south wind into my arms

Chapter 40 Leaving and Staying

Nanfeng finally found out with his conscience later, and invited Ding Xiaoxiao to have a big meal.Not only her, Lu Sheng and Xu Zhiyao were also released, and the four of them ate together.Lu Sheng has been in love with mango glutinous rice for several years. He ordered a portion to eat, and when he returned, he had to pack a portion for Xu Mengmeng to taste.

Nan Feng smiled and said, "You get along well with your roommate?"

"Well," Lu Sheng nodded shyly, "she's fine."

Nanfeng felt that the little girl in his family was really a heart-warming little girl.It's only been a few days since I made friends, and I remember to bring them delicious food.

Ding Xiaoxiao asked Xu Zhiyao, "Yaoyao, don't you bring food for your friends?"

Regarding the question of address, Xu Zhiyao has given up resistance.Hearing Ding Xiaoxiao's question, he replied, "How about I bring them some bars."

The provincial team does not prohibit athletes from drinking alcohol, but they are not allowed to get drunk and make trouble.Excessive intake of alcoholic beverages is not good for training, so athletes do not dare to drink too much for their own career considerations.There are also some coaches who explicitly restrict their athletes and must obtain approval to drink alcohol.

Of course, no matter how many restrictions there are, if you are a man, you will like to have a few sips.

After dinner, Lu Sheng, Xu Zhiyao, and Ding Xiaoxiao are going to the provincial team.Nanfeng sent them to a taxi and watched the taxi go away under the night light.

He stood still for a while.The night was dim, and the traffic in front of him seemed very quiet.He was in the cold wind of a winter night, and he felt a little cold and lonely.

Ding Xiaoxiao's position in the provincial team is an athlete physician. Her work includes seeing a doctor, prescribing medicine, and daily health care for athletes.She is a dedicated person, but she has never been a person who likes to burn herself to give to others, so she does not reveal her specialties outside of her job, such as massage.If the team finds out, she will definitely be turned into a spinning top, and she will not be able to massage Lu Sheng and Xu Zhiyao, because good resources will be allocated to the first-line athletes first, followed by the second-line.Youth training team?hehe.

This place is just so realistic.Strength, or grades, determines your class and determines everything about you.

So Ding Xiaoxiao always asked Lu Sheng or Xu Zhiyao to go to her alone, and she gave them massages to care for their joints and muscles.

Xu Zhiyao has an attribute, that is, he can push every inch.How nice it is to stay in the infirmary without training and have someone give you a massage, so he gradually ran to the infirmary more and more diligently.In the beginning, I only went there after training. Later, when I was training, I felt uncomfortable here and there. Sorry, I have to go to the infirmary...

Song Tianran and the others all said that Xu Zhiyao had a crush on the new doctor.

Xu Zhiyao didn't care about those rumors.

On this day, Xu Zhiyao found an excuse to go to the infirmary during training again. He was lying on the snow-white bed, smelling the smell of disinfectant in the infirmary, and Ding Xiaoxiao pressed his body behind him. Emma felt very comfortable. , I really don't want to go back to the training room...

Ding Xiaoxiao, "Yaoyao."

He closed his eyes, and let out a lazy ending sound from the end of his nose, "Huh?"

"Why do you always run to the infirmary recently?"

"I am tired."

"Really? You don't have a crush on me, do you?"

Xu Zhiyao was so frightened that his body froze, and then said weakly: "Sister, do you think that all the men in the world have a crush on you?"

"It's fine if you don't," Ding Xiaoxiao breathed a sigh of relief, "Although I don't mind the relationship between siblings, but you are not my type."

Xu Zhiyao asked curiously, "What's your food like?"

"I like obedient, well-behaved, good-tempered, and coquettish."

Xu Zhiyao was silent for a while, and said sincerely, "Don't try to find a partner, you should get a dog."

Then Ding Xiaoxiao gently pinched his fragile joints, and he screamed.

The massage activity ended here, Ding Xiaoxiao pulled up a chair and sat down, and asked Xu Zhiyao, "I think something is wrong with you recently."

