Chapter 23 23. Zizaimen

Yu Shangquan sat on the bed facing the wall.Pingzi and Suobaoge were sitting on the bedside chatting, the topic was male secrets, and Suobaoge quoted extensively. Hearing that Pingzi wanted to take notes several times, Suobaoge stopped him.Pingzi tried hard to memorize, his face flushed. There was a knock on the door, and the two women stopped talking, and when they opened the door, they saw a hunchbacked old man and a woman in black.The old man handed over a box of Japanese sweets, saying that he lived in the Japanese Concession in Shanghai and was an old friend of Yu Shangquan.Pingzi led the two into the inner room.

The old man sat on the bed and said many words to Yu Shangquan in Japanese, but Yu Shangquan never turned around.Suobaoge couldn't understand, and Hirako could only recognize words like "Miyamoto Musashi" and "Swordsmanship", but couldn't understand the whole sentence. The old man finally shook his head with regret, and said to the woman in black: "He won't practice martial arts with me." The two left. Twenty minutes later, someone knocked on the door again. It was a middle-aged man sitting in a wicker chair, and handed over a dozen bundled medicine boxes, saying that they were nutritional medicines. He said he lived in the Japanese Concession in Shanghai and was Yu Shangquan. Old friend, I'm here to visit.

The wheelchair was parked outside the house, and the middle-aged man walked into the inner room with the support of Hirako, sat on the head of the bed and said, "Mr. Yu, I heard the conversation between two Japanese, and I have what you are looking for." Yu Shangquan didn't turn around. Ten minutes later, the middle-aged man bid farewell to Pingzi, saying: "I don't intend to let him beat the Japanese players, but I just don't want to make him crazier. Be more careful these days." A guard in gray ran out from under the shadow of the tree, helped him sit on a rattan chair, and pushed him away.

An hour later, when the two girls were about to fall asleep, the knock on the door came again.When the door opened, there were two Chinese people in blue gowns, who at first glance looked like twins.The two handed over a box of preserved fruit and a bottle of French red wine, saying that they lived in the French Concession in Shanghai and were old friends of Yu Shangquan. The two entered the inner room and saw that the quilts of the two women on the bed had been rolled out, so they stopped sitting on the head of the bed and stood talking. A: "Originally there was a person who was most suitable to teach you martial arts. He came from Xuehua Mountain. Your father was the 'Seventeen Days' of Xuehua Mountain. If he hadn't died young, he would be the master of this generation of Xuehua Mountain. Maybe you would like to learn from your father A series of martial arts."

B: "This person is lurking in Shangnan Village, and we haven't been able to find him so far. Would you like to learn our martial arts?" The two glanced at the two women at the same time, with murderous intent in their eyes, but they disappeared instantly.Obviously judging the two women won't cause trouble. A: "In this village, our martial arts are the weakest, but it is martial arts after all." B: "The two of us are from Zizaimen. Zizaimen martial arts was created during the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty. It was originally a crash method for anti-Qing organizations to train assassins."

A: "There are no moves or styles in Zizaimen's martial arts. It only needs two people to constantly learn from each other. Therefore, under Zizaimen, they are always in pairs. After 1930, in the Zhongtong, there were such pairs of people. " B: "Although we are despised spies, in this village, compared with the Japanese and traitors, we represent the country after all. Maybe you would like to learn our martial arts." After a while, B asked A: "He didn't respond, shall we go?" A: "Do things to the end, and leave the words." B cleared his throat, and A glanced at the two women.

Yi whispered: "Find an open space and walk in a circle with a diameter of five meters, and walk for four consecutive days. When the spirit of walking drops, people will naturally squat on their knees and walk low, ignore it, and continue walking. On the fourth day, It will definitely raise your true energy, and you will naturally be able to pose tall. If you can pose tall, it will become a small martial art." The two women listened intently, and there was a desire to try in their eyes. Yi sneered, and said: "We have practiced martial arts for sixteen years. No one in Zizai has tried this quick method, because it is impossible for a person to walk for four days without a break."

Jia softly said: "It's not impossible, it's just very difficult. Although it is difficult for the two girls to implement it, it is a secret after all. Please don't tell others." The two girls nodded vigorously. A smiled: "We did our best. Let's go." After they left, Suobaoge asked: "Are they mentally ill?" Pingzi: "Ah!" When the two women fell asleep, Yu Shangquan was still facing the wall and meditating.Suo Baoge said: "Your man is really interesting, let him sit like this?" Pingzi: "I want to talk to you, let him sit." Suo Baoge smiled and put his arm around Pingzi's shoulder : "Okay, let's talk about dawn."

