In the sixth year, Fengyue built a promenade pavilion of several hundred meters around the lake on an "Island in the Heart of the Lake" opposite the "Jiuzhong Tower" and a "Sea View Pavilion" on the island's edge of the lake.

Yun Xingchen is playing Go with Caiyi in the middle of the "Guanhai Pavilion". The bet between the two is that if Yun Xingchen loses, he is willing to let Caiyi stab him. If Caiyi loses, he will have ten opportunities to assassinate him.

Subtract once.

Because Yun Xingchen promised Caiyi to come and assassinate him the year before last, saying that she would give her ten opportunities to assassinate him. If she failed ten times, from now on, the hatred between her father Zhu Yitian and her for destroying the country would be wiped out.

Yun Xingchen and Caiyi played three games together, Caiyi lost in all three games, so the ten assassination opportunities became seven.

Zhen Ji is the one who hates the game of Go the most among the four beauties. When she saw Yun Xingchen and Cai Yi playing Go, she couldn't understand it and was unwilling to understand it, so she sat by the "Guanhai Pavilion"

On the porch.

Zhen Ji took out a handful of bait from a carved phoenix-glazed glass basin and threw it into the lake outside the fence, causing countless koi to jump out of the lake. There were ten thousand koi in the lake. She sprinkled the bait casually, and that was ten thousand koi.

The wonderful sight of carps rising into the sky.

Looking at this wonderful scene, Zhen Ji was amazed in her heart.

Seeing that she had lost three games in one go, Cai Yi was unwilling to accept it, so she wanted to call Luo Xia, the illegitimate daughter of Luo Ri, Yun Xingchen's Go master, to help out, but she couldn't trust Yun Xingchen herself and was worried that Yun Xingchen would play tricks.

, he ran away after winning, so he asked Zhen Ji, who was feeding the fish and watching the scenery, to go to the prince's palace to find Luo Xia.

Zhen Ji glanced at Prince Yun Xingchen and then went to find Luoxia with understanding.

When Luoxia came to the "Guanhai Pavilion" on the "Lake Center Island", he proposed a brand-new method of playing Go. There are no chess pieces and no chessboard. The game relies entirely on the memory of both parties.

Yun Xingchen and Luo Xia sat facing each other, and they were going back and forth, both raising their hands and pointing in the air, playing chess.

Caiyi, who was watching the battle from the sidelines, could barely remember the first twenty moves. After thirty moves, the entire suspended chessboard he remembered gradually became blurred, and then even the previously memorized chessboard continued.

I also completely forgot about the black and white chess pieces.

After a long time, Luoxia said: "I lost this game."

After hearing this, Caiyi expressed dissatisfaction and insisted on letting Yun Xingchen and Luoxia play another game. After Caiyi memorized more than thirty steps this time, he could not remember the rest.

In this round, Luoxia said that she lost again.

Caiyi glanced at Yun Xingchen and saw him having fun on the sidelines. She always felt that there was something fishy about it, but she couldn't provide any evidence, so she suggested that the two of them play a final game on a real Go board.

Yun Xingchen said that he was tired and his brain couldn't move, so he refused Caiyi's proposal; Luoxia said that she had important things to do at the moment, so she quickly took a boat and left the "Guanhai Island" on the "Lake Center Island"

pavilion".

Caiyi was left alone next to the chess table, feeling resentful in his heart. He felt that he had most likely been played by someone, and he did not stab Yun Xingchen. Caiyi stood beside the chess table in a daze, unwilling to accept it.

In this day's effort, five assassination opportunities were lost.

At the lakeside, where his father Zhu Yitian usually fished, Yun Xingchen took his father Zhu Yitian's peach wood fishing rod, took a section of peach wood from the middle of the peach wood fishing rod, and patiently carved out three hundred and sixty-one chess pieces and one hundred black stones.

Eighty-one, one hundred and eighty white stones. Nineteen vertical and horizontal lines, multiplied by nineteen, it is three hundred and sixty-one.

Three hundred and sixty-one chess pieces were carved out in one go. At this time, Yun Xingchen was exhausted and had sore muscles, so he called Zhen Ji who was still feeding koi in the "Guanhai Pavilion".

