[Soul of Chess] What if

[-]. Traces

This is a traditional Japanese house with an area of ​​nearly 300 square meters.

The house is basically constructed of wood and paper.The interior of the house also maintains the structure of the traditional house intact: under the eaves covered with blue-gray bricks and tiles, there is a corridor neatly laid with log floors.The doors and windows are wide and transparent, making the whole house look spacious and bright.The indoor inlaid floor is neatly covered with grass-green tatami mats, beds, low tables, low cabinets, bookcases, and such wooden furniture are neatly placed on them.The rooms are also separated by traditional dragging paper doors.

In addition, there are alcoves in the room of the Japanese room.

A piece of vigorous and powerful calligraphy hangs in the alcove, and the artistic conception contained in the brush strokes faintly shows the temperament of the owner of the house.

In front of the calligraphy and painting, there are exquisitely crafted warrior dolls, and the seasonal flower arrangements on the side add a lot of color to the room.

The interior furnishings of the whole house are very appropriate, simple but not crude, giving people a low-key and restrained feeling.

Outside, it is a garden with rich layers and full of Zen.

The gurgling water is perfectly integrated with the unique rockery, patchwork bushes, and paths paved with smooth and uniform cobblestones.Coupled with exquisite floor lamps and surrounding bamboo and wooden fences, it creates a natural and peaceful atmosphere, which complements the heavy house.

The door plate hanging on one side of the house has the word "Taya" written on it, indicating the identity of the people who live here.

In a bustling modern city, such a simple building with a very large area is quite rare.

What's more, the location of this house is Tokyo, where every inch of land is expensive.

From this point of view, this family should be quite wealthy.

At this time, a tall bamboo pole was erected in the courtyard.

At its top is a golden spinning ball with a pinwheel of the same color mounted below it.Below the windmill is a wind banner depicting colorful carps, and below it hangs black carps made of kapok, red carps, and small blue carps in order of size.

Carp banners, full of blessings for the boy's health and hope for the future, fluttered in the wind in the blue sky.

Perhaps because the owner is not at home, even under the sunlight at noon, the huge courtyard still looks very cold, only the sound of carp banners fluttering in the soft spring breeze can be heard.

It was not until the evening that the owner of the house came back in the afterglow of the setting sun.

I saw a well-dressed couple walking slowly towards this side, leading a well-dressed little boy.It looks like an ordinary family of three.

The young child seemed to be very exhausted, but he still didn't choose to lie on his father's back for a nap. Instead, he held his mother's hand stubbornly and walked towards home step by step.

This little boy is the protagonist of this story—Taya Ryo.

This is the seventh Children's Day that Ah Bright has celebrated.

This spring, he just became a primary school student.Since today is a public holiday, he does not have to go to school, so he can continue to spend this special day with his parents as usual.

This day was the same as in previous years. Early in the morning, mother Akiko Toya arranged a samurai doll in gorgeous armor in the room. On both sides of the doll were neatly placed exquisite small military flags, bows and arrows, and well-decorated sabers.

Of course, she has already prepared special foods such as zongzi and cypress cakes.In addition, Akiko's mother specially prepared bento boxes in the shape of carp flags and armored Kintaro for Ah Liang.

The carp banner in the courtyard has already been raised with the help of his father Ta Yayuki.

Not long after breakfast, guests came to visit one after another.

To be precise, most of them are disciples of his father Toya Yoko.

Ah Liang's father, Ta Yayuki Hiroshi, is currently one of the top players in the Go world.He is said to have achieved celebrity status at the young age of 25, and has since successfully defended his title while picking up new ones.Therefore, he has become a legend in the Go world, and he is even called the man who is "closest to supernatural skills" in the contemporary era.

Because of this, there are countless people who want to worship under him.

However, after some strict screening, there were no more than five people who actually became the famous disciples of Taya.