The two women talked for a while, and Pingzi exclaimed: "You sleep here, your father doesn't care about you?" Suobaoge: "It's okay, he admits it." Did Suobaoge just have sex with Yu Shangquan, or did he have sex?Suobaoge said that it has been done countless times, and every time it is the pinnacle. Pingzi hid his head under the quilt and revealed it after a while, with a peaceful expression: "I admit it, it can only be you, I would be very unhappy if it were someone else." Suobaoge giggled: "Don't be naive, follow me We are a Han man, how can two Han men be satisfied? We have to recognize a lot." After speaking, Pingzi kissed Pingzi on the cheek, and Pingzi cried.

When the two girls woke up, it was noon the next day, and Mother Yu knocked on the window to greet them for dinner.The two women were surprised that there was no Yu Shangquan in front of the wall. Looking at the figures of the two daughters and Mother Yu running and shouting from a distance, Qian Er, who was huddled in the canopy of an old pagoda tree, handed a cigarette to Zhao Da beside him, and said, "I know where Yu Shangquan went, and it must be the same as that The Snow Flower Mountain Sect is the same place, and it is the blind spot of our search." Zhao Da muttered: "Where is it?"

A wisp of smoke slipped from between the leaves. In a wooden house in Dayang Bridge, Shanghai, Hao Weizhen and his wife had lunch three hours later than usual because they were still in bed 20 minutes ago.The rice is the zongzi Hao Weizhen bought last night. Hao Weizhen finished eating quickly, the woman took out the toilet paper and wiped his hands for him.The bamboo leaves holding the zongzi were lying on the ground, sticky like a man and woman covered in sweat during sex.Hao Weizhen felt sad for a while, he tightened his five fingers, clenched the straw paper tightly, and let the woman's hand come off. Hao Weizhen: "Should I be pregnant this time?" Woman: "It's hard to say." Hao Weizhen: "What else should I do?" Woman: "Come again." Hao Weizhen showed anger, and the woman met his gaze fearlessly.Hao Weizhen lowered his head and murmured: "I never thought that gold bars would be so valuable." The woman rested her chin on his knee, her eyes smiling like peach blossoms: "Gold bars have always been very valuable." Hao Weizhen radiated a power that made him feel terrible, and picked up the woman.Driven by this force, the two fell onto the bed. The two reached a deeper space than before, and Hao Weizhen had a thought: "It's time to go back to Shangnan Village!" The thought fell into the air, and his body slid into the distance... On the dry part of the riverbed in Shangnan Village, Shishen Shunzao and a woman in black walked. They were three feet apart, and the woman stepped on Shishen's shadow step by step.Shishen stopped, and the woman stopped at the same time.Going forward, the boundary of the village is beyond the border. Shishen thought, the most secret place in this village is the hiding place of Peng Shisan and Hao Weizhen. After they disappeared, they lived there by themselves. I really can’t think of where else Yu Shangquan can hide . Shishen: "Qianyezi, he must have left the village, right?" The woman in black is Qianyezi who vowed to kill him. She smiled charmingly: "I am by your side only to wait for an opportunity, and I have no responsibility to answer questions. You have to be careful, and don't think too much about everything. If you are distracted, I will We're about to make a move." Shishen nodded helplessly, seeing Qianyezi's foot stepping on the throat of his own shadow. Lin Buwang walked into the grove behind the village, and Uncle Suo accompanied him, muttering all the way: "I am very annoyed that Yu Shangquan has taken over my precious daughter. I just didn't expect this kid to be so promising and attract so many Japanese... …I'm balanced." Lin Buwang stopped and spoke Chinese with a mixture of Beijing accent and Shanghai accent, which was the result of his five years of living in Yu's house: "I'll look for it alone, please leave!" Uncle Suo froze on the spot, watching Lin Buwang disappear in the woods. There was a long series of piercing "creaking" sounds, and Uncle Suo looked back and saw the lazy brothers pushing the village chief to walk on the embankment, and the village chief's wicker chair was fitted with four wooden wheels.With a smug smile, the village head greeted Uncle Suo from a distance, and left with a loud noise. They were also looking for Yu Shangquan. At nine o'clock in the morning on the fifth day, Guangze Zhizhu sat in front of the chessboard.At 9:40, the notary Yan Jing and his team said to the chief referee, Dun Mu Xiangzhuo: "Yu Shangquan should not be found. We put on a pompous game just to have a closing ceremony. There is no need to wait for two hours." ?” According to the regulations, if the player fails to arrive within two hours of the time limit, he will be judged as a loser.Yu Shangquan was sentenced to lose this round, that is, he lost four games in a row, was relegated, and