Zhang Xishun is more than 70 years old this year, usually there is nothing to do, he likes to hang out in the park, looking for someone to play chess, Zhang Xishun chess is really not an opponent, Zhang Xishun's ability to play chess is still taught to him by the old man, speaking of Zhang Xishun's husband, he has to mention Zhang Xishun's wife Li Yuzhi.
Zhang Xishun and Li Yuzhi have been married for more than forty years, the relationship between the couple has always been very good, Zhang Xishun has two children, the eldest daughter is a policeman, the son is a teacher, and both children are very filial piety, which is also the place where Zhang Xishun feels the most pleased.
Li Yuzhi and Zhang Xishun were able to get married because when Li Yuzhi's father and Zhang Xishun were playing chess, they lost to Zhang Xishun, and only then did they mistakenly match their daughter Xu to Zhang Xishun.
Zhang Xishun was a high school graduate of the sixth and eighth classes, when the state called on intellectual youth to go to the countryside to receive re-education from poor and lower-middle-class peasants, as Zhang Xishun, who grew up in a family of knowledge, naturally rushed to the front, in September 1968, Zhang Xishun and more than thirty other classmates in the class, together from Beijing, opened their difficult and long years of youth.
Zhang Xishun's place to join the team is in a remote small mountain village in northern Shaanxi, for northern Shaanxi Zhang Xishun is very strange, from small to large Zhang Xishun has not been out of the far door, this trip to northern Shaanxi is Zhang Xishun's first time out of the far door, the conditions in northern Shaanxi are much more difficult than Zhang Xishun imagined, some Zhiqing came to northern Shaanxi, the psychological gap is very large, some female Zhiqing also cried their noses, shouting to go back, although Zhang Xishun was also shocked by the backwardness of northern Shaanxi, but he still chose to accept all this, because he knew, I didn't come to join the team for my own happiness, but to do a great job in this barren land.
Responsible for greeting Zhiqing was a forty-something looking very experienced Northern Shaanxi Hanzi, and later they learned that this Northern Shaanxi Han was their captain Wang Kuihai, the first time they met, Wang Kuihai gave Zhang Xishun a dismount, because some female Zhiqing cried and cried one by one, clamoring to go back, Wang Kuihai saw the situation and directly reprimanded loudly, "I know that you are all children from the city, all of them are the heart and flesh of their fathers and mothers, from childhood to pampering, have not suffered hardships, but coming here is not for you to enjoy happiness." You must put away the temper of the young lady and carry forward here the spirit of not being afraid of suffering, not being afraid of tiredness, and working hard."
After Wang Kuihai finished speaking, everyone was quiet, and then it was to arrange accommodation for everyone, Wang Kuihai took Zhiqing through several steep slopes, walked for more than ten minutes, and then came to the place where Zhiqing lived, only to see a row of neat caves, according to the queue list for everyone to divide the dormitory.
Just came to join the team for four months, Zhang Xishun broke into trouble, because the conditions for cutting in the team were difficult, Zhiqing was eating coarse grains, mainly cornmeal, usually eating some pickles, there was no bit of meat, one day after finishing work, Zhang Xishun saw that there was a chicken in the field of his hometown, Zhang Xishun was very naughty since he was a child, and the thing of stealing chickens and touching dogs was not less, Zhang Xishun consulted with several other Zhiqing in the same dormitory, secretly slaughtered the chickens and several other people to open a meat, others also wanted to eat meat, after listening to Zhang Xishun's words, everyone unanimously agreed.
The next day when they were working, Zhang Xishun and other Zhiqing pretended to be upset, and when they were relieved, they secretly ran back to the dormitory, according to the plan of things, everyone took the cooking tools from the stove room, ran to the field to catch the chickens of the fellow villagers, ran to the ravine, because they were afraid of being discovered, Zhang Xishun decided to make this chicken into a "flower chicken", everyone handled the chicken with seven hands and eight feet, smeared mud, made a fire, several people were busy for three hours, "called flower chicken" finally roasted, Zhang Xishun took a chicken leg, The rest of the big guys were divided equally.
The matter of stealing chickens was soon discovered by the fellow villagers, it turned out that Zhang Xishun stole the chickens of the hometown Li Donghai's family, Li Donghai did not see his own chicken for several days, at first he thought that it might be eaten by the weasel, but then When Li Donghai was cutting firewood in the mountains, he found that there were chicken feathers on the ground and there were traces of fire, and he knew that his chickens must have been secretly eaten by Zhiqing, because the people in the team could not do such a thing.
Li Donghai told the captain Wang Kuihai about Zhiqing's stealing of chicken, and after Wang Kuihai knew, he thought of Zhang Xishun for the first time, because that day Wang Kuihai just saw Zhang Xishun sneaking a kitchen cutting knife from the stove room, Wang Kuihai found Zhang Xishun, and before Wang Kuihai asked a question, Zhang Xishun himself took the initiative to admit it.
Wang Kuihai asked Zhang Xishun to apologize to Li Donghai, Zhang Xishun knew that he was wrong first, so he went to Li Donghai's house with a gift to apologize, and the person who opened the door for Zhang Xishun was Li Donghai's daughter Li Yuzhi, Who was playing chess with a fellow countryman, and did not have the kung fu to take care of Zhang Xishun, Zhang Xishun stood next to him until Li Donghai finished playing a game of chess.
Li Donghai also did not mention the matter of stealing chickens, but asked Zhang Xishun whether he would play chess, Zhang Xishun said that he would play a little, so the two people played a game of chess, Zhang Xishun was not Li Donghai's opponent at all, he was general Li Donghai without taking a few steps, Zhang Xishun lost three games in a row, but Zhang Xishun was not convinced, when the two people went down to the fourth game, Zhang Xishun and Li Donghai bet that if Li Donghai lost, he would give his daughter Xu to Zhang Xishun, but this time it was very unexpected, Zhang Xishun actually won Li Donghai.
Li Yuzhi, who was watching chess on the side, saw that his father had lost, and said without anger, you lost deliberately, ignoring you, Zhang Xishun and Li Yuzhi joked that "after that you will be my daughter-in-law", Li Yuzhi glanced at Zhang Xishun and said "stinky hooligan", Li Donghai on the side laughed loudly, Li Donghai did deliberately lose to Zhang Xishun, because he liked the young man in front of him, there was a strength not to accept defeat, Li Donghai left Zhang Xishun to eat at home, and let Zhang Xishun play chess with him more when he was fine.
After playing from this time, Zhang Xishun ran to Li Donghai's home every three forks and five minutes, Li Donghai taught Zhang Xishun to play chess, Zhang Xishun's chess skills have also been greatly improved, Zhang Xishun and Li Yuzhi have become good friends, in 1975, Li Yuzhi and Zhang Xishun married, after marriage Zhang Xishun stayed in northern Shaanxi, until 1985, Zhang Xishun returned to Beijing with two children and his wife Li Yuzhi.
After so many years, whenever he thought of the matter of cutting in line, Zhang Xishun and his wife Li Yuzhi joked that "the old man is still powerful, and he made me a door-to-door son-in-law in a game of chess", although it is a joke, but Li Donghai has also made a lot of effort for his daughter.