Chapter Seventy-Nine: It is better to take a step back

After eating a pound of buns and five fritters, Xue Xiang wiped his mouth, and was trying to find a reason to unload the dust sweeping in advance, so that he could meet his sweetheart - 1 - Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell... The phone on the square table rang.

Xue Xiang grabbed the microphone and just said "Hey", and An Zaihai's deep voice came from there.

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Every time Xue Xiang stepped into Songzhu Zhai, he inevitably attracted attention, to say that the flowers of Songzhu Zhai are really different from the scenery of the four seasons, and the joy is endless. Yesterday night, the north wind was tight, the snow fell, and this pine and bamboo Zhai also changed into plain silver.

In the courtyard, the snow paves the road, the flower garden is on the snow mountain, just turn out of a pine formation, the field of vision suddenly opens, outside the full of snow white, the plum forest of half an acre on the left side of the pavilion is particularly eye-catching, the red plum blossoms, the wind and the snow, the pretty branches, the end is the purple and red are all blooming, as if between this step, it will be from winter to spring.

Xue Xiang looked at the naturally distorted plum forest of the branches and asked, "Is it Long Youmei?" ”

Lao Wang led the way, and when he heard this, he turned his head and smiled: "You kid still knows everything, it is Long Youmei, it was arranged by Comrade Hai, it was said that it was winter, I think the garden is too plain, plant some Longyou Mei, it is more lively than Qu Mei and Zhimei, no, just a few days after planting, let your kid catch up." ”

Lao Wang Pingsu said very little, and the people who visited Songzhuzhai were either high-ranking officials and eunuchs, or relatives of the An clan, and it was difficult for him to accept them. Only Xue Xiang always made him cordial and happy every time he visited, and the two could always chat together. Therefore, Lao Wang always greeted Xue Xiang's arrival in person. Otherwise, as Lao Wang, with Xue Xiang's familiarity with Songzhu Zhai, he can send a guard to inform him.

The two talked and laughed a few more words, and then arrived in the lobby, where Old Man An was playing against people again. The person who played the game, Xue Xiang knew, was Zuo Qiuming, the eldest son-in-law of Old Man An, the former deputy director of the Jianghuai Provincial Revolutionary Committee, and the current vice minister of the Ministry of Railways. Zuo Qiu Ming's figure is still the same as before, tall and fat, but his fat face has more red light than the last time, and his hair is not thick and looks back, looking full of energy.

Xue Xiang secretly thought: It seems that this person has a good market in the Ministry of Railways. However, think about it, the capital is not better than the place, An's is near the left, and the old father-in-law frequently borrows the east wind, how can the son-in-law not moisturize.

Xue Xiang entered the door, and the old man didn't even raise his head, holding a cup in one hand and hitting the chessboard with a chess piece in the other, as if he was contemplating the chess game. On the contrary, Zuo Qiu Ming raised his head and smiled at Xue Xiang, and after Xue Xiang smiled back, he turned his attention to the chessboard again. After all, Old Taishan was on the side, and he didn't dare to shake it.

However, An Zaihai, who was watching the battle from the sidelines, didn't have so many stumbling blocks, stood up, and shook hands with Xue Xiang, which was quite grand. After holding it, he pulled Xue Xiang to sit down and watch the chess.

It was still the small square table from the last time, and Xue Xiang sat on the spare side, bowing his head to watch the chess. On the chessboard, the situation of the old man An is very good, the soldiers and elephants are complete, the main generals have a car, a horse, and a cannon, and the generals have all killed the Chu River and Han realms, and launched a siege on the old marshal of Zuoqiu Ming Jiugongge; On Zuo Qiu Ming's side, there are only bicycles and horses left, a pawn who crosses the river, and the two phases are extinct, only the two soldiers are left to support them, and the cars and horses are guarded near the Jiugong grid, and the situation is sinister and abnormal.

"Will! I'm out of chess. Old man An pulled back his blackened hair, probably defeating an opponent who was not smart, so that the old man did not have much sense of accomplishment, but there was no smile on his face, "You, from the beginning of the layout, you fell behind, and you knew that Lu Dao built a defense line and defended it desperately." Pouting and being beaten like this, I don't dare to think about winning at all, can I not lose chess? ”

Zuo Qiu Ming is also in his fifties, and he was reprimanded by his father-in-law like this, but he was not embarrassed at all, but smiled all over his face: "Dad, your old chess strength is profound, and the victory is obvious, I will build a defense line as soon as possible, that is from the objective reality, take precautions, if I attack you, I am afraid that I will lose even worse." ”…,

Old man An waved his hand: "What kind of bullshit is this, how can it be in the same tone as Wang Jingwei during the anti-Japanese period, to put it bluntly, it is capitulationism." If you want to think like you, when we did it with the little devil at the beginning, let's just disarm? Finish the calf thing! Back then, if it weren't for the chairman and his old man who led our group of hard bones, fighting to the death, fighting even if they couldn't fight, and fighting to the death, we would have the current republic..."

