04 Lao Zhou

"What's so embarrassing about this..."Wang Buregret rubbed his hands while following Yang Zheng into a nearby small noodle restaurant.

Wang Buregret is not a northerner, and he does not come to Beijing often, and this time he came to Beijing just to watch the boiling friendship chess match between the two countries that was hyped up half a month ago.

In that game, Wang Wang, who had become famous decades ago, did not regret it, and he didn't even have a single shot on TV.

It was only at the end of the game that the organizers stumbled upon Wang Buregret's figure, but they did not shout Wang Buregret, but let him leave quietly.

For a chess player who has played chess all his life, Wang Buregret's slightly lonely appearance when he left is also the final outcome of most chess players.

Now anyone can be called a chess king, anyone can be called a chess king, and even Internet celebrities who can't play chess by making funny short videos on the Internet can be called female chess kings, so what real chess kings are there?

The memories of the older generation will always be those veritable chess kings.

And the memory of the new generation, just like Yang Zheng, feels that there are chess kings everywhere.

However, Yang Zheng can also be regarded as a chess king in the eyes of others.

After all, he won Uncle Li, won Aji, and in the last game, won the opposite Nanqi King.

……

Most of the restaurants are also closed.

The bleak streets are brightly lit, but there are not many pedestrians.

Some people take early holidays, and some people work overtime from the 29th of the New Year to the 30th of the Chinese New Year's Eve.

I finally found a noodle restaurant, and the TV inside is also eternal and unchanged with the old-fashioned Hong Kong and Taiwan martial arts movies that the owner loves to watch.

The owner of this shop and this shop is also obviously old.

The boss has been making noodles all his life, and finally earned this small storefront.

The boss sold noodles all his life and offered his three children to go to college, but in the end, no one wanted to inherit the small faΓ§ade.

The boss looked at the lively diners, and he expertly pulled up the noodles, his ears filled with the chatter of the diners and his favorite sound of swords clashing on TV.

His ramen technique is elegant, natural, like a master's on TV, and you will never forget it just by looking at it.

His methods below are also domineering and full of power, and like those heroes who pull mountains and rivers out of the world, every roll is a real kung fu of real guns and real knives.

He served noodles and beef, just like the heroes who fought the world in the end, without dragging mud and water, clean and neat.

It's just that today, looking at most of the men in the restaurant who can't go home, he hesitated for half a minute when he added beef.

When the beef noodles were placed in front of every diner, the quick and neat sword closing technique obviously had a lot of ink.

Because, today, instead of a sword, he received a sword, but a sword that was much thicker than the sword.

The diners ate several times more beef than usual, and when they looked at the shopkeeper like a hero, rushing to another battlefield of life, they said a true word to the shopkeeper.

Indeed, the name of this noodle restaurant is really kind.

However, can this really honest noodle restaurant continue to be honest after the owner is 100 years old?

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Yang Zheng and Wang Buregret sat in the noodle restaurant and ordered two bowls of beef noodles and three side dishes.

A total of 55 yuan, although it is not as good as the price of a big hotel, he has a unique taste of a small shop.

Yang Zheng looked at Wang Buregret, who was happy to eat, and he asked with some curiosity: "Are you familiar with Lao Zhou?" ”

Wang Buregret nodded: "Familiar, I have known Lao Zhou Ke for forty years, I think when I entered the chess academy, Lao Zhou was still a teacher in the chess academy." ”

"Teacher?" Yang Zheng was a little confused, because it was difficult for him to associate the ordinary old man who cleaned the public bathroom every day with the teacher.

"Well, he was famous when he was younger."

"He's a real chess hero."

"Chess hero?"

"Well, he relied on chess to save a village hero!" Wang Buregret remembered the legend of Lao Zhou, and he said with some admiration.

"How did you save it?"

"When Lao Zhou was young, it coincided with the outbreak of war, during the war, there was an invader officer who liked to play Chinese chess, he had to find a few good chess players to play every day, if the chess strength was not as good as his chess player, he would let them worship himself as a teacher, if not, then he and his army's butcher's knife would fall on that person's head, home, and village."

"It's really fake... What if there was someone who could outdo him? ”

"What if there is someone who can outdo him?" Wang Buregret thought about it, he shook his head: "At least before Lao Zhou, there should be no one who can beat him." ”

"Because, if you lose, you can live as long as you apprentice, and if you win, there may be a high probability of death."

"No one gambles on life and death, and because of this, this aggressor officer has accepted two or three hundred apprentices in three years in China."

"At that time, Lao Zhou was naturally targeted because he played chess well."

"However, Lao Zhou at that time was too young."

"His mother was unwilling to let Lao Zhou play chess with the officer, so she locked him in a dilapidated temple."

She went to play chess instead of Lao Zhou, and when the officer saw that a woman dared to challenge him, he let his apprentice play chess with Lao Zhou's mother.

"There are also some good players among the officers' apprentices, such as the five deans of the chess academy, if these five deans are placed now, they are also first-class masters, but it is strange."

"Even if these five deans join forces, they won't be able to win against Lao Zhou's mother."

"And Lao Zhou's mother is also a strange woman with amazing chess skills, she plays chess with the apprentices of the officers, no matter how high or low the opponent's chess strength is, she also plays to the end of the game."

"This finally attracted the attention of the officer, and he personally went down to play four games against Lao Zhou's mother, and these four games, no matter how he used, the ending was also peaceful."

The officers were a little puzzled, because for their country, whether it was a war on a chessboard or a war on the land, there could only be victory and defeat, and there was absolutely no reason for a draw. So in the end, the officer came up with a solution, which was to gamble with Lao Zhou's mother, a game of chess for the life of a village, if Lao Zhou's mother couldn't win him, then his village would be shot immediately. ”

Lao Zhou's mother is also a ruthless character, and the day before she played chess, she cut off her arms. Chess players who do not have both hands will naturally halve their chess strength, which will also make the officers lose interest. ”

"Later, a traitor confessed that Lao Zhou inherited his mother's chess skills."

"So, Lao Zhou was tied to the chessboard by the army, and the officer offered the same conditions as his mother."

So Lao Zhou looked at his mother, who had lost his arm. In the end, he won the officer's victory and saved the lives of the villagers. ”

"He has also become the first generation of chess kings and chess heroes recognized by the state."

Wang Buregret lightly told the story of Lao Zhou, although this story sounds fantasy and a little unreal.

But, who can guarantee that this story is fake?