Chen Fan smiled slightly and said, "It's all worthless fruits and refreshments, isn't it elegant for everyone to gather at Dean Lu's house and treat it as their own food?" Dean Lu: Don't be too polite. "Gift-giving is also a science, especially for people who are not familiar with it, often need to throw stones to ask for directions, this beginning to give gold and silver, others still think you have something to ask, but dare not receive. So what Chen Fan said bluntly is a party, everyone has a dinner together, and it is also an elegant thing to say it, and it is not enough to be free and easy if you don't accept it, at that moment, Lu Yan did not push it back, but said to the middle-aged man who followed behind him: "Steward Han, you take these people to the side courtyard and settle them down." ”

"Okay, Lord Lang." This Han steward obviously had a little more smile on his face, if Chen Fan gave him gold and silver jewelry or something, it would have nothing to do with him as a housekeeper, but these large amounts of gadgets, the head of the family would not ask, and the right to dispose of them naturally fell on him, it seems that this is different from those students who came to eat for nothing, and they looked at Chen Fan a lot more pleasing to the eye at once.

Lu Yan led Chen Fan and Yajun into the plum garden, but unfortunately it is not the season of plum blossoms, Chen Fan saw some elegant and chic dried plums, but one did not bloom, and secondly, Chen Fan did not have any research on plum blossoms, and could only be called plum blossoms, and the specific varieties could not be distinguished, so they were not interested in plum trees that did not bloom, but fortunately they did not come to taste plum trees today, and there were other flower decorations in the courtyard, as well as some jasper bamboo, which also made the garden full of vitality and pleasant scenery.

After a while, Lu Yan led Chen Fan and Yajun to a two-story pavilion, the pavilion is made of wood, and there is a smooth and shiny floor on the ground of the hall, on which more than 20 cases are placed, and there is only one long case table in the first row, which is obviously facing everyone, and the second to fifth rows, each row has five cases, which is arranged a bit like a lecture hall, which is very in line with Dean Lu's identity as a master. In the case for a few weeks, there are also a number of pouch mats, which I think are used for people to sit on the ground. There is a staircase at the right-hand corner of the entrance, which leads to the second floor, but does not occupy the hall space.

They came a little early, there were not many people, most of them were in the garden outside the pavilion, standing in groups of threes and twos, talking in small voices, and some people were sitting, playing chess, and there were a lot of small stools and square tables in the garden, and Go was also placed on the square table for the use of guests.

The arrival of the two still attracted everyone's attention. One of them is handsome, the other is personable, they are all beautiful young men, and they will naturally attract people's attention.

"Dean Lu doesn't have to worry about us, Yajun and I just sit down casually and just look at the scenery here." Chen Fan motioned to Lu Yan to greet the other guests and leave them alone.

"Wait, Liang Xiu is already here, I'll let him talk to you, and then you can do it yourself, wait for everyone to gather, you will sit in the pavilion, and when the time comes, I will ask you to explain the idea of writing the Nineteen Roads, maybe there are still people who want to learn your chess skills, you have to be mentally prepared." Lu Yan said.

"Okay, thank you Dean for reminding me." Chen Fan thanked him.

At this time, Liang Xiu had already seen them, and walked towards this side with three friends around him.

"Fa Sheng, you're here." Liang Xiu greeted from afar.

Chen Fan beckoned to Liang Xiu with a smile and said to Lu Yan: "Dean, you are busy, I can go over with Yajun." ”

"Okay, you young people have a talk." Lu Yan nodded and went to greet the other guests.

Chen Fan looked at Yajun, and the two greeted Liang Xiu together.

"Fa Sheng, who is this friend next to you?" Handsome guys are always noticeable, Liang Xiu was the first to ask curiously.

"It's Yajun, the guest invited by Dean Lu, I can only be here today because of the light of you and Yajun." Chen Fan used a sentence to dip your light, indicating that he already knew that you gave Lu Yan the "Nineteen Paths", and Lu Yan would invite him, and at the same time pointed out that Yajun's arrival was not to accompany him, but to be a guest invited by Lu Yan, and he was a Lu Yan who met through Yajun.

"Oh, that's a good chance for the Fa to give birth to you, today everyone is just discussing your "Nineteen Paths", and by the way, you can get to know yourself." Liang Xiu replied.

"Yajun, let me introduce you, this is Liang Xiu, the one who helped me give the "Nineteen Paths" to Dean Lu." Chen Fan actually only knows so much, after all, he has only met once, and he said everything he knows at the moment.

Silence is golden, Chen Fan found that Yajun didn't like to talk very much in most cases, greeting people, basically nodding, or arching his hand, making a salute or something, this time was no exception, and nodded politely to Liang Xiu, which was considered to have been greeted.

Fortunately, Liang Xiu didn't show displeasure, nodded and said, "Let me introduce you to my friends, Lu Zifeng, Dean Lu's nephew, a Go master, and now he has six grades; Xu Chen, the nephew of Shaofuqing Xu Qi, is good at scriptures; Shi Zhongkai, Dean Lu's proud protégé, is also a sixth-grade person. ”

"The chess strength is already stronger than my father's, but he hasn't been out of office yet, otherwise, wouldn't it be possible for a sixth- or seventh-grade official." Chen Fan thought secretly in his heart, and said in his mouth: "Fortunately, fortunately, today in Dean Lu, I have the opportunity to learn from everyone." ”

"Fa Sheng, you don't have to be modest, I've seen your chess skills, it's very good, it's just that you don't have a test grade, otherwise, I don't have a problem with six or seven grades." Liang Xiu replied.

