked at the female princess of the Xu family frowned and thought hard, and felt deeply sympathy and hated Feng Yuan's cruelty, but forgot that he had killed the beautiful chess player and cried.

A white dragon with more than 40 sons died. Xu Danyuan was both ashamed and annoyed. It was too embarrassing to lose so badly in front of so many people. She turned her head and said to Gu Liuquan: "Master, come and defeat him and avenge your disciple."

Gu Liuquan has seen that Feng Yuan's chess power is very strong. If he is in a hurry, he will not be sure of winning. It doesn't matter if Feng Yuan loses. Gu Liuquan is one of the eighteen chess players. Once he loses, his reputation will be greatly affected.

Gu Liuquan shook his head and said, "I said, today I feel cold and feel unwell, so I will go to Mr. Feng again the next day."

A woman is more competitive than a man in playing Go. Seeing that the master refused to play, Xu Danyuan said angrily: "Mr. Feng, the little woman wants to have another game with you."

Governor Xu smiled and said, "Yuan'er, don't mess around. You are not a match for Mr. Feng. Let's watch the game between Mr. Gu and Mr. Feng another day."

Seeing that Gu Liuquan avoided the battle, his momentum became even stronger. Feng Yuan decided to use the aggressive method to force Gu Liuquan to fight, making him restless and impatient, so he had a better chance of winning. Playing chess is not just a contest on the chessboard, but also a very important strategy outside the chessboard, especially for chess players of similar levels, mental battle is often the key to determining the outcome.

Feng Yuan smiled and said, "Ms. Xu is worthy of being a proud disciple of Mr. Gu. If he is so old, he has such chess skills. His future development is unlimited. Maybe another female chess player will be added to the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China—"

Xu Danyuan was delighted, but Feng Yuan said next: "——Miss Xu is not bad for another game with Feng. Let's do this, let the second chess in the next game."

Xu Danyuan just said that his master Gu Liuquan and her were both giving first. Feng Yuan said that letting the two sons mean that his chess power is above Gu Liuquan. For a chess player, this is almost unbearable.

But Gu Liuquan can tolerate it, he is the kind of chess style of enduring first and then exerting strength. He first makes Feng's chess style crazy for a while. When he studies the chess strategy of the surname Feng at night, he will defeat him in one fell swoop tomorrow. This is what he is sophisticated and smiled slightly: "Miss Three, since Mr. Feng wants to give you guidance, you will have another game. It's rare to have a chance."

Feng Yuan secretly admired him. This old fox was so calm and wanted to continue watching my chess. No, he couldn't let his tricks succeed. He also smiled and said, "Since Mr. Gu is not in good health, you might as well let the doctor of the Medical Department just now treat you, have a disease and have no disease to prevent it." He turned to find Zhou Xuan and said unruly: "Hey, go and call your father-in-law."

Zhou Xuan was furious, his face remained silent and ignored him.

Feng Yuan’s meaning was too obvious. Gu Liuquan finally changed his face. Xu Danyuan said angrily: “You are too bullying others. Is my master a lie to avoid the battle, and I’m afraid you won’t succeed.”

Feng Yuan said: "Mr. Feng didn't say that."

Gu Liuquan took a deep breath and prepared to go on stage.

Zhou Xuan, who was leaning against the long window on the west side, closed his folding fan and knew it was time for him to appear. He first laughed three times, followed by a famous saying of Guan Yu killing Hua Xiong with warm wine: "Why use a ox knife to kill a chicken?" He immediately attracted the eyes of the room.

Zhou Xuan gently shook the folding fan and said gracefully: "The young man is not talented, and he thinks he can easily defeat this Mr. Feng."

The father and daughter of Xu, Gu Liuquan, and the two Qingkes, who are not weak in chess skills, all stared at Zhou Xuan, looking incredible.

Feng Yuan was about to succeed in provoking the Dharma, but he didn't expect that the boy named Zhou came out halfway and said, "Why use a kid to kill a chicken?" He was so angry that he asked sternly: "You want to play against me?"

Zhou Xuan opened the folding fan "brushed" and said in a voice: "What, don't you dare?"

Zhou Xuan’s provocation method is more direct, and he does not play around with those who are beaten around the bush and directly humiliates Feng Yuan.

Feng Yuan was so angry that he almost fell to the ground, with a blushing face and a thick neck, pointing at Zhou Xuan and saying, "You nameless junior dare to play with me. You say, what should you do if you lose? Otherwise, I won't have time to play chess with you, a scoundrel and frivolous child."

Feng Yuan was afraid that Zhou Xuan was making a fuss, and he lost and left without any harm. This was not possible, so he must be punished.

Zhou Xuan asked contemptuously: "What do you want if you lose?"

Feng Yuan shouted: "I bet on silver for 300 taels." Three hundred taels of silver was the most money Feng Yuan could afford.

"Three hundred taels?" Zhou Xuan hadn't seen such a little money yet, and smiled: "I don't think you are like a rich man like this. How can you win your money? This way, if I lose, I will give you three hundred taels of silver. If you lose, you will go back wherever you come from."

Feng Yuan was extremely angry: "Okay, that's it, Lord Xu testified."

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Chapter completed!