The next day, Tang Xue thought of the card-winning task that Coach Chu had arranged for her, so she checked the results of last year's University Student Championship.
This event is at the national level, and many high-level professional athletes have affiliated colleges and universities, which has raised the overall level of the event.
Although Tang Xue likes to brag, she is still clear about her point. With her current level, not to mention winning cards, it is enough to enter the finals.
Ahhh!
Seeing her nervous look, Li Yubing comforted her: "It's still too late." As she spoke, she poked her face with her fingertips. The girl's face is soft, smooth and elastic, and it doesn't feel too good.
Tang Xue avoided him with a side face, "Go!"
Li Yu smiled coldly.
Tang Xue looked at Li Yubing and thought, why haven't you confessed to me, please confess to me!
Li Yubing was actually a little confused.
- He didn't know whether to say he liked it first, or he should say sorry first.
…
The two maintained a delicate balance in this way, neither one took a step forward, and no one took a step back.
A few days later, the China Ice Hockey Championship ended, and the Linda Ice Hockey Team finally won the fifth place in the country. This ranking is very, very good, exceeding the expectations of the club and the school. As soon as the competition ended, some local companies contacted the school to inquire about the price of commercial sponsorship.
What surprised the club and school even more was Li Yubing's driving force. With him playing, tickets are always better. Some merchants on a certain treasure smelled business opportunities and publicly sold unofficially authorized Li Yubing same jerseys, and even many people were selling "Li Yubing same girl powder tape", and the sales turned out to be good.
These are the embodiment of commercial value.
The club and the school held several meetings to study how to build Li Yubing. After the meeting, they asked Li Yubing himself, saying that they would respect his ideas.
Li Yubing had only one idea—
"I don't want to have close interaction with fans, I hope the two sides keep a little distance."
"why?"
"Because, some people will be jealous."
…
After Li Yubing's game, the team organized an outing to a resort. Because he could bring his family, Li Yubing asked Tang Xue if he would go.
Tang Xue was very tired from training these days, and her spirit was stretched like a string. It was a rare opportunity to relax and she readily agreed.
There are many ways of entertainment in the villa, such as fishing, picking, barbecue, singing, etc.
Li Yubing and Tang Xue carried a basket to pick strawberries. The strawberries are almost out of season, and no one is picking them, just the two of them in a greenhouse. Tang Xue ate while picking, and the basket was always empty. After a while, she walked up to Li Yubing and said, "Li Yubing, close your eyes."
Li Yubing closed his eyes, not knowing what she was going to do, his heart beat a little faster, and the corner of his mouth pursed nervously.
Tang Xue stuffed a particularly large strawberry into his mouth.
The strawberries were ripe and melted in the mouth. Li Yubing slowly stirred his tongue, feeling the sweet taste in his mouth, and opened his eyes to look at her.
Clear and bright eyes stared straight into her eyes.
Tang Xue was cowardly again, lowered her head, and turned her head towards him.
"Tang Xue." Li Yubing called to her in a low voice.
"Um?"
"When your game is over, I have something to tell you."
Tang Xue lowered her head and slightly hooked the corner of her mouth, "Okay."
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In the blink of an eye, the time turned to April.
On April 11, the Linda speed skating team arrived in Beijing by plane to participate in the short track speed skating championship for college students held here. There is also a non-staff member - Li Yubing.
Well, Li Yubing appeared as a cheerleader.
The competition schedule is from the 13th to the 15th, which lasts for three days. The first competition day is the preliminary round, and some gold medals are decided on the second and third competition days.
Tang Xue's main event, the women's 500m, was on the morning of the second match day.
She was in good shape, slipped to the semi-finals in one breath, and played in the second group of the semi-finals, the order of appearance was the third track.
When the announcer read her name, she slid to the starting line and waved to the audience.
Li Yubing sat in the auditorium and looked at the figure. Tang Xue has been practicing for so long, and her muscles have been developed, but she is born with a relatively thin frame, and she is 1.68 meters tall, so she looks slender and straight overall, with smooth and tight body lines, like a beautiful little girl. leopard.
The more you look, the better.
Li Yubing's eyes were stained with a gentle smile, and he raised his hand and waved at her.
Tang Xue didn't look at him, she stood behind the starting line, ready to go.
