south wind into my arms

Chapter 51 Unexpected Challenge

When someone comes in or out of the dessert shop, the wind chimes hanging in front of the door will jingle, crisp and pleasant.When Lu Sheng heard the wind chimes ringing, he turned his head to look, and was caught off guard by Nan Feng's sight.

The four eyes met, silent.

He is still like the jade tree facing the wind, his brows are calm and peaceful, and the waves are calm.Lu Sheng looked at his steady and calm gaze, and thought to himself, it seems that the two of them haven't seen each other for more than half a month, and he doesn't miss her very much.

Very suddenly, the surging longing that surged in my heart when I saw him for the first time turned into a trace of resentment.She turned her head and looked down at the empty ice cream cup.

It was Xu Zhiyao who waved his hand, "Coach Nan, this way."

Nanfeng came over, pulled up a chair and sat beside Lu Sheng.She was burying her head in ignoring him, when he tilted his head slightly, he saw a bright red headband tied around her shiny black ponytail.This color looks familiar... Nan Feng turned his gaze, and his eyes fell on the hand that Xu Zhiyao waved at him just now.

Mai Se's wrist is wrapped around a bracelet, which is also bright red, echoing Lu Sheng's headband, at first glance it looks like a couple's style.

Seeing Coach Nan looking at his bracelet, Xu Zhiyao shook his hand generously, a little proudly, "Coach Nan, is it good-looking? My younger sister bought it for me!"

"It doesn't look good."

"..."

Not only is it ugly, it is simply ugly.And, what the hell are those letters, Love?Ah……

After complaining about Xu Zhiyao, Nan Feng lowered his head and asked Lu Sheng softly, "Why don't you talk?"

"I've eaten too much, I'm a little full." Lu Sheng made a nonsense reason.In order to strengthen the authenticity of this reason, she also touched her belly on purpose.

Nan Feng was a little amused, "Look at your potential."

The friendly and familiar tone brought back the heartless time, as if he had never rejected her confession, and she had never escaped in embarrassment.

She knew that he was the best at whitewashing peace.

She couldn't cooperate with him.

Xu Zhiyao quickly sensed that the atmosphere was not right.He didn't know what happened between the two of them, so he also restrained his temperament and stood still to observe.

Nan Feng and Lu Sheng were not talkative people, especially at the moment Lu Sheng didn't want to talk, so the three of them fell into silence, feeling like a mystery.

After sitting like this for more than ten minutes, a phone call rescued them.It was Xu Mengmeng who called Lu Sheng, asking her where she was and if she would go back to the hotel for dinner.

Back, must go back.Lu Sheng felt that his reasons were unassailable: "The board and lodging expenses are all paid to them, if they don't eat, they will lose money."

The three let it go.

Nanfeng asked his assistant to book the fastest return ticket and went back in the afternoon.Traveling back and forth for [-] kilometers is nothing more than sitting in a small shop by the lake for more than ten minutes.Chunxiao Su Causeway, peach blossoms and willows green, all failed to catch his eyes.

It was probably the worst trip of his life.

In Xu Zhiyao's game in the afternoon, he encountered an opponent with a very responsive nerve.The ultra-fast reaction can restrain Xu Zhiyao's scheming style of play to a certain extent.The two fought fiercely for three sets, and they played fiercely and excitingly. The third set entered the tie-break. Xu Zhiyao won the match point several times, and finally won with a line-pressing ball to seal the game.

After winning, he became exhausted and hung on Lu Sheng's body. All kinds of complaints about the game lasted too long, which was anti-human.

Lu Sheng supported him, dumbfounded, "Complaining, shouldn't it be the privilege of the loser? If you win, don't whine about it. Besides, you are tired and you can't bear it. Isn't it because you haven't trained well? not good enough."

"I don't care, I'm just tired, you just have to support me."

"Xu Zhiyao, are you acting like a baby?"

"nonsense……"

Lu Sheng joked, "Hey, my little lady seems to like men who act like a baby? Xu Zhiyao..."

Xu Zhiyao rolled his eyes, "Shut up, you're the only one who talks too much!"

In the second day's semi-finals, Xu Zhiyao's performance was not so smooth. After all, his physical strength was his shortcoming.

