Chapter 7: Is there any prize money in the competition?
The primary school curriculum is relatively loose. School ends at four o'clock in the afternoon. Many parents are still at work at this time and have no time to take care of their children. This is also the main reason why so many parents sign up for the interest classes in the Children's Palace. Not only does it help them take care of their children,
It can also cultivate children's interests and hobbies, so why not do it.
Qin Hao and Lin Dongzhe were sent to the Children's Palace by Song Ying after school. Lin Dongzhe reluctantly went to the dance class. He looked sad at first, but after getting acquainted with the classmates, he smiled like a fool and started to have fun.
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After Huang Ling sent Zhuang Xiaoting to the vocal class, she and Song Ying found a place to sit nearby. After a busy day of going to work and taking care of the children, they could finally breathe a sigh of relief.
"This Children's Palace is really a good place, otherwise we would still be following behind the child." Song Ying said with emotion.
Huang Ling covered her mouth and chuckled: "Isn't that right? Before going to bed every day, I feel a little confused about what I have done that day. It turns out that it seems that every day is the same. I am either at work or busy with my children."
"Oh, I feel like I have been living for Lin Dongzhe all my life. Sometimes I feel like I am at a loss just thinking about it."
Huang Ling laughed when she heard this and said: "You are like Lin Dongzhe, so you still agree to be Haozi's guardian?"
"Haozi is much easier to take care of than Lin Dongzhe. He is smart and sensible, and he helps me with housework from time to time. Didn't you see that before Haozi came to our house, he asked his grandfather to tell his grandmother to wake up Lin Dongzhe early in the morning, and yelled at him again at night?
He sleeps and lies on the ground all day long. His clothes are dirty and he looks like a mud monkey emerging from the mud. Ever since Haozi came to my house, I have become much more relaxed." Song Ying said sternly.
"Then raising one more child will take time and energy." Huang Ling held Song Ying's hand.
"You are still kind-hearted and warm-hearted. If it were me, I wouldn't have the courage to be Haozi's guardian even with his poor life experience."
Song Ying was a little embarrassed by the praise: "Actually, I was also in a hurry at the time, but Haozi is really a worry-free kid. Sometimes I think, maybe this is fate, God gave me a naughty child.
Lin Dongzhe gave me another smart and sensible child."
Huang Ling saw that Song Ying's eyes were red as she spoke, so she changed the subject: "By the way, what is the Go junior class like?"
Sure enough, Song Ying's attention was immediately diverted: "Okay, Sister Ling, you haven't seen that the children in the Go junior class are all very well-behaved. They are sitting face to face like this, and the teacher is talking about chess.
Just put it below, you have studied very seriously."
"Well, I heard Chaoying say last night that people who are good at Go have high IQs, and if they play well, they might be able to join the provincial team and participate in the national competition."
Song Ying waved her hand: "I don't dare think about the provincial team. Anyway, as long as Haozi wants to learn, I will definitely let him learn. From the day he entered my house, in my heart, he is no different from Lin Dongzhe."
Unconsciously, it was already 5:30 in the afternoon, and the interest class was over. Song Ying and Huang Ling went to pick up their children and go home.
Lin Dongzhe went to dance class for a day, and his head and body were covered with sweat. Song Ying wiped his sweat while he ran.
"Lin Dongzhe, please slow down."
Lin Dongzhe was like a wild monkey in the mountains, running quickly through the Children's Palace: "Mom, hurry up, Brother Hao is waiting for us to take him home."
Song Ying chased Lin Dongzhe all the way to the Go class, only to find that the Go class classroom was surrounded by two circles. The inner circle was filled with children from the Go class, and the outer circle was filled with parents.
In the center of the circle was Qin Hao playing chess with a thirteen or fourteen-year-old child.
"Brother Hao is waiting for someone to play chess. I'll go in and take a look."
Lin Dongzhe took advantage of his young age and jumped in, causing the parents and children who were watching to frown. The atmosphere in the classroom was too quiet. Song Ying couldn't shout and could only use her eyes.
Tell him to be quiet.
Lin Dongzhe remembered that Qin Hao said yesterday that he should not make loud noises when playing Go, so he stood obediently behind Qin Hao and said nothing.
Song Ying also secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
However, compared to the vocal class and dance class, the depressing atmosphere in the Go class made Song Ying a little uncomfortable, just when she was worried about whether Qin Hao would be affected.
The child sitting in front of Qin Hao suddenly burst into tears.
The originally quiet classroom suddenly burst into whispers.
"Where did this kid come from? He's so powerful. Even Wu Yue couldn't defeat him."
