south wind into my arms

Chapter 87
Nanfeng sometimes goes to the provincial team to watch Lu Sheng play.

It was the height of summer and the ground was hot enough to cook eggs.All athletes—men, women, and children—are drawn to outdoor tennis courts to train under the scorching sun.

It's not that there are indoor courts, and indoor courts are not without air conditioning.However, tennis games are often played outdoors, and it is a basic requirement to adapt to various weather factors.

Ordinary people get too tanned after standing in the sun for a while, let alone exercising.At this time, all the members and coaches of the provincial team will turn black by at least one shade, and will not return to white until after autumn.

Lu Sheng not only turned black, but also peeled from the sun several times, and his face was sunburned, red and itchy, very unsightly.She felt that she was so ugly that she couldn't face Nanfeng.

However, Nanfeng came to see her.

There are several large buckets under the shade of the tree, some with water and some with ice cubes.There are also several boxes of drinks to replenish the electrolytes in the athletes' bodies.Not far from the drink is a row of trash cans filled with empty bottles of electrolyte drinks.This is a favorite of the cleaners.

Sometimes the team is short of manpower, and Nanfeng will help fetch water for the athletes.

Many players are not very old, and they regarded Nanfeng as their idol when they were learning to play. Now they are very flattered to fetch water for their idols, and they are very excited holding the water cup.

Nanfeng sat like an old man, neither talking nor putting on airs. He had experienced the ups and downs of life, and at the moment the clouds were calm and breezy like a wild crane.When someone asked him a question, he always answered concisely, with a plain attitude, and would never evade with arrogance.

As the saying goes, a woman's taste depends on what kind of man she finds.Nanfeng's inadvertent display of open-mindedness and upbringing made Lu Sheng's teammates not only have a good impression of him, but even Lu Sheng.

Lu Sheng didn't even know that she accidentally got a lot of fans because of her boyfriend.

As a coach, although Li Weiguo doesn't need to play, he is also very busy, and he just occasionally steals a little spare time to chat with Nanfeng.

It is not an exaggeration for the athletes on the field to say that they "sweat like rain".Nanfeng's eyes followed Lu Sheng's figure.Her clothes and hair were completely wet, and the surface of her skin was covered with a fine layer of sweat. When the sun dries, it reflects the fine crystal light.

Li Weiguo came over to drink water, and asked knowingly while drinking water, "What are you looking at, your eyes are straight."

"Look at my girlfriend glowing."

Pfft - Li Weiguo squirted out the water.Holding his water glass, he glared at Nanfeng, "Can you speak humanly to me! Talking about a relationship makes you stupid."

Nan Feng withdrew his gaze, glanced at Li Weiguo, and asked, "What's wrong?"

Li Weiguo didn't want to discuss this kind of issue, so he changed the topic and said, "Let's talk about something serious."

"Ah."

"Do you feel that Lu Sheng's condition this year is not as good as last year?"

"not at all."

"I'm serious. It's not bad for her. She worked hard in training and competitions, but she just didn't feel as focused and excited as last year. What do you think?"

Nan Feng didn't take it seriously, "That's because your expectations for her were too high. She won't always maintain the upward momentum of the previous two years, and will slowly slow down."

"Tch, don't you have high expectations for her? Besides, I think your theory is wrong. You and I both know that Lu Sheng's potential is far from being released!"

Nanfeng always felt that Li Weiguo seemed to mean something, he asked, "Coach Li, what exactly do you want to say?"

"I mean, is it possible that the reason why Lu Sheng's condition is not at its best is because she is in a relationship? She is always with you, so it is inevitable to be distracted."

Nan Feng smiled, "Coach Li, you think too much. I wish she would 'always be with me', but that's not the case."

Li Weiguo rolled his eyes, "You should just become a coach, then you can be with her every day."

Nanfeng just smiled without saying a word.

Li Weiguo said again, "But I really think she's distracted."

"Where's the evidence?"

"No evidence, gut feeling, my gut feeling of 30 years in the business."

"On the contrary. My instinct tells me that love is Lu Sheng's positive energy."

At this point the two had a disagreement.Li Weiguo also understood Nanfeng quite well.The two of you are in the midst of mixing things up, and you suddenly stand up and tell him that he is her burden... It's good manners not to get angry.

When Nanfeng left, he gave Li Weiguo an ointment for sunburn and asked him to pass it to Lu Sheng.

When he returned to the company, Assistant Feng gave him a lot of things.There are documents to look at and contracts to sign.Nanfeng looked at this pile of things and was in a daze.

Someone's unintentional words seemed to hit his heart.

"You might as well be a coach, then you can be with her every day."

If a sentence easily touches your heartstrings, it must be where your true desire lies.

It's not that Nanfeng doesn't know what's on his mind.For so many years, he came and went, went and came again. I thought he would bid farewell to tennis forever, and he also left decisively.In the end, he found that he had already set his heart there.

Maybe it has something to do with Lu Sheng, maybe it has nothing to do with Lu Sheng.Regardless, facts are facts.The truth is, he's always been haunted by that land.

Can I go back?
Nanfeng had indeed asked himself this question.There are many things he can do when he goes back, but he has his pride and dignity.So the answer here is that he can't go back.

Because all that can be done is the same as doing nothing.

In the evening, Lu Sheng called Nanfeng and happily told him that the ointment was very effective, and his face was no longer painful or itchy immediately after applying it.She is still on the phone, Nan Feng.

