When the chess nerd and Yang Zheng walked out of the mall, they found that it was raining outside.

The rain was heavy and cool. But surprisingly it looks clean.

The chess nerd looked at the clean rain, and she couldn't help but stretch out her hand.

The rain line that slipped from the corner of the eaves fell on her white palm, and seemed to be ticking and laughing, as if whispering to her.

"I'm starting to regret it a little." The chess nerd suddenly spoke.

"I regret that I didn't look at the weather forecast before I went out today, and I didn't bring an umbrella."

……

Qin Xiaolian also regretted it, regretting that she shouldn't have looked down on the sport of chess from the moment she became an Internet celebrity.

She also regretted that she shouldn't have followed the instructions of the team behind her when she could eat the veteran player opposite, and looked down on the real chess grandmaster opposite.

At this time, Qin Xiaolian hoped that there would be a businessman selling regret medicine around her, she was willing to spend a million, two million to buy a regret pill, and return to the beginning of that game of chess.

However, she may want to go back to the days before she became an influencer more than the regret she felt about returning to the beginning of the chessboard.

Because at that time, she didn't have to think about it like now, calculating the winners and losers, and calculating her life.

At that time, she seemed to have the purest thing besides winning and losing.

Although she regretted it so much, the moment she got up, there was no regret hidden in the tears that slipped from the corners of her eyes.

The beautiful tears that slipped down were much dirtier than the rain outside.

……

The man sitting in the van looked at the two simulated chess games on the computer screen, he took out a black notebook, and carefully used his pen to record all the ways to win in these two endgames.

A good-looking woman sat behind him, and she looked at the man's highly focused appearance, a little puzzled.

Because in her eyes, these are just two chess endgames that look very ordinary and even a little boring.

In her big puzzled eyes, it seemed to be filled with a lot of whys.

For example, why does this man care so much about the two fragments of "Dreaming into the Divine Machine" around him?

For example, why did this man invest in five Internet companies that don't make money at all for the sake of these two fragments of "Dreaming of the Divine Machine".

He was the smartest and most far-sighted man in her heart.

He shouldn't, and can't do these deals that look at a loss.

But she was clearly a woman of few words and a clever woman, and she waited patiently for the man to finish recording the game before lying on the man's shoulder like a kitten.

The man seemed to sense the confusion of the kitten behind him, and he turned his back to her and asked, "Do you want to ask me why I value these two fragments so much?" And specifically for these two fragments, to invest in five Internet companies that don't make money at all? ”

"Hmm." The woman wanted to say no, but at this time, as if she had turned into a cat, curiosity prevailed for the first time. She looked at the two white "pawns" that the man had traced in his notebook and nodded.

"It doesn't hurt to tell you." The man seemed to trust the cat and everyone in the car.

Otherwise, with his cold personality, he wouldn't have let anyone lean on him for so long.

He took out a pack of cigarettes from his coat pocket without hurrying, and with a fiery smoking technique that was almost exactly the same as Yang Zheng, he grabbed the cigarette that popped out of the cigarette case with a "click".

He lit the cigarette with a "snap", raised his head, looked at the dark roof of the car, and asked everyone in the car:

"Have you ever heard the story of Song Gaozu and Chen Tuan betting on Huashan?"

Most of the people in this car are in their early twenties and thirties, and if it weren't for their work, they would basically not be interested in chess, and they naturally haven't heard of a story about Song Gaozu's gambling on Huashan.

Even they couldn't even write the last word in the names of Chen Tuan and Song Gaozu.

Anyway, they basically don't use these words in their lives.

……

However, the man seemed to have guessed that they did not know the story of Song Gaozu and Chen Jun, and he slowly spit out a smoke ring and said:

"According to legend, Song Gaozu was still a general under Zhou Chai Rong, and one day, he passed by Huashan on business and met an old man selling peaches."

Song Gaozu, who was hungry and thirsty, saw two baskets of fresh peaches, so he devoured them and ate them. But he was shy in his pocket, and after eating the peaches, he couldn't pay for it, so he was so ashamed that his face was red. The old man looked at him and said: It doesn't matter if you don't have money, you accompany me to play a game of chess, and if you win, you will be exempted from peach money. ”

At that time, Song Gaozu was a well-known chess master, and when he heard about such a good thing, he agreed. In the first game, Song Gaozu won, but he felt that the old man's chess strength was equal to his own, so he wanted to play the second game with the old man, and the old man suddenly said: If you lose this game, what should you do? Song Gaozu thought about it and said: If I lose, I will give you this dragon stick in my hand. ”

"The result was naturally Song Gaozu's second game of chess, and he was defeated by the old man and was taken away from the dragon stick."

