If Tokyo during the day is like sake in a small dish, with the aroma of grapes, sweetness of cherries and fragrance of caramel, like a sports girl with a single ponytail, then Tokyo at night is undoubtedly the water that lights up the water and burns blue.
The absinthe in the fire is full, and the city buildings swaying and sinking in the square cup are like ice cubes crowded together, with colorful flames floating on the top, evaporating the charming alcohol and hallucinogenic anise, which seems to be in motion.
The girl put down her ponytail during the day, put on a red lipstick of death, and put on her most seductive and dangerous side.
Lin Xian was sitting on the terrace of Xingshen Temple, which was covered with a huge tatami. From the gap in the wall in the distance, he was admiring the city weaved with fire. His eyes were slightly squinted, as if with a hint of smoke.
And she did hold a glass of soju in her hand, and when she was halfway through the drink, there were lipstick marks on the edge of the wine dish that were even more smoky than the wine.
The long red table on the tatami is filled with classic and elegant Japanese delicacies. Each dish has its own unique name from the mouth of the chef who is kneeling beside the tatami and cutting bluefin tuna, from "Spring View"
, to "Seasonal" and then to "Scenery of Cherry Blossoms" and "Farewell Winter Gifts" and so on.
But in fact, the "Spring View" is the emergency grilled tamales with purple sweet potatoes and a little perilla leaves, while the "Seasonal" is seafood and eggplant soup, and the "Sakura View" is the sakura nigiri with monkfish as the main ingredient.
, it is a type of sushi that is eaten cold. The "winter gift" is naturally the daikon left over from winter to spring, but in the hands of the chef, he used his superb knife skills to carve out the daikon for 20 yen each.
The price increased a thousand times.
In addition to these dishes with names, there are also some other simple dishes placed on the edges of the white tablecloth, such as steamed vegetables, fried taro, watercress salad desserts, and ice cream fruits such as sky-high price netted melon and genetically modified strawberries.
Today's main dish, in addition to the above dishes, is a bluefin tuna, a top-quality fish caught off the coast of Osaka. It is about 1.5 meters long and is placed in the center of the long table, occupying almost two-thirds of the place. Now
It was cut open into a blooming meat flower by the chef holding a Honyaki kitchen knife. There were a lot of ice cubes under the fish and it exuded a cold mist-like atmosphere. It was decorated with green leaves and purple flowers.
The scallop-like sashimi cut on the belly of the fish can be easily cut off with chopsticks.
There are four sets of tableware on the long table. However, except for the elderly chef, there are only two people sitting on the tatami in the open-air terrace. Lin Xian's left leg is slightly lying horizontally, his right leg is bent and standing upright, and his left hand is
Serving the wine, Yuan Zhisheng stood up and leaned quietly beside her. He picked up the bottle of soju on the table and stood behind her to pour the wine for her. When she heard the sound of water flowing, she paused and looked away at the sea of lights in the city.
, raised his head and glanced at the man behind him with a smile and said, "Why, you like to be idle while waiting for someone? Why don't you also have a drink together? It's rare to have such a good weather and night."
"It's difficult for mixed-race people to get drunk unless they overeat. If you're not drunk, you don't need to force yourself to drink alcohol." Yuan Zhisheng put down the soju bottle and sat behind the girl, looking over his shoulder toward the wildfire.
of Tokyo.
"You seem to have something to say? Just say it. You sitting behind me reminds me of a boy in my college. Every time he sat behind me and stared at me in public class, his eyes made me glow.
He kept it secret, but in the end he confessed to me anyway." Lin Xian took a sip of the dish and said with a smile.
It seemed that she was drunk, and her words were a little lazy and casual, which did not fit her usual dignified image in front of outsiders. However, with such a nice night and delicious food, it didn't seem too bad, and she was not too deliberate.
He controls his words and deeds too strictly.
“I want to say something, but when I think about it, there is nothing to say.” Yuan Zhisheng said, turning his head and looking at the table of state banquet-level delicacies swaying in the light and shadow.
