An Impossible to Reject Confession - Chapter 42

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    Six thirty.

    Several people ate at the newly changed hotel restaurant, and by the way celebrated the success of the Arbor.

    The hotel was changed by Qiaomu’s uncle. The hotel that Qiaomu stayed in before was not very good, but the surrounding hotels were all booked by the chess players who came to participate in the competition, and Qiaomu had no choice but to choose there. After staying for a period of time, there were vacant rooms in other hotels, but Qiao Mu was used to it, and he was too lazy to change because he had to play every day. Uncle Qiao Mu came, but he couldn’t bear to let Qiao Mu continue to live there, so he rebooked a five-star hotel around the Go Club in the morning.

    “Come on, congratulations in advance to Qiao Mu’s success in setting the stage and officially becoming a professional chess player.” After the dishes were served, Uncle Qiao Mu took the lead with a red wine glass.

    “Cheers.” The four of them clink glasses with a smile.

     “By the way, do you not need to go to school after becoming a professional chess player?” Lu Shi suddenly asked.

    “Yes.” Professional chess players, naturally, play chess as a profession.

    “In the future, I will make money by playing chess?” Xu Youyou also asked.

    “Yes.” Qiao Mu nodded, “But it depends on whether you can sign a good team.”

    “You can definitely sign the best team.” Lu Shi was even more confident than Qiao Mu.

    “I didn’t perform very well in this fixed stage match, and I didn’t have a few wonderful chess games.” Qiao Mu is not as confident as Lu Shi, and there is no problem in determining the stage with his current points. But when it comes to performance, it’s actually pretty average. He hasn’t played for a long time, especially with very few high-end chess players. The whole process of the game is not a game, but an adaptation and recovery. He has won many games, but not many wonderful games. His performance can only be said to be above average, otherwise he would not have been noticed until recently.

    So, he must perform well in the last few games.

      Lu Shi said.

    “Do you think a professional chess player is like a star, you just need a face?” Uncle Qiao Mu glared at his silly son.

    “What do you mean, it’s like I don’t have any acting skills at all.” Lu Shi was not convinced.

    “Do you dare to go to the variety show that was very popular some time ago?” Uncle Qiao Mu asked.

    Xu Youyou and Qiao Mu were amused by Lu Shi’s aggrieved expression.

    “Yes, Aileshan, he is one of the champions of this fixed stage competition.” Saying yes, in fact, with Aileshan’s current points, it can be said that he is firmly in the first place.

    “Then you only need to win him. Have you played against him before?” . As long as Qiaomu wins this one called Aileshan, then those teams that pay attention to Aileshan will naturally pay attention to Qiaomu.

    “Not yet.” Qiao Mu shook his head.

    In the knockout rounds, they were both winning streaks. In the round-robin round, Aileshan directly advanced by drawing a bye, so the two have not met yet. According to the current schedule, they should meet on the last day.

    “The next target, take him.” Xu Youyou said domineeringly.

    “Yes, take him.” Lu Shi agreed.

    “Take one step at a time, don’t be too anxious, and don’t be too stressed.” Qiaomu has made great progress in overcoming the psychological shadow and successfully set the stage, and his uncle was afraid that Qiaomu would be under too much pressure, so he quickly persuaded him. ,”Gold will always shine.”

    “I see.” Qiao Mu smiled gently.

    “By the way, what time will your flight be tomorrow?” Qiao Mu asked.

    The day after tomorrow is Monday, and Xu Youyou and Lu Shi must go back to school tomorrow.

    “I’m not going back.” Lu Shi said, “The studio picked up an advertisement for me, and it will be filmed for three days. I happen to be here to accompany you. You wait for the game to finish.”

    Qiao Mu nodded and looked at Xu Youyou.

    While eating dessert, Xu Youyou replied casually: “If you don’t go back, then I won’t go back either.”

    After Xu Youyou said this, Qiao Mu and Lu Shi did not react much, but their uncle was a little worried: “Qiao Mu has us here, you should go back to school, otherwise your family should worried.”

    Lu Shi will not say anything, his son will want to be an actor in the future, as long as the college entrance examination results are passable. But Xu Youyou is different. He is a serious high school student. What if he delays his studies? Even if the relationship between the children is good, the parents will be angry.

    “Don’t worry, uncle, I’ll just talk to my mother.” Xu Youyou shouted that the elders on the side of the tree all followed the tree.

    “Otherwise, I’d better have a phone call with your family.” Uncle still felt uneasy.

