It is said that the ground is freezing and the weather is cold, the north wind is howling, there are chess stalls on the street, the wrinkled ditches are a whole black old face, its owner is wrapped in a broken military coat, and his eyes are full of helplessness and empty looks, he looks like he is seventy years old, right?

After coming out of the municipal party committee compound, Tang Sheng was depressed, and he rubbed along the road, he didn't know where he went, his mind was full of Guan Guan's tearful face, she stopped the car at the most critical moment, she remembered Tang Jin, but she didn't.

Why didn't I think of Tang Jin? How big is the gap between loyalty and fraternity, can I abandon Ning Xin, Qiang Qiang, Mei Fei, Wang Jing, Yumei, and Lin Fei for the sake of loyalty to Tang Jin? Answer: The chalk case is yes, I can't do it, okay Tang Jin, I'm a scumbag.

When the scum saw that there were still people squatting on the street to practice chess stalls on New Year's Day, crying and laughing, I said that your boss is not small, don't go home to enjoy the joy of family, what kind of chess stall do you squat here? Everyone is home for a reunion, who is so cold squatting on the street to play chess with you?

Walking in front of the old man, his eyes swept over the old man's face, the old face and almost lifeless eyes made Tang Sheng's steps streak, and the next moment, he stopped and turned around, staring at the old man's face carefully, he seemed unconscious, his eyes were still dull.

The expression and eyes on the old man's face seemed to be telling an untold story, Tang Sheng's heart couldn't help but move, and a picture flashed through his mind, will I, a scumbag, be as lonely as him when I am so old? Inexplicable's heart trembled.

On the chessboard on the ground is the famous endgame "Seven Stars Celebrate", in fact, which side goes first, the advantage will be obvious, the odds of winning will be greatly increased, the characteristics of the endgame lie in its profundity, if you can't see the last ten moves to attack, it is very likely to be defeated.

In the cold weather of minus 20 degrees, a lonely old man posed for a lifetime? Look up or love chess?

In fact, it can already be seen from his face: "This should be one of his livelihoods." An old man in his seventies, even if he loves chess, he can't squat here on this New Year's Day to be blown by the cold wind, right? Look at the ragged clothes, there is a story in this!

Tang Sheng temporarily put aside his depressed mood, and squatted opposite the old man in two steps, while taking out the soft China from his pocket, "Uncle, can you have one?" So saying, he took out a cigarette and handed it to the old man, who came back to his senses and took it blankly. Tang Sheng took out a windproof lighter and lit it for him. "Uncle, it's the New Year, you still practice chess, does anyone play?"

The old man took a deep puff of his cigarette and seemed to enjoy it very much. Smoke circulates into the lungs. Spit it out again, and the breath in his mouth turned gray, and he had a smile on his face, "I haven't smoked for a long time, your cigarette is too soft and tasteless." You're going to kill me for a game? You go first, it's a bet. If you lose, you have to give the other party ten yuan, why do you make so much? That, those five pieces will do. ”

The old man has a winning frame, and finally waits for someone who wants to play the residual chess, but it is not easy, "It's okay if you don't have three pieces." ”

Tang Sheng looked at the strong desire in the old man's eyes, and his heart throbbed. "You seem to have won me? I'm a master. ”

"The master is good, I like to play with the master, young man, you are a master at a young age? I don't believe it, come on, try? ”

Tang Sheng is indeed a chess master, more powerful than pulling an erbeard, as early as seven or eight years old and grandfather played endgame, like "Seven stars together, he is too profound in this way, at least know five ways to break before." Neither the red nor the black side will be defeated.

So, in the gray and hazy cold weather, an old man and a young man began a big killing. They shook their hands as they shook their hands. While shouting "General", three people walked over in the distance, a man in his fifties and fifties, and his momentum was very majestic. Holding hands, a middle-aged woman and a young girl on the left and right, both holding the man's arms, obviously a family of three, it seems that they are going home after shopping, right?

