The ten-year trace of the soul of chess

It's like going back to the original time.

Nothing has been said yet, both of them are still living in their respective homes.When I couldn't see each other, I kept in touch intermittently through text messages and phone calls.

There is no need to deliberately say anything.Will not deliberately wait for anything.But it seems that there is a tacit understanding that has been formed long ago. When you want to contact the other party, you can always receive the most timely news from the other party.

Taya is on the plane at eight o'clock in the morning.

When Taya left, Guang knew it.He didn't get up, let alone send the light off.He just lay quietly on the bed like this, listening to the slightest movement outside the door, and then with the sound of closing the door as low as possible, he took out his mobile phone and sent a message to Liang.

—Be careful on the road.Get there and message me.

Same words as last night.Liang understood the completely different semantics behind it.

Last night, just said, I don't worry about you.

At this moment, he said, I miss you.

In the taxi, Liang put away his cell phone, with a faint smile on his lips.

This seems to have become some kind of secret agreement between them.You don't need to get up early to send the other party off, and you don't need more words. Just a text message is enough to tell the other party that you are in my heart.

The phone vibrated.

Click on the message. --good.I am leaving.

Smiling, he put his mobile phone on the bedside table. On days when there was no chess game, he just rolled the quilt around his body, and drifted off to sleep until noon.

Opening his eyes again, Liang's message was already quietly lying in the inbox. --arrive successfully.

Guang smiled, stretched his waist, got up and went to the kitchen, and chose a sushi restaurant for lunch from the many takeaway menus posted on the refrigerator.

After making the phone call, I remembered that this restaurant originally agreed to eat with Taya.

“I think the sushi in this restaurant is good!”

"Yeah. But dine-in is better for sushi."

"Then when shall we go to the store to eat?"

"As long as it's with you, takeaway and dine-in are the same."

The self holding the flyer, and Taya who looked at him smiling.

Memory is like an unreasonable robber, breaking into Guang's mind unexpectedly and disturbing his peaceful state of mind.

Well, let's try it in advance.Hikaru thought this in his heart, but when he saw that there were as many as twenty sushi platters delivered, he still couldn't help but feel a little regretful, "It would be great if Toya was here".

Hikaru thought that he would not be able to finish such a large portion of sushi, but it seemed that a black hole suddenly grew in his stomach pocket, and he stuffed mouthfuls into his mouth, and when he reached out to touch the plate, the plate had already bottomed out.

The sashimi covered on the sushi bites down, it is clear that the Q bomb is fresh, but when it is all eaten, there is no matching taste on the taste buds.

Just plain rice with a tangy texture.I can't taste the slightly sweet taste of everything I eat when I'm with Taya.

It is already the third day.

When I got up and went to the kitchen to throw out the trash, I just thought about it.

He didn't know how Taya was going these few days, he only knew that these few days were tough for him.While pretending that it's just a "roommate" relationship, I can't help but put my heart on another person, which is very uncomfortable.

But in this trial, he had no choice.

Even if they bypassed it now, when they encounter the same situation in the future, they will still come to this point, even worse than he imagined.

He likes Taya.I like it very much.

He believed that Taya must have the same idea as himself.

So, despite his apprehension, he could only wait.

Wait for Taya to let go of all worries, wait for him to say "stop" to himself.

After a simple digestion at noon, Guang resumed his Chinese study, which had been put aside for a while.During this period of time, he used the fragmented time to study intermittently.

After clicking on the online courseware, Lian Guang couldn't help admiring his perseverance when he saw that the completion progress of the primary course had reached 85%.Although looking back, everything I do now, whether it's playing chess or learning Chinese, seems to be following the footsteps of that person step by step.

Taya once said that he is his light.

But he didn't know that his existence had already permeated into Guang's entire life trajectory, becoming an inseparable part of Guang's life.The moonlight does not need much brightness, but it is enough to support him to find the way forward in the long night.

In the headset, a female voice is slowly reading the new words.While reading and thinking about Taya's light, there was always a slight smile on the corner of his mouth.

When the last word was read, Guang's voice suddenly froze.As if realizing something, he rewound the courseware for a few minutes and played it again.

After going back and forth several times, after confirming that he heard correctly, Guang only felt that his breathing was a little unsteady.

All.

What he confirmed to hear was such a word that seemed to wrap everything in it.

In that context.in that context.

At that moment, Hikaru felt that he was about to understand the full meaning of Taya's sentence in Chinese.He hesitated for a while, and finally, with some impatience, he sent the last few syllables that he had no way of knowing to Yi Jiao, in katakana.

A few minutes later, the news from Yijiao came back.

"Why did you suddenly change your mind?" Ogata asked Liang on the way out of the hotel and on their way to the cooperative elementary school together.

