Chapter 147 Ma Chuanshan Trail Chrysanthemum Yellow
What Xu Guangling planned to teach Xu Tonghui this time was no longer secret techniques, but "miscellaneous knowledge."
What is miscellaneous studies? All projects that have nothing to do with one's own major are miscellaneous studies. For practitioners in this world, those who are not cultivating are miscellaneous studies.
After thinking about it, the first thing Xu Guangling taught Xu Tonghui was chess.
In previous lives, there were many types of chess skills, and the one that often appeared side by side with chess was actually Go.
However, Go is about yin and yang. To put it more seriously, it is about chaos. If we draw parallels, it is related to the "Tao Te Ching" in the article.
If you just learn chess, there is no difference between chess and Go. They are both things that children can learn.
But if you want to understand or feel something from the chess skills, then for a practitioner of Xu Tonghui's level, Go is far inferior to chess.
The seven pieces of chess include chariots, horses, artillery and pawns (soldiers) for attack, elephants (xiang) and soldiers for defense, and generals (marshals) for defending the camp.
The general can be made the governor of this life.
Xu Tonghui didn't recognize the higher ones.
Under Xu Guangling's command, Xu Tonghui returned to carpentry, cutting and carving some small pieces, which were no different from the chess pieces in his previous life. Then Xu Guangling asked him to carve two words on the first small piece of wood, "Prefecture"
"Keep".
With the governor, there are "stewards" (shi) and "guards" (xiang).
Then it was the turn of the chariots, horses and artillery.
In my previous life, there was an interesting saying about pawns, "Life is a chess game, and I am willing to be a pawn. Although I move slowly, who has ever seen me take a step back?"
It sounds nice, but in fact it is limited by the rules.
Pawn can only advance, not retreat.
Moreover, progress can only be made further. The so-called following the rules is limited everywhere.
On the chessboard, although there are many situations where one pawn determines the outcome, more often than not, pawns are just cannon fodder.
Therefore, the pawn is designated as "Condensing Qi".
Xu Tonghui has just escaped from this level.
Then, the gun is designated as "opening the meridians", and the horse is designated as "opening the mind".
In fact, on the chessboard, artillery and horse are indistinguishable. Artillery beats knight in the beginning and knight beats artillery in the end game, but it doesn't matter. They follow different rules of chess.
Finally, it’s the turn of the most important chess piece, the “rook”.
It’s cold without a car.
From a country's perspective, this is a national artifact, similar to the nuclear weapons of previous generations.
Therefore, in the setting, the car is not a higher level "air entrainment", but directly designated as an "earth level".
If the chess pieces are carved well, so will the chessboard.
Although Xu Tonghui still didn't understand its meaning, looking at the small wooden blocks engraved with the words "Condensing Qi", "Tongmai", "Opening the Aperture" and "Earth Level", as a cultivator, he was already thinking in his heart
An instinctive excitement arose.
"Uncle Xu, come on, come on."
Xu Guangling directed Xu Tonghui to sit across from him, and then between the two of them, the chessboard was in place and the chess pieces were arranged.
In this life, there is no chess, and of course there is no word "chess". Xu Guangling simply doesn't introduce what it is and just does it!
The rules were simply explained, and then the two of them started playing chess.
The rules of chess are actually very simple, and with Xu Tonghui's current mind, remembering these small rules is simply overkill, so even though it was his first time playing this thing, he was still quite eager to try it, and really wanted to compete with his opponent, so that the young master
Look, I also have two brushes.
Of course, facts quickly taught him how to behave.
Xu Guangling didn't bully him too much. He just quit after ten games.
Although he was defeated ten times in ten battles, and the defeat was very disastrous, Xu Tonghui was still in high spirits.
Xu Guangling was not interested in playing with a rookie, so he just said to him: "Uncle Xu, you can get other people to play. Well, this is just a gadget. You can teach it to anyone."
The first person Xu Tonghui taught was Tian Hao.
