In the main hall of Taiping Medical Center, old man Yao slowly wrote the prescription and handed it to Chen Ji to grab the medicine.

Chen Ji moved slowly and quietly when weighing the medicine. His eyes were fixed on the scale of the copper scale, almost cross-eyed, and he never looked elsewhere for fear that Prince Jing's anger would affect him.

Bai Li stood beside the Crown Prince with his head lowered, and kept secretly kicking the Crown Prince with his toes, asking him to quickly admit his mistake.

However, Prince Jing no longer looked at the prince, but looked at Chen Ji: "Don't call me medicine for now. It's rare to meet a chess talent like you. Come over and play a few more games."

"Oh..." Chen Ji came to the counter with a low eyebrow and picked up the chess pieces one by one into the chess basket.

Prince Jing smiled and said, "I won't let you have two sons this time. I won't win against you if I give you two sons."

Bai Li's eyes widened at the side. His father took the initiative to refuse to give up his piece when playing chess with his juniors? This was a rare thing.

She moved step by step to peek at the two of them playing chess, but after just two steps, Prince Jing glanced at her sideways, so she retreated obediently, and could only sneak a peek at him on tiptoe.

Chen Ji's chess skills were far inferior to that of Prince Jing, but because Prince Jing had never seen such a paranoid way of treating orphans, he fought back time and time again.

Prince Jing admired: "You are obviously a very smart man, why don't you follow the correct way of playing chess, but you only like this eccentric way of playing chess? Doesn't it limit your own chess skills?"

Chen Ji calmly said: "Greed cannot win."

King Jing was startled for a moment. The so-called greed and failure to win is also one of the key points of chess.

What Chen Ji means is that given his own personality, he is only good at dealing with solitary swallowing dragons. If he has to imitate others to control the overall situation and make progress step by step, he will not be able to win.

Prince Jing held the chess pieces and sighed: "You can't be a chess player with your personality. If you can only be a chess piece, would you be willing to do it?"

Chen Ji was puzzled, should this be what a prince asked the apprentices of the medical clinic? The apprentices of the medical clinic are just ordinary living beings, growing like weeds and unable to touch the blue sky.

With such an identity, how can we talk about chess players and chess pieces?

He thought for a moment and asked doubtfully: "Do I have to live on this chessboard?"

Prince Jing smiled heartily: "You can also live outside the chessboard. That is another way of living."

The prince who was kneeling on the ground quietly raised his head and looked at Bai Li. Both of them found that their father's mood gradually improved after playing chess with Chen Ji...

The prince winked at Bai Li, who understood and quickly took Prince Jing's empty tea cup away and refilled it with another cup of tea.

At this time, while Prince Jing was playing chess with Chen Ji, he could also distract himself from chatting with Old Man Yao: "Mr. Yao, have Bai Li and Zhu Yunxi gotten into trouble recently?"

The prince and Bai Li immediately looked at Old Yao with their hearts in their throats.

Old man Yao stood in front of the medicine cabinet, with his back to the mahogany counter. While grabbing medicine, he said calmly: "I haven't caused any serious trouble, but I have to go out to play almost every night. I go out at Hai hour every day, and we didn't know it was so late.

, where else can we play in Los Angeles?"

Prince Jing said calmly: "Of course we are going to Baiyi Alley and Red Yixiang."

The hanging hearts of the Crown Prince and Bai Li finally died.

Prince Jing said slowly: "Zhu Yunxi's monthly silver has been reduced before. He has no money to go to these places. It seems that Bai Li paid for it. From this month on, Bai Li's monthly silver will also be reduced."

The prince suddenly panicked, it's over!

Bai Li whispered: "Father, I will no longer give my brother any money. Can you please stop reducing my monthly salary?"

Prince Jing did not answer, but picked up the chess pieces and wanted to play another game with Chen Ji.

He raised his head and looked at Chen Ji: "Yunxi and Baili are going to Baiyi Alley and Hongyi Alley, do you have a share?"

Chen Ji said seriously: "Reporting to the prince, ordinary people work hard to study medicine and study, how can they have time to go to a place like that."

Prince: Huh?

Bai Li: Huh?

Prince Jing glanced at the Crown Prince and Bai Li: "You two should learn more from Chen Ji."

The prince suddenly said: "This boy is going with us!"

Chen Ji: "..."

No one should live!

Prince Jing looked at Chen Ji cheerfully: "You went too?"

Chen Ji: "..."

King Jing put the chess pieces into the chess basket and asked with a smile: "So, 'If life is just like the first time we met, why is the autumn wind sad and painted on the fan', 'Withered vines and old trees are dim and crows are sleeping, small bridges and flowing water are people's houses', were you written?"

I know very well what Yunxi is capable of, but he can't write those things."

Chen Ji was surprised. It turned out that Prince Jing knew everything. He not only knew that the prince and others went to Baiyi Lane and Hongyi Lane, but also knew every poem that the prince used in the embroidery building.

