17 years on ice [figure skating]

◎Only for Deng Chang, he is a stickler. ◎

Lucy:?

Duan Chengzhang leaned over: "What's the matter? What's your expression? No, what is the weather assistant?"

Deng Chang:.

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At this time, Duan Chengzhang finally showed his broad mind as a student of the city's key experimental class: "Oh, yes! Brother Deng always asked me to send the weather forecast to..."

In the middle of speaking, he brought into play his human nature of avoiding danger, and keenly noticed Deng Chang's eyes that could kill people.With a stride, he hid behind Lu Xi.

Lu Xi blinked innocently, grabbed Duan Chengzhang's arm and dragged him out: "What are you doing?"

Duan Chengzhang: "..."

QAQ;

However, Deng Chang didn't make things difficult for Duan Chengzhang. Probably for a precocious boy like him, the age of becoming angry from embarrassment has long passed, but judging from the expression on his face, if Duan Chengzhang dared to show his face in front of Deng Chang again within a day, It is estimated that Deng Chang will carry him away directly.

"I'm going to buy a bottle of water." Deng Chang said, turned and walked out.

As an athlete of the national team, of course he has the right to be exempted from physical education classes. Duan Chengzhang was relieved when he saw Deng Chang leave the basement classroom and knew that his life was safe.

After thinking for half a second, Lucy followed without hesitation.

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Deng Chang walked quickly at first, but when he noticed that Lu Xi was following him, although he didn't stop to wait for him, his pace obviously slowed down.

She slowed down until Lu Xi caught up with her, and then without looking back, she asked coldly, "What are you doing?"

The tone seems to have returned to the time when Lucy first came to the national team, when they couldn't speak a word for three days.

Lu Xi didn't care about Deng Chang's tone at all, and whispered: "I just want to say thank you."

Deng Chang was silent for a while, then turned his head, Lu Xi was looking at him earnestly, in the dimly lit corridor, his eyes were shining like stars.

Deng Chang quickly turned his gaze back, let out a "hmm" and continued to go upstairs.

This time, the pace was very slow, and Lucy could easily stand beside him.

Of course, Lu Xi would not ask Deng Chang straightforwardly why he sent him the weather forecast every day.

The main reason is that he changed his position and thought about it. If he was found out doing something good secretly, and the other side ran up to him and asked him "Hey, why did you do that?", he would definitely feel very embarrassed, and even had to find A reason to beat each other up.

But he was really touched in his heart. Deng Chang must not want Lu Xi to face the dilemma of being exposed to rain again, so he sent him the weather forecast every day, and even asked his classmates to help him.

Then Lu Xi remembered that time when he had an awkward fight with Deng Chang. The weather assistant sent a bedtime chicken soup, just saying that Deng Chang was a puppy, and Deng Chang should apologize to him.

At that time, Lu Xi had suspected that the little assistant was Deng Chang himself, but after checking Wang Lili's contact information and found that it was not, he thought it was just a coincidence, but now it turned out that it was not a coincidence.

Lucy wanted to laugh a little, how could there be some people who admit that they are puppies.

But he still decided not to make trouble now, after all, Deng Chang was so embarrassed that he rushed out to buy water just now.If it wasn't for embarrassment, it would be impossible for Deng Chang to leave Lu Xi alone in the classroom.

The mystery of the weather assistant has finally been solved, but then again, Wang Lili thought that someone had a crush on Lu Xi before, but now it seems that she is still too gossip.

It's clearly the comradeship of player Deng Chang.

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At noon, Lu Xi and Deng Chang headed back to the gym together, because they had to eat in the athletes cafeteria, and Deng Chang had to go back to school in the afternoon, and asked Lu Xi if he would go, Lu Xi shook his head happily, indicating that he would not go.

He has already read the class schedule, all the afternoons are cultural classes, he went to sleep all afternoon.

Although Deng Chang was not at ease, seeing Lu Xi's energy, he felt that there was nothing wrong with it, so he agreed.

