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After leaving the ice school, Sang Tian took the subway in the opposite direction to home. When she got out of the subway station, her steps were heavy, and she felt that the thin piece of chocolate in her bag was heavy.

When she reached the gate of Lin Xue's house, she took a deep breath.

Think about what I said to Miao Kefei just now - this time I came to Lin Xue, I should say goodbye.

From the entrance of the community to the short and old building of Lin Xue's house, the narrow road, Sang Tian didn't walk many times, but he remembered it very well.

Why anything, once it is covered with the words "last time", it will instantly become cherished.

For example, the dusty concrete road with mottled cracks, the yellow roadside weeds in the cold winter, and even the milk carton that someone’s child drank and didn’t throw into the trash can.

Sang Tian walked over gently, picked up the paper box and threw it into the trash can.

That carton of milk is strawberry flavored, and the bright pink looks dazzling in the night.

When going upstairs, the sensor light was not working, and Sang Tian felt his heart beating faster and faster as he groped in the dark corridor.

So much so that she had to take a deep breath when standing in front of Lin Xue's house.

In the end, she still knocked on Lin Xue's door.

Unexpectedly, after knocking for a long time, there was no movement inside.

Sang Tian: ...

Bai's expressionless face after putting on it for so long, his face was going to freeze.

Where can Lin Xue go?

Obviously she has resigned from the ice school and Trouble, and she doesn't have any friends, Sang Tian really can't think of where she can be except at home.

Did you guess that it was Sang Tian who knocked on the door, so you deliberately didn't open the door?

Sang Tian got angry: Hey little wolf boy!Sister can't cure you anymore?

She just kept knocking and knocking.

Accompanied by a light knock on the door, another voice came out of my heart——

Lin Xue.

May I not go.

At this moment, the door of Lin Xue's house didn't open, but the opposite door opened, and a gray head stuck out: "Girl, are you looking for Lin Xue?"

Sang Tian nodded: "Grandma, do you know where she went?"

The old lady: "Are you her friend? I seem to have seen you in this yard before."

Sang Tian nodded again: "Don't worry, I'm not a bad person."

Only then did the old lady tell her: "Miss Lin Xue left today, and she also retired this house, didn't she tell you?"

Sang Tian opened her mouth: "I... have been a little busy recently, and I haven't had much contact with her. She has left so soon?"

The old lady nodded: "Actually, she just left for a while and took the bus to the airport. If you really have something to do, take a taxi now, maybe you can catch up."

Sang Tian smiled: "I see, grandma, thank you."

The old lady raised her head to look at the back of Sang Tian leaving, always feeling that the girl looked a little lonely.

She couldn't help asking: "Girl, are you chasing Lin Xue at the airport?"

Sang Tian turned around and smiled: "I don't have anything important, so I won't go."

******

The next day, Sang Tian called Yang Jingsi at the airport: "Are you awake?"

"Just got up." Yang Jingsi seemed to be turning on the speaker of her mobile phone, patting the lotion on there: "Why did you call me so early? Didn't you find out that I finished eating your wafer biscuits?"

Sang Tian sounded quite surprised: "What, you finished my wafer biscuits?"

Yang Jingsi was hating herself for not telling herself, when she heard Sang Tian's voice announcing the flight number.

Yang Jingsi immediately grabbed her phone: "You're at the airport? You're not going to look for Lin Xue, are you? Didn't you swear yesterday that the wolf cub slipped so fast that you'll never look for her again in your life?"

"Why am I looking for her? I don't even know where she has gone." Sang Tian said: "My sister has said that she doesn't care about her heart. If you are in love, you can talk about it happily. When you break up, you can break up happily. My sister and I have already moved forward." Look."

Yang Jingsi muttered: "What are you pretending to be a wolf with a big tail, I don't know you yet."

Then he asked Sang Tian, ​​"Then where are you going?"

"I'm going on a business trip to Heilongjiang Province." Sang Tian said, "Your godmother, please help me keep an eye on her, and don't let her eat anything she shouldn't eat."

"Okay, I've been resting for the past two days after finishing a big job." Yang Jingsi said, "Anyway, my mother is busy with business and flying all over the country, and our house is as quiet as if haunted. I'll go to the hospital to play with my godmother."

Sang Tian hung up the phone and sat in the corner of the row of chairs waiting for the plane in a daze.

There was a girl in front of her on the right, who bent over and curled herself into a shrimp. The other girl was holding a thermos, and accompanied her nervously: "Does it hurt? Have some more brown sugar water?"

In fact, the brown sugar water during dysmenorrhea is the same as the honey water when drunk, it is not very useful, it is the placebo effect.

