From the ten-mile long pavilion to the city gate of the capital is the official road, the road is wide, the road is smooth, the car is not only fast and very stable, there are more and more vehicles on the road, and there are more and more villages and towns on both sides of the road, more and more prosperous, but Tan Xiaotian is not in the mood at this time to enjoy the scenery outside the car window, all the interest is focused on the newly obtained chess, as soon as he gets on the car, he can't wait to put the chessboard away, the chess pieces are good, and he fights with his left and right hands, immersed in the fun of studying chess skills.

Seeing the children playing alone, the corners of Steward Zheng's mouth showed a smile - he was born in a well-off family, and his parents were relatively successful businessmen, but the so-called unpredictable weather and unforeseen circumstances, people have good fortune and misfortune, when he was fifteen years old, Henan was drought, and there was no harvest, his father thought that this was an opportunity to make a fortune, and poured all his family wealth into the south to buy grain, planning to hoard it, and then sell it for profit when the price of grain in the capital rose sharply, who wanted the court to have expected such a situation, On the one hand, the official warehouse was opened to put the grain in the treasury into the market to stabilize the grain price, and on the other hand, it sent the Qincha to the south to patrol and urgently requisition grain into Beijing. After knowing the news of his speculation failure, none of his friends who had a good relationship extended a helping hand, not only no longer supplied the supply, but also came to the door every day to force debts, so that he could immediately settle the previous payment, and as a result, the business that ran well became insolvent in less than half a year, closed down, and in desperation, his father had to send him to the Zheng family to find an errand. And because he has been exposed to it since he was a child, he has learned a lot from his father to treat people and things, do business and do business, have a flexible mind, and can speak well, so he soon stood out among the subordinates, first a small steward, and then climbed all the way, more than ten years of hard work, this became the second-in-command of the Zheng family. The status is second only to Zheng Zhi, the old housekeeper of the Zheng family, but Zheng Zhi is now sixty years old, frail and sickly, and everyone in the Zheng family is powerless and has no energy to take care of it, so everyone in the Zheng family knows that in a few years, when Zheng Zhi returns to his hometown, the position of the head of the Zheng family will be his. It is precisely because he was also a hard-working person when he was a teenager that he was very sympathetic to Tan Xiaotian who went to the capital to study alone away from his relatives at a young age. I also hope that Tan Xiaotian can succeed in his studies and become a generation of national players. However, he did not learn Go when he was a teenager, and only began to learn Go after entering the Zheng family, so although he was smart. The intelligence is higher than that of ordinary people, and there is an environment for learning chess that ordinary people can have, but after all, they missed the best age to learn chess and play the foundation, and their chess power has just entered the product. It's not that strong, and with his chess power realm, he can't judge what kind of genius Tan Xiaotian is, but just now the child only listened to himself talk about the rules. After watching two more actual games, he was able to compete with his peers who had studied chess for three or four months and then won the battle, and the word genius is definitely well-deserved.

"Hehe, every day." Smiling, Steward Zheng shouted.

"Uh, Uncle Zheng, what's the matter?" Tan Xiaotian raised his head and asked.

"It doesn't matter if you play in the car for a while, but the Zheng family is a family of Go, although they don't object to the door playing chess, but they regard it as a small skill of carving insects, and it is difficult to get into the hall of elegance, so after entering the Zheng family, it is okay to play occasionally, as a pastime to relax the spirit, but don't spend too much time on it, understand?" Steward Zheng admonished.

"Oh, I see." Tan Xiaotian nodded, indicating that he understood-although they are all chess, in the Zheng family, one is a means to establish a living, and the other is a tool for recreation and leisure.

The capital of the Great Zhou, the place where the Son of Heaven sits, the prosperity of the capital is not comparable to other general cities, not to explain, the city wall alone is as high as three zhang, the width is two zhang and three feet, the top side by side runs two carriages are not crowded at all, the city gate tower is even more magnificent and magnificent, when the carriage passes, it feels as if wearing a tunnel at the bottom of the mountain, the door panel of the two city gates is as high as two zhang, the thickness is more than one foot, the outer copper skin is wrapped, the copper nails are all over the place, its weight is afraid that two or three thousand catties can not be stopped, the bolt next to the city gate is thick over the waist of the child, square on all sides, It is estimated that when the city gate is opened and closed every morning and evening, less than four soldiers may not be able to lift it.

Entering the city, the prosperity of the city is even more extraordinary, the main road is lined with shops, pedestrians are weaving, compared to Yangzhou is better, called to buy, to sell, noisy people, endless, cars come and go, endless, all kinds of colors, different, pick up the curtain, Tan Xiaotian looked left and right, both eyes were too busy, when he saw something fresh, he asked Steward Zheng, and Steward Zheng was also very patient to introduce him.

"Hey, isn't this Steward Zheng?" Just when the two of them were watching the shops and pedestrians on both sides of the street, a light carriage came to them, the curtain behind the coachman was lifted, and a short and fat man in his forties with a white face and no beard was sitting inside.

"Uh, oh, it turned out to be Steward Sun, hehe, I haven't seen you for a long time, it's this time, are you going out of the city?" Recognizing who the other party was, Steward Zheng also hurriedly stopped the carriage, smiled and hugged his fists, and greeted the other party.

"Heh, the old lady has a bad appetite these days, and wants to eat some fresh vegetables, I went to the farmhouse outside the city to buy some freshly picked from the field, go and come back quickly, it won't take long." Steward Sun replied.

"Oh, isn't it okay to leave the matter of buying vegetables to the next person? Labor, your big butler, is a bit too big and useless? Steward Zheng said with a smile.

"Hehe, only I know the taste of the old lady, and I don't feel at ease when I leave it to someone else. By the way, I haven't seen you in the city for two or three months, and I heard that you went to Yangzhou? Steward Sun smiled and waved his hand and asked, it seems that he is running errands for the old lady, although he is also very proud of the small matter of buying vegetables.

"yes, I didn't just come back." Steward Zheng replied with a smile.

"Hehe, that's really a coincidence, who is this kid? The eyebrows are clear and the eyes are beautiful, and he looks very smart. Steward Sun pointed at Tan Xiaotian and asked curiously-he knew Steward Zheng's status in the Zheng family very well, and when he came back from Yangzhou, there must be something wrong with the children in the car. (To be continued......)