Tang Shan and Chen Yusheng's careers as butchers ended like this.

The reason is self-explanatory. Two big men who add up to 300 catties let a skinny pig of less than 200 catties run away without a trace after being stabbed. This incident caused a sensation in ten miles and eight towns.

Anyone who knows this story, who can believe that the two of them can level a pig of more than 200 catties?

Later, the two went to the countryside several times to peddle business, and the people dispersed in a hurry like devils entering the village, and they had to leave in disgrace. Walking to no one's place, Chen Yusheng felt something:

"No matter what industry it is, it's just a reputation. Once your reputation falls, you can't mix it up. ”

Tang didn't care much about whether he could continue to mix in the butcher business. He didn't like the profession at all, anyway. After working for several years, he is not a qualified butcher.

Tang Shan's original intention of following Chen Yusheng to kill the pig was actually to listen to the other party's bewitchment, thinking that he could cure his serious blood sickness, and then hone his image to be a little more vicious, so as to seek revenge on Zhou Weiliang in the future.

Two years have passed, and Tang Shan knows that his problems or shortcomings are innate, and nothing will be done. In this case, he is no longer willing to be a butcher. Of course, he actually didn't know what to do.

After Chen Yusheng returned home, he was quite depressed for a long time. Every day, in addition to sleeping, I sit in the living room and watch soap operas. I don't even have the interest in flirting with girls on the street.

But he obviously remembered the butcher's profession, and one day he checked the butcher's knives and found that most of them were rusty, so he went to bed and watched TV every day, and there was another program: sharpening knives in the yard.

When the neighbors saw that he was fine, they sharpened their knives, and they were all a little stunned, and no one dared to approach at will, and sometimes muttered in private:

"This kid can't kill pigs, he can't kill people, right?"

Tangshan has a leisurely life. I wandered around the street a few times a day, and when I was bored, I went back to my room to study chess. The barrier between him and Fang Tang has also been basically eliminated, and he flirts and scolds as soon as he seizes the opportunity.

The biggest deficiency is that her mother Fang Lian sees six roads, listens to all directions, plays mahjong, and knows Fang Tang's whereabouts well, and seems to have the ability to see through the wall.

made the two of them completely uninteresting. The relationship between the two is just stuck in the language stage, and they can't go any further.

That afternoon, Tang Shan and Fang Tang hid in the room to play chess. Lonely men and widows, sitting in the same room, playing chess is actually a dangling, and the atmosphere is not ambiguous.

Tang Shan has learned well and knows that in this kind of situation, the important thing is not to be entangled in the victory or defeat of the chess game, but to mobilize all senses and strive to enjoy the ambiguous and warm atmosphere of the moment.

Therefore, Tang Shanqi played a little half-heartedly, casually, his brain was not on the scene, and his eyes were always staring at Fang Tang's smooth long hair, the whiteness behind his ears, his neck, and his collarbone, intentionally or unintentionally.

Looking at it, the restlessness in the body couldn't help but rise.

Fang Tang played very seriously, kept staring at the chessboard, and the carriage and horse artillery were not used satisfactorily, so he tried to arch his pawn on the Tangshan territory. One goes to the front arch.

Tang Shan ignored the few pawns she arched over, and wanted to tease her to talk, so he took the lead in laughing:

"Do you know who the cutest person in the world is?"

Fang Tang was stunned for a moment and said:

"What are you trying to mess about?"

Tang Shan pointed to her nose:

"That's you."

Fang Tang looked disdainful:

"Seriously, of all the things you've ever said, this one is the least substantial. It's neither funny nor touching. When you go to the street, you can't even fool a stupid big sister. ”

Tang Shan asked again:

"Then do you know who is the most hateful person in the world?"

Fang Tang smiled:

"Isn't that you, villain?"

Tang Shan shook his head and said:

"No, it's your mother. She cut off all the happy moments in my life, do you think there is a more hateful person in the world than him? ”

At this moment, Fang Lian shouted Fang Tang downstairs again.

Tang Shan smiled bitterly:

"Look, here we go again."