Listening to Lu Sheng's words, Nanfeng imagined her acting like a baby at the moment.He was suddenly very lucky, lucky to have Lu Sheng.She is like a bridge, communicating between him and that unreachable world.

The National Games is just around the corner, and a big event suddenly happened to the provincial team, causing a commotion in the entire tennis world.

That's it, Qiao Wanwan, as the ace player of the women's singles in the team, is bound to play, and almost no one in the team doubts this.But after the registration results for the US Open came out, Qiao Wanwan suddenly attended the main match.A reporter found out and used this to interview the team leader Deng Linyi.Deng Linyi told the reporter that it must be a mistake, and he questioned Qiao Wanwan after he came back.

Then Qiao Wanwan had no choice but to admit that she did sign up for the US Open without telling the team.And she also said frankly: "I do plan to play the US Open. My current ranking is pretty good. The opportunity is rare. There are only four Grand Slams a year. I don't want to miss it. Team Deng, please."

Deng Linyi said angrily: "The Grand Slam is only four times a year? Why don't you say that the National Games only happens once every four years?"

"The National Games is just a domestic competition after all."

"But how important the National Games is, you don't need me to emphasize it to you, do you?"

Qiao Wanwan said, "Team Deng, don't just stare at me, don't we still have Lu Sheng in our team, I think she is quite capable."

Lu Sheng was not present, but Li Weiguo repeated this to her later.Li Weiguo was also very upset about what Qiao Wanwan did, and Lu Sheng was also very upset when he heard Qiao Wanwan say that, which meant to drag her into trouble.

Others, whether they were familiar with Qiao Wanwan or not, heard that Qiao Wanwan was going to give up the National Games to play the US Open, and they were somewhat disapproving of this decision.This is related to the honor of the entire provincial team, but also to the vital interests of each team member.From the perspective of beneficiaries, they naturally rejected Qiao Wanwan's decision.

Looking at the entire provincial team, it was Lu Sheng who sympathized with Qiao Wanwan the most.Lu Sheng is right about things and not about people. Although she doesn't play grand slams, she has the same desire for grand slams as Qiao Wanwan.To put it bluntly, she is a little transparent with lofty aspirations.

After that day, Li Weiguo was vague about how Qiao Wanwan and Deng Linyi talked. Lu Sheng only knew that they seemed to be arguing. The team is all vampires", Deng Linyi was so angry that he dropped his cup on the spot.

Lu Sheng thinks that if "the first team is all vampires" is really what Qiao Wanwan said, then Qiao Wanwan is too heartless.The provincial team is not for charity, so much manpower and material resources have been invested in training you, and the purpose is of course to ask for rewards. How can you say that the provincial team is a vampire!

Lu Sheng told Nan Feng about this, and Nan Feng asked Lu Sheng, "Do you still remember to ask me what are Qiao Wanwan's shortcomings?"

"Huh?" Lu Sheng thought about it for a while, and it seemed that there was indeed such a thing.At that time, Qiao Wanwan had just won the Wimbledon Junior Championship. It was so beautiful.

Nanfeng said, "Now you know? Her biggest shortcoming is her personality. She is self-willed, innocent, impulsive and angry, and can't recognize herself. It's a pity."

Lu Sheng understood what Nan Feng was "unfortunate".Qiao Wanwan is really a very talented player, but unfortunately, her personality does not match her talent.

The dispute between Qiao Wanwan and the provincial team was later known to outside reporters for some reason, and they wrote about it before the game, which made the resentment between Qiao Wanwan and Deng Linyi even deeper, and she almost I feel that I am no longer in the provincial team.

But Qiao Wanwan finally compromised.She grew up in such a soil, she is a flower that blooms in this land, and she cannot be uncompromising.

After compromise, Qiao Wanwan withdrew from the US Open and flew to Chengdu with Lu Sheng and the others to participate in the National Games.On the plane, Qiao Wanwan's face was as black as the bottom of a pot, and the aura of "Don't talk to me" surrounded her body for one meter.After all, she is the first sister, and no one dares to touch her bad luck.

Anyway, everyone arrived in Chengdu without incident.

In fact, not all tennis events are held in Chengdu.The competition for the team competition had ended a month earlier, and City T won a team gold medal, which is a good start.Of course, the weight of the team gold medal is far from enough to satisfy the appetite of the old strong team.

Lu Sheng has been shortlisted for two competitions this time, one is women's singles and the other is mixed doubles.Her focus is on the mixed doubles, and the women's singles is just to accompany the runners to play soy sauce and accumulate some experience in competitions.Before the lottery, Lu Sheng took a look at the rankings of the seeded players.The No. [-] seed was Qiao Wanwan, which was not unusual, but the No. [-] seed turned out to be Luo Lingzhi from the Zhejiang team.

Luo Lingzhi is the same age as Lu Sheng, and is also 19 years old this year.Luo Lingzhi's game is indeed very good, but at this age, he can rank second in the country. Apart from the factor of strength, there is probably another reason: after the old batch of famous players have retired one after another, the domestic women's tennis is really dying.

Looking back, Lu Sheng realized that she was also a seed player. Although she was only number eight, this ranking really surprised her.

In the first round, the seeded players played against mediocre players, and Lu Sheng advanced smoothly.Walking out of the court, she heard a shocking news: Qiao Wanwan was eliminated in the first round.

Na, Nani?
(End of this chapter)