The galaxy is far away, the night wind is clear, and the flowers fall silently in front of the court.

There is a low table under the corridor, on which there is a chessboard. Cheng Dan and Zhang Yuliang are sitting on both sides of the chessboard. One person and one cat are concentrating on playing... backgammon.

Backgammon was played very early in Shiguo. In addition to backgammon, there were also prototypes of chess and checkers. These board games have already become one of the most important daily pastimes for the people of Shiguo.

Cheng Dan once learned Go from Zhang Yuliang, and his chess skills are considered superb, but considering that he is a cat now, he can't be too special, so he took the next best thing and chose to play backgammon with simple rules against Zhang Yuliang.

"I didn't expect the fourth brother to teach you how to play chess." Holding a white chess piece, Zhang Yuliang thought about where to play it, with a faint smile in his eyes, "Smartness is a good thing, but being a man or a cat requires you to play chess." Learn to hide your clumsiness, you can't show too much in front of outsiders."

"Meow." Seeing that he spoke in a serious manner, Cheng Dan obediently agreed, and then raised his paw and knocked twice on the edge of the chessboard, urging him to make a quick move.

Zhang Yuliang deliberately put down the chess pieces slowly, and said with a smile: "It would be great if you were a human being. It's better to be a human than a cat, but it's a bit restrained occasionally."

With two front paws, he took out a chess piece from the jade bowl next to it, put it on the chessboard, and pushed it to a suitable place. Cheng Dan raised his tail and shook it, expressing his disapproval of what he said.

"Oh? Do you think it's better to be a cat than a human?" Zhang Yuliang looked at him with her chin resting on her face with a smile, "Why do you think so?"

Cheng Dan withdrew his paws, sat upright, and let out a series of meowing sounds.

Zhang Yuliang nodded again and again, thoughtfully: "That's right, cats are indeed much more comfortable than humans, they can come and go freely in this world without being restrained."

Cheng Dan shook his ears, and slammed down a chess piece, which happened to be connected with the other four chess pieces in a diagonal line.

"Meow!"

He curled up one paw to make a fist, and his eyes were shining, bent into two lovely crescents.

Zhang Yuliang couldn't help but hugged him and kissed his forehead: "Well, you won, what do you want?"

Cheng Dan picked his face and leaned forward to rub it.

Not far away, Peng Ge and Fu Ziyuan stood side by side under the tree and looked at them, both dumbfounded for a while.

"Master Liu really likes Tuantuan so much?" Fu Ziyuan smiled slightly, there seemed to be a stream of light in his eyes.

"Yeah." Pengge nodded, "Brother and fourth brother are not quite the same. Fourth brother still has many hobbies, but elder brother rarely has anything he likes, and he doesn't even have friends. The only one who can be regarded as a close friend is you, Mr. Ziyuan One. For so many years, the one who can make my brother smile so happily is Tuantuan."

Hearing this, Fu Ziyuan sighed, "It seems that the Fourth Young Master has left a great comfort for the Sixth Young Master."

Mentioning the deceased elder brother, Peng Ge's eyes dimmed, but he soon cheered up again, and said, "Let's not talk about that, Mr. Ziyuan is looking for elder brother? I think he and Tuantuan have also finished playing chess, you Come on, I'll go to the kitchen to prepare refreshments for you."

"Okay, thank you princess." Fu Ziyuan nodded lightly, took two steps and remembered something, hurriedly turned back in front of her, took out a cloth bag from his sleeve and handed it to her, "This is what Shouxin asked me to hand over. It contains several spices from the Western Regions and the corresponding blending methods, he said that you mentioned these spices to him before, and this time when you return to Beijing, it happens to be brought to you."

Surprised and delighted, Penge took the cloth bag and opened it straight away. After confirming that it really contained the spices he had dreamed of, he happily smiled and said, "Cousin Zisang has a heart, I just mentioned it casually at the time... eh? Cousin Sang has returned to Beijing? When did it happen?"

"Today." Fu Ziyuan turned his head away, as if he didn't want to say more, "Shou Xin has already lived in the palace, if you want to see him, you can see him when you enter the palace."

After saying this, he turned around and walked towards Cheng Dan and Zhang Yuliang, making Pengge swallow the question that came to his lips.

Scratching his head, Penge said in a low voice: "Cousin Zisang must have come back this time because of Mr. Ziyuan, but judging by Mr. Ziyuan's attitude, the chances of cousin getting back are very slim."

Sighing regretfully, she put away the cloth bag and walked lightly to the kitchen.

Beside the chessboard, Zhang Yuliang was playing with Cheng Dan. Hearing the sound of footsteps, he knew it was Fuziyuan who had come, so he turned back to face the courtyard and greeted Fuziyuan who was walking towards him.

"Ziyuan."

"This chess, will Liu Gongzi and Tuantuan still play?" Fu Ziyuan knelt and sat down opposite him, his eyes scanned the criss-crossing black and white lines on the chessboard, his eyebrows and eyes slightly curved.

Cheng Dan jumped out of Zhang Yuliang's arms, trotted to Fu Ziyuan, raised his head and stuck out a front paw.

Fuziyuan blinked, smiled, and lowered his head slightly so that his claws could reach his forehead.

Cheng Dan narrowed his eyes and patted him comfortingly.

Seeing this, Zhang Yuliang looked away, picked up the folding fan at the side and fanned it away: "Tuantuan is comforting you, telling you not to worry about Mr. Zisang."

"I know." Fu Ziyuan gently stroked Cheng Dan's head, "Sixth Young Master asked Princess Pengge about my relationship with Shouxin?"

Zhang Yuliang didn't answer, just stared at his hands for a while, and the folding fan unconsciously increased, bringing a gust of cold wind.

