Chapter Four Two Eight Chess
The Li Zhaoyu and his brothers stayed at Gong Zheng's house until the afternoon. At four o'clock, they stood up and left, and discussed with Aunt Chen that they would come to invite her to the palace and Prince Yu's mansion tomorrow.
The two brothers each got on their own carriage. Although Li Zhaocheng was already married, he had not moved into a new house according to the emperor's request and was still living in Prince Yu's mansion. On the contrary, Li Zhaoyu, who was not married, had moved out of the palace to live in the palace by taking advantage of the opportunity to go to college.
The two of them were walking in parallel for a while, and Li Zhaocheng opened the window and asked, "Brother, do you really believe that Lin Shirong didn't lie?"
"Do you believe it?" Li Zhaoyu also opened the window and did not answer directly, but asked back.
"I don't believe it. I only believe in evidence and not human nature." Li Zhaocheng said calmly.
Li Zhaoyu said: "Then you are still willing to guarantee the signature."
"I believe you." Li Zhaocheng said with a smile. Li Zhaoyu laughed: "Don't you just believe in evidence? You said you believe me, isn't this very contradictory?"
Li Zhaocheng nodded, pondered for a moment, and shook his head again: "I don't think this is a contradiction."
The two of them separated at the fork in the road and went home. Whether Lin Shirong's words were true or false can only be judged by Li Zhaoyu.
The next morning, Su Ri'an came to Gong Zheng's doorstep and saw the carriage in the palace picking up Aunt Chen, and the one who helped the old man in the palace get on the car was a wife from Prince Yu's mansion. Su Ri'an knew that Gong Zheng called him here today, not for the sake of playing chess.
The maid placed the chessboard under the sycamore tree in the yard, placed a tea table and a carbon stove, and went to do her own thing. Gong Zheng personally boiled water and cooked tea, while Su Ri'an set up the chessboard, and the two played chess. Gong Zheng packed up his beloved tea set and asked, "Mr. Su, who is better than chess or me?"
Su Ri'an smiled. The two of them played chess a lot in the past and had a win or lose, but they had not counted. Who won more and which one won less? From the memory, Su Ri'an still felt that he had won more. After all, it was many years ago. Su Ri'an did not record it very clearly. Out of politeness and respect for the elderly, he said: "The old man and the younger generation have a win or lose, so no one is better."
"Then have you played chess with King Yu?" Gong Zheng asked again.
First, I saw the people from Prince Yu's mansion. Now Gong Zheng talked about Prince Yu again. Su Ri'an felt that today was extraordinary. He shook his head and said, "I don't know how to answer your question. If I have never played it, I have played chess with him and played cards when I first met Prince Yu.
But if you have said that it was something that happened more than 20 years ago, and it has been going through ups and downs for more than 20 years, I don’t know how much His Highness Yu has made in chess skills. So how can I count it? It’s hard to say, it’s hard to say.”
After making tea for Su Ri'an, Gong Zheng smiled and said, "Today, I will talk to you, so that you can appreciate the chess of King Yu in my body."
"Oh, have you played a lot of chess with King Yu?"
"It's just a few times." Gong Zheng said.
Su Ri'an frowned. He only played a few times, but he could not talk about chess. Moreover, Su Ri'an understood King Yu very well. That highness was a master who enjoyed life. He liked some strange things and even more weird people. He knew how to play chess, but he was just good at it. He was not good at it at all. The most important thing is that the active King Yu was not suitable for playing chess at all.
Gong Zheng seemed to have noticed Su Ri'an's doubts and took the initiative to say: "Your chess way can often be understood in one go, and it can still be run freely."
Seeing that the old man was of a very high nature, Su Ri'an naturally would not take the initiative to ask clearly, and just said he wanted to understand.
When Su Ri'an just packed up the chessboard, he found that Gong Zheng's chess tools had not been used for a long time. He still remembered that in the past, Gong Zheng had not many chess friends, including some colleagues in the Supreme Court, from colleagues who were also Supreme Court to a flower master in the Supreme Court, they could fight him for several games, but time was a sharp pig-killing knife. At the age of Gong Zheng, the people who played chess with him had long since withered.
As he thought, after a while, Su Ri'an gained the advantage, and Gong Zheng had only the hard support.
