Tao Yushu gave birth to a eldest daughter who weighed 7 pounds. The old father was so happy that his back molars were exposed and he didn't even bother to take care of his biggest hero when he came out of the delivery room.
"Let's go see your daughter?"
Tao Yushu's face was pale, and the whites of his eyes were even whiter.
Lin Chaoyang licked his face and carried the newly born little girl to her side, "Look, our daughter!"
His words resolved Tao Yushu's jealousy, and he looked down at the little meat ball that had just come out of her body, feeling affectionate in his heart.
"Aren't you a little fat?"
"Children are all puffy and fat. When they grow up, they will lose weight."
"The bridge of my nose is quite high, like yours."
The couple commented on their daughter's appearance, and the family members looked at the little girl with smiles on their faces.
"Let me see, I see my sister!"
Xiao Dongdong eagerly picked up the adult's trouser legs. He was brought to the hospital by Zhang Guiqin. Usually everyone at home was in pain, but now no one could care about him.
Tao Yucheng happily picked him up and said, "Come, let me hold you and see."
After being picked up, Xiao Dongdong saw a small meat dumpling lying on the hospital bed, with his eyes half-closed and his lips pursing from time to time.
His eyes were full of curiosity, is this his sister?
So ugly!
Suddenly, Little Rouduanzi let out a loud cry. The cry was so loud that Xiao Dongdong could even see the little tongue in her throat through her wide open mouth.
What a terrible kid!
"Come down! Come down!"
Xiaodongdong quickly asked Tao Yucheng to put him down, and ran to Tao Yushu for comfort.
"Are you hungry or peed?"
Mother Tao stepped forward with concern, opened the swaddling clothes holding the little girl and took a look, it turned out that she had peed.
After cleaning up, Tao Yushu fed her milk again, and soon passed out meconium again.
The adults were busy cleaning up the little girl. Xiao Dongdong sat on the stool and dangled her short legs watching them busy. She felt that children were really troublesome.
After observing everything in the hospital for a night and confirming that everything was normal, the doctor discharged Tao Yushu and her daughter from the hospital.
Confinement in winter is a hardship in other people's homes, but in Tao Yushu's house there is no such trouble, and the home is as warm as spring.
The only thing that made her feel uncomfortable was that the air was too dry and she couldn't take a shower.
"I miss Xiangjiang a little now." Tao Yushu said to Lin Chaoyang in the evening.
"I missed Yanjing when I was in Xiangjiang, and I missed Xiangjiang when I returned to Yanjing. Why don't you practice a clone technique." Lin Chaoyang teased her.
Tao Yushu sighed and said, "I wonder how Yumo is doing in Xiangjiang?"
"Didn't the letter say that everything is normal?"
"That was more than half a month ago. Mom is right, this girl is heartless."
Lin Chaoyang smiled and asked: "Is this the first day you met her?"
Tao Yushu frowned, "I'm just worried."
"I see you're not worried, but you can't be idle, right?" Lin Chaoyang revealed her thoughts with just one sentence.
It had been more than a month since the couple had been back, and the baby had been given birth. Tao Yushu's heart was restless again.
"No." Tao Yushu's answer was very unconfident.
Lin Chaoyang said: "You have to wait until the confinement period is over anyway, and the child still needs someone to take care of it."
"Have you already said it?" Tao Yushu was exposed by him and began to get angry.
Lin Chaoyang changed the subject, "Have you thought of a name yet?"
"Then you have to decide on a nickname, right? It's been a week since the birth, and we don't even have a nickname. Our daughter is pitiful!"
Before giving birth, the couple made an agreement. The boy was named by Lin Chaoyang, and the girl was named by Tao Yushu. The two had thought a lot about it before.
But after giving birth, Tao Yushu became entangled again. He felt that any name was good, but neither name was interesting.
Lin Chaoyang has been urging her for the past two days, but Tao Yushu has been unable to make up his mind.
"Let's call her Yan Yan." Lin Chaoyang said.
Tao Yushu was anxious, "I've agreed to name it."
"Okay, let me make a suggestion, how about calling Yan Yan?"
