my soulmate is a free man

意大利站的比赛是6月25日打完的，决赛在7月5日开幕，期间有10天时间让六支进入决赛的球队进行休整。

As far as the frequency of the VNL sub-station is concerned, if there is no rest, the physical fitness of all players will have to be skylighted, and the finals will be less enjoyable to watch.

Newton was also reluctant to leave the melons tired from the journey, so he simply let them rest in Italy, usually work out in the gym, and practice in the arena.

Of course, they will also go to the nearby beach to play sand volleyball.

Unlike indoor volleyball in a team of six, sand volleyball is played in a team of two. This requires players to not have shortcomings in receiving, dunking and blocking passes. Many players who are born in sand volleyball will generally appear more comprehensive when they switch to indoor volleyball. .

Within two days of this kind of day, a top sparring partner came to his door.

When Qin Chunxiao led Li Ling, You Ziyu, and Du Xiaofeng to play sand volleyball, Christen stood by and watched for half an hour. After the game, he talked to Chang Xiaole: "Your squid, his serve can be better. further."

Chang Xiaole: "Huh?"

Christen's voice was extremely low, as if deliberately imitating a subwoofer actor in Hollywood: "I can teach him."

Chang Xiaole made a suggestion: "Can you speak normally?"

Christen: "Matia suggested that I talk like this, and he said Luma liked it."

But Chang Xiaole didn't like it. Christen's voice was hoarse and had a sense of decadence. If she lowered it, Chang Xiaole would feel that she was talking to her uncle.

Christen is 30 years old this year. He has won the men's sand volleyball runner-up in the London Olympics and the men's sand volleyball champion in the Rio Olympics. He also won 2 golds, 1 silver and 2 bronzes in the Sand Volleyball World Championships. He has been a famous sand volleyball player since his debut A genius who never got off the podium in his career.

Christen's teammate is Tim, a 32-year-old bearded brother with a wife and son. It is said that Christen planned to retire after playing in Rio, but Tim wanted to earn more money for milk powder, so he persuaded Chris Tendo played an Olympic cycle.

Cautious Christen: I studied nursing in college, and I plan to devote myself to hospice care after I retire. If I want to go to China, I should really save more money. I heard that the housing prices in Beijing, where Xiaole often stays, are very expensive. But the Chinese attach great importance to real estate.

To save money, they played for another four years.

That's right, these two continued to serve only for money, that's how realistic it is.

It's a pity that after the epidemic caused the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics, these two veterans still failed to withstand the erosion of the years and regretted announcing their retirement, but at least they had a brilliant career. From 2012 to 2016, they dominated the sand volleyball arena, and they continued to play until they retired. Maintain top competitiveness.

Qin Chunxiao didn't know the details about what happened later, because in 2021, he had already gone abroad to play in the Brazilian league. Later, he only vaguely knew that Christen had come to China when he was on the phone with Li Ling. Worked as a head nurse in the hospice ward of a hospital, which was reported in the news.

An Italian-born sand volleyball champion, who brought his life savings to a foreign country, Qin Chunxiao didn't know if this guy went to China for Brother Xiao Le, but if he did this for Brother Xiao Le, Xiao Zai would only do it. I can say with emotion, "As long as Brother Xiaole nods, I agree to this marriage."

When he learned that Christen came to give special training to the Chinese team, Tim also came over to help. With the help of these two, Newton was very happy.

One of the most serious problems of their team at present is that the players with comprehensive skills are not tall, such as Qin Chunxiao and Gao Depi.

Qiao Mingming's talent is higher than attacking, and defense has always been a bit difficult. This season, he was promoted to the qualifying line. Min Yaoyang's defense is better, but his offensive routine is very dead. It is also this season that he is better. Fu Biyang is strong enough , Good at blocking, but not smart enough to attack. Aizmaiti has more comprehensive skills than Fu Biyang, but his physical strength is not good enough.

