Seventeen, the first battle of the Imperial College

Zhou Xuan has always been good at making friends and likes to give people convenience. He stood up with a stick and said, "It's okay, just sit down, we'll leave in a while."

The Junya Young Master sat down in a seat a few steps away from Zhou Xuan, nodded at Zhou Xuan, and then looked at the field, watching the "Jiang General" Jia Chang commanding eight hundred cocks to form eight square formations, just like a picture of the innate Bagua of King Wen.

The Junya Young Master laughed: "Goggy chicken is so fun." His voice was soft and delicate, not like a man's voice.

Lin Hanyun leaned into Zhou Xuan's ear and said, "Brother Zhou Xuan, this young man is dressed by a woman."

Zhou Xuan said deliberately: "Is that so, why didn't I see it? You were pretending to be a small servant for so long, but I didn't see it."

Lin Hanyun gave him a blank look: "Brother Zhou Xuan's eyes are not good. Look at that young master, you can tell at a glance that he is a woman with a tall breast."

Zhou Xuan was shocked and said, "Sister Hanyun still knows how to look at it, and she seems to be much more sensible."

Lin Hanyun's face turned red, and she returned to the alliance in the old way. She came to pinch Zhou Xuan. She thought the clothes were thick and difficult to pinch, so she reached under Zhou Xuan's robe and twisted Zhou Xuan's legs.

Miss Lin Er is still ignorant. Zhou Xuan quickly knocked off her hand and said, "Look, the chickens are starting to fight in groups."

I saw Xue Chang in the field commanding eight teams of cockfighting to start fighting in pairs, attacking and defending each other, which was like a marching and fighting.

The feathers flew over and pecked with iron beaks, and fought fiercely for a long time. When the whip bell rang, eight hundred cockfighting cocks returned to the queue and slowly retreated with the eight boys.

The large-scale cockfighting performance ended, and the Lantern Festival cockfighting officially began. A small cockfighting field with a wooden fence was circled on the wide field. One hundred cockfightings began to fight under the leadership of their respective owners.

Seeing that it was not too early, Gu Changshi urged: "Mr. Zhou, Shen Shi is approaching. Go back. This cockfighting will take a month to fight. You can watch it at any time. The chess battle cannot be delayed."

Three cynical, Four cynical scanned the field again, and was sure that Five cynical did not come, so he had to get up and go back. Four cynical muttered, "It's strange, why don't the fifth brother come? Is there something delayed?"

With outsiders present, Zhou Xuan had to be limped. When he walked past the handsome young man with a bamboo stick, the young man smiled charmingly at him, and Lin Hanyun glared at the young man dressed in a manly manner.

When Zhou Xuan and his party walked out of the cockfighting hall, the two servants behind Junya's female princess asked in a low voice: "Why don't Miss Lian do it?"

The lady Lian, who dressed as a man, narrowed her eyes and didn't say anything for a long time. The servant behind her asked again, and then replied: "There are two masters around this man. If I do it, I will not be able to leave."

Zhou Xuan didn't know that he had just passed by danger like walking on thin ice. He laughed and joked with Lin Hanyun. When he left the cockfighting hall, he heard Sichi say something: "It's also a woman dressed as a man."

The young master Junya did not make any other concealment except for his men's outfit. Even Lin Hanyun could tell that the man was a woman. It was naturally even less surprising that the four fools could tell. But why did the word "yes" be added? Who is also dressed as a man? Is it about Lin Hanyun in the past?

Zhou Xuan looked at Sichi's eyes and did not find any characteristics of his daughter. He couldn't help but laugh at himself for being too concerned. How could Sichi's eyes be a woman!

Everyone rode their horses and drove back to the shore of Mochou Lake. Judge Fan was already ready to stop and left Gu Changshi, who led Gu Liuquan, Zhou Xuan, Zhou Sanchi, and Zhou Xiaojian to the Imperial College of Southern Prefecture.

The Imperial College is the highest official school in the Tang Dynasty. It recruits children of officials above the seventh rank and above as students. The common people cannot enter. It is now a period of off-school and is just used to play Lantern Festival chess battles.

The Lantern Festival chess battle was hosted by the Grand Secretary of the Hanlin Academy and the Secretary of the Secretariat Qi Zhangqi. When he heard the Tai students' singing titles, the judges from the top ten Protectorate led the chess men who were selected and sent to the geese.

The Imperial College has a large building and the lecture hall covers an area of ​​several acres. Because the dome span is large, there are eight giant wooden pillars supporting it, which can accommodate hundreds of people to speak and argue. At this time, fifteen chess cases are set up to play chess in pairs, which is still very empty.

Before the formal game, Prince Li Jian came to the Imperial College and welcomed all the chess players who participated in the Lantern Festival Chess Club on behalf of the emperor. When he saw Zhou Xuan, he smiled and nodded.

Zhou Xuan quickly called Judge Fan over and asked him to tell Li Jian that Zhou Xiaojian would come in and watch chess. He just told Qi Youyou Prime Minister, but Qi Youyou Prime Minister was unwilling to be able to make peace and said that only princes, nobles and officials above the fourth rank were allowed to watch chess. If any servant could come in and watch chess, wouldn’t the Imperial College be crowded?

Li Jian immediately said to his left and right, and soon the four fools in green-clothed and small hat came in excitedly.

