Chapter 213

The time for going out has been decided.

It is just one week later.

During this period, we need to settle the household affairs, after all Dong Junwei will also go along, so at that time only Tang Jing can temporarily act as the chief.

Tang Jing's ability is certainly reliable, but she usually does not participate in ordinary affairs, so a work handover is still needed.

Also.

It is the further modification and repair of the vehicle.

Wei Dalei these days almost daily drives a loop for fun, and he also discovered some problems, for example, although the toy car is perfectly scaled down, precisely because of that, the vehicle's center of gravity is actually unreasonable.

This is also why the toy car is more prone to tip over when driving, and those high-speed toy cars are almost all low-chassis race cars, such as the four-wheel-drive model.

Tang Jing also explained the principle here, but when she uttered a bunch of terms like "scaling law," Chen Mu could no longer understand.

Because this outing has a clear goal and the task is quite heavy, Chen Mu made full preparations, whether food or weapons, he brought more than before, and when deciding the outgoing personnel, he also put some thought into it.

He still does not plan to take Wei Dalei out, after all the home needs him more.

And He Ying, as an old partner, is naturally indispensable.

The other few people, as previously thought, Sun Yuan and Chang Junyan, as important assistants, were also brought along.

Also, he brought Xiao Pangzi Yu Yuan along.

This guy's ability, while at home it is rather disliked, once out in the field its usefulness becomes obvious.

Although the truck's space is large, it still needs to load gold, so the food brought cannot be much, just for emergency.

After the previous meeting, the atmosphere of Qiming also eased, no longer as busy as before, everyone can have more time together chatting and playing.

Everyone has few entertainment options, the most played is just rock-paper-scissors to decide who sings, etc.

So far, everyone except Tang Jing has performed a talent, even Chen Mu, this tone-deaf guy, performed a two-minute one-handed handstand.

It's not that Tang Jing doesn't want to perform, but no one can win at rock-paper-scissors against her.

However, this entertainment method gradually became unsustainable, because talents are limited, after the last time Xue Xu was forced to almost perform a fart, everyone's enthusiasm also waned a lot.

As the Chinese saying goes: all work and no play makes smart Jack stupid.

But without phones or computers, these high schoolers really couldn't think of any entertainment.

Until one day.

Chen Mu saw Qian Fei and Cao Zishan squatting on the ground drawing something.

He went over to look, and it turned out to be a chessboard pattern.

"Five-in-a-row?" Chen Mu asked curiously.

"Yeah, bored and idle, just playing around." Qian Fei smiled, then drew a circle on the ground with a stone.

They didn't use physical objects as pieces, but used drawn circles and triangles to represent them.

Both of these people are tall and big, squatting on the ground looks somewhat strained.

Soon, Qian Fei won this round.

Afterwards, the two changed to another spot, redrew the grid lines, preparing for the next game.

"This is so troublesome, why don't I just make you a set of pieces?" Chen Mu said.

"Huh."

The two were stunned.

Qian Fei said: "That would be great, but wouldn't it take up your time?"

"I've been relatively free lately, and this isn't troublesome."

Then.

Chen Mu took a piece of stainless steel from his own weapon.

Since it couldn't be colored, he could only distinguish by shape.

One shape is circular, the other triangular.

It looks a bit odd, but the effect is not bad.

Soon, a pile of pieces was stacked on the ground.

Cao Zishan picked up two, compared them, and said: "Senior Chen, you're amazing, these pieces are exquisite and small, and the key is they are actually the same size, like machine-made."

"Upon close inspection there are still flaws." Chen Mu laughed: "But they should be enough for playing chess."

"More than enough." Qian Fei also loved playing with these stainless steel pieces, suddenly thought of something, and said: "Hey? Since we already made them, why not help us make a set of Chinese chess?"

"Chinese chess?"

"Yeah, we play five-in-a-row also because of convenience, Chinese chess can't be played like that just now, but five-in-a-row is after all too simple, playing it a lot gets boring."

"Do you know how to play?" Chen Mu recalled that when he was a child in the orphanage, playing chess was a frequent activity, though back then flying chess, animal chess, etc. were popular, and Chinese chess was somewhat dull for kids.

However, the orphanage's chess sets were limited, those fun ones were almost all taken by the older kids first, so he played Chinese chess for many years with a few kids who also couldn't compete.

Of course, his level remained low, at that age no one seriously taught him, basically he just played aimlessly.

"Both of us know how." Qian Fei said.

Indeed, birds of a feather flock together; over time, even these twenty-odd people of Qiming will gradually develop closer and more distant relationships.

For example, the chess-loving Cao Zishan and Qian Fei have gotten together, Zhu Hao, Chang Junyan and Sun Yuan are originally a gang, and among the girls, Feng Xiao Yu and Zhao Xiao Yan now have a relatively close relationship…

These are certainly not considered small cliques, but due to personality and hobbies, there will always be people who get along better to play together; now that everyone's work is not as busy as before, this becomes even more obvious.

"Okay, then I'll help you make a set of Chinese chess." Chen Mu pushed the previously made five-in-a-row set aside, these things are still useful, he'll see later if others want to play, and then asked: "Without color distinction, or should we use different shapes?"

"That seems kind of weird."

"Can we use different materials?"

"Makes sense." Chen Mu said: "Use stainless steel for black pieces, copper for red pieces, that should be more obvious."

The three of them gathered together and found the corresponding materials.

The chess pieces are very easy.

And the characters on it, for Chen Mu, are now not very difficult either.

It only took a few minutes, and a chess set was completed.

The silver-white and yellow colors are still fairly distinct.

Chen Mu was quite satisfied.

Qian Fei and Cao Zishan were even more excited, about to draw a chessboard on the ground, but Chen Mu simply went the extra mile and made them a chessboard out of wood.

The two of them treasured it as if it were a priceless treasure.

They immediately sat down on the ground and started playing.

Chen Mu watched from the side, recalling the scene of playing chess as a child; back then he had figured out the rules himself and had taken many detours.

Playing chess still depends quite a bit on talent.

After watching for a while, Chen Mu realized that these two were indeed much stronger than him.

And it seemed that Cao Zishan's level was a bit higher.

Not long after.

Then he heard him laugh loudly: "General, a horse's rear cannon checkmate—sorry, senior!"