17 years on ice [figure skating]

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◎7.20-21 update◎

Hugging is something that can make people feel warm and safe at any time, that's what Lu Xi felt when he hugged Deng Chang.

When I was sad before, I was hugged by Deng Chang. At that time, I was too focused on being sad, and I didn't feel too much. Instead, when I hug Deng Chang's shoulders now, all the feelings are very clear.

The light rain fell outside the window without knowing when, Deng Chang had some painful bones on his shoulders, the body temperature of the boy in a thin T-shirt, and the sound of his heartbeat echoed one after another.

It didn't seem like a hug, because Deng Chang didn't hug Lu Xi back. He put his fingers on Lu Xi's shoulder carefully, as if treating him as a very precious treasure, and he didn't dare to touch him too hard.

No one spoke, they hugged each other quietly, and they didn't know whether the two people had the same or different thoughts at the moment.

But they both felt good about this fleeting moment, as if there was only one other in the world.

Lu Xi patted Deng Chang's shoulder reassuringly, Deng Chang didn't say anything, his face was leaning on Lu Xi's shoulder, and he could feel the gradual and gentle breathing.

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It is said that it is to expose Bao Zhongjie's true face, but in reality it is not that simple.

When the two children are combined, it is definitely not enough to rely on the strength of the two of them alone, so who can tell?

Lu Xi's first thought was Huang Bin. It is the most logical idea for a child to find a parent if he has difficulty.

But the first candidate he gave up was also Huang Bin.

Because if Huang Bin knew about Deng Chang, he would definitely be mad, but he was only from the Crane City team and had nothing to do with the national team, so he couldn't help him, so he could only sulk.

Lu Xi couldn't bear to see Huang Bin sulk.

Then he considered Chen Qi, Lu Xi and Deng Chang both trusted Chen Qi, but Chen Qi and Bao Zhongjie had been together for more than ten years, Chen Qi might not trust them.

But in the end Lu Xi said: "Even if Coach Chen can't believe it, at least he won't think that we are talking nonsense, and we won't stand with Bao Zhongjie, what do you think?"

Deng Chang agreed.

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But Lu Xi and Deng Chang didn't dare to blatantly ask Chen Qi to say this.

It's not just because the two of them are a little frightened now, they feel that Bao Zhongjie's eyeliner is everywhere, even if there is no such thing, they are usually quite afraid of Chen Qi, and they dare not talk to Chen Qi about chores other than training.

The two chattered for a while, and decided to call Chen Qi out of the museum, so that they would be bolder in what they said.

So early the next morning, Coach Chen Qi turned on his phone and received a message:

-Lu Xi: Coach, can I meet you at the coffee shop outside the gym later? 【Scattering Flowers】【Winning Eyes】【Gifts】【Lips】

Chen Qi:? ?

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after an hour.

Chen Qi beckoned to the waitress in the coffee shop, and after a long silence, he let out a long breath:

"I just said to wait a while to make the coffee, and give me double the espresso, thank you."

The waitress's expression trembled slightly: "Sir, you have already added five times the espresso to this cup of coffee in the past hour, and I suggest you not to add more."

"Add." Chen Qi looked extremely determined, "Thank you."

The waitress went to the back kitchen full of worry, and decided that no matter what the customer said, this cup of coffee had to be made immediately anyway.

Otherwise, if the handsome uncle in front of you increases the concentration a few times, I am afraid that if you drink it in one gulp, you will fall down here.

In the booth, Chen Qi picked up a small square cookie on the porcelain plate with his index and middle fingers.

Lu Xi thought it was delicious, but Chen Qi looked as if he was eating plastic, and Lu Xi needed to control his figure, seeing him eating one piece after another, the expression on his face was close to grief and indignation.Chen Qi finished eating a plate of plastic with a click, and finally sighed quietly: "You mean... the boss has been using... Chang for profit these years?"

He consciously lowered his voice to silence the words "Bao" and "Deng", Lucy nodded and said so.