Xu Zhiyao was still lying on the bed and was reluctant to sit up. Recently, he was exhausted from being ravaged in the provincial team, which caused his attachment to the bed to grow day by day.He said lazily, "What's wrong?"

"You were lazy before, but you are not as lazy as you are now. Do you not want to train anymore?"

Xu Zhiyao sighed, "Oh. Let me tell you, this place is like a concentration camp. I can't bear it...I want to leave."

"Leave? Where?"

"go home."

Only then did Ding Xiaoxiao realize that his so-called "leaving" meant that he didn't plan to practice tennis anymore.She has come into contact with many athletes, and she also knows how fierce the competition environment athletes need to face if they want to be successful, so Ding Xiaoxiao is not surprised to hear that Xu Zhiyao wants to give up. After thinking about it, she even thinks this choice is very rational.

Laziness is a disease, a disease more difficult to cure than cancer.Facing the success of others, many people always say, "As long as I work harder, I can do what I can", but where is "diligence" so easy to do?
Laziness is lazy, the cure rate is extremely low, and the recurrence rate is extremely high.

So Ding Xiaoxiao said, "Alright. Go back and do the math problems. If you do well, you may be recommended to go to college. Then you will have a skill. At least you won't starve to death, and you won't have to do physical work." She Very thoughtful.

Xu Zhiyao was a little depressed.He knew that he was not suitable for such an environment, and he also knew that it was a hundred times easier for him to do math than to play tennis.But none of these rational analyzes could replace his emotional reluctance at the moment.He has been playing tennis for almost seven years. At the beginning, he just played tennis to avoid piano practice. Why he can persist for so long later, he has a clear mind.

He is such a person, easily swayed, but difficult to make a decision.It's not that he hasn't thought of giving up for so many years, and it's only at this moment that he finally made this decision.

No more fights, no more fights.

After returning to the training ground, Xu Zhiyao wanted to tell Lu Sheng about his decision.Then he learned another thing.

Tomorrow the provincial team will have an internal competition.This internal competition is regular, held every two or three weeks, the purpose is to let everyone learn from each other and improve.Both Xu Zhiyao and Lu Sheng have just entered the provincial team, and this kind of competition is a test of their strength.

Forget it, let's talk about it tomorrow, in case the junior sister is sad because he is leaving, and because of this distraction, she can't perform well tomorrow... how bad it is.

So Xu Zhiyao didn't say anything.

The next day, the internal competition officially started.

Everyone's training life is so tight, there is only one game day.According to the level of strength, the first-tier and second-tier youth training teams are compared separately, and each level is divided into different groups for round-robin matches within the group. Each game only plays one set, and the rule is a short set.There are seven people in Lu Sheng's team, and each person plays six sets, three sets in the morning and three sets in the afternoon.

She lost three sets in the morning and three sets in the afternoon.

Didn't win a set.

Her opponent is neither the first team nor the second team, but the youth training team, which is not eligible to be counted as the official player's youth training team.

In the final score statistics, her score was the worst, the only zero egg in the audience.

When the coaches summed up at night, they didn't mention her name, but she always felt that others were watching her.

Look, that guy, never won a game.

He just played within the youth training team and didn't win a game. What about the first and second tiers?It's even more impossible to compare.

This person is so weak, how did he get into the provincial team?Through the back door?

At this level, you still want to play a Grand Slam?Let's dream!
Because the game during the day is quite exhausting, the training at night was canceled. After the summary, the team disbanded on the spot, and the coaches and players left.

Lu Sheng stayed.

She practiced the ball crazily against the wall, and Xu Zhiyao watched from the side, feeling that she was playing out of order, as if she was just venting.

He was a little sad and called her, "Junior Sister."

Lu Sheng threw away the racket and sat on the ground.She hugged her knees and buried her face deeply.

On the flat and empty court, she was almost huddled up, sitting there alone, the bright white light shone down from above her head, and her shadow was as black as ink.

She sat motionless under the cold light, and when Xu Zhiyao walked over, she found her shoulders were shaking slightly.

"Junior Sister?" He called her again.

He finally heard her cry, sobbing softly, suppressed very low, as if he couldn't restrain it, like an ancient spring swallowing.

