It was eight o'clock in the evening when the plane was about to land. Lu You had just finished watching "Howl's Moving Castle". The last shot was frozen on Howl and Sophie kissing on the rooftop of the moving castle. Lu You exclaimed "Ah", first covered his eyes with his hands, and then couldn't help but secretly opened his fingers to peek.
As I was watching, a hand reached out and turned off the pad with a "click".
Lu You turned his head and looked at Xie Yunjun in confusion.
Xie Yunjun coughed lightly: "The plane is about to land, and the flight attendant asked us to put away the small table."
After Xie Yunjun finished speaking, he leaned over to help her check the seat belt. Lu You stared at Xie Yunjun's face without blinking, and asked after a while: "Xie Yunjun, why are your ears pink? Are you shy because you saw the kiss?"
Lu Tingsong, who was reading a newspaper, said: "..."
My ancestor, why don’t you just know it in your heart? Why do you have to say it out loud? Won’t it be embarrassing for others?
Xie Yunjun obviously didn't expect Lu You to come up with a straight answer. He was stunned for a moment, and then he said after a while: "...No, it's just a little hot."
Lu You: “Oh oh.”
Lu You didn't suspect anything and wanted to reach out to help Xie Yunjun turn down the air conditioner above her head. However, she overestimated her height. Her short arms stubbornly grabbed at the air twice, grabbing the loneliness. In the end, Xie Yunjun reached out her hand to adjust the wind speed herself.
Lu You was once again shocked by his own height.
There is a height ruler on the wall of the Lu family. The magnet representing Xie Yunjun's little pigeon was almost flying to the top of the ruler. As a result, Lu You's little yellow chicken only moved one centimeter in this year. If Lu You didn't quietly touch the ground with his toes on the day of measurement, he might have lost even this one centimeter.
Lu You was very sad, and Lu Tingsong was also very worried about this situation.
With Liang Jie and Lu Shi'an's genes, Lu You's height cannot remain at only 1.5 meters. If he doesn't grow now, it means that at some point in the future, Lu You's height will definitely increase at a frightening rate. Figure skaters fear the most sudden changes in height and weight, because even the slightest physical change will deform the original jumping movements. Lu Tingsong can almost foresee that it will not be easy for Lu You to pass the growth barrier in the future.
In comparison, Xie Yunjun is much better. This boy's height has been growing steadily, and he has been gradually adjusting himself to cope with the changes in his body during his usual training. Plus, boys' developmental stage is much easier, so Lu Tingsong worries much less about him than Lu You.
After a slight feeling of weightlessness, the rear wheels of the plane landed and waited for the taxiing to stabilize. The flight attendant organized the passengers to get off the plane in an orderly manner.
The most popular box for figure skaters to store their ice skates is the ZUCA trolley case. For figure skaters who love their shoes like their life, ice skates must be placed in a separate box. Although the ZUCA brand is a bit expensive, the box is very useful. This thing integrates pushing, pulling, sliding and sitting, which is very convenient.
The only downside is that it is too big and needs to be checked in on the plane.
Therefore, some athletes are afraid that their shoes may be damaged when checking in, so they choose to carry their skates with them in a backpack.
Lu You and Xie Yunjun also bought ZUCA trolley cases for their ice skates. Lu You accurately found the two trolley cases that belonged to them among the pile of trolley cases on the luggage carousel. After Guan Xiaoxuan and Zhang Bai also picked up their luggage, the group walked out of the airport.
Because the national team is relocating as a whole, a bus will be sent to pick them up at the airport. In addition to Sinan and Xu Zhen who are temporarily here for cross-training, there is also a pair of ice dancers and four single skaters participating in the youth group competition of this National Championships. The bus will first take the players participating in the National Championships to the hotel near the competition venue, and then take the rest to the Capital Ice and Snow Training Center.
Jiang Yang and Lu Tingsong felt at ease taking two groups of young contestants from the provincial team to take advantage of the opportunity, calling it the rational use of resources.
