Chapter 61 Playing Chess, Playing People
Before we knew it, winter was gone and spring came. The climate in the southeast coastal area was warmer. Early on, it was green everywhere, with flowers in bud, showing a revival of all things.
On the first day of the second month, on Qili Creek, 30 miles outside Guangzhou City, a bamboo raft flowed down the clear stream.
A large long-handled sunshade umbrella the size of a wheel was inserted into the bamboo raft. A young woman in a big red dress with picturesque eyebrows stood beneath the umbrella. She pinched a jasper piccoon with ten slender and white fingers, and whispered to her bright red cherry lips. The sound of the flute was as gentle as a yellow oriole, and soft as a daughter's whisper.
In the lower reaches of Qingxi, three bamboo rafts flow upstream.
There were fifteen men on the bamboo raft, all wearing kimono and wooden clogs, and their waists were long and short. However, they looked like samurai from Japan.
On the top of a small hill just inside and outside the bank, a very simple thatched pavilion was built. A middle-aged scholar with a handsome appearance and a light and fat young Taoist priest sat opposite the pavilion. There was a woman in white clothes like snow, and a slender and delicate body, while a middle-aged scholar with a man in his forties and ordinary appearance.
There was a chessboard with nineteen chessboards on the table between them, and black and white chess pieces were densely filled with them. The game of chess seemed to be about to end.
Chen Jialuo landed a white piece held between his fingers on the chessboard, first lifted up the dozen or so black pieces that were finally trapped, then shook his head and sighed: "I heard that Sun Shiyi was one of the ministers of Qianlong's most respected ministers. Why did he act so sloppy? He only sent such a little girl to hand over those important things?"
Hu Ye, opposite, pressed a black piece casually to relieve the predicament on the chessboard, and then smiled and said, "That's not the case. Such a secret matter is already hidden. Besides, this little girl should not be underestimated. Her name is Sun Aner, and she is the most favored among Sun Shiyi's many children. She has practiced kendo and ninjutsu with a Japanese worshipper in her family since she was a child. Now her martial arts have reached the first-class level."
Cheng Lingsu asked with some concern: "Brother, even if Sun Aner's martial arts skills are not weak, those Japanese samurai seem to be mediocre, but they will definitely not be able to stop the general guardian of Zhenhaiyu. Are the people you arranged to be sure to pull the teeth from the tiger's mouth?"
Hu Ye Ran said: "Don't worry, that Shiyu's talent is definitely not inferior to Hu Fei's brothers. In the past few months, he has learned Senior Li's 'Changkun Acupoint Pointing Technique'. His martial arts are further ahead of the top of the pole. He has faintly touched the threshold of the extreme realm. He should be more than enough to deal with Yu Zhenhai, who has exhausted his potential and is destined to be unable to break through in this life."
Hearing this, the middle-aged man beside Chen Jialuo said with a look of dissatisfaction: "Little Maverick's nose, you still have the face to behave like this! My Li Guobang and you have no grudges in your previous life and this life. Why did you reveal my true feelings? I have to teach Shiyu that stinky brat all day, and I don't even have time to ask your fiancée for a meal!"
It turns out that this person is Miao Cuihua's senior brother Li Guobang, who studied under Miao Xian, a famous man in the South Shaolin Province. His skill in pointing and detaching acupoints with one hand is unique in the world.
He was born timid for life, and he always kept the word "safety first" and never formally fought with others in his life.
Even Chen Jialuo didn't know that this old fox who had been in the bottom gang of the "Red Flower Society" for many years was actually a master with excellent martial arts.
After Hu Ye took Fang Shiyu back to his command, he thought that his martial arts still had great room for improvement, so he unceremoniously revealed the news that Li Guobang was hiding in the "Red Flower Club" to Miao Cuihua, who was determined to be successful.
Miao Cuihua has always been decisive in her son's affairs. She rode a fast horse to the head of the "Red Flower Club" without delaying it. She used any means to force Li Guobang to return to the "Qilin Hall" together, and taught Fang Shiyu all the skills she had been holding her back.
At this moment, when Li Guobang complained to him, Hu Ye smiled slightly: "It turns out that in Senior Li's heart, is dating his fiancée much more important than teaching his nephew? Is it necessary to talk to Aunt Cuihua in detail..."
Li Guobang widened his eyes and stared at Hu Ye fiercely for a moment. In one breath, he suddenly leaked like a broken ball. He only said "You are cruel" and then retreated to Chen Jialuo.
Seeing two guys with the same temperamental twitching, Cheng Lingsu was amused and chuckled, while Chen Jialuo fell another white piece and said with a smile: "Take it!"
Hu Ye looked at Heizi who was completely powerless to make things happen, so he had to abandon his son and sighed: "Master Chen is so good at protecting his shortcomings. I just took some verbal advantage from your subordinates, and you will immediately find the place on the chessboard!"
Chen Jialuo smiled and said, "Chess is a small path, and the chess is a big path. Even if Chen can get some advantage on the chessboard, how can he compare to the Taoist master's way of using the world as a plan and making plans and fiddling the world!"
Speaking of this, he pointed his hand down the hill and sighed: "Look, the person who has become a Taoist priest's chess piece and is unaware of it is about to start!"
The other three people looked at it and saw that the bamboo raft driving in the clear stream had already met. They vaguely saw Sun Aner talking to a warrior holding a square package, and the warrior handed the package to Sun Aner.
"Do it!"
A thunderous shout came from the stream, and then he saw square wooden boards with turf on it and covered with grass were lifted away. Dozens of white-clothed men holding weapons jumped out of the hiding hole under the board, shouting in unison to pounce on the bamboo rafts on the stream.
The only one who rushed in front of him was Yu Zhenhai, the general protector of the Red Flower Society. His figure swept several feet in the air, like a fierce white eagle catching prey. His hands were bent like ten steel hooks, and he grabbed Sun Aner with no sympathy.
Although the mission this time was to grab the brocade box, Yu Zhenhai thought that as long as he killed the person, the brocade box would naturally not slip away with his legs.
Sun Aner's reaction was very quick. He grabbed the package containing the brocade box with his left hand, and pulled out a shakuhachi short knife called "freak" in Japan from his right hand. The knife light was like snow at the beginning of his hand, carrying the ten fingers that were cut towards the lid with the biting cold.
Yu Zhenhai unexpectedly, this cute little woman could use such a powerful sword technique. She hurriedly shrank her hands and arms, and drove her body to turn over somersaults in the air, and flipped over the other party's head and fell onto the bamboo raft.
As soon as his feet were solid, his body immediately drove his right arm to rotate for half a circle. His right fist used the best Tai Chi "swinging" in his right fist, and he really rushed towards Sun Aner's heart like an invincible war hammer of a fierce general on the battlefield.
Sun Aner danced like a butterfly with the sword. While her body was spinning gracefully to avoid the attack from behind, she thrust her short sword diagonally upwards and harshly, and was both quick and ruthless, and was indescribable.
"What a cruel little girl!"
Yu Zhenhai cursed angrily, and suddenly retreated and then used the incompetent Tai Chi pounding technique on this bamboo raft with limited space, fighting with Sun Aner, who was quick and ruthless in the sword technique.
At this moment, he brought dozens of confidants who were carrying out this mission and rushed to the front. When he was about to step forward to help his leader, the Japanese samurai showed off his sword and stopped him and fought together.
Chapter completed!