Chapter 3413 Playing with people's hearts, winning every bet

The morning sun rises with thousands of rays of light, dispelling the darkness and ushering in the light. The silent inn has a little more movement and looks lively.

Chen Ping'an's body turned upside down, with one finger on the ground. He put two fingers of his free hand together and pinched the sword secret. The sword energy in his body continued to circulate along the acupoints and Qi Mansion. The route was complex and changeable, which was in line with the true nature of the heaven and earth piles. The movement routes of Qi complement each other, and the surrounding space is filled with a pure and condensed fist intention. The heaven and earth are reversed, the universe is repeated, and the void is faintly twisted, causing everything in the world to change.

"Squeak!"

The door opened, and the charcoal-looking little girl, with sleepy eyes and a sluggish expression, walked through the corridor, staggering, and appeared in front of Chen Pingan.

Obviously, Cui Dongshan's kind reminder last night scared Pei Qian a lot. Seeing that she was not energetic, Chen Pingan did not ask her to practice the boring six-step walking pile. He gave the little girl a few words and asked her to go back. Catch up on some sleep in your own room.

If Pei Qian was amnesty, he trotted back to the room and fell asleep. After covering himself with the quilt, he could finally have a good sleep with peace of mind. The little girl boldly got her head out of the quilt and no longer had to worry about seeing the person lying on her back. Over there at the bedside, wearing a bright red wedding dress, was the embroidered female ghost who married the ghost king of the mass grave.

When the sun got higher, Pei Qian also got some sleep, and everyone sat together to have breakfast. Chen Pingan left the inn again and went to check whether the situation at the Wenwu Temple in the city had been solved.

At this time, Cui Dongshan put down the bowl and chopsticks and glanced at the little girl who still had bloodshot eyes. He felt particularly happy. It seemed that his kind reminder last night had an amazing effect.

"Do you know how to play backgammon? Let's have some fun with a little gambling. If we win or lose, we only get one copper coin. How about that?"

Cui Dongshan did not directly compete with Lu Baixiang to discuss chess skills. Instead, he aimed at the charcoal-like little girl and said with a smile.

Pei Qian had played backgammon, a trick that Lu Baixiang taught her. The rules were simple. Pei Qian often pulled Wei Xian along and borrowed Lu Baixiang's chess pieces to kill on the chessboard. The two of them went back and forth, and they were evenly matched. Compared to the dull and boring game between Lu Baixiang and Zhu Lian, Pei Qian and Wei Xian's chess game was much more lively. Each move made more noise than the last, crackling and full of momentum. I can't wait to see it. He smashed a hole in the chessboard, which made Lu Baixiang regretful.

Pei Qian and Wei Xian, a bad chess player, won more and lost less. They liked to get carried away when they got the upper hand, and they regretted playing when they lost. Fortunately, Wei Xian was very tolerant of the little girl and didn't care much about the outcome or the quality of the chess pieces.

When Pei Qianti heard Cui Dongshan say that he wanted to play chess with her, she shook her head vigorously. The little girl was not stupid. Chen Ping'an said that Cui Dongshan's chess skills were superb and few others could match them. She could only play five-piece chess at most. There is no way to gain confidence in winning money on this side path.

Pei Qian knew very well that Cui Dongshan was not Wei Xian. He was the kind of person who was rare in the world and a big grievance. He would give in to her regardless of victory or defeat.

Cui Dongshan seemed to know what Pei Qian was thinking. A bright smile appeared on his handsome face. His peach blossom eyes narrowed slightly, revealing a bit of cunning. He continued to trick the little girl and made a tempting proposal.

"As Mr.'s disciples, of course we can't lose any of our friendship when we play chess. Whoever loses wins money, how about that?!"

If the difference in chess skills between two people is too big, whether the skilled chess player wants to lose or win is at his discretion, and there is no difficulty at all.

Pei Qian didn't understand this truth. When she heard this, her eyes lit up. She lost a game of chess and could still win a penny. There was such a beautiful thing in the world. She immediately agreed, thinking it was a big pie falling from the sky.

In Pei Qian's room, Lu Baixiang brought chess equipment, and Cui Dongshan and Pei Qian, fellow students, played a game of backgammon that was suspected of damaging the chessboard. The four people in Lotus Flower Paradise chose to watch in unison, hoping to get a glimpse of Cui Dongshan's details.

Pei Qian made random moves, with two chess pieces separated by thousands of miles.

Cui Dongshan also played haphazardly. Sometimes his chess pieces were behind Pei Qian's chess pieces, and sometimes there were one chess piece in the south, south, north, and south. He played some basic introductory moves of Go, and it seemed that Pei Qian had a greater chance of losing.

