Chapter 153 Returning the Jade to Zhao

"Wait, Xuan."

Li Xuan was about to go to Qingshu Palace to quickly complete the swap, but Princess Ankang called him.

Li Xuan was so anxious that he turned around in a circle, but his eyes were fixed on Princess Ankang, not knowing what she called him for.

"Xuan, let me remind you that there are only half of the chess pieces in the chess pot you are carrying."

"???"

Li Xuan was confused.

"How can there be only half of the chess pieces?"

Seeing her cat's confused look, Princess Ankang took a chess pot off Li Xuan's back and poured out the chess pieces inside.

There were not many chess pieces poured out, just as Princess Ankang said, only half.

"Xuan, have you forgotten?"

"When I made those copybooks before, I glued all the chess pieces with words on them."

Princess Ankang found the copybooks they had sorted out before and showed them to Li Xuan.

Each copybook has a big character on it, and a smaller serial number below it.

And in the corner of each copybook, there was actually a chess piece stuck on it.

Li Xuan was stunned when he saw the chess pieces stuck on the copybook.

"When were they stuck? How come I didn't know?"

At this time, Princess Ankang explained in time: "Ah Xuan, I saw that you had a hard time separating these chess pieces with words, and then you couldn't bear to mix them together."

"Otherwise, if I want to find them one day, wouldn't I have to trouble you to eat them again?"

Princess Ankang blinked her beautiful big eyes and said innocently.

"I don't believe you!"

Although Princess Ankang is a kind-hearted, sensible, cute and loving child.

But she is also smart and eccentric.

Li Xuan thinks that Princess Ankang must have other purposes for doing this.

Princess Ankang saw her cat looking at her with disbelief, and smiled shamelessly, then whispered in his ear:

"Ah Xuan, don't make the exchange first, just bring my brother's chess pieces."

"Then we pick out the dirty chess pieces and leave only the clean ones for my brother."

"In this way, we keep a set of dirty chess pieces and leave a set of clean chess pieces for my brother."

Li Xuan couldn't help laughing when he heard this trick.

"It turns out that this girl had this plan from the beginning."

Looking at the chess pieces that were firmly glued on the copybook, he couldn't help shaking his head and sighing.

"The child has grown up, and is more cunning than me!"

Princess Ankang saw Li Xuan laughing, and quickly explained: "Ah Xuan, don't misunderstand."

"This is what I, as a sister, should do."

"I, Ankang, only feel sorry for my brother--"

After saying that, Princess Ankang couldn't help but be amused by herself, and covered her mouth and laughed with Li Xuan.

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Finally, Li Xuan went into battle lightly and unloaded the two chess pots.

After all, Princess Ankang's proposal sounded more tempting.

In this way, the possibility of Qingshu Palace discovering the secret of the chess pieces can be eliminated, which can be said to be a permanent solution.

Otherwise, if Concubine Zhang knew the secret of the chess pieces, she would definitely come to Jingyang Palace to get the other half of the chess pieces.

Li Xuan rushed again and soon returned to Qingshu Palace and found the room where the chess pieces were stored.

He sneaked under a window and planned to use his famous skills again.

As a result, there was a bang when he was about to climb over the window, and his head hit the window.

It was also fortunate that Li Xuan was now quite skilled and immediately made adjustments in mid-air.

Otherwise, when he could only throw bricks before, he would have already poked through the window and got stuck on it.

"Hey, even the window is locked!"

Such windows are equipped with a window bolt that can be locked from the inside.

Generally, because of the trouble, the window bolts will not be locked except on windy and rainy days.

This is why Li Xuan's magical skill of "climbing through the window" has been tried and tested.

But Qingshu Palace is good. Today, such good weather, the windows are locked.

He remembered that it was very easy when he climbed through the window of the eldest prince yesterday.

During the day, he also saw that the window of this room was open.

It seems that because the chessboard is stored here, so they are so cautious.

"This Concubine Zhang is not useless."

Li Xuan walked around the room and found that no window was open.

With his current strength, a window naturally can't stop him.

But if you want to do it without anyone noticing, you can't leave any traces.

All along, breaking into the room has been the simplest step.

Unexpectedly, he fell for the first time in this small Qingshu Palace.

Of course, such a small difficulty can't stop Li Xuan's determination to borrow things.

There are hungry children at home, how can he give up so easily!

Li Xuan took advantage of the crooked tree during the day and went to the roof. He walked along the eaves and looked for the weakest point.

The roof in the palace is not like in the costume dramas, where you can see the situation inside by lifting a tile.

Li Xuan often walks on the eaves, so he knows more about this aspect.

The roof in the palace is generally covered with several layers of tiles, and each tile is not light.

Under the tiles are rafters placed on the beams, with narrow gaps in them.

Tiles are placed on the rafters.

Tiles are divided into bottom tiles and cover tiles.

The bottom tiles are relatively flat, covering the rafters and serving as the bottom of the entire tile part.

And on top of the bottom tiles are the cover tiles. After the cover tiles are put up, the roof is completed.

As the saying goes, if you don't fight for three days, you will go up to the roof and remove the tiles.

Li Xuan is now planning to break through from removing the tiles to the inside.

But there are also some rules for where to start removing.

The roof tiles are stacked layer by layer, so you must find a good place before you start.

Otherwise, it will not only be time-consuming and laborious, but also may cause a lot of noise if you are not careful.

But when Li Xuan walked on the catwalk before, he often saw some cats stepping on tiles when they were not paying attention, causing the tiles to dislocate.

This kind of place is the breakthrough point that Li Xuan is looking for.