Hearing her cry, Xu Zhiyao felt his heart was broken.He sat beside her, gently pushed her shoulder, and comforted her in a low voice, "Don't cry. Victory or defeat is a common matter in military affairs, and you can just take revenge in the future."

"Xu Zhiyao."

"Ah."

Lu Sheng raised his head, with two tear marks on his face.The tears were still streaming down, dripping on her arms."I'm useless," she said.

"Don't say that, you're fine."

"I'm not good at all! I've lost so many times, and I haven't won even once! I can't even beat a kid who is two years younger than me! People from the youth training team can beat me all over the place. I'm not an official player of the provincial team! I still want to play Grand Slam? What should I play? No wonder Coach Nan doesn't want me, I must have let him down? I'm so useless, so useless... "As she spoke, she cried even more happily.

I have never seen her cry like this before, Xu Zhiyao was a little flustered, he hurriedly said, "It's not like this Lu Sheng. You have less time to learn than them, and you have less experience in competitions. After a while, you will be able to beat them." gone."

"I don't want to deceive myself anymore! You haven't studied for long, why can you win? The fact is that I'm useless, useless!" She couldn't speak any more, only crying.

Seeing her crying like pear blossoms with rain, Xu Zhiyao only felt a pain in his heart.He put one hand around the back of her neck, put his arms around her shoulders and brought her to him.

At this moment, Lu Sheng's heart is full of despair, she really needs a shoulder to lean on.

She leaned on his shoulder and continued to cry.

Hearing her crying, Xu Zhiyao sighed sadly, not knowing if it was for Lu Sheng or for himself.

Xu Zhiyao always felt that he knew her better than Lu Sheng himself.

Lu Sheng cried like this today, is it because he lost the game?Yes and no.

Her uneasiness has actually been buried since the moment Coach Nan decided to leave.She cared so much, but she didn't dare to show it, she could only hide it deep in her heart.She was too paranoid and regarded separation as a kind of negation. In order to negate this negation, she was eager to prove herself, but in the end, reality gave her a head-on blow.

That's why she's sad and desperate now.

After all, I still care too much.

Xu Zhiyao suddenly laughed at himself.If she cares, doesn't he care?If he didn't care, how could he see her every move and guess her thoughts at any time?

But she seemed to never care about his concern.

Xu Zhiyao felt that he was an open-minded person most of the time.Heartless, no sadness.He likes to be unrestrained and free.So he doesn't like the current scene very much.

That's why he wanted to escape.Want to hide away.

Xu Zhiyao hugged Lu Sheng, her shoulders were much thinner than his, and felt softer to the touch.Her face was leaning against his shoulder, and the heat of her skin seemed to be transmitted to the surface of his skin through the clothes.He rubbed her hair, the cold, soft, and delicate hair, touching it in the palm of his hand, felt indescribably comfortable, and made his heart feel soft.

Xu Zhiyao comforted Lu Sheng for a while, but it didn't work.Later he told her jokes, and his tone of jokes was very vivid, like a cross talk talker.

After making three jokes in a row, Lu Sheng was finally amused by him.

When Lu Sheng returned to the dormitory at night, he called Nanfeng.Nanfeng heard that her nasal voice was wrong, and asked her if she was crying.Lu Sheng smiled and said, "No, I just have a cold and a stuffy nose."

Nan Feng was nagging, "I told you last time, I told you to wear more clothes after training, but you didn't listen."

"Okay, I was wrong, I will listen later."

The two talked nonsense, but Lu Sheng didn't tell Nanfeng about today's results.

The next day, Xu Zhiyao went to Ding Xiaoxiao to relax after training.Ding Xiaoxiao asked strangely, "Aren't you leaving? Why are you still training?"

"Oh, I'm not leaving." Xu Zhiyao said calmly.

"Aren't you leaving again? You guy, you've changed too fast, right?" Ding Xiaoxiao felt that he was inexplicable, "Why didn't you leave again?"

Xu Zhiyao turned over, lay on his side on the bed, propped his face with one hand, and said, "I think Junior Sister needs me now."

——I also thought about running away, but there is no way, I can't escape!

(End of this chapter)