Game within game: chess player

He continued to work like this until twelve o'clock in the morning. When Ye Fang was about to lock the door and rest, he suddenly heard a cry from the alley not far away.

Curious, Ye Fang walked out of the door and took a closer look. He saw about seven or eight people at the end of the road, waving machetes and iron bars, seemingly chasing someone. I saw this man staggering and seemed to have seen Ye Fang, running all the way in the direction of Ye Fang. He seemed to be seriously injured, clutching his stomach, falling down and getting up from time to time, his face was spattered with blood.

When Ye Fang saw that the group of people behind him were not good people, he stepped forward and shouted, "Who are you?" As he spoke, the injured man had already run up to Ye Fang and fell into Ye Fang's arms.

Ye Fang quickly helped him up and saw a young man of similar age to himself. There was blood at the corner of his mouth, and the clothes on his body were already stained red with blood.

"They are drug dealers, call the police, quickly!" The injured man seemed to be dying.

"You brat, don't meddle in other people's business." The middle-aged man who led the group held a machete in his hand and said fiercely to Ye Fang, "Get it!" The masked man next to the leading man understood what he knew and waved the machete and went straight to Ye Fang. Fang left.

Seeing this, Ye Fang put down the injured man, stood up and rushed to the masked man. He grabbed his right arm with his backhand and heard a click. The masked man's right elbow joint was immediately broken. The masked man immediately screamed and fell to the ground. The knife in his right hand was snatched away by Ye Fang.

Ye Fang's grappling skills were very fast. In prison, Gu Yuanqing often engaged in close combat with Ye Fang. Gu Yuanqing initially taught Ye Fang these fighting skills to pass the boring time in prison. Later, he discovered that Ye Fang was very interested in this kind of fighting. He is very talented in this area, so he becomes more and more enthusiastic as he teaches, and Ye Fang also grows rapidly.

However, Ye Fang had been sparring with Gu Yuanqing before, but this was the first time he was sparring with someone other than Gu Yuanqing. It was inevitable that he could not control his strength well. I was afraid that the masked man's right hand would be completely disabled. .

Ye Fang's move was smooth and flowing yet extremely vicious and vicious. Gu Yuanqing's grappling was taught by the early Armed Police Forces, and it was famous for its short, flat, and fast moves. The emphasis was on defeating the enemy with one move and killing him with one move, and never allowing the enemy to counterattack a second time. Chances are, many moves have been banned in modern Sanda martial arts fighting over the years because the moves are too vicious and are usually only taught in certain special forces.

"You brat, you have a chance!" the leading man said coldly.

Ye Fang held a machete in his right hand and pointed at the leading man and shouted, "I don't care who you are, get out of here right away, the police will be here soon."

"We have to kill him first when he comes. Come on, brothers!" The leading man waved his hand viciously, and the rest of the group swarmed forward waving steel pipes and machetes.

Ye Fang's heart trembled, and he secretly suppressed the fear hidden in his heart. After all, this is the first time that Ye Fang has faced this group of ruthless desperadoes. One-on-one, Ye Fang is still confident of defeating the enemy with one move. So many people swarmed up, making it difficult for Ye Fang to resist for a while. After all, He also had to protect the injured man.

Ye Fang's shoulder and back were slashed twice in the panic of facing the enemy for the first time, but they were all skin injuries. Gradually, Ye Fang's counterattacks became more and more methodical, Ye Fang's murderous aura gradually gathered, and the machete in his hand became more and more powerful. After several interludes, these originally ferocious murderers were no longer standing in place. Almost all of them had their legs and feet intact. They were all placed in different shapes on the cold stone slab. There were endless screams. Some of them were injured. It was so painful that I didn't even have the strength to scream.

The leading man was struck by Ye Fang and his muscles and bones were split apart. His shoulders and scapulas were fractured. The leading man was in pain and knelt on the ground in cold sweat. Even so, he did not forget to look at Ye Fang coldly and said, "Save him, you will regret it!"

"You should tell the police this." Ye Fang threw away the machete and quickly helped up the injured man in black. By this time, the man in black had already passed out.

At this moment, sirens sounded at the end of the alley, and a group of police officers rushed over soon. The leading plainclothes police officers immediately stepped forward to check the injured man in Ye Fang's arms, and then asked someone to carry the injured man out on a stretcher. As for the rest of the murderers, they were all carried out because no one could stand and walk.

At this time, a police officer who looked like a leader saluted, and then said, "Thank you for saving our investigators, thank you for your bravery."

"It should be." Ye Fang said.

"Do you need me to go back with you and take notes?" Ye Fang asked regardless of his injuries.

"No, you just take good care of your injuries. I have to go back and deal with the aftermath. Thank you!" After saying that, these policemen cleaned up the scene and left quickly. Before leaving, the policeman in charge of the area, Ma Guitian, also rushed over. He took Ye Fang with him I went to the clinic for a simple bandage, but fortunately it was all skin injuries.

"You are so powerful. You can defeat so many people by yourself. Who did you learn your kung fu from?" Ma Guitian said sincerely as he sent Ye Fang back to the courtyard.

"I learned it in prison." Ye Fang said.

Seeing that Ye Fang did not continue to talk about Ma Guitian in depth, he did not ask any more questions and took a look at the small supermarket that Ye Fang had prepared to open tomorrow.

Ma Guitian said, "You are injured. Let's see if there is anything I can do to help."

"I'm fine, Brother Ma. I can still handle it," Ye Fang said.

Ma Guitian saw the leaflets ready for distribution placed in the corner of the yard, and said loudly, "Let's do it. I'll call some young men in the office tomorrow to help you distribute the leaflets."

