"I'm not going." Qiu Ju replied quietly, as if she had let go of something, "Mr. Sun is right, every day I have to grow up one day, I can't always stay by his side, learning chess is a very hard thing, and taking care of him too well is not conducive to his growth."

"It's rare, it's rare, it's rare that you can have such insight, Liu admires." Liu Wenxiong was solemn when he heard this, and praised him -- the so-called strict father and mother, women often take care of their children meticulously, and always hope that their children can be safe, smooth, and grow up without wind and danger, but they don't know that 'the sword edge is sharpened by itself, and the fragrance of plum blossoms comes from the bitter cold', although the flowers in the greenhouse are bright and beautiful, they can't withstand the wind and rain of nature, and they will never become towering trees. Letting go, sometimes it takes more courage than keeping the child by your side tightly, this truth even many men can't figure out, but Qiu Ju can make a rational decision, so bold and open-minded, it is really very human.

"Master Liu praised it falsely, Qiu Ju is a woman, but she is just a little shallow and clumsy, and she can't afford your 'admiration', but I don't know when I will go to Yangzhou every day, what else do I need to prepare?" Qiu Ju bowed and said modestly.

"Oh, Yangzhou Chess Academy will start school after the festival, and it's not too late to leave after the fifteenth day of the first month, and you don't need any special preparations, just prepare some daily changes of clothes, and other things, Sun Dong will look at it when you get there." Liu Wenxiong replied after thinking about it.

"Since that's the case, then Qiu Ju won't bother you." Qiu Ju got up to say goodbye, and Liu Wenxiong instructed Ah Fudai to send him away.

Qiu Ju left, and there were only Liu Wenxiong and Sun Dong in the living room, and the matter was done. Since he is expected to work in the Yangzhou Chess Academy, Sun Dong's mood is very high. The smile on his face can't be hidden.

"Hehe, happy?" Sun Dong's appearance at this time was somewhat forgetful. But after all, he is actually only seventeen or eighteen years old, and this kind of emotional expression is understandable—Liu Wenxiong asked with a smile.

"Uh, heh, let my uncle laugh." also knew that his performance was not mature enough, but Sun Dong couldn't suppress the excitement in his heart, which means that Liu Wenxiong was still present, otherwise, he would have jumped up and turned two heels.

"Huh. What's so funny, just be happy, cry if you want to, that's a young man, by the way, you just said, Qiu Ju may know Dong Yong, why didn't she mention it? Liu Wenxiong suddenly asked.

", I thought. She may be an old acquaintance with Dong Yong, but now her life is not satisfactory, and she lives in Meilong Town as an inn handyman, so she doesn't want the other party to know, right? Sun Dong thought for a while and replied - the so-called people go to high places. The water flows to the lower places, and it is also said that people have faces and trees have bark. No one wants to let people they know before see their downfall, although doing chores in the inn is also a serious job in Weston. But looking at Qiu Ju's conversation and demeanor, he was definitely not an ordinary person before. If it's your own, if it's not a last resort, I'm afraid it will be the same, right?

"Well, it makes sense, when you go to Yangzhou to see Dong Yong in the future, you might as well ask him. Qiu Ju was born in an official eunuch, and his brother was an attaché to the Ryukyus in the Great Zhou Dynasty, but he didn't know what happened to come to Meilong Town. If Dong Yong really has an old relationship with her and knows what happened to her family, he may be able to help her. Liu Wenxiong groaned.

"Uh, is that really good?" Sun Dong was stunned for a moment and asked with some hesitation.

"How?" Liu Wenxiong asked strangely - let such a talented and beautiful weak woman do the work of serving people in the inn, he is really a little unbearable, in his mind, eighty percent of Tan Xiaotian's parents went to the Ryukyu Sea in distress, there is no information, Qiu Ju is a weak woman who is helpless, and is oppressed by bad people, so she has to leave her hometown and go to relatives, but she doesn't want her relatives to know where she moved, and she met a thief halfway, entangled and robbed, so she had to commit herself to Meilong Town, if she can help, why not.