"I read your "Nineteen Paths", although it is a bit vernacular, but the content is easy to understand, and it is very well written, especially your three- and four-way algorithms, I have corrected them, but they are not bad, I think you have also worked hard." Lu Zifeng answered and praised on the side.

Chen Fan did not continue to be modest, sometimes too modest, others will understand it as a kind of pride, and said at the moment: "Whether the "Nineteen Paths" can be implemented, I hope everyone can support it. ”

"This is natural, we just discussed, I think your idea is very good, Liang Xiu also prepared a nineteen-way chess game, wait for all of us to play against each other?" Xu Chen next to him said on the side.

"It seems that this son-in-law is quite approachable, Shaofuqing is a high-ranking official of Sanpin, I don't know if he is a recommendation officer in addition to Shaofuqing." Chen Fan thought in his heart, and thanked him at the moment: "Then thank you Brother Liang and all the brothers." "Anyway, these people are older than themselves, so they changed Lang Jun to brother at the moment to pull in the relationship.

"Okay, since Fa Sheng has already called us brothers, then those of us who are brothers will naturally help you." Liang Xiu was on the side.

Everyone began to get acquainted, and then someone next to him shouted, "Go to the pavilion first, the dean is about to start speaking." ”

It turned out that the time had come to Shen, and the people who thought to come had basically arrived, so everyone walked towards the pavilion. Chen Fan and a few others were naturally no exception, and they entered the pavilion with everyone.

There were quite a few people who came this time, about forty or fifty people, most of them were young people of seventeen or eighteen years old, and they thought they were students of Lu Yan. Lu Jian sat in the first row, facing everyone, there were more than a dozen people sitting in front of the twenty cases, some of them sat on the ground, and some took a futon to sit in the corner, Chen Fan and Yajun planned to find a futon to sit down casually, anyway, they didn't come to show off, it was good if they weren't conspicuous.

Just because you don't want to be conspicuous sometimes doesn't mean you can't be conspicuous. Lu Yan had already seen Fa Sheng and Ya Jun, so he said loudly: "Fa Sheng, Ya Jun, you come here and sit next to me." ”

Listening to Lu Xian's call, the people next to him motioned for Chen Fan and Yajun to go over, Chen Fan and Yajun looked at each other, a little helpless, and walked towards Lu Xian under everyone's eyes.

Lu Yan smiled and motioned for Chen Fan and Yajun to sit down facing everyone, and the two of them were not restrained, smiling and facing everyone, and sat on the futon in front of the case.

As everyone sat down, the hall was quiet, Lu Yan cleared his throat and said: "Everyone, welcome everyone to participate in this chess meeting, this gathering, some people already know, we have to discuss the "Nineteen Roads Theory", some people may not know, what is the Nineteen Roads Theory? Today, I happen to invite Chen Fasheng, the author of "The Nineteen Roads", to introduce to you what the Nineteen Roads are. Saying this, Lu Yan pointed at Chen Fan.

"In addition, we also invited Yajun, a master of piano skills, as the saying goes, playing the piano, playing chess, life is fast, everyone can ask Yajun for advice in terms of piano skills." Lu Yan introduced Yajun next to everyone.

"Next, Fa Sheng, you can tell us about the "Nineteen Paths" first." Finally, Lu Yan said to Chen Fan.

Chen Fan nodded to Lu Yan, and then said to everyone: "Gentlemen, I am very happy to be invited to participate in this chess meeting today, Dean Lu also said, some people already know the "Nineteen Paths" I proposed, and some people still don't know, so I will briefly introduce what is the Nineteen Paths?" As you know, the current vertical and horizontal line of Go is 17 roads, which is developed from the previous 13 and 15 roads, so can it continue to develop to 19 roads? ”

Chen Fan paused here, and then continued: "The first answer is no. Some people will think that the 17th Road is already the limit of our development, and we have not studied the 17th Road thoroughly, and now we will change it to the 19th Road, which is too fast. It is true that the 19th road is more complicated than the 17th road, and the number of meshes alone has changed from 289 meshes to 361 meshes, which is naturally much more complicated than before. Especially in the third and fourth line force effect, the change makes the chessboard more complicated. If you are interested in this, you can study it yourself, and I won't go into details. Chen Fan thought about it, or first said that he couldn't be sexual, the nineteenth road did have some drawbacks, so he first said the ideas of the opponents, so that these people could listen patiently.

"Then what I want to say here is that I put forward the "Nineteen Roads", not to say that I want to cancel the Seventeen Roads, these people can continue to go down the Seventeen Roads, or they can explore the Nineteen Roads, one more choice, it is not a bad thing." Then, put forward a solution to this part of the people, telling them that the new nineteen roads are not to change them, but to give them one more choice, not only not to lose, but to gain. Chen Fan's speech on "Nineteen Roads" began.