When the three of them returned to the store, Lin Jiayin and Feng Yanhong began to get busy.

Jiang Xiaobai didn't care about business, and went directly to the backyard.

Since Jiang Shan and Wang Gang learned chess, they seem to have found fun, even if Jiang Xiaobai is not there, the two of them can play.

"Baba, you see my General Ma."

Seeing Jiang Xiaobai coming, Jiang Shan said proudly.

Jiang Xiaobai took a look, where is this general? It's clearly a lame horse.

"Shanshan, your horse is lame and will not be able to reach the army."

Crappy horse, Jiang Xiaobai talked to the two children before, but neither of them seemed to be able to remember.

There was no way, Jiang Xiaobai had to talk about it again.

"You see, there's a pawn in the direction your horse is going, it's like you're going to the front, but there's a table in front of you blocking the way, can't you go?"

"Oh, I know."

Jiang Shan re-played chess and took a few more steps before he became a general again.

Jiang Xiaobai saw that her daughter was not wrong, nodded with satisfaction, and said: "A very important ability in playing chess is observation, you must learn to observe." ”

"Uncle Cousin, Moz is observant."

Wang Gang asked puzzled.

Jiang Xiaobai took the horse of chess as an example, and placed the horse on the corner, edge and middle of the chessboard, so that the two children could find a place where the horse could move.

When the horse is on the corner, it only takes 2 points to move.

When the horse is on the sideline, there are 4 points to move.

When the horse is in the middle, there are 8 points that can be moved, which is called the horse stepping in all directions.

"When the chess piece is in a certain position, you have to observe how many positions it can move next, the best position where the falling piece is, and how to move the piece the fastest to the specified position, which requires careful observation."

Jiang Xiaobai patiently explained to the two children, and demonstrated from time to time.

"Wow, that's complicated."

Jiang Shan listened to it and felt that her head was big.

Jiang Xiaobai said with a smile: "But if you observe more carefully than others every time, you will have more chances of winning chess." ”

"Hmm."

Jiang Shan nodded.

Jiang Xiaobai placed the horse in a position in the middle of the chessboard, demonstrated the horse stepping in all directions, and continued: "Look, isn't it interesting that the horse can go around in circles like this. ”

"Uh-huh, interesting."

Jiang Shan took the chess pieces, learned Jiang Xiaobai's method, went back and forth to the eight drop points on one point, and after the eight points were finished, she turned around and said excitedly.

Next, Jiang Xiaobai accompanied the two of them to walk around the chessboard, and from time to time put one or two other chess pieces as crappy horses to train their observation and luck skills.

The reason why he chose to teach his daughter to play chess first is that training her observation skills is the most important thing.

Many of people's abilities are not innate, but the result of acquired training.

Rather than knowing a few Chinese characters, numbers and pinyin, Jiang Xiaobai believes that it is more important to cultivate some abilities and habits that are helpful for learning in the early school.

Learning chess, whether it is chess or Go, can imperceptibly cultivate children's basic abilities such as observation, calculation, and spatial sense.

After the improvement of chess ability, it can also cultivate children's ability to see the overall situation, thinking ability, and overall strategy.

More importantly, Jiang Xiaobai wants them to learn how to face setbacks in the process of winning and losing, so that the children's soft hearts gradually become strong and confident.

However, these are not things that can be achieved in a short period of time, nor can they be mastered just by learning to play chess, and they need to be guided by methods.

Jiang Xiaobai has patience and methods, so he is not in a hurry.

No matter what you do, as long as you concentrate, time always flies quickly, and in the blink of an eye, you are home from work again.

After dinner, Jiang Xiaobai went to Uncle Jiang Haitian's house again.

This time, he went empty-handed.

"Xiaobai, come to get crucian carp again?"

"The second child hasn't come back yet."

"You sit down first."

Jiang Haitian saw Jiang Xiaobai and said with a smile.

In the past few days, Jiang Xiaobai has asked Jiang Xiaozhou to buy small crucian carp every day, not by catty, at 3 cents per piece, which is slightly higher than the market price.

Jiang Haitian thought he was here to get crucian carp again.

"Uncle, it's okay to take the crucian carp later, I'm here to find you today." Jiang Xiaobai said.

"What's the matter with me?" Jiang Haitian wondered.

Jiang Xiaobai said with some bitterness on his face: "Uncle, you also know that since the separation, I only have two and a half rooms, a hall house, a house, and a half stove house, and I don't even have a thatched house. ”

Jiang Haitian's situation is clear to Jiang Haitian.

Hearing him say this, he couldn't help but nod his head and said, "Your house should really be repaired." ”

Jiang Xiaobai said: "I came to ask my uncle to help me go through the homestead procedures, and I thought of a few new houses. ”

"Oh, that's a good thing."

Jiang Haitian's face showed joy, Jiang Xiaobai wanted to build a new house, and he was definitely supported by the uncle, and said enthusiastically: "I'll do it for you immediately." ”

Jiang Xiaobai immediately said that he wanted the dirt bag on the cliff by the river, and said that he planned to build a new house there.

The smile on Jiang Haitian's face suddenly stopped.

"Where are you going to go?"

"There are no people around that place, and if you put the house there, it will become a single family, which is neither lively nor convenient."

"Otherwise, I'll give you a piece of land next to your old house, and you can occupy a little bit of the vegetable field next to it and the bamboo garden behind it, and it's no problem to build a house with three openings and two entrances."

Jiang Xiaobai waved his hand and refused, "Uncle, I just want that mountain bag." ”

"Okay."

Jiang Haitian couldn't resist Jiang Xiaobai, so he went through the formalities on the spot.

In these years, the procedures for starting a house in the countryside were extremely simple, and it was enough to make a certificate in the village, which was not as cumbersome as in later generations.

After getting the formalities, Jiang Xiaobai was very happy.

The land is my own.

However, it is not easy to repair a house in that mountain bag, first of all, it is close to the river, and secondly, there is no road, and the mountain bag is not smooth, and the amount of work is very large.

But these are not difficult things for Jiang Xiaobai.

As early as that day, when it was raining, he began to plan how to repair the house on that dirt bag.

After thinking about it for so long, I already had a plan in mind.

After Jiang Xiaozhou went home, Jiang Xiaobai took the small crucian carp that he would use tomorrow and said goodbye and went home.

"Wife, look at it."

Jiang Xiaobai handed the homestead formalities to Lin Jiayin and said with a smile.

Lin Jiayin didn't care about it at first, but when she saw that it was the homestead procedure, she couldn't help but get excited.

"You went through the formalities with the uncle."

Jiang Xiaobai nodded, "That's right, didn't you say it before, when the dividend money arrives, we will build a new house." ”

Lin Jiayin nodded again and again.

Finally able to build a new house, she asked a little impatiently, "Are you going to start construction now?" ”

If you start a new house, you must have one person in the family, and you can't go to work in the store at the same time.

And the braised vegetables are inseparable from Jiang Xiaobai.

Lin Jiayin planned to ask clearly, and then arrange the work in hand, and she came back to take care of the new house.