Although there is a trace of sadness in my heart, I was soon filled with a busy life, and although my studies and life days are as calm as water, they are still as sweet as food.

Half a month later, the lantern festival was held as scheduled, and the previous momentum made it crowded that night, Ye Xiaoying and Li Tiezhu together, but came to a sea of lights.

All kinds of marquee lanterns, palace lanterns, patterns of flowers, birds, fish and insects on them, and even calligraphy with dragons flying and phoenixes dancing, are dazzling.

Li Tiezhu said proudly to Ye Xiaoying: "I also have my credit for the arrangement of the lantern show this time, look at that piece!" ”

In the middle of the town is a huge lantern, and every time you guess a riddle, one is lit, and in an instant, there are countless stars and twinkling lights, as if you have come to a sea of lanterns.

Everything made Ye Xiaoying's eyes dizzy.

There are thousands of empty alleys in the town, which is comparable to the annual temple fair.

Not only the lights, but also the sound of the piano and the jingling of chess, as long as you can imagine it.

After nightfall, the carnival began, Ye Xiaoying glanced at the lantern show as if she was looking at the flowers, but Li Tiezhu couldn't help but stop and look up.

The two walked farther and farther unconsciously, Ye Xiaoying stopped in the chess viewing area, and saw the two old men playing against each other.

Ye Xiaoying stood aside and looked at her, although she was not very proficient, she had studied it before. Both of them thought that the defense was the main thing, so the progress was slow, so that the people next to them couldn't bear to see it, and they all walked away boringly.

She didn't move, and walked alone to the other side of the chessboard, and when it happened, the white and black fell in the middle, and a chess game was set up in an instant.

The two people playing chess were originally thinking, but when they saw a movement in the chess game not far away, they both raised their heads from time to time.

But when they only saw Ye Xiaoying alone, they couldn't help but stand up in confusion, only glanced at it, and were immediately attracted over, put aside the second half of their chessboard, opened their eyes wide, and applauded again and again, "The girl is a master!" ”

The corners of Ye Xiaoying's lips pursed, "The old gentleman has won the prize, if anyone can unlock this chessboard today, I am willing to give all my net worth!" ”

After saying that, she took out her burden from her bosom and put it aside, and at the same time got up to give up her seat to the two of them.

The first to sit down was the old man with a clear face, he sat down first, his eyes shining as he looked at the chessboard, but the hand holding the sunspot seemed hesitant, as if to put it down, but quickly retracted his hand.

"No regrets!" Ye Xiaoying reminded on the side.

Originally, the index and middle fingers were holding the chess pieces, and they quickly slid down and held them in the palm of their hands.

This step seems easy, but in fact, the opponent's chess pieces are in a state of closing, like a tornado of a whirlwind from the inside out, taking everything outside into the bag.

After a while, he shook his head, put the chess pieces back in the box, and said calmly: "I admit defeat!" ”

After that, please ask the fat man behind him: "Wang Er, you boast of being a winning general, if you can solve this chess game, I will invite you to drink a month's wine!" ”

The old man who sat down this time had a big belly, his face was white and pure, and he was staring at the chess game with squinting eyes.

The other party joked that he didn't have time to answer, and looked intently at the chess game here.

The reaction of the two provoked a crowd of Go enthusiasts to rush to the game, and the long chessboard was full of water, but fine beads of sweat appeared on their foreheads.

Almost all of them have become true gentlemen, watching chess silently. Ye Xiaoying smiled lightly and looked at all this with satisfaction, until finally Wang Er also admitted defeat.

When he got up, he was still not convinced, "There is no solution at all, I have thought about every step." As long as you go down, you will be swallowed by the other party immediately, and the sunspot will be defeated! ”

"There is a solution!" Ye Xiaoying said yes.

Seeing that there were a lot of people gathered, she stood up and said aloud to everyone: "Today, I will use the lantern to meet friends with chess, if anyone can solve this endgame, all the money in the burden will be offered." ”

She poured out the silver first and showed it to the people. Everyone's eyes lit up, not to mention thousands. "It can't be that easy, right?" Someone shouted from below.

Ye Xiaoying smiled slightly and nodded, "Of course, as long as you are willing to give one or two pieces of silver and solve the chess game at the same time, then one thousand taels of silver, as well as all the silver in the future, can be taken away!" ”

The gameplay is novel, but I have never experienced it, and everyone is talking about it, expecting the possibility of this matter. With one Bo and one thousand, it is exciting to think about it.

"I'm coming!" Someone looked at the chessboard and immediately stepped forward, took out a tael of silver from his body and put it in Ye Xiaoying's baggage.

In order not to affect her, Ye Xiaoying asked someone to retreat not far away.

Everyone looked at his hand holding the chess piece, only to see that he was full of confidence and hesitated at the end, but he still fell with a bang.

Ye Xiaoying immediately stepped forward and moved Baizi, and the man's face suddenly turned pale. Bai Zi is like a soldier guarding everywhere, guarding the city so that it can be accessed seamlessly.

He was defeated.

"Now it's one thousand and one taels, and it's the same as the previous rules, as long as whoever makes one or two and breaks this chess game, then all the silver will be taken away!"

A number of people came one after another, and a thousand taels of silver was not a small amount, and some people were not proficient, but they still thought that they would be lucky, thinking that they would definitely have a way to live.

If you lose only one or two, if you win, it is a thousand times, everyone is nervous and excited, and many people are eager to try.

I saw that there were more and more onlookers, and some people even worked tirelessly to invite all the Go masters in the town, vowing to break Ye Xiaoying's chess game, and they couldn't let Ye Xiaoying earn their silver in vain.

"Let's go, Mr. Jane is here!"

Hearing his name, everyone quickly got out of the way, Ye Xiaoying was secretly happy when she saw him, and still repeated the previous rules.

Mr. Jane's expression was solemn, he didn't say anything, the rules were already clear on the road, but he didn't care, and he was attracted by the chess game as soon as he came.

There was a sparkle in his eyes and a hint of fanaticism.

As soon as he arrived, the person who was sitting in his seat had just left, and he sat down on his ass.

"Old Mr. Jane!" Ye Xiaoying immediately pointed to the silver bag.

A thin man beside him immediately threw the silver over and looked it respectfully at him.

"Good, good!" The chess pieces in his hand did not fall, but Master Jian called a few in a row.

The corners of Ye Xiaoying's lips were slightly raised, and when Li Tiezhu said that there was a lantern festival, she kept an eye on it. In the chess book left by a guest, I turned to a familiar picture.

She used to take a Go interest class, and the teacher is a veteran endgame enthusiast who likes to collect all kinds of endgames and solve them for fun.