Deng Chang was called by Bao Zhongjie early in the morning, saying that he still had questions to ask. Lu Xi was afraid that he could not explain clearly by himself, so he directly took his mobile phone and let Chen Qi judge by himself.

Chen Qi stared at the news records of "W1" for a long time, and asked, "You say this is Baotouer?"

Lucy nodded.

"Is there any way to prove it?"

"Not now." Lu Xi expected such an ending, and said hastily, "But I can swear, although it's useless to swear..."

"I believe you won't lie. I didn't sleep all night last night. Looking back on what I've known about Xiao Chang in the past few years, I don't think he is a child who will accept private orders."

Chen Qi paused: "But you accuse Baotouer... this matter is of great importance. After all, it is the head coach, and the possibility of misunderstanding is not ruled out. It is impossible for me to draw conclusions based on such a chat record."

Chen Qi also said, "Don't make things big, let Deng Chang think about whether there is anything that can prove that Baotouer did these things. On my side...whether it is a misunderstanding or it is true, I will also use Check out my channel."

"What's more, no matter what, you can't admit your mistakes. If Baotouer is in a hurry to make a judgment and appeal, I didn't expect Xiao Chang to admit it, you silly boy."

Lu Xi nodded in agreement: "I think so too."

"..."

Chen Qi returned Deng Chang's cell phone to Lu Xi, receiving such explosive news early in the morning made him frown, and his nasolabial folds seemed to be a little heavier.

When the coffee was served, he took a sip, his face wrinkled in an instant, and he waited for a long time before saying: "Okay, you go first, don't delay your training, you know?"

Chen Qi's attitude was not very clear, but according to some expectations of Lu Xi's reaction to him after the discussion with Deng Chang last night, he was already firmly on their side.

Lucy nodded: "OK."

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The sun had already risen very high when Lu Xi left the coffee shop. It had just rained last night, and now it was very sunny outside, and the remaining coolness in the air was evaporated by the high temperature.

Lu Xi has been soaking in the ice rink all year round. He is more resistant to cold than others but not so hot. The peaked cap he wears when he goes out is not enough to face the midsummer sun, so he runs like crazy until he enters the training hall and turns on the air conditioner. .

I wanted to take a shower before going to training, but as soon as I entered the locker room, the door clicked open.

Lu Xi turned her head, just in time to see Liu Xinyu entering the door.

Liu Xinyu who "lost the mailbox key".

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Liu Xinyu didn't know Lucy well, so he glanced at Lucy, and was about to roll his eyes habitually, when he saw Lucy walking towards him quickly, with a very fierce aura on his body.

He was startled, but before he could react, Lu Xi had already grabbed his sleeve and dragged him to the shower room.

"Fuck! You fucking..." Liu Xinyu couldn't grasp his balance, and just halfway through his words, he was thumped into the private room of the shower room by Lucy.

Liu Xinyu slammed his back on the wall, completely out of the situation, he stared at Lu Xi dumbfounded.

Lu Xi quickly locked the door of the cubicle, ignored Liu Xinyu's shocked face, took the shower down to face the ground, and opened it to the maximum.

Water jets gushed out, and Lu Xi's trouser legs and shoes were soaked. At this moment, he raised his eyes, held the shower, and looked at Liu Xinyu expressionlessly.

"What's wrong with you?" Liu Xinyu said angrily, "Are you fucking trying to mess with me? I don't like men!"

The loud sound of water completely blocked the voice of the people. Lu Xi ignored Liu Xinyu's words and asked straightforwardly: "Let me ask you, what's the matter with the mailbox key?"

Liu Xinyu was stunned for a moment, and asked back, "What mailbox key?"

"Don't be stupid, you lost the key to the mailbox." Lucy said slowly, "Is it really lost? Do you know where it went?"

"You came here for this! But what the hell do you mean?" Liu Xinyu raised his voice, "You suspect that I lost the key on purpose? I lost the key yesterday and I was so anxious to find it all afternoon, you just open your mouth and come here now." ?”