But the placebo effect is really tm can comfort people!

Sang Tian remembered that the night before yesterday when she was drunk, someone went out in the wind and snow to buy a bottle of honey and made her a cup of warm sweet water.

Although she looked awkward at that time, at least for a moment, her stomach was warm, and her heart seemed to be warm too.

It's just that person, who is no longer in any corner of the world.

Sang Tian scolded in his heart: Isn't he a wolf cub!How to slip faster than a rabbit!

"Are you going to Harbin too?" A voice pulled Sang Tian out of his thoughts.

When Sang Tian looked up, he saw a girl wearing a beret, dressed in a literary style, holding a laptop and charging it with the power supply next to Sang Tian's chair.

Sang Tian nodded, and the girl smiled again and asked, "Travel or business trip?"

Sang Tian: "Business trip."

And it's a must for a business trip.

After Zuo Ming sent Sang Tian the contact information of Chu Lingxue's former principal that day, Sang Tian told Lao He that he wanted to find out about Chao Xi's past.

Sang Tian analyzed: "There are actually two possibilities for the decline of Chao Xi's state back then. One is that she is not strong enough to resist pressure, and her mentality collapsed after getting the place in the World Championships. Pit her."

Lao He asked, "Why do you think so?"

Sang Tian: "Didn't I interview Professor He and Ding Man before? It was the girl who was in the club with Chu Lingxue and Chao Xi before. Both of them thought it was strange that Chao Xi's state suddenly slipped."

"It stands to reason that Chao Xi was 15 years old at the time and had practiced figure skating for many years. He was already a very mature athlete. It is unlikely that there would be a landslide for no reason, or a landslide like a mudslide."

Lao He: "Who do you think cheated Chao Xi? If you have any bold ideas, tell me to scare me!"

Sang Tian shook his head: "I don't have a clue yet, but the principal introduced by Senior Sister Zuo Ming has now retired and returned to his hometown in Heilongjiang Province. You know that principals like them had a lot of authority back then, and which athletes each club produced When going to participate in the world championship trials, the principal has a say."

"If there is something tricky about Chao Xi's affairs, then the headmaster may know something inside. I want to go to Hei Province to find her."

Lao He was a little hesitant: "Then if it's simply that Chao Xi's ability to resist pressure is not strong?"

Sang Tian didn't want to go to Hei Province because of a rumor she heard from Dai Qing and her intuition. She thought very carefully: "If it is really found out that there is nothing wrong with this matter, we will have a good conscience as journalists." Yes, and after chatting with the principal, we can also do a special topic on the mental health of athletes, which is also of great social value."

Lao He thought for a while: "Okay, you can go."

Sang Tian was a little surprised: "Lao He, how dare you?"

Lao He: "This is the end of the matter. Anyway, they are all laid off. If you stretch your head, you will be cut. It's better to make some noise and then be fired."

He chuckled and said, "When my daughter asks me in the future, it's better to say that your dad was fired because he found out some big news. It's better than saying that your dad couldn't find any news and was fired, right?"

Sang Tian laughed and scolded: "You slave slave!"

Just like that, Sang Tian embarked on a journey to Hei Province. Now she was sitting in the airport, looking at the girl next to her who was chatting with her, she smiled with a kind of laziness. Snow.

Sang Tian felt that he was really bewildered, he could think of Lin Xue in everything he saw.

The girl smiled and told Sang Tian: "I'm going on a trip." She also emphasized: "I'm alone and traveling freely, so I'm quite free. If you're free after work, you can ask me to have a barbecue or something."

After speaking, he turned over his WeChat QR code, and handed the phone to Sang Tian: "Scan one?"

Sang Tian smiled and shook her head: "I guess I'll be very busy, so I don't have much chance to have a barbecue."

They are almost 30 years old, Sang Tian knows that the girl's approach to talk is obviously not for a barbecue, and the girl also knows that what Sang Tian refuses is not a barbecue.

But the girl is very chic, and she smiled at Sang Tian friendly: "It's nice to see you, I wish you success in your work."

Sang Tian also smiled: "Thank you, I wish you a pleasant journey."

The girl hugged the computer and went to the other side to charge it.

Sang Tian's surroundings became quiet, she propped her cheeks and continued to be in a daze, remembering what she had said to Dai Qing before, saying that she didn't want to hang herself on a tree with a crooked neck like Lin Xue, she also thought about it, maybe she just liked it What about the lazy type?

But the girl who came to talk to me just now is that type, and to be honest, she is really good-looking.