But when the space on the chessboard became narrower and narrower, Pei Qian was surprised to find that it became easier and easier for him to connect five pieces in a row. The chessboard was full of intertwined black and white chess pieces, and the five black chess pieces connected into a line. The little girl actually won. She was heartbroken and felt uncomfortable for winning the chess game for the first time.

Pei Qian was so frustrated that he lost a penny. The little girl's intestines were filled with regret, and she wished she could eat the chessboard into her stomach, so she wanted to repeat her old trick of regretting chess. But she glanced at Cui Dongshan, who was sitting across from him with his legs crossed and eating melon seeds, and she still didn't dare to cheat after all.

Cui Dongshan looked sideways at the chess game, with a regretful expression on his face, and said neither yin nor yang.

"If you lose at chess, you will lose at chess! It seems that my luck in gambling is slightly better than yours. How about we play again?"

"If you dislike a chessboard and it doesn't allow you to show your chess skills, we can add a few more chessboards, but for each additional chessboard, the bet will have to add a copper coin. If I win, I will immediately pay you out of my pocket. , you can add more chessboards as you like until you lose and win money, this should be fair, right?"

Pei Qian hesitated, glanced at Cui Dongshan with a playful smile, and finally fell into the trap and said.

"But the tabletop is too small to fit the chessboard?"

Cui Dongshan raised his right hand, pointed at the ground, and said.

"Let's play chess on the ground. What are we afraid of? If there are too many chess boards, we can go down to the corridor outside the house, right? Anyway, the more chess boards there are, the more money you will win. I know you have a good memory, so I will make do with it. Let's let Lu Bai On the right side of Xiang or Sui, go and borrow two pieces of charcoal from the inn. Then I will use charcoal to draw the chessboard, and we won’t use the chess pieces. If anyone remembers it wrong, it will be considered a loss. "

Pei Qian turned his head and glanced at Old Wei. Wei Xian felt that this way of asking for defeat was too stupid, so he left directly. Zhu Lian also rolled his eyes and walked out of the room.

Lu Baixiang went to the shopkeeper to borrow charcoal and returned. Sui Zuoyi stood aside with an indifferent expression. The two of them were very patient and chose to stay in the house to accompany their older and younger classmates to fool around.

Pei Qian has an outstanding memory and is an innate talent. Whether it is Chen Ping'an or Lu Baixiang, who is excellent in chess and is familiar with replays, he is ashamed of himself.

Two boxes of chess pieces were simply not enough, so Pei Qian and Cui Dongshan not only competed to see who was more shameless, but also began to compete on memory. Two other chessboards were drawn with charcoal on the ground. If Pei Qian didn't add another chessboard, he would still win, so he could only draw another chessboard.

In the corridor, the person on the right side of Sui looked cold and indifferent. He looked at Lu Baixiang beside him and asked.

"Can you see the depth?"

"Renju is too simple. If I draw ten more chessboards, Pei Qian still won't be able to test this person's chess ability."

Lu Baixiang shook his head. Cui Dongshan was hiding his secrets, and Pei Qian couldn't test his depth at all, which made Lu Baixiang and others' thoughts come to nothing.

"If you stop hiding and choose to go all out, how big will the gap be between us?"

Sui Youyou, a national chess player from Ouhua Blessed Land, often competed with Lu Baixiang and asked with a serious expression.

"To be honest, you shouldn't be able to make me play Tetsuji."

The so-called tetsuji refers to the wonderful moves on the chessboard, which are mostly caused by evenly matched opponents and fierce fighting situations on the chessboard. Such magical moves are most likely to appear in Zhigui and Tulong.

The implication of Lu Baixiang's words was that he only needed to follow the steps and make steady moves to win against Sui Youyou.

Although Sui Youyou was very concerned about winning and losing, she had always regarded it as a leisurely way to talk with opponents, so she could afford to lose and was not displeased by Lu Baixiang's words.

In the Lotus Flower Blessed Land, chess masters and top national players from all over the world highly admire the chess skills of Lu Bai, the founder of the Demon Sect, and may choose the strongest player. Chess masters from all dynasties, generations, and schools will have some differences. , but if you choose the top three in the history of Ouhua Blessed Land, Lu Baixiang will definitely have a place. This shows that Lu Baixiang has a high reputation on the chessboard.

Sui Youyou's skill in chess is far inferior to that of swordsmanship. He grasped the hilt of the sword at his waist with five fingers. There was a dignified look on his cold and beautiful face, and he gave instructions with a slight frown on his brows.

"Don't lose to that man!"

"We'll see!"

As the founder of the Demon Sect in Lotus Flower Blessed Land, Lu Baixiang has extraordinary ability and magnanimity, and is extremely confident in his chess skills. He thinks that his cultivation may not be as good as Cui Dongshan, a young man in white, but he does not think that his chess skills will be lost to his opponent. .