"It's not just that I can't play, it's too far away. If I continue to play, I will lose at least 20 shots."
"I think this child is about ten years old, right? This is amazing. Whose child is this? How come I have never heard of it before?"
Hearing the parents' discussion, Lin Dongzhe got angry and said: "His name is Qin Hao, he is my brother, so I would say he is awesome."
Qin Hao saw Lin Dongzhe coming, but did not see Song Ying: "Why did you come here by yourself? Where is Aunt Song?"
"Haozi, I'm here." Song Ying quickly squeezed her way out of the parents.
When the parents around her saw this, they all cast envious glances at her.
"Your kid is such a good chess player. If you train him well, he might be able to join the national team in the future."
"What kind of chess records does your child usually read? Who is his teacher's national player?"
This time, Song Ying was confused by the question. Chess record? National player? National team?
Song Ying just felt that these parents must be joking with her. No matter how good a ten-year-old child is, how good can it be?
"Aunt Song, let's go back."
"Okay, go home, go home."
It wasn't until Qin Hao pulled Song Ying's finger that she woke up from a dream.
After Qin Hao and his three friends left, the parents took their children back home. Only Liu Hong, the teacher of the Go class, was left in the classroom with a complex look on his face, staring blankly at the game Qin Hao and Wu Yue had just played.
"Is this another coaching chess game?"
Just when Liu Hong was looking at it in awe, he received another blow on his head.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Liu Hong looked back in pain and saw the old man from yesterday. His anger subsided: "Mr. Zhang, when did you come?"
"It's been a while." The old man put his hands behind his back and shook his head: "It takes so long to read such obvious instructions on chess. Your chess skills have declined too much in recent years."
Liu Hong smiled bitterly: "Mr. Zhang, please don't belittle me. I've been reduced to this children's palace to teach children to play chess. Is my chess ability declining?"
"Oh, I don't blame you for this. The chess academy has been closed for so many years and only started to be reorganized in the past few years. It's normal for it to be abandoned." After a while of emotion, the old man changed the subject.
"Our two generations have been wasted, but the next generation cannot continue to be so wasted. If we want to overthrow the mountain that is weighing on Chinese Go, we may have to rely on their generation."
Liu Hong hesitated for a moment: "Mr. Zhang, do you mean to give this child a place to participate in the National Children's Go Competition?"
"Why, isn't his chess skill enough to qualify to participate?"
"His chess skills are quite good, but after all, he is not yet ten years old."
"Confused, the younger he is, the greater his potential is. Staying here will only harm him!"
"Okay then, I'll ask his family for their opinions tomorrow..."
"You don't have to wait for tomorrow, you can go tonight."
Liu Hong hesitated: "There's no need to be in such a hurry, right?"
"I'm confused. There are many people in the Go circle among these parents. It won't take long for the news to spread. If you don't go now, you will regret it when others come to rob you." The old man said, hating the iron.
Liu Hong slapped his forehead: "Yes, how could I forget this?"
Top talents are prized at any time. If Qin Hao represents Suzhou in the National Children's Go Competition and gets a good ranking, it will definitely count as a result of the Suzhou Children's Palace. But if Qin Hao represents other cities in the competition, it will be equivalent to marrying someone else.
Clothes.
So Liu Hong quickly rode his bicycle and ran all the way.
At the same time, Song Ying and Huang Ling had already arrived home with their children.
The adults started busy cooking, and the children started doing homework. Of course, Lin Dongzhe was very reluctant to do homework, but under Qin Hao's supervision, he could only sit down and start writing obediently.
The reason why Lin Dongzhe was so obedient to Qin Hao was that Qin Hao could always make him some novel toys and tell him stories. As a "dad" with rich experience in raising children, he could handle a baby
Lin Dongzhe still has it easy.
When Song Ying saw this scene, she couldn't help but quietly said to Huang Ling: "Oh, before Haozi came to our house, I wouldn't have imagined that Lin Dongzhe could be so good and start doing homework as soon as he got home."
Huang Ling was also happy. She remembered that when she first moved here, Lin Dongzhe was running around like a monkey. He was so dirty that he couldn't even see it. Later, under Qin Hao's coercion and inducement, he slowly became clean.
After getting up, the small courtyard gradually became quiet. Speaking of which, she had to thank Qin Hao, otherwise Zhuang Tunan and Zhuang Xiaoting would not have such a good learning environment.
Not long after, Zhuang Chaoying and Lin Wufeng also came back.
