August 2000, Jinling City, Qinhuai District.

The annual National Go Tournament has just ended here.

Since the participants are mainly minors each year, the competition is usually held in the summer. This is also the practice of the fixed stage race.

In the just-concluded finalized stage of this year, the most eye-catching person is not Liu Yuanbo, who won this year's championship with 12 wins and 1 loss, nor Chen Yaoyue, who is the youngest age of the year, or even Mao Jiajun, a beautiful chess player who finally succeeded in entering the stage this year, but a 13-year-old teenager named Li Xiangping who failed to enter the stage.

Among these chess boys participating in this year's competition, Li Xiangping is outstanding, and he was unanimously favored by the domestic Go community long before the competition, believing that it was almost a certainty that he would take away a place in the 22 fixed stage places.

In fact, after the start of the match, Li Xiangping did live up to expectations, he won 9 consecutive victories in the first 9 rounds, and even from the post-match point of view, the only set that the champion winner Liu Yuanbo lost was lost to Li Xiangping.

However, just when everyone thought that Li Xiangping had no suspense in advance, an accident appeared.

Or rather, tragedy struck.

In the 10th round, Li Xiangping was blocked by Chen Yaoyue and failed to realize his wish to set a section in advance.

In the 11th round, Li Xiangping unexpectedly lost to the beautiful chess player Mao Jiajun, once again delaying the pace of the fixed section.

Yes, at this time, everyone thought it was an accident, and Li Xiangping was just delayed in entering the stage.

However, a small number of experts who are familiar with the inside story know that Li Xiangping is already in danger at this time.

Not for anything else, because in the 12th round, Li Xiangping met Yan Qing.

To say that although this young man named Yan Qing is average in chess, judging from the post-game, he only barely entered the stage with a score of 19th, but he has a characteristic, that is, Li Xiangping's "bitter hand".

Li Xiangping has been participating in fixed-stage tournaments since he was 11 years old, and his outstanding chess sense and keen reaction have long won the unanimous recognition of the Go community, but there is a fact, a fact that many people have not noticed, in the first two games, Li Xiangping has been defeated by Yan Qing.

Now for the third time, can Li Xiangping defeat the "bitter hand"?

As a few experts expected, Li Xiangping lost to Yan Qing again, and the only victory needed to successfully enter the stage still did not wait.

At this point in the game, everyone already knows very well in their hearts: Li Xiangping is dangerous, he is really dangerous!

Because although Li Xiangping has outstanding strength and his chess talent has been unanimously recognized by the chess world, he has a weakness that is also well known to everyone: that is, his psychological quality is not good, and his ability to resist blows is extremely poor.

Just 3 days ago, the final round of this year's fixed-stage competition started, and the result was not unexpected, in the game, Li Xiangping's technical movements were seriously deformed, and he showed a crisp defeat early.

So in this way, after 9 consecutive victories and 4 consecutive defeats, Li Xiangping failed again in the fixed stage, but also made him one of the most eye-catching figures in the entire arena.

Especially one thing that happened after the game, you can even remove this "one" and make him the most eye-catching figure in the whole game.

That is, after all the games were over, perhaps because of deep stimulation, or for some other reason, 13-year-old Li Xiangping suddenly fell unconscious, he has not woken up for two days and two nights, and is still in the hospital for observation.

In Qinhuai District, the First People's Hospital of Jinling City, in a high-class ward, Li Xiangping was lying on the hospital bed, his eyes were now closed, and he was unconscious.

However, although he was not awake now, he looked ruddy and breathing slowly. And around the bed, there were now four people standing around him, watching him closely.

Among the four people is an elderly couple, they are Li Xiangping's grandfather and grandmother, and the two elderly people are now looking at their grandson with a worried face.

In addition to the two of them, the other two are also a man and a woman, the man is in his 40s, he is Li Xiangping's attending doctor, surnamed Ren. The woman was a nurse in her early 20s, surnamed Yang.

"Dr. Ren, what is the situation with my grandson now?" Li Xiangping's grandfather asked.

"This ......"

That Dr. Ren is over 40 years old this year, to say that this is not simple, he is one of the best doctors in this hospital and even the entire Jinling, a well-known authority on children's medicine in China, but in the face of Li Xiangping's grandfather's question, Dr. Ren didn't know how to answer:

"It's strange, we have carried out various examinations on the child, from brain waves to electrocardiograms, and then to various blood indicators, and no abnormalities have been found, but why has the child been unconscious."

