Su Su returned to the wine shop with a string of candied haws in her hand.
Su Jue straightened his hat and said without even asking, "We should go back."
"Oh... okay."
Lu Feng's three men were a little surprised. Where's the boss? This little girl is still lively and energetic... Could it be that the boss is really old?
So one of them looked at Su Su and asked, "Where is my big brother?"
"Oh, he can't stand it. He's lying down."
The three of them laughed heartily, relieved. "Let's go, let's go back and see big brother. Once we catch that damned Fu Xiaoguan, we'll have to give him a good beating."
The three of them stood up and were about to leave when Su Su suddenly said, "Wait... who did you say you were going to catch?"
That person shut up, and the other person laughed and said, "No, no, this kid is drunk. We'll take our leave. Big Brother will come find you another day."
"Oh, I'm afraid he won't come looking for me. He can't do it anymore. He can't do it after a few strokes. It's boring."
The three of them looked at each other. That wasn't right. Didn't the eldest brother always say that he was very fierce?
Could it be that this is fake?
The three of them immediately revealed meaningful expressions and turned to leave the wine shop.
The merchants at the other table also left, and the wine shop became quiet. The proprietress then came over and asked carefully, "Miss, did you suffer any loss?"
Su Su was stunned: "No, he is not my opponent."
"Ah...what do you mean, girl?"
"Oh, it's just that he couldn't beat me, and I beat him up, so I guess... he's useless."
The proprietress was shocked, and her heart gradually relaxed. "Okay, these damn people are not good people at first glance. Go back quickly, girl. I have to close the shop and go home."
"Oh, okay."
Su Su stood up and left with Su Jue. The proprietress looked at the silver inlaid on the table and shouted, "Miss, this silver..."
Su Su turned her back and waved, "We agreed that the silver is yours!"
The proprietress looked up at Susu's back, then retracted her gaze after a long time. She placed two fingers on the table and picked up the silver ingot.
At this time, a thin man walked out of the kitchen, holding a plate of beef in his left hand and a jar of wine in his right hand. He looked into the distance and looked at the proprietress.
"Shisanniang, this muddy water... seems to be a bit deep."
The proprietress, named Shisan Niang, nodded gently. "If it weren't for Liu Jiumei's intervention, I wouldn't have gotten involved in this mess. Zhu Gan, do you think this little witch is the one from the Taoist temple?"
Zhu Gan sat at the table, eating beef and drinking wine. "It's hard to say. No one has seen that little witch... It shouldn't be her. Didn't the master say that the little witch practiced the zither? She doesn't have one. Also, the master said that the temple master forbade the little witch to practice martial arts. Although Lü Feng is a little inferior, he should be at the level of a third-rate master."
Shisanniang also sat down, eating beef and drinking wine. After a long time, she said, "You are wrong. I am now sure that she is the little witch Su Su."
"Why?"
"Because the scholar next to him is Su Jue, the senior brother of the Taoist academy, and also because the little witch has a strange physical condition. She's wearing such a thin linen dress and barefoot in such cold weather... who else could it be?"
Zhu Gan frowned. "Isn't this even more troublesome? We can't handle Su Rou alone, and now Fu Xiaoguan has two masters beside him: Senior Brother Su Jue and Little Witch Su Su... This job is too hot to handle. In my opinion, it's better to forget it."
Before Zhu Gan finished speaking, Shisan Niang suddenly raised the chopsticks in her hand into the air, and Zhu Gan suddenly grew taller and flew into the sky. All he could see was the crowd strolling on the street.
He fell down, and Shisan Niang's chopsticks caught a piece of paper.
She took a look at the paper and handed it to Zhu Gan, "It seems... we can't leave even if we want to."
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When Su Su and Su Jue passed by the candy vendor, she bought another candy figurine and ate it while walking. Suddenly, she asked, "Big Brother, what kind of evil thing did this Fu Xiaoguan do?"
Su Jue was speechless. "He didn't do anything harmful!"
"Then why did those people just want to arrest him? There's something fishy about that liquor store, too. The proprietress is clearly an expert, yet she's pretending to be frightened...isn't she trying to cover something up? And there's another expert in the kitchen, too. The beef was cut to the exact same thickness. I originally thought it was a shady shop, but they didn't do anything to us. What do you think they're up to?"
Su Jue did not expect that his Sixth Junior Sister, who usually didn't care about anything, actually had such keen observation skills. Of course he knew there were two masters, so he did not follow Su Su.
He originally thought that the two men would use poison, but they did nothing.
Just as Susu said, this is just an attempt to cover up something, and there is definitely something wrong.
But it seems that these two people are not in the same group with those four people. It's a bit complicated.
For Su Jue, this kind of thing was too brain-burning and not his forte, so he thought for a long time before saying, "Let Fu Xiaoguan handle this matter."
Su Su pursed her lips and stopped thinking about the problem. She kept shopping as she walked. Seeing that Su Jue had more and more things in his hands, and then her hands were also full of things, the two of them returned to Fu's house.
"The stolen silver?"
"How can this be considered robbery? He lost the fight, so of course the spoils belong to me. Ah... Senior Brother, I forgot to buy you a new set of clothes. Isn't it Chinese New Year? Wait a minute, I'll go buy you some."