At the hour of You, with the sound of a bronze chime, the game began. Zhou Xuan was in the first stage to face Sun Xuelu of Zhaowu Protectorate. Sun Xuelu ranked 16th among the 18th National Game Chess, while Zhou Xuan was an unknown person.

Sun Xuelu is nearly fifty years old and has a sparse beard. As soon as she sat at the edge of the chessboard, she started to twist her beard. It seemed that her beard was sparse because it was broken by him. She bowed to Zhou Xuan politely, thinking that it was a bit strange that the Fenghua Army did not send Gu Liuquan to the first stage. Could this smiling young man in front of him be stronger than Gu Liuquan?

When Zhou Xuan guessed the white chess first, he felt relieved. Without making any purpose, guessing the white chess is equivalent to making a profit in vain. For Zhou Xuan, a chess player with amateur five-stage strength, he can compete with the high-stage professional stage when he was asked to first. According to what Zhou Xuan learned from Gu Liuquan, he classified the chess power of the 18th chess players according to the rank system of later generations. Among the 18th chess players, the bottom eight should be at the level of the 5th chess players. The tenth to sixth should be the level of the strong five, strong sixth or low-stage professional stage, and the top five should have the strength of the high-stage professional stage. This is different from the later generations' understanding of the history of the Tang and Five Dynasties Go. The Tang Dynasty has a strong chess style, so the Go level will naturally be high.

Sun Xuelu has a very stable chess style. For players who are weaker than him, he can win steadily. The possibility of a horse losing his feet is very small. However, if the opponent's chess power is stronger than him, it will be difficult for him to win in a flash. His chess has been determined and he cannot break through to the long chess upwards.

Zhou Xuan is different. His chess is energetic and motivated. His disadvantage is that he is not stable enough. For players with weaker chess skills than him, sometimes he will lose his tricks if he kills too much. However, for those who are obviously stronger than him, he can often perform beyond his level, giving him strong pressure to get started.

After the last time he fought with Sanchi's life-and-death chess game in Shimenjian, Lushan, Zhou Xuan's impetuous chess has been eliminated a lot and is no longer so easy to miss. He took the lead in this game and started with a fixed change of star-position double flying swallows that a Tang Dynasty chess player had never seen before, transforming the advantage of the first to the second, and then firmly grasped the situation.

Although Sun Xuelu knew that the situation was not good, she was unable to launch a counterattack. The opponent's strength was hidden above him. This game of chess went on so smoothly and lost steadily.

Zhou Xuan made a move faster, Sun Xuelu was neither fast nor slow, and he entered the stage of a big official, and the advantages of Zhou Xuan’s five sons on the market were unshakable, but Sun Xuelu refused to admit defeat and struggled to support him. I wonder if he wanted to wait for Zhou Xuan to fail or not to admit defeat in the mid-game, and he had to endure the final game?

Zhou Xuan stood up leisurely and walked to Gu Liuquan to watch chess. An extremely high student who acted as a referee came over to warn him that he should not go around when playing chess, otherwise he would have violated the rules of chess battles.

Zhou Xuan said: "I have been sitting for a long time and my legs hurt. What rules have I violated when I stand up and walk?"

The student was about to exercise his power majestic to expel Zhou Xuan from the scene. At this time, an official from the East Palace guard came and whispered a few words to the student, and the student suddenly lost his voice.

Zhou Xuan then calmed down and carefully looked at the game between Gu Liuquan and Zhaowu Army Class B chess Shilan Xueting. He found that Lan Xueting had a very high chess skills and actually fought with Gu Liuquan to make it difficult to solve, and the situation was very complicated.

Lan Xueting is about forty years old, and Gu Liuquan is over 70 years old. This difficult situation is not conducive to Gu Liuquan. After all, he is old and weak and lacks energy, so the second half is relatively easy to make mistakes.

Zhou Xuan went to see the game between Sanchi against Yang Zhao again. Sanchi was already defeated, and Sichi stood behind Sanchi with a smile.

Zhou Xuan walked back to his chess table, but found that Sun Xuelu had already admitted defeat. A student from the rank of the rank of the two sides, asking them to sign after the game record, expressing their recognition of the game result.

After winning the first game easily, Zhou Xuan was in a good mood. He stood up and was about to see the fourth-ranked Huang Xingjian's chess. How powerful is it?

The former guard of the Eastern Palace came over and said, "Your Highness, please invite me."

Zhou Xuan followed the Yu Hou to another hall. Prince Li Jian was looking at the "Analects of Confucius" engraved on the wall with his hands. When he saw Zhou Xuan coming in, he quickly came up and said with a smile: "Brother Zhou is really a god. My father was very surprised when he saw your five lyrics, especially the "Ancient Fragrance", which has not been known to have been ancient. He urgently ordered the eunuch to summon you into the palace. When he learned that you were going to participate in the Lantern Festival chess battle, he immediately sent an order to ask Brother Zhou to finish the chess and go to the palace to see the carriage overnight. His father was very anxious in this regard. Today, he was thinking about the "Ancient Fragrance" when he worshiped Shangyuan Tianguan."

Zhou Xuan immediately spoke to Judge Fan and followed Li Jian to the forbidden city.

Tonight is the Lantern Festival, and the weather is sunny. The entire Jinling City has become a city of lights. Fireworks are blooming in the sky, oil lamps, lacquer lamps, incense, and wax. All kinds of lanterns compete for victory. Even the trees on the roadside are hung with hundreds of small round lamps. These are fire trees and silver flowers. Even the cold moon in the sky has lost its glory.
Chapter completed!