He searched on the roof for a while and finally found a relatively loose place.

He then used his claws to dig twice, and sure enough, the tiles began to dislocate.

Li Xuan quickly took the tile to the side with his mouth, and repeated this several times, and a hole appeared on the roof for him to drill down.

As we all know, cats are liquid.

So as long as Li Xuan's head can pass through, his body can follow.

But just in case, he still widened the hole on the roof.

After all, he still had to carry two chess pots when he came out.

Now make the hole bigger to save trouble when you come out later.

Li Xuan crawled in through the hole in the roof, stepped on the rafters and beams, and landed easily.

Being a cat is still very advantageous.

Not only can he crawl into narrow places, but he is also agile and silent in his movements. He is a natural hand at taking things.

As soon as Li Xuan came in, he saw the chessboard on the table, and rushed up impatiently and hugged two chess pots.

"My dears, I've been waiting for a long time!"

He then picked up the two chess pots and put them on the knot on his body, and then fixed the chess pots.

Li Xuan came down to try and found it very firm.

Then he found the highest shelf in the room and climbed up.

Along the way, Li Xuan really encountered a lot of temptations.

He also understood why this room was locked so tightly.

The room was filled with all kinds of rare treasures, some of which were still glowing faintly at night, and they were not ordinary items at a glance.

And this kind of thing is everywhere in this room.

"Is this Concubine Zhang's treasure house?"

"It's too rich!"

Li Xuan couldn't help looking around, and reluctantly climbed up the shelf full of treasures.

"I'll empty it for you sooner or later!"

Li Xuan made up his mind in his heart, and finally jumped resolutely, stepped on the top beam to gain leverage, and his whole body flew up with a whoosh, and landed directly on the beam.

"It's still very easy."

He looked at the height under his feet and couldn't help but smile complacently.

Then he didn't delay any more, climbed out of the hole on the roof, and ran towards Jingyang Palace.

Carrying two chess pots did affect Li Xuan's speed, but even so he rushed back in a very short time.

Back to Princess Ankang's room, Li Xuan found that there was another person in the room.

Before the two people in the room saw him, he meowed first.

"Meow? (Yu'er?)"

Yes, the extra person was the sleepy Yu'er.

She propped up her chin and sat beside Princess Ankang, nodding like a chick pecking at rice, dozing off.

Hearing Li Xuan's voice, Princess Ankang quickly lit the candle and then touched Yu'er beside her.

"Sister Yu'er, Ah Xuan is back."

"Yeah, yeah, what's wrong?"

Yu'er was dazed, wiped the saliva from the corner of her mouth, and couldn't muster up any energy.

Li Xuan jumped directly onto the table, and Princess Ankang couldn't wait to take out the two chess pots he brought.

After she opened it and confirmed that it was correct, she couldn't help but smile widely.

"Hehe, Ah Xuan is really amazing!"

Princess Ankang gave Li Xuan a big hug and rubbed her red cheek non-stop.

"Okay, we still have work to do, let's put the celebration aside."

Princess Ankang immediately came back to her senses from Li Xuan's beauty and firmly stopped the urge to continue petting the cat.

"Ah Xuan, separate the chess pieces, and Sister Yu'er and I will help you deal with the separated chess pieces."

Li Xuan nodded, and saw Princess Ankang opened one of the chess pieces, and took a bite without hesitation, holding seven or eight chess pieces in his mouth.

He quickly used his tongue to go through them, and soon spat out the chess pieces with words to Princess Ankang, and the chess pieces without words to Yu'er.

Both of them had prepared rags long ago, and after wiping the chess pieces clean, they sorted them out.

Li Xuan licked the chess pieces until his tongue was dry, and he drank water again in the middle to persevere.

Licking more than 300 chess pieces at a time is simply not something a cat should do.

But fortunately, they did not make mistakes in a hurry. After sorting them out, they picked out 180 chess pieces with words.

Adding them together with the chess pieces they found from Princess Ankang's Go set before, there were exactly 361 pieces.

Princess Ankang counted the number of black and white pieces again, and found that the number of black and white pieces corresponded exactly to the number of chess pieces with words found before.

180 white pieces, 181 black pieces.

At this moment, the three children all breathed a sigh of relief.

Yu'er sorted out all the chess pieces without words and put them in the chess pot brought by Li Xuan.

They could just be put together to form a set of black and white pieces.

"Ah Xuan, return the chess pot."

"This is more important."

At this time, after being busy for a while, Yu'er, who was in high spirits, asked: "Your Highness, shall we sort out the words on the chess pieces now?"

"I'll go get a basin of water."

Yu'er was about to go out to get water, but was stopped by Princess Ankang.

"Sister Yu'er, don't worry about the words, it's still in time to do it tomorrow."

"It's too dark at night, it looks inconvenient."

"Besides, if we keep the lights on late at night, it will always attract attention."

Princess Ankang said so.

Li Xuan couldn't help but nod secretly after hearing this.

"The little girl is very thoughtful."

Then, Li Xuan carried two jars of chess pieces without words on his back and returned to Qingshu Palace to return the things.

His saliva on them had been wiped clean by Yu'er, so there should be no flaws.

Li Xuan put the tiles on the roof back in place and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

He ran back and forth several times this night, and finally finished the job.

"In this way, we should be able to get away with it."

It's better for Concubine Zhang not to know the words on the chess pieces forever.

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The last chapter I owed before is presented here.

I feel relieved now that I am debt-free.

I will continue tomorrow, good night everyone.

Record: Additional chapter (9/9)