Chapter 634 Chess Piece

Guan Xin looked at him, "Why, you told me not to marry a wife?"

"Don't, don't, don't," Tong Pao was afraid that if he really didn't marry, would they still be able to walk out of Qili Village alive?

Didn't you see how many villagers lined the road to watch the excitement?

The same robe lowered his voice and said: "Just treat what I just said as fart, let's hurry up, don't miss the auspicious time."

Zhou Zhoulang ran to the relatives and friends who were carrying the dowry, took out several small baskets, filled with some candies, handed the baskets to his younger brothers, and then the five of them distributed them to the villagers and children who watched the excitement along the road.

With this shot, the children went crazy, singing nursery rhymes while running behind, and kept sending them two miles away, until Zhou Zhoulang and the others had finished distributing all the wedding candies in their hands.

It's a pity that Man Bao couldn't join in the excitement.

Bai Erlang had already run away with Santou, chasing the procession all the way to walk two miles away before returning with a bag full of wedding candies.

Bai Shan didn't join in the fun, and went back to her room to sit and talk with Man Bao, "Grandmother knew I was learning chess, so she had someone make a chess board for me, using high-quality catalpa wood, but the chess pieces required me to play chess." Buy it yourself, can you help me?"

"Okay." Man Bao thought that in the future, Bai Shan would definitely not play chess with Bai Erlang, so she would play chess with him most of the time, so he was naturally willing to contribute.

Just seeing off the eldest sister, Man Bao felt very disappointed, and the family was busy, and no one played with her, so Man Bao went to Bai's house together.

Bai Shan led her to his own yard, and said, "The chessboard is still being made, so I just took a look, let's choose stones."

There are two baskets in Bai Shan's yard, and the servants are all busy, either pruning flowers and trees, or arranging things.

Bai Shan pushed down a basket, poured out a basket of black stones, and said, "Grandmother sent people to the county to buy these these two days."

The other basket was filled with off-white stones, a basket full of different shapes and sizes.

Bai Shan pushed it down, poured out the stones inside, and introduced: "We need to pick out suitable stones and grind them into stones."

Man Bao closed his mouth and asked, "Aren't there any ready-made ones in the bookstore?"

"Yes, there are, but the quality is usually not good, and it's expensive." He said: "Grandmother said, if you want to learn chess, it's best to raise the chess pieces yourself. Such chess pieces are smooth and fall like rhythm, which is very comfortable."

He regretted: "My father used to keep a chess set, but unfortunately when the servants went to collect the relics, they lost many things, and the chessboard was gone."

Otherwise, he could directly use his father's chess.

Man Bao also regretted it, looked at the scattered stones, and sighed: "The amount of work is huge."

Bai Shan nodded, "Yes, come on, let's pick the chess pieces."

"My grandmother said that these stones are the best material for making chess pieces. Don't look at them as messy and oddly shaped. The price is not cheap."

"Then your family still buys so much?"

"No way, this kind of stone is sold in baskets."

Man Bao was very curious, "What do you think will happen if you can't pick a pair of chess pieces from a basket of stones?"

"That can only mean that you are unlucky and can only buy another basket."

Man Bao: ...Suddenly feel that selling stones is also a very profitable business, what should I do?

But she looked at the stone in her hand, and found that she didn't seem to have seen such a stone in the village, no, she hadn't seen it at all, so she smashed the idea and threw it to the back of her mind.

Man Bao looked at the gray and white chess pieces, then at the black chess pieces, and decided to choose the black chess pieces.

To select chess pieces that are round, round, and of moderate size, you have to choose more. Later, Mrs. Liu will ask craftsmen to cut them for them, and then simply polish them.

But for more detailed grinding and stone washing, they need to do it by themselves.

Because chess pieces cannot be made in a day or two, there are 361 pieces in a pair of chess pieces, and each piece needs to be carefully polished and washed by a craftsman. How long will it take?

Craftsmen do have time, but Man Bao and the others don't.

And the most important thing to learn Go is patience, which is the same as practicing calligraphy, even more patience than practicing calligraphy.

Bai Shan doesn't know what the other family asked for, but in his Bai family, the chess pieces have always been polished and cleaned by himself. It is said that the chess pieces and chessboards of his great-grandfather and grandfather are still in the warehouse.

It's a pity that he can't see it, and his grandmother doesn't let him use it, so he can only polish his own chess pieces.

At the beginning, the two of them squatted on the ground and lowered their heads to pick up stones, but in the end they simply sat on the ground and talked while choosing, which was not boring at all.

Bai Shan touched a very special stone, and asked Man Bao with a smile, "Does this look like a turtle?"

Man Bao looked up, nodded again and again, and said, "Like, it looks like a mouth."

Bai Shan put it aside and said, "Let the craftsman grind it for us later."

Man Bao came up with an idea, "You can put a pen washer on the desk and put it inside, it must look good."

Bai Shan felt reasonable.

When Mrs. Zheng came over with the tray, she saw the two talking lively. She glanced at the sun that was about to set in the sky, and hurriedly handed the tray to the girl, and said, "Are you just sitting here picking stones all afternoon?"

Bai Shanbao raised his head, and then he felt a little sore in his neck, "Mother, why are you here?"

"Let's see if you guys are being mischievous again. Why are you sitting under a tree picking in such a hot day?" Turning around, he scolded the servants, "The master is not here in March, even if you become more and more unruly, you don't know how to pick stones." Move to the house to pick it up?"

Bai Shan quickly said: "Mother, I don't want to let it go. The stone is dirty, so I don't want to move it into the house."

"Just lay a blanket on the ground. Is your body important, or the floor?"

Man Bao said: "Aunt Zheng, we're about to pick one. Anyway, the sun is about to go down now, so it's not hot at all."

Mrs. Zheng squatted down and wiped the sweat off her forehead with a handkerchief, and said, "You said it wasn't hot, but your forehead is already sweating, and you all managed to whiten it, what if it gets tanned again?" manage?"

If you want to say what Zheng is most satisfied with his son going to study in Yizhou City, it is that he has turned white after going out for a trip. It should be said that all three children have turned white.

When they were in Qili Village, as soon as they finished school, no matter how conscious they were, they couldn't help but go out to play every day, go to the fields, in the yard, and run around in the sun like this.

So even though they are three layers whiter than the children in the same village, they are still black.

But in Yizhou City for three months, the three of them spent most of their time studying and studying in the house, and rarely went out to play wildly under the sun. After raising them like this, the three of them turned white.

Especially Man Bao, with a face like Yingyu, Zheng Shi liked it so much, she couldn't help but pinch it, "This meat is so white and tender, if it gets tanned, Aunt Zheng's heart will be so painful ah."

Bai Shan: ...Mom, your son is opposite.

Good night