On the 25th day of the 12th lunar month, Li Xiangping returned to the capital on the third day.

Early in the morning of that day, Li Xiangping was still sleeping in the quilt, but was woken up by a phone ringing sound. He saw in a daze that it was his old man.

Li Xiangping just connected, but he welcomed a slander from Li Datu:

"You have a hard wing now, right? You don't know how to go home during school holidays. You're just scrambling outside every day. Now get back to me now!"

After hanging up the phone, Yaya around her was also awakened. She asked in a daze: "Who?"

Li Xiangping smiled: "My old man got angry and asked me to go home today. I guess he was going back to his hometown for the New Year."

"Go back to my hometown for the New Year? Didn't you say you won't go back this year?"

Li Xiangping said, "I can't leave, but they all have to go back. This is our tradition. If you don't go back, grandparents will be unhappy. By the way, Sister Yaya, when will you accompany me to your hometown?"

Yaya was embarrassed to answer this. She just got closer and her arms naturally held Li Xiangping's neck.

Li Xiangping originally wanted to do it once in the morning, but when he saw the time, it was almost 9 am, so he had to endure the urge to do it in the morning, get up, wash up and prepare to go out:

"Okay, get up, aren't you going to rehearse today? What time will you rehearse until? I'll pick you up at that time."

Li Xiangping really can't go back to his hometown this year. The Spring Festival is coming soon. Not to mention the other things, just talking about the next two activities, one is the Xiannong Temple Fair on the first day of the Lunar New Year, and the other is the sports ceremony on the third day of the Lunar New Year, which makes him unable to escape.

As for Yaya, she can't go back to her hometown for the New Year this year. Don't forget that she was a student of the Central Academy of Drama, she was originally a dancer. But nowadays, there are only the Spring Festival, and there are many kinds of parties. In addition to the top Spring Festival Gala, almost every industry and every industry likes to hold one or two parties.

As Zhao Jiadong, who was born in the Divine Beast Management Office, is a popular leader in the industry who is commonly known as the "water bezel" and it is easy to arrange one or two dancers in such evening parties.

Yaya was arranged to attend two evening parties this year, one was the International Channel Spring Festival Gala of CCTV 4, and the other was the Spring Festival Gala of the Federation of Literary and Art Circles. Although it was not the top one, one was still dancing alone, so she couldn't get away at all.

At noon, Li Xiangping returned home to have dinner.

"Ah! You are not going back to your hometown this year? Are you going to uncle Shencheng to celebrate the New Year?"

Li Datuhao nodded and said, "Yes, these are all your aunt's ideas. She has already gone to her hometown to pick up your grandparents, and said that Zhao Daokai's grandfather will also celebrate the New Year in Shanghai, so we have no choice but to go there too."

"oh."

Li Xiangping stopped talking after hearing this, and this explanation was reasonable. The two elders in the family were old comrades-in-arms. They went to the battlefield together in the early 1980s, and they were friends of life and death and children. It was normal to meet and reminisce about the past when they were old.

But at this moment, Li Datui remembered something, and he asked Li Xiangping:

"By the way, I heard your aunt say yesterday that you seem to put all your money on Weiping, right? What's the matter?"

Li Xiangping smiled and said, "Yes, I'm going to hire Brother Weiping as my fund manager. More than one billion in cash is considered a small fund. I can't put it in the bank for interest. Brother Weiping is about to graduate, so I'm going to hand over the money to him."

Li Datuhao warned: "I don't object to your finances, but don't do anything randomly, and you can't violate the law and discipline. The water in that industry is very deep. If something really happens, no one can protect you. Even if you are a real chess god, it's useless."

Li Xiangping nodded and said, "I know, of course I know that the water in that line is very deep, and the laws and regulations are not sound. Maybe it seems legal now, but it will be illegal in one or two years, so I am not ready to play in China. I asked Brother Weiping to help me exchange it for 200 million US dollars and prepare to go to the Lighthouse Country to cut leeks."

Li Datuhao heard this and sneered:

"Hehe, I'm not too small. I'm going to the Lighthouse Country to cut leeks and be careful to lose all the money."

Li Xiangping smiled and didn't respond. He thought to himself that it was already 2007. As a time traveler, how could he forget the US subprime mortgage crisis a year later? It would be fine if there was no conditions. However, he has already met this condition now. If he can't take a bite there, how can he be worthy of so many time travel seniors?

Of course, it’s one thing to think like this in my heart, but it’s one thing to say it on my lips. Li Xiangping smiled at his old man:

"If you lose all the money, you will lose all the money. What's the matter? Don't I still play chess? With this skill, I don't have to worry about starving to death in the future."

Li Datuhao laughed loudly after hearing this: "That's right, you won't starve to death."

In fact, in the mind of Li Datu, he believed that Li Xiangping handed the money to his cousin, but it was just a small fight between two young people, such as buying stocks, and so on. Of course, this method is likely to be compensated, but it will basically not be fully compensated, so he didn't take it much.