In Pei Qian's room, Cui Dongshan smiled proudly and was in a good mood, but the charcoal little girl Pei Qian was about to cry, her face was wrinkled, and she was in a terrible mood because she was about to lose six copper coins.

Pei Qian raised her hand to wipe her tears, took out a sachet that served as a money bag from her sleeve, and poured out seven copper coins with great reluctance, which were her hard-earned money.

Pei Qian clutched the copper coin tightly, stood up hesitantly, put it gently on the table, and looked at Cui Dongshan pitifully, hoping that this guy could show his immortal style and walk away without accepting her copper coins.

Unfortunately, things didn't work as expected. Cui Dongshan walked to the table with a smile, stretched out his hand, and the copper coins disappeared. He walked out of the house, not forgetting to remind him with a smile.

"I'm willing to admit defeat. I will accept the seven copper coins! Don't forget to return the chess set to Lu Baixiang and wipe off the traces on the ground."

"Today is such a good day. I earned some money and went out to buy candied haws."

Cui Dongshan held the back of his head with both hands and walked away in a swagger. Only Pei Qian stood by the table, wailing and crying miserably.

Suddenly, Cui Dongshan leaned back, poked his head out of the door, looked at the crying little girl and said with a smile.

"Pei Qian, I'm going to learn to play chess with Lu Baixiang. I want to get a good omen. Every time you call me chess fairy, I will give you a penny."

Pei Qian stopped crying immediately, his eyes lit up, and he ran out of the threshold in a hurry. He followed Cui Dongshan and called Qixian enthusiastically.

Pei Qian called Chess Fairy over and over again until her voice became hoarse. She was babbling and couldn't say a word. With a bright smile, she reached out to Cui Dongshan to ask for copper coins.

Cui Dongshan smiled and said nothing, and did not react at all. The little girl quickly wrote the numbers on the table.

"I'm just kidding you. Do you really believe it?"

Cui Dongshan stared at the little girl, the smile on his face disappeared, and he narrowed his eyes and said.

Pei Qian collapsed immediately, his voice became hoarse, and he was speechless. He could only open his teeth and claws, trying to fight Cui Dongshan desperately.

"If you keep nagging you, I will dig out your eyes. Then you will not only become a mute, but also a little blind man. Then you will be miserable. What hope do you have in your life?"

Cui Dongshan put his fingers in front of Pei Qian's eyes, his eyes flashing coldly, threatening the little girl.

"Even if Chen Pingan is angry, he can't beat me to death, don't you think?"

Cui Dongshan had a serious expression on his face and a dangerous aura in his eyes, which completely frightened the little girl.

Pei Qian's face was gloomy and he pursed his lips, but he didn't dare to pick up the hiking pole and beat the bastard to death. The more he thought about it, the more desperate he became. With a dull expression on his face, he sat down on the edge of the bed, his heart was filled with despair, and he was in tears. Down.

Seeing this, the chill on Cui Dongshan's face disappeared, he smiled brilliantly, took out a heavy silver ingot, tossed it up and down a few times, and then threw it to Pei Qian, who was staring at it intently.

"Seeing that you know your tastes, I'll let you play for a few days! If I learn chess well, I might be in a good mood and give it to you."

Pei Qian held the heavy silver ingot in both hands, smiling through his tears. He placed the silver ingot on the table and looked at it horizontally, vertically, left and right, never getting tired of it.

Seeing this, Cui Dongshan showed a meaningful smile on his face, turned around and left the room.

A quarter of an hour later, Pei Qian's eyes suddenly widened. He saw the silver ingot begin to squirm and turn into a snow-white grasshopper. It jumped away from the window and disappeared. When she came to her senses, she immediately crawled away. He went up to the window, jumped down, and started looking for silver ingots in the backyard.

Pei Qian searched for half an hour in weeds, wall bases, stone gaps, and even dug the ground with his hands. In the end, he still couldn't find the silver ingot that turned into a grasshopper. The exhausted little girl sat blankly in the dirt. I can't even cry anymore.

After Chen Ping'an returned to the inn from Wen Mo Temple, he saw Pei Qian's gloomy and thin back. He shouted several times but got no response. He could only jump out from the window sill and came behind the little girl.

Only then did Pei Qian react. He turned around stiffly, drooped his head, clutched the corners of his clothes with both hands, and told the story in detail, feeling extremely regretful.

Chen Ping'an sighed, returned to the house, and went directly to Cui Dongshan. He returned not long after and said to Pei Qian.

"Seven copper coins, if you have the ability, you can win them back by yourself. If you can't win them back, give up! But you can play with the silver ingots. Whenever Cui Dongshan says he wants to take it back, you still have to return it to him."

When Pei Qian heard this, he stood up quickly, climbed into the room from the window, and carefully took the Chongyin that had turned back into a silver ingot.

