Along the road, stands a row of beautiful garden villas.
Shen Mo walked into one of the buildings and opened the courtyard gate with iron railings. Under the vines in the courtyard, a middle-aged man was sitting at a short square table, playing chess alone.
The chess is the original object in the villa, made of wood, the lacquer has been mottled, and the edges are smooth and rounded.
Shen Mo sat down at the other end of the low table and watched the situation on the chessboard.
It's like a life-and-death situation.
He glanced at his father across from him.
In my impression, his father had never played chess, and his daily pastimes were always fixed, such as reading, writing, mountain climbing and golf.
Of course, some pastimes are now out of reach.
The middle-aged man looked at the chess game in front of him and said calmly: "Shen Fei's words, don't take it too seriously, I'm not too old to move in my sixties or seventies, I have hands and feet, and I'm not old enough to rely on my children to take care of me. You don't have to come over here frequently to see me."
Saying that, he looked up at Shen Mo and smiled lightly: "Even if you are sixty or seventy years old, you don't necessarily need someone to take care of you. I heard that there is an old man in your team, is it true?"
Shen Mo sat across the table and replied, "Yes, his name is Cheng Weicai, and he is a teacher in a middle school in Nanjing."
"That's it." Father Shen nodded, lowered his head again, and silently looked at the chessboard in front of him.
The silence continued, and the father and son seemed to have nothing to say.
After a while, Shen Mo said, "I didn't know you could play chess before."
"When I was young, I played with your grandfather." Father Shen picked up a chess piece, put it down again hesitantly, and sighed, "I haven't touched this thing for a long time, it's strange."
Shen Mo looked at it, stretched out his hand to pick up the car, and moved it to the five squares in front of the general, "General."
Father Shen laughed: "I can't do this, my horse is here."
He vaulted a horse and ate Shen Mo's car.
Shen Mo moved the pawn over, "General."
"This is a dead end, it won't work." Father Shen still shook his head, sergeant, and killed the pawn.
Shen Mo jumped off the cannon and landed on the general, "General."
Father Shen was stunned.
Shen Mo said lightly: "One step is dead, two steps are taken, and two steps are dead, three steps are taken. Grandpa taught me before that the way out is to come out."
Father Shen looked at the chessboard for half a minute, then moved back the chess that he had just played, "I made a mistake just now, I will not move."
Shen Mo: "Dad, you can't regret chess."
"It's not really fighting on the battlefield. The father and son are just playing two games. It's not a regret." Father Shen restored the chessboard and retreated to the back of the soldiers. "This time, it should be foolproof."
Shen Mo looked helpless.
However, seeing the few strands of white hair on the temples of my father made me feel a little astringent.
His father was a typical rich boy, dressed in fine clothes and food, graceful and wealthy. Because of the strict family education, he never got into any bad habits, and the old man handled things fairly, and there was no scandal between the brothers vying for the family property. It can be said that half a lifetime is carefree.
Faced with such a situation now, it is not easy to be able to live in peace.
Shen Mo was silent for a while, and said to Father Shen, "I plan to leave in a few days and go north."
"Go north?" Father Shen was stunned and looked up at him, "...Do you want to help Weiwei find her mother?"
Wang Jingxian also went north.
Shen Mo shook his head, "The range is too large, it's too difficult to find someone. We went north to collect puzzles."
"Collecting puzzles..." Father Shen was stunned. "Last time I heard your second uncle say that there are mazes in Wuhan and Zhengzhou, but I don't know if the mazes are still there after so long..."
He said, sighing softly: "Although Shanghai doesn't have a maze, it attracts games because of it. If Game 21 can't be conquered, the base may have to move elsewhere."