However, this fifty-year-old man is none other than Bai Shanmin, a member of the Standing Committee of the Jiangling Municipal Party Committee and the secretary of the Discipline Inspection Commission, and when he got closer, he recognized Tang Sheng from the side. How can this kid have such idleness? How can it be possible to squat on the street and practice disabled chess in the New Year?

It's unbelievable, he knows more or less about him, and Tang Tian has some revelations, although it is less than a year compared with Tang Shuchalk, "but Tang Shuchalk's sincerity and great mind are very appreciated by Bai Shanmin, and some of the actions of his kid Tang Sheng also make Bai Shanmin look forward to it, the relocation of Old Tang Lane, the planning of Jiang School, etc., the rise of Jinsheng, and the Luhu project, where is there no shadow of him?"

This son is definitely not a thing in the pool, he will definitely soar into the nine skies one day, and Jiangling, the land of egg pills, can put him? That's.

"Dad. Hurry home, I know that your legs will be weak in the blink of an eye, so it's such a cold day, let's go home! ”

As soon as his father's feet were slow, Bai Yanlin knew that his chess addiction couldn't resist the teasing and came out again, and he glanced at his mother as he spoke, which means that he must pull my father home, Bai Shanmin's beloved wife Tao Yuchun smiled bitterly, "Girl, are you confident to go back to him?" ”

Bai Shanmin nodded and chuckled: "Ms. Jingchun, who knows me, girl, why don't you accompany your mother to go back to make dumplings first?" ，

"Don't go, leave you here alone, it's strange that you are willing to go home if the sun doesn't set, Mom, let's wait for my dad."

Tao Sunchun nodded, and said to Bai Shanmin with a smile: "No matter how majestic your big book is, you can't put it with your wife and children, right?" ”

"Okay, good, just watch one or two games, none of you are allowed to squeak, you must have the quality of watching chess, and it is a donkey who has a lot of mouth!"

Poof, Tao Jingchun and Bai Yanlin both laughed silently, and approached the chess game with Bai Dashu left and right, Bai Shanmin was silent, he was actually curious about Tang Sheng, such a young child, but he had an incomprehensible deep heart. ~

Tang Sheng knew that as soon as the chess game opened, it was inevitable to attract some passing spectators, but he was too lazy to turn back and only focus on the chess game.

Feng Jin hid, bombarded elephant flying, soldiers came and went, and the killing was inseparable, and in the end Tang Sheng still won the first game.

"What a great move, young man. My old man has lived to be seventy years old, and he has been immersed in this way for decades, and he has not tasted defeat, old man! The old man sighed, sighed, and reached into his coat pocket with a trembling hand, took out a crumpled ten yuan and handed it to Tang Sheng.

Tang Sheng didn't take it, but he took out the soft China and handed it to the old man, he rubbed his hands and said, "I don't want your money, I just want to know that on this New Year's Day, all families will be reunited." On a good day to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, why don't you go home to enjoy the joy of family, but squat on the roadside practice stall with few pedestrians in the cold wind? The old man is in trouble, right? If you have it, I will say something for you, saying that the leaders in the city have worked too hard, and it is inevitable that there will be places that cannot be taken into account, and you can't squat silently like this. ”

These words not only stunned the old man, but also stunned the three members of Bai Shanmin's family behind him, and Bai Dashu's heart jumped violently. Tao Jingchun and Bai Yanlin's eyes were shining, and they both stared at the young man, "Especially Bai Yanlin only made a closer look at it at this time, "Hey, isn't he the Tang Sheng who led Hua Yingying to the "wealthy upstart" some time ago? How can you squat on the street and play chess? I don't know.

In the end, the young man's thoughts are relatively simple, "Bai Shanmin and Tao Yuchun will not be Bai Yanlin's thoughts, Tang Sheng's words are very clear." The reason why he squatted here to play chess was just to ask why the old man didn't go home for a reunion but was practicing chess. At a young age, I know how to care about the hunger of the poor, which is rare, and I Bai Shanmin also thought about chess, but I didn't expect this.