Jubanqi could end. Dunmu was resting with his eyes closed, with his eyes open, looking at the eaves outside the window.The lower edge of the eaves in the backlight is like undulating ripples.Dunmu: "Take care of yourself, two hours will pass soon." Everyone in the chess room closed their eyes and sat quietly.At 10:49, Guangze opened his eyes and saw Yu Shangquan sitting opposite the chessboard, also closing his eyes to rest his mind. In the state of closed eyes with sensitive hearing, no one noticed other people's room.Yan Jing was the second one to open their eyes, and everyone sensed that they all opened their eyes immediately. Yu Shangquan sat cross-legged, his trousers were torn open, and his exposed calf was covered with large and small pustules, stained with blood, as if he had been bitten intensively by mosquitoes. Dunmu walked to the chessboard and said, "The time has come." Lin Buwang entered the chess room and sat on the edge of the pool in the courtyard, holding a small branch he picked up. Seeing Yu Shangquan walk into the chess room, he turned to the pool and respectfully put the branch into the water, as if burying a friend. The branches lay swaying, swaying into the spots of light on the water. The game was still going on extremely fast, and before twelve o'clock, the two had already played one hundred and twenty-three moves. In the middle, Yu Shangquan fell asleep several times, but he woke up with a shake of his neck at most one minute. At one hundred and twenty-four hands, Yu Shangquan dozed off again, his head tilted to his left shoulder, and he snored. Qian Duo Bone walked out of the chess room, sat down by the pool, and said, "Yu Shangquan is going to lose. He played a wonderful move, rescued the seven white pieces on the left, and aimed at the weak point of the central black piece—but he misread it." In the overall situation, the structure of the two white pieces below him is not good, and they are about to collapse under Guangze's attack." Lin Buwang took off his mask and took a long breath. A recorder stood up, moved to Dunmu's side, and whispered, "There is something wrong with Mr. Guangze." Dunmu looked away from the chessboard and looked at Guangze. I saw Guangze turning his head frequently, looking behind him for a moment, then looking at the roof for a moment, suddenly fixed his eyes, and stared at the audience: "Did you see a small animal lying on my shoulder for a while and then jumping away? " Everyone was stunned, seeing Guangze's iron-black cheeks and pale lips, which were exactly the image of a person possessed by ghosts in ancient paintings.Yan Jing and his party stood up and shouted: "Concentrate on playing chess! There is nothing here except Go!" Guangze shivered for a moment, his eyes gradually softened, and after the iron black on his cheeks faded, he bowed his head to thank Yanjing, and then sat down at the front of the chessboard. Yan Jing walked around the indoor wall, her lips moved slightly, as if reciting some spell. The interior is Japanese-style tatami, but the structure of the house is Chinese-style, with a roof built on top to seal the beams.In this mezzanine, there are two people huddled together, Zhao Da and Qian Er.Through a small hole, the two peeped at Yu Shangquan, and Qian Er whispered: "It's like a shadow, like a sound, he did it." "Like shadow like sound" is a term in martial arts, which refers to the ability to make opponents hallucinate after one's cultivation is profound. Next to the chess room, Duan Yuanchen was already eating lunch, he stopped his chopsticks and looked up at the roof.The guard standing on the side asked: "What's wrong?" Duan Yuanchen chuckled: "There are rats on it. It doesn't affect the meal." Only the snoring of Yu Shangquan was heard in the chess room. Guangze leaned over the chessboard like a swooping eagle, subconsciously moved the chess pieces in the chess box, and made two beeps. Yu Shangquan stopped snoring, and his chin left his left shoulder. Guangze's hand was stiff in the chess box, and after two seconds, he slowly took out a chess piece and hit it on the chessboard. Yanjing handed Dunmu a note: "Why not attack, but defend instead?" Dunmu wrote: "Hiroze made a mistake. The content of the game is disappointing, just look at the result." During the game after lunch, Yu Shangquan's incoherent thinking revealed that his white chess swallowed Guangze's five central sunspots in a roundabout way. The white model sent to the black formation, Guangze has a certain way to kill it. The game unexpectedly continued into the evening, and the two players agreed to continue the night battle.After dinner, Guangze went back to the chess room first. Being a never smoker, he took a pack of cigarettes from the spectator seats, sat down in front of the chessboard, put a cigarette on the empty space of the chess piece, then took out another one and stood on the chessboard. on one. The two cigarettes stood in a thrilling stand. Dunmu and Yanjing walked back to the chess room, glanced at each other, and sat