As early as last night, Xu Ming has been thinking about how to make a living in this world: his predecessor's major was computers, which seems to be useless; You should be able to speak a few words in English, but I am afraid that it is unreliable to eat by this in the Republic of China era; Otherwise, to do business, it is just that there are no connections and no funds.

After thinking about it, he decided to find a civilian position in the city such as a foreign foreign firm, but he didn't expect to go around the city for a long time, and Hugh said that he didn't see any foreign companies, not even half of the gringos.

Xu Ming did not know that Hefei was not famous in Anhui at that time, the most developed place in Anhui at that time was the provincial capital Anqing and Wuhu, even Lu'an also surpassed Hefei, was depressed, saw a wooden sign hanging on the tree in front of him, on it from right to left four big characters: Luling Chess Club, along the direction, Xu Ming saw a hall, looked like a teahouse from a distance, came closer to see, there were several rows of tables and chairs in the house, people playing chess sat on their own stools and chairs, some people read words, some people raised the bar to argue, the scene was lively.

Seeing a large number of onlookers, Xu Ming was curious, squeezed in to take a look, he couldn't help laughing, it turned out that there were three chess tables here, each with a chess endgame, one of which Xu Ming was very impressed, called pushing the window to look at the moon.

Generally speaking, the chess endgame is a draw, but this endgame is a red first.

It turned out that Xu Ming and his classmates were cheated of 50 yuan by this chess game in high school, which was his living expenses for a week, and later found a solution through the Internet, and a group of people also ran back to show off their might.

The chess game was guarded by a middle-aged man in his forties, seeing that Xu Ming's clothes did not look like a local, he snorted on his thin face: "This young master, about the next game", after speaking, his eyes looked at him defiantly.

Xu Ming first looked at the rules written on the cloth strip next to him, and the three sets were red first and black second, and the tie was counted. The lottery head is 10 coppers (1) to a large ocean, and the challenger can choose.

The yellow-faced man saw that Xu Ming was young and wanted to make a fortune, so he poured a great ocean spirit into the plate, and his eyes were full of challenges.

Knowing that it was a radical method, Xu Ming did not intend to retreat, and also took out a silver dollar and put it into the plate containing the bride price.

At this time, a lot of people have been alarmed, usually no one comes to this endgame, but most of them are small wins and losses of 10 copper and 20 copper, and there are indeed not many bets on a piece of ocean, a middle-aged man wearing green cloth and satin shook his head, as if he saw a piece of ribs falling into the mouth of a wild dog.

It's just that soon this demeanor turned to surprise, for this endgame Xu Ming remembers very clearly, the focus is to abandon the car and abandon the car, as long as this blind spot is solved, the defeat is decided, when the red side abandons the car and kills the soldier, the yellow thin-faced man begins to slow down in chess, his eyes look left and right and he just can't play, and the people next to him slowly laugh.

Qingbu Satin snorted coldly: "The bachelor who loses, you still plan to grind until dinner!"

When the guy heard this, he immediately shuddered, threw the lottery head over in hatred, and then began to pack his bags and run away to the laughter of others.

At this time, Xu Ming was a little sympathetic to him, and estimated that he would contribute 10 days or even half a month's income, of course, he was very happy to win, first thanked the green cloth satin, and then went to the counter to pay 20 copper color heads, at this time Xu Ming found that the green cloth satin was the manager of the chess club.

"My surname is Xie Mingbo, and my name is Changtian", and I opened two chess clubs here, one for Go and one for Xiangqi.

"There are people who play Go here", Xu Ming smiled again.

Xie Bo was probably too impressed by his smile just now, and teased: "This little brother seems to be a double cultivator of Go and chess, is he also going to make some small fortunes in Go."

Xu Mingzhen doesn't have this kind of thought, like winning chess just now, it is occasionally okay, but in the long run, it will inevitably lead to retaliation.

It's just that he doesn't admit defeat in his mouth: "Small gambling is happy, big gambling makes a fortune, but I don't know how to win Go"?

Xie Bo finally couldn't help laughing, as if something extremely funny had happened.

"I'll give you a chance", Xie Bo raised his eyebrows.

Passing through the back door of the chess club, between three turns and two turns, there is now an attic, on which there are still four big characters: Luling Chess Club, but it is no longer hung on the wooden card, but on a black lacquer plaque, the four words of one foot high are gilded, shining on the door.

Approaching the courtyard, the place is quiet and beautiful, which is much better than the general chess club environment of the vegetable market just now.

