The reason why Shan Chong made this call was very simple. It was nothing more than alcohol at work and he was in a spur of the moment call.
Time goes back half an hour.
After a day of training, no one went out to eat in the evening. Instead, everyone carried a box of beer, ordered a bunch of skewers from takeout at the foot of the mountain, and then prepared some snacks and went up the mountain happily.
Seven or eight people sat around a small broken coffee table, playing a lively movie as background music, and chatting about life and gossip. They kept talking about the things in the snow circle.
Someone suddenly mentioned a person in the recent snow circle. As the skiing sport becomes more and more popular, the circle has become more and more chaotic in recent years...
This year, a female internet celebrity named Shirley emerged. She is quite pretty, and her social media homepage is full of photos of her carrying a snowboard...the kind of photos in which she looks like she's wearing ten layers of sweaters to keep warm in the snow, or only wearing a sports bra, using her snowboard as a surfboard to create a cool look.
The term "snow circle socialite", abbreviated as "Xueyuan", almost came from her.
Once she had an argument with someone who questioned whether she came here to ski or take pictures, or whether she didn't even know how to change blades. She said she could run down Alvin Avenue in the Xinjiang Silk Road Ski Resort with a cup of coffee in one shot without spilling a drop.
This news spread quickly throughout the entire snow circle, and now everyone asks each other "Do you want coffee? Don't spill a drop."
It’s no wonder that everyone made jokes about it and turned it into a meme. It’s mainly because this famous lady in the snow circle mentioned a few key words:
The first one is engraved flat.
As we all know, carving is a sliding method that combines carving and flat patterns.
Those who can carve are not necessarily the masters.
Those who know how to spend money flatly are not necessarily big shots.
But the one who can carve it flat must be a big shot.
Carving is actually extreme edge sliding. Although no one stipulates that your hands must touch the snow when carving, the extreme moment and body folding all rely on the inertia and elasticity of the board's edge, and the reaction force of the board on the skier completes each edge change...
Flat flowers are various balancing movements on the board, including but not limited to spinning, jumping and even somersaults.
Combining carving and freestyle is like being a free gymnast standing on the preparation platform. Under the full influence of inertia, centrifugal force, and jumping, even an Olympic champion would not dare to say that he can hold a cup of coffee without spilling a drop.
Shan Chong sneered and commented: "Although, I can carry ten bottles of Starbucks sealed cans."
Second, she mentioned Irving Avenue.
Alvin Avenue, also known as "Aiwen" in the snow circle, is known to everyone... You may not even know that the Winter Olympics venue is in Chongli, Zhangjiakou, but you cannot be unaware that Alvin Avenue is in Xinjiang.
Irwin Avenue was built in October 2010, when Xinjiang Silk Road Ski Resort had just started to plan and invited the famous Italian skier and Olympic champion Irwin Stick as a project partner... But when the project started, Mr. Irwin was unfortunately diagnosed with cancer and later passed away. In order to commemorate him, the operator of Xinjiang Silk Road Ski Resort named this steepest and most challenging ski slope "Irwin" to commemorate the spirit of this Italian international friend who dedicated himself to the skiing career until the last moment of his life.
This is an alpine ski slope with a drop of 400 meters and a maximum steep slope of 36°. It is an alpine ski slope qualified for international alpine skiing events.
It is said to be one of the top three most difficult ski slopes in my country.
The slope is slightly slower at the beginning, with an average slope of 25°. When it reaches the steepest part, you can always see countless snow enthusiasts sitting by the slope, wondering how to get down such a steep slope.
This place is also called the "Life Thinking Point" on Irving Avenue.
A pilgrimage site for snow circlers on Irving Avenue.
People say that you can't just brag about whether you can skate from bottom to top. If you can skate from top to bottom in one shot on the Irving, you've graduated.
This joke about Irwin was just casually mentioned by everyone at first, and no one took it seriously, until someone got excited and started bragging: "I heard that Irwin's slope is actually about the same steepness as the advanced H-trail at our mountaintop ski resort. It's nothing special. I'm going to go there. I can't say I can get coffee, but at least I can carve it flat."
When Lao Yan heard this, he took advantage of his weakness and changed his sitting position. He tilted his head and said, "Is this true? It would be bad if you brag about it."
"Well, why are you just blowing it?" The man who spoke said proudly, "Come on? I'll carve the next Ivan for you to see."
Lao Yan started to argue with the man, and as Backstab listened, he became interested and searched for information related to Alvin Avenue on the Internet.
