After eating, Li Xiaojian felt bored, so he took out the box of chess he bought in the morning and put it in front of several people and asked, "Do you know how to play?" ”

Yue Lao shook his head and said, "I don't play this in the sky, but I've seen it before, and I can't play it well." ”

Pan An stared at Xiangqi and said, "I will, but at that time, Xiangqi represented war and was not popular." ”

Li Xiaojian looked at Liu Yong and asked, "What about Lord Liu?" ”

Liu Yong squeezed his eyes and asked, "Xiaojian, don't we go out at night?" ”

"What activity?" Li Xiaojian didn't understand what Liu Yong meant.

Liu Yong was so angry that he puffed up his cheeks, and then said with a green light in his eyes: "Of course it's a pickle girl, I think let's take this material, how about going to your school to find a few girls to play?" ”

"You!" Li Xiaojian wanted to scold people, but he felt that it was a bit disrespectful to the ancients, after all, Liu Yong was his idol. After thinking about it, Li Xiaojian said: "Lao Liu, just let me save some snacks, how realistic girls are now, you don't look like Pan An, and you don't have any money in your pocket, can you handle it?" ”

"Yes!" Liu Yong said extremely firmly.

"Then don't go! Now this place is under Sister Feng's control, you can go to her and ask for leave. Li Xiaojian roared angrily.

Liu Yong blinked after hearing this, and said helplessly: "Then forget it." ”

Then, Liu Yong picked up the chess pieces and muttered, "Who will play the next game with me?" I'm very subordinate. ”

Li Xiaojian looked at Yue Lao, and Yue Lao hurriedly waved his hand to signal that he wouldn't. Li Xiaojian looked at Pan An again, and Pan An said: "I haven't been in contact for so many years, I have forgotten how to leave." ”

"Alright then, I'll teach Master Liu's chess skills." Li Xiaojian sat down and set up the chess.

The confrontation method of Chinese chess is divided by the Chu River and Han boundary, one side is "general", one side is "handsome", and the general and handsome are only in the small Tianzi, and they can't go out, but they are protected by "Shi" and "Xiang", in which "Shi" can't go out of Tianzi, but "Xiang" can. Like flying fields, horses walk the day, cars cross horizontally and vertically, cannons borrow sub-shots, and pawns step arch.

Li Xiaojian understands these basic things, but he can't reach them when he is allowed to contact the more advanced chess field. Li Xiaojian's chess was learned from his grandfather. Grandpa was injured in middle age, his legs were smashed by wood, he had to use crutches every time he went out, and then he could only use a wheelchair, so it can be said that grandpa spent the second half of his life in bed, and the second half of his life was also spent with chess.

Grandpa was very smart, he was admitted to university at that time, but he just caught up with the commune activities, and the elders of the family gave up his studies in order to earn him credits.

Li Xiaojian accompanied his grandfather to play chess from the fifth grade, and before that, he had been watching Uncle Wang accompany his grandfather to play diagonally across the door, but unfortunately Uncle Wang did not survive his grandfather and left first. Li Xiaojian was afraid that his grandfather would be bored, so he played chess with his heart playing. Grandpa's chess skills are very high, Li Xiaojian cheated and sliding, but never won, sometimes grandpa deliberately let him have a "rook" and a "horse", so he didn't win grandpa.

In his life, Li Xiaojian only won against his grandfather once, and that was the year before his grandfather's death. He didn't know if his chess skills had improved, or if his grandfather's eyes had failed. Anyway, he won that time, and he was overjoyed by the joy of finally succeeding after four or five years of pent-up, and at that time, Grandpa looked at him with a happy smile on his face.

They hadn't played since then, as Grandpa had a cerebral thrombosis the next day until he died a year later. Grandpa has three grandchildren, and the most painful is Li Xiaojian's little grandson. The three grandsons have all played chess with their grandfather, but the only one who has won against his grandfather is Li Xiaojian. Li Xiaojian once tried with his two elder brothers, basically equal, he never understood why he won against his grandfather that day, and he didn't understand it until now, but that day he felt that his grandfather really didn't deliberately let him.

Waking up from the memories, Li Xiaojian found that Liu Yong had already played chess.

In Li Xiaojian's memory, there are three best moves in chess, and most people also follow the same "pawn, cannon, elephant". Liu Yong did not go like this, but got directly into the "car".

This is undoubtedly a suicidal act, if he gets on the "car", Li Xiaojian can completely bombard his "horse" with a "cannon", so that Liu Yong will not only lose a "horse" but also give Li Xiaojian a first-class offensive, and directly come to a "sinking cannon", so that Liu Yong's whole game of chess will be in an extremely dangerous state.

Li Xiaojian suspected that Liu Yong couldn't play chess, so he reminded: "Lao Liu, isn't it okay to go like this?" ”

Liu Yong was very surprised and said, "Do you still care how I go?" ”

"But you're going to lose a horse?" Li Xiaojian reminded.

Liu Yong shook his head and said: "Keep playing, chess is life, how to get without losing, what I fancy is the final result, when I win your 'general', you can ask me why I go like this." ”

"Alright then, you're welcome." Li Xiaojian said and directly ate Liu Yong's "horse".

Looking at Li Xiaojian eating the "horse", the corners of Liu Yong's mouth showed a sly smile. Next, Liu Yong's chess was on the right track and began to fight to the death with Li Xiaojian.

