Zhuge Liang was surprised and suddenly turned around. There stood an old man, covered with a dusty jacket, whose linen was almost bursting, staring at him quietly.
Zhuge Liang's surprise suddenly turned into joy, and he jumped up: "You really came!" " "
The old man is an old beggar outside the corner gate for nearly a year. He approached slowly: "It's raining hard, so take cover."
"This for more than a year, where did the old man go? I miss you! " Zhuge Liang said excitedly.
The old man said casually, "The world is in chaos. Where can I go? There are no eggs under the nest. "
Zhuge Liang was surprised. He suddenly remembered the warning of an old man outside Gao Feng's house in the past. He said, "The old man always said that if he changed a lot, he would come to ask your advice. Can I ask for advice now? "
The old man asked, "Have you experienced it now?"
Zhuge Liang said sadly, "My father died and my family moved. The past days are gone forever."
The old man sighed: "extraordinary people will experience extraordinary things, and the coolness of the day lies in Sri Lanka." However, if they don't go through hardships, how can they achieve great things and sharpen their minds? How can they shine in history? "
He turned and walked away for a while. When he came back, he brought a bunch of things, the same ten chessboards and two broken pottery bowls. He said, "I didn't finish the game that day. Let's make it up today."
Zhuge Liang understood at once. He handed it to him and said, "Please, Mr. Bai."
The old man did not refuse, picked up the albino star and placed it in the central Tianyuan.
Zhuge Liang saw that the old man raised his hand and made a move, and no longer placed black and white dice alternately at the four corners of the star as in the early stage of Go. He couldn't help reminding him: "Old man, you didn't act rashly."
The old man ignored him, only pushed the bowl filled with sunspots, rolled up his sleeves and waited lazily for Zhuge Liang to settle down.
Zhuge Liang was helpless, so he had to break the routine and crustily skin of head, but ended up with three against five.
Son, and then confused. The layout of the old man is very strange. No matter where Zhuge Liang stands his feet, the old man must stand his feet in the opposite corner, corner by corner, shoulder to shoulder, just like standing a mirror in front of the sunspot, and every child projects an image in the opposite direction.
Zhuge Liang had never seen such a strange move, and he was anxious. When he realized that the old man was imitating his thinking and wanted to go out and save the whole game, it was a pity that there were only ten tricks that could not be issued in time, and the result was a fiasco.
He said gloomily, "What strange chess are you playing? You go wherever I go. "
The old man still gathered his sleeves listlessly: "I'm not imitating you, but you haven't changed."
Zhuge Liang was slightly surprised and thought for a moment: "Can you play another game?"
The old man silently pushed the pottery bowl: "Choose black and choose white?"
Zhuge Liang still chose the sunspot, but the old man raised his hand and landed in the central Tianyuan. This time, Zhuge Liang was extra careful, and every move was carefully considered, so that the old man would not be allowed to play imitation chess again. But the old man seems to be more cautious than him, posing a cautious defensive posture, surrounded by Zhuge Liang, leaving only a few breaths, and the spots gradually opened. Seeing this, he will unify the whole country.
The old man was in no hurry, and the rough gray-black palm was holding up a Bai Zi, slowly falling in the middle of the sunspot situation. After the child, the situation suddenly reversed. Levy of Bai Zi kept turning the sheep's head, and the sunspot in the middle of the abdomen suddenly collapsed and had to be defeated in the middle.
Lost two games in a row, and the layout of the two games was completely different. Zhuge Liang admired the old man and couldn't believe it. He said sincerely, "Old man, can you teach me these two games?"
The old man slowly tidied up a chess table: "chess is like arranging troops." Anyone who fights will win with the right combination and surprise. " The situation is different, the time is different, the law is different, and the line is different. If you stick to the law, you will lose! "
Zhuge Liang understood something in a trance, but he was confused. He begged, "Can I play with you again?"
The old man took the chess piece and said lightly, "Too much is too late, so let's call it a day."
Zhuge Liang was still stupefied, but the old man added, "The rain has stopped. Aren't you going home? "
Zhuge Liang woke up suddenly and looked up at the sky. It turned out that the rain had cleared up. It's getting late, and it's getting late. He must go home, but he won't leave. He took a step forward, turned around and said, "Will you be here tomorrow?"
The old man didn't answer, just stroking the chessboard and staring at him. Zhuge Liang suddenly felt that the old man's eyes were bright and vivid, like a bright lamp, shining all the way into his heart.
It takes twenty years to fulfill a dream.