Using sand volleyball to train rough men has always been a way that many coaches agree with, but most of the time they have no conditions.

Coincidentally, Christen is the best defensive player among the high-point attacking players, and his underhand serve is currently ranked first in sand volleyball. It can also be said that his underhand serve is the best on earth, and Tim is a defensive expert. Blocking, passing and receiving are all excellent.

The new players follow them, so there is no reason why they can't learn something. Even Qin Chunxiao learned from Tim the tricks of how to jump farther when diving, further expanding the defensive range.

The one who has improved the most is of course You Tzuyu, because Christen, who is the world's number one underhand serve, taught him how to add more intense spin to his serve.

Chang Xiaole also helped You Ziyu improve his underhand serve before, but he couldn't guarantee to keep the control of the landing point when he added spin, but Christen could, he has a unique skill in ball control!

Seeing Christen's dedication to teaching people, not to mention Qin Chunxiao, Gao Depi, Mao Xunfeng, Ding Rong and other sensitive people, even Min Yaoyang felt that Christen was a bit unsophisticated towards Xiao Le.

Even Yang Yang could see it, which shows how obvious Christen's performance is.

Newton hesitated for a while, and then talked to Chang Xiaole: "Xiaole, I see that Christen is a good guy. If you are interested, you can try with him, but don't worry, as long as you don't like him, Just kick him, we are not the kind of team that sacrifices chastity for skills."

Chang Xiaole was speechless: "Brother Niu, what are you talking about, Brother Niu!"

Newton: "Brother Niu is caring about you, Gua Wazi!"

If it wasn't for Chang Xiaole's last relationship ending too sadly, Newton wouldn't be so worried about him!

Chang Xiaole couldn't laugh or cry: "Don't worry about this, Christen is a nice person, he, he won't force me, we even agreed to ask him to come over to teach skills, in the future when he comes to Beijing, I will entertain him for free A week will do."

If Christen treats him blindly, he will feel a little coercive with this kindness, and then Chang Xiaole will feel embarrassed, but Christen offered that as long as Chang Xiaole takes him to visit Beijing, Chang Xiaole The burden on my heart was much lighter.

At this time, Chang Xiaole also roughly understood why Xiaozai said he liked Lu Xuandong. Who doesn't like people with high EQ, nice words, well-measured actions, and willing to empathize with others?

Chang Xiaole added: "We are still in the stage of getting to know each other. You have to know that I am Chinese and he is Italian. We have many differences."

It is true that Christen is too silent most of the time, but he has a good personality and never cares about others. Combining his violent style when playing and calmness when thinking about tactics, he is really charming, but he is usually a little rough. Loves to dress up, but also lazy, stay at home to sleep when not playing ball or studying.

But he just looks slovenly, in fact, he has the cleanliness of a medical staff. Chang Xiaole has a good impression of Christen. When Christen asked him to eat, Chang Xiaole agreed.

After dinner, Christen took the initiative to introduce her family situation.

Fisher's parents died young, and his grandparents also left a few years ago. Christen has to study, play basketball, make money as a guest bartender in a bar, and show off his abs on the cover of a magazine to earn enough money to send his grandparents who have advanced cancer to stay. The best nursing home, so I have only been in love twice, I hope Chang Xiaole will not be disgusted.

Chang Xiaole: "Why should I dislike you for being in love? I also loved someone for seven years."

Christen: "Eh? I mean, don't dislike me. I've only been in love twice. My emotional experience is not rich enough. Maybe some things are not good enough..."

Chinese Chang Xiaole and Italian Christen looked at each other and realized that their ideas were different.

Afterwards, Christen expressed the hope that he and Chang Xiaole could start as friends, and when both sides feel good, they will move on to the next stage. If not, they can only remain friends with Chang Xiaole, and Christen will not will not be reconciled.

"Because you are beautiful, and being friends with you is enough to make me happy."

