The ten-year trace of the soul of chess

"We have arrived!"

The automatic door slid open slowly, and then nearly ten brand-new physical cars came into view.

"Why are you in a daze, come in!" Seeing that Liang was still at the door, he pulled him into the shop with his bare hands.

Before the salesperson approached, he introduced it first: "I checked, and one of the models with high praise in recent years is the Prius, that is... ah, the one over there!" Light pointed to Liang, " According to the forum, the Prius adopts the latest technology from Toyota, so the center of gravity of the body is lower and fuel consumption is more efficient. Moreover, the three-dimensional curved surface design of the side windows of this car can also improve the aerodynamic force when driving..."

Just as he was talking, a salesperson named Kiko Yamaguchi came over: "Hi, both of you, may I help you?"

Guang looked around: "Excuse me, is there Aqua in the store?"

Yamaguchi bowed slightly and said with a smile, "Yes, this way please."

"Ah, that's right, that's the one!" Guang saw the real car, and immediately echoed excitedly.

"Aqua's model is similar to that of Prius, and it is also equipped with Toyota's second-generation hybrid system, but the former's body size is relatively smaller. At the same time, in order to save the energy output of the engine, the car is also specially equipped with a battery pack to work for the vehicle's cooling water pump. provide energy……"

At the stall introduced by the salesperson, Guang pulled his bright sleeves and was about to say something when the phone in his pocket suddenly rang.

After gesturing to answer the phone, Guang walked towards the door.

"Your friend, you have been to our store many times before." Looking away, Yamaguchi turned and said, "After all, his hair color is so special, it is easy to remember."

Liang was slightly taken aback.When he looked back, he just nodded calmly.

After a while, Guang finished the call and came back: "Taya, what do you think of these two models?"

Seeing this, Yamaguchi hurriedly introduced: "If you are interested, we can arrange a test drive for you."

Hikari and Ryo exchanged a glance.

After receiving Liang's confirmation, Guangcai said, "Actually... I've already made an appointment online for a test drive this afternoon."

"..." Looking at the guilty light, Liang smiled imperceptibly, only to feel a sudden warmth in his heart.

Yamaguchi watched from the side, and said at the right time: "If you confirm the test drive, can I trouble you to show your driver's license?"

driver license?Both Guang and Liang were taken aback.

Looking at the faces of the two, Yamaguchi said apologetically, "I'm very sorry, if you can't provide your driver's license, I'm afraid we won't be able to provide you with a test drive service."

Guang quickly came back to his senses, quickly waved his hands and said, "No, no, it's because I didn't understand the situation."

After thinking about it, I asked a little more unwillingly: "Well...excuse me, if I don't have a driver's license, can I ask the staff in the store to help me drive?"

The guilty expression on Yamaguchi's face immediately softened a lot: "This is fine. Do you want to test drive now? Please wait a moment, I will arrange it for you now."

After seeing the mountain pass go far away, Hikaru couldn't help but slumped his shoulders and let out a long sigh of relief.

But the frustration lasted only 0.1 second, and a smile with eight teeth hung on Hikaru's face again: "Taya, you can sit on it and feel it for a while. If you think it's good, we can buy one and go back to practice. Wait for your driving skills Once you’re skilled, I’ll give you another good one!”

He was caught off guard and brought to the 4S store, and Liang Liang was not even mentally prepared.

It wasn't until then that he regained his composure and asked softly, "Guang, how did you know I was going to buy a car?"

Guang cast a sideways glance speechlessly: "With so many flaws, I'm not an idiot!"

Why are there so many flaws?

Liang looked at the light, his expression was a little confused, but with an indescribable softness.

Being stared straight at by Liang, Guang turned his head a little embarrassed: "Well, don't be too moved in public."

Liang smiled lightly.

Guang sneaked a peek at Liang from the corner of his eye, and then protested dissatisfiedly: "Hey, what are you laughing at? Am I wrong? Although I am not usually reliable, I am still very reliable at critical times! The driver's license... Uh, it was purely an accident! An accident!!"

