Chapter 151 She is self-aware

When Li Ye stood at the high jump competition venue, he found that the high jump event was surprisingly popular.

The number of students participating in the competition is more than three times that of other events such as long jump, javelin and shot put.

However, Li Ye soon heard a person's name and knew the reason.

"Look, he actually used a backflip, exactly the same as Zhu Jianhua,"

"Yeah! I want to learn the flop, but I just can't do it. I might as well do the straddle jump to get higher!"

"Forget it, forget it. He's the high jump prince. It's not that easy for him to learn. I'll just use my prone position!"

【It turned out to be Zhu Jianhua? 】

Li Ye finally heard this name that cannot be avoided in the flower-growing field, but has been almost forgotten by the public in later generations.

It can be said that the name Zhu Jianhua, in some respects, should be discussed together with the two Asian flying men Liu and Su.

Zhu Jianhua, a high jumper from Shanghai, had already jumped over 2.30 meters and was the Asian record holder for men's high jump.

In the near future, he will break the world record three times in a row, win many world-class competitions, and become the first athlete to win an Olympic medal in track and field.

Even the Associated Press published an article saying that Zhu's leap was like one billion flower growers leaping across the world.

It can be said that in the early 1980s, Zhu Jianhua's world record was seen as a symbol of the rise of flower planting, and he himself was the "national hope" for flower planting's first Olympic track and field gold medal.

In an era when people were extremely eager for national self-confidence, Zhu Jianhua's name was naturally widely known and admired by a group of young people, and even the "high jump fever" emerged.

For example, in this sports meet, there are three people from Li Ye’s Economics Department who have signed up, in addition to him, there are Fu Lianbing and Xiang Weiguo.

Both of them are tall and thin. Fu Lianbing is a few centimeters taller than Li Ye. Xiang Weiguo is also about 1.78 meters tall and weighs about 110 to 120 kilograms. They are both considered to be suitable athletes for the high jump event.

"Li Ye, how high can you jump?"

"I don't know! Less than two meters!"

"You really are the boss, right? Can you leave some room for others to survive?"

"That's right, now every three sentences of the girls in the class are about you, Li Ye.

If you continue to show off like this, everyone will expel you from the class. Hum, you better be careful and think about it."

The three of them usually get along well, and they all know Li Ye's reputation as "the number one in dormitory 209" through Sun Xianjin, so they are not shy at all when teasing him, and they treat contempt and sarcasm as common things.

But Li Ye can really jump over two meters. If he doesn't hide his ability or keep a low profile, it is not impossible for him to jump over two meters and one or two dozen.

If you want to go higher, you may need to undergo systematic professional training. After all, professional competition and hobbies are two different things.

It is true that Li Ye has the physical conditions, but to go further, he also needs technical skills.

At this time, a competitor from another class laughed and said, "If you can jump two meters, we won't have to jump anymore. We'll give you the first place."

Li Ye looked at the man and laughed, "I said less than two meters. One meter ninety-nine is less than two meters, and one meter twenty-five is also less than two meters, isn't it?"

“.”

“Hahahaha~”

Many students heard what Li Ye said and started laughing.

Kids of this era have a very low sense of humor.

Fu Lianbing smiled and said, "Hey, Li Ye, the way you said this sounds like you could tell a crosstalk."

Li Ye nodded: "You are right. If I can't make it in the business circle anymore, I will switch to crosstalk. You all have to buy tickets to come and see me."

"Okay, let's just go to the zoo and see monkeys."

“Hahahaha~”

“.”

Li Ye was speechless. It was too easy to get killed when joking with someone with a high IQ.

At this time, Wu Runfu, who lived in the same dormitory, suddenly squeezed over and made a clicking sound at Li Ye.

"Li Ye, you are not simple. Your legs must be weak after running 3,000 meters. Can you still do high jump? Don't ruin your reputation, okay?"

Li Ye smiled and punched him, then asked, "Then why are you here?"

Wu Runfu looked surprised and said, "How fresh! I am here to participate in the high jump competition?"

Now it was Li Ye's turn to feel strange. Fu Lianbing and Xiang Weiguo also felt strange.

Wu Runfu is a little over 1.7 meters tall and weighs at least 160 kilograms. To be honest, high jump is not really suitable for him. He should choose strength events.

So Li Ye said, "I really didn't know that you like high jump?"

Wu Runfu shook his head and said seriously, "No, I like Zhu Jianhua."

OK! Idol behavior is not limited to any generation.

"No. 238 Wu Runfu"

"arrive!"

The teacher called out Wu Runfu's name, and the 209-year-old student ran over excitedly.

Running up, jumping, touching the pole, he didn't even pass 1.6 meters.

But he was not discouraged at all. He was happy and participated wholeheartedly.

Li Ye and several classmates clapped their hands and gave him encouraging applause.

Xiang Weiguo and Fu Lianbing also participated in the competition, but they were just barely able to do so.