After the family had a few more family conversations, Li Datu looked very busy, put down his bowls and chopsticks and prepared to go out, but before leaving, he said to Li Xiangping:

"After we leave, please stay at home and don't go outside and fool around. Look at you, ah! What's it like now? I didn't say anything about scandals some time ago. I heard that I'm still having a lot of fighting with that Central Academy of Drama student now, right? You're good to take care of yourself."

After Li Datu left, Li Xiangping asked his stepmother Lin Yiran in a strange way:

"What's going on with my dad today? Menopause is here?"

"Go, what menopause."

Lin Yiran explained with a smile: "Xiangping, let me tell you, actually, your father really likes Cai Shanshan very much. He nagged me a few days ago, saying that he was going to talk to Lao Cai, hoping that Shanshan would come to work in our company after graduation, but now he can't speak up."

Li Xiangping nodded and said, "Learn, because I didn't look for Cai Shanshan as my girlfriend, and it's even more impossible to be his daughter-in-law. This made him feel deeply saddened by the loss of talents, so I spread the nameless fire on my head, right? Look at my dad's prospects. Without Cai Shanshan alone, will our company not be opened?"

Lin Yiran glared at Li Xiangping first: "Why do you say your dad?" Then he immediately smiled and said, "It's good that you know."

Two days later, Li Datu and his wife took their younger sister Beibei to Shanghai for the New Year, and Li Xiangping also began to prepare for the Xiannong Temple Fair on the first day of the Lunar New Year.

Two years ago, Li Xiangping beat the amateur chess world in Beijing with one-to-eight multi-faceted games. This year, the game seems to have been upgraded. After Li Xiangping won a Golden Slam again, the organizers of the temple fair proposed that Li Xiangping and professional chess players would perform a chess game this time.

According to their preliminary ideas, this time, we are preparing to have a one-to-five multi-faceted game. All chess players are given 2 pieces, but the qualifications of participating players are limited. Only young players under the age of 16 and below the fourth level of professional are eligible to register.

To be honest, at the beginning, Li Xiangping thought no one would sign up, but he didn't expect that the final registration was quite enthusiastic, and five places were stolen early.

Among the determined list of games, there are Brother Shi Yuelong who entered the "one-stop per game" who entered the ranks in 2003, Tan Xiao, who joined the ranks in 2004, Jiang Weijie, the first world champion of the "Little Leopards" who entered the ranks in 2005, and Emperor Tang Xuanzong of Tang who entered the ranks last year, and Liao Xingwen, the young player of Bagui who joined the ranks in 2005.

There is nothing to say. Faced with such a list, Li Xiangping certainly could not refuse. Not only did he not refuse, he actually attached great importance to it and looked forward to it. The degree of attention was no less than that of a world competition.

New Year's Eve came soon, and since there was only one person left at home, Li Xiangping did not continue to live in Wudaokou Apartment, but moved back to his home.

It’s a pity that he is really the only one this time, alone. Yaya is busy on stage and is not with him now.

After a brief look at the Spring Festival Gala, considering that the activities on the next day were actually physical work, Li Xiangping decided to take a break early.

"Hehe, Brother Ding'an, let's discuss how to play 5 chess games tomorrow. Or should we use a combination of two swords that are mainly you as last time?"

What Li Xiangping didn't expect was that Lao Shi was a little bit arrogant: "It's just a two-piece game, so you don't need to combine the two swords, my friend Xiangping, I think we should divide the work, how many games do you want to put in? How many games do you want to put in?"

Li Xiangping laughed: "Hahahaha, I'm just a two-piece game. I said to Brother Ding'an, do you know who these people are? By the way, I forgot to tell you that in my previous life, there were 4 world champions among these five people. They are really young people with unlimited potential. Do you really think we don't need a double sword to match?"

Lao Shi said: "What, my friend Xiangping dare not."

Li Xiangping continued to laugh: "Haha, Brother Ding'an, don't use this kind of provocation for me. I dare not, but just remind you not to underestimate me. You mean division of labor, right? Well, division of labor is divided. I think this is the case. There are 5 chess players in total. Brother Ding'an, you can work harder, just play 3 games of chess, and the remaining two are left to me to deal with."

"Haha, okay."

So the two discussed the specific details again. Taking into account the characteristics of the chess style of the five players, Li Xiangping, "one-stop per game" and the young player Jiang Weijie of Shencheng, are obvious power types. These two are left to Lao Shi to deal with, and Tan Xiao and Elder Tang will deal with them themselves.

As for the only non-world champion Liao Xingwen, this time he can only treat it as a bonus and leave it to Lao Shi to deal with it.

After a good night's sleep, the new year also ushered in. After getting up, Li Xiangping did not rush to go to the farmhouse in the first place, but began to call and send text messages everywhere. After paying all the New Year's greetings, Li Xiangping started to have breakfast.
Chapter completed!