After the Destiny Child was reborn

"In the side room... the young master brought back by His Highness said that he wanted the servants to play chess with him..." Liang Jingzhan saw that the servant girl was frightened, and began to cry as he spoke.

Liang Jingzhan wanted to pat her on the shoulder to comfort her, but his raised hand paused in the air, and he finally retracted it.He asked patiently: "Young Master Zheng asked you to play chess with him, how could there be blood?"

Liang Jingzhan smelled hot of alcohol, his voice was a little hoarse after being drunk, and the words he uttered had a slight breath.

The low voice made the little maid's ears go numb, she mustered up the courage to look up at Liang Jingzhan, her face flushed, the calm and caring eyes on Liang Jingzhan's face immediately dissipated most of the fear in her heart.

The servant girl replied: "Mr. Zheng called many maidservants to play chess, but in fact he treated the servants as chess pieces and let him manipulate them. The chess pieces that were eaten would have to accept death."

Liang Jingzhan frowned, "What?"

Liang Jingzhan couldn't believe the blood on the maidservant's face in front of her and her anxious expression, "What about the others? Are they all okay? Is Mr. Zheng still in the side room?"

"Mr. Zheng is still in the side room." The scene she saw emerged in the maidservant's mind, and she couldn't help shivering, "A few maidservants died..."

After bringing him back to Zheng Nian, Liang Jingzhan ordered someone to take good care of him. He thought that he could go to him to play chess to relieve his boredom, but he didn't expect that Zheng Nian would cause such troubles to force Zheng Nian He came over.

"Go and get..." Liang Jingzhan just wanted his maid to call Zheng Nian over, but when he saw her still in shock, he changed his mind.

He took out a white handkerchief from his arms and handed it to the maid in front of him, his voice softened a bit: "Wipe off the blood, don't worry."

Looking at the handkerchief handed over, the maid felt flattered, stared at the hands covered with many light pink scars for a while before taking the handkerchief, and thanked her hurriedly.

She watched Liang Jingzhan's leaving back for a long time, and a warm current rose in her heart. She held the veil in her hand and put it next to her face, feeling the temperature in King Rong's arms.

Liang Jingzhan hurried out of the hall and went to the side room.

He rescued Zheng Nian, apart from Zheng Nian's talent in chess, the reason why he wanted to win him over was probably because of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

Brother Huang has always liked to play chess, and his chess skill was one of the best in the palace since he was a child. Liang Jingzhan would often ask Brother Huang to play a few games of chess with him, especially Shuanglu.

The candlelight in the side room was still on, and Liang Jingzhan smelled a strong smell of blood before he entered.

There were still a few pools of blood in front of the door, and a few red footprints beside the blood, extending all the way into the side hall.

The hall was extremely quiet, and the guards lived there, but there was not a single guard.

Liang Jingzhan walked over the museum shelf in front of him and walked inside.

A figure in Tsing Yi was leaning sideways beside a short man, sitting on the ground with his back facing him, the clothes on his body were messy and loose, and the hair scattered behind him was also a bit messy.

"Mr. Zheng?" Liang Jingzhan walked up to him and saw his haggard face clearly.

Zheng Nian's complexion was the same as the one he brought back back then, it was still pale, but now Zheng Nian finally tied his hair up today, he is not as listless as he brought back last night.

Zheng Nian was still sitting on the ground, Liang Jingzhan was not annoyed when he saw Zheng Nian, he saw Zheng Nian laughing silently like a mockery, without saying a word.

"Mr. Zheng has been living here for a few days," Liang Jingzhan pulled up his robe and sat down opposite him, "Are you still used to it?"

Zheng Nian's dull eyes turned to him, but he kept his mouth shut and said nothing.

Liang Jingzhan has a bad problem, that is, if someone doesn't want to talk to him, he just likes to go to him.

As long as he keeps talking to himself tirelessly, he will always be so annoying that the other party has to speak. Even if he is like Fu Yanning, it will only provoke a mild irony.

"I have heard that Mr. Zheng is good at chess, and he is one of the best in this capital." Liang Jingzhan paid attention to the change of expression on Zheng Nian's face, "So I really can't bear to see Mr. Zheng being framed and tragically killed in the mansion at such a young age."

Sure enough, Zheng Nian's expression was a little turbulent, but he still kept silent.

"Master Zheng, do you want to ask me, who is the person who sent people to surround Zheng's house?" Liang Jingzhan asked patiently, as if he was going to fight Zheng Nian.

Zheng Nian just looked at him: "..."

Before Liang Jingzhan wanted to go on, he saw Zheng Nian gesticulating with his hands.

After Liang Jingzhan saw it clearly, he thought about it in his head and asked tentatively, "You mean paper?"

Zheng Nian nodded.

At the same time, Liang Jingzhan also understood why Zheng Nian kept silent, but he had never heard anyone around him mention that Mr. Zheng was unable to speak.

interesting.

When I was at Xuji Bakery, Boss Xu said that he hadn’t seen Zheng Nian for several years. He thought that Zheng Nian could no longer speak during this period. .

Whether it is because the family ugliness cannot be publicized or there is some other purpose, there is no way of knowing.

Liang Jingzhan went outside the hall to ask people to prepare pens, ink, paper and inkstones, and then ordered backgammon to be prepared, and then returned to the hall.

After a while, the things were delivered, and Liang Jingzhan took them and put them on the case table to grind ink for him.

Candlelight filled the room, and although the warm light scattered on the white paper was not bright, it looked warm.

Zheng Niancai sat down at the desk, and instead of picking up a pen to write immediately, he tapped on the backgammon board.

Liang Jingzhan understood, "Master Zheng wants to..."

Zheng Nian has already picked up the white stone.

