The Spring Festival passed quickly, and for Yang Zheng, this Spring Festival not only allowed him to experience the vanity brought by his identity, but also made him realize the word responsibility.

Before, he thought that the word responsibility was very far away for him, after all, he used to live a life where he fed the whole family without hunger, and he didn't have too grand ideals, thinking that he was just a supporting role in his life, and there was not much hope.

Now that he has succeeded in starting a business, although he is still a "supporting role" for many people, he has also discovered that he is also the protagonist in many people's worlds.

Just after the Spring Festival, his partner arranged a new job for Yang Zheng. Perhaps inspired by Chess every day, Yang Zheng's chess software has also devoted a lot of energy to "blind spots" such as nursing homes and children's welfare homes that are easily ignored by the market.

And Yang Zheng, who has a certain amount of experience, is also pinned on high hopes, and as an open pioneer in blind spots, he was the first to be arranged to explore the way.

Yang Zheng doesn't have too many ideas about this pathfinding job, he doesn't hate the elderly and children, and he has enough patience, he likes to contact different people and listen to their life stories, this job may be a kind of torture for others, but for him, it is an interesting journey.

Xijing Nursing Home is also well-known in the professional circle of chess, and most of the retired old chess players will take this place as their home in their old age.

When Yang Zheng first came to this nursing home, he saw several chess celebrities who often appeared in books, magazines and TV as a child.

There are no brilliant stage lights, no cheering crowds, and they are only left with the loneliness behind the sunset.

Maybe it was because they had greeted them in advance, and when they saw Yang Zheng and his party, their faces were a little more enthusiastic.

There were even a few old people who pulled Yang Zheng to play chess, and Yang Zheng readily agreed and played a few games with these old people.

Yang Zheng has won and lost in these games, and I have to say that the level of chess in this nursing home is beyond Yang Zheng's expectations, at least the old people who played against him are not exaggerating to say that they are all chess kings of a very high level.

But what about even if you are a chess king? They were born in the twentieth century, became famous all over the world at the end of the twentieth century, but left the game at the beginning of the twenty-first century because of age.

This also made Yang Zheng a little in a trance, he only felt that they seemed to be born in the wrong era, if they were as old as themselves, would they be able to rely on their superb chess skills and the convenience of the Internet without curling up in this nursing home.

After all, their era was not the best compared to the present, and most of these chess celebrities experienced the darkest era of chess, and they lost to artificial intelligence and finally left.

But thinking about it carefully, Yang Zheng only felt that his ideas were too naïve, because how could there be the best times? For these old people who have withdrawn, they still have the darkest age that the public thinks, and how can it not be the best era for them?

These old people were a little surprised by Yang Zheng's chess ability, because over the years, many companies have come to the nursing home to hold some commercial competitions, but most of the people sent by these companies have average chess skills, and even many of the staff sent by enterprises are some chess novices who do not understand the rules of chess.

Their purpose is clear, which is to squeeze out the last value of these retired veteran chess players.

There is no shortage of smart people in this world, and many of the ideas you think are good are often the ones that others have failed countless times.

"You're playing very well." Several old people also became more enthusiastic about Yang Zheng because of chess, and after learning that Yang Zheng's master was Lao Zhou, these old people also recalled their past, and the stories in their mouths became more and more exaggerated.

As more and more people gathered around Yang Zheng, the story gradually became strange and bizarre, and several old people talked about their past, with a bit of fantasy, such as when he was a child, he accidentally picked up a piece of jade, and after breaking the jade, he fell out of half an anonymous chess game, and he also relied on this half of the nameless chess game to kill a world in the eighties. There is also an old man who has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, and he is called a martial saint in the seventies, and Yang Zheng can't cry or laugh when he listens.

But listening to these bizarre and bizarre stories, Yang Zheng also found that this group of old people is actually not happy now, after they recalled their "legendary" past, they looked at the house that trapped them in their old age, and their eyes were a little more powerless.

"Alas..."Yang Zheng only felt uncomfortable, and all he could do now was listen.

Young people have a lot of time, old people have very little time, and the old people desperately repeat some truth from a certain past, as if they want to prove their existence.

Young people will deliberately ignore many things and many truths, they are young, full of adventurous spirit, believe in tomorrow, they do not lack the courage to move forward, even if there is an abyss ahead, they will be brave to leave their own footprints in this world.

Out of the corner of his eye, Yang Zheng also found an unsociable old man in the corner, this old man did not surround himself and tell his past like other old people, but played chess while recording something with paper and pen.

may be because he found that Yang Zheng had been looking at the corner, and several warm-hearted old men also introduced the old man sitting in the corner playing chess.

Listening to the name of the old man, Yang Zheng was shocked in his heart, the old man's surname was He, nicknamed the chess maniac, and he was a frequent visitor on TV in the 90s.

The reason why he is a frequent guest on TV is not because he plays chess very well, on the contrary, his chess ability is very average, and he is also at the bottom of the professional chess players. But such a chess player with average chess strength has a grand dream, that is, he intends to collect all the Chinese chess endgame games and make an encyclopedia within his lifetime.

The dream sounded like a fantasy, and few people at the time were willing to believe that he would be able to make a chess encyclopedia in his lifetime.

But he slowly collected chess games like a fool moving mountains, and in 02 years, the chess maniac collected a full 2,000 chess endgame games, but it was also because he spent too much time collecting chess games and didn't take care of his family, and he ended his marriage early in middle age.

Perhaps because his experience was too tragic, many TV shows learned of his tragic experience and invited him to return to the show.

However, contrary to everyone's kind support in the 90s, in the 21st century, he has become a household name.