Reincarnation of the powerful minister

The truth of 30 years ago made the surrounding guards break out in cold sweat, fearing that they would be silenced if they knew the secret of the royal family.

Su Yan's face was calm: "Mr. Mo is a victim of the power struggle, and so is the current empress dowager. Speaking of which, the hatred between the two old women may be just a spitting quarrel in the homes of ordinary people." It would be a disaster if it was put on someone in a high position, and it would be a disaster if a large number of people were involved.

His bold words shocked the guards, and they all turned to look at the emperor's face.Unexpectedly, what shocked them even more was that the emperor didn't get angry in the slightest at the rebellious remarks against the mother of the country, but instead showed a look of concern.

The guards think again—the Empress Dowager won a great victory in the first half of her life, and who will she lose in the second half of her life?I suddenly realized... now I am even more worried that I will not survive!

Mr. He plucked the strings again, and said with a smile: "Su Qinghe is really a wonderful person. It is not wrong to lose at your hands, but everything wants to survive, and I still want to earn a living for myself."

"How to earn?" Su Yan asked vigilantly, and at the same time signaled the guards with their eyes to hold their swords and swords firmly. In case the other party violently murdered, he would even use the trick of looking up at the iron bridge or rolling to the side. It's all expected.

Mr. He stretched his arms sideways, looking at the pavement under the pine tree next to the pavilion to watch the stones, he took a deep breath in his palm, grabbed two of them, and placed them on the edge of the stone platform, which happened to be two piles of black and white.

"As soon as King Ning left, Yu couldn't find any chess friends. I heard that the late emperor was a master player, but unfortunately he didn't have the chance to play a game. I don't know how good Master Su is at chess, can you have fun with Yu?"

"...It's not just a game of chess."

"Of course not." Mr. He smiled, "This is a game where Yu gambled his life. If Master Su wins, Yu will follow the leader of Wenxiang. If Master Su loses, Yu will kill thousands of people in the capital. Take them to the vacuum hometown together."

Su Yan subconsciously translated his clumsy words into vernacular: one game determines life and death.If you win chess, I will end it myself; if you lose chess, even if I die, I will drag the whole city to be buried with me.

...Damn, you die as soon as you die, can you die more simply, don't hurt others!Su Yan's anger rose from his heart, and his face sank: "Is this threatening the lives of the people? You don't just set fire, what else do you want to do? Another big explosion in Baizhifang? Mr. He, you have a good skin and a good character. It’s really embarrassing!”

Mr. He was not angry when he was scolded, and asked gently: "Master Su, do you want to go with Yu?"

Zhu Helin couldn't bear it anymore and ordered: "Take down the leader of this cult! Send him to Beizhen Fusi for torture and torture, and make him spit out everything!"

Mr. He turned a deaf ear to this, and just smiled at Su Yan: "It's not easy for me to comment on Yu's conduct, but there is one thing - I will never regret it."

——The lives of thousands of people!So why not play a game of chess with him?Just to delay the time, catch the remnants of the Vacuum Sect under him to torture to find out the truth of this threat.Su Yan took a deep breath, and said to the guards who bound Mr. He, "Wait a minute."

Zhu Helin didn't care about the state anymore, he jumped off his horse, jumped into the Qin Pavilion with a few steps, grabbed the hilt of one of the guards' swords and stabbed at Mr. He.

Mr. He didn't dodge, he received the sword on the shoulder socket, and blood gushed out immediately, staining the white shirt with ink characters on his body red.As if he didn't know the pain, he cupped his hands at Zhu Helin without changing his face: "Thank you, the Son of Heaven. Yu Zhou still has a lot of flesh and flesh to attack, but if this happens, Yu's mouth will probably be closed forever."

Su Yan held Zhu Helin's wrist: "A captured person, why bother to work on the emperor's jade body, it is better to let the minister handle it."

Zhu Helin cursed secretly, "This birdman is really crazy." Seeing Su Yan's firm gaze, he changed his mind and said, "It's only one round. No matter whether we win or lose, I will take him down!"