It was not until the top student Li Ye came on the stage that the teacher who was responsible for recording the results suddenly brightened up.

He and the student who used the back-over style showed an attitude of not giving in to each other, and took turns to increase the height.

1.7 meters, 1.8 meters, and 1.9 meters tall, both men demonstrated good physical functions and impeccable movements, drawing rounds of applause and praise.

By the time Li Ye and the classmate named Ruan Zhisheng were about to reach a height of 1.95 meters, hundreds of people had gathered on the high jump field, including Zhen Rongrong, He Dazhuang, and even the usually calm Wen Leyu.

The two have already secured first and second place in the high jump at this year's school sports meet, but everyone is waiting to see whether a new "Little Zhu Jianhua" will be born.

But when he reached 1.95 meters, Li Ye unexpectedly failed, while Ruan Zhisheng passed it in one go and easily.

Ruan Zhisheng is nearly 1.9 meters tall, much taller than Li Ye who is 1.8 meters tall. His movements are impeccable, showing strong skills and body flexibility, and it is obvious that he has trained seriously.

Seeing that Li Ye was a little discouraged, Zhen Rongrong hesitated for a moment, then ran to Li Ye to encourage him: "Come on, Li Ye, you can do it!"

Li Ye nodded awkwardly and exchanged glances with Wen Leyu.

【Tell me, what's going on? 】

[No problem, really no problem! ]

In the second attempt, Li Ye hit the bar again and failed.

"Let him jump again."

Several school teachers actually changed the rules temporarily to allow Li Ye to try again.

Ruan Zhisheng looked at Li Ye and said nothing. The others were even less likely to be dissatisfied. Anyway, no matter how it was changed, Li Ye would be second, and it had nothing to do with them.

Zhen Rongrong and several other girls cheered Li Ye on with all their might.

Everyone has read about Zhu Jianhua in the newspapers and knows that the world record is more than 2.3 meters.

But Li Ye is not a professional athlete. At this moment, his results are already 20 to 30 centimeters higher than those of ordinary students. If he receives professional training, there is always hope.

But Li Ye knew that unless he wanted to pursue a career in sports in the future, he had to stop now.

If it weren't for the little girl Wen Leyu who was watching and quietly waving her two little fists to cheer him up, Li Ye would have ended it on his own when he was 1.85 meters tall.

If you can run 3,000 meters in just over ten minutes, that's just a school record. But if you high jump over two meters, you've reached the professional threshold and you have to practice.

One billion people need you!

But the path of becoming a professional athlete is really not easy, even more difficult than getting into Peking University or Tsinghua University.

Everyone only sees Zhu Jianhua's success, but not his efforts and pressure, let alone those second and third runners-up.

Moreover, Zhu Jianhua’s ability to achieve world-class results is not only the result of his own efforts, but also the result of training under the national sports system.

He who wears the crown must bear its weight!

In his previous life, Li Ye had heard from his physical education teacher that Zhu Jianhua’s nutritional diet was a secret almost as confidential as Guo Jia’s.

In other words, once you choose to be a professional athlete, you won’t even have the final say on what you want to eat.

Don’t even mention eating sea cucumbers. You just want to eat a peach when you’re really hungry?

Haha, please turn into Sun Wukong and steal!

Do you want to take a walk with your girlfriend and kiss her?

But forget it! You must give up some of your seven emotions and six desires, otherwise, can you maintain your masculine energy and maintain your peak state?

Even so, Zhu Jianhua was admired by countless people within a few years, but in the end, because of an accident at the 1984 Olympics, he did not win a gold medal but only a bronze medal, and was ridiculed and abused by people all over the country.

Zhu Jianhua endured it himself, and cried with regret when he came back to be received by his superiors, but his achievements were actually groundbreaking. All the people in the upper echelons kindly comforted him, recognized his achievements, and gave him confidence and warmth.

But when Zhu Jianhua's mother went out to buy groceries, she was surrounded by a group of Shanghai aunties who angrily forced her to "return the nutritional supplements that Guo Jia had given to Zhu Jianhua."

Alas~~

So Li Ye decided to stop at the right time and not disappoint Wen Leyu's expectant eyes. It would be better to let Ruan Zhisheng, the introverted and silent child, walk the thorny road of a professional athlete!

Two meters and ten, Ruan Zhisheng barely jumped over.

“Ah~”

After getting up from the mat, this taciturn child finally waved his fist vigorously to vent his anger.

Li Ye just now put too much pressure on him.

Every time Li Ye passed the bar, he would win applause from all the girls. Even if Ruan Zhisheng jumped higher, the applause would be a little less.

Two meters and ten is his most powerful counterattack.

"Li Ye, come and dance again."

However, several teachers were still unwilling to give up on Li Ye and insisted that Li Ye try jumping several times.

As expected, Li Ye was unable to jump over any of them, and his condition was getting worse and worse.

