Zhang Ke insisted on going, but Xu Si could only fulfill his wish. He thought about how he would not let people around his home see him. He just took Zhang Ke and Xie Wanqing home for dinner yesterday, but today they were together again, so it was not good for others to see him.

Just as night was approaching, the cart was pushed out of the community. The streets were crowded, not less than during the day. The area in the center of Haizhou was not big. It only took twenty minutes to pass from No. 1 Middle School to Shatin. Zhang Ke carried Xu Si. There was no daytime heat. The light of the first moon was very soft, and he felt cold in a single clothes. The bicycle turned into Qingshi Street near Shugang River in Shatin and asked Xu Si: "If all this was demolished, would it be a pity?"

"Why should I remove it?"

"It will be demolished anyway. It is next to the front door. Once the city develops, it will definitely be demolished here."

"It's not a pity for my house to be demolished. It's a pity for demolition here."

In 1994, illegal construction in Shatin was not flooded. Qingshi Street faced the river and the other side was flying eaves. There was a wooden pier bridge on Shugang River. However, the flowing water of Shugang River was stained with the wastewater discharged from the Xinguang Paper Factory. It was very unscenery and had a pungent smell. There was a Taoist temple at the north end of Qingshi Street. The thousand-year-old green apricots in the view poked their branches and leaves out of the courtyard wall, covering most of the stone streets, but in recent years, they have been a little yellow.

Xu Si was at his doorstep and did not dare to walk too intimately with Zhang Ke. He was behind him and didn't know what he insisted on coming here to do. However, from joining the office with him to the official establishment of Haitai Trading Company, in just over a month, too many unexpected things happened, so he got used to his strange actions.

There was a tavern in front of it, with an old-style cloth signboard. Zhang Ke looked inside. The 20-square-meter-sized place, with blue bricks on all sides, and no powder. There were wine jars in the corners of the wall, pressing the red cloth cover. It was made of beige and yellow wine in Haizhou. There were various white wine and beer on the wine cabinet on the thick white wood counter. There were not many people in the tavern. There were a middle-aged man wearing a double-breasted old cloth shirt sitting on the east wall. Zhang Ke knew Xu Hongbo, who founded the Haizhou Chess Academy, and the godfather of the Go in the folk in Haizhou.

He was drinking white wine, and there was a plate of salted broad beans and a plate of old vinegar peanuts on the table. Seeing him holding his thumb and pinching a bowl with his middle finger, he seemed to be writing big words.

Unexpectedly, Zhang Ke was a little surprised when he met Xu Hongbo here. He remembered that Xu Hongbo lived nearby, and the Haizhou Chess Academy, which was founded early in the morning, was the east wing room of the Taoist temple.

"Zhang Ke, why are you here to play?" Xu Si's father Xu Haishan and another desolate man played chess on the table on the left side of the door.

Zhang Ke was stunned for a moment, looked back at Xu Si's face with a guilty blush, and said, "Sister Xu Si said she would give me homework today. I have only been in school for a few days and I have no homework to tutor, so I pestered her to take me here to play."

I thought I was using tutoring lessons at Xu Si’s house yesterday, but I used it today.

"This girl is serious about doing things," Xu Haishantou looked out before seeing his daughter. He called Zhang Ke in and sat down and said to the man who played chess with him, "Old Chen, this is the student taught by Xu Si and the cousin of the female boss of Xu Si Company. Please help make a pot of tea." He deliberately said the word "female". Since yesterday, Zhang Ke and Xie Wanqing led Zhitong to have dinner, Xu Haishan has put down the burden that was pressing on his heart, and he was in the mood to go to the neighbors to visit his neighbors at night.

The man was the owner of the shop. He looked up at Zhang Ke, moved the bench beside him and asked Zhang Ke to sit down. He went to the counter to make tea. Zhang Ke sat down openly, and the endgame was happening on the chessboard, and neither side missed the trick. Zhang Ke smiled and said, "Uncle Xu, your chess is very good."

"You didn't watch them play, how do you know that their chess is bad? I don't know Uncle Chen's chess, but my dad is a bad chess..." Xu Si walked in, greeted the owner, and nodded to Xu Hongbo again: "Teacher Xu."

