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North Gate Yunfei, ancestral home in Lincang, Yunnan. His father, Beimen Shihui, was a Malaysian overseas Chinese, mainly engaged in cross-border commerce. He often travels between Kuala Lumpur and Kunming because of the customs clearance and tax-related procedures for the import and export of goods, and has more or less contact and dealings with the Yamen Governors of the Qing Dynasty in Yunnan.

"In addition to business, my father's biggest hobby in his life was to like Go. once lamented nonsense about Go:

Between the little squares,

There is actually a hidden one

Like the vastness of the universe

A world of great profundity and mystery.

There is no mud and stone here,

But there are thousands of roads crisscrossing them;

There is no sword and sword shadow flesh and blood flying,

But there is a tearing and killing battle between life and death;

There are no ruins,

but there are ruined cities and gains and losses;

There are no yin and yang worlds,

But there are countless cycles of life and death.

black and white,

It's unpredictable again.

Every step that a fool can take

There are endless mysteries.

The master of the master has a hand gluten point to rob and kill,

There will inevitably be gains and losses;

Mortal fools fly and hang up and jump,

Maybe it's to crack the secret key.

A clever trick,

Nobody

The universe rotates and shifts,

The willows and flowers are bright;

half-eye difference,

Dial the mountain hero,

Throw away the armor,

The soul is broken.

What a wonderful world,

Philistines look at it

Competitive entertainment;

The wise say it is

An impenetrable labyrinth. ”

Beimen Yunfei said, "My father's obsession with Go sometimes not only forgets to sleep and eat, but also when he fights with others, he can even put all family affairs and business behind and focus on the chess game. ”

"Your father has a lot of taste for my eldest brother. When my eldest brother played a game of Go with others, he didn't distinguish between victory and defeat, and he didn't think about tea and dinner, and fought day and night. Deng Yanling said.

So later, after my father and Lord Deng met by chance, they hit it off at first sight and became very close chess friends. Beimen Yunfei continued, "Once, the two of them drank high on the wine table, and on a whim, as soon as they were happy, they married me and Zishan, wanting to marry Qin and Jin. This was five years ago, when I was 20 years old and studying in Japan. Although I have been in a private school since I was a child, I have been influenced by the formal way of Confucius and Mencius, the constraints of the Eight Strands of Literature and the teachings of Confucianism, and I know that the king is the minister and the father is the son, and I cannot disobey my father's orders. However, when I became an adult, I often traveled with my father to Hong Kong and Macao, went to the South Seas, and traveled to Western European countries, where I was exposed to the humanistic and constitutional democratic culture of foreign countries, and I had some independent thinking and a sense of rebellion against tradition. I haven't met Zishan, I don't know what her appearance is, what her interests and hobbies are, plus I am obsessed with martial arts, I have no distractions, and I have no interest in starting a family, nor am I mentally prepared. I only think that my father is for business, and I am dissatisfied and disgusted with my marriage. I'm sorry, Zishan, I was like that, please forgive me!"

"It's nothing, I was the same at the time, and when I heard that my father had betrothed me to a strange man, I was reluctant to do so. Deng Zishan said. "But I won't and don't want to resist, I never dare to expect to meet a man I like in this life, because since ancient times, whether it is an official eunuch or a common people's family, who is a child, who does not follow the orders of his parents and start a family?

At this moment, Deng Zishan couldn't help but think of the first time her father mentioned to her mother about her marriage with Beimen Yunfei after returning home---