Placid Chang'an

The chess pieces in Liubo chess are called San and Xiao Xiao. There are five San pieces and only one Xiao Xiao. San is cheap and Xiao is expensive.The "square" position in the middle of the chessboard is also called "water". There are two fishes, yin and yang, in "water". Entering "water", you can't even enter the inner circle, you can only wander around the outer periphery.

And if you want to scatter and turn into owls, there is only one way, "become an owl and seek out the five whites", that is, when throwing chopsticks, you have to throw five sun faces, and then the scatter will turn into owls, and only then will you enter the inner circle qualifications.

The old man asked: "How do you guarantee that you can cast five whites?"

Su Cen said: "If you can't cast it, go around with them a few more times, and if you cast a few more times, it will always come out."

The old man snorted and said, "Then you may not be able to get in even if you go around for a day. Resign yourself to fate and still think that you can win the day-in-law, what a fool's dream!"

Su Cen was not annoyed, but smiled helplessly: "What's your opinion, senior?"

The old man took a sip of his cigarette, and looked at Su Cen through the hazy smoke for a while, "Why do you have to enter the mansion? Isn't it over when the little bastard brings rescuers to join him?"

Su Cen lowered his eyes and said, "We don't know anything about the situation in the mansion. Even if Ling'er really finds someone, they won't be able to attack them. Besides, as long as there is a secret underground passage, they will be safe. At worst, they will escape through the secret passage in the end." , Find another place isolated from the world and build another Lujiazhuang."

Su Cen's expression froze suddenly, "That's why it must be hit with one blow. The hidden door is secretive. This is the first time we have been so close to it. Someone must take the lead and cooperate with the inside and outside to catch it all in one go."

"Pawns generally don't end well."

Su Cen smiled: "There are not a few precedents of pawns defeating superiors."

The old man squinted his eyes and remained silent for a while, then finally smiled, "My good boy, I'm not in vain to pass on my skills to you."

Su Cen immediately stood up and saluted the old man seriously: "Thank you, senior!"

"You already knew that I would throw chopsticks, right?" said the old man, "You are still here to play tricks on me."

Su Cen smiled slyly, "Senior, if you can bring Lu Xiaojiu out of the chess game, and then go back to save us, you are naturally capable."

"You kid, have you never thought that if your bitter plan doesn't work for me?"

Su Cen took out a bundle of hemp rope from behind resentfully: "It is impossible to overcome rigidity with softness, so we can only combine rigidity with softness."

The old man stared blankly at the bundle of hemp rope, and then laughed out loud: "I like you young man!"

"But you have to know," the old man stood up and patted Su Cen, "Gang is useless to me, and Rou is useless. I have to like you to teach you my skills."

The old man moved forward with his hands behind his back: "Come with me."

The last time they stayed at the old man's house was the utility room, and they never entered the main room where the old man lived.

Seeing the situation inside the room, Su Cen couldn't help but be taken aback. The bed, floor, and table in this room are full of books, including astronomy and geography, official history and unofficial history, strange legends, everything you expect to find.What's more eye-catching is that there is a large table next to the bed, on which a whole set of Liubo chess is displayed.

The old man stood still in front of the table, "What's your name?"

"Su Cen, the name is Zixu."

The old man smiled at Su Cen's use of a pseudonym before, and picked up six chopsticks, "Then Su Xiaoyou, what do you want to vote for?"

Su Cen was startled, and said, "Wubai?"

The old man tossed it casually, and it happened that the five sun faces were facing upwards, which were exactly the five white picks used by Hua Xiao.

Su Cen exclaimed: "Senior is so amazing!"

"You don't need to flatter me, kid." The old man picked up the six chopsticks. "I spent half my life researching these things. How much I can learn depends on your luck."

Two days later, when the bell rang in the mansion, someone immediately reported that someone had entered the game.

The man in white smiled lightly, "How dare you come."

The man in black asked for instructions: "How many teams will be dispatched this time?"

"The sect master said, don't hurt his life," the man in white suddenly smiled sullenly, "but children, you have to have a long memory."

At the same time, Su Cen still entered from the front of Lu Xiaojiu's house, nodded to the old man, and went down into the deep tunnel step by step.

The old man watched Su Cen's back disappear into the darkness before turning around and leaving. He arrived at the designated "Zhang" position and guarded it for him to ensure that no one would enter the game.

After a while of silence, the stone door slowly opened, leading to a deeper and unfathomable place.

As soon as he entered the battle, Su Cen still took a few steps slowly and tentatively. One was to make sure that he was the only one on his side this time, and there would be no other people entering the battle to interfere. The other was to find out the details of the other party. How many people there are, what attitudes they hold, and what offensives they adopt.

