The chess was made by grandpa.

The material of the chessboard is rosewood, and the surface is oiled, although the chessboard is a little old, but it is not dirty.

The chessboard consists of a chess face and four edge guards. The chess surface is spliced into a whole by seven wooden planks, and the edge protection connected by four tenons and grooves fixes the entire chess surface, which is stronger and more beautiful.

Wei Ji took out the chessboard and the two sandalwood boxes containing the chess pieces in turn, and the wooden boxes had a thin layer of ash on them, which looked like they were some years old.

Carefully examined in the dim light, a faint scent of sandalwood carried the taste of time to the nostrils, and memories also poured into my mind.

For as long as he can remember, this chess set seems to have existed, and it is said that it was a toy specially made for Wei Ji by his grandfather when he was born.

didn't waste his grandfather's intentions, chess was probably the only thing Wei Ji took the initiative to learn when he was a child.

Wei Ji likes to play against his grandfather very much, but every time he plays against his grandfather when he is a child, he goes straight to the point and asks how he can be his grandfather's opponent without strategy.

When playing against his grandfather, his grandfather took the lead, just to balance this condition, Wei Ji when he was a child set a lot of rules such as "I can regret chess, and it is not a problem to regret three moves", "I must let myself have a rook and horse cannon" and so on.

But I still can't get under grandpa, and I am not grandpa's opponent at all without any technique and strategy, as long as grandpa takes the lead, I will always be tired of coping.

Only three games are played each time, no matter how Wei Ji thinks of a way, how he makes a dangerous move, how he plays tricks, and how he plays tricks, his record with his grandfather is always one win, one loss and one draw. Now that I think about it, it is probably the result of grandpa's deliberate maintenance, but grandpa's acting skills are superb, and he is stupid, so he can't see through it.

This situation was maintained for many years, until Wei Ji was in his third year of junior high school.

I clearly remember that day, I challenged my grandfather as always, and my grandfather accepted it as always, but this time at the beginning, my grandfather said: "You graduated from junior high school this year, and I also have a junior high school degree, so I won't let you play chess, you will be black, let you play first." ”

Of course, Wei Ji agreed, he was no longer a child.

As a result, despite Wei Ji's efforts to maintain and try his best, he still couldn't escape the fate of the Lord being eaten, and he suffered three fiascos.

After that, I never played chess with my grandfather again, and even after my grandfather died, I never touched this chess game......

It's been a long time since I've played chess.

Blowing the dust on the surface of the chess box, Wei Ji opened the chess box full of chess pieces, and the sixteen sandalwood chess pieces were neatly placed.

The obverse of the chess piece is a large red character in regular script.

This set of chess made by grandpa, the chess pieces have two colors, red and green, when he was a child, Wei Ji liked to hold red, there is no special reason, red is good-looking, and the red chess boss is handsome......

Wei Ji endured the strong throbbing of his heart and placed the chess pieces on the chessboard, just like the one he played against his grandfather many years ago.

On the side of the Han realm, the red chess pieces were placed in a proper manner and were ready to go.

"Grandpa, play chess."

Wei Ji said to himself.

I remembered my grandfather's voice and smile in my mind, as if my grandfather was opposite Wei Ji.

"Hehe, good grandson, you can help grandpa set it up, let you take the lead this time."

The room was lonely and silent, only the old light bulb flickered and flickered, like the old TV picture, one card by one, and Wei Ji automatically spliced the memory.

Readily agreed.

Wei Ji took another chess box as well, blew the dust on it, and opened it, which was filled with green chess pieces.

The chess pieces were a little messy, Wei Ji smiled, probably because his grandfather was ruthless at the beginning, and he took revenge childishly.

The chess pieces were taken out of the chess box one by one, and then placed on the chessboard, more and more memories appeared in front of him, and Wei Ji couldn't laugh.

There are no chess pieces in the chess box, but there is one missing in the most critical part of the chessboard.

