domesticated vicious dog

Chapter 14

"You..." Gu Shuhui looked at the background of her departure in shock.

Gu Mo grabbed her wrist, "Mom, my sister's temper is like this, hard-spoken and soft-hearted, haven't you gotten used to it yet?"

Su Deng who walked to the door of the room heard this and sneered, she knew that Gu Mo would excuse her.

Do you think she will soften her heart by doing this?
In the past, she might have been shaken, but after knowing his dirty thoughts, this might disappear forever.

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Seeing the lush and lush streetscape gradually soaked in the smell of fireworks, Su Deng asked suspiciously: "Aren't you going to send me back to school? You're going the wrong way."

"When did I say I would take you back?" Shen Yuqing turned the steering wheel and said calmly.

"Tsk, old-fashioned, you don't really want to take me to the grove to have sex with me, do you?" Su Deng crossed his hands and held his shoulders.

Seeing that she was thinking about joking, Shen Yuqing's hanging heart relaxed a little.

3 minute later.

Su Deng stood at the door of a chess hall.

"Ask in black and white?" She pointed to the plaque and asked the man beside her, "Why did you bring me here?"

Shen Yuqing held her hand, "You can point at me, but don't point at chess."

Before she could react, he let go and walked in.

"Who pointed out your stinky chess? Knowing how to play chess is remarkable." Su Deng shook his fist behind his back.

If it weren't for him, she would have suffocated to death if she stayed with this pretentious and old-fashioned person for a second longer.

"Follow." A stern voice came from the front.

Su Deng rolled his eyes, and reluctantly walked in.

The outside of the chess hall is simple, but the interior is very classically furnished. The horizontal railings are carved into elegant rooms, and the fish tanks are dotted with green plants. From time to time, the crisp sound of chess pieces falling can be heard, which is quite interesting.

Shen Yuqing seemed to be a frequent visitor here. When passing the front desk, a woman in a blue cheongsam with a little makeup got up and called Mr. Shen.

"Is this your friend?" The woman asked curiously with her watery eyes

Shen Yuqing nodded without explaining too much, "You're busy." Then he pulled Su Deng who was still looking around behind him and walked to the old place.

"Hey, this isn't Shen..." Another woman who came out from the tea room opened the curtain in surprise.

Seeing the signal gaze of the woman in Tsing Yi, she hurriedly lowered her voice.

"Didn't he come on Wednesday afternoon? It's only Saturday, isn't it?"

The woman in Tsing Yi shook her head, "I don't know, he even brought a girl to his chess room."

"What?! Are you sure you're not dazzled? Isn't Shen Yuqing always a loner? He has been here to play chess for three or four years, but I've never seen him bring anyone here."

The woman in Tsing Yi looked in the direction where the two disappeared, and said nothing.

chess room.

Su Deng was pressed to sit on the opposite side of the chessboard. Seeing the man sitting down in front of him, he didn't know what he meant.

"Do you still remember that I messed with you on the chessboard when I was a child? If you are so stingy, you won a game..."

"Regardless of the rules, do you count your victory through opportunism?" Shen Yuqing said.

Su Deng pursed his lips, and cast his eyes on the pear-yellow chessboard in front of him, feeling a sense of familiarity welling up in his heart.

She looked to the side, and sure enough, she saw the English italic "A" on the side of the chessboard about three fingers thick, and a small slanted pen protruding from the horizontal line in the middle of the letter.

"Hey! Didn't I draw this? You still have this chess table?"

Su Deng happily reached out to touch it, and rubbed the sunken notch with his fingertips, a sense of nostalgia welled up spontaneously.

"You dare to take the initiative to mention this matter to me." Shen Yuqing said in a bad tone.

Su Deng put down his hand, and said in a irritated manner: "Who hasn't reached the naughty stage yet." She looked at him, "However, I still remember the way you cried while holding the chessboard. It's become a tabby cat, it's ugly."

Seeing that Shen Yuqing was about to get angry, Su Deng hurriedly straightened his expression, "But now that I think about it, you are the person I've ever seen who loves chess the most. No one else can compare to you, really."

Shen Yuqing raised his eyebrows, "Oh? Is that so?"

"It's absolutely true." Su Deng emphasized.

Facing the man's probing gaze, her mind turned nine times and eighteen times, recalling the scene of the first encounter, hoping to hold back some nice words.

"At that time, uh... Seeing that you could sit in front of the chessboard for a whole day, I felt that in your world, if Go ranked second, absolutely nothing else could rank first."

"Well, that's a good point, let's continue." Shen Yuqing squinted his eyes, as if listening very well.

Su Deng cursed secretly, "Ah, there's more... Oh yes, do you still remember when I asked you why you like Go so much? You said something in Latin..."

Shen Yu's thin lips parted slightly, just about to catch them.

He didn't think that after so many years, she would still remember what he said only once.

Although he likes this sentence very much.

In the next second, words with a rounded pronunciation and a pure accent blurted out from Su Deng's mouth.

“Ad astra per aspera.”

Shen Yuqing put his hands on the table and finally sat upright.

His throat couldn't help tightening, "Then...do you still remember the meaning of this sentence?"

Su Deng nodded confidently, "Of course. Follow this bitter journey to reach the sky. Am I right?"

She tilted her head playfully, her eyes curved into pointed crescents, as if she was asking for his compliment.

"Exactly." Shen Yuqing heard himself say, "Your memory is better than I imagined."

Su Deng made a face at him, "What the hell? You should say, I am very impressed with you as a little old-fashioned. I remember the way you play chess, and I can't forget even what you said for a long time."

Shen Yuqing was a little embarrassed by the words, he cleared his throat, and exchanged the chess box at hand with hers.

Su Deng took it, opened it to look, but saw that it was full of white coins.

Each bead is round and jade-like, emitting a crystal clear color under the light of warm colors.

She recalled the chess gestures taught by a man when she was a child. She stretched out her small hand, twisted her thumb and index finger, and turned her fingertips. The chess piece stood between the index finger and the middle finger.

"That's it." Shen Yuqing also picked up a sunspot, "Let's play the next round."

"What?" The chess piece at the fingertips fell in shock, and made a "click" sound when it fell on the table.

Su Deng hurriedly picked it up, "You bastard wants to play against someone who just learned how to play chess, you made a mistake, right? No."

She threw the chess back into the chess box, then remembered something, and pointed at the chess piece in Shen Yuqing's hand with wide eyes.

"You even deliberately changed chess with me before the start. I remember that in Go, black goes first and white goes back, right? You still have the advantage. You are too villainous. I will do whatever it takes to win. Isn't it just that I beat you once when I was young? Bureau, as for this?"

Shen Yuqing chuckled, as if agreeing.

In Go, even if black goes first, three and three-quarters of the stones must be given to white at the end of the game, in order to eliminate the first-hand advantage, but he didn't intend to tell her this.

"I've always held grudges. Have you just met me?" With that said, Shen Yuqing dropped a child in front of her.

　The "Black and White Asking" in the film and television drama "The Soul of Chess" was used, and it is marked here.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)