To be honest, I'm just easy to be soft-hearted, this is an advantage, but also a disadvantage, plus this old man pretending to be pitiful is indeed a good hand, and I feel compassion in my heart. There's really no way around it.

In desperation, I went home first and put away the peachwood sword, and then knocked on the door of the old man on the other side. Go in and sit with him for a while.

The layout of the old man's apartment is almost exactly the same as the one I live in, it is also a two-bedroom apartment, which is quite spacious, but a single old man living in such a room is especially lonely and pitiful.

I looked around and saw that most of the furniture was made of solid wood. It's a classic décor, almost similar to the design of my grandfather's house, and there are very few daily necessities, except for some necessities, there is almost no decoration.

I saw that the old man was obviously living here alone, and I couldn't help but be very curious, and asked, "Uncle, take the liberty of asking, what about your wife?" ”

The old man smiled, there was no lonely expression on his face, and he said indifferently: "She, go." ”

My heart moved, and I couldn't help but feel sad for a while. This old man is really pitiful, the child is not around, and his wife is gone, no wonder he is so poor, he is suffocated.

Come to think of it. I asked, "What about your children?" ”

The old man smiled again, looked very open-minded, and said: "The children have gone abroad, and when they go abroad, I am the only one left." ”

The more I asked, the more I felt pitiful for this old man, and said, "Then you don't have a dog as a companion?" How boring are these days? How else raising a few birds is a hobby? ”

The old man shook his head and said, "Forget it, I still have to rely on others to serve in my life, where do I have time to serve these beasts, it is better to be alone and pure." ”

said. The old man took me to the living room, made a pot of green finch tongue, put it in front of me, and said, "Come, young man, I don't have anything else good here, just a little tea, I know you young people don't like to drink tea, just like to drink carbonated drinks, you will just order it." ”

I hurriedly smiled and said, "It's okay, I love this." ”

The old man put down the teapot and disappeared again in an instant, I don't know what he was doing again, anyway, I can see that he has not had a guest for a long time, and when a guest comes, he is so excited.

After a while, the old man came over with a tin box, and the inside of the box was very lively. I frowned and looked at the old man, thinking in my heart, what kind of medicine is this old man selling in the gourd, not to say that he wants to talk to me, why do so many moths come out.

The old man staggered and threw the tin box on the coffee table, then flipped open the lid and took out a piece of paper, boxy, black and white on it.

He went to the coffee table, I looked down, I went, Chu River Han Realm, this turned out to be a chessboard!

As soon as I saw this chessboard, I instantly felt a little devastated. Surely the old man wants to play chess with me? Although I know that people who are a little older like to play chess, especially my grandfather, who pesters me to play every time I come home, I didn't expect this old man to call me over, and this is the reason.

Playing chess with an elderly person is very troublesome. The old man likes to play chess, but because he is old, his brain is not very clear, and he will inevitably not win chess, but they are too competitive to win, and if they can't win, they want to play more, so that every time they have to kill them in the dark, they can kill from morning to night.

But I don't like to play chess that much, and after fighting for so long, I'm definitely going to collapse.

As soon as I saw the chessboard, I guess my face turned green.

I asked, "Uncle, what are you?" ”

The old man smiled and said, "It's quite boring for the two of us to just talk, so let's talk while playing chess." ”

I was a little helpless, but after all, I was already on the thief ship, and I couldn't escape, no way, I secretly scolded myself in my heart for being a stupid fork, and at the same time set up the chess pieces with the old man and fought.

Because I was worried that this old man would not let me go if he couldn't win, so as soon as I came up, I quickly released the water and cleaned up the stinky chess. Sure enough, this old man's skills are indeed not very good, although I frequently send children, the old man still falls behind.

I was really helpless, so I deliberately sent two carts and a horse, so that the old man won by luck.

The old man won a game, his eyebrows were full of smiles, and he said: "You little doll, what a stinky chess basket, oops, come, uncle, I'll educate you another game!" ”

I almost collapsed, I thought that this old guy would close it when he won a game, not to mention that it was not easy for him to win this game, but I didn't expect him to be a master who took advantage of it.

I thought about it and decided that the second set must be made to make him lose a little badly, so as not to be so arrogant.

Then came the second game, this time I didn't deliberately release the water, but boldly attacked, but I didn't expect that this time the old man seemed to have changed as a person, and the chess style became sharp.

I secretly felt that something was wrong in my heart, and immediately gradually used all my strength, but every time I strengthened an attack, this old man could always seem to be inadvertently resolved, and I only found out at this time that this old thing turned out to be an old fox, his level was much more clever than I imagined, and it could even be said that his level was much higher than mine. It is a long garbage.

I thought I was playing with him, but I didn't expect to be teased by him in the end! Hung and beaten by him!

In the end, seeing that I was left with a bald veteran, the old man suddenly smiled, pointed to the chessboard, and said, "Young man, you say, which one of these chess pieces is the most pitiful?" ”

I was stunned, I didn't expect the old man to ask this, hesitated for a while, I hesitated and asked, "Pawn?" ”

The old man said, "Why is the pawn the most pitiful? Is it because it can only take one step at a time? ”

I nodded and said, "And the pawn can't turn back, he can only move forward forever, which is quite pitiful." ”

The old man shook his head and said, "No, in my opinion, the veteran is more pitiful than the pawn." ”

"Oh?" I was a little confused and asked, "Why do you say that?" ”

The old man smiled: "Look, this veteran seems to be the core of a game of chess, as long as the veteran will be eaten, the person will lose, but this veteran is such an important role, it has no effect at all, he can only hide and hide, as long as he emerges, he will immediately be in danger, you say he is not pitiful?" ”

I nodded, thinking that what the old man said really made sense, and that this veteran was indeed a poor character.

The old man smiled and said, "But this veteran is not the most pitiful chess piece, the most pitiful chess piece, I said it's a rook!" ”

"Car?" I was dumbfounded again, "The rook's attack power and attack range are the strongest, vertical and horizontal, and on the battlefield that is the role of the general, why is it pitiful?" ”

The old man smiled: "Hehe, it looks like the most beautiful thing, but the most pitiful, have you ever thought about it, charging into battle, relying on him, there is this saying in chess, three moves out of the car is stinky chess, it can be seen the importance of this car." But it's because it's so powerful, the other party will always want to get rid of it, so such a character is often the target of a concentrated fire, do you think he's pitiful? ”

I always felt that this old man had something to say, but I couldn't tell what this old man wanted to say.

The old man took a sip of the green finch's tongue and said, "Let's put it this way, in fact, these chess pieces are very pitiful......"

He glanced at me, with a deep meaning in his eyes, and said: "Whether it is a pawn, a rook, or a general, they are always just chess pieces, and it is the people behind them who really control these chess pieces." ”

I was stunned, I didn't expect the old man to be able to say so much in a game of chess, and he obviously wanted to tell me something.

Sure enough, the old man said again: "Young man, what is your name?" I heard those two little girls call you Lin Yang? ”

I nodded and said, "Yes, uncle, my name is Lin Yang." ”

The old man said: "Lin Yang, the matter of chess pieces is the same in everything, I hope you don't become a chess piece, whether it is a pawn, or a general, or a rook, anyway, don't become someone else's chess piece, okay?" ”