Yes, how could a powerful vassal king know nothing about Luo City?

The prince was even more surprised, why did he have to kneel here when he went to Baiyi Alley, but Chen Ji was treated kindly when he went to Baiyi Alley?!

It’s unfair!

The chess game continues.

Prince Jing lost three consecutive rounds to Chen Ji's tricky orphan-treating technique, but there was no trace of unwillingness or anger on his face. Instead, there was a bit more exploration and interest in his eyes.

Just like this, Chen Ji was playing chess game after game, and it became more and more difficult for Chen Ji to play, until King Jing blocked all his deviant paths, leaving him no longer able to rule Gu Tunlong.

Lost.

Chen Ji was just a second prize winner of Go in Luocheng City. Looking at the entire Go world, it was nothing. Losing was inevitable sooner or later, but he didn't expect that he would lose so quickly.

Prince Jing smiled and looked at Chen Ji and asked, "Young man, how is my chess skill?"

Chen Ji took a deep breath: "Awesome."

"How about if I ask you to describe it in one word?"

Chen Ji thought for a while: "Be patient."

Prince Jing is really very patient. The opponent is careful at every step and can plan dozens of steps for the overall situation. When he is planning, it seems that the desire to win is superfluous and just a distracting thought. But when he looks more closely, he finds that everything the opponent does is

To win.

At this time, King Jing looked at Old Man Yao: "Mr. Yao, you were kind to Ma Yiming, the inspector of Jianzhou, for saving his mother. If you hadn't diagnosed him nine years ago, I'm afraid his mother would have passed away. Now there is still some glutinous rice in the Jianzhou granary.

, can you write him a letter, I want to use his glutinous rice to solve the urgent need. I would rather pay filial piety to the civil servants of the court, so your letter will definitely work."

Old Yao nodded: "Okay, I will write it tonight, and the prince will send someone to pick it up tomorrow."

"Let's write it later, we can't delay it for a moment," King Jing's face softened a little, but he was not completely relieved yet: "The inspector of Jianzhou has been refusing to hand over this batch of glutinous rice, and it is also for the sake of Yizhou.

For the sake of his livelihood. Now that I have transferred this batch of glutinous rice, I have to find a way to fill the grain storehouse with other crops to prevent the people from going hungry."

Chen Ji suddenly fell into deep thought. In his world, glutinous rice mortar was still used until the end of the 18th century. It was not until foreign cement technology entered the country that it was gradually replaced.

At that time, cement was called "cement" by the people.

Is glutinous rice mortar easy to use? It is easy to use. The Great Wall is made of glutinous rice mortar as a binder, which has lasted for thousands of years. To some extent, it is stronger and more durable than ordinary cement.

But the key point is that glutinous rice mortar appeared in an era when productivity was not high, which itself conflicts with people's livelihood. Moreover, it takes three years for glutinous rice mortar to reach standard strength after calcification, while it only takes only three years for cement to reach standard strength.

Twenty days, very low cost.

Once cement appears, it will completely subvert the entire construction field.

Chen Ji recalled, how is cement made?

While I was thinking about it, there was a lot of excitement outside Taiping Medical Center again.

Everyone looked around and saw a sedan bearer at the door carrying an official sedan to Prince Jing's Mansion. It was only a rough estimate that there were thirty or forty officials working together to visit Prince Jing.

Chen Ji looked up and saw that Prince Jing didn't seem to notice these people. He just stayed calm and reminded Chen Ji: "It's your turn. Yunxi, don't be embarrassed by kneeling there. Get up."

"Oh." The prince stood up happily, bent down and rubbed his sore knees.

After a while, those officials went to Prince Jing's Mansion but returned without success. It seemed that they got the news that Prince Jing was not at the Prince's Mansion, so they had no choice but to return home.

When they passed the Taiping Medical Center, they saw an official in a sedan chair accidentally opening the curtain and caught a glimpse of a familiar figure at the counter of the medical center.

"Stop, stop, stop," the official called to stop the bearer. He looked carefully to make sure he did not admit his mistake.

It wasn't that he was familiar with Prince Jing, but that the clothes Prince Jing had worn for countless years had long been engraved in the officials' memories.

After getting off the sedan, a group of officials were dressed in green and blue official robes, with white pheasant, golden pheasant and mandarin duck patches on their chests, leather belts around their waists, and soap boots on their feet.

They gathered in front of Taiping Medical Center, hesitating for a moment whether they should go in or not, and they all whispered to each other in low voices.

The next moment, everyone looked at the two leading officials. One of them had a long beard and a ruddy complexion. He thought for a moment and said, "We will go in after the prince wins this game."

Everyone fell silent, stamping their feet and rubbing their hands in the cold weather, their noses turned red from the cold.

After a while, the leading official let out a light sigh: "Your Majesty is a master of chess. How can you spare the time to play against a young apprentice today? What fun is there in this? Eh? Chen Liqin, I think that boy looks familiar. Is he there?"

