Siheyuan: Starting with level 8 benchwork skills

Su Xinghe smiled and said nothing, and reset the chess game again.

In this round of the game, Hong Daoyan made significant progress, and White seemed to have a chance to turn the tables. Unfortunately, he was defeated in the end, and Hong Daoyan directly asked for a restart without any hesitation.

Su Xinghe secretly felt that Hong Daoyan was not a suitable candidate so he did not personally restore the chess position, but Hong Daoyan took the initiative to arrange the game again.

After setting up the chessboard, Hong Daoyan did not rush to make a move, but instead looked thoughtful. Finally, he pretended that he could not sit for long and walked around.

Su Xinghe didn't pay much attention to him and simply started playing chess with himself, always fantasizing that one day he would be able to successfully solve the chess game, so as to inherit his teacher's kindness and avenge his hatred.

But as time went by, year after year, Su Xinghe got older. As for Wuyazi, he was only relying on his years of profound skills to prolong his life, and it was unknown how many years he could live!

There is also an episode that is not included in this story: the physical data of the short and fat man before the end of his life - his height was 165 cm and his weight was also 165 kg.

### 12 New Game ###

When Hong Daoyan was sixteen years old, he was only 165 cm tall and weighed 95 catties. Although he was not tall and strong, he had a handsome face and was favored by female classmates. A female classmate pursued him when he was in junior high school, and he experienced two emotional journeys, one lasting half a year and the other one for a year.

At that time, due to family needs, he started his career after graduating from junior high school. Due to his young age and short stature, he only got an apprenticeship job in the first year; in 2008, his annual salary was only 3500 yuan, and he worked hard in a small workshop.

Due to his meager salary and his determination to save, he was unable to get adequate nutrition and physical exercise during his physical development. He worked in a workshop for more than 340 hours over 10 days a year, so he remained 165 cm tall from junior high school until his bones were formed in adulthood. After a relationship ended at the age of 28, his body shape gradually changed due to lack of exercise and staying at home for a long time.

If time could go back, his physical condition and development direction would definitely be very different. He would become a handsome and elegant man instead of what he is now.

By the way, according to his logic: if a man is not good-looking but is good at picking up girls and is fickle, he can only be called a **; if a man is handsome but amorous and unfaithful, he deserves the title of a "scumbag"!

Hong Daoyan decided to reshape his appearance back to that of a 15-year-old. Looking at the boy in the mirror, he couldn't help but burst into tears. After all, that was the appearance closest to his original identity and the one he most desired in his memory. If he had the opportunity to return to his original time and space, he vowed to become a good and responsible scumbag.

Looking at this familiar and handsome face, he began to compare it with his image as a writer and even the impression of his readers. He realized that compared with the readers, his appearance was indeed a little less handsome. Even if he set himself as the protagonist in the story, he could not reach the standard of handsomeness.

After some adjustments, the former "Hongdaoyan" acquired an attractive image and temperament - heroic and handsome; this new image was fixed.

Such physical condition, including his experience in adolescence and letters and photos, were shown to me, which made me feel extremely envious; but I was skeptical about the meager salary figure of that year. In my opinion, even in 2008, working in any ordinary factory, the monthly income would be much higher than the amount he mentioned, but he always insisted that he could only do so because he was under the legal age.

But because I have never experienced the life of a migrant worker starting out as a minor, I don't know the real situation. The content here is recorded entirely in accordance with his personal statement.

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In the following description, Hong Daoyan pretended to think over and over again and stopped. Suddenly, he blurted out as if he had realized something: "I understand, I understand this truth! Mencius once taught us: When we encounter obstacles in our actions, we should reflect on ourselves and cultivate our character, then people will naturally admire us." After that, he sat on the stone bench again and asked the old scholar Su Xinghe to give him another chance to break the formation.

Su Xinghe looked up at him with a white chess piece in his hand, then shook his head and did not agree.

Hong Daoyan had no choice but to act like a stubborn person, rearrange the chessboard, and even took away the white chess piece that fell into Su Xinghedao's hand. While busy, he said, "Old senior, I hope you can be more magnanimous. I have indeed solved the chess game. I just hope you can play this game with me again."

After the chessboard was rearranged, he immediately started playing against Su Xinghe again. Every time Su Xinghe placed a black chess piece, he would immediately place a white chess piece without any hesitation.

When the white chess pieces seemed to be in a stalemate, Su Xinghe frowned, thinking that the young man was acting too rashly. He felt a little unhappy, but still chose to be patient and continue playing chess.

As the number of white chess pieces continued to increase, Su Xinghe was slightly surprised - the white chess pieces in front of him had a chance to survive in the desperate situation and actually escaped!