Tao Yushu nodded slightly, "Yan Yan is good, then I will name her Yan Yan."
One of the couple pursues procedural justice, the other pursues substantive justice, and both parties get what they need.
"What's your nickname?" Lin Chaoyang asked.
"My nickname is also Yan Yan."
"Isn't that good? I think we should give it a cute name, like Xiao Hanamuan?"
Tao Yushu suddenly frowned, "No, no. How can anyone name food? Just call it Yan Yan, it sounds nice."
Lin Chaoyang compromised, since he already had the right to name the name anyway.
After finally deciding on a name for the child, Tao Yushu came to the little girl who was already sleeping soundly and looked at her petite and cute face, with the brilliance of motherhood between her brows and eyes.
"From now on, you will be called Lin Yanyan. Does that sound good?"
The sleeping baby had a smile on his lips, and Tao Yushu also had a soft smile on his face.
With the addition of a new member, Lin Chaoyang's house has been very lively in recent days, with close relatives and friends arriving in droves.
On the morning of November 18, a rare visitor came to Xiaoliubukou.
"Old Nie, why are you here?" Lin Chaoyang was a little surprised to see Nie Weiping.
Nie Weiping smiled, showing his trademark big teeth, "I heard that you recently got a daughter, so I wanted to say hello."
After exchanging a few words, Lin Chaoyang became concerned about the situation of the group competition.
In two days, the last game of the first Sino-Japanese Go Tournament will be held at the Yanjing Gymnasium. In the past few days, there have been reports on TV and newspapers. This game has already become a concern for people in Yanjing and even the whole country.
focus.
The competition lasted for more than a year until the last person was fighting, and now the winner is finally decided.
Not only has the confrontational mood in the Go community reached a fever pitch, but the public attention in the two countries has also far exceeded the level of general sports.
"That's why I came here today. You have to go watch the game in two days and cheer me up!"
Lin Chaoyang said with a smile: "There is no problem in cheering up! You have defeated Koichi Kobayashi, and Hideyuki Fujisawa is old, so he is not a threat to you."
"I'll lend you some good words!"
The two chatted for a while, then Nie Weiping said goodbye and left.
Tao Yushu was full of regrets. She still had to confine her confinement. In this freezing season, she would definitely not be able to watch the competition.
On the morning of the 20th, today was the last game of the Sino-Japanese Go Tournament. There were crowds of people in front of the Yanjing Gymnasium.
To this day, all walks of life in the country are paying attention to this game. People are talking about Go wherever they go, even in places such as Xiangjiang and Haojiang.
Today's game not only touches the hearts of millions of people in Yanjing, but also the hearts of countless people in China and Japan.
In the Beijing Gymnasium, the first Sino-Japanese Go Tournament, which lasted for more than a year, ushered in the climax of the showdown - the final battle between the Chinese leader Nie Weiping and the Japanese leader Hideyuki Fujisawa.
Before the game, the media of the two countries had already heightened the atmosphere to the point of intense attention. Even the referee lineup of the game was described by the Japanese media as "absolutely luxurious."
The chief referee is the first generation of national Go players in New China. He is currently the vice chairman of the Chinese Go Association and director of the Chess Department of the Sports Committee Chen Zude (9th Dan). Rui Naiwei (7th Dan), a leader in Chinese women's Go, and Yang Hui (6th Dan) serve as recordkeepers.
and timekeeper.
In one game, the total ranking of the three referees was as high as 22. This kind of super luxury has never been seen in any Go game between China and Japan.
In order to interview chess players from both sides before the game, as many as 40 reporters from China and Japan blocked the entrance to the Yanjing Gymnasium early in the morning.
Today, Nie Weiping and Fujisawa Hideyuki are the superstars of China and Japan. They walked into the stadium surrounded by reporters, and Lin Chaoyang also followed the crowd into the stadium.
He was a guest invited to watch the game and was placed in the game room. Also entering the game room with them were dozens of reporters from China and Japan.
The originally empty game room became overcrowded due to the influx of so many people. Referee Chen Zude kept speaking to maintain order.
Fifteen minutes later, the game officially started, with Nie Weiping taking the lead as black.