The short-track speed skating track is arranged from the inside to the outside. The further out, the smaller the starting advantage, and the less conducive it is to seize a favorable position after starting. For short-distance projects such as 500 meters, departure is the top priority.
Tang Xue's third path is only slightly stronger than the fourth path.
She wanted to start quickly, her body reacted faster than her brain, and she rushed out almost as soon as the gun rang.
The referee suddenly stopped and warned Tang Xue that she had slipped.
Tang Xue's heart sank, and she quickly adjusted her state and returned to the starting line.
In the short track speed skating competition, one rush skating is allowed, and the second rush skating is directly judged out. Tang Xue didn't dare to be reckless at this moment, she tried her best to control her limbs, and only started to move after hearing the gunshot clearly.
In this way, it starts a little slower than others.
It's just a little slower, but it quickly forms a gap that is visible to the naked eye. She fell directly to fourth place, the bottom of the team.
She tried her best to overtake, but there is no one who is easy to appear on this arena, how can she overtake it so easily. After four and a half laps, she only surpassed one person, ranked third in the group, and entered the final of group B.
The finals of Group B are considered as substitute teams for medals. Under normal circumstances, they are not eligible for medals. Under special circumstances, such as when someone in Group A commits a foul or fails to complete the game, the medal position is vacant, and only Group B can make up for it according to the results.
In short, to enter the finals of Group B is 93 points are destined, and 7 points depend on hard work.
Tang Xue was a little down. She exited the arena and slapped her muscles in the rest area to prepare for the group B final in a while, while raising her eyes and scanning the audience.
The auditorium was not full, and it was sparse. Li Yubing was wearing a white sports suit. Looking from a distance, the little white face was quite beautiful.
He also saw her, and the two looked at each other in the air. He suddenly raised his arms, bent both arms inwards, put his fingers upside down on the top of his head, and made a heart-to-heart gesture towards her.
Tang Xue Yile, "Nervous disease."
After the men's 500m semifinal, it was Tang Xue's turn to play.
She played better in this game than on the field. She didn't lose the chain when she started. She competed with others for position in the first two laps. After two laps, she overtook the car with hard power and started to lead the slide. Then she stuck in position and was not overtaken until the end.
Tang Xue was a little happy. Finally, it was her turn to lead others, and this feeling was so cool, so cool.
After being happy, she looked at the group A final, her eyes were hot again.
There was no situation in the finals of Group A, and the ranking was decided normally, which meant that she, the number one in Group B, could rest in a cool place.
Zhang Yuewei narrowly won the Group A final, leading his opponent by about half a finger to the finish line. After receiving the award, Zhang Yuewei walked arrogantly in front of Tang Xue.
Tang Xue counted her projects this time... She participated in three in total.
Women's 500 meters, turning over the water.
Women's 1000 meters, visual inspection is still turning over the water.
For the rest, there is only one women's 3000m relay to look forward to.
In the relay race, Zhang Yuewei was their ace player.
"Wei Wei, come and sit." Tang Xue patted the empty seat beside her.
The enthusiasm on that face made Zhang Yuewei nauseous. Zhang Yuewei: "You are crazy."
"In the afternoon relay race, let's play hard, and we must make it to the final."
"nonsense."
"Then you say, can we win the gold medal tomorrow?"
"You can do it without dropping the chain."
…
Tang Xue did not lose the chain, but Zhang Yuewei did.
They did well in the relay semi-finals that afternoon, but Zhang Yuewei accidentally collided with someone in the women's 1,000-meter skating competition after that, and both fell out and fell heavily. Zhang Yuewei fell directly on the ice. Unable to get up, he was carried out on a stretcher.
Tang Xue was scared to death.
There was still a game behind, Chu Xia couldn't walk away, it was Director Xie, who was in charge of the ice program at Lincheng United University, who took Zhang Yuewei to the hospital, and Tang Xue followed. The film came out, but fortunately there was no fracture, just a soft tissue contusion in the knee, Tang Xue breathed a sigh of relief.
Zhang Yuewei asked the doctor, "Doctor, can I still skate?"
The doctor was writing down something in the small notebook, and nodded when he heard the words, "Yes, you can rest after a rest, don't worry, it's alright."
"I mean tomorrow, I still have a game."
The doctor's writing hand stopped and looked at her through the thick myopia: "Tomorrow? You play like this, where do you think you can skate? Do you want to play the tortoise and the hare?"
