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Chapter 31 Departure
Li Weiguo has a Chinese character face, thick eyebrows and big eyes, and is very energetic. His body is not as fat as most men of this age, so he looks much younger than his actual age.Seeing Nanfeng, he had a look of emotion, but his complexion had some vicissitudes accumulated over the years.

He spoke with a somewhat embarrassing tone, "I haven't heard from you all these years, and I don't know what's going on with you."

Nanfeng lit a cigarette, "That's it."

Li Weiguo suddenly felt a little sad when he saw his skillful smoking.

What a pity for a child. At that time, the brilliance was shining and the limelight was unmatched. Almost everyone firmly believed that he would win the world championship, win glory for the country in the Olympics, and make history in the Grand Slam.Then why...

Even now, many people in the team still miss Nanfeng.After all, for a seedling like him, I dare not say that there will be no one in a hundred years, at least looking back and forth for 20 years, there will be no second one.

Ugh.

Nanfeng saw Li Weiguo's melancholy face and drooping eyebrows. He suddenly smiled, and shook his fingertips holding the cigarette against the ashtray, and the silver ash was gently lifted down like fine sand.He smiled, "Coach Li, I'm fine, really."

Li Weiguo looked at him, and saw that this formerly talented young man looked calm at the moment, and there was no gloomy look on his handsome brows, only calm and calm, like a sword tempered by time, with a graceful and restrained brilliance.

Li Weiguo sighed deeply, "That's good."

The two continued talking for a while.It was nothing more than asking about their lives. Li Weiguo talked about the recent situation of the provincial team, and the most frequently mentioned word was "Qiao Wanwan".

Some people are born with light, and they can gather everyone's attention wherever they go.Nanfeng used to be like this, and Qiao Wanwan is like this now.

Nanfeng listened quietly, and occasionally echoed a few words. Li Weiguo saw that he didn't ask further questions, so he was a little surprised, "Aren't you paying attention to her now? I remember that you were very good at that time."

It's a bit unusual to say this.No matter how imposing Li Weiguo looks, he is just an old man in essence, with the gossip mentality that old men often have.

Nanfeng replied, "Why don't you pay attention? I often see her on TV."

It turns out that his attention to Qiao Wanwan is limited to "not changing the channel when watching it on TV"...

Li Weiguo covered his mouth and coughed, and then asked, "What about you? What have you been doing these past few years?"

"I, with two children."

"You have kids already?!"

"..." Nan Feng was so embarrassed that he almost dropped his cigarette, he explained very seriously, "I taught two children, and taught them how to play tennis."

"Oh, oh," Li Weiguo sat up straight in shock just now, now that he heard Nanfeng say this, he let out a breath, his expression relaxed, and then realized the content of the words, he was startled again, "You mean you Become a coach?!"

"So to speak. Well, Head Starter."

Li Weiguo took two seconds to digest this fact, and then felt that he was really making a fuss, what happened to Nanfeng as a coach?It's strange that it's inappropriate...

He took a sip of water, sat still, and asked Nanfeng, "How is the coach doing? Is the child still up to date?"

"It's pretty good, with good qualifications and hard work. I think they have the strength to enter the provincial team."

After hearing this, if Li Weiguo didn't understand the meaning, then he would have spent more than 20 years in the provincial team for nothing.He laughed, "So you are waiting for me here, Nanfeng."

"Yeah." Nanfeng also smiled, not pretentious at all, admitting frankly.

Li Weiguo said, "Since you have confidence in them, why don't you let them play the game? Are you afraid that you won't be able to enter the provincial team?"

"Their situation is quite special."

As Nanfeng said, he briefly introduced Lu Sheng's situation.

Lu Sheng's situation is special because she learned tennis too late and too short, resulting in a rough technical training, but her age and physical condition have reached a stage that cannot be missed, and she must accept higher-quality training.So at this time, it is best to be able to enter the provincial team, but due to technical limitations, she cannot guarantee that she will be successful in important competitions and enter the advanced channel.

So Nanfeng came to look for Li Weiguo.

After hearing this, Li Weiguo nodded and said, "It's not like I haven't seen such a situation before. Nanfeng, let me tell the truth, you don't want to hear it. She learned tennis too late, and she wants to play it? It's hard! Unless it's true. Very talented, like Qiao Wanwan. But Qiao Wanwan has been practicing tennis since she was six years old. Even talented children practice early, how can you catch up with others without talent?"

Nanfeng disagreed, "Coach Li, let me tell you the truth. I think it's a good thing for a person to fight for the career he loves. Lu Sheng likes to play tennis, so let her play tennis." , don’t worry too much about the consequences. Talent is actually a somewhat vague concept. If talent must be used as an example, Lu Sheng does not have talent at all, but her talent is hidden. It is difficult for me to give You explain clearly, if you take her with you in the future, you will definitely feel it."

Li Weiguo joked, "I said Nanfeng, you really worked hard to promote your apprentice. Why didn't I realize that you are so eloquent?"

Nanfeng smiled, but said nothing.

Li Weiguo took a sip of water and asked curiously, "Why do you only talk about Lu Sheng? Isn't there another apprentice?"

"Well, well, it's buy one get one free."

