Ping Pong Life

Chapter 206 The year-end final list is released

There was no return of wealth or honor to his hometown. Wang Chao just quietly returned to his home in the suburbs of Jiangcheng City.

He took out the key to open the door and found that Wang Mei was not at home.

During the few months he was away, the house was briefly rested, the wall that seeps water every rainy day was repainted, and the broken sofa in the living room was replaced with a low-grade new sofa.

Although Fan Xiaofan transferred 100 million directly to Wang Mei's bank card at the end of July, it can be seen that Wang Mei is very frugal and still maintains the lowest level of spending habits.

So the only luxury item in the room seemed a bit glaring.

On the wall directly opposite the sofa, there is a super-sized wall-mounted LCD TV, a brand name, a new style, conservatively estimated to be more than [-] yuan.

Wang Chao sat on the sofa, found the remote control and pressed it on the TV.

The icon of China Television's five sports channels came into his eyes.

This is the channel that was locked before the last shutdown.

What was being broadcast live at this time was a domestic football league, and Wang Chao was not interested in it. After a moment of surprise, he suddenly understood the reason for this unique luxury.

Probably...cheap mom wants to see her game on TV?
So Wang Mei, who only bought the cheapest fabric sofa even when buying a sofa, was willing to spend five figures on a very high-end TV, and chose a large size, just to be able to see herself more clearly ?
Wang Chao felt a little uncomfortable, maybe because he was not the original owner of this body, so after he left this house, he really seldom thought of Wang Mei.

When he played Q of Spades and won every game, he really never thought about it. In fact, his mother was among the people watching him play on the other side of the TV screen.

He caught a glimpse of a book thrown casually on the sofa, picked it up and saw it was an October issue of the "Ping Pong World" magazine.

In this era of the Internet and smartphones, magazines have almost been eliminated, so the sales of "Ping Pong World" are very poor, even though it is the official publication of the Chinese National Table Tennis Association.

But it is undeniable that for Wang Mei, an ordinary person who knows nothing about the state of the table tennis industry, "Table Tennis World" is indeed the best way for her to understand the industry.

Wang Chao originally wanted to wait for Wang Mei to come home from get off work, but at this moment he couldn't help himself, took out his mobile phone and called.

"You're back already?" Wang Mei was pleasantly surprised: "Just wait, I'll be right back."

Wang Chao wondered, "Aren't you at work?"

Wang Mei didn't answer, just hung up the phone, and in less than 10 minutes, she rushed in from the door.

Wang Chao stared intently.

I haven't seen you for a few months, and the cheap mother seems to be looking a lot better than I remember. Although there is still tiredness in her eyes, she is in a happy mood, her skin seems to be more shiny than before, and her hair is not as messy as before. of.

Wang Mei was a little confused, she came up and grabbed Wang Chao's arm, and said anxiously, "It's only November, why are you back? You didn't make a mistake and got fired, right?"

Wang Chao couldn't laugh or cry.

But also because of this little misunderstanding, he felt that the initial faint barrier seemed to dissolve unconsciously.

Sure enough, Wang Mei was still the Wang Mei he had known since the first day he traveled over.

It was the Wang Mei in his memory who was not good at expressing feelings but liked to find fault.

The mother and son exchanged a few words, and Wang Chao knew that Wang Mei had stopped selling vegetables early in the morning and doing odd jobs for others. He opened a canteen and became his own boss.

It's amazing that the canteen is next door to Mr. Tony's barber shop.

Wang Chao had to look at Wang Mei critically, and reasonably guess whether something happened that he didn't know about.

He remembered that when Wang Mei arranged for him to be an apprentice with Mr. Tony, Mr. Tony was very kind to him.

At the beginning, I only thought that Mr. Tony was a good person, but now that I think about it, it may not be because of some strange reasons that are not humane.

