"The two people who played this endgame with black and white chess are both extraordinary people." Yu Qizhe stared at the chessboard for a long while and said.
Gu Yun raised the corners of his lips and smiled. This chess game was played by Ziqi and the old man. The old man had studied it for more than a year but could not find a way to crack it. He just took it out on a whim to try Yu Qizhe.
"It doesn't matter if you can't solve it. Since it's an endgame, there may not be a way to crack it." Gu Yun realized belatedly that asking Yu Qizhe to solve the endgame himself was indeed a bit of an attempt to make things difficult for him, so he spoke up to give him a way out.
But Yu Qizhe had picked up a black piece and was about to put it somewhere on the chessboard. After hearing what Yin Gu Yun said, Yu Qizhe paused and put the black piece back into the chess basket.
"Young Marquis is right. I won't embarrass myself any more."
Gu Yun fixed his gaze on the spot where he was going to place the piece. He raised his head and played with the white jade seeds in the warm basket. Suddenly he said, "I heard that your family didn't treat Yu Jiao well. She must have suffered a lot over the years, right?"
When they returned to Beijing from Qingzhou, all the details about Yu Jiao's past were written into a letter and passed to Gu Yun and Liu Ziqi. They thought that Liu Sanniang hid Yu Jiao's identity because she loved her very much.
But the result of the investigation was not so. It was completely different from Meng Qingyun's favoritism. Liu Sanniang was very harsh to her daughter Yu Jiao.
Originally thought that she was living well in the Yu family, but when he saw Yu Jiao climbing into bed to seduce Yu family's second eldest brother, Gu Yun found it difficult to describe the complicated feelings he had at that time. The Yu Jiao he knew didn't seem like someone who could do such a thing, but this incident actually happened.
Gu Yun thought that her life must have been very difficult at that time. She must have been forced into a desperate situation, which led to her losing her mind and doing such a thing.
That's little Su Jian, she should have been pampered in every way, loved by everyone, and brought up with all the protection and honor.
It should be high above, growing freely.
She can be arrogant, willful, capricious, reckless, and reckless. She can be as proud as a peacock and look down on everyone like all the noble ladies in Shengjing.
This is the behavior that matches her status.
But he was obviously the most honorable person in Shengjing, but he suffered a lot in the north and was bullied by people of low status in such a small place.
Gu Yun was feeling depressed and felt wronged for her, but she knew nothing about it.
In fact, Yu Qizhe was unwilling to talk about Yu Jiao with Gu Yun, which made him feel like something that belonged to him was being coveted.
"Not again." He said calmly, holding the teacup with his cold white fingertips.
Gu Yun's tone also changed, and he said with a warning, "It's better this way, otherwise I don't mind bringing her to the capital. Anyway, it's hard to have a good life in a poor and remote place like Qingzhou."
Yu Qizhe tightened his fingers around the teacup, his fingertips turning slightly white. The disparity between his status and Gu Yun's, as well as the fact that he needed help from someone, made Yu Qizhe calmly control his surging emotions. However, he was still sixteen years old, so there was still a hint of sharpness in his words, "It seems that it is not the turn of the young Marquis Gu to say these words."
Gu Yun raised his eyebrows with an unhappy look on his face. At this moment, a sound of footsteps came hurriedly from afar, and Seventeen came back with his men.
Gu Yun suppressed the anger in his heart and looked at the woman following behind Seventeen.
"Su Zhen greets Young Marquis Gu." The woman was wearing a plain brocade jacket and had a pretty face. She bowed gracefully, as if she came from a famous family.
Gu Yun looked at the woman's face and asked, "Who is Su Maoan to you?"
The woman raised her head, looked at Gu Yun and replied, "It's my father."
Upon hearing this, a trace of pity flashed across Gu Yun's eyes. The Su family was a family of integrity, with three generations serving as censors. A year ago, Su Maoan made direct appeals against Emperor Mingzheng's obsession with Taoism and worshipping Taoist fasting and prayers, which angered Emperor Mingzheng, who dismissed him from office, sentenced all the men in his family to exile, and confiscated the women in his family to be prostitutes in the Jiaofangsi.
Anyone in the court who pleads for mercy will suffer the same fate as the Su family.
The censors were supposed to exercise the power to impeach and supervise officials, as well as to make remonstrances to the emperor, and to speak out frankly about his mistakes and refute remonstrances. However, the current emperor was so foolish that he would not listen to Chen Xia's advice.
"Sit down and talk." Gu Yun raised his hand and gestured.
Su Zhen calmly sat down and took the initiative to ask, "Why did Young Marquis Gu come to see me?"
"Do you know Li Xu?" Gu Yun asked.
Su Zhen's expression changed slightly, and she nodded, "Did he...did something happen to him?"
Gu Yun gave a brief account of how Li Xu was imprisoned in the Dali Temple and how he embezzled government silver for dredging silt in northern Jiang.
After hearing this, Su Zhen's face turned slightly pale, and she said nervously, "Mr. Li... Mr. Li would never do such a corrupt and illegal thing. He must have been framed."
"Has Li Xiu come to see you recently?" asked Yu Qizhe, who was sitting next to him.
Su Zhen's eyes turned red, and she lowered her head and nodded, "Half a month ago, Master Li went to the Jiaofang Division, and he..."
Su Zhen paused, her face suddenly changed, her hands and feet were cold, and she said with tears streaming down her face, "It was all my fault that I harmed Brother Li..."
"What did he tell you?" Gu Yun asked, "Do you know that the Dali Temple has physical evidence now? If he confesses, he will be dead. You'd better tell me everything you know."
Su Zhen bit her lip, took out a handkerchief from her sleeve and wiped the tears from her face, and said in a choked voice, "Some time ago, Brother Li came to the Jiaofangsi to see me and said that he had saved enough money and would be able to rescue me soon."
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