At this time, there were more than 2,000 spectators sitting in the Yanjing Gymnasium. Comrade Fang, then deputy director of the State Council, came to watch the game in person. The huge scene of the gymnasium was turned into an explanation hall.
Several staff members put up huge chess records for demonstrations and explanations, which looked like a martial arts novel.
At the same time, CCTV also broadcast the decisive battle live for the first time today. Countless viewers who knew and did not know chess were waiting in front of the TV with excitement.
In front of the TV, Nie Weiping did not wear a suit as usual, but wore a sportswear with the word "China" printed on it.
All the Chinese people watching the battle understood what he meant. He represented China in this battle.
He can't lose!
This is not only a cherishment of national honor, but also a sense of mission for Chinese Go.
Over the past thirty years, Japanese Go, which has long been professionalized in Chinese Go games, has been struggling to catch up.
From 1960 to 1966, in the 12 Go friendly matches between China and Japan, the Chinese players failed to win any of them, and even suffered a humiliating defeat as "the Japanese old lady swept the Chinese chess world".
After twenty years of hard work and hard work, Nie Weiping and his generation of chess players finally became popular, and it was finally time for Chinese and Japanese chess players to compete.
In this battle, we can only win, not lose!
This is not only the expectation of the Chinese people for Nie Weiping, but also Nie Weiping's encouragement to himself.
After the opening, Nie Weiping adopted the wrong small move layout. He obviously fully considered Fujisawa Hideyuki's world-famous opening fifty moves.
The purpose is to lengthen the battle line, gain ground first, and then compete with the opponent in the second half of the game.
On the other hand, Fujisawa Hideyuki, after Nie Weiping made his first move, leaned his back on the sofa, lay back and closed his eyes for several minutes before he started to make his moves.
Ten minutes after the start, all the photos that the reporters were supposed to take were taken and the video was recorded. Referee Chen Zude asked them to leave the game room.
Most of the people in the game room were missing. There was only the sound of two chess players making moves, and the atmosphere gradually became tense.
After the 35th move, Black had a slight local advantage, but when he was lagging behind, White grabbed the key point of the 8th position, and the overall speed was actually a beat slower.
Seeing this, many masters who have a thorough understanding of Go frowned. Fujisawa Hideyuki has always had an excellent view of the overall situation. If this continues, Nie Weiping may be at a disadvantage.
Go is a sport that tests your brain power extremely. Massive deductions require extraordinary memory and IQ, as well as time.
Nie Weiping and Fujisawa Hideyuki are undoubtedly the top Go masters in the world today, and they are participating in such an ultimate decisive battle that concerns the prestige of the two countries' Go circles.
The two of them were careful about every move they made, lest they fall into the opponent's trap.
After the 48th move, Nie Weiping entered the state of long examination and did not move for a long time. The whole morning passed in such long calculations and deductions.
After the game was closed at noon, the Chinese and Japanese chess players gathered together to discuss the gains and losses of the previous chess game, but Nie Weiping and Fujisawa Hideyuki were both alone.
In such a war, any opinions from outsiders are interference to them, and they must maintain independent thinking.
Nie Weiping only ate two slices of watermelon during his meal, but Hideyuki Fujisawa ate a lot of dumplings and cantaloupe, and seemed to be in good spirits and with good appetite.
This makes the Chinese chess players and leaders feel inexplicably worried. It seems that the situation in the afternoon is still not optimistic!
In the afternoon, the two sides kept going back and forth.
By 3 p.m., the confrontation had lasted for six hours.
When Nie Weiping relied on 118, he did not counterattack decisively and fell into passivity. All the chess players watching the game felt cold sweat for Nie Weiping.
But no one expected that after ten moves, Fujisawa Hideyuki would make a slow move, allowing Black to grab five of Tiger's super officials.
"There is hope!" Lin Chaoyang heard Jiang Zhujiu murmur to himself in a low voice beside him.
Seeing this move, Lin Chaoyang couldn't help but clenched his fists.
I don't know if it was because of his physical strength, but Fujisawa Hideyuki made a series of slow moves in the next official stage, and the black pieces formed a complete circle on the upper right.
