7.

"Gu Jun, aren't you going to play?"

I squatted with Gu Jun on my cheeks and watched the other children play with marbles.

"Don't play, naïve."

"Then let's play bubble blowing."

I jumped in front of Gu Jun and asked, holding a small jar and shaking it.

"Don't play."

"Eh, why?"

I looked at Gu Jun still squatting there holding his cheeks, and replied with a slight waver.

"Lin Lin, tomorrow will be a 6th grade student, don't be so naïve."

"Hmph, it's obviously all the marbles, don't play if you don't know how to play."

"Don't say it!"

Gu Jun finally couldn't help it, and tore apart the self-deception of "I'm not interested" that was barely maintained.

After most of the marbles were in the hands of one or a few people, no one wanted to continue to fight for the last chance. They got together and chattered for a long time, and finally dispersed again. When the shout of "Gu Jun come and play vampire~" sounded, Gu Jun still ran over happily to join the game.

"Aren't they all the same?"

I muttered, watching Gu Jun's white shirt flickering in the August sun, a little dazzling.

It's really hot in August, and it's so hot that you can't breathe, as if you're going to melt into that dazzling world.

"Lin Lin, get up!"

Mom's scream rang out in the house, interrupting my memories, or my dreams.

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"Ah, good morning~ Gu Jun"

I saw Gu Jun running towards me, and he was coming with the bus to school.

"Ahh Arrived. ”

Gu Jun, who stepped on the bus at the last second, was out of breath and smiled at me.

"Ah, it's not easy."

"Well, the battle with the Spiritual Evil Emperor in the morning still took too much time, if it was before, it would have been able to solve the battle soon."

It seems that Gu Jun's attachment to the bed has not improved.

I don't think it's strange to me the fact that some of Gu Jun's words need to be interpreted, but I already have a dictionary about Gu Jun in my head, what kind of translation some words need to be translated and what kind of ideas they contain.

Gu Jun said that he has an ability called language switching, and I think I have it too.

This is the precipitation of the years that have been spent almost all of them together.

"It's not a good habit to lie in bed, did you eat breakfast?"

Gu Jun picked up the bread and nibbled on it, and looked at me with a "what do you think" look at me by the way, and it seemed that he had answered.

Anyway, Gu Jun can have breakfast.

I didn't touch the pineapple bag in my bag, and I didn't ask anything else.

Sitting together but watching with their mobile phones, this time in the car is really cheap.

Freeing my arm from the stalemate and sticking my head against the window, the irregular vibrations numbed my head a little.

Sometimes, though, you get hit hard.

"I have no regrets in this life, and I want to be a friend A in the next life"

On a certain day in junior high school, the air was viscous and muggy, Gu Jun turned around and leaned on my desk and said.

"Gu Jun, there are quite a lot of places you want to go, what you can go, what you can't go, realistic, unrealistic."

"How can it be said that it is unrealistic, so what is reality?"

I ruffled this Gu Jun's hair and twisted my fingers around.

"Anyway, I wouldn't want to go to another world, but it's better to say that the person who wants to go is really naïve."

"Naive?"

Gu Jun changed his posture and turned his head sideways to face me.

His deliberately long bangs were in front of his eyes, but he couldn't block the strong gaze.

"It's not naïve, it's better not to talk about it all the time."

I know that it is better to avoid disagreements with Gu Jun at this time, and the verbal disputes with Gu Jun always end with Gu Jun's stubbornness, or Gu Jun's tearful admission of defeat.

Gu Jun has been crying since he was a child.

"It's not that you want to go somewhere, or that you want to be born in a certain world. When you say something like this, you don't really want to get there, you want to get out of here. ”

I didn't continue to answer, in this summer full of sultry air, I just lowered my head and lay next to Gu Jun.

"What Gu Jun said is really profound."

"It's not esoteric at all."

It's just that during the lunch break, my body was roasted by the heat wave, and I lay on the table softly.

"Hmm."

My head was knocked the window, and I was woken up from my memories as the car jolted over something foreign, or was it in a dream?

It could be stones, ravines, animals, or people.

Either way, it was the same, waking me up as I was swallowed up by the hot memories.

"Na, Gu Jun."

The people around me didn't put down their phones, but simply answered me.

"Gu Jun, the midterm exam is coming soon."

At the end of the exit, I suddenly forgot what I was going to say, whether it was what I had just thought about or what I wanted to ask.

I know, I'm scared.

"Uh-huh" The phone still didn't leave his field of vision.

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"That's the end of today's club activities."

Gu Jun ended the club activities as usual, closed the windows, turned off the lights, and closed the door.

"Let's go."

"Hmm"

I subconsciously responded, but I didn't feel anything wrong.