"Yes, yes." Liang smiled so much that his eyes rolled up.

"I'm serious!! Although I don't know that a driver's license is required for a test drive, I have already secured the parking space [1]!"

A smile froze on his lips, and his bright eyes stared straight into his glass-like pupils, as if he wanted to see clearly whether the two completely different personalities of "nervous" and "mindful" are exactly the same. How can there be such a harmonious coexistence in one person.

After a long time, Liang finally said softly like a sigh, "I know."

As a gag, Yamaguchi had already returned from the office and motioned for Ryo to follow her.

Maybe it was due to the fact that he was a novice, sitting in the passenger seat of Prius and Aqua successively, Liang did not feel the obvious difference between the two models.

Get off the test drive car and tell Ms. Yamaguchi that after they think about it, Hikari and Ryo said goodbye and left.

Walking out of the 4S store, Liang didn't say much all the way.

Faint uneasiness welled up in my heart, and I just tried to say: "Taya, just take a look today, I have no other intentions, don't think too much..."

Liang responded.

"But I really don't know anything about buying a car. I almost annoyed my dad to death before." Thinking of his dad's crazy appearance on the phone, Guang couldn't help laughing, "Afterwards, you can ask Ogata Mr.’s opinion. He has been driving for so many years, so he must have a better understanding of the model.”

Bright spot nodded, paused slightly: "Light."

"Ok?"

"Do you know why I went to learn to drive?" It was a very serious expression.

"It's for..." Guang thought for a while, then said cheekily, "Me?"

An obvious smile floated in Liang's eyes: "You came back from Niigata that day, but I actually went to the airport."

Guang reacted for a while, and suddenly said: "Ah!! It really is you!!"

After shouting, he remembered that he was walking on the street, so he quickly silenced, and stared resentfully.

"Well, it's me." The smile in the bright eyes seemed to be a little stronger, "When I was at the airport that day, I was thinking that if I had a driver's license in my hand, I could take you home directly. At that time, really I have a lot of things I want to tell you..." After a pause, Liang looked at the light, "But now, all I want to say have been said."

Liang smiled.

Looking at Liang's smiling face, Guang felt a little dazed.The sound of the heartbeat seemed to be coming from the base of the ear, and it suddenly became clear, beating under the skin behind the ear one by one.

When I entered the subway station, I saw Ryo subconsciously going to take the Yamanote Line. I just remembered and stopped him: "My mother called just now and said that someone sent Kobe Wagyu to my family. Let's go to my house to eat together tonight." Sukiyaki, right?"

Just when Liang was hesitating, Guang had already pulled him to go in the opposite direction: "It's such a happy decision!"

When I got home, it was just time for dinner.

Seeing Hikari come back with Taya, Mitsuko urged the two to wash their hands, and at the same time sent Masao to serve all the sukiyaki dishes on the table.

As expected of Wagyu.Just looking at the texture and color, it is not the same as ordinary beef.

After the soup base topped with bonito sauce was boiled, Hikaru couldn't wait to rinse a slice of beef in it.The melt-in-the-mouth taste made him think about it, so he poured two more slices into Liang's bowl: "Liang, eat it! It's so delicious!!"

As soon as the words fell, there was a strange silence at the dinner table.

Mitsuko and Masao raised their heads at the same time, and after looking at each other, they all looked at Hikari: "Ah Hikari, what did you just say?"

Guang looked at his parents inexplicably: "'Super delicious'?"

"No, the previous sentence."

Guang looked puzzled at his parents, then at Liang.

Liang's heart tightened suddenly, and he shook his head invisibly towards Guang.

Guang turned a deaf ear to it, and said with a smile: "You mean 'Liang, eat and see'?" He reached under the table and gently squeezed Liang's hand: "What's wrong with this sentence? ?Is there anything wrong?"

Perhaps surprised by Hikaru's calmness, Masao and Mitsuko became at a loss instead.

"Oh, that's nothing, it's nothing. I just feel..." Masao looked at Mitsuko with a strange expression.

