Strange Tale of Qingluan

Su Zhongming was playing alone in the hall to relieve boredom, aiming the ball of paper at the porcelain bottle two meters away, and throwing the ball of paper at the mouth of the bottle.When Baoqin brought Yujia in, the sound of footsteps distracted him from concentrating. After the paper ball flew out, it didn't fall into the bottle mouth, but just hit the edge of the bottle mouth, and then fell to the ground.

A look of regret floated on his face, so he had no choice but to go to the porcelain vase, pick up the ball of paper, turned around, and saw Yujia standing beside Baoqin, a smile appeared on his face, and he opened his lips He said, "Yujia? Why are you free today?"

Yu Jia had no time to chat, so she opened her lips and cut straight to the point: "I happened to overhear the conversation between the Empress Dowager and Your Majesty in the imperial garden this morning. Is Mr. Su interested?"

Su Zhongming was slightly stunned: "You asked me if I was interested, which means that the content of their conversation is related to me?"

Yu Jia nodded lightly, and simply responded with a 'hmm'.

Su Zhongming glanced at the table and said generously: "Sit down, sit down and talk."

Yu Jia didn't refuse, and sat down gracefully on a round stool that had been set out. Bao Qin also walked to the table and sat silently beside Yu Jia.

Su Zhongming came to the table and asked Yu Jia again: "Do you want some tea?"

Yu Jia quickly waved her hands this time, and declined, "No, no, no need, I'm not thirsty."

Su Zhongming explained: "I'm afraid that your throat will dry out before you speak, so it will be difficult to explain things clearly."

Yu Jia suddenly replied: "It's okay, I won't dry my throat, so I can slip when I talk!"

Su Zhongming had no choice but to let him go, sat down, didn't say anything else, and just cut to the chase: "What are they talking about in the imperial garden about me? They don't mean to speak ill of me, do they?"

Yu Jia leaned closer to Su Zhongming, and replied in a low voice: "What I heard is that Your Majesty told the Queen Mother that Mr. Su has a totem that bothers him very much, and that he wants to find some powerful mages from outside the palace to remove the totem." .”

After hearing this, Su Zhongming was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but burst out laughing after a while.

Yu Jia was puzzled, looked at him curiously and asked, "Huh? Mr. Su? Is this funny? Or, is there something wrong with my accent?"

Su Zhongming finally stopped laughing, and replied: "It has nothing to do with you, I just think his idea is really, so naive!"

Yu Jia was puzzled: "From Mr. Su's tone, this totem looks very powerful...?"

Su Zhongming said bluntly: "Not only is he powerful, even if he recruits all the mages from all over the world, he may not be able to get rid of them!"

Yu Jia's eyes widened in confusion: "Why? Could it be that this totem was painted by a fairy..."

Su Zhongming put on a smug look, and replied: "It's not like a fairy, but it's definitely a real mage! It's just that the mage he found is definitely a charlatan who can't even reach the third rate!"

Seeing Su Zhongming's confident appearance, Yu Jia couldn't help worrying that he was too conceited, so she asked concerned: "Master Su is really not worried at all? What if he is really a sorcerer and has done terrible things?"

Instead, Su Zhongming persuaded him: "Yu Jia, I believe in my intuition, and I also believe in the sorcerer who drew the totem for me back then. This totem grew on my body and was engraved on my bones. It is absolutely necessary to remove it." Impossible." After a pause, he smiled and said: "Today, I am very grateful that you came to report to me, how about buying you a drink another day?"

Although Yu Jia was still worried, since Su Zhongming was so confident, he stopped trying to persuade her and said, "But, I don't know how to drink..."

Su Zhongming replied: "Coincidentally, I'm not good at drinking either. Next time, please drink juice."

Yu Jia was puzzled: "Fruit...juice?"

Su Zhongming knew that every time he uttered a modern word, he had to translate it, and he was already used to being prepared to be a translator every time he uttered it. He replied generously: "It's something squeezed out of the fruit."

Yu Jia couldn't help being surprised: "I only drink this, wouldn't it be a pity to throw away the fruit..."

Su Zhongming said helplessly: "The nutritional elements and so on have been squeezed out, and the rest is all scum, of course it has to be thrown away."

Yu Jia still didn't quite understand, she frowned and hesitated: "But..."

Su Zhongming had no choice but to interrupt: "Yujia, you don't hesitate to pay for delicious food, and squeezing juice is only a small price, understand?"

Yu Jia had no choice but to swallow the words back to her stomach, and replied vaguely 'hmm'.

After finishing the business, Su Zhongming then changed the subject and said generously: "It's hard for you to come here, and I happen to be bored, why don't you accompany me to pass the time, let's come to the competition!"

Yu Jia felt 'huh' in her heart, and said curiously, "What competition? I don't know anything except planting flowers, so don't embarrass me..."

Su Zhongming said bluntly: "Now you need to train those who don't know how to do it. Let me be your tutor. If you fail to graduate smoothly, I will punish you."

Yu Jia couldn't help but one head seemed to turn into two big ones, and she muttered in extreme confusion: "Mr. Su, what exactly do you want me to do? Sometimes it's a competition, and another time it's exercise. I'm still a tutor, a graduate, I don't know what to do." You have to start to wonder if you are dreaming a messy dream..."

Su Zhongming only said: "Anyway, now, let's play a game of punishment." Immediately he stood up and held a ball of paper, "If I hit more shots than you, you can write me an IOU. If you He has made more shots than me, next time I have a chance, I will make delicious food for you myself."

