It takes about eleven hours to fly from the capital to Turin, Italy, which can be considered a long journey. Having learned from the lessons of previous overseas competitions, this time the coaches of each team prepared a lot of food before takeoff, avoiding the situation where the athletes had nothing to eat because the airplane meals did not meet the athletes' dietary standards.
After returning from the war in Japan, the Okonomiyaki he ate while hungry became a delicacy that Lu You would never forget in his life. Caveira and Anatoly, who felt the same way, also praised the divine taste of Okonomiyaki on VKontakte (Russian social software).
When it was time for dinner, the flight attendants began to distribute the meals.
When Lu You and Xie Yunjun were young, they were often taken out to play by their families. They were used to taking long-distance flights and had little reaction to motion sickness. Lin Yinian's reaction was not serious either. However, Zhang Bai, not only did he not eat anything, he was so motion sick that he almost vomited his gallbladder.
When he smelled the greasy smell of the airplane meal, he covered his mouth and rushed to the bathroom.
His condition made national team head coach Xue Chengze very worried.
We had to overcome jet lag when going to Italy to compete, and now we have to deal with motion sickness. I don’t know if the child can adjust. Fortunately, ice dancing is not very dangerous and there are no difficult jumps, so there will be no safety issues due to poor condition.
But when it comes to the risk factor, pair skating is undoubtedly the most daunting.
In single skating, at least there is only one competitor in the entire venue, so no matter if there is a mistake or something else, the competitor can feel it immediately and make quick adjustments.
But pair skating is different. During the competition, the female partner needs to completely entrust her safety to her partner. Even if they know the danger is coming, they are helpless in the air.
In pair skating, if someone falls down from that height during twists and lifts, it is a very scary thing. Such thriller-like accidents have happened in previous competitions.
Thinking of this, Xue Chengze turned to look at Lu You and Xie Yunjun.
Fortunately, the two children who were skating in pairs still looked energetic and gathered together to discuss how to make Zhang Bai, who was prone to motion sickness, feel better.
Guan Xiaoxuan propped her head up and looked towards the bathroom, worry in her eyes. Although this girl usually loved to quarrel with her male companions, she was more nervous than anyone else when something happened to Zhang Bai.
Xie Yunjun peeled a green orange and handed the peel to Guan Xiaoxuan: "When Zhang Bai comes back later, let him smell this peel, he will feel much better."
"Right, right," Lu You clung to Xie Yunjun's shoulders and poked his head out from behind him. "Although I don't get airsick, I do get carsick. Every time, Xie Yunjun lets me smell orange peels and then pinches the acupoints at the base of my thumb, and I stop feeling nauseous immediately. This method works great."
Guan Xiaoxuan tried her best to give it a try. After Zhang Bai came back from vomiting in the toilet and closed his eyes to rest, Guan Xiaoxuan stuffed an orange peel under his nose. She only breathed a sigh of relief when she found that her male companion's brows were indeed relaxed a little.
After Zhang Bai felt better, the atmosphere in the entire team became relaxed.
Xie Yunjun gave the orange peel to Guan Xiaoxuan. The orange flesh was originally intended for Lu You. However, when Lu You tasted one slice, his facial features wrinkled up because of the sourness. It was not enough for her to feel the sourness herself, so she turned around and quickly stuffed a piece into Xie Yunjun's mouth, waiting for the boy's reaction.
Xie Yunjun chewed it, swallowed it, and then took a sip of water in silence.
Lu You leaned on Xie Yunjun's shoulder and laughed so hard that he fell down. Then he happily took the sour orange to play a prank on Jiang Yang and his uncle.
The Chinese team spent the night on the plane and landed in Turin, Italy at midnight local time. After a lot of trouble, they checked into the hotel prepared by the organizer at two in the morning.
This time naturally refers to two o'clock in the morning in Italy, which is eight o'clock in the morning Beijing time. Usually at this time, Lu You and Xie Yunjun have been up for almost two hours. They should do morning exercises at home, and then Liang Jie will drive them to school.
As expected, the Chinese team consisted of a large group of people, but except for Zhang Bai who was feeling unwell, no one could sleep after arriving at the hotel.
Lu You lay on the bed, rolling over and over in his arms under the quilt. He became more and more excited, and more and more excited. He simply dragged Xie Yunjun, who couldn't sleep either, all the way to the hotel gym, and then he looked at a bunch of Asian yellow-skinned faces in silence.
Come on, we are all victims of the Eurasian time difference.
Lin Yinian stood in the corner and waved to Lu You and Xie Yunjun. Hanging on the backpack that the young boy brought was the Duffy Bear that Lu You brought back from Tokyo. He looked much more cheerful than when they first met at the National Championships.
Lu You only found out not long ago that because Lin Yinian looked feminine and liked pink and cute things, his classmates often made fun of him for being a sissy after learning that he practiced figure skating, and they even wrote insulting words in his textbooks.
