"Do you like chess?"

The man looked at the room full of children, and he asked earnestly and paranoidly.

Although, most of the answers he got were like.

But in the faces and hands of these children, he seemed to see the real answer in their hearts.

"Do you like to learn?"

This time, almost all of the children were shaking their heads.

"Why?" The man asked these three words with some stubbornness, but of course, the answers he got were varied and intriguing.

Some children say that studying can't change their fate at all, because the rich people in the village and even the town are not so-called college students or high school students. They are all a group of businessmen who went to the sea to do business before finishing junior high school, they envy them, and they want to be them.

Some children said that it took too long to study, and that nine years of compulsory education plus three years of high school could take 12 years. However, the time spent in the past 12 years has probably been exchanged for some futures that cannot be seen or imagined at all.

Of course, more children looked at the lonely eyes of men, and they also said what they really thought in their hearts, that is, they didn't believe in the big truth in books at all.

Books say that hard work can make you rich, steadfastness can achieve an ordinary and brilliant life, and books also say that knowledge can change fate.

But hard-working, down-to-earth, knowledge seems to be unable to gain a foothold on the cold mountain.

Diligence is still so poor, and steadfastness is also looked down upon by many Lengshan people who go out to work, as for the most important knowledge, in the eyes of Lengshan people, it is not as fast as the money from going out to work.

This is the value that Lengshan people have been confused about for decades.

The man seems to understand, understands why the people of Lengshan will always be poor, and why the children in Lengshan will always be dissatisfied with hope in their eyes.

He was silent for a long time, but finally decided to leave the group of children behind and teach them how to play chess.

Of course, as a "tuition" for learning chess, men asked them to go to the village school at least three days a week to study.

With such a "cheap" tuition fee, the "guardians" of these children naturally have no reason to refuse.

They looked at this man who "couldn't get along" in the big city, and they seemed to vaguely feel that knowledge can sometimes really change a person's life.

But the man's behavior offended the only village teacher in the village, who lived in a town dozens of kilometers away from the village, and usually did not come to this small village where both life and spirit were very poor. If a student doesn't learn, it's a good thing for him to be good.

But in order to learn chess, these children returned to school, which made this "poor" teacher get up early and rush to the village every day, and slowly, he also hated this nosy man.

One night, the unbearable teacher blocked the man's door, waving the wooden stick in his hand at the man who opened the door.

But what he didn't expect was that the man looked at the stick and his fierce eyes, he didn't hide, he didn't run away, he just stood calmly at the door and waited for the stick to fall.

At this moment, in the eyes of the teacher, he looked like both a warrior and a fool who didn't want to die.

……

"Over the years, I've been used to subtraction, but I've also learned addition from subtraction."

Although Yang Zheng seems to have an absolute advantage on the chess surface, if you look closely, Wu Ming still has the strength to fight, at least he still has three big sons with one horse, one gun and one car.

Yang Zheng's "radical" advance and Wu Mingming's "passive" retreat made a large blank space on the small chessboard in front of these two people.

Although Wu Ming never ate Yang Zheng's son from beginning to end, Yang Zheng's "aggressive" attack also left a large blank in his rear.

"Addition... Subtraction? Yang Zheng kept chanting these two words, and his eyes gradually became confused.

Addition, subtraction is actually a kind of realm of chess.

This kind of realm was told to him by Lao Zhou, and it was also the magic weapon that Yang Zheng passed on to Dongdong after comprehending it.

It's just that Lao Zhou's addition and subtraction are obviously not the same as Wu Mingming's addition and subtraction, and Wu Mingming's addition and subtraction are more extreme than Lao Zhou's.

This kind of chess play without eating children is a chess way that Wu Mingming has learned since he left the professional chess world for 30 years, and it is also a chess way that cannot be imitated or learned.

Because, every time he falls, the weight carries with him a past in his life that others can't see or imagine.

"General."

Wu Mingming laughed, his cart rampage, his cannon followed, he seemed to have dodged the bombardment from Yang Zheng's side, and landed directly on Yang Zheng's veteran.

……

That night, I don't know what the man said and did with the teacher.

I only know that the stick did not fall after all, and there is a simple grass hut next to the school.

The man began to fulfill his promise to teach the children how to play chess.

But chess is even more boring than learning, it not only has to memorize and memorize chess games, but also takes a lot of time to practice.

It may take more time than 12 years of hard study.

Many children feel that they can't hold on at the beginning, and they subconsciously think that men are deliberately procrastinating like this. Because they heard in the newspapers and among the townspeople that as long as they understand the rules, know how to calculate, and know some small routines, they can become a professional chess player and kill all sides.

Just like that former genius.

This kind of resistance also made many old people in the village poke the man's backbone behind his back and say that he was not kind at all.

But in the end, no one chose to quit, because men's tuition fees were so cheap, even so cheap that they were not as cheap as an egg.

The years have passed, and as a year has passed, more and more children have learned chess, and they have slowly changed from the original dozen to more than thirty now.

Perhaps the biggest change in the year when these children learn chess is that they look forward to the outside world more.

Because the man always uses his clumsy language to describe the beauty of the big city when he teaches chess, he will also engrave the name of each child in the small grid in the chess board when teaching chess.

Perhaps, it is because they saw their own names that those children would have a little more thoughts in addition to longing.

The idea is that my name will one day appear in the newspapers and on television.

This thought also made these children realize that reading is also useful.

At the very least, when they are interviewed by the media one day, they will be able to write their own names and the names of their family members.

Slowly, the men's tuition fees rose from three days to five days, but even if the tuition fees were raised, the children did not complain.

After all, they now have at least one pillar called "Dream".