1April 5, 996, 15-year-old Xu Ruo wrote a sentence in his Chinese weekly diary: I have a wish to try my best to write Zhuge Liang's biographical novels all my life. In the past two or three years, Xu Ruo has experienced all kinds of blows and pains in his life. However, the dream of writing a biography for Zhuge Liang, as she herself said, "has been on the road, never leaving, even for a day." How long has Xu Ruo been infatuated with Zhuge Liang? "If it starts with the TV series Romance of the Three Kingdoms, it will be eighteen years. If you start with the comic book Romance of the Three Kingdoms, it will take twenty years. " In the next 20 years, if the virtual image is possessed, I will do my best to search everything about Zhuge Liang crazily. The southwest town where Xu Ruoju lives is very remote and the information is underdeveloped. I don't miss it at all. In junior high school, she found that her classmates had a copy of Zhuge Liang's "Gangwon", but she refused to borrow it. Xu Ruo had to beg her to take it to school. Every day during recess, Xu Re will take time to copy it down. After going to college, Xu Ruo went to school to borrow the dusty history book of the Three Kingdoms. The teacher in the library looked at the books that no one read, and his face was confused. After borrowing it, she not only read books, but also copied the map of Zhuge Liang's southern expedition, and even copied it with white paper. At that time, she also collected an issue of chinese national geography, just because there was a map showing the famous battlefields in the Three Kingdoms. Twenty years later, Xu Ruo, from the brain powder of that year, has become the person who probably knows Zhuge Liang best so far. In the chapter about Zhuge Liang in Lessons from China History written by a famous professor, Xu Ruo can find at least four serious injuries from an academic point of view only after reading it once. During the long preparation period, Xu Ruo read 46 books directly related to the history of the Three Kingdoms and Zhuge Liang, including ancient books 19 and 27 works written by modern people. In addition, Han people, like a hundred schools of thought contend, have to study. "The Five Classics is a must-read for intellectuals in the Han Dynasty, so Zhuge Liang will naturally read it, and with his legalist skills, the legalist classics can't be put down." In order to understand the era of Zhuge Liang's life, Xu Ruo began to read Qin and Han bamboo slips, which were a headache for historians. "My collection of books about Qin and Han bamboo slips, as well as Zhang Jiashan bamboo slips, career bamboo slips and so on. The last time I read Zhang Jiashan's bamboo slips, "Two Years of Laws and Regulations Research Essays", although it was about the laws and regulations in the early Western Han Dynasty, it was inherited from the Qin law. " Xu Ruo said that only by reading a lot can you solve all the questions you don't understand and give you a real answer as much as possible. In order to fulfill her girlhood dream, Xu Ruo not only persisted for twenty years, but also achieved the ultimate. After years of data preparation and writing, the first draft was finally completed. Xu Ruoshan's first thought was, "I will definitely revise it." . Because Xu Ruo claims to be an obsessive-compulsive disorder patient, "the written article will definitely be rejected one day, and then it must be revised many times". So, from the first draft to the final draft, Xu Ruo revised it five times. Even Xu Ruo didn't expect that she revised the manuscript twice at the suggestion of the editor. When Xu Ruo first serialized this novel on Sina blog, he had accumulated nearly 500,000 visits in less than two years. After many die-hard fans learned that the novel was about to be revised and published, they left a message in Weibo, the official reader of the publishing house, asking about the pre-sale date and channel. Many people say: this is a masterpiece written with life. Everyone around Xu Re knows that this is not an exaggeration. In the past twenty years, Zhuge Liang has almost become the life sustenance and significance of this girl. Seven years ago, she clearly dreamed of Zhuge Liang's face, and she was convinced that it was Zhuge Liang in history. In June 12, June 10, and June 16, she dreamed of Zhuge Liang for the last time, but it turned out to be his body. At that time, she was at a low ebb in her life. She once sent a message to Weibo that she would go to Dingjun Mountain to guard the tomb, but it came true in her dream. She traveled thousands of miles from Guiyang twice to the tomb of Wuhou in Dingjun Mountain, Hanzhong, Shaanxi, just to be in stop for a minute, where the Prime Minister was buried. And because of her novels and persistence, she also has many fans in Zhuge Liang Fanqun on the Internet, and is called "Xu Ruoda". Because Xu Re knows everything about Zhuge Liang, from the military to the details of life. She once used a short article to verify that Zhuge Liang was the inventor of Sichuan hot pot bottom material. If it is in academia, filling the gap should be a great achievement.