Hear the words "Kill the Fighting Spirit".

Aggie lost all interest in the bustling nightclub opposite.

He was a good boy and a child with low self-esteem.

He understands that everything he can have now is in exchange for his own self-discipline.

Although his fingers have long since lost blood blisters, his eyes are still full of ambition.

Although he has won almost all the chess masters in colleges and universities in the city, he understands that most of the real chess masters in China are old people.

These old men are the most feared people in Aji's country.

It is also the last chess gem in the whole of Asia.

However, the old man will grow old and wither.

Thirty or fifty years from now, will Chinese chess still have the unshakable dominance it does in Asia?

Aji seemed to remember that a few years ago, in the Asian Chess Youth Exchange Competition, the young chess player from Equestrian who won the second place looked at the Chinese young chess player who won the third place.

His eyes were full of contempt and ridicule.

Perhaps, even Aji is thinking that ten years later, the Chinese chess with no successor will be their world.

……

Aggie often works night shifts.

Every time he worked the night shift, he would bring a chess game to warm up the night that belonged to him.

Over time, the staff at the convenience store gradually came to know that Aji, a young man from abroad, was actually a chess master.

But they couldn't figure out what the charm of this little chess piece was that would make the country behind Aggie revel.

In their eyes, it doesn't matter if it's chess or Go.

None of the sports like basketball, football, or fighting are spectacle-watching.

In addition, some time ago, after the No. 1 Go master in China blew up his income, they also felt that the income ceiling of chess competition was too low.

But even so, they would encourage Aggie to keep playing chess.

Perhaps, in their hearts, they will also feel a moment of vicissitudes when they watch foreigners like Aji learn about the local culture of their own country.

……

The night shift at convenience stores is basically done by one person, one because of the cost, and the other because there are really no customers late at night.

However, convenience stores will also arrange for two people to work night shifts at certain times.

This particular time is mostly a festival.

Aji has been in China for a year, and he has gradually become familiar with the major festivals in China.

But he couldn't understand why the Chinese people liked to create festivals so much.

For example, there are two or three shopping festivals a year.

For example, Chinese people like to tamper with the essence of the festival, so as to turn it into a shopping festival.

It's like Women's Day, why is it called Queen's Day?

Is it because they have forgotten that Women's Day is a day to commemorate the efforts of international organizations for peace, equality and development for women?

Or is it because their hearts have long followed the dark night outside the convenience store, and the black reaches out and can't see the five fingers?

Aggie didn't understand, but he had a problem.

That is, since there are so many shopping festivals in Huaxia, why is he not willing to give up a few free days of the year to get a chess festival and a Go festival?

Isn't this festival of local culture more worthy of passing on to children than the new festival of consumption and shopping?

Aggie didn't understand.

But she understood.

Although she is only twenty-four years old, she seems to have seen through the essence of domestic business.

She told Aggie the reason why there was no chess festival and a Go festival.

That is, the hearts of those who adhere to traditional culture are not ruthless enough.

If they have businessmen, they are half ruthless.

So as for now, will half of the traditional culture be eliminated?

As for the countless craftsmen, will they die with hatred on their backs with "crimes" that are not suitable for the times?

Probably not, right?

……

Aji asked her, what is ruthlessness?

She didn't speak, but her eyes were on the young man across from her, who was tired from vomiting on the side of the street.

At this moment, Aggie understood.

Ruthlessness turns out to be to consume a man's enthusiasm and fighting spirit.

Let him indulge in this illusory world.

It seems that there is a reason for the decline of traditional culture, and the reason is that they are too real, too real to destroy the enthusiasm and fighting spirit of craftsmen. They are also real to those old things that are just outdated in the eyes of young people, but they inherit the persistence and spirit of generations after generations.

He shook his head and flipped through the game again.

He looked at the ancient score, which was only black and white, and the tongue-twisting chess move. He only felt that the burden on his shoulders was much heavier.

He can't be demoralized, and he can't lose his enthusiasm.

He wants to win, he has to work hard, and he even has to try his best to make his chess power his favorite poems and swords while the current Chinese chess masters are not yet withering.

to cut off his helpless thoughts about his past and present future.

His eyes have the momentum and fighting energy that she can rarely see in the eyes of her peers.

Of course, in his eyes, there is still a trace of sober energy.

This rushing, fighting, and fighting strength may be able to replace the weakness of those inheritors, and perhaps, he can also replace the ruthlessness that craftsmen are most reluctant to become.

to pass on what they want.

……

A generation of directors made a series of traditional movies that were not popular with their hearts, and when he finally died, his friends knelt down in public for his injustice, begging the audience to make up the box office.

A new director also kneels down to pray that the box office of his traditional cultural films can be accepted by the world.

Although these two directors are both in the name of promoting traditional culture, one has intentionally tangible blood and tears, while the other only has tears, shape, and meaning, but lacks the most important blood.

Blood is not just the blood that flows through a person's body.

It also refers to the hot and proud blood that flows from the corners of the mouth, eyes, ears, and nose after a person's struggle.

Although everyone knows this truth, now, in her eyes, human blood seems to have become much colder.

Many words that originally represented dignity have become words in the mouths of young people.

Originally, many days worth remembering have become good days that can bring them benefits in the eyes of smart people.

Those who persist are scolded as fools.

People who love life are scolded as naïve.

People who want to inherit are suspected of being liars.

There are also those who play chess one by one, eager to use glory to make the country and young people rise, and they are called madmen.

So who is needed now?

She looked across the glittering street, remembering the carnival created by the merchants opposite, and she looked at the young man next to her, longing that she could use chess to make the country rise.

There was no light in her eyes.

I don't know how long it took, but the corners of her mouth suddenly smiled bitterly.

It seems that with her age, is it too naïve and unfounded to think about the future of society?

Wouldn't it be enough to be yourself?

At least, if she can stick to this job and create value for society.

Maybe tomorrow will be better?

The TV is full of beautiful TV dramas.

Outside the door, there is another episode of comedy life.

And in the convenience store, there seems to be an inspirational drama that is not very passionate.