Chapter 193 It's Raining!
In the afternoon, the sun was suddenly obscured by dark clouds in the town.
The stall owners on the street also began to quickly pack up their belongings.
The shouts of people and the sound of cart wheels filled the path.
"Oh no, it's going to rain! Let's go back quickly."
After Xu Wang finished speaking, he grabbed Pei Yanchuan and ran through the crowd toward the guesthouse.
Just as Xu Wang had predicted, the two had barely stepped into the guesthouse when a light drizzle began to fall, and the rain gradually intensified.
The raindrops pattered on the roof tiles, creating a sound like music. The rainwater flowed down the tiles, dripping and trickling into the gaps between the stone bricks on the ground.
Incense was burning in the room, and there was also tea that had been brewed in advance.
Xu Wang poured himself and Pei Yanchuan a cup of tea, which smelled wonderful.
At this time, only Pei Yanchuan and Xu Wang had returned to the guesthouse ahead of time.
Xu Wang took a quick look around the room and found a chessboard and chess pieces in a corner.
Xu Wang placed the chessboard on the table between him and Pei Yanchuan.
"Want to play a game of Gomoku?" Xu Wang invited Pei Yanchuan across from him with a smile. He wasn't good at other games, but he was very good at Gomoku.
"Okay." Pei Yanchuan smiled and nodded, seeing the other person's eager eyes.
Pei Yanchuan played white, and Xu Wang played black.
Black moves first. Xu Wang gently picked up a black piece from the chess jar and placed the first piece in the center of the chessboard.
Pei Yanchuan calmly picked up the round white stone with his fingers and placed it near the lower right corner of the black stone.
For a moment, the only sounds in the house, besides the rain outside, were the clanging of the two players playing chess.
Watching these two play chess calmed my mind.
[Me too, I suddenly feel much more relaxed.]
[The other groups fared much worse.]
[Stop talking! Jiang Xiubai and Yunxi looked at the oil-paper umbrellas by the roadside but didn't buy any. Instead, they ran back carrying just a coat (it's both funny and exasperating).]
[I have a question, is this a visually appealing way to run?]
[What's so beautiful about that? The rain is so hard they can't even open their eyes.]
[Haha, and the two of them were even spitting out rainwater.]
When Xu Wang first came down, he seemed very relaxed with a smile on his face, but gradually his brows furrowed and he became very serious.
He held the black ball tightly in his hand, propping his chin up with one hand, and didn't let go for a long time.
Pei Yanchuan quietly watched Xu Wang's conflicted and lively expression, without urging him.
"I feel like I'm going to lose, Yan Chuan. Have you ever learned how to play Gomoku?" Xu Wang scratched his head in frustration, feeling that there was an 80% chance he would lose the game.
“I haven’t learned Gomoku, but I have learned Go and chess.” Pei Yanchuan picked up the teacup on the table and took a sip of tea.
"You must have had a very tiring childhood. I remember you said you studied sketching and ink painting before, and now you've added Go and chess to your studies. Did you have time to play when you were a child?" Xu Wang looked shocked. When he was a child, he ran around in the fields in the countryside every day, sometimes picking wild fruits and sometimes touching wild eggs. Because no one cared about him, he was completely free to do as he pleased.
Tired? Pei Yanchuan paused slightly as he put down his teacup. No one had ever mentioned this word to him when he was a child because he was the successor that his grandfather had designated in advance, bypassing his father. Therefore, everyone had the highest expectations for him from the very beginning. At that time, his daily schedule was almost full. All the teachers hoped that he could do his best, become number one, and be the number one by a wide margin.
As a child, Pei Yanchuan was like a sponge that absorbed water like crazy. The difference was that a sponge absorbs water, while he absorbed knowledge.
Of course, Pei Yanchuan did not disappoint his grandfather and teachers in the end. He was the top student by a wide margin, the "other people's child". It can be said that almost everyone in the same circle who was of the same generation as Pei Yanchuan had heard of Pei Yanchuan when they were young. Some people even called Pei Yanchuan a nightmare.
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