[Soul of Chess] What if

Sakai, when did you meet Toranojiro?After Hikaru silently sympathized with Torari, he couldn't help asking Zuowei who was also listening to the staff's explanation carefully.

Hmm... Torajiro and I met at the home of Asano Castle Lord. At that time, Torajiro was already learning chess from Master Homa.So, it should be Tianbao's six years... Zuo Wei thought for a while, and answered with some uncertainty.

Zuowei's hesitant answer made Aguang's eyes crescent-shaped without any suspense.

Seeing Aguang's slightly dissatisfied expression, Zuo Wei suddenly puffed up his cheeks: I have been sleeping on the chessboard all the time, how could I know what time it was? ●︿●(｀⌒メ)

Seeing this, Ah Guang quickly appeased: Sorry, sorry, I don’t know if there is still such a situation ≥﹏≤

However, did you meet them then?Aang was a little surprised.

Yes.It was at that time that Torajiro and I met.Zuo Wei's voice sounded distant and gentle.

On the third day after being expelled from the capital on charges of cheating, Zuowei came to the Uji River.

It was late autumn, and the sky-gray miscanthus covered both sides of the river, swaying gently in the breeze.

If it is a fine day, these pampas grasses should emit a slight silver halo under the sunlight. Against the sparkling water, it must be a very touching scene.

It's a pity that the sky was gray that day, and Zuo Wei was not in the mood to appreciate it.

He has been to many places in the past two days, and that number may be several times the place names he has known since he was born.

After all, except for Go, he hardly ever went out in the past.

However, there are so many places, but no one is willing to take him in...

Apart from Go, he has no skills to make a living.However, in the places related to Go, after seeing that it was him, they all closed their doors to thank the guests.

Presumably, he must have heard about what happened during the imperial chess game that day.

He has tried to find another way of life.It's just that people looked at him as if they saw something disgusting, which was extremely cold and bone-chilling.

So, he had no choice but to flee in embarrassment.

The world is obviously so big.However, there is no place of her own...

So tired...

I always feel like I've reached my limit...

It seems that no matter what, I can't hold on any longer...

It's better, let's end it like this.

Perhaps it would be better to end like this.

So, let's end it like this.

He thought like this, and then walked slowly step by step to the depths of the Uji River.

The river water in late autumn is still slightly chilly.However, it makes people feel warmer than people's eyes, like returning to the arms of their mother.

The river flowed over Zuo Wei's body little by little, and his consciousness gradually passed away.

Unexpectedly, my life ended like this.

It was such a short and dreary life.

It's a pity that I can't continue playing chess...

Ah... I really want to play chess again...

I really want to continue playing chess...

Even if it's just another round, it's enough...

On this day, people in Heian-kyo seemed to see a snow-white owl.

It is said that if a white owl appears when a person dies, the soul of the deceased will wander in this world for 1000 years.

However, Zuo Wei had no way of knowing all this.

Maybe it's because of too much obsession.After Zuo Wei fell into the water, his soul did not ascend to heaven, but was attached to a chessboard.

In this way, day after day, year after year, he has been boarding on the chessboard.

He often relieves his desire to play chess by thinking about the chess pieces arranged on dozens or hundreds of chessboards.Sometimes he couldn't help but recall the time after he was expelled from the capital, and then he couldn't help but shed tears of regret.

And these tears accumulated over time and formed tear stains on the chessboard.

In the long years, countless people have passed by the chessboard where he boarded.

However, no one has ever discovered him.

On this day, he heard footsteps again.

coming!

Someone...someone... is coming!

is a child...

Will he find me?

Will he find me?

Zuo Wei was looking forward to it vaguely.

Even though he would fail every time, he still looked forward to it so eagerly.

While stroking the traces on the chessboard with his fingertips, the child said puzzledly: "No one has seen the stains on the chessboard, and the stains are like tears. Why can only I see it? "

His voice sounded a little low.

!

Hearing the child's voice, Zuo Wei opened his eyes slightly in disbelief:

at last……

Finally someone found me...

Zuo Wei stood up slowly.

"My child, my child. If you can see my unwilling tears, please let me stay in a small corner of your heart."

Looking at the smart and handsome child in front of him, Zuo Wei said softly.

This little boy is Torajiro.

Toranojiro did not appear panicked by Zuo Wei's sudden appearance, but asked seriously: "Are you also a chess player?"

"Yes."