Zuo Qiu Ming was reprimanded, and he had to make a "teachable" appearance on his face, he couldn't stop nodding, but he was shouting in his heart: I knew that Lu Dao was like this, so I wouldn't make do with it, just be upright, play chess, and catch up with a political class.

An Zaihai smiled lightly on the side, with an expression that he knew this for a long time. It turned out that Fang was under him, and Zuo Qiu Ming just came, so he gave it to this unknown eldest brother-in-law, and let Zuo Qiu Ming take the thunder. He knew that the old man was not in a good mood during this time, and he was holding back for one thing.

Old man An took a sip of tea, and was about to open fire, Xue Xiang interjected: "Old man, I think the eldest brother-in-law knows himself and knows his opponent, judges the situation, and lures the enemy to go deeper." How did you come to you and become capitulationism, you are too far-fetched, right? ”

"Oh, good boy, this is a change of way to say that my old man relies on the old and sells the old."

"I don't mean that, don't mess with your hat."

"I don't care if you mean this or not, if you don't say a word today, we're not done!"

"You keep saying this, but you don't start from objective reality, you are always a party member, and you don't want to play tricks."

"Yo he, why don't I start from the objective truth, and say that my old man is arrogant, it's you kid who ran to me to force words. Where did this game of chess come from to lure the enemy deep, lure the enemy deep into the trap and lure yourself to death, joke! ”

"Who said that the eldest sister-in-law lured the enemy deep and lured himself to death, don't you think you won by yourself? I said, why did you do so much just now? Xue Xiang slapped his thigh, as if he had only understood cause and effect.

"What, you kid didn't wake up, do you mean it's all come to this point, and there is still salvation?" Old man An is really energetic at this time, his eyes are blazing, and his white eyebrows are shaking.

Xue Xiang said with a smile: "Where is there salvation or not, the situation is simply good, but you should be careful over there." ”

"Good boy, I hope you don't practice your mouth, Cheng, I want to see what kind of situation is so good, my general, it's time for you to go."

Old Man An and Xue Xiang played against each other, often with one win and nine defeats, even those few victories were extremely difficult. At this time, although it was an endgame, Xue Xiang said this, and immediately made the old man's heart happy: such a situation is simply the overall situation has been decided, today, let Xue Xiaozi make a mistake, and see if he dares to speak.

"Shishi"

"What should I be strange, vault, again!"

"Vault!"

"Don't let me be a horse, I expected this trick a long time ago."

"Arch Pawn"

"Crooked Veteran"

"Cannon, again!"

"Get out of the car!"

"Car killer, again! No chess, Ha Lu Ha" The old man was so happy that he smiled and shook his eyebrows, and kept stroking his non-existent beard.

At this time, the chessboard is like this, the four chess pieces are in a straight line, in turn are Old Man An's cannon, Xue Xiang's car, Old Man An's car (here was originally Xue Xiang's taxi, which was eaten by the car), Xue Xiang's veteran.

At the moment, Xue Xiang is playing chess, he is being eaten by Old Man An's car general, Xue Xiang can use the veteran or the car to eat Old Man An's car, but as soon as he eats Old Man An's car, Xue Xiang's veteran will have to be shot, which can be described as a serial move; It is said that Xue Xiang's veteran can withdraw to the middle, but the old man Na'an's horse is covering the middle position, and he is really dead everywhere.

Because of this, Old Man An will be so complacent, and he has already seen through these changes in chess. …,

"Xue boy, abandon the son, Ha Luha, it's only been a few days since I went to the countryside, and I'm stupid to treat my head." Old man An rarely had the opportunity to beg Xue Xiang's lottery head on the chess table, and it was as sweet as drinking honey at this time.

"You're always happy too early, I expected your hand, look at the move, kill the car!" Xue Xiang slammed on the chessboard and took away Old Man An's car.