Zhen Ji came to the lake, and Yun Xingchen leaned against her chest. Yun Xingchen said enjoying it: "It's so comfortable." When Zhen Ji kneaded Yun Xingchen's shoulders again, Yun Xingchen repeatedly looked at the "Shennong Chessboard" in his hand.

He said softly: "Zhen Ji, focus again."

Zhen Ji, who exuded natural body fragrance, said "hmm".

After a while, Yun Xingchen stroked a mahogany chess piece with one hand, closed his eyes, and repeatedly recited the four-line poem engraved on the back of "Shennong's Chess Board" in his heart:

Chickens, ducks, egrets, jade and catalpa trees, the king and his ministers compete in black and white to win or lose.

When we see swords and soldiers in the dying days, the whole world will shed tears.

Thousands of rivers and lakes need to be repaired, and thousands of miles of Wu map need to be renovated.

Why bother talking about state affairs with your hands, forgetting your worries and sitting in seclusion until dawn?

Zhen Ji was silent and squeezed Yun Xingchen's shoulders. Her eyes looked at Yun Xingchen's brows, looking lively and energetic.

The girl's thoughts are all silent...

After repeatedly reciting eight lines of poetry silently, at the end, every time Yun Xingchen recited a line of poetry silently, a picture flashed through Yun Xingchen's mind. After eight pictures flashed in succession, his subconscious subconsciously understood Yun Xingchen's "Shen Nong Chessboard" function.

The Fa began to slowly penetrate into his heart.

Yun Xingchen was so fascinated by his thoughts that he suddenly fell into a state of sleepwalking.

In the sixth year, on the day of Fengyue, after more than ten days of walking on foot, Princess Aguduo finally arrived at the residence of Prince Tingzhou from the Great Wall in the north. The people in the northern country knew that these people came from the grassland, regardless of whether

No matter how high the price paid by Princess Aguduo's attendants, the people of the Northern Kingdom are just unwilling to sell their carriages or horses to Princess Aguduo and her entourage.

In the end, Princess Aguduo and her party could only walk for more than ten days to the prince's residence in Tingzhou. When they arrived at the prince's residence in Tingzhou, Princess Aguduo reported her identity. At the same time, she spent a lot of money and finally learned about the prince's cloud from the attendants at the prince's residence.

The stars are on the "island in the middle of the lake".

After Princess Aguduo landed on the "Lake Center Island", she greeted Zhen Ji and announced her identity. Zhen Ji asked her to wait for Yun Xingchen to wake up.

Princess Aguduo agreed: "Yes."

Zhen Ji saw Princess Aguduo, a girl of twelve or three years old, who was pretty and lovely, and looked harmless to humans and animals, so she relaxed her vigilance and watched the "Island in the Heart of the Lake" in the distance.

scenery.

Little did she know that at this time, Princess Aguduo actually took advantage of Zhen Ji's negligence and sneakily approached Yun Xingchen who was sleeping by the lake. After that, Princess Aguduo used all her strength to push Yun Xingchen into the sleepwalking state.

In the lake.

When Yun Xingchen crawled out of the lake in embarrassment, he saw Zhen Ji looking panicked, blaming and guilty. For a moment, she didn't know who to vent the anger in her heart to.

Looking at Princess Aguduo, who looked harmless and cute, she was laughing "haha". Yun Xingchen thought of those clever words before, but he didn't dare to scold the young princess in front of him. If this caused Bei to

If the war between Jing Kingdom and Mengdan Kingdom starts again, I am afraid that my father will be busy with the war again, and at the same time, the people will also suffer.

So, Yun Xingchen suppressed the anger in her heart, sat on a stone by the lake, and let the wind dry her clothes.

At this moment, a young woman came from the "Guanhai Pavilion". Because she felt that she had been deceived when she played Go with Yun Xingchen, she had no place to vent the resentment accumulated in her heart. She happened to see Yun Xingchen being raped.

Princess Aguduo looked embarrassed when she was pushed into the lake.

So Cai Yi gloated and said: "A prince from the Northern Kingdom was actually pushed into the lake by a princess from a grassland. Isn't it embarrassing?"