Anyway, there are Cui Xiao and Chen Qi on the side of the first body to help watch.

Lucy still does rehabilitation exercises every day, practicing on the ground with a yoga ball.

The movements are quite complicated, and every time he does rehabilitation exercises, he is reminded of the fact that "you are a wounded person", so he could feel that he was not in a good mood when he did it before.

Today I came back to do exercises as usual, when I was doing leg presses, Cui Xiao came in with a kettle, paused, and looked at him suspiciously several times.

Then he went out again with the kettle in his hand, and half a minute later, he came in with the kettle in his hand, and looked at him several times suspiciously.

You go out with the kettle, and you come in——

Lucy: "Brother Cui, what are you doing?"

Cui Xiao glanced at the kettle in his hand, and slapped his forehead like a dream: "Damn! I forgot the business!"

He found the kettle, poured all the boiling water in the kettle, and asked while pouring water, "I was thinking, why are you so happy today?"

"?" Lucy was taken aback, "Am I happy today?"

"Yeah." Cui Xiao said, "Your eyebrows are almost raised to the sky."

Lu Xi stroked his eyebrows blankly: "No, it's normal."

Cui Xiao almost burst out laughing, "Can you still raise your eyebrows even after you've touched them yourself? You're such a treasure, Xiaoxi."

Lucy is innocent.

"It seems that going to Deng Chang's school is useful." Cui Xiao observed Lu Xi's expression and continued to comment, "I'm much happier when I come back, why don't you go there more in the future."

"No." Lucy immediately refused.

"Why?" Cui Xiao asked with interest, "Is the school class too difficult?"

"No." Lucy's face blushed unnaturally, "It's too uncomfortable to sleep."

Cui Xiao: "..."

Of course, there is actually another reason for Lu Xi. If he continues to go to school, he feels that one day Deng Chang will make Duan Chengzhang a shark.

Although Cui Xiao felt very strange about Lu Xi's reaction, he has now accepted the setting that 16-year-old children will react strangely.

So he didn't worry about why Lu Xi didn't want to go to school, he said: "It's just right not to go to school, and I will go to the land classroom with me later, the coach said that he has arranged a class for you, and I will go to the small class together."

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"Small class" refers to the class composed of young students who take skating as their hobby. Because they are not professional athletes, the management is very loose.

Moreover, there shouldn't be any overlap in the course content between them and Lucy, and the training intensity and difficulty will be much lower.

So why did Chen Qi arrange for him to attend class with Xiaoban?What class did you take?

It should not be a land training class, because if Chen Qi lets him have the same intensity of training as amateur players, it is like fearing that others will not know that he is injured.

So actually Lu Xi was quite puzzled, but since it was Chen Qi's request, he obediently went to the classroom.

Fifteen minutes later, looking at the big "Golden Songs Selection" on the projection screen, Lucy's head was full of black lines.

...Why did you ask him to take an art appreciation class! !

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Lu Xi's appearance in the small class caused a commotion. He is young and cute. He is the type of big brother that the children like most.Among the group of six, seven and eight-year-old children, there are many admirers of him, who came to take photos with him shyly.

There are two teaching assistants in the small class, one is Chen Qi's assistant teaching assistant, and the other is a women's singles player who is about to retire and prepare to change careers. The women's singles sister is surprised to see Lu Xi, but the assistant teaching assistant looks like she wants to laugh but dare not laugh when she sees him expression.

Lucy:"……"

Indeed, the teaching assistant had seen him in dance class.

Well, art appreciation is art appreciation.

Before the end of the holiday, Chen Qi did say that this year Lu Xi would improve his expressiveness.

Speaking of Lu Xi's expressiveness is also a problem left over from history. On the surface, it shows that the upper limbs are very stiff. At first Chen Qi thought it might be because the child was cold-tempered, but on second thought, Deng Chang's personality was even colder than Lu Xi's, But there's nothing wrong with him when it comes to expressiveness.