Like when they entered the game last time, the opponent's people chased after them within a few steps, which showed that the opponent didn't take them seriously at all, and they just dispatched a pawn to deter them.

But this time, I have thrown the chopsticks four or five times, and walked more than half of the outer circle, but I still haven't met the opponent's person. chess.

"Lu is at the 'Zhang' position, the pheasant is blocking the 'Qu' position, and the two blocks are in charge of the rear." The man in white looked at the white pieces surrounded by several black chess groups, and raised the corner of his lips lightly: "I still think I have some skills But that's all."

Su Cen stood still in front of the stone gate, as if completely unaware of the danger behind the gate, raised his hand, with a golden face facing upwards, and the stone gate slowly opened.

Let's meet!

The man in black behind the door had a vicious scarred face, holding a half-human-high horizontal knife in his hand, and stared at Su Cen's delicate neck like a hungry wolf.

Su Cen raised her lips and smiled: "It stands to reason that you are dead now."

In Liubo chess, if you encounter the opponent's pieces in the last step, you can directly put the opponent's pieces into your own living prison.

So no matter whether you look warm and gentle or vicious, in the game, you can only be a pawn, and if you are a pawn, you must abide by the rules of the game. Just now, Su Cen was in the "study" position, and one step later, he just landed on black. The "Zhang" position where the man in the clothes is, according to the rules of Liubo chess, this is already a dead chess.

The man in black probably didn't expect Su Cen to be so calm as before. He wanted to scare him if he couldn't kill someone, but he saw that Su Cen ignored him and walked to the stone gate. The bamboo chopsticks fall, and the five sides are yang.

Five white picks!

The stone gate in front of me opened slowly, but it was no longer pitch black. Fires emerged in the stone passage, illuminating the colorful murals on the stone wall.

Su Cen stepped forward and stepped forward calmly.

The man in white squeezed the chess piece he had just lost, and his lips slowly tightened: "How dare this kid play tricks on me!"

Su Cen walked forward, looking at the murals on the wall.

This painting is a bird with brown feathers and scattered fine spots. Its head is large and broad, but its two eyes are abnormally located in the front of the head, looking straight ahead—it is the king chess in six-bo chess. , also known as - owl.

But at this moment, this owl is soaring above the clouds, overlooking the earth, staring at the two black and white fishes in Liangyishui.

Going further down, there was a steep change, several people chased and intercepted, and spread out a net to prevent the owl from entering the water to eat fish, but the owl wandered several times, but could not find a place to set foot.

Another change, Xiao Xiao spotted a loophole, swooped down, and returned with the fish in his hand.The people below were still fighting the enemy bravely, holding knives and guns, and chased after them.

This painting is exactly the situation after the owl entered the inner circle. It is different from the few murals that were only carved with lines on the outer stone wall. The mural conveys.

Being able to come here means that he has already succeeded in half.

In the past few days, the old man has taught him all the things he has realized over the years, but Su Cen also knows that these things cannot be eaten in two or three days, so he focused on learning the skills of throwing chopsticks. Emphasis on learning five white picking and one white picking.

With the combination of the two, you can attack when you advance, and you can defend when you retreat.He was sure that the opponent's person would attack him from left to right when he came up, so he followed the plan just now and killed one of the opponent's chess pieces in one fell swoop.

After tossing one white and five whites in a row, the other party must have realized that he has made a roll, and I am afraid that it will not go so smoothly in the future.

The man in white gritted his teeth and looked at the little white chess piece that had entered the inner circle, wishing he could eat it alive, and said through gritted teeth: "Change formation, two blocks will block his back, the calf will intercept it in front, and the pheasant owl will pursue it!"

He didn't believe that this man could escape with such a net!

Several parties pressed and surrounded a small "Jie" group, the man in white threw one white at a time, the corners of his mouth slowly raised, "Kill!"

The stone wall rose slowly, and the Fengming knife in the man's hand buzzed bloodthirstyly. Before the stone door was fully opened, he rushed in impatiently.

But the next moment, the whole person froze in place, swept around and scratched his head: "Where is the person?"

"How did this happen?!" The man in white pinched the black stone, unable to drop it, "He didn't enter the inner circle at the beginning, but returned to the outer circle after throwing five white picks!"

"Youshi," the man in black asked in a low voice, "what should we do now?"

The man in black stunned and put down the chess pieces in his hand, "We have already lost this game."

At the same time, in the opposite side of the stone path, Su Cen walked leisurely along the magnificent lights.How could he not expect that the opponent would chase and intercept him, so he didn't intend to fight at the beginning, and then he turned around immediately after giving the opponent a fake, and chose to go roundabout from the outer circle to ensure that the opponent did not catch up before entering the inner circle.

Going further in, a white light appeared at the end of the dim light.

There was a soft "ding dong" in the darkroom of the mansion.

Someone has entered the "water".