The Prime Minister's Darling novel Chapter 735

Chapter 735: 341 Talent (Sixth Watch)

The old beggar nearly spat out a mouthful of blood—

Do young children nowadays all have such big attitudes?

The old beggar rolled up his sleeves: "If you dare, play a game with me! I’ll give you nine stones! If you can beat me... well, forget beating me, if you manage to draw, consider it a victory! Here, I’ll give you ten taels of Silver!"

"Okay." Gu Jiao answered without hesitation.

The old beggar looked at Gu Jiao suspiciously: "You agreed so readily? Aren’t you afraid I’ll back out of paying?"

Putting aside whether she has the confidence or not, this child dares to speak so audaciously must be extremely self-confident, but he’s just a beggar, isn’t she afraid he’ll go back on his word?

"Not afraid." Gu Jiao shook her head.

The old beggar took a deep look at her and nodded secretly.

This child might be a little arrogant, but she is pure-hearted and willing to trust others.

Gu Jiao: You’re overthinking it, if you dare to go back on your word, I’ll beat you up!

The old beggar cleared the stones from the board and placed them into two broken bowls according to colour. He put a bowl of black stones, already inked, beside Gu Jiao: "You have the black stones."

The player with the black stones goes first.

He had already said that he would give her nine stones.

Gu Jiao did not stand on ceremony; he was the one who wanted to give in, it wasn’t she who forced him, right?

When she put down her first piece, a modest and conventional move, he realized that if he played an aggressive 3-3 point, he could immediately capture life. But he had promised to give her nine stones, he would see how she established territory and shape.

Gu Jiao’s first nine moves were so ordinary that the old beggar felt that she had completely wasted his handicap of nine stones.

Could she really play? Could her earlier disruption of his game just have been a stroke of dumb luck?

"Alright, it’s your turn." Gu Jiao told the old beggar.

The old beggar picked up a white stone... which was actually just a pebble, and placed it on the board.

An old man and a young girl squatting on the ground playing chess, one with a book opened above his head, the other wearing a fanciful mask, the state of the board chaotic and strange. _{ƒree𝑤ebnσvel.com}