Lin Dongzhe vividly told Lin Wufeng how Qin Hao was killing everyone in the Go class. In fact, he only watched it for a while, mostly relying on his imagination.
"Yeah, Haozi is so awesome." Lin Wufeng knew his son well and liked to exaggerate. He could say that he had just passed the passing mark in the exam and he could say it as if he had received full marks.
Until Song Ying came out from the kitchen with food: "I didn't expect Haozi to be so good. Lin Wufeng, you know, when Haozi called me, all the parents in the classroom paid attention to me and asked me what chess records Haozi usually reads.
, which national player is his teacher?”
"Well, the national players have all come out, so Haozi plays Go very well." Lin Wufeng felt that his wife seemed to be exaggerating.
"Of course, our Haozi is the best."
Song Ying has no idea about national players, but this does not prevent her from being proud of Qin Hao.
Just as the family was sitting down to eat happily, they heard a shouting sound coming from the door.
"Here, Song Ying's family lives in this courtyard."
Song Ying subconsciously stopped picking up food: "Looking for me? Who is it?"
Lin Wufeng put down his bowl and went out to take a look, only to see a middle-aged man pushing a Phoenix bicycle into the courtyard.
"Hello, is Song Ying here?"
Before Song Ying came out, Lin Dongzhe got out.
"Dad, this is Teacher Liu from the Go class at Brother Hao's Children's Palace."
Upon hearing this, Lin Wufeng quickly invited people into the room: "Teacher Liu, hello, please come in quickly. You haven't eaten yet. Lin Dongzhe will go get a pair of bowls and chopsticks."
Liu Hong declined repeatedly, but Lin Dongzhe had already brought in the bowls and chopsticks, and Song Ying filled the bowl with rice and rode all the way over. Liu Hong was indeed hungry, and said a little embarrassed: "It's too much, I can't eat like this."
some."
"It's not much. Our Lin Dongzhe can finish it all."
Song Ying also thoughtfully prepared a lot of dishes for Liu Hong: "Teacher Liu didn't know you were coming, and he didn't prepare any dishes at home, making you laugh."
"No, no, it's because I was rude." Liu Hong waved his hands quickly, took the opportunity to put down the bowl and chopsticks, and then said solemnly.
"That's right. Since Qin Hao's chess skills have reached a very high level, we decided to recommend Qin Hao to represent the Suzhou Children's Palace in this National Children's Go Competition."
Song Ying and Lin Wufeng were obviously stunned for a moment. They didn't understand Go and didn't know what the nature of this competition was, but it was already a very high honor to represent Suzhou in the national competition.
"This, this is a good thing."
"A good thing, a great thing."
Song Ying and Lin Wufeng's faces were filled with surprise.
Lin Dongzhe had no idea what was going on and started cheering: "Oh, Brother Hao is going to participate in the national competition."
However, Qin Hao suddenly said: "Is there any prize money in the competition?"
The smile on Liu Hong's face instantly became a little weird, and Song Ying and Lin Wufeng also quickly winked at Qin Hao.
"Teacher Liu, this kid is joking, don't take it seriously."
"This kid usually likes to make jokes and stuff."
Liu Hong saw that Qin Hao's face was calm, and according to his observation of Qin Hao, this child was very mature and did not look like he liked to joke.
"Ahem, it's like this. The top ten in this national children's Go competition can enter the youth class of the China Chess Academy. The top three will also receive physical prizes, but we don't know what they are yet."
As soon as he heard that there was no bonus and that he would have to enter the youth class of the chess academy, Qin Hao immediately lost interest.
But Song Ying and Lin Wufeng's eyes were shining. Although they didn't understand Go, they had seen it in the newspaper from the Chinese Chess Academy. It was the highest palace of Chinese chess players. The youth class of the Chess Academy was equivalent to Tsinghua University and Peking University.
The youth class is training future "national players". For their generation, honor is more important than material things.
"Thank you so much, Teacher Liu."
"Teacher Liu, please eat more vegetables."
Liu Hong looked at Qin Hao with some embarrassment. If it had been any other child, he would have jumped three feet high on the spot with joy, which made him feel unsure.
"Teacher Liu, don't worry, Haozi will definitely go all out to fight for the honor of the Children's Palace and our Suzhou." Lin Wufeng saw Liu Hong's worries and said quickly.
"Hmm, with Qin Hao's normal chess skills, he has a good chance of getting ranked."
"Yes, that's because you taught me well, Teacher Liu."
Facing the compliments from Song Ying and his wife, Liu Hong's mouth twitched. Qin Hao came to the Children's Palace and gave a class. He was really embarrassed to take the credit.