Liang glanced at Ogata, and quickly lowered his eyes: "I heard that this event was proposed by the Board of Directors of the Chess Academy."

Ogata looked into Liang's eyes through the lens, as if with a bit of scrutiny and interest: "You didn't seem to be interested in these activities at the Qiyuan before."

"Before, there was no other important thing except playing chess." Liang still replied gently, but his gaze was cast into the distance through the car window.

Ogata looked at him thoughtfully, but said nothing.

The vehicle stopped at the gate of the elementary school's gymnasium.As soon as the group headed by Ogata got out of the car, the staff who had been waiting for a long time at the entrance of the gymnasium greeted them and led them into the gymnasium.

Except for the Tokyo main academy, the Chubu and Kansai headquarters, and the three go salons directly under the Nippon Chess Institute, the scope of activities and promotional efforts rarely involve the Kyushu area.On the one hand, this trip is to increase the influence of Go Academy in the Kyushu region, and on the other hand, it is also to mobilize more elementary and middle school students who love Go to join in the Go cause. Today, the Japanese Ki Academy, although it has passed through the reform of the promotion system To get rid of the deficit problem, but if you want to change the increasingly weak situation in the world chess world as soon as possible, in addition to relying on the new stars who are already active in today's chess world headed by Taya, you need fresh blood from primary and secondary schools.

After contacting and coordinating with many parties, at this time, waiting for them in the gymnasium are more than 60 Go students between the ages of 6 and 13.

This afternoon, as one of the activities of this trip to Kyushu, they will play chess with 12 to 16 chess boys at the same time in this gymnasium by handicapping three pieces in each game.

Where would a person go if he lost his "breathing" and "heartbeat"?

He took off his clothes and stood under the shower, touched the ring hanging around his neck, engraved with the words Touya Meijin (Touya Meijin), and asked himself silently in his heart.Perhaps, the only way to go is death.

To say something like that.No wonder, Taya would choose to use Chinese.

Hot water dripped from the top of his head all over his body, and as soon as Guang closed his eyes, the face of that person appeared in his mind.Sometimes serious, sometimes with a shy shyness.

Taya wasn't here, but Guang always vaguely felt that he was standing behind him at this moment.The shoulders, sides, and back that he touched once seemed to still have the temperature of his fingertips, and as the water temperature rose, he woke up little by little...

Tighten the switch, Guang walked out of the shower room, and when he dried himself and took his pajamas, he was in vain.

Dazed for half a second, habitually wanting to shout "Taya" at the top of his voice, he suddenly remembered that they are just "roommates" now.He thought about putting on the changed clothes again, halfway through, and belatedly remembered that Taya wasn't at home at all today.

Not only today.Not tomorrow.

When walking out of the bathroom, Hikari called out "Taya" in a low voice towards the empty room out of some reason.The apartment they rented was not very big, but the sound was still accompanied by a somewhat empty echo.

no answer.

Entering the room, he took out clean pajamas and changed into them. When he just wanted to send a message to Taya, his message had already arrived.

After chatting for a few words, a call came in from the light mobile phone.

"Taya." Without even seeing the caller's name clearly, he just spoke.

"Good evening, Shinto." Liang seemed to be smiling, and said softly.

In the following phone calls, the two kept chatting about Go-related topics.

Guang Tingliang talked about playing chess with 16 elementary and middle school students at the same time this afternoon. He was still surprised when he said that he won all the games, and joked with him with a smile: "It seems that the popularity of Taya chess players will increase a lot. .”

Liang smiled, and then told the news from the accompanying assistant to the chairman: "Currently, an artificial intelligence team from the United States seems to be in contact with the Chess Academy."

"artificial intelligence?"

"Hmm. Have you ever heard of 'Deep Blue'? It's also an artificial intelligence, but it beat the world chess champion at the time."

Guang lost his voice on the other end of the phone, and after a while, he said: "But chess is different from Go. Regardless of the situation of irrational hands, in Go theory, every move has 361! Possibilities."

"But maybe in the near future, there will be a Go man-machine battle." Liang said.

There was a rustling sound on the phone.

Hikaru asked, "Taya, where are you?"

This time, in the hotel where Liang and his party stayed, each room has huge floor-to-ceiling windows.

Liang opened the curtains and looked at the wide night view outside the window: "I'm in the hotel room."

Guang said "hmm", and just walked out of the room, the living room lights suddenly dimmed.

Guang went to the wall and pressed the switch, but there was no response.

"What's the matter?" Ryo immediately asked alertly, probably because he heard the sound of Hikari repeatedly pressing the switch.

You can almost imagine Taya frowning on the other end of the phone.

Guang laughed: "Taya, are you frowning again?"

Liang himself didn't notice it, and after listening to Guang's words, he stretched his eyebrows and laughed along with him.

