The chirping of the birds in the mountains, mixed with the sound of the wind, composed a wonderful natural sound, in which the white tiger was immersed, lying on the stone slab at the door of the hut, drowsy, and occasionally a mosquito flew by, raising its thick front paws and waving it in front of its face.

Duanmu Shenjiu and Wu Hou in front of the table were playing chess silently, and the two sides did not say too much, everything was on the chessboard.

This is already the tenth inning.

In the first nine innings, Duanmu Shenjiu stabilized Wu Hou, making Wu Hou lose nine games in a row, and he was sweating profusely in a hurry. But fortunately, Wu Hou's mind was active, and when Duanmu Shenjiu figured out his chess move, he gradually figured out Duanmu Shenjiu's chess move. Although the first nine games all ended in failure, in this tenth game, Wu Hou faintly showed signs of victory.

Wu Hou also has a rook, a horse and a cannon on the chessboard, and there is a pair of soldiers and phases on both sides of the handsome chess. On the other hand, Duanmu Shenjiu, the tenth game has been suppressed by Wu Hou, and every step is a little hard, and by this time there is only one soldier, one car, and two river crossers. But anyone who has some means of playing chess, Duanmu Shenjiu will definitely lose in this situation.

But when Wuhou was dispatching troops, the car and horse entered the camp of Duanmu Shenjiu, and was preparing to end with a lore, which Cheng wanted Duanmu Shenjiu's taxi to change the rules of the game, no longer walking diagonally, but taking two steps straight up, eating Wuhou's car and horse.

The good situation was made by this, and Wu Hou turned into a disadvantage.

Then he frowned and said, "How can you go like this?"

Duanmu Shenjiu smiled without saying a word, and reached out to use the car to eat the cannon that Wu Hou had placed next to the Han Boundary of the Chu River.

In addition to Wu Hou's surprise, he picked up his own taxi again, made it fly out of the base camp, crossed the Chu River and Han border, crossed the entire chessboard, and ate Wu Hou's handsome.

Wu Hou said sharply: "Master!

Duanmu Shenjiu smiled faintly and said, "Where is it?"

"Your taxi, you can't go like this!" Wu Hou was not happy.

"Why not?"

"That's the rule. Wu Hou was depressed.

"What's wrong with the rules? I can disobey them. Duanmu Shenjiu said very easily.

"You!

"Huh. Duanmu Shenjiu chuckled: "In the first nine games, I was within the rules and could defeat you, but in this tenth game, I was almost defeated by you." But I don't want to be defeated by you, what should I do? Then I can only ignore the rules of the game and defeat you by any means. ”

Wu Hou was unconvinced, and stubbornly retorted: "It's not right to be unruly, master, you are unruly." ”

"The rules are set by the strong, and the weak can only abide by them, and act within the rules set by the strong. Right and wrong are not certain, what you think is wrong is sometimes right in the eyes of others. If you think something is right, but 10,000 people think it's wrong, then what you think is right becomes wrong. Because you alone are no better than those 10,000 people. ”。

Wu Hou didn't understand the meaning of Duanmu Shenjiu's words, but seeing that the master was serious, he didn't speak again, but was a little angry.

Duanmu Shenjiu ignored him, paused, and continued: "There is no right or wrong in the world, if there are many people who think it is right, it is right, otherwise, it becomes wrong. If you're different from everyone else, you're at fault in the eyes of others. If you want people to agree with you, you have to make your own rules, and what is the premise of making the rules? You are better than those 10,000 people. ”

"You know, no one will take the weak in their eyes, so the weak have no right to speak. You said that you were playing tricks for the teacher, and you could win this last game of chess, but the teacher did not follow the rules and won you. You talk to the teacher about the rules, if the teacher tells you that this is my rule, what can you do?" Duanmu Shenjiu pointed to the taxi he had put in Wu Houshuai's camp, looked at Wu Hou and asked him.

Wu Hou didn't know what to say, and held back for a while and said, "I want to protest, you are unreasonable." ”

Duanmu Shenjiu said with a smile: "Silly boy, the truth is also the rule, you have your reason, I have my reason, then it can only depend on whose fist is hard, whose reason is the reason." ”

The speechless Wu Hou, like a deflated ball, couldn't beat Duanmu Shenjiu, and he couldn't say anything about him, so he simply collapsed in his seat and stopped talking.

Duanmu Shenjiu asked him again: "Do you think what you said for the teacher makes sense?"

Wu Hou pondered for a while and remembered something.

It happened at the station, at the entrance of which there was a beggar, ragged and embarrassed, begging in the crowd. Seeing that he was pitiful, Wu Hou took out two yuan of change on his body and wanted to give it to him, but was stopped by several aunts around him. The aunt didn't let Wu Hou give the beggar change, and they told Wu Hou that the beggar was pretending, deliberately pretending to be pitiful here, winning sympathy, and asking someone to give him change.

Several aunts talked to Wu Hou, and some of them scolded the beggar, saying that he was shameless and even lied to children. The beggar was so frightened by the menacing aunts in front of him that he didn't ask for money, and walked away in disgrace.

Wu Hou felt that this was probably similar to what the master said. He felt pitiful for the beggar and wanted to give him money, but the aunts said that the beggar was pretending to be lying to himself. Wu Hou didn't know if the beggar was pretending to be in the end, but those aunts scared the beggar so much that they didn't want money and left, maybe the beggar was the weak person the master said.

