Chapter 242: Failure in Chess
Recently, the capital city has been under curfew, and patrolmen and night watchmen have been taking turns to patrol the streets and alleys. Zhao Lan, Fan Yanjia, and Xue Wulang are all staying at Su's house and have not returned.
After dinner, several people went to Su Yanli's study. Fan Yanjia wanted to play chess with Zhao Lan, but he was not in the mood, so he took a book to read.
Fan Yanjia was angry that he spoiled the fun, but there was nothing he could do, so he had to play with Su Dalang, while Xue Wulang stood on the side and watched the game.
At first, Fan Yanjia didn't take Su Dalang seriously at all and played carelessly. Gradually, he was eaten up by Su Dalang several times. He suddenly became excited, "Hey, Anzhi, you can do it!"
Su Anzhi smiled modestly, "It was just luck."
Living in the Imperial College, he spent more time with his teacher and classmates. During the leisure time after class, Su Anzhi talked with others about Go. (Hand talk is another name for a game of Go. It is called "hand talk" because when playing Go, both players have to remain silent and rely only on the middle and index fingers of one hand to manipulate the chess pieces on the board to compete with each other.) His Go skills improved greatly, which surprised Fan Yanjia, who originally thought that his Go skills were average.
Fan Yanjia chuckled, rolled up his sleeves half an inch, quickly got into the game, and soon captured Su Anzhi's chess piece.
Under the oil lamp, the two men stared at the chessboard with great concentration. Either you eat me or I eat you. They were well matched and played the game to their heart's content.
After tidying up the house inside and outside, Su Ruojin brewed some chrysanthemum tea and brought it in, pouring a cup for each young man. In the night, under the soft light, some were reading, some were playing chess, and the Su family, which had been empty for a long time, suddenly became lively.
The first cup was handed to Zhao Lan. He took it and took a sip. "All chrysanthemums?"
Su Ruojin smiled and replied, "This year's new chrysanthemums were dried for me by the doorman. They taste pretty good, right?"
Zhao Lan nodded, "Yeah." and took another sip.
Su Ruojin turned around and served a cup to each of Fan Yanjia and the other three.
Xue Wulang quickly stood up and took the cup, "Thank you, Ajin."
"You're welcome." Su Ruojin reminded with a smile, "Sit down."
Xue Wulang blushed, smiled shyly and sat down.
A few steps away, Zhao Lan saw everything.
As if sensing something, Xue Wulang turned his gaze and met the deep eyes of Prince Zhao. He pursed his lips, then suddenly looked away and looked at the chessboard. It seemed as if nothing had happened, but in fact, he was already in a panic.
He was caught red-handed by Prince Zhao. For a moment, he didn't know what to do. He... he didn't want to do anything, just... just look at Ajin, just a look.
He poured tea for the young men, placed the teapot on the table, glanced at the servants at the door, and signaled them to come in and refill their tea if they saw their masters had run out of it.
The servants at the door nodded at the same time.
Su Ruojin smiled and left his father's study.
Zhao Lan put down the cup and followed her out.
When Su Ruojin turned around, she didn't see Zhao Lan get up and follow her out, so she didn't know yet. She was going to the kitchen to prepare some midnight snacks. Her brother and Young Master Fan would definitely be hungry after playing chess, so she prepared something for them.
Watching the two people leave one after another, Xue Wulang retracted his gaze, and his eyes seemed to fall on the chessboard where Fan Su was playing against each other, but it also seemed like he was looking at nothingness, and his heart felt empty.
The Su family's new house is quite large. To get to the kitchen, one has to walk through a long corridor. She hummed a little tune as she walked. It was quite cold at night in October, and she couldn't help shivering. As soon as she reached out to hold her clothes, she was brought into a warm embrace.
"Brother Jin!" Su Ruojin raised her little face and called sweetly.
Zhao Lan reached out his other hand and touched her nose. "Where are you going?"
"I'll prepare a midnight snack for you."
"What are you going to do?"
Zhao Lan hugged the young lady and walked towards the kitchen.
"What does Brother Jin want to eat?"
"what you up to?"
"I want to make wontons. I'll put them on the table. When you're hungry, Sister Chunxiao will make them for you."
"You want to sleep?"
Su Ruojin nodded honestly, "I'm sleepy and want to sleep."
The sleepy young lady had a nasal voice, which was sweet and sticky. Zhao Lan was so moved by her voice that he wanted to marry her right away. He finally controlled his heart and hugged the young lady to the kitchen.
Seeing the young lady kneading the dough, Zhao Lan wanted to help. Su Ruojin didn't mind him making trouble and taught him how to roll out the dough and make wontons.
No matter what we do, as long as we are together, it is the happiest thing.
Lord Yang came out of the palace and got on a luxurious carriage. There were dozens of guards around the carriage, and the scene was magnificent and majestic.
Dark clouds covered the moon, and the palace lanterns were dim. Yang Jingzi sat in the carriage, closing his eyes to rest.
The sound of horse hooves and wheels rolling drifted across the huge Imperial Street. Patrolmen and night watchmen automatically avoided his carriage when they saw it.
The carriage moved forward smoothly.
Suddenly, there seemed to be a sound of wind blowing by his ears. Just as Yang Jingzi opened his eyes suddenly, with a "whoosh", the arrow sank into the carriage. He tilted his head to avoid it, and then fell into the carriage.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh...countless arrows shot towards the carriage.
The guard shouted loudly, "Protect the lord." He drew his sword and used it to block the man in black who was rushing towards him.
