Zhang Ke insisted on going, but Xu Si could only fulfill his wish. Thinking about how not to let people near my home see it, I just brought Zhang Ke and Xie Wanqing home for dinner yesterday, and today we are together again, so it's not good for others to see it.

It's just night, the cart is out of the community, the street is crowded, not less than the day, the area in the center of Haizhou is not big, from the first middle school through the front door to Shatin, it only takes twenty minutes, Zhang Ke carries Xu Si, there is no summer during the day, the light of the early moon is very soft, and he still feels cold in a single clothes. The bicycle turned into Qingshi Street by the river in Linshugang, Sha Tin, and asked Hui Si: "It would be a pity if all this place was demolished?" ”

"Why demolish?"

"It's going to be demolished anyway, it's next to the front door, and as soon as the city develops, it will definitely be demolished."

"It's not a pity that my house is demolished, but it's a pity that it's demolished here."

Ninety-four years, the illegal construction of Sha Tin is not flooded, one side of the bluestone street faces the river, one side is the eaves corner of the flying hanging, there is a wooden pier bridge on the Shugang River, but the flowing water of the Shugang River is blackened by the wastewater discharged by the Xinguang Paper Mill, it is very bad scenery, it has a pungent smell, there is a Taoist temple at the north end of the bluestone street, the thousand-year-old green apricot in the view will poke out the branches and leaves out of the courtyard wall, covering most of the stone street, but in recent years, it is a little dry yellow.

Xu Si was at the door of his own house, he didn't dare to go too intimate with Zhang Ke, and fell behind him, I don't know what he insisted on doing here, but from entering the office with him to the official establishment of Haitai Trading Company, in just over a month, too many unexpected things have happened, and he is used to his strange behavior.

There is a tavern in front, the old-style cloth signboard, Zhang Ke looked inside, 20 square meters of size, four walls of green bricks, no plastering, the corner of the wall is lined up with wine jars, pressed with the lid of the red cloth bag, it is Haizhou's native rice wine, and there are all kinds of liquor and beer on the wine cabinet of the thick white wooden counter. There are not many people in the tavern, and there is a middle-aged man wearing an old-fashioned cloth shirt on the east wall, Zhang Ke knows, Xu Hongbo, who founded the Haizhou Chess Academy, and is the godfather of Haizhou folk Go.

He drank liquor, and there was a plate of salted broad beans and a plate of old vinegar peanuts on the table.

Unexpectedly, he met Xu Hongbo here, Zhang Ke was a little surprised, remembering that Xu Hongbo also lived nearby, and the Haizhou Chess Academy, which was founded early, was the east wing of the Taoist temple.

"Zhang Ke, why did you come over to play?" Xu Si's father, Xu Haishan, and another shriveled man were playing chess on the table on the left side of the door.

Zhang Ke was stunned, looked back at Xu Si's face with a flush of emptiness, and said: "Sister Xu Si said that she was going to tutor me today, I have only been in school for a few days, and I don't have any homework to tutor, so I pestered her to take me here to play." ”

Thinking that yesterday I was still at Xu Si's house to talk about tutoring homework, I used it today.

"This girl is more serious about what she does," Xu Haishan poked out, only to see his daughter, beckoned Zhang Ke to sit in, and said to the man who was playing chess with him, "Lao Chen, this is the student taught by Xu Si, and the cousin of the female boss of Xu Si's company, help make a good pot of tea." But deliberately said the word "female", since yesterday Zhang Ke and Xie Wanqing led Zhitong to dinner, Xu Haishan let go of the burden in his heart, and he was also in the mood to go to the neighborhood at night.

The man was in a hurry to be the shopkeeper, he looked up at Zhang Ke, moved the stool next to him out, asked Zhang Ke to sit, and he went to the counter to make tea. Zhang Ke sat down generously, the chessboard was going through the endgame, and neither side missed a big move, Zhang Ke smiled and said: "Uncle Xu, your chess is very good." ”

"You haven't watched them play, how do you know if they're good or bad? I don't know Uncle Chen's chess, but my dad is a stinky chess basket......" Xu Si walked in, greeted the shopkeeper, and nodded to Xu Hongbo: "Teacher Xu." ”

Seeing that Xu Si knew Xu Hongbo, Zhang Ke felt that it was convenient to talk to him and said, "Teacher Xu can see that this endgame is good. ”

"You don't speak lightly or heavily, can you compare with Teacher Xu?" Xu Si pushed him.

