On the first weekend of early September, well, Li Xiangping, who has become a glorious high school student, packed his bags at home and prepared to go to Japan for the quarterfinals of the "Toyota Cup".

"Damn, you're still some kind of athlete?"

Li Xiangping glanced at his friend Zhao Daokai: "What, are you not convinced that I am an athlete?" ”

"I'm convinced."

"Hahahaha." Li Xiangping laughed: "Jealousy, you are Chiguoguo's jealousy." ”

By this semester, both of them were in high school. If you want to say that the previous high school entrance examination, the results of the two were not good, originally according to their test scores, let alone a good high school in the capital, in fact, they didn't even have normal qualifications for further education.

Originally, Li Xiangping's score was a few points lower than Zhao Daokai, but who made him an "athlete", or the highest level of international athletes in China, so he didn't need his old man to find a way, the China Chess Academy, which is affiliated to the State General Administration of Sports, arranged everything properly, and he is now studying in one of the best middle schools near the Chess Academy.

Compared with Li Xiangping, Zhao Daokai's enrollment is a bit of a knot, not that he can't go to school, with the relationship between his old Zhao family, this kind of thing is just a trivial matter, but now it is a bit of a high or low meaning, let him just find an ordinary high school to study, his mother who is a scholar is still unwilling, but if he really wants to enter the best middle schools in the capital, he hasn't even done it for a while.

No, it's been almost a week since school started, and this matter hasn't been decided yet, and it is precisely because it hasn't been decided, so when Zhao Daokai is at home, he will inevitably be counted by his mother, so this guy is simply out of sight and out of mind, and he is mixed with Li Xiangping every day these days.

"By the way, Daokai, the matter of the school has not been decided yet?"

"Who knows, there is no consensus in the family."

Li Xiangping looked surprised; "There can still be times when your family disagrees, and my Uncle Zhao dares not to listen to Aunt Liao?"

Zhao Daokai glared at Li Xiangping: "This time it's mainly because I have an opinion, my mother wants me to go to XXX High School, you know, who wants to go there to study, it's so far from home......"

"Hahahaha......" Li Xiangping laughed again, the XXX High School that Zhao Daokai said may not be the best middle school in Beijing, but it is one of the middle schools with the highest admission rate in Beijing, so Li Xiangping unceremoniously debunked Zhao Daokai:

"What is too far from home, I think you are afraid that you will be too far from the crowd by then."

"Huh? What stands out from the crowd? ”

"What do you think, that school is a bunch of top students, you scumbag mixed in, that's not standing out.... No, no, it should be a flock of chickens and cranes, haha, that's right, yes, you're just afraid that you'll be a flock of chickens and cranes when the time comes. ”

Zhao Daokai was angry: "Get out, you are the chicken ......" while saying that, he also showed his teeth and claws to Li Xiangping, but after playing for a while, even Zhao Daokai himself felt bored, and he came up on the sofa with Ge You paralysis:

"Alas! ......" has a loveless expression.

Li Xiangping expressed his understanding of his small hair, because since this matter was a fucking idea, it meant that this matter had basically been decided, and Zhao Daokai's objection was invalid at all. Don't say it's him, even if his grandfather, who was a high-ranking official, came over to oppose it, it would be invalid, and since even Li Xiangping knew about this situation in his family, Zhao Daokai himself naturally knew better, so he would look like this now.

Zhao Daokai, who was paralyzed on the sofa for a while, suddenly spoke: "By the way, I went to the attached middle school yesterday, and I seem to have seen your daughter-in-law." ”

"Oh?" Since the last time she sent Yang Na away, Li Xiangping has really not seen Cai Shanshan for a long time, and she doesn't know where she went to high school: "My daughter-in-law also went to that attached middle school?" ”

Zhao Daokai nodded: "It should be, I saw her wearing the school uniform of that school." ”

"Hehe, that Xing Daokai, now I'll give you a task, in the next three years, you have to take care of my daughter-in-law."

"Get out of here, I'm annoying," Zhao Daokai waved his hand in disgust: "It's like it's true, she's really your daughter-in-law?" If I want me to say that it's just you, it won't take long for your daughter-in-law to run away with someone else. ”

"Hahahaha, if you run away, you ask" Li Xiangping laughed again: "Okay, now it's your turn to get out, I'll catch the plane later." ”

"Okay, I'll get out, I'll get out, you're an athlete, you're awesome."