Su Yan responded and gestured with his eyes.Zhu Helin understood, and walked away with a flick of his sleeves, went outside the pavilion and ordered a commander of Teng Xiangwei to torture the Vacuum Cultist caught in the fire.

Mr. He gave himself acupuncture points, and after stopping the bleeding a little, he sat back on the stone pier again, gestured to Su Yan "Please take the child", and said, "Master Su is black?"

Heizi goes first, this is to let him.Su Yan said coldly: "No, just guess."

Mr. He smiled meaninglessly, and casually grabbed a handful of light-colored stones: "Please guess."

"Odd number." Su Yan said.

Mr. He let go, and the stones fell on the table, six, which is an even number.

Su Yan, who lost the guess, moved the light-colored stones to his side, with a cold face: "Please."

Mr. Crane took a dark stone, raised his hand and landed on the small eye in the upper right corner.

Solid, and both offensive and defensive, is the best choice.There was no surprise in Su Yan's heart, and the small eye in the upper left corner should be found.The third hand of the sunspot, which Mr. He patted on the small eye in the lower right corner, is just in the wrong direction from his first hand of the sunspot. It can be connected to surround the right side, or they can separate and fight separately.

——In this game, Yu Bi will do his best, and you should fight with all your strength!

Su Yan heard the opponent's voice from this hand, and immediately felt eager to be the first, and Bai Zi hung his eyes in the upper right corner, forcing the opponent to respond.If the opponent responds, it will be easy to be controlled by him. If he accidentally loses the upper hand, the advantage of sunspot will be wiped out.If he should not play, the hanging corner will be in jeopardy, and White's offensive will have a fulcrum, from which it can open the way.

Mr. He smiled and said softly: "It seems that you have a powerful teacher."

Su Yan recalled the time when the monarch and his subjects played chess in the Palace of Mental Cultivation, and recalled the chess record that he received as a gift in the Imperial Study Room and was always with him even when he retired, and nodded without hesitation: "It's not 'excellent', it's 'extremely powerful'. It's a pity that I can't even learn a tenth of his fur, and I don't have enough talent, so there's nothing I can do."

"Master Su is too modest." Mr. He said politely, but he was merciless in his strikes. After the third mistake, he used a seemingly ordinary trick to defuse the corner of the white chess, and vice versa. Force the opponent to choose to attack the back of the black piece or strengthen the white piece itself.

Su Yan was a little hesitant: Should he fight the black chess at close quarters, or fight for external momentum?If it is the emperor who is holding the white at this moment, how will he deal with it?

He began to try his best to recall and imitate Emperor Jinglong's chess style, so that he played every move with extreme caution, thinking over and over again.

On the other hand, Mr. Crane made his moves more and more easily and elegantly. The sunspots that fell could be attacked in advance and defended in retreat, and quickly formed a black formation.Su Yan struggled to deal with it, but Bai Zi walked on thin ice.

Mr. He said: "Lord Su, you are the one who is playing chess with Yu, not your teacher. If you can only follow the way of others but not your own way, you will definitely lose this game."

Of course Su Yan knew, but facing a master of chess like Mr. He, how could he win if he didn't try his best to imitate his teacher with his half-way monk's chess skills?

The advantage of black chess is obvious, but Mr. He sighed in disappointment, as if he felt that the food was tasteless, and he made a big move, and walked out of the "big oblique" offensive.The shape of the big oblique chess is weird and unstable, but in this faint instability, there are countless changes hidden, so it is called "thousands of big oblique changes".

This is to put pressure on Su Yan, making him unpredictable and unable to attack. If he avoids the battle or even responds, Da Xie will spread his wings and form a big net to crucify him.At the same time, this also seems to give Su Yan a chance to see if he can put aside the stereotypes in the thousands of changes and find a glimmer of life for himself.

The white ball that Su Yan was pinching didn't fall off for a long time, fine beads of sweat oozed from the corner of his forehead.

Zhu Helin saw that his complexion was not good, so he walked into the Qin Pavilion to observe the chess situation again. Unfortunately, he is a stinky chess player, not to mention his father's true biography, and even Su Yan can't win at ordinary times. It's extremely dangerous, even if you want to help, you can't help.

