17 years on ice [figure skating]

◎"You haven't congratulated me on winning the championship yet."◎

As the second hand ticked by, the awards music had already started, and the staff in front whispered, "Please gather the contestants on the podium." Liu Xinyu, who had already taken his seat, looked at them and rolled his eyes speechlessly.

In the lively and chaotic atmosphere, one question and one answer two "next time", like some kind of silent promise.

"What are you dawdling about?" Cui Xiao rushed over, hugging Lu Xi with his left arm and Deng Chang with his right hand, and led them to the awards channel.

Although Cui Xiao was not well-known before, after Lu Xi and Deng Chang came out of the circle one after another, he also became famous as the eldest brother. The picture in front of him was quite beautiful, and many viewers took pictures from a distance.

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The award ceremony was held on the ice rink, and the carpet for the opening ceremony was laid out again. Lucy had already received an award in the World Youth Championship, but this kind of experience is not too many times.

He, Deng Chang and Liu Xinyu stood behind the podium, each corresponding to a position. The audience was full and cheered. Even Liu Xinyu, who was not very popular before, received a lot of applause.

When Lucy stood on the podium with big strides, bent down to let the award presenters wear the gold medal for him, and received the flowers that symbolized the victory, and heard the applause and whistle around him, the excitement of winning the national championship was real burst out.

Lucy jumped twice on the podium, all the camera shutters were aimed at him, he raised his face with a smile, and blew kisses to the audience around him.Deng Chang and Liu Xinyu on the left and right stood on the first stage together, and they took a group photo.

Winning is always a very happy thing, who doesn't like to be the first.

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In the afternoon, Lu Xi wanted to watch the women's singles, but after dinner, he was dragged to another meeting. This time, Deng Chang was with him, as well as the coach Chen Qi and the national team's "head coach" Bao Zhongjie, The team leader Wang Lili, and some faces that Lu Xi didn't recognize.

It is the commendation meeting at the end of the season. First, they will take pictures and present awards, and then they will tell them about their plans for the next season.

Lucy has never listened carefully to these contents. Anyway, the guiding spirit is meant for the team leader, and the athletes only need to listen to the team leader to tell them what to do.

Besides, he didn't rest well after finishing the free skating in the morning, and he was too full for lunch. In the afternoon, the sun was shining, and he felt sleepy until his eyelids were fighting. , could not hear clearly.

Dazedly seeing Deng Chang beside him actually sitting upright and listening attentively, Lu Xi was shocked. This is probably the difference between a top student and an ordinary person.

When Lu Xi was woken up by Wang Lili poking him with a signature pen, the projector in front of him had already been turned off, and everyone in suits and leather shoes was leaving the table one after another.

He slept really soundly, and no one made it difficult for him.It is not easy for the national champion to come to the meeting, pretend to take a few photos, and obediently fill the audience.

Originally, Cui Xiao said that he would invite him to dinner, but in the end, this separate small meal was not invited, because the coaches of the national team brought the men's and women's singles to dinner together in the evening.

It's not to celebrate the end of the National Championship. This is indeed a game with no gold content. What is worth celebrating is that the results of Lu Xi and Deng Chang this time will be placed in the World Championship. first 10.

It also means that as long as they maintain this level, it is not impossible for the Huaguo men's singles to secure two or even three places in the World Series from next year.

From Chen Qi's retirement to the present, the men's singles has been competing in single places for many years. If they can stabilize two places every year in the future, it will be a new level.

Everyone took turns to congratulate, the national team, the reserve team, coaches, assistants... When Bao Zhongjie walked up to Lu Xi with a wine glass, Chen Qi stood up: "Both of them are underage."

"Just drink two cups, Coach Chen, you have to drink too." Bao Zhongjie smiled, "I won the national championship, congratulations, besides, Xiaoxi's World Youth Championship champion, we haven't eaten yet. What if you don't know how to drink as an athlete? OK."

The words are right, athletes have to eat if they want to celebrate, and they have to drink if they want to eat. This is something that cannot be avoided, Chen Qi knows it well.

There were no strangers at the table today, and no one dared to force-feed the two young ones at this age, no matter how accustomed they are.