Finally, several teachers shook their heads and sighed.

They saw that Li Ye's ability to withstand psychological stress was not good.

An excellent athlete needs not only good skills and strength, but also mentality.

Just like table tennis, the national sport of China, many outstanding players can be invincible and repeatedly defeat world champions when training within the team.

But once they entered the world competition, they were so nervous that they couldn't even perform at 50% of their level.

These players, without exception, become "sparring partners" and unknown whetstones.

The Swedish team, which once dared to compete in table tennis with flowers in the world, once said with great envy: "It would be great if we could have a sparring team of flower growers!"

Finally, several teachers talked to Li Ye and asked him to adjust his mindset and take the test again after a few days.

There is no progress without competition. If we want to train Ruan Zhisheng, we must have high-level sparring partners, right?

"Li Ye, don't be discouraged. The teacher said you have great potential! Let's try again next year."

"That's right, Ruan Zhisheng is half a head taller than you, so he's not that capable."

Zhen Rongrong and others were a little disappointed and were encouraging and comforting Li Ye.

But Li Ye smiled and said, "I'm not disappointed. No matter how high I jump, can I still beat Zhu Jianhua?"

The next three years will be Zhu Jianhua's highlight moment, and Li Ye has no intention of competing with such a genius.

Everyone remembers the names of Liu Xiang and Su Bingtian, but how many of you remember the other two athletes who walked onto the field with them?

"So, Li Ye, you didn't try your best just now, right?"

“.”

A sudden voice suddenly came from not far away, causing Zhen Rongrong and others around to frown, while Wen Leyu, who had been quiet all the time, trembled his eyebrows, and a cold aura gradually dissipated.

Li Ye turned around and saw someone he hadn't seen for a long time.

Yue Mengmeng is a reporter at the Beijing branch of Dongshan Education News.

There was a tall boy standing next to her. Li Ye felt that he looked somewhat familiar.

After thinking about it carefully, I remembered that I had seen this boy's photo in the school honor column.

"Mr. Yue, you can eat whatever you want, but you can't say whatever you want. How do you know that I didn't try my best?"

Li Ye expressed his displeasure to Yue Mengmeng. Ever since they first met in Qingshui County, this female reporter had always presumptuously guessed about Li Ye's background, and she often guessed right, which made people unhappy without realizing it.

Yue Mengmeng looked at Li Ye with a smile without saying a word, her eyes rolling around. She didn't know why, but she just liked to find out about Li Ye's background.

However, when she saw Wen Leyu's cold expression, Yue Mengmeng immediately took a few steps back and restrained all her expressions.

The tall boy smiled and stretched out his hand to Li Ye.

"Reporter Yue was just joking. Classmate Li Ye, you don't have to take it seriously. I'm Zhu Xinping from the Dongshan Hometown Association. We had a gathering of Dongshan hometown people a few days ago. Why didn't you come? That's a bit disrespectful of your hometown!"

Li Ye shook hands with Zhu Xinping and said, "I have been really busy these past few days and haven't had time to meet my fellow villagers yet!"

Zhu Xinping laughed heartily and said, "You've missed a lot of your fellow countrymen. Fellow countrymen like us who are in our senior year are all busy and it's hard to find them all the time. It's hard to get together again."

Li Ye was surprised and asked, "Are you already a senior?"

Zhu Xinping said, "Yes! I won't be staying in school permanently anymore. Come over this Friday and I'll introduce you to a fellow junior from my hometown. You'll have someone to take care of you in the future."

Li Ye readily agreed: "Okay, okay, I will definitely be there."

Li Ye felt that Zhu Xinping was very open-minded and broad-minded.

In other words, he knows how to build personal connections. He, Li Ye, is just a freshman and cannot be compared with those of them who were on the school honor roll in the class of 1979, but people still come all the way to talk to him.

The two chatted for a while, and Zhu Xinping's eyes were obviously friendlier than before. He also felt that the trip was worthwhile. Li Ye, the "number one in the province", was much more mature than he expected.

When the two left, Li Ye noticed that Yue Mengmeng and Zhu Xinping were walking side by side, and the distance between them was less than 30 centimeters.

By the standards of this era, this is a relationship that is more than friendship but less than romance.

“Heh~”

Li Ye suddenly felt that Yue Mengmeng seemed to have brought Zhu Xinping here to show off.

Show off to him, Li Ye.

At this time, Wen Leyu came over silently and said sarcastically: "She has often come to the school to interview Dongshan students in the past month, but she has never interviewed you. Do you know why?"

Li Ye said calmly: "She thinks I am not as good as others!"

Zhu Xinping will graduate and start working soon, in the popular Chinese department. He will most likely enter a ministry-level unit and start as a writer.

And he, Li Ye, is still just a seedling and needs four years to develop!

"Humph, she is just self-aware."

(End of this chapter)