Chapter 175: Small Winds and Waves
July 7th, 15pm, Dajing City, Chinese Go Association.

Although it was Saturday and the Chess Association was closed, Shang Chaotian was still staying in the chairman's office when he received a call from Dongjiang Dongjiang.

“…Well, Mr. Qian, the situation is just as I just said.

"Because of some family issues, Lei Jingming, the ninth dan, can no longer continue to teach Rui Zhao. As for the specific situation, it is his private matter, and I don't know.

"Then judging from Yu Qingguang's recent performance, Rui Zhao is indeed a little depressed, and then the situation you just mentioned...

"Yes, yes! According to what we and Yu Jiudan know, Rui Zhao's low mood is probably not due to the current noise on the Internet. Rui Zhao doesn't usually go online, and when he goes online, he basically plays chess!"

"Uh... We were wrong this time. I thought you were busy with work, so I didn't report these things to you first! Sorry!
"Yes! It would be even better if you could help encourage her!

"Okay, it's late today, you should go to bed early!"

After Shang Chaotian hung up the phone, Lu Wenjie, who was sitting on the sofa beside him, couldn't help but smile bitterly:
"This...even alarmed Director Qian?"

Shang Chaotian frowned and looked at his deputy:

"What else? Rui Guoquan even called me this afternoon! His words clearly showed that he hoped our chess association would speak up for Rui Zhao. How could Director Qian not know that?

"But we can hardly protect ourselves! You must have anticipated this and secretly sent out the notice before get off work ended yesterday. Otherwise, our phone would have been bombarded with calls today!"

After complaining for a while, Shang Chaotian put down his phone with a bitter face and continued:
“I originally thought that if we used the second wild card for our own use, only South Korea and Japan would have objections, but who knew that China would be in chaos first!

"... Oh, by the way! What are the reactions of the South Korean Chess Institute and the Japanese Chess Institute now?"

Lu Wenjie answered truthfully:
"Well, regarding the 'Wu Yue Cup' wild card, which we plan to borrow this year and return next year, I have also informed both parties through private channels.

"South Korea's attitude was not very good. It expressed no belief at all and stressed that it reserves the right to take corresponding measures at any time..."

"Tsk, that seems like the attitude they always like to put on!"

Knowing that he was in the wrong, Shang Chaotian sighed but did not complain much.

"…What about Japan? They should complain more tactfully, right?"

"Well, no. It's more like we're glad we did it..."

Shang Chaotian was stunned, and for a moment he thought he had heard wrongly:

"Ah? Happy?!

"What kind of statement is that?!"

Lu Wenjie smiled and said:
"I inquired privately, and what they said was: since we in China are issuing wild cards, Japan will definitely have the lowest priority.

"It would be better if we just broke the rules. Then when someone slanders them about the allocation of air combat quotas in the future, they can drag us into it as scapegoats..."

Shang Chaotian was silent for a while:
"Well, the Japanese are really cunning! They can even support such a controversial thing without hesitation..."

Lu Wenjie's smile remained unchanged:
“What’s so strange about this!

"The Rongcheng Sports Bureau just called us and expressed their appreciation for our decision to give the second wild card to Rui Zhao. The tournament sponsors are also very satisfied!"

"what?"

Shang Chaotian was stunned again:
"But aren't people cursing at me online now?"

"It's not Rongcheng that's being scolded anyway, so of course they don't care!"

Lu Wenjie shrugged and said:
"It is true that 'black and red are also red', because we brought in Rui Zhao, a beautiful and eye-catching player, and created such a big fuss. The attention paid to the Wu Yue Cup this time is unprecedented!
"I heard that in addition to Fuhai Province, TV stations from other provinces also came to report! The Central Media Sports Channel also decided early on to report on this tournament in full and in all aspects!"

Shang Chaotian took a long time to fully understand the situation, and couldn't help but sigh:

“Hey! I understand!
"That's how it happened. I feel really sorry for Rui Zhao.

"A few days ago, I asked her to help with the live broadcast, and the popularity of the event was also thanks to her. But in the end, I couldn't even stand on the stage to support her!"

"Brother Tian, ​​you are right..."

Lu Wenjie agrees:
“But this is also a good opportunity for her, isn’t it?
"I think that since this girl was not afraid of Bai Yinhua and dared to act recklessly towards Lin Ruixin, this situation... is probably just a small storm for her."...

...

The next day, August 7th, Sunday.

Although Zhicheng Group was closed that day, Rui Guoquan drove to the company as usual in the afternoon - and not to work overtime.

Before going to the company, Rui Guoquan first went to the Muhu Dojo and brought his daughter with him.

The reason is very simple: because my daughter Rui Zhao is the protagonist of this trip to the company today.

...

On the way, Rui Guoquan looked at his daughter in the rearview mirror, still with a sullen face, doing life and death problems on her phone without a smile on her face, and couldn't help but ask worriedly:

"Zhao Zhao, how are you feeling lately?"

Rui Zhao raised his eyes and answered simply and neatly: "Dad, I'm fine."

Rui Guoquan nodded: “Well… there has been some noise outside recently, don’t mind it.

"I called Chairman Shang yesterday, and everyone in the chess association is very supportive of you!

"If it weren't for the official stance, Chairman Shang and Vice Chairman Lu would definitely speak up for you like your Senior Brother Ni Jue and Senior Sister Zou Yang did!"

"Yeah, don't worry!
"I have been concentrating on practicing chess these days! I have not been affected by the outside world at all!"

Rui Zhao simply responded first, and then asked belatedly:
"Ah? So Senior Brother Ni and Senior Sister Zou have been speaking up for me recently?"

"……Yes."

After two seconds of silence, Rui Guoquan nodded in response, confirming that what his daughter had just said to him was indeed true.

...

Soon, the car arrived at the location of Zhicheng Group on the outskirts of the city.

As a private heavy industry enterprise, although Zhicheng Group is of a reasonable size, it has no interest in spending its precious cash flow on renting high-end office buildings in the downtown area of ​​Dongjiang, so the group's headquarters was directly chosen in the front area of ​​a factory.

Because today is Sunday, there are basically no people in the group's office building.

Rui Guoquan parked the car skillfully and took his daughter straight to the executive office on the top floor. He spared himself the troublesome greetings that he would have gone through when taking his daughter to meet colleagues and subordinates - especially since his daughter was now quite famous in the Go circle.

You know, the Go atmosphere within Zhicheng Group is quite good, and the proportion of people who can play Go is extremely high.

The reason... those who understand will understand.

...

Soon, the father and daughter reached the top floor.

Rui Guoquan didn't even go into his own office, but took his daughter directly to the door of the chairman's office at the end of the corridor.

When he arrived at the door, Rui Guoquan took a deep breath, then knocked on the door and said:

"Boss! Zhao Zhao and I are here!"

I only heard a kind and steady voice coming from inside the door:

"Please come in!"

In the next two days, I need to explain the reactions of all parties caused by public opinion, which can be regarded as a small foreshadowing.

Tomorrow I will spend one chapter explaining Qian Sitao’s plot, and then jump to the game on July 7nd.

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(End of this chapter)

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