[Jianwang III] Yellow sand is far above the sky

The Prince's Mansion is bathed in the morning light, and the feeling of being empty and desolate has now become quiet and peaceful.The maid was busy washing the quilts for sleeping, and the elder nun kept shaking the clothes to dry with water-soaked branches, saying that she wanted to dispel the bad luck of uncleanness in the palace these days.

The maid guarding the door yawned softly, then glanced through the crack of the door, turned her head and hastily waved her hands to the servant who was sweeping the fallen leaves in the yard, signaling him to be quieter with his already extremely gentle sweeping sound.

"What did you see?" Mo Liuxiang picked up the newly brought tea and looked up at Li Mi.

Li Mi stared at the chessboard, the black and white chess pieces were staggered, and his own white chess pieces had firmly occupied the four corners of the inner chessboard.There is a saying in Go that "golden horns and silver edges have a grass belly", so looking at the situation, I seem to have the upper hand.However, although Mo Liuxiang's black chess abandoned the four corners, it more or less firmly locked its sphere of influence from the sidelines to the corners. Although the situation looked good, the real benefits were extremely limited.

"A stalemate, but the situation is still on my side." Li Mi made a calm move, echoing a corner, while wedged into Mo Liuxiang's line of defense, as if trying to make a hole out of the siege of black chess: "I will revitalize the four corners to With this as the basis, to encroach on the hinterland, even if Mr. Mo defends every step of the way, it is only a defensive situation. If this confrontation continues, Mr. Mo may lose to me in the calculation of the final number of moves because black moves first."

But Mo Liuxiang was not in a hurry to settle down, and sipped his tea on his own.Then he put down the teacup, and casually tapped the four corners of the chessboard one by one: "Tubo, Nanzhao, Anlu Mountain, Yang Guozhong."

Li Bi nodded: "Tubo and Nanzhao each rely on the frontiers, An Lushan is a Jiedu envoy holding a heavy army, and Yang Guozhonggui is in charge of a magic strategy for the prime minister. Both of them are deeply entrenched and difficult to shake easily."

Mo Liuxiang looked at the chessboard, and shook his head helplessly: "Although the roots are deep, Datang is still able to subdue it now, and it is not a confidant's trouble. But once these forces converge..." Mo Liuxiang was silent for a moment, tapping his fingers Chessboard was thoughtful, then looked at Li Bi: "I'm afraid that even the power of nine heavens can't stop the building from collapsing."

Li Mi and Mo Liuxiang looked at each other, still with a calm expression: "Since the enemy is the first, it is natural to plan for the second. The strengths of the two parties have already intersected, so how should Mr. Mo deal with it?"

Mo Liuxiang kept silent, slowly took out a black chess piece from the chess box, and lightly tapped it on the position of Tianyuan in the middle.

"Tianyuan is cut off, and the ambition is in the four directions." Li Mi shook his head and sighed softly: "Although the heroism is sky-high, but in the predicament, I can only be an abandoned child."

Li Biyan finished speaking, and clicked a white chess piece on the upper right side of Tianyuan: "What's more, Tianyuan's only son has no side support now, so it will help the situation of siege at the four corners. I roughly calculated that if the master sticks to the corner, the plan will be a victory." The loss is only one or two eyes. But now Luozi Tianyuan, I am afraid that I will lose more than 20 eyes."

Mo Liuxiang didn't answer, but used a black chess piece to resist Li Mi's intention to encircle and kill Tianyuan.

Both of them had thought clearly, they had insight into the enemy and ourselves, and they saw that the moves were like flying, and the middle plate was almost full in a short time.Li Mi looked at the situation with a smile, and then looked at Mo Liuxiang after taking a moment calmly: "Sir, you are going to lose."

"Well, it's true now." Mo Liuxiang raised the corners of his lips slightly, and suddenly removed a white chess piece from Li Bi's formation from the chessboard, and replaced it with a black chess piece: "So, now?"

Li Mi was slightly taken aback, the mass of white in the middle of the plate seemed very abrupt because of this change.This sudden change cut off the connection between the four parties, and the layout of the middle game instantly became a deadlock.The black chess changed the disadvantage of defending from all sides, deployed and controlled the Central Plains, and stabilized the victory in one fell swoop.

"Mr. Mo... really clever." Li Mi smiled in bewilderment, and then looked at Mo Liuxiang who started to tidy up the chessboard.