"Are you sorry for the fact that you lost to me in shogi? Or don't you believe that I have never learned shogi before?" Lin Xian turned around and faced Yuan Zhisheng half a meter away from the table, with a faint burgundy blush on his cheeks and squinting his eyes slightly.
She looked at this man with a smile. The collar of her thin white shirt was untied due to drinking, exposing the cool and dry collarbone inside. The night breeze blew the collar outwards, revealing even more of the color, and the hem of her waist was also lifted.
A line of cold white separated from his jeans, and the scenery that was more scorching than the wine forced the young master of the family who could not get drunk to take the initiative to turn his head away from his eyes.
“It’s just too amazing.” Yuan Zhisheng looked at the entire table of expensive and gorgeous “bets” and said lightly, “It’s still a bit hard to believe.”
Director of the Executive Bureau of the Sheqi Ba Family, Da Feng Da Lang, has never seen anything like this, so there is probably nothing that can surprise him. But today, a girl who is not even a mixed race still made him unable to hold back his exclamation and fell into difficulty.
Self-explanatory meditation.
I still remember that the bet between the young master and the girl was to play a shogi game for an hour. After one hour, if the girl loses in any game, the other party will win the bet.
This is just like a girl who has never touched table tennis before boasting that she will be defeated by the national table tennis team in an hour. There are endless pieces. It is a joke that is so ridiculous and funny that it makes people shake their heads. But it is not until the end that Yuan Zhisheng seems to have become the joke.
.
A novice starts from the basics, and then spends an hour learning the game and then beats the master to death with random punches?
No, the girl on the shogi board didn’t play for an hour at all, but only for three games.
Win.
and.
burden.
burden.
burden.
burden
At the beginning of the first game of shogi competition, Yuan Zhisheng felt the strong chess ability of the girl at the table. Even if he had never been exposed to shogi, all kinds of chess actually have the same tactics in a certain sense.
Thoughts are ever-changing, but they never depart from the same principles. It is not surprising that veterans who know chess, Chinese chess, Go and other chess games have their own ideas and control of the situation when they master the first shogi.
So even though Yuan Zhisheng won the first game, it was not a free and easy win. He gradually realized that this girl was not looking for an excuse to let the family down, but that the other party was serious about completing the bet.
After the first game of shogi ended, the girl did not suggest a review or organize her thoughts, but started the second game without stopping. From the second game on, her chess strategy changed from the rigorous and tentative one in the first game.
In order to attack and kill in a big way, this kind of aggressive play does not care about the loss of chess pieces, and insists on exchanging resources and situation with the enemy.
Yuan Zhisheng was no stranger to this kind of chess, and for a moment he felt like he was playing chess against a mirror! Because all the shogi tactics and tactics he had used in the previous game were copied intact in the second game.
Come here, every move is used to perfection, and you exchange chess pieces with him in an incredible way. In the end, only the defeated soldiers are left to make dead moves on the chessboard, resulting in an unsolvable draw.
The third game was a game where the girl on the other side of the chessboard became completely weird and mysterious in Yuan Zhisheng's heart. The girl at the beginning of the third game did not follow Yuan Zhisheng's chess strategy and continue to attack, but changed it to the one in the first game.
Yuan Zhisheng's conservative appearance made Yuan Zhisheng feel weird and unpredictable every step he took. Game after game was set up one after another, and a brand new chess strategy for his attacking style slowly unfolded.
Perhaps because he was curious about how far the opponent could go, Yuan Zhisheng did not change his chess strategy after realizing the pertinence of the opponent's chess strategy. Instead, he just walked into the opponent's trap. He was very curious and started the third game.
What move could the developed chess path take? But it turned out that he still underestimated the girl sitting opposite him. After entering the game and falling into the trap, he died miserably. The fast chess game was almost over in less than ten minutes.
The girl was not proud or boastful, she just looked at the chessboard thoughtfully and murmured "It's interesting" and directly asked for the fourth game.
In the fourth game, Yuan Zhisheng began to play chess seriously. However, after the third game, his chess game was completely played through. Every move was counted out by the girl on the opposite side. Every move made the opponent think three times.