After that, Black jumped to the 147th position, and the board had an advantage of nearly 10 goals, and the victory was obvious.
Nie Weiping was very close to winning the first Sino-Japanese Go tournament. The game room was silent, and the needles could be heard in the Yanjing Gymnasium.
Everyone understands that although Nie Weiping has a great chance of winning at the moment, Go is like this. You can never be sure of the outcome until the last moment.
Entering the junior official stage, Fujisawa Hideyuki made another mistake.
After seven hours and twenty minutes of fierce fighting, Nie Weiping finally won the game with a 3-and-a-half-eye advantage.
When the victory was finally sealed, Nie Weiping leaned heavily on the sofa and looked up to the sky with a sigh.
Everyone present excitedly waved their fists and hugged each other in greeting.
The stadium was filled with cheers of victory. Also cheering were the Chinese people in front of millions of TV sets.
On November 20, 1985, the first Sino-Japanese Go Tournament finally came to an end 13 months after it started.
The Chinese team defeated the Japanese Go team with a record of 8:7. This was a landmark victory in the history of Chinese Go and a battle that established the prestige of Chinese Go.
From now on, the offensive and defensive trends of Chinese and Japanese Go will be different!
As for Nie Weiping, who persisted to the end in this two-country chess hegemony and defeated three top Japanese players in a row, he turned the tide and helped the building to collapse.
At this moment, he is like a god descending to earth, standing on the top of Asia!
Firecrackers celebrating the victory rang out outside the Yanjing Stadium, and the cheers and applause inside the stadium continued for a long time. Nie Weiping had already finished greeting his opponents and celebrating with his Chinese colleagues present.
When he saw Lin Chaoyang, a bright smile appeared on his face.
"It was right to invite you! I won!"
Lin Chaoyang joked: "You use me as a mascot!"
Everyone around heard their conversation and laughed, the laughter was unbridled.
Since the start of the Sino-Japanese Go Tournament last year, Lin Chaoyang and his "Chess Saint" have inexplicably had a placebo effect on the Chinese Go team.
Today, they finally won the group arena. Who can say that there is no reason why Lin Chaoyang is not there?
The higher the realm, the more feudal and superstitious one becomes.
At the end of the game, Nie Weiping was surrounded by reporters, enjoying the glory of the winner.
In the next two days, there were overwhelming news reports about the Chinese team’s victory in the Sino-Japanese Go Tournament.
"Guangming Daily" published an article saying: The Chinese team's victory in the first Sino-Japanese Go Tournament is as significant as the Chinese women's volleyball team winning the world championship, which greatly inspired the national spirit.
A commentary article in the People's Daily wrote: For the first time in more than a century, China defeated Japan in a Go game, completely rewriting the pattern of the Asian Go world.
In addition, many authoritative media such as China Youth Daily, Xinhua News Agency, and CCTV reported in detail on this victory.
The public opinion situation is exaggerated and its influence is greater than when Chinese athletes won more than a dozen gold medals at the Olympic Games last year!
In the days after his victory, Nie Weiping continued to be interviewed, met by leaders, gave reports, and gave speeches. He was surrounded by huge crowds of people wherever he went, and he seemed to have become a well-known national hero.
And at a time when the whole country is paying attention, every time Nie Weiping is interviewed by reporters and asked about the secret to victory in this competition, Nie Weiping always mentions this sentence.
"I was reading a novel before, and there was a saying in it that was very good. If the country's fortune is prosperous, the chess fortune will be prosperous!
The victory of the Chinese team is not a victory for me alone, but a victory for the entire Chinese people!"
Along with the reporters' reports, the saying "When the country's fortunes are prosperous, so will the chess fortunes prosper" spread throughout the country.
Many Go fans and literature lovers are familiar with this sentence. It is the highlight of the novel "The Master of Chess".
As the whole country celebrates the victory of the first Sino-Japanese Go Tournament, the novel "Chess Master" once again enters the horizons of hundreds of millions of people in this way.
In an instant, there was a rush to buy "The Master" in major bookstores across the country. Countless Chinese people flocked to this novel and wanted to see the charm of the Go novel that was praised by Nie Weiping!