Along the way, the players of the national team liked the two groups of children from the provincial team very much. Several female players rushed to have Lu You and Guan Xiaoxuan sit next to them, but the two of them were still principled and did not abandon their male companions.
It was almost ten o'clock in the evening when they arrived at the hotel. Lu You and Guan Xiaoxuan shared a room, Xie Yunjun and Zhang Bai shared a room, and the two coaches shared a room. I'm not afraid of being laughed at, but after so many years, Lu Tingsong still felt a little nervous when he thought about living under the same roof with his former coaches.
Lu You didn't rest on the plane. When he arrived at the hotel, he was so sleepy that he took a shower and fell asleep in bed. Both of their Costans were still in Xie Yunjun's suitcase. When Xie Yunjun delivered it, it was Guan Xiaoxuan who opened the door.
"This is her coat and headdress." Xie Yunjun handed a small bag to Guan Xiaoxuan, staring at the door frame. He was very polite and didn't look into the room. He lowered his voice and said, "Lu You likes to stay in bed in the morning. If she doesn't want to get up tomorrow, you can come with me and I'll wake her up."
Guan Xiaoxuan nodded, and after seeing Xie Yunjun off, she gently placed the paper bag on the head of Lu You's bed. Then she angrily took out her cell phone and sent a "serial beating" emoticon to her male companion Zhang Bai.
At this time, Zhang Bai didn't understand what was going on, and replied with a confused "?"
Guan Xiaoxuan: [It’s okay, I just suddenly wanted to punch you twice. ]
Zhang Bai: [……? ]
After the first day of pre-match open practice, the National Figure Skating Championships officially kicked off on the third day after Lu You and his team arrived in the capital. The competition day began at noon, starting with cross-border and cross-discipline selection, followed by ice dance and women's singles SP, then pair skating and men's singles SP, and finally ending with team skating.
There were a total of ten pairs skating teams participating, divided into two groups. Lu You and Xie Yunjun were assigned to the third place in the second group. At this time, their senior brothers and sisters Si Nan and Xu Zhen were performing on the field.
In the warm-up room, Lu You and Xie Yunjun held hands and reviewed the most complicated step sequence in the short program, then threw a land twist. When landing, Lu You's hair was a little untidy. Lu Tingsong rushed over with hairspray and a clip: "Quick, fix your hair, or you won't get deducted points."
There was no mirror in the warm-up room, so Lu You simply stuffed the hairspray and hair clips into Xie Yunjun's hands. Since childhood, Xie Yunjun had long been accustomed to styling Lu You's hair. He even asked, "What style do you want?"
Lu You didn't have any idea in his mind, so he simply answered: "It's all right."
Xie Yunjun skillfully braided her long hair into two fishbone braids, crossed them up, fixed them with a clip, and then used hairspray to tidy up Lu You's loose hair.
Lu You had some fine hair on her forehead. During the competition, she couldn't comb her hair into a smooth bun like the other contestants. No matter what she did, her hairline was still furry. Xie Yunjun was afraid that the hairspray would spray on Lu You's face, so she simply sprayed some hairspray on the palm of her hand, rubbed it on the girl's head twice, and pressed the fine hair down.
After fixing his own hairstyle, Lu You asked Xie Yun to bend down and used hairspray to comb his hair.
Everything was ready. The two completed the usual six pre-match training sessions and began waiting for the competition.
Soon the radio began broadcasting.
"The next group to appear is from the Jianglin Provincial Sports Bureau - Lu You and Xie Yunjun."
"Their short program repertoire is 'Walking in the Air', which comes from the animated film 'Howl's Moving Castle'."
"Relax." Lu Ting took a deep breath and patted Lu You and Xie Yunjun on the shoulders, not knowing whether he was comforting himself or them, "You can do it."
Jiang Yang added: "You don't need to think about comparing yourself with others, just surpass yourself, go for it."
After saying that, he pushed the two children onto the ice rink. Lu You and Xie Yunjun used the force to skate, raised their hands to salute, and stepped on the ice with one foot to greet the audience.