After contemplating, Su Yan came to the conclusion that if he escaped from the battle, the consequences would be unimaginable, so he turned Baizi between his fingers into the courage of encountering each other on a narrow road, and went straight to the vital point.

Mr. He showed admiring eyes, and couldn't help saying: "Okay! With such a fighting spirit, this is Yu Zhi's formidable enemy!" He braced himself up and showed his strength on this ever-changing big slope. Although Su Yan tried his best to deal with it, he didn't have enough accumulation after all. , Facing the big shape formed by Heizi, Baizi had to defend desperately.

"...Oh!" Zhu Helin blurted out.

It turned out that Su Yan made a mistake in judgment and played the white piece into the hinterland of the black formation, becoming a lone chess piece.This bad move made White's already advantaged move worse.

Mr. He pondered over this abandoned son, and felt that he could not do it on the spot, he would not be able to escape, and it would be too flimsy to use it as an ambush, so he finally decided that it was a big mistake.The middle game is the critical moment for black and white to strangle, he doesn't need to waste a few important moves on white's sacrificial pieces, so he chooses not to, and continues to surround and close.

Black chess wants to block, white chess wants to escape from the prison, the two sides are involved in a duel, and a robbery is formed locally.Mr. He ate a piece first, according to the rules, even if Su Yan could also take the same piece, he couldn't do it immediately, because the repetition of the same shape was prohibited, and he had to make a piece elsewhere before he could go back and raise it again.The next son is called Jiecai.

Su Yan put this robbing material next to the abandoned son.

Mr. Crane glanced at it, felt that the threat was not that great, and he should continue to eliminate the robbery directly, and planned to eat up the space for the confrontation first.

Su Yan let him eat, and still placed the next few hands near the abandoned son.

Mr. Crane emptied the upper right corner, and suddenly woke up from the momentum of the big victory, and found that with Su Yan's previous discarded piece as the core, several moves connected up and down, unexpectedly made the piece of white pieces break through the black wall, and the black formation of the big dragon Cut into two paragraphs!

"Abandoned sons create calamity... No, that's not right!" Mr. He murmured, "I've been tricked..."

These men are secretive and dangerous, if the other party finds out their true intentions in advance, they will surely dig their own grave.Su Yan took a deep breath, relaxed his heartstrings that had been tense, and tapped the empty space: "Yes, this piece is the real abandoned piece. The previous lonely piece was not an abandoned piece, but I buried it. foreshadowing."

Big beads of sweat dripped from Mr. He's temples, and he made up for the foreshadowing.But it was already too late, as if a dragon on the verge of thirst had to encounter a heavy rain, White's chess came back to life in an instant, and moved around on the chessboard, gradually expanding its own advantage.

The current plan is to attack from another siege to restore the situation as soon as possible, and maybe even fight back.Mr. Crane resolutely jumped out of the restraint, and turned to attack the weak point of white chess.

Su Yan picked up a light-colored stone, and when he was about to drop the stone, he suddenly stopped his gestures, and then threw the stone casually.He took out a milky white Hetian jade chess piece from his sleeve, smooth and round, with warm tentacles, it was the lucky chess piece brought out from the imperial prison.

Bai Yuzi landed on the stone platform with a "snap", and landed in the very center of the chessboard - Tianyuan!

Among the guards watching the battle with bated breath, there were those who had a little bit of chess skills, and couldn't help muttering: "Strangling from all sides, Luozi Tianyuan? Why is it an inexplicable idle move..."

But Mr. Crane's face turned pale.His cheeks were pale, but his lips were biting bright red. He stared fixedly at Bai Zi at Tian Yuan, and from the seemingly out-of-control appearance, he caught a glimpse of a masterful hand attacking in all directions——

The white formation above who suffered from losing contact, contacted the Central Plains because of this move, and opened up a way out!

The sunspot below who was attacking the thin part of the white piece was blocked by this move!

The black chess on the left seems to be stable, but this move has occupied the attack base, and the white chess can launch a fierce attack at any time!

The black formation on the right originally held the white chess piece and could go to the Central Plains, but this move has occupied the only way to go, firmly strangling the gate of life!