"Would you like to... try to seal it off with an injection?"
"Are the little girls now so cruel to themselves?" The doctor shook his head.
Chu Xia rushed over as soon as the game was over, and listened to Director Xie's explanation of Zhang Yuewei's situation while reading the medical records. Hearing that Zhang Yuewei still wanted to play, Chu Xia put the medical records away and shook her head: "I don't agree. "
"why?"
"It's too much damage to your body, it's not worth the loss."
Zhang Yuewei was a little anxious, "What about tomorrow's relay race? I lost the gold medal last year. This year, I just want to get it back."
"Don't worry about it, rest well."
"I don't have a good rest! It's not me who said, Coach Chu, who else can we count on, who can we count on?" Zhang Yuewei said, seeing Tang Xue standing aside and pointing at her, "Just count on this kind of thing. ?"
Tang Xue lay the gun inexplicably, rubbed the tip of her nose, and said, "Zhang Yuewei, don't look down on others, the relay race is four people skating together, not you alone."
"Oh, then you go to the finals in a single event and show me."
"The Group B final is not a final? Don't be so narrow-minded."
"you… "
Chu Xia had a headache. Start again, these two. "Stop arguing," Chu Xia interrupted them, "Listen to me. Zhang Yuewei, and of course Tang Xue... What I want to say is that your parents handed you over to me, to Director Xie, and we You have to be responsible to you to the end, and you won't let your body slip. You are still young, and there is still a long way to go. It's just a gold medal, and we can afford it."
Director Xie nodded quickly, "Yes, that's right." However, he still felt a little pain in his heart. The competition was fierce, and Zhang Yuewei's biggest gold medal was all about them. bonus.
"But… "
Chu Xia waved her hand, "Don't say it, there is no but. I'm the head coach, and everything is up to me."
"Then, Coach Chu, what about tomorrow's relay?"
Chu Xia took a deep breath and thought for a while, "Zhao Ruiying makes up for it, her grades are okay."
"Who's the next best skater?"
Chu Xia's eyes rolled to the sky, and finally, her eyes drifted to Tang Xue, settled down, and looked at her.
Tang Xue's body trembled.
Zhang Yuewei leaned on the bed, rolled his eyes and sighed, "Forget it, just be happy."
In many other types of relay races, such as track and field, swimming, the most important stroke is often the last stroke, commonly known as the runner. But short track speed skating runners are often second.
This is because the relay of short track speed skating is not handed over only once like other events. It can be handed over freely most of the time, but the last two laps must be completed by one person, and handover is not allowed.
According to the accumulation of years of experience, the current general method is generally: the first player skates one lap, and then the players hand over one and a half laps, until the last person who takes over has completed the remaining two laps.
In this way, the second stick is the last two laps of the batter.
Zhang Yuewei was originally in the second and Tang Xue was the third. Now that Zhang Yuewei was injured, Coach Chu Xia planned to bring Tang Xue to the core of the second, so Zhang Yuewei was desperate.
"I don't understand why it's her!" Zhang Yuewei still couldn't accept this funny reality.
Chu Xia: "When you figure it out, you can be a coach."
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After dinner, Director Xie and Chu Xia called the team members who had a game tomorrow and held a meeting. After the meeting was over, Chu Xia left Tang Xue and the four of them to ride the relay tomorrow. Because of personnel changes, some of the things that were originally arranged were no longer applicable, so Chu Xia rearranged the tactics.
After talking about the tactics, Tang Xue hesitated and refused to leave. Chu Xia asked her, "Do you have anything else to do?"
"Coach Chu, can I ask you a question?"
"Huh? You said."
"why me?"
Chu Xia didn't answer, but asked instead, "Tang Xue, do you have confidence in yourself?"
Tang Xue's body was shocked, and she quickly replied: "Yes!"
Chu Xia smiled, "Confidence is enough."
Tang Xue stayed for a while.
But she was always a little uneasy in her heart, so she took a walk out of the hotel. The spring in Beijing is different from Lincheng. It is gray, the air is very dry, and there are white furs flying on the ground and in the sky. She is very uncomfortable. After walking like this for a while and sneezing several times, she called Li Yubing.
"Li Yubing, where are you?"
"In the hotel, how about you?"
"I want to see you."
"Okay, send me the location, you wait for me where you are."
"Um."