Standing pretty old

Chapter 1 Say goodbye to the past and welcome the future

"Brother Niu, good morning!"

"Brother Niu, good morning!"

……

Amidst the warm greetings from the juniors, a strong man with thick eyebrows and big eyes responded with a smile.

There is a smile on his face, and his heart is extremely heavy, because he is about to bid farewell to the sports he has struggled for for many years, and this Spring Festival has not passed a few days.

Sweat, tears and even blood, many years of dedication have to say goodbye, but this is the cruelty of competitive sports.

A bald old man wearing a coach uniform was sitting alone in the office. He took a few puffs of his cigarette and then flicked the ash into the ashtray made of glass.But he didn't notice it himself, most of the cigarettes bounced out of the tank.

He was waiting for the arrival of his beloved disciple, but he didn't know what to say.

"Master, here I come!" The young strong man went straight into the coach's office without knocking on the door.

But the coach didn't mean any dissatisfaction, just motioned him to sit down first.

The old man finally finished smoking the cigarette in his hand, and then pressed the cigarette butt into the ashtray hard.Then he took out a document from the drawer in front of him and patted it in front of his apprentice.

"Hey! There's nothing else to say. I explained all the possibilities to you a week ago. You can see for yourself and give me the final choice! Try to ask for anything, and the team will try to satisfy you!"

The old man's helpless words did not surprise the strong man, and he carefully looked at the document in his hand.

However, it didn't take long for him to curl his lips and say with a smile: "Just put me in the non-Olympic sports. If you want to play dragon boat, I just go back to my hometown, and I don't need to go to such a professional place as the provincial team."

The old man touched his shiny scalp, and comforted his lover in a discussing tone: "Er Niu, but this is a shelter after all, you have been a gymnast for so many years, and you don't have much education, don't you?" Do you really want to go back to your hometown to take care of the crops?"

The strong man named Er Niu said with a smile: "Master, serving the crops is not as miserable as I imagined. Besides, my dad now runs a small supermarket, and life is still okay."

The old man shook his head and said, "As long as your dad's small supermarket of less than 200 square meters can really win your heart, don't I know who you are? Tell me, what do you think?"

"I want to go abroad to join my brother! Anyway, I don't know how to row dragon boats. What's the point of rowing and rowing all day long?" Er Niu exaggerated while gesticulating. emoticons.

The old man with a stern face was instantly amused by this kid.There will always be people in this world who will express themselves in such a way that ordinary people seem to be confused.Most people don't want to be like this, but they are eager to have such friends by their side.

"Da Niu, I know that the first undergraduate student in the village, he studied in Shuimu, and later went to the United States. By the way, why is your kid not as smart as your brother, and you don't know anything all day long."

After finishing speaking, he patted Er Niu's head lightly.

Er Niu stuck out his tongue and made a grimace and said, "I have to ask my parents! My little sister is also a top student, why should I be the only one in the family who is stupid and stupid?"

The old man smiled and said, "You are so stupid and stupid. You are obviously lazy and greedy. Otherwise, how could you grow so tall? In fact, if you think about it sometimes, if you can really set foot on the international arena, the judges' 24K The titanium alloy dog ​​eyes are definitely going to be blinded!"

Er Niu quickly gave a thumbs up and said, "Yo, master, it's not easy, you even know the stalk of 'blind dog's eyes'."

The old man waved his hand and said, "Go, go, do you think you young people are the only ones who can surf the Internet? By the way, you were almost delayed by your kid. Here is your certificate of leaving the team. You will not be a member of the provincial team in the future. Asking you for the last time, are you really unwilling to obey the assignment?"

Looking at the old man's sincere eyes, Er Niu gritted his teeth and said, "I still want to go and see for myself. I am also a national first-level athlete who has won the No.3 National Youth Championship. No matter how bad it is, I will come to other cities. Do you want to be a physical education teacher who teaches gymnastics?"

The old man pampered his disciple's hair, curled his lips and said, "With your body, you don't look like a (gymnast)!"

After finishing speaking, both master and apprentice burst out laughing.

Laughing and laughing, the two hugged each other again, crying softly.

……

That year's old Wu still had sparse hair on his head.

At that time, Ruan Erniu was short and skinny, darting around in the woods like a monkey.

It was Lao Wu who dragged this skinny monkey into the gymnastics team.

At that time, Ruan Erniu's family was indeed not well-off, at least the family's hopes and wealth were pinned on the elder who was a good student.As for the second child who doesn't like to study, it is natural to learn a skill.

A skinny teenager gradually becomes stronger, the training that makes people crash, day after day, year after year.

Participate in competitions and win honors one by one.

Pain, joy, tears, applause.

Did not usher in the bloom when it should be the most brilliant, can it really be passed by with a sentence of youth without regret?
I am afraid no one can understand the master and apprentice who love father and son.

But life has to go on, and it can only end with a hug.

……

After leaving the dormitory of the Gymnastics Center with a bunch of messy things, and saying goodbye to his friends from the gymnastics team, Er Niu embarked on the journey back to his hometown.

However, hometown is not the end of Ruan Erniu.

After working as a temporary cashier in his father's small supermarket for two days, he finally embarked on a journey to the United States.

"When you go over there, don't trouble your brother, be a good person, and listen to your brother!" Father Ruan urged his son before he left.

"Dad, is there anything else you want me to bring to my brother? For example, find me a sister-in-law earlier, and pass on the Ruan family as soon as possible?" Er Niu said with a smile.

Although Father Ruan is a farmer, he has an open-mindedness different from the older generation. He said with a wry smile, "All of you have gone far away and often can't come back during the Chinese New Year. What's the use of me saying it? Children and grandchildren have their own blessings." Ah, old man, I can't control it even if I want to!"

Ruan Erniu, who arrived at the airport 2 hours ahead of schedule with his luggage, was sitting in the lobby of Dubei International Airport, eating the hamburger he just bought, and listening to music with the new IPOD earphones that his elder brother bought for him.

It would be a lie to say that he is not nervous at all, he is a 17-year-old boy after all.Although there are relatives on the other side of the Pacific Ocean to take care of him, it is a foreign land after all.

Busy people walked past him, and from time to time some people cast envious or jealous eyes on him because of his strong figure.

At this moment, Ruan Erniu still doesn't know what will greet him?
He just simply felt that his career as a gymnast was over, and the way forward was still very confused.

What he didn't know was that his legend was being staged.

And the people of the United States on the other side of the ocean would never have imagined that a big boy from the Chinese countryside would completely subvert their inherent thinking.

The old story will end, and a new legend has begun!
(End of this chapter)