"General!" Su Ri'an had actually had several opportunities, but he had given up all of them. When he really couldn't continue the performance, he gave Gong Zheng a general.
Gong Zheng's face changed slightly and nodded slightly. Su Ri'an was about to say that he had won, but Gong Zheng said, "This general is very good, wonderful! Well, then continue."
"Continue? Senior, this is dead, how can I continue?" Su Ri'an asked.
Gong Zhengcang's old hand was extremely flexible at this time. He picked up a few chess pieces and put them back to the position just now. Then he put the chess pieces he had eaten before on top, restoring the original situation, and then dispatched the sergeant to protect the coach who was about to be general in the next step, and said, "Okay, you can continue."
Su Ri'an was surprised: "Senior, you regret chess."
But Gong Zheng did not show any guilt, but nodded slightly: "Wrong, this is King Yu's chess way."
"Ah!" Su Ri'an then realized that although King Yu was already one of the most noble figures in the world, Su Ri'an knew him very well. This King Yu had never been arrogant and had a surprisingly thick face. It was not surprising that King Yu did something like playing chess and regretting chess.
Gong Zheng asked: "Why, Lord Su, when you were young, did you never regret playing chess with King Yu? "
This asked Su Ri'an, who was also a young hero. He participated in the Anti-Qing War at a young age and organized a rebel army. He entered a military academies with his own abilities and merits. When the empire moved the capital, he met Prince Yu Li Junwei at the foot of Mount Tai.
At that time, King Yu was a young hero and Su Ri'an was a righteous man. The two met. It was with the help of King Yu that Su Ri'an went to Shenjing to take the imperial examination and succeeded. During that period, Li Junwei did not indicate his identity. Su Ri'an was only because he was the prince of the Jinghai family. The two fell in love with each other. However, as Su Ri'an entered the officialdom, his personality that could not be rubbed in his eyes was revealed, but Li Junwei was free and unrestrained. The two gradually had conflicts and their personal emotions ended.
Su Ri'an once regretted it. He thought that King Yu was just an unusual child of a noble man, but with King Yu's expedition to the West and the American strategy, the prince of the empire did one great thing after another that was unprecedented. Only then did Su Ri'an realize how extraordinary and great this was.
But what was gone is the past, what was lost will never return, and it will not be able to reunite.
Gong Zheng's question brought Su Ri'an's mood to decades ago. He remembered the boy who played chess with him back then. He could sit upright at the table, but the boy scratched his ears and could not sit still. He stood for a while, sat for a while, and occasionally squatted on the chair for a while. At most, there was a pot of fragrant tea next to other people's chessboards. He placed all kinds of drinks and snacks, and he ate and drank them. The chessboard he made was always some snacks.
It seems that King Yu really never regretted playing chess when he was a teenager, but after losing a few times, he would stop playing, and then change his game or play it.
Su Ri'an didn't say anything, Gong Zheng understood, but he said, "Your King Yu often regrets playing chess with me and never loses."
"This is indeed the way of King Yu." Su Ri'an said that on weekdays, Su Ri'an disdained such people, but when he was talking about King Yu, Su Ri'an still said: "His Highness Yu is a person who is not particular about the details. For him, playing chess is not for chess, but for entertainment and entertainment. As long as you get pleasure, you don't have to care about the process."
"If it's just for entertainment and entertainment, then winning or losing shouldn't matter, but why did King Yu refuse to lose in the game?" Gong Zheng asked Su Ri'an with a smile.
Su Ri'an casually said Li Junwei's nature: "That's because for King Yu, he will be truly happy only if he wins."
"It makes sense!" Gong Zheng said, and suddenly he picked up a chess piece and smashed it on Su Ri'an's veteran general, shouting loudly: "Haha, general!"
Su Ri'an thoughtfully said that he might have distracted himself from his random thoughts or talking to Gong Zheng, and was accidentally given to the general by Gong Zheng, but he would not regret the chess, but wanted to find a way to crack it. However, Gong Zheng did not give him this opportunity at all. Instead, he waved the chess pieces on the chessboard and messed up the chessboard, and then said: "I won."
"Senior, you're a little unreasonable. Maybe I can find a way to solve it?" Su Ri'an spread his hands and said helplessly.
