Courtesy

As soon as Jun Qianhe returned to the palace wrapped in anger, the housekeeper greeted him.

"My lord." Seeing his master's eagerness to eat people, the old housekeeper couldn't help shrugging his shoulders.

Jun Qianhe just glanced at him and didn't speak.

Since the emperor's brother left Shangdu and he and the prime minister supervised the country, these ministers who rely on the old and sell the old have a hundred ways to make him angry every day.

"My lord, Mr. Bai came here not long after you left this morning," said the housekeeper.

"What is he doing here?" After hearing about Bai Yu, Duan Wang's mood became even worse.

Since that embarrassing thing happened that night, Bai Yu never came to him again, and of course, he would not take the initiative to find him.

Jun Qianhe was very angry, obviously he was wrong, that person didn't even come to apologize and shake hands to make peace.

Do you remember now?

"Master Bai asked you to go to Lanshui Bridge in Xushi, and said that he has something for you." The housekeeper also wondered, this Mr. Bai hadn't been to the door for a long time, and when the master heard that Mr. Bai had come, why did his face turn sour? up.

"He didn't say what it was?" Jun Qianhe's curiosity was aroused.

The butler shook his head: "Is this really what you've always wanted."

Oh?

This is even more curious.

"My lord, then...will you... go?" The housekeeper couldn't stand his curiosity. In fact, he also wanted to know what kind of conflict the master had with Mr. Bai.

"Go, of course you have to go." Jun Qianhe said as he walked to the bedroom in the backyard. What clothes should he wear at night?

In the middle of the You hour, a young man in black clothes and a black robe stood beside the blue water bridge. His usual gentle aura disappeared without a trace under the background of this robe, and he became a bit sharper.

Holding a brown-red wooden box in Bai Yu's hand, he waited from Youshi to Xushi, and then from Xushi to Haishi.

The sun had already set, and the bustling scene on the Lanshui Bridge gradually returned to calm. Only a few passers-by passed by occasionally, and they didn't stop.

Only he, just like when he first came, dragged the box with one hand, and hung the other hand by his side, with a calm expression, without the slightest impatience, or even the anxiety of being uncertain whether the waiting person would come.

It wasn't until halfway through Haishi that a figure wandered out from the path in front of the bridge, wearing a dark purple gauze gown with a one-inch narrow red belt inlaid with jade around his waist. Except for a jade pendant on the right side, there was no other decoration on the clothes. Simple but elegant.

The moment he saw Jun Qianhe appearing from a distance, Bai Yu couldn't help but bend his eyes.

He has always felt that a person as dazzling as Jun Qianhe needs those gold, silver and jade objects to set off the last thing, but this person seems to have a natural preference for luxurious accessories, and he must wear it like a small golden Buddha at any time. Can't keep my eyes open.

I have never seen such a casual dress like today.

In fact, Jun Qianhe's dress today is really not "casual", but just to make herself look casual.

According to his habit, going out must be dignified, even if it is a modest dress, it must be exquisite.

But when you come to see Bai Yu, you must not make people feel that you have dressed carefully, so you specially choose a dress that has never been "favored" by him because it is too plain.

He had also seen Bai Yu a long time ago, and he was also shocked in his heart. When did this person have such taste? He didn't always have the posture of "I have a handsome face, it doesn't matter how I wear it". Go low-key and gorgeous style.

Bai Yu watched Jun Qianhe slowly approaching, the joy in his eyes was undisguised.

Seeing his reaction, Jun Ruohan subconsciously stopped, raised his chin: "What did you ask me to do?"

Bai Yu raised the corners of her lips: "You are standing too far away, I can't hear you."

Jun Qianhe didn't know that he did it on purpose, but he still took two steps forward, and couldn't help mocking: "It's rare, the person who is still dressed up today looks like a human being."

"Isn't this to see you!" Bai Yu said.

Jun Qianhe couldn't help frowning: "I said before, if you dare to say such offensive things, I can send you to prison right now."

"To be honest, is it a violation of Da Yue's laws?" Bai Yu took two steps forward, "Is the prince of Da Yue too bullying?"

There was only one step between the two of them, and Jun Qianhe felt a sense of oppression for no reason.

It shouldn't be, he is the prince!

In this world, besides his brother, there is no other person who can make him feel oppressed.

"Say something quickly, I'm busy." Jun Qianhe turned his head and looked away.

"This is for you." Bai Yu brought the box in his hand to him.

Jun Qianhe glanced at it, but did not reach out to pick it up, but asked, "What is this?"

"The thing you've always wanted but couldn't get it." Bai Yu said, "Open it and have a look, it won't be a mouse."

Jun Qianhe was afraid of mice, terribly afraid, more afraid of his emperor brother than him.

Being so provoked by him, he simply went all out, the person on the left and right would not be so bored as to really play tricks on him with a mouse.

After receiving the box, it was quite heavy.

Pulling off the copper button on the box, there are actually two boxes of Yunzi inside.

The white pieces are polished from high-quality mutton jade, and the black pieces are made from selected high-quality black jade. It is said that this set of chess pieces was polished one by one by Master Falling Cloud for three years.