He has been skiing for so many years. To be honest, every year at the end of the snow season when the snow in the north is not good, he flies to Xinjiang to ski on the wild snow... He also goes to the Altay General Mountain Ski Resort. The Silk Road Ski Resort is next to Urumqi, so he passes by it every time.
He had never been to Irving Avenue either.
My main focus is not on skating, so I don’t have much interest in it.
But at this moment, he had seen countless people who were just beginning to feel confident about Ivan, holding their cameras and saying "This is Ivan", but then reached the point of thinking about life, and suddenly they were gone, going straight downhill, and he was so happy that he couldn't stop.
"Let's go to Xinjiang." Backstab said, "Team building!"
Shan Chong took his phone away, took a look at the man who was rolling down Ivan, and then threw the phone back to him: "You won't be able to see this scene even if you go there."
Backstab: "Why can't I see it?"
Shan Chong: "No matter how steep the Irwin is, let alone how flat it is, if everyone here slides honestly, at least you can still slide down while standing."
Backstab: "Are you complimenting us? Why does it sound so weird to me?"
Shan Chong: "Just to remind you guys not to act weird, the air tickets are free, right?"
Backstab: "I just want to see the butt, why is there no such person? Don't I still have a little junior sister?"
Listen, this senior brother is so shameless, he didn't think of Wei Zhi at all when there was something good, but he thought of her in a second when there was this bullshit incident of braking on the snow track——
Just imagine a little girl sitting on a little turtle and sliding down from Ivan. How cute!
It's like elementary school students riding skateboards in the snow park!
"Can't you expect something good?"
Shan Chong didn't even bother to raise his eyelids at his suggestion. "A few days ago, he was crying out that he wanted to trouble Wantongtang because their people didn't even know how to change blades to the park... Today, I want to coax the same person into joining Ivan. He's been unlucky for eight lifetimes to meet unreliable people like you."
"Aren't you here?" Backstab said without hesitation, "If you were watching, I would dare to take her to the park too."
“…”
"Just an Aiwen, can't you protect her?"
"Silk Road Ski Resort has a professional rescue team."
"You won't need them."
Shan Chong stopped talking. He didn't even need to see it, he could smell that the man was full of bad intentions and wanted to drag him into the crime.
After all, this was not a good thing. Seeing that the master did not respond, he did not dare to nag about it, so he just let it go for the time being.
After three rounds of drinks, someone mentioned Xinjiang again. I checked the weather and found out that Chongli would have sunny days above zero for the next week, and the ski resort would be turned into an ice rink again... I was so excited that I bought a flight ticket to Xinjiang.
Shan Chong didn't care where he went skiing. He always went to Xinjiang at the end of the snow season in previous years. It didn't matter if he went a little earlier this year. He let them buy the plane tickets together.
At this time, Backstab asked, "Call my Junior Sister!"
Shan Chong glanced at him.
Backstab: "Oh, we can't go to Irwin, but at least she should learn how to change edges this season, right? Isn't she afraid to put the board down on a steep slope? Take her to the Buddha Light Avenue next to Irwin Avenue. I heard that there are very few people on that snow path, and the slope is also good, which is suitable for those who are afraid of speed..."
At this point, Shan Chong still did not agree.
After two bottles of white wine, he leaned on the sofa and didn't want to talk. He was forced to play truth or dare, and lost the first round. A group of people jumped up and down and asked him to call "the current owner of the turtle butt pad", "the current owner of Dai Duo snow mirror", "the beloved disciple who got the master to wear the board himself", "the only disciple of Shan Chong who pushed the slope"...
There are a lot of different titles.
Only then, amid the gossiping and expectant eyes of the crowd, did Shan Chong make a phone call and invite Wei Zhi to go to Xinjiang with him.
Actually, it was not a big deal. She had climbed down the 25° advanced slope at the mountaintop ski resort by herself.
There's no reason why it wouldn't work in a different place.
Besides, with him watching from the side, nothing serious would happen.
…
Then a phone call came.
In the end, it turned into the embarrassing scene right now——
The little girl was with her boyfriend, and another grown man called her in the middle of the night. What do you think of this?
Shan Chong hung up the phone and thought about it carefully. It seemed that Wei Zhi had not shown any sign of having a boyfriend during the ten days she was in Chongli. Did she go home and get married quickly before the New Year to celebrate?
Before he could figure out what was going on, he heard Backstab say, "Are you trying to dig a hole in my wall?" He raised his eyelids and gave him a look that said, "Are you sick?" He said expressionlessly, "Can you be a little more decent?"
Backstab high five: "Oh, if you don't refuse, then you want it."