"Oh, you've been looking for it all afternoon." Lu Xi stared at Liu Xinyu, his eyes were so bright that people didn't dare to look directly at them, "Then tell me what happened to you in our dormitory yesterday? Go to our place to find the key?"

This question was no different from that of a general, Liu Xinyu's face turned purple.

He stared at Lucy with wide eyes, gasped several times before saying, "Fuck me! Don't fucking spit blood!"

"You mean you didn't go?" Lucy asked.

It would be easy if Liu Xinyu killed him and didn't go. There are surveillance cameras on the avenue, and Gao Zhuoxiao also saw Liu Xinyu, so it is easy to prove that he is lying.

As long as it can be proved that Liu Xinyu is lying, it can be broken from this point, at least to clear Deng Chang's suspicion first.

But after Lu Xi finished asking, Liu Xinyu was silent for a while, looked at Lu Xi's expression, and suddenly frowned: "I'm going."

Lucy was stunned suddenly.

Liu Xinyu obviously also sensed Lu Xi's surprise, and when he saw Lu Xi deflated, he laughed even more proudly: "I went, because my girlfriend was also in that dormitory area, she was practicing short track, and I lost it at that time." Key, I was worried, so I went to her to discuss what I should do."

"Are you satisfied with this answer? World champion Lucy?"

He admitted it, and said it logically.The ultimate move became useless in one fell swoop.

Lucy didn't speak any more, he looked down at the ground, the water from the shower was so strong that the lower half of his trousers were completely soaked, and he looked a bit embarrassed.

After a long silence, Lu Xi finally raised his head and looked at Liu Xinyu.

Instead of the gaffe Liu Xinyu expected, he said rather calmly: "I hope you can keep saying that."

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After finishing the words, Lu Xi shook the shower in his hand, and when Liu Xinyu thought that Lu Xi was about to spray water on his face, he raised his hand to block it, but he heard the sound of water jets hitting the partition.

Lu Xi just turned the shower sideways 90 degrees, flushed the partition as if venting, then turned off the water and hung the shower expressionlessly, turned and walked out of the shower without even looking at Liu Xinyu again.

Liu Xinyu stared at the water all over the floor, leaned against the tile wall in a daze for a long time, and then murmured: "You idiot... what's the matter?"

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For the next two days, things stalled.

Deng Chang was sought out intensively by Bao Zhongjie. At first, everyone thought it was about foreign training, but there were too many of them. Immediately, rumors and rumors spread, including "it is said that Deng Chang violated the rules". The rumors of having a nose and eyes made Lu Xi more convinced that someone was cooperating with Bao Zhongjie.

The problem is that they don't have any evidence. They can't prove that Liu Xinyu is lying, they can't prove that Bao Zhongjie is manipulating, and they can't prove that there is any relationship between them.

So even if Lu Xi clearly knew that Bao Zhongjie had a problem, and even Bao Zhongjie himself knew that Lu Xi knew that he had a problem—when the two of them met each other occasionally, Bao Zhongjie, who was usually relatively indifferent, would deliberately smile and talk to Lu Xi. Saying hello to provoke - but Lucy has nothing to do with him.

Deng Chang said that Bao Zhongjie's attitude was very firm, and he submitted the evidence very quickly.

Songcheng's advertisement was originally a bureau for Bao Zhongjie to manipulate Deng Chang. After the supplementary agreement disappeared along with the mailbox key, all "facts" pointed to Deng Chang signing a clumsy private agreement. one.

Originally, he just wanted to punish Deng Chang for not being able to go to foreign training, but now, Bao Zhongjie meant to suspend Deng Chang from the game, and he might even go in the direction of expulsion.

The only good thing is that in this way, Chen Qi firmly stood on Lu Xi's side, because Bao Zhongjie's appearance was too anxious, and his face was a bit obvious.

Chen Qi pretended not to know anything at the meeting and tried his best to delay the progress, while on the other hand he was using his own channels to try to find evidence.

But there was no apparent relationship between Bao Zhongjie and the brokerage company, which made Chen Qi's side also come to a standstill.

