In early autumn, the sky is clear and the clouds are clear. The sunshine in the afternoon carries this hot feeling.
In the living room, an old man and a young man sit facing each other next to the sofa, both leaning slightly, frowning and thinking.
There is a square wooden table placed between the two of them, and there are more than a dozen chess pieces scattered on the vertical and horizontal chessboard. The chess game has reached the late stage, and if either party is slightly careless, the victory or defeat of the black and red sides in this chess game will also depend on it.
It became a foregone conclusion.
It's just that this old man didn't know that the young man playing against him had beaten him several moves since the beginning.
Poor Xu Zhengyang, this game of chess is very tiring. Not only must he play step by step steadily, but he must also give in three or two moves without being noticed. In the end, the old man will win. This is too exhausting." Now Xu Zhengyang already knows
, it can be said that my chess skills have improved by leaps and bounds as early as the last time I played chess with the old man. I am no longer the stupid young man I once was, rushing and fighting like a desperate Saburo.
Xu Zhengyang looks like he is frowning and thinking deeply. In fact, he is thinking narcissistically: Look at the next five moves after one move, the layout is good. I have the winning or losing ticket in my hand. This shows that I can still be called wise in this game of chess.
;Although in real life, sincerity and tact do not go hand in hand.
The old man didn't know that Xu Zhengyang could defeat him easily.
, Zheng Xi Bi Bei
Last time, he unexpectedly played chess with Xu Zhengyang. The old man thought it was because he was careless and underestimated the enemy. He didn't take Xu Zhengyang too seriously at that time and played chess while chatting, so he let Xu Zhengyang pick up the slack.
It can be seen from this that people cannot accept old age.
The victory of this game of chess has basically been sealed. The old man straightened up his slightly bent body and leaned back on the sofa. With a smile on his wrinkled face, he looked at Xu Zhengyang, who was frowning and thinking hard for a solution.
Suddenly, the old man said calmly: "If you don't have long-term worries, you must have immediate worries."
"Yeah." Xu Zhengyang raised his head slightly, looked at the old man with a naive smile, then lowered his head and continued to frown and think hard.
"The matter at Jingniang Lake is a bit over the top."
Xu Zhengyang straightened up, looked at the scattered chess pieces on the chessboard, and said with a little regret and helplessness: "We lost, alas." He sighed. It seemed that he remembered the old man's words, and said with a smile: "Grandpa, you can't be
Are you angry that I indirectly borrowed your old prestige and bullied others?"
The old man smiled and shook his head.
"I'm very lucky. I got to know Bingjie. I got to know you, so senior officials like Director Pang are willing to help me, and I can act like a bully outside." Xu Zhengyang scratched his head in embarrassment, "
Am I too greedy for money?"
"Greedy is human nature." The old man said with a smile: "As for a person like Qingfu, you can be considered courageous if you can extort money from him."
"Ahem.
Xu Zhengyang looked even more embarrassed, "It will inevitably make people think that I am taking advantage of your reputation to discredit you."
The old man picked up the purple clay pot that was placed on the wide edge of the sofa. He took a few sips of tea and said calmly: "Those are small things, nothing to be ashamed of."
"Oh." Shou Zhengyang pretended to be confused.
"You didn't know what happened next?" the old man asked with a smile. Obviously, he had the answer in his heart.
Xu Zhengyang smiled naively and said: "I really admire the police in our city. Why don't I just say hello to Director Pang, but they arrested Deng Qingfu and the others so quickly? I feel embarrassed. It seems that it wasn't because of Deng Qingfu and the others."
It was a violation of the law, but because you provoked me, for your sake. Director Pang ordered this to be done to vent my anger."
The old man was amused by Xu Zhengyang's duplicity, but he was not angry at all. He said: "Stop being so glib. The one who vents your anger is not Pang Zhong, but that one?"
Xu Zhengyang stopped pretending to be stupid. He scratched his head and said, "Actually, you don't want to vent your anger on me. As the old saying goes, you can't live without your own misfortune. Deng Qingfu and the others have done a lot of bad things. God is watching, no, retribution is coming."
The old man leaned on the sofa and closed his eyes to rest a little tiredly.
Xu Zhengyang stopped talking and stretched out his hand to arrange the red and black chess pieces one by one.