The intention of each move was analyzed thoroughly. In nine minutes, he was already blocked. He was very alive and lost 11 points. That was because when he found a move to kill him, the opponent even stayed.
Repeat checkmate with another back move.
If this was a battlefield, then while a knife was at Yuan Zhisheng's throat, the girl also had a knife stuck in his back. If she wanted, she could even kill him twice or even three times.
After that, the game time was garbage time. No game lasted more than ten minutes. Every time, the girl had more than two checkmate methods on Yuan's young king, like a gentle and slender hand at the beginning of the chess game.
Then he slowly stretched it out, until it was stuck on his neck and gradually closed up. Suddenly he realized that his way of survival had been completely cut off, and he had no choice but to surrender.
There were a few games where Minamoto's childish temper really came to the fore, and he watched the chess game in silence with a serious and scary look in his eyes, but it was still useless. He was always called a magic weapon by Mr. Masamune in the shogi game.
The sharp blade is suitable for attacking all intricate layouts and hidden tricks.
Mr. Masamune's impression of the chess game is that it is a Japanese castle that cannot be destroyed by wind, floods, or people, with cherry blossoms blooming all year round and tranquil streams flowing. His magic weapon can't even attack the city.
You have to pay a big price and carefully arrange your troops to fight in order to ignite the smoke that threatens the city.
As for the girl on the opposite side of the chessboard today, Yuan Zhisheng felt like her sharp blade had hit an insurmountable towering peak that reached straight into the sky. Any charge and intrigue was as stubborn and ridiculous as the tide hitting a mountain wall.
He even felt a sense of suffocation while playing chess. The feeling of being counted and being robbed of life by cold hands made his spine chill several times. After looking up several times, he only saw Ruoyou.
Suo Si looked at the chess game, an ordinary girl with a faint smile on her lips.
Maybe it was an illusion, but when he restored the girl's chess game to reality, he actually thought of the biggest and most hidden enemy of the Sheqi family, the king of fierce ghosts. Why not the evil ghost hiding in the quagmire of fireworks?
The same is true, even if there are no omissions, every layout is stuck at the fatal point of the Sheqi family. Standing on a high place and looking down at their ministers, there is only a sneer on the mask.
“Feeling shameless?” Lin Xian leaned on the side of the table, holding a wine plate with his left hand and looking up at the clear moonlit sky, paying attention to the man who had been deep in thought from the corner of his eye.
“I’m just curious whether there really is such a strange person in the world. The work of three games is worth three years of practice.” Yuan Zhisheng expressed his thoughts without hesitation.
"Yes, there are, but very few, but one of them happens to be sitting in front of you. Do you feel sorry for this good meal and wine?" Lin Xian tilted his head, and his face was as red as the tip of a cherry blossom, which you can see.
It turns out that her drinking capacity is not good, but after drinking a little bit, her face gets a little dirty.
“If it’s convenient, I can ask, is your talent only in chess? Or does it have similar effects in other aspects?”
“Similar effect?”
"He can learn everything quickly and masterly. Even mixed-race people can't match him. It is no exaggeration to call him a learning talent above genius." Yuan Zhisheng said, looking at the slightly drunk girl.
"Oh, that's what you mean." Lin Xian smiled and shook her head. Just when Yuan Zhisheng thought that the other party would say no, she calmed down and looked at the man and said seriously, "You guessed it right.
Oh, I can learn anything quickly and master anything. Whether it is chess, instrumental music, singing, ancient and modern bachelor's degree, mathematics and astronomy, as long as I am willing to get started and study hard, I can surpass 9% in a very short time.
People who are fifteen years old can become the top-notch people among them! The real pinnacle!"
Yuan Zhisheng said nothing. He looked at the girl who continued to pour wine for him and waited for the next words.
"I've had this talent since I was very young, but few people have discovered it. I don't like to show off. Sometimes I can be excellent, but if I am excellent, I will be regarded as a monster. People like to talk to children who stand tall.