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On the third day, Deng Chang was still called by Bao Zhongjie to talk. Lu Xi trained alone. He just has to work hard for this.

Seeing that Lu Xi and Deng Chang were in trouble, Liu Xinyu was very proud every day, humming a little song and skating on the ice.

Gao Zhuoxiao, who was new to the team, was much more caring. He practiced with Lu Xi and helped him count.The young players' admiration for Lu Xi and Deng Chang was obvious, and they even offered to help Lu Xi carry bags after getting off the ice.

"No, I can do it myself." Lu Xi hurriedly took the bag, "Thank you."

"Do you want to do something for your idol?" Gao Zhuoxiao smiled embarrassedly, with a small dimple on the corner of his mouth.

Liu Xinyu rolled his eyes and walked past the two of them.

Gao Zhuoxiao asked: "Brother Xiao Xi, are you going to have dinner together?"

Lu Xi is now gloomy about Deng Chang's affairs every day. It's good to have someone to talk to, so he said "OK", and went to the cafeteria to bring Deng Chang a meal first, then called his own, and found someone who was empty. place to eat.

Thinking about Bao Zhongjie's mess, Lucy got annoyed, took a bite of food and sighed, Gao Zhuoxiao looked at him cautiously for a long time, and finally couldn't help asking, "Brother Xi, what happened? You've been depressed recently. "

"It's nothing." Lu Xi still wanted to act like a big brother in front of the younger generation, and sighed old-fashionedly, "It's just a little trouble."

"If there is anything I can help, you can tell me." Gao Zhuoxiao said, "But... I may not be able to help."

Gao Zhuoxiao is quite funny, he has a complex mixture of enthusiasm to get close to his idol and inferiority complex that he feels that he is not enough, which is very different from Lu Xi Deng Chang back then.

Lucy was amused by him, and patted him on the shoulder: "It's good for you to eat with me."

Gao Zhuoxiao was flattered and asked: "Really?"

"Really." Lucy said, and he asked again with a thought, "Hey, how do you feel about Baotou these few days since you came to the national team?"

Although it feels guilty to test young people, it's okay not to drag him into the water anyway.

"Coach Bao?" Gao Zhuoxiao thought for a while, then said with a smile, "I have always respected him a lot, but the coach has always been hidden in the past few days, maybe he is usually busy?"

"Yes." Lu Xi was told by him, thinking that Deng Chang was still being questioned, so he was not in the mood to continue asking, "He is very busy."

Then sighed while eating, Gao Zhuoxiao went to make him a bowl of mung bean soup: "Xiao Xige, drink some of this to cool off the heat."

Lu Xi froze for a moment, then smiled at Gao Zhuoxiao: "Thank you."

When it comes to eating, Gao Zhuoxiao is as caring as Deng Chang, and will wait for Lu Xi to finish eating.

They went out together after dinner, and the sky was cloudy when they left the cafeteria.

"It looks like it's going to rain." Gao Zhuoxiao looked up at the sky.

"This is the rainy season." Lu Xi said, "Have you brought an umbrella? Let's go back early."

"Bring it, good." Gao Zhuoxiao waved his hand at Lu Xi, "Bye bye, brother Xi."

Lucy smiled: "Goodbye."

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Bid farewell to Gao Zhuoxiao Road West and walk back by myself. The weather in the capital during the rainy season is quite unpredictable, and it is about to catch up with the south.

It was still sunny in the morning and now it is cloudy. Fortunately, it is not the uncomfortable stuffy heat. The temperature dropped immediately, and the branches swayed in the wind. It was obvious that a heavy rain was coming.

This kind of weather is very suitable for Lu Xi's mood, and he was still troubled when he walked back.

In the past few days, Deng Chang's training time was almost occupied by Bao Zhongjie's inquiries, which was definitely on purpose.

The external training will actually be in April next year, that is, after the end of the season, but judging by the current situation, Bao Zhongjie wants Deng Chang to not even be able to participate in this season's games.