"Coach Bao is right." Chen Qi raised his glass and touched it with Bao Zhongjie. What he smacked was the lower edge of Bao Zhongjie's wine glass. This was a sign of weakness. Bao Zhongjie is the head coach of the national team. Chen Qi accepted all the overtures politely, and walked to Deng Chang and Lu Xi's side.

He nodded, and then a young member of the reserve team came over and poured liquor for Lu Xi and Deng Chang graciously.

Chen Qi kept staring at the glass with a blank expression. He had just poured a quarter of the wine into the small cup, which was only five cents, and said with a blank expression: "Stop."

The young team member was stared at by Chen Qi, and he didn't dare to move his hands. He looked at Bao Zhongjie timidly, Bao Zhongjie smiled gently and said, "Okay, that's it."

Then he walked over and picked up the wine glass: "Xiao Xi, congratulations on winning the national championship. In the next Olympic cycle, our national team will rely on you and Xiao Deng to lead us."

Lu Xi was not familiar with Bao Zhongjie, but he knew that this was a legendary coach, so he smiled obediently and clinked glasses with him like Chen Qi.

Lucy has had a drink before. It is indeed a tradition to drink after a game. The usual training is too hard. Many people point to the offseason to relax, but he is not one of them. He just drank a little beer when he won the trials and was toasted by others. , This is the first time I drink liquor, and I don't know how to drink it.

But since Bao Zhongjie respected him first, he was not polite, raised his head from the cup, and drank the sip of white wine in one gulp.

In an instant, Lu Xi felt that he was on fire, from his tongue to his throat burning.Tears almost flowed out, barely holding back.Soon the heat rose from the stomach, flowed to the limbs and bones, and rushed into the brain.

A little hot, but comfortable.

Lucy felt light and dizzy.

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"Refreshing!" Bao Zhongjie smiled and gave Deng Chang a thumbs up.

Deng Chang lowered his eyes, touched Bao Zhongjie, and sipped the drink three times.

What the fuck?

So that's how baijiu is drunk?

Lu Xi instantly felt that he was being tricked, and for some reason, after taking a sip of white wine, all his emotions became very explicit.After Bao Zhongjie finished his toast and left, both of them sat down, and he poked Deng Chang's arm under the table.

Deng Chang turned his head in a daze, and Lucy knew that it was not good to speak loudly on such an occasion, so he stared at him with burning eyes.

After fully expressing his dissatisfaction, he lowered his voice and asked, "Why didn't you say it earlier?"

Deng Chang was obviously taken aback: "Why didn't you say it earlier?"

Lu Xi lightly knocked the base of his wine glass on the tablecloth, "I'll drink this in three sips."

Deng Chang looked at him and frowned slightly. Lucy thought he must be feeling impatient.

Deng Chang was silent for two seconds and said, "My fault."

"Forget it." Lu Xi waved his hand, "I don't care about you, we don't know each other well anyway."

Deng Chang pursed his lips and said nothing.

He didn't speak, and Lu Xi felt bored, so he ate. It seemed that Liu Xinyu and the like came later, but Deng Chang stood up and said something. They could only put down their wine glasses and said to Lu Xi: "Congratulations, Xiaoxi!" They each left again.

"Hey." Lu Xi poked Deng Chang's arm again, "What did you tell them?"

Deng Chang turned his head and stared at him for several seconds before saying, "Let's eat your meal."

"Okay." Lucy said bitterly, "You're so difficult."

Judging from his expression, Deng Chang was extremely upset, finally he sighed, ignored Lu Xi, and turned back.

-

The meal was very noisy, the room was very hot, the laughter and the smell of wine filled the air, but Lu Xi's mood was not too high, Deng Chang ignored him, he was a little tired, and no one came to toast behind him, Lucy fell asleep without knowing why.

When he woke up, the room was pitch black, and there was no sound of laughter or clinking wine glasses. Only his neck, which was already showing signs of stiff neck, told Lucy that he had indeed slept in a private room in the hotel.

Lucy straightened up from the back of the chair, rubbed his eyes, a little confused.

What does it mean?Everyone in the team has left?Leaving him here alone?

