ebookland Chapter 315 Checkers
Chapter 315 Checkers
When Old Lady Yang and Xiao Cao'er finished their conversation, they suddenly realized that they were in the Huguo Temple. It was not appropriate to leave Master Zhishen alone and talk about private matters. Xiao Cao'er could not help feeling embarrassed. She quickly reached out to pick up the kettle on the table and started to make tea again in a panic.
In order to ease Xiaocao'er's embarrassment, Master Zhishen picked up the tea that he had just brewed, took a sip and praised it highly, "This tea is really delicious, but the quantity is a little less." As soon as he finished speaking, he glanced at Qi Xingyun seemingly casually, but Qi Xingyun was staring at Xiaocao'er intently at this time.
Old Lady Yang failed to understand the deep meaning of Master Zhishen's words, and still said honestly with a simple face: "Master, if you feel that it is not enough, just tell me when you have finished drinking, and I will ask my grandson to bring you some more."
"Okay, okay, okay, this couldn't be better." After getting the answer he wanted, Master Zhishen continued to drink his tea contentedly.
After waiting for a while, he looked at Qi Xingyun and asked, "Want a game?"
Qi Xingyun looked at the direction of the sun and felt that it was too late to play a game of chess before lunch, so he said, "Forget it. There probably won't be enough time today."
"Young donor, would you like to play a game?" After being rejected by Qi Xingyun, Master Zhishen looked at Xiaocaoer.
"Play chess? I don't know how to play." Xiao Cao thought about it. He realized that the mahjong he made before was not appropriate after it was finished. He was afraid that someone would use it for gambling, so he only made one set. Then he thought of some checkers that are suitable for all ages. He turned to the basket beside him, pretended to search for a few times, and took out a set of checkers and put it on the table.
"Come on, everyone, come together. I'm very good at this chess game. Several people can play together!" Xiao Cao'er had a big smile on his face and waved excitedly at everyone. He looked so happy that he looked like a dancing butterfly.
The checkers in front of them were made of crystal clear glass! You know, in ancient times, glass was an extremely rare treasure, not to mention such a beautiful glass ball as checkers.
When Xiao Cao opened the box of checkers with great joy, a bunch of shining glass balls instantly appeared in front of everyone. Everyone was shocked when they saw it, their eyes widened like bells, and their mouths opened into a big "O" shape, almost enough to fit an egg.
"My dear granddaughter, where did you get such a rare thing?" Old Mrs. Yang asked curiously, her eyes full of confusion and expectation.
Xiao Caoer blinked, and without hesitation pushed the responsibility to Qi Xingyun who was standing beside her, and said with a smile: "Brother Xingyun gave it to me!"
At this moment, Qi Xingyun, who was suddenly called out, had no time to hide his surprised expression. He felt two sharp gazes shooting straight at him - one from Master Zhishen and the other from Old Lady Yang. Faced with such a situation, even though Qi Xingyun felt extremely helpless, he had to bite the bullet and take over the conversation, hesitatingly explaining: "This... I got it by chance."
"Wow, they are so beautiful!" Someone uttered a heartfelt exclamation, and everyone's attention was once again attracted by these beautiful glass balls. They gathered around and carefully examined these rare treasures.
"Do you know how to play this?" asked Old Mrs. Yang, holding a glass ball.
"I know. I learned it a long time ago." Xiao Cao'er said while arranging the chess pieces.
"Then you teach us. This should be easier than that mahjong." Old Mrs. Yang has always kept the idea of learning mahjong in mind because she could never learn it.
"Okay, checkers is a game that is played by people of all ages. It is usually played by 2 to 6 people at the same time. The board is in the shape of a six-pointed star, and the pieces are divided into six colors, with each color corresponding to one side.
At the beginning of the game, the chess pieces are distributed in the corners of the chessboard close to you. By moving the chess pieces, you can move forward one step along the straight line of the chessboard.
If there is a chess piece in the adjacent position and there is an empty space in front of the position, you can jump over this chess piece and jump to the empty space. If this situation occurs repeatedly, you can jump continuously until you can no longer jump.
The goal is to jump all your pieces from your own position through the middle area to the opposite camp. Whoever jumps all his pieces to the opposite side first wins.
Not to mention Qi Xingyun and Master Zhishen, even Old Lady Yang understood it. "It means jumping the chess piece in front of you to the other side. Whoever finishes first wins, right?"
"Yes, that's right, grandma, you are so smart." Xiao Caoer gave a thumbs up to Grandma Yang.