"Stinky boy, what are you looking at?" Wang Mei gritted her teeth, her expression was ferocious, and she looked around, as if she was looking for a feather duster again: "It just so happens that there is a store next to Erzhuzi's store, thanks to him for helping me contact me, when we negotiate the price Saved a lot of money... What's your expression? Are you itchy?"

Wang Chao smiled, expressing that he believed it.

Regardless of whether it was tricky or not, he didn't intend to ask more questions, nor did he intend to intervene in any way.

He felt that Wang Mei was great and worked hard, and deserved a better life.

What's more, the cheap mother is only 35 years old, she is really still young, she can be hooked up by gangsters at the age of 17, she can see that her mother is quite beautiful, even though the weather has been a little heavy these years, but as long as Dress up well, spend a few more years on maintenance, and ensure that you are no worse than anyone else.

As for what is a better life?
Wang Chao didn't think he was qualified to help Wang Mei define.

So the only thing he can do is to respect Wang Mei's choice.

Just like when he wanted to drop out of school to play, Wang Mei did not firmly stop him.

For a 40-year-old soul who traveled through time, Wang Chao felt that such a way of getting along with each other with respect and leaving room for each other was the most suitable for him and Wang Mei.

"I'll save the rest of the money for you, and marry a wife when the time comes." Wang Mei said.

Wang Chao was speechless, took out his mobile phone, opened the online banking, and showed Wang Mei his balance. The extra bonus of 100 million that Fan Xiaofan called him has not touched a penny so far.

Wang Mei was a little taken aback.

When he received the 100 million, he felt that his son was going to heaven, but he always felt that it was still a little empty, so the past few months have always been like a dream.

But now, she really felt that her son had really gone to heaven.

Wang Chao strikes while the iron is hot and tells her that he still has a flat in the imperial capital.

Wang Mei did not suspect that he was lying, but showed more obvious shock, and when the shock gradually calmed down, her eyes turned red.

But her relationship with Wang Chao has always been clean and tidy, and she has never been a mother-in-law, so she sucked her nose hard, forced back the tears that might flow out, and slapped the table proudly: "Go, I won't do it tonight." Dinner, let's go out to eat...you treat."

Dinner was settled in a small restaurant, and the four dishes and one soup cost a total of 150 yuan. It is worth mentioning that Mr. Tony "just happened" to be free at night, so he came to accompany him.

Wang Chao thought he couldn't see, he should eat and drink, and when he returned home after eating and drinking, he could see that Wang Mei seemed to be waiting for him to ask something, but he didn't ask, and went straight to his room.

In the following days, Wang Chao rarely relaxed.

He didn't rush to find a place to train, but like an ordinary high school student who is on winter vacation, he sleeps until he wakes up naturally, then watches TV, plays games, surfs the Internet, or goes out for a stroll, or goes to the canteen to help Wang Mei. Take care of business.

And when Wang Mei proudly introduced her son to her acquaintances, Wang Chao also tried her best to play the role of "other people's child", because he knew that in the past few years, because of his disappointment, Wang Mei was probably Other people's children are very stimulated.

The cheap mother urgently needs to raise her eyebrows and pretend to be slapped in the face. Although she is a bit bloody, she really held her breath a lot!
So Wang Chao started all kinds of Versailles, helping his mother and neighbors to intrigue and fight with each other, but he kept his superficial harmony and fought without breaking.

"I didn't do anything, I just made some achievements. Well, I will probably go to the national team next year."

"Athletes, the main thing is to win glory for the country. Earning money is secondary. One season, it's only 200 million... Oh, by the way, I have a suite in the Imperial City. It was given to me by my uncle. You see , the key is here."

"Hey, hard work is hard work, but thinking about the hard work in the past three years of high school, I would rather play basketball."

"You're right, for those of us who practice sports, the results of cultural subjects are really worrying... But I heard from my master that for those like me who have won gold medals in international competitions, when we want to retire in the future, the country will help me arrange it." Yes, I will probably go to Teito University or Mizuki University to get a bachelor’s degree or a master’s degree.”