Although he lost the semi-finals, looking at the entire provincial team, his results are already considered good.In the singles competition this time, three people from the provincial team made it to the top four, one man and two women.Both female players lost to Luo Lingzhi in the end.

The final women's singles champion was Luo Lingzhi.

In this competition, the T city tennis team won a women's doubles championship, a women's singles runner-up, and a men's doubles runner-up.The overall result is very good, reflecting the strength of the old strong team.

It's a pity that the most important singles champion was not included in the bag.

When returning, Xu Zhiyao also said, "It's a pity that there is no mixed doubles, otherwise we can win another championship." His confidence in mixed doubles is much higher than that of singles.

However, mixed doubles is "non-mainstream" in the tennis world after all, and some events do not have mixed doubles at all.

Li Weiguo comforted him and said, "Don't worry, save the mixed doubles championship for October this year."

"Huh? What competitions are there in October this year?"

Lu Sheng touched him and whispered, "Are you stupid? The city sports meeting will be held in October this year! Did you forget?"

Xu Zhiyao patted his head, "Yes, I really forgot."

Li Weiguo's old god is here: "The city sports meeting may be better than this once in your life, you must seize the opportunity and go all out."

"Why can you only compare once in a lifetime? It sounds so sad."

"Because there is an age limit for participating in the city games, for tennis events, players must be between 16 and 18 years old."

It turns out that this is not magical at all, I thought there was some great secret...

Then, Li Weiguo briefly introduced the city sports meeting to the two raw melon eggs.This sports meeting is a national sports event, held every four years, the purpose of holding it is to accumulate talents for the future Olympic Games, so the participants are all young athletes.Due to the large number of applicants, many competitions have preliminaries. The preliminaries are usually held several months in advance, and each participating unit selects players to participate. The players can only appear in the main competition in October after qualifying for the preliminaries.

After the science popularization, Li Weiguo said, "I can sign up for you when I go back. Xu Zhiyao and Lu Sheng will participate in the mixed doubles. In addition, you both played well in the tour in Hangzhou this time, so you should be able to get a place in the singles preliminaries." .”

Lu Sheng was very happy, and only belatedly realized that the Hangzhou competition was likely to be an actual combat assessment.Only after passing the assessment can one get the ticket to the National Sports Conference.

Li Weiguo added, "However, you have to fight hard to qualify."

"Ok!"

A group of people returned to the provincial team around ten o'clock in the morning.The meeting time is in the afternoon, so they have two hours of free time.

Lu Sheng put down his luggage and impatiently grabbed a racket and went to the training ground. After putting down his luggage, Xu Zhiyao couldn't wait to climb onto the bed...

Well, get some sleep.

Spring is windy and sandy, and the air quality in the north is not so good, so their current training is still indoors.When Lu Sheng was walking towards the training room, he passed by the medical station and saw Ding Xiaoxiao open the window and hook her finger at her.

"Shengsheng, come here." Ding Xiaoxiao had a mysterious expression on her face.

"Miss, what's the matter?" Lu Sheng walked over and asked her through the window.

Ding Xiaoxiao blinked, and suddenly looked at her sympathetically, "Shengsheng, let me tell you, you have to be mentally prepared."

"Ah? What's the matter?"

"The provincial team has a new player."

"Well," Lu Sheng found this logic very strange, "It's just a new team member, I need to make mental preparations?"

"That team member's name is Nan Ge."

"..." Lu Sheng thought he heard it wrong, and asked again, "Who?"

"Nan Ge. That's right, that psychopath, Nan Ge."

Thinking of Nan Ge, Lu Sheng couldn't help feeling disgusted in his heart.She frowned and asked, "Why did Nan Ge come here? Isn't she a self-employed person?" A self-employed person with a lot of money and freedom to come and go.

"Who knows," Ding Xiaoxiao snorted disdainfully, "We don't understand the world of neuropathy, and if we understand it, we will become crazy."

Lu Sheng nodded hurriedly, deeply agreeing.

After Ding Xiaoxiao finished his business, he brought another box of cherries to Lu Sheng, "Hey, it was given by someone else, and it was quite delicious. By the way, what about Yaoyao? I left a box for him too."

The cherries are dark red and very big, making your mouth water when you look at them.Lu Sheng was a little curious, "Who gave it to you?"