"Oh, Lin Lao Wu likes Qiu Ju very much, and when he learned that Qiu Ju might go to Yangzhou, he also ran to confess to Qiu Ju in a hurry, although he didn't succeed in the end, but it can be seen that Qiu Ju also has a good impression of him, and it is only a matter of time before the two of them become a family. What I'm worried about is that if Dong Yong and Qiu Ju really know each other, and the reason why Qiu Ju left home was that she was forced by her family to marry someone she didn't want to marry, let Dong Yong know that she was in Meilong Town, it is difficult to say that the news will not reach the ears of her family, and when the time comes, the people in her family will come to arrest people, wouldn't it be a bad thing with good intentions? Sun Dong said.

"Uh, is that going to be the case?" Liu Wenxiong's eyebrows furrowed - indeed, what he did with good intentions was not necessarily a good thing, and he didn't know much about Qiu Ju's affairs, in case someone finally escaped from the tiger's mouth, and he sent someone into the wolf's den, what would it do?

"I'm not afraid of 10,000, I'm afraid of what if. According to the little nephew's opinion, even if he wants to ask Dong Yong for news, he has to wait for Lin Lao Wu to marry Qiu Ju, the wood has been completed, and the raw rice has been made into cooked rice. Sun Dong replied.

"Well, just do as you say. By the way, going to Yangzhou is after the Chinese New Year, that is to say, you have to participate in the Go competition at the end of the year every day, but you are still Su Jing's tutor, what are you going to do? Nodding, Liu Wenxiong agreed with Sun Dong's idea, and then asked.

"One thing is the same thing, what to do and how to do it, since I was hired as Su Jing's teacher, I will do my best to teach him to play chess during this time, the so-called do my best, obey the destiny of God, my goal is still to let him win a game every day in the game, as for whether he can do it, it depends on his efforts and luck on the day of the game." Sun Dong's answer was very concise, and it was obvious that he had already given a clear positioning to his identity.

"Hehe, that's good. In his position, seeking his government, and the so-called being a monk for a day and hitting the clock for a day, and doing things for others, we should keep our promises, and if the agreement is not over for a day, we must abide by the agreement for a day. It's just that according to your judgment, you're afraid you won't be able to get all the honorarium given by the Su family, right? Liu Wenxiong said with a smile.

"Heh, if you can't get it, there's no way to do it." Sun Dong smiled bitterly - I used to think that Tan Xiaotian was just learning chess with Yuan Lang, but now I know that there are other people who are really laying the foundation for Tan Xiaotian. It is not difficult to find a way to crack the study chess like Yuan Lang, but what about Qiu Ju? But then again. That's twenty taels of silver for white flowers, and I want to say that I don't feel distressed. That would be self-deception.

"Hehe, to borrow what you just said, 'do your best, obey the destiny of heaven', the money is inexhaustible." Liu Wenxiong didn't plan to make up for Sun Dong's loss, he said with a smile.

Although Sun Dong repeatedly told Lin Laowu and Tian Dayi not to tell Tan Xiaotian about going to Yangzhou Chess Academy after the New Year, the news still did not go away, and it took less than two days. It spread in the town, no way, who made Meilong Town so big, unless the door is closed to their own family affairs, there is basically no possibility of keeping secrets, as for Lin Laowu and Tian Dayi, they swore in front of Sun Dong, boasting about how strict their mouths were, but even if they snapped their chests and blew them again. It was also difficult to eliminate Sun Dong's suspicious eyes - even if he knew that the news was spread by one of these two people? Isn't this a hurtful thing, can't you see people if you deceive and hide it?

After hearing the news, Su Quan deliberately had a long talk with Sun Dong. I want to find out what he means and which side he is on.

After a long talk, Su Quan got the same answer as Sun Dong told Liu Wenxiong -- he was a trustworthy person. He will be worthy of the honorarium given to him by Su Quan, and do his best to teach Su Jing well before the Go competition at the end of the year. How to say that this kid is also the first student he accepted in Qingyun City, and his performance is not good. His face was also disgraceful.

