Chapter 10 Honinbo Shudou
"Haha, from what you said, your Beggars' Sect is strong and powerful, right?"
"Yes, although we are quite powerful, our opponent, the Axe Gang, is also quite powerful. They have two gang leaders, one is called 'Duowen Tianwang' and the other is called 'Duoqing Tianwang'. Duowen is from Anhui Province and has won the Anhui Provincial Championship. He is not only an excellent chess player, but also a versatile writer. He has a generous personality and likes to make friends online. Therefore, when he founded the 'Axe Gang', he had many followers and was as famous as our Beggar Gang."
Hearing that Duowen was from Anhui Province, Lao Shi added: "Anhui Province has produced many masters since ancient times."
Li Xiangping smiled slightly after hearing this. Among the "three major schools" of Go in the Ming Dynasty, the base camp of the so-called "Xin'an School" was in Huizhou Province. In addition, during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Huizhou Province was indeed home to many famous masters. Therefore, it was not surprising that Lao Shi said this.
"We don't need to worry about Duowen alone. After all, he lives alone and it's just that he has too many people to help him. What we are really worried about now is the other leader of the Axe Gang, Duoqing Tianwang."
"Oh, that's why."
Li Xiangping shook his head: "I'm not too familiar with this person. I only know that his real name is Ao Lang, he may not even be 18 years old this year, and he is a professional chess player who was promoted to a professional chess player two years ago..."
"Xiang Ping, Xiang Ping."
Before Li Xiangping finished explaining the situation to Lao Shi, Zhao Daokai came to him as promised. Seeing this, Li Xiangping had no choice but to stop communicating with Lao Shi.
When Zhao Daokai came in, his eyes lit up when he saw the computer. After finding out where it came from, he blurted out something that made Li Xiangping laugh:
"Damn it, you are so lucky. It's so unfair. Why am I not the one who is sick?"
Li Xiangping observed his friend carefully, wanting to confirm once again whether this guy was as "sick" as himself, and then said to him with a smile:
"It's very simple if you want this thing. You just need to go back and tell your dad that my dad sold me a computer. How can your dad not sell it to you?"
Zhao Daokai's eyes lit up: "That makes sense..."
The Li and Zhao families are not only old friends, but also in-laws. Li Xiangping's uncle married Zhao Daokai's aunt, and their fathers were classmates. It is said that their relationship is even closer than that of the two younger ones.
However, the boy's eyes only lit up for a moment, then quickly dimmed: "No, this trick you said is useless. My mother has to agree to this. You know, my mother is the one who makes the decisions in my family."
Thinking of the situation at Zhao Daokai's home, Li Xiangping felt happy. He spread his hands and said in a pretentious manner:
"Yeah, how could I forget Aunt Liao? Facing your mother, there is really no way. I guess if you really want to get a computer, you will have to sign a few unequal treaties with your mother."
"Nonsense, do you even need to tell me that..."
Zhao Daokai looked at Li Xiangping with disdain. From this guy's demeanor, it was clear that it was common for him to sign an "unequal treaty" with his mother.
"The key question now is, what kind of treaty should I sign to get my mother to agree? Xiang Ping, you have a lot of tricks. Can you help me think about what conditions ?"
Li Xiangping said tentatively: "How about you promise your mom that you can pass all your courses next semester, so that your dad can buy you a computer."
Zhao Daokai looked embarrassed: "This...isn't this condition a bit too high?"
"Ha ha ha ha……"
Seeing Zhao Daokai's current state, Li Xiangping finally couldn't help but burst into laughter. Zhao Daokai was embarrassed and angry by his laughter: "What are you laughing at? Don't laugh! Isn't this condition high enough? As if you can do it."
Li Xiangping continued to laugh: "Of course I can't do it, but I don't have a super academic mother..."
There was a reason why Li Xiangping smiled so happily.
Zhao Daokai's father graduated from Tsinghua University, and his mother graduated from Peking University. They are both genuine academic masters. His mother is even more amazing. After returning to China after obtaining a doctorate degree from Princeton in the United States, she is currently working in a research institute under the Chinese Academy of Sciences. It is said that she is also the head of research and development of some national key scientific research project, and has many titles such as "Yangtze River Scholar" and "Thousand Talents Plan".
However, this pair of academic geniuses have always had a worry in their hearts, and their worry is naturally this kid Zhao Daokai.
Actually, Li Xiangping's best friend is not that bad. He is just born with a natural incompetence towards math, physics and chemistry. Since elementary school, he has never passed any science-related subject.
It is easy to imagine how devastated his academically gifted parents were, especially after every parent-teacher conference. Even Li Xiangping had seen his parents' hopeless expressions several times.
Li Xiangping highly suspected that if Zhao Daokai and his father were not like two peas in a pod and were indeed his mother's biological son, the paternity test would have been done countless times for this pair of academic geniuses.
Li Xiangping's situation is the opposite of Zhao Daokai's. His math, physics and chemistry scores are fine, but Chinese and foreign languages are a big problem. However, compared with Zhao Daokai, Li Xiangping still feels good about himself. Zhao Daokai has never passed the science subjects, while his liberal arts subjects can at least pass occasionally.
