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 his key and opened the door and found that Wang Mei was not at home.
In the past few months when he was away, the house had been given a brief rest. The wall that would seep every rainy day was repainted, and the broken sofa in the living room was replaced with a low-end new sofa.
Although Fan Xiaofan directly transferred one million 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 consumption habits.
So the only luxury item in the room seemed a bit dazzling.
On the wall opposite the sofa, there is an oversized wall-mounted LCD TV. It is a brand-name product, a new style, and it is conservatively estimated to be more than 10,000 yuan.
Wang Chao sat on the sofa, found the remote control and pressed it against the TV.
The icon of China Vision Channel 5 Sports 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. After being stunned for a moment, he suddenly understood the origin of this only luxury item.
Probably... cheap mom wants to see herself competing on TV?
So even when buying a sofa, you only buy the cheapest fabric sofa Wang Mei, and you are willing to spend a five-digit price to buy a very high-end TV and choose a very large size, just to be able to see yourself more clearly?
Wang Chao felt a little uncomfortable, maybe because he was not the original owner of this body, so when he left this home, he really rarely thought of Wang Mei.
When he was playing at Spade Q and winning every game, he really never thought that among the people watching him play on the other side of the TV screen was his mother.
He caught a glimpse of a book randomly thrown on the sofa. When he picked it up, he found it was an October issue of "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 an official publication of the Chinese Table Tennis Association.
But it is undeniable that for Wang Mei, an ordinary person who knows nothing about the table tennis industry, "Ping Pong World" is indeed the best way for her to understand this industry.
Wang Chao originally wanted to wait for Wang Mei to come home from get off work, but at this time he couldn't help it and took out his mobile phone to call.
"You're back already?" Wang Mei was pleasantly surprised. "Just wait, I'll be back soon."
Wang Chao said curiously, "Aren't you at work?"
Wang Mei didn't answer and hung up the phone. In less than twenty minutes, he rushed in from the door.
Wang Chao stared at it.
After not seeing each other for a few months, Cheap Mom seems to look much better than in memory. Although her eyebrows are still tired, her mood is happy, her skin seems to be glossier than before, and her hair is not as messy as before.
Wang Mei was a little surprised. He came up and grabbed Wang Chao's arm and said anxiously, "It's only November, why are you back? You must have made a mistake and been fired, right?"
Wang Chao is dumbfounded.
But it was also because of this small misunderstanding that he felt that the initial vague barrier seemed to have subsided unknowingly.
Wang Mei was indeed the same Wang Mei he had known since the first day he traveled across time.
It was the Wang Mei in his memory who was not good at expressing emotions but loved to find trouble.
The mother and son briefly exchanged a few words, and Wang Chao realized that Wang Mei no longer worked early in the morning and worked late at night to sell vegetables, and she no longer did odd jobs for others. After all, she had start-up capital on hand, so now she opened a small shop not far from the street and became her own boss.
What's amazing is that the canteen is right next to Tony teacher Barber Shop.
Wang Chao had to look at Wang Mei with a critical eye and make a reasonable guess as to whether something had happened that he didn't know about.
He remembered that when Wang Mei arranged for him to be an apprentice with Tony teacher, Tony teacher was very kind to him.
At first I thought Tony teacher was a good person, but now that I think about it, it may not be because of some strange reasons that are not common to outsiders.
"You brat, what are you looking at?" Wang Mei gritted his teeth, with a fierce expression on his face, and looked around as if he was looking for the feather duster again. "Er Zhuzi happened to have a store next door to their store, and thanks to him contacting me, I saved a lot of money when negotiating the price... What's your expression? Are you itchy?"
Wang Chao smiled and said that he believed it.
Regardless of whether there was something fishy or not, he was not going to ask any more questions or make any intervention.
He feels that Wang Mei is great and hard-working, and deserves a better life.
What's more, my cheap mom is only 35 years old, which is really very young. Just because she was hooked up by gangsters at the age of 17, you can see that my mom is quite pretty. Even though she has become a little more weathered these years, as long as she dresses up well and spends a few years taking care of her, she is guaranteed to be no worse than anyone else.
As for what is a better life?
Wang Chao does not feel qualified to help Wang Mei define it.
So the only thing he can do is respect Wang Mei's choice.
Just as when he wanted to drop out of school and play ball, Wang Mei did not firmly stop him.
For a forty-year-old soul who traveled through time and space, Wang Chao felt that this kind of mutual respect and room for relationship was the most suitable for him and Wang Mei.
"I will save the rest of the money for you, and then I will marry you." Wang Mei said.
Wang Chao was speechless, took out his mobile phone, opened online banking, and showed his balance to Wang Mei. The one million extra bonus Fan Xiaofan sent him has not been touched at all so far.
Wang Mei is a little dazed.
When he first received the one million, he felt that his son was going to heaven, but he always felt a little weak, so these past few months had always been like a dream.
But now, she truly feels that her son has really gone to heaven.