He knew that the old man finally believed that Xu Zhengyang did not possess any extraordinary powers, but that behind him, there was indeed a person who should not exist in reality and should only appear in legends.
god.
"Tell it!" The old man suddenly opened his eyes. His divine light was shining brightly, exuding a fierce and domineering aura. "There is no need for the existence of gods in this world."
"Why?" Xu Zhengyang was still leaning over and playing with the chess pieces, but he just raised his head and looked at the old man with a calm expression and asked.
"I told you."
"Oh." Xu Zhengyang lowered his eyelids and said softly: "But there are many people who need the existence of God."
"Like you?"
"It's not just me."
The old man took a deep breath, squinted his eyes and said: "The so-called gods should be above the nine heavens, not involved in the mortal world, and not disturbing the people with ghosts and gods." If many things in historical records are true, then the power of ghosts and gods
The ultimate result of interfering with worldly affairs can only be human war, devastation of life, and rivers of blood."
"It's not that serious?" Xu Zhengyang smiled and said, "Actually, this matter is also my fault. Originally, it didn't want to interfere in human affairs, it was just spoiling me."
"Admit it?"
Xu Zhengyang looked embarrassed and said awkwardly: "I haven't done anything bad, and I don't want to be the king. I'm an honest person. I just don't see things that I can't bear to see, so I just want to do good people and good deeds."
"Any more?"
Xu Zhengyang gritted his teeth, looked at the old man with a serious expression, and said: "Grandpa, don't mind if you say it. Another reason is that since I have such luck and support, why don't I get rich quickly? Anyway, I'll get there anyway.
The status of Shi and Bingjie. The status of your family, please get closer."
"Yes." The old man nodded, with no expression on his face, and a hint of displeasure flashed in his half-closed eyes.
The old man was stunned and did not answer Xu Zhengyang's question. Instead, he said: "Your life is very good now. You don't need the existence of a god. Tell it where you came from and where you are going back."
"Oh." Xu Zhengyang nodded and said, "Grandpa, let me ask you a question."
"Um."
"If one day you could be a god, would you be willing to preside over justice among people?"
The old man smiled and shook his head and said, "There is something called law in this world."
Xu Zhengyang said with a serious expression: "Grandpa, you probably haven't thought about it. In fact, in the minds of many civilians, people like you and some of the great figures who have been in this world and are still there today are all god-like existences.
"At least, people think that people like you are omnipotent."
The old man was not humble, but nodded. Expressing his understanding of Xu Zhengyang's words, he said lightly: "So, in addition to looking at the overall situation, I won't personally care about the following things, and I can't worry about it."
If these words were published or made news in the media, I wonder if people would go crazy.
"Does this count as seeing through?"
The old man nodded slightly.
"I haven't seen it through yet.
"Xu Zhengyang said honestly.
The old man said: "So you have to stop and think carefully, don't go to a dead end."
"I think it's a bit extreme?"
"If you continue like this, you will stand on the opposite side of all mankind." The old man's tone was much more stern. "You are a smart man. You should be able to think that in fact, everyone is unwilling to be exposed in front of anyone or anything.
Something to hide,"
Xu Zhengyang remained silent.
The old man didn't seem to want to be silent. His tone softened a lot and he said calmly: "Just be yourself. Human beings are the most prone to self-contradiction."
"People will perish in selfishness, both big selfishness and small selfishness." Xu Zhengyang seemed a little unwilling and muttered in a complaining tone.
The old man's narrowed eyes opened, revealing doubts and a trace of hesitation for the first time.
"Grandpa, people all over the world want to live a happy life, but they always have a selfish mentality and base their happy life on the painful life of others. It's like a vicious circle, leading to
The only thing we can do is not be happy in the end and suffer disaster, you think, right?"
These words are indeed more serious and involve a much higher level. However, with Xu Zhengyang’s background, knowledge, and self-understanding, he would not use his words and vocabulary in such a high-profile manner.
The old man naturally understood what he heard. After being silent for a long time, he finally nodded in recognition and said, "You don't have the ability to change this, even if there is a god standing behind you." Maybe in the end, all he attracted was
In the face of catastrophe, human life is very fragile."
"But since there is God, there is also the underworld. The human soul can be reincarnated."
