Everyone was a little curious: Could this princess who grew up on the farm really play the River Map and Luo Shu? So they all looked at her question board.
Xie Zhichan glanced at the question board, closed his eyes and meditated for a moment, then opened his eyes again and took out six chess pieces engraved with the number one from the question board box. He swept his hand across the question board, and all six chess pieces with the number one were put back in place on the question board.
Then she did the same thing again, and soon filled in all the missing numbers from one to nine on the question plate.
The noble ladies were shocked. The speed was too fast. They all wondered how Xie Zhichan did it.
Xie Zhichan silently checked the question board again, smiled with satisfaction, picked up the small copper stick on the table, and struck the gong in the middle.
A "dong" sound seemed to hit the hearts of the ladies, and they all came back to their senses. This first game ended so quickly?
Everyone looked at Huang Baoying's question sheet curiously, only to see that there were still many empty spaces on it.
It seems that it was not their illusion, the Crown Prince's wife's speed was indeed beyond the reach of ordinary people.
When Princess Yongtai saw Huang Baoying's expression, she already knew the result, and she calmly signaled the old accountant to go forward and check.
The old accountant checked Xie Zhichan's question sheet and replied to the princess, "Your Highness, the Crown Princess has answered all the questions correctly."
Then he walked over to Huang Baoying's small table, carefully checked the question board, and reported back: "Miss Huang missed ten pieces and got two wrong, so she lost a total of twelve pieces."
Huang Baoying stared at the old accountant in shock and asked, "Which two of my mistakes were wrong?"
The old accountant said something to Xie Zhichan, took her question tray, placed it in front of Huang Baoying, and pointed at two places on Huang Baoying's question tray for comparison.
Huang Baoying took a closer look and found that she was wrong. She blushed and wanted to hide in the crowd. She took out a piece of silver from her purse and threw it on Xie Zhichan's table like alms: "It's only twelve taels of silver. I, Huang Baoying, can afford to lose it. I'll give it to you."
After saying this, he retreated among the group of noble ladies.
Xie Zhichan always respected the money earned through hard work, so he immediately asked Xiao Liuer to pick it up and put it in her purse, saying, "Thank you, Miss Huang, for the prize."
She deliberately emphasized the word "lucky" which made Huang Baoying want to just go out and have a fight with her.
Here, Xie Zhichan entered the silver, as if she had seen a silver mountain waving at her. She smiled with a spring breeze on her face, looked at the people in the crowd and said, "Who's next?"
Who would have thought that after seeing the speed at which Xie Zhichan answered the questions, those who were eager to try gave up. At this speed, even if the old teacher who taught arithmetic in Qiushan Academy came, he would probably lose.
They only received a few taels of silver a month. Although they did not care about that little money, they did not want to lose to Xie Zhichan for no reason, and they did not want to embarrass themselves.
Didn’t you see that the daughter of the Minister’s family is hiding in the crowd and dare not show her head...
Pei Yi did not expect that the little fox was so good at the River Map and Luo Shu. Seeing that she was obviously in high spirits and had not even warmed up, the noble ladies were afraid.
So he resorted to provocation, mocking her, "Why? The Crown Prince's Consort was just raised on a farm, and all the nobles and daughters of the capital are here, yet no one dares to play a game of River Map and Luo Shu with the Crown Prince's Consort?"
As soon as he finished speaking, a deep male voice was heard from behind the crowd, "Who said that no one in Kyoto dares to play a game of Hetu Luoshu with your Crown Prince's Consort?"
Then, a path was automatically made clear in the middle of the crowd, and two young men with similar faces were seen walking in the middle. One of them had a four-clawed cloud dragon embroidered on his body, and the other had a red-gold python leopard embroidered on his body.
Everyone knelt down and saluted, "Greetings to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and Greetings to His Royal Highness the Prince of Qin."
His Royal Highness the Prince of Qin groaned, then said to the Crown Prince with a smile, "Brother, I told you to come quietly. But you insisted on making a noise as soon as you came. Look at you, you want everyone to kneel on the ground."
Princess Yongtai said immediately: "Etiquette cannot be abolished."
He then enthusiastically called for Prince Li Er to come forward and asked him with a smile, "Why are you here only now?"
King Qin Li Jiao fell behind and felt bored.
Princess Yongtai is obviously his biological aunt, but why does she favor the crown prince and treat him as her own nephew? Is it because the crown prince's mother's family is also Princess Yongtai's mother's family?
After the prince sat down beside the eldest princess, he said to everyone, "Everyone stand up."
Then he asked Pei Yi, "I just heard from Prince Pei that no one dares to compete with the Crown Prince's wife in reading the River Map and Luo Shu. How about I compete with him?"
Pei Yi's face suddenly turned as dark as a dark cloud, and he wanted to refuse directly.
Xie Zhichan smiled and said, "Your Highness the Crown Prince can compete with me, but the silver you lose for a chess piece will increase from one tael to one hundred taels."
She was just worried that she had played too big in the first round and scared away the timid silver mountains! The prince of the Jin Dynasty should have plenty of silver, right? He should also be brave enough, right?
Crown Prince Li Er seemed to be more interested and asked in confusion: "Oh? Why is that?"
Xie Zhichan explained very sincerely: "Your Highness is a royal descendant. Whether it is the chess piece that I lost to Your Highness or the chess piece that Your Highness lost to me, if it is only one or two taels of silver per chess piece, it cannot show the nobility of Your Highness."
Crown Prince Li Er couldn't help laughing when he heard this, and said to Pei Yi, "Pei Yi, your wife is much more sensible than you." He then smiled at Xie Zhichan and said, "Just as the wife said, losing a chess piece counts as one hundred taels of silver."
Pei Yi's expression was indifferent, and he only replied: "Your Highness, your Highness, is too kind."
In fact, he was very proud and said: You will cry later! He saw that the little fox's eyes rolled around several times. I don't know what the devil was thinking.
Soon, Prince Li Er and Xie Zhichan sat down in their seats, and the two servants in charge of setting the questions set the question tray and the gong was struck.
The second game began.
However, Xie Zhichan was slower in answering the questions this time. He only finished answering one nine-square grid before moving on to the next one.
About a quarter of an hour later, the gong sounded and Li Er had finished answering.
After checking the questions, the old accountant looked at the prince's chessboard and shouted, "The prince has finished answering the questions first, all correct." After looking at Xie Zhichan's question board, he said, "The prince's wife has one free piece."
Xie Zhichan actually lost this game to Prince Li Er by a chess piece?
Everyone was confused about what the Yan Wang's Consort was doing. Some people thought they had figured it out and whispered, "It's just that the arm cannot twist the thigh. How dare the Yan Wang's Consort offend the current Crown Prince?"
After realizing this, a group of people around him immediately praised the prince for being worthy of being the prince and the most intelligent young man in Dajin.
Dan Feng also whispered to Pei Yi: "Master, is the Crown Prince's Consort afraid of offending the Crown Prince, so she deliberately gave in to him?"
Pei Yi shook his head, with a smile on his face, and said proudly: "Didn't you see, she is digging a hole."
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