This move of Tianyuan is not only an active overall chess game for one's own side, but also a ghost hand to defeat the enemy and defeat the enemy by attacking all sides at the same time. It seems to be out of the overall situation, but in fact it stirs up the overall situation.

And it was the inconspicuous abandoned son who created the current overturning trend for it, tracing back to the source - no, it was the foreshadowing!

The sunspot in Mr. He's hand fell down, and after a long silence, he sighed: "I lost."

Su Yan said: "It's not over yet, black chess still has a chance to compete."

Mr. Crane shook his head: "Yu has seen beyond a hundred hands...even if he tries his best to mediate and fight, he will still lose one and a half eyes. Yu withdraws his preface, this is not someone else's way of chess, but your way of chess." He caught A handful of dark stones were slowly sprinkled on the chessboard to show that they admit defeat.

Su Yan took the white jade chess piece back into his palm, held it tightly, and glanced at the tops of the pine trees outside the pavilion, thinking of something, with a smile on his lips: "I'm just standing on the shoulders of giants."

"Who is your Go teacher?" Mr. Crane asked.

Su Yan tilted his head: "It's a master of the country. Didn't you mention him before the game started?"

After Mr. He changed his mind, he was a little surprised, but he felt that it made sense: "It's Emperor Jinglong? No wonder you are said to be an extraordinary family member of Su Qinghe, who has been honored and favored in two dynasties. A disciple of the former emperor, and a teacher of the present, hehe..."

Su Yan was made uncomfortable by the "huh", and decided to give him another blow, so he showed him the white jade chess piece in his palm: "The art of curing orphans was taught by my teacher, and this white jade chess piece was also used by the teacher during the demonstration." Yes. Come, give me your hand."

Mr. He raised his eyebrows in confusion, stretched out his right palm, and Su Yan pinched his four fingertips.

Zhu Helin came back to his senses and coughed hard.The guards tightened their swords on Mr. He's neck as a warning, cutting out bloodstains.Mr. He had no time to care about the wound, and looked at Su Yan's hand intently, feeling that he was writing in his palm.

Su Yan wrote: Just an hour ago.

What an hour ago?Mr. Crane was a little inexplicable.But after linking the other party's words before and after, his calm and breezy look that seemed to be welded on his face disappeared at this moment——

The art of curing orphans was taught by my teacher, and this white piece was also used by the teacher during the demonstration, just an hour ago.

...Emperor Jinglong is still alive!How can this be? !

Su Yan continued to write four words: The golden cicada escapes its shell.

Mr. Crane's face was ghastly pale.The truth is about to come out in these four words... The craniotomy did not take away Emperor Jinglong's life, but gave him a chance to escape and hide behind the scenes.The reason for the final defeat of the chess players, apart from Su Yan and Su Qinghe, who suddenly emerged and tried to turn the tide, is probably also the secret plan of that peerless chess player!

It turned out that the player and him had already stepped into each other's trap two years ago, and they had never had a chance of winning.

Then Shen Qi who came here for refuge...

"Shen Qi... is it an in-between?" Mr. He asked in a hoarse voice.

Su Yan wrote the last two words: Guqi.

Shen Qi is a lonely chess piece, an abandoned piece, but it is also a foreshadowing, the first step in the beginning of this ending that turns things around.

Mr. He let out a series of miserable laughs, and finally turned into a long smile looking up to the sky: "Hahaha, hahahahaha..." He laughed with tears in the corners of his eyes, and panted, "Thank you for letting me know, so that I won't die in the dark In return, Yu also has one thing to tell Mr. Su."

He leaned forward, wanting to listen to Su Yan, but the imperial guards couldn't allow him to get closer, they all scolded and stopped him.So Mr. He stretched out his arm, and using his finger as a pen, he wrote seven words on Su Yan's palm:

He, of, addiction, end, life, nothing, solution.

who?What addiction?Su Yan refused to think about it, and even more refused to write.But Mr. He stared at him so tenderly, with a hint of compassion, and slowly shook his head.