Song Gaozu looked at the coiling dragon stick that was taken away, and was a little annoyed, but Song Gaozu, who kept his promise, was embarrassed to ask the old man for his coiling dragon stick. The old man saw his chagrin and motioned for him to follow. ”

So, Song Gaozu followed the old man to a pavilion in Huashan for people to rest, the old man looked at this pavilion, and said to Song Gaozu, three more games, if you win, I will return the dragon stick to you, but if you lose, what should I do? Song Gaozu looked at the old man and his heart inexplicably swelled with pride, and he blurted out: "If I lose, I will send Huashan to you!" ”

Subsequently, the old man asked him to make a letter to testify. Song Gaozu also wrote down the word covenant. The two won three sets in a row, and Song Gaozu lost three sets in a row. The old man pushed the chessboard aside and said happily: Huashan really belongs to my Taoist? Thank you, Lord Dragon! ”

Song Gaozu was confused when he heard this, and he didn't know how to deal with it. Seeing this, the old man smiled and said: The strong man is determined to be the honor of the Ninth Five-Year Plan, and he will know it in the future. ”

What's even more amazing is that the old man also explained to him the Chenqiao Mutiny and the release of military power that Song Taizu would need to experience in the future. At the same time, the old man also indicated his identity while igniting Song Gaozu, he was originally called Chen Shu and was a Taoist priest. And the reason why he looked for Song Gaozu was also for Huashan. ”

Later, after Song Gaozu conquered the world, he also promised to give Huashan to the Taoist named Chen Tuan as promised, and decreed that Huashan would never pay taxes. This is also the source of the folk saying "no taxes in Huashan since ancient times". ”

……

The stories in the man's mouth are a bit mysterious, and they don't sound like they can be scrutinized by time and science.

But the culture of China for 5,000 years, like the fantasy stories of Song Gaozu and Chen Tuan betting on Huashan, also abound?

Who's real and who's fake? It doesn't seem to be too important.

However, instead of speculating on the truth of the story, they are even more unclear about the relationship between this story and the remnants of "Dream into the Divine Machine" on the side.

It wasn't until they watched the man pick up the first fragment of the page, and while calling up the game of the first endgame of the chess nerd on the computer, while explaining the method of cracking the "white" chess, they suddenly realized.

It turns out that the first endgame seems to be the chess of Chen Tuan's ancestor who ignited Song Gaozu's cup of wine to release military power.

Otherwise, that insignificant soldier would not occupy such an important position among the six ways to break the game.

Is it a coincidence?

They looked at the second page in disbelief, could it be that this second one was... Is it the Chenqiao mutiny that Chen Tuan said about the old way?

If that's the case... Is the somewhat fantasy story of Song Taizu and Chen Tuan's bet on Huashan true?

If you think about it, it's a possibility.

Because Song Taizu and Chen Tuan gambled on Huashan, there is no record in the official history, but the orthodox literati, jinshi, and court officials after the Ming Dynasty have written about it.

Moreover, some people speculate that the score of "Dream into the Divine Machine" was published during the Hongwu period in the early Ming Dynasty.

Obviously experienced the changes of two dynasties, how did they learn the story of Song Taizu and Chen Daochang's gambling from that dusty history?

Is it just because of the oral tradition of the people living near Huashan?

What's more, in the book "Dreaming into the Divine Machine", a total of more than 5,000 endgames are roughly recorded, and this number of endgames cannot be collected and integrated in decades or even an era.

The endgame of more than 5,000 plates has to be accumulated by one dynasty after another, and it has to go through one period of historical precipitation after another to be collected.

……

To their disappointment, the man didn't tell them the answer in the end.

Because the second game is a story about him.

It is also about the whole "Dream into the Divine Machine", a chess game story that is more mysterious than history.

Of course, this is also a story about an ugly Taoist priest who listened to the gunfire of the invaders and said goodbye to his brother and his adopted daughter down the mountain.

After all, regret is not regret. (Regret is currently the endgame of the fifty-fourth game that is currently summarized by "Dream into the Divine Machine".) )

(End of Volume 5)