Shan Chong was too lazy to even roll his eyes at him.
At this moment his cell phone vibrated, he picked it up and took a look. It was naturally a message from the person who had just hung up on him.
[Girl Ji: I was ordered to deliver the car keys and midnight snack to the neighbor's big brother. ]
[Girl: You are really my big brother, not a weird person.]
Ten seconds later, the second one was withdrawn.
Shan Chong raised his eyebrows.
For a girl in her twenties to use a "big brother" these days, she must be at least 40 years old, right?
Then he is indeed a little too old to be my boyfriend.
He made random guesses without any psychological burden, apparently unaware that the girl on the other side of WeChat was anxious and jumping up and down, tormented by thoughts of "Damn, I have to explain this to him clearly" and "Why am I explaining this to him? Just fucking withdraw it" and "Ahhh why did I withdraw it? Is the person who designed this feature on WeChat not smart?"
The man was even very gentlemanly and waited patiently for two minutes and drank half a can of beer before he slowly picked up his phone and replied.
【Chong: What was withdrawn? 】
【Girl Ji: I accidentally typed this wrong word. 】
She immediately changed the subject.
[Girl Ji: Why did you suddenly say you were going to Xinjiang? Where is Xinjiang? ]
[Chong: Let’s go to the Silk Road Ski Resort in Urumqi first. They are clamoring to touch the Irving Avenue…]
【Chong: Do you know Ivan Avenue? 】
【Girl: I don’t know.】
【Chong: Baidu yourself.】
【Girl: ...Why are you asking this question?】
【Chong: The Silk Road should be the first stop, and then we should go to the Altay General Mountain Ski Resort, and then that’s about it, and we will stay there for the rest of this year’s snow season.】
【Girl: Oh! Where are you spending the New Year? 】
【Chong: Well, the round-trip ticket is free? What's the point of running around?】
【Girl:……】
Shan Chong thought about it.
【Chong: Is your leg okay? 】
【Girl: Good morning. 】
The man held the phone, looked at the lively girl on the screen, yawned, and finally, drunk, he slowly typed out those two words -
【Chong: Are you coming?】
Shan Chong didn’t know how much weight these two simple words carried in other people’s eyes. His phone only displayed a cold “typing”. He couldn’t see that at this moment, the girl’s phone dialog box was typing a long line of text—
Come come come come come come come come come...
And I'm still trying to copy the machine input.
But after a long while, this line of words was not sent out, because the very upset little girl finally remembered her pile of rotten stalls...
And girls should be reserved :)
Delete the screaming chicken's repetitive roar in the dialogue box completely.
So it was a long while before Shan Chong saw a few words pop up from the dialogue box, which were particularly tactful and hesitant, "I'll think about it."
…
Weizhi spent several days thinking about this.
These days she disappeared without a trace. Han Yiming didn't reply to her text messages and didn't answer her calls. She couldn't find anyone when she had something to do. She only called back after half a day, and her tone was sincere: I'm sorry, I was busy and didn't check my phone just now.
Weizhi never resisted before, so she would not lie about this, and naturally no one would doubt her at this time.
But this situation went on for several days, and Dr. Han was no fool. He realized that the girl was avoiding him. In the past, when he was on vacation, the two of them would at least go out to see a movie, but now that he was on vacation, Wei Zhi simply disappeared.
That night, the midnight snack she brought me looked like severed heads rice.
Once this idea came to his mind, he couldn't sit still anymore. He threw away his indifferent attitude of the past when he was lazy and didn't even want to go to the two parties when he was in a bad mood. He took the initiative to find the parents and suggested that they go to a restaurant to talk this weekend.
The thousand-year-old iron tree finally blossomed. Both parents were stunned and then ecstatic. Ms. Yang personally went to arrest the man, patted her daughter on the shoulder and said, "See, I told you that you can do it! I know you were worried before and felt that his attitude was ambiguous. I reassured you at that time, but you still didn't believe it - Dr. Han has that intention towards you. He even took the initiative to ask for a talk. Now his attitude is clear enough!"
Wei Zhi rubbed her shoulder that was hurt by the slap, and wondered if the other party thought she was playing hard to get?
As she thought about it, not only did her shoulders hurt, but her head also started to hurt.
When they arrived at the agreed restaurant, the three members of the Han family were already waiting. After exchanging familiar greetings, everyone sat down. Wei Zhi sat next to Han Yiming, who took the initiative to pour her a glass of lemonade and pushed it in front of her.