back to their seats without a word.During the game, there was a ban on speaking in the chess room, but now no one dares to speak. The recorder, staff and others all sat down in silence behind the room. The juban chess funds were paid by the Tokyo Chess Institute, and the financial planner sent by him loved Go and had an amateur third-dan ability. He wrote a note to Tonki: "What is Hirosawa doing?" Tonki wrote on the note: "Relieve tension." The accountant wrote another note: "Why are you nervous? Isn't he in the upper hand?" This note was not handed to Dunmu, but Yanjing cut it off halfway, wrote a few words, and returned it to the accountant. The note reads: "Because he ushered in the opportunity to defeat Yu Shangquan in one fell swoop." Hirosawa removes the cigarette, and the game begins.At 11:35 p.m., Guangze didn't seize the opportunity to kill Yu Shangquan's lonely chess, and Dunmu and Yanjing judged that it would be a draw.At 11:47, Hiroze made another mistake and lost Yimu. Yu Shangquan had three losses and one win, avoiding the crisis of relegation. At three o'clock in the morning, Lin Buwang was still drinking in the front room. His mask took off his left earmuff and hung on the right side of his face. Lin Buwang sang in a low voice, tapping his knees to beat the time.The lyrics are: After singing this song repeatedly for a long time, Lin Buwang stopped suddenly, and a alert look appeared on his drunken face: "I want to ask you the truth, did you instruct Guangze to let Yu Shangquan?" Qian Duo was stunned: "Is there any benefit to handing over chess?" Lin Buwang: "I don't know what the benefits are, but today's chess is too weird, so there should be some benefits?" Qian Duo lowered his head, took the cigarette case on the table, took one and stood it on the wine table, as if he wanted to imitate Hirosawa Li cigarettes, but he didn't take out the second cigarette. Two or three seconds later, he suddenly raised his hand and slapped it, and the smoke shattered under his palm. Qianduo: "I hope you understand one thing. We regard winning and losing as sacred. If Benyin falls into one gate, we will not give up chess." In the gravel room, a plastic sheet was spread on the bed, and Yu Shangquan lay on it.His trousers had been cut open, and the abscess on his thigh was heavier than his calf, and it was black and purple in color. Suobaoge and Hepingzi squatted on the bed, squeezing the pus from one leg each with alcohol, toilet paper, and sewing needles.The pus and blood rubbed on the straw paper have several colors. There was a knock on the door, and when it opened, there were two middle-aged men in blue shirts.After the two of them entered the room, they sighed: "Walking for four days in a row, and then sitting for a whole day, the blood is in a mess. If you lie down again, he will die." Under the guidance of the two men in blue shirts, the two women hung two strips of cloth from the beam of the outer room, wrapping them around Yu Shangquan's left and right shoulders, so that he could maintain his standing posture even after he fell asleep.After the two men in blue shirts checked it out, they left. After a while there was another knock on the door. When I opened the door, I saw a person sitting on a wicker chair.Seeing that Yu Shangquan was tied up with cloth, he nodded appreciatively, and handed over a bunch of medicine boxes, saying that it was a special medicine for pulling out pus and stasis. Suo Baoge was worried about Yu Shangquan's leg injury. He smiled and said before leaving: "It looks serious, but in fact, the toxins in the body are released, which is a good thing. But if you sit for a long time after a jerk, you will definitely get a hernia .” In the main house of the old He family, Dunmu Xiangzhuo was talking with Yu's mother, explaining how the Shifan chess queen settled down with Yu Shangquan.He will transfer Yu Shangquan's savings in Japan to Shanghai, and it is best for Yu Shangquan to be admitted to a regular hospital in the Japanese Concession. After Yu's mother agreed, she bowed her head and said something she couldn't bear to tell: Mental illness has caused great damage to the human brain. Even if it is cured, it will no longer be able to make precise calculations, so Yu Shangquan's Go life is over.Mother Yu's expression was cold, and she said "I'm really sorry" twice in a deep voice, with tears in her eyes.When Yu Shangquan was eleven years old, when he met Mother Yu for the first time, he was overwhelmed by her nobility.For a man who has been depressed for a long time in his career, how important it is to have a woman in his life that he respects!In this regard, he feels that the world still has a beautiful side. For a long time, her role in him is almost a belief. The two set the scene about the future of the child, like husband and wife.Now, the future of this child is ruined, and the relationship between the two of them is severed. There is no reason for him to enter this woman's life anymore. Yu's mother handed Dunmu a handkerchief, Dunmu took