[Short track speed skating] From academic master to Winter Olympic champion

The first one was called by the speed skating coach: "Oh, Xiao Gu, long time no see. I heard that you retired, so I said that there was a meeting that day, and Lao Cheng didn't look very good."

"That's right, with your grades, there is no challenge for you to practice short track. Do you want to consider our avenue?"

Gu Ran thanked Bumin: "No...no need."

"I've watched your game. Your skills are still very good. You haven't experienced any major injuries. You are in a good competitive state. As long as you come, I guarantee that you will be able to get a good ranking on the road in four years. .”

Gu Ran was also familiar with this coach, so he spoke more casually: "Don't bother, I've retired from the short track, and I definitely don't plan to practice the big track. I just want to concentrate on finishing the book, and I didn't think about turning to the teacher. item."

Before hanging up the phone, the coach was still worried: "If you figure it out one day and want to continue practicing, you can call me, but you are not allowed to contact others."

Gu Ran couldn't laugh or cry: "Don't worry, I won't find you if I want to practice."

"..."

As a result, not long after the phone hung up, he received another individual call. This time, he didn’t know him: “Hi, I’m the head coach of the snowboard cross-border cross-sport national training team. I want to invite you to come to participate in the closed training camp.”

"Huh?" Gu Ran thought she heard it wrong, "I can still practice snowboarding at my age?"

"Of course! Our expert team has evaluated your quality in all aspects and thinks you are very suitable."

Gu Ran sincerely thanked him, and then declined the other party.

In the next few days, he successively received calls from the coaches or leaders of the freestyle skiing cross-border cross-sports national training team, alpine skiing cross-border cross-sports national training team, and snowmobile cross-border cross-sports national training team.

Gu Ran: "..."

He immediately called Song Zhixin: "Director Song!"

After receiving his call, Song Zhixin was rather flattered: "You boy, why did you think of calling me?"

Gu Ran said, "I've already retired."

Song Zhixin said, "I know, I approved it."

Gu Ran raised her forehead: "I'm very busy now, I can't wait to live in the laboratory every day."

Song Zhixin warned with concern: "Then you have to pay attention to your health."

Can't beat the old fox in Tai Chi, Gu Ran decided to hit a straight ball: "Can you stop giving my contact information to the coaches of the cross-border and cross-sport national training team?"

"Oh! You can't blame me. The main reason is that your condition is too good. They have been greedy for a long time. Once you retreat, those coaches can't wait to tie you up with hemp rope."

Gu Ran wanted to cry but had no tears, wishing she could really go to the laboratory to lay the floor.The laboratory building can only be entered by fingerprinting, and ordinary people cannot find him.

The key is that someone called him just like that: "Mr. Gu, we have a competitive reality show and would like to invite you to participate."

"Mr. Gu, we are preparing for a TV series recently, and there is a role in which you are particularly suitable. I would like to invite you to audition."

Gu Ran: "!!!"

After retiring from the military, Gu Ran lived a fulfilling life, working with Wei Yuening at three o'clock every day, in the cafeteria, dormitory, and laboratory.

This boring and lack of exercise life also needs a little physical exercise for a long time.Gu Ran's way of exercising is not skating, but going to the fencing club to find Qi Siyuan.

Qi Siyuan has retired after the Olympic Games two years ago, and now works as a coach in a fencing club.

Gu Ran would play with him when he was free, and the two of them put on their equipment and had a game.

From the beginning, Gu Ran was able to seize the opportunity to score with a small movement, and later, slowly through observation, he was able to score a few points while he was not prepared.

His observation ability is very strong, and his reaction is fast. Sometimes some unexpected operations surprise Qi Siyuan, a former national team member.

Qi Siyuan took off his helmet and gave him a thumbs up: "If you practice for another two months, you might be able to get a top eight in the national championship."

Gu Ran said, "Do you know how many calls I answered when I just retired?"

"Ah?" Qi Siyuan didn't understand what he meant, "What phone call?"

Gu Ranshu told him: "National training team for speed skating, freestyle skiing, snowboarding, alpine skiing, cross-country skiing, snowmobile... various cross-border and cross-sport national training teams."

Qi Siyuan laughed to death: "So I should recommend you to my former coach."

Gu Ran snorted and said, "I will really thank you!"

Qi Siyuan threw a bottle of mineral water at him: "Speaking of which, if you want to exercise, why don't you go skating?"

Gu Ran unscrewed the bottle cap and took a sip: "Yeah, it's strange. I used to train every day and didn't feel it. Once I put it down, I don't even want to touch it."

He smacked his lips again, as if he was tasting the taste of mineral water: "I'm tired."

