Others show their swords, I show my missiles!

The agreed game time is nine o'clock in the morning. But at eight o'clock, Doctor Shui came to the Youxuan chess room.

The boss, deputy chief of staff and many senior leaders also came. Li Yunlong, whose alias was Li Hao, the bearded guest, had arrived long ago but did not show up.

"Doctor Shui, it's still early for the game. It starts at nine o'clock. It's only eight o'clock now. You can rest for a while."

Doctor Shui said in panic:

"I am fortunate to have the guidance of Senior Qiu Bearded Guest Zi Qiu. It is a great honor.

I must wipe the chess equipment, wash my hands and burn incense, bathe and change clothes in advance to show respect for my seniors.

How dare you enter the chess room at the same time as your seniors? "

The side with high Go strength, or the side with a high rank, is called the upper hand; the side with low chess strength is called the lower hand.

It is a great honor for a subordinate to have the opportunity to ask for advice from his superior. Need to show enough respect for the master.

Therefore, you should enter the game early to start the game and wipe the chess equipment first. You must not arrive later than the first game.

It’s completely different from how kids learn Go now. Now let your children play chess with someone who is better than themselves. More than 80% of the children will say: "No, no! If I play against him, I will definitely lose!"

Some children even flip up the chessboard and leave when they see that they are about to lose.

If you were ignorant when you were young, you can forgive it once or twice. If you are still like this when you grow up, don't say you have learned Go when you go out. So as not to desecrate the elegant art of Go.

The boss and the deputy chief of staff looked at each other and smiled: If Dr. Shui knew, the person who was going to "instruct" him was a man who had just learned Go for half a month. In the past, he didn't know the word Dou Da. He didn't know if the pole fell over. Will he feel humiliated by the bold words?

Fortunately, I asked Li Yunlong before. Li Yunlong said that he was foolproof and would definitely be able to crush Doctor Shui.

He even said, "If I lose, I will never walk out of the chess room alive!"

Even if the headquarters doesn't believe in Li Yunlong, it still has to believe in Xisenthem, right?

Li Yunlong's confidence must come from Xisentem. If you still can't win after cheating, you deserve to be unlucky!

So he left Doctor Shui alone and sent someone to send Doctor Shui to the chess room.

He also promptly informed Li Yunlong not to arrive too early, but to come later or later.

The staff brought Doctor Shui to the Youxuan Chess Room.

I saw this chess room. There was a plaque hanging on the lintel with the four gilded characters "Profound and Mysterious" written on it. It looked solemn and elegant.

Pushing open the door, a faint fragrance hits your face, refreshing your heart and mind. Dr. Shui felt that when he smelled this fragrance, he suddenly became smarter!

Hearing and vision also seem to be better than before. Is this the "spiritual energy" that the legendary cultivators talk about?

The chess room is very spacious and well-lit. With the five-color soil and green plants beside the window sill, the whole room is both stylish and clean.

On the north side hangs "Resending Quatrains" written by Du Mu of the Tang Dynasty, written by a famous calligrapher: "There are so many exquisite skills in the world as there are few in the world, and there are few idlers in the world like mine. On a windy and snowy night outside the bamboo window behind me, a light illuminates the picture of Wu."

To the west is "Lanke Stone" written by Meng Jiao of the Tang Dynasty: "In one day in the immortal world, the world will be poor for thousands of years. The game of chess has not been completed, and everything is empty. When the woodcutter returns, his ax will rot in the wind. Only the remaining stone bridge is there, Just like Ling Danhong."

The entire chess room is simple and elegant. On the north side, there are antique, relatively high-end wooden tables and chairs used by spectators and note-takers. The liberated areas have indeed vigorously developed production, but the focus is not on enjoyment.

So we can only talk about "relatively" high-end wooden tables and chairs.

In the middle is a quince wood chess block with futons at both ends. Next to the futon is a small low table similar to a bedside table.