Seeing that Xu Si and Xu Hongbo met, Zhang Ke felt it was convenient to talk to him and said, "Teacher Xu can see that it's so bad after seeing this endgame."

"You are not talking lightly or seriously, can you compare with Teacher Xu?" Xu Si pushed him.

"Do you recognize me?" Xu Hongbo attracted Zhang Ke's words and looked over.

"I learned chess for a summer vacation with Teacher Xu in the Cultural Palace when I was in elementary school."

Xu Hongbo thought about it, but had no impression, and said to the owner: "Has water leaked in your wine?" The owner said: "You are going to smash my pub!"

Xu Hongbo smiled, stood up and said to Zhang Ge, "Look at what I have taught you before?"

"Let's go on the endgame."

Xu Hongbo took a look at the chess game and was evenly matched. Then he played. Only then did he realize that the young man had good chess skills. He turned around and said to the owner, "Take out your Yunshizi Go and play Go."

Xu Si said: "Don't be ignorant of the world. Do you dare to play Go with Teacher Xu?"

In another ten years, when Xu Hongbo is old and wants to retreat, Zhang Ke will naturally not lose to him. Xu Hongbo is only fifty years old now and has a very strong mind. Although his level cannot be maintained at his professional level, Zhang Ke does not expect to beat him.

The trajectory of history does not deviate. Dad will leave the city after the Tang Xueqian case and start his life of depression and setbacks. From then on, he began to study chess skills and make friends with Xu Hongbo. After Tang Xueqian was released from prison, his father had no place to gain a foothold at Haizhou University, so it was Xu Hongbo who took him into the chess academy to avoid the storm.

If anyone in Haizhou is really worthy of Zhang Ke's admiration, Xu Hongbo must be counted as one. He thought that the historical trajectory had deteriorated and he would never have the chance to meet Xu Hongbo again, but how could he meet here?

Since we can meet, we naturally have no reason to let him go.

Xu Hongbo was a secretary for the former secretary of the municipal party committee and the current director of the People's Congress, Wan Xiangqian, for six years. Later, he resigned from his public office and had no contact with Wan Xiangqian. He founded the Haizhou Chess School himself, which is also the current Haizhou Chess Academy. As for why he suddenly resigned from his public office, there were many rumors in the alleys. He ignored him and only said that he was not proud of his officialdom and had fulfilled his wishes all day long. Wan Xiangqian did not say anything.

When Xu Hongbo left the city, Tang Xueqian and his father had not been transferred to the city. Because Tang Xueqian liked to play chess, his father was considered to know Xu Hongbo, but now he can only be considered a general friend, and neither of them left a deep impression on each other.

Zhang Ke said: "My father also likes to play chess. When will Teacher Xu be invited to my house to play chess?"

My father is an official, knowledgeable and knowledgeable, but he is not as good as his own intrigues. Moreover, the Haizhou officialdom is not very peaceful now. Xu Hongbo has been together in the Haizhou officialdom for longer than his father. With his future familiarity with Xu Hongbo, Zhang Ke knew that he was a person who was well-versed in the world and had long become a human spirit. He could look at you with a glance, but he was not infected with the corrosive smell of the officialdom. He jumped out of the muddy water alone. He was a very special person. In the Haizhou officialdom, he was definitely an anomaly.

Such friends are worth making, no matter whether you are in good times or bad times.

The owner, Old Chen, shouted into the yard: "Rongrong, help you Uncle Xu take out the Go..."

Xu Haishan also became interested. In 1994, many people were interested in Go. No one in Shatin was qualified to stand up and ask Xu Hongbo for advice. Xu Si's uncle played well. Every time he asked Xu Hongbo to ask his three sons for the next game, he had to drink.

After brewing tea, celadon tea cups, the tea leaves floated and sinking. Zhang Ke heard the chess pieces in the chess box in the yard, and the owner smiled and said, "The little girl knew how to jump. Xu Hongbo said, "You girl is not young anymore. Today, I see a long little scoundrel behind her, just like the two girls from the Haishan family back then." Xu Si blushed, and someone pushed the door and entered the tavern from the yard inside. Zhang Ke was stunned when he saw the man.

"Chala..." Chen Feirong's chess pieces fell all over the floor, and the chess pieces jumped around with blue bricks, and they stared blankly at Zhang Ke sitting at the square table.
Chapter completed!