In mid-June, the heat in the south of the Yangtze River is particularly strong.

The old man was still wearing a brown coat and sat on the stone bench of the Juanxin Pavilion to play against others.

Accompanying the old man to play chess was Yi Zhongren.

Although he has passed the age of Jiazi, in addition to his full head of crane hair, the old man is better than Yi Zhongren in terms of mental state and physical appearance.

He doesn't have Yi Zhongren's big belly.

There is no Yi Zhongren's oily face.

will not regret it like Yi Zhongren.

Sometimes he himself found it hard to believe that he had become a best friend of such a cunning businessman for most of his life.

He coughed lightly twice, raised his finger and tapped on the chessboard, and said to Yi Zhongren, who was undecided, and said to Yi Zhongren, who had made a battle between heaven and man: "If you have something to say, say it." ”

Yi Zhongren frowned and relaxed, put up a smile, straightened his body, raised his right hand high and slowly fell, and finally fell down.

The elbow of the left hand was propped forward, and it was about to quietly disrupt the game at the edge of the chessboard, when a hand came from the opposite side, like a cliff ancient pine, vigorous and powerful, not only supporting his entire left arm, but also supporting his face that was about to fall.

The old man raised his eyebrows, smiled, and made a gesture of please with his free left hand.

The small abacus was exposed, Yi Zhongren was not embarrassed at all, and his face was not red and his heart was not beating, and he dropped the chess pieces that had not been decided for a long time.

said: "There are less than half of the gangs left in Shu and Guizhou, will it be too much trouble?"

The old man said indifferently while falling: "Has the court come out to take care of it?"

Yi Zhongren stared at the chessboard, the word "regret chess" was already on his lips, and when he heard what the old man said, he couldn't help but answer: "Ho tail...... Well, yes, it doesn't matter. ”

The old man said: "The court is not disgusted, what are you worried about?"

Hearing this, Yi Zhongren was anxious, threw the chess piece he had just pinched back into the basket, and said, "What are you worried about? What are you worried about? Aren't you worried about the safety of Chen'er!?"

The old man was not surprised, waved his hand up and down to teach Yi Zhongren to dissipate his anger, and said: "Chen'er has grown up and has learned to take care of himself......

Yi Zhongren waved his sleeves with his big hand, cut off the old man's cliché, and said: "Enough is enough, I have heard these words a hundred and ten times, and the calluses that formed in the spring of this year have not been picked off yet!"

"Last time, this kid jumped off the bridge, no, it was jumping into the abyss, I want to find it, you stop it. ”

"Last time, this kid just crawled out of the Yin Yang Valley, and his eyes are still blind, I said send the medicine valley to it, and you want him to follow him to escort the father and daughter of the Niu family by the way. ”

"This time this kid is alone in finding bad luck for those gangs, those big people have not taken action in person so far, they can be regarded as calm, and if they don't stop, even if they and the court don't end up, it is difficult to guarantee that they will not capsize in the gutter. ”

"You have to listen to me this time!"

The old man smiled and said nothing, pointed to the chessboard, and motioned to continue playing chess.

Yi Zhongren was already very anxious like an ant on a hot pot, but he didn't lift the chessboard when he saw this situation.

just muttered softly: "It's really a stinky temper, a game of chess has to be played to be finished." ”

At the same time, he secretly scolded in his heart: "Ge Laozi, even if you don't lose to you in chess, but this state of mind has long been messed up, how can you win?"

After knowing each other for decades, the two have played more than 1,000 games, winning and losing half of each other, Yi Zhongren never thinks that he is weaker than his uncle by half a point, but he regrets more than ten moves in more than half of the victories.

Of course, Yi Zhongren never agreed that there was anything wrong with regretting chess, existence is reasonable, otherwise how could there be such a thing as regretting chess?

Today's game of chess is really only allowed to win and not lose, because he thinks that only by winning this game of chess can he have the confidence to carry it with the old man, or in other words, there are enough reasons to convince the old man!

