The old bird also wants to teach the chicks more truths.

But there was no place left on the board made of paper where the pieces could be landed.

He looked at the black and white chess pieces inside the chessboard and the large blank world outside the chessboard, and he was finally relieved.

"You won." The old bird touched the chick's head, he pointed to the world outside the chessboard, and finally said vigorously: "Let the world tell you the rest of the truth." ”

……

Dongdong seems to have understood her father, who is not good at words, because of a game of chess, and she seems to have become more eager and eager to become a real professional chess player because of this game of chess.

Then, at the most glorious moment of her life, she used her father's game of chess to prove something.

Although she knew that her father, who was sitting across from her, was just an ordinary person in the eyes of many people, and although she knew that her father would probably not get ahead in his life, she was still determined to become a person like her father.

The same down-to-earth, the same diligence, the same always with dreams.

These three are the same, and they sound easy, but they are hard to do.

However, Dongdong was extremely confident that she could do it, because she followed her father's finger and saw a chick stumbling to fly, and the world seemed to be setting everywhere because of its efforts.

……

The three days passed in a blink of an eye, and in the last day, Dongdong seemed to have forgotten the homework that Yang Zheng had given her to win 300 games of backgammon, and she spent the last day playing chess purely for herself.

On the last day, she won and lost, talked and laughed on her face, and she became the protagonist in the eyes of others for the first time.

Before the sun set, Dongdong returned home. She took out the chess pieces she hadn't touched for three days, and placed them on the table one by one.

She beckoned her father to come and play chess, but it turned out to be as everyone expected, and her beginner father was no match for her.

However, her father was happy even if he lost.

Because, on this small chessboard, he saw Dongdong's growth in the past six months.

"Dad, do you remember the question that beautiful teacher asked me when we first went to the chess club?" Dongdong rearranged the chess pieces and gave the red square to her father, she pinched the black elephant in her hand and asked slowly.

"You mean, why do horses go to the sun and go to the fields?" Dongdong's father naturally doesn't forget anything about Dongdong, and he still remembers the embarrassment in his wallet that day.

"Yes, that's the question, and my answer was 'Because the field is a banana field, the greedy elephant walks the field!'" Horses are bouncing, that's why horses jump and go for a walk'. ”

"yes, I remember." Dongdong's father remembered Dongdong's childlike answer, and the corners of his mouth inadvertently rose a lot.

"But it wasn't until I learned chess for half a year that I suddenly realized that she didn't go to the field because there was a banana field in front of her. The horse is not because he is bouncing, so he walks away. Dongdong seemed to recall her childish answer because of her father's laughter, and she said with a flushed face and firmness: "It seems that because he wants to protect the banana field, he will bypass every banana field that appears in front of him without hesitation, but because the horse has a dream of chasing the sun, he will work hard to walk the sun and chase the unreachable sun!" Like you, the horse is me. ”

……

There is an extra girl in Yang Zheng's adult class.

The adults who were older than the girl felt unbelievable and a little unreal, and a few even felt some inexplicable humiliation.

But when they heard that this little girl was about to take the professional chess player assessment, they actually felt inexplicably more proud in their hearts.

This is probably because they know that even if they try to learn chess now, it will be difficult for them to become a professional chess player in the future.

Of course, in addition to this reason, they are also full of confidence in Yang Zheng, who is not good-looking on stage.

After all, to be able to teach such a young little "professional chess player", Yang Zheng's strength on the stage must be even more unfathomable.

Even with his theory of "military chess", it became much more reasonable at this moment.

The girl was Dongdong, and she didn't know if she had completed the task assigned by Yang Zheng to win 300 games of backgammon, but when she told the truth, Yang Zheng was sure that she had completed the task she had assigned.

For he said that she already had in her eyes two things that she had been lacking.

As for which two things they were, Yang Zheng smiled and didn't say anything, he just silently took her to the adult class he was taking and asked her to play military chess with these brothers and uncles.

Dongdong was introduced to military chess for the first time, and after figuring out the rules, she only thought that it was a simpler board game than the rules of chess.

But when she confidently played against these brothers and uncles in the class, she found that although her computing power was higher than that of most adults in the class, she became a little vulnerable in front of these adults who were mature and experienced and practiced military chess repeatedly for a day.

She watched the strongest commander on her side being killed by the bomb, and also looked at the mines she had carefully planted being dismantled by the sappers on the opposite side, and she suddenly realized that she should not underestimate any kind of chess, especially these chess that have experienced a hundred years of history but are still standing, she should face them with awe. Because these chess games can no longer be called games, but should be respected as chess games full of "mental calculations".

Yang Zheng looked at Dongdong's first game of military chess being killed by others, he had no surprise, let alone disappointment.

He walked slowly beside Dongdong, he looked at this game of chess and said to Dongdong seriously: "The enemies you will face in the future are not only the children who are about the same age as you in the chess club, nor the uncles and grandfathers who are humble to you in the park, but also those adults who are mature in mind and chess skills in the future." They are your biggest enemies when you take the professional chess exam. ”

"And you don't have one thing right now that is essential to become a professional chess player."

"It's... Is it talent? Dongdong knows that her talent is not good, especially in terms of memory, others can learn a good chess game in one game, and she has to practice it at least four or five times.

"It's not." Yang Zheng looked at Dongdong's dejected appearance, he half-squatted down and pointed to the chessboard and said, "What you lack is to count from one to five." ”

"Count from one to five?" Dongdong listened to Yang Zheng's answer, and she subconsciously asked, "Is it perseverance?" Is it patience? Or..."

"It's the ability to control time. Your layout is just too long! ”