Tian Hao had just returned from Tongfu Tower. Before he could take a breath, Xu Tonghui pulled him to sit in front of the chessboard.
Xu Tonghui is very smart, and Tian Hao is not a vegetarian. If you exclude the factor of cultivation, and seriously speaking, Xu Tonghui is probably not good enough in front of Tian Hao.
Then, watching the two novices pecking each other from a distance, Xu Guangling shook his head and smiled.
In the afternoon, the two of them played chess until they were cooking, and in the evening, after exercising at night, the two actually stayed up late to play for a long time.
That energy.
It's like a little boy just getting a fun toy.
It's like a little girl just received a whole box of clothes and jewelry.
Xu Tonghui is now very popular in the city, and his schedule has long been filled with invitations from all over. And within a few days, this new gadget has become almost popular throughout the county.
Sheriff's Mansion.
The county governor Xu Yishan played chess with Xu Tonghui and the steward Xue Shou.
Xue Shouyi played chess with his men again.
Soon, even the little maids in the mansion started to play this game.
Tongfu Tower.
Tian Hao brought this game to Tongfu Tower.
It didn't take long for everyone in Tongfu Tower to play this game.
The entry barrier to chess is not high.
In other words, there is no threshold at all. As far as getting started, the difficulty of getting started with chess is not much higher than that of backgammon.
From Tian Hao to the chef, from the chef to the cook, from the cook to the helper, from the helper to the customer, very quickly, this scene appeared in many Tongfulou stores in the county and city:
"Can't we throw this Qi Condensation away?"
"Open the meridians, hit, hit it!"
"Lie...I lie down in a big trough. Can I be suffocated to death on the ground level?"
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Juxing Tower.
Not to mention this Sihaimen is a place specially used to attract cultivators and gather guests for activities.
They can be as young as a few-year-old kid who followed their elders here, or as old as those senior executives or elders of Sihaimen, who are at least a hundred years old. They are either sitting opposite each other, or in groups of three or five, or in twos.
There was a big circle around the opposite seats...
They are all playing chess.
This new thing suddenly appeared in the county town of Annan County, and as soon as it appeared, it started spreading like a virus like a virus.
Almost everyone has tap water.
The reputation is so good that it explodes.
Of course, some weak controversies also emerge in endlessly:
"Condensing Qi... Condensing Qi is not that weak, right?"
Most of those who said this were Qi Ning practitioners, some were still young, some were already white-haired Xiao Ran, especially those of the old generation, who were quite unhappy, "I think this is unreasonable, Ning Qi... is so miserable!"
It's as if I feel the same way.
The Qi Condensation (pawn) has difficulty moving on the chessboard, and any of the opponent's chess pieces can be easily destroyed. This really makes those Qi Condensation cultivators uncomfortable.
Of course, this discomfort will not affect their love of chess.
And their game instinctively deviates a little from the previous life on earth, that is, they pay special attention to condensing qi, and they are not willing to let go of any one of the five condensing qi.
There are also people who are more skinny.
That is, as soon as the chess game begins, the player who takes the lead will continuously use Tongmai (cannon) to hit the opponent's Kaiqiao (horse), which is regarded as an exchange of cannons and horses.
Then, the game is over.
"Hey, why did I lose?!!!"
"This doesn't make sense!"
"If you exchange your meridians for enlightenment, you will definitely make a lot of money!"
Many enlightened cultivators were silent and thoughtful about this situation.
On that day, Xu Yishan lightly picked up the chess piece with the word "prefect" engraved on it and asked Xu Tonghui with a smile: "Tonghui, as a county guard, I can only move within this small frame? Can't I get out?"
This question actually stumped Xu Tonghui for a while.
However, the current Xu Tonghui is not the same Xu Tonghui in Qingshui City a few months ago. Just paying attention to the chessboard, Xu Tonghui quickly responded: "Senior brother, you are the county guard, and you are also the ground leader."
And this answer actually caused Xu Yishan to fall into silence for a moment.