"I just think it's rare that you are so sensible and know how to entertain guests." Mitsuko looked at her husband, then at Ryo, and when she said the word "guest", her tone was indescribably stiff.

Guang said "Oh" as if nothing happened, and continued to bury his head in eating.

After eating for a while, as if thinking of something, Chong Zhengfu complained: "By the way, Dad, why didn't you tell me that you need a driver's license for a test drive?"

The husband was stuffing a piece of beef into his mouth, when he heard this, he looked up for a moment: "Your friend, doesn't he have a driver's license?"

"No, Liang hasn't got his driver's license yet!"

"Ah? So it's Taya-kun..." Masao laughed dryly, pretended to glance casually, and apologized, "I'm sorry, Taya-kun. I didn't know that Aguang was talking about you, Without making it clear in advance..."

"No, I made you worry..."

"Where is it? It's you, Aguang!" Zhengfu looked at Guang and said sharply, "Look at Taya-kun! You are so busy with work and still know how to take the driver's license test, how about you?"

Guang rolled his eyelids and muttered softly, "It's all the same anyway."

Zheng Fu didn't seem to understand: "What?"

Guang raised the volume, and said as a matter of course: "Anyway, after I have a driver's license, I can just rub his car. Why learn to drive by myself."

This sentence made the husband choke again. After holding back for a long time, he finally said: "I don't know how to learn!"

At the dinner table afterwards, although the four of them chatted a lot, but after a meal, they always felt a little uninspired.It seems that the legendary Kobe Wagyu is nothing more than that.

After dinner, Guang Heliang was about to leave when a thunderstorm fell outside the house, and in a short while, it began to rain heavily.

Mitsuko looked out of the window worriedly: "It's raining so heavily, or Hikaru, you would have slept here today."

Guang blurted out, "The bed in my room is so small, how can two people sleep?"

As soon as the words came out, Mitsuko and Ryo's expressions froze.

Guang looked at the two in puzzlement, and after a few seconds, he seemed to finally realize what he had said that was ambiguous, and then explained unhurriedly: "I can't let Liang sleep on the floor, but I don't want to sleep on the floor either. ah……"

"This, that's it." Mitsuko's expression went blank for a moment, and she suddenly didn't know how to respond.

Fortunately, the heavy rain came and went quickly.

After seven or eight minutes of pouring, the rain gradually subsided.

Guang took a long-handled umbrella from home, and walked into the rain curtain with Liang.

The raindrops fell on the cloth umbrella surface without interruption, making a crackling sound like pearls and jade.

Compared with the slightly noisy world outside the umbrella, the two under the umbrella are obviously much quieter.

"I……"

"you……"

words spoken almost simultaneously.After a short moment of stupefaction, Guang and Liang both laughed at the same time.

"Talk first." Guang lightly bumped against Liang's shoulder.

Liang lowered his eyes, the dim light blurred his expression: "Guang, why are you..."

Knowing what Liang wanted to say, afraid that he would take the responsibility on himself again, Guang hurriedly said: "Sorry, Liang, I never paid attention to the issue of names."

It was only after being reminded by He Gu a few days ago that Guang suddenly realized that the same title, "Taya" and "Liang" are completely different.The former is like the beautiful scenery on the other side, and everyone can see it from a distance; but the latter is like a private garden, only you can touch and smell it.

I don't know when, whenever he thinks of Taya, Hikari always wants to add the word "my" before this surname.

My...Taya.

My... bright.

Although I changed the name to akira, I still feel a little uncomfortable.

Guang smiled, and slowly put his right hand over Liang Liang's left hand holding the umbrella: "If you want to ask why you were called that in front of my parents, I just think today's timing is very appropriate."

I want them to "see" with their own ears the moment when I first called you "Liang".

"So, Liang, give me some time. Don't worry, I won't be reckless. But I also hope that we can be together dignifiedly."

The sound of light is not loud, and in the sound of falling rain, it is unbearable to be submerged.

But in this gentle voice, the scene in front of the eight-dan chess player seemed to suddenly lose focus, and gradually deviated from its original appearance and turned into phantoms.

