Chapter 287: Chapter 194: Teaching Game—One Against Five!

“Isn’t that Shen Qiushan!”

“Does Teacher Shen know how to play Go?”

“Old Shen should be competing with the Koreans in literary creation!”

“…”

Shen Qiushan’s fame at Sanjiang University is incredibly high, he can even be considered the university’s iconic figure. His appearance immediately caused a commotion.

Zhou Yuan, who was responsible for the live-streaming, was a bit bewildered. As a key member of the Go Club, she was familiar with the teachers at the school who played Go.

She originally thought that in the teachers’ match segment, one of the teachers she knew would appear.

Unexpectedly, the person who showed up turned out to be Shen Qiushan.

“Alumni, next we have the segment where teachers from both sides will have a match. However, representing our school is Shen Qiushan.”

“Everyone should have seen Old Shen’s achievements in the news: the oldest recorded top scorer in the college entrance examination and the first and only Nebula Award winner from our country!”

“Although he is just a freshman, in the field of literature, he can be considered a teacher to all of us!”

“Uh…”

As Zhou Yuan introduced Shen Qiushan’s “heroic deeds,” she realized that these seemed unrelated to Go.

“Hmm, let’s all cheer for Old Shen together!”

Zhou Yuan really didn’t know what else to say, so she could only resort to words of encouragement.

On both sides of the board, Shen Qiushan and a Seoul University teacher who was also a professional player, Pu Guochang, sat facing each other. The opponent’s age was similar to Shen Qiushan’s, appearing to be in his thirties, with his hair styled in a fashion popular in Korea.

Shen Qiushan took the black stones, going first.

The game began.

Out of confidence in his strength, Pu Guochang placed his stones very quickly, almost without any hesitation.

To his surprise, his opponent also placed stones quickly, not losing out to him.

Pu Guochang found it amusing. As a professional player, he thought he could easily win in such an exchange match, and it didn’t matter how he played.

But for someone like you, an amateur player from Hua Country, daring to play fast Go with me is simply seeking one’s own downfall.

“Old Shen and the opponent’s speed at placing their stones is much faster compared to previous games, I barely have time to analyze their intentions…”

Zhou Yuan continued to comment in front of the live-stream camera.

Ever since Shen Qiushan appeared on camera, the popularity of her live stream began to soar, increasing from the initial few hundred to four or five thousand people.

“Hey beauty, what kind of match is this?”

“Whoa, isn’t that Teacher Shen!”

“Has Teacher Shen stopped writing books and started playing Go?”

“What’s the opponent’s strength? The name doesn’t look like a Chinese person!”

“Pu Guochang? Hahaha, is that name for real?”

“Old Shen, stop playing Go and perform ’Red Rose’ instead!”

“…”

When Zhou Yuan started the live stream, most of the viewers were students from Sanjiang University. But as the live stream’s popularity grew, a large number of outside viewers joined.

The public chat was lively, with everyone chatting excitedly about all sorts of things.

Zhou Yuan’s Kuaiyin account was usually used to promote the Go Club, so she didn’t have many followers, only a bit over seven hundred.

As the live stream’s popularity rose, her follower count quickly surpassed a thousand.

Faced with such enormous traffic, Zhou Yuan was naturally delighted, and her enthusiasm for the live broadcast increased significantly: “Welcome to all the newcomers, this is Sanjiang University, and currently we are holding an exchange event with exchange students from Seoul University.”

“Today is the first day of the exchange, and currently, it’s a match between Shen Qiushan from Sanjiang University and Pu Guochang from Seoul University.”

“Teacher Shen is playing with the black stones…”

“Hmm, let’s see how Pu Guochang handles this move?”

Just as Zhou Yuan was updating the new viewers on the situation, the game suddenly took a drastic turn.

Shen Qiushan placed a black stone with an astonishing move, putting Pu Guochang in a huge crisis.

“Damn…”

Pu Guochang, who hadn’t taken Shen Qiushan seriously, suddenly widened his eyes.

Looking at the situation on the electronic screen, the exchange students from Seoul University were also stunned, especially Pu Yiseong and Jin Enjing, who had just won their matches.

They were most familiar with their teacher’s capabilities and had assumed that it would be a one-sided massacre with their teacher, Pu Guochang, leading the way!

Challenging a professional with an amateur should have been a situation of utter defeat.

Yet, in less than five minutes, Pu Guochang was already facing a situation where he might have to concede defeat.

“That Hua Country person is so amazing, he unknowingly created three pockets!”

Jin Enjing whispered.

“It must be a coincidence; there’s no way someone could plan so many steps with such rapid moves.”

Pu Yiseong gently shook his head: “Teacher must have been careless.”

“Is there no way out for Teacher Pu in this game??”

Other exchange students asked in low voices.

Jin Enjing and Pu Yiseong both shook their heads, finding a reversal in this situation seemed nearly impossible.

“Old Zhao, what happened?”

“Is Uncle Shen going to win?”

Bao Beibei didn’t understand Go, but noticing the grim expressions on Pu Guochang and the Seoul University exchange students, he quickly asked Zhao Hongyu next to him.

