Chapter 130 About That Day

Changbai Mountain is a place protected by gods.

There is a sign at the foot of Tianchi Mountain that says that God will bless those who come to Changbai Mountain and bring them peace and happiness throughout their lives.

Strictly speaking, Shan Chong cannot be considered a complete atheist, but he has never thought about this matter carefully...

He has been in Changbai Mountain all these years. At that time, there was no so-called systematic teaching of snowboarding. Everyone was an amateur, watching videos or others skiing, and learning haltingly. Maybe they didn't even start from pushing the slope, but just rolled and climbed and fell a few times, and then they would learn to change edges.

At that time, he couldn't quite remember whether it was called "changing blade" or not.

Be able to slide, know how to slide, and then slide on all terrains——

Many years passed unknowingly, and when Shan Chong became known as "that Shan Chong", he seemed to have become a part of Changbai Mountain.

He is familiar with every tree and blade of grass on the mountain, and every corner inside and outside the ski resort.

Just like drinking water and eating, every morning before going out, I turn around to say hello to my family and ask what time I will be back tonight. When I go downstairs, I bump into a stray cat yawning in the yard of the community. I look up and see the sun above my head...

Get on the trampoline and go train.

Winter training, jumping platform in Changbai Mountain.

Some fixed daily routines have become the most common things. As they happen step by step, no one thinks about cherishing the present or reminiscing about it.

Until one day, an accident happened.

…

In Shan Chong's memory, it was really just an ordinary day.

It seemed to be a weekend, and there were still not many people at the ski resort. As Shan Chong climbed up to the ski jump with his board in his arms, people greeted him along the way, and he responded lazily.

"Brother Chong, I heard that Dai Duo released the FScork2160°Line a few days ago."

The so-called LINE is actually based on the FS flat turn with the addition of Melon (the front hand grabs the middle of the two fixings of the back edge), that is, the whole action is an off-axis rotation with the addition of a board pulling trick. It’s just that in the current domestic environment, it is the first time that a skateboarder can stably perform the cork2160° plus trick.

Facing many inquiries, Shan Chong raised his eyelids and said, "Yeah."

"Wang Xin said that you had already done this job when you were welding snow cushions, and Dai Duo did it right under your nose—"

Shan Chong thought about it and said calmly: "No, I tried, but I couldn't stand."

"Dai Duo himself said that he followed your practice."

"I can't stand."

This time there was a hint of impatience in the man's tone.

Having just returned from the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, he was not in a particularly good mood. After returning to the team, everyone was a little cautious. When talking to him, they were more respectful than necessary.

It seemed that even Wang Xin's voice was a little softer when he scolded.

He didn't know why these people were trying to make up for him in this matter, but Dai Duo was indeed the first to do this job, and he didn't think of taking the credit...

It is well known that Shan Chong is a bit arrogant, but his arrogance is not based on pretense or giving gifts to others.

The man who came up to talk to him looked so lazy that he was reluctant to talk. He was probably used to his attitude or knew that this was just his personality. He touched the tip of his nose and followed him up the ladder.

Halfway up the climb, I heard a commotion on the other side of the diving platform.

"No, why don't you talk about Shan Chong! Mad's hand was as stiff as a mummy yesterday. I watched it for a whole day--"

"You watched him all day yesterday and didn't notice anything wrong, but you made the same mistake as him today?"

"Oh, so you didn't tell me that he was in this position, so I thought this position was correct?"

"Daiduo!"

"What are you doing? What are you shouting about—"

The hoarse shouting from the platform reached his ears. The only one who wouldn't care about Dan Chong's mood at this moment was probably his new guy... I didn't know whether to call him apprentice or junior fellow student.

Shan Chong climbed up, put down the board, and listlessly swept the arrogant duo who had been there so early in the morning, and asked: "Did you eat too much this morning? How can you have so much energy?"

They both put their hands on their hips and turned their heads towards the person who was spraying them.

Dai Duo asked: "Do you say that your hands are stiff?"

Shan Chong said expressionlessly: "I want all my moves to be standard. I was already standing on the award podium in Pyeongchang. Why am I standing with you guys?"

Dai Duo choked.

Wang Xin was a little nervous when he took the initiative to mention the last Winter Olympics.