Wang Chao struck while the iron was hot and told her that he still had an apartment in the imperial capital.
Wang Mei did not suspect that he was lying, but showed more obvious shock. When the shock gradually subsided, his eyes turned red.
But her relationship with Wang Chao had always been neat and tidy, never a mother-in-law or a mother-in-law, so she sniffed hard, forced back the tears that might have flowed out, and slapped the table with great pride. "Let's go, we won't cook tonight, let's go out to eat... your treat."
Dinner was served at a small restaurant, with four dishes and one soup costing a total of 150 yuan. It is worth mentioning that Tony teacher "happened" to be free in the evening, so he came over to keep us company.
Wang Chao pretended to be invisible. It was time to eat and drink. 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 chose not to ask and went straight to his room.
In the following days, Wang Chao rarely relaxed.
He was not eager to find a place to train. Instead, he was like an ordinary high school student on winter vacation. He slept until he woke up naturally every day, then watched TV, played games, surfed the Internet, or went out to hang out, or went to the canteen to help Wang Mei take care of business.
And when Wang Mei proudly introduced his son to acquaintances, Wang Chao also tried his best to play the role of "other people's children" because he knew that in the past few years, because he had not lived up to expectations, Wang Mei was probably someone else's child who had been very exciting.
The cheap mom urgently needed to be proud and proud, so she pretended to be a slap in the face. Although it was a bit bloody, she really held back a lot of breath!
So Wang Chao started various Versailles, helping his mother quarrel and quarrel with the neighbors, but still maintaining the surface of harmony and fighting without breaking up.
"I didn't do anything, I just made some achievements. Well, I will probably join the national team next year."
"As athletes, the main thing is to win glory for the country, and making money is secondary. One or two million per season... Oh, by the way, I have a suite in the Imperial City. My uncle gave it to me. Look, the key is here."
"Hey, it's hard work, but after thinking about the hard work in the past three years of high school, I would rather play football."
"You are right. For those of us who practice sports, our academic performance is really worrying... But I heard from my master that for someone like me who has won gold medals in international competitions, when I retire, the country will help me arrange it. I will probably go to Teito University or Suimu University to get a bachelor's degree or a master's degree."
"Well, in principle, young athletes on the national team are not allowed to fall in love. It's a bit regretful to think about it... But I heard that after we pass the period of explosive growth in strength, the coaches will help us organize outreach. The outreach targets should be girls from the national diving team or rhythmic gymnastics team. She is a bit short, but I heard that they are all in good shape. I will try to find one by then."
All in all, throughout November, mother and son Wang Mei and Wang Chao teamed up to kill everyone. They were so proud that all the mothers, aunts and children fell to their feet.
In the end, Wang Chao turned out to be the most handsome kid on the street. Oh no, he should be the most promising kid on the street.
In December, Wang Chao became quiet because the ITTF World Tour year-end finals finally arrived.
This is the last feast at the end of the year, attracting all the attention of the world table tennis community.
Under such intense attention, International Table Tennis Federation pre-released new rules for inviting contestants to this year's year-end finals.
It can be said that this is a rule that is nakedly targeted at Huaping.
On the basis of the rules of the finals in previous years, International Table Tennis Federation has added a restriction: each association can only have a maximum of four players participating in the competition.
The selection rules for the finals are actually somewhat similar to T2, both based on ranking.
The difference is that T2 is based on world rankings. 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 rankings not only consider points from the tour, but also points from the three majors, but points from the three majors are not considered in the year-end finals.
But because it was always Huaping who won the most gold medals in the world tour in previous years, and it was always Huaping who won the gold medals in the three major competitions, the two lists are highly overlapping.
This year is slightly different, because Sun Tianlong lost the World Table Tennis Championships gold medal 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 was ranked as high as third in the world, but only ranked seventh in the year-end finals rankings.
Although they are all in the top 16 and are eligible to participate in the finals, the third place player is a seed player and will be assigned to a different half zone from the first, second and fourth place players to avoid premature encounters. The seventh place player does not have this privilege. It all depends on the luck of the draw. If they meet Sun Tianlong in the first round, it is possible to get out of the first round.
So in the final analysis, under this rule, Huaping is still the one who suffers the most.
After all, the top 16 points in both lists are all seven Chinese table tennis players.
In previous years, I could go as many as I wanted, but this time I had to choose four out of seven.
Wang Chao is sitting at Jiangcheng City's home. It's funny to think that the big bosses in the imperial national team training base must be having another extremely complicated intrigue at this moment. In the end, they are wrangling, compromising, and accommodating each other.
According to Huaping's long-standing style of "the rule of men is greater than the rule of law", the four people who played in the end are not necessarily the four with the highest points.
It all depends on how head coach Cai Guodong balances the emotions of all parties.
International Table Tennis Federation was not in a hurry. After announcing the new rules, he began to wait for the internal coordination of each association.
