"Aren't you unwilling?" Yang Zheng looked at Lao Zhang, who had lost two chess games in a row and got up to give up his position to the next chess friend, and he suddenly asked.

"What's unwilling?" Lao Zhang was stunned for a moment, and then he showed the same smile as before, looked at the chessboard that was only one step away from becoming a classic, and said: "Is it because you can't win chess?" ”

Lao Zhang thought about his chess life in the past few decades, he shook his head and said: "Life is far more than just winning and losing. ”

Lao Zhang smiled and joined the crowd of onlookers playing chess, and as usual, he liked to point fingers.

But to everyone's surprise, even if the chess players are much higher than Lao Zhang, they will smile and think about the answer given by Lao Zhang, and then rely on their own judgment to take a step that they are satisfied with.

In this way, they had a lot of fun and enjoyed it.

This kind of enjoyment, which is difficult to express in words, also immersed Yang Zheng.

When Yang Zheng left another son, he suddenly realized that it was already dark. And the person opposite him was Lao Zhang.

"After playing this game, let's go home." Lao Zhang looked at Yang Zheng with a smile.

"You've played fifteen games of chess. It's time to go home for dinner, too. ”

Yang Zheng nodded vigorously, and after he looked at Lao Zhang and dropped his unrepentant move, he also moved the chess piece and shouted the word general.

……

Although Yang Zheng and Lao Zhang do not live in the same community, there is always an intersection on their way home.

Lao Zhang was a little childish and asked Yang Zheng to invite him to eat an ice cream, and he also took it upon himself to order an ice cream for three yuan. Seeing his joyful appearance, Yang Zheng also smiled.

The two of them sat on the stone pier by the road, eating two three-dollar ice creams, happy and vulgar like children who had expensive snacks and loved to show off when they were children.

Yang Zheng ate ice cream and looked at the moon on his head that appeared in advance, and he couldn't help asking: "Lao Zhang, do you have any regrets in your life?" ”

Lao Zhang licked the ice cream and nodded and said, "Of course there is." ”

"For example?"

"For example, I shouldn't be a chef. Not only does he earn less every month, but he is also angry. ”

Lao Zhang took a hard bite of ice cream and complained: "I'm forty years old, I've been a chef for 20 years, and now I still earn 8,000 a month, to be honest, I really can't raise my head." ”

"Let's change jobs." Yang Zheng also took a bite of ice cream, and the cold and sweet stimulation instantly made the taste buds on his tongue explode, and also made him feel a long-lost coldness all over his body, freezing so much that his tears were about to flow out.

He wiped his eyes and looked at Lao Zhang, who was biting into the ice cream at the same time as him but with a blank face, his face full of surprise.

"No, so be it. Seeing that my children are going to college, no matter what job I change now, it is unstable. Lao Zhang finished eating the ice cream in two bites, he still looked at Yang Zheng with an expressionless face and said: "Tell me, what is delicious about this ice cream, it is expensive and sour, it is not as good as the old popsicle and mung bean paste that cost five cents when we were children." ”

"Then why are you still eating..."Yang Zheng didn't dare to bite, he also learned from the previous Lao Zhang to slowly lick the popsicle on his hand, he asked Lao Zhang.

"Because, my children and wife love to eat. I bought them this popsicle every summer, and I thought it would be delicious for almost 20 years. As soon as Lao Zhang mentioned his wife and children, the lines on his face, which were stiffer than ice cream, instantly softened.

He sat on the ground and smiled: "This summer, I will also buy them old popsicles for five cents, and let them eat the taste of my childhood." ”

Yang Zheng was a little surprised and incoherent: "You actually bought this for twenty years, but you have never eaten it." ”

"What's going on?" Lao Zhang understood Yang Zheng's words, and he stood up.

"When you have a family, after you become someone else's husband or father. You'll understand that sometimes, just seeing something delicious. The first thing you think about is never yourself, but the family and children behind you. Lao Zhang rubbed his fingers again and smiled: "Of course, when you have a family and a child, maybe you will be the same as me." The pocket money is only four or five hundred a month. ”

"By the way, you asked me before, will I be unwilling to lose the chess."

In fact, every man will have unwillingness. Some men will be unwilling to be ignorant and ignorant before. There are also men who are unwilling to do nothing for most of their lives. Of course, more men will not be willing to come to the world by themselves, and just walk on it in a hurry. ”

"Since every man has so many unwillingness. Does the outcome on the chessboard matter? Lao Zhang said vulgarly: "Anyway, chess is probably my most economical expense for me." ”

"So, I'm not going to be reluctant to play chess. On the contrary, I am grateful for chess, at least there is chess, and I, a man who does nothing and just walks in a hurry in the world, can live a wonderful life on the chessboard. ”

"Next time, maybe on the chessboard, I'll be the one who wins."