Ping Pong Life

Chapter 205 For perfect attendance, he really worked hard
The final of the last leg of this year's world tour finally came to an end after an hour and 10 minutes.

No. 1 in history, Sun Tianlong, finally defended his honor. He fought fiercely with Hu Ke for seven rounds, and finally ushered in Hu Ke's collapse in the deciding game, winning by a big score of 11:2.

After the game was over, all the industry insiders sitting in front of the screen and watching the game remained silent, not moving for a long time, let alone making a sound.

What foreign players feel is a kind of despair that goes deep into the bone marrow.

They felt that Hook's physical strength had reached the limit of human beings, and the ball he played had reached the limit of technology, but even so, he still couldn't beat Sun Tianlong.

Is there really no one who can cure this dragon?

The brave dragon slaying is obviously a European legend, but in the past seven years, the only one who has succeeded in slaying a dragon is Luo Jiu two months ago, an Asian.

As for the two months ahead, Bayer's victory in the World Cup had nothing to do with dragon slaying, it was just a nap of the dragon.

They could see how much lead Hook had in the whole game, and how many once-in-a-lifetime chances he had won, but in the end, the Brazilian failed to seize enough opportunities to allow Sun Tianlong to slip through the cracks. It was difficult to recover a lot of points, and the game was dragged into the tiebreaker.

They can all see that Sun Tianlong is really old, and this oldness is not too obvious when playing with other players, but when he meets a sports monster like Hooker, this contrast is particularly obvious.

Sun Tianlong can't run against Hu Ke, his strength is not equal to Hu Ke, and his physical strength is not as good as Hu Ke. Only the slight change of the ball crushes Hu Ke by a few blocks.

In addition, what he is most commendable is still his mentality.

He holds out so hard, almost like a boat in a stormy sea, but he's unsinkable, and will find a chance to bite you back.

Every point for Hook was not easy. He needed to charge with all his strength, gallop all over the field, shout and fight fiercely. In order to score from Sun Tianlong's defense, he exhausted all his strength.

But Sun Tianlong's score came as if opportunistic, and he always got opportunities from some small mistakes made by Hu Ke inadvertently.

So after the whole game was over, everyone recalled the process, and only remembered the scenes of Hooker's offense, but how did Sun Tianlong score?Many people are not impressed.

Because Sun Tianlong really just grasped Hooker's rough play style, lack of smooth connection, and unstable performance, found opportunities from the impossible, and then turned every small opportunity into a score.

Hook really tried his best today.

He is usually the kind of person who will lose the chain for no reason, but today he has stabilized a full six rounds in such a high-intensity confrontation, and the mental energy consumed may be three to four times that of usual, which shows how much he wants to win .

It's a pity that he still didn't kill Sun Tianlong within this period of time.

So in the seventh round, Hook collapsed by himself.

He didn't lose the game, nor was he restrained by Sun Tianlong's tactics. He just couldn't hold back mentally, and suddenly he plummeted and became full of mistakes and omissions.

In the words of Hua Guo, this is called "the end of the crossbow, and the one who can't pierce the Luxuan".

On the screen, Sun Tianlong raised his arms wearily, as a celebration, it seemed a bit perfunctory, he didn't even have the energy to run around the half court, if you look closely, you can find one of his legs trembling slightly .

This is not because of lack of energy, but because of the recurrence of his old injuries in this exhausting game.

"Brother Long is not easy." Luo Jiu sighed: "The last time he fought me in the Asian Cup, it was similar to this time, exhausted to the limit. But last time it was a civil war, he can choose to give up, not this time , Huaping can't lose the foreign game, he must persevere to the end... After this game, his body may not be able to adjust in a short time."

He paused, and suddenly smiled "hehe", his expression suddenly became lively, and even the dignified atmosphere in the room was diluted a bit: "That is to say, in this year's year-end finals, Brother Long may play with injuries."

This is quite a bit of gloating, because although the ITTF World Tour is not high in gold, but the year-end finals at the end of the year is very high in gold, so both Luo Jiu and Sun Tianlong will definitely participate, and they must be aiming at win the championship.

Luo Jiu was very worried about this, and had been thinking about how to defeat Sun Tianlong during this time.

He knew in his heart that if he really wanted to meet the dragon team bayonet, he was still a little bit inferior.

But now it's all right, for the glory of Huaping, Sun Tianlong fought to the end, and was greatly injured by the Brazilian. Luo Jiu had two more chances of winning in the year-end finals.

Wang Chao couldn't help laughing, he said seriously: "Brother, if you go to this game, you may not necessarily win."

Luo Jiu's smile suddenly froze on his face, and he said embarrassingly: "Some things don't need to be said so clearly... Will you die after a while if you make me happy?"

The implication is to accept Wang Chao's statement.

His physical strength is better than Sun Tianlong, and his speed will be faster, but compared with Hu Ke, this advantage is meaningless.