His back was hit several times by the "Shen Nong chessboard".

Yun Xingchen's tapping movements were not big and the force was very light, but for the current Caiyi, it was like adding fuel to the fire. Caiyi, who had been aggrieved to the extreme of endurance, turned around with a cry.

Looking up, he saw the disgusting, hateful, and murderous Yun Xingchen's stinky face. He didn't know where he came from, but he had a sudden burst of strength. He opened his mouth and bit down on the arm of the naked prince Yun Xingchen who had just climbed ashore from the lake.

Yun Xingchen took the "Shennong Chessboard" and slapped it on Caiyi's cheek. He slapped the subjugated princess away without any courtesy. The force was just right, not light or heavy, not enough to hurt anyone. Yun Xingchen frowned and cursed: "You

Is it a dog?”

Caiyi was so ashamed and angry that she couldn't move, so she had no choice but to grab the dirt on the ground and throw it at Yun Xingchen.

Caiyi threw dirt and Yun Xingchen blocked it. Between throwing and blocking, the two did not forget to engage in verbal exchanges.

"Yun Xingchen, you must die a happy death!"

"Come on, Caiyi puppy, bite me to death."

"You are not human!"

"Ah, Caiyi, you are so beautiful and cute now."

"One day, I will stab you to death!"

"Now just hit me with dirt. You can hit me more."

When Yun Xingchen saw Caiyi suddenly throwing a lot of dirt, he was not annoyed or angry. He just used the "Shen Nong Chessboard" to pat the dirt back one by one. Caiyi instantly turned into a little clay figurine.

When Caiyi saw that he was no match for him, he got angry and sat on the ground, crying and cursing: "One day, I will stab you to death!"

Yun Xingchen stood and kept smiling.

Until that evening, when Princess Aguduo was brought back to the prince's residence by Yun Xingchen, the "island in the middle of the lake" was finally clean. Zhen Ji looked out and saw the picturesque scenery.

The next day, after experiencing that the guards at his son's mansion were bribed by Princess Aguduo, and then revealed the whereabouts of Yun Xingchen to Princess Aguduo, causing his son to lose face in front of several maids, Emperor Zhu Yitian of the Later Sui Dynasty ordered four years of

Five young female bodyguards, Yin Chun, Ting Xue, Ya Feng, Ling Fei and Yu Meng, who had been training since before, were arranged to be with his son.

Then, Zhu Yitian proudly said to his son that day: "It doesn't cost much to raise an army, and it doesn't matter if you have enough people. My father has been helping you train these five young female bodyguards four years ago. Wait."

That’s where it comes in handy starting today.”

In view of what happened yesterday, fortunately, it was just Princess Aguduo who vented her dissatisfaction. If it were the master who came to assassinate him, I am afraid that he, Yun Xingchen, would have been doomed yesterday.

In the end, Yun Xingchen chose to accept the arrangement of his father Zhu Yitian and brought these five women into the mansion to serve as his personal bodyguards.

On the third day, Yun Xingchen arranged for the nine beauties Cai Yi, Luo Xia, Yao Ji, Zhen Ji, Yin Chun, Ting Xue, Ya Feng, Ling Fei and Yu Meng to gather in the "nine-layered building" in the central courtyard of the prince's residence.

This "Nine-Chonglou" was originally an attic used for lectures. There are nine floors in the "Nine-Chonglou": the first floor is for "Legalist" lectures, the second floor is for "Confucian" lectures, and the third floor is for "Legalist" lectures.

For "Taoist" lectures, the fourth level is

The fifth level is for teaching by "Buddhists", the sixth level is for teaching by "military strategists", the seventh level is for teaching by "physicians", and the eighth level is for teaching by "strategists"

The ninth floor is used for lectures by the "Yin Yang Family".

Yun Xingchen once heard from her father, Emperor Zhu Yitian, that her mother, Yun Huixian, had always had a wish to give lectures in the "Nine Chonglou".

It happened that Yun Xingchen's prince's residence had nine beauties, so Yun Xingchen arranged for each of the nine beauties to be responsible for teaching one subject.
To be continued...