"There seems to be a power outage at home, I'll go out and have a look."

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard Liang shout nervously on the phone: "Light!"

This was the first time in three days that Taya called her name.Hearing it again at this moment, it seems that it has been a long time and a long time ago.

Guang was stunned for a moment before realizing: "Huh?"

"Is the switch you just pressed on or off? Remember to turn off the power."

"Yeah." Guang said as he walked into the house.Halfway through, he suddenly said in surprise, "Ah! There is still ice cream in the refrigerator!"

Liang laughed.

Guang hurriedly ran to the kitchen: "I want to finish eating them quickly!"

Hearing light's footsteps, Liang was quiet for a while, and then said on the phone: "Eat less."

Light nodded: "I know."

"If I remember correctly, there should be three ice creams in the refrigerator."

"..." Guang opened the freezer drawer in the dark, and there were indeed three more inside.

When walking out of the kitchen, Hikaru suddenly remembered: "Taya, where is the flashlight?"

Liang said, "The flashlight is in the first drawer of the bedside table on the left side of my bedroom."

Guang Yiyan found the flashlight in the drawer: "Wait for me, don't hang up the phone."

After going out with a flashlight to inquire about the situation, Guang came back and picked up the phone: "It seems that the construction nearby has affected the power consumption here, and it will be restored in about an hour."

At this moment, the living room without lights was pitch black, only a small piece of bright moonlight fell on the balcony.

Light went to the balcony and opened the window.The night wind blows on the face, a little cool, but very comfortable.

It was this area where he had lived for more than half a year. Only then did Guang realize that there were several buildings behind the apartment building.Looking at the Wanjia lights lit up in the opposite building at this moment, there is an indescribable warmth and glory.

"Shinto." Liang called out on the phone.

"Huh?" Light responded softly.

On the other end of the phone, Liang was silent for a moment, and then said softly, "The moonlight is beautiful tonight."

Taya's voice, through the phone, seemed different from usual.It seems to be more hoarse and low-key.There is a bit of tenderness in the silence.

Listening to him talking on the other end of the phone, Guang unconsciously remembered that night in Beijing.

It was the same moment, looking at the same moon.

When looking at the night sky again, the crescent moon hanging on the night sky seemed to become brighter and more moving following Taya's words.

Cursing the corners of his lips, Guang softly echoed: "Well, it's really beautiful."

It was in such a dull but quiet night, listening to the voice of the person he was thinking of on the other end of the phone, that Guang suddenly felt reluctant to hang up the phone.

Originally he just wanted to say something casually, but he asked Liang: "Do you live alone? Or do you share with others?"

Through the phone, he heard Liang smiled softly.

Embarrassed, Guang quickly rounded up his words: "But as a roommate, I seem to be a little too lenient."

After speaking, the other end of the phone became quiet again, only the sound of Liang's gentle breathing could be heard.

The "January appointment" was clearly acquiesced by him, but when he heard Guang say the word "roommate", Liang still couldn't help resisting the title.

He and the light shouldn't be like this.

But what can he say?Stop it, don't go on?

Does he have the right to end this "illusion"?can he

He was the one who brought the light to this path in the first place.Although Hikari never regretted it, he had to worry a lot.

It is precisely because I care too much that I can't let my own selfishness take the light as my own.He hopes that no matter what happens, the light will always be happy and free.

As long as it was what Guang wanted, he would do his best to give it to him, let alone a mere answer.

After a moment of silence, he smiled brightly and said, "Share. Share with Mr. Ogata."

After hanging up the phone, Liang paused when he turned around.Seiji Ogata, who was supposed to be taking a bath, had already stood behind him at some point.

"Mr. Ogata." Ryo looked at Ogata calmly.

"You are against Shinto..."

Liang smiled: "Did you hear that?"

Ogata pushed his glasses unnaturally, as a tacit consent.

Ryo didn't ask him further how much he heard, Mr. Ogata's reaction already explained everything.

But at the moment when the secret was discovered, there was no embarrassment or panic. Liang only felt that the burden that had been on his heart for a long time seemed to suddenly lighten a lot.

He met Ogata's gaze, and there seemed to be a resigned smile in his voice: "I treat Shinto exactly as you think."

The author has something to say:

Regarding the stalk of "Tonight's moonlight is so beautiful (月が仙丽ですね)", if you don't understand it, you can ask your mother.Here, I will not go into details.

When it was written, the background music was Chopin's "Farewell".

The music itself has nothing to do with the content of the text, but I really like the distant and quiet feeling in the piano music.

If you are interested, you can listen to it.

It won't be updated tomorrow, but it will be updated at ten o'clock in the evening the day after tomorrow.

Thank you for reading this and everyone who collected this article.

Happy Friday~