Wang Xinghui slowly watched the scene inside, only to see that there were more than ten stools in it, and a group of people were sitting in the dark, some were smoking cigarette pouches, some were lowering their heads and wiping their pistols, and there was a square table in the middle, with a few incense sticks burning on the table, and a sign, I don't know who it is. A man in a robe offered incense, bowed four times, and then retreated to his place, while another man unbuttoned his shirt and bare his chest lit incense and prayed silently. Wang Xinghui took a closer look, and sure enough, most of them had the square black cloth on their collars, some with sharp corners pointing upward, some with flat bottoms facing upward, and some with a cross sewn in the middle.

After everyone finished the incense, these people began to talk about it, bustling, some shaking their heads, some choking, as if they were regretting something. Wang Xinghui didn't want to get involved in the internal affairs of their gang, he just wanted to leave immediately after passing the word, so he asked someone nearby: "Excuse me, which one is the shopkeeper of Tianshun Pharmacy?" The man was talking to the person next to him about something, and when he saw him interrupting, he glanced at him, pointed to a short and concise old man on the side of the mourning hall and said, "That is." ”

Wang Xinghui had no choice but to go over step by step, walked into the old man's ear, and said, "Lu Jianbo asked me to spread the word, Brother Pao will have a traitor." ”

The old man was stunned, looked at him, and asked, "What about the others? Why didn't he come himself?"

Wang Xinghui suddenly became very angry, and said in a good voice: "He is dead." ”

The old man was stunned again, and then said, "Okay, okay, I know," and then asked Wang Xinghui to sit down and ignore him.

After everyone talked for a while, the old man walked to the side of the spiritual seat and said loudly: "Brothers, okay, okay, Mr. Sun is gone, the country has lost the Optimus Pillar, we are also very sad, but this is divided into two ends, since Cao Kun, Duan Qirui and others are not mourning, they tried to conceal the news of Mr. Sun's death, their hearts are already clear, hehe, democracy is not easy to come by, the Republic of China is not easy to come by, someone wants to follow the old path of the Qing court, and they want to beat us back to our original form and be slaves!" Hehe, I'm just afraid to ask us if the 100,000 robes in Hunan and Jiangxi provinces disagree!

Everyone replied in unison: "No!

A sharp voice shouted in a strange voice: "Mother Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu has been a carbon well since the sixth year of Guangxu, has been a slave for 50 years, digging coal for the master, only one bite to eat, no one gives me wages, Lao Tzu doesn't know what the democratic Republic of China is, Lao Tzu only knows, after Brother Pao came, Lao Tzu had a salary, married his mother-in-law, and divided the land, who wants me to live back to the old days, our brothers in Baiyuan Mine are the first not to work with him to the end!"

"Yes, if you don't agree, neither will we. "The iron guys of our ironworks don't agree either!"

The short old man raised his hand and pressed it, signaling everyone not to make noise, and then said: "Brothers, naturally, they don't agree, but as the saying goes, people don't go without a head, and a snake can't go without a head. ”

"What else is the leader, where is the mountain on the border of Hunan and Jiangxi, don't they all listen to Liu Daoyi's orders, his old man is the head!" someone answered.

"Yes, he's the old man, and we'll do whatever he wants us to do! ”

"Liu Daoyi led our group of mud-legged people, occupied the mountain as the king, turned over and became the master, this is known to everyone, which mountain dares not to listen to him, I He Lao Terrier will give him two Western pills first!" Wang Xing will recognize the voice, it is the strange voice, and he thought, it turns out that this person is He Lao Terrier of Baiyuan Mine.

The short old man said again: "That's, that's, we naturally have to listen to General Liu Daoyi, but, it's just, eh, our Banzhushan intercepted the news of Mr. Sun's death this time, and told Liu Daoyi first, so that his old man showed his face in front of General Huang Xing, let's announce the world in the head, swear to beg for thieves, this opportunity to raise his arms will not be robbed by gangs in other provinces and cities, three days ago Liu Daoyi passed down the word, to reward us, our Banzhushan can be regarded as showing his face this time!"