It's pitiful to think about this kind of thing.

"Your game is almost there, isn't it?"

Gu Jun asked me as he walked.

"Well, it's almost here, this weekend."

"I want to congratulate you now."

"Forget it, I didn't plan to go to this competition."

"Why?"

"I don't have to participate in any competitions in the first place, and it's not for these things."

I'm a professional chess player, and although I'm a professional, I don't look like a professional at all. The game can be pushed as long as it can, and the rating score has not been able to go up. I hardly go to training matches, and I still go to high school.

How can you be considered a professional chess player?

I was paid a lot of attention by the media, but it was only in professional chess that the number and quality of female players were inferior to those of men, and the average age was not young.

I also have a lot of headaches for the title of "Princess of Rapid Chess".

Gu Jun said that he thought I was the best-looking chess player, and the best-looking one was the best at chess.

I think that's probably what motivates me to go down.

"Anyway, you're really amazing, Lin Qing, I miss the time when I taught you to play chess, at that time, I was called "Swift Wind and Thunder". ”

I felt like something wasn't quite right, but I forgot about it.

"I can only play chess."

It was another hot summer, and Gu Jun ran over and said, let's play chess.

"Lin Lin, you haven't remembered how the horse walks, you can't walk like this, no, it's lame!"

"Eh, yes."

"Forget it, forget it, I'll let you."

"No way!"

Under Gu Jun's guidance in the afternoon, I finally remembered the chess moves, and I can never forget them again.

That summer, Gu Jun kept playing chess with me, but the result was that I lost it all.

The only difference is that Gu Jun's handicap has been reduced from 4 to non-allowed.

"Here, here, here, here, here, here..."

"Hey, Lin Lin, hurry up."

"Oh, yes."

I'm used to thinking and taking the next step thoughtfully. At that time, I was playing chess very slowly, and Gu Jun said that it was unreasonably slow.

I never understood what that looked like.

"Playing chess, you can't be too slow, it's better to say that playing fast chess is the most fierce battle!"

I stared at the 32 red and black chess pieces on the table, and I couldn't imagine the scene of the fight.

"I think they're negotiating."

"Wow! Negotiations are going to die! ”

It turns out that these chess pieces are going to die, isn't that too pitiful?

"No, you're going to play fast chess with me."

Without defeating Gu Jun once, I played rapid chess.

The chess pieces switched positions in a time that I was not allowed to think, and Gu Jun's expression became more and more serious.

Maybe Gu Jun can imagine the scene of the chess pieces fighting, no matter how I look at it, I feel how these round and angular chess pieces fight together.

I spent a month playing chess with Gu Jun.

Until Gu Jun, who was in front of me, lowered his head and surrendered.

"No, no more."

He took me to a small smoky room to play chess with a group of old people in the clouds.

Their chess moves are something I haven't seen before, just as I haven't seen Gu Jun's excitement when he plays chess with them.

I also remembered his title, "Rocket", like Rocket, he likes to start with a step-by-step chess style, which he took himself, and I was called "Turtle".

He said that my chess style was more procrastinating than these old men.

Occasionally, a middle-aged black-haired man with oily hair and a pink face will come to play chess, and this kind of person may have the highest chess ability.

It took me a week to win all the white-haired people, and an extra week to win all the black-haired people, but I never had a second fight with Gu Jun.

"Don't be a genius, chess princess."

He was always pestering me to ask if there was any soul or voice in my head that was helping me play chess.

No, I don't.

He made me watch the game, let me watch the game, watch the endgame.

Let me play chess with the computer.

I really wanted to play chess with Gu Jun, but I never brought it up.

"Go try."

"Ah, okay."

Gu Jun helped me register for a chess tournament in the city, when I was only in the third grade.

There are three rounds of competition in the primary division, and I have to play the next game every day.

The people sitting in front of me and fighting with me did not have a smile on their faces, and the feeling of playing chess was something I had never experienced before.

"Here, here, here, here, here, here..."

I tried to maneuver as best I could, but my opponent didn't slow down.

My opponent may be the type of player who is good at attacking, and if I choose to defend here, I will have an advantage in terms of time and intensity.

But then there is no initiative.

It was the first game, and I was nervous.

"You're not going to lose."

I remember Gu Jun's words the night before the game clearly.

That's it, over!

I opted for a one-hand switch, which is a way I saw from the game to grab the rhythm and counterattack.

"Smack"

The sound of the opponent's chess is confident, crisp and clear.

No, it can't be replaced.

Without hesitation, I broke my plan.

The situation is already clear, the opposite side is ahead and the army is pressing. My chess pieces are crammed together within the river boundary, and they are not as neat as they were just now, and they look incomplete.