Some even blocked him in the corridor, recording videos with their mobile phones while smearing lipstick on Lin Yinian's mouth, saying vicious words like "The little sissy looks so good with lipstick, don't you like it?"
Lin Yinian is a shy person. After he told the teacher, the head teacher only gave a verbal warning to those students. Lin Yinian had been keeping these things to himself and had not told his family before. He somehow figured it out some time ago and told his mother.
Lin's mother was shocked and angry. Not only did this originally gentle and kind lady make a scene at school, she also reported the matter to the police station.
The police found videos on the kids' phones and the evidence was irrefutable. The school had originally wanted to make a big deal out of a small matter and just issue a notice of criticism, but they didn't expect that the Lin family had so many connections that they reported the matter directly to the General Administration of Education.
The school leaders wanted to shirk responsibility and expelled those students overnight, but they were eventually investigated by the General Administration. Lin's mother even considered spending money and using public opinion to make the incident a big deal and bring disgrace to the school, but in the end she thought of the many innocent children in the school and was afraid of the impact on her own child, so she gave up the idea.
Lu You looked at Lin Yinian's well-proportioned figure and the explosive muscle lines under his training clothes, and felt that those who thought Lin Yinian was easy to bully were all crazy.
If Lin Yinian wasn't introverted, he could send them to the ICU with just one punch.
And what's wrong with feminine beauty? Everyone has their own way of living. Lu You has always felt that it is very incomprehensible that the word "niang", which represents a great mother, has been given a derogatory connotation.
It’s as if everyone has their favorite fruit. You can choose not to eat a certain fruit, but you say it is a “shame of fruit” and want it to disappear from the world. You also stand on the moral high ground and accuse people who eat these fruits. Isn’t it strange?
Maybe it was because he had been eating better recently, but Lu You's height and weight had increased a little. Lu You himself was quite happy about it, but Lu Tingsong and Jiang Yang immediately became alert.
Considering that the child had his first menstrual period not long ago, they thought Lu You was about to grow up, so they forced him to record his height and weight every day, and also measured his chest circumference.
Even Xie Yunjun was given a lot of strength training to cope with Lu You who might start to grow.
As a result, after observing for a few months, the coaching team found that Lu You was just growing taller for fun. His height really only increased a little bit, and then he entered a dormant period again, lying motionless like a turtle.
At this time, Lu You was hanging on Xie Yunjun's neck like a small schoolbag, and the young man held her in a princess hug to do squats.
This was the new strength training that Jiang Yang had added to Xie Yunjun a while ago. The purpose was to allow Xie Yunjun to adapt to the weight of a female companion for a long time. When Lu You was not around, Xie Yunjun's princess hug was for two boxes of mineral water.
The little girl hooked her hands around her boyfriend's neck and watched with great interest several Japanese single skaters doing land jumps. That's why they say Japan is full of talented single skaters. Look at their 3A land jumps, so high, so far and so floating, it's so great to watch for both men and women.
For a female pair skating partner like Lu You, the 3A dream jump is something they will only do once in their lifetime.
According to the current level of women's singles, assuming there is a genius among the pairs who can do 3A, there is no doubt that he will be ordered to skate in both singles and pairs the next day.
Several single skaters from Asia were secretly competing with each other. Although Lin Yinian was usually shy, he was not to be outdone in figure skating and jumped out a Triple A when he saw this.
For a moment, the gym was filled with the sound of "bang bang bang" of hitting the ground. Lu You looked at the smoke rising from the single skating group and wished he could grab a bag of melon seeds to eat.
Fake Lu You: Single skaters, don’t be so serious. Friendship should come first in the competition.
The real Lu You: Fight! Fight! Jump a few more to open my eyes.
Xie Yunjun did fifty squats with weights, which was almost his current limit. After Lu You was put on the ground, he wiped the sweat off Xie Yunjun's face with his sleeve. Just as he was about to turn around to find a water bottle, he saw Lu Tingsong's face as black as the bottom of a pot outside the glass door of the gym.
Lu You: “…”
There was not only Lu Tingsong, but also several other Asian coaches. No one knew how long they had been observing secretly. They came in one after another, and several languages were heard in the gym at once. The general idea was that they were all criticizing the players for not sleeping well and adjusting to the jet lag, but instead running to the gym to jump around.
The gym, which was originally tense, suddenly turned into a scene where parents criticized their children who made mistakes.
Lu Tingsong hit Lu You, Xie Yunjun and Lin Yinian on the head one by one, but he was reluctant to use too much force. Lu You immediately cried out "Ouch" exaggeratedly and held his head.
Lu Tingsong scolded him angrily and amusedly, "If Zhang Bai hadn't been feeling unwell today, I would have thought that when you three came, you should have brought Guan Xiaoxuan and Zhang Bai with you, right?"
"Go back and lie down to sleep. If you can't sleep, close your eyes and pretend to be a corpse."
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