The Sage of Confucianism and Taoism

Fang Yun returned the courtesy and said: "Since we are studying in the academy together, it is a friendship between classmates. Just call Fang Yun."

"Don't dare, don't dare..." Everyone waved their hands.

"Since I have met Lord Wenhou, I will take my leave. I have also received an invitation from the Double Ninth Festival Cultural Festival. On the ninth day of the Lunar New Year, Changdongyun, Dongyun Prefecture, is waiting for Wenhou's masterpiece." He just said that he was waiting for Fang Yun to be his benefactor. After Chang Dongyun finished speaking, he handed over and left.

Seeing this, everyone else left one after another. They all understood that Fang Yun could be humble, but they could not really regard Fang Yun as an ordinary classmate. Even several people from wealthy families did not come forward to assassinate Fang Yun. The identities and status of both parties There's so much difference.

When everyone dispersed, Fang Yun and Zhao Hongzhuang entered the first house, followed by two maids.

After cleaning up last night and this morning, the first dormitory has changed its appearance, making it look more friendly and family-like, not just a student dormitory.

Yang Yuhuan was playing the piano in the room. The little fox jumped out and jumped into Fang Yun's arms. Then he stared at Zhao Hongzhuang's hand and found that there was nothing delicious in her hand. He snorted and ignored Zhao Hongzhuang.

Zhao Hongzhuang smiled helplessly and said, "I will send someone to the palace to get some snacks."

Nunu immediately jumped up to Zhao Hongzhuang's shoulder, rubbed her face, and screamed a few times before returning to Fang Yun's arms.

Fang Yun and Zhao Hongzhuang entered Yang Yuhuan's room and chatted about the previous events. Finally, they went to Fang Yun's study.

"Let's start teaching Go first." Zhao Hongzhuang said, looking around the room.

Fang Yun took out a Jinshi Wenbao chess table from Yin Jiangbei. This chess table was larger than an ordinary chess board, with a length and width of nearly two feet. This was obtained at the Holy Ruins and was very rare, so Fang Yun kept it with him.

Zhao Hongzhuang glanced at Fang Yun's Yin Jiangbei, with a look of envy flashing in her eyes, and then happily took the silver-white and purple chessboard, carefully observed it, and said: "This is Qianmo Tianxing chess, a treasure of Shoutanzhai, the silver body is purple The pattern should be made from the roots of the Silver Mulberry Tree."

As she said that, she opened the small drawer under the chessboard table, took out the chess jar in surprise, opened it gently, and said: "I didn't expect that the chess jar was made of old withered vines. These white pieces are even rarer. They are all from chess pattern shells." . The chess pattern shell should be matched with black moon stone. Isn’t the one you have over there a black moon stone?”

Fang Yun took out his chess jar and opened the lid, revealing shiny black moonstone chess pieces.

"Good stuff! Take me into the chess realm quickly and see what kind of chess realm it is." Zhao Hongzhuang said.

Fang Yun smiled and took out a bamboo mat and spread it on the ground. Then he and Zhao Hongzhuang sat on both sides of the chess table.

The chessboard began to get bigger and bigger, and finally it was a hundred feet in diameter, and Fang Yun and Zhao Hongzhuang were like small chess pieces on the chessboard.

Then, the chessboard began to shrink, but in the process of shrinking, the sky and the earth changed. The sky was clear, white clouds were blooming, surrounded by mountains, the ground was grassy, ​​there was a small waterfall falling into the pool on the east side, and a small waterfall on the west side. The bamboo forest has a wooden house on the north side, while there are cranes and sika deer on the south side, just like a fairyland.

When the chessboard finally shrank to its normal size, the surroundings had completely transformed into a beautiful view of the valley, and the two of them were sitting on the grass.

"It looks good!" Zhao Hongzhuang said happily.

Suddenly, the earth shook, and there were rumbling sounds everywhere. The mountains collapsed, the ground rose, magma flowed everywhere, and finally turned into a huge volcano.

The two of them were sitting on a rock in the center of the crater, and the rock was surrounded by bubbling magma. From time to time, loud rumbling noises could be heard in their ears, which was the sound of a volcano erupting in the distance.

Zhao Hong said: "It turns out to be Shuangjing Wenbaoqi, which is amazing!"

Fang Yun waved his hand, and the surroundings turned back to the beautiful scenery of the valley. Zhao Hongzhuang could not feel it, but as the master of the chessboard, he knew that the beautiful scenery of the valley seemed quiet, but in fact, like the mouth of the flame, it would form a powerful lethality once activated.

However, Fang Yun's chess skills at the moment were not at one level, and he could not exert the full power of Wenbao chess, so he could only use the basic chess level.

"Let's talk about it, please." Fang Yun smiled.

Different from later Go games, in ancient Go, the white stone moved first and the black stone came second. Fang Yun happened to have the black stone on his side and was too lazy to guess the pieces like in official Go, so he let Zhao Hongzhuang go first.

"Then try your chess skills." Zhao Hongzhuang said.

Fang Yun said: "I heard that your chess skills are close to the second level. I am not even at the first level. I hope you will show mercy."

"How many times will I give you?" Zhao Hongzhuang said with a smile.

"Still won't give in. If you lose, how will you teach me in the future?"

Zhao Hongzhuang smiled and said: "That's good. I have to win this first game no matter what, otherwise I will have no shame in teaching you."

"Then I'll do my best to make it harder for you to win." Fang Yun said.

Zhao Hongzhuang smiled slightly.

Fang Yun doesn't play many games, but he has long read and memorized a large number of chess records from Qishu Tiandi, including not only chess records from later countries, but also chess records from Shengyuan Continent.