    “It’s okay.” Xu Youyou took out her mobile phone and called Ms. Ji on the spot, “Hey, Mom, I’m going to stay here for a few more days until Qiao Mu is finished. I’ll go back.” After speaking, Xu Youyou directly handed the phone to Uncle Qiao Mu.

    When Uncle Qiao Mu took over the phone, everyone was agitated, and Xu Youyou didn’t have time to respond to this wave of operations: “Hello, I’m Uncle Qiao Mu, Lu Shi’s father. “

    Uncle Qiao Mu just finished introducing himself when Ms. Ji’s gentle and polite voice came from the other end of the phone: “Hello, I will trouble you to take care of my pomelo over there.”

    “No trouble, no trouble.” The two took advantage of the situation and made a few more polite words before hanging up.

    Uncle hung up the phone, just in time to see his nephew serving Xu Youyou vegetables, this scene made him a little guilty, Xu Youyou’s mother promised so happily, she must not know that her nephew treated her daughter Have a different idea.

    In the next few days, Qiao Mu continued to play, Lu Shiwan went out late to shoot commercials, Xu Youyou continued to idle for a day in the hotel, and the next day also took a photo shoot. Make extra money. Xu Youyou’s filming work was also arranged by Sister Xing. Since Xu Youyou took a group of campus photos for Lu Shi and the response was unexpectedly good, Xu Youyou almost became Lu Shi’s royal photographer.

    Although the photos are all life photos, as a traffic star, it is also very important to take regular photos for business. In the past year, because of Xu Youyou’s appearance, Sister Xing did not talk about saving air tickets, let alone trying to coordinate Lu Shi’s work and study as in the past. Don’t be too happy. After knowing that Xu Youyou may develop in this direction in the future, Sister Xing will also provide Xu Youyou with some opportunities. Although Xu Youyou is now shooting some newcomers, the newcomers trained by their company have never been seen before. It may be top notch in a few years. In this way, people and works are gradually accumulated. After a few years, Xu Youyou really enters the circle, and it is easy to develop.

    In this way, the only one who is free is Uncle Qiao Mu.

    Time flew by, and in a blink of an eye, it was the last day of the game, and it was also the day when he and Aileshan played against each other. On this day, as soon as he stepped into the venue, he felt that the atmosphere inside was a bit wrong, and it seemed a little too nervous. This kind of nervousness seemed to have only appeared during the most intense knockout rounds.

    In the last few days, most of the quotas have been locked. Although everyone is still doing their best in the game, this kind of tense atmosphere is rarely seen.

    Did something happen?

    “Qiaomu.” Aileshan has been waiting for Qiaomu’s game since the first day he knew Qiaomu’s identity, but the previous schedule arranged for him to have a bye, so that he can only play Qiaomu now . But at the same time, he is also very fortunate that he has not played against Qiao Mu until now, because he knows that if Qiao Mu is in the middle of the fixed stage, he is not his opponent at all. As for the current Qiaomu, Aileshan watched Qiaomu’s recent five games of chess, and his chess was much stronger than before.

    Aileshan shouted, and at the same time other people in the game also looked over. I don’t know if it was Qiao Mu’s illusion. He always felt that these people looked at him with a hint of envy.

    Envy, Qiao Mu is puzzled, do you have anything to envy?

    In addition to Aileshan, Qiaomu has played against everyone here, but she is not familiar with it. Although she is curious, she doesn’t ask, and just walks quietly across to Aileshan.

    “Finally we can fight.” Elleshan was full of excitement that couldn’t wait.

    Qiao Mu is also looking forward to the game against Aileshan. In addition to Qiao Leshan’s superb chess skills, there is another reason. He is a disciple of Qiao Dongyuan.

    “I hope we can enter the national team together.” Elleshan said again.

    “The national team?” Qiao Mu was stunned.

    “You don’t know?” Aileshan was surprised for a moment, and then explained, “Today’s game, the head coach of the national team will appear on the scene, and he will select people from among us to join the national team. Those who enter the national team have the opportunity to participate in the World Championships next year.”

    “From the fixed stage?” Qiao Mu looked surprised.

      There has never been a situation where the national team directly selected players from the fixed-stage competition.

    Fixed Stage is a group of people who have just become professional chess players. According to their chess skills, this group of people is the bottom of the professional circle.

    “Because the youth team of the national team is not strong enough.” Ai Lao is the consultant coach of the national team. As Ai Lao’s grandson, Ai Leshan knows more than others.

