hotmtlnovel Chapter 1058 Dark Horse Road
Chapter 1058 Dark Horse Road
Chapter 1058 Dark Horse Road
After the small test is the college entrance examination. Li Yiming and his cousin, who had come to Zhuang Chaoying for tutoring before, also took part in this college entrance examination. Compared with the college entrance examination in winter last year, there were more people participating this time, and it was relatively more formal.
As the examiner of the last college entrance examination, Zhuang Chaoying was invited again to attend the centralized examination, leaving Huang Ling with the two children at home.
Just a few days after Zhuang Chaoying left, Qin Hao also went to Shanghai to participate in the National Go Championship. Song Ying and Lin Wufeng both had work and could not go with him, which made Song Ying feel very guilty. When she was saying goodbye, she burst into tears as soon as Qin Hao turned around.
At first, Lin Dongzhe couldn't eat or sleep well, but after a few days, Lin Dongzhe came back to life. For Lin Dongzhe, summer vacation means that he doesn't have to go to school for two months, and without Qin Hao watching over him, he can make trouble in the Heavenly Palace again.
The result was that Song Ying couldn't stand it anymore just two days after Qin Hao left.
"Ah, Haozi just left and I miss him already. When will he come back? Lin Dongzhe is such a naughty boy that he has become lawless."
Lin Wufeng was worried: "I don't know how he is doing in Shanghai alone. How about we go to Shanghai on Sunday?"
"That's a good idea. Let's go to Shanghai on Sunday."
Although Shanghai is not far from Suzhou, it is still a long journey in that era. At first, Song Ying planned to ask Huang Ling to take care of Lin Dongzhe. However, when Lin Dongzhe heard that his parents were going to Shanghai to see Qin Hao and leaving him alone, he immediately became unhappy.
"Song Ying, you are disloyal and you left me alone. No, if you don't take me with you, I will just hop on the train by myself."
The last time when he sent Qin Hao away, Lin Dongzhe found that the train was not going very fast when it just started. He felt that with his agility he should be able to climb on.
Song Ying was so angry that she was about to give Lin Dongzhe a beating, but Huang Ling quickly stopped her and whispered.
"I think you'd better take Lin Dongzhe with you, otherwise he might really try to hijack the train."
Song Ying agreed. With Lin Dongzhe's fearless personality, he might disappear as soon as they left, and Huang Ling would not be able to lock him up.
"Okay then, but let's make it clear in advance. You have to obey me in everything when we go to Shanghai. You are not allowed to leave my sight, or I won't take you out anymore."
Lin Dongzhe agreed readily and jumped up and down in the yard.
"Oh, I'm going to Shanghai. I want to watch Brother Hao play chess."
Song Ying thought for a moment and said, "Sister Ling, is there anything you want to buy? I'll go to Shanghai and bring it back for you."
"I want to buy a lot of things, but there is not much money at home." Huang Ling smiled bitterly. She had nothing to pretend in front of Song Ying.
Song Ying was surprised when she heard this: "Sister Ling, Teacher Zhuang's monthly salary should be at least 50 or 60 yuan. Even if you two are working and raising two children, you shouldn't have no savings at all, right?"
"Every month when Chaoying gets his salary, he gives one-third to his parents, and we both spend our own money."
Song Ying didn't know what to say for a moment. After a while, she took Huang Ling's arm and said quietly, "Sister Ling, you have suffered so much over the years."
Huang Ling wiped her tears and forced an ugly smile: "It's okay, I'm used to it after so many years. Fortunately, Tunan and Xiaoting are doing well. As long as they are fine, I'm fine."
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The days of waiting are always hard to endure. Lin Dongzhe spent the three most difficult days of his life. Finally, it was Sunday. Song Ying and Lin Wufeng were both on holiday. Early in the morning, the two adults and one child went straight to the train station.
"So this is what the inside of the train is like." Lin Dongzhe's eyes couldn't stop rolling as soon as he got on the train. Last time he could only take a look from the outside, but this time he finally got his wish and could come in.
Song Ying didn't dare to take her eyes off Lin Dongzhe for a moment. This naughty boy was a typical loser. Luckily the neighbors could help keep an eye on him in the alley, but there were so many people coming and going on the train, he might disappear in the blink of an eye.
Lin Wufeng and Song Ying sat outside, leaving Lin Dongzhe alone in the window seat, and only then did they breathe a sigh of relief.
Along the way, Lin Dongzhe was very excited. Sometimes he danced with joy while looking at the scenery receding outside the window, and sometimes he chatted happily with the passengers sitting next to him.
"I didn't go to Shanghai to have fun. I went to see my brother."
