Chapter 74 Connivance

Shen Yu raised her eyes to look at him, and the chess pieces in her hand were almost crushed by her. Finally, she threw them directly on the chessboard, "No more playing."

The smile on Xie Tingzhou's face finally faded, like a warm spring breeze.

He patiently picked up the last few pieces from the chessboard, and pointed at one place with his slender fingers, "Did you see it?"

Shen Yu nodded, "I made a mistake here."

Xie Tingzhou spread out his hands, with a few white pieces in his hands, which meant to give her a chance to continue playing from the place just now.

"How can this be!" Chang Liu roared, "Mmmmm--"

Before he could finish the second half of the sentence, he was covered by Xifeng's mouth and dragged to the corridor, and his eyes signaled him to watch.

Chang Liu took a closer look, and the prince's face was rare and gentle and relaxed, and he looked a bit indulgent.

It was over. Chang Liu complained in a low voice with grievance: "Your Highness is letting me win like this. I will definitely lose this game."

"More than that." Xi Feng stood aside with his sword in his arms and said calmly: "We can't win."

Shen Yu suppressed the corners of her mouth with difficulty and grabbed the white piece from Xie Tingzhou's palm.

The fingertips gently stroked the palm, and the tingling feeling spread to the whole arm.

Xie Tingzhou's eyes flashed slightly, and his eyes swept across his palm, slowly clenched into a fist and placed it on the table.

There was a sudden noise outside the courtyard.

Xie Tingzhou didn't even raise his head and ordered: "Go and have a look."

Xi Feng walked away.

A moment later, Li Jifeng arrived before he even showed up, "I had a stomachache a few days ago, and you didn't even come to see me. It's so disappointing."

Shen Yu looked back, and Xie Tingzhou knocked on the table to remind her, "Focus."

Shen Yu: "Oh."

Li Jifeng snorted, "This prince came to see you, and it's fine if you don't welcome him, but you don't even have a chair."

Shen Yu just knew that he was a prince, and wanted to stand up and salute, but as soon as she moved, she heard Xie Tingzhou say without raising his head: "Just sit down."

He added: "He is the ninth."

Shen Yu nodded and greeted, "Meet His Highness the Ninth Prince."

"No need to be polite." Li Jifeng waved his hand casually, and couldn't help but turn around and ask: "Who is this master?"

The implication was that Xie Tingzhou was so serious that if he was not a master, why would he, Xie Tingzhou, be so serious.

Chang Liu covered his mouth and smiled, "It's our Master Shi Yu."

When Li Jifeng heard this, he immediately became energetic and walked around to Xie Tingzhou to stare at Shi Yu.

Speaking of which, Li Jifeng had seen Shi Yu, but the light in the prison was too dim at that time and he couldn't see clearly. Now he saw that he was really born with red lips, white teeth, clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes. If he changed into women's clothes, it would be interesting in the room.

Thinking of this, Li Jifeng hurriedly shook his head and threw away these messy thoughts, and sat down on the chair brought by the maid.

Li Jifeng: "Tingzhou..."

"Watching chess without saying a word." Xie Tingzhou reminded.

Li Jifeng closed his mouth uncomfortably. He didn't like these elegant things and felt extremely boring, so he crossed his legs and called the maid to serve tea and snacks, and ate while watching.

This look was incredible, and his eyeballs were about to fall out.

In the past, watching people play chess was just a back-and-forth, but now watching Xie Tingzhou play chess really overturned his previous stereotype of chess.

Could this chess game be played like flirting?

Shi Yu dropped a piece, and if he felt it was wrong, he would secretly pick it up, or when he dropped a piece, he would lightly hook his little finger and steal Xie Tingzhou's piece back.

Xie Tingzhou clearly saw it, but he seemed to be blind and let Shi Yu do whatever he wanted.

Li Jifeng turned his head to look at Chang Liu in amazement, and asked silently: "What's going on?"

Chang Liu nodded heavily, and responded silently, "It's always like this."

Li Jifeng couldn't help but look at Shi Yu a few more times. It was really not easy for this man to smooth out Xie Tingzhou's stone.

Just as he was looking at him intently, a cold object suddenly hit his eyelids.

"Ah——"

Li Jifeng cried out in pain and quickly covered his eyes. He looked down and saw that it was a black dot. Xie Tingzhou hadn't had time to retract his hand.

"Xie Yun, what are you doing? Will you compensate me if I go blind?"

Xie Tingzhou raised his chin and pointed at Shen Yu, saying, "Let her pay, she has money."

Shen Yu was surprised and said, "I didn't beat her, why should I pay?"

Xie Tingzhou's eyes seemed to have a deep meaning, "Don't you like to rob the rich and help the poor?"

Shen Yu heard his sarcasm. It was that time when Shen Yu said that she robbed the rich and helped the poor on the road, and this person actually remembered it.

"You are not poor." She whispered.

The more Li Jifeng looked at her, the more he felt that the way they got along was unusual. One was silently indulgent, and the other was at ease.

He couldn't help but sigh that Xie Tingzhou had come to this day.

…

In the afternoon, Shen Yu and the guards exchanged shifts and went out. Today was the third day after Shen Yu went to the Shen Mansion. She had to go to Shen Yan to ask for someone.

A man stood at the foot of the wall outside the east gate, rubbing his hands in a very anxious manner.

The man was a clerk from the clothing store. When he saw Shen Yu, he came up. Shen Yu gave him a look, and the two of them went around the street.

The clerk then said, "I've been waiting for a long time. The shopkeeper said he has something important to ask you."

"What's the matter?"

"This morning, the servant of the Shen Mansion came to deliver a letter."

Most likely it was related to the whereabouts of Lu Yao, Shen Yu thought, so she and the clerk quickened their pace and rushed to the clothing store.

Just as they arrived at the door of an inn, a young man in brocade clothes rode a horse from the other end of the long street.

The horse rushed all the way, and pedestrians on the road avoided it, but the horse still knocked over several stalls and pedestrians.

The man was still shouting on the horse: "Get out of the way."

Shen Yu frowned and was about to step forward when she was grabbed by the clerk from the clothing store.

The waiter lowered his voice and said, "This is Dou Qing, the son of the Dou family. He is a well-known overlord. There are people above him. If you are young, you should say nothing. Master, it is better not to interfere."

Seeing Dou Qing running closer and closer, he was about to hit a child in the middle of the road who was unable to avoid him.

Shen Yu immediately moved forward, and when she was facing the horse, she took off the saber from her waist and slashed at him.

The horse's hoof was stumbled hard, and its front hoof buckled and it fell to the ground.

Dou Qing was immediately thrown out. After rolling on the ground for a week, he got up and wiped his face. Blood was already flowing from the scratched area on his face.

Dou Qing roared: "Who the hell are you? How dare you block my way!"

Shen Yu helped the frightened child and turned to look at Dou Qing: "It's not to block the road, it's just to save people."

The child's mother hurried forward and took the child from Shen Yu's hands. She did not dare to offend the overlord and hurriedly hid among the crowd of onlookers.

Dou Qing glanced at the horse that was kneeling on the ground, flicked his riding whip and said: "I don't care what you did, blocked my way, cut off my horse, injured my horse, you can't see me." Tomorrow’s sun.”

Shen Yu sneered, as if she heard some joke, turned around and left.

Dou Qing became angry and swung the whip, but Shen Yu grabbed the tail of the whip with her backhand, wrapped it around her wrist twice and pulled hard.

Dou Qing didn't expect this seemingly thin young man to have such strength. He was almost dragged down by him and quickly let go.