They knew it was Bao Zhongjie, but they couldn't produce any evidence. Liu Xinyu's line reached a perfect logical self-consistency, but they were restrained.

What should I do?

Lu Xi sat down on the side of the road in distress, with dark clouds piling up above his head, and the muffled sound of thunder could be heard in the clouds.

Bao Zhongjie's method of suppressing Deng Chang in the dark these years is very clean, even if there is a flaw, it is not something that the two inexperienced athletes can detect. The only thing they can do is to make a fuss about the mailbox key this time.

The monitoring has been checked, and there are no unfamiliar faces to pick up the courier, but everyone who is familiar with it comes once. Although this makes Lu Xi's investigation more difficult, it also confirms one thing, that is, he cooperated with Bao Zhongjie It must be the "inner ghost" in the team.

Liu Xinyu, he has never given Lu Xi and Deng Chang good looks since he joined the team, and he has always been the only men's single under Bao Zhongjie.

This time, he was probably emotional and agreed to cooperate with Bao Zhongjie to frame him, because Deng Chang took the only foreign training spot and stimulated him...

boom -

Rolling thunder tore through the clouds, and the moment the bean-heavy raindrops fell, the bright lightning flashed across the sky and illuminated my mind.

Lu Xi suddenly thought of something, his back straightened suddenly, but his pupils suddenly shrank!

He always felt that there was only one quota for foreign training.

But Orihara and the two of them have a very good relationship. In the previous Star of the Century ice show, Japan also invited the two to be together.

Deng Chang angered Bao Zhongjie because he insisted on leading Lu Xi. Originally, Lu Xi thought that Bao Zhongjie was simply dissatisfied with Deng Chang protecting him, but now thinking about it...

What if foreign training is not a quota in the first place?

If there is a second quota, it seems that the vested interest is not Liu Xinyu, right?

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It was rare for Lucy to think so much about one thing before, but the desire to protect a person is to make him smarter and stronger.

In an instant, all the scattered pictures were connected into lines, and the raindrops of the bean size were scattered and cold.

Lucy's hands were shaking, but they were shaking because of disbelief.

Many scenes flashed through his mind. The smiling young man with dimples on his lips said, "Xiao Xi and Deng are both my idols", quickly gaining their trust.

Deng Chang said that he was the first potential stock selected by Bao Zhongjie.

So what if... now there is a second one?

When we went to the cafeteria for the first time, that person said a word:

- Not everyone is a Xige, who can become famous without being trained. I think you are even better.

At that time, Lu Xi didn't pay attention to this sentence, but thinking about it now, there is no more unshakable evidence than this.

Lucy received professional training since she was a child, so why is it called "untrained"?

Only he and Deng Chang have experienced the "cultivation", what is that?

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When the rain started to pour heavily, Lu Xi jumped up from the side of the road and ran towards the athletes' dormitories at full speed.

It was raining again at this point, and there was no one on the road. When he rushed to the edge of the dormitory, he happened to see Gao Zhuoxiao holding an umbrella, as if he was going to go back to rest after a leisurely walk.

"Gao Zhuoxiao!!" Lu Xi shouted.

Gao Zhuoxiao turned his head and was stunned the moment he saw Lu Xi.

He instinctively took a step back, but then stabilized his figure, and even smiled at Lu Xi who was running over, "Xiao Xige, what's the matter?"

When Lucy ran in front of him, his hair was soaked, sticking to both sides of his face, but his washed eyes looked black and bright.

"Is that you?" Lucy asked.

Gao Zhuoxiao smiled blankly: "Brother Xiaoxi, what are you talking about... hey!"

Before he could finish his sentence, Lu Xi slapped him against the wall, and the umbrella fell to the ground with a bang, and both of them were soaked by the rain.

In the pouring rain, Lu Xi pressed Gao Zhuoxiao's shoulder with one hand, stared at him, gritted his teeth and asked fiercely: "I sincerely regard you as a teammate, so I will ask you one last time. Gao Zhuoxiao, about Brother Deng , does it have anything to do with you?"