So Chen Qi pulled a psychiatrist to study with him, and found that the deeper reason might be that Lu Xi was born with a higher emotional threshold than others, in other words, he was slower and less likely to be touched.

Reminiscent of Lucy being abandoned when he was more than three years old, it is speculated that it has something to do with the lack of communication between his parents and him when he was a baby, or it may be his nature.

Although later under the care of Huang Bin and Gu Qianqian, Lu Xi grew up to be a smart and considerate child, which was not obvious in interpersonal communication, but sometimes it could be seen.

For example, when we sit and watch a movie together, everyone else is crying, Lu Xi looks blank, and others laugh so hard that their stomach hurts, Lu Xi looks blank.

Another example is listening to very dynamic music, others can't help but shake and beat along with it, Lucy: still looks blank.

When Lu Xi is allowed to slide freely on the ice, his condition will be much better, which belongs to the level that Chen Qi will smile when watching from the side of the ice rink.

But if you are doing prescribed movements with the music—that is, a complete program, pull your hips immediately.

His expressions and upper body movements are relatively weak, especially when it comes to arm movements, the aesthetic feeling he needs to convey with expressions and micro posture is basically 0.

For example, I learned from Deng Chang's "Flying" set of religious arm bending movements, so I did it like the father of Otto.

As a result, he can only do some moves that are purely cool. For example, the free skating of his little killer this year, the short program is cool and pure, and the effect is not as good as that of the little killer.

Although fans said that because of Lucy's good looks, "children of God should lack the emotions of all living beings", Chen Qi scoffed at such remarks.

In his words, "Can a child of God give 20 more P points or what?"

So Lucy was still locked in the classroom of the art appreciation class.

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Different teams and different coaches have different training methods for art appreciation. For example, Lu Xi knows that some foreign coaches will lead the players to sing emotional songs, and some will lead everyone to watch movies, watch exhibitions or even write after-views.

In contrast, Chen Qi's small class is to let everyone twist freely, relax, let go, and relax along with the music.

—— According to the assistant teacher, it is much friendlier than other coaches' art appreciation classes.

But Lucy looked up at his little head like a bunch of little sunflowers, thinking that there was no friendliness there.

Soon Lucy found that the children were more open-minded than him. The first song was the classic episode "The Lonely Shepherd" from the movie "The Sound of Music". Holding hands and turning in circles.

And he blinked his big eyes and looked at Lucy expectantly.

Lucy:"……"

Who can freely, twist, and move under the gaze of so many children!

In the end, it was the children who brought Lucy into the state.

A little girl came over to pull his arm first. She looked too small, and Lucy didn't dare to move around for fear of hurting her, so he had to let her pull his arms and legs, but he got into a state slightly.

He is like the heroine in the "Sound of Music" movie, wandering back and forth with the children in the classroom.

Then do facial exercises.

The expression practice was even more embarrassing. Face to face with the assistant coach, make various exaggerated expressions like a mirror, especially practice smile and sadness, the two facial expressions that are most likely to appear in figure skating performances.

Just talking about facial expressions, Lucy can still do it, but the assistant teacher has to explain to him what kind of mood different facial expressions represent, trying to make him feel it.

This is very painful for Lucy. He is not as emotional as others, and his emotional expression in the natural state is not bad. It is really difficult for him to act like this.

The teaching assistant doesn't know Lu Xi as well as Chen Qi, Deng Chang, Huang Bin and the others, and this teaching assistant has a strong sense of art, so he has been eagerly guiding him, "Can you imagine the feeling of going out in spring and seeing the flowers and plants in the sun? Imagine autumn Standing under the eaves and watching the rain?"

Lucy thought painfully, no matter how much he asked him, he really couldn't show such a mood.

It can’t be said that there was no progress in the class, at least it was a chicken-and-duck talk. After finally finishing the class, Lu Xi finally breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and the teaching assistant still had a smug look of "I must enlighten you next time". , Let him live without love.

