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Chapter 1014 : Return to Ninghai

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In May, Meng Huo received an invitation letter.

The handwritten calligraphy on red paper signed “Huaxia Go Association” invited Meng Huo to participate in the award ceremony of the professional Chinese Go player this year. By the way, he was invited to compete with the first-ranked player who has just become a professional chess player. .

The invitation letter was written very sincerely, but Meng Huo had no reason to accept it.

“Teacher, are you going?” Qin Ya asked him during work hours—she also received the invitation letter, thinking that if Meng Huo wanted to go, she would go and join in the fun.

“…Do you think I should go?” Meng Huo didn’t answer directly, but first asked Qin Ya’s opinion.

Qin Ya pondered for a while: “Well, I think you can go there if you have time. Recently, there have been media rumors that the teacher, you and the Go Association have broken down. I think the reason they invited you is related to this, and if you can appear on the field, it will be the same for them help.”

Meng Huo also heard about the rumors that the relationship with the Weiqi Association broke down, mainly because of the news of the suspension of the publication of “Huiqi”. Not long ago, Phoenix Company had announced the suspension of several comics in advance, which resulted in many bad rumors.

As a popular long-form comic, the suspension was also used by many people with ulterior motives to say why the comics such as Shakugan No Shana and Detective Conan kept running, and Soul Go was selected as one of the comics that ceased publication. , Maybe it’s because He Xi and the Go Association are in a deadlock

The media can say black as white and white as black-although it’s just nonsense, “Gossip” involves the interests of many people, especially some people who have not been able to get He Shi comics this time. The targeting is particularly excessive. The readers of “Soul of the Game” were also greatly impacted.

“If the teacher is willing to come and join in. These rumors will be self-defeating.” Qin Ya said.

Meng Huo thought about it. In fact, whether or not he gives face to the Go Association, his appearance can also comfort some readers of “Soul of the Game”, proving that this manga is temporarily suspended, rather than ending as someone with a heart said.

“I see. For the sake of their sincerity, let’s go and have a look…” Meng Huo said. The invitation letter was personally written to him by the president of the Go Association, and that sincerity is enough.

Of course he would agree that there is another reason. It just so happened that the location of the induction awards was in Ninghai, and he was about to return to Ninghai once.

The induction awards for professional Chinese Go players are actually a ceremony after amateur players have passed competitions and assessments and officially become professional players. Huaxia holds several rounds of professional selection competitions every year, and the induction awards are arranged in the final competition city, and the last round of this year will be in Ninghai.

Meng Huo wanted to go back to Ninghai to see Alice. Li Qin had been home for two weeks. Shen Jie was in Tokyo at the moment-but Alice was not coming to see him. Meng Huo was a little worried and decided to personally Go find her.

Although Li Qin said that there is nothing unusual about Alice. It’s just that he is very busy at work, but Meng Huo will not put all his hopes on Li Qin.

Alice’s behavior does not match her character. She wanted to establish a relationship with Meng Huo early in the morning, but now there is nothing moving. What happened, or what she was thinking, Meng Huo believes that she used to be the easiest to understand.

A few days later, on Saturday, Meng Huo took Qin Ya on the train to Ninghai. The Go Association did not announce his affairs, but in Ninghai, at the professional examination site of China Go, there are still many sensitive media who are waiting.

At 9:30 in the morning, before the vocational exam was over, Yu Feihang drove to the scene. The two bottom editors of the newspaper who were in charge of the interview ran over immediately: “Minister, why did you come here in person?”

After several years of hard work, Yu Feihang is now a department head of the newspaper, and the editorial department responsible for comic news reporting has also changed from an editorial department to a business department. Today, Yu Feihang generally does not interview in person. Up.

“I’m here to take a look.” Yu Feihang said: “Recently, many newspapers are discussing the “Soul of the Game”. I think if the Go Association’s best response is to invite Mr. He Xi to show up here-it seems like that. I’m not the only one.”