The Go game of later generations has a murderous spirit, and winning is the kingly rule. However, the Go game of Shengyuan Continent needs to cooperate with the role of Wenbao, and the first priority is siege, so it lacks murderous spirit but is more resilient.

Fang Yun's heart moved, and he was ready to try the Go game of later generations. Although he would lose no matter what, he couldn't lose randomly.

Zhao Hongzhuang held the white piece and placed it on the corner star. Then the two of them each placed two chess pieces on the four corner stars. This is the famous seat system. After that, Zhao Hongzhuang officially placed the stone.

Fang Yun took a look and saw that Zhao Hongzhuang's moves were quite satisfactory. He chose the flying hang opening commonly used in Shengyuan Continent. Fang Yun did not make the moves according to the response method, but made use of the formulas of later generations.

There are many opening patterns in later generations, which are extremely complicated. Ordinary beginners can only master a few of them at most, but Fang Yun has long memorized them. All the variations of all the patterns are imprinted in his mind and he remembers them by heart.

Soon, Fang Yun found that Zhao Hongzhuang was actually playing guidance chess. Her intention was not to win, but to teach him how to make moves. This is a common way for masters to teach novices. Whenever there is a master playing guidance chess, novices are eager to have it. Beginners often have to pay masters to play guidance chess.

Fang Yun smiled slightly. Although he didn't play chess often, Zhao Hongzhuang still underestimated him, so he silently used the layout of later generations.

Go is generally divided into three stages, from the beginning of "layout" to the middle of "mid-game", and finally "official". The so-called "closing official" is official, which originally means that Go is about to end.

At the beginning, Zhao Hongzhuang played very quickly, but before the middle game, she suddenly raised her head and looked at Fang Yun in surprise, with a hint of anger, and said, "You lied to me!"

"What?" Fang Yun looked at Zhao Hongzhuang in confusion.

"Your layout is so exquisite, I didn't see it at the beginning! It was not until I carefully calculated just now that I found that if nothing unexpected happened, my white pieces would be slaughtered by you! Tell me, have you already passed the second level of Qindao?" Zhao Hongzhuang's eyes were a little red. She didn't expect Fang Yun to lie to her.

Fang Yun was stunned and couldn't help laughing and said, "Why are you crying?"

"I...I trust you so much, but you still play tricks on me!" Zhao Hongzhuang pursed her lips, unhappy. She rarely called herself "I" to Fang Yun.

Fang Yun smiled and said, "You, think about it carefully, look at my layout again, see if there is any problem, if it doesn't work, I will accompany you to review and play again."

"Oh?" Zhao Hongzhuang looked at Fang Yun in confusion, then stared at the Go and began to recall.

After a quarter of an hour, Zhao Hongzhuang suddenly realized and said, "So that's it! You must have got some great chess manuals, learned a special pattern, and memorized it, so I think your chess skills are exquisite. But thinking back carefully, your posture of holding the pieces and the process of placing the pieces are no different from a novice, and your use of this pattern is a little immature, and some places are not used well enough, so I didn't expect you to have such an exquisite pattern at first."

"Isn't it 'this palace' now? Continue 'other'." Fang Yun said with a smile.

Zhao Hongzhuang blushed and said, "Don't tease me! I am the eldest princess of Jingguo and the aunt of the young king! Keep playing! I lost a lot in the layout, but it's still unknown who will win until the end! Don't be too proud!"

"I'm satisfied that the layout can take the lead! But if you lose by accident, don't cry."

"Keep going!" Zhao Hongzhuang was angry. She didn't expect that she was almost defeated by this person who was younger and worse at chess than her. Fortunately, she found out before the middle game.

The two sides continued to play Go. In the early stage of the middle game, Fang Yun still had an advantage, but the more they played, Zhao Hongzhuang's chess strength became apparent, and Fang Yun's weakness of lack of experience began to be exposed.

If it were someone else, they would soon be killed by Zhao Hongzhuang, but Fang Yun had been infused with talent many times. Even if he didn't use his talent, his brain was not comparable to Zhao Hongzhuang's, and he persisted.

Until the end of the game, Fang Yun spent more and more time thinking, and moved his pieces more and more slowly, until he accidentally used his talent and woke up.

Fang Yun abandoned the piece and laughed: "You have no talent, but you forced me to use my talent, so I lost."

Zhao Hongzhuang reached out to wipe the cold sweat from her forehead, looked at Fang Yun with sparkling eyes, and said: "A person who has played less than 50 games has forced me to this extent. I even doubt my chess skills. If I had literary courage, I might be crushed into powder halfway through the game."

"Oh? How do you know I have played less than 50 games of Go?"

"Humph, I said before that your chess posture and movements. However, you are really different. Not to mention the Juren, even if you are a Jinshi who doesn't practice but only reads the chess records, it is impossible to force me to this extent."

"Thank you for the compliment, Princess."

"Come on, play another game! I want to let you understand the power of women in the second realm of chess!" Zhao Hongzhuang stared at Fang Yun, her beautiful face full of fighting spirit.

Fang Yun was about to tease her, but suddenly thought of how much effort a woman without talent would have to put in to reach the second level in chess, so he smiled proudly and said, "I will make it even harder for you to win in the next game, and I may even make you lose!"

"Don't believe it! Come on!" Zhao Hongzhuang became more motivated.

The two immediately started the second game. This time Fang Yun played by the rules and didn't try his best, while Zhao Hongzhuang went all out and gained an absolute advantage in the middle game.

"Alas, I still lost, so miserable." Fang Yun shook his head and sighed.

Zhao Hongzhuang grinned happily, and her white pearly teeth were particularly eye-catching.

"Don't show your teeth when you smile!"

"What do you care! I won!" Zhao Hongzhuang smiled proudly with her white neck.

"Come on, continue! I want revenge!"