Sang Tian found that he had no interest at all.

It turned out that what she liked was not a type, but a person.

She was taken aback by this thought of her own - did she agree not to lose her mind?Where are you not distracted?

Sang Tian kept thinking in a mess, not knowing how he got on the plane, until the plane left the runway roaring and jumped into the vast sea of ​​clouds.

Sang Tian watched the city of Bei become smaller and smaller under her feet through the porthole, and suddenly thought - I don't know how Lin Xue felt when she sat on the plane yesterday and watched such a scene?

Will you think of that densely packed city, is there a person like her?

******

The plane landed in Harbin smoothly, and Sang Tian took a taxi to the reserved hotel.

She didn't have the opportunity to come to the Northeast for business trips before, and now she came back to see that although the Northeast and Beicheng are both north, they have very different temperaments, even the snow is like the people here, with a kind of overwhelming refreshment.

There are vendors selling frozen pears and popsicles on the side of the road. There is no need for a freezer, so I spread it on the side of the road with a plastic sheet.

The driver saw that she was fascinated, and asked her, "Girl, is this your first time back to the Northeast?"

"Yes!" Sang Tian gasped and asked the driver: "Master, am I right? Did you really sell spicy candied gourds on the side of the road just now?"

The driver chuckled: "Have you never seen the world? In the Northeast, we also have candied chicken feet, candied gourds, candied haws with crispy noodles..."

As he said that, he insisted on parking the car on the side of the road and went to buy some for Sang Tian.

Sang Tian was so frightened that he hurriedly stopped him, and the driver dispelled the idea by talking hard.

When the taxi finally continued to move forward steadily, Sang Tian sat in the back seat and wiped the sweat from his brow, thinking that the enthusiasm of the people in the Northeast is really unfounded.

She found something-

It's not that she is not that interested in candied haws, but that she is not interested in things that cannot be shared with Lin Xue.

For example, now, she really wants to walk hand in hand with Lin Xue on the streets of Northeast China, looking at the snow that is as dry as powder, looking at those strange candied haws, and then she may buy a bunch of bitter gourds, with the label "can stimulate the sense of taste and let Lin Xue "Taste the taste", the thief smiled and asked Lin Xue to eat it.

Lin Xue must have looked disgusted on the surface, but she would still eat it in the end. She frowned and drooped her eyes when she ate it, and said fiercely to Sang Tian, ​​"You did it on purpose!"

Sang Tian thought of her expression and wanted to laugh.

Then Sang Tian will definitely not wear a scarf on purpose, so that Lin Xue sighed helplessly, took off her own long scarf, and wrapped Sang Tian and herself in it.

Of course, Sang Tian knew that Lin Xue liked people who pretended to be cool so much, and wanted grace over warmth. Of course, she was wearing such a long scarf.

At this time, the driver called Sang Tian in the front row: "Girl? Girl?"

Sang Tian came back to his senses: "Huh?"

Driver: "Did I turn on the heater and smoke you? Why are your eyes red?"

Sang Tian raised his hand and rubbed his eyes: "It's okay master, I may fly from Beicheng, I'm a little tired."

******

Jiangnan, Mudu County.

The person standing by the river with his hands in his pockets had a handsome face, but his expression was as cold as the river water in winter.

A little girl was holding a lollipop and was led by her elder sister to pass by. She couldn't help but keep looking back: "Sister, look at that beautiful sister who is watching the river again. She looks at the river every day. What's the matter?" good-looking?"

The age gap between the two sisters is quite large. The older sister looks like she is in her early twenties, like a college student. Now she whispers to the little girl, "Little girl, don't disturb me."

But he couldn't help but glanced in that person's direction.

She went back to Mudu for the winter vacation, and her family lived near the tourist area of ​​Mudu Ancient Town.

Although it is not far from the tourist area, the south is cold and wet in winter, and there are few people in the off-season of tourism.

But I don't know from which day, every day when she takes her younger sister out for a walk, she can always see such a beautiful woman standing by the river, looking lazy and looking at the river.

There is a saying among them—the river water has a spirit, and the face of the person that everyone misses but cannot see will be reflected through the river water.

A gust of wind blew up, and the wet and cold winter was even more bleak. The woman was wrapped in a long black coat and stood by the river, her whole body falling apart, like a tree that had lost all its leaves.

She couldn't help but think - would a person like this hide someone he missed in his heart?

At this time, there was another gust of stronger wind, causing the younger sister to cover her head and shout: "My hat was blown away!"

The fleece hat with the rabbit ears fluttered in the wind and was blown all the way to the river.