On the contrary, in terms of pure game experience and tenacity, he is weaker than Sun Tianlong, because after all, he has not been the number one in the world for seven years. Research foundation.

What's more, the setbacks in his career are all due to technical reforms, and no one like Wang Wendong has suppressed him for seven years, so his mentality is actually far inferior to Sun Tianlong.

He knew very well that if he met Hu Ke in this state today, he would be defeated before the seventh round.

"So, Hua Ping is really at the critical point of life and death." Wang Chao made the final conclusion, and completely ended the smile that was still on Luo Jiu's face.

At this moment, the two most talented figures in contemporary Huaping felt some kind of great pressure coming to their faces.

The Dragons can last a year at most, and then all the pressure will fall on their shoulders.

……

The second half of the year that belongs to Wang Chao is actually over. For the rest of the day, he can go home and wait for the New Year with peace of mind. All the busy work will be reserved for next year.

Before returning from the imperial capital, he went to the national team training base again.

It's business as usual here.

Qin Huachang sneered when he saw him, didn't give him a good face, turned around and left, and whispered to his little apprentice Fan Xiaodong: "Don't get too close to him, this kid has a big heart."

Wang Chao smiled, knowing that Lao Qin was still angry, but he didn't care.

Zhu Ding has officially become a full-time training partner for the national team, and has been officially on duty from now on, so when Wang Chao saw him, he was training against Luo Jiu.

It was said to be a sparring partner, but Zhu Ding did not cooperate with the main players to do special training like a real sparring partner. Instead, he played quite freely. Even in Wang Chao's view, it was already a bit gimmicky.

But no one talked about him, He Jingping just watched with a smile, and even made some suggestions from time to time, asking him to make more outrageous attempts.

Wang Chao could see that the Huaping coaching staff probably regarded Zhu Ding as a test product, and wanted to see if his happy ping-pong could work through. A strange player, if Huaping really encounters difficulties in the future, this strange player may not be able to play for the country, and he will be caught off guard against foreign players.

For example, people like Hu Ke are strong, but they don't play rigorously, and they might be confused by Zhu Ding's strange routines.

However, after Wang Chao watched for more than ten minutes, Zhu Ding was beaten violently by Luo Jiu almost the whole time. This so-called happy ping-pong, if you want to find a way out, I am afraid there is a long way to go.

Fortunately, Zhu Ding has really changed now. Even though he lost badly, he is calm and even talking and laughing.

At noon, Zhu Zeshi brought Lu Feiyang and Xiao Fei over to join He Jingping. It was the first time that everyone from the Zhu family had arrived and had a meal in the cafeteria of the national team base. It felt like a team building.

During the dinner, He Jingping formally extended an invitation to Wang Chao to come to the imperial capital for the New Year.

"Anyway, your mother is alone in Jiangcheng and has no relatives. You might as well bring her to the imperial capital. You have a house now, which is very convenient." He Jingping said: "It happens that I am also a widow. You have a reunion dinner, eat together, and then go to my brother’s house to pay New Year’s greetings in the evening, their family is so lively, we all have a good time watching the Spring Festival Gala.”

Wang Chao thought about the scene that He Jingping said, and was quite fascinated.

But he eventually declined.

Because he knew that Wang Mei would not come to the imperial capital.

I am a cheap mother, because I gave birth too early, and because I have been suffering at the bottom of the society in order to raise myself, I have never read any books and have no chance to see the wider world, so the perspective of knowledge and theory has indeed deviated from the mainstream of the times.

After signing the contract with Spade Q, he once mentioned to Wang Mei that he wanted to buy a house in Jiangcheng City to improve his life, but Wang Mei sternly rejected him. He tried to reason with Wang Mei, but Wang Mei was dumbfounded by him. Speechless, out of embarrassment and anger, he directly lifted the feather duster.

Wang Mei is such a person, short-sighted and full of mistakes in cognition, but extremely strong, insists on her own opinion, and cannot be refuted.

Because in the past ten years or so, the orphan and widow did not squat down after eating the last meal. If she had a less domineering personality, she would not be able to support her children at all.

So Wang Chao knew that in order to persuade Wang Mei, reasoning alone was not enough, because she couldn't understand.

You have to slowly, step by step, subtly, to change her unconsciously, let her understand you little by little, agree with you, and come out of her small world little by little.

So this winter, Wang Chao plans to spend two full months to slowly and physically change his mother.

The right is to do an unfulfilled filial piety for the original soul in this body.

……

After eating, Wang Chao had completed all the to-do items in the imperial capital.

But he was not in a hurry to leave, because the high-speed train was at five o'clock in the afternoon.

So Luo Jiu and Zhu Ding accompanied him to wander around the base as a way to digest food.

They went to the back kitchen of the cafeteria, and the two brought him to salute one of the masters in a polite manner, calling them seniors, because this was a certain men's doubles world champion ten years ago.

