amaotonovel Chapter 1081: Occupation 6
Chapter 1081: Occupation 6
Chapter 1081: Occupational Level
University life in the 80s can be described as rich and colorful. In addition to daily courses, there were also various collective labors such as learning about industry and agriculture, and of course political studies were indispensable.
What made Zhuang Tunan feel the most different was the atmosphere in class. Different from the rote teaching in high school where teachers read from textbooks, students in university classes would raise their hands and ask questions at any time, thus triggering discussions among the whole class. Ideas collide and exchange here, and everyone has different ideas. Sometimes students would argue with each other in class, but that did not prevent them from joining hands to defend the class honor on the basketball court after class.
Although the school has just started for less than a week, Zhuang Tunan feels that it is more exciting than the nine years from elementary school to high school combined.
The only thing that made Zhuang Tunan a little depressed was that he originally wanted to catch up with or even surpass Qin Hao in college, but he found that Qin Hao was becoming more and more successful in college.
Whether it is professional courses or extracurricular activities: basketball, debate, poetry, dance, he is always the most eye-catching one.
"Haozi, you are going to Beijing tomorrow. Have you bought the tickets?" Zhuang Tunan froze in place as soon as he finished speaking.
Qin Hao, who had just finished a shower and was shirtless with his muscular body exposed, said casually, "The chess academy has already bought it and sent it over."
As they were talking, they heard someone shouting outside the window: "Room 203 Qin Hao, someone's looking for you."
There was no doubt that the voice came from the dormitory manager downstairs. Qin Hao's dormitory was on the second floor, so there was no need to call to notify her.
Qin Hao subconsciously walked to the window and looked out, and happened to meet Li Jia's eyes downstairs.
Li Jia blushed instantly, lowered her head and spat, "Rogue."
"Wait, I'll be right there."
After changing clothes and going downstairs, Qin Hao walked in front of Li Jia and teased, "It's strange that the monitor came to me on his own initiative. Aren't you afraid of being misunderstood as being in love with me?"
Li Jia glanced at Qin Hao and said, "Teacher Yao asked me to give you these books so that you can read them after training. Don't fall behind in class and drag our class down."
"The last two sentences don't sound like Teacher Yao's tone. Could it be that you said them?" Qin Hao winked at Li Jia with a wicked smile.
Li Jia turned away and pretended to be calm: "I don't want to bother with you. I'm leaving now."
"Why are you in such a hurry?" Qin Hao took two steps forward and chased after him: "Since you brought me the book, I'll buy you a soda."
In the hot summer, a bottle of soda can cool you down and satisfy your appetite. Li Jia's throat moved, but he still gritted his teeth and refused: "No, this is within my job scope."
Before he could finish his words, Qin Hao came to the store next to the dormitory and said, "Boss, two bottles of Zhengguanghe soda, orange flavor."
The cap of the soda bottle has been opened and white steam is coming out.
"Here, it's all opened, and you can't return it."
Qin Hao's words were like the last straw that broke the camel's back. Li Jia completely gave up resistance and whispered, "Thank you." She took it and drank it quietly. The sweet orange-flavored soda slowly passed through her taste buds from her lips and teeth. The burning and restlessness in the hot summer seemed to be sealed by this sip of orange soda, causing her to squint her eyes unconsciously.
"Don't spend money so recklessly in the future. The monthly allowance is barely enough for food. You have to spend it frugally." Li Jia said softly.
Qin Hao took a big gulp of soda and said nonchalantly, "It's okay. In addition to the subsidy, I also have the prize money from the competition, which is enough to spend for a while. I have a younger brother named Lin Dongzhe. He has been obsessed with watching Hong Kong movies in the past two years. There is a Cantonese line in it that goes like this: The most important thing in life is to be happy. Even if you spend all your money, you can still get it back."
Li Jia was so shocked by Qin Hao's "extremely extravagant" remarks that she rolled her eyes.
"Crooked."
"You are just too conventional. You set so many rules for yourself. You live too hard. Life is only a few decades long. You should enjoy yourself while you can."
She had to admit that this boy, who was three years younger than her, had many shining points that attracted her, but the situation at home was overwhelming her. Her parents had gone to great lengths to send her to Shanghai to study, hoping that she would gain a foothold after graduating from university and then bring the family over.
Qin Hao's carefree and unrestrained attitude was like a ray of sunshine shining into her dark life, letting her know that there are people in this world who can live so casually and unrestrainedly, but she has the expectations of her family on her shoulders, and she cannot just do whatever she wants.