"It's Song Tianran, the name really didn't come in vain, send, god, ran, hahaha..."

Lu Sheng felt as if he knew something important, and asked in a low voice, "Miss, is Song Tianran chasing you?"

"Xiaoyou, there are too many people chasing me."

Compared to Ding's little heartthrob, Lu Sheng felt that his side was really lonely.There is no one chasing her, not a single one!

No wonder Nanfeng doesn't like her, maybe it's because she really doesn't attract men...

Lu Sheng stayed in the training room for half an hour, but never saw Nan Ge.Probably, she is in another training room. The tennis team in City T is very large, not just one training room.

Half an hour later, Xu Mengmeng also came, chatting excitedly with Lu Sheng as soon as he arrived.

"Have you heard that the team has hired a very good young player, who is only 16 years old this year and ranks higher than me, much higher!" Xu Mengmeng said here, a little frustrated.

Lu Sheng comforted Xu Mengmeng, "Nan Ge's points are accumulated by playing games non-stop. If you play so many games, you may not be worse than her."

"Hey, you already know her name? Then do you know who introduced her?"

"Who?"

"Qiao Wanwan, a national player."

Lu Sheng didn't know there was such a thing.She thought of Qiao Wanwan's care for Nan Ge on TV, and she immediately hated the house, and didn't like Qiao Wanwan very much.I really don't know why the dignified national player treats Nan Ge differently.

As a senior member of the gossip circle, Xu Mengmeng still has a lot of material to tell Lu Sheng, she said: "But, you know, there is something strange. Although the team has hired an independent foreign teacher for Qiao Wanwan, But she was brought out by Coach Li in the first place. I heard that Nan Ge came to train with us and would not bring a coach by himself. This is strange, Nan Ge was introduced by Qiao Wanwan, why not Directly with Coach Li? Instead, with Coach Lian?"

"Coach Lian" refers to Lian Shaoqing, who is about ten years younger than Li Weiguo, but more like an old man than Li Weiguo, with a straight face and a serious face all the time.

Lu Sheng thought for a while, Nan Ge didn't follow Li Weiguo, maybe the reason was Li Weiguo's side.The biggest possibility is that Li Weiguo knew about the relationship between Nan Ge and Nan Feng.So this time in Hangzhou, Li Weiguo didn't have to lead the team himself, but in the end he volunteered to go. He was secretly rejecting Nan Ge, or Qiao Wanwan.

Thinking of this, Lu Sheng's favorability towards Li Weiguo gradually increased.

Lu Sheng figured it out, but he didn't intend to tell Xu Mengmeng.Because Xu Mengmeng couldn't control her mouth, if it leaked out, it would cause unnecessary trouble.

After chatting and gossiping for a while, the two copied the racket and started to fight.After taking a few shots, Lu Sheng saw two people walking in from the gate in the distance.

From the moment they walked in, they attracted the attention of the on-site trainers to the greatest extent.Even Xu Mengmeng stopped, wiped his sweat and ran to Lu Sheng's side, and whispered, "Look, that's Qiao Wanwan!"

"I know." Lu Sheng was a little helpless.

Qiao Wanwan, 21 years old, a young man who has won the Wimbledon Junior Championship.After the veterans retired, she became China's No. 46 Golden Flower, also known as the "National Player". She is currently ranked [-]th in the world in singles and is in a period of rapid career growth. Many people expect her ranking to rise to [-] this year. bit.

Qiao Wanwan belongs to the T City Tennis Team and has her own fixed team. Compared with the average players, her team lineup is luxurious.She is always fighting north and south, either in the game or on the way to the game, so although she is an official player of the T City Tennis Team, she rarely shows up in the team.

So now everyone will feel very fresh when they see Qiao Wanwan.The national player is alive!

Some people even took out their notebooks and asked her for an autograph, laughing so hard that they almost burst out laughing, without any integrity.

Qiao Wanwan signed quickly. She didn't look at the tip of the pen when signing, and her chin was raised slightly, looking a little arrogant.

However, they have the capital of arrogance.

Qiao Wanwan is 1.7 meters [-] tall, with short hair, pretty body, well-proportioned figure, a little baby fat on her face, small eyes, but she is very energetic and energetic.

Nan Ge followed behind her like a little follower.