Chen Pingan grabbed Pei Qian's ears, carried her to the table, and lectured her.

"You are so promising, how dare you gamble with others?!"

Pei Qian stood in the room tremblingly, covering the silver ingot with both hands, reluctant to let go, for fear that it would turn into a grasshopper and run away again.

"Since you like gambling so much, take away the treasure box you put in the bamboo box. It will be enough for you to gamble with Cui Dongshan many times!"

Chen Ping'an hated the fact that iron cannot become steel. He stared at the little girl angrily and said cruel words.

"Should I help you get it, or should you get it yourself?"

When Pei Qian heard this, he immediately panicked, shook his head vigorously, and stood motionless.

Chen Pingan sat at the table with an angry look on his face. He slapped the table hard with his palm, causing the ground to tremble slightly, and said angrily.

"Go get the treasure box and carry it by yourself from now on!"

Pei Qian turned his head sharply, with a straight face, neither crying nor fussing, nor begging for mercy. He stood there blankly, looking silent, which made Chen Pingan angrier. The little girl looked down at the silver ingot in her arms, gritted her teeth, and threw it out of the window.

Chen Pingan got up, went to the next room to open the bamboo box, turned out the treasure box, threw it on the table in Pei Qian's room and left.

A moment later, Pei Qian rushed into Chen Ping'an's room with the treasure box in hand. With lightning speed, he stuffed the treasure box into the bamboo box and ran away.

Chen Pingan took out the treasure box and came to Pei Qian's door again. The little girl had already bolted the door from the inside.

Chen Ping'an felt extremely angry and was about to kick open the door and throw the little girl and the treasure box outside the inn. However, he did not kick in the door and stood quietly at the door for a long time.

In the room, Pei Qian pressed his back against the door, raised his two slender arms, and covered his charcoal-like face with the backs of his hands. Tears fell down and wet the ground.

On the roof of the inn, the culprit boy in white was lying on his back, his head resting on his arms, watching this scene with a half-smile.

Then, the figure fell away, and the young man in white did not go directly to Lu Baixiang, but first went to the old cook Zhu Lian and proposed a bet. He wanted to compete with Zhu Lian. As long as Zhu Lian won, he would give Zhu Lian something close to him. If Zhu Lian lost, Cui Dongshan would make him a midnight snack every day from now on.

Pei Qian in Cui Dongshan's pit was so miserable that Zhu Lian was afraid of following in his footsteps, so he didn't agree at first. However, Cui Dongshan was a master at playing with people's hearts and promised to stand still and tie his own hands and feet, which made Zhu Lian agree to this. Gambling.

In the end, Cui Dongshan stood still, relying on the many magic weapons on his body. From the beginning to the end, Zhu Lian could not get within ten feet, just like walking a dog. Zhu Lian lost the bet in disgrace.

Not long after, Cui Dongshan came to visit Lu Baixiang casually. After entering the door, before sitting down, he saw the "Caiyun Pu" in Lu Baixiang's hand. He was slightly startled and asked with a strange expression.

"You just want to learn about this thing, life and death, chess tendons, formations and chess principles?"

When it comes to playing chess, Lu Baixiang is invincible in Lotus Flower Blessed Land. When he first arrived in Haoran World, he had a very high self-esteem for chess. It was only when he accidentally saw this "Caiyun Pu" that he realized what it means to be outside the world. There are people outside.

The more Lu Baixiang studied, the more he realized how profound the chess skills of both sides were. Not to mention the chess master of Baidi City who was regarded as the best chess player in the world, he only said that the chess player Cui Yi was qualified to play against Zheng Juzhong in Caiyunjian. Although he lost a lot in the end, but speaking of this person's layout alone, every step was wonderful, and the momentum was like wind and thunder, which penetrated the paper and hit the face, which was suffocating.

Lu Baixiang later searched for Cui Luo's chess game and thought that this person's chess skills were flawless, with a calm and elegant aura, and he was very meticulous and far-reaching, without any mistakes or stupid moves, which made him feel extremely shocked and amazed. The reason why this person lost to the Lord of Baidi City can only be said to be that he was born at the wrong time. He happened to meet a chess master who was unprecedented in history and had already achieved great success.

Cui Dongshan was originally an incarnation of Cui Luo. Although the old scholar used means to cut off the connection and became an independent individual, the chess skills originated from one body. Lu Baixiang wanted to defeat Cui Dongshan by studying "Caiyun Pu", which was probably a fool's dream.

Lu Baixiang looked up puzzledly, looked at the handsome young man with a red mole on his forehead, and asked back.

"What's wrong?"

"Forget it, I won't learn chess from you anymore."

Cui Dongshan sat at the table with a helpless look on his face, threw the chess pieces in his hand back into the chess pot, scratched his head, and said meaningfully.

"You should learn chess from me."