"I'll take notes and wait for you to come back and get them."
After saying that, Li Jia returned the soda bottle to the store owner and left.
The next day, when Li Jia came to the classroom, she saw Zhuang Tunan sitting alone in the middle of the classroom. She subconsciously looked towards him, but found that the figure had disappeared.
When the teacher was calling the roll in class, when he read Qin Hao's name, Li Jia had an urge to stand up and explain, but Zhuang Tunan got there first, which made Li Jia feel an inexplicable emotion.
At the same time, Qin Hao had already boarded the train to Beijing. This time, the Chinese Chess Institute was generous enough to buy him a sleeper berth. The journey was not so crowded, but the stinky feet and sweat in the carriage in the summer made Qin Hao deeply experience what it meant to be in ecstasy.
After a whole day, the train finally stopped at Beijing Railway Station. Qin Hao was free and could breathe the long-lost fresh air.
I took several buses to get to the Chinese Chess Institute. After registering my identity, I was taken to the backyard. As soon as I entered the door, I saw many familiar faces, all of whom were opponents I had met in the National Go Championships.
To put it bluntly, they were all defeated by him.
Qin Hao's arrival also startled everyone present, and then they started talking about it.
"It seems that the standard of this China-Japan competition is very high, even he was invited."
"Alas, it looks like there will be one less spot to play."
At this time, Qin Hao has defended the National Go Championship for three consecutive years, including a National Games championship. What's more terrifying is that he has never lost a game since his debut. It is no exaggeration to say that Qin Hao is already recognized as the number one actual player in Chinese Go.
However, apart from participating in national competitions and winning prize money, Qin Hao rarely participated in the activities of the Chinese Chess Academy. He did not even attend last year's ranking ceremony. As a result, people like Nie Weiping, Chen Zude, and Wu Songsheng were awarded the title of professional ninth dan.
However, Qin Hao was not awarded the title of professional dan. The reason given by the Chinese Chess Institute was that Qin Hao had no record of playing against foreign chess players. This statement was fiercely criticized by Nie Weiping. In his opinion, Qin Hao's chess skills against Japanese 90th dan chess players have a winning rate of at least %.
The Chinese Chess Institute originally planned to use the issue of awarding the professional rank to stop Qin Hao from doing his job, so that he would be "obedient" in the future and not take the Chinese Chess Institute's training camp lightly. As a result, Qin Hao did not take the professional rank seriously at all, which embarrassed the leaders of the Chess Institute.
If this China-Japan competition was not so important, the Chinese Chess Institute would not have urgently summoned Qin Hao to participate in the training camp.
"Xiao Qin is here. We haven't been assigned to dormitories yet. There's still a bed in my room. Come to my room." Nie Weiping waved his folding fan and pulled Qin Hao to leave.
The others came to their senses immediately when they saw this, and they all wanted Qin Hao to live in the same room with them. After all, the one who is close to the water gets the moon first. Although they were all badly abused by Qin Hao, being abused is also the best way to improve chess skills.
It's a pity that Qin Hao doesn't play chess at all. They can only meet him occasionally in national competitions. Now that they have such a good opportunity, how can they let it go easily.
"Ahem, can you let me take a look at the accommodation before deciding?"
In the end, Qin Hao chose to live with Jiang Zhujiu, with whom he had fought once before. The reason was simple. Nie Weiping and his gang of old smokers smoked several packs of cigarettes a day, making the dormitory smoky. He didn't want to be exposed to second-hand smoke all day long. Only Jiang Zhujiu didn't smoke, so the dormitory was cleaner.
However, from that day on, people would occasionally peek outside Jiang Zhujiu's dormitory. Whenever they saw Qin Hao and Jiang Zhujiu take out the chessboard, people from the chess academy would quickly swarm in to watch, filling the dormitory to the brim.
Qin Hao saw that this was not going to work, so he stopped discussing Go-related matters with Jiang Zhujiu in the dormitory. If they wanted to play Go, they would go to the main hall of the Go Academy.
After a week of communication, Qin Hao discovered that even Nie Weiping didn't quite understand why the chess academy had gone to such great lengths to gather the country's top and most capable chess players.
It was not until a week later that the leaders of the General Administration of Sports came to hold a mobilization meeting and everyone realized the importance of this China-Japan Go Challenge.
