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

"I'm going to buy a chess set!"

Shen Qiansan said as he placed the cloth bag on the Eight Immortals Table.

After putting the cloth bag away, he used his free hand to take down the old wooden board tucked under his arm and turned it over, revealing the grid on it, which turned out to be a chess board.

He smiled and said, "I saw that the chessboard I bought at the mall was made of plastic, which was not easy to use, so I went to the flea market to look around, and I happened to find this old chessboard."

"Oh!" He pointed to the cloth bag and continued, "I even found a chess set. If I had known, I would not have gone to the department store, but would have gone directly to the flea market."

After hearing what Shen Qiansan said and seeing him looking at the old chessboard happily, Chen Wentao and Luo Rong looked at each other. They probably didn't expect that Shen Qiansan would go out specially just to buy a set of chess.

The two of them worried for a long time in vain, thinking that the boy was squandering money by buying things again.

Chen Wentao turned his gaze to Shen Qiansan and asked in confusion: "Why did you suddenly think of buying chess?"

He had never noticed that Shen Qiansan had this hobby!

Shen Qiansan smiled and said, "I saw that Dandan didn't have many toys and didn't have any hobbies, so I thought of buying her a chess set and teaching her how to play chess. This can also be considered as cultivating a hobby."

Chen Wentao was speechless.

Luo Rong said, "You need to cultivate Dandan's interests and hobbies. You can buy her some books, or find a teacher to teach her singing and dancing. You can also learn a musical instrument, such as accordion or violin."

"What's the point of teaching a girl how to play chess?"

There are still some things in my heart that I haven’t said.

Playing chess is not a hobby at all, it's just for fun.

Besides, there is no future in learning chess.

Unlike singing, dancing and playing musical instruments, if you have talent, you may become a people's artist in the future. Even if you don't have talent, you can cultivate your sentiments by learning.

After hearing what his mother-in-law said, Shen Qiansan did not refute, but said seriously: "Well, when she comes back, I will ask her if there is anything she wants to learn. If she wants to learn, I will find someone to teach her."

Luo Rong said, "She's just a child, how can she know what to learn? It's up to you. If you want to cultivate something, just hire a teacher to teach her."

Shen Qiansan did not agree with his mother-in-law's point of view, but he did not refute it.

This was a conflict of ideas, and a rebuttal might cause an argument, but he just smiled and said, "Let me think about it."

I decided in my heart that I should respect my daughter's ideas.

After all, he believes that interest is the best teacher, and learning is fun only when you are interested.

All forced or compulsory learning is a burden and a destruction of childhood growth.

If his daughter wanted to learn, he would find the best teacher to teach her. If his daughter didn't want to learn, then she didn't have to learn anything.

He didn't want to impose his own interests and hobbies, or his own ideas on his daughter.

However, he is prepared to teach his daughter chess well.

It is not for the purpose of cultivating interests, but to cultivate my daughter's thinking and vision.

As a reborn person, he feels that these abilities are very important, far more important than knowledge and technology.

This is not learning, but cultivation.

He could let his daughter's academic performance take its course, no matter whether it was good or bad, but he felt that his daughter must master those important abilities so that her future life would be meaningful.

As for his mother-in-law's suggestion to buy some books for Dandan, he thought it was a good idea.

It is true that books are the ladder of human progress.

But he feels that books are more of a magnifying glass that broadens a person's horizons. Many things in life cannot be experienced personally, but by reading books, one can see another magnificent world and experience rich emotions.

He even thinks that Chinese is the subject that a person should study most seriously, and only by learning Chinese well can one have the best comprehension and expression abilities.

The best way to learn Chinese is to read books.

Shen Qiansan said: "I will go to Xinhua Bookstore tomorrow and buy some comic books for Dandan first."

There were not many children's books in this era, such as "Story King", "Fairy Tale King", "Story Club", etc.

However, comic books have become widely circulated among the people, and many children born in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s grew up reading comic books.

In response, Luo Rong also nodded and said, "It's okay to read comic books, it's better than playing chess."

Shen Qiansan smiled, did not argue, and said: "I'll go cook first."

After putting away the chessboard, he went to the kitchen.

There were only three of them eating at noon. Shen Qiansan was quick at cooking and finished the meal in no time. The three of them ate together.

After cleaning up after dinner, Shen Qiansan took the old chess board and cloth bag and went to the backyard.

In the cloth bag were two sets of chess.

A set of wooden chess pieces bought at a department store, in a cardboard box, brand new.

The other one was an old chess set in an old wooden box, which he found at a flea market.

Shen Qiansan ignored the new chess set and placed it directly on the tea table in the backyard, then opened the old wooden box with a smile.

"Tsk tsk..."

Shen Qiansan exclaimed, "Not bad, it's made of small-leaf red sandalwood, and it looks quite old, at least passed down from the Ming Dynasty."

Chess is not like other antique furniture. It is difficult to accurately date it by style and craftsmanship. He only made a rough judgment based on the praise of the chess pieces.

Even if it is not from the Ming Dynasty, it must be from the Qing Dynasty.

Of course, it doesn’t matter to him which dynasty it is from. After all, it’s just a set of chess. Being able to play chess is enough.

The reason why he bought it was because of the material of the chess set, red sandalwood, which is very valuable.

It's just a bit of a pity. Maybe because it's been too long, some of the chess pieces have been bumped in a few places and are not in complete condition.

The same is true for the chessboard, which has many bumps and scratches, and even on the back of the chessboard, there are a lot of messy ink marks left by brushes.

But it is better than the chessboard made of oil paper, so Shen Qiansan is still very satisfied.

He took the chess pieces, chess board and chess box to the bathroom, turned on the faucet and washed them carefully.

Someone will say, this is an antique, why do you clean it so clean?

Wouldn’t that wash away all the praise above?

After washing it off, it is not that valuable anymore.

Shen Qiansan naturally understood this principle.

But he had no intention of selling the chess set; he was using it to teach his daughter how to play chess.

Cleanliness and hygiene are more important.

After cleaning, Shen Qiansan placed the chess pieces one by one on the coffee table, waiting for them to dry. He also casually placed the chessboard next to the coffee table, and then returned to the study.

He first looked at the stove inside the fire table and saw that the coal was almost gone, so he added some coal pieces into it, then sat down and lit a cigarette.

He began to think about adding a few more available people.