The Pentium Era - South to North

Tan Shuzhen arrived at Liu Jun's office. After Liu Jun introduced them to each other, everyone sat down. Liu Jun and Tan Shuzhen said that they were here specifically to watch Xiang Nan play ball today.

Tan Shuzhen quickly said, what is there to see for a child who has only studied for two months?

Lao Xie smiled and said, Xiang Nan’s mother, we are not here to see the child’s playing skills, but to see her various conditions. As long as you have talent, you can learn skills quickly, and some things, such as It is impossible for her to have strength or anything like that now, but as she grows older and exercises for a long time, she will naturally have it by then.

"Mr. Tan, we have carefully observed before. It can be said that Xiangnan's conditions are very good in all aspects. To be honest, I go to all parts of the province to select team members every year. I have seen hundreds if not thousands of children, but It’s rare to find conditions as good as those in Xiangnan,” Miaomiao said.

Tan Shuzhen quickly said, thank you! Thank you two teachers!

Liu Jun got to the point on their behalf and said to Tan Shuzhen: "Mr. Tan, after they saw Xiangnan, they hope that Xiangnan can come to study with them."

Tan Shuzhen didn't understand at first, so she went to study with them, "Are you going to play ball?"

"Mom Xiangnan, do you know about our school?" Lao Xie asked.

"Chen Jinglun? You know, isn't it over there at Huanglong?" Tan Shuzhen said.

"Yes, that's right, it's in Huanglong. Our school specially selects good sports talents and trains them from an early age. There are more than 20 world champions in various sports who came out of our school. After they went south to our place , it will definitely be of great help to her future development.”

Miaomiao also said: "Mr. Tan, I promise you that Xiang Nan is in my class and I will take good care of her."

Tan Shuzhen understood and said, "I understand. If Xiangnan goes to your place, he won't be able to continue studying in school, right?"

Miaomiao smiled and said: "We also have cultural classes there, but the proportion of daily classes is not as large as she is at Baochuta Experimental School now. They are still mainly vocational training and competitions."

"Then what?" Tan Shuzhen asked, "I mean it's time to go to junior high school or high school."

Liu Jun said: "Mr. Tan, Xiangnan's arrival at Chen Jinglun is the first step towards becoming a professional athlete. Through training and competition, she will then enter the city team, provincial team, and even the national team. I believe Xiangnan has this strength."

"Enter the national team? There are too many accidental factors for this. You can't just rely on your own strength, right?" Tan Shuzhen said, thinking, I almost went to CCTV, what will be the result?

Liu Jun, Lao Xie, and Miaomiao looked at each other, feeling a little guilty. Lao Xie and Miaomiao did not dare to say too much in this regard.

The reason for their guilty conscience is, on the one hand, as Tan Shuzhen said, to enter the national team, you must have strength, but there are also many accidental factors. Those who can enter the national team do not go through a strict selection process. If you rank well, you You can get in, but the coach of the national team, especially the head coach, must take a fancy to you.

In the context of time and space at that time, what just happened made the entire Zhejiang badminton community feel a little frustrated and even felt that the future was bleak.

It turns out that the entire Zhejiang badminton team has always had a good relationship with the national team. This road is very smooth. The head coach of the men's team of the national team is Li Mao from Zhejiang, and the head coach of the women's team is also Li Lingwei from Zhejiang.

However, due to various reasons, these two people disagreed with Li Yongbo, the head coach of the national team at the time, and their conflicts became completely public. The "collective impeachment incident" was reported in the news media at the time.

The two sides finally broke up completely in 1998, and a large number of coaches and athletes left the national team.

The following year, Li Mao went to South Korea to coach and trained two little-known young players, Sun Shengmo and Li Xuanyi, into world-class players.

After the Athens Olympics, he went to Malaysia and brought out world-famous players like Li Zongwei. It was not until 2019 that Li Mao returned to the Chinese national team as the head coach of the men's team.

Li Lingwei therefore returned to Zhejiang and served in the Zhejiang Provincial Sports Commission. Later, she went to Beijing to serve as a member of the International Olympic Committee and vice president of the Chinese Olympic Committee.

Of course, these are things for later.

But in 1998, Lao Xie and Miao Miao met Tan Shuzhen under such a background. At that time, people in Zhejiang badminton circles were saying that in the future, as long as Li Yongbo is still the head coach, Zhejiang athletes , probably don’t want to join the national team.

Therefore, they felt a little guilty when talking about joining the national team.

Liu Jun said: "Mr. Tan, Xiangnan is indeed a very good young talent. It would be a pity not to go to Chen Jinglun and not play badminton."

Tan Shuzhen smiled and said, "I know what you are talking about. In fact, this is how I came here. When I was eight years old, I entered the student class of the theater troupe. When I was eleven years old, I started performing on stage. Leaving the stage at the age of twenty-nine, is our actor’s experience a bit similar to that of your athletes?”

When Tan Shuzhen said this, both Lao Xie and Miao Miao laughed and breathed a sigh of relief. Now that they have had this experience, there is no need to explain more about what the children's life will be like when they get to school. Miao Miao said:

"It's really a bit similar, but the content of the study is different."

