17 years on ice [figure skating]

◎Going to the Grand Prix by car with my boyfriend. ◎

seven days later.

Germany.

The small town named Herrick is the venue for this year's Grand Prix finals. There is not even an airport here. You have to take a plane to Berlin and then transfer to a train.

Because it is a tourist city, even the trains are old-fashioned steam trains, honking the whistle, and the car body enters the station with a tom tom as the wheels turn.

It is said that it is actually a tram in line with the development level of modern technology, but the shape is made into a retro look, so that tourists will like it more.

It is indeed very good.

It just snowed a few days ago, and the snow piled up on the roof next to the railroad tracks, and the top of the train carriage was also covered with a layer of white snow, which formed a sharp contrast with the iron-black body, and it just looked like a vacation.

This year's grand prix finals, apart from Deng Chang, also included Qin Shu and Hu Muyu in pair skating, plus the accompanying coaches, assistants, translators, team doctors and other staff, as well as Lu Xi who came here as a "sparing partner". A total of twelve people, two carriages, six people in each carriage.

Lu Xi lay on the window sill looking at the snow scene outside.

Growing up in the Northeast, watching snow is actually commonplace for Lu Xi.When he was filming a promotional video, he met a diver from Guangdong, and the two chatted until winter.

Diver: "I've never seen snow! Doesn't snow weigh down the winter leaves?"

Lucy's face was full of question marks: "There are still leaves on the trees in winter??"

This happened around 18 years ago, when he and Deng Chang were still close friends.He told the story to Deng Chang, and Deng Chang was silent for a long time before saying: "Our motherland has a vast land and abundant resources."

At first, Lu Xi thought that what Deng Chang said was quite correct, but he realized that night and went to the cafeteria to block Deng Chang.

Lucy asked him: "Are you laughing at me at noon?"

Deng Chang said innocently: "No."

But he was still chased by Lucy and held a grudge.

Putting these aside, the snow scenes in Germany are different from those in China.

There are many high-rise buildings and tube buildings on the side of Crane City, and the bustling people on the street make it a very humanistic snow scene. There are few people on the German side, and everything from the train to the eaves is thick black.

The silver-white snow covered the pitch-black eaves and carriages, together with the orange lights on the roadside in the evening, it is a fairytale scene.

"The scenery is so beautiful." Lu Xi looked at the snow outside and sighed, "It's rare to come to such a beautiful place to compete."

"Herrick is a tourist city, but in fact it should be a small town in terms of size." Chen Qi said, "It does have beautiful scenery, but I can't figure it out. How could such a big competition as the Grand Prix be selected in the finals?" Come to this place."

Usually, large-scale world-class competitions will be played in big cities, because regardless of traffic conditions, spectator reception capacity, food, accommodation and other aspects, big cities are more suitable than small cities to welcome spectators from all over the world.

For example, in China, although for the sake of promoting the city, the National Championships and Grand Prix in China are held in different places every year, but at least it is the provincial capital or one of the largest cities in the province, like Herrick Lucy had never heard of such a small town before he came here.

"Maybe because of the fact that the town's tourist scenery is really good." Wang Lili, the team leader, said, "Oh, but I also heard a gossip that the new ISU tournament director's hometown is from this place, so I strongly advocated The Grand Prix is ​​here."

Chen Qi let out a "tsk".

Nepotism is commonplace both at home and abroad, and it is nothing more than listening to gossip.

There must still be disadvantages to holding a competition in a small city with no experience in competitions. At least Chen Qi is not very happy. He feels that the organization of athletes, competition venues, and supporting facilities are not very guaranteed.

However, the two younger ones, Lu Xi and Deng Chang, were still in a state of being overjoyed to see something they hadn't seen before, and they didn't really care about Chen Qi's worries.

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Because it is a tourist train, there are flight attendants wearing local costumes to sell drinks and food, including special flavored beer, candies, biscuits and freshly made barbecue.

Deng Chang, Qin Shu, and Hu Muyu had a competition coming up, and they couldn't eat anything. Lucy finally didn't need the competition, so he ordered wine enthusiastically.