Fortunately, the woman standing by the river was quick, picked up the hat and walked towards them.

My sister quickly took the hat: "Thank you."

The woman spoke perfectly in Mandarin: "You're welcome."

Now she was curious: "Aren't you a local? A northerner?"

The woman nodded lightly, and then someone called out: "Xiaoxue."

She and the woman looked up together, and it was Aunt Chao who was coming, and her wife, Uncle Chao, was in the wheelchair pushing her.

Mudu Town is small, and everyone in this area knows each other. She greeted each other: "Aunt Chao, Uncle Chao, why do you buy so many things? Let me help."

She is more enthusiastic towards Aunt Chao and Uncle Chao than she is towards other elders in the town, because she has heard from her mother before that Aunt Chao and Uncle Chao are hard-working people who are happy for the rest of their lives and are good to everyone, but there are accidents at home one after another. There are several major events: one is that Uncle Chao was seriously injured at the construction site when he was young, not to mention that he could no longer work, and he was disabled for life in a wheelchair; People who learn figure skating don't even charge tuition fees, and later they said they want to participate in the World Championships, but died suddenly for some reason.

It seems to be a self-*sha, in a small town like Mudu, such a way of death would be regarded as unlucky.

However, Aunt Chao and Uncle Chao have been kind to people all their lives, and the residents in the town did not shy away from them, but sympathized with them.At this time, the beautiful woman standing by the river took a step forward: "I'll get it."

"Are you a relative of Aunt Chao's family?"

Aunt Chao introduced with a smile: "This is my goddaughter, Lin Xue, who used to work in Beicheng, but in order to take care of us, she moved to live with us in Mudu."

"Aunt Chao, Uncle Chao, then you are very lucky."

Aunt Chao laughed again and said, "Isn't it?"

The woman named Lin Xue looked very quiet and down-to-earth, she took the vegetables bought by Aunt Chao, pushed Uncle Chao's wheelchair, and walked with them.

Along the way, Aunt Chao chattered, "Xiaoxue, you need to wear more. Mudu looks hotter than Beicheng, but it's actually colder. You've been taking care of us for so many years, why are you so incapable of taking care of yourself?" ..."

The younger sister grabbed the rabbit ear hat and put it on for herself: "Sister, why are you blushing?"

"Go, who is blushing."

She just had never seen such a beautiful woman, just now when she approached and spoke, the magnified facial features were as delicate as carvings.

She went to university in Haicheng, and logically speaking, she had seen many beauties, but no one had the special magical power that made people blush like the woman named Lin Xue just now.

She couldn't help thinking: I don't know what a good-looking person Lin Xue missed when facing the river?

******

Northeast, Harbin.

Sang Tian took a taxi to the hotel to clean up, then took some local products bought from Beicheng, and went to visit the principal introduced by Zuo Ming.

The principal's name is Gai Yiyang. It is said that he was very hot when he was young, and he is also quite famous in the figure skating circle.

According to the address Zuo Ming gave her, Sang Tian got into a unit building, went up to the tenth floor and rang the doorbell.

The person who came to open the door was a very elegant old gentleman, and when he saw Sang Tian, ​​he smiled and asked, "Miss Sang?"

Sang Tian smiled and said, "Are you Principal Gai's husband? Excuse me."

"Don't be so polite, my name is Tan, come in and sit down."

At this moment, a sharp and hearty voice sounded behind Sang Tian: "Are you Sang Tian?"

Sang Tian turned around and saw a woman in ermine, about fifty years old, a little fat, but she could see that she had a good figure when she was young.

Even if I perm the little wool roll that my aunt likes now, I can still see an outstanding temperament.

Sang Tian smiled and said hello: "Principal Gai, you still have the same demeanor, and you can still see that you were a figure skater when you were young."

Gai Yiyang laughed immediately: "Little girl has such a sweet mouth, come in and sit down."

Gai Yiyang brought Sang Tian into the house, and first chatted with Sang Tian about Zuo Ming: "If you say that Zuo Ming is really powerful, my son has been working abroad and has labor disputes with their company. I don't know how to deal with it. I entrusted it to Zuo Ming, and Zuo Ming really found a lawyer to solve it."

Sang Tian smiled when she heard it, this is really Zuo Ming's style, she will take care of any unfair things.

When Sang Tian entered the room, he looked around first: "Mr. Tan is a calligrapher?"

There is a table in the corner of the room, which is full of pens, ink, paper and inkstones, and calligraphy scrolls are hung on the wall, one of which is still wet, obviously he just wrote here.