Noticing what he was looking at, Fu Ziyuan chuckled and withdrew his hand: "Sixth Young Master, it's cold, so let's put down this fan first. If you fan it for a while, Tuantuan will catch the cold."

"... Cough, it's just a habit." Zhang Yuliang's hand stopped suddenly, and he coughed lowly to cover up, put down the folding fan and hugged Cheng Dan back, "Let's not talk about this, Ziyuan, are you writing books tonight?" What happened?"

Fu Ziyuan suppressed his smile, and said seriously: "I have already told the dean that the sixth son wants to teach in the academy, and the dean also agreed. As for writing books... The dean said that there are not many history books in the library of the academy. If you want to collect historical materials, you might as well go to the Qingli Book Pavilion in the east of the city, where all the official historical records and unofficial anecdotes since the founding of the country were stored, saving you the effort of sorting out."

"It's convenient." Zhang Yuliang supported Cheng Dan's small body, lowered his head and smiled at him, "Tuantuan, can you accompany me to Qingli Bookstore tomorrow?"

Cheng Dan nodded: "Meow."

Although one of them is a cat and the other is a human, there is no hindrance when they talk, as if two people are talking, Fuzi Yuan is surprised and takes it for granted.

Maybe when the Fourth Young Master was around, he and Tuantuan also got along like this.

"Sixth Young Master, I'll go with you tomorrow." Fu Ziyuan suggested.

"That's good, one more person can carry a few more books." Zhang Yuliang talked to Fu Ziyuan, but only looked at Cheng Dan, "I happened to drop by Yuping Street to buy breakfast. Tuantuan and Pengge both like the roasted food there. Shortbread."

Fu Ziyuan put the chess pieces back into the jade bowl respectively, and joked: "In addition to Princess Pengge, the Sixth Young Master finally has another person to spoil... Oh, no, it's a cat."

"It doesn't sound like a good thing coming out of your mouth." Zhang Yuliang gave him a sideways glance, and picked up the folding fan casually.

Seeing that he was about to shake the folding fan again, Cheng Dan quickly raised his paw and stepped on it.

In this cold weather, there is no need to fan yourself if you want to be handsome.

"Okay, I won't fan." Zhang Yuliang let go of the folding fan, and picked up a chess piece instead, "Ziyuan, let's play chess."

……

The next morning, Zhang Yuliang woke up before dawn, and Cheng Dan was still curled up beside him, sleeping soundly in a ball shape.

It was snowing outside, and the wind was howling, blowing on the doors and windows, noisy and silent.Zhang Yuliang turned to face Cheng Dan, lifted a corner of the quilt to cover Mao Tuanzi, closed his eyes and took a nap for a while.

At this moment, he had another dream in a daze.

He dreamed that in front of the window, under the bookshelf, a teenager held his head that was hit by a book and looked up in his direction—"Meow meow!"

The dream came to an abrupt end with a scream, Zhang Yuliang suddenly opened his eyes, and saw Cheng Dan hooking his paws on the quilt and dangling on the edge of the bed, his face was frightened and his whole body was stiff, he was wagging his tail when he woke up, pitifully ask him for help.

"Tuantuan?" Zhang Yuliang was so frightened that he lost sleepiness, quickly leaned over to support his body and pulled him into his arms, lightly tapped the tip of his nose and said, "Why are you so careless!"

For a cat, the bed they are sleeping on now is relatively high. If they really fall off guard, it will not hurt their muscles and bones, but it will still hurt for several days.

Cheng Dan grabbed his arm with lingering fear: "Mi..."

He was just sleepy, his feet slipped when he passed Zhang Yuliang, and he tripped over the mattress, which made him almost fall down.

"Okay, okay, let's get up, and we will go to Qingli Bookstore to buy books with Ziyuan later." Holding Cheng Dan out of bed, Zhang Yuliang pushed the long hair scattered in front of him to the back, and said with a slight smile: " Qingli Bookstore seems to be one of the properties under the name of Uncle Wuhuang, I wonder if Ziyuan can make the price of books cheaper."

Cheng Dan squinted at him: "Meow." That's how you treat your friend.

"Since we are friends, we should naturally help each other." Zhang Yuliang was confident and confident, without any guilt.

Cheng Dan stuck a paw on his face, jumped off the ground and ran out of the door.

Zhang Yuliang looked at him with a smile, and did not chase after him immediately. Instead, he washed and changed his clothes slowly, combed his hair, and then walked out of the room. As expected, he saw Cheng Dan sitting upright on the railing in the corridor.

Cheng Dan raised his hind paw to scratch his ear, and gave him a "why are you so slow" look.

"Sorry for keeping you waiting." Zhang Yuliang smiled and stepped forward holding a fan, with hair flowing down her temples, emerald green, and a romantic charm, "Zi Yuan should be waiting in the front hall, we will go there soon , don't keep him waiting."

"Meow!" After all, he decided whether the price of the book could be cheaper.

Cheng Dan continued seriously.

Zhang Yuliang laughed a few times, held Cheng Dan in his arms and said, "Those who know me are Tuantuan."

One person and one cat chatted happily in a unique way of communication, and when they walked to the front hall, they still had a conversation with each other.Fu Ziyuan sat in front of the short table, fiddled with the plum blossoms that Penge had picked in the early morning and put them in vases. Hearing the sound, he raised his head with a smile on his lips.

Now he is very grateful that Zhang Luochu left Cheng Dan to Zhang Yuliang, if not for this little orange cat, Zhang Yuliang doesn't know how long it would take to get out of his sorrow.

"It's getting late, Ziyuan, let's go now." Walking into the hall, Zhang Yuliang put Cheng Dan on his shoulder and said to Fuziyuan.

Fu Ziyuan put away his thoughts, nodded and said: "Okay."

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