“Old Shen is about to win!”

After losing his own game, Zhao Hongyu was originally quite annoyed, but seeing Shen Qiushan complete such a brilliant layout in just a few minutes made his previously dimmed eyes light up.

“Master!”

“Old Shen is the real master!”

Zhao Hongyu couldn’t help but exclaim.

“Old Shen hid it too well!”

“He never mentioned he could play Go, and then he plays a trump card. Could this be the legendary playing dumb to fool the wise?”

Feng Sicong said animatedly.

Listening to him, Zhao Hongyu began to reflect on himself.

Actually, he also wanted to play the fool to lure the tiger, so that he could go from being unknown to the shining focus.

Unfortunately, his attempt to play the fool backfired.

He truly became the fool!

Sure enough, the older ginger is spicier!

He needs to learn more from Old Shen in the future.

While Zhao Hongyu was reflecting, Pu Guochang voluntarily conceded defeat, feeling truly powerless in this match.

Wow!

Won!

Old Shen won!

The classroom was in an uproar.

The students who came to watch the excitement all started cheering.

Previously, they only watched the exchange students from Seoul University celebrate, but now it’s finally their turn.

Zhou Yuan’s chubby face beamed with a bright smile, “Wow, Old Shen won!”

“Long live Teacher Shen!”

“Babies, give Teacher Shen a like…”

Each time we lost a match before, Zhou Yuan racked his brains trying to save face, defending our players, almost sharing sentiments with the Hua Country’s soccer announcers.

This time, there was finally no need to make excuses for our player’s defeat.

Won!

And it was a neat and tidy win!

In the audience, the frown on Zhao Changtian’s face finally eased a bit.

Although it’s just an exchange, continuously losing would still damage the school’s reputation.

Zhao Changtian even thought of a countermeasure, that if Shen Qiushan lost again, they would find an excuse to end today’s Go exchange event to stop the losses in time.

But Shen Qiushan was determined, winning a match cleanly, saving a bit of face for the school.

Lin Xiamo touched her smooth chin; she was increasingly unable to comprehend this “brother-in-law,” who seemed like an unknown treasure, with more and more skills uncovered the more she explored.

So much so that as she dug deeper, she felt she might not measure up to him!

“Another round!”

Having lost a game carelessly, Pu Guochang naturally felt unwilling and proactively proposed another battle.

“No problem.”

Shen Qiushan made an OK gesture, “But, I have a small request.”

“Please go ahead.”

“Playing with only you isn’t interesting.”

Shen Qiushan pointed to Pu Yiseong, Jin Enjing, and the other four people who won previously, “These four students have excellent skills, and I’d like to spar with them too.”

“Of course you can.”

“We’ll do three matches, two wins, and then leave the time to them…”

Pu Guochang suddenly realized something was off halfway through his speech.

Simultaneously??

His pupils shrank; he found the two most crucial words in Shen Qiushan’s statement.

Pu Yiseong, Jin Enjing, and the others also understood Shen Qiushan’s intention, and each of them was filled with righteous indignation.

“Aishiba!”

“How can someone be so arrogant!”

“Challenging so many of us at the same time? Must be crazy!”

“The teacher just lost carelessly, and he’s being so arrogant!”

“…”

Hearing Shen Qiushan’s daring remark, Zhou Yuan, who was live-streaming, was a bit dumbfounded. After a moment of pause, she spoke to the viewers in the live stream, “Babies, there’s a surprising situation now, Old Shen wants to play five games at once!”

“If I didn’t misunderstand, that’s how it should be.”

“Old Shen wants to fight five opponents simultaneously!”

“For those babies who don’t understand Go, this kind of one versus many usually appears in teaching classes, where the Go teacher plays multiple students simultaneously, which is why it’s also called a teaching game!”

“Now Old Shen wants to play a teaching game with the opponents, this is simply…”

“Hmm, super awesome!!”

If Pu Guochang were the one proposing a teaching game now, Zhou Yuan would probably mock it as disdainfully as the Seoul University exchange students did.

But since it was Shen Qiushan who proposed the teaching game, it was different.

He’s one of us!

He’s got to be awesome!

“Fine, fine, fine!”

“As you wish!”

Pu Guochang was initially angry, but then couldn’t help but laugh, thinking the Hua Country person across from him was simply overestimating himself, thinking winning one game made him a “Savior.”

The current overall score is 5:1.

Shen Qiushan proposed a 1V5, if he won all five games, the score would be 6:5!

Sanjiang University would become the winner of this Go exchange competition.

The idea is beautiful.

Pu Guochang turned around and gestured them to fight, waving to Pu Yiseong, Jin Enjing, and others.

Understanding Shen Qiushan’s intention, Zhao Changtian and the leaders of the reception team were all staring at each other in dismay.

“Principal Zhao, will this work?”

“One versus five, isn’t this too reckless?”

“This Xiaoshen! Really doesn’t take the usual path!”

Amid all the chatter, Zhao Changtian looked at Shen Qiushan, who was calmly seated at the Go board, and then waved to Wu Junming who was standing not far away, “Xiaowu, what are you standing there for? Hurry and make the arrangements!”

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