The flight stopped at the Capital International Airport.

As soon as the Chinese delegation walked out of the waterway building, Lao Nie pushed his glasses and looked very surprised:

"Yikes! So many people? ”

It was to pick up the plane, and there were chess fans who came to pick up the plane.

Reporter Zhang Da also smiled when he saw this, and he first joked with Li Xiangping: "Haha Xiangping, you can finally experience what it means to "return with honor".... Well, it seems to be almost meaningful, you said that these people are really, since they have come all the way to pick up the airport, why don't you arrange a few people to come up and offer flowers and so on, if a few little girls come up at this time to give us flowers to Xiangping, tsk this picture, do you say it's Lao Nie? ”

Lao Nie cooperated with a smirk: "Haha, that's right, that's right." ”

Li Xiangping was also happy when he heard it, and he also joked with Lao Nie: "Old Nie, don't laugh at me, what kind of character are you?" What scene haven't you seen? At this level today, that's a far cry from yours, right? ”

"That's right," after listening to Li Xiangping's words, Zhang Da reporter immediately picked up, and he also glanced at Li Xiangping in surprise:

"Hey, Xiangping, how do you know? You Teacher Nie are in the limelight, you seem to have just been born, right? Alas, Xiangping, you don't know, when your teacher Nie traveled, that guy was crowded, and when he went to some cities, it would be difficult to move an inch without a police car to open the road. Take me as an example, if it weren't for your Teacher Nie back then, then I might not know what Go is, let alone be a Go reporter. ”

Hearing reporter Zhang Da say this, Lao Nie was rarely humble:

"Hehe, Xiangping, don't listen to him, I think about it now, it wasn't actually the Go fever I brought back then, it was just a bunch of false fire, let's just say Xiao Zhang like this, what kind of Go did they know at that time, is there any difference between watching me and watching monkeys......"

Lao Nie stopped, not because of anything else, but because at this time, someone really ran up to give Li Xiangping flowers. It's a pity that it was not a little girl who offered flowers, but Comrade Cai Zhixiong.

"Yo Cai Bo is so polite......"

Li Xiangping hurriedly took Lao Cai's flowers, and while thinking of other people's daughters, he said Lao Cai, what are you doing? You are really, even if it is to sell your cement, then you should let my daughter-in-law offer flowers.

"Hehe, congratulations, congratulations, ......"

After Lao Cai first put on a show with Li Xiangping, he immediately turned his head to greet Lao Nie: "Hehe, Lao Nie has worked hard.... Walk! ”

Comrade Lao Cai didn't talk too much nonsense: "In order to celebrate this, ah, my club chess player Li Xiangping won the world championship again, I have booked a room at the Jianguo Hotel, Lao Nie, let's go." ”

Li Xiangping was stunned when he heard this, Lao Cai's former stronghold, isn't that "heaven and earth"? However, he immediately reacted, it is already 2003, and it seems that "heaven and earth" will soon be known throughout the country, no, it seems that it is already known to the whole country now.

Comrade Cai's celebration was only the first step, and when Li Xiangping returned to the capital, he found that there were countless celebrations or celebrations waiting for him.

Starting with the club, then the Chess Academy, the Chinese Go Association, Li Xiangping's school, the Training Bureau, the General Administration of Sports of China...... Li Xiangping was not only elected as one of the top ten athletes in the country in 2002, but it is said that if it were not for his young age, he would have won the top ten outstanding young people in the country.

Think carefully this is also normal, you must know that after winning this championship, even if Chinese Go wins all the individual world championships last year, now the end of the year is approaching, and we Chinese are the most particular about "perfection", since there is a bonus of this meaning, then the momentum of winning the championship this time must be relatively large.

Li Xiangping even heard that on the day he won the championship, the "news broadcast" that night gave him a close-up, so what happened now is really normal.

Fortunately, because the Spring Festival is coming soon, this has also helped Li Xiangping block a lot of disturbances.

Two days before Chinese New Year's Eve, the old man of his family asked him:

"Xiangping, shall we go back to our hometown this year?"

Li Xiangping hurriedly said: "Go back, why don't you go back?" You haven't watched these two days, and the annoyance has annoyed me to death. ”

"But in a few days, oh what time is it? Aren't you going to show up at the sports channel awards show? ”

"Alas, it's the biggest to visit my grandparents, and I'll talk about it when I come back in the next year."

"Okay, you prepare, let's go home for the New Year."

The old man was pleased with his attitude. But then again, when his grandparents were still alive, he always insisted on going back to his hometown for the New Year, which was also the tradition of his old Li family.

Because Li Yuanhu's three brothers, the three brothers work in three cities, if they go to a certain family in a certain year, the other two are actually not very convenient, so over time, the three brothers will develop a habit, unless there are special circumstances, then they will go back to their hometown for the Spring Festival.

Li Da Tuhao went to Zhangluo for a plane ticket, but Li Xiangping remembered another major event, which was the "SARS" incident.

"By the way, what kind of infectious disease is happening in Yangcheng now, hasn't it spread to the capital now?"

Li Yuanhu glanced at him very strangely:

"I haven't heard of it, but it hasn't stopped in Yangcheng, but I haven't heard that anyone in the capital is sick."

"Oh?"

In his previous life, Li Xiangping was not in the capital at this time, so he really didn't know when the first case in the capital happened.

Li Xiangping tried hard to recall, he vaguely remembered that in his previous life, a certain high-ranking official at that time fell because of the sentence "China is safe now", and when this high-ranking official said this, it should have been during this year's "two sessions", that is, next month.

Based on this inference, Li Xiangping believes that at least until next month, the capital may not have become an epidemic area.

"It's better to prepare early....."

remembered "SARS", which reminded Li Xiangping of the new season's games, because he knew that when SARS was at its worst, the schedule of many Go events was also affected, such as why "online practice" suddenly became popular after this year, which was actually caused by SARS-----

At the worst time, not only did there be no competition, but he couldn't even get out of the door, so what could he do if he didn't play chess online.

"Xiangping, what kind of games have you had lately?"

Li Xiangping thought for a moment:

"There are not many games, in addition to the start of the tournament in March, there is also a set of "Chunlan Cup" quarterfinals, and this game is in Jiangsu, and in April, it is also a "Fujitsu Cup". ”

"Oh, there are so few competitions, by the way, what you said is the World Series, what about the domestic competitions, the domestic competitions, and you are still not going to participate?"

"Let's talk about it."

Li Xiangping replied to his old man like this. Indeed, considering SARS, it seems that the idea of the new season can only be "talked about" now.