Most of those chess books are not in the eyes of Aunt Tan Xiaotian, but they are still very valuable to Mrs. Liu - a lot of age, learning to play chess is to cultivate the mind, eliminate worries and relieve boredom, and it is much easier to do those problems that take an hour or two to get by, or to look through those books that explain chess theory and comment on chess games.

was flipping through a chess book in the study, and heard footsteps coming from outside the door, Mrs. Liu looked up, but it turned out to be the housekeeper Ah Fu, came to the door, and saw the old lady's eyes looking over, Ah Fu hurriedly bowed his head and saluted, "Old lady, Mr. Su is back and is asking to see him in the living room." ”

"Oh, hehe, is he cured?" Reading the book, I was dizzy, and when I learned that Su Quan came to visit, Mrs. Liu was in good spirits, put down the book in his hand and asked with a smile.

"It looks good, it should be good." Ah Fu replied.

"That's good, hey, why don't you just bring him to the study to see me?" Standing up from the chair and about to go out to the living room to see Su Quan, the old lady Liu suddenly remembered something and asked Ah Fu - since learning chess, Su Quan and Yuan Lang have become frequent visitors to Liu's mansion, and they come to the mansion every once in a while to teach the old lady to play chess.

"In addition to Teacher Su, he also brought a young man, listening to Teacher Su, he is a very famous Go master in Qingyun City." Ah Fu replied.

"Oh, hehe, I see, don't lead the way quickly." Knowing that Su Quan did this to make the meeting more solemn, Old Lady Liu commanded with a smile, and then without waiting for Ah Fu to respond, he took a step and walked out, Ah Fu hurriedly ran a few steps to lead the way.

There were still more than a dozen steps away from the living room, and I heard the voice of Su Quan talking with another person in the living room, "Hehe, Brother Zhang don't be surprised, although Meilong Town is remote and backward, it is far less prosperous than Qingyun City, but the Liu family has been in business for generations, and every head of the family is going south and north, and the business is all over the world, both knowledge and taste are very incomparable, such as this "Proud Snow and Green Pine Picture" hanging on this wall, which is the proud work of the previous dynasty painting Saint Jiang Tiezhi, the pen is decisive, vigorous and powerful, silver hook and iron stroke, lifelike, I once heard that Xiao Chuan, the protector of the country at that time, wanted to buy five hundred taels of silver, but it didn't work. ”

"Huh? Such a painting is worth five hundred taels of silver? Obediently, Mr. Su, it is still easy for you literati to make money, a pen, a piece of paper, and some paints, even if you use the most expensive one, the cost will not exceed five dollars of silver, right? A million profits, this is more ruthless than opening a silver account to make money by doing business. The voice of another man came, in a somewhat exaggerated tone, and it was a young man's voice.

"Hehe, where is it so simple, it's not difficult to paint, as you said, a pen, a piece of paper, and some paints are enough, but if you want to paint the realm and reach the level of Jiang Tielin, it is impossible without decades of skill and considerable talent. It's like playing chess, to put it simply, it's a game bigger than who is around, a chessboard outside the black and white chess pieces, and the kung fu of a hot tea is enough to learn, and there should always be two or three thousand people in the entire Qingyun City, but if you can reach the level of Brother Zhang, I'm afraid you can count it with one hand, right? Su Quan said with a smile.

"Hehe, what Mr. Su said is, I just sighed, I don't really think that painting is a simple thing." The young man said with a smile.

Hearing this, Old Lady Liu no longer stopped, first opened the way with a burst of laughter, and then stepped into the hall, "Haha, Mr. Su, you are back, it is really difficult to play chess without you." ”

The two people in the living room were standing in front of a few pairs of calligraphy and paintings hanging on the wall and pointing, when they heard the laughter, they knew that Old Lady Liu was coming, so they all turned around, Su Quan bowed and responded with a smile, "Hehe, Old Lady Xie remembers, Su is very moved." ”

"Hehe, I heard a few days ago that you were seriously ill and returned to Qingyun City to recuperate, there was no news for a few days, I was planning to ask Ah Fu to visit Qingyun City, but I didn't expect you to come back first. How's it going, is the body healed? Motioning for the two to sit down, Old Lady Liu asked with a smile.

"Hehe, Old Lady Xie cares, the illness has been cured, but I am afraid that you will worry, so I am in a hurry to come back, by the way, I haven't introduced you yet, this young man's surname is Sun Mingdong, and he is a few Go masters in Qingyun City, Sun Dong, this is Old Lady Liu." Su Quan first answered Old Lady Liu's greetings, and then introduced Sun Dong to the other party.

Sun Dong is a junior, and when he saw that he was talking about himself, he got up and saluted, "Old lady Liu, the junior Sun Dong is polite." ”

"Hehe, it's easy to talk, please take a seat." Looking Sun Dong up and down, Old Lady Liu smiled and entertained, just now I heard the conversation between the two people outside the living room, and knew that although this young man was not very old, he was a Go master who could rank in the top five in Qingyun City, and he would not be slack.

Sun Dong sat down again, Su Quan continued to introduce, "Although it is not a good thing to get sick, but this time it is a blessing in disguise, during the period of recuperation, I was able to get to know Brother Sun, Brother Sun is a real master with the qualification of an eight-grade chess player, and I learned that there was a Go competition in Meilong Town at the end of the year, I thought it was interesting, so I wanted to come and watch, and I also felt that Jing'er needed a master to teach chess skills, so I asked him to bother to teach Jing'er to play chess during this time." ”

"Uh, doesn't the little brother want to participate in the competition?" Old Lady Liu was surprised - if the top five masters in Qingyun City participated in the competition, they still need to ask, the champion must be someone else's, so wouldn't it disappoint the townspeople in the town who were grinding their fists and fighting for the competition prize? When we first discussed holding a competition, it was limited to people in the town.

"Heh, don't misunderstand, old lady, it will become a bully to participate in such a game with my strength, the younger generation is not talented, but he is also an eight-rank chess player, this bit of style is still there." Sun Dong smiled faintly and replied arrogantly - after accepting the Su family's invitation, he and Su Quan played a game of chess, in order to let the other party know their own strength and know that the money spent was not wronged. After playing that game of chess, he already knew Su Quan's chess strength, and Su Quan's chess power was only able to compete with Yuan Lang in Meilong Town, so in fact, he knew the level of Go in Meilong Town, if the level was within one to two sons, he still wanted to join in the fun, but the gap between the three sons and above, he really couldn't raise that interest (since it was an open competition, the level was not divided into high and low, it was all about playing against each other with a tie first, and winning an opponent of this level in the case of dividing first, and passing it to Qingyun City, and he must not be laughed to death by friends in the circle), It's one thing to win and make money by playing chess, but it's another thing to rely on strength and bully the small.