Wang Mei ultimately didn't ask Wang Chao what the solution was.
Just like Wang Chao never asked her mother what her relationship was with Tony teacher.
This winter should be Wang Chao's last leisurely and quiet winter.
In late December, the student party's winter vacation is coming as scheduled, and the Spring Festival is just around the corner. The whole world is filled with expectations and joy. Along with the chaotic Spring Festival transportation and the perpetual traffic jams on the highways, the vast majority of Chinese people have become busier than ever before this year.
Busy making phone calls, busy visiting relatives, busy weddings and weddings, busy getting married, busy going home to celebrate the New Year.
On Wang Chao's mobile phone, there was also movement in the high school class group called "My World".
He usually blocks messages in this group, but when someone in the group names him, there will still be a prompt.
The person who came to him was the group leader Zhou Zhen, who was also the class leader at the time. He asked Wang Chao: "Do you have time to come out during the Chinese New Year? My classmates want to organize a party."
Perhaps because he was afraid of Wang Chao's rejection, he also added, "Actually, all of us are quite concerned about your current living situation."
Wang Chao finds it a bit funny.
After all, the old squad leader has gone to college and learned to speak. It would be more accurate to replace "concern" with "curiosity".
He directly sent a message: "Okay, let me know when the time comes."
Although this society is full of materialism, the minds of the student party members are still relatively simple. Half a semester has passed, and the classmates from back then are now scattered all over the country. They go to different universities, study different majors, and live in different regions. Everyone is full of life insights and wants to talk to their old friends.
Maybe the class reunion ten years from now will become a place for comparisons and showing off wealth, but at least for now, everyone really just wants to understand each other's lives.
Wang Chao has obviously experienced more success than anyone in the class in the past six months. He frequently appeared in live broadcasts, especially T2. All events were broadcast live on the official sports channel of China Television 5. Regardless of whether the students could understand Wang Chao's games, at least the analysis of the commentators and anchors was quite impressive. Various high-end tactics and high-end technologies made them stunned.
Therefore, Zhou Zhen was actually "threatened" by many classmates in the class and had to invite Wang Chao out. Several of the prettier girls in the class subconsciously took advantage of their gender and secretly hinted to Zhou Zhen: "If he doesn't come, it means you are not good as the monitor."
Facts have proved that Zhou Zhen still works.
So one day at the end of December, under the organization of monitor Zhou Zhen and study committee member Liu Bei, most of the students in the class gathered together.
At first, everyone was very interested in Wang Chao, and asked him a lot of questions about professional table tennis players, such as how they usually train, what are the dormitory conditions like, how many days do they have off, how do they feel about playing games with others, are they excited about competing abroad, are the girls at Sakura Country really so cute, and so on.
But after Wang Chao simply answered most of the questions, everyone found that there seemed to be no topic.
They talked about their respective campus lives, and Wang Chao couldn't get in the middle of the conversation.
They said that Wang Chao couldn't keep up with the good dramas and variety shows they were following recently.
They talked about their favorite celebrities and new songs they liked to listen to, but Wang Chao couldn't get in the middle of the conversation.
They said that a very interesting game had recently been released, and they had agreed to become friends with each other. After returning home, they would play black games online, but Wang Chao still couldn't get in the conversation.
So later on, it was still Han Feng Liu Yue Hou Xiaojian who chatted with him, three of them drank, Wang Chao drank, and while they drank, the three of them felt bored and stopped drinking at all.
"So Chaozi, have you really not had any entertainment activities in the past six months?" Han Feng said it was difficult to understand, "At least you still played games when you were in high school."
Wang Chao smiled and nodded, "Yes, I do nothing except play ball."
Good friends are still good friends, but they no longer have so many topics to talk to each other about.
"Then are you in love?" Liu Yue asked him, "I heard that in the table tennis base, the training venues for the men's team and the women's team are next to each other, and the dormitories are also next to each other?"
Wang Chao nodded. "Yes."
The friends finally found the topic. "So do you have a goal? I heard that girls playing table tennis are different from those playing basketball. There are many beautiful girls, and they exercise every day. Those legs, that waist, tsk tsk..."
Wang Chao smiled and shook his head, "Sorry, brothers, I'm not familiar with the women's team players."
The three of them blinked, a little disbelieving, but still refused to give up. Hou Xiaojian said, "I have watched your Spade Q game. What is the name of your female team leader... called... called...?"
Wang Chao added, "Fan Xiaoxian."
"Yes, yes." Hou Xiaojian said, "You are such a beautiful lady, you have such a long-legged lady. I think she treats you very well. You two are still chatting while sitting in the contestants' seats."
Wang Chao explained, "It has been several years since she graduated from college, and she already has someone she likes."
At this time, the three of them really had nothing to talk about.
So when the party was over, Wang Chao did not plan to participate in the next karaoke activity, but chose to say goodbye to his classmates and go home alone.
When leaving, Han Feng felt a little guilty. He pulled Wang Chao and said, "The three of us will go to your house to visit Sister Mei some other time."
Wang Chao smiled and nodded, but did not refuse.
He came from another world and had a forty-year-old mature and independent soul. He thought that he did not have much affection for his friends in this body, and he also thought that the brotherhood of little brats was like child's play to him. However, sitting on the bus home, he couldn't help but feel a little depressed.
He realized that he was different from others after all.
The life of a professional athlete must be devoted enough and pure enough, otherwise he will not be able to achieve results.
The life of a professional table tennis player requires ten times the investment and ten times the purity, otherwise, he will not be able to compete in the domestic arena where there are many masters.