The young couple sitting next to him thought he was funny and were happy to talk to him.
"Oh, what is your brother doing in Shanghai? Going to school?"
Lin Dongzhe crossed his arms, raised his chin, and said proudly, "My brother is going to Shanghai to participate in the competition."
"Oh? What game?"
"A Go game."
The young couple sitting next to us looked at each other and said, "The Go competition being held in Shanghai right now, could it be the National Go Championship?"
"Yes, that's it." Lin Dongzhe became even more proud.
The young couple sitting next to them couldn't help but say to Song Ying and Lin Wufeng with envy: "How old is your eldest son? He can participate in the National Go Championship. Maybe he can become a national player in the future."
Before Song Ying could speak, Lin Dongzhe couldn't wait to say, "Brother Hao will be ten years old soon."
"Ten years old?" The faces of the young couple sitting next to them froze. They thought that Song Ying and Lin Wufeng got married early, and that being able to participate in the National Go Championship in her twenties was already very talented. But when they heard that she was only ten years old, they automatically attributed Lin Dongzhe's words to "childish talk."
Unexpectedly, Lin Dongzhe was very sensitive. He saw that the two did not believe him, so he pulled Song Ying to prove it to him.
"Mom, tell them, is Brother Hao in Shanghai participating in the Go Championship?"
However, even if Song Ying nodded, the young couple sitting next to her just thought that Song Ying was just considering the child's face, or that she had some unspeakable secret that she couldn't tell the child, so they found an opportunity to change the subject.
During the chat, Song Ying learned that the young couple sitting next to her had just gotten married and were going to Shanghai to visit relatives.
When they arrived at the train station, the two sides parted ways. Song Ying and Lin Wufeng held Lin Dongzhe's hands tightly on each side, fearing that he would run away.
They took the bus all the way to the Shanghai Chess Academy, where this year's National Go Championship was held. However, Song Ying and Lin Wufeng were neither players nor reporters, so the guard refused to let them in.
Lin Dongzhe pointed at the guard and burst into tears: "You are a bad guy. We came all the way from Suzhou to watch my brother's game, but you bullied us because we are from other places and refused to let us in."
All of the people coming in and out immediately looked over, and the security guard was sweating. There were many reporters from newspapers from all over the place coming and going. If one of the reporters got a strong sense of justice and published the matter in the newspaper, he would be scolded to death by his superiors.
"Little kids, don't talk nonsense. I didn't bully you."
Lin Dongzhe, however, took advantage of the situation and continued to attack: "You are the one who bullied me and didn't let me see my brother."
The guard was completely panicked: "What's your brother's name? Let me check it for you."
"His name is Qin Hao, and he came from Suzhou to participate in the National Go Championship!"
Lin Dongzhe shouted at the top of his lungs, but the guard didn't respond, and the onlookers cried out in surprise.
"Qin Hao? Is he the kid who lost to two national players in a row?"
"So they are Qin Hao's family. Your children are awesome and amazing."
Everyone was talking at once, leaving Song Ying and Lin Wufeng confused. How could they lose to two national players in a row?
The Chinese language is profound and extensive. Is this losing streak the one they think it is?
When Lin Dongzhe heard everyone around him praising Qin Hao, he stopped pretending to cry and said proudly, "My brother is amazing. He just won the National Children's Go Championship."
In Lin Dongzhe's opinion, the champion is the best, but he doesn't know that the Children's Go Competition and the National Go Championship are completely different levels of competition.
However, the onlookers got more information about Qin Hao from him, especially several reporters, who had already started taking notes.
Song Ying learned from reporters that when Qin Hao first participated in the National Go Championship, almost everyone thought he was just a runner-up and would be eliminated after one round.
But as he passed two rounds of preliminaries and entered the finals, he gradually attracted some attention.
However, what really made Qin Hao famous was that he met a national player from the Chinese Chess Institute in the first round of the main competition. Everyone thought that he was unlucky and was about to be eliminated, but the result was shocking. Qin Hao eliminated the national player with a clean 2:0.
This shocked all the contestants, organizers and reporters.
There has never been a shortage of talented young people in the Go world. Those who can become national players are the best among their peers. However, there has never been a genius who can beat national players at the age of ten throughout the entire history of modern Go. Even Nie Weiping can't do it.
But this was not the end yet. In the second round of the main competition, Qin Hao met another national player, the well-known Go player Cao Zhilin. You should know that this old man just won the runner-up in the National Go Championship last year.
At the beginning of the game, everyone thought that Qin Hao's dark horse career would be ended by Cao Zhilin. However, after only 158 moves in the first set, Cao Zhilin gave up and admitted defeat.
