With Dongdong's complete victory, the morning qualifying session is almost coming to an end.

Yang Zheng couldn't help but walk to his lover's side, he patted her on the shoulder, and praised Dongdong's growth in the past two days with a smile on his face.

Dongdong was a little dazed, when she was young, she seemed to vaguely see the word "rules" in the game of chess just now, but she also seemed to clearly see the other two words on the opponent, called "rules".

This world has its own rules.

This world has its own rules.

But the words rules and regulations rarely appear in the world at the same time today.

I don't know when the rules have gradually become bigger than the rules.

Dongdong was a little numb at this time, although there was also a smile on her face. But others can still see that she is now standing in the center of the most important fork in her life like many confused teenagers.

However, Yang Zheng did not guide her out of this confusion from the perspective of those who came over.

Because there is a man in the audience, he is more suitable than him to teach Dongdong how to see his life clearly.

Although the man looked more ordinary, boring, nervous, and hesitant than Yang Zheng.

But on his face, which constantly changes complex expressions, there is always an expectation for Dongdong's future.

That man is Dongdong's father, a spectator who sits quietly and upright in accordance with the order of the game, and a man who has always followed the rules of society and lived honestly.

He is probably more qualified than himself to teach Dongdong some truths.

He may also live more transparently than himself.

After all, after recognizing his mediocrity, he has been working harder for Dongdong and for life!

……

The summer sun is poisonous and spicy.

The irritable climate is like a sea of people outside the stadium, making everyone feel overwhelmed.

Dongdong's father stood against the big sun in the sky, and his heart was full of self-blame.

He blamed himself for not preparing in advance and not booking a room for his daughter at a nearby hotel after a hard morning.

He also blamed himself for his incompetence, and he couldn't even afford a car when he reached middle age.

He looked around at the crowd, his head covered in cold sweat.

He was anxious, he was helpless, he was confused, he blamed himself, these emotions that were repeated many times today, and he was now at a loss like a child.

But he shouldn't be a helpless man, after all, in his thirty years of life, he has done farm work and coolies, and he can resist the weight of eighty or ninety kilograms on his shoulders and face it with a smile.

But the little girl next to him, who was less than 100 pounds, made his shoulders and spine half a point shorter than usual.

Why?

……

Dongdong eats popsicles and walks down the road.

Although the sun in the sky was scorching, she didn't feel the heat at all.

Because, while her father was holding her hand, he tried his best to walk in front of her, and the tall back, although much shorter, but his back blocked the scorching sun in the sky for her.

They are going to eat, they are going to rest.

But the restaurants everywhere were crowded with people who had come to join in the excitement today, sitting at the dinner table, talking about the morning game, as if they were the focus of today's game.

Ironically, however, the real focus was held by his father, who starved at the people inside.

"Let's go there." Dongdong's father walked around, and finally looked at the most elegantly decorated restaurant, and he finally made up his mind.

……

The restaurant is not crowded, but the prices are high.

A small piece of fried rice costs him nearly a day's salary, but thinking of his daughter, this man still generously used seven days' salary to order three hard dishes that he can't usually eat.

Although he looked at the menu in a very embarrassed way, and although the waiter looked at the father and daughter's manners again, he asked them to pay for the food first.

The uncomfortable gesture broke the restaurant's long-standing rule of serving first, paying later, but it was insignificant in the father's eyes.

He didn't seem to feel the disrespect that the restaurant had for him, and he didn't seem to see the contempt in the waiter's eyes.

He respectfully took out his mobile phone, and the mobile phone with a broken screen that could not be broken again also made the disgust in the waiter's eyes a little more.

But he scans the code and pays freely, but he looks like a hero in Dongdong's eyes.

Dongdong is well aware of her father's income, and she also knows that this meal will cost her father a week's salary.

But she also saw her father's love for herself, her willingness to herself, and her pride in her achievements.

She also wanted to persuade her father to go to other restaurants, but looking at her father's proud eyes, she seemed to understand the word "rules" at this moment.

Therefore, she very obediently accepted her father's "reward" for herself.

I am also very determined to get the best ranking I can get in the afternoon race.

And Dongdong's father looked at such a well-behaved daughter, he also seemed to have forgotten the price of the meal, and also forgot that today was Dongdong's most important game.

He remained as silent as ever.

But a smile could always be seen at the corners of his mouth.

Perhaps, most men are not good at words, they do more to act.

The dish was slow, but the silence between father and daughter was short.

Dongdong's father seems to be aware of his daughter's thoughts, and he does not use big reason to tell his children how to choose life like most parents.

Instead, I chatted with her about my trivia.

He said that he was about to be promoted and raised, and he would definitely let his daughter live in a bigger and better house in the future.

He also said that he would work hard to give his daughter a better and more hopeful life.

He also said that he would learn chess and backgammon so that his daughter could practice with him when she was at home.

He said a lot, but the only thing he didn't say was his expectations for his daughter in chess.

Dongdong silently listened to her father talk about trivial matters, and she suddenly felt that she was no longer confused about the words rules and rules.

She also suddenly felt that all her expectations were not important, the important thing was that the father in front of her would be proud of herself.

The waiter on the side listened to such an unclassy conversation, and he was full of thoughts that this man and girl were indeed not worthy of this well-decorated restaurant.

He was also looking forward to the fact that his next guest would be a very different and noble guest from the father and daughter.

He kept urging the father and daughter to finish eating and leave the restaurant in his heart.

But until the father and daughter had finished the meal, he did not wait for the noble guest as he had expected.

Lunchtime has long passed, and the father and daughter are about to leave.

The empty dining room seems to have changed back to its half-dead appearance with the imminent departure of the father and daughter.

Suddenly, he seemed to hear a sigh as well.

I don't know who's sighing...

……

"This shop tastes so average." The father who left the store touched Dongdong's head and commented on the taste of this big store.

Dongdong also recognized her father's evaluation, and she kept nodding her head.

"It's still delicious at a small shop near my home."

"Although it doesn't have so many noble ingredients and doesn't have a nice name on the menu, the small shop near my home is better than a fireworks."