Li Xiaojian and his grandfather played chess for five years, and his skills were quite good, at least among his peers, there were few opponents, but after Liu Yong deliberately gave him a piece, he still didn't take advantage, which made Li Xiaojian very puzzled.

Ten minutes passed, the situation was certain, Li Xiaojian had no soldiers to cross the river except for one horse, and although Liu Yong only had one horse left, he had already crossed the river with three pawns.

The three pawns crossing the river are like two horses, which makes Li Xiaojian have a headache, a single horse can never win the opponent, but the defense is just a dying struggle.

"Come again!" Li Xiaojian roared angrily and put on the chess pieces anew. He didn't understand why the seemingly dominant opponent ended up losing.

"Hehe, then come again." Liu Yong said very calmly.

After figuring out Li Xiaojian's routine, Liu Yong did not take the initiative to let the chess pieces go this time, but attacked violently. Liu Yong's camp had no defense at all and was almost empty, which was a suicidal move for a chess master. However, a miracle happened again, none of the chess pieces in Li Xiaojian's hands had crossed the river, but they were suppressed by Liu Yong, and they had no choice but to surrender and admit defeat.

"Come again!"

The two played three more games, and after five sets, Liu Yong couldn't play, obviously, Li Xiaojian's chess skills were weak in front of him.

"Xiao Jian, your chess skills are too far behind, and your heart is not calm enough, so let's stop here today." Liu Yong smiled.

"But?" Li Xiaojian was unwilling, and said, "Let's have another plate." ”

After five rounds of fighting, he probably figured out Yue Lao's chess path, most of them were digging pits waiting for him to jump, which seemed to be full of flaws, but in fact there were hidden killing opportunities, seemingly useless steps, but they could always play an unexpected role. I have to admit that Liu Yong's chess is very good, but Li Xiaojian is unwilling, his chess skills are basically impeccable, but every time he sees Liu Yong have loopholes, he gets entangled after he gets into the loopholes, so this time he has to stabilize his mentality.

"I don't want to go down, unless you promise to take me to the little girl, and you want to be pretty." Liu Yong touched his chin and said.

Li Xiaojian thought about it, gritted his teeth and said, "Okay! ”

"It's a deal." After Liu Yong finished speaking, he quickly put the chess on the table.

"Xiao Jian, let me help you, I think your chess skills are too bad." Yue honestly couldn't look past it and interjected.

Pan An also nodded and said with a smile: "I think I can win you too." ”

"Nonsense, I'm amazing." Li Xiaojian looked unwilling.

"Let him come, practice well, his chess skills are not bad, but his mentality is not good." Liu Yong said.

Starting again, this time Li Xiaojian was very cautious, taking every step of the way, and every step had to be carefully considered. However, Liu Yong's chess path seems to be careless, east and west, without any rules, but he can block Li Xiaojian's offensive.

Half an hour passed, Li Xiaojian's heart suddenly lit up, and he said secretly: "Hehe, now you have lost." ”

Li Xiaojian raised the chess piece and just wanted to play, and a strange thought arose in his heart, did Liu Yong deliberately let go of the gap? Waiting for me to drill?

Li Xiaojian was undecided, but no matter how he looked at it, he felt that Liu Yong had no doubt about this step, but he was frightened by the first five games. After hesitating for a long time, Li Xiaojian planned to take a step and wait and see.

As soon as Li Xiaojian finished, Liu Yong plugged the gap and formed a steel and iron net, and it was obviously difficult for Li Xiaojian to attack again.

"Wasn't it a trap just now?" Li Xiaojian wondered.

Liu Yong smiled and said, "You still have seven steps to die." ”

"I didn't drink it." Li Xiaojian muttered and continued to play chess, but as soon as he dropped the word, he suddenly found that the chess game had changed greatly.

Originally, the strength of the two was equal, but just now at a turning point, Liu Yong's advantage suddenly became better, and sure enough, in the seventh step, Li Xiaojian put down the chess pieces in his hand and sighed: "Admire, Scholar Liu is really powerful." ”

"Pull it down, you were going to leave just now, and he lost." Pan An was in the back.

"Really?" Li Xiaojian wondered.

Liu Yong nodded and said with a wicked smile: "I did it on purpose, you could have won, but you were scared by the first five defeats, so you will lose no matter how you play in the sixth game." ”

"You!" Although Li Xiaojian was very angry, he couldn't help it, this is a fact.

Liu Yong smiled and said, "I won't go to the little girl today, I'll wait another day." ”

"No, I'll take you today." Li Xiaojian jumped up and said. He was so depressed in these six games of chess that he wanted to go out for a walk.

"I think it's better to forget it, in the big night, are there any good birds out for a walk?" Liu Yong pouted.

"It's okay if you don't go, then you sue me, why do I lose, is it really bad chess skills?" Li Xiaojian asked.

Liu Yong scratched the back of his head and said, "Hehe, your chess skills are not bad, but you are young." In fact, playing chess is life, you must devote yourself wholeheartedly, and you must learn to fight wits and courage, you and I play chess, you should not put the battlefield on the chessboard, there is actually a battle between the two of us. Playing chess tonight, you have been staring at the chessboard, and I am looking at the chessboard at the same time, your every move, even your mental activity is under my control, even if I play badly, but it is just as easy to win you. ”

"Really?" Li Xiaojian closed his eyes and quietly savored Liu Yong's words, and for a moment, he seemed to feel a force spreading in his mind. When he suddenly opened his eyes, he suddenly realized that the world in front of him was not only these, but there was actually a longer and farther road behind him.