At this time, everyone just thought that Cao Zhilin underestimated his opponent. As a result, Qin Hao's attack in the second set was even more fierce. Cao Zhilin was sweating profusely after only 153 moves. He fell into a long thinking for five minutes, and then barely played to 167 moves before finally giving up and admitting defeat.
The scene was in chaos and the game was almost interrupted. Qin Hao also established his reputation as a dark horse with his victories in these two games.
A reporter handed Song Ying a newspaper and asked, "Do you think this is your child?"
Song Ying took it and took a look. It was a local Shanghai newspaper. In the center was a photo of Qin Hao playing chess. The title was: In the National Go Championship, a mysterious boy defeated two national players in a row. The future is promising and the gap between Chinese and Japanese Go is expected to narrow.
"Haozi is in the newspaper again?" Song Ying always felt that the Qin Hao she saw in the newspaper was a little unreal.
Lin Wufeng patted Song Ying's hand and said with a smile: "He has been on TV, so it's not surprising that he's in the newspaper."
Song Ying thought so too.
Lin Dongzhe was getting impatient and pointed at the guard: "Will you let us in?"
The guard smiled bitterly: "You really are the family members of the contestants, then please register."
"Humph, I told you earlier that Qin Hao is my brother."
Song Ying and her family of three entered the chess academy. Since it was still during the competition, the staff arranged them in the audience seats.
"Mr. Qin, you guys just watch the game here for a while. Contestant Qin Hao will be on stage soon." When the staff heard Lin Dongzhe calling Qin Hao brother, they subconsciously thought that Lin Wufeng's last name was Qin.
Lin Wufeng felt that it was troublesome to explain over and over again, so he did not correct it.
Sitting in the audience were either coaches or the contestants' families, and the style of Song Ying's family of three seemed a bit out of place with them.
"Comrade, which player's family members are you?" a middle-aged man sitting next to me asked in Shanghainese.
Before Song Ying and Lin Wufeng could speak, Lin Dongzhe said, "Qin Hao is my brother!"
The middle-aged man's expression suddenly became a little strange when he heard this.
When the people around heard that they were Qin Hao's family members, they immediately started talking.
"You are Qin Hao's parents. How did you raise this child?"
"That's amazing. He defeated two national players in a row. When will he be able to join the national team?"
"Who is your child's teacher? He has taught such an amazing student. Our provincial team will go visit him and learn from him."
Song Ying and Lin Wufeng didn't know how to answer for a moment. What teacher? Not only had they never seen Qin Hao's teacher, they had never even seen Qin Hao touch a Go board. But no one believed them when they said this, and they thought they were making excuses.
"Comrade, you are wrong to do this. You don't praise a person for his good deeds. There is still a big gap between our country's Go and Japan's. You are hiding it and delaying the development of Go in our country."
"Yes, comrades, Go requires not only talent, but also a lot of experience. Your children also need strong opponents to make progress together."
Just when Song Ying and Lin Wufeng didn't know how to deal with it, Qin Hao and another contestant entered the venue, immediately attracting the attention of everyone present.
Although Qin Hao's opponent this time is not a national player, he has defeated two national players in a row before and has become the biggest dark horse in this competition. Everyone wants to see whether it is just luck or he will be the dark horse to the end.
Song Ying looked at Qin Hao, who was sitting in the competition seat with a meticulous expression, her eyes full of pride.
"Our Haozi looks good in this outfit."
The small jacket Qin Hao was wearing was made by Song Ying with the help of Huang Ling using the cloth coupons she had saved for a long time. It was made the day before he left. In addition, Song Ying also gave Qin Hao 50 kilograms of national food coupons that her family had saved, saying that a poor family can make a fortune on the road, and she was afraid that Qin Hao would starve in Shanghai.
Lin Wufeng patted her hands and said softly, "The game has begun."
In fact, Song Ying didn't understand Go at all. She could only watch the game while listening to the whispers of the coaches and family members next to her.
Whenever someone said that Qin Hao had made a bad move, Song Ying wanted to stand up and remind Qin Hao, but when someone said that Qin Hao had made a good move, she would clap her hands in excitement.
Fortunately, this opponent was not too strong, and Qin Hao won again with a clean 2:0, successfully advancing to the knockout stage.
It was not until the referee announced that Qin Hao had won that Song Ying breathed a sigh of relief, while Lin Dongzhe jumped up excitedly and waved at Qin Hao.
At this time, Qin Hao also saw Song Ying and the other two, and hurriedly trotted over.
"Aunt Song, Uncle Lin, why are you here?"
"And me." Lin Dongzhe loudly declared his existence.
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