Yu Jia frowned and thought for a moment, then asked: "Why did you win me because I left the IOU, and when I won you, why did you condescend to give me delicious food?"

Su Zhongming replied: "Leaving the IOU to me will not be malicious, nor will it be your deep contract of sale, so don't worry."

After listening to Su Zhongming's words, Baoqin glanced at the indecisive Yujia, and couldn't help secretly guessing Su Zhongming's intentions.I don't know what kind of IOU it will be, but once Yujia takes over the burden of governance of Taoxia Kingdom, the content of the IOU may be beneficial or harmful. Although they are collaborators, Baoqin still has to secretly Make dikes.

She interjected with a smile: "My lord, if this is a matter of buying wheat, maybe there is something unfair about it?"

Su Zhongming glanced at Baoqin, lowered his eyes slightly and smiled and said, "Does it mean that it's too cheap for Yujia to just make delicious food? Don't worry, if Yujia wins, I will use Wenguo's biggest player if I have a chance in the future." Prepare delicious food in the kitchen for hospitality."

Baoqin couldn't help but make a deeper guess at the words.

When Yu Jia heard the word 'Wen Guo', she blurted out: "Would you like me to go to Wen Guo to taste your handicrafts? Is Wen Guo your hometown? However, the journey is so far away, and I'm just a little girl in the palace. I don’t know when I will be able to travel around the world.”

Su Zhongming smiled, and then he was quick-witted: "The premise is that you have to beat me first."

Bao Qin was a little worried, and Yu Jia was far more worried than Yu Jia, and opened her lips: "My lord..."

Su Zhongming interrupted: "Baoqin, if you trust me, you should let Yujia try her luck now."

Baoqin had nothing to say, just bowed her head slightly in silence.

Yu Jia looked at the ball of paper in Su Zhongming's hand, and asked, "How do you play it?"

Su Zhongming replied: "Throw this into the mouth of the bottle over there, just hit it. And the boundary line is here." After speaking, a round stool was placed about twenty feet away from the porcelain bottle.

Standing behind the round stool, Yu Jia looked at the mouth of the bottle in front of her. She felt that the odds of the paper ball falling into the mouth of the bottle were not too high, so she couldn't help feeling nervous.

Su Zhongming opened his lips lightly: "There are three rounds, twenty rounds in each round, and Bao Qin will record the results."

After hearing this, Baoqin immediately took the pen, ink, paper and inkstone, put them on the table, and began to study the ink.

When Yu Jia heard that she could only shoot [-] times in each round, she became even more nervous, but she had to fight it out and rely on luck.

Su Zhongming, who has made such a rule, does not have a sure chance of winning in his heart. This is just a recreational game. It is fun to be nervous and excited every time. If he wins by accident, he can also take advantage of the present. conditions of benefit.

However, even if it is just a game, a man always likes to be competitive, especially as he gradually wants to obtain this condition that is beneficial to the future.

"Who will vote first?" Baoqin asked after studying the ink, holding the pen and looking up.

"Rock paper scissors? It depends on luck." Su Zhongming replied.

"Rock paper scissors?" Yu Jia was confused again.

"This is scissors, this is rock, and this is cloth!" Su Zhongming gestured as he spoke, and then explained, "Scissors can cut cloth, and cloth can wrap rock, but scissors cannot cut rock. The only way to restrain yourself is to lose."

"Understood." Yu Jia replied.

"Let me shout, just follow my intuition! Rock-paper-scissors!" Su Zhongming said, and when he finished speaking, he threw out a fist.

When he pronounced 'rock-paper-scissors', Yu Jia stretched out her five fingers without hesitation and walked out.

Yu Jia wins, but is the first ballot group.

Looking at his hands, he couldn't help but mutter: "I should have pointed out my index and middle fingers..."

Su Zhongming then said: "Whoever is in the front and who is in the back has to vote. It doesn't matter, the important thing is that." Putting the paper ball into Yu Jia's hand, he pointed at the girl twenty feet away with the tip of his chin. bottle mouth.

Yu Jia had no choice but to hold the ball of paper tightly, aiming at the mouth of the bottle for a long time, but he still couldn't throw it out. There was a voice in his heart telling him, 'If you miss the shot, you will increase your chance of losing', which made him unaware. Overwhelmed.

Su Zhongming didn't know why he didn't make a move for so long, but he was a little anxious to wait, so he hurriedly urged: "Don't worry about Zeng Zeng, if you do this, you won't be able to play three rounds if you procrastinate, and the longer you aim, the more your eyes will blur. The error is also..."

Before she finished speaking, Yu Jia already guessed the meaning of the second half of the sentence, she turned her head and blurted out: "What Mr. Su said is true?! But, if you don't aim well..." Afraid that she would hurt herself with her crow's mouth, The last few words were not uttered.

Su Zhongming said solemnly: "Aim and throw, one moment is enough. If you delay for a long time, not only one eye, but both eyes will be lost. In short, if you don't shoot, then I can't shoot either."

Yu Jia looked down at the ball of paper in her hand, and aimed again. This time, regardless of 21, she felt that she was aiming at the bottle mouth and threw it. In the blink of an eye, the paper ball brushed the edge of the bottle mouth and landed on the on the ground.

Seeing this, Yujia couldn't help but frown regretfully.

Su Zhongming said: "I've said it a long time ago, aiming for too long will make your eyes dim." After saying that, he also took the ball of paper, aimed it at the mouth of the bottle, and threw it generously.The ball of paper hit the inner wall of one side of the bottle mouth lightly, and then fell into the bottle.