"Alas, what's the matter with you, how do you eat my cart with a horse, you don't want to be a horse's leg, the veteran doesn't want it!" Old Man An slapped his legs, almost in Xue Xiang's hands, and snatched the eaten car back.

"I don't have horse legs, if you can step on a veteran, I admire it."

It turned out that at this moment, the old man's horse could directly prevent the central position, and he couldn't reach Xue Xiang's veteran at all.

"This, this... Oops, mindset kills. With a snap, Old Man An slapped his thigh again: "This is not good, I talked nonsense to your kid just now, delayed Lao Tzu's train of thought, put Lao Tzu's car back, regret one step!" ”

"Old man, everyone is particular about people, don't come to this set, we are all husbands with no regrets." Xue Xiang's head shook like a rattle.

"Lao Tzu is not a big husband, he is a bad old man, this move must be regretted, otherwise, I won't have to play..."

People are not even the eldest husband, what else can Xue Xiang do, he has to let the old man regret one step.

Although the old man An worked hard and repented of his moves, Xue Xiang was not at Zuo Qiu Ming's level after all, he responded calmly, and the hidden arrows were frequently used, not to mention the stormy attacks of the old man, and he also frequently mobilized idle pawns and constantly attacked.

That's it, the two have a lot of dragon fights. Old man An's side has the advantage of troops, but his chess strength is slightly inferior; Xue Xiang's troops were slightly inferior over there, and his chess strength was superior. The two were at a stalemate, and the endgame took more than an hour to tie. On the most difficult chess surface, Xue Xiang only has a single player and a veteran left; Old man An is still a good man, but he has no chess pieces to cross the river, so he has to sigh and stop.

But it was said that Xue Xiang and Mr. An played chess, and he was never uneventful, warm and speechless, which was no different from cross talk. The two of you have a sentence, and I have a sentence, and the tongue is like a lotus, and the ground is full of golden lotus. Suddenly, he quoted scriptures and ridiculed the other party; Suddenly, the old man, the stinky boy screamed wildly, and he was so familiar that he could only call him a brother.

It was the first time Zuo Qiu Ming had seen this kind of scene, so he didn't go to watch chess, but listened to the words of the two of them, and he was dumbfounded. An Zaihai was not surprised, leaned on the chair, held the teacup, closed his eyes, cocked Erlang's legs, and tapped his thighs with his fingers while listening, sometimes taking a sip of tea, shaking his head, as if listening to Shan Tianfang say "Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties", it was very comfortable.

"Alas, careless, careless, let you kid....alas, don't say anything." Old man An made a game of chess with his ambition, and regretted it for about ten minutes, and he still hasn't stopped.

An Zaihai opened his eyes and interjected, "Dad, should we go to the study?" ”

An Zaihai called early in the morning, naturally not specifically calling Xue to play chess with the old man. The reason why I didn't interrupt before was just that it was rare to see the old man laugh and wanted the old man to have more fun. After all, the old man has been worried about that for half a month.

The old man stopped sighing, and said hello to the old king, asking to bring the charcoal fire into the room, and went first.

On the way to come, Xue knew that there must be something to discuss, because the call was made by An Zaihai. This has become a rule, Lao Wang's phone call is basically a game of chess and gossip, and An Zaihai calls him, and there must be a big deal. Xue Xiang didn't know how much he was circling in his heart, but he still didn't understand what had happened in Beijing recently. After all, the 11th National Congress of the Communist Party of China has just been held, everything is decided, and the real big game will not start again until a few months later. …,

What's going on here?

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The study is still old, the doors and windows are closed, only a red candle is lit, and the noon one makes it feel like a late night. Lao Wang put a plate of charcoal in the middle of the two rows of Taishi chairs, and when the charcoal entered the door, the gloomy and cold study room was immediately warm. Because An is old and old, he is afraid of smoke, and he burns olive shell charcoal, which is smokeless, and the flames are blue and watery, and it is very good-looking.

An Zaihai took the lead in speaking as usual, and went straight to the topic: "Xiao Xue, I'm afraid Chief Situ won't be able to do it." ”

Xue Xiangzheng's teacup suddenly shook, spilled a few drops of water, flew into the brazier, burned with a sizzling sound, and asked urgently: "When is it, who is in charge of the military work?" ”

An Zaihai sighed: "Half a month ago, I had a stroke, and the military side was temporarily empty, and Elder Feng, Elder Wei and the old man jointly supported it. However, in the past few days, the old man was a little worried about wanting Feng Lao to go further. ”

This news shocked Xue Xiang too much, he didn't know if it was the result of his Amazon butterfly flapping its wings, and Chief Situ actually had a stroke at this time. That's a problem! Everyone knows that the current situation in Lu Dao, although it is not prosperous on the surface, is actually surging. The old chief has just come out of the mountain, although everyone expects it, but in the end, the righteousness is in the hands of the side, and the situation can be re-stabilized, thanks to the balance of Chief Situ. Now, the middle beam suddenly breaks, where can this balance be maintained?