Qi Siyuan gave him a pertinent evaluation: "Scumbag."

Gu Ran laughed and scolded: "Get lost..."

Scumbag No. [-] leaned over and said with a smile: "Actually, I'm also bored. Sometimes I don't want to go to work. But what do I eat when I don't go to work? I'm not like you, a doctor of computer science. There is a director looking for you to film..."

Gu Ran nodded: "Don't tell me, there really is."

"Alas..." Qi Siyuan sighed: "The world of geniuses is beyond our comprehension."

Gu Ran smiled wryly: "What kind of genius has been polished into an ordinary person by life at my age."

Qi Siyuan gave him a disgusted look: "You have already stood at a height that other people can't reach at your age, and you can stay in school with peace of mind in the future. Life is good enough for you."

Gu Ran was right when he thought about it, and changed his words in a polite manner: "It's not my life that polishes me, it's my thesis."

After exercising for two hours and returning to school, Gu Ran was able to fight day and night for a long time.

It is impossible to drop out of school. In the eyes of Juan Wang, he has to finish his doctorate exam even crying.

He calmed down and devoted all his energy and time to one thing. Gu Ran felt that life was not so difficult. He could still find a trace of happiness in the endless pain of being tortured by papers and projects.

Wei Yuening is more patient than him. He can sit still for a whole morning for a data, but there are also times when his spirit breaks down and he lies down on the table in dejection: "I want to..."

Gu Ran didn't look up at the computer, and asked, "What are you thinking?"

Wei Yuening said, "I want to quit school."

Gu Ran pretended to be surprised and said, "You were the number one student in the college entrance examination in our province."

In fact, he wasn't surprised at all, and he knew very well that Wei Yuening was ravaged too much by the scientific research project, so he just complained.

Wei Yuening was still lying on the table, took off his glasses and rubbed his eyebrows: "Yan An is the only physics gold medal in their province."

Gu Ran thought for a while and asked, "You said, doing scientific research can really sharpen one's will, as long as one can endure loneliness, the remaining ones will be kings."

"That's not necessarily true. Scientific research is pioneering work on the basis of predecessors. It may take a lifetime without any breakthrough."

He laughed at himself again: "Of course, the school can't give us such a long time for a lifetime. He only gives us eight years. If we don't graduate in eight years, we will be persuaded to leave."

At this time, Gu Ran's cell phone rang.Click to open it, and the classmate group chat in the undergraduate period opened.He glanced roughly, then turned around and slid the chair next to Wei Yuening: "Come on, I'll stimulate you."

Wei Yuening raised his eyelids: "Students are chatting, saying that Wang Bowen's thesis has been downloaded thousands of times just a week after it was uploaded. It is the most popular MIT paper in recent years."

Gu Ran said: "This is called a genius, who has an algorithm named after himself."

Wei Yuening smiled and said, "Are you envious?"

Gu Ran chuckled twice: "A little bit."

Wei Yuening sat up suddenly: "We are also studying an algorithm, so we named it after us."

Gu Ran bent her fingers and tapped twice on the front of his computer: "Hurry up and get your data."

About half a year later, Meng Yuqiao came back, and the first thing she did after arriving in Beijing was to call Gu Ran: "I'm at the south gate of your school."

"Ah?" Gu Ran said hello to Wei Yuening, then walked downstairs, and ran all the way to the south gate, where she saw Meng Yuqiao standing there.

In late August, the weather was still a little hot, Meng Yuqiao just stood under the sun, sweat soaked a large area of ​​the back of the T-shirt.

Gu Ran rushed over without saying a word, jumped onto Meng Yuqiao's back, put her arms around his neck: "Sister Qiao!"

"Little bastard..." Meng Yuqiao was taken aback by him, but still picked him up: "I'm an uncle in his 30s now."

Gu Ran looked at his side face, even if he was a 30-year-old uncle, he was still a very good-looking uncle.

Gu Ran asked him: "When did you come back?"

"This morning."

Gu Ran glanced at the time: "It's only twelve o'clock, you just came back to Beijing and came to see me?"

"Ah."

It was already noon, and Gu Ran took his old teammates to have a meal near the school.

Meng Yuqiao said, "I've been home and rested for a few months, and you will retire when you come back."

Gu Ran poured him a cup of tea: "I've retired for several months, you don't know now, do you?"

"You've been on the hot search for retirement for several days. I knew it at the time, but I didn't find a chance to ask you."

Gu Ran sighed: "Firstly, I want to concentrate on finishing the book, and secondly, I feel that there is no challenge if I continue to practice."