Chang Xiaole was very embarrassed when he heard this sentence, how could he deserve such a high evaluation?

Newton was not the only person on the team who cared about Chang Xiaole. After Newton, Qin Chunxiao, as the team's father, also represented the team's players, and expressed his concern to Chang Xiaole.

But after hearing Chang Xiaole's evaluation of Christen and Christen's words "Because you are beautiful...", Qin Chunxiao got up and left.

If it wasn't for those two people not being together yet, Qin Chunxiao would have said, "With labor's blessings, get out!"

That night, when he and Lu Xuandong made an appointment to go to the city to listen to a certain jazz musician's tour, Lu Xuandong sighed to him in sign language, "It's lucky enough to be your friend."

When Lu Xuandong said this, it was purely because he never expected that Qin Chunxiao could also appreciate jazz music, and the two had one more common hobby.

Qin Chunxiao was stunned for a moment, and that strange shyness came back to her heart.

It's strange, he has felt embarrassed towards Lu Xuandong twice now, and the last time was when he accidentally bumped into Lu Xuandong's arms while playing in the water.

He advised himself not to think too much, and calmly went back to sleep after the concert.

Li Ling also asked him: "Is the concert good?"

Qin Chunxiao: "It sounds good, but I still like citypop the most."

Li Ling: "Xiaozi, that's the style of many years ago. Now there are no musicians making this kind of music. If you want to listen to it, you can only make vaporwave."

Qin Chunxiao sighed: "But I like the original CityPop better than Vaporwave. Before I met Dong Zai, my favorite singer was Craig Ruenke."

Li Ling searched later and found that the singer was born in 49 and died three years ago in 2015.

A week passed in the blink of an eye. During this time, the boys of the Chinese team ran against the sea breeze with the two sand volleyball champions, and danced with the volleyball on the sand every day. Everyone got at least one color number.

After seven wild days, Qin Chunxiao touched his arm and felt that he was finally a man.

He asked Mao Xunfeng: "Little Mao, do you think I am more manly?"

Mao Xunfeng: "Ah? Aren't you still the same as before?" The black is not too dark, but the skin is a little red. If it is not for the sunscreen, it will probably peel off.

As he said that, Mao Xunfeng pinched Qin Chunxiao's biceps: "There is still a little change. You used to be like a snow leopard, but now you are like a cheetah. It is better to say that you are more of a male leopard than a man."

Qin Chunxiao: "Why do you have to use animals to describe me?"

Regarding this point, Mao Xunfeng laughed.

Xiaozi, your wild vitality and nimble and agile style when you play have already made you recognized by the fans as "the ceiling of leopard beauty".

And thanks to Qin Chunxiao's blessing to meet a monster once on the field, starting this year, many coaches also prefer the Leopards when looking for defensive players. It would be even better if this player has a background in sprinting.

With Qin Chunxiao's skin condition, it is difficult for him to evolve into a black panther, but Fu Biyang, the darkest in the team, successfully surprised Ding Rong last night. Ding Rong subconsciously punched him, and Fu Biyang subconsciously fought back …If Qin Chunxiao hadn’t just passed by and pulled them away in time, the Chinese team would have had to cut two players before the VNL final.

With the fighting power of Ding Rong and Fu Biyang, only Qin Chunxiao was able to pull the fight successfully, and You Ziyu was able to fight even in desperate situations due to his size advantage.

After that night, the whole team recognized that Ding Rong was the scariest, because he could beat Fu Biyang, and Qin Chunxiao was also good, because he dared to face the fists of these two people and pull them apart. Fu Xiaoji ranked second Three, these three are tied for the top three of the Chinese men's volleyball team.

On July 7, the whole team boarded a plane to France.

Both Italy and France are located in Southern Europe, so the distance is really very close. You can go back and forth on the same day by train, let alone by plane.