Xu Mengmeng pursed her lips and said to Lu Sheng, "That's Nange, right?"

Lu Sheng felt a little bored, "Let's train."

At this time, Qiao Wanwan had already walked into the center of the training room. She looked around and asked loudly, "Who is Lu Sheng?"

For a moment, everyone's eyes were on Lu Sheng, and Lu Sheng suddenly felt a lot of pressure.Xu Mengmeng was also affected by the gaze, biting the bullet and not knowing what to do.

Qiao Wanwan looked at Xu Mengmeng, "You?"

"Ah? It's not me, it's not me!" Xu Mengmeng was about to cry.Qiao Wanwan's eyes are so sharp, it feels like she's going to bite her, she looks scared...

"It's not her, then it's you?" Qiao Wanwan looked at Lu Sheng again.

"It's me." Lu Sheng pursed his lips, "Are you okay?"

Qiao Wanwan suddenly smiled, "It's nothing, I just want to ask for advice."

What do you ask for advice?One is the top [-] in the WTA rankings, and the other is the bottom ranking in the ITF junior competition just now. With such a gap, even the word "asking for advice" sounds so hypocritical.

Isn't this clearly a bully? !
Many people began to sympathize with Lu Sheng, wondering how she offended Qiao Wanwan, the King of Hades.

Xu Mengmeng quietly said to Lu Sheng, "Why don't you admit defeat..."

It is indeed a way to admit defeat and directly admit that you can't beat it.But "I can't beat you", Lu Sheng couldn't say it.

She had no choice but to walk into the battlefield.

Although everyone sympathized with Lu Sheng, this did not prevent the crowd from watching the excitement. Almost all the players stopped training and gathered around the court, watching and whispering.

Qiao Wanwan raised her hand backwards, and Nan Ge put the tennis racket she had taken out on her hand.Lu Sheng rolled his eyes in contempt, Nan Ge's current behavior is just like those pony boys of gang bosses in Hong Kong movies.

Qiao Wanwan raised the racket with one hand and pointed at Lu Sheng, full of momentum: "You serve."

There is a huge difference in strength between the two, and it was Qiao Wanwan who took the initiative to ask for a challenge. At this time, there is no need to worry about serving.Lu Sheng was also unambiguous, and picked up a ball. She saw Qiao Wanwan standing a little closer to the center line, so she gathered all her strength and sent an outside corner kick.

Frankly speaking, the quality of this ball is good, and it is quite a bit of a surprise.However, Qiao Wanwan seemed to have anticipated the movement of the ball, moved his footsteps to guard the perfect position, and hit the ball vigorously after catching it.

The speed of the ball was high and fierce, and the angle was tricky. Lu Sheng couldn't touch the ball at all.

She was a little unconvinced, and then played the second ball.

Still the same for the second ball.

The third……

the fourth……

Don't talk about winning, she even has less chance to touch the ball!
Lu Sheng hit more and more anxiously, and the last ball seemed to be salvageable, but she ran too fast and accidentally fell.

Wrestling is common when playing ball.But this time, she felt that she was extremely humiliated by falling.

Go all out, helpless.

That's the most frustrating thing in life.

She was very sad, and the joy of returning from the battlefield in Hangzhou was extinguished in the blink of an eye by the gap between her eyes and others like a chasm.How could this be so, how could the gap be so big that she could hardly see any hope of making up the gap.

It turned out that she was so bad. The opponent's world ranking was only 46, and she could already be beaten into a bereaved dog.

So what about those firsts and seconds?How strong will it be?
Simply unimaginable.

Qiao Wanwan left, taking her pony Nan Ge with her.When Nan Ge left, he made a face at Lu Sheng.Lu Sheng was in no mood to pay attention to her.

Lu Sheng sat on the ground, hugging his knees in a daze, with a gray expression on his face.

Ning Xia came over and tapped her on the head with a racket.

Lu Sheng raised her head slowly, she saw Ning Xia smiling at her.Ning Xia said, "Why are you in a daze, get up and train."

Lu Sheng suddenly wanted to cry.There was a void in my heart, as if there was nothing left.Her eyes were red and her mouth pursed.

"Lu Sheng," Ning Xia knelt down, looked her in the eyes with a serious expression, "If you don't want to give this world up to fools, then get up and train."

(End of this chapter)