Lucy almost ran out of the classroom and walked straight out. On the way, he went to the athlete's supermarket to bring a bottle of drink. The whole set of movements was very natural until he stood at the gate of the first body.

After five o'clock in the afternoon in summer, the sun starts to go west, but it is still far from sunset. The low sun is particularly bright, reflecting the streets, leaves, and signboards brightly.

Naturally, Deng Chang, who carried a schoolbag on one shoulder, was walking towards him in a refreshing white T and school uniform trousers, shone brightly, as if he was walking on a flowery road.

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Deng Chang was wearing earphones and was obviously distracted by the music, so when he walked to the door of the first body and saw Lu Xi, he was taken aback for a moment: "What are you doing? Waiting for the express delivery?"

"Wait for you." Lu Xi said, and handed the bought peach-flavored drink to Deng Chang.

Deng Chang was obviously stunned, probably too shocked, he stuttered: "What are you waiting for me?"

This question really caught Lucy, he thought for a while: "I don't know, maybe it's because the expression training class is too painful."

Lu Xi didn't have this kind of expression training class when he was in Crane City. When he came to the national team, it was the end of the season. He trained in a hurry for two weeks. He was injured after a national competition and a B-level match. Experience expressiveness in one session.

Hearing what he said, Deng Chang frowned, "Have you been tortured too?"

The use of the word "also" is very quintessential, Lu Xi immediately raised his head with a sympathetic expression, and grabbed Deng Chang's arm: "It means you have been tortured "also"?Can you tell us what the teaching assistant teacher wants us to make up? "

"What is the mood of spring flowers blooming? Can you show me?"

Lu Xi is cold towards everyone, except for Deng Chang, who has been a stickler since he was a child, but when he was a child, he put on a cold face and made every excuse to stick to it, but now he is a passionate stickler without any burden.

There is no sense of distance between the two boys, or the two boys who have lived in the same dormitory for nearly a month. Lucy held Deng Chang's arm, and her face was almost leaning against his, "show me a demonstration."

Deng Chang gave way to the side away from Lu Xi, raised his left hand, and lightly touched the tip of Lu Xi's nose with his index finger, pushing him away.

During this process, he didn't even look at Lucy, his attention seemed to be on the road sign on the side, and his tone was flat: "Don't get so close, it's not too hot."

Deng Xiaogou has always been very cold, so Lucy clicked his tongue, "It's fine if you don't want to demonstrate, why don't you despise others so much."

If there was a third person present at this time, they would probably have noticed that Deng Chang, who has always been calm, was the first to notice that when Lu Xi pulled his arm, his shoulders and neck were so tense that they were too tense.

Then you should find that Lu Xi, who has been said to lack emotional expression and has zero expressiveness, has a cheerful and vivid expression at this moment.

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More than a month passed in a flash. At the end of May, the coach began to contact the athletes to prepare for the new season. Therefore, some athletes rushed back to the capital from their hometowns one after another.

Lu Xi was injured because of this offseason and has not fully recovered so far. He has not been able to return to his hometown, but Huang Bin and Gu Qianqian come to see him every week.

After more than a month of artistic expression and expression training, Lu Xi felt that his level had not improved much, but he listened to a lot more music.

It happened that the two children were both in the capital, so Chen Qi took them to the ice rink to design the program style for this season.

Next year, that is, February 2018 will be the Winter Olympics. The four-year event is the supreme top-level event in the minds of every athlete, especially for figure skating, which has a short flowering period.

Most of the female athletes participate in one Winter Olympics, and they will retire after two Winter Olympics at most. The male athletes are better, that is, they only touch one more session. It is very different from the World Championships and Grand Prix, which have a chance every year. .

Competitors usually prepare three sets of programs in one season: short program, free skating and performance skating. Since the Winter Olympics will be held every four years this year, no matter who participates, the programs must be prepared with the utmost care.

The content of the competition program is a secret that needs to be strictly guarded by the contestants, so even though Lu Xi and Deng Chang have such a good relationship, Chen Qi still invites them to chat separately - if they are willing to communicate with each other later, then it doesn't matter.

