When Jiang Xu called Ren Xiaosu to his office, the students looked at him sympathetically.
Ren Xiaosu followed behind Jiang Xu as they walked across the campus. When the students in school saw Jiang Xu, they would greet him very respectfully. They were also very curious about who Ren Xiaosu, who was following behind Jiang Xu, was.
Jiang Xu limped along with the help of a cane. Then he said to Ren Xiaosu with a smile, "What's your real name?"
Ren Xiaosu thought for a moment and felt there was no need to hide it from him. "Ren Xiaosu."
"Oh, it's you." Jiang Xu sighed and said, "What a small world. I was just talking about you with someone before, and now you're here in front of me."
"Chief Editor, you know me?" Ren Xiaosu wondered.
"Oh, don't you know? I'm good friends with Zhang Jinglin. He mentioned you to me on the phone before." Jiang Xu said, "But why did you come to the Central Plains instead of staying in the Northwest? Don't tell me you treat power like dirt. From what I heard from Zhang Jinglin, he wants you to be the next commander of Fortress 178."
Ren Xiaosu suddenly felt like the whole world knew he was going to be the next commander of Fortress 178. He explained to Jiang Xu, "I came to the Central Plains to look for someone."
"Who are you looking for?" Jiang Xu asked.
"Yang Xiaojin." Ren Xiaosu said, "She's also your student. But she left when I just arrived."
Jiang Xu stopped in his tracks and looked at Ren Xiaosu with interest. "You must be the person she likes, right? You're a good match."
Ren Xiaosu suddenly had a much better impression of Jiang Xu!
However, he was a little confused. "What do you mean by someone she likes? Do you know her very well?"
"Well, this is also gossip in school." Jiang Xu chuckled and said, "Yang Xiaojin has a lot of suitors at Qinghe University …."
Ren Xiaosu raised his eyebrows and interrupted, "Where are they?"
Don't you know that you can't interrupt your elders when they are talking? What, do you want to hit them? This isn't the wilderness. "Jiang Xu said," Let me finish. There was a boy who confessed to her earlier. Perhaps she got impatient, so she told him she already has someone she likes. Furthermore, the person she likes is definitely not a sheltered flower like the Qinghe University students. "
Ren Xiaosu was stunned. Actually, he had been worried before. What if Yang Xiaojin thought he was dead and slowly forgot about him?
But now it seemed that Yang Xiaojin did not forget him, and she even told others.
However, Ren Xiaosu wondered, "You're a chief editor, so why do you like to listen to gossip about such students?"
Jiang Xu was amused. "How can I be a reporter if I don't gossip? A reporter should always be curious about everything and be passionate about life. Who said that a chief editor can't gossip? "
Jiang Xu continued walking forward. He led Ren Xiaosu into an office building and opened the door to his office. "I usually only work here in the morning and return to Hope Media in the afternoon. Do you still want to hear more about Yang Xiaojin? If you do, come in and play a game of chess with me. "
Ren Xiaosu rushed into the office and saw there was only a table and two chairs in the room. There was a chess set on the table.
Jiang Xu sized up Ren Xiaosu with great interest. At first, his impression of Ren Xiaosu was only because of one sentence. But now it was different. When he found out about Ren Xiaosu's identity, he became even more interested.
He really wanted to know what the person Zhang Jinglin had chosen was like.
Jiang Xu was very old. He had been thinking about who should take over Hope Media in the future and who would be the one to feel at ease. He believed that a person like Zhang Jinglin was probably facing the same predicament as him. Therefore, when Zhang Jinglin said he had someone he could entrust the company to, Jiang Xu felt a little envious.
Watching a game of chess was like watching a person. Jiang Xu wanted to play a game of chess with Ren Xiaosu to see what kind of person Ren Xiaosu was.
The two of them sat down on the chairs. Jiang Xu put his cane aside and said, "You can leave first. Don't tell Zhang Jinglin that I'm bullying you when you get back."