Where have I seen it before?”

Chen Liqin, a fellow acquaintance of Luocheng, raised his head when he heard this and looked intently, but suddenly found that the young man playing chess with Prince Jing was actually his youngest son whom he had not seen for more than half a year!

Only then did he remember that he had sent Chen Ji to Taiping Medical Center as an apprentice!

Zhang Zhuo turned to look at Chen Liqin: "I remember, I met him at your house. I remember I went to your house for a drink during the Lantern Festival the year before last, and he was sitting at the end of the lower right hand seat..."

Zhang Zhuo passed the examination as a scholar at the age of twelve. At the age of fifteen, he took the roll call outside Donghua Gate and became the youngest number one scholar in the Ning Dynasty. He was good at handwriting and had a photographic memory.

This man's wife passed away when he was nineteen years old. He married the niece of the then imperial concubine Xu Gong at the age of twenty-two. From then on, he rose to prominence. In fifteen years, he completed an official career that others would never complete in a lifetime. If he had to wait a little longer, he would be able to enter the cabinet.

Sooner or later.

However, Zhang Zhuo was not as steady and restrained as the magistrate. He nudged Chen Liqin with his elbow frivolously: "How can your boy play chess with Prince Jing? You Chen Liqin secretly sneaked into the palace without telling me, no wonder

You will send your son to be an apprentice."

Chen Liqin frowned and didn't answer not because he didn't want to answer, but because he didn't know how to answer.

Zhang Zhuo's question was also his question: Why could Chen Ji play chess with Prince Jing?

Moreover, at this time, in the Taiping Medical Center, Prince Jing’s hearty laughter could be heard from time to time. The boy seemed to be chatting happily with Prince Jing...

There was just a crashing sound, and Chen Ji picked up the black stones and put them into the chess basket, and the game was over.

Zhang Zhuo pulled Chen Liqin's sleeve: "Follow me quickly."

The two of them crossed the threshold and came behind Prince Jing. Chen Liqin just bowed his hands, but Zhang Zhuo smiled and bowed to the ground: "Your Highness, Prince Jing, you have worked hard to raise military rations this time."

Prince Jing slowly turned around: "Thank you for your hard work, you two. I heard that when it snowed, you went to the river embankment to comfort the river workers. This act of caring for the people makes you worthy of being a parent official of this city."

Zhang Zhuo was the first to say with a smile: "Everywhere, it's all our own business. It's just that the floods in southern Henan a few months ago flooded many fields, and now a large number of refugees are homeless and have no land to farm.

At this time, he is fleeing to our city of Luo, and we must find a way to build a house for resettlement as soon as possible."

"You really care about the people of this state," Prince Jing said slowly, "Tell me, what's the difficulty?"

"I'm afraid it's too late to build houses now..."

When Zhang Zhuo was talking to Prince Jing, Chen Liqin kept looking at Chen Ji. But the strange thing was that his youngest son was concentrating on cleaning up the chessboard and didn't even look at him.

When his youngest son finished clearing the chessboard and looked up again, the two looked at each other and just smiled politely and said hello, as if they were looking at a stranger.

Chen Liqin gradually frowned. It was because Chen Ji was a gambler that he sent him to the Taiping Medical Center as an apprentice.

He thought that he was not treating Chen Ji badly. Being an apprentice at Taiping Medical Center was a good career path, and he asked his housekeeper to send him money every month.

But now the other party is in the hospital without even returning home, and seeing his father as a stranger. Is this because he is angry and breaks up with the Chen family? He is so ignorant.

Not to mention Chen Liqin's doubts, Chen Ji was also a little uncomfortable.

With so many officials present, it doesn't matter if he stays by the chessboard and moves or doesn't move. There is also an official who keeps looking at himself and doesn't know what he is looking at.

Chen Ji lowered his head and looked at his clothes. There were no holes or anything.

Old Man Yao noticed his discomfort and said lightly: "Chen Ji, go and give the two adults a cup of tea to warm their hands."

"Hey, okay," Chen Ji went back to the backyard and brought out a tray, which he brought to Chen Liqin politely: "Sir, please have some tea."

On Chen Liqin's square face, his brows were about to knit together: "You call me Sir?"

Chen Ji was startled for a moment. If I didn't call you sir, why would I call you?

Before he could react, he saw Zhang Zhuo holding up the warm pottery cup, warming his hands and saying with a smile: "Your Majesty, the autumn of Yuzhou has attracted much attention this year. Chen Wenzong, the son of the Chen family, was at Donglin Academy.

Then the gentlemen praised him and said he was the number one scholar. Many Jiangnan scholars were not convinced and threatened to compete in the palace examination next year."

Prince Jing glanced at Chen Ji, then smiled and praised Chen Liqin: "Master Chen has a good way of teaching his children. Not only did he teach his eldest son well, he also taught his younger son Chen Ji well. In the chess game we just played, he beat me in many games."

Chen Ji was shocked!
Chapter completed!