"Brother Ma, this is not appropriate, it won't work," Ye Fang said.

"It's okay, the director will agree. After all, you were injured while trying to save our people. That's it." After saying that, Ma Guitian made the decision without any explanation, then comforted Ye Fang with a few words and left.

Ye Fang dragged his injured arm on the bed, thinking about the opening tomorrow, and fell asleep while thinking about it.

The next morning, residents within a three-kilometer radius of the courtyard where Ye Fang lived heard the piercing sound of sirens early in the morning. Everyone thought that a major crime had occurred where they lived. They all put on their clothes and went out to take a look, and saw four police cars slowly driving onto the roadside not far from the courtyard where Ye Fang lived, and then more than a dozen police officers got out of the cars.

Led by Deputy Chief Ma Guitian, these policemen went straight to Ye Fang's courtyard. The curious neighbors immediately followed after seeing the excitement. There were hundreds of people, and some were women holding their children. Follow slowly, for fear of falling behind.

In fact, Ye Fang had heard the siren earlier, but he did not go out to take a look as curious as others. Instead, he was still concentrating on organizing the shelves until a rapid knock on the door came.

"Brother Ma, what are you doing?" Ye Fang was stunned when he saw the dozen or so policemen behind Ma Guitian.

"Didn't I tell you yesterday that I would bring our brothers here to help you distribute leaflets and try to finish them in one morning. Come on, brothers!" Ma Guitian didn't care whether Ye Fang agreed or not and called out to the young police officer behind him. They immediately rushed into the yard, each picked up a pack of leaflets and left, starting to hand out leaflets along the way.

These old residents who have lived in the alley for decades saw a group of uniformed policemen, each holding a packet of leaflets, handing them out to everyone they saw, and you were not allowed to take them away. Therefore, the thousands of leaflets printed by Ye Fang were sent to almost every household in the urban area where he lived. Suddenly, Ye Fang's Yuanqing Supermarket became a household name.

Some people who have lived in this place for more than ten years even know Gu Yuanqing. When he saw that it was a courtyard house before Gu Yuanqing, and when he saw that it was called Yuanqing Supermarket, he knew that it was probably opened by Gu Yuanqing's relatives. , so some people make up their minds to take care of business in the future.

These residents in the old city live relatively concentrated, so all the leaflets were distributed in one morning. "Brother Ma, I really don't know how to thank you!" This was the first time that Ye Fang felt the sincere concern from Ma Guitian. , I didn’t know how to thank him for a moment, thinking that Ye Fang would invite all the police officers to dinner.

"Why are you inviting us to dinner? Don't you have instant noodles and bread in your supermarket? I bought it here to cheer you up." As he said this, Ma Guitian invited the police officers to go into the supermarket to buy things. This kind of community-type supermarket was almost everywhere 20 years later, but at that time it was a new thing in such an old city. These young police officers also chose some food out of curiosity and looked at the price tags. The money was thrown at the cashier and left without even asking for change. These police officers became Ye Fang's first wave of customers.

After finishing the purchase, Ma Guitian and the policemen greeted Ye Fang like a gust of wind and left. Ye Fang knew that this friendship was truly owed.

The common people who had gathered around the gate to watch the excitement were attracted by these policemen. They also saw these policemen buying a lot of things in large and small bags, so they all walked into the supermarket in the courtyard with fresh energy.

Before opening the business, Ye Fang made a careful investigation of the surrounding small shops and found that the items he sold were a few cents cheaper than the surrounding grocery stores. Fruits and vegetables are not only fresh, but also a little cheaper than in big markets. Although they are only a few cents cheaper, people still find them affordable.

At the same time, Ye Fang also innovatively implemented a membership system. Anyone who spends a total of 6 yuan in the supermarket will receive a pound of eggs as a gift. The higher the cumulative consumption, the more he will give away. Every month on 16, 26, and [-] On member consumption days, there will be special product promotions, not to mention that Ye Fang can also deliver products to your door for free on ordinary days.

I still have to say that this kind of promotional method will be a bad trick used by supermarkets 20 years later, but at that time it was enough to set off a small consumption peak. Everyone learned that there were so many preferential measures, and after careful calculation, it was much cheaper than the big markets outside. Therefore, the turnover of Yuanqing Supermarket increased steadily in the past few days, and almost everything on the shelves was sold on the same day. This situation lasted for ten days before it gradually cooled down and stabilized.

Ye Fang had lost a lot of weight in the past ten days. If Ma Guitian hadn't come to help him from time to time, Ye Fang wouldn't have been able to do it alone. During this period, Ye Fang also formed a long-lasting friendship with Ma Guitian, and also became good friends with the young policemen at the police station in Ma Guitian. If everyone asked for cigarettes and food, Ye Fang would deliver it on time no matter how late it was. Ye Fang's good reputation also made Ye Fang good friends. Fang’s Yuanqing Supermarket is trusted by neighbors.

Ye Fang, who was lying on the bed at this time, could not feel any fatigue at this time, because he was surrounded by money now. Although there were money in denominations ranging from one hundred yuan to one cent, there were two or three dollars. Ten thousand, the net profit alone in these ten days exceeded 1 yuan. You must know that at that time, the monthly salary of an ordinary worker was only eight or nine hundred yuan.

Ye Fang knew that he was not a superman, and he was far from being able to meet business requirements by himself, so he was thinking about whether he should hire someone.

Thinking about it, Ye Fang's eyelids started to fight, and he fell asleep in the mountain of money and the sea of ​​money...