Fang Tang threw down the chess pieces and said with a smile:

"You can accumulate some virtue. She's really annoying, but she's also my mom anyway. ”

Since the atmosphere has been destroyed, Tang Shan has no choice but to summarize the gains and losses of Fang Tang Luozi before the end of the chess game:

"You talk about you, you've been learning chess for a while, why do you only arch your pawns on the opponent's position?"

Fang Tang pursed his hair and said with a smile:

"I'll move other people, because the lethality is too strong, and you will destroy it faster. Only those pawns, you don't care much about them, but you can jump a few more times. ”

Tang Shan laughed and laughed:

"Then you shouldn't have arched all the way to my forbidden area."

Fang Tang is confident:

"The most dangerous place, but also the safest place. You see, the three pawns are not a threat to you at this time, aren't they all saving their lives? ”

Tang Shan wanted to say something, but suddenly a flash of inspiration came to him, Fang Tang's words were not reasonable, but they seemed to be in line with the truth of life. Since there is nowhere to hide, is it safest to rush into the opponent's forbidden area?

Fang Tang opened the door and went downstairs.

Tang Shan stared at the chessboard, and then thought that during this period of time, Zhou Papi's subordinates had always followed him like a shadow, and they also put out the "Jade Silk Golden Ding" to test, and he had no way to hide, so he could only be stuffy in the house every day. This is not a long-term solution.

It's better to learn how to play chess in Fang Tang, enter the opponent's forbidden area, get in close contact, and see the moves, it is likely that Zhou Papi will either ignore him or have nothing to do with him. At least he doesn't feel so aggrieved, right?

At dusk that day, Tang Shan received a call from Chen Yusheng.

Tang Shan smiled after connecting:

"Macho man, have you taken on a new business and plan to make a comeback?"

Chen Yusheng sighed:

"Don't mention it, I sharpen the pig-killing knife at home every day until my hair is blown off, and there is nowhere to use it. How can it be like you, accompany the chick every day, and the days are happy, right? ”

Tang Shan began to complain:

"What kind of chick to accompany you, people's mothers look at it more tightly than prisoners. Like Gongsun Auntie dancing with a sword, there is no leakage at all. ”

Chen Yusheng laughed and said:

"Find a way to find a middle-aged greasy man for her mother, and you can be completely liberated."

Tang Shan smiled and said:

"Her mother herself is more oily than anyone else, and it's really hard to find a match."

As soon as the words came out, I remembered that I should keep some morality, after all, it was Fang Tang's mother. So he quickly changed the topic and asked Chen Yusheng directly:

"Is there some you're looking for me?"

Chen Yusheng hesitated for a moment before saying:

"How about taking you to the casino in the evening?"

Tang Shan was taken aback:

"No, when did you stop killing pigs and gambling?"

Chen Yusheng seemed to have something unspeakable, and was considering whether to say it or not, and after a pause, he couldn't explain insincerely:

"Just go and see. See, there's no need to gamble. Anyway, there was nothing to do at night. Besides, haven't you always wanted revenge? Going to his lair is a confidant, right? ”

Of course, Tang Shan could hear it, but Chen Yusheng didn't say everything. But he knows his friend's character, and if the other party deliberately doesn't say it, it's useless to ask; When the other party wants to say something, he will definitely tell him.

When Tangshan was bored before, he also used to play cards, mahjong pai gow are all passing, in this city, everyone is gambling, do not know how to play cards, basically either stupid or crazy. But Tangshan has always been not interested in playing cards, let alone addicted.

Tang Shan originally planned to shirk it, playing cards was far less interesting to him than playing chess.

On second thought, isn't this just the opportunity to enter the forbidden area of Zhou Papi? I was thinking about it just now.

Tang Shan's mind turned around and asked Chen Yusheng:

"What time is it? How do we get there? ”

Chen Yusheng was not as attentive as Tang Shan, and he didn't know that he had other ideas. He simply replied:

"At eight o'clock, let's walk over, not far. You're familiar with the terrain. ”

Tang Shan never mentioned to Chen Yusheng about meeting a strange old man and inheriting the ancient endgame and moves, let alone the illusory history of the endgame.