Everyone said one after another: "Exactly, exactly!" "We finally raised our eyebrows." "Those hillbillies in Makufu Mountain and Jiuzhi Mountain always boast about themselves, saying that there are many of them, what is the use of having more people, which is like us, clever and clever, and has made great contributions. ”

"I'm afraid that this matter will spread all over the world, alas, I tell you, a few days ago I passed by Hengyang, and the old watch spread all over the streets and alleys, and I rested in the teahouse. ”

Everyone, you say a word, I say a word, the spirit is lifted, the face is happy, and the sadness of the right talent is swept away in an instant.

When Wang Xinghui heard this, he knew that this group of people was a group of green forest heroes who gathered in the mountains and forests on the border of Hunan and Jiangxi, and the Little Knife Club who wanted to come to Lu Jianbo, the Hunan Pao Brothers' Association, and the Tao family's father and daughter's elder brothers' associations were all among the alliances. When he saw that the old man had received such urgent news, he was not in a hurry at all, and he couldn't rest assured, so he went to find the traces of Tao's father and son. Kankan inspected it once, but he didn't see the shadow of the Tao family's father and son.

The short old man saw that everyone didn't know the essentials, and when he thought of one thing, he wanted to say it directly, he blushed slightly, but no one could see it in the dark, he was quiet for a while, and continued: "In the past two years, we have suffered from the cold eyes of others everywhere, you see, these eighteen mountains in Hunan and Jiangxi, which one is not better than us, just say that last time I went to Changsha for a meeting, come on, Gong Duanchang, you said, you went to a meeting last time, you talk about the scene, you tell everyone, how many rows are you sitting in?"

A man with a dark face, like unwashed soot, stood up dejectedly and said, "Yes, I sit in the last row, I can't even see General Huang's face, and even the red light shines on the group of girls, they all sit in front of me!"

The short old man hurriedly answered: "Isn't it? In the past two years, after the death of Captain Zeng, our brothers all seem to be ownerless and lonely souls, every time we go to a meeting, General Huang has always asked someone to give us a message, what to say please let us send someone to participate in the meeting, you look at the people, they have a special messenger, holding General Huang's handwritten secret letter, invite the captain, the leader to participate in the meeting, what about us? But there is not even a leader. The other mountains laughed at us, saying that we were a plate of loose sand, so it was better to go to each hill and go to the entrance of each hill to go to our own future......"

Just as the so-called bystander is clear, Wang Xinghui has already understood the meaning of his words when he hears this, he wants to elect the lord of this mountain, and he himself is the most suitable person to listen to his words; it is a pity that the authorities are confused, and everyone is talking about the great contribution of intercepting important news this time, and no one cares whether there is any other meaning in the short old man's words.

Wang Xinghui didn't feel a little angry, he wanted to lose the news that Lu Jianbo passed before he died, but he didn't expect that two people in a row would not be the same thing, this old man still had the heart to covet the position of captain and alliance leader here, it seems that either they knew the news and took precautions, or Lu Jianbo made a fuss, this news is not worth mentioning.

Wang Xinghui stood up angrily, pushed the door and walked out, no one stopped him, Wang Xinghui walked the day's journey in vain, suddenly lost, crying and laughing down a path in front of the mountain. The path goes straight down along the ridge, on both sides are camellia forests, the old trunk is slanted, the fragrance of flowers is fragrant, at this time it is just the west sun, the sun pours down from the tea trees, shining warmly all around, so uncomfortable.

Wang Xinghui sat in the house for a long time, unconsciously feeling a little tired. opened his mouth and was about to yawn, when suddenly a person in the woods "he-ah-" let out a long howl, just like sitting for a long time to relax the shins, but his long howl was a little louder, full of confidence, like a thunder on the ground, only to startle the birds in the woods.

Then I heard this person say: "Lao Zhang, Lao Zhang, whether you go down or not, you are always so hesitant, how can you lead your brothers in Banzhushan to get ahead in the future, hurry down, hurry down ......." But he did not hear anyone answer.

Wang Xinghui was curious, puzzled, followed the sound and looked at it, only to see that the whole mountain was full of tea trees, but a pine forest on the left side rose to the sky, very majestic. There is a small courtyard in the pine forest, the withered vines are entwined on the door hole, the momentum is like a sleepy dragon, there is a bunch of orchids on both sides, the leaves are tall like phoenix tails, the flowers are gorgeous, they become yellow markings, it is a very rare tiger head orchid. On the door, there is a couplet, the upper couplet reads: for the wood as the pine, and the lower couplet reads: as the grass as the orchid. The plaque reads three words: Tushiyuan.

