In the courtyard of the small Taiping Medical Center, a group of people crowded around a small Eight Immortals table, which was extremely compact. Liang Maoer raised his arm slightly and almost pushed Liu Quxing to the ground.

There was a tall basket on the table, and each bun was steaming with steam. When the basket was opened, one hand on the left and one hand on the right took out the buns in a blink of an eye, as if they were grabbing food.

Old Yao was just about to reach out to pick up a bun, but saw Liang Maoer reaching out and pulling out an afterimage, and the bun in the cage had disappeared.

When he wanted to take another bun, the bun was already in the hands of the prince.

Old man Yao held a bowl of millet porridge with a dull expression and drank it sip after sip. In the past, he was used to living a quiet and lonely life, but now that the Taiping Medical Center is so busy, he is still a little uncomfortable...

I was chattering all the way through the meal, it was so noisy.

"Master, why don't you eat?" Chen Ji asked curiously.

Old Man Yao said calmly: "I'm telling your fortune."

"Ah? You don't know the birth dates of the prince and his family, right? How do you calculate them?"

Old Man Yao sneered: "You don't need to look at my birth date to know that you are trying to defeat me. Hurry up and eat, then get out."

At this time, there was a lot of excitement outside, and countless people gathered on both sides of Anxi Street. Some were carrying fruits, and others were carrying baskets of eggs.

The air on Anxi Street seemed to be boiling. The last time it was so lively was when the Crown Prince and the Princess just came back.

The next moment, a black ceremonial guard suddenly passed by in front of the door. The people carried the things in their hands and followed them all the way, without forcing them into the hands of the soldiers beside the ceremonial guard.

The law of the Ning Dynasty clearly stated that the Daning emperor could use an ocher-yellow ceremonial guard, while the Daning vassal king could use a black ceremonial guard.

It's Prince Jing who's back.

"It's broken, it's broken," the prince suddenly stood up, hurriedly stuffed half of the bun in his hand into his mouth, and said vaguely: "Didn't General Wang say that the old man just arrived in Gongyi County last night? Why did he rush back overnight?! Bai

Carp, go back home quickly, if you let him catch you, I’m afraid your moon silver will also be broken!”

Bai Li was also a little panicked, climbed up the ladder with the hem of his clothes, and disappeared on the other side of the courtyard wall.

The prince, who was usually carefree, was now like a mouse meeting a cat.

Chen Ji and others walked to the door and watched the vast procession entering Prince Jing's Mansion from a distance. He looked at Old Man Yao curiously: "Master, why is Prince Jing so loved by the people? The people are all vying to give him things.

.”

Old Man Yao curled his lips: "In recent years, many people in Yuzhou have relied on him to survive, so they naturally respect him."

At this time, a middle-aged man suddenly came to the door: "Mr. Yao! Physician Yao! My father fell down and he can't wake up no matter how hard he screams. Come and have a look."

"Have you brought the medical fee?"

"Take it, take it!"

Old Man Yao waved to She Dengke: "Go carry my acupuncture box and come here. Move quickly, his father won't be able to resist for long."

When old man Yao and the middle-aged man got on the carriage, Liang Maoer got up and put away the dishes.

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Old Man Yao went out, and Chen Jigang was about to go back to the backyard to clean up the dishes, but he heard a gentle voice at the door of the hospital.

"Old traces?"

Chen Ji's body in the medical center suddenly stiffened. Shopkeeper Yuan came to the door in the middle of the night last time and seemed to ask the same question. Could it be that the Military Intelligence Department of Jing Dynasty came to the door again? But didn't Gui say that everyone who knew his identity had been dealt with?

?.

He slowly turned around, but what caught his eye was not the plump figure of Shopkeeper Yuan.

But I saw that the person speaking was a middle-aged man, wearing a series of old navy blue robes, with a newly patched collar, and patches on the elbows of the sleeves. There was a simple wooden hairpin in his bun, and his face was expressionless.

exhausted.

Who is this?

Never seen.

The middle-aged man looked at Chen Ji and asked after a moment: "Why, you don't remember me anymore?"

There are traces of hesitation.

The middle-aged man smiled lightly and said: "It seems you don't recognize me anymore. I hugged you when you were a child in the capital. Your eyebrows haven't changed much, they look like your mother."

Chen Ji was shocked...Uncle?

Could it be that his uncle, a high-ranking official in Jing Dynasty, came to Ning Dynasty to take refuge in order to avoid political opponents? Judging from his appearance, the uncle was covered in weather, and there were mud spots on his pants and boots. He really looked like he had traveled through wind and rain.

But what happened to the patch on the other party's body? His uncle wouldn't be in such a miserable condition.

The most important thing is that Chen Jicai had just gotten rid of his identity as a Jing Chao spy and was just planning to live a normal life. Why did the other party come to visit him at this time?