"The experience is probably the same. I try my best to achieve results and win flowers and applause." Tan Shuzhen said with a smile.

Liu Jun, Lao Xie, and Miao Miao all nodded. Tan Shuzhen thought for a moment and said, "I think I'd better let Xiang Nan stay in school and continue schooling."

The three of them were stunned for a moment. Tan Shuzhen's words were somewhat beyond their expectations. Just now, they thought they had found a common language with Tan Shuzhen. Why did the situation change suddenly? Liu Jun asked:

"Mr. Tan, what do you mean, you don't want to send Xiang Nan to Chen Jinglun?"

Tan Shuzhen nodded and said yes, I think, let her take the path that most people take, go to school, take the college entrance examination, go to university, and then work. I don't want her to be different from most people.

Lao Xie was a little anxious: "Xiang Nan's mother, don't you want Xiang Nan to join the national team, participate in the Asian Games and Olympic Games, and win the world championship?"

Tan Shuzhen shook her head: "Only those who have walked through it will know that it is too hard."

"Mr. Tan, then you have to think about Xiangnan's future." Miao Miao shouted.

Tan Shuzhen looked at her and said: "I was thinking about my daughter. You are right. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to belittle the athletes. I said it and I have experienced it. What you said is indeed right. Win the championship." , enjoying the flowers and applause, it looks really beautiful, it is an Avenue of Stars, but who knows, this Avenue of Stars is paved with thorns.

"You have to step on thorns to reach your goal. I think Coach Liu and you all know this well. People say that getting into college is like crossing a single-plank bridge with thousands of troops. To win the championship, crossing is more than just a single-plank bridge. It is simply walking on a tightrope. There are so many people in the world, why can you get the first place? It’s not because you need to endure hardships that others cannot.

"And, so what if you get it, whether it's flowers, applause, or spotlight, when you stand on the stage and enjoy it all, it feels really good, as if the whole world is you. Yes, but all this is actually short-lived and will disappear soon. When the lights go out, the halo on you is gone.

"What you feel at this time is darkness, loneliness and coldness. When you open the door, you have to face a real world, to live and survive. Only then do you realize that the applause and flowers are not your end. That darkness is your starting point.

"And at this time, you will find that for everything you have paid in the past twenty years, this society has settled the accounts with you, and the applause and flowers are paid to you. This society no longer owes you. Time is written off, it will discover and require new stars, you are already in the past tense.

"Reality is cruel. At this time, you realize that you are actually worse than most people. It seems that your life has been separated from reality for too long. You even have less ability and skills to survive than others. I It was only when you were twenty-nine that you felt that you had truly entered society, and as soon as you entered, you realized that you were almost eliminated by this society.

"I have to work harder than others every day to adapt to this society. I have to take care of my daughter, go to work, study hard, and take self-study exams. I have to do it all over again to catch up with this society. The development of society, otherwise, I can only lament in the corner, or take out photos of myself on stage every day to recall the past.

"At this time, you will also find that when this society settles the accounts with you with flowers and applause, what you have to pay is not only your past, but also your future.

"If you ask me if I don't regret it, I will definitely tell you that I do. I am not stupider than others, nor am I stupider than others. Even if I take an ordinary path, I think I have the ability to do it better than most people.

"I just want to squeeze through the single-plank bridge. I have the ability to squeeze across. It's okay to squeeze across. Otherwise, it's flat ground. Why bother walking on the wire rope? After walking across, there is an abyss in front of me and there is no road. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Did I say too much?"

When Tan Shuzhen talked about this, she thought of herself and kept talking. The three people were silent, especially Liu Jun. He knew that Tan Shuzhen was talking about herself, but she was not talking about him. Everything she said, It's not a reflection of myself.

Yes, I won the world championship. I did enjoy the applause and flowers. Tan Shuzhen was right. When she stood on the highest podium, she raised her hands and waved around. At that time, she really enjoyed the applause and flowers. I feel like the whole world belongs to me, and I have attracted so many people’s attention.

But what happens after that?

How many people will still remember you as the world champion? You go to school every day and lead a group of children to run on the playground. What is the difference between you and those young teachers who have just been assigned from school? Even because you didn’t have a diploma, your score was lower than others when evaluating professional titles and room assignments. At that time, did anyone remember that you were a world champion different from them?

You are indeed different from them. The difference is that they all have diplomas, but you don't. The difference is that in the professional title examination, you can't pass others, that's it.

If he hadn't returned to the dormitory and saw the photo of himself when he received the award hanging on the wall, Liu Jun felt that even he had almost forgotten that he was the world champion. Does the person on the wall have anything to do with him?

Tan Shuzhen felt that the atmosphere in the room was a little dull, all because of her words. She said:

"I'm sorry, please forgive me. I really couldn't control it because I felt too deeply when I talked about this. I said a little too much. Maybe I also felt that if I told others, they might not understand. You guys I have similar experiences to you, so you can understand."

"It's okay, Mr. Tan. What you said was very candid and true. There are some things that even I don't dare to think about. You said it, and I want to thank you." Liu Jun said.

Liu Jun looked at Lao Xie and Miao Miao and said with a smile, "Is this the case?"

The two men nodded.

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