"This is, this is the chess set left by Reverend Luoyun." Jun Qianhe's eyes lit up, and he couldn't help reaching out to touch the chess piece carefully and carefully. It was top grade, indeed it was top grade.

"Do you like it?" Bai Yu asked when he saw that he couldn't put it down.

Do you still ask?

Of course, Jun Qianhe would not answer directly, and put away the overly obvious joy on his face: "When did you go to Dawu Temple? Did you really win that empty view?"

They said that they would go to Dawu Temple to find monk Kongjian to compete and win this set of chess pieces. They said several times, but they never succeeded.

"Yesterday, I thought it was almost your birthday, so I gave it to you as a birthday present!" Bai Yu said.

Jun Qianhe paused: "My birthday is still more than a month away!"

almost there...

"More than a month, I'm afraid I won't be able to wait any longer." Bai Yu whispered, with an indescribable sadness on his face.

"What?" Jun Qianhe didn't hear clearly.

"A good chess set needs to be matched with a good chessboard. Let's set it up for you when the moon is shining tonight!" Bai Yu said.

Jun Qianhe wanted to refuse, but the temptation was too great. Besides, he had just given him this set of priceless chess pieces, so he couldn't turn his face and deny people immediately!

"Where can I get a chess board?" he asked.

"You'll know when you go."

The two took advantage of the moonlight to ride to a Temple of the Stove King on the outskirts of the city. It is estimated that the people's life is better now, and no one worships the poor Stove King.

There is no popularity in the temple at all, it is full of dust and cobwebs everywhere.

Jun Qianhe frowned unconsciously when he saw this scene, he didn't like such a place.

"Come in!" Bai Yu took a torch and opened the way ahead until he reached an open space in front of the incense table.

The entire temple was considered clean with only this square inch of land, but it was obvious that someone had come to clean it in advance, because there was still a square piece of high-quality mahogany on the ground, which was polished extremely smooth, and a black box was placed next to it. Hay was also used to pave the cushions around.

"Sit down." Bai Yu lit the candlesticks in the temple with a torch, and sat with her legs crossed on the ground.

Jun Qianhe hesitated and sat down silently.

"Let me make this chessboard for you!" he said.

"Ah?" Jun Qianhe was a little surprised.

"It's getting late, if you're sleepy, you can sleep for a while." Bai Yu said and drew the dagger from his waist.

In fact, when we first met, Jun Qianhe discovered the sword on his waist, which he had never seen wearing before.

It doesn't look very eye-catching, but Jun Qianhe believes that this dagger must not be ordinary.

"If you want to see it, pull it out and have a look." Seeing that his eyes stopped on the short sword he dropped, Bai Yu said, "However, be careful."

Jun Qianhe was also polite, and drew out the blade with a cold light.

He stretched out his thumb close to the blade and shook it lightly.

"Be careful."

"It doesn't matter." Jun Qianhe said, he did it on purpose, he wanted to see how sharp the sword was.

I saw a drop of blood slipping down the sword body, but the blood did not stick to the body. "

"Good sword."

"If you like it, it's okay to give it to you." Bai Yu took the sword and began to carefully draw on the smooth mahogany board.

Jun Ruohan watched his movements with great interest: "A gentleman doesn't take people's love, I prefer chess to swords."

Bai Yu smiled and didn't speak again. About half an hour later, the pattern of chessboard was neatly carved on the mahogany board, very shallow but regular.

More than half of the credit should be attributed to Bai Yu's sword.

His engraving method requires one knife to shape, a little deviation, and the whole chessboard will be useless.

After the engraving, Bai Yu opened the wooden box at hand, which contained the pre-made gold threads, took them out and embedded them one by one on the pattern of the chessboard.

The texture of the chessboard is very shallow, and the gold thread is slightly raised after being pasted, and the white feathers are then painted.

Jun Qianhe counted at the side, and at the end of the count, he couldn't open his eyes anymore, and he didn't know how many times he had painted to make the body even with the gold thread.

In the end, I saw Bai Yuyou took out many long tubes of bamboo-shaped grass with burrs on the body.

"What is this?" Jun Ruohan couldn't help being curious.

"Equisetum, for polishing."

"You weren't a carpenter before!" Jun Qianhe sighed.

Bai Yu smiled and didn't speak, and continued to move, using horsetail grass to polish the lacquer bit by bit until the golden thread embedded just now was exposed.

Jun Qianhe saw that the drowsiness was gone, and he was eager to try: "You are too slow, I will come too!"

Together, the two carefully polished every part of the chessboard until all the golden lines were revealed, and a chessboard was finally finished.

Jun Qianhe looked at his red fingers, then at the exquisite chessboard, and directly praised: "I didn't expect that I was also a carpenter."

"You are at best an apprentice carpenter, the kind who does odd jobs and doesn't get paid." Bai Yu laughed.

"Where is the master carpenter so black-hearted!" He didn't pay for the work.

The two were talking and laughing, as if what happened that night had never happened, and they were still bosom friends who had no grievances at the beginning.