Although there are not many big names at the mountaintop ski resort, the passenger flow is usually very large, and the ski slopes are usually full of people - unlike now, it is the first time that Weizhi has seen such an empty and wide ski slope.
However, by the time the ski resort closed, the snow on the slopes had become very thin. Whether it was the deep marks left by the snowboarders or the snowboarders, every mark was a gully for Weizhi.
A ravine that allows her to fall in various postures.
Wei Zhi couldn't bear to watch it, and turned his eyes away from the snow track.
Shan Chong threw the board at her feet: "Put it on yourself."
Well, the boarding service is gone.
Does the Aixin system have limited working hours? We start work at 9:00 am every day and leave work at 4:00 pm on time.
Weizhi bent down and untied the binding straps of the board with a grumble. Then, without hesitation, he sat on the ground and slowly put his feet into the bindings like a bear, and then slowly adjusted the straps for himself...
Shan Chong watched for a while and endured it.
I could tolerate her nagging, but I couldn't tolerate her clumsy look as she hugged her knees and held the board in a ball.
He lowered his eyes: "Can't you stand and put on the board?"
Wei Zhi raised his head: "How should I wear it?"
Shan Chong bent his waist and untied his bindings with his hands, and began to demonstrate, "Put one foot between the two bindings to fix the board, and put the other foot on first," he said as he did it, "After putting on one side, knock down the back edge so that the edge sticks to the snow and prevents the board from moving around, and then put on the remaining side."
While he was talking, the fixator was put on again.
Wei Zhi, who hadn’t put on her clothes properly for the first time: “…”
Shan Chong: “Do you understand?”
Wei Zhi: "Is it embarrassing for you to wear a board while sitting?"
Shan Chong: “No.”
Wei Zhi: "Then why do I have to wear it while standing?"
Shan Chong admitted that there was a second when he was asked this question. He couldn't just say that he was a rookie just because he was sitting on the board. He would definitely be answered by someone without any shame, "I was a rookie anyway, so what?", which would be completely embarrassing.
So three seconds later, he made a "please" gesture and watched her sit steadily on the ground and put on the board... Then she turned over, with her green butt facing the sky, and she climbed up with her hands on the ground with her back facing the sky.
Then jump and jump again and turn around.
Everything went well, so when it came to the fact that he couldn't get up on his own after falling down, Wei Zhi suddenly had an idea: "Why can't I get up on the snow track in this way? Just turn around, face down the mountain, and stand up directly?"
Shan Chong: “At this stage, no.”
Weizhi: "The snow path is sloped, so it should be easier to climb."
Shan Chong: "If I say no, it means no."
Wei Zhi didn't believe him. He thought that this man was inexplicably in a bad mood and was looking for trouble.
…
The snow on the ski slope in the afternoon was not good and it was really difficult to ski. In addition, it was a new ski slope that Weizhi had never skied on before, so he was a little scared.
At this moment, as if by magic, the switch was pushed up with a pleasant "bang" and lights lit up on both sides of the snow track.
The lights gradually lit up from behind her toward her feet.
Although the mountaintop ski resort is not open at night on weekdays, the ski slopes will still be lit when night falls. The white lights along the protective net are as bright as stars at night.
Looking from the bottom of the mountain, every winding snow trail looks like a dragon coiled on the mountain at night...
The ski slopes that are bustling during the day are now quiet and romantic.
Weizhi stood on the mountain, looking at the silvery snowy trails winding like a galaxy below, and was a little dazed.
"If you keep staring blankly, the news broadcast will really start to play its ending song." Unfortunately, someone followed her with his hands behind his back and an expressionless face, "It's getting dark, aren't you cold?"
All it takes to destroy the romantic atmosphere is a nagging man.
She looked back and saw a man in a dark purple sweater standing behind her. He had taken off his goggles and the lights were like broken stars shining in his eyes.
Weizhi: “…”
"Jiao Nian," Wei Zhi stared at him and suddenly said, "I suddenly remembered that I seem to have never seen what you look like."