Wang Xinghui secretly praised in his heart, thinking that there must be a well-educated Confucian or a master outside the world. The door was not closed, he walked in softly, a pair of eyes as big as a copper bell on the right stared at him, this time the contrast was too great, he was startled, it turned out to be an old bull squatting on the ground, chewing the food in the stomach slowly. On the stone bench and stone table next to the cow, there is a monk and a layman, Wang Xinghui will recognize that the monk is the temple that opens the door in this temple, and the person sitting with his back to him is the guy from the Tianshun pharmacy who led him up the mountain.

The two of them were startled when they saw Wang Xinghui, ignored him, and stared at the chess game on the stone table again.

Wang Xinghui has doubts in his heart: this temple Zhu looks not eighty years old but also more than seventy years old, the second year of the shop is similar to Wang Xinghui, only in his twenties, he has already recognized the voice of the shop Xiaoer, just now this old Zhang is clearly not from his mouth, then the "Lao Zhang" shouted in the mouth of the temple Zhu must be someone else, but there is no one else here except the shop Xiaoer and a bull.

I only heard the temple Zhu say again: "I said Lao Zhang, you are grinding, and if you don't fall behind, I have to go back to pack up the incense after they have a meeting." ”

The shopkeeper didn't raise his head and said: "What are you anxious about, this meeting can't be held in three days or five days, you, just play your chess with peace of mind, I'm thinking about a wonderful move, you wait and see." ”

Wang Xinghui smiled dumbly, seeing that the two of them were expressionless, not like a joke, it seems that this temple is indeed calling the shopkeeper Lao Zhang, Wang Xinghui thought: Eighty old men call twenty young people old, things in the world are really strange.

Earlier, when Wang Xinghui and Lao Zhang went all the way up the mountain, Lao Zhang was lazy and lazy, as if he couldn't play the spirit, and he had sneaked out to play chess here at some point.

On the stone table, nineteen vertical and horizontal, dozens of black and white, the two have reached the interval, Lao Zhang has a black spot in his hand, several times he wants to fall and rise, hesitated, and finally saw the middle of the chess game fall, it seems that he is very proud of his move, patted the stone table and smiled: "Wonderful, wonderful, the great monk is careful, I want to take your middle lane, I will give you a stop to cut off, see how you live chess." ”

Miao Zhu really pondered for a long time, Lao Zhang saw that he couldn't solve the method for a long time, the more he thought about it, the more proud he became, looking left and right, just wanting others to witness the excitement of his move. He glanced at Wang Xinghui, and didn't ask who he was, and happily beckoned him to come over: "Come on, big brother, you come to see me This trick is not good, well, you see that I ambushed a strange soldier here earlier, dormant and immovable, and now when he can't save each other, I will immediately go straight to the middle palace, you see, I will smash Huanglong directly before he returns to the army within a few moves." ”

Wang Xinghui approached according to his words, and slowly looked closely, he was not very proficient in chess, but when he was young, he often used blue and red stones with his partners as children, drew the ground as a game, and competed together in his leisure time for fun.

I saw that above the chess game, the game is divided into four corners, "flat, up, going, into" four corners, black and white, evenly matched, vertical ten horizontal nine, each accounting for seven or eight, leaving a blank space in the middle, each side is equal in strength, glued to each other, although the other party has flaws, but a few steps away are killed, so that the opponent throws a mouse taboo, dare not move first.

Lao Zhang couldn't hold back, preemptively chased the Central Plains, he just went down to the "Tianyuan median", and Bai Fang instantly had more than ten sons besieged, but he could still try to save it, so he deliberately chattered non-stop, ostensibly to Wang Xinghui to play chess, but in fact, it was also deliberately disturbing Miaozhu's mind.

After a few more steps, Miao Zhu tried his best to rescue the trapped Baizi, how could the sunspot have been with him, not giving the slightest respite, after several fights, he was raised to the fifth son, he stared at the chess game tightly, and the one in his hand could not fall down.