When Zhao Daokai left, the car that came to pick up Li Xiangping from the chess institute also came to the door. In the first two rounds of the "Toyota Cup", the Chinese team's results were not bad, in addition to Li Xiangping, Chang Hao and Wang Run reached the quarterfinals.

In addition to the three players of the Chinese team, the other quarter-finalists are Lee Cang-ho and Liu Chong-hyuk of the South Korean team, and Zhao Zhixun and Wang Mingwan of the Japanese team.

The last quarter-finalist is a bit special, he is the Argentine chess player Akirul, the bearded amateur 6 dan defeated Japan's Hasegawa Naokudan in the first round, and went on to defeat Yang Jiayuan 9 dan in the second round, becoming the blackest dark horse since the inception of the professional Go tournament, in fact, it also exposed the weakness of Japan's 9 dan.

Among them, Hasegawa Naojiudan is good to say, after all, Hasegawa Kudan is not young, Li Xiangping's impression of this person, that should be when Mr. Wu Qingyuan was promoted to the ninth dan that year, the Japanese Chess Academy organized a group of young chess players at that time and Mr. Wu to go up and down, this Hasegawa Nao has appeared, so if you calculate it this way, this person's age and generation should be about the same as Sakata Einan, and he should be at least 60 years old by now, so his loss is understandable.

However, this loss is understandable, and another Yang Jiuduan, who is in the prime of his career, also loses..... Li Xiangping didn't know how to complain.

"Brother Chang, you can easily draw such a person this time, then it can basically be regarded as a lie win."

On the way to the airport, Li Xiangping joked with Chang Hao like this, because his opponent in this round was the bearded chess player Akirul.

And in the face of Li Xiangping's words, the honest boy Chang Hao could only smile, because this is not easy to accept at all, if you want to admit that you are lying down to win, it will be not modest enough, and if you don't admit it, it seems to be hypocritical to say that the next game will still be very hard.

Therefore, the honest boy Chang Hao has no choice, so he can only change the topic at this time:

"No matter how easy it is, we can't compare with you, we all have to look at the opponent, which is like your mastery boss, as long as you are on the world stage, then it doesn't matter who the opponent is, the devil blocks and kills the demon, the god blocks and kills the god, as long as you sit there, then everyone is invincible, isn't it Wang Lei."

Another chess player, Wang Lei, smiled: "Yes, yes, the master boss is too much, and there is no grass." ”

"Hahahaha, Brother Wang, you have watched too much martial arts, and you have been stunning, and you don't grow an inch of grass, how can it be so exaggerated, I think my competition this time may not be so good."

"Well, why?"

"My opponent this time is Lao Zhao, as you all know, I used to win more than those in South Korea, and I still played less with Japanese chess players, and I won't tell you, in fact, in my opinion, it may be that Japanese chess players are more difficult to deal with."

In the next game, Lao Shi will play against the Japanese chess player Zhao Zhixun, after hearing Li Xiangping say this, Chang Hao and Wang Lei are interested:

"Why?"

"How so?"

One of them asked "why", the other said "how", to which Li Xiangping explained:

"I personally think that the layout of Japanese chess players is better, and I am afraid of a good layout, I remember that I used to meet Kato, Mr. Lin Haifeng, it was all early in the prelude stage, and it was not until very late that I stirred it back, and you all know that Lao Zhao is different from other Japanese chess players, and I personally think that among all Japanese chess players, Lao Zhao should be the one who is least afraid of stirring, so I think this game, it is definitely not easy."

"Hehe, how could it be, how could it be."

This time, it was the turn of the two of them to say "how so" in unison, and everyone laughed all the way and boarded the flight to Japan.

Of course, what Li Xiangping said just now was just talking to outsiders, and in the deepest part of his heart, of course, he was still confident in his plug-in.

The day after arriving in Japan, Li Xiangping walked into the arena, and when he walked into the arena, he said to himself:

"Brother Ding'an, you heard it yesterday, others are saying that the art is too good, and there is no grass, so you have to take care of it, don't fall into your prestige."