366- Gifting a Peach

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“Tsk.” Esteemed Huai Yu touched his chin, “I just want your Dage to learn more. Speaking of which, what has my senior martial brother been teaching you? He doesn’t cultivate the sword path, so he probably won’t be able to give you any advice?”

Lin Xuanzhi thought for a moment, “Although Master never taught me sword cultivation, he has given me many pointers.”

Esteemed Huai Yu raised his eyebrows and looked at Lin Xuanzhi with distrustful eyes, “When he takes in disciples, it’s all just for fun and that includes you as well. Which disciple has he not left them to do whatever they like and also to practice on their own?”   

Lin Xuanzhi answered with a smile, “Master will look for me to play chess and his strategies are very profound. After playing chess with him, I would always be enlightened. The things that I could never comprehend before, I’d always be able to understand afterwards.”

Esteemed Huai Yu couldn’t help but purse his lips and stared at Lin Xuanzhi suspiciously, “Of all things that he could have taught you, he had to teach you tactics. Whenever you play a game of chess with him, how long do they last?”

Lin Xuanzhi replied, “The first game lasted for ten days while the second game lasted for fifteen days.”  

Esteemed Huai Yu, “… So long ah. You are really too patient.”

Lin Xuanzhi nodded, “I do think that it had dragged on for a little too long as well. However, unknowingly, time has always slipped by so quickly and even I didn’t realise it. So it seems that Martial Uncle has played chess with Master before.”

Esteemed Huai Yu’s face filled with fear and he waved his hand, “Let’s not talk about it. That year, my senior martial brother told me that in order to develop my critical thinking, he insisted on getting me to play chess with him. In the end, I had been hopelessly defeated within an hour and he even scolded me for being careless and then punished me by going up the mountain to chop bamboo… You have never seen that kind of bamboo. Who knows how long those old bamboo shoots have lived for to have grown so scarily hard.”

Yan Tianhen laughed, “My Dage can play chess with Martial Uncle for at least ten days while you could only play for an hour. With one look, one can tell that you weren’t putting in enough attention and wasn’t serious about it. Martial Uncle should be angry.”

“What do you know?” Esteemed Huai Yu squinted his eyes at Yan Tianhen, “When regular people play chess with my senior martial brother, it would take no longer than the time for one wick of incense and a cup of tea, which is roughly about two to four hours. Back then, there were only just a few people who were able to play a game with my senior martial brother for more than three days, so that’s why— “

Esteemed Huai Yu pointed his chin at Lin Xuanzhi, “You boy, you’re still very impressive.”   

Even though he said that, Esteemed Huai Yu secretly muttered to himself: This boy could actually play chess with his senior martial brother for so long, which shows that he is a schemer with an unfathomable and unpredictable mind. His senior martial brother’s mind was already unpredictable enough. For him to take a step, he would have foreseen one hundred steps ahead. Even if this boy might not be as brilliant as his senior martial brother, he is definitely no worse off.

If this was used against an enemy, it was definitely a good thing. He was afraid that it might be used on his stupidly tender and sweet Ah Hen.

However…

Esteemed Huai Yu watched Lin Xuanzhi coldly as he flirted with Yan Tianhen and he just wanted to roll his eyes.

Lin Xuanzhi smiled and cupped Yan Tianhen’s little face, as he thought to himself: At any rate, I’m someone who has been involved with a soul plate for thousands of years. If I can’t even last for ten days to half a month with Esteemed Lan Yue, then these thousands of years would have all been wasted.

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