Dai Duo thought about it and said unconvincedly: "You were standing on the podium to receive the medals, so you can't go anywhere now. Where else can you stand if not here with us? You can't just retire right where you are after winning the Olympic championship—"

Shan Chong sneered.

"What are you laughing at? It's true."

The man ignored him, bent over, put on the harness, and symbolically did a few 1440° turns as a warm-up. He was very familiar with these movements and performed them very steadily.

Then he gradually changed from horizontal rotation to axial rotation, and occasionally did the most difficult double cork. On this day, Dan Chong was in good shape and he did a 1440° Double cork. Although he didn't stand steadily and knelt down when he landed, it was still a rare achievement.

Wang Xin stood on the stage and asked him to try to produce FScork2340°.

"Put the board down one edge earlier, take a longer line, and on the last circle, bring your front hand back, move your elbow, shoulder strap and hips—"

Wang Xin twisted his old waist, "The basics are the same. No matter how many times you turn it, it's the same, whether it's 2340 degrees or 180 degrees, do you understand?"

Shan Chong understands.

If he could make his body react to whatever he thought in heaven, then he would not be the skiing genius born after ten months of pregnancy.

After listening to Wang Xin patiently, he said, "Let's give it a try."

At first, I did a small number of circles to get familiar with and solve the problem of shoulder lock. After doing it twice, everyone said that it was different from yesterday, and the air was filled with a sense of "I can get the job done today."

The day before yesterday, Dai Duo reached 2160°, and today Shan Chong reached 2340°. Before the Chinese New Year this year, the KPI for the snowboard jumping platform was almost completed.

With such beautiful expectations, Shan Chong finally adjusted his bindings, straightened his back and set off.

It was fine at the beginning. He put the board down one edge in advance. When he was moving the edge, he felt that the speed was a bit fast but it was still controllable.

When he stepped off the platform, the height made him stunned for two seconds. He felt unfamiliar and uncomfortable, but he just bent over and grabbed the front edge of the board in mid-air, and swung it out a few times.

I don’t know which move I made wrong, or if it was a series of small problems that accumulated to cause a big problem. The more he was shaken, the more out of control he felt.

At the moment, I didn’t feel any chill or anything…my mind was actually blank.

He couldn't hear anyone shouting or anything else around him, but he just felt like he was going to fall.

Falling to the ground after jumping off the platform is a common occurrence. It is not uncommon for him to break his hands or sprain his feet. The most serious incident was when his helmet was cracked and he had to lie in bed at home for almost a week.

But this time when he landed, Shan Chong passed the net and fell sideways onto the tree.

He didn't even have time to feel the pain before he heard a very clear "click" sound.

He didn't even know whether the sound was from the tree or his bones. Then a sharp pain and numbness came from his back, and he fell into the thick snow under the tree. The snow that fell from the tree fell on his face and neck.

The posture doesn't look good.

Fortunately, I didn't fall on my head.

The icy cold penetrated into his neck. At that moment he didn't know whether to care about the snow in his neck or his waist. He felt his whole body numb and painful.

From his waist, the cold and numb pain suddenly became like a symphony that had just finished its first note, sending signals to every pain nerve in his body with great enthusiasm and vigor...

He could hardly feel the coldness of the snow falling onto his clothes, melting into slush and running down his back.

My head is also buzzing.

He supported himself on the ground with one hand and tried to get up, but the moment he moved he was in such excruciating pain that he almost died on the spot!

The man closed his eyes. Only then did he realize that the situation might be more serious than he thought. He couldn't stand up and pat his butt to sit down and rest for a day while complaining about the pain.

He couldn't see himself, so he felt like a small hibernating animal curled up pitifully under a tree. He lay there quietly for a while, no more than five minutes, but to him it might have been a century. He tried to move his lower body.

It's okay, it seems to be able to move.

Even the slightest movement, even the movement of a hair, causes excruciating pain.

The sound of chaotic footsteps rang in my ears.

He opened his eyes again and raised his chin. The first person he saw running over was Dai Duo. He flew straight down from the diving platform, took off his board, stuck it into the snow on the side of the road, and ran towards him.

"What's going on? Shan Chong? Are you awake? Did you hit your head? Are you feeling unwell?"