So he had already made a decision on the first night he entered Jiangcheng City Team in July. He was like a monkey wearing a golden hoop. From now on, he would stay away from all entertainment and all kinds of desires. He only had ping-pong in his hands, only ping-pong in his eyes, and only ping-pong in his heart.
He can no longer have the same life trajectory as his friends.
He must give up all the happiness that college students cannot give up, just for the supreme honor hanging in the distant sky ahead.
People who climb the lonely peak are always lonelier than the lonely peak.
Whatever you gain, you must lose something, that's fair.
Therefore, during this last period of leisure this winter, apart from watching dramas with his mother, he never touched a racket once, nor did he think about playing ball once.
This is not a fall, but a complete farewell to his past life.
He performed all the rituals quietly and unnoticed.
A week later, the Spring Festival officially arrived.
During this period, the friends who said they wanted to see Sister Mei did not come. They just called him and explained. The main thing was that they did not expect that there would be so many weddings and weddings during the Chinese New Year, endless relatives, endless socializing, and no time left at all.
Wang Chao means understanding.
He and Wang Mei spent a Spring Festival that was not lonely. The New Year's Eve dinner table was filled with big fish and meat. The mother and son ate desperately, but they couldn't finish it. In the end, their stomachs were rounded, and they lay on the chairs panting and panting. Wang Mei looked like he was about to cry and said, "This year is really different from previous years."
Wang Chao walked over with a smile, hugged his mother gently, and turned around to enter the house.
He knew that his mother didn't want him to see her weak side, and he actually didn't want others to see his weak side.
When the New Year is over, the world suddenly becomes deserted.
Deserted is relative, because all the families are out and about, paying New Year greetings everywhere, but Wang Mei has nowhere to go.
Eighteen years ago, she had a big fight with her parents because she insisted on having a child out of wedlock, and then ran away from home and turned against her parents.
It turned out that she was wrong. The gangster she liked finally chose to disappear, unwilling to take responsibility, and pushed her into a desperate situation.
During the most difficult time, she once asked her parents for help, but their parents rejected her.
From then on, she considered herself an orphan.
Deep down in her heart, she once regretted the indulgence of her teenage years, but mostly she complained about her parents' cruelty. Therefore, even though her parents had softened their attitude a few years ago and took the initiative to call her several times, she repeatedly rejected the other party's proposal to let her go home on the phone.
Now that Wang Chao has become famous, she is even less willing to recognize her ancestors and return to the clan.
"World Champion, whom I raised based on my strength, why should I let others pick peaches?" She said this in front of Wang Chao.
Wang Chao has no opinion on this. Anyway, he really has no feelings for the nominal grandparents.
He stood by his mother unconditionally.
So Wang Chao spent time with her mother watching TV at home from the first to the third grade of junior high school. The canteen opened for business in the fourth grade of junior high school, and Wang Mei started to get busy.
Wang Chao found it boring, so he packed up and wanted to report to the Spade Q base in advance.
But when he called, Fan Xiaoxian told him, "Just stay at home and don't be so diligent. The spring competition won't start until February. There's not even a ghost in the base now. If you go there, you won't even have a place to eat."
Wang Chao was speechless. After thinking about it, he called He Jingping and asked if he could report to the national team training base.
"Why are you going there? The first tournament of this year was only played in February." He Jingping is, after all, older and more perceptive than Fan Xiaoxian: "Are you unable to stay at home? Come here first. Anyway, I live alone, you can come with me."
Wang Chao smiled and rejected his teacher.
Rather than spending time with an old man day and night, he would rather go to the canteen every day to accompany his mother and continue fighting with neighbors, playing the role of "other people's children."
But what he never expected was that on the third day after he made the call, He Jingping knocked on his door despite the heavy snow and wind.
Wang Chao was stunned.
"I thought it would be boring to stay at home anyway, and you happen to be fine too, so I might as well come over and find you." He Jingping explained, "Actually, I have already planned that when you join the national team, the first major event will be special physical training. Since you are idle, you are also idle, why don't we start in advance?"
Wang Chao didn't say any unnecessary words, but he was a little moved in his heart.
He did have some free time, but he knew that He Jingping was not bored at all when he stayed at home.
The work of the national team coach is busy and hard, and the pressure is huge. The Chinese New Year is a rare time to relax. What's more, this winter is very special. Zhu Ding has reconciled with him. He Jingping still needs to regain his identity as Little Martial Uncle. Under this situation, his life in the imperial capital should be rich and happy.
But after realizing his predicament, He Jingping came to Jiangcheng City without hesitation.
Just like when he saw Zhu Ding was about to fight Mizutori Hato, he rushed to Sakura Country without hesitation.
He is such a person, quite impulsive and irrational, but whether Zhu Ding or Luo Jiu are determined to follow him, it makes sense after all.
He Jingping took Wang Chao directly to the Jiangcheng City Team training base.
It was dark in the base, and there wasn't even a mouse, but it didn't matter. He Jingping just called Luo Zhihong, and the water and electricity in the base were turned on in advance.
It doesn't matter if no one cooks. After all, He Jingping has been a chef for three years.
Wang Chao is really curious as to why Wu Li, the football madman, didn't stay at the base? If he was here, we could practice with each other, but now, we can only let He Jingping accompany us.
Later, I heard Luo Zhihong say that something happened at Wu Li's family this year and he had to go home.
Starting from the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, Wang Chao and He Jingping quietly started special training in the huge Jiangcheng City Team base.