"According to legend, before reincarnation, people will drink Mengpo soup and forget all the memories of their previous lives. There is no big difference from the death that humans currently know."
"That's why people are reluctant to die and are afraid of death."
The old man smiled and nodded: "People who don't care about life and death are stupid people."
"Then someone who doesn't care about the life or death of others is a smart person?"
"In most cases, that's true."
Xu Zhengyang said: "If you were given the ability to judge ghosts, well, I mean, you could always be the judge or king of hell in the legendary underworld, would you punish the evil ghosts and make them regret that they had been alive?
What did he do?"
"For humans, that means nothing."
"But if people know and believe that there will be judgment in the underworld after death, it will make sense."
"Maybe." The old man thought thoughtfully.
"I remember reading in a book that an ancient emperor once said, "To unite the gods of the city to make people know how to fear them.
It is a blessing and a disaster. You Mingju will not be spared
The old man nodded and said: "In the feudal era, the emperors used this to consolidate the dynasty's outline and frighten the people's minds not to be in chaos, so that the dynasty would last forever."
"I think it is good for people to take something and not take something, at least from a certain moral level."
"Humanity is making progress, not retreating."
Xu Zhengyang lowered his head and said in a daze: "Maybe."
"Zhengyang, you know what you told me today is very dangerous." The old man paused and smiled peacefully: "It's very dangerous."
"Yes." Xu Zhengyang nodded and said seriously: "I know you are doing it for my own good. You don't have to worry. I just want to be a good person. I have no other wrong thoughts."
The old man seemed a little tired, his eyelids drooped. He said slightly tiredly: "It's better to take care of yourself."
Xu Zhengyang smiled, as if he didn't want to discuss this topic anymore, and said, "Grandpa, how about we play a game of chess in a different way?"
"Huh?" The old man smiled and said, "How?"
"I don't use chariots, horses and artillery, I only use five pawns, generals, and ministers." Xu Zhengyang said with a smile: "But there is a condition. I can take two steps at a time, whether it is one piece or two pieces, well
, these two steps still follow the rules of chess pieces, cough, but there is one condition, I go first."
The old man thought for a moment. He seemed very interested and nodded: "Okay."
So Xu Zhengyang picked out the red ones in front of him one by one, except for the "pawns" and the "commanders and ministers", and placed them on one side.
The old man looked at his red chess piece, then at the obviously much empty half of the chessboard in front of Xu Zhengyang, and said with a smile: "Let's begin."
Xu Zhengyang nodded. Using both hands, the two pawns took a step forward at the same time.
A very strange chess game began.
The old man sets up a cannon.
A pawn killed him.
A pawn was killed.
Bi., Shi Bibei
Two more pawns took another step at the same time.
Set up another cannon.
A pawn stood sideways in the way, filled with murderous intent.
Although the four pawns couldn't take a big step, their offensive was extremely fierce. They were each other's horns and fought against each other. They didn't even have a chance to fight for each other.
After a while, after black lost two more pawns, red's side was completely defeated.
The two black pawns, like invincible warriors who were not afraid of death, rushed into the hinterland of the red chess team, forcing the red commander to die among the guards of his own warriors, horses and rooks, unable to do anything.
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The old man frowned and looked at the chessboard with confusion and confusion.
In addition to the different factors of chess playing, Xu Zhengyang's personal ability in playing chess is of course also the key to victory.
However, at this time, Xu Zhengyang no longer had the profound thoughts that he had when he first suggested playing this game of chess. Instead, he easily thought of a picture and the letters on it. It was very interesting and fun. It was read online.
Been there.
It was a picture of the ending of a residual chess game, and the chess game above was very similar to the chess game in front of me.
The subtitles on the side show: At this time, what's the use of being handsome? What's the use of having a car? What's the point of having a horse? Shouldn't we still let the pawns be beaten to death?
In fact, Xu Zhengyang’s original intention was:
A pawn, as long as he has the ability to take one step, does not need any chariots, horses and artillery to back him up. As people often say, when a pawn crosses the river, it will be great.
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I bow to thank all the leaders who gave the reward. Of course, there is no reward. As long as the leaders and comrades subscribe to the official version of the clergy, I am also a sincerely grateful reader. I am God. If