Ren Xiaosu calmly moved a chess piece. Jiang Xu was stunned on the spot. "You don't know how to play chess, do you?"
Ren Xiaosu asked in surprise, "How did you know?"
Jiang Xu snapped, "I've been playing chess for so many years, but this is the first time I've seen someone make the right move."
Ren Xiaosu was speechless.
Jiang Xu was also helpless. How could he tell when he was playing chess with a chess illiterate?!
The only thing he could tell was that the other party did not know how to play chess!
"Ahem." Ren Xiaosu was a little embarrassed. "When I was living in town, the refugees usually didn't play chess and only played poker. But there were also people who played it, and they were very rare. I only saw them occasionally, but I never had the chance to learn more about them. "
Disregarding chess, he even learned Fight the Landlord on the spot after he got his hands on Explosive Poker.
In the past, he would not have had the time to ponder over these playthings. It was already very difficult for him to survive.
At this moment, Jiang Xu asked, "Tell me, why do you want to make the right move first?"
Ren Xiaosu thought for a moment and said, "I think the right move has to be the strongest among the chess pieces. What's with the strongest player hiding in the back and being protected?"
Jiang Xu was taken aback. He sighed and said, "I think I understand why Zhang Jinglin chose you."
Playing chess was not like being a person. To be a person, one had to be discreet, consider the pros and cons, and consider the ways of the world. But in chess, there was no need to do that. You would play whatever you thought.
Some people liked to take risks, while others preferred to be neutral and peaceful, using the right to overcome the unexpected. These were all intrinsic qualities.
"How about this?" Jiang Xu said, "I won't teach you the rules of chess. You can play however you want, alright?"
Ren Xiaosu thought for a moment and said, "Sure!"
Jiang Xu laughed in his heart. Perhaps he could see some clues about Ren Xiaosu's character this way.
But at this moment, Ren Xiaosu said, "You've lost."
Jiang Xu looked at the chessboard dumbfoundedly. How did he lose before he even made a move?
"This is a tank, right? Look, I know where your old general is. I can just bombard him from afar," Ren Xiaosu explained.
Jiang Xu said, "… How about this? This is an ancient war, not a modern war."
"Alright then," Ren Xiaosu reluctantly agreed.
After a while, when Jiang Xu saw Ren Xiaosu running around the battlefield like a pawn and jumping five or six squares at a time, Jiang Xu finally could not help but say, "How can a pawn have such mobility? Aren't you just messing around?"
"I was just a pawn on the battlefield in the Northwest, so I have this mobility," Ren Xiaosu explained patiently.
Jiang Xu stared blankly at Ren Xiaosu for a long time and did not know how to refute him. In the end, he could only say, "Alright, even if he has this mobility, he can't turn back, right? Wouldn't that make him a deserter?"
"Why can't a pawn turn back?" Ren Xiaosu retorted, "In terms of tactics, there's still a need for guerrilla warfare. How can there be a need to charge forward bravely? Wouldn't that make them cannon fodder? Isn't the life of cannon fodder still a life? When I was on the battlefield in the Northwest, didn't I have to return to the forward operating base to reorganize? If I couldn't retreat, Zhang Xiaoman and the others would have died on the battlefield! "
Jiang Xu was dumbfounded. What the fuck did this have to do with Zhang Xiaoman? Who the hell was Zhang Xiaoman?!
Jiang Xu was silent for a long time. Then he flipped the chessboard and said, "I'm not playing anymore!"
"Alright." Ren Xiaosu sat obediently. "Then tell me about Yang Xiaojin."
When Jiang Xu heard this, he got angry. "Tell me, what do you want to hear?"
"I just want to hear what else she has to say." Ren Xiaosu looked exceptionally obedient as he sat in his chair.
"She didn't say anything else. There's still an endless stream of people chasing after her, but she doesn't even care about them. Are you happy now?" Jiang Xu snapped, "But because she described the Qinghe University students as flowers in a greenhouse, it's equivalent to putting herself on the opposite side of all her classmates. As a result, she doesn't have a good relationship with her classmates."
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