Xie Bo looked at Xu Ming's situation and didn't say anything, and soon after he set up 3 chessboards in turn, each with a topic on it. Xu Ming knew that this was a life-and-death game, and it seemed that Xie Bo was going to test his calculation ability in Go.

"Untie any of the three plates, I'll give you a piece of the ocean, all three pieces will be untied, I'll send five pieces, none of the plates will be untied, and I'll give you your piece," Xie Bo said proudly.

Xu Ming has an understanding of the three chess, which is evolved from the ancient chess scripture "thousands of miles on the opposite side", and although Xu Ming has not seen the other two, he has taken a look at it and has unraveled the two chess pieces in his heart.

"There's no need, didn't you just say that you have to be a single person to win or lose, I'll untie all three sets, I'll take a piece of ocean and leave, if there is a disc that can't be untied, my money just now belongs to you", said while saying in his mouth, he laid out the three questions one by one.

Xie Bo's eyes showed an incredible light: "You wait first, I will call my master to see you" After speaking, he rushed away, did not run a few steps, and quickly turned back, took out five silver dollars, and hurriedly ran inside again.

After a while, Xie Bo came back, and said embarrassedly: "My master doesn't believe how powerful you are, saying that you have done the Xuanxuan Chess Sutra" and then added, "My master is the famous Luzhou chess king in Jiangnan - Xie Qianli", while speaking, he invited Xu Ming inside.

The structure of the courtyard is perfect, with gardens and wells, and stone carved window grilles to reveal the elegant and simple atmosphere of the southern courtyard. Walking through the courtyard, or two or three entrances, both wide and sparse and winding paths.

The courtyard is wooded, and it is May, and the trees are shaded, and the corridors are faintly visible in the shade, and the vermilion balconies and splendid rafters are faintly visible, and among all these courtyard houses, this one is located at the back, looking south from the inside out, facing a pond, but it is shaded by mountains and trees, and seems to be cut off from all the dwellings and away from the human realm.

It's just that the four short and strong men stood at the door of the room, and there were still 4 maidservants in the inner room, and it was only at this time that Xu Ming really saw the former rich and noble family.

The room is magnificent, with a mahogany square table in the middle, a row of chairs next to it, all the tables and chairs are carved and depicted, and even the middle of the coffee table is painted with marble patterns.

Xu Ming was attracted by a marble screen on the right, it was a picture of the bright moon shining on the river, the silver plate was in the air, the river was cross-flowing, the mountains could be seen in the distance, and a small boat near was floating quietly on the river, and there were several people on the boat, or standing and supporting the boat, or sitting and working, or watching the fish in the water. All of them are translucent white, green, and yellow delicate graphics, and the back is a shiny black lacquer. On the screen, the bright moon is carved from the finest jade, the boat is a combination of jade and jade, and on the right side of the screen is a large piece of pale yellow frozen stone as a reed on the shore, which means that it is the late autumn scenery.

There was a man on the left chair, and from the two maidservants standing next to him, it could be seen that this was the master of the room.

The man was known as Xie Bo's master, but he looked like he was only in his 30s, and when he saw Xu Ming entering the door at this moment, he didn't get up, but raised his chin, which was regarded as a hello.

Xie Bo next to him first served Xu Ming a cup of fragrant tea, then carefully walked up to his master, refilled the cigarette pouch with tobacco leaves, and stood aside respectfully.

Soon, after the chess king finished his addiction to smoking, he beckoned to Xu Ming and said, "Let you two sons, and if you win 100 yuan, it will be yours; If you lose, you are responsible for explaining the Xuanxuan Chess Sutra to Changtian clearly, and I will eat and live in the future.

The conditions were really very favorable, and Xu Ming's dissatisfaction was immediately put to the back of his mind, but his pride drove him to say:

"I never take advantage of others, I don't need to let my son, let's go first."

Xie Bo was very anxious for Xu Ming: "Don't be ignorant, my master asked me to repay my four sons."

Xu Mingxin said that I am in Yicheng and I have many professional masters, even Guli Li Shishi may not let me two sons, the Republic of China era, I am afraid that there is no opponent for me, so I repeated again: "Don't let me have two sons, let's go first."

After hearing this, the chess king snorted coldly: "If you win, you will still be a hundred dollars, and if you lose, you don't need to teach Changtian, take out 10 yuan" The words revealed a majesty that could not be refused.

