17 years on ice [figure skating]

◎"Am I qualified?"◎

Ms. Gu Qianqian is in a good mood today, because she has a great record in Gaba hotpot and won a whole lap from the opponent.She went home humming a ditty, and was going to stew pork ribs for Lucy tonight.

Not long after entering the house, Lu Xi and Deng Chang came back, and Gu Qianqian shouted from the kitchen as usual: "I'm back!" and continued her happy cooking.

According to her understanding, Xiaoxi and Deng Chang have a very good relationship, and they can play for hours as if no one else was around.

Unexpectedly soon, the kitchen door was gently pushed open, Gu Qianqian turned her head, and her precious son poked his head in.

Lu Xi is good-looking, and her cuteness will be super doubled if she does this kind of small gesture with a guilty conscience, Gu Qianqian burst into laughter: "What's the matter baby?"

"Mom." Lucy cleared his throat uncomfortably, "Where's my skates?"

Gu Qianqian was taken aback for a moment: "Your dad took it home for you, what's the matter?"

"I want to skate for fun." Seeing Gu Qianqian's shocked face, Lu Xi immediately added, "Just for fun, no training, mom, don't think about it."

Training or not is the second priority. Gu Qianqian was shocked when she heard that Lu Xi wanted to skate on her own initiative.She nodded immediately, "I'll call your dad and ask him to bring you the ice pack."

"Okay." After Lu Xi finished speaking, he said firmly, "Mom, don't worry, I will save money!"

Gu Qianqian nodded in confusion, "Oh, yes, baby."

At the same time, he secretly decided to question Huang Bin tonight, and let Xiaoxi know if he was secretly trading in stocks.Otherwise, why would Xiaoxi say such a sentence suddenly without beginning or end.

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The distance between Songcheng and Luxi's hometown, Hecheng, was only half an hour's drive. When Huang Bin heard the news, he only ate half of the meal, so he hurriedly drove to deliver ice packs to Luxi.

"If you need any help, tell Dad anytime!" Huang Bin said, "If you want to go back to Crane City to play, Dad will drive to pick you up."

Lu Xi looked back at Deng Chang who was standing next to him. When he went back, he felt that it had become pure training. He couldn't train now, and Deng Chang was in Songcheng.

"Dad, let me stay here for a while." Lucy said.

"Well, that's fine." Huang Bin said, "There are many ice rinks for the provincial teams, so you have a place to play whenever you want."

After exchanging pleasantries like this, Huang Bin is ready to go back, and there will be a big class in Crane City in the evening.

Before leaving, Gu Qianqian dragged Huang Bin to a corner and asked coolly, "Old Huang, do you have anything you want to tell me?"

Huang Bin was stunned: "Huh?? What's the matter Qianqian?"

Gu Qianqian leaned against the door frame, with two pink curlers on her head, and the charter woman's aura instantly exploded: "Think about it yourself?"

I don't know what you did to scare the child into thinking "I want to save money".

Huang Bin was an innocent victim this time. He quickly took out the memo on his phone to read, Qianqian's birthday, Xiaoxi's birthday, wedding anniversary... all of them?

Although Xiaoxi's birthday is coming soon, isn't it these few days?

He looked at Gu Qianqian with a blank face, and raised his hands: "Honey, I don't understand?"

Gu Qianqian put her hands on her chest: "What stock did you buy?"

Huang Bin was really at a loss this time: "I don't have it??"

"Really?" Gu Qianqian stared at him scrutinizingly.

"No! By heaven!" Huang Bin was so anxious that he was about to swear, "It's not like you don't know me, what you buy or what you buy will fall. No matter what you buy, it will fall. It is impossible for me to buy stocks now!"

Gu Qianqian thought about it for the same reason, and Huang Bin is usually very honest, so it is impossible to lie to her about this kind of thing, but then she didn't understand, and she clicked: "Then why did Xiaoxi suddenly tell me to save money?" thing?"

On the other side of the corridor, I accidentally heard Deng Chang coughing crazily in one ear. Huang Bin and Gu Qianqian heard it and rushed over in neat steps: "Xiao Chang? What's wrong?"

"No...it's okay." Deng Chang shook his head and waved his hands, "I choked on it."

The couple immediately gave Deng Chang some water and the other patted his back, and quickly forgot about this little doubt.

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On the new Monday, it was said that it was going to rain. When I got up early, it was cloudy, but it happened to be not hot.

Lucy got up very early, and early here refers to him waking up before dawn, which is the longest day of the year in summer.

After breakfast, go to the provincial ice rink.

The provincial team has two ice rinks in the same hall, although it is not as bold as the first to directly build two skating halls, but it is already much richer than the Crane City team.

The main rink is the training ground of the provincial team. Deng Chang is not a member of the provincial team, so he is now on the side rink. In fact, if he wants to go to the main rink, he can go to the main rink. The rink can walk sideways, but he still stays in the secondary rink.