Although this China-Japan Go competition is just a private event sponsored by NEC, it is actually a critical juncture in the reform and opening up to attract foreign investment. While a large number of Japanese companies have entered the mainland, bringing in huge investments, Japanese products have also quickly become popular in the mainland market with their excellent quality and technology.
Especially in the field of home appliances, a domestic TV set costs around 500 yuan, but a Japanese brand TV can be sold for 1,500 or even 2,000 yuan, and is still in short supply.
For a time, the argument that "foreign brands are better than domestic ones" became increasingly popular among the people.
"If this continues, the moon abroad will be rounder than the moon at home. In this China-Japan Go Challenge, we must show our style, boost national morale, and let those Japanese media that look down on Chinese Go see that in terms of intelligence, we Chinese are the best in the world!"
The General Administration leader's words were very exciting, but the actual problem they face is that, judging from the current record of matches between Chinese and Japanese players, except for Nie Weiping who has a slightly better record, the rest of the Chinese chess players all suffered heavy losses against Japanese players. The strength gap between the two sides cannot be bridged by a few words of encouragement.
"That's why we gathered everyone here for training."
China has a long history of experience in intensive training for sports, which is a bit like the scene in martial arts novels where the protagonist falls into a deep abyss and survives, practices martial arts in a closed environment, and then goes out to kill everyone.
Regardless of whether it was useful or not, the training camp in the following month really exhausted Nie Weiping and his team. They had to get up at 6:30 in the morning to do exercises for an hour, then have breakfast. After breakfast, they started internal group competitions until noon. After a two-hour break, they continued in the afternoon and went back to review the situation in the evening.
After a few days, all the national Go players were in great pain. Only Jiang Zhujiu and Liu Xiaoguang, the younger players, could still stand it. As for Qin Hao, getting up early and running for an hour was no pressure at all. He was always the first to win in the group competition. Review? After playing for so long, Qin Hao had never reviewed the game.
At first, the people sent by the General Administration were very dissatisfied with Qin Hao's "training attitude", but when they saw Qin Hao's combat results, they immediately kept silent.
Among so many national Go players, Qin Hao is the only one with a perfect record. The second-place Nie Weiping has a winning rate of only 72%, which is a big gap.
"This kid is so talented, how come he doesn't even have a rank?" someone from the General Administration asked the leader of the chess academy.
The leaders of the chess academy felt embarrassed and secretly held a meeting to decide to award Qin Hao the title of "Professional Sixth Dan".
At first, Qin Hao was not interested in the "professional sixth dan" title at all. However, after learning that he could receive a monthly allowance from the chess academy, he immediately accepted "the good intention of the chess academy." No matter how small a mosquito leg is, it is still meat.
The leaders of the chess academy smiled bitterly at this. This was the first time they had been trying to award someone the title of professional chess player.
The one-month training camp ended quickly, and finally eight players were selected based on the internal confrontation results of the training camp. In addition to Qin Hao who always maintained an undefeated record, there were Wang Jianhong, Jiang Zhujiu, Shao Zhenzhong, Cao Dayuan, Liu Xiaoguang, Ma Xiaochun and Nie Weiping.
Except for Nie Weiping who is a little older, the rest are young players in their twenties, at the prime of their lives. There is no seniority or rank system in the ranking, which shows that the Go Academy and the General Administration of Sports attach great importance to this China-Japan Go Challenge.
The specific time of the competition has not yet been determined. Although it is a non-governmental exchange, in fact, competitions of this level must go through levels of review by the diplomatic department.
Before leaving, the leader of the chess academy kept Qin Hao alone and gave him some instructions.
"Don't waste your chess skills when you go back. Also, prepare your household registration booklet and ID card. We will notify you in advance to apply for a passport and go abroad."
According to the plan of the sponsor, NEC Corporation, several competitions will be held in Japan and mainland China respectively to expand the influence of the competition, and all players must be prepared to go abroad.
"Boss, will my allowance start to be paid this month?"
This is what Qin Hao is most concerned about.
"Well...don't worry, you won't lose 50 yuan a month allowance." The chess academy leader's face darkened.
The weather in Shanghai in mid-October is pleasant, with an average temperature of around 21 degrees. On the Tongji campus, Li Jia is leading his classmates to plant trees on a vacant lot in the school. At the beginning of the semester, the students were not used to this kind of agricultural task, and they all got themselves covered in dust and dirt. After more than a month of training, they are now familiar with it.
Li Jia's eyes inadvertently fell on Zhuang Tunan who was digging a hole, and his thoughts flew thousands miles away.
“A month has gone by so fast.”