He found that many reporters gathered at the venue. In addition to the people who came to interview the Go game, there were also many acquaintances from the comics newspaper. These newspapers are very clever. The inauguration ceremony for new players has been the most important activity of the Go Association in the past few months. What a pity, if they want to appear, they can only appear today.

Because there was a game in the venue, except for a few Go media, other reporters had to wait in the outer room. The wall of the outer room was hung with a list of people participating in professional games. Yu Feihang walked over and took a look with a surprised expression.

“The players are so young!” The name, gender and age are written on the list, as well as their respective photos. Yu Feihang glanced at it. The players all started with age 1. They were all 15 to 18 years old, and there were only three people over 20 years old.

Among all the professions in China, the profession of chess player is really too young.

“This year’s No. 1 seed player is only eleven years old.” The editor next to Yu Feihang envied: “He hasn’t graduated from elementary school. I heard that the salary of a professional chess player is high. If he passes this exam, his parents must be happy. Don’t die!”

Yu Feihang nodded. Huaxia has never lacked geniuses. He also heard about several eleven or twelve-year-old prodigy chess players last year. These talented children appeared one after another after the release of “Hire”.

After passing the professional assessment, they don’t have to worry about survival for life, they can wholeheartedly pursue the highest skill of Go-this kind of life is very enviable to Yu Feihang.

“Teacher He Xi is like this, right?” He couldn’t help thinking like this. In fact, He Xi, like these children, found his talents and dreams when he was too young, and could work hard for it for a lifetime.

“Maybe I can let my children learn Go…” Yu Feihang turned his thoughts, and he should also let the children try their talents in all aspects since they were young. Maybe he is also a young prodigy!

Of course, this is just expectation. At ten o’clock in the morning, the professional game ended. The unsuccessful players walked out of the venue with loss, unwillingness and regret. The people who stayed inside accepted the reporter’s interview with excitement.

Yu Feihang found out. Among the youngest professional chess players, 80% of the players started to learn Go because of “Soul of Chess”. After two years of training, they became professional players. It can be seen how much influence of “Soul of Chess” is.

And just as he sighed, there were photos and bustling sounds from outside. Yu Feihang hadn’t reacted yet, and found that the surrounding reporters suddenly ran out.

“Teacher He Xi, it’s Teacher He Xi!”

“Camera, bring it!”

“Fuck. You are in a hurry to reincarnate!” The two editors beside Yu Feihang also ran out immediately: “Editor-in-chief, hurry up, Teacher He Xi really came.”

Yu Feihang was stunned for a long time. After not coming out for an interview for a long time, he found that he couldn’t keep up with the rhythm.

As soon as Meng Huo and Qin Ya got out of the car and huffed together, many reporters ran over, but the security guards at the venue couldn’t stop them.

“Teacher, teacher He Xi, please accept our interview!”

“Teacher He Xi, did you come here today to defend the Go Association?”

“I heard you are going to travel?”

The reporter who rushed over washed away the security guard. They approached Meng Huo and Qin Ya accidentally. Qin Ya said, Meng Huo’s expression changed slightly, and he reached out to stop her in front of her body, and said, “Follow me behind.”

Qin Ya immediately shrank behind Meng Huo, secretly angry, how did the Go Association do such a bad job of security.

Some of the adult chess players who ran out looked pale. In fact, it was not that they did not do a good job, but that today’s affairs were not announced to the outside world at all. Normally, as long as He Xi appeared at this ceremony and was photographed by a few media, he achieved his goal.

The security of the venue is to prepare for a small number of media. Too many arrangements have caused suspicion. However, the Go Association did not expect that there would be such a multimedia presence without any announcement. Now, they have no time to change their arrangements.

“Let let, let let, don’t squeeze here, make way for Teacher He Xi!” The chess player of the association rushed to stand in the way of Meng Huo. Meng Huo protected Qin Ya, and several reporters who were close to him were all caught by him. They drove back with a shake of their hands, but even so, they still couldn’t move forward smoothly because they were surrounded by too many people.

Meng Huo became a little impatient and said, “If you want me to answer the question, give me way first, and then I will accept your interview later.”