Gai Yiyang said directly: "What kind of calligrapher, Tan Xu just writes blindly, and he has not sold a few copies after writing for a lifetime. Thanks to my business acumen, I can handle the house, car and son. He loves it." Just write blindly at home."

Sang Tian smiled and said, "Principal Gai, don't be humble on behalf of Mr. Qin. Looking at this word, it shows that you have worked hard for many years."

Tan Xu smiled: "I know my handwriting is not very good, and my wife is also outspoken. She has been pissing me off all my life, and I'm used to it."

Gai Yiyang: "Why, why don't you let others tell you that you can't do it yourself?"

Tan Xu smiled forbearance, said nothing, and went back to the table to write.

Gai Yiyang took Sang Tian to the sofa and sat down: "Don't cover the headmaster one by one, it's all about when you were young, just call me Aunt Gai."

Sang Tian put the souvenirs in his hand on the coffee table: "Aunt Gai, I heard that you used to like to eat the hawthorn pot helmet from the Ditan shop in Beicheng, so I picked up some."

"The little girl is really good at it." Gai Yiyang smiled: "I haven't eaten this bite for many years. Let me tell you, the one made by the one at the altar tastes right."

Sang Tian asked, "What have you been busy with since you returned to Hei Province?"

Gai Yiyang: "I just grow flowers, dance, and occasionally go to the nearby ice school to guide those little women's singles. Don't you think I just came back from the ice school?"

Tan Xu interjected: "Actually, she retreated back to Hei Province because of bad knees, who knows that she still won't be able to relax when she comes back."

Gai Yiyang said: "It's not that I can't be idle, it's just that I really like figure skating. I started to learn figure skating when I was six years old. After that, I became an athlete. After I retired, I started my own club. My life is always with figure skating. Now, how can you say that you can let it go?"

Sang Tian: "Back then, your club trained Chu Lingxue and Chao Xi, and they were also very good."

When Gai Yiyang heard these two names, he sighed: "Zuo Ming told me that you want to ask about the past, but in fact, those are things I don't want to mention, and now I feel my heart twitch when I mention them."

"I have been doing figure skating for many years. Chu Lingxue and Chao Xi are the two best seedlings I have ever seen. Qing, there was no comparison with them back then."

Sang Tian asked: "I heard that after Chao Xi broke his Achilles tendon, he got a place in the World Championships, so many people are not convinced?"

Gai Yiyang: "I don't know why I can't accept it, so I'm so stupid. Chao Xi passed the World Championship trials back then, and she really fought for the place she fought for."

"The only thing they can say is that Chao Xi has a high total score in the short program and free skating. In the short program, she made a mistake when she did the triple axel. Some people said that Chao Xi was still in unstable condition after being injured. , She should not be allowed to enter the World Championships at all."

Sang Tian: "A lot of people are staring at the quota for the World Championships, right?"

"That's not true." Gai Yiyang said: "Speaking of nobility, which figure skating child didn't start practicing at the age of six or seven. After so many years of hard work, who wouldn't want to show his style in the international arena? To put it in a vulgar way , After participating in the World Championships, no matter whether you won the ranking or not, it is covered with a layer of gold, no matter the fame or the entry fee, it will be another level in the future."

Sang Tian: "After Chao Xi's accident, who replaced her?"

"Wu Mengjie." Gai Yiyang said: "We are in the opposite club. To be honest, Wu Mengjie is not talented. He just really likes figure skating and has been persistent. But sports are as cruel as art. If you are not talented, you are not talented. She didn't do well in the World Championships, and she retired soon after, and went abroad with her parents. That World Championships, it can be regarded as a dream come true for her."

Sang Tian: "Then who replaced Chu Lingxue later?"

"Wen Can." Gai Yiyang said: "This is a talented kid, but his skills are not stable, he can perform difficult tasks but makes many mistakes, and his GOE points were deducted quite badly, so the results of that World Championships were also very average. .”

Speaking of it, Gai Yiyang was still very embarrassed: "We originally went to the World Championships with the aim of being the champion and runner-up. Who would have thought of a No. 12 and a No. 16, which really hit us hard."

"I don't know which corner of the world Chu Lingxue went to later. It would be great if I could see her again."

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感谢在2022-01-2313:11:17~2022-01-2416:38:24期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angel who cast the rocket launcher: 1 Huosen;

Thanks to the little angel who threw the landmine: the piece in the middle of the watermelon is for you to eat, one for Mu Chenyan and one for Zhaohai;

Thanks to the little angels who irrigate the nutrient solution: 10 bottles of Tutu are not allowed to eat; 5 bottles of Gege; 1 bottle of Boyan;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!