The first time I met Horsey, I went with A Fei (A Fei, one of my good friends, will be in another article). It was a late autumn evening in 2002, and it was already dark when I really saw him. Horsey, just like his name, is chic and elegant, neither tall nor short, neither fat nor thin, a little fat, wearing a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, a black suit and a yellow tie, and a little gentlemanly.
Teddy boy has seen him. After a brief greeting and shaking hands, he took us to a restaurant where he had a table of chess friends.
I heard from teddy boy that Su Beiren is generous, he does things generously and drinks generously. This time, he is no exception, but he only uses a glass when drinking beer. Maybe it's because of the long ride. Teddy boy can't drink well, I'm a little dizzy. If you drink any more, I'm afraid it will really become an "osprey" and make a joke.
The next morning, A Fei and I went to visit his classroom. The classroom is not very big, but he temporarily modified it in a temporarily rented house. Outside the classroom is his smaller kitchen. At that time, he didn't take many students, only about 20. These are all places that failed to attract my attention. The only thing that interests me is his good handwriting by the door: plain is true. The following is a very poetic sentence written in small letters: If you want to wander, but you don't wander, just like dandelions, spread a little dream all over the sky, and let them either grow or wither. And that original root is still there, pregnant with new hope, waiting for the wind to rise again.
I went to Jiangsu for the second time, when SARS was raging. A Fei has returned to his hometown in Sichuan. Because there is no internet (all Internet cafes are closed because of SARS), I chatted with Horsey on the phone, and he invited me over for a drink. I said, aren't you afraid of SARS? He said with a smile that he didn't want a buddy if he was afraid of SARS? Drinking can also drive away SARS! In a word, my eyes filled with tears. My wife missed me at that time, but she was afraid to call me back. Otherwise, the whole family will have to "rest" at home for a week and can't go to work and study.
I couldn't resist his temptation, or the temptation to drink with him, so I passed. After staying with him for three or four days, he was busier than before and took more students. Watching him happily deal with children all day, I thought that men are like this, elegant or embarrassed, generous or obscene, half born and half limited by living environment.
Like father, like daughter, most of his daughters have inherited his chess style, tough but gentle, and strive to write without losing details. He not only plays chess well, but also writes well. Later, I recommended an article to the newspaper Children's Weekly. When he left, he said that they were moving to a new home, and they must come back for a drink.
But I still missed the opportunity to congratulate him before he moved. Because of my job change, I was transferred to Zhejiang and seldom went to Jiangsu again. My long unbearable loneliness always caused trouble in my stomach, and I finally seized an opportunity to come to the old place again. When he came back, he had moved to a new house, and the second floor was not high. He said it was for the sake of the children, and they should not be allowed to climb up and down every day because they would be very tired. The new house has three rooms and two halls. A big room and a living room are used to teach chess. The house is new, the tables and chairs are new, and a computer is added. The only thing that hasn't changed is the vigorous calligraphy hanging at the main entrance of the living room. At this time, he took more students, divided into junior, middle and advanced classes. This is a painful experience for the beautiful and generous sister-in-law (I affectionately call her his wife). She used to be the boss, so she had to do housework at home for her husband's career. She said that although cleaning, washing and cooking at home every day is a little tired, once I can see the smiling faces of children coming in and out, I am very satisfied. Everyone says that behind a successful man, half of them are women. It seems that this is true.
Among his existing students, there are two students with four grades and seven students with three grades, who have won more than ten prizes in local competitions and often lead students to participate in Nanjing qualifiers and friendly matches at prefecture and city levels. I'm afraid only he knows the ups and downs.
That time, it was the most intimate conversation I had with him. He said that although China has a large population now, the population of Go is relatively small. At present, there are relatively many Go coaches, but few know how to pay equal attention to pedagogy, teachers' learning and children's psychology. At present, there are many Go textbooks, but few systematic, complete and step-by-step Go textbooks. ...
When he left, he gave me a book. On the title page of the book, he wrote a line: because he discovered the truth of life, all the beautiful imaginations about love, marriage and career finally began to show ordinary results in front of us. How can a young heart be content with being dull? But we have no way out, so we have to grow up, get married and work. We began to lose our independence, freedom, dissoluteness and lofty aspirations gradually, just because everything was dull.