It was another half-hour battle, and although Yi Zhongren regretted his three-handed chess and struggled to support it, it was still difficult to turn the tide.

The general trend of white chess has been achieved, that is, no matter how merciful the old man is, the stubborn black chess will not escape the game of slow death.

Yi Zhongren pinched his eyebrows, spat out turbidity, and fell weakly.

In the middle of breathing, the white chess piece is finished, and the first piece is fixed, announcing the defeat of the black chess!

Yi Zhongren was deflated when he saw this, the beard on his cheeks no longer rose, and the big belly under the brocade robe no longer straightened, and all of them drooped.

Suddenly the case was shocked, and he was about to regret the situation, but he was taken by the old man to gain insight and raised his hand to suppress it.

"I know you didn't want to go this way, but you don't have many options. Unless you throw in the towel, you're going to make mistakes, even if it's the wrong path. ”

Yi Zhongren didn't know the deep meaning of what the old man said, so he had to nod in agreement.

The old man said: "The reason why I fell so quickly is not that I didn't think, but that the situation was too clear, and the chess pieces were taking me away." ”

Yi Zhongren snorted twice.

The old man didn't care, and continued: "It is said that life is like chess, and there is no regret when you fall......"

Yi Zhongren finally couldn't help it and choked: "You can regret it." ”

The old man said: "I also hope that I can regret the chess, try and make mistakes, I can go back one step, two moves, three moves, try other options, or even return to the original point and start over in other ways." ”

Yi Zhongren stopped talking, people can regret it, but they can't regret it.

The old man said: "The world thinks that Chen'er and Xiaoluo are the two chess pieces laid by our Moral Alliance. ”

Yi Zhongren said: "Xiao Luo shouldn't think like this, but it's possible for Chen'er." ”

The old man said: "Originally, I did use them as pawns. ”

Yi Zhongren smashed his mouth and was speechless.

The old man said: "Later, just like this chess game, how to make a move is no longer something that the chess player can control, especially when the general trend has been achieved, the chess player can only take advantage of the situation." ”

Yi Zhongren was surprised and delighted: "You mean that the general trend of dust has been achieved?!"

The old man snorted, blew the two white beards up, and said, "The general trend is naturally to listen to the rain pavilion." ”

Yi Zhongren was not stupid, but he was led by the old man by the nose at first, and his thinking didn't keep up.

The old man said: "In my original expectation, Chen'er's weak but stubborn character needs to be polished, and I hope he can become a cold and invincible sword." ”

Yi Zhongren said: "Fortunately, Chen'er has not developed exactly according to the trajectory you envisioned, if he can really be cold-blooded and ruthless, he will be a more powerful killer, but on the Sword Dance Ping, he will not shoot his sword at Ji Qianlan, then he will still be the black impermanence of the Netherworld Sect." ”

The old man said: "Yes, once the Netherworld Sect makes a mistake in the next situation, I am afraid that Black Impermanence, who is both a killer and a vanguard, will die first. ”

Yi Zhongren said: "Chen'er is easy to be swayed by feelings, not only will he let go of a few Disha Sect masters in Jinzhou City, but he will also shoot at Ji Qianlu on the Dancing Sword Ping, and he will always be blessed by misfortune a few times." ”

The old man bowed his head and said: "Although Lu Hao died in his hands, but his bond with the Netherworld Sect is still there, for him, he is already a great killer, those karma and good karma can not save his life at a critical moment, he will live better than I imagined." ”

This remark obviously made Yi Zhongren extremely useful, and he rubbed his chin for a while before he said, "Then what did you expect from Listening to the Rain Pavilion and Piaoling?"