Gong Zheng shook his head: "That's impossible, because I General's cannon, you are taken here."
Gong Zheng lit the location of the cannon. Su Ri'an took a look and realized that the cannon could not hit his veteran. Gong Zheng was fake. However, after Su Ri'an saw the original location of the cannon, he nodded and bowed and said, "It's the junior who lost."
"Yes, if you are confused, you will lose." Gong Zheng smiled and added tea to Su Ri'an again.
This is also the reason why Su Ri'an admitted defeat. As a chess player with excellent chess skills, he actually forgot the position of the opposite cannon, because he was already confused.
When Su Ri'an was re-setting the game and preparing to have another game, Gong Zheng asked: "I know why the two young men from Prince Yu's mansion were getting closer to me in the past two days?"
"I don't know, but when I came back this time, I heard some people spread rumors that you are going to retire. Could it be that the Prince Yu's Mansion also believed this rumor... Isn't the emperor believed it?" Su Ri'an said, suddenly widening his eyes.
Gong Zheng shook his head: "No, the emperor has had a gentleman agreement with me. Unless I can't even get out of this door, the position of the Supreme Court is still my. Don't guess it randomly, just say it's because of the case of the grandson of the Prince Cheng's mansion."
Su Ri'an nodded slightly. He had heard of this case. When he was having dinner with Gong Zheng's house yesterday morning, he hesitated and decided not to talk about such things at the dinner table to avoid disappointment. Gong Zheng asked: "If you know the details, why not take the case file to check it out."
Su Ri'an nodded and, under Gong Zheng's command, received the case file because he only saw it in the newspaper, and the contents in the newspaper could not be fully accepted.
After reading the case file, Su Ri'an understood everything. He thought for a while and said, "The two young men shouldn't be here to plead for mercy. This kind of thing can be done by King Yu."
"King Yu is their father." Gong Zheng said.
Su Ri'an shook his head: "Senior, this is wrong. In this kind of thing, the emperor is their father."
Now everyone knows that one of the descendants of Prince Yu’s mansion must be the future imperial emperor. No matter who becomes the emperor, he will definitely be innocent. Such a slander should obviously not be something the crown prince can do. If one of the two princes comes, Su Ri'an still thinks it is possible, and it will be completely impossible to join them together.
Gong Zheng nodded: "It seems that you know a lot about the royal family. You are right. They will listen to the emperor in this kind of matter. You might as well tell you that the eldest son was ordered by the emperor to deal with this matter, and the second son heard that he later stood up for the eldest son."
When Su Ri'an heard this, he shook his head helplessly and said with emotion: "The two young men are one heart, it is really a blessing for the empire."
"This is a great good word!" Gong Zheng couldn't help but applaud Su Ri'an and said loudly: "Mr. Su hits the word. The empire has reached this point. The sincerity of the younger generation is the blessing of the empire. Even if the two young men are ordinary and have a less capable than their fathers and grandfathers, but with this mind, there will be no major changes in the empire in the future."
Su Ri'an looked at the case file and saw that it was the guarantee written by Li Zhaoyu and his brothers for Lin Shirong. The names of the two young men were signed and even had handprints on them. Su Ri'an was surprised: "How could the emperor protect Lin Shirong? The two young men dared to protect him? Could it be that Lin Shirong still holds any evidence that has not been expressed on the case file that can turn the world around?"
Su Ri'an was extremely shocked. Now if someone told him that Chen Yalai's death was fake, Su Ri'an would believe without hesitation because this woman who pretended to die could be a trump card. Because Su Ri'an really knows the royal family too much, there are often "wars" between the royal family and the media.
Although he masters the violent machine of this country, the royal family never takes the initiative to fight and always enforces the law. If Lin Shirong's case is the royal family's method, then Chen Yalai will definitely not die, but it will make the media think that she is dead. This will ferment and will overwhelm it will be unfavorable to Lin Shirong. Then Chen Yalai appeared and said it, flipped it, and slapped everyone in the face. This is a common method used by the royal family. It will come every once in a while. The royal family will always command the security bureau and be the trader.
Gong Zheng said: "What you see is everything, no conspiracy, no backup plan."
"How is this possible!" Su Ri'an.
Chapter completed!