it, wiped away tears like washing his face, then folded the handkerchief, put it on the corner of the table, got up and said goodbye. After Dunmu left, Mother Yu went back to the inner room, opened the suitcase, and took out a printed book from the interlayer.Seal-making enthusiasts will have this kind of 32-carat rice paper album, and they will print their own seal cutting on it and keep it with them. Open it, there is no seal inside, but a red pen symbol.The talisman was drawn by Yu Shangquan's father before his death, and it is the Taoism of Snow Flower Mountain that he inherited. Facing the handwriting of her deceased husband, Yu's mother's cold expression melted, like a helpless girl, pressing the seal to her chest.The deceased husband left her no property, only this illusory thing.Talismans are ancient mysterious characters, and it is said that writing can change reality. Mother Yu calmed down and began to flip through the pages. At four o'clock in the morning, with dim light in the room, Hao Weizhen in the wooden house on Dayang Bridge woke up from a nightmare, and had a premonition that Yu Shangquan's life would be in danger.He narrowed his eyes, the cold light in his eyes was like a sickle.The scythe stood at the foot of the bed, within easy reach. It might be too late—a cold sweat broke out on his body.The sleeping woman groaned and curled her thighs around his stomach.He is locked. There is a section of iron pipe at a depth of five meters in the Shangnan Village River, which is wrapped in layers of aquatic plants.The iron pipe is ten meters long and 1.5 meters in diameter. People can barely squat inside. Two wooden planks are laid inside the pipe as a bed. It used to be the hiding place of Peng Shisan and Hao Weizhen, and now Shi Shenshun and Qian Yezi are sleeping. Shi Shenshun sat with the quilt on, staring at the sleeping Qianyezi, his eyelids remained motionless, like the eyes of a crocodile.Qianyezi suddenly smiled and opened his eyes: "Don't be so nervous, there is an agreement between you and me, I won't make a move when sleeping, eating, or taking a bath." Shishen: "Since this is the case, come here and let me hug you again... I am old and I am cold." Qianyezi walked to Shishen's wooden board with the quilt in his arms, added the quilt to his quilt, and retracted into his arms.Shishen's eyes were still looking at Qianyezi's board a few steps away, Qianyezi: "What's wrong with you?" Shishen: "A little flustered, it's okay." The two flattened their bodies, embraced each other and fell asleep. In the interior of the crushed stone room, there is the sound of Suobaoge and Hepingzi sleeping and breathing, which is the frequency of the ebb tide of the sea, which is unique to young women.Outside, Yu Shangquan fell asleep in a standing position with his arms hanging in the cloth strips. Guangze Zhizhu stood in front of Yu Shangquan, slowly pulled out his long knife, and whispered: "Today I lost to you in chess, and I know that I will not be able to beat you in the future. Logically, I should leave, but Master Ogasawara ordered you to repay." Yu Shangquan fell asleep with his head bowed, his neck exposed like a beheaded man.Hiroze drew a long knife and whispered: "The crash of the plane may be a coincidence, but your curse has left a deep impression on me. If I don't kill you, I feel uneasy. If I am wrong, please forgive me!" The knife flashed. The corners of Guangze's eyes twitched, feeling that the knife hadn't landed on the ground. Yu Shangquan, who was hanging with a cloth strip, swayed back half an inch, as if he was good at maneuvering skills in chess. When the tip of the knife was about to touch the ground, Guangze flicked his wrist and put the long knife back into its sheath. Yu Shangquan still hung his head, fully asleep. Guangze: "In order to play chess with me, you have added martial arts. What school is it?" Hidden ghost claws slid to the wrist, the little finger snapped, and a thin white light shot towards Yu Shangquan's neck artery. With a "crack", the white light twisted for a moment, and jumped back into Guangze's left sleeve. A square blade fell to the ground. Guangze's eyelids tightened, and he turned to see a person wearing a mask standing in the corner of the room.In the morning light indoors, the mask was as white as snow.He is Lin Buwang, who used the ancestral square knife for the first time. Guangze and Lin Buwang looked at each other, Lin Buwang inserted his left hand into his right sleeve, there should be a square knife in the sleeve.Guangze retreated slowly towards the door, and suddenly accelerated at the door.Before the door was opened, people were already outside the house. Lin Buwang's left hand was pulled out from his right sleeve, his wrist was empty, he only had a square knife. Hiding in the shadows under the tree, Guangze pulled out a thin piece of silver from his sleeve. There was a gap in the silver piece, like a child's teeth.Guangze looked solemn, and said to himself: "The square knife of the Lin family still exists in the world."