"You've grown up. In the past, you would have accused me of cheating." Mo Liuxiang shook his head and smiled, and looked at Li Mi: "Or are you slandering me for opportunistic tricks?"

Li Mi smiled embarrassedly and remained silent.

"Since you learned how to play chess, I have never defeated you again. Your intelligence and savvy are not only beyond my reach. I am afraid that even Li Fu, who is good at strategy in nine days, may not be able to catch up with you." Mo Liuxiang got up and tidied up. He unbuttoned his sleeves, then looked back at Li Mi: "I can trust you with the position of the fourth secretary's 'chess'."

Li Mi heard the words with a calm expression, as if he was talking about someone else's business, he hesitated, and then said slowly: "Sir, I really don't worry, the sentence just now is actually I lost."

"The 'chess' in the Four Secrets strategizes and wins thousands of miles away, and the wisdom is superior to all living beings. However, this world often does not know that everything is within the rules, and there may be some weird plans hidden in the planning." Mo Liuxiang The voice was indistinguishable: "This game is the last thing I do as the previous 'chess', and it is also the last thing I can teach you."

Mo Liuxiang was silent for a moment, and continued: "There is no conclusion between black and white, but the connection between them is like the latitude and longitude on a chessboard. Thousands of threads can always be connected together. Everything you do is along the lines of These longitudes and latitudes form the fate track and slide slowly. There is no right or wrong in nothing, there is only choice. As a standard bearer, what you have to do is to have no appearance and no thoughts, and use your layout to make the world the way you want it to be. "

"Then..." Li Mi suddenly said, "How did you do it before, sir?"

Mo Liuxiang didn't speak for a long time, and it took a long time before he opened his mouth softly: "I forgot, because I have no hope, so I am not qualified to play 'chess' again."

"But 'Tianwaitian' still refused to let you go, so you still accepted the 'painting'." Li Bi lowered his head and began to tidy up the chessboard that Mo Liuxiang hadn't finished: "Speaking of which, I started joining 'Tianwaitian' 'I haven't seen a 'painting' since, the previous 'painting'..."

"Dead." Mo Liuxiang stood there quietly with his back to Li Mi.

"Oh..." Li Mi continued to tidy up the chessboard, and didn't dare to ask any more questions.Among the four secrets, except for this painting that everyone in the sky is silent, one defected to Yang Guozhong, and the other rushed thousands of miles away to complete the assassination of the Jedi alone. I haven't had a chance to learn about the past of the previous Fourth Secretary.

"I said that the chess game just now was the last thing I taught you." Mo Liuxiang turned her head and looked at Li Mi who was absent-mindedly clearing up the chess game.

Li Bi was startled, staring at the half-cleared mess in his hands.The chess piece clicked on Tianyuan is an out-and-out abandoned piece, and the protection of Tianyuan in the future is also a dying struggle.This kind of situation had no chance of winning at all, if it wasn't for Mo Liuxiang's last trick of jumping out of the rules and turning white into black...

Wait, turn white into black!

Li Mi stared at the chessboard, a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and then looked at Mo Liuxiang in surprise.Mo Liuxiang smiled, gave Li Mi a slight bow, and before Li Mi returned the gift, he shook his sleeves and strode out the door, reciting as he walked: "The seven strings and five tones move the nine heavens, and the vertical and horizontal latitude and longitude play the wine fairy. The iron painting and the silver hook book are upright, and a touch of Danqing paints the world."

Li Mi looked at Mo Liuxiang's back, her voice was still elegant, but with a melancholy of nostalgia, and a kind of pride that she had never felt from Mo Liuxiang before.Li Mi watched Mo Liuxiang disappear from his field of vision, and suddenly realized that he didn't know much about this companion who was both a teacher and a friend.

"Young master." The maid outside the door announced cautiously at the door.Li Mi interrupted her directionless thinking, raised her head to look at the maid, and signaled her to continue.

"There is a little nun outside the door looking for you. She said her name is Xihe."

"Understood." Li Bi nodded, and the maid retreated knowingly.

Li Mi stood up, straightened the folds on the hem of the flat clothes, then tightened the belt and walked slowly to the door.When he got to the door, Li Mi still couldn't help turning his head to look at the untidy chess game on the table.The young man's eyes stayed on the chess piece that turned from white to black for a long time, then he smiled knowingly, turned around and pushed open the closed door.

A ray of bright sunlight slipped into the room and sprinkled on the messy chess game.

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