After making several moves, he calculated silently in his mind and realized that the white chess pieces had found a way out and were on the verge of winning!

He raised his head and stared at the young man in front of him. Hong Daoyan smiled and said, "Gaining is losing, and losing is gaining! Life contains death, so look within yourself! This game of chess is truly wonderful!"

Finally, Su Xinghe could no longer bear it and said excitedly, "Great! I have waited for so long and finally this moment has come! Your talent is truly amazing. The Zhenlong chess game has been completed. Now please join me."

After Hong Daoyan nodded slightly in agreement, Su Xinghe took Hong Daoyan to the front of the wooden hut and respectfully asked Hong Daoyan to go in.

These three small houses are very strange. They are completely enclosed with no doors or windows!

So, Hong Daoyan clenched his right fist and punched directly at the place where Su Xinghe pointed. This time, no internal energy was added to the punch, just normal force.

There is a reason for not using real power to break the wooden wall. The life currently in the first stage does not have any power basis in "Nine Transformations of the Elixir and the Dragon and Tiger Ode", and there is no overlap in the human body models of the two.

Fortunately, the door panel was not very stable and a crack appeared after a sound.

After hitting the board hard, he finally broke it. However, his palm was cut and bleeding and felt burning. But the wound healed quickly!

After walking in, Hong Daoyan found that there was no item in the room.

The room was dark and sealed, with only a smashed hole as the only source of light.

Suddenly, an old man's deep voice came from the compartment and said, "Since you are here, why are you so hesitant to move forward?" Then he turned to the direction of the voice and replied, "Please point out the correct path."

The voice sounded again: "You have opened up your own path. No one can directly teach you the answer. No one has been able to solve this chess game for decades. Until today, you finally got it. What are you waiting for?"

The old man's voice continued, "This opportunity will never come back again. I have waited for thirty years and cannot wait any longer. Child, please hurry inside!"

Hong Daoyan felt that the elder's words were full of kindness, and it was obvious that he had no bad intentions. Without thinking, he pushed his shoulder against the wooden wall. The wall panel had become rotten due to age, so he easily knocked a hole in it.

What came into view was another empty room, but there was an elder sitting in mid-air.

I heard the man exclaim: "Not bad, not bad. Although he looks ordinary, he is a young talent!"

Following the continuous "good" sounds, Hong Daoyan looked again and found that the man was actually tied up with a black rope, hanging in the air, and the other end of the rope was connected to the beam of the house.

Because the board wall and the rope in the background are both black, the two blend together, making the rope almost invisible. At first glance, it looks like it is suspended in mid-air.

Hong Daoyan bowed his hands and said respectfully: "Junior Hong Daoyan greets the elder!"

The old man smiled and said, "Everything is just as I wished. Great! My dear child, are you willing to accept me as your master?"

Hong Daoyan was of course happy to accept it, and he immediately knelt down and kowtowed to the master. After kowtowed nine times in a row, he shouted to Wuyazi: "Disciple Hong Daoyan greets the master!"

After hearing Hong Daoyan's words of apprenticeship, Wuyazi was very happy: "Good boy, good boy! Come here!"

Hong Daoyan knew that he was going to pass on his cultivation to him, so he did not accept it. Instead, he took out the cloth scroll secret book from his bag and explained, "Respected Master, this is a secret book that I accidentally obtained while traveling. I don't know how profound and refined the content is, and I have not yet started to study and practice!"

Upon seeing the secret book, Wuyazi asked excitedly: "My dear, when you got the secret book, did you see any women? She is my wife!"

To this, Hong Daoyan replied: "Master, I did not see any woman appear, nor did I see any other figures!"

After hearing the answer, Wuyazi seemed a little disappointed. After a while, he continued to ask: "Then how did you find this secret book in Wuliang Mountain?"

Then, Hong Daoyan described to him everything that happened when he entered the depths of Wuliang Mountain and at the bottom of Jianhu Valley, but concealed some of the details.

When Wuyazi heard that the master of the secret book was planning to have the successor of the "Beiming Divine Art" kill all the Xiaoyao Sect's fellow disciples, he could not help but sigh deeply and said, "My junior sister, why do you have to do this to such an extreme..."

Seeing Wuyazi fell into deep thought, Hong Daoyan did not disturb him and waited for him to sort out his thoughts.

After a while, Wuyazi said: "Excellent **, this seems to be a chance destined by heaven; not only have you obtained our most superior mental method, but you can also appear before me, which is really the arrangement of the dark!

Our sect advocates following the righteous path between heaven and earth, controlling the changes of yin and yang, and traveling freely in the infinite universe to achieve an unrestrained and free life.

This faction is named 'Xiaoyao Sect'!