Into the night.
The north wind was howling and cold.
In a room on the sixth floor of the lodging building, Old Mr. Pepper and Old Mr. Miller are playing on a chessboard, and Jason is present, having been specially called over by Old Mr. Pepper to make tea and water.
Jason serves tea and water to these two equally important and both respectable old men in his life, while at the same time observing their game.
Previously, two sentences have been played, the two are each a win, and now this third game is the time to decide the winner.
Jason has been observing these games for a while, and has to admit that Old Mr. Pepper’s chess skills have indeed improved a lot, the key is that Old Mr. Miller’s attainment in chess is actually not bad, after he has never seen Old Mr. Miller play chess.
At the end of the game, neither of them could do anything on the chessboard, and there were not many black and white pieces left, so it seemed that the game could only end in a draw.
“No win, no loss, kind of a tie.”
Old Mr. Pepper looked at the chess surface and smiled.
Old Mr. Miller took a sip of tea and said, “In Hyacinth, there is a man who is called the Sage of Chess, a man who is a master of chess, and in whose chessboard he has the heavens and the earth as the board, and the great powers of the world as the pawns, and he is the one who holds the pawns, and he intends to push the whole great power of the world.”
“Oh? Such a foreigner must be extremely extraordinary, too?” Old Mr. Pepper asked.
“Humph!” Old Mr. Miller snorted coldly, looking unimpressed, and said, “William is nothing more than a self-righteous fellow, just like that liar, thinking that he can control the world’s momentum, or even dominate the world’s momentum. He would not know that the trend is changeable, like clouds and wind, there are thousands of changes. The world does not have a fixed trend, only the trend of change, to one person’s power to try to dominate the trend of change, not only futile will fall into a laughing stock.”
Old Mr. Pepper smiled blandly and said, “It would be inappropriate for me to intervene in this Hyacinth matter, but I suppose you’ve already got something laid out, haven’t you?”
As he spoke, Old Mr. Pepper’s eyes gave Jason a purposeful glance.
Old Mr. Miller took out a dry tobacco stick and lit it up, smoked a mouthful of dry tobacco and then smiled in a heated and self-satisfied manner and said, “Old Mr. Pepper, you also know my temperament, and I have always been a person who breaks the game with one force. So, it doesn’t matter if it’s laid out or not. What matters is that the fist should be hard enough and strong enough.”
“Just like the time when you accompanied me on the battlefield, alone, to take the enemy’s camp and kill the enemy’s general?” Old Mr. Pepper asked with a smile as his old eyes gazed up.
“That’s for sure.” Old Mr. Miller said no less.
Hearing this, Jason couldn’t help but be interested and said, “Old Mr. Pepper, Old Mr. Miller even went to war with you, huh? I’ve never heard him mention this past either. How did you work together on the battlefield back then?”
Old Mr. Pepper laughed, a flash of reminiscence in his old eyes as he said, ”That was many decades ago. At that time, I was about thirty years old, and Old Mr. Miller was in his early twenties. At that time, Old Mr. Miller accompanied me to the battlefield as my bodyguard, and we experienced many battlefields, and that period of time was really filled with iron and steel, and smoke.
The most dangerous time, the enemy army with ten times the strength of the siege us, that battle no matter how to fight is bound to lose the situation, Old Mr. Miller but do not believe in evil, in the night, alone, broke through the layers of the enemy army blockade ambush, sneaked into the enemy campsite, straight to take the enemy leader, beheaded him, cut off the head of the public. I took the opportunity to lead the troops to launch a general attack, the enemy saw the leader was killed, confidence is lost, disorganized, so routed. That battle, until many years later, is still a memorable classic.”
Old Mr. Miller also smiled and said, “At that time, I was also young and not afraid of death, and would always do many heroic things. However, on the battlefield, it is still about teamwork and team fighting, individual heroism is often not to be desired.”
“Having said that, it was your heroism that saved my life several times back then. Otherwise, this old bone of mine would have long been accounted for in that battlefield, how could I still be alive now?” Old Mr. Pepper said with a smile.
Old Mr. Miller remembered something and said, “At that time, there were two prides in the military region, one of which was you, Old Mr. Pepper, and the other was Connor, the old man. At that time, you and Connor were in charge of different battle fronts, but they both won many battles and were indistinguishable from each other, and for a time, they were listed as the two great prides of the military, and no one could match them.”
The gaze in Old Mr. Pepper’s old eyes narrowed slightly as he said, “At that moment, Connor was also assisted by an ancient martial arts powerhouse by his side, known only as a martial artist with the surname of Blade, and if he’s still alive now, he’d be about the same age as you.”
“Blade Evil …”
Old Mr. Miller old eyes vaguely flashed a flash of sharpness, but did not say anything else.
“After the war was settled, you left the army and traveled to Hyacinth, stirring up the entire Hyacinth. That kind of fastidious life of walking the river with a green coat and a sword, it’s quite something to aspire to.” Old Mr. Pepper smiled, then he slightly sighed and said, “Then later, because of that incident, you were depressed, disheartened, and your mind was silent, so you went back to hiding. This Jason was also met by you when you were in the most depressed state of mind, right?”
“Pretty much.” Old Mr. Miller nodded his head and continued, “Jason’s appearance has gradually revitalized my silent state of mind. Otherwise, I would have ended up in that poor mountain valley.”
“O old fellow, at any rate, it is best that you should walk out on this.” Old Mr. Pepper said.
Jason’s face was stunned, but he hadn’t expected to be able to bring about such a change of heart in Old Mr. Miller.
However, when Old Mr. Miller was in a state of despair and despair, he met Jason, who was still in his infancy, and he adopted the baby, and since then the old man and the young man began to depend on each other.
The baby’s vitality is fragile but tenacious, every day the vitality will appear more and more vigorous, perhaps it is in this kind of dependence and day by day to watch the baby gradually grow in the process, his state of mind is also infected and affected, so that their own silent state of mind began to renew new life.
“In the blink of an eye, decades have flicked by, you and I are getting old.” Old Mr. Pepper lamented, and added, “Lian Po is old, can he still eat?”
“Old Mr. Pepper-head, I’m not like you. You can’t even hold a gun now. But I’m different. I serve my age, but these fists of mine don’t.” Old Mr. Miller said with narrowed eyes.
“Haha, if there is an opportunity, I must go to that Hyacinth to see you, the Martial Sage, in all your splendor.” Old Mr. Pepper laughed and then asked, “Old Mr. Miller, who happened to choose this time period to go up to the capital, did you want to come and wish me a birthday celebration as well?”
“A birthday wish? Is it hard to believe it’s your 80th birthday?” Old Mr. Miller asked.
Old Mr. Pepper nodded and said, “Right. In two days it will be my eightieth birthday. I didn’t want to organize it. However, the younger members of my family insisted on organizing a celebration, so I went along with them. However, even if organized that is also the form of family feast, will not be open to the public, the people who come are also friends and relatives. Since you guys happened to come over, then go and join in the fun.”
“It’s only natural that your eightieth birthday should be well organized. At that time, Jason and I will go over to wish you a happy birthday.” Old Mr. Miller said smilingly.
“Old Mr. Pepper, then I’ll go ahead and wish you a long life.” Jason said with a smile.
Old Mr. Pepper glared at him and said, “That’s only natural, I’d like to live a few more years to teach you boys a good lesson for a few more years.”