Chen Qi called Deng Chang over first. During this period, Lu Xi practiced jumping on the ice. During this period of rehabilitation, his skills have recovered to 300% of his usual level, but the last 240% is the most difficult to get back, but he must get it back. To put it simply, if Lu Xi has the strength of [-] points now, with a [-]% discount, there will only be [-] points left, and then there will be no competitiveness at all.

This period of time was very difficult for Lucy. After the injury, his skating seemed not as smooth as before, which also affected his jumping.

Lu Xi was originally a player with average jumping ability and relied on the acceleration given by skating to complete his movements. Now he does several triple jumps, and his height and distance are not as good as before.

The quadruple jump is a state that cannot be completed at all.

But Lu Xi's mentality is not as broken as the previous days. He is trying to summarize his skating talent into skills, instead of relying solely on talent to let his skating skills grow wildly, so that even if he is injured, he can practice it back a little bit.

Lucy is quite confident about recovering to the peak and even practicing the new quadruple jump, but since Chen Qi mentioned the Olympics, he also knows that this year's Winter Olympics is basically out of his game.

He has not been able to do quadruple jump training in recent months, and his physical condition will not be in the best condition when the season starts. This year, there is only one place for the men's singles of the national team. Such an 80% level Lucy is not good. Maybe beat Deng Chang to get the ticket.

It doesn't matter, Lu Xi is only 16 years old this year, and the peak period of a men's singles player is in the age range of 18-22. He will be just 20 in the next Olympics, a perfect golden age, just in time for another showdown.

This is the benefit of being young, time is never pressed for time and can be squandered.

Lucy walked around the ice rink and was about to practice his spin, when someone called his name by the rink.

Lucy looked over and found that it was an ice fan, and he didn't know how this ice fan slipped into the ice rink during the offseason.

Lucy was still relatively friendly to his ice fans, so he stood still in the middle of the ice rink, smiled and asked, "What's the matter?"

The other party was a woman with long hair and a shawl. She was very stylishly dressed and wore sunglasses. She smiled kindly at Lucy: "Xiaoxi, I'm your fan and I like you so much! Can you show me for three and a half weeks? "

Lucy actually couldn't do it for three and a half weeks now, he hesitated for a moment and was about to explain the situation when the automatic door outside the ice rink creaked and Deng Chang walked in.

Deng Chang originally had a relaxed expression, but when he saw this female ice fan, he immediately frowned.

He looked at the female ice fan with a bad expression, but his tone was rather polite: "Who are you?"

The female ice fan was obviously very nervous when the door rang. She turned her head quickly and relaxed when she saw Deng Chang, "Hello, I am an ice fan. I like Lu Xi very much. I want to see him show me a jump, which can satisfy me." A little wish?"

In Lu Xi's impression, Deng Chang's attitude towards ice fans is indeed quite flat, but to his surprise, the current Deng Chang is not flat at all, but unfriendly, and can even be said to be full of hostility.

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"No." Deng Chang replied coldly, "You are not a coach, so you are not qualified to order players to do moves."

"I didn't order him to do moves." The female ice fan spread her hands and argued aggrievedly, "I just want to see my favorite player do moves. If it's not three and a half weeks, two and a half weeks is fine, is that okay?"

Even Lu Xi felt that Deng Chang was a little unreasonable, but just as he was about to speak, Deng Chang raised his hand to stop him.Although Lu Xi didn't understand why Deng Chang didn't allow him to speak, he still shut up obediently.

"Does it mean that you think I'm stupid because Lu Xi is relatively simple?" Deng Chang glanced at Lu Xi, then turned expressionlessly to the opposite woman who had already started to panic.

"I don't want to quarrel with girls. I suggest that you be more sensible, walk as fast as you can, and don't think about it again. Whether it's an ice fan or a black reporter who comes to make trouble, it won't be true that others can't see it."