Kneeling in front of my wife’s tombstone and crying bitterly, I was reborn

Shen Qiansan and Zhao Deming didn't talk for long. After more than an hour, the two of them left the study one after another and came to the living room.

In the living room, the old man and Zhao Hanyu were playing chess. Seeing that his red chess piece was about to be defeated, Zhao Hanyu saw Shen Qiansan coming out as if he had seen a savior, and hurriedly said: "Third brother, I can't do it anymore, come and save me."

Shen Qiansan walked behind him, took a look and said, "Admit defeat!"

Zhao Hanyu said with some reluctance: "Even you can't turn the tables?"

He didn't care about winning or losing the game. He just thought that no matter what happened in Shen Qiansan's hands, he should be able to turn the tables, so he asked this question.

Shen Qiansan smiled, "It's a losing situation, what can I do!"

"Haha..." The old man laughed, "Mr. Shen is still very insightful."

After saying this with approval, he said to Zhao Hanyu, "I told you to give up and admit defeat a long time ago, but you just refused to believe in evil and wanted to give it a try, thinking you could turn the tables!"

"This spirit is commendable, but truth is truth. Some things in this world are beyond redemption."

Zhao Hanyu said helplessly: "Okay, I lose!"

The old man laughed and said, "You should have done this earlier. When you already know the outcome, you should know how to give up in time to stop the loss. This way you can start over."

Zhao Hanyu seemed to have realized something and said, "Grandpa, I understand. Life is like chess. If you know that some things cannot be done, it is better to start over."

The old man nodded with satisfaction.

Playing chess with Zhao Hanyu is a way to entertain and kill time, but more importantly, it allows my grandson to understand the truth of life through playing chess.

Just as Shen Qiansan had summarized before, he said that teaching his daughter to play chess can cultivate the child's observation, concentration, calculation, spatial thinking ability, etc.

Perhaps for children, developing these abilities is the most important thing, but for adults, although playing chess can also exercise those abilities, it needs to be raised to a higher level and to understand the truth of life through playing chess.

Different stages of life require different things, and different life stages lead to different things.

Zhao Deming was also thoughtful after hearing this, and smiled and said, "I didn't like playing chess before, because I thought it was boring. Just now, I heard you talk about it and realized that playing chess can also help me understand the truth of life."

"It seems that I have to learn how to play chess in the future!"

The old man snorted, "You like to cook. Don't you always say that governing a big country is like cooking a small fish? If cooking is so difficult, how much more so for playing chess?"

Zhao Deming smiled and said, "Dad, you are right. I was too narrow-minded before and didn't see this."

The old man seemed very happy after hearing this and said with a smile: "It's not too late for you to understand now."

After that, he ignored Zhao Deming and said to Shen Qiansan: "Mr. Shen, Hanyu has already lost this game. It's boring to play chess with him. Come on, let's play another game."

Zhao Hanyu said jokingly: "Grandpa, I just lost, you don't have to say I can't do it!"

The old man rolled his eyes and said, "I've already lost, and you still don't allow me to talk!"

The grandfather and grandson often argue with each other, but they are quite happy.

The old man has several grandchildren. When other grandchildren see him, they are respectful and cautious, for fear of making him unhappy. Only Zhao Hanyu does whatever he wants when he is with him.

This is also the reason why the old man likes Zhao Hanyu the most among his several grandchildren.

To put it bluntly, in the old man's opinion, if relatives are too respectful and cautious in their interactions with each other, it means they are not close to him.

Shen Qiansan looked at the interaction between the old man and Zhao Hanyu and smiled knowingly. He also liked this most simple relationship between family members.

He was happy for Zhao Hanyu.

It is extremely rare to be born in such a high-ranking official family and still maintain such a pure heart.

However, since the old man wanted to teach Zhao Hanyu some life lessons through playing chess, he didn't mind helping out. So he pointed to the chessboard that had not been messed up, smiled and said, "Hanyu, actually you haven't lost this game yet, and you don't have to lose!"

Ok?

what?

Zhao Hanyu and the old man looked at him at the same time.

"Third brother, didn't you say that you had already lost?" After a brief moment of surprise, Zhao Hanyu looked at Shen Qiansan in surprise and said.

"That's right!" After the old man came to his senses, he also said, "You obviously lost. Even if the chess god came back, he couldn't save the situation. I don't believe you can turn defeat into victory!"

After saying that, he waved to Shen Qiansan, "Come on, come on, come on, let me see how you turn the tables!"

Zhao Hanyu quickly stood up, ready to give his seat to Shen Qiansan, and said: "Third brother, it's up to you!"

It's complete and unconditional trust.

He felt that as long as his third brother said they would not lose, they would definitely not lose.

As for why the third brother said that they would definitely lose at the beginning, he no longer thought about it.

However, Shen Qiansan did not go to the position vacated by Zhao Hanyu. Instead, he stretched out his big hand to the chessboard. With a few "rustling" sounds, the chess pieces on the board were completely disrupted as his palm moved.

Zhao Hanyu: ...

Old man:......

Zhao Deming: …

The three of them stared blankly at Shen Qiansan and the disrupted chessboard.

Didn’t we agree on a turnaround?

You really turned the tables!

The three of them didn't expect that what Shen Qiansan said about not losing would actually be this true.

After a long while, the old man said unhappily: "Mr. Shen, you are cheating!"

Shen Qiansan nodded and replied as a matter of course: "That's right, it's just cheating!"

The old man asked, "Does cheating count?"

Shen Qiansan smiled and said: "Although playing tricks will make people angry, as far as the "not losing" mentioned earlier is concerned, as long as the chessboard is turned over before the final kill, then the game is still in the process of playing chess, and the game is ended in advance, so of course it is not lost."

"So, there are not only three outcomes in chess: win, lose, or draw. There are also incomplete games, and there are also games where the table cannot be turned over and the game cannot be continued."

"In some games in life, when you are clearly at a disadvantage, turning the table is also a way to go."

After saying that, he looked at Zhao Deming and asked with a smile: "Mayor Zhao, don't you think so?"

Zhao Deming was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "What you said makes sense."

I couldn't help but think of the conversation I had with Shen Qiansan in the study. At that time, Shen Qiansan said that the state-owned leather shoe factory had reached a point where it had to be rebuilt. If it didn't start over, its fate would inevitably be bankruptcy.

This is so similar to what is happening now with Shen Qiansan messing up the chessboard.

Although he had reached an agreement with Shen Qiansan in the study, in principle he agreed to sell the state-owned leather shoe factory to Shen Qiansan, but he also said that he would make a decision after seeing the proposal Shen Qiansan came up with. In other words, in his heart he was still not optimistic about the sale of the state-owned leather shoe factory.

Until this moment, when Shen Qiansan asked this, his confidence suddenly increased a lot.