Lao Zhang took a wine gourd from the horns, took two sips, and pretended to be proud and said: "People say that Yao makes Go, Dan Zhu Shanzhi, hehe, I'm afraid that Zhu Dan is alive, and he may not be able to beat me a lot......"

Wang Xinghui knew that he was completely immersed in the chess game, and what was in front of him at this time was no different from the battlefield where the troops were arranged and the city was trapped.

Suddenly, the corners of Miao Zhu's mouth moved slightly, and the son in his hand fell on the three or nine positions of the flat road, this one avoided the entanglement with the black chess, but it was played next to another piece of white chess on his side, so that the white chess that was surrounded lost a move again, and the situation was even more embarrassing!

Lao Zhang laughed loudly: "What does the big monk mean by this? Isn't it that I was too aggressive in the few moves just now, so that you were disheartened and had the intention of retreating?......" He knew that Miao Zhu was definitely not the meaning of this point, but he couldn't see what his intention was in this step, so he just blindly used words to provoke him, "Hmm, it seems that others are playing chess, and the big monk is superior to others in chess, and he is strategizing and winning thousands of miles away, this move must be a thousand miles away, hiding a killing machine, admire and admire ......"

Wang Xinghui also can't understand the chess surface, but he knows that this son is abrupt, there must be a deep meaning, he studied carefully, suddenly his eyes lit up, remembered that in the last book left by the nameless old man in Chiyu Mountain, I don't know which chapter, which section in a blank space once drew a pair of endgames, although the chess surface is different from the current game There are more than a dozen pieces, but look at the castration of this game of chess, every time it is a rematch with the endgame.

Wang Xinghui felt that it was wonderful, and he couldn't understand the truth, but then looked at the chess surface, and sure enough, he saw that the temple wished a son in the east and a son in the west, as if he couldn't save that piece of white, and he was reluctant to abandon it, and fell into a situation of stagnation. Lao Zhang "only sees a glimpse, not a whole leopard", at this moment he only has the white chess piece trapped in him, and slowly falls into the temple without knowing it.

Seeing that with only one more piece, he could lift more than ten pieces to White, he triumphantly raised his son up the incision, Wang Xinghui saw that he was about to lose, and finally his heart itched and couldn't help but stop him this step, he suddenly said: "Wait a minute, it's wrong, it's wrong." ”

Lao Zhang was stunned and looked at him puzzled: "What's wrong?"

Wang Xing couldn't tell it to his face, so he had to pretend to say: "Oh, I heard what you just said, Yao Shun is playing Go, in my opinion, there must be a mistake!"

Lao Zhang originally thought that Wang Xing would say that he had made a mistake in chess, and was about to reprimand him for talking nonsense, when he suddenly asked this question that had nothing to do with the situation in front of him, he was amused and angry, and he was speechless, and scolded with a smile: "You, okay, brother, don't worry, wait until I win this game and then tell you why Yao Shun is playing Go." ”

Wang Xinghui pretended to talk to himself and said: "Go pays attention to ghosts and gods, it is difficult to distinguish between truth and falsehood, and there are many scheming, Emperor Yao and Emperor Shun are both kind and benevolent people, and they will never create this kind of treacherous play...... Don't you hear that Wei has Fan Ju, Qin has Li Si, loyal as Guan Zhong, treacherous as Buwei, as well as Guiguzi, Su Qin Leyi, and Sun Tzu Bin as the art of war......"

Lao Zhang pushed him away and said: "I don't care if he is false and real, pretending to be a ghost, I just need a real knife and a real gun, and I will capture the flag." He still pressed down the sunspots, and then lifted down more than a dozen whites and put them in the bowl.

Wang Xinghui glanced at Miaozhu, and sure enough, he saw that his brows were slightly proud, but they were hidden very deeply, and it was very imperceptible.

Sure enough, the temple congratulated the east and west, and gave up a piece of white in exchange for the first move. He has to be the first to take the lead, step by step, and he will not allow Lao Zhang to catch up. Lao Zhang gradually lost his support, obviously seeing that the victory was in his hands, at this time the battle situation suddenly took a sharp turn, he was very unwilling, and after a stalemate for more than a dozen days, Lao Zhang's forehead was bruised, and he was already embarrassed.