The ice fans in the audience looked at the two young new faces and seemed a little unfamiliar at first. But when they heard that they were from the Jianglin Provincial Sports Bureau, some of the ice fans holding banners of Si Nan and Xu Zhen began to cheer loudly for this group of Si and Xu's junior and senior brothers and sisters, which can be regarded as loving the whole family.
The first appearance of Lu You and Xie Yunjun's new short program "Walk in the Air" in the National Championships as soon as it started, it amazed everyone and made the ice fans at the scene excited.
The duo's solo jump was at the very beginning of the show.
It is a 2A in Rippon's posture.
The blond boy with teardrop-shaped earrings gently took the hand of the girl in the straw hat; the emerald green earrings sparkled in the sun. Hal leaned over and whispered in the girl's ear, guiding her to take awkward steps. The breeze was gentle, her skirt fluttered, and the cheerful waltz music sounding in the square seemed to be accompanying this romantic encounter in the air.
Sophie, I've been looking for you.
The boy who made a contract with Calcifer with his heart finally grew up to be a powerful magician. Howl has been waiting and looking for Sophie, who told him that he must wait for her and will definitely find him in the future. The moment he saw the girl on the street, the time hidden deep in Howl's memory gradually awakened - he finally waited for his sweetheart.
And now, let's dance with her.
There is no girl who has not fantasized about such a beautiful and dreamy encounter. Although the performers are only two children aged 13 or 14, the audience is still unconsciously attracted by the expressiveness of Lu You and Xie Yunjun. They are so close on the ice rink, and seem to be connected by some kind of inexplicable bond, just like Howl who has been waiting for Sophie throughout his youth.
Lu Tingsong looked at his two children with satisfaction.
At this time, Si Nan and Xu Zhen had already walked to Jiang Yang and Lu Tingsong without knowing when, and were watching the performance of their new junior brothers and sisters attentively. Xu Zhen praised: "Their jumping ability is really strong, not just the 2A that they raised their hands. Coach Jiang said that they already have two kinds of triple jumps, and they are trying the advanced triple jump recently."
Si Nan focused more on the expressiveness and tacit understanding between the two people. The connecting steps of Lu You and Xie Yunjun were very smooth. At the same time, they were able to almost maintain the skating arc as if it was carved out of a template, as if there was a moving mirror placed next to it, and the other person was just another enlarged and reduced version of himself, the only difference was that one was sweet and cute, and the other was beautiful and delicate. But having two faces like this in the figure skating event, which is very dependent on appearance, is definitely a huge advantage.
After another almost mirrored double synchronous rotation, Lu You and Xie Yunjun performed a three-twist, and this movement was a little awkward. Although it was still completed smoothly, compared with the previous stunning hand-raising 2A and synchronized rotation, this twist was still inferior and only received a grade of three.
Halfway through the music, the next move was the 3T throw jump that Lu You and Xie Yunjun had just mastered not long ago.
Lu Tingsong didn't even dare to breathe, for fear that his breath would blow Lu You down. He stared at the ice rink, and after a while of skating, Xie Yunjun grabbed Lu You's waist and threw him high into the air.
One circle, two circles, three circles.
Bend your knees, drop to the ice, and spread your floating leg.
"Done!" Lu Tingsong clenched his fist and pounded his palm, and he completely relaxed. Although Lu You's axis was a little crooked, it was at most a little less GOE. They still completed the 3TTh smoothly as planned.
"Put your feet out and keep walking. That's right. Don't be afraid. Great. I'll lead them away and you can come out later."
""OK. ""
"What a good girl."
The audience seemed to see another world as Howl said this to Sophie. As the waltz pushed the music to a climax, the orchestra came to an abrupt end after a heavy note.
The performance ended, and after a moment of silence, applause broke out.
"Let's go. As expected, their short program scores have surpassed ours," Xu Zhen pulled Si Nan away from the scene. "If we don't work harder, we'll be surpassed by our juniors. Let's go practice and catch up with them in tomorrow's free skating."
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