"The rising sun! The rising sun!"
Today is already the third day of the last leg of the Sino-Japanese Go Tournament. In the morning, Lin Chaoyang was holding Yan Yan and basking in the sun under the window. His uncle Tao Yucheng ran in in a hurry.
"Brother, what's going on? Are you so excited?"
Tao Yucheng said excitedly: "Let me tell you something, "The Master of Chess" has been re-screened!"
"Replay?" Lin Chaoyang looked surprised, and then he immediately figured it out.
It must be that the recent Sino-Japanese Go Tournament has become too popular. Not to mention ordinary people, even those G-level cadres are very concerned about it. China Film naturally wants to take advantage of the popularity. This is also a good opportunity to show up in front of the leaders.
"They had a good plan!" Lin Chaoyang joked.
Tao Yucheng laughed and said, "That's right."
"When did it happen?"
"Yesterday, it was released in the cinema yesterday, and I went to see it. What a guy! It's even more popular than the new movie."
After talking about the re-release of "The Chess Master", Tao Yucheng talked about the novel "The Chess Master" again.
"Not only the movies, your novels are also very popular now. It's really amazing! Nie Weiping and the others really won the competition after reading your novels and movies."
Lin Chaoyang waved his hand and said: "It has nothing to do with this, it's because they played chess well."
"Chaoyang, don't be humble. Doesn't it have a big effect or a small effect? ​​I think it has a somewhat motivating effect. The plot of "The Master of Chess" is so inspiring!"
Tao Yucheng's ideas are very representative, logical and irrefutable.
Ordinary people simply believe that "The Master of Chess" must have some effect on this game, otherwise Nie Weiping would just talk about it without any problem?
The fanatical public opinion aroused by the Sino-Japanese Go Tournament continues with great vigor. After this war, the situation of Japanese Go being the dominant player in the Asian chess world was completely rewritten.
The popularity of Go among the people has also spread since then. With the endorsement of Nie Weiping, a national hero, the novel "Chess Saint" has become an enlightenment reading for millions of Go beginners, and the movie of the same name has become a celebration for countless passionate young people.
The most heartfelt way to win.
Under the attention of countless people, the novel has been selling well, the movie has been re-released, and Lin Chaoyang and his works have also become popular.
A few days later, Li Tuo excitedly ran to Lin Chaoyang's house. He was a spy in the Yanjing literary world, and any disturbance in the literary world could not escape his ears.
"Chaoyang, have you heard? The Cultural Association has held the second meeting of the Mao Prize."
"What's the meaning?"
Li Tuo reminded: "Award judging, the list of winning works will come out at this meeting."
After he said this, he pretended to be secretive and asked with excitement: "Do you want to know what happened to those novels of yours?"
Lin Chaoyang shook his head, "I don't want to."
"It's boring!" Li Tuo looked disappointed, "You are so boring!"
"You don't have to say it." Lin Chaoyang said.
Li Tuo held it in for a long time, but finally couldn't hold it in anymore, "I'm telling you, don't tell anyone else!"
"Then you'd better not tell me."
"You..." Li Tuo pointed at Lin Chaoyang, filled with indignation.
In the end, he had no choice but to compromise, "If I hadn't seen you as the person involved, I wouldn't have bothered to tell you."
Lin Chaoyang turned a deaf ear to his words. For a person like him, he couldn't hold himself back even if you didn't ask him.
“For this year’s awards, 19 candidate works have been screened out in the early stage, and each judge can nominate no more than 10 works.
Only works with more than half of the votes cast by the total number of judges participating in the voting can be included in the nomination list."
Having said this, Li Tuo emphasized again, "You are nominated for two more works this year. Which two do you think they are?"
""Crossing Guandong" and "Crossing the Boat"." Lin Chaoyang said the two names calmly.
Li Tuo was disappointed, "Where did you get the news?"
"Still using gossip? Based on the Mao Dun Literature Award's judging style, could they choose "Shutter Island"?"
Li Tuo laughed mischievously when he heard this, "Don't tell me, it's true. "Shutter Island" is not bad, but it is still different from tradition."