"Smack!"

"Smack!"

"Smack!"

"Smack!"

The chess pieces landed lightly on the chessboard, but they could make such a pleasant sound, and in one sound and one by one, my decline seemed irreparable.

How else to get down, and where else to go.

That's the only way I can think about losing a game.

At this time, shouldn't you be thinking about how to lose beautifully?

I try to move the pieces where they should be, at least not to look bad when I lose. The opponent's chess move is very simple and immature, pure attack. And my response is not at all what it should be, and it is even more naïve.

Think about it so much, admit defeat.

"You have to play fast chess, but you can't put down the reinforcement of reading chess."

Where did Gu Jun's voice come from?

"A professional chess player's reading is much longer than that in the card room, and the length is incredible, and the length is unbearable.

You, don't allow casual dropping!

Read it, see it, and make the best move you can play!

Let's look at the remnants. ”

Oh, it was when Gu Jun asked me to learn the endgame.

Why, at this time, does it appear at such a time? I'm obviously already there, there is no way, there is no way back.

Can you win?

Gu Jun can do anything, everything is very powerful, and I can't do anything, I can't do anything.

But now that I have chess, I can surpass Gu Jun here.

Unwilling, so unwilling. Gu Jun is better than me in everything, why, why is he walking in front of me. Why can I only look behind him, why can't I see Gu Jun.

It's the same in school, why. Why don't you talk to me in a class, don't just say hello to me every day, don't just go to and from school with me every day?

Now that there is chess, there is finally a place where Gu Jun can be won.

Gu Jun didn't play chess with me because he was afraid of losing.

I want to win, I want to win Gu Jun, I want to keep up with Gu Jun, I want to surpass Gu Jun, I want to go ahead of Gu Jun!

I want Gu Jun to see my back!

Read it out, read it out, read it out!

Use all your time and read it out!

I want to win, absolutely, don't lose in this kind of place, no, can't be behind Gu Jun!

"Here, here, here, here,

Over here! I can go down, I can be here!

Changers! Changers! Changers!

Fighting here, I can smell it.

The smell of blood on this small battlefield can be smelled and felt.

Time is running out, and this is the only time to play rapid chess.

I've outpaced the other side, I can continue, I don't want to lose.

I want to win!

My opponent's move has been shaken, and he will no longer take my change.

He was scared.

Fear that will not kill me, fear of making sacrifices.

I want to win, I can win, I can see, I put the opponent to checkmate moments.

I can see it!

"Smack!"

"Smack!"

"Smack!"

"Smack!"

Over here!

The way to win is here, smashing the opposing formation.

"Smack!"

Checkmate!

"I lost."

The opponent throws and concedes.

I won the first day.

"Why do you think you won?"

Gu Jun asked me after the game, I am still very happy with Gu Jun who accompanied me to the game.

I can't help but blush when I think about what I just thought.

I didn't want to win against Gu Jun, just be by Gu Jun's side like this.

But, is that so?

"Momentum? Or do you want to lose? ”

"In my opinion, you're already going to lose in the middle game."

I feel the same way, I have almost no power to parry, and I am being destroyed by the other party.

"Hmm."

"But you still won."

How could I win, why did I persevere, why did it go so hard?

Win hard, lose hard.

"Because you're a genius, you can win, you're better than anybody, you can beat everybody."

I was silent, Gu Jun's expression was very serious at some times, and what he said was very strange.

"You're going to win!"

Gu Jun grabbed my shoulder, lowered his head in front of me, and shook my shoulder with a crying voice.

"You can absolutely win!"

His cry was interrupted by his own words, and the words were choked up and confused, like a mess of yarn that could never be opened again. His hand trembled on my shoulder, I didn't understand what my feelings were like, and I even felt that Gu Jun's reaction was taken for granted.

But I couldn't ignore the wet floor under Gu Jun's feet, beautiful round shapes, and irregular but comfortable jagged teeth around it.

I seem to have a reason to win.

On the second day, I was also a backhander, but I found my rhythm in the attack with an extra move from my opponent.

Naturally won.

The rest of the race was vague and broken, and all I remember was that I finished second in the city.

That hot summer, at the end of the final, I went home with the trophy I couldn't hold and Gu Jun.

"Lin Lin, do you know, that kid from the Gu family is clamoring to watch your game, I heard it from Sister Gu just now when I was shopping for vegetables. Oh, you don't know where Gu Jun and her mother are gesturing, oh, tsk. ”

"It was Gu Jun who taught me to play chess."

"yes, then you're better than him, right?"

I didn't answer, and in the days when even the autumn tiger was about to disappear, the coolness grew stronger day by day.

The weather is no longer muggy, and thundershowers are no longer there.