The age difference between these people and Ah Liang's is not too big.The biggest age difference is Ogata Seiji, who is 15 years older than A Liang.Ashihara Hiroyuki is the one with the smallest age difference between A Liang and A Liang. He is only 7 years older than A Liang, so he can barely be regarded as A Liang's peer.

In general, they can barely be called Onisang instead of Ojisang by Ah Liang, which is really gratifying. (^o^)/~

My father's Go research meetings are generally held at home.

In addition to discussing the chess game, in the spare time of the chess game, they also talked about the news, chatted about life, and occasionally made some innocuous jokes to liven up the atmosphere.In this way, there is also an emotional exchange between each other.Coupled with the promotion of Akiko's mother, the atmosphere of the seminar is very harmonious, even a bit like a family gathering, very warm and harmonious.

And A Liang has been learning Go under the guidance of his father since he was two years old.Therefore, he and several disciples under his father's sect were no strangers to each other.

In addition, under the guidance of his parents, Ah Liang has been able to speak and behave quite decently at a young age, and he is already very decent in his dealings with others.In addition, his appearance is also very handsome and beautiful.

Who would not be happy to see such a lovely child?

Therefore, on weekdays, these people will unconsciously take care of A Liang, and can't help teasing him in their spare time, wanting to hear A Liang's soft and soft Onisan... -_- |||

Of course, for the very smart A Liang, this is completely futile.

Except for being fooled by them because of lack of precaution at the beginning, Ah Liang has never been fooled again, but has always followed the etiquette and called them Mr. So-and-so.

After they continued to try several times without giving up, they finally gave up trying to hear A Liang call them "brother" again.Although, this is quite a pity for them (Hey! What are you pitying? Are you weird?!(╯‵ ′)╯︵┻━┻)

Cough, but this trivial matter will not affect their love and care for A Liang as always.

Because of this, on this special day, they came here spontaneously, and carefully prepared some small gifts for A Liang on Children's Day.

It wasn't until the last guest was sent away that Taya and his wife held a festival celebration for A Liang according to the original plan, so the end time was much later than expected.

After taking the calamus bath, Ah Liang, who was very tired, regained some energy.With the help of Akiko's mother, he unwrapped the gift with full anticipation.

Mr. Ogata sent a box of sweets in the shape of irises.As in previous years, it was quite satisfactory.Looking at the dim sum in front of him, and recalling Mr. Ogata's words and deeds, A Liang couldn't help but sigh with emotion: Mr. Ogata is indeed very rigorous.

This cute Kintaro puppet was sent by Mr. Ashihara.

It really fits Mr. Ashihara's personality.Ah Liang played with the puppet dumbfounded: It seems that Mr. Lu Yuan really treats himself like a child.Although my age is indeed much younger than Mr. Ashihara, it doesn't mean that I really like dolls that my peers are keen on...

There are many more gifts.

There are festival-related ones, such as carp streamer-shaped Western-style desserts, Kintaro ice cream cakes, limited-edition shogun helmet-shaped desserts, and more.There are also practical gifts, such as school bags, stationery...

No matter what kind of gift he received, Ah Liang seemed very happy.After all, they are like family.

Under Ah Liang's struggle, almost all the gift boxes piled up in front of him like a hill were finally opened.Then, a tightly wrapped gift box appeared in front of Ah Liang.

This is a gift box about 30cm high.The outside of the box is carefully wrapped with elegant wrapping paper, and tied with red and white hard paper ropes.Thinking about it, the other party spent a lot of thought on preparing this gift.

However, the moment he saw the box, Ah Liang couldn't help but wonder: Huh?I have never seen this box before.Who will send it?

Full of doubts, A Liang and Ming Zi's mother unpacked the gift box together.After peeling off layers of wrapping paper, the wrapped gift box finally appeared in front of Ah Liang.

After gently opening the box, the contents inside finally revealed Lushan's true face.

It was a chess board.

It has four round feet, grid-like lines are neatly drawn on the pale yellow-white plane, and the beautiful annual rings of logs can be seen on the side.