Kneeling is popular in Sakura Country, and it was also practiced in ancient China, but this posture is not comfortable. "Standing and talking without backache" is a product of that era. So Huaxia later stopped kneeling, but Sakura Country never changed.

If we were in Sakura Country, this place should have a chair specifically for kneeling and sitting, but Li Yunlong didn't have this habit, and it wasn't included in the seized supplies.

It is said that Li Yunlong is "getting started" and should take proper care of Li Yunlong. In other words, tables and chairs that are customary to China can be placed. But the chessboard is a chess block, and it is designed to be placed on the ground. If it is placed on a table, both parties may have to stand up to reach it.

Therefore, in order to use high-end chess pieces and to take into account the habits of both parties, the chess pieces were still placed on the ground, with only two futons placed at both ends. When the time comes, Doctor Shui will kneel down and Li Yunlong will sit cross-legged.

There is a pair of black persimmon wood chess sets placed on the chess block. The stripes are like flowing clouds and flowing water, which are exquisite. The contrasting lines of black and white allow players to always feel the coordination of yin and yang in the game of Go.

Black persimmon wood is a hard and precious wood species with black and white stripes on its surface. It is difficult to process and is extremely rare. Its wood color is mostly light yellow close to white. There may be one or two hundred black persimmon trees, and only one has black stripes. There is a saying that "ten thousand ancient persimmon trees, one black persimmon wood". This shows how precious its materials are.

The black grain of black persimmon wood is essentially a disease of persimmon wood, which results in different hardness of white grain and black grain, making it very laborious to process. And during the drying process, cracks are prone to occur.

Precious materials and extremely difficult production techniques make the black persimmon wood chess set extremely valuable.

The production of torre wood chess blocks is more sophisticated.

Torreya is recognized as the best wood for making Go boards. It has excellent elasticity and beautiful wood grain. The chessboard made of it is not only not easy to change color, but also has high elasticity when the pieces are dropped, and the sound of the pieces is pleasant to the ear.

The torreya trees usually used to make chessboards must be at least two hundred years old, and preferably more than three hundred years old. After the torreya wood is cut into sections, it must be left to dry in the natural environment for thirty years before it can be used to make chessboards.

Over such a long period of time, many people harvested the wood and died before making it into chessboards.

So there was a tradition of the father collecting wood and the son making chessboards.

The lines drawn on the chessboard are also very particular. They protrude from the chessboard, which Sakura craftsmen call "meshori". The techniques of eye-sheng include tachi-sheng, pen-sheng, and grate-mesheng.

"Tachikatsu" uses a cherry blossom knife dipped in special black paint to draw lines on the chessboard. Due to the unique tension of the black paint, the 19 lines on the chessboard look more textured.

Even in Sakura Country, this is high-end chess equipment.

Even if Shantun Ningji hadn't used some unknown methods, an amateur chess player like him would not be qualified to use such luxurious chess equipment.

Even though he is an army general and not a well-known chess player, if you want to buy a torre wood chess piece, no one will sell it!

As Dr. Shui knelt down on the futon, soft music gradually sounded in the chess room. For a while, the Sanskrit music was lingering, melodious and continuous.

Doctor Shui felt as if he had entered a fairyland on earth.

For the sake of a mere doctor, the headquarters has such good intentions. Doctor Shui was inexplicably moved. No matter what the outcome of today's game was, he was embarrassed to go south.

Dr. Shui excitedly took out a brand new white handkerchief and wiped the chess sets gently and carefully.

After wiping, he sat respectfully on the futon and waited for the bearded guest to arrive.

At 9:03, the bearded guest arrived. It wasn't that Li Yunlong was delayed because of something, nor was he deliberately despising Dr. Shui. But as the top player, you have to leave time for the bottom player to wipe the chess equipment, so the top player usually comes later.

After the door opened, the bearded guest nodded slightly to the room, and Doctor Shui and the staff bowed in return. Doctor Shui was especially respectful.