Originally, I thought that after not being in touch for many years, Liu's parents would forget about themselves.

However, when Yang Zheng appeared at Liu's funeral, Liu's parents could clearly tell the details of Yang Zheng and Liu's schooling.

Liu didn't die great, he didn't die in the face of righteousness and bravery, nor did he die in sacrificing himself, he died of illness and died in a hospital bed.

In the last month of Liu's life, he seemed to have figured out a lot of things, he gave up socializing, giving up entertainment, giving up self-pity and self-pity, and devoted himself to creating a fantasy type of web novel.

He writes very seriously and devotedly. But due to physical reasons, he only wrote less than 20,000 words in the last month of his life.

Fortunately, there are not many people who read his books, and probably no readers will complain about his sudden departure, and when Liu predicted that his life was coming to an end, he worked hard to update the last chapter of his life.

There is no pretentiousness, but a free and easy farewell to his few readers at the end, admonishing them to take care of themselves and pay attention to their bodies.

After the funeral, Yang Zheng also finished reading the short novel written by Liu, from the perspective of an old bookworm, the plot of Liu's novel is a little white, but it is very exciting, the writing is very rough, but there is a touch of inexplicable vicissitudes.

Therefore, Yang Zheng felt that in the last days of his life, Liu had fulfilled his previous dream.

Yang Zheng also wanted to reward Liu's book, but found that he did not sign a contract, perhaps because his book did not meet the signing standards of the website, or he was simply writing a book and did not care about anything unrelated to writing a book.

This also made Yang Zheng a little embarrassed, and even more melancholy.

melancholy that from the moment people are born, they must be indispensable.

Although he has experienced many partings over the years, most of these partings are the partings of the elderly, and this parting of his peers also made Yang Zheng realize that he must accept more partings in his next life.

Until I leave this world myself.

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The news of Liu's death was like a pebble falling into a pond in high school, although it set off a wave, but soon regained calm.

Except for a few days after his death, occasionally someone would use the news of Liu's death as the beginning of the conversation topic, but gradually, the classmates seemed to forget that Liu had passed away, as if he was still alive, just diving quietly like most people and not talking.

Perhaps, until everyone in this group dies, Liu will not really pass away!

After Yang Zheng attended the funeral, he also returned to Beijing non-stop, and he continued to take over the unfinished work and began to prepare for the upcoming World Chess Tournament.

There are also several amateur chess players in the company who have enthusiastically signed up for the assessment of professional chess players, perhaps because of the reduced difficulty, these chess players have passed the professional chess player assessment as they wished, and became third-level chess players as they wished.

Among these people who passed the professional chess player assessment was Xiaofu, the day he became a professional chess player, he burst into tears, and even spent a month's salary to buy a cup of milk tea for everyone in the company to share the joy.

It seems that becoming a professional chess player will definitely change his future destiny.

Yang Zheng didn't have much to say about this, he just drank milk tea and smiled and wished Xiaofu that he would "make a name for himself" in the World Series and later in life.

In the end, Yang Zheng did not sign up to become a professional chess player, but he still signed up for the amateur group of the World Series.

Of course, the reason for this is the kind persuasion of several partners, but more because of Huanhuan, she also signed up for the amateur competition, and also pulled Yang Zheng to sign up together.

The two passed the preliminary audition together, and they also made several friends in the audition.

Yang Zi, an amateur chess player with excellent chess skills, is 57 years old this year, he has loved chess since he was a child, and he rose to prominence at the age of seven, and won the second place in the city junior competition.

But he did not embark on the path of a professional chess player, but participated in chess competitions at the county and municipal levels as a first-class amateur chess player.

According to Brother Yangzi's words, chess is a toy for entertainment for him, and he himself prefers to drive the bus down-to-earth.

That's right, Brother Yang Zi is a glorious bus driver, he has been driving buses for twenty years, and he is also a well-informed old driver.

At least for the amateur chess world in Shangjing, Brother Yang Zi knows very well that there are eight monsters in the amateur chess world in Beijing, and in addition to their eccentric personalities, all of them have the level of chess power of chess masters, and they are also the eight people with the highest chess power in the amateur chess world in Shangjing.

These eight monsters are not young, the oldest is eighty-five years old, and the youngest is sixty-seven years old, all of whom are offensive chess players with rich experience in actual combat.

Yang Zheng had heard of the name of the Eight Great Monsters, and after he met Lao Zhou, he also heard the story of Zhao Lao Wei, one of the Eight Great Monsters, from Lao Zhou's mouth.

According to Lao Zhou, Zhao Lao Wei pulled a big cart when he was young, and when he was young, Zhao Lao Wei didn't know chess, and he didn't like chess, and even felt that chess was a plaything.

However, when Zhao Lao Wei reached middle age, he had to like chess again, and the reason was because he fell in love with a girl.

This girl was born into a chess family, and her father was a well-known chess player in Shanghai at that time, nicknamed the one-armed swordsman, and it was difficult to meet opponents in a fast chess hand.

And this girl was influenced by her father, she has been in contact with chess since she was a child, and she became famous in the Beijing chess circle in her twenties, and because she was beautiful and had a beautiful name, she was called "Yue Niang" by many suitors.

Yueniang does not look at the rich and poor, nor does she look at the status, she only looks at the character and chess ability, as long as the character is good, she can marry her if she wins seven games in a row.

And Zhao Laowei learned chess in middle age, and with an unknown chess book, he won seven consecutive games after three months of self-study.

When he first heard this story, Yang Zheng only felt that it was like a fantasy, bizarre and could not stand scrutiny, and it must be a cool story that has been artistically processed.

Lao Zhou only smiled and didn't explain back then, but Yang Zheng was interested in Zhao Laowei, and he also spent time searching for Zhao Laowei's games with others on the Internet later.

I have to say that Zhao Laowei's chess strength is really good, not only has clear thinking, but also the style of chess is full of aggression, which also leads to Zhao Laowei's game has excellent ornamentation.

He also ranked third among the eight monsters because of his excellent ornamental chess.

Yang Zheng also heard information about the other eight monsters from Brother Yang Zi, and also heard more bizarre stories from other people.

Brother Yang Zi said it very passionately, and he was very involved in it, as if he had witnessed the past life of the Eight Monsters.

Yang Zheng patiently listened to the message from Brother Yang Zi, and he vaguely felt that the amateur arena might be more difficult than the professional arena.