After the old man was stunned, he shook his hand and pinched the ten yuan and didn't come back, "Young man, take it, I am willing to lose the bet, and I am convinced." You said that on this cold day, who wants to practice stalls? There are still two people in the family who haven't eaten, don't I practice? Those who are husbands and fathers should fulfill their responsibilities as husbands and fathers. You've got to give Uncle a chance for me to win the ten dollars back. ”

The old man's desolate words contain endless sadness, but there is a faint hint of strong bones, no matter how hard it is, I have to hold on.

Bai Shanmin and Tao Jingchun were all moved by the two sentences of this answer, Bai Yanlin was even more unbearable, her beautiful eyes suddenly filled with tears, she originally thought it was just an idle chess stall practiced by idlers to have fun or something, but she didn't know that there was a sad inside story hidden behind this.

"Uncle, if you have difficulties in finding the government, you are this age, and you can't live on a small chess stall, right? You always win people, who still plays chess with you? Isn't that reasonable? It's not a solution after all, don't you say? ，

"Alas, who cares about me, a bad old man, the government? I've been there a few times, annoyed people, and kicked me out last time. Look at this face fall, I don't dare to go anymore, just say this chess stall, the city management can't catch it, today I thought that they were all in the same family for the New Year, and they would not come to kick my small chess stall, so I hurried out to practice, but there was no one in the morning, you are the first one. ”

Tang Sheng shook his head suddenly, and there were enough tears in his dark starry eyes, which slipped by in an instant, and he gritted his teeth and scolded, "Wang Badan has everything." At the same time as he raised his hand to wipe away his tears, his eyes touched the three chess spectators standing on his left.

Bai Shanmin, Tao Jingchun, and Bai Yanlin are also the same as Tang Sheng, their eyes are full of tears, especially Tao Jing's "Chun and Bai Yanlin's mother and son didn't expect the young man to cry, he seems to know the warmth and coldness of the world at a young age. He also seems to hate a certain phenomenon, and feels that he squats here to play chess for another purpose.

Bai Shanmin took two steps forward and squatted down, stretched out his hand and patted Tang Sheng's shoulder, "Tang Sheng, Uncle Bai didn't expect it to be you." ”

Uh, my dad would know him? Bai Yanlin was suddenly stunned, Tao Jingchun also understood why her husband wanted to watch chess, so it was? Who is this young man? The husband doesn't seem to have said it, but he seems to be very familiar with this Tang Sheng, who is the young man?

The old man glanced at Bai Shanmin blankly, and didn't think anything, thinking that he was just an acquaintance of the young man, and he smoked again.

Tang Sheng took a deep breath and calmed down his emotions, it is said that with his cultivation, he should not be easily emotional, but there are some things that cannot be helped, and it just so happened that this scene was bumped into by Bai Shanmin? It's not an accident to think about it, isn't it the family home of the municipal party committee when you turn around at the intersection in front?

He looked up at Tao Jingchun and Bai Yanlin, the former had never seen it, and the latter was Bai Yanlin, one of the four jade girls of the wealthy family, who had seen it in the wealthy upstart some time ago, that is, the nodding friend, the jade girl Jing Zhi, didn't give you a chance to make friends, and didn't want to bump into it today.

Needless to say, the middle-aged beautiful woman must be Bai Shanmin's beloved wife and Bai Yanlin's mother, Tang Sheng smiled at them before saying to Bai Shanmin: "Uncle Bai, there are always injustices in the world. There are also hungry people in the people, you should be old and strong, you should shoot when you should shoot, I support you spiritually, this uncle should be raised by his children at home, such as falling on the streets, practicing stalls to make a living? There is always some work that is not in place, and the bureaucrats in charge don't take it seriously if they don't see it with their own eyes, I see that this reunion dinner in the New Year will go to the uncle's house to eat, if you have no opinion, I will call the official master, he wants to eat dumplings with tears! ”

"Cheng, Tang Sheng, let's go to the uncle's house to eat dumplings today, and let's kill a few more games of chess after eating," Bai Shanmin nodded vigorously.