He asked a series of questions like firecrackers.

As he spoke, he took off his helmet and threw it away, then asked someone to help him from behind.

As soon as the boy's hand touched the man's shoulder, he was stopped by him. He shrank his hand back and squatted beside him.

Shan Chong's voice was steady, but if you listened carefully you could tell he was gritting his teeth as he hissed, "Help, ambulance... I must have fallen somewhere."

After he finished speaking, he saw Dai Duo's face turned pale as if he had seen a ghost.

Those who didn't know would have thought he was dead, but now this kid had time to see his body.

After saying this, Shan Chong closed his eyes cleanly and lost consciousness due to the pain.

…

Shan Chong woke up later because he was in so much pain when they carried him into the ambulance.

The stretcher was soft, and these people probably didn't know how much pain it would cause him to pass out, so they just carried him onto the stretcher. His waist felt heavy, and he woke up immediately with a pain that was like torture.

I wonder if these people have been holding a grudge against him for a long time, otherwise they would not let anyone go and swing the person who broke his spine around like a sack.

Wang Xin and Dai Duo followed him into the car. When they saw him blinking, Wang Xin said, "Awake? Damn, it's good that you're awake."

Shan Chongxin thought, what the hell, he would continue to suffer after waking up...

I just don't have the energy to talk back.

Dai Duo came over and said, "Does it still hurt? I've told your family and they'll be here soon."

Shan Chong had originally closed his eyes and turned his head away, but upon hearing this, he opened his eyes again and looked at Dai Duo. His lips trembled, and after a while he managed to utter, "You spend every day... can you do one good thing?"

Dai Duo was so shocked by the scolding that he was speechless.

When we arrived at the hospital, we had a routine injury check and were given an IV drip. But because he was an active athlete, many medicines couldn't be used, not even painkillers, so he just gritted his teeth and endured it.

After the CT scan, Shan Chongshun asked Wang Xin to take off his coat for him. The quick-drying clothes underneath were soaked with sweat from the pain. Fortunately, the heating in the hospital was turned on high, otherwise he would have caught a cold if the cold wind blew.

"pain?"

"You try it."

When Wang Xin was wiping Shan Chong's sweat, Shan Chong's cell phone was ringing wildly in his pocket. He hesitated and asked Wang Xin to answer the call, not allowing him to talk nonsense.

Wang Xin had no choice but to hand the bill to Dai Duo and answer a series of questions under Shan Chong's supervision -

"Hello?"

"It just fell."

"Nothing happened to him."

"I just fell down and hit the tree."

"There is no danger to life. The rest is waiting for you to come over and ask the doctor in person when the results come out."

After answering a few questions, Wang Xin hung up the phone in a rage. As a coach, he was like a father to these players on weekdays.

But in the eyes of the team member's serious father, he looks like a kindergarten nanny.

"It's over, it's over," Wang Xin said, "Your mother will definitely hold you accountable."

Shan Chong looked at the coach, who looked very old and had a sullen face. He was worried that he would get hurt, and also worried that he would be scolded because of him. His face turned red and white...

He thought about it and didn't want to comfort Wang Xin, so he let him hang up the phone.

The call was picked up immediately and he said "Hello". When the other party heard his voice, they were instantly shocked.

"Where did you fall? Does it hurt?"

"I told you to be careful, why didn't you listen?"

"I told you to rest after you came back from Pyeongchang, but you didn't. The New Year is coming soon, why don't you go home and rest for a few days!"

"Your Third Aunt told you not to even go to Pyeongchang because that place doesn't match your aura. I thought she was talking nonsense, but now I think she was right. You shouldn't have gone!"

"Shan Chong? Tell me, are you in pain or not?"

How can it not hurt?

The person on the other end of the phone asked questions with a frightened look on his face, and all sorts of feudal and superstitious remarks came out in a hurry, and he couldn't refute them one by one -

From the beginning to the end, I just had time to lie and say, "It's okay, I don't feel any pain."

...Actually, it's not necessary to make this call.

Shan Chongyi accidentally thought of that day when he came home from training and learned from his neighbor that Shan Shan was admitted to the hospital emergency room. He wondered how he felt.