"You are not yet an adult, you can't..." Chen Qi remembered half of what he said, "Oh, you are an adult."

Lucy returned with a very proud expression.

Think about Xiao Luxi when he first joined the team. Although he was 16 years old, he was just a little tall... Of course, he is not tall now.

Chen Qi almost laughed, but seeing Shang Luxi's puzzled eyes, he quickly cleared his throat solemnly, pretending that he didn't think about anything strange.

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I ordered the prepared strawberry beer. The beer was mixed with strawberry pulp, with a thick layer of cream on top, and a layer of strawberries piled up like a small cake. It was a very exaggerated and very large glass, which looked completely authentic. Dessert.

While eating, Lucy was full of guilt, and muttered while eating: "One set of squats, two sets of squats..."

Deng Chang: "..."

Then you should not eat it!

Wang Lili laughed wildly on the side.

The atmosphere was just right, and suddenly there was a loud bang outside the door. They didn't close the door of the carriage, and a man fell in like a sack.

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Everyone was stunned. Chen Qi was the first to stand up as the coach. Hu Muyu immediately pulled Qin Shu behind him. Deng Chang stood up and pushed Lu Xi, who stood up after him, back to his seat.

After the man fell down, he stood up cursing, with an extremely strong smell of alcohol on his body, and soon another strong man rushed over. Before the man could stand still, he pointed at the strong man's nose and cursed. The German tone was very fierce, which made them The aura of cursing is also very fierce, it is estimated that he is drinking too much to pick quarrels here.

Deng Chang wrapped one hand around Lu Xi's shoulders, which was a subconscious protective action, and kept his eyes on the two men without blinking. If they wanted to make trouble here, he would definitely do it right away.

However, Chen Qi has a lot of experience in this kind of thing.

Taking advantage of the two laowai's sparring, he walked up in a big way, put his hands on the shoulders of the two laowai, and actually spoke German, although it was only a few simple words.

The two laowai were drinking too much and scolding there. They didn't know who came up to hug them, and they didn't care. They were pushed out by Chen Qi in a daze, and continued to wrestle along the aisle. The male flight attendant had already rushed over, trying to To maintain order, Chen Qi retreated into their private room, and closed the door with a bang.

"Coach, what did you just say?" Lucy asked curiously.

"Brother, brother." Chen Qi took the glass of dark beer in front of him, raised his head and took a big gulp, then wiped his mouth, "I don't know any other German either."

It may be because the atmosphere was too tense just now, such a sentence can poke everyone's laughter, and everyone in the box laughed up and down.The flight attendant played country music with a very happy atmosphere at the right time, and snow fell outside the window again, falling in a fluttering manner, and a thin layer of frost formed on the window glass.

Lu Xi smiled and found that Deng Chang was still holding his shoulders.In front of the head coach and team leader, as well as the pair skating next door.

After being together, they actually deliberately avoided suspicion. They didn't hang together every day like before, but this time they were too relaxed and forgot about it.

The moment Lu Xi glanced over his shoulder, Deng Chang realized what was going on. He immediately wanted to take his hand away, but he hesitated for a while and didn't move.

On the train in a foreign land, there are all familiar teammates who are like family members, and there is a dreamlike heavy snow outside the carriage. At this time, no one is willing to be separated from their lover for even a second.

Lu Xi nestled in the corner, looked at the teammates, coaches and team leaders who were laughing and chatting beside him, and then looked at Deng Chang beside him.The other party put his fingers on his shoulders and hugged him lightly. Looking at him from this angle, Deng Chang didn't have the nerve to look at him blatantly, but the side face was very close, and he could kiss him boldly. leaning on his shoulder.

So Lu Xi tilted his head slightly, and really leaned over like this, the train quickly backed up all the way in their perspective, the snowflakes outside the window were flying backwards, and Lu Xi nestled in Deng Chang's arms, pretending to be fine. Drinking strawberry beer, listening to Chen Qi, Wang Lili and the others tell German jokes.

Taking advantage of no one looking, he lightly hooked Deng Chang's hand.