National Tide 1980.

Chapter 686 Crossroads of Destiny

Sunday, August 1984, 8, was no ordinary weekend.

Except that the closing ceremony of the 23rd Olympic Games will be successfully concluded on this day, in fact, for many people, this is a very important intersection of fate.

Although some things seemed insignificant at the time, as time goes by, we will eventually discover that these things have a great impact on the future.

For example, this morning, a boy with a baby face came to Beijing by plane from Chengdu Shuangliu Airport.

Then, before he had time to catch his breath, he rushed to the Old Summer Palace with his luggage on his back, and met director Wang Fulin, who was holding a training class for red opera actors.

To be honest, the boy himself didn't even have the confidence to be selected by the director.

Because in the troupe, because his face is suitable for few roles, he has been a superfluous person sitting on the bench for a long time,

He wouldn't have come if he hadn't been called by the regiment to let him go on a business trip, and he could fly.

But what he never expected was that he, who originally wanted to play in the capital, was caught by Director Wang because of his young face.

Ten days later, the crew of the TV series "Dream of Red Mansions", which was invested heavily by the national TV station, officially announced that the actor who would play Jia Baoyu was confirmed——Ouyang Fenqiang from the Actor Troupe of Emei Film Studio.

So far, the crew of "Dream of Red Mansions", which has been auditioned nationwide and for more than half a year, has finally filled in the last important piece of the role puzzle and has the conditions to start filming.

And this young man from the land of Sichuan and Sichuan ushered in the highlight moment of his life completely unintentionally.

Also on August 8th.

A 14-year-old girl named "Gao Min" lived a closed life in Sichuan Sports School.

The only window to understand the outside world through the sports school is the black and white TV that can only be turned on on weekends.

She finally saw the replay of the final of the Olympic diving competition.

Louganis, who was recognized as the greatest diver in the world at that time, was known as the "King of Diving" and "Aerial Artist".

It brought her a great visual impact.

In this game, Louganis performed very well and once again won two gold medals for the US team in diving and platform diving.

Especially his sculptural figure and difficult diving movements, let Gao Min know that diving can be so beautiful!
For this reason, sitting on the small bench, she only took a bite of the watermelon in her hand and completely forgot about it.

After the replay, she held a large piece of watermelon in her hand, and she still couldn't forget Louganis's action of entering the water.

Even the idea of ​​quitting the team, which she had already determined in her heart, couldn't help but hesitate again.

To be honest, at the beginning of the year, she fell off the ten-meter platform and was seriously injured to the point of vomiting blood, and it took more than two months for her to recover.

But the injury is healed, but the psychological shadow is not easy to dispel.

Coupled with the fact that high-intensity training is really hard, the probability of diving athletes being eliminated is also very high.

She really felt that she couldn't bear the enormous pressure, so she wanted to quit.

In fact, she even wrote the application for resignation from the team and put it in the drawer for more than a week.

The only thing I'm waiting for now is to contact her with her school at home, and then talk to the coach.

But on this day, the wonderful moment on the TV screen made her heart eager again, and the choice she had made up her mind to showed signs of loosening again.

She seemed a little reconciled, so she just gave up and gave up.

Should I go or stay?

At a very young age, Gao Min was deeply at a loss and was deeply worried about the obstacles of choice.

Coincidentally, near noon, a hawker yelling from outside the sports school wall inspired the little girl.

The peddler outside the wall is a sugar biscuit seller.

At that time, this kind of small business had a very interesting and special feature, that is, it was gambling.

Customers can turn the dial after spending money, and you will be given whatever pattern they turn to. Some patterns have more sugar, while others have less.

This made Gao Min couldn't help but have a cute and naive idea, why not let God decide her future.

So she walked out of the school gate and gave fifty cents to the peddler.

At this time, the little girl made up her mind that if she transferred to Long, she would stay, if not, she would leave and go home.

The result... never expected!

This time she turned, she actually turned to a dragon with the largest pattern!
Miracles in life just happen!

Everything is different!

After returning with the big sugar cake, Gao Min smiled and licked the dragon in her hand, while quietly tore up the application for resignation.

History is so interesting.

Not many people know that our future diving queen almost chose to be mediocre.