In a blink of an eye, a fierce battle broke out.
After struggling for more than half an hour, Su Ruojin finally finished wrapping the wontons. She opened her mouth and said, "I can't stand it anymore, Brother Jin, I'm going to sleep now. You can sleep in the guest room as well."
"I send you."
Right at home, what should I send? She couldn't help it, she was sleepy and laughing, even tears came out of her eyes. She wiped her tears with one hand and waved her hand to stop him, "No need, really no need."
Zhao Lan smiled but said nothing and just followed her.
It’s really a sweet burden. Well, if he wants to give it, let him give it.
Zhao Lan extended his hand.
She looked at his slender hands and raised her eyes again.
He raised his hand a little higher and smiled.
Everything is implied.
Su Ruojin smiled and offered her hand.
The boy held the girl's hand and walked side by side through the corridor towards her courtyard.
In the long corridor, in the cold night, Su Ruojin's slightly cold hands felt warm and reassuring in Zhao Lan's grip. She couldn't help but shake their interlocking hands, and suddenly she thought, "How nice it would be if we could walk together like this until the end of time."
"Yes."
Su Ruojin turned to look at the noble young master in surprise, "Did you hear that?"
"Um."
Uh...she didn't say it just now, right?
Zhao Lan had a smile on his face, as if to say, "I know what you are thinking."
Deserve a fight.
Su Ruojin tried to shake off his hand, but it was impossible. The two of them laughed and joked, and soon arrived at Su Ruojin's yard. "Good night, Brother Jin."
Zhao Lan didn't want to and looked towards her yard.
The young lady snorted and laughed, and when she got the chance, she turned around and ran away, not giving anyone the chance to come in and sit down.
Mao Ya closed the gate carefully and quickly.
Finally no longer bored.
Santai hurried forward and said in a very low voice, "Master, there is news from over there, their plan has failed again."
A gentle smile instantly froze on the corner of his mouth.
“How many times this month?”
"My Lord, this is the third time."
With long legs and big strides, Zhao Lan quickly left the young lady's yard, "How is the investigation going over there?"
"My Lord, I finally have some clues."
Zhao Lan looked around and quickly went to his guest room at the Su family's house. He waited until the doors and windows were completely closed before letting Santai speak.
"In order to devour our Great Yin Dynasty, Liaoxia began to learn Han culture forty or fifty years ago and intermarried with educated Han people. According to investigations, outstanding Han people were favored by the king of Liaoxia. One of them, a family named Gou, had a high status in Liaoxia and became a governor. Most of his sons served in the Liao Dynasty. They looked very Han, and even looked a bit like Lord Yang. So our people focused on this and investigated further. They found that among the sons of the Gou family who had died, one died in a very strange way. He was fine at first, but he died suddenly. In addition, the Gou family dismissed many slaves that year."
"Then find these dismissed slaves and dig out the secrets."
"Yes, Master. I will deliver the letter to the north right away."
The assassination failed, but the men in black were either killed or bitten their tongues to commit suicide. Yang Jingzi didn't get a single survivor. He squinted at the bodies lying on the cold ground and said, "Tonight, kill all the patrolmen on this street."
"Yes, sir."
"Send in new people."
"Yes, sir."
In the dark little room, a thin young lady, who looked unrecognizable, put her ear close to the dark room and finally heard a few words clearly, "Failed again."
Outside the dark room, someone said quietly, "He is so lucky."
"Master, I heard that Prince Zhao has a magic weapon. If he uses this magic weapon, will he be able to kill the man named Yang?"
The man turned around and said, "Since he is the only one who has it, who will you look for if the man surnamed Yang dies?"
"Yes, yes, little fool."
"Hasn't Carpenter Zhang been found yet?"
"My Lord, not yet."
The man seemed to have lost his patience. "Then arrest Xue. If we can't find the blueprint he mentioned, then kill him."
The attendant nodded and bowed, and reminded carefully, "Master, the one with the surname Su is a bit weird. She seems to be able to protect people who are related to her. I am afraid..."
Protect?
The man turned his head and looked into the dark room, and said sinisterly, "Then why didn't you protect this?"
Follower: ...
In the dark room, the young lady felt as if she was being stared at by a poisonous snake. She was so scared that she backed away repeatedly, all the way to the other wall, trembling all over.
Outside the dark room, the man asked, "Did Mr. Xue see her last time?"
"My Lord, I feel like Xue saw it."
"Why hasn't that Su come to the rescue yet? Is she a useless person?"
"this……"
The next day, Su Dalang and the others went to school. Zhao Lan left the Su family and said before leaving, "Don't go out. If you have anything to do, wait for me to come and go with you."
Su Ruojin nodded, "Okay, go ahead and get busy."
After everyone left, Su Ruojin found the doorman and collected all the pepper seeds he had collected, preparing to plant them in Weizhou County next year. After next autumn, there would be a lot of seeds. Year after year, before they knew it, peppers would become popular and become like ordinary vegetables.
It’s incredible to think about it, she is the promoter of this thing!
Isn’t it amazing?
Seeing the young master grinning, the doorman couldn't help but ask, "Second Madam, is this spicy food really that good?"
Su Ruojin was awakened by the voice and realized that she was smiling foolishly.
"Of course, I'll make a pot next time..."
Before Su Ruojin could finish her words, her father waved his hand and said, "No, no, I can't eat spicy food."
Su Ruojin: ...
Can life still be called life without spicy food?
Dad: What’s the logic behind this?
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