"Well, in principle, young players of the national team are not allowed to fall in love. It's a pity to think about it... But I heard that after we have passed the period of explosive growth in strength, the coaches will help us organize outreach. The partner should be a girl from the National Diving Team or the Rhythmic Gymnastics Team, she is a little short, but I heard that they are all in good shape, so I will find one when the time comes."

All in all, throughout November, Wang Mei and Wang Chao's mother and son joined forces to kill the Quartet, all the aunts, aunts and children all fell under their feet.

In the end, Wang Chao became the most handsome kid on the street, oh no, he should be the most promising kid on the street.

In December, Wang Chao calmed down, because the ITTF World Tour Finals finally arrived.

This is the last feast at the end of the year, attracting all the attention of the world table tennis world.

Under such intense attention, the ITTF pre-announced new rules for inviting players to the year-end finals this year.

It can be said that this is a rule that directly targets Huaping.

On the basis of the rules of the finals in previous years, the ITTF has added a restriction: each association can only have a maximum of four players to participate in the competition.

The selection rules for the finals are actually somewhat similar to those of T2, they are all based on rankings.

The difference is that T2 is based on the world ranking.The year-end finals are based on the final total points ranking of players participating in all competitions throughout the year.

To put it simply, the world ranking not only considers the points of the tour, but also the points of the three major competitions, but the points of the three major competitions are not considered in the year-end finals.

But because Huaping has always won the most gold medals on the world tour in previous years, and it has always been Huaping who won the gold medals in the three major competitions, so the two lists highly overlap.

This year is slightly different, because Sun Tianlong lost the gold medal in the World Table Tennis Championships in October last year and the World Cup gold medal in July this year. Therefore, Hans Bayer, who won the World Cup gold medal this year, obviously suffered a loss in points.

He ranked third in the world, but only ranked seventh in the year-end finals.

Although they are all in the top 3 and are also eligible to participate in the finals, No.7 is a seed player and will be assigned to a different half area from the first, second, and fourth place to avoid premature encounters, while No.[-] is the seed player. Without this privilege, it all depends on the luck of the lottery. If you meet Sun Tianlong in the first round, that round is also possible.

So in the final analysis, under this rule, Huaping still suffers the most.

After all, there are seven Huaping players who rank among the top 16 points in the two lists.

In previous years, there were as many people as they went, but this time they had to choose four out of seven.

Sitting at home in Jiangcheng City, Wang Chao thought it was funny when he thought that the bosses in the training base of the national team in the imperial capital must be having an extremely complicated intrigue, and finally quarreling, compromising, and accommodating each other.

According to Huaping's long-standing style of "the rule of man is greater than the rule of law", the four players who played in the final battle may not necessarily be the four players with the highest points.

It all depends on how the head coach Cai Guodong balances the emotions of all parties.

The ITTF is not in a hurry. After announcing the new rules, it will wait for the internal coordination of various associations.

In fact, there is nothing to coordinate with other associations. Even the strongest German state in Europe has only three players invited, and the only one that needs internal competition is Huaping.

Three days later, the ITTF announced the list of all invited players.

This actually means that it took Huaping three days to select four of the seven.

The contestants are:
There are four players from Huaguo, Sun Tianlong, Luo Jiu, Lin Li, and Bai Feng.

Among the five main players, Xiao Fei was not selected. This is because the Qin family had offered Luo Jiu a place in the Peacock Country Open a few months ago. The Zhu family had to pay back this favor.

But Luo Jiu's current state is extremely hot, and he has the strength to win the championship, and everyone knows what happened in the last year of Sun Tianlong's failure, so Zhu Zeshi and He Jingping agreed that Xiao Fei is not as good as Luo Jiu, and Xiao Fei can only be wronged .

This is exactly the characteristic of Huaping under the "rule of man management".

There are three German contestants, Bayer, Wolf, and Sissfeld. These are the troika that has been very stable in Germany in recent years. The age of the three is in arithmetic progression, and their strength is also in arithmetic progression. One stubble.