He called his sister at that time. He knew that his neighbor had not lied to him and that she would not answer his call. But he still called -

Then, with the hospital in chaos and no one bothering to answer Shan Shan's phone, he felt that he would never forget in his life what it felt like to be shrouded in fear of the unknown on the way to the hospital.

This kind of thing has happened once before in his home.

No need for a second time.

…

Later the test results came out.

The doctor's words were too technical, and Dan Chong didn't really understand the details. It was probably a spinal fracture, and the concave part happened to press on a certain nerve membrane...

Fortunately, the membrane was not punctured, if it was just that bad, he might not be able to stand up for the rest of his life.

But he didn't have time to be too happy.

The doctor said that surgery was necessary immediately, but Wang Xin couldn't sign the consent form since he was not a family member. He endured it for a few more hours, waiting for his family to arrive.

Later, when he saw Shan Shandu coming with him, Shan Chong didn't know what to say. Mainly, even the attending doctor was stunned. He looked at his sister, then turned back to look at him——

I guess everyone at the scene must have had the same thought at the time: this family shouldn't have another person in a wheelchair.

Shan Chong was lying on the hospital bed, and he lifted his feet with all his might. For the first time in his life, he did not dare to look his parents in the eye, and said to the doctor, "When is the surgery? I don't think it's right."

When the doctor heard him calmly say that it was not right, he walked over, lifted the blanket covering him and took a look. He said that he was afraid that the displaced bones would irritate his cauda equina, which would be a new problem of whether he could control his bowels and bladder.

The time it took Shan Chong to be pushed into the operating room was extremely short.

The doctor asked him if he wanted to wait for two days. In fact, waiting until the swelling subsided before undergoing surgery would be better in terms of postoperative recovery, pain relief and effect.

He insisted on not waiting.

Turned around and went into the operating room.

In fact, he was not fully conscious when he entered the operating room. In addition to the pain, he was also exhausted. He just remembered that everyone was there, standing outside the operating room.

Parents, younger sister, Dai Duo, Wang Xin, a large group of people stood there.

His mother didn't cry the whole time. She just stood there like a zombie, which was different from the anxiety she expressed on the phone. When they arrived at the hospital, she became less talkative. She just looked at him twice and then went to talk to the doctor. She did whatever the doctor asked her to do.

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From beginning to end, Shan Shan was so scared that she was about to cry at any time, but she didn't shed a single tear and behaved very calmly and composedly.

Shan Chong thought that her mother had really improved after getting used to it.

Until the second before being pushed into the operating room——

Before the door separating life and death closed.

People outside might think he didn't see it, but in fact he turned his head.

Then he saw that at the moment when the door was almost closed, the single mother's body, which had been standing upright, swayed and then collapsed into the arms of her husband behind her.

Shan Shan was just a little girl, her face was pale, her eyes were red, she didn't have time to control the wheelchair to move forward to pick up the person, and she almost fell off the wheelchair. Fortunately, Dai Duo grabbed her arm from behind...

Shan Fu is sighing.

Wang Xin stood aside with messy hair, hands folded, and remained silent.

This was the last scene Shan Chong saw. He never thought that after he fell, he would be the one who felt guilty and wanted to say sorry.

…

Looking back later, he felt regretful.

If he had started a second earlier or later, he might not have fallen;

If he had been more careful, he might not have fallen.

If he could jump a few more small circles to get familiar with the movements, maybe he wouldn't fall...

Maybe FScork2340° would be able to work that day, and he wouldn’t have steel nails in his body, and he could stand up well and spend this year’s Spring Festival with his family…

Then the new year began.

He began to prepare for the Beijing Winter Olympics with peace of mind, participating in the points competition.

Everything changed overnight.

If there were gods in Changbai Mountain, at that moment in that day, the gods probably dozed off and closed their eyes.

He forgot that there is such a person in this world——

He never felt that the mistake in Pyeongchang affected his love and pursuit of snowboard big air;

He can stand up even if he falls;

He is training hard;

He is concentrating on preparing for battle;

I want to go to Beijing...

I will go to Beijing.

Until one day, I woke up from the dream and found that reality was the biggest nightmare.

His life was suddenly paused by someone, and it was frozen there. From then on, he didn't know where to go.