Chapter 110: Solving the Endgame
Gu Huai got off the carriage and stood in front of the window. He saw her staring at the peak in a trance, "What are you thinking about?"
Su Wan came back to her senses and looked at Gu Huaizhi inquiringly, as if she wanted to see something from his face.
"Get off the car. Go up the mountain earlier so that you can eat peony lettuce and bean yellow sticks." Gu Huaizhi lifted the curtain and stretched out his hand to Su Wan.
Su Wan was stunned. Taoist temple?
Not going to Guo Temple?
She quickly got out of the carriage, put her hand on Gu Huaizhi's palm, and jumped down with his strength: "Not going to Guo Temple?"
Gu Huaizhi asked back: "Don't you want to go to Guo Temple?"
"I am a petty person. Master Huiren cured my father, but he didn't give me a good face when he saw me that day. He is nominally my master. If I go to Guo Temple, I have to pay him a visit." Su Wan spread his hands and said, "I don't want to go."
"Then don't go." Gu Huaizhi walked side by side with Su Wan.
Su Wan interrogated him: "You seem to be very familiar with the Taoist temple. Have you been here before?"
"I have been here before." Gu Huaizhi said calmly: "I have been to many places to seek medical advice."
Su Wan broke off a piece of grass and walked in front of him, asking curiously while walking backwards: "Have you been to Jiangnan? Is the scenery there beautiful?"
"The mountains and rivers are beautiful, and the climate is pleasant." Gu Huaizhi's eyebrows were gentle: "Next March, the catkins are like smoke and the white flowers are in full bloom. I will take you to Jiangnan."
Next year?
Su Wan's heart moved, specially taking her out?
"I'm afraid not." Su Wan saw that his smile faded a little, and said happily: "You will take the provincial examination in August, and you will pass it. The spring examination will be in February next year. After passing the joint examination, you will also take the palace examination. When all the examinations are completed, it will be March at least. We go from the capital to Jiangnan, the journey is long, at least a month. If you are selected to join the Hanlin Academy, you can't leave Beijing at will during your tenure. How can you have time to go to Jiangnan?"
Gu Huaizhi smiled: "Go later when you have time."
Later?
Su Wan's eyes were clear, and she turned around, "Let's talk about it later."
Gu Huaizhi saw her light footsteps, wearing a silver-red long skirt, rushing into the new green in the forest, which was particularly eye-catching.
Su Wan stood at a fork in the road. To the left was the Taoist temple halfway up the mountain, and to the back was the national temple on the top of the mountain.
In the middle was a tall stone tablet, and in the middle of the stone tablet was a Go endgame. It was gray as if it had experienced years of wind and frost, revealing a kind of vicissitudes.
"Huh..." Su Wan observed carefully and found that this endgame was quite interesting. It happened to be the one that grandpa and grandpa had cracked: "Who put it here?"
Gu Huaizhi explained: "The eldest princess's only son is talented and obsessed with Go. When he was seven years old, he was hard to beat. After he defeated Abbot Huiming, he practiced with his hair untied and lived in the National Temple. This endgame was set up by him. If it is cracked, he will go down the mountain."
He turned his head to look at Su Wan and said meaningfully: "The eldest princess has been waiting for someone to crack the chess game."
Su Wan understood that whoever cracked it would be the benefactor of the eldest princess.
"Can you crack it?"
Su Wan picked up a chess piece and threw it in his palm. He had an inexplicable feeling that Gu Huaizhi must be able to crack it.
Gu Huaizhi said calmly: "No."
He went to the left.
"..."
Su Wan curled his lips and threw the chess piece in his hand into the grid hole on the chessboard at random, catching up with Gu Huaizhi's pace.
Su Mixue and her group happened to come down from the mountain. She looked very bad. On the way back to the capital, she heard that her position as the Crown Princess was abolished. Her reputation was notorious in the capital. Su Mixue was so angry that she fell ill. She came directly to the National Temple and sent people to the capital to find out the news. At least she had a general idea of the situation in the capital so that she could deal with it after returning.
Today, her condition has improved a lot. Su Mixue received a letter from her father and went down the mountain to the Su family to discuss countermeasures.
She subconsciously glanced at the stone tablet. This endgame is a hope, but also despair.
Knowing that if it is cracked, there will be huge gains, but no one can crack it.
Every time Su Mixue comes to the National Temple, she has to try several times.
Her eyes swept over, and suddenly, she looked over again, her feet walked over involuntarily, and her fingers pointed on the chessboard.
"Solved!"
Su Mixue looked at the chessboard in shock, and confirmed again and again that it was really solved.
But no news came out. Didn't the person who solved the chess game know the huge benefits hidden in this endgame?
Qingyu stared at a road leading to the Taoist temple and said uncertainly: "Miss Tai..., I... I seem to have seen the eldest lady. She followed a man to the Taoist temple."
Su Mixue's face was gloomy. Looking at the empty mountain road, her eyes fell on the chessboard again. Suddenly, she had an absurd idea that this chess game was solved by Su Wan.
She sneered. Su Wan didn't like playing chess. The two of them played chess before, but Su Wan was not good at chess.
Then, she thought of Gu Huaizhi again.
Could it be that he solved it?
If so...
Su Mixue's eyes flashed, and she felt that God was helping her.
"Qingyu, who solved this chess game?"
Qingyu was startled, and immediately understood, and hurriedly said: "Miss, you are really amazing, you solved the chess game!"
Others heard it, not knowing what was going on, and followed to congratulate.
Su Mixue kept a careful eye and picked out the chess piece that solved the endgame. If Su Wan didn't jump out and talk about the endgame, she would go to Xie Wuya and solve it in front of him.
This doesn't count as stealing Su Wan's credit, right?
"Let's go."
Su Mixue's eyes flashed with determination.
If Xie Wuya goes down the mountain after solving this mess, the princess will owe her a favor.
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Su Wan didn't know what was going to happen next, and followed Gu Huaizhi to the Taoist temple.
There were a few large characters carved on the stone: Zhimiao Temple.
The little Taoist saw the two people and asked, "Two laymen, are you here to eat vegetarian food?"
"Yes." Gu Huaizhi was familiar with the way and led Su Wan into the Taoist temple.
Su Wan followed the turns and came to a fairy spring.
Gu Huaizhi picked up a clean bamboo tube beside him, filled half of the bamboo tube with water, and handed it to Su Wan: "The spring water here is very sweet."
Su Wan was thirsty, so she took a sip, which was particularly clear and sweet. She couldn't help but drink a few more sips.
Gu Huaizhi took the bamboo tube, and there was still a little water left in it. He poured it out, caught it with his palm, and flicked it on Su Wan's face.
"Hey, what are you doing?" Su Wan wiped her face and glared at Gu Huaizhi: "Are you childish?"
Gu Huaizhi smiled and said: "There is a legend that people who drink the water of the immortal spring can live a hundred years. Sprinkling water on your body can remove bad luck and bring good luck."
"Superstition." Su Wan muttered, snatched the bamboo tube from his hand, wet her fingers with water, and flicked it on him: "May the immortal bless you to win the top three prizes in a row." She handed the bamboo tube over: "You also drink a few sips."
Gu Huaizhi brushed his sleeves, "Only the birthday star will work."
Su Wan: "..." Are you really here to celebrate her birthday?
Gu Huaizhi took her to the vegetarian hall and met a Taoist priest walking towards him. He narrowed his eyes and recognized that this person was the Taoist priest who made elixirs for Emperor Jing.