The old man said: "Piao Ling is an extremely smart child, in the past, he would use these smart skills in martial arts, and it would not be too long before he surpassed Long Yao with his qualifications, even if he was side by side with Yan Qing, I would not have the slightest surprise." ”

"After being abolished, I was so focused on strategy that I couldn't hope of it. ”

"After Nangong brought Shifu and his party to the Chrysanthemum Garden, I had the heart to work together with Piaoling in the future. ”

"At that time, I always felt that with his character, although he was not indecisive, it was too difficult for him to make those decisive decisions, and it was up to me to be the villain. ”

"But he has been doing so well, so good that I doubt that he will be the bastard of the old stone. ”

"However, they don't look like each other at all, and Piao Ling is still more handsome than the tiger-headed General Shi. ”

"All in all, drifting zero makes me feel what the back waves of the Yangtze River push the front waves, he stands taller than me, sees farther than me, dares to use means than me, is more afraid of sacrifice than me, he can do what I can't do!"

"This 'chess piece' has become a climate, and what we can and should do now is nothing more than to add fuel to the fire. ”

The old man concluded, "Do you understand?"

Yi Zhongren nodded as if he had a big understanding, and suddenly exclaimed for a long time: "No, no, we were talking about Chen'er before, why did we talk about Xiao Luona?!"

The old man covered his face and sighed: "Confused, confused!"

Yi Zhongren suddenly said, "Oh, I asked you what you think of Xiao Luo. But do you mean that Chen'er doesn't listen to you anymore?"

The old man rolled his eyes and said: "The chess pieces will also have their own ideas, let alone people." ”

Yi Zhongren said unrelentingly: "The dust doesn't pay attention to you, but he will definitely not ignore me." In this way, I will repair a book and send it as soon as possible, and he will definitely be obedient. ”

The old man rarely snorted into the fish pond outside the pavilion, and said with blazing eyes: "Who said that the dust doesn't pay attention to me, we have a lot of letters these days, don't believe me, follow me to the study, let you count and see!"

Yi Zhongren was suspicious: "Really? I don't believe it!"

The old man said angrily: "If you send this letter, eighty percent of the stone will sink into the sea!"

"Impossible!" Yi Zhongren argued roughly, but then squirmed and asked, "Why?"

Seeing that Yi Zhongren's old face was flushed, the old man replied with satisfaction: "Chen'er is no longer there." ”

Yi Zhongren was even more puzzled, frowned, and said, "As far as yesterday's news, there are still people over there who have been assassinated by the dark sword. ”

The old man said: "The people there, if you want to talk about concealment, you can be comparable to Wuyue, and if you want to talk about swordsmanship, you can be crowned as one of the four swords in Zhongzhou." ”

Yi Zhongren became more and more confused when he heard this, and said: "What you said seems to be directly referring to the three people, the smiling Maitreya and Shadow Buddha of the Tushi Gang, and the sword ghost Xie Fei of Buji Island, why do they want to help Chen'er kill people, or assassinate?"

The old man shook his head, no longer reported hope to Yi Zhongren, and said bluntly: "They helped Chen'er, either they asked for Chen'er, or they made a deal with Chen'er. ”

Yi Zhongren said: "What do you ask for, what kind of deal?"

The old man said: "I don't know. ”

Yi Zhongren quickly reacted and asked, "Could it be that those were just your speculations just now?"

The old man nodded in acquiescence.

Yi Zhongren said incredulously: "The dark department has not been able to find out a rough idea?"

The old man said: "You can't get out of the moon without a moon." ”

Yi Zhongren said: "Since Chen'er has the ability to avoid the dark eyeliner, then more than seventy percent of the people on the rivers and lakes are difficult to find his traces, and one percent is deceived by the blind method, and the remaining two percent are either self-contained or flawless clones, so no one can really know where he goes." ”

The old man smiled: "Maybe you came to Jiangning County." ”

Yi Zhongren was taken aback when he heard this, and he hurriedly silenced his defense, and lowered his voice and said, "Can you guess, can't others guess too?"

The old man said calmly: "I guessed that there was a sequence, and it depends on what Chen'er is here for." ”