Liang Jingzhan picked up the sunspot in front of him, "This king is really lucky. I can compete with Mr. Zheng. I guess many people can only think about it."

The chess piece was in the shape of a horse, and Liang Jingzhan held it in his hand, feeling the long-lost touch.

Since Brother Huang's death, he hasn't touched Shuanglu for several years.This set of Shuanglu was given to him by the emperor's brother, and he kept it by the bedside in the hall. Every time he dreamed back at midnight, he would sit up and take a look at it, but he still didn't have the courage to touch the one that the emperor's brother used to use. black chess.

Zheng Nian shook the dice in his hand. The dice spun on the table and stopped after a while.

Zheng Nian's score is high, Liang Jingzhan is waiting for him to take the first step.

When the chess pieces hit the smooth board, the sound was loud and reverberated in the hall, arousing people's thoughts.

Liang Jingzhan's grip on the chess piece gradually weakened, and he slowly let the chess piece slide from between his fingers onto the chessboard.

The horse-shaped chess hit the board and made a sound, breaking the long silent silence, and scattered other chess pieces on the board, causing chaos on the board.

On a summer night three years ago, the person sitting in front of him and playing chess with him was Prince Liang Nuo.

Brother Huang is always studying hard and practicing archery on weekdays, so he will have some leisure time at night.

Liang Jingzhan would always go to Brother Huang in the dark, and every time he would come to Brother Huang with a chessboard and moonlight to play a few games before letting him go.

Liang Jingzhan is used to taking the white pieces, Liang Nuo always took the initiative to take the black pieces and gave him the white pieces when he found out.

The wind blows slowly in the summer night, the cicadas are singing, and the mood is peaceful.

"Father hasn't entrusted you with political affairs yet?" Liang Jingzhan made a move first.

Liang Nuo shook his head, and moved absent-mindedly, "Maybe it's because I don't have the ability to take over. It's already a great reward for my father to give me the position of the Eastern Palace. It's my lack of qualifications that disappointed my father and all the officials. .”

"It's not that you are incompetent, it's that my father was blinded by lard. Every time you go to school, you are the first one to arrive. You are the hardest-working and most diligent brother in learning to ride and shoot. When it comes to observing rules and etiquette , except for you, the other brothers regard the rules as nothing."

Liang Jingzhan held the black chess piece and said more and more hatred in his heart. He gritted his teeth in hatred, "But what you do, my father never looked at you directly, but did everything possible to pick your thorns. You said that as the king of a country, his eyes... "

"Third brother, don't talk about it." Liang Nuo looked around, seeing that there was no one else, he closed his eyes and breathed a sigh of relief.He opened his eyes, his eyes were as pure as water, and he said slowly, "I heard that my sixth and seventh brothers mentioned that my aunt stole my seat, and the person my father wanted to be my fifth brother was my fifth brother. At that time, my father needed to stabilize his power, so under my uncle's coercion, he had no choice but to make me the crown prince... In the end, it was I who snatched the fifth younger brother's seat, so it was only natural for my father to treat me like this."

Liang Jingzhan immediately stood up and slapped the table, throwing the black chess in his hand far away, "Fuck the fifth younger brother, go fuck for the seat, they are jealous of you!" With this slap, the chess pieces on the table Some bounced up and fell under the table.

The chess piece thrown by Liang Jingzhan rolled under the tree and stopped, Liang Nuo got up and ran to pick it up, and also picked up the chess piece under the table.After putting the chess pieces on the table and tidying them up, he took Liang Jingzhan's hand and gently touched his head with the other hand.

Liang Jingzhan was trembling all over, and he had no intention of avoiding it. He heard Liang Nuo say to him in an elder brother's tone, "Brother knows that you are fighting for me, and I thank you very much. In any case, whether you take this seat or not, Big Brother thinks it’s better to have a brother like you.”

This was the first time he heard Liang Nuo calling himself big brother in front of him. These two words were simple to say, but when he really heard it, Liang Jingzhan still didn't save face and a few tears oozed from his eyes.

"What's wrong with you, third brother?" Liang Nuo looked at the tears dripping on his hands, and asked in a gentle voice.

"It's raining." Liang Jingzhan broke down in tears.

"Are you still playing?" Liang Nuo pointed to the chessboard and asked with a smile.

"of course."

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"Before I thought about it, the person sitting in front of me was still Brother Huang." Liang Jingzhan sighed, looked down at the chessboard, and saw that there were already many eaten pieces in the middle, and they were all his.

To be honest, he didn't have the heart to play chess anymore, but he managed to pull himself together and continued to pick up a chess piece and drop it on the board, as if he was playing with Zheng Nian.

Liang Jingzhan waited for Zheng Nianxing's next step.

Zheng Nian threw away the chess piece in his hand, but picked up the brush, dipped the dry brush in the ink, and the tip of the brush was soaked with ink, and when it was about the same time, Zheng Nian started to write something on the white paper.

Liang Jingzhan sat opposite him, couldn't see what he was writing, so he had to wait quietly for him to finish writing.

Zheng Nian finally stopped. He unfolded the paper and showed it to Liang Jingzhan.

After Liang Jingzhan read the words on the paper, his slumped expression disappeared, and his eyes were full of interest, "You said that after I help you find the enemy, you want to tell me one thing?"

After seeing Zheng Nian nodding, he touched his chin: "I'm really curious about what you have that is important enough for me to agree to help you find the mastermind who threatened the Zheng family?"

Zheng Nian picked up the pen again, wrote two words on the paper, and then put it down.

After Liang Jingzhan saw the two words written on the paper that Zheng Nian slid over, his expression froze, and he hurriedly asked, "Do you know about Brother Huang?"

On the paper are the two big characters of prince, the ink is still wet, and the wet ink characters are still reflecting yellow light under the candlelight.