After hearing this, Shan Chong was stunned.
At this moment, standing slightly downhill, the little girl looked up at him, the wind blowing in her face making her hair a little messy, but she looked very lively.
A pair of round eyes, dark and bright, looked at him intently and waterily.
He seemed to be expecting something.
“…”
After protecting his face, the man pursed his lips, bent down slightly, and moved closer to her. "So? You want to see it?"
His voice was deep and magnetic, and in the cold night it seemed to have some warmth, not as cold as before.
On the deserted snow trail, the two looked at each other for a long time.
Until Wei Zhi said "Oh": "Forget it, I don't think much about it."
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Shan Chong asked expressionlessly, "Are you looking for trouble?"
Weizhi stubbornly pulled her head back and began to push down the slope, staying away from the man's arm's reach to prevent him from dragging her back and beating her up, while muttering, "You started it first, so I'll just give you a symbolic revenge..."
Shan Chong looked at her staggering back as she ran away in a hurry. He hated that she was not a man. He couldn't really pick her up and kick her.
Holding back his temper, he didn't forget his teaching plan. He forced himself to stare at her snowboard and found faults: "The inclined board should be longer. If leaves are flying, then leaves are flying. The board is turned sideways and flattened just after the inclined board moves a few millimeters. How is this different from simply pushing down the slope? It's slow and easy to fall. It's been three days. You have pushed back and forth countless times on the three advanced slopes of the ski resort. Why is it still the same? It will be difficult to continue to improve if you are so afraid of speed--"
Before he could finish his words, the person in front of him fell backwards.
With a "pa" sound, the snow fell to the ground and snowflakes splashed everywhere.
"You've made a turtle sit on you to death." Shan Chong put down the board and easily caught up with her, stopping beside her, "Why did you fall again?"
"If you stop nagging, I won't fall."
"You wrestled yourself and you blame me for talking too much?"
“Yes.”
From the moment he was forcibly carried onto the snow track after the cable car stopped running today, the grudge between the two of them had already been formed.
At this moment, the atmosphere between the two was full of tension, as if they were ready to fight at any time.
"Okay, I'll shut up." Shan Chong said, "The back edge of the snowboard is stuck, I'll pick myself up."
Regarding "getting up on your own", we are back to the first topic of debate at the top of the mountain.
"You can get up by yourself, but why do I have to climb up like this? People need to learn to adapt. I'll just turn my back to the mountain and do it like this..."
As she spoke, she turned over on the snow track, turned into an upside-down position, and then climbed up the steep slope, supported herself on the snow with her hands, and stood up.
For a moment, my heart was filled with joy.
"Look!" She brushed the snow off her gloves. "It's standing up now!"
There was silence for a few seconds.
The man standing slightly down the slope said, "Oh," and then what?
Weizhi: "What then?"
Shan Chong: "You're just going to keep the front blade stuck and face down the mountain? Can you change it?"
Weizhi: “…”
She looked back blankly, only to see the man standing on his snowboard at the foot of the mountain with his arms folded. Even with his face protection on, she could sense his coldness and ruthlessness.
Wei Zhi: "Come and help me."
Shan Chong: “No help.”
Weizhi was silent for three seconds, then said, "Okay, let's practice the toe edge. My legs are sore from practicing the heel edge."
I thought she would cry and roll on the ground, but I didn't expect the little girl to be so calm. She raised her arms and calmly started to practice pushing the front edge. Shan Chong thought about it and finally couldn't help but said, "You are quite easy-going."
"Otherwise, you wouldn't help me."
The girl's tone was light and flirtatious, and even a straight man like Shan Chong could sense something was amiss... He thought about it, and the snowboard moved left and right under his feet. With a dull "pop" sound, the snowboard jumped up under his feet, and actually jumped two steps up the slope in the opposite direction of going down the mountain.
When he got close to Weizhi, he stretched his head to take a look. The latter saw him approaching with the corner of his eye, was stunned for a moment, then said "Don't block the way", and turned his head away.
