Zhang Lun stepped forward to wake up Zhang Mao and invite him into the room to rest, but just turned his head, but saw Zhang Mao suddenly open his eyes, which startled the two of them.

Zhang Mao saw Song Nan standing in front of him staring at him, and immediately straightened up, as if it hadn't happened before, and said lightly: "Here!" ”

Song Nan bowed his hand and said, "Today's New Year, I am here to invite the old man." ”

Zhang Mao's eyes flickered, where was there still half a minute of the decadent Tang when he was asleep just now, and the coldness and self-confidence of being the grandfather of the country were attached to his body like a soul, and the whole person was also in good spirits.

"Sit, Lun'er ordered someone to serve tea." Zhang Mao pointed to the small stool opposite.

Zhang Lun beckoned to order the servant standing in the distance to make tea again, Song Nan also sat honestly and unceremoniously across the small table, Zhang Lun had nowhere to sit, and stood beside Zhang Lun with half hunched.

"Is Mi'er okay?" Zhang Mao stretched out his hand to fiddle with the black and white on the table, and asked lightly.

"It's good, it's just that it's inconvenient to go back to the door today, I plan to let her go back to the mansion for a few days after the year, she also misses her husband, and she asked me to ask my husband if the back pain is better, and the white medicine bag brought back from Yunnan last time has an effect?"

Zhang Mao said with a smile: "Ming'er is the wife of your Song family, and you don't need to return to Ning from time to time, you take me to talk to her, ask her to be filial to her mother-in-law, obey her husband, and be a good mother when she has a child in the future, and she is not allowed to follow her temper." My child is very filial, and the old husband has hurt her for more than ten years, and the medicine bag is very effective, but my back pain is an old problem, but it will not be cured for a while. ”

Song Nan nodded and smiled, and Zhang Lun interjected: "Grandpa's back pain was caused when he fought with the Tartars outside the Guan, and he was stabbed twice in the back at that time. I don't know what happened to the scimitar of the dog's tartar, but after healing, he left the stolen goods in his body, and often suffered from pain. The old man has suffered a lot over the years. ”

Zhang Mao waved his hand and said, "What do you say he does about such things?" Song Nan would think that the old man was bragging to him about his previous heroic deeds. ”

Song Nan hurriedly said: "Old man, don't say that, my Ming Dynasty can stand in the world, it is the protection of generations of loyal and brave ministers, the predecessors are bloody, and the younger generations follow it, this is the inheritance, no matter how many years have passed, such things should never be forgotten and despised ." ”

Zhang Mao raised his head and glanced at Song Nan deeply and said, "You are very good." ”

A sentence that you are very good is enough, Zhang Mao rarely praises others in person, even if the praise is only a faint word, but the weight is not light. It's just that the praise at this moment is like knowing Song Nan for the first time, with a little regret.

Zhang Lun looked at the two of them with some concern, the two avoided talking about the previous things, as if they had never been entangled, but avoided an embarrassment; But the more this is the case, the more uneasy Zhang Lun becomes, and the more he avoids it, the more he can't avoid it.

Zhang Mao lowered his head and placed the chess pieces on the chessboard on the table, and after a while, he pointed to the chessboard and said: "Song Nan, your chess skills seem to be good, how about helping me solve this chess game?" ”

Song Nan shook his head and said, "Where do I have any chess skills?" It's not a shame. ”

Zhang Mao said: "I played an endgame with Xu Guangzuo that day, and I was bound to lose, but then you solved a double life, and said that your chess skills were not good?" ”

Song Nan excused himself and said: "That's done indiscriminately, why should the old man care, I forgot about that incident." ”

Zhang Mao said: "Come on, explain and see, there is nothing to do left and right." Could it be that your house is full of guests, waiting for you to go back to greet you? If so, go back. ”

Song Nan said: "Who dares to come to my door?" Isn't the lesson of a few hapless courtiers a few days ago enough? There is no one else in front of my court except my subordinates and old people, and I don't have to go out of my way to greet them, and they will not be surprised. ”

Zhang Lun said: "In this case, I will accompany the old man to study, and there will be nothing to do, if I am not good at chess, I will definitely accompany the old man to play chess, and I will not let the old man play with himself." ”

Song Nan smiled: "Okay, then I'll be ugly." "Say goodbye and look at the chess game carefully, but see that the chess game is dense, black and white are entangled, you have me, I have you, it is a delicate endgame.

Song Nan is not very proficient in chess, but there are several professional chess players among the friends he made in later generations, and with such friends by his side, he has grown a lot after a long time, and after looking at it for a while, Song Nan focused his eyes on a piece of chess pieces in the middle of the abdomen.

"Hmm...... Old man, this piece is the final battle, Othello is currently evenly matched, the difference is between half a eye and a glance, and the opportunity to take the lead in the middle of the belly may win this game. ”

"Oh? The old man doesn't think so, black and white are evenly matched, and at the moment it is white that falls, if you try your best to strangle, black may have the appearance of counterattack, and the outcome is unknown; But if you settle here and hold the key eye, it may become what you call a double-life game. ”

Zhang Mao said that the side fell to verify, and several black and white pieces fell, and sure enough, the black and white chess each benefited, and there was no more progress, and the two sides became a double-active game.