It was a piece of dragon-shaped sugar cake that kept the laurel crown on her head, so that she did not miss the future "coronation ceremony".

On the same day, Zhang Wei, who was only 16 years old and was still studying at No. 205 Middle School in Haidian District, Beijing, sat on the back seat of his boyfriend's bicycle in the morning and went to the Tiantan Book Market to watch the live performance of Cui Jian's band.

Inspired and infected, she ran to sign up in the afternoon and decided to participate in the upcoming singer grand prix in Haidian District.

1984 should be said to be the first year that our country held the Singer Grand Prix.

In order to enrich the screen, in May of this year, the national TV station, as the first person to eat crabs, first tried to hold the first National TV Grand Prix for Young Singers.

The live video of the final was broadcast live to the whole country through CCTV, and the program caused a sensation in the whole country.

After the game, not only many audience members wrote letters of praise and suggestions to the Ministry of Literature and Art, but also filled more than a dozen sacks in just half a month.

And all over the world followed suit.

The Singer Grand Prix in Haidian District, Beijing City is of course much lower than the competition held by the national TV station.

Fortunately, this is a singing competition open to the whole society, and ordinary people in non-professional performance groups can also participate.

And the rules are less rigid than those on state TV.

Although the selection of the competition is copied from the TV station's competition, there are only two kinds of bel canto and folk singing.

However, many contestants choose to participate in pop music singing, and the organizing committee will not reject them.

Like many contemporary teenagers, Zhang Wei, who is deeply obsessed with pop songs, planned to use a song popular in Europe and the United States in the late 70s, "Assorted Vegetables" by the singers Carpenter Brothers and Sisters as his performance repertoire.

At this moment, neither Zhang Xi nor her boyfriend who fell in love with her early has ever realized what kind of impact her impulsive registration will have on her life.

It was still noon on this day, and the Altar Palace Banquet Hall located in the North God Kitchen of the Temple of Heaven finally opened and held its first banquet for 280 people.

While Ning Weimin achieved an important part of his career, he also, as a bystander of history, witnessed with his own eyes the demeanor of a chess master before he became famous.

Ganqing This banquet is funded and held by NEC Corporation of Japan, and the banquet standard for each person is 180 yuan.

Its purpose is to hold a short press conference for the "China-Japan Go Tournament" sponsored by its company, and entertain the relevant personnel who contributed to and participated in this event.

In addition to the staff of NEC in China, the Japanese representatives also attended the banquet, including officials from the Japanese embassy, ​​representatives from Nippon Ki-in as one of the participating parties, and some Japanese reporters from Japanese newspapers in China.

The Chinese representatives, except Nie Weiping and the eight players who will go to Japan to compete against the Japanese side.

There are also officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, officials from the Sports Bureau, staff from the New Sports Magazine, and reporters from our local newspapers and TV stations.

It can be described as a huge event with astonishing influence, and it can be called an extremely grand cultural exchange event.

It is precisely because of this that Ning Weimin is ready to fight.

Not only the flowers cultivated in the greenhouse in Tiantan Park were used for the first time, but also a batch of Chinese and Japanese national flags were purchased for on-site decoration, and professional folk music performers were invited to add to the fun.

He also personally planned the menu, prepared gifts, and sat on the scene.

And mobilized 65 chefs, [-] service personnel, and two electricians to listen to Du Yang's assignment.

The security supervisors from the special departments took the initiative to join the battle because of their mission.

Therefore, although it was the first time for the altar palace to go up and down, it was the first time to deal with such a grand occasion, but because of unfamiliarity with the banquet reception process, some small problems appeared in a hurry.

But Ning Weimin's hard work and painstaking planning will not be in vain.

Due to the artistry and solemnity of Beishenchu's architectural decoration, the staffing is sufficient, and it also has the blessing function of the walkie-talkie.

After all, the flaws do not hide the goodness, and it is done perfectly.

Even details such as summer flowers, fruits and vegetables, Jimo old wine, and chrysanthemum arrangement arranged to meet Japanese preferences have won the favor and praise of the Japanese staff.

Most Japanese people are very happy that after the banquet, there are exquisite gift boxes of palace cakes and candies to take.

In particular, several Japanese representatives headed by NEC were greatly impressed by the two dishes of "clear soup jasmine" and "peach blossom pan".