It was Qin Chunxiao who had a bit of a psychological shadow on Air France. He had been with Air France in his previous life, so he could adapt to Aeroflot, but he was in a bad mood when he boarded Air France.

When boarding the plane, this kid, who had never been airsick, motion sick, or seasick, had an ugly face for the first time. Li Ling was worried that he would vomit, so he asked the flight attendant for a vomiting bag.

Qin Chunxiao glared at him feebly, still tired, Li Ling suddenly became nervous, Xiaozai, who was too healthy, could wear short sleeves and have a snowball fight with people in the cold winter of minus [-] to [-] degrees in Russia, but now he It looks very uncomfortable!

No, Antelope must act!

The effect of looking for the team doctor is the same, because the athletes will not take medicine casually, just a little discomfort, even the team doctor advises them to stand up on their own.

Li Ling looked left and right, and pushed Mao Xunfeng who was sitting by the corridor: "Little Mao, let me go, I'll go find someone."

Mao Xunfeng pushed up the blindfold, snorted, and retracted his legs so that Li Ling could pass by.

Li Ling walked to the first-class cabin, and the flight attendant saw such a tall and burly boy, and asked politely: "Sir, what can you do?"

Li Ling showed a naive smile: "I'm looking for someone, please call for me, his name is Dongzai."

The flight attendant is Italian, and she was at a loss when faced with the pronunciation of Dongzai.

Qin Chunxiao closed his eyes, wanting to sleep, but felt that the safety of Air France was not worth his sleep, what if he lost half of his sleep?

Ah bah bah bah, he won't be so bad!

At this moment, someone hung up a bone conduction earphone for him with gentle force, and Mariah Carey's "hero" came from inside.

Qin Chunxiao widened his eyes, looked to the side, and saw Lu Xuandong. The man's always pale face seemed to have an extra color of blood under the Mediterranean sun. His facial lines were as smooth as flowing clouds and flowing water, and his teeth were very white. Laugh at yourself.

Qin Chunxiao raised the phone.

[Why not "Reality"? 】

French star Sophie Marceau filmed the film "First Kiss" when she was a teenager. The scene in which a teenager puts on headphones from behind her and "Reality" plays is one of the most romantic scenes in film history.

They are heading to France at an altitude of [-] meters, why not listen to this piece of music that follows the life of the French rose?

Lu Xuandong started to tune his phone, intending to find out the song and play it for him, but Qin Chunxiao held down his hand.

There is no need to adjust it, so be it.

In fact, sitting next to Lu Xuandong gave him a sense of security, because Qin Chunxiao knew that if the crisis really came, this person would be by his side, protecting him regardless of his life.

Qin Chunxiao finally fell asleep, and the panic, fear, and uneasiness that had been lingering in her heart since boarding the plane dissipated.

The people sitting around them, such as Newton, Jiang Xiaohai, Chang Xiaole, Qiao Mingming, Xiong Wu, Min Yaoyang, Liu Yuelou, Fu Biyang and others were all as quiet as chickens. They wanted to remind the two young people "Hey, we all saw how you sign language", and I was embarrassed to affect such a good atmosphere.

Tangled to death.

When Qin Chunxiao woke up, the plane was about to arrive. Li Ling had already enjoyed the first-class movie, and he exchanged it with Lu Xuandong. He still had a pack of snacks from the flight attendant in his hand. Unfortunately, he couldn’t just eat the ones given by outsiders. Things can only be stuffed into Newton.

Qin Chunxiao asked: "Is he not going with us?"

Li Ling said carelessly, "He said he would meet us after taking the luggage."

Fu Biyang pulled Qin Chunxiao awkwardly: "Well, I, we all saw you and that so-and-so, sign language, don't you want to disturb us?"

Qin Chunxiao came to his senses: "Yes, I didn't avoid you, so I don't have to avoid you from now on."

He turned around and showed a happy smile after a full sleep: "That person is my hidden soul mate, I have been friends with him for a while, this time I gave him the final ticket, so he I just followed to watch the game, but..."