First, this matter is bizarre, and Tang Shan doesn't know where to start; The second is that Chen Yusheng is likely to have little interest in these, and the third is that Chen Yusheng has a lot of troubles now, just taking care of the sick old lady is enough for him, and Tang Shan is unwilling to bring his own troubles to him again.

In this way, two very close friends, at eight o'clock in the evening, with different purposes, came to the legendary Zhou Papi Casino.

Zhou Weiliang's villa is in the eastern suburbs of a place called Shatouzhou. Tang Shan lived to be nineteen years old and had never entered such a high-end house. The building area is at least 200 square meters, with a total of three floors. There is a yard in front and a vegetable garden in the back.

The ground floor was a place for visitors, and now it is a casino. The second and third floors are inhabited, in fact, there is only one Zhou Papi, occasionally a few brothers eat and drink here, and more often, Zhou Pao brings different women back to mess around.

His wife and daughter have another residence in the city center.

When Tang Shan and Chen Yusheng entered the door, the gambling game had already begun. More than a dozen people gather around a table, the four people in the center touch pai gow, and the rest either watch or bet on the opportunity.

At this moment, everyone watched intently at the central draw. An exclamation seemed to coincide with the dealer's all-take-all.

Among the dozen or so people, some Tang Shan knew each other, and most did not. I know each other, and I basically don't have any friendship. For example, Zhou Weiliang's subordinates bird feathers and loaches had a fight at the bridgehead two years ago, not only did they have no friendship, but they were also enemies.

However, two years have passed since the incident, and neither side has the feeling of being enemies or red-eyed. On the contrary, they are all a little indifferent.

Bird Feather took an opportunity to go upstairs and told Zhou Weiliang, who was watching a boring TV series in the living room on the second floor:

"Brother Liang, there are two rare guests."

Zhou Weiliang's body did not move, and his eyelids did not rise:

"Your sister, if you have a fart, don't talk about it."

Bird feathers:

"The kid surnamed Tang is here. There is a stronger one who I don't know, I don't know where it came from. ”

Zhou Weiliang immediately came to his senses, glared at the bird feathers and shouted:

"What a rarity."

Then he turned off the sound of the TV and commanded:

"Don't startle the snake. Find a way to bring him up to me. ”

At the same time, somewhere outside the house, a dark shadow dialed a phone call, and his tone seemed a little anxious:

"The young man surnamed Tang is getting weirder and weirder. I actually entered Zhou Weiliang's casino just now. ”

The other end of the phone was apparently taken aback:

"Does he have a relationship with Zhou Weiliang?"

The dark shadow groaned for a moment:

"As far as I know, they didn't know each other, and they didn't even know each other before."

On the other end of the phone:

"So, could it be that Zhou Weiliang secretly wants to make a deal with this kid?"

The dark shadow still groaned:

"Quite possibly. Zhou Weiliang is such a person, I don't think it's very reliable. I've been talking to me lately, and I've been talking a lot. ”

The other end of the phone also muttered for a while:

"Find a way to cut off their deals. But the boy could not be alarmed. ”

The Dark Shadow is a bit of a dilemma:

"Actually, boss, didn't you already memorize the moves of that game that day? Why bother with more complications? ”

The other end of the phone was very dismissive:

"You know. The moves that were written down that day were just one variation of the endgame. As for the other variables, we still don't know anything. It was just a test to prove that all the secrets were in the kid's head. ”

The Black Shadow doesn't understand a little:

"Since it's just one of the changes, wouldn't it be useless to write it down?"

The other end of the phone scolded:

"Stupid, write it down, just so that the stranger doesn't have to be suspicious. It's not meant to be used for your own use. ”

The shadow was speechless. The other end of the phone continued:

"In short, we want to cut off Zhou Weiliang's one-line transaction with that kid. In addition, to deal with that kid, you can't force him, and of course you can't let him die. And to make him cornered. I see? ”

The Dark Shadow nodded:

"Understood."