The banquet scene also publicly stated that Tangong Restaurant is the best Chinese cuisine they know, and they hope to open Tangong Restaurant to Japan as much as possible.

Undoubtedly, hosting such a banquet is equivalent to witnessing an important historical event, and it also plays a quite surprising role in promoting the Beishenchu ​​Banquet Hall in the Altar Palace.

Ning Weimin lost no time and took many photos of the scene with his camera.

In particular, I have to say that there was a surprising scene in this banquet, which was Nie Weiping's live speech.

You must know that the attitude of the Japanese representatives towards this event is only superficial. What they really hide is condescending arrogance.

Because the Go level of Japanese players is recognized as world-class.

Before the event was decided, the Japanese "Go Club" monthly conducted a poll on the streets of Tokyo to test the hypothetical results of the game.

Including many foreigners, there are only three out of more than 1 people who guessed that the Republic chess player can win.

After a closer look, the three people who said the Republic won were all students from the Republic.

Even Japanese chess players generally believe that the level of chess players in the Republic is limited, which is really not enough to look down upon.

Almost everyone is just condescending to fight for money, with the certainty of winning in mind.

Just such an actual situation.

In this way, since the format of the Go battle between China and Japan is similar to the one with martial arts, it is quite special, which inevitably makes us have many concerns, and hesitates whether to accept the challenge or not .

For nothing else, although this kind of group arena attracts a lot of attention, losing may also be ugly.

But even under such one-sided external public opinion and tremendous pressure, after the sports bureau and chess players held a meeting to discuss, they still felt that the opportunity was rare and they were still determined to participate in the competition.

Obviously, how can you make progress if you don't participate in high-level actual combat?
The necessary tuition fees should be paid or have to be paid.

So, as long as we think about it carefully, it is not difficult for us to come to a conclusion.

These Japanese didn't hold their farts at all.

From the beginning of the fight, the little devil was an excuse for the exchanges between the two countries and the friendship between China and Japan.

They want their own nationals to gain a sense of national superiority from this superficially disparate level of competition.

His heart can be punished!
But then again, don't look at Nie Weiping at this time, although he has not yet become famous, but he is quite talented and wise.

During the speech at the banquet, he countered Japan's arrogance wonderfully with the humility unique to the ancient oriental country without being humble or overbearing.

At that time, the Japanese reporter asked the chess players of the Republic what their ambitions were.

Nie Weiping replied on behalf of everyone, saying that we don't have too many ambitions, and we just hope that each of us can win a game.

At first, the Japanese didn't realize it, and they all thought this ambition was very common.

Hmm, only won one set?
It's still modest, it's good to know the gap.

So the Japanese staff applauded after Nie Weiping's speech, showing enthusiasm and saving face.

But it didn't take long for them to understand that the chess players of the Republic still wanted to win.

According to the rules of the group arena, everyone wins a game, and of course the Republic wins in the end.

But at this time, it was too late to regret, the cucumber dish was already cold.

The Japanese personnel at the scene could only look at the Chinese chess players with unfriendly expressions, and complained in whispers.

I can't help but suffer from this dumb loss.

On the contrary, the Chinese personnel, including Ning Weimin, were really very happy.

And as a person who understands the historical trend and Nie Weiping's future achievements.

Ning Weimin is even more certain that this "chess master" is likely to become famous by trampling these Japanese under his feet in this competition.

So at the end of the banquet, in order to get some benefits, but also to make a good relationship.

Ning Weimin took the initiative to tell the officials of the Sports Bureau and several participating chess players.

He said that on behalf of Peel-Carton Huaxia Headquarters, he was willing to sponsor the participating chess players to go abroad for clothing.

And after the chess player returns to China, as the general manager of the altar palace, he will also sponsor another reception banquet according to today's standards.

Needless to say, under the current probability of losing more and winning less.

For Ning Weimin to be so generous, in the eyes of the Sports Bureau and the chess players, it was an act of righteousness that gave them a helping hand in a timely manner.

No one would have thought that Ning Weimin, a man with a happy face and an eagerness for justice, is actually the most opportunistic philistine.

I really want to cut open this kid's belly, but it's actually filled with abacus beads.

(End of this chapter)