"Humph! A bunch of quacks. ”

Old Man Li snorted, and then no longer paid attention to Dr. Ren, but turned to Grandma Li Xiangping and said:

"Wife, I definitely can't go down like this, transfer to the hospital! Now we must immediately consider transferring to another hospital, and we must send Xiangping to Shencheng or Beijing for treatment. ”

Although Grandma Li Xiangping was also anxious, she looked calmer than her grandfather, and she seemed to be much more decisive, listening to her grandfather's words, grandma did not hesitate, she nodded:

"Yes, I can't delay it any longer, I can't even find out the cause, what kind of broken hospital is this, old man, I look at it like this, you should contact Lao Zhao right now......."

Look, Grandma has even thought about her next move.

Seeing the attitude of the two old men, Dr. Ren didn't dare to speak, not to mention that because the cause could not be found, this made him feel a little unreasonable, not to mention that he knew a little bit about the identities of the two in front of him, and the standard old revolution was definitely not something he could afford to offend.

Not to mention anything else, just the "Lao Zhao" in the mouth of Li Xiangping's grandmother, Dr. Ren knew that this was a big man in this province, and the reason why this child was able to live in this high-level ward was because of the greeting from that "Lao Zhao".

Just when the atmosphere in the ward was a little awkward, another person suddenly rushed into the ward, and this person rushed in while still shouting:

"Xiangping, what's wrong with Xiangping......."

Seeing someone coming, Grandpa Li Xiangping suddenly became angry, and he reprimanded him with his head and face:

"Yo ho, it turned out to be our big boss Li coming, it's really rare and rare, what's wrong, big boss Li didn't go to your money-making plan, and finally remembered that he still had a son?"

The person who came was naturally Li Xiangping's father, Li Yuanhu, during Li Xiangping's competition, he happened to be in the capital to talk about a business, and when he heard the news that Li Xiangping was in a coma, he didn't rush over until now.

Facing the anger of his old man, Li Yuanhu and Mr. Li naturally didn't dare to refute, seeing that there were outsiders present, he had to pretend that he didn't hear it, but turned to Li Xiangping's grandmother:

"Mom, what's going on with Xiangping?"

"Alas, I suddenly fell unconscious two days ago, and I haven't woken up until now, and I asked what the reason was, but the doctor said that he couldn't find out the problem, and he was really dying."

"Oh?"

Li Yuanhu turned his inquiring gaze to Dr. Ren.

"You're Mr. Li, right, that's the case......"

Seeing that Li Yuanhu looked a little kind, at least not as fierce as the old man of his family, Dr. Ren pushed his glasses and prepared to explain to another person.

It's a pity that his explanation was disturbed again, and this time it was the beautiful nurse surnamed Yang who bothered him:

"Blink, blink! I seemed to see it just now, and the child seemed to blink. ”

As soon as Nurse Yang said this, Dr. Ren naturally didn't care about explaining, and everyone, including him, stopped talking and stood around Li Xiangping again.

And at this time, as if he had just finished a very long dream, a strange and even weird dream, Li Xiangping woke up slowly.

Li Xiangping opened his eyes, and the first thing that caught his eye was the anxious look of his grandparents, and a wave of warmth surged into his heart.

"Grandpa, grandma."

"Eh, good grandson."

Grandpa's face was full of red light, and grandma cried with joy:

"Xiangping, tell grandma what happened, by the way, how do you feel now?"

"I... Right now, I'm a little tired and want to take a break. ”

Of course, Li Xiangping was not really tired, he just wanted to take this opportunity to digest the dream he had just had.

"Okay, okay, you rest, you rest, rest and talk to grandma."

The world is the most patient, and since Li Xiangping has made this request, others are naturally as good as streams.

It's a pity that Li Xiangping is destined to "rest", because at this time, someone came to the ward again:

"Oh, is Xiangping already awake? Haha, Xiangping, look who is coming, Grandpa Zhao brought Daokai to see you. ”

Li Xiangping finally didn't want to "rest" now, he stared at Zhao Daokai with his eyes:

"This kid, has he crossed like himself?"

This was Li Xiangping's first thought after seeing Zhao Daokai.