For such an answer, although Su Quan is not satisfied, but there is no other way, he understands the truth of 'people do not do it, heaven and earth will be destroyed', what the Su family can promise to Sun Dong, Liu Wenxiong also promises, and what Liu Wenxiong can give Sun Dong, the Su family may not be able to do it, compared to the future prospects, the remuneration of dozens of taels of silver is really nothing.

Do your best, obey the destiny of heaven, it is better to ask for someone than to ask for it, it seems that you still have to rely on your nephew's own efforts When sending Sun Dong out of Wanjuan Building, Su Quan said in his heart.

Since then, although he still lives in the Yuelai Inn, he no longer looks for Tan Xiaotian to play chess, so as not to be misunderstood by Su Quan, thinking that he is using the name of understanding Tan Xiaotian's chess strength, but he is secretly teaching Tan Xiaotian's chess skills, in addition, he also adjusted the original teaching plan, reducing the proportion of laying the foundation, and increasing the proportion of learning trick skills. It is difficult to receive immediate results in a short period of time, and those specific moves can be memorized by rote memorization, and if you find an opportunity to show them, and the opponent has not seen them, you can often achieve unexpected results, although in the long run, such a practice is suspected of pulling out seedlings to help grow, but the Su family has no intention of cultivating Su Jing as a generation of national players, so there is no need to care so much.

The teaching effect after adjusting the method is obvious, after rote memorization of dozens of secret hand changes, Su Jing can be used from time to time when playing with Su Quan's training game, whenever at this time, Su Quan is often in a hurry, either falling into the set of chess tendons to be eaten, or being rolled and packed, the chess shape is bulky, and the pain is unbearable, and it is with these secret tricks that Su Jing finally broke through the bottleneck, and occasionally won one or two games against Su Quan in the first chess.

Seeing that his nephew was able to break through his third and second sub-passes in less than half a month after receiving Sun Dong's training, it is estimated that the situation of letting the first will not last long, according to this improvement speed, it is not necessary to catch up with Tan Xiaotian, in short, at least now he has the strength to fight with Tan Xiaotian, and since Sun Dong's teaching is effective, it is not easy for him to say that there is anything wrong with others, after all, they are just temporary tutors, and they are not selling their lives to the Su family.

The days passed day after day, and a month and a half came in a blink of an eye, and the first Go competition in Meilong Town also began in full swing.

Rural towns, there are not many entertainment activities, in the past New Year's holidays, nothing more than chatting, eating and drinking, if the big families in the town invite the drama troupe, they will run together with the family to watch the play, the excitement is of course lively, but every year, it is vulgar, so this game is held, it attracted the incomparable enthusiasm of the townspeople, in addition to those who have been grinding their fists since half a year ago, thinking about the rich prizes, there are also some people who have temporarily learned to play chess and come to join in the fun, plus the students of Wuya and Wanjuanlou, There were more than 60 people participating in the competition.

For such cases, the exclusive sponsor of the competition. Mrs. Liu, who is also the organizer of this competition, is very happy, although considering her own strength. He didn't sign up to be a contestant, but there was another joy in participating as a race organizer.

The way that there are few people and few people. There are many people and there are many people, the ability of thirty or forty people to compete, and it is no problem to double the number of people. Something like this that can be solved by spending money is not a problem at all.

The venue is located in the ancestral hall of the Liu family, which is big enough, and in the past, the Liu family invited people to sing operas were arranged here, at the end of December. The weather is very cold, although there is no way to set up a seat in the open air, but there are empty rooms in the ancestral hall, one can't hold so many people, then two, two can't fit three, fortunately, now the school is on winter vacation, and it will not start school until the fifteenth day of the first month, so there are things about the tables, chairs and benches that are not needed for the time being, and Mrs. Liu ordered to go down. In less than half a day, dozens of sets of tables and chairs were moved to the ancestral hall and neatly arranged in three rooms.

