Everyone gathered together for the New Year’s Eve dinner and drank until they were a little tipsy. After the meal, everyone moved to the warm room to continue staying up until the New Year.

After a few years, Zhu Shijing thought that his chess skills had improved greatly. He ordered his servant to go back and get the chessboard and chess pieces, and began his journey of seeking abuse.

Zhu Shijing looked at An Xin, who was leaning on the couch and eating melon seeds, provocatively, "You play black today."

An Xin raised her eyebrows and glanced at his confident face playfully, and said arrogantly: "Don't cry."

Zhu Shijing gritted his teeth and said, "Don't be so arrogant. I will kill you without leaving a single piece of armor behind today."

The two of them sat on either side of the couch, with the chessboard placed on a small table in the middle. An Xin, holding the black piece, made the first move, looking calm and composed: "Let's see how good we are."

An Rui used his elbow to nudge Jiang Zhou outward, and then raised his chin to the others, "Bet on who will win, ten taels per round."

"Boring." However, Jiang Zhou looked at the excitement in the boy's eyes and took out a silver ingot of ten taels from his purse and threw it to him, "Bet on the big devil to win."

An Rui looked at Jiang's annoying face, his eyes twitched, and he thought to himself, if you have the guts, just say it louder.

After taking the silver, An Rui shook it in his hands and looked at the other people.

Leng Xiangyang glanced at An Xin and took out a silver ingot and gave it to him.

An Rui knew who he was going to bet on to win without asking.

Kong Xun: "I bet that An Xiaoshan will win."

At this time, An Rui couldn't laugh anymore.

Because he also thinks that his cousin will win, but now everyone is betting on his cousin to win, so if she really wins, he, the banker, will have to lose his pants.

An Rui saw Li Ziyu also took out a glittering silver ingot, and looked at him pleadingly: "Brother Li, can you find another person to suppress?!"

Li Ziyu looked at the pitiful An Rui, and perhaps for once he felt guilty, he nodded and gave the ten taels of silver to his cousin.

Zhu Shijing, who was playing chess, was almost angered to death by several of his fellow apprentices who had no vision.

His chess skills are also very good, otherwise he would not have been able to defeat all the other players and become the champion of the chess competition at the Baichuan Academy Literary Meeting.

Zhu Shijing calmly put down the white piece, then looked up at the black piece that seemed to have been casually placed on the chessboard. Feeling despised, Zhu Shijing glared at his own headmaster.

Angered and angry: "Pride comes before a fall."

"You talk too much." An Xin looked at him with disdain and said.

An Rui, Jiang Zhou, and Kong Xun sat on the couch, watching the two of them play chess quietly.

Li Ziyu was sitting not far away, reading a book.

Leng Xiangbai, who was sitting next to him, transformed himself into a handsome little follower and peeled the melon seeds with his hands. He put the kernels on a white porcelain plate and pushed it to where An Xin could easily reach it.

Qingfeng and Mingyue came back from dinner and saw this warm scene. They walked in lightly. Mingyue served everyone fragrant tea, and Qingfeng added some silver charcoal to the heating stove.

After the two of them had finished their work, they retreated quietly just like when they came in.

At this time, everyone sitting around the warm couch, whether they were playing chess or watching the game, began to get nervous.

On the chessboard, the black and white pieces are moving forward in the black and white squares, fighting and passing each other.

The white player attacked all the way, taking control like a kite, and advancing step by step on the board.

Zhu Shijing's chess moves were so brutal that even his friends who were watching the game in silence were shocked.

“!!!” They all looked at him.

This guy must have been secretly practicing chess behind their backs, otherwise how could he be so good at it? At this moment, it was obvious that the white pieces on the chessboard had the upper hand.

Zhu Shijing held the white chess piece in his hand. Seeing that the white side on the chessboard was in a very good situation, his lips of moderate thickness curled up.

An Xin glanced at his smug little expression, curled the corners of her mouth and smiled, then slowly dropped the black chess piece between her index and middle fingers.

Li Ziyu seemed to sense the tense atmosphere in the warm room as well. He understood that this was the momentum that was emitted invisibly when the two sides in the game reached a critical moment.

Looking up, one of them had a smug look in his eyes, while the other looked calm and composed. Li Ziyu glanced at his cousin and shook his head.

From Zhu Shijing's expression, Li Ziyu had already guessed that the current situation of the chess game was that the white pieces should be in the upper hand for the time being.

But looking at the woman next to him, who looked neither anxious nor impatient, and who took every step leisurely with the black pieces in her hand, you can tell that the one who is proud first is not necessarily the winner.

It turned out to be just as Li Ziyu guessed.

Just when Zhu Shijing felt that he had made progress, after several years of thinking and researching and finding chess records, he finally turned the tables and won a game against his own little girl after being pinned to the ground by her for many years.

An Xin raised his eyes to look at Zhu Shijing, curled the corners of his lips, and slowly placed a black chess piece between his fingers.

The black chess pieces instantly tightened their defense line, and the area around the white chess pieces was cut in half, leaving them with nowhere to go.

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"Click." The sound of the white chess piece in Zhu Shijing's hand falling onto the chessboard unconsciously.

For a moment, there was silence in the warm room.

It took a while for everyone to realize that the black side, which had been forced into a dead end by the white side on the chessboard, had actually turned the tables.

"No...impossible." Zhu Shijing looked at the chessboard in disbelief. His good situation was broken, and he muttered to himself.

Jiang Zhou patted his shoulder and said, "It's not the first time I've lost to the devil. It's not that hard to accept that she's not human."

When An Xin heard what the sharp-tongued classmate Jiang said, she threw the chess piece in her hand at him, but he cleverly dodged it by tilting his head.

He said angrily: "You are not a human being, and your whole family is not a human being."

An Rui, who originally thought that Zhu Shijing might win, saw the huge amount of silver rushing into his pocket, but his plan was broken by a chess piece dropped by An Xin.

"Cousin, you've gone too far." The grown-up man glared at An Xin with a pout, angrily criticizing her for shattering his fantasy.

When An Rui turned around and saw the four slender hands spread out in front of him, he felt that his cousin was not a human being, and her whole family was not human beings.

An Rui muttered softly, but he always felt that something was wrong.

Seeing that the boy had lost money and hearing him scolding him, An Xin decided not to bother with him.

Li Ziyu also lost ten taels of silver for his rare sympathy, and An Rui not only had to return the principal of the other four people, but also had to pay them forty taels.

An Xin pulled his cousin over and pinched his angry face, taking the opportunity to say, "Boy, this incident tells you that gambling is not a good idea."

An Rui raised his head, looked thoughtfully into his cousin's clear eyes, and then smiled, "Cousin, I understand."

At this time, the sound of firecrackers could be heard outside. It should be the midnight hour, and everyone was setting off firecrackers to welcome the New Year.

When An Xin and the others went out, Da Zhuang and a few other servants had already brought the firecrackers from the warehouse to the yard.

An Rui and Jiang Zhou walked over and lit the firecrackers. The crackling sound echoed throughout the An residence. Everyone looked at the yard that was hung with lanterns.

The dim light was reflected on the dignified and gentle face of the woman standing in the corridor, and everyone felt that this winter night was not so cold anymore.