As soon as he said this, the reporters immediately gave way. Compared with such messy questioning, He Xi’s promise is obviously more guarantee of their news topics today. Qin Ya wiped her sweat, looked at Meng Huo’s lowered arm, and muttered in her heart: “Teacher He Xi’s strength is too strong, it’s more effective than security.”

She saw Meng Huo lightly driving out the reporters who were close to him. She only felt that this teacher was as powerful as the hero in a martial arts novel, and there were so many security guards around him that no one was more capable than him.

The two walked into the venue. Because of the accident just now, Meng Huo’s performance at the award ceremony was not very enthusiastic, and he refused to play against a newly hired chess player.

“I have to accept the interview, I don’t have time to play.” He said, the players of the Go Association were speechless. Meng Huo had limited time. He agreed to interview the reporters. At this moment, there really is no time to play with other people. Game.

However, Meng Huo was actually just a momentary irritation. He was not really angry with the association. In subsequent interviews with reporters, he also gave the association enough face-this time the purpose was clearly explained by him, and the publication of “Gossman” ceased publication. It has nothing to do with the Go Association.

When he was interviewed, there were reporters who wanted to interview Qin Ya, but Qin Ya was bumped just now. One can imagine how annoyed the reporter was in her heart. She simply took Meng Huo’s job and ran and entered the job. The chess players played against each other.

By the end of Meng Huo’s interview, it was already eleven o’clock, and his sullenness disappeared.

The last person to interview was Yu Feihang. Meng Huo remembered him. Yu Feihang always gave positive reports to Phoenix, and he was also one of their very good newspapers. Meng Huo didn’t even mind telling him when he left.

“This month?” Yu Feihang was startled: “Will you leave so early?”

“The original plan was to be later.” Meng Huo laughed and said, “It would have been two months before, but now things are almost arranged. It should be sooner rather than later. I will leave at the end of the month. I want to leave for a long time. It may be a little longer.”

Yu Feihang nodded. The news of He Xi’s trip caused a great sensation when it first came out. At one time, the media made a big fuss about it, but soon everyone discovered that the readers didn’t buy it—they took it very positively. Things.

Not only the readers, but many critical critics did not say anything bad about this matter.

“The creators should have gone more often. Teacher He Xi went out to collect materials, and there will be better works when they come back!”

“Proper rest is necessary for Mr. He Xi. His creative efficiency is too high-so high that even if he leaves for half a year, he actually works much faster than other cartoonists and novelists. In this case, He Xi’s popularity will not be affected.”

——It is with such a generally positive view that Yu Feihang did not question Meng Huo’s plan in advance, but wished him a smooth trip.

“After Mr. He Xi comes back from the trip, can you give us a chance to interview?” Yu Feihang asked before the end of the interview.

Meng Huo nodded: “Of course, if there are any interesting things about traveling, I will bring them back.”

Yu Feihang was very satisfied with today’s results. After thanking Meng Huo, he left with two editors.

But Meng Huo stood up and realized that it was half past eleven. He asked Qin Ya about the situation. The female cartoonist was already playing against the third chess player, and the results of the first two were defeated.

“I don’t believe I can’t even win a child!”

Qin Ya’s temperament was inspired But Meng Huo was not optimistic about the result of the third game. He knew Qin Ya’s situation-although Qin Ya had the guidance of famous players from the Go Association, But in just two years, her chess skills can hardly be compared to these talented rookies.

In fact, most of these newly recruited professional chess players last two semesters, but most of them discover their talents soon after learning chess, and then use it as a goal to strive for-Qin Ya on Go It takes far less time than them.

Besides, Qin Ya’s job is also a cartoonist, and she is usually busy enough. Chess skills are hard to match with real professional chess players, and these professional chess players are younger and more talented in Go than her.

Meng Huo came to Qin Ya’s game scene. It was a wing room. Qin Ya and a girl with a cardamom age sat opposite each other. Next to them, there were adult chess players who recorded the game, and there were many chess players around. Watching their game loudly.

Go needs to be quiet. Meng Huo looked at the game record, and the game was almost over.

As he expected, Qin Ya was about to lose again. (To be continued…)