"I'll be a chess player in the future too!" Torajiro looked delighted to hear Zuowei's answer.

When he said these words, his dark eyes seemed to emit an unusually gorgeous light.

"Don't you have a place to go? Then, you stay in my heart." He agreed to Zuo Wei's request.

So Zuo Wei left the chessboard and found a new home in the child's heart.

This is how Zuowei and Toranojiro met for the first time.

Then, Zuo Wei and Hu Cirong learned chess from Master Baozhen of Hosenji Temple.A year later, he played against Matsujiro Ito.Then, he and Tiger Ciro went to Edo Honinbo's house to study, and gradually emerged in the Go world.

Torano gave him all the games.

In the thrilling chess games again and again, he gradually forgot the tears of being betrayed and deceived, and his scarred heart seemed to be soothed.

His emotions finally gradually calmed down, and he began to face up to the past memories that he never wanted to recall.

And all of this is precisely because of the existence of Tiger Ciro.

Thinking about it now, Zuo Wei still feels that there seems to be a warm current flowing slowly in his heart.

Since Zuowei met Torano after he studied with Master Baozhen, then the previous game must have been played by Torano himself.

When he was six years old, no one in the entire village could be a match for Torajiro... From this point of view, Toraciro may really be as superb at chess as Zuowei said.

Thinking about it this way, there is a world of difference between myself and Torajiro...

Thinking of this, Ah Guang couldn't help curling his lips. (︶︿︶)

"The picture next to it was written by him when he was 16 years old." Seeing that Aguang was very interested, the staff pointed to the picture next to the chessboard and explained.

Looking at the fresh and free handwriting, Ah Guang couldn't help admiring: "This was written when he was 16 years old? It's amazing!"

Ah, I have an impression of this word!Zuo Wei stared at the picture for a long time, and said suddenly.

Really?Ao Guang obviously didn't believe it. ←_←

it is true!It was only that year that I officially started as a Xiu Ce style in the game, so I remember it very clearly!Zuo Wei emphasized in dissatisfaction. (>д<)

That year was the 15th year of Tianbao (1844). Since the name of the country was changed to Honghua on December [-], it was also called the first year of Honghua.

On February [-]th, Torajiro's mentor, Hidewa, came to teach Gojiro to Torjiro, and he played against Torciro in the form of handicap.

It was also from this round that Zuo Wei officially started with black 1, 3, 5, and 7, and this is the real Xiu Ce style known to people in later generations.

However, at this time, Torano had not returned to his hometown for four years.

Full of nostalgia for his hometown, he wrote this picture with a brush.Then, in December of this year, he returned to his hometown.This is also his second homecoming.

In May of the second year after returning to his hometown, Torajiro's former mentor, Hosenji Master Hoshin, wanted to test whether Torjiro's chess skills had improved after he came to Edo, so he asked to play against Torjiro.

After all, they haven't played chess for quite a long time.

It's just that, this time, it's not Torajiro himself who is playing chess with him, but the Heian era shogi player-Fujiwara Sakai who resides in Torajiro's heart.

After this game, Master Baozhen would request to play against Tiger Ciro every time he returned to his hometown.

Torajiro set off from his hometown in the third year of Koka (1846), intending to return to Edo.When passing through Yizhou in April, Torano stayed in Osaka for many days.

In May, Zuowei played four games against Junjie Nakagawa.In July, Hu Cirong specially arranged for Zuowei to play against Huan'an Yinshuo.

They played a total of three games, and the "red-faced game" was the second game of this game.

Tiger Ciro returned to Edo in early October of this year, ending his second homecoming trip.

"Mr. Xiu Ce once worshiped the calligrapher Taoist Zhuxue as his teacher, and he practiced calligraphy seriously whenever he had time, so that it is difficult for people to tell which works belong to his teacher~" Hearing Ah Guang's admiration, then A gentle staff member said with a smile.

"It's a pity that there are not many authentic calligraphy handed down by Teacher Xiu Ce. Apart from "Ten Jue of Go" and these words written on the chessboard, only the letters he wrote to his parents are left."

When she was going to introduce the letters written by Xiu Ce to Aguang and the others, Aguang heard Zuo Wei's exclamation: Ah~ I didn't expect these to still exist!

Ah Guang turned his head, and saw Zuo Wei looking at a row of certificate-like papers in the glass window with a little excitement.

What is it that makes Zuo Wei so happy?Ah Guang walked over curiously.

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The next chapter should conclude this trip.

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