Tan Xiaotian was busy drinking mung bean soup, while Teacher Guan casually picked up the book that the other party had just put back on the drying bed and flipped through it.

"Oh, "Da Zhou Yitan Famous Artists", hehe, are you interested in this?" Teacher Guan asked with a smile.

"Well, I don't know if I don't look at it, I was shocked when I saw it, I didn't expect there to be so many famous chess players around." Putting down the bowl and wiping the residue on the corner of his mouth with his sleeve, Tan Xiaotian said, his eyes were shining, it was a look of envy and expectation.

"Oh, yes, this directory records the resumes and representative chess games of more than three chess players from the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty to the eighth Chinese New Year's Eve of Xuande for five years, and almost all the well-known or unknown masters of the game during this period are included in it, people, a total of seventy-two, chess, a total of one hundred and twenty-three games, can be called the most detailed chess player data record so far in the Great Surrounding Chess, with high research value and preservation value, this book is compiled by Zheng Xinyu of the Hanlin Academy, Jiang Yongnian edited and made a preface, after six years, it was finalized in May last year, It was printed in October, with the first edition of 1,000 copies, and was sold out by chess players in Beijing on the day of its release. Teacher Guan said with a smile - because of the special reading of rare books, the books kept here are usually personally responsible for him, although he can't do as in-depth research on the content of the books as the Zheng brothers or Zhao Yanwu, but on the whole, he is like a number of treasures, and he knows more than others.

"Zheng Xinyu? , isn't that the head of the Zheng family's generation, the father of Dean Zheng and Supervisor Zheng? Tan Xiaotian was surprised.

"Oh, yes, otherwise how could Zhenshu have collected this children's book? I can say without exaggeration that there are no more than five copies of this book in Yangzhou, and if it is sold on the market, the price is twenty taels of silver, and those who want to buy it can break their heads. Teacher Guan said with pride on his face - for the family, the most important thing is not wealth but honor and inheritance, and the problems that can be solved with money cannot be regarded as problems. There are more people who are richer than the Zheng family, but no matter how rich those people are, they are just some nouveau riche, the so-called Shinong industry and commerce, in the eyes of the inherited family, will always be inferior, just like the book in their own hands, twenty taels of silver is just a drop in the bucket for those rich businessmen, and if they fall to the ground, they may not even bother to return to the corner of their eyes, but even if you have more money, can you buy a copy and come back now? Money is more than power, this is an unchanging truth through the ages.

"Really? Then I'm really lucky. To be able to see such a precious book. Hearing that such a book of two or three hundred pages is worth twenty taels of silver, Tan Xiaotian was very happy, and he also came to the library to help today, otherwise where would he have the opportunity to see such a book - there are no more than five books in the entire Yangzhou Mansion, and those who are lucky enough to buy them must be regarded as treasures, and they are not willing to let others read them easily. Does anyone else need to talk about it?

"Hehe, of course." The look in the child's eyes greatly satisfied Teacher Guan's vanity, and he stroked his chin and smiled proudly.

By the way, Mr. Guan. I remember that Mr. Zhao once said that the four great families of Go, Jiang Tan Zheng Dong, and the Jiang family ranked first. The Tan family followed closely, why are there only five Tanmen masters included in this book, but there are as many as nine Jiangmen masters. Is the gap between the Jiang and Tan families really so big? And the Zheng family, the Dong family's masters are also four or five, and they are basically the same as the Tan family, what's going on? After thinking for a while with the soup bowl, Tan Xiaotian suddenly asked.

"Uh, you've finished reading the book?" Teacher Guan was surprised, although the content in this book is not much, but there are two or three hundred pages, and the chess players in it are arranged in order according to the date of birth rather than the name of the sect, and can accurately say the number of masters of the Tan and Jiang families included, and must have read through it first. This is obviously not an easy task.

"Well, I've read the chess player profile first, and you were about to look at the game when you came." Tan Xiaotian nodded and replied.

It's pretty much the same, if you even read the chess games in it, wouldn't it really become a monster?

After listening to Tan Xiaotian's answer, Teacher Guan was somewhat relieved.

"Hehe, why do you care so much about this? Could it be because you are also surnamed Tan, so you are upset that there are too few Tan masters included in the book? Teacher Guan asked with a smile.

"Uh", Tan Xiaotian was speechless for a while, he didn't think much about it before, he just felt curious, and now when Teacher Guan said this, it seemed to mean a little bit, but if it was true, it was not like that.

"Hehe, it's rare for you to have such a consciousness, the so-called five hundred years ago was a family, hundreds of years of wars in the land of China, thousands of people have been displaced, the same surname Tan, it is difficult to guarantee that you can get involved in the past few generations, and it is not a bad thing to be involved, it is not a bad thing to be able to get involved, then it can be regarded as a famous teacher, hehe, maybe your talent in chess is passed down from your ancestors." Seeing that Tan Xiaotian couldn't answer, Teacher Guan laughed, of course he didn't think that Tan Xiaotian and the Tan family in the four major families of Go had a relationship, teasing children was just funny.

"Teacher Guan, don't be kidding, how can I have a relationship with the Tan family." Feeling that the other party was joking, Tan Xiaotian hurriedly corrected, he hoped that he was the descendant of the Tan family, so that he would recognize his ancestors and return to his ancestors, and he would be regarded as a famous family, not only would his future be bright, but at least he could make a big difference in the life of his aunt who stayed in Meilong Town.

"Hehe, okay, no kidding you. The reason why there are so few masters of the Tan family included in the book is indeed a reason, the world recognizes that the Jiang family is the first family of chess in the big circle, and there are many masters in the family, and they are the bull ears of today's Yilin, but when it comes to the real strength and the number of masters, the Tan family is actually not weaker than the Jiang family, the head of the family, Tan Ziqiang, has a strong chess style, and is brave in killing, and is the leading man in today's battle. Several of his sons are also strong in chess, all of them have become three-grade chess players, enter the Hanlin Academy to accompany the king, and fight against the Jiang family, and it is difficult to distinguish between the top and the bottom, and because of this, although Jiang Yongnian is known as the world's first master, he cannot become the editor of the Hanlin Academy, in charge of the world's chess affairs, and become the first person in the veritable Dawei chess. Seeing that the child was a little anxious, Teacher Guan smiled and patted Tan Xiaotian's head and opened the chatterbox, although his surname is Zhou, he is an old man who has been begging for a life in the Zheng family for many years, the Zheng family is expanding its influence in Yangzhou, he is one of the several veterans brought by Zheng Jigong, and he can be regarded as the henchman of the Zheng family brothers, otherwise he would not let him be responsible for managing the library, so he knows a lot of inside stories in the chess world. (To be continued......)