    The first player in Chinese Go is Qiao Dongyuan, Qiao Dongyuan has won many world championships in the world over the years, and the world ranking has never dropped out of the top three. But after Qiao Dongyuan, the young chess players of Huaguo didn’t have any dazzling performances. They didn’t get a good ranking in several world competitions. Even every time Qiao Dongyuan finished the game, foreign reporters would sharply ask whether anyone can take over the future of Huaguo Go.

    “Have you played against them?” In any case, they are also members of the national team. Aileshan so lightly pointed out that the opponent’s strength is not enough, is it a bit arrogant.

    “I haven’t played against them, but I have played against their opponents.”

    Arbor raised his eyebrows.

    “The champion of last year’s World Championship was Country R. A player from Country R used to be my classmate. I played against him and I won.” Aileshan grew up in Country R , Now he knows more than half of the youth team members of the R country’s national team, “I won against him, but he didn’t admit it, saying that playing chess with me was just a casual game, and he justly won the country on the field, so R China’s Go is stronger than China’s.”

    Qiao Mu’s expression changed, and there was anger on his face.

    “So, let’s work hard together and go to next year’s World Championships.” As soon as Aileshan said this, the expressions of the others around him were not very good.

    It’s true that the national team coach is here, but it’s not yet selected, why listen to Aileshan’s words, it seems that the national team only chooses him and Qiao Mu from it?

    Ai Leshan will not talk about it, the person with the highest chess ability in this fixed stage match is definitely one of the candidates for the national team, but the tree is not necessarily. Although Qiao Mu is the son of a chess god, he is not brought up by a chess god. Seven years ago, he has never played Go since he failed to set a stage. Although he is back now, his record on this road is not bad, but his chess skills are not very outstanding. . Anyway, most of the people here feel that they are no worse than Qiao Mu.

    At the same time, in the conference room on the second floor, Qi Fang, Qiao Dongyuan, Ai Lao, and the national team head coach Yao Tianqi were drinking tea.

    “The game is about to start.” Ai Lao said with a smile.

    “Are we going to prepare?” Qi Fang looked at Coach Yao Tianqi.

    Coach Yao is a gray-haired old man, about the same age as Ai Lao. He slowly put down the teacup in his hand, got up and said, “Then let’s go down together.”

    “Hey, I won’t go, and I’m not picking people.” Ai Lao waved his hand.

    “You are the consultant coach of the national team, you must give me advice.” Coach Yao said involuntarily.

    “If you are not afraid of my favoritism, then I will go.” Ai Lao laughed.

      Before, Aileshan had been in R country with his parents, and he had not decided whether to become a professional chess player. He couldn’t say anything. Now that he came back, how could he let go.

    The three got up and walked to the door. Yao Tianqi suddenly stopped and looked back at Qiao Dongyuan who was still sitting on the chair: “Why don’t you move?”

    “I won’t go down.” Qiao Dongyuan was stunned and said in a muffled voice.

    “If you don’t go down, what are you doing here?” Coach Yao was surprised. The fixed stage match is different from other Go matches. There is no special live broadcast. If you want to watch it, you have to go downstairs.

     “Leave him alone, let him stay.” Ai Lao said, and walked out first.

    Coach Yao quickly followed, and the two years of tacit understanding let him know that Ai Lao must know the inside story: “What happened to Qiao Dongyuan?”

    “He has no face to see his son.” Ai Lao replied.

    “Why?” Coach Yao sent his assistant to screen candidates in advance, and Qiao Mu was one of them. The assistant made a special note to Qiao Mu in the list, saying that he had made amazing progress in every game. . He watched Qiao Mu’s chess specially, and found that his chess skills were indeed getting stronger and stronger as the games went on, but it wasn’t until he came over in person and chatted with Qi Fang that he realized that Qiao Mu turned out to be Qiao Dongyuan’s son.

    After knowing that he is Qiao Dongyuan’s son, Coach Yao was a little dissatisfied with Qiao Mu’s chess skills. In his eyes, Qiao Dongyuan’s son’s chess skills can’t be worse than Aileshan. But judging from the current chess skills of the two, although Qiao Mu has been getting stronger, he is still a bit worse than Aileshan.

    “You don’t use Weibo?” Ai Lao asked.

    “I don’t have time to brush that thing.”

    “Outdated.” As an old man who keeps up with fashion and can surf 5G, Ai Lao has always had a sense of superiority.

    “What the hell.” Coach Yao gave his old friend an angry look, and took out his mobile phone and sent a WeChat message to his assistant.

    He doesn’t use Weibo, but he has an assistant.