Candy bar player from Hong Kong District, Weng Chunting, and Huaping player Bai Feng are known as the only two Chinese-style candybars in the current world table tennis world.

Brazil's Hooker, a superpower who almost slays dragons and confers gods, needless to say.

Belarusian player Ochumelov, who is also the only child of Belarus, has no successors in his 40s.

Swedish player K. Michel, this person is 31 years old this year, the same year as Sun Tianlong, and his condition is quite good. Last time T2 was also invited, but he was only self-confident and refused to go. Finally, he sent his junior Gomorad went.

Kimchi country players, Zhu Shixian, Li Zhengzhi, these two are acquaintances on T2, one is the world's number one chipper, and the other is the world's number one cherry straight single juniper, their names are quite bluffing.

The England player, Pique, completed his super-evolution at the last Oman Open, and became a super-class player in the world table tennis.

Zhang Benkuang, a 15-year-old genius from Sakura Country.

Bay Island's 18-year-old supernova Lin Zijun.

The list of 16 players is now released.

Among them, the selection of Lin Zijun is actually very thrilling.

Although he has outstanding strength, he debuted too late and only participated in one competition, so this year's overall ranking of points is actually No. 20, far from the top [-], and he is actually not qualified to play in the finals.

However, due to the new rules of the ITTF this year, three Chinese players were not able to participate, so the three indicators were postponed and ranked No. 19.

At this time, it was still not Lin Zijun's turn.

But at this time, Sakura Country player Mizutori Taka announced that he would not participate in the finals and directly gave up his spot.

Only then did Lin Zijun successfully get on the last train.

If you want to ask the water bird eagle why he didn't participate in the finals, the reason is also very simple, he doesn't want to meet Sun Tianlong.

Or to put it more broadly, he didn't want to meet any Huaguo player who might beat him 11:0.

Because he had a grudge with Huaping, he offended Wang Wendong first, then Sun Tianlong, and then he actually scolded Luo Jiu and Bai Feng. He was ordered to kill by Huaping's coaching staff long ago , any Huaping player, as long as he meets Shuiniaoying, as long as he has the ability to abuse him, please abuse him severely, you don't need to maintain your demeanor.

It's just that Luo Jiu and Bai Feng didn't have the ability to beat him 11:0 back then, so he didn't care.

At this year's Asian Cup, Shui Niaoying met Luo Jiu and found out that Luo Jiu had achieved great feats. He broke out in a cold sweat, but he was lucky. At that time, Luo Jiu was completely immersed in the joy of miraculous accomplishments. He never thought of chasing and killing Water bird eagle, so although the water bird eagle failed miserably in that game, he was not shaved.

But after that, he added Luo Jiu to the list that he had to avoid.

There are both Luo Jiu and Sun Tianlong in the finals. Of course, 1 water bird eagles will not participate.

Wang Mei doesn't understand these allusions at all. In order to understand her son's career, she has worked hard on self-study and research for the past few months, but her income is limited. Until today, she watched the game with her son, and his son compared the list and introduced them to her one by one. , Telling a series of allusions opened her eyes wide. She sighed and rejoiced at the same time. She just felt that her son had really grown up, and he had really fully integrated into the table tennis industry, and he was doing well.

In the 18 years since she gave birth to Wang Chao, she has always felt ashamed of Wang Chao, but now, she feels that she has no regrets in this life.

It's just that she still feels weird about the water bird eagle: "Since Sun Tianlong has been invincible for seven years, wouldn't this person never be able to win the finals?"

Wang Chao also found it funny: "That's right, he really never played in the finals."

Speaking of this, Wang Chao was actually a little curious in his heart. The water bird and eagle seemed indifferent on the surface, and even made all kinds of nonsense, but I don't know if he would feel a little regret when he dreamed back at midnight occasionally. How many innocent disasters he provoked.

(End of this chapter)