Wu Hou, who was half-aware of Duanmu Shenjiu's words, said uncertainly: "It makes sense." ”

Duanmu Shenjiu laughed a few times, stood up, and said, "I just said a few words, and you shook your mind. ”

Wu Hou didn't understand and asked, "What do you mean?"

"The teacher just gives you a few words about the rules and right and wrong, but these simple words change your original view of things. ”

Wu Hou asked again: "Master, don't you mean so much to change my opinion?"

Duanmu Shenjiu walked a few steps, and then said: "That's right, the teacher is to teach you, so that you can understand that the strong can make rules and break the rules." What one person thinks is right becomes wrong in the eyes of 10,000 people who think it is wrong. ”

"Well, yes. Wu Hou nodded, affirming what Duanmu Shenjiu said.

Duanmu Shenjiu walked to Wu Hou's side, reached out and touched his head and said, "But, silly boy, even if what you say for the teacher makes sense, if you feel that it is wrong, you can't admit that what the teacher said makes sense, and you can't compromise." You also have to understand two words, persistence. ”

Wu Hou frowned and thought for a while, and became distressed, not knowing what Duanmu Shenjiu meant.

Duanmu Shenjiu walked outside the door, stood with his hands in his hands, looked at the vast mountain, and said with some meaning: "Even if everyone thinks you are wrong, if you think you are right, then stick to your own ideas." They are strong and can make rules, restrain you, and run you, but you can become stronger and in turn suppress them and make them follow the rules you set. ”

Speaking of this, he turned his head to look at Wu Hou, who had just stepped out of the threshold, and said: "The heart is greater than any truth in the world, because the heart is your own reason and your own rules." If one day, your heart is different from everyone else's, then you must also abide by your heart, because this is also your way. ”

Wu Hou nodded as if he didn't understand, without words, he looked at Duanmu Shenjiu, who turned around and walked forward, and quietly followed.

The master and apprentice walked around, admiring the beautiful flowers along the way, butterflies flying among the flowers, and a few chickadees chirping around.

After walking for a while, Duanmu Shenjiu asked softly, "Eighteen years old, right?"

Wu Hou replied: "Well, it's eighteen, and I'm going to go to college when school starts again." ”

"Far away?"

"It's a little far away, and then you can only go home during the Spring Festival every year. "Speaking of this, Wu Hou is a little sad.

Duanmu Shenjiu was silent for a while, and then said: "After a few years of idle clouds and wild cranes, I am tired of being a teacher, and when you start school, I will go to the outside world with you to see it, and I don't know what the world is like now." ”

Wu Hou was overjoyed and asked loudly, "Really?"

Duanmu Shenjiu glanced at Wu Hou and said, "What are you lying about." ”

Then he turned his head and continued walking, and continued: "You can't find the beauty picture you found for the teacher, so can't you go out for the teacher himself?"

"Yes, master, you can come with me to the place where I went to college, and we will rent a house there and live together. Wu Hou cheered.

Duanmu Shenjiu shook his head, took out his mobile phone from his pocket, handed it to Wu Hou and said, "Your grandparents must miss you very much, go back, by the way, help the teacher charge this thing, and every time you have to carefully sneak into someone else's house to charge it, it makes me feel aggrieved." ”

Wu Hou laughed and promised, "Okay, I'll send it to you tomorrow after charging it." ”

"Well, go ahead, let the White Tiger send you. Duanmu Shenjiu waved his hand.

Wu Hou ran back to the thatched hut at the top of the mountain, left the things for Duanmu Shenjiu, then picked up the rest of the backpack, went out and whistled, and called back the white tiger who had run into the distance.

The white tiger came to the front and back, and Wu Hou turned over and rode on the back of the white tiger.

Wu Hou sat high on it and ordered, "Send me to my grandmother's house." ”

The white tiger let out a long roar, jumped five or six meters, ran wildly down the mountain, and continued to move forward after coming down the mountain, obviously already familiar with the route to Wuhou's grandmother's house.

In the past few years, when Wu Hou returned to his grandmother's house from the mountain, if he didn't want to walk, he would ride the white tiger and let it send him back. The white tiger rarely went down the mountain to run, and only after getting the permission of Duanmu Shenjiu did he leave Pinghuang Mountain with Wu Hou. However, it pays attention to its surroundings along the way, and if it sees a mountain folk hunting in the mountains, it will take a detour with Wu Hou to avoid unnecessary trouble after being seen.

The White Tiger has a good memory, and the few predators it met a few years ago made it wary of strangers. Especially the glass tube-like thing that made it sleepy for a long time is still fresh in its memory, so now it will never easily appear in front of humans, especially humans with shotguns.

In order to make it easier for him to call, Wu Hou once gave Baihu a name, but within two days of calling, after being heard by Duanmu Shenjiu, he was reprimanded. Duanmu Shenjiu didn't let Wu Hou name the white tiger, he said that the white tiger was the white tiger, what name did he want. Wu Hou had no choice but to give up, and later every time he called the white tiger, he chose to whistle. The white tiger knows the sound, and Wu Hou's whistling sound, it can hear it, so Wu Hou doesn't have to worry about it being called by other people's whistling.

The white tiger carried Wu Hou, at first running, but then the speed slowly slowed down, changed to the speed of a leisurely stroll, and slowly moved forward. They chatted a few words occasionally, saying that it was chatting, but in fact, it was Wu Hou talking to himself, and then the white tiger snorted a few times, or nodded his head, or shook his head.

In this way, one man and one tiger, on the mountain path, facing the sun that is about to set, slowly moving forward, the shadow is pulled out by the evening sunset.