Qin Chunxiao made an X on his chest with both hands: "We are not in love, you understand that Dongzai and I have walked away from the friendship line in soul mates."

Everyone suddenly realized: "Oh, you are a friendship line."

As we all know, there are four development routes for soul mates. The family line of the Meng family sisters is one, and there are also love lines, friendship lines, and rival lines. It is easy to fall into the line of friendship and love.

Many soul mates who failed to reach he are considered to have chosen the wrong route. People who are obviously suitable to take the friendship line have gone to the love line.

Qin Chunxiao and Lu Xuandong are of the same sex, so they choose to take the friendship line, which is actually a very common choice. Although putting it on the Internet will make many passers-by cry "you are such a waste", but in reality, when encountering relatives and friends who choose this way, Most people will still support it.

After all, the friendship line and the family line are always the least harmful among the four soul mate lines, and it is impossible to play be.

Qin Chunxiao: "Don't talk about it, otherwise Dongzai and I don't know how the public opinion of the outside world will push us away because of our good looks."

Everyone shook their heads again and again: "Don't worry, don't worry, we will definitely not talk about it."

Xiaozai is the youngest in the team, protecting his privacy and emotional life is the duty of all uncles and brothers, and if they take a friendship line, everyone feels that getting along with Dongzai will become natural.

After all, there is a saying that goes well, a friend of a friend is my friend.

After getting off the plane, Lu Xuandong pulled a suitcase and naturally mixed into the Chinese men's volleyball team. Thanks to his healthy diet and regular exercise, he finally grew to a bare foot of 1.9 meters [-] before he stopped growing completely. Wearing a sportswear, mixing in the men's volleyball team doesn't feel out of place at all.

Even when the staff of the VNL finals drove the bus to pick up people, they didn't express any doubts about Lu Xuandong getting on the bus, because the staff thought that judging by the height of that handsome strange guy, even if he wasn't a player, he should be a player. Assistant coaches who retire from athletes must be volleyball anyway.

The rest of the men's volleyball team also looked calm. Since Dong Zai is a relative and friend of the team members, what's wrong with letting him take a car?Anyway, everyone is going to stay in the same hotel.

On the contrary, Qin Chunxiao, if he hadn't gradually become a well-known rising star in the volleyball world, most people would not think that he can play volleyball.

When Qin Chunxiao walked to the middle of the team, the people outside would never expect that there was Qin Chunxiao in the middle of the team, because they couldn't see it at all.

In the same way, Qin Chunxiao could hardly see the way when he walked to the middle of the team, because his teammates had already blocked his vision.

On the bus, Newton held a small notebook: "In addition to the host team, France, Brazil, Poland, the United States, Russia, and our Chinese team will enter the finals this time."

These six teams are the six strongest men's indoor volleyball teams on earth during the summer of 2018!

Newton has received several messages of praise from the leaders since he was confirmed to get the tickets for the final, but he still remained calm.

Because Lao Niu knows very well that with the current strength of the Chinese team, they can only draw 3-1 with the French team. They can win 3:2 against other teams, and they can win if they can drag their opponents to [-]:[-]. The final goal is also very simple.

Newton: "On the basis of fighting for the semi-finals, we will prevent all the teams we play against from winning the championship!"

The way to prove your strength is not only to get cards!If they can make those teams that are supposed to hit the podium feel sore and weak after playing against them, and finally be easily taken away by their opponents in the next game, wouldn't it also prove the strength of the Chinese team!

It's just that Newton's goal is quite broken, and when he said this, the bus turned sharply, so that after hearing his words, the boys in the team almost fell off their seats.

It was the first time for Lu Xuandong to attend the pre-match meeting of the national men's volleyball team, and he never expected that Coach Newton would have such a style of painting.

For a moment, Dongzai only had four characters in his mind.

Rob!rich!Ji!poor!