By the time Miao Zhu's seventy-ninth son entered the seventh or eighth road, he saw that there were only two empty positions for black to land, and he was already bound to lose.

Lao Zhang sighed, threw the chess pieces aside, and said: "That's it, that's it, it's over, it's chasing and intercepting, there is no way out, the soldiers are coming to the city, it's in danger, it's better to surrender!"

Wang Xinghui saw that there was only one step between the chess game in front of him and the endgame he saw, and he didn't have time to think about it, picked up the sunspot, and went up according to the position recorded in the book!

Miaozhu was taken aback, stood up suddenly, glared angrily, and said, "You, you, where do you see this step from!" Wang Xinghui hurriedly bowed his head and retreated, not daring to speak.

Miaozhu stayed for a while and sat down.

Lao Zhang looked at it carefully for a long time, and then found that the chess surface had suddenly changed, and couldn't help but admire: "Oops, this brother is really a wonderful move, oops, amazing, amazing......"

It turned out that this son just now would not save his own side, but he played a son on the road to Sanjiu in the north, and there were three robberies on the chess board. Every place is a life and death calamity, white to save, can only enter the seven or eight roads under the sub, but after the sub first hand is lost, so the cycle, the cycle, the cycle repeatedly, the white son can never be the black son to death, the black son can only continue to repeatedly rob, so the white side can never win, but the black side will never lose, into the land of no return!

Lao Zhang was overjoyed when he saw that he had a situation of not losing or winning, and laughed and said: "Great monk, you are not allowed to rely on this game, we don't know whether we win or lose! You didn't win me, we said before, you can't win me, you ploughing cow, but it's mine!"

Wang Xinghui was angry when he saw Miaozhu, and thought that they had made a big bet, either 120,000 taels of gold, or mansion and land or something. Although he was kind enough to save Lao Zhang's son, he was so tired that Miao Zhu lost the chess game, and he was very uneasy, at this time he saw that the bet was just a ploughing cow, and he was relieved and hurriedly stepped forward to apologize.

Miaozhu sighed and said: "Very good, very good, I don't know your honorable name?" Wang Xinghui didn't answer, Lao Zhang pointed at him and said: "Oh, oh, it's you, I led you up the mountain, your surname, your surname?" He walked with Wang Xinghui all the way, and just now he pulled him to talk about Go for a long time, and now he remembered that it was him.

Wang Xinghui didn't dare to be rude and reported his name. Miao Zhu nodded, with a slight apology on his face, and said: "There were many gaffes just now, please don't be surprised, may I ask the donor, where did you see this move?

Miao Zhu stared at him like a torch, as if to figure out a very important matter, Wang Xinghui didn't dare to lie, so he had to simply say how to find the remains of an old man in a grotto in the southwest, and saw this chess game in his posthumous work, but he didn't know what the old man's surname was, what he looked like before he died, when he died, and what his identity was, so he didn't need to deliberately hide it.

Wang Xinghui asked: "Isn't the great monk Mo known to that senior master, I was about to ask the master to tell me a thing or two." ”

Miao Zhu shook his head: "I don't know who this person's surname is, but about thirty years ago, an old man once told me that only he can crack this game, and after he dies, there will be no such catastrophe in the world. ”

Wang Xinghui and Lao Zhang were amazed. Although Wang Xinghui had glanced at this endgame chess score at that time, when it was just a remnant score written in the corner of the page, without a head or tail, and there was no word to explain it, although he remembered this move in his busy schedule, he didn't know anything else, and was about to listen to this temple blessing in detail.

Miao Zhu sighed and said: "Thirty years ago, I once played a game of chess with this master, at that time I was also lost on this move, the reason why I am holding up today is that the old man who defeated me once told me that he had to save himself to play this move, but he told me to rest assured, saying that with my chess skills, there are few people in the world who are my opponents." He could vouch for the fact that there would never be such a step in the world. ”

He was silent for a while, as if reminiscing about the past, and said slowly: "In this way, the two of you please come to the inner hall to eat and serve tea, and I will talk to you two slowly, and talk about the past that I have pressed on my heart for thirty years." ”

The three of them had a meal in the Jixiang kitchen, the great monk took the futon, tea, lit the incense in front of the Buddha, and lit a pot of charcoal.