They went to the back of the base, a small mountain, and a small lake. Along the way, they passed a gate. The two took him to salute the aunt guarding the gate in a polite manner, calling him senior, because he was the women's singles champion in a certain National Games in seven years.

They went to large and small meeting rooms, to the equipment gym, to the sauna room, to the physical therapy room, billiard hall, Huaguo table tennis exhibition hall, etc. Although the sparrow is small, it has all the internal organs, and the people who work here, Most of them are relevant personnel in the industry, and they are generally older.

It's not that the Huaguo Sports Committee treats the heroes of table tennis harshly, but that many veteran players can't sit still after retirement and come to volunteer labor.

But you must not think that these old men are really great for the country and the people. Many old men actually just hope to find an audience when they want to brag.

Since what he was bragging about was his glorious deeds of winning the table tennis world championship, then the audience, of course, was the best table tennis player.

Could it be that you are going to brag about your deeds of winning the championship to the national football players?
Are you not afraid that the national football players will think you are insinuating and beat you up?

At three o'clock in the afternoon, Wang Chao finally left.

Luo Jiu and Zhu Ding sent him to the gate of the base, and when they walked out, they saw an old man in a white short-sleeved Tang suit sweeping the floor.

Autumn is deep, and the weather in the imperial capital is chilly, but this old man is wearing very thin clothes. He is sweeping the fallen leaves with a big broom, putting the dead leaves into piles. He walks with a straight waist and an excellent temperament. Wang Chao endured it. I couldn't help but glanced a few more times, instinctively felt that this person was extraordinary, so I took the initiative to ask: "Shall we go and see him?"

Luo Jiu and Zhu Ding looked at each other with weird expressions.

Zhu Dingdao: "He's not an old man, he's just a cleaner recruited by the base last December."

Luo Jiudao: "To be exact, it's December [-]th. Don't ask me why I remember it so clearly, because this old man talks about it, saying that December [-]th is a very important day to everyone. Because the world opened up on this day, so you and I appeared, and he also said that he was waiting for a predestined person here."

Wang Chao was stunned: "Could it be a psychopath?"

"Who knows." Zhu Ding spread his hands: "I also asked my little uncle this question, but my little uncle said that this old man has no children and no one to take care of him. Even if he is crazy, no one will send him away. In the mental hospital, plus he is still physically strong and usually sane, so keeping him here to sweep the floor can be regarded as taking care of him under his nose, lest he go out and run around in his old age, which is unsafe."

Wang Chao nodded, and asked again: "Then what should I call him?"

Luo Jiudao: "It is said that his name is Jia Sanjiang. Judging from the meaning of the name, the family should have been doing business in the past. After all, the business is booming all over the world, and the wealth reaches Sanjiang. This is probably the origin of the name."

But Zhu Ding shook his head and said, "I didn't hear this version. It is said that this person carries a super-large water glass anytime and anywhere. In addition to soaking red dates, wolfberries and honeysuckle, there are three slices of ginger in the glass. He claims to be from the south. In the imperial capital, the weather was too cold, so ginger slices were needed to drive out the cold, and after a long time, everyone nicknamed him Jia San Jiang."

Having said that, another gust of cold wind blew in, and everyone shivered in unison.

But the old man in the Tang suit was still sweeping the floor meticulously, even though the huge open space at the gate of the base had already been swept spotless by him.

"Why doesn't he go in and have a rest?" Wang Chao was puzzled.

"I told you that he is sick." Luo Jiu sighed: "When they first came, they were afraid that he would run away, so they deliberately told him that this job is rewarded with full attendance, and you must persist every day, and you can't stop for a day. If he can persist for a month, he will be given a full attendance bonus of 1500 yuan at the end of the month. As you can see, he stays in the square every day, sweeping it over and over again, and does not even enter the house when it is windy or rainy. Go hide, just so everyone can see him working."

Wang Chao fell silent.

The three of them stood at the gate of the base, silently watching the old man sweep the floor. After watching for a full 10 minutes, Wang Chao said softly, "For the full attendance of 1500 yuan, he really worked hard."

Luo Jiu and Zhu Ding nodded together: "Yes, he worked really hard for full attendance. From December 12th until now, he has not had a day off and worked at least five hours a day."

The old man was clearly more than ten meters away, but as if he heard this sentence, he raised his head at this moment, looked at Wang Chao from a distance, and grinned at him: "Hey, you are destined, I finally waited for you!" .”

The wind was a bit loud, but Wang Chao couldn't hear it clearly, and shouted: "Senior, what did you say?"

"I said, you have to work harder and win the grand slam sooner." The old man Zhuo Li was in the wind, dressed in a moon-white Tang suit, with fluttering belts and loud laughter. He seemed a bit of a recluse, he paused, his voice suddenly became low and murmured to himself: "Also, senior called Mao, is I very old? I just passed through I found the wrong skin...you have to call me brother, Brother Sanjiang!"

(End of this chapter)