"No! Stop it, I like wearing this one. But why did you buy so many clothes?"
"It looks good. I'll go change and we'll go find Fu Xiaoguan."
"What do you want to see him for?"
"...Brother, isn't someone trying to arrest him? Then tell them and let them be arrested. Otherwise, how will we know who's trying to arrest him?"
This seemed to be correct, so Su Jue nodded and waited for Su Su to change into a light green dress. Then the two of them left Fu's house and walked towards Dong's house.
Fu Xiaoguan is still in Dong's mansion.
After having lunch together, Dong Kangping invited him to play chess, a skill he was good at and had even won an award for.
Dong Shulan sat on one side making tea, while Dong Xiude sat on the other side watching with interest.
Fu Xiaoguan plays the black pieces, and his style of play is quite sharp and imaginative, while Dong Kangping's style of play is very steady, solid and majestic. So the situation on the chessboard is that Fu Xiaoguan is the main attacker, while Dong Kangping is both offensive and defensive.
The game was halfway through, and the black piece was not in a good situation. The white piece was defending tightly and attacking and defending in moderation, and the black piece seemed to be making a desperate move. So a small dragon among the black pieces that had not yet grown into a powerful force was cut apart by the counterattack of the white piece. Seeing that the black piece was dying and about to lose its life, Fu Xiaoguan seemed to have no intention of saving it. He actually placed a piece in an inexplicable place.
Dong Shulan frowned, and Dong Xiude pursed his lips. Well, this brother-in-law is good at poetry, but his chess... is a bit bad.
Dong Kangping held the white piece in his hand but hesitated to drop it. "During the Taihe period, the Yu Dynasty had a great general named Peng Tu. He had a distinguished military career, most notably the expulsion of the barbarians in the 13th year of Taihe. He was the only general in the Yu Dynasty to penetrate the barbarians' territory for three years, completely subduing them and forcing their leader, Tuoba Bu, to surrender. Afterwards, the late emperor bestowed upon Peng Tu the title of Duke of Zhenguo and enshrined him in the Imperial Ancestral Temple."
Dong Kangping's white piece landed, completely killing the dragon in the middle. He then said, "Duke Peng wrote a military book called 'Strategies of War.' It contains a saying: 'A skilled warrior should prioritize strategy. All armies should act according to strategy. A general should use conventional tactics to achieve victory through unconventional tactics.'"
Fu Xiaoguan was a little surprised. This sentence of "winning by combining the normal and the unusual" is from Sun Tzu's Art of War. He would have to read the "Strategies of War" written by Peng Tu when he has time.
Dong Kangping's point was that the player holding the chess pieces was the general on the battlefield, and the pieces were the soldiers. Judging from the current situation, it seemed that Fu Xiaoguan's soldiers... weren't being used well.
However, Fu Xiaoguan continued to make moves in seemingly irrelevant places, while Dong Kangping strictly defended his position, occasionally pursuing. The battle had shifted from a large-scale confrontation in the middle of the field to small-scale fighting on the flanks.
"Your chess moves are quite fresh, um, quite interesting."
Fu Xiaoguan achieved small victories on the wing, but the overall situation seemed to have led to his loss, at least that was what Dong Shulan thought, because the overall situation was extremely important.
"Well, this move was brilliant. This is a victory by surprise."
Fu Xiaoguan surrounded and ate up a small group of chess pieces that Dong Kangping had sent out. The situation was actually slowly turning around. Dong Shulan watched very seriously, thinking, could he still win by using this method of cannibalization?
At this point, the game ended and Fu Xiaoguan finally raised his hands in surrender. Dong Shulan counted carefully and found that Fu Xiaoguan had only lost one piece!
Fu Xiaoguan spread his hands and was about to speak, but Dong Kangping waved his hands and stared at the chess scale.
Then he threw the white piece in his hand into the jar and shook his head, "Seal the chess game. Shulan will keep this game."
Dong Shulan was confused. It was obvious that Fu Xiaoguan lost the game, so why did he still want to stay?
"Study it carefully when you have time."
Fu Xiaoguan hadn't expected Dong Kangping to see through him. He rubbed his nose, feeling a little embarrassed. Suddenly, a voice came from the outer courtyard: "Hey, hey, hey, we're here to look for Fu Xiaoguan. If you try to stop me again, I'll really knock you out."
It was a woman's voice, obviously not Yu Wenjun's. Fu Xiaoguan and Dong Shulan looked at each other, both puzzled, then they stood up and walked out.
Next to the still upright Su Jue stood a delicate little girl wearing a green dress, with two pigtails on her head, licking a candied haws in her mouth, and walking barefoot on the snow.
Dong Shulan asked the guard to retreat. The little girl looked at Dong Shulan playfully and suddenly smiled brightly, "Sister, you are so beautiful!"
Dong Shulan was startled, then laughed embarrassedly, "Sister is so beautiful too!"
Su Su licked a piece of candied haws and looked at Fu Xiaoguan with a surprised look on her face. "Are you Fu Xiaoguan?"
"Who are you……?"
"My name is Su Su, you..." Su Su looked Fu Xiaoguan up and down, "You are... so-so!"
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