Why does peerless martial arts only appear on the screen and in novels, and why are fewer and fewer people willing to learn martial arts now?

Why is it that the amazing chess moves in chess and the excitement and tension of chess players are sparse and ordinary in the eyes of the world?

Why are most of the writers who write the way of Xiangqi and Go in detail stroke by stroke can't even afford to eat?

Why are fewer and fewer people willing to learn traditional culture now?

Time never speaks, but it tells the answers to these questions.

The answer it gives is actually a real word.

This reality can be said to be reality, it can also be said to be real, and of course it can also be said to be a lost word or a time word.

The loss of disappointment, the time of the times.

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What is chess?

Uncle Li realized his three hundred and sixty-first changes.

He still couldn't understand this question, and the solid wood chess pieces he was holding in his hand didn't seem to be put down for a long time with his question.

When Uncle Li heard the words of Lao Zhang, he realized that the time was not early, and the chess friends said goodbye to the answer of going home.

He also stood up unnaturally.

Be ready to pack up the chessboard, and be ready to continue thinking about the question that has plagued him all his life tomorrow.

But when Uncle Li put down the chess pieces, he happened to see Aji sitting at the gate of the park.

This young man has a good face.

This young man is not a Chinese at first glance.

But this young man has Uncle Li's lifelong "Plum Blossom Spring" next to him.

Uncle Li looked at this chess game that might have changed his fate.

He couldn't help but walk beside Aggie.

"It's getting dark."

"Do you want to play a game of chess?"

……

Aji looked at the somewhat hideous old man in front of him, and he was a little at a loss.

As a foreigner, especially a foreigner from a small country.

He was not very popular in Huaxia, and he was basically never invited to play chess with passers-by.

He kept his head down, trying to escape from his usual inferiority complex.

But this hideous-looking old man used a sentence that made him swallow the escape in his heart.

"This "Plum Blossom Spring", I have been working on it for a whole life."

Because of these words, Aggie raised his head again, and he looked at the old man carefully, he looked at the old man's face, he looked at the old man's hands, and finally at the old man's chest.

The straight chest, the shriveled fingers that have pinched chess all their lives, and the deep affection for "Plum Blossom Spring" in that tone.

all reminded Aggie of the half of the "Plum Blossom Book" that had changed his fate.

He really wanted to tell this old man that he had also made a lifetime of "Plum Blossom Spectrum".

But when his words were about to pour out of his throat.

He remembered that he was only eighteen years old.

Not to mention a lifetime, even if it is half a lifetime.

However, even though he was only eighteen years old. But this did not affect him in the slightest to stand up respectfully, as if saluting, and as if he had regained his courage, he said: "Then ask the old-timers for some advice." ”

……

Uncle Li sat on Black and conceded the most dominant Red to Aggie.

He looked at Aji's dark skin, and he seemed to remember that when he was young, he was actually as unattractive as Aji.

When I was young, I seemed to have low self-esteem.

Because while people of the same age are looking for a promising job, he is still playing chess all day long.

He still remembers that his mother, who was a teacher, once watched him play chess and asked him, "Can you fill your stomach by playing chess?"

Even if he is sixty, he will never forget his mother's sad eyes.

I will never forget that because of playing chess, those friends who used to grow up together consciously or unintentionally avoided him, a boy who was "plaything" in the eyes of many adults.

It was indeed a plaything, and he looked at the sunspot on the chessboard.

I can't help but think that when he was young, the face of others looking at him was so dark.

He also gave up chess in the middle because of that "black" face, but when he left chess, he seemed to have lost the whole world.

What is chess?

For him back then, chess was probably all he had.

Because he doesn't seem to be able to compare to anyone else except chess.

It seems that no one can appreciate him except for chess, who is useless.

Although his mother always left him behind, but seeing that he had lost his soul since he couldn't play chess, this mother who felt sorry for her son finally made him a chess game with her own hands.

That chess is wordless.

It also represents a promise between the mother and him.

That is, one day, when he can support himself with chess, he will be able to engrave words on this wordless chess.

It is clear that his mother was a wise woman.

She is also a wise woman who understands that no matter what you do, you must fill your stomach first.

Just because of his mother's wordless chess, Uncle Li, who is still Xiao Li, decided to follow the educated youth to the countryside to support himself, and also decided to carve every word on this wordless chess.

It was about the same evening as it was now, and he got on the train, with this wordless chess in his arms.

On the train, he looked at his mother, who couldn't speak anything at the station, and it seemed that overnight he finally understood that in fact, in addition to chess, his mother understood him.

He went to the countryside and had friends.

At this time, chess seems to have become a bridge to make friends.

A cigarette, a cup of tea with only tea residues, and a game of chess can make a group of people gather around and laugh uncontrollably.

And he, in this laughter, carved a word on the wordless chess.

The crooked words seem to say again, Xiao Li has become a man in this year.

He also participated in the chess competition of the educated youth team, but only won a third place.

However, he was also satisfied.

Because, the prize for third place is a brand new military coat.

He wanted to give this warm military coat to his mother, who was waiting for him in his hometown, and he also wanted to show his mother, and now he has a chance.

But it's a pity that when he went back, he gave this military coat to a lovely girl.

That lovely girl also played chess, and when she went to the countryside, she was her nemesis.

This lovely girl was on the same train as him, and it was very cold that day.

He gave her the coat.

And she also blushed and gave Xiao Li a pair of chess made of solid wood.

However, it was the last time she and he would see each other.

After all, there weren't many contacts at that time, and one missed could be a whole life.

Although Uncle Li can't remember what that girl used to look like now, he is used to bringing two sets of chess with him when he goes out.

One is a wordless chess given by her mother, and the other is a solid wood chess given by her.

These two sets of chess seem to have witnessed the process of chess slowly changing from the whole world to family, friendship and love in the years of Uncle Li.

These two sets of chess seem to be on this small chessboard, witnessing Uncle Li's life.

……

"Let me tell you, when I was young, I was a famous handsome student in this ten miles and eight towns." While playing chess, Uncle Li followed Aji to boast about his "glorious" deeds when he was young.

"At that time, the little girl who chased me was lined up from the street to the alley!"

"Then you... The wife you chose must be the hardest working and kindest of them all, right? The simple Aji believed Uncle Li's words, and he replied with some envy.

"Then you guessed wrong." Uncle Li looked at the innocent Aji and laughed:

"I chose to the end, and I found that chess is the most pleasing to the eye!"

"General!"

With Uncle Li's general, I don't know how many times the word "horse" was depicted on this solid wood chess piece before it was faintly seen.

It seems that at this moment, carrying this sixty-year-old man back to the time when he left home with a wordless chess.