This is troublesome, Xu Ming only had more than 7 yuan on his body, so he took out all 7 silver dollars, and whispered, "I just have 7 yuan, not 10 yuan."

The chess king was laughed angrily, "You don't need 10 yuan, you lose, you don't want a single copper", waved his hand after speaking, and the servant next to him pushed out the chess table.

Xu Ming first walked to the chessboard and wiped it with a flannel cloth (2).

Seeing that he knew him, the chess king was a little relieved, stretched his waist, slowly crossed to the opposite side of Xu Ming, and said, "You use sunspots."

Xu Ming didn't dare to argue, and took the sunspot in front of him,

"Diagonal star or Japanese layout (3) Xu Ming is not sure about the rules of chess in the Republic of China,

The chess king thought for a while: "Diagonal star".

Xu Ming hurriedly placed four pieces on the corner of the chessboard, then picked up a black chess piece and hung it on the upper right corner.

Smack, the white piece of the chess king began to reverse the shoulder rush to the chess piece hanging on the corner.

Generally, you can defend the corner when dealing with the opponent's hanging corner, actively be able to pinch the attack, and ignore it flexibly, but no one dares to reverse the shoulder rush, which is absolutely strong and absolutely unreasonable!

Intimidated by the name of the chess king, Xu Ming did not dare to slack off, and escaped a string of sunspots while grabbing the sub-shot, Xie Qianli saw that the attack was difficult, so he began to search for Xu Ming's split two.

Xu Ming knew very well that Xie Qianli was splitting the two pieces of his own and then carrying out a winding attack, but in his opinion, the attack of the white chess pieces was reluctant, and after a little calculation, he had four or five ways to counterattack.

Xie Bo saw Xu Ming pondering, thinking that he was going to delay time, so he wanted to say something, but the chess king waved his hand and stopped him.

Xu Ming was suppressed by Xie Qianli at that time, but not by his level, but by the four strong men at the door, thinking wildly: "If you provoke him, will you cut off my hands and stomp my feet", thinking of this, even the chess pieces in his hand seem to be unstable.

It's just that if he loses, he will be looked down upon, so he gritted his teeth and touched a sunspot in the upper right corner of the star.

The chess king's face gradually became grim, it is not difficult to capture this black seed, but the black chess dragon will take advantage of the opportunity to make the first move, thinking of this, the white chess retreats, giving the black chess live corner space, and continues to maintain pressure on the black dragon.

Xu Ming picked up a sunspot again and touched the white corner of the second road for the second time.

The chess king's face is sinking like water, and he can still exterminate the sunspots at this time, but the black chess dragon can not only do work, but the white chess on the corner also needs to collect qi. This is more than just now, and the loss is in vain.

The chess king gritted his teeth, let the black chess move first, and continued to pursue the black chess dragon.

Seeing that the chess king was uncompromising, Xu Ming had no choice but to sacrifice tough measures, cut off the white chess on the right, and began to counterattack.

The king's face was already dark, and the dragons on both sides were already in a state of killing, but White was obviously short of breath.

At this time, the white position has collapsed, not only the board is very different, but several white weaknesses can not be cleaned up.

Syllable! White does not make up for itself, but still penetrates deep into the black space, which is a move to disrupt the situation.

Xu Ming can come up with at least 10 ways to deal with it, each of which can make the white chess lose all his money, but after looking at the 4 strong men at the door, there is no way, so he still lets the white chess pieces he has played go back to his hometown.

The room was quiet and could hear the sound of people's breathing, and after a long time, Xie Qianli finally didn't hold on any longer, and said with difficulty: "I lost."

He gestured to his apprentice again, and then said politely:

"I didn't play well today, I don't know if the little brother will be free to guide me tomorrow."

Xu Ming realized that Xie Qianli had been demonized just now, you must know that there are so many bandits and bullies in the city, and besides, people who play Go are generally not bad, so he thought so in his heart, and humbly agreed.

Xie Qianli personally sent him out of the door, Xie Bo next to him had already prepared 100 pieces of ocean, Xu Ming couldn't refuse, and in the end, Xie Bo also called a carriage and personally sent Xu Ming back to his residence.

Notes: (1) At that time, a piece of ocean was about 160-180 copper.

(2) This is the etiquette of Go.

(3) There are four sons on the traditional Chinese layout plate, which are placed for diagonal stars, and the Japanese layout has long been childless, and both the diagonal star layout and the Japanese layout in the early Republic of China can be used.