Meng Yuqiao asked him, "Are you still used to it after retiring?"

Gu Ran shrugged her shoulders: "Isn't this just like a holiday, but the holiday is a bit longer." He asked the other party again, "What about you, are you used to it?"

Meng Yuqiao shook her head lightly: "Get up regularly every day for exercise."

"IM about the same."

Meng Yuqiao is not a talkative person, except in front of Gu Ran.No matter how much he cherishes words like gold, Gu Ran will always find a way to pry his mouth open and let him speak.

The waiter brought a plate of crispy duck, and Meng Yuqiao naturally picked up the duck leg and put it into Gu Ran's bowl: "I ran into someone this time when I came home."

Gu Ran blurted out: "Who?" He smirked again, "You don't know how to go on a blind date, do you?"

Meng Yuqiao glanced at him, and the cold eyes of Bingshan beauty actually showed a bit of pampering for the younger brother: "I met He Yang."

Rao Gu Ran has a better memory than ordinary people, and the name took him a while to remember who it was: "The one who robbed you of your provincial team spot in R, he came looking for you again?"

Meng Yuqiao said: "He is currently working as a coach in a small club, and he is not doing very well."

Hearing the latter sentence, which was not very good, Gu Ran almost died laughing: "How do you know that?"

Only then did Meng Yuqiao talk about the situation on the day I met him in detail: "My cousin's child is seven years old this year, your fanboy."

Gu Ran smiled happily: "Do you need my autograph?"

"That's not necessary." Meng Yuqiao continued, "My child also wants to learn short track speed skating, so I found a club. I'm afraid that I will be fooled into signing up with me."

It's hard for Gu Ran to imagine that Meng Yuqiao would still help him with this favor: "Then what? Could it be that the coach is that He Yang?"

Meng Yuqiao nodded: "When we went, a child was injured during training, the injury was not serious, and the parents were arguing."

Gu Ran sounds like a lawsuit on his head. This kind of sports students, especially those who have only been in the provincial team for a few years, have not achieved any results and have no foundation in cultural courses. The club should be the coach.

The club is not a provincial team. Parents who spend money to train their children are called customers.Whoever’s child is not a baby now, if something goes wrong, he will definitely cause trouble for the club, and the club will shift the responsibility to the head coach.

Gu Ran had a smirk on his face: "Seeing that he is not doing well, are you happy?"

Meng Yuqiao was noncommittal: "It seems to have seen my future."

Gu Ran laughed louder: "That's different, he is a worker, and you will be the boss in the future, right, Mr. Meng."

The future Mr. Meng glared at him: "Naughty."

Gu Ran asked him: "How is it, has the place been chosen?"

Meng Yuqiao asked back, "Where?"

"Aren't you planning to open a club yourself?"

Meng Yuqiao shook her head lightly: "Not open for now."

"Ah?" Gu Ran picked up a piece of fried meat with chopsticks, "One of my shareholders has even prepared the funds, and you can't talk to me."

Meng Yuqiao said: "I said that I want to open my own club, because I think that everyone can get together from time to time after they retire. Now the three of them have not retired, and you are still studying in school."

"I think, at least we have to wait for Xiao Gao to retire."

Gu Ran smiled and said, "It turned out to be waiting for my brother Xiao Gao to retire."

Meng Yuqiao said: "Xiao Gao is down-to-earth and prudent, I feel a little bit about cooperating with him."

"Sight!" Gu Ran asked, "Then what are your plans for the future?"

Meng Yuqiao said, "I signed a job."

Gu Ran asked casually again: "What job?"

Meng Yuqiao said: "Director Cheng asked me to go back to be an assistant coach."

"!!!"

Assistant coaches are assistants to the head coach and are responsible for implementing the athletes' usual training plans.

Gu Ran put down her chopsticks, got up and left: "Farewell!"

Meng Yuqiao grabbed him: "What is this for?"

Gu Ran said, "You've already been admitted to the career program, what kind of club do you still open?"

"There is no career program, but a worker who signs a contract."

Gu Ran rolled her eyes: "You go back after taking a break for half a year, and go directly from a player to a coach. I want to see their reactions."

Meng Yuqiao said: "I will report on Monday, will you go back with me?"

Gu Ran waved her hand: "I have class on Monday morning."

Meng Yuqiao asked in surprise, "You still need to go to class now?"

Gu Ran sighed: "I want to help my boss substitute two classes for undergraduates."

Meng Yuqiao just stared at him with a smile for a long time, her eyes were as loving as looking at her son: "Teacher Gu."

Gu Ran buried her head in cooking: "Don't disgust me."