Yuan Lang and Su Quan, the two teachers of the school, were not idle, although their peers were enemies. The two of them have done a lot of things to fight openly and secretly in private, but they still have to be a group of amalgamation on the big side, even if they want to fight. can't let others see the joke, so the two of them and Mrs. Liu. Together with Sun Dong, the four-member competition committee determined the rules of the competition after research and consultation. According to the plan, the 84 people in this competition are divided into three groups, 28 people in each group, one game in the morning and two sets in the afternoon every day, the game is a single elimination, and those who lose one set will be out, so that the group stage can decide the finalists within two days, and then these three people will play a round-robin battle to determine the order of the top three - the prize money is only available to the first three, so they should contribute a little more.

As for the grouping method, it accepted Sun Dong's proposal - each group has one seed, two of which are naturally Tan Xiaotian and Su Jing, as for the candidates for the other group, just draw lots at will, in fact, it doesn't matter who it is, as long as these two people don't meet too early in the group stage, the good show always has to be put at the end.

The game went very smoothly, most people participated in the game is to try their luck and lively, although the prize given by the Liu family is high, but not just anyone has that good life to get, so it really achieves the realm of 'winning is also happy, losing is also happy', winning is of course happy, happy, losing is nothing more than complaining about two sentences, and then go to watch other people's games, in addition to some people to attract other people's protests by the two referees reprimand, basically in order.

After the start of the game, the gap between whether or not has been systematically learned soon became apparent, don't look at the young age of the students who have learned endlessly, but they can play chess one by one fiercely, there are really few adults who can resist their impact, most of them are not killed in the middle game, eliminated from the game, among which there are many fathers and sons against each other, the situation of righteous annihilation of relatives occurs, and the loss of chess is better than the opening, but it is also a scene that is not easy to see on the field of play.

But even in the student army, the difference in strength is very different, the poor level such as Tian Qingyou, was easily killed by a townsman, and the high level such as Xie Xinyuan and the like actually pulled Pang Laosi off the horse, as for Tan Xiaotian and Su Jing, these two little guys are even more invincible in the group stage, worthy of the eight words 'meet the gods, meet the Buddha and kill the Buddha', whoever meets the matchmaker will easily pass the qualification and advance to the finals. This result is to be expected. The finals of the third group are a little complicated, the three masters of Yuelai Inn are arranged in this group, after a fierce battle, Pang Laosi was killed by Xie Xinyuan, Lin Laowu and Tian Dayi met, in the same room, brothers competed, in the end, Tian Dayi's skills were superior, survived Lin Laowu's murder and vicious slash, let the opponent go to Maicheng, and in the last round, Tian Dayi and Xie Xinyuan met in a narrow way, this battle was even more twists and turns, suspense continued, first Tian Dayi was eaten a number of chess tendons, almost in a desperate situation, This hit with persistence almost on the cast to admit defeat, do not want Xie Xinyuan to take a large lead after the mood relaxed out of the slow hand, by the other party in their own big space to live a piece, the situation between the two sides quickly closed, by this blow, Xie Xinyuan mentality turned anxious, repeatedly out of the way of tricks, want to open the gap again, and Tian Dayi is to escape from death, in a good mood - the so-called catastrophe does not die, there will be a blessing, from the despair to see hope, he is more and more confident, the official war is over, lucky to win this key game of chess with a slight advantage of a sonSince then, the three candidates for the finals have finally been determined.

The final started on the third day, and for the three-person competition, one person had to have a bye, so the first thing to do was to draw lots, which said' One, two, three, 'three numbers of three paper balls are placed in the same box, the paper ball is written in front of everyone on the spot, the box is sealed on five sides, only a hole can only be allowed to reach into the top of the three, according to the regulations, the person who catches three has a bye, first by the first and the second game, the winner and the third game, so as to determine the first place in the game, if the champion is two consecutive wins, then the third also needs to play with the loser of the previous game to determine who is second, who is the third, so, if you can catch the writing' Three's note, you can sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, in a relatively advantageous position. (To be continued......)