Shan Chong made way for the snow path.
…
Later.
There was no communication between the two during the second half of the ski slope.
Except for the occasional Dan Chong explaining the essentials of the movements, which allowed Wei Zhi to stutter and learn a little bit of the front-edge leaf-flying, the only sound on the entire snow trail was the "rustling" sound of the snowboard scraping across the snow surface.
It was around six in the evening when we reached the foot of the mountain and it was already completely dark.
Weizhi was tired and hungry. He silently bent down to unfasten the fastener. Suddenly, he lost his support and his knees felt a little weak, so he knelt forward.
She swayed a bit but didn't fall on the snow.
The person who appeared in front of her in time held her hand.
Wei Zhi was stunned for a moment, but when she smelled the familiar cold woody masculine scent, her brain slowly regained its senses. She pushed him away with a blank face and stood up on her own.
She bent down, picked up her ski, and brushed the snow off with her gloves.
"What are you doing?" a man's voice came from above my head. "Are you upset?"
Weizhi turned his back to him and continued to clean the snowboard.
Until a hand reached out from behind and took the snowboard away. She turned around and stared at him through her goggles.
At this moment, the man's eyes were completely calm outside his face protection. Under the night sky, without any starlight, his eyes could not be seen clearly...
But when he spoke, there was a barely perceptible stiffness and arrogance in his manner.
"It's like this when you are my apprentice. You are the one who insisted on becoming my apprentice," said Shan Chong. "It doesn't matter if it's a man or a woman. My last female apprentice went to the ski resort every day last season and jumped on the platform until the resort closed. She broke three boards in one season. I didn't think it was a big deal."
His voice was cold.
A businesslike tone.
Weizhi raised his hand and took off his helmet: "But you don't really regard me as your apprentice at all."
Her hands fell to her sides. A gust of cold wind blew past her. She shivered almost uncontrollably. Her teeth chattered. She bit her back teeth, but she insisted on speaking in a steady voice: "Admit it, you didn't consider me as your apprentice at all. I heard from Lao Yan that you have a WeChat group specifically for your apprentices...but you never thought of including me in it."
The little girl's voice was neither high nor low. It was neither accusatory nor blaming, as if she was just stating an objective fact that she already knew but was too lazy to care about.
It's just that everyone has emotions.
When she really said this realization out loud, Weizhi felt that at that moment, her mood was really bad... She couldn't explain the feeling, after all, she wasn't that sad when she first found out about this.
But when he asked her in a cold tone, "Do you insist on becoming my disciple?", she couldn't stand it.
She held the helmet tightly in her hand and pressed down her snow goggles. She was glad that she had the goggles, so that others would not be able to see her unruly and uncontrollable emotions so easily...
"That's it."
Throwing down these three words, she turned around and hurried to the ski equipment hall.
After taking two steps, she didn’t hear any footsteps behind her, and she was about to breathe a sigh of relief. However, just as she was about to go downhill and enter the ski equipment hall, someone grabbed her shoulders from behind.
She was stunned for a moment, and the next second, the force on her shoulders increased, forcing her to turn 180 degrees.
Wei Zhi turned around and frowned. Before he could ask the person behind him what was wrong, the snow goggles on his face were taken off, and the colors in front of him became brighter for a moment...
The next second, an elastic band was randomly put on my head, and in the blink of an eye, the bright colors were replaced by a transparent pink filter.
“…”
Wei Zhi was stunned.
"This is your first time learning to ski, and it's also my first time teaching you how to ski from putting on the board to pushing the slope... Since both of us are new, let's discuss everything. I advise you to be more patient."
The man's voice sounded slowly and calmly.
"You did a good job on the toe edge. Thank you for your hard work tonight."
A finger gently fell on the new Burton M4 snow goggles on her face. The little girl subconsciously closed her eyes and dodged, but she didn't expect that he just tapped the mirror lightly.
"This is your apprenticeship gift, no need to thank me."