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Chapter 4 My Starting Point
The first time Lu Sheng knew about Nanfeng was three years ago.

It was March 3th, her birthday.That day her mother was called by the teacher to the school to talk, because the school's children's psychological counseling room believed that Lu Sheng had a precursor to depression in children.Lu Sheng didn't know the specific content of the conversation, she only knew that no one remembered her birthday.

Lu Sheng didn't want to go home after school, so he wandered outside alone.She walked into a shopping mall aimlessly. There were many TV sets in the place where the appliances were sold, and the TV sets were stopped at Central Five.

On the TV, an older brother was smiling, very beautifully. Her weak and scarce vocabulary could not describe that kind of beautifully."Happy birthday to everyone who celebrates birthday today," he said.

At that moment, Lu Sheng only felt sour in his heart, he didn't know whether it was sad or moved.

The sister of a shopping guide next to him said, "This handsome guy is so handsome!"

Lu Sheng asked, "Sister, who is he?"

The sister of the shopping guide looked blankly, "I don't know."

At that time, Nanfeng was not well-known all over China.

Later, she read the newspapers at the newsstand for a few days before she knew who he was and understood his world.People in that world live in the sunshine, they have dreams and vigor, they sweat and hope, and their world is full of flowers.

A person is about to fall into a hopeless abyss, and at a certain opportunity, he suddenly sees a life-saving straw.

A long time later, when Lu Sheng's world was also full of flowers, she looked back at this road and found that the starting point of the road was just an incredible, small and hard obsession.

This obsession is not complicated, it is just a child's instinctive self-help when he is on the verge of despair.

Lu Sheng squatted on the ground and cried loudly for a while, and gradually changed to a soft sob.Director Ding helped her up and asked, "Who is Nanfeng?"

"He is my idol."

Director Ding thought to himself, it's normal that children are chasing stars, and it's hard to accept it for a while.He said: "Don't cry, Nanfeng may not have an accident. He is an athlete and has good physical fitness. He must be alive. You see that medical technology is so good now. As long as he recuperates well, he will be alive and kicking again soon."

Lu Sheng looked up at him, "Really?"

"real."

In fact, Director Ding had already said these words last night.

Lu Sheng believed it, wiped away tears, and said, "I hope he gets better soon."

"It's definitely possible. If he recovers quickly, he can still play in this year's China Open! You should study tennis hard now. If you perform well, I will take you to watch his match live."

Lu Sheng's eyes lit up, "Yes!"

After all, it's a child, Director Ding secretly sighed, it's so coaxing.

Director Ding took Lu Sheng to buy a new pair of pull-back sneakers, and then the two went back to Shuqing Sports School.Director Ding took Lu Sheng to visit the school, boasted a few times, and made the little girl dumbfounded, and finally he took her to the tennis court.

There is only one boy on the tennis court who is about the same height as Lu Sheng. The boy is holding the racket and juggling the ball. The yellow-green tennis ball is bouncing non-stop on the horizontal net, like a happy little grasshopper.

Director Ding asked the boy, "Where's Coach Li?"

"do not know!"

Director Ding said to Lu Sheng, "Wait here for a while, I'll call the coach over."

Lu Sheng nodded and watched Director Ding leave.

At this time, the boy stopped juggling the ball. He held the racket in one hand and asked Lu Sheng loudly across half the court, "Are you new here?"

Lu Sheng nodded slightly, and whispered "hmm".

"What's your name?"

"My name is Lu Sheng. What about you?"

"Lu Sheng? What a coincidence, my name is Shui Sheng!"

"Eh?"

He swaggered over with his racket in hand, and when he approached, he asked, "What grade are you in?"

"Sixth grade."

"Me too, how old are you?"

"twelve."

"I'm thirteen, you have to call me brother."

Lu Sheng lowered his head, embarrassed to call him "brother".

He laughed again, "But since you're here to learn tennis, you can just call me 'Senior Brother', do you understand the order of seniors and young? Come on, call me."

Lu Sheng held back for a long time, blushed, and whispered, "Brother."

"Call it by name."

"Brother Shui Sheng."

He nodded with satisfaction and smiled, "Oh, not bad, have you learned how to play ball before? Haven't you? Today my brother will teach you! Come on, get the racket."

He ran to the sidelines and gave Lu Sheng another racket.

This was Lu Sheng's first time touching a racket.A semi-old tennis racket, made of unknown material. It is very heavy and very heavy. The handle is wrapped with tape. Because it has been used for a long time, there is some mud on the surface.She held the racket in both hands, feeling a little excited.

"Stand on the opposite side." Shui Sheng ordered.

Lu Sheng honestly ran to the opposite side, the court was very wide, she didn't know where to stand better, at this moment, Shui Sheng suddenly served the ball, and after serving the ball, he shouted: "Go on!"

Lu Sheng hurriedly swung his racket, but naturally he missed it.

Shuisheng sent another one. She ran after the tennis ball, swung it with a racket, caught it, and the ball was directly hit into the sky.

Then he served the ball one after another, and she ran around to rescue, and after a while, she was out of breath.

At this time, a middle-aged man with a square face came over, holding a racket that was one size smaller in his hand, and he shouted to the two of them, "Stop playing."

Shuisheng stopped, looked back at him, and called "Coach".

Lu Sheng obediently called "Coach".

The coach glared at Shuisheng, "Nonsense! She has never learned it, what should I do if she gets hurt? Also, my racket is too heavy, it is used by grown men, how can you use it for her?!"

Shui Sheng stuck out his tongue.

Lu Sheng came over and returned the racket to the coach, and said, "Coach, brother Shui Sheng is teaching me how to play."

The coach was a little strange, "What do you call him?"

"Brother Shui, Master Shuisheng..." She almost lost her voice when she said the last word, because she saw that the coach's expression was not very good.

The coach picked up the racket and slammed it on "Shuisheng"'s ass, cursing angrily: "Xu Zhiyao! When did you change your name to Shuisheng? I'm still a f***ing child!"

Xu Zhiyao covered his ass and laughed: "Hahahahaha I can finally laugh, it's killing me... Lu Sheng, why are you so stupid? It's so easy to lie! Hahahahaha..."

Lu Sheng was a little embarrassed, lowered his head and blushed, and complained softly, "Why are you like this!"

"Haha, don't be angry, can't I treat you to a pile of candies later?"

The coach dunked him again.

Next, the coach gave the small racket to Lu Sheng, and taught her how to hold the racket alone. After teaching for a while, it was lunch time.The coach asked Xu Zhiyao to take Lu Sheng to dinner.

Lu Sheng was still a little awkward in his heart, and didn't want to talk to Xu Zhiyao, but Xu Zhiyao planned to "smile away the grudge", and kept talking to her cheekily.When we arrived at the cafeteria, Xu Zhiyao smiled and said, "Hey, may I treat you to chicken drumsticks?"

Lu Sheng vacillated between "chicken legs" and "integrity", and finally chose chicken legs.

(End of this chapter)