But Tao Sunchun and his daughter Bai Yanlin were dumbfounded, what happened to Bai Dashu's chalk book? Why is this the end of civil hunger? Can you manage it? Are you really going to go with this teenager? Aren't you afraid that those people in the municipal party committee will poke you in the back in the back? Thinking. Tao Jingchun frowned.

But she still knows what kind of temperament the old man is, and he can't pull back the nine cows he has decided, so he will go.

In the vast night, in a side alley in the east corner of the city, there is a bunch of black and shiny car people, in the depths of the alley, the old man Wang's house is in full swing today, the old bungalow, just two main rooms and a lower room, several women are busy making dumplings, there is an old woman and a man in their thirties lying on the big kang, the old woman is riddled with dementia for nearly 20 years, bedsores all over her body, she can't bear to see it suddenly, her son is demented after a car accident, her intelligence is equivalent to that of a child of three or four years old, and her daughter-in-law has already run away with someone. This family is supported by a seventy-year-old man practicing chess, and the neighbors occasionally help out, give some food and drink, and its suffering is difficult to describe in a word.

Tang Tianze and Bai Shanmin sat on the small bench in the hall, both of them covered their heads and smoked, and the dumplings were made by Liu Yunhui, Tao Sunchun, Guan Jinyu, Bai Yanlin, and Guan Guan, and Tang Sheng was at the door. and Li Chongfeng muttered something, and there were a few neighbors in the courtyard.

Tao Sunchun never imagined that Tang Tianze would move to Tang Dashu and lead his wife Director Liu, and now he understood, it turned out that the young man who was squatting on the street and playing chess with others was the son of Secretary Tang, and Bai Yanlin was even more taken aback.

Guan Jinyu also called Tang Dashu Chalk Ji, they were sitting, and two more guests came in, Ning Tianyou, the secretary of the district party committee in the city, and his daughter Ning Xin came, Ning Xin appeared for the first time in a dark police uniform, and his heroic style was sassy, and Tang Sheng's eyes were straight.

When the meal was about to start, another nasty guy came, who was it? Wang Jing, a reporter for the evening newspaper, and several bureaucrats glared at her.

Wang Jingman didn't care, he actually interviewed the old man Wang carefully, and saw what article he was going to write tomorrow to see the newspaper, right?

Hearing Ning Xin say that Wang Jing was her good friend, Tang Tianze's sharp eyes softened, "Things within the city, if you want to write, write Ning Tian's estimate, don't pull me and the good people into it, and don't make the city full of wind and rain, some of the current situation can not be solved in a day and a half, the government should come up with a practical plan in these aspects, and then make a specific improvement plan after discussion by the Standing Committee!" ”

pS: There is a discussion about Luo Xiaohu in the book review area today. J's post. In fact, when I wrote about bah, when I wrote the chapter, I found that Xiao Luo's shaping was a bit of a failure, very unpleasant, there is, very bright, the book friend said, Xiaohu hit the director's son on the first day, and the next day QJ went to the school, well, so on the third day, Luo Xiaohu's classmates were sent away, and the shaping of failure needs to be reshaped, after three or two years of plot advancement, it may be completely different when it appears again, it can be said that Xiaohu comes and goes quickly, and it is not without the meaning of revealing some realistic phenomena, it happened around me, and I have no ability to help others redress their grievances or something, Everyone yearns for the good side, but we should not ignore the dark side of reality, our ideals are very full, but the reality is too skinny, you must be younger than me, and it is inevitable that you will be disgusted to see more knowledge in the future, you can see some phenomena in the book, and it is also regarded as the income from reading books, and those with lofty ambitions, who will be developed and in power in the future, remember to redress the grievances of the common people, don't follow personal feelings to protect Luo Xiaohu, you must pay compensation.

It's not too far.,Finally ask for some recommendation votes.,It's getting closer and closer to B Wan.,Please!