When he was prosperous and wealthy, he didn't take him back to Jing Dynasty. Why did he come here now? Don't plan to make a comeback in Ning Dynasty? Then he would be forced to put his head in his belt and work for him.

Chen Ji thought for a moment and said bluntly: "What are you doing?"

The middle-aged man was startled for a moment, then he joked nonchalantly: "Don't you even use a word of respect for your elders? Where is your master?"

When Chen Ji heard the word 'elder', his tone became even stiffer: "Master is out, just come to me if you need anything."

The middle-aged man lifted up his clothes and crossed the threshold: "Then let's wait for Master Qi to come back in the hospital. Do you know how to play Go? Let's talk about a game to pass the time. Your mother is very good at chess, so you should be good at it too.

"

Chen Ji said: "There is no Go in the medical clinic."

The middle-aged man smiled and said, "Why not? It's in the second drawer of the cabinet in the main room. You go get it and I'll wait."

Chen Ji narrowed his eyes slightly, and these words sounded more like a threat to his ears, just like when Yunyang paid him for the first time, he put the silver ingot directly next to his pillow.

The subtext is: I can go in and out of the hospital at will, but you can't notice it.

Chen Ji turned around and went to the main room, opened the second drawer, and sure enough there was a set of Go inside!

He came to the main hall of the medical center carrying the Go chess, laid the chessboard on the counter, and held a few chess pieces in his hand: "Guess first."

The middle-aged man thought for a while: "Even numbers."

Chen Ji opened his palm and saw three black stones in his hand: "I guessed wrong, I took the black one first."

The middle-aged man said generously: "Okay, you go first, I can give up my two sons."

Chen Ji raised his head and glanced at him: "Okay."

The middle-aged man's chess skills are very strong, so strong that he can make big moves and big moves, and his moves are like a mountain pressing down on the top, and there is no way to avoid them. In just sixty-five moves, he can cut away the traces of sunspots, like rocks in the waves, isolated and helpless.

The middle-aged man looked at Chen Ji with a smile: "Your chess skills still need to be honed. Go is all about choice. Only by giving up the small will the big picture be achieved. If you don't want to give up everything, then everything will stop."

However, Chen Ji didn't listen to what he said at this time. He just fell into a trap again in an isolated and helpless place. He seemed to be persistent and unwilling to admit defeat, but also seemed to be a lonely and crazy man.

The middle-aged man was startled.

Follow me.

Another trace left behind.

The middle-aged man has another son.

However, I saw that the two sides were going back and forth, and at the 72nd move, they actually broke out of the isolation and helplessness and connected with another isolated piece.

The middle-aged man's eyes lit up and he exclaimed: "Swallowing the dragon? What kind of trick is this?"

Chen Ji raised his head and looked at him: "Government for orphans."

The so-called solitary control is to use the shortcomings of the opponent's chess pattern in isolation to make one's own lone chess find a way to survive. Often a solitary son can in turn destroy the opponent's overall situation.

Chen Ji once won the second prize in the Luocheng Go Competition. He relied on his single-handed sword-playing skills to control his isolation. Chen Ji had no big-picture perspective and was only stubborn.

He imitated the other party's tone just now and said slowly: "The world is so big, how can there be no place for it? There is only a small space, and there is no small mind."

The middle-aged man was happy: "Why are you teaching me a lesson?"

Chen Ji said calmly: "No, I'm talking about chess."

In fact, he is full of energy. After he came to this world, he did not know his past life experience and was led everywhere by others. Now that he finally sent Gui and Wu Hongbiao away, he could finally take a breath, but someone came to visit him again.

However, at this moment, old man Yao led She Dengke in from the door. She Dengke was carrying a medicine box and said happily: "Chen Ji, you don't know, the old man was obviously exhausted just now, but the master gave two injections and he immediately

Wake up... Huh?"

The middle-aged man turned to look at the door and said with a smile: "Yao Yao, long time no see. Your little apprentice is good at chess, better than you."

Old Man Yao glanced at Chen Ji: "That's strange... Why are you here alone?"

"Come and take my pulse, I've been feeling a little unwell lately."

Old Yao glanced at him: "How can you end up in such a exhausted state when you go out to prepare food and supplies?"

Chen Ji was startled, wait?

Raising food and grass?

What food and fodder should be raised?

But I saw a middle-aged man sitting down across the counter, with a tired face, and said with a forced smile: "When I arrived in Jiangnan to collect taxes, someone came to the Yamen carrying the body of his wife, saying that she was forced to death by our taxes.

.The southern gentry now regards us as enemies. When they hear the slightest disturbance, they find ways to resist. It is not easy to collect taxes."

Old Man Yao walked behind the counter and said calmly: "Taking people's money is like killing their parents. What they are afraid of is not taxation, but that you want to re-measure the land."