In contemporary Chinese literary circles, what is tradition?
Four words - realism.
If you write fantasy literature, it is all deviant. Historical literature must be written like "Li Zicheng" to be called orthodox.
He continued: "In the nomination stage, a total of 10 works were shortlisted. Then a second round of voting was held among these 10 works. Each judge voted for no more than 6 works. This time, the number of votes was required to exceed 2/3 of the total number of judges.
Only those who win the prize will be awarded, and those who are unsuccessful will also be given a nomination award."
"Nomination Award?"
When Lin Chaoyang heard this name, he immediately thought of the various so-called nominated and award-winning works that would come out to gain popularity on the eve of the selection of the Mao Dun Literary Award.
"It sounds ridiculous to you, right? If you win, you win, and if you don't win, you don't win. What kind of award is a nomination award?" Li Tuo also expressed disapproval of this kind of operation in his tone.
He added: "But I heard that someone made a temporary motion to cancel the nomination award."
Lin Chaoyang nodded. There are still some sensible people among the judges. If they really win the nomination award, it will be nothing but pork.
The highlight came next. Li Tuo asked habitually: "Guess which works won the award?"
Seeing that Lin Chaoyang did not answer, he took the initiative to say: "Your "Crossing the Guandong", Li Zhun's "The Yellow River Flows East", Zhang Jie's "Heavy Wings", Liu Xinwu's "The Bell and Drum Tower"."
Lin Chaoyang nodded, his expression showing no surprise at all. Except for his variable, the rest was exactly the same as in his memory.
After Li Tuo finished talking about the information he had finally found out, he saw Lin Chaoyang's face was indifferent, and he couldn't help but feel full of frustration.
Youyuan said: "I shouldn't have told you if I had known earlier."
"I've said it all. Okay, thank you!"
Lin Chaoyang patted Li Tuo on the shoulder, like an old man thanking the young man who helped him cross the road.
"Whatever I do is considered to be a good news, why don't you express your gratitude!"
"Stay home for dinner tonight."
This meal is so boring and frustrating.
A few days later, when Tao Yushu had just given birth, the results of this year’s Mao Dun Literature Award were published in the People’s Daily.
Four works, "Crossing the Guandong", "The Yellow River Flows East", "Heavy Wings" and "The Bell and Drum Tower" are impressively listed, and Li Tuo's gossip is quite accurate.
As soon as the news came out, Lin Chaoyang's family suddenly became lively again.
The reason why I say "again" is because Tao Yushu gave birth to his second child a few days ago, and a group of friends just came to congratulate him.
This time Lin Chaoyang won the Mao Dun Literature Award for the second time, so he naturally had to congratulate him.
With so many people here, it is inevitable that everyone will talk about some of the inside stories of the awards. The sources of information are different, and the true and false information are mixed, which makes people confused.
Some people say that there are several writers who have submitted their works for this year's awards and are trying to treat guests to dinner. Some people say that some local literary associations have begun to regard the Mao Dun Literary Award as a political achievement, and award-winning writers are given apartments...
Not only acquaintances around me, but also the literary world and countless literature lovers are paying attention. The announcement of the winners of the Mao Dun Literary Award has become the most watched event in the literary world during this period.
The controversy caused by "The Truman Show" has also subsided. Now everyone is more concerned about Lin Chaoyang winning the Mao Dun Literature Award for the second time with "Enter Guandong".
The Mao Dun Literary Award has only been held for the second time since its establishment, and Lin Chaoyang has won the award again. He has not yet turned thirty this year, and the next ten years will probably be his creative peak period.
If this trend continues, will he not be able to win the Mao Dun Literature Award in the future?
And there are rumors that Lin Chaoyang's two works have reached the final nomination stage this time. His ability is really a bit of a dimensionality reduction in the Mao Dun Literature Award.
Now everyone is thinking about a question, that is, if Lin Chaoyang wins the third Mao Dun Literature Award in a few years, what will the jury do?
Various disturbing news in the literary world continue to spread and ferment, and time passes by and the day comes for the second Mao Dun Literary Award Ceremony.
Chapter completed!