It's "will".

Wei Ji's heart sank, and he searched for the two chess boxes again and again, his movements were a little flustered, empty, no! I went to the cabinet and rummaged through it, but it still didn't work.

Nothing came of it, returning to the chessboard, staring at the missing piece, Wei Ji sat still.

Why? Why is it gone?

Sluggish for a long time, Wei Ji was silent, did not choose to continue to play chess, put the red chess pieces back into the chess box one by one, and placed them in a regular manner, until he picked up the chess pieces "handsome", Wei Ji couldn't help but stroke this chess piece full of memories, the surface of the chess pieces was very smooth, along the ravines of the chess pieces, Wei Ji depicted them one by one, and couldn't help but feel pantothenic acid in his heart.

Probably, there will never be a chance to touch this chess piece again.

Fingers rubbing on the chess surface, the surface is still very smooth, grandpa is more nostalgic than himself, has been very careful to maintain these old objects, grandpa should not have thought of it, he has always cherished the object is now let himself be lost......

Sitting on the opposite side of the chessboard that could not form a chess game, Wei Jimo rubbed the chess pieces in his hand, and felt sad from his heart.

Touching and touching, he suddenly felt that the back of the chess piece was actually uncomfortable to the touch, as if there were some traces.

Was it eaten by worms?

Wei Ji flipped over the back of the chess piece, the light was a little dim, and he couldn't see clearly, but there were indeed some traces.

Pick up the chess pieces and come to the front of you, it is not a worm bite, it is a small character carved on the seal.

"Economy".

This chess set has been around for as long as Wei Ji can remember, and he has played against his grandfather hundreds of times, but he has never found such small words on the back of the chess pieces.

Impossible, I never knew that there were such small characters engraved on the back of these chess pieces, and if there was one before, I should have discovered it at that time.

A thought flashed through his mind, Wei Ji seemed to understand something, his pupils shrank, and the red chess pieces that had been placed were taken out of the chess box by him.

Some chess pieces have nothing on the back and have a smooth surface, while others have a small character engraved on the back like the "handsome".

Take out the chess pieces engraved with small characters, "Ji", "Wei", "Jun", "Zi", "Shen", "Thing", "Yi", "Ju", "Distinguish", "Fang".

Unfinished, the gentleman is cautious, distinguish things and live in the square!

Wei Ji seemed to understand something.

The green chess pieces placed on the chessboard were also brought to the front of the eyes one by one to take a closer look, and sure enough, just like the red chess, these chess pieces were also engraved with small characters on the back.

"Jun", "Son", "Lin", "Bao", "Xinjiang", "Yi", "Teaching", "Thinking", "Poor", "None", "None", "People".

Pro, the gentleman thinks endlessly, and the people are boundless.

This sentence of the Book of Changes automatically appeared in his mind, and Wei Ji placed the chess pieces in order, and there was one missing word "Rong", which was the "general" chess.

Pro, Wei Lin, Wei Ling, not coming? No, the missing word is "Rong", it is Wei Rong!

Wei Ji was struck by lightning, his whole body seemed to be frozen, and he remembered that he seemed to have a sister named "Wei Rong".

All the clues in his mind gradually connected into a straight line, and the past was remembered by Wei Ji one by one.

When her sister was not yet born, her grandfather also calculated a hexagram for her, which was a "pro" hexagram.

Perhaps it was Wei Ling's homonym "not coming", and the grandfather felt that it was unlucky, so he named it Rong, which means beautiful virtue.

Grandpa planted an osmanthus tree in the yard, and then carved the name on the trunk, but, why didn't he find the word "Rong" on the laurel tree?

Of course, it takes two people to play chess, and my grandfather made this chess game to make toys for himself. It's just that at first, grandpa didn't want to play against him, but with his sister......

When did Grandpa engrave the words on it? Does grandpa know about his sister's "disappearance" from this world? And when did you find out? Why didn't you remind yourself?