For a long time, Liang didn't say a word, but just changed the hand holding the umbrella from left to right, touched Guang's right hand, and held it tightly.Perhaps, as Kobayashi Xingko said, even though she doesn't say a lot of things, she doesn't necessarily know them.

Thinking of this, Liang suddenly felt that there was no need to hide some things.

In his gradually clear vision, he finally said: "Hikari, do you still remember that person named Shuji Nakamura that I met in the clubhouse?"

"Well, remember."

"His real name is Jiecheng Xiuer. A few years ago, he was suppressed by the chess academy because he was found out to be gay." Liang paused, "I don't know why he came to the clubhouse. In short, you have to be careful. "

In an instant, Guang thought of the chess player He Gu had mentioned.

"Ah, that's it." I was a little startled in my heart, but quickly recovered, "I know. But he alone can't do anything to us."

"Exactly." Liang smiled.It's very strange, it seems that the existence of that person has really become insignificant just by talking about it casually.

"By the way, Ryo, there will be a firework festival next to the Sumida River the day after tomorrow. It's a rainy day. Shall we go together?"

When I was young, I also participated in fireworks festivals with my mother.

At that time, Liang has almost forgotten how gorgeous the fireworks were, but the scene of crowds of people and crowds of people is still fresh in his memory.

Liang instinctively resists crowded places, but when he heard Guang talk about "decided to go on a rainy day", for some reason, an indescribable emotion suddenly surged in his heart—with the coming of the typhoon season, Tokyo these days Always rainy.Rainy days are the most taboo for holding fireworks festivals.The so-called "decided to go on a rainy day" means that no matter whether it is windy or rainy, no matter how bad the weather is, the annual fireworks festival will be held as scheduled, rain or shine.

Light came back to his senses and gave Light an affirmative answer.

The day of the Sumida River Fireworks Festival.

Since the afternoon, it has been raining as if the Lord of Heaven had played a different tune.

However, it may be because of the relationship between the "rainy day decision" stated in advance, as the evening approached, tourists with umbrellas and rain capes continued to flock to various venues on the Sumida River.

When Hikari and Ryo reached the downstream of the Komagata Bridge where the second meeting place was located, they could hardly find a foothold.

At [-]:[-] in the evening, with the countdown of the venue, dozens of bright planetesimals rose into the dark night sky like dragons in the melody of "Jupiter", blooming huge flowers on the sky. Flower buds, the Sumida River Fireworks Festival has officially started.

In nearly an hour, the sky over the entire Komagata Bridge was rendered into a sea of ​​colorful flowers by nearly 22000 rounds of fireworks bombs, combined fireworks, and rotating fireworks.One bunch, one cluster, one ebbs and another grows, seamlessly connects, and almost opens a dreamy picture scroll like a kaleidoscope in people's eyes.

Amidst the bang of the fireworks, it was hard to tell whether it was the fireworks or the melody, but Liang hugged the light so naturally, and the two cuddled tightly together.

"Liang, I hope we can also do the 'decision in the rain'." Guang put his arms around Liang's waist and gently pecked his chin.

Under the reflection of the fireworks, Liang lowered his head and kissed Guang's lips back: "Yes. 'It's raining'."

The author has something to say:

Note 1: In Japan, you can buy a car without a driver's license, but if you haven't secured a parking space in advance, you can't go through the formalities for buying a car.

The BGM of the Fireworks Festival can refer to "Jupiter" by Ayaka Hirano, and I feel that the lyrics are also very suitable for the light and light at that time——

Listen to my heart every day, I'm not alone

Deep down, we're connected to each other

Through the endless time, the shining stars told me the miracle of meeting

Listen to my heart every day, I'm not alone

In the arms of this vast universe

What can I do with my hands

Touched by the pain, I quietly close my eyes

Compared to losing your dreams, the saddest thing is that you can't even believe in yourself

To learn to love, even if there is loneliness

I won't do anything that doesn't make sense

Listen to the silence in your heart

If you call me, I will go to the ends of the earth

make your tears a part of me

Thank you to everyone who is here.

Continue next week.