The top table tennis team

After Liu Liangguo hung up the phone, he stood up and took out a dusty, extremely thick photo album from the drawer of the table.

As he got older, his vision started to become blurry. Liu Liangguo sat down at his desk with a photo album in his hand. An exquisite glasses case was placed on the upper left corner of the desk.

He opened it with his bare hands, took out a pair of white-framed glasses and put them on. His vision became much brighter. Liu Liangguo nodded with satisfaction and flipped through old photos with trembling fingers.

This album records many of his important moments, such as his first championship, his first World Championship, his first Olympic championship, and his first Grand Slam.

The position of each photo marks the time, until the time came to more than 30 years ago, when he had just retired and became the head coach of the national table tennis team.

Standing next to him are world-class top players such as Ma Lin, Xiao Zhan, Qin Zhijian, etc., who have just joined the national table tennis team and have undergone new changes in their identities. High morale is written on everyone's face.

At that time, Liu Liangguo had only one thought in his mind: I want to lead Chinese table tennis to the top of the world, at all costs.

As his fingers flipped, a photo of him and Xiao Zhan leading three young players of the national table tennis team came into view.

The national team is full of talented people, and fresh blood is sent from the provincial teams every year. He has basically seen all kinds of children, but at that time three people impressed him deeply.

These three people were to become the Three Musketeers of the national table tennis team. It was the first time that he brought three people to a World Championships. As expected, the three of them were very strong. Not only did they resist foreign enemies, they also won the men's singles and doubles championships.

Xu Xin was born left-handed and is a rare straight-grip player. His playing style is flexible and he is a rare talent in doubles.

Ma Long has basically no weaknesses. Although he looks well-behaved, he is actually a very thoughtful person.

Zhang Ji is the most difficult to discipline among the three, but he is also the most ruthless and the most difficult to deal with.

Zhang Ji was his secret weapon to deal with external cooperation. Just by showing his skill that time, the world was shocked. Everyone was looking at this proud young boy.

He took the initiative to organize the coaching team to take a photo with these three people. For some reason, Liu Liangguo had a feeling that the three children in front of him would become the masters of world table tennis in the future.

Zhang Ji was young and playful when he was a child. When the shutter was pressed, he squinted his eyes, stuck out his tongue and laughed, causing everyone to laugh at him. His youth was remembered at this moment.

There is another photo below this one, which is the highlight moment when he hugged Zhang Ji and kissed his forehead. It was during a certain Olympic Games, when the men's and women's mixed doubles lost, and the Japanese national table tennis team pointed a finger of indifference at our athletes.

All the athletes were furious and the coaches all had gloomy faces as they watched Mizutani Jun being accomplices to the evil. Zhang Ji was participating in the men's singles competition at the time and happened to be on the field against Mizutani Jun.

The Chinese national table tennis team has an unwritten rule that, unless there are special circumstances, they must give their opponents the minimum respect on the court. They cannot shave their heads or push their opponents too hard. This is the most basic sportsmanship.

But he was really angry that time. He hugged Zhang Ji who was about to go on the court and told him seriously not to let his opponent live.

Zhang Ji, who was always nonchalant in every competition, lived up to everyone's expectations in that game. He used the techniques he invented to beat his opponent to his knees. This was a chance for the national table tennis team to vent their anger.

After winning the game, Liu Liangguo was extremely excited. In front of the whole world, he picked up the "rebellious son" whom he usually called and kissed his forehead. This moment was recorded by the world media and became a famous scene that has been widely circulated.

Continuing to scroll down, Liu Liangguo saw a photo of a girl with a gentle smile. This photo was also taken during that competition. This was the first time he watched this video many years later.

He would occasionally flip through the book before, and when he was about to reach this part, he would intentionally or unintentionally skip over it.

Looking at that bright and charming face, Liu Liangguo remained silent. People all said that he allowed Sasha and Chu Shaoqin to fall in love early because he was afraid of Chu Shaoqin's power, which led to the "Shasha-Tou Lian" widely circulated among fans.

In fact, this was not the case. After Xiaozao's death, Zhang Ji completely stopped obeying discipline.

He had dreamed many times that the arrogant man asked him with tears in his eyes why he had to force them to separate, and if it weren't for this group of coaches, how could they have ended up in different places.

He had just started coaching at that time, and he always put the interests of the national table tennis team first. Considering that the romance would distract the two of them and pull them down from the world's number one position, he discussed with the other coaches and talked to Xiaozao alone.

They were not very thoughtful in this regard and were indeed quite tough at the time.

Facts have proved that their decision was correct. After being separated, one of them won the Grand Slam and the other quickly returned to the world's number one position.

If it weren't for the plane crash, he probably wouldn't have reflected on whether what he did was right or not.

On the other side, after being kicked out by Zhang Ji, the group drove to find a relatively clean hotel to stay in.

"Brother Long, what should we do next?" Everyone sat together and ate QD's specialty seafood.

Fan Zhendong picked up a crayfish and started to eat it. He asked this question while eating. Judging from Zhang Jige's reaction just now, it seemed that he didn't want to see them.

After Fan Zhendong finished asking, the other people who were enjoying the food put down their chopsticks. Everyone felt Zhang Ji's resentment towards the national team today, and felt that he would not come out again.

"Moreover, I saw that when Zhang Ji mentioned the past just now, he had nothing but anger on his face. We seem to have miscalculated by playing the emotional card," Sun Shasha picked up the abalone next to her and expressed her opinion while eating.

Chu Shaoqin, who was sitting next to him, seemed not to hear the questions from everyone and was still concentrating on fighting the food.

Sun Shasha felt very strange seeing him like this. No, it was strange from the moment he said he was coming to find Zhang Ji. Hesitation and hesitation were all seen in this arrogant big head.

Having known him for so many years, he would never blush again. There must be some story between Chu Shaoqin and Zhang Ji that others don't know. I will dig deeper into it someday.

Long Teng looked up from the delicious food, looked at everyone and said only one word: "Eat".

Continue to put on gloves and join the crayfish team with Xiaopang.

The crayfish cooked by qd is really delicious. It was worth the trip to qd just for this delicacy.

"Brother Long, did you do something hiding from us?" Although Lin Yuan is the eldest son of the Lin family, he is meticulous, which is one of his many fine traditions.

Just now when everyone was coming out, he saw Long Teng seemed to take out a very old envelope from his arms and stuff it into the things he brought with him.

When Long Teng heard Lin Yuan's question, he did not answer him, but just smiled at everyone.

"It's nothing, just a letter from an old friend. If this can't persuade Zhang Ji, then we will find another way out."

Yu Man looked at Lin Yuan and reached out to wipe the red juice from the corner of his mouth. Lin Yuan seemed to be out of touch, but he was actually a thoughtful and warm gentleman, and she was very satisfied with this.