In fact, there is nothing to coordinate with other associations. Even Germany, the strongest player in Europe, only has three players invited. The only one that needs internal competition is Huaping.
Three days later, International Table Tennis Federation announced the list of all invited players.
This actually means that Huaping took three days to select four people from seven people.
The contestants are:
There are four Chinese players, Sun Tianlong, Luo Jiu, Lin Li, Bai Feng.
Among the five main players, Xiao Fei was defeated. This is because the Qin sect had taken the initiative to give up Peacock Country Open's participation spot to Luo Jiu a few months ago. This favor must be returned by the powerful sect.
But Luo Jiu is in extremely hot form now and has the strength to win the championship, and everyone knows what happened in Sun Tianlong's last year, so Zhu Zeshi and He Jingping agree that Xiao Fei is not as good as Luo Jiu, so Xiao Fei can only suffer.
This is exactly the characteristic of Huaping's "people-ruled management".
There are three German contestants, Bayer, Wolf, and Sissifield. This is Germany's very stable troika in recent years. The age of the three people is an arithmetic sequence, and their strength is also an arithmetic sequence. It can be said that one is worse than the other.
Hong Kong's straight table tennis player, Weng Chunting, is known as the two single seedlings of the current world table tennis player Chinese penhold style along with Chinese table tennis player Bai Feng.
Brazilian player Hook is a super strong man who almost slayed the dragon and became a god. Needless to say.
Belarus Contestant Ochomirov is also the only child of Belarus. He is over 40 years old and still has no successor.
Swedish player k. Michel is 31 years old this year. He is the same year as Sun Tianlong and is in pretty good shape. T2 was also invited last time, but he was too proud of his identity to go. In the end, he sent his younger brother Morad to go.
Players Kimchi Country, Zhu Shixian, and Li Zhengzhi, these two are all acquaintances on T2. One is World's Number One Chopper, and the other is world number one Japanese penhold single-ply blade. Their names are quite intimidating.
England player, Pike, completed the super evolution on Oman Open in the last stop, and became the world's top table tennis player.
Sakura Country 15-year-old genius Zhang Benkuang.
Bay Island 18-year-old supernova Lin Zijun.
The list of sixteen people is now released.
Among them, the selection of Lin Zijun is actually very thrilling.
Although he has outstanding ability, he debuted too late and only participated in one competition. Therefore, this year's annual points ranking is actually 20th, far from the top 16, and he is actually not qualified to play in the finals.
However, due to the new rules of International Table Tennis Federation this year, three Chinese players were unable to participate, so they postponed three indicators and ranked 19th.
At this time it's still not Lin Zijun's turn.
But at this time, Sakura Country player Mizutori Hato announced that he would not participate in the finals and directly gave up his spot.
Lin Zijun then successfully got on the last train.
If you want to ask why Mizutori Hato didn't participate in the finals, the reason is very simple. He didn't want to meet Sun Tianlong.
Or to put it more broadly, he doesn't want to meet any Chinese player who might beat him 11:0.
Because he had a grudge with Huaping, his bad mouth first offended Wang Wendong, then Sun Tianlong, and later he actually scolded Luo Jiu and Bai Feng, he has long been issued a kill order by the Chinese table tennis coaching staff. As long as any Chinese table tennis player encounters Mizutori Hato and has the ability to abuse him, please abuse him severely. There is no need to maintain grace.
It's just that Luo Jiu and Bai Feng were not able to beat him 11:0, so he didn't care.
At this year's Asian Cup, Mizutori Hato met Luo Jiu and found out that Luo Jiu had achieved great success. He was so frightened that he broke into a cold sweat. He was just lucky. At that time, Luo Jiu was completely immersed in the joy of his great achievement and did not even think of chasing Mizutori Hato. Therefore, although Mizutori Hato was defeated miserably in that game, he was not shaved.
But after that, he added Luo Jiu to the list that he must avoid.
There are both Luo Jiu and Sun Tianlong in the finals. Of course, 10,000 Mizutori Hato will not participate.
Wang Mei didn't understand these allusions at all. In order to understand her son's career, she had worked hard on self-study and study in the past few months, but her income was limited. Until today, she went to watch a game with her son, and her son introduced each player to her according to the list. The allusions were told to her, which opened her eyes and made her sigh and feel happy. She just felt that her son had really grown up, and he was really integrated into the table tennis industry, and he was doing quite well.
She has been feeling ashamed of Wang Chao for eighteen years after giving birth to Wang Chao, but now, she feels that she has no regrets in this life.
But for Mizutori Hato, she still finds it strange. "Since Sun Tianlong has been invincible for seven years, doesn't this person never make it to the finals?"
Wang Chao also found it funny. "Yes, he really never played in the finals."
Speaking of this, Wang Chao is actually a little curious in his heart. Mizutori Hato seems to be indifferent on the surface, and even makes all kinds of nonsense, but I wonder if he will have a little regret when he occasionally dreams back at midnight. After all, this bad mouth has really caused him so many unreasonable disasters.