Just thinking about this, he noticed a faint light not far behind him, and it was this light that allowed him to vaguely see the outline of the room when he just woke up.

He turned his head, looked through the light, and saw Deng Chang at a glance.

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Deng Chang was sitting by the floor-to-ceiling window, with the long night behind him, he was playing with his mobile phone, with one long leg bent against the wall, and the other stretched out casually.

The light from the mobile phone made his nose straight and handsome.

Lu Xi was stunned for half a second, cleared his throat, "Hello."

Deng Chang raised his eyes, and the pupil color was reflected by the fluorescent light into a lighter amber color than usual, as if he was colder than usual.

"Are you awake?" Deng Chang asked.

"Yeah." Lucy said.

"Then let's go." Deng Chang got up and turned on the phone to flashlight mode, "Go back and rest early, we have to shoot tomorrow."

"What?" Lucy was taken aback.

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Deng Chang stopped in his tracks, and looked sideways at Lu Xi, who was lying on the chair in a daze. The boy had just woken up, his eyes were still hazy, and the light in his eyes was like stars scattered in the sky.

He sighed in his heart: "Tomorrow, shoot the ad for that sports jacket."

Lucy was still in a daze.

Deng Chang explained: "It was arranged during the meeting today. Tomorrow, I'm going to shoot a promotional advertisement for a sports jacket brand. I should sign a contract with you tomorrow."

"Oh." Lu Xi blinked, digesting Deng Chang's words, then raised his face and smiled at him, "I didn't listen then."

Deng Chang really sighed this time: "I can tell."

"Can I go now?" he asked.

"No." Lucy replied.

Deng Chang was taken aback.

"You haven't congratulated me on winning the championship yet." Lucy blinked, "They all congratulated me."

Deng Chang: "..."

The co-author has woken up, but the wine has not yet sobered up.

Lu Xi is usually unreasonable enough, but Deng Chang didn't expect to be even more unreasonable than usual when he drank too much.He wanted to say that I had congratulated me right after the game, but I didn't congratulate while drinking, but in the end I decided not to reason with drunk people.

Deng Chang squatted down so that he could be at eye level with Lucy who was sitting on the chair, and then said, "Congratulations on winning the national championship."

"Congratulations on your victory too..." Lucy smiled, congratulating back reflexively.

Halfway through chanting, he looked at Deng Chang, then lowered his eyes suddenly, and changed his words, "No, there is nothing to congratulate, you should be unhappy that you got second."

Lucy's eyelashes are very long, and under the light of the phone, they look like two small fans, swaying gently in the wind.

"No." Deng Chang laughed.

A game is a game, and Lucy is Lucy, he doesn't want to talk about it, even when faced with a drunk Lucy, "It's time to go."

Lu Xi didn't look for trouble this time, and stood up obediently: "Let's go."

The restaurant is in the alley at the back door of the first body, and you can go back to the gymnasium within a short walk. A lot of street lights in the alley are broken, and they only come on every now and then. Deng Chang is afraid that Lu Xi will get lost, so he follows him a little.

While walking, Lu Xi suddenly turned around and looked at him.

The figure of the boy under the streetlight is very thin, but the moonlight and streetlights gathered on him lovingly, reminding Deng Chang of the scene he had only seen in comics.

"Deng Chang." Lu Xi said, "Do you hate me?"

"What?" Deng Chang was stunned.

Lucy didn't speak again.

Deng Chang found it unbelievable, but when Lu Xi drank, he sighed, and decided to explain if he didn't think there was any need for an explanation: "If I hate you, I won't be waiting here for you."

"That's true." Lu Xi thought for a while and said, "But you always ignore me."

A sober Lucy would never say such a thing, and a sober Lucy would know that he is much more attractive than Deng Chang.

But now that Lucy is standing under the light, his figure is very thin, no matter how many teeth and claws he usually has, now people just want to smooth his hair.

"I don't hate you." Deng Chang said.

Lu Xi raised his eyes to look at Deng Chang, his eyes were dark, reflecting the faint light: "Really?"

Then he lowered his eyes and said in a low voice, "You don't hate me, so why don't you even add me on WeChat."