But if you stand too high, it will be difficult for others to hear you clearly." Lin Xian shook his finger and said with a smile, "Sometimes you have to hide your clumsiness and turn your excellence into excellence. In this case, you will
My life has been surprisingly relaxed and comfortable.”
“Do you know what you are talking about?”
"Of course I know, these things are not a secret. I am happy today or I am happy during this period. Just say it casually." Lin Xian bit the wine plate and stretched out his hand to smooth the long hair that was pressed against the table behind him and spread it out.
He raised his head at the table and drank the wine in the plate, then looked sideways at Yuan Zhisheng beside him and said, "You Sheqi family should have investigated my brother's life, so you naturally know where he came from.
He came from somewhere, and when did I meet him? You guys have never thought deeply about why I would value Lin Nian at a glance and not others in such a big orphanage.
Do you choose to live with him?"
“Because people of the same kind will attract each other, if you are good enough, you will naturally pay attention to him who is also good.” Yuan Zhisheng said.
"Let me tell you something interesting. Many students in this department have whispered bad things about me." Lin Xian spat out the wine plate in his mouth, picked up the soju bottle and poured wine directly into the bowl.
He said with interest, "Do you know what they said about me? They said that I was not worthy of Lin Nian. They felt that I was redundant standing next to Lin Nian."
Yuan Zhisheng looked at the girl who was not angry at all when she said this and said calmly, "That's because you hid it so well."
"Maybe." Lin Xian picked up the bowl and said with a smile, "Older children of this age are always like this. When they pick up the bowl to eat, put down the bowl and curse my mother and say these sarcastic words, they probably don't know that that kid and I are family members.
Things are not alienated by blood at all. No matter if that kid is an 'S' level or an 'SS' level or something, whether I can help him or not, when he is happy or sad,
When you want to show off, you can only look to me. When the brave man who slayed the dragon returns to his parents, will anyone say that his parents are unnecessary?"
"Won't."
"But if it was Xiaofang from the previous village, she probably would." Lin Xian couldn't help but laugh, "So I always felt that those children who thought I was redundant probably regarded me as their love rival and thought that I, an ordinary person, was not worthy of their mixed race.
A rising star among the seeds.”
“Have you ever looked for the reason why you are so gifted?” Yuan Zhisheng asked suddenly.
"Of course I have looked for it. Otherwise, why did I go to a medical university? In fact, if I hadn't worried about my brother, I would have become a supernova in the medical field. But I don't care about it, and I won't do it. Some
When times are too special, you have to hide something. This is what I have always taught him." Lin Xian lowered his head to find sashimi on the dining table to eat, "You must do what you say. If I don't even know what I say,
If he can't do it, why should I teach him? If I hadn't had a good time drinking today, I probably wouldn't have said these words to anyone, but in fact, it doesn't matter if I did. People who know me well will notice this, and everyone understands each other.
Just declare it.”
"You have indeed set a perfect example on this point." Yuan Zhisheng said sincerely, looking at this girl who he still thought was an ordinary girl before today.
"Compared to her, I can only be regarded as an ordinary person. After all, no matter how talented I am, I am different from you mixed-races. No matter how outstanding I am, I can't jump up and dunk with one hand or perform a crossbow."
Pull down the car door to block the shield." Lin Xian picked up a piece of sashimi and waved his hand.
“Then have you ever considered something?” Yuan Zhisheng was quiet for a while, then he asked Lin Xian who had eaten the raw and cold fish fillet and immediately took a sip of wine, and Lin Xian also looked at him.
"In the file, you are working as a faculty member at the headquarters. You should also know that in addition to the similarities and differences between the Japanese branch and the headquarters, the Japanese branch also has quite professional cutting-edge equipment and a complete database for comparison and study. Kaguya has many aspects.
She is no worse than Norma, the secretary at the headquarters, and even better than Norma in local calculations."
“Well, what do you want to say? Just say it directly?” Lin Xian looked at his hand before picking up the bowl, paused and then put it down, raising his eyebrows and asking.
“I want to say,” Yuan Zhisheng sat up straight, looked at the girl in front of him and asked slowly, “Have you ever considered conducting another bloodline evaluation in our family?”