The more Chen Ji heard, the more something seemed wrong. It was obvious that he had recognized the wrong person.

Who is this? Dusty and ragged, could he be a tax collector? Or...

The middle-aged man stretched out his wrist and put it on the counter: "But food and grass can be easily solved. It just takes a little more trouble and more words. But the glutinous rice required by the front line is difficult for us."

Old Yao put three fingers on the middle-aged man's pulse: "Can't find the glutinous rice?"

The middle-aged man explained: "Too many city gates were destroyed by the Jing Dynasty this year, and a large amount of glutinous rice mortar was needed to build the city walls. There was a flood this summer, and many families could not even eat. How could we free up glutinous rice to build the city walls?

?”

After that, the middle-aged man sighed: "In fact, the glutinous rice is enough, but it is a pity that the batch in early autumn was intercepted by the capital and sent to His Majesty to repair the Renshou Palace and the mausoleum."

Chen Ji was puzzled. This middle-aged man seemed to have a very good relationship with his master, and he actually said everything to others. Old man Yao, who had always avoided talking nonsense, did not stop him from talking.

He knows that glutinous rice is one of the strategic materials these days, because all the adhesive materials used to repair the city walls are made on site by mixing glutinous rice with slaked lime and limestone. The amylopectin in the glutinous rice mortar has an excellent binding effect.

Once the glutinous rice mortar calcifies after 20 years, the repaired building can last for thousands of years.

But in this era, many people don't even have enough to eat. Glutinous rice is a life-saving food. If it is used to build city walls, the people will starve to death.

At this time, the middle-aged man coughed a few times, and Old Yao ordered Chen Ji: "Bring me a cup of tea!"

Chen Ji entered the kitchen, brought a cup of warm tea and placed it in front of the middle-aged man. He lowered his head and lowered his eyebrows and said, "Please have some tea."

The middle-aged man raised his head and looked at Chen Ji with a smile: "Why are you suddenly using honorifics so politely? Didn't you teach me a lesson just now?"

Chen Ji said awkwardly: "I was just talking about chess, and I didn't mean to teach you a lesson."

The middle-aged man raised his hand and nodded at him in the air, and said with a smile: "It's normal for young people to be a little arrogant. There is no need to be so humble."

Chen Ji quickly said: "No, no, I'm not arrogant."

Old Man Yao wondered: "What happened just now? What nonsense did this kid say?"

The middle-aged man laughed: "Who didn't do this when I was young? When I was young, I often went to you to treat my injuries. When I followed His Majesty to beat the second emperor brother, His Majesty knew that he couldn't beat him, but he still insisted on letting me go first, causing me to be beaten.

It’s so miserable.”

Chen Ji took a breath of air.

Finally, we can confirm that this is Prince Jing!

However, he could not connect the simple middle-aged man in front of him with the majestic and vast Prince Jing's Mansion.

No airs, no temper, just like an ordinary neighbor, completely different from what I imagined.

At this time, Prince Jing looked at Old Man Yao: "How is my health?"

Old Man Yao said calmly: "I'll prescribe you some medicine and rest for a while. But don't run out any more recently. If you don't rest, you may have big problems."

Prince Jing shook his head: "Some things cannot be delayed. The cavalry of the Spring King Dynasty will go south next year. If the city wall cannot be repaired before then, many people will die if Chongli Pass is lost, and even the capital is in danger."

Old Man Yao said calmly: "I'm just giving you advice casually. It's up to you whether you listen or not. But I suggest you stay in Luo City, where you can also discipline the prince and the princess, so that you don't have to act wild and make mistakes.

It's been a long time and a short time. During the days when you were away, the prince and the princess went out to play over the wall every day and in the middle of the night, making me so noisy that I couldn't rest well."

Chen Ji: Huh?

No, Lao Deng, why are you filming someone from behind?

He turned to look at Prince Jing, only to find that Prince Jing's expression turned even worse...

Prince Jing asked slowly: "What have they caused recently..."

Before he finished speaking, he heard movement from the backyard, as if someone was climbing over the wall.

Immediately afterwards, the prince's voice came: "It's strange. Even though our father didn't come back, the honor guard came back first. I don't know what you did to make this happen, causing me to climb over the wall one more time. Chen Ji, come and push Pai Gow together.

Watch me kill everyone today and win you all... Hiccup!"

When the prince walked to the main hall of the medical center and saw Prince Jing, he was so frightened that he burped!

Prince Jing played with the white chess piece in his hand and said in a calm tone, without anger or authority: "Climb the wall? Pai Gow?"

The prince plopped down and knelt on the ground: "Dad, it was all the young monk who led me to read it, it's none of my business!"

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Sorry, I was delayed because of the live broadcast of Yuewen tonight, so I just finished writing now.
Chapter completed!