Unforgettable Emperor's Favor - Chapter 60 Part 2

60. Bitter (2)

Little children can’t be spoiled, otherwise once they knew that crying is useful, they will use it to their advantage in the future.

Yu Qingjia was the same, in fact, she was not arrogant and capricious in nature, but for some reason, when she was facing Murong Yan, she was extremely unrelenting.

Yu Qingjia stretched out a hand, swung it around in front of Murong Yan’s eyes.

Murong Yan was holding one hand, so she switched to the other hand to make trouble, when both hands were finally captured, she struggled to no avail.

She then suddenly pursed her lips and said with watery eyes, “’I’m the only one in the courtyard, there’s no one to talk to me. If only my mother had given me one more brother or sister, it would have been good, that way I wouldn’t be unable to even find someone to play chess with.”

Murong Yan couldn’t help but mutter in his heart,

‘What’s the use of pretending to be pitiful in front of me?’

He continued to read the book without changing his expression.

After a few moments, he sighed, put down the book in front of him, and asked, “What exactly do you want to do?”

Yu Qingjia immediately turned her worry into a smile, she rolled up his books neatly and piled them haphazardly to one side.

She then waved her hand at Bai Rong and said, “Bring the chessboard over.”

Bai Rong’s heart was trembling, ‘Young Miss! How could you dare to make a decision for the young master? Do you want to die?’

However, Murong Yan did not say anything despite his cold demeanor.

Even when Yu Qingjia haphazardly rolled up his books, Murong Yan only glanced lightly.

Bai Rong once again suspected that all those rumors from years before must have been related to opposing parties with evil intentions who were trying to discredit his royal highness’ reputation.

Bai Rong tentatively put the chessboard in place, then quietly retreated to the side.

The chess placements that Yu Qingjia made was not Go, but Seven Kingdoms Chess.

The board consisted of one piece for Zhou, seventeen pieces each for Qi, Chu, Yan, Han, Zhao, Wei, and Qin.

The piece representing Zhou was yellow, and was placed in the center, while the other seven countries, each of different colors, were placed around the board surrounding it.

When playing seven countries’ chess, they all move in order.

Once a piece is placed, it cannot be returned.

When the number of chess pieces left is less than ten, or the country was captured or destroyed, it cannot continue to compete in the Central Plains.

Murong Yan chose Qin, and then chose two other countries to combine together.

The Seven Kingdoms Chess was more fun in nature, and the Combined Chess spawned many possibilities, so it was popular among both the noble families and the ladies.

Yu Qingjia pushed the colorful pieces while gossiping with Murong Yan, “What were you reading earlier? You looked so serious while reading them.”

“Chronicles of Huayang.”

Chronicles of Huayang, Yu Qingjia recited these words silently and asked curiously, “What is that?”

“Records, and topography of Ba, Shu, Hanzhong, and other territories.”

When she heard the words, Yu Qingjia felt that it was a bit complicated and now that she heard Murong Yan explain it, she became even more perplexed, “We’re in the north of the river, what are you doing trying to learn more about the land of Ba and Shu? Even if you get transferred as an official, you won’t be transferred to the southern Kingdom’s land.”

Bai Rong was a bit nervous when she heard this, while Murong Yan looked very casual and said, “I’m just preparing for the future.. I may never use it, but in case I need it, knowing more will give me a better chance of winning.”

Bai Rong was even more nervous now.

In fact, these are just casual words, and it would be easy for the young master to muddle through them, but why did he tell the truth?

Bai Rong’s face was tense, and her eyes involuntarily drifted in Yu Qingjia’s direction.

Yu Qingjia’s red lips parted slightly, and she seemed to be stunned.

Then her face gradually became serious, “Could it be that you…”

‘Could it be what?’

Bai Rong’s heart was so tight that no matter how hard she thought, she would never guess that one day she would encounter such a crisis, and it would be the young master himself who would put himself in such a situation.

‘Could it be that Yu Qingjia had guessed the true identity of the Young master based on the clues?’

Yu Qingjia looked serious and asked, “You want to learn the topography of the Southern Kingdom in advance… Could it be that you intend to defect to the Southern Kingdom?”

The atmosphere in the room stagnated for a moment, Bai Rong silently looked at Yu Qingjia.

Murong Yan’s face was cold, and she was unable to read his thoughts at all.

Yu Qingjia was a little weak from such a gaze, so she touched her face and asked, “Why are you looking at me like that?”

One can really not blame Yu Qingjia for thinking in this direction.

After all Murong Yan said that his father was a Jizhou general, but their family matters were seized by his uncle.

Murong Yan is burdened with a family feud and is now studying the terrains of the southern territories, no matter how she looks at it, this is probably Murong Yan planning to fight with his uncle for power in a desperate attempt, and once he fails, he’ll take his people across the river and defect to the southern Kingdom.

“You can’t do such a stupid thing!”

The person who will unify the world in the future is Prince Langya of the Northern Qi Kingdom.

To defect to the southern territories at this time…

‘Isn’t this him deliberately seeking his own death?’

Once Prince Langya recovers Jiankang(??: as it was originally called, was the capital city of Southern Dynasties at this time).

In the future, he will never give such a fair attitude towards the descendants of the generals of the defeated kingdom.

The more Yu Qingjia thought about it, the more worried she became, so she held Murong Yan’s arm and sincerely advised,

“You must not do such a foolish thing, although the Southern territories currently occupy a larger area than ours, even if their army and horses are better, and their royal family— More reliable than the Murong family, you can’t let this give rise to the idea of defecting to the enemy.”

Murong Yan’s tone said lightly, “You are overthinking too much.”

“Overthinking? I’m serious, that’s why I’m seriously advising you.”

Bai Rong wanted to wipe her cold sweat when she heard Yu Qingjia say that the Southern territories were bigger than Northern Qi’s.

So when she heard Yu Qingjia calling the royal family unreliable, and criticising them, the sweat on Bai Rong’s head was about to turn into ice.

Yu Qingjia sincerely gave her advice, then realized that Murong Yan did not take her seriously and instead started to pack up the pieces on the chessboard.

She was taken aback and hurriedly pressed down his hand, ‘’What are you doing? Once you place a piece you can never take it back!”

“Who would take it back?”

Murong Yan gestured slightly with his eyes towards Yu Qingjia’s direction, “I’ve already won.”

“What?”

Yu Qingjia couldn’t believe it.

She hurriedly looked down at her own pieces and realized that sure enough, the other two generals had been eaten.

Her jaw dropped, and felt very unwilling.

Yu Qingjia watched Murong Yan leisurely put his pieces together in the screw-lacquered wooden box, she was unconvinced in her heart, and said firmly, “It must be because of the bad omen that I lost, this time I’m going to use Qin.”

After a few moments, Yu Qingjia propped up her chin and didn’t move for a long time.

Murong Yan asked quietly, “You still have one move left, have you figured one out yet?”

Naturally, Yu Qingjia was unable to use a single piece to save the game.

Yu Qingjia used her fingers to reluctantly pull back the pieces one by one.

She raised her head in a sly accusation, “Why don’t you even let me win once?”

Murong Yan gave a soft chuckle, “Why would I let you?”

‘Didn’t you say it yourself? The Southern territories had bigger land than Northern Qi, stronger soldiers and horses, and a more reliable Royal Family?’

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