"Xiao Xue, Xiao Xue."

Xue Xiang was stunned holding the teacup, and An Zaihai whispered several times before he woke him up, "Oh, second uncle, I just thought about it." ”

"What kind of tricks does our Great Zhuge have, say it and see if we are heroes who see the same thing." Zuo Qiu Ming smiled and looked at Xue Xiang.

But he said that right now, Zuo Qiu Ming is in Beijing and Chen Dao is in the place, and getting Zuo Qiu Ming is a godsend opportunity to open up the gap with Chen Dao. Therefore, as long as Zuo Qiu Ming gets off work and does not go home first, he has to come to Songzhuzhai, or play chess with the old man, or be reprimanded, in short, he must work family affection. Today, it was rare for him to seize the opportunity to enter the core area of the An family. Before, although I didn't know what the three old men were going to plot, after hearing that An Zaihai had a head, he was still in the clouds, where was there any heroic opinion, but he was afraid that the old man would ask a question, and he would not be able to answer it himself, and he would be ugly. At this time, looking for the reason, I just wanted Xue Xiangfen to say, take the opportunity to take the opportunity to hurry up and think of a few words to continue the mink, in case of emergency.

Xue Xiang smiled and bowed slightly: "The eldest sister-in-law has won the award, where can I dare to call Zhuge Zhuge and I can't say that I have knowledge, but I do have some ideas." ”

An Zaihai interjected: "If you have an idea, just say, what is the sale, and you have to pay three respects and three invitations?" ”

Xue Xiang didn't answer and asked: "Does the old man also have thoughts about the position of the head of Situ?" ”

This statement is extremely explicit, and everyone changes color together!

Zuo Qiu Ming was about to shout, but Old Man An waved his hand to block it, and said solemnly: "In the secret room, there is nothing bad to say, I have this intention." ”

"Further, it's better to take a step back." Xue Xiang put down the teacup in his hand, the tea lid slammed on the tea bowl, and the sound of the bell was as straight as Huang Zhong Dalu, knocking on everyone's hearts.

An Zaihai couldn't hold his breath, and folded the fan in his hand: "Xue boy, when Nan Lao came out of the mountain last time, you persuaded us to sit on the shore idly, why is it still the case this time?" As the old saying goes, God gives you the blame, but you are to blame, and the old man may not have no chance. ”

"And after that?" Xue Xiang said softly.

Clang!

Yes, after going further, the old man became the first person in the J side, but how much real power has expanded? The old man doesn't have the qualifications and prestige of Chief Situ, can he suppress those old military leaders? In the future, can the old man get out of the game between the two? Besides, can those two be willing to let the old man sit firmly on the first person in this J party.......

Xue Xiang's words caused everyone to think involuntarily. Thinking about it, all kinds of problems are rolling in like a tide. The more everyone thought about it, the more frightened they became, and when they thought of mixing into the game of the two, maybe one of them didn't stand firm, and was immediately crushed into powder.

JF first person? The first big target is about the same!

An Zaihai wiped his forehead, sweat rolling, and wiped his sleeve: "Lao Wang, move the brazier outward, it's too hot." ”

Lao Wang knew whether the sweat was cold or hot in the sea, because he was the same, and his underwear was soaked.

Lao Wang moved the brazier to the door according to his words, An Zaihai opened the folding fan, waved it a few times, finally calmed down, and gave Xue Xiangbi a thumbs up: "Xiao Xue's brain, I didn't say it!" Praise, and said: "It's all a piece of fat, who knows that there is a sharp knife hidden in the road, let's not do it, let them fight." ”

Xue Xiang said: "Second uncle, in fact, the old man already knew that it was sinister. ”

"Oh, really?" An Zaihai was shocked, and raised his eyes to look at Old Man An, intending to inquire.

Old man An turned a blind eye to An Zaihai's actions, knocked the teaglass, turned his head and said to Xue Xiang: "You kid, do you know, why do I want to take a chestnut in the fire?" ”

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