"Actually, it's not impossible to sign this agreement with my mother, but Xiangping, you have to help me during the exam."
Zhao Daokai's words brought back memories of Li Xiangping's past life. Due to their situation, they did think about how to "help each other" during exams when they were in junior high school. However, there was no way. As the saying goes, "the devil is always stronger than the righteous." How could the two little brats able to defeat their parents and teachers? Under their strict defense, the "mutual help" of the two could only be a thought. Anyway, they never succeeded even once.
"That's fine, but I need to think carefully about what to do when the time comes... It's already 7:50? Get out of the way, Daokai, get out of the way, I have something important to do today."
Thinking about the game tonight, Li Xiangping drove Zhao Daokai away from the computer. After reluctantly giving up his seat, Zhao Daokai asked curiously:
"What's the matter?"
"Hey, a game of Go."
"oh."
Hearing that Li Xiangping wanted to play Go, Zhao Daokai, who had no interest in Go, didn't want to stay any longer:
"Okay, then you play chess. I'll come back tomorrow."
Li Xiangping waved her hand and said, "Okay, go back first. Remember to think carefully about how to negotiate with your mother when you go back."
After Zhao Daokai left, Li Xiangping called Lao Shi first: "Brother Ding'an, Brother Ding'an, are you there?"
"here I am."
"Did you rest well?"
"Yeah, I just took a short nap."
Li Xiangping laughed: "Haha, that's fine. I'm sure you're itching to play chess now. I'll let you play a game of chess later."
As Li Xiangping said this, he logged into Lianzhong and found the dedicated server for the competition that Hongqiao mentioned. He saw that Hongqiao had opened a password room with many vests with "Beggars' Gang*" in it. Li Xiangping knew that this was the base camp of his gang, and everyone should be discussing how to deploy the troops.
Ask Hongqiao for the password and the "young man in white" enters the room.
"White Clothes! Haha, the White Clothes boss is finally here..."
"Fuck, Bai Yi, you are so willing to come here, I am so anxious... "
"Good job Bai Yi. Haha, now that Bai Yi has taken action this time, I think the Beggars' Sect's chances of winning will increase greatly..."
Li Xiangping greeted all the gang members skillfully, and then waited for the organizer Hongqiao Wolong to assign tasks.
Since he had been learning chess for the past few years, Li Xiangping had a lot of time to play chess online. In this day and age, his near-professional level was considered an online expert, so it was easy to attract attention.
Nowadays, to become an internet celebrity on a Go website, there are only a few key factors: first, strong Go skills; second, long online time, playing a lot of Go, and being relatively active; and third, the ability to speak.
Li Xiangping met the first two conditions. As for the third condition, although he was not very eloquent, he was still young and was always polite when talking to others. As a result, he became a small celebrity on the Go website and made many friends on the Internet.
As for his true identity, although Li Xiangping never told anyone online, he knew that he could not hide it from someone with ulterior motives. After all, the Go community is so small, and the community of amateur masters is even smaller, and the number of people who like to be active online is even smaller. Therefore, unless he deliberately conceals it, just like he knows the true identities of many amateur masters, there must be someone with ulterior motives who knows his identity.
At the very least, Li Xiangping knew that Hongqiao must know his true identity.
After all the personnel arrived, Hongqiao Wolong began to make arrangements for the competition:
"Damn, the Axe Gang definitely has bad intentions this time. Look at this guy Duowen, they are sitting in the front seats. I have never seen these vests before. They must be foreign players. There is nothing we can do now. We can only deal with them as they come. Okay, let me arrange the seats now. Lao Mei, you will sit in the first seat today. Qingbo, you will sit in the second seat, Daidai... Bai Yi, you will sit in the fifth seat today. They have arranged their Duoqing Tianwang on the fifth seat today. I remember that you seemed to have cut a plate with him before, right? As long as they don’t change the person later, you will still have a certain chance of defeating him..."
Li Xiangping replied with a smile, "Yes, sir," and then slipped out of the room to play chess.
This kind of online confrontation is meant to be fun, with everyone getting together for fun, so Li Xiangping doesn't actually care about the outcome of this kind of competition.
What's more, he was not prepared to take action today. He wanted to let the other soul in his body have fun and weigh the weight of the great chess master Shi Xiangxia. Therefore, he didn't care about what opponent to arrange.
But when Li Xiangping walked out of the room and saw the person sitting at the fourth seat, or to be more precise, when he saw the person's nickname "Axe Gang*Honinbo Xiudou", Li Xiangping suddenly changed his mind.
He turned back and found the Red Bridge again.
Beggars' Sect* Young man in white: "Boss, I want to discuss something with you."
Beggars' Sect* Hongqiao Wolong: "Hmm? What's up Baiyi?"
Beggars' Gang*Young man in white: "Please switch me to channel 4 today."
Beggars' Sect* Hongqiao Wolong: "Oh?"
