"It's a rarity."

The middle-aged man carefully recalled Yang Zheng's last sentence, and he seemed to have some understanding.

He looked numbly at the students and parents at the entrance of the assessment institute, and his brain suddenly went blank.

The different faces, as well as the tolerant, disappointed, sad, or joyful faces, just formed the chess board in front of him, which he regarded as important as his own life.

The world is very complicated, so complicated that you can't see through the essence of the world in your life.

But the world is also very simple, because it is precisely the people who make up the world.

Men, women, adults, the elderly, children.

The poor, the rich, the good, the wicked, the common people...

The whole world is different because of people, and because of these various people, this world also has its unique meaning of existence.

When the middle-aged man looked at the gate of the entire assessment institute and finally empty, he stood up in frustration.

"It seems that all along, I made a mistake."

After the middle-aged man vomited this sentence, his heart became inexplicably excited.

"It's a good thing that life didn't say a word to me."

……

It was only after playing chess that Yang Zheng learned from Wang Qi that the middle-aged man he was playing against him today was Wang Yifan.

Speaking of Wang Yifan, it can be said that everyone in the chess world knows it, of course, what makes others know is not his slightly "lame" chess power compared with Yang Zheng, but his unique identity.

He is a chess grandmaster, he is in the middle of less than 100 chess grandmasters in China, he is not a very good chess player, but he is an outstanding "chess strategist" and "chess thinker".

In the more than 40 years of his life, he has written more than a dozen books on the development and future of Chinese chess. In the entire history of Chinese chess, he is definitely a "witness" and "inheritor".

It is precisely because of his outstanding contribution to the history of the development of Chinese chess that he has become the most special chess grandmaster.

When Yang Zheng was a child, he also read the books he wrote. When he also decided to regard chess as his life's career, he bought the "Instructions for Chess Practitioners" written by Wang Yifan. But Yang Zheng didn't like him very much.

Because in Wang Yifan's various works, it is revealed that he looks down on ordinary chess enthusiasts who can't even become amateur chess players from the bottom of his bones.

He only sees the competitiveness of chess and the future development of business and society, and he also criticizes the entertainment and universality of chess as useless.

In addition, he is also a very paranoid person, he believes that the future development route of chess is that it is necessary to follow the four major routes of "family", "inheritance", "chess academy" and "chess club", and fundamentally reduce the "cold door" and "wild way" and birth, so as to make chess into an "elegant" and "strategic" aristocratic chess. His so-called "elite" and "quality" changes also made Yang Zheng feel uncomfortable.

Although Yang Zheng understands that if Xiangqi wants to follow what Wang Yifan said in the future, it will definitely attract more people to learn and practice, but his innate sense of justice, compassion and intuitive judgment as a chess player make him look at the old men who are playing chess on the way home, and he is extremely determined that this is the past, present and even future of real Chinese chess.

Perhaps, as Yang Zheng said today, chess has the meaning of life and survival in the eyes of professional chess players, but it also has a unique meaning in the eyes of ordinary people and laypeople.

Perhaps because Yang Zheng won the "chess thinker" he disagreed with today, his mood became particularly good.

He habitually walked into the group of old men who played chess together, although with his current chess strength, these old masters' chess is quite a little "clumsy", but these masters who have played chess on the street all their lives, on this small chessboard, there seem to be more ups and downs in their lives and the new life they desire under the skin of these old people!

……

After Dongdong's father learned that Dongdong was promoted, he took Dongdong down to the restaurant with a ruthless heart.

The restaurant is not big, but the taste is very good. This is probably the last pursuit of all men with wallets to eat.

Dongdong's father is a man who rarely comes into contact with people except for work, and in the face of Dongdong's achievements, which can be regarded as "glorious ancestors" in his eyes, he has a rare luxury, not only ordering Dongdong a drink that is more expensive than outside, but also opening a bottle of beer.

He looked at the foam overflowing from the inferior glass beer bottle, and he held it up to say something, but he opened his mouth and didn't say the pretty words in his heart for a long time.

In the end, he could only laugh and take a sip of the small half bottle.

Dongdong was accustomed to her father's behavior, and she understood her father's stupidity, she lifted the drink bottle in a decent manner and shook it in the air, like a toast, but also like gratitude.

The small restaurant served the food very quickly, and the three dishes and one soup were all home-cooked, and they were all served quickly. Dongdong's father looked at the meat dish in front of him, he picked up the chopsticks and put a large number of chopsticks on the plate in front of Dongdong.

He said "thank you".

This brainless thank you made Dongdong at a loss.

But she looked at her father's reddened eyes after taking another big sip of beer, and she silently lowered her head and ate the hot meat dish in front of her.

"Please forgive your father, your father has no ability, the second is not highly educated, and the third is not able to speak, he will only bury his head in work and teach his smart daughter some stupid and old-fashioned truths." Dongdong's father looked at Dongdong, who was eating silently, and he finally said what was in his heart.

"Actually, I hesitated for a long time about you learning chess. Because I don't think chess can give you much convenience in your future life, and you can't even add points to the college entrance examination, I want you to learn to dance, learn Go, and learn the specialty classes that your classmates around you are learning. ”

"But, in the end, I compromised again."

"Because, when you picked up the most insignificant creep in chess and said that this pawn is me, I saw the yearning for chess in your eyes. When you say that the reason why I am a soldier is because I have never backed down to protect you. Do you know? How sad my heart was. ”

"I don't want to be a soldier, I want to be a chariot and horse artillery, I want to be a soldier, because only in this way can I better protect you and give you a better life."

"But then I watched you play chess, and watched you step by step from a little girl who didn't know how to play chess to a big girl who could participate in the professional chess player assessment, I suddenly felt that being a soldier was actually quite good." Dongdong's father looked at Dongdong and raised his head in confusion, he picked up the beer and drank it all, and then he laughed: "Because, you told me with chess that as long as you work hard and never retreat, even if you are a nobody, you can live without regrets, live wonderfully, and look forward to life!" ”