Although the chessboard has been kept quite well, almost without any damage, but the faintly revealing heavy historical atmosphere cannot be concealed.It must have been an item used by someone long ago.

There is also a beautifully crafted greeting card inside the box.

However, the card only stated that it was sent to A Liang, and there was no signature, so it was impossible to know who sent it.

After seeing the gift in the box clearly, Mingzi's mother couldn't help but exclaimed.She hurriedly got up and invited her father Taya Mingren.

After looking at the chessboard, the father picked up the greeting card that came with the gift.He looked at it seriously for a long time, perhaps trying to figure out who the other party was from the handwriting.But it seems that there is no clue.He pondered for a moment beside the chessboard, and then slowly said: "In this case, then, let's accept it for now."

After getting his father's permission, A Liang carefully carried the chessboard out of the box.

For some reason, the moment he saw this chessboard, Ah Liang felt that all his attention was attracted by it.

Now that I have been in close contact with the chessboard, my heart has become more and more joyful, as if this is something I have been looking forward to for a long time.It's incredible.

He couldn't help stretching out his hand to caress the disk carefully, and the corners of his mouth raised uncontrollably.

Then, he noticed that extending from the upper right corner of the chessboard to the center, there was something that seemed to be dyed dark black, and the traces were still slightly reddish.

Was it an accidental stain?

Ah Liang thought about it, and then tried to wipe it gently with his fingertips, but it didn't feel like there was anything on his hands.He wiped it a little harder a few times, but the marks didn't change in the slightest.

Isn't it a stain?

Driven by doubts, A Liang couldn't help but bend down and observe carefully.After some inspection, he realized that the marks were not stains on the surface, but something that had penetrated deep into the wood.

What could it be?The little A Liang supported his head with his hands, and he frowned tightly, thinking hard.

It's a pity that he thought for a long time, but still found nothing.

Mingzi's mother saw A Liang's series of actions in her eyes.Seeing that his son seemed to be troubled by something, he said softly, "Xiao Liang, what's wrong?"

Hearing his mother's inquiry, Ah Liang raised his head. He pointed to the chessboard and said in a low voice, "There's a big strange mark here. I've been thinking about it for a long time, but I can't figure out what it is." ..."

"Eh?"

Hearing what A Liang said, Ming Zi's mother turned her head.However, she didn't see the strange trace that A Liang said.She asked with some doubts: "Where are the strange traces you mentioned? They obviously look clean."

"It's right here." A Liang gestured on the chessboard with his hands while talking.

Mingzi's mother bent down and carefully stared at the place where Ah Liang's finger was pointing.

However, even though she has observed repeatedly for a long time within the scope of A Liang's gestures, she still has nothing to gain.

All she could see were the clear and distinct grid lines on the log chessboard.

But Ah Liang's bewildered expression didn't seem like a fake.

So, she had no choice but to say apologetically, "But Mom really didn't see anything..."

Seeing A Liang's lost expression after hearing his words, Ming Zi felt even more guilty.She shifted her gaze to the celebrity Taya on the side: "Where's Dad?"

A Liang also quickly looked at his father expectantly.

Unfortunately, my father just shook his head slightly.

Ah Liang's drooping head became even more drooping because of this.

Seeing this, Mingzi's mother squatted down.She gently stroked Ah Liang's head, and said softly: "Maybe it's because Mom was too tired today, so I didn't see it. It's already late, why don't we come here today, and you can point out tomorrow." Show it to mom, can you?"

A Liang just nodded silently to her mother's words.

The author has something to say:

After finally being free, I saw a lot of blessings, and my heart was warmed immediately. (*^▽^*)

thank you all! ??(.?▽`.)??

This bonus is a sudden brain hole that has nothing to do with the text. It tells the story of what would happen if Zuowei met Taya. It is also a gift for you who have always supported me.

Hope you guys like it. (v＾＾＾)v