"Do you recognize me?" Xu Hongbo let Zhang Ke's words attract attention and looked at it.

"When I was in elementary school, I learned chess from Mr. Xu for a summer vacation in the Cultural Palace."

Xu Hongbo thought about it, had no impression, and said to the shopkeeper: "Is there water seeping in your wine?" The shopkeeper said, "You're going to smash my tavern!" ”

Xu Hongbo smiled, stood up and said to Zhang Ge, "Look at what I taught you before?" ”

"Let's move on to the endgame."

Xu Hongbo glanced at the chess game, the strength was evenly matched, and then played, who did not take advantage of whom, only to know that this young man was really not bad at chess. He turned to the shopkeeper and said, "Take out your Yunshizi Go and play Go." ”

Xu Si said: "Don't know that the sky is high and the earth is thick, you dare to play Go with Teacher Xu?" ”

In another ten years, when Xu Hongbo is old and thinks of retiring, Zhang Ke will naturally not lose to him, Xu Hongbo is only fifty years old now, and his brain is very healthy, although the level cannot be maintained at a professional level, Zhang Ke does not expect to win him.

The trajectory of history will not be deflected, and my father will leave the city after Tang Xueqian's case and start his depressed and frustrated life, and from then on, he began to study chess and made friends with Xu Hongbo. After Tang Xueqian was released from prison, his father had no place in Haizhou University, and it was Xu Hongbo who took him into the chess academy to avoid the wind and rain.

If you want to say that there is really anyone in Haizhou City who is worthy of Zhang Ke's admiration, Xu Hongbo wants to count one, I thought that the historical trajectory would be deflected, and there would be no chance to meet Xu Hongbo, how did I know that we would meet here?

Since they can meet, there is naturally no reason to let him go.

Xu Hongbo served as a secretary to Wan Xiangqian, the former secretary of the municipal party committee and now the director of the National People's Congress, for six years in his early years, and later resigned from public office and had no contact with Wan Xiangqian, and founded the Haizhou Chess School, which is also the current Haizhou Chess Academy. As for why he suddenly resigned from public office, there were many rumors in the alleys, and he himself disdained it, only saying that he was unhappy with officialdom, and he fulfilled his wish by playing chess all day long, and he did not say a word about it.

When Xu Hongbo left the city, Tang Xueqian and his father had not yet been transferred to the city, because Tang Xueqian liked to play chess, his father also knew Xu Hongbo, but now they can only be regarded as general friends, and both parties have not left too deep an impression on each other.

Zhang Ke said: "My father also likes to play chess, when will I invite Mr. Xu to my house to play chess." ”

Dad is an official in office, he is knowledgeable and knowledgeable, but he is not as proficient in intrigue as himself, not to mention that Haizhou officialdom is not very calm now. Xu Hongbo has been in Haizhou officialdom for a longer time than his father, with his familiarity with Xu Hongbo in the future, Zhang Ke knows that he is a well-versed character, he has already become a human spirit, and he can look at you at a glance, but he is not contaminated with the corrosive smell of officialdom, and he jumped out of the muddy water alone, he is a very special character, in Haizhou officialdom, it is definitely an outlier.

Such friends, whether you are in good times or bad, are worth making.

The shopkeeper, Lao Chen, shouted into the courtyard: "Rong Rong, help your Uncle Xu take out the Go......"

Xu Haishan also came to be interested, ninety-four years, there are many people who are interested in Go, no one in Shatin is qualified to stand up with Xu Hongbo to teach Go, Xu Si's uncle plays chess well, every time he asks Xu Hongbo to let the third son in the next game, he has to invite a drink.

After making tea, celadon tea cups, tea leaves float and sink, Zhang Ke heard the chess pieces in the yard rattling in the chess box, and the shopkeeper smiled: "The little girl knows how to jump." Xu Hongbo said: "Your girl is not small, today I see her followed by a long little scoundrel, just like the two girls of the Haishan family back then." Xu Si's face was red, someone pushed the door and entered the tavern from the courtyard inside, Zhang Ke saw that person, his eyes were stupid.

"Boom, lala......" Chen Feirong fell to the ground with chess pieces in her hand, the ground paved with blue bricks, the chess pieces jumped wildly, and she looked at Zhang Ke sitting at the square table in a daze.