Song Nan shook his head and said: "Old man, I can't agree, if you have a chance of winning, you have to fight, either you die or I live, the situation of double life is unacceptable." ”

Zhang Mao looked at Song Nan and said: "This chess game is similar to the chess game you saw when you came to my house that year, why did you ask for double life back then, but now you say that double life is unacceptable?" ”

Song Nan said: "At this time and that time, when black chess took the lead, white qi fell to the downside, and it was a losing game, so I had to seek double life to protect myself." Now it is white to take the lead, and the difference in chess seems simple, but there are dozens of variations. If you have the advantage of being a first-mover, you may not be able to win, but it may not be impossible to try. ”

Zhang Mao stared at Song Nan and said, "It may not be that the big dragon will be completely defeated and defeated." ”

Song Nan nodded and said, "Maybe, but if there is a 1 in 10,000 chance, you have to do 100% effort." What is ActiveActive? It seems to end peacefully, but in fact, it is a lose-lose situation. People in the world only remember the wonderful winning and losing game, but they don't remember a mediocre double-active game, and this is the difference. ”

Zhang Mao was silent for a long time and said, "Do you not hesitate to abandon all the qiē?" ”

Song Nan said: "I said, if you have a chance to win, if you don't have a chance, who is willing to be a fool." ”

"Okay, you and I'll give it a try." Zhang Mao took out the previous play and handed the white chess jar to Song Nan.

Song Nan did not hesitate to reach out and take out a piece to enter the chess game, Zhang Mao frowned, Song Nan was arrogant and domineering, straight into the small open space in the middle of the black chess, there was no reason to talk about it, it was extremely domineering.

Zhang Mao slowly responded to the first son, cutting off one of the channels for the white word to rush out, Song Nan snapped another shot, but this time it was directly broken into the first black chess dragon on the side, but although the black chess dragon did not work, but the gas eye was sufficient, and it was definitely not something that could be broken by this one.

Zhang Mao shook his head slightly, stretched out his hand and responded to the next son, but it was a defensive eye, and the next word fell, and the big dragon would have a look, and this son even played with a match, and it had the image of a big dragon in white chess.

Song Nan ignored it, continued to fall, broke the road, chased and intercepted, and launched an encirclement and suppression against this hundred-eyed dragon; Zhang Mao responded calmly, and followed Song Nan's landing defense one by one, without leakage.

When Song Nan lost again, Zhang Mao laughed and said, "You lost." ”

Song Nan said: "Why? ”

Zhang Mao dropped a son, and even lifted more than a dozen white sons and said: "Your big dragon interrupted the rapture, the two sides are tight, and the head and tail are difficult to care, even young children who have just learned chess can be surrounded and killed; You've already lost. Now it seems that it is still cost-effective to live actively. ”

Song Nan said: "Really? With that, he slowly fell down.

Zhang Mao shook his head and said, "Aren't you still saved?" ”

Song Nan said: "Since you must die, what is the use of saving it?" But the old man should take a look at the two black pieces in the upper right corner of you, what to do, before encircling my mid-belly dragon, the old man is afraid to pay a greater price than me. ”

Zhang Mao looked at the corners in a hurry, and unconsciously in order to cope with Song Nan's pressing step by step in the middle of the abdomen, the chess pieces that he and Song Nan fell had spread to the corners where they had nothing to do, but at the moment they were in a crisis of lack of energy.

"Are you willing to go to this mid-belly dragon? I can't think of it, I really can't think of it. ”

"The golden horn and silver edge grass belly, the corners seem to be small, and the affordability is not inferior to the big dragon in the middle; The old man cares about killing my big dragon, but he doesn't know that the originally stable corner has been quietly eroded by me, can this game still be used? ”

Zhang Mao stretched out his hand and sprinkled the chess pieces in his hand on the chess game, which was the meaning of admitting defeat, and he was stunned: "Song Nan, the old man knows that you have entered a chess game that cannot be turned back, so you can only move forward, and even have to fight for life and death." The old man was reluctant to agree to you entering the regimental camp, on the one hand, because it was in conflict with the interests of my government, and on the other hand, he didn't want you to fall too deep. It's useless to say anything now, you're in the game, you can't live a double life, you can only fight for life and death. I still say the same thing, the Guogong Mansion will not help you, you will do it yourself, whether you are unhappy, or angry with the old man, this kind of chess game The old man will not play with you. ”

Song Nan smiled and said: "I understand, I understand, the old man has always spoken so upright, I also say something upright, please advise the old man." ”

"What proverbs? The old man wants to see and see. ”

Song Nan got up and said: "Everything in the world follows one law, that is, the four characters of prosperity and decline. He was born to grow into adulthood, and then he was dying of old age, and then he died; The more you try to preserve and retain some things, the results are often unsatisfactory. Although the morning dew flowers are beautiful, they will inevitably transpire and wither, because this is the law. The prestige of the century-old Guogong Mansion certainly needs to be continued, but the world has changed, and many things have changed, if the old man has always thought that this world is still the world of decades ago, it is a big mistake. ”

Zhang Mao said in a deep voice: "What do you mean?"

Song Nan said lightly: "It's just to ask the old man to see the reality clearly, what should be lost will eventually be lost, and it is not beautiful to keep it." ”