"..." Li Weiguo was speechless, "Why do you just buy one and get one free? Even if you are willing to give it away, the provincial team is not willing to accept it!"

"That kid's name is Xu Zhiyao. Actually, he hasn't been practicing tennis for a long time. He..." Nan Feng paused, shook his head and said, "It's hard to say."

Li Weiguo couldn't help being more vigilant, for fear that he would accidentally agree to Nanfeng accepting a defective product into the provincial team.He asked, "What's wrong with him?"

"His heart is not in tennis."

"It's strange, it's not tennis, so what kind of tennis is there?"

"You'll know it when you see him. With Xu Zhiyao's aptitude, even if his heart is not in tennis, it's not a big problem to get into the provincial first-tier in the future."

Li Weiguo was a little surprised, "Is it so powerful?"

Nan Feng shook his head helplessly, "To be honest, I really wish he wasn't so powerful."

"Then, Xu Zhiyao is so good that he can only buy one and get one free. What about Lu Sheng? How good is she, can she enter the provincial front line?"

"Her," Nan Feng suddenly raised the corners of his lips, his brows and eyes were curved, and there was a touch of tenderness in his smile, "she's going to play a grand slam."

Naturally, Li Weiguo didn't believe it, and leaned lightly on the chair, "You can brag, anyway, you don't have to pay taxes if you brag. Don't think that I can be fooled by you just by bragging so much today."

"Of course not. Coach Li, if the two children can reach the semi-finals of the 'Future Star' youth competition, I hope you can give them a chance."

Li Weiguo looked at Nanfeng meaningfully, "I thought you came to me today purely for the purpose of going through the back door and empty-handed white wolf."

In fact, according to Nanfeng's contacts in the provincial team, it is not difficult at all to arrange one or two young players to enter the provincial youth team.Li Weiguo didn't agree to him immediately, but also wanted to see what level the two children were.But, in fact, he has already made up his mind, as long as Nan Feng's two apprentices are not too cowardly, he will still give Nan Feng this face.

But now, after bragging, Nanfeng proposed to decide the result through competition.This made Li Weiguo suddenly a little confused...

Nanfeng's answer explained his doubts: "Resources and connections are indeed a kind of strength. But Lu Sheng and Xu Zhiyao are still young, and I hope they can strive for something through their own efforts at this stage instead of relying too much on Plus, it's good for their self-perception."

Li Weiguo felt a little emotional, "You, you are considered well-intentioned."

Nan Feng smiled slightly, "That's right."

The "Future Star" Cup National Youth Tennis Competition has two sessions.The first link is the trials of each sub-station, and the second link is the real national competition.

There are three sub-station trials, namely BJ Station, Shanghai Station, and Chengdu Station. The top 16 singles and the top eight doubles will be determined in the three stations, and the national competition will be held in BJ.

Since the function of the sub-station is only to eliminate and select, there is no need to continue the competition when the top 16 is determined, and the qualifying players will directly prepare for the national competition.

Among the three sub-stations, the competition between BJ and Shanghai is the fiercest, and the pressure in Chengdu is less.In order to qualify, some people will give up the nearby BJ in Shanghai and go all the way to Chengdu to play points.Lu Sheng and the others were the closest to BJ, and Nanfeng directly reported BJ's competition.

On the afternoon of December 12, a group of four went to BJ by train.Because it was winter, the scenery along the road was not pretty, except for the same houses, the desolate and withered land, or the brown forest with all the leaves gone, even the sky was covered by clouds, and there was no blue to be seen.

They watched with gloom.

Nan Feng closed his eyes and rested his mind the whole time.While chatting softly with Ding Xiaoxiao and Xu Zhiyao, Lu Sheng glanced at Nanfeng beside him from time to time.The lines of his side face with eyes closed are quiet and peaceful, which reminds people of all the best things in this time.

Neither Lu Sheng nor Xu Zhiyao has ever been to BJ, and Ding Xiaoxiao has been there a few times, all for tourism.The two children listened to Ding Xiaoxiao's talk: BJ is big, the Forbidden City is magnificent, Tiananmen Square is full of plainclothes, the Summer Palace is beautiful, there are more people on the Great Wall than the bricks on the wall, and the Bird's Nest Water Cube... Listen to them Fascinated.

Xu Zhiyao asked Lu Sheng, "Junior Sister, where do you most want to go?"

Lu Sheng held his face in one hand and said with a smile, "I want to see the national flag being raised."

"Coincidentally, I want to go too."

"I still want to visit the Forbidden City."

"Yeah," Xu Zhiyao nodded hurriedly, then shook his head and sighed, "It's a pity, we still have to train."

"It's okay, I watched it on TV anyway." Lu Sheng comforted him.

They got off the train in the evening, went to the hotel to settle down, had a simple meal, and then Lu Sheng asked Nanfeng: "Coach, where are we going to train tonight?"

"I don't need to train today, go back to the hotel and go to bed early."

"Okay. Where are you going to train tomorrow?"

"Tomorrow," Nanfeng paused, a smile flashed across his face, gentle and bright, like a shooting star flashing across the deep night sky.He asked back, "Don't you want to watch the national flag raising tomorrow?"

(End of this chapter)