Deng Chang’s head coach in the provincial team is called Kong Zhaolin, and Lu Xi has a deep impression on him, because every time he has a memory related to Deng Chang, Coach Kong is behind him as a background board, and he becomes an acquaintance after seeing too many background boards .

At that time, after Deng Chang won the silver medal in the World Youth Championship, many people said that Coach Kong's name was good, Zhaolin Zhaolin, which indicated that there would be extraordinary characters in his academy, and it also triggered a small wave of provincial teams. A wave of name changes for coaches.

Deng Chang had already told Coach Kong that he would bring Lucy to the ice rink. Everyone in the circle had heard about Lu Xi's injury three months ago, but there were different opinions on the extent of the injury.

Coach Kong immediately understood what Deng Chang meant, and asked them to go to the auxiliary ice rink, and on weekends, he found someone to put up a partition between the two ice rinks, so that Lu Xi could have a quiet and undisturbed environment.

Deng Chang specifically said that Xiaoxi does not necessarily want to resume training, nor does it necessarily mean that the results of the training will be good.

The implicit meaning is that this is just his personal desire to ask Coach Kong for help, and there is no need to spend a lot of trouble, because even if it takes a lot of trouble, Lu Xi may not be able to recover, so no one may remember Coach Kong except Deng Chang himself. .

Coach Kong just smiled and said: "Don't worry about Xiaoxi's current state, he is a gold medalist in the World Championships, I should respect him."

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Lu Xi carried an ice bag and walked in the stadium. In order to facilitate the athletes to walk on the ground wearing ice skates with a knife cover, the floor outside the stadium is made of rubber, which has a special smell in the low temperature of the ice rink.

Every ice rink has this smell, just like the smell of disinfectant water that swimming pools must have, enough to evoke muscle memory.

The previous memory was excitement, and now I am habitually excited, but I am faintly trembling because of those bad memories.

Lucy tightened his grip on the strap of the backpack in his hand.

The layout of the Songcheng provincial team is that there is a storage area between entering the ice rink, where gloves, protective equipment are sold, and knife sharpening services are provided.The ice skates need to be sharpened just like any knife. After a long time of use, they will become blunt, and the blade will not be easy to step on. They must be sharpened again. When the two entered the ice rink, the master who sharpened the ice skates was putting a black large-toothed knife on the ice. On the knife stand, the whetstone rubbed against the blade and sparked dazzling sparks.

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They came very early, before anyone else, Lucy put on the protective gear skillfully, and then put on the skates.

It feels strange not to wear skates for a whole week. Stepping into familiar, hard skates is both familiar and strange.

After tying up the shoelaces, it is customary to stand up and take two steps to make sure that there is no problem with the tying. When Lu Xi got up and bounced on the ground for a few times, he saw the white ice rink in front of him, and suddenly thought of retreating again.

He feels bad about himself now.

If you want fighting spirit but no fighting spirit, you need skills but no skills, even your body is out of shape due to months of injuries and indulgence in the past week.

Lucy never thought this way before, never, when it came to skating, he never felt bad about himself.

But the injury and the self-doubt that came with it was a devastating blow to confidence. What was the most confident thing is now the least confident thing, and it took so long to just pick up the idea of ​​​​going on the ice again.

Lu Xi lowered his head and pinched his calf. As a professional athlete, the muscles here should have been firm and tight. However, after several months of recuperation, although they are still better than ordinary people, they can already be pinched soft. calf.

It's bad.

Not good looking.

Even if the current physical condition is perfect, I can't do the previous movements.

Or forget it.

This kind of struggle has been repeated in Lu Xi's mind from last night to now. He really wants to go on the ice, but he is afraid that it will still be the same as before.I can't do the movements that I could do before, and I don't know if I can do them again. This feeling is too difficult.

Next to him, Deng Chang stretched out his hand as if he had seen through his thoughts: "Come."

Lu Xi raised his eyes and looked over, Deng Chang didn't have any special expression, he looked at him calmly, the same as every time before training.

There is neither any extra warm encouragement nor any extra caring tenderness.

If there is anything special, it is the hand he stretched out. This is the movement of the coach leading the students.

Every coach takes beginners to this movement, and Lucy is very familiar with it.

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"Last year's silver medalist in the grand prix, will you be my first coach?" Lu Xi asked as he looked at Deng Chang's outstretched hand.

Deng Chang nodded and looked at him: "Am I qualified?"

Enlightenment coach, which means you have to go on the ice no matter what.

Even if you start from scratch, you have to learn on ice.

Lu Xi was silent for a while, stood up, clapped his hand in Deng Chang's, and for the first time in several months showed that relaxed and lovely smile on the side of the ice rink:

"Reluctantly."