Mr. He let go of Su Yan's fingers, stood up holding the qin, and said to the guards: "The sword can be put away. I teach advocating light and fire, and the pope has his own home."

Zhu Helin saw that Su Yan was sitting still in a daze, even his lips were bloodless, and he was in a state of confusion. He was worried that his seven emotions would recur, and he was eager to know whether Mr. He was really behind him. Taking out the medicine bottle that never leaves his body, he stuffed the Requiem Pill prepared by the imperial doctor into Su Yan's mouth, and at the same time raised his voice to order: "Take him down and keep him alive!"

It means that it doesn't matter if you are injured, just keep your breath. The guards got the holy will and immediately besieged and arrested.Mr. He jumped out of the qin pavilion, poured his true energy into the body of the qin, and plucked the strings to fight back.

At this time, the commander who was ordered to torture the remnants of the arrested believers rushed over and reported to Zhu Helin: "Your Majesty, I have tortured many secret vaults where black oil and gunpowder are hidden. After cross-checking the confession, it is confirmed that it is correct."

With such a large amount, Mr. Crane cannot move it alone, so he will definitely need assistants, and no matter how secretive a matter is, as long as there are many people involved, there is bound to be a possibility of leaking the secret.Zhu Helin was determined, and shouted to Mr. Chaohe: "Did you hear it? Your last move also failed, and you still want to catch it?"

Mr. He didn't change his color, he seemed to have expected this result long ago, his fingers rolled the strings, and a long roar shook the guards back two steps.He asked Zhu Helin: "Yu Ruozao planted gunpowder under the Qin Pavilion, detonated it in the chess game, and burned everything. How can you save Su Yan's life if you are the emperor?"

Zhu Helin broke out in a cold sweat instantly.Su Yan has recovered his sanity, his face is still pale, but there is determination in his eyes.He walked down the steps and said, "You are reluctant."

Mr. Crane laughed: "Can't bear you?"

Su Yan said: "I can't bear to part with that game of chess. Besides me, who else can accompany you to play such a fun game of chess?"

"...You are right." Mr. He let out a long and weak sigh, "You risked your life to play chess with me, and I will do what I say." He put away the piano, turned around, and faced the burning fire Go to the gate of the Yuelie Ksitigarbha Temple.

Just as Zhu Helin was about to order the killing, Su Yan held his hand: "A person who has the courage to die, might as well give him the last face. Burning the body with fire is not more enjoyable than killing the neck with a sword, what does the emperor think?"

The emperor thought that as long as Mr. Su Ge didn't cheat out of the affair, he would be right in whatever he said.

Zhu Helin didn't say a word, it was a tacit consent.

Mr. He turned his head and cast a last glance at Su Yan. The flames reflected his white clothes fiery red, like a red lotus in full bloom.

"The great catastrophe is meeting the darkness of the sky and the earth, and the red lotus enters the vacuum." He chanted the prophecy in a low voice, and his figure was gradually engulfed by the rising flames.A sect that lasted for hundreds of years ended sadly, leaving only the last lingering sound of the last Pope, "There are no gods and Buddhas, and no sentient beings. Return to the vacuum, and I will live forever..."

Su Yan staggered and was supported by Zhu Helin.

Zhu Helin asked with concern: "Still not feeling well? Do you want to take another Requiem Pill?"

Su Yan held his hand tightly, with a gloomy face and a stagnant voice: "Where is Qilang? I want to see him..."

Zhu Helin was full of displeasure, and said with annoyance: "He fought Chu Yuan at the gate of the imperial prison, and then disappeared. Why, even if he was ordered by his father to join the enemy, you can't get him enough, Do you still want to come to congratulate me?"

Su Yan turned his face to look at him, with a hopeless calm in his eyes: "The player forced him to take the pill in order to completely control him. Qilang lied to me, how could he lie to me."

"What pill? Poison?"

"Worse than poison."

Zhu Helin thought for a while, and asked with mixed joy and sorrow: "When will he die from poisoning? I can give him a few more honorary titles in the imperial edict, posthumous title... Zhongyi, how about it?"

Su Yan ruthlessly shook off Zhu Helin's hand, got on his horse, and rode away with the whip.