Weizhi glanced at him. The man was wearing a casual outfit today, a dark blue sportswear from Thombrown. The sweatshirt and sweatpants cost more than 10,000 yuan... Although the design of this brand is simple and ridiculously expensive, the good thing is that the tailoring is really good. When worn by a man with a good figure, it can highlight his figure and make him look like a successful person.
Han Yiming lives a very disciplined life and has always maintained a good figure.
After taking a few quick glances out of instinct, Wei Zhi looked away with little interest, lowered his head and took a sip of lemonade.
Ms. Yang is very good at chatting and started the conversation first… As if they were holding a commendation summary meeting, the parents of both sides chatted about Weizhi and Han Yiming’s childhood in a relaxed atmosphere. When Weizhi heard Juan’s mother say, “After Han Yiming passed away, my daughter cried so much that she became seriously ill. No one could persuade her. She is so clingy,” she felt a sour stomachache—
She immediately put down the lemonade in her hand.
"Mom, don't bring up things from your childhood."
Weizhi's quiet protest was taken as a sign of shyness.
"Oh, children should not interrupt when adults are talking," Ms. Yang smiled, covering her lips. "When your brother Han was a child, you would not let Nanfeng sit on the back seat of his bicycle. You would push her down after she sat on it, saying something like "only you can sit on the back seat, and you want to be his bride—"
The word "bride" touched Weizhi's nerves.
"Hahaha, nowadays Yiming won't let weird people take the position of co-driver. You know, I'm not saying anything bad, but there are always some weird colleagues in their hospital, like someone who has never ridden in a car in his life..."
"Well, speaking of cars, if the two children live together in the future, one car won't be enough?" Finally, something relevant was discussed and the men finally had a say. Mr. Han said, "I see that Xiaozhi doesn't go out much and doesn't have a car for herself. It's okay after all, the little girl doesn't like these, but it's still inconvenient to go out occasionally without a car... We are a family and we don't have to say anything. I will decide to get Xiaozhi a car. The little girl doesn't need to drive a very good car. I think 911 is very suitable-"
"Oh, Han, this is very expensive for you."
"It's very polite of you to say that."
Ms. Yang can be said to be beaming with joy now - they haven't even started discussing the betrothal gift, but the couple has already decided to give her a car worth 1.5 or 600,000 yuan. What else is there to discuss?
She was not a stingy person. "Since you all said so, I have to express my opinion as well. I don't want my daughter to be too far away from home. Besides, it's not convenient for Dr. Han to go to work if she lives too far away. I just happen to have a convenient place right now. Let the children live in our lake villa for a while... renovate it, and go directly to the airport expressway when they go out. It will save Dr. Han time to go to work."
"Oh, Old Yang, you are such a fool," Mrs. Han said angrily, "How can I let your family sell out the house?"
"What does it matter? Han also said that people in the same family should not talk about different things——"
The atmosphere at the table suddenly became extremely warm because of the generosity of the parents on both sides.
Wei Zhi was impressed that they could entertain themselves so much that he simply ignored the opinions of the parties involved and started to share the blueprint. He simply didn't want to listen anymore and took out his mobile phone to swipe it impatiently.
As I was scrolling, I came across the circle of friends.
In the circle of friends, Beisai posted a short video, and the location was Xinjiang, Silk Road Ski Resort.
Weizhi turned the volume down to minimum and opened the video——
The video uses a vintage filter with snowflakes.
The first scene is a group of young people wearing colorful clothes, dragging a long poster, walking forward with their backs to the camera at the airport...
Then the camera flashed and the screen went black.
The next second, they appeared again in the same queue. The colorful clothes were still the same clothes, and the backpacks were still the same backpacks, but the airport where the photo was taken had obviously changed. Not far away, a line of words read: Welcome to Urumqi.
The girl with colorful braids who was standing at the edge was the first to turn around and ran towards the camera with a smile on her face. She approached the camera and waved with her bright smile...
Then she squatted next to the camera and turned around to say something to the people not far away.
At the same time, the handsome man in the middle of the team not far away turned his head with an impatient look and gave him a straight look.
Then the scene changed, and the background became a log cabin hotel covered with snow.
A group of people stood on the roadside. One of them stood on the railing and fell to the ground in the snow. Then he struggled and couldn't get up. The people around him laughed.
A group of people were riding up the mountain with skis on their backs, a string of horses following one after another. A girl named Yanyan made a "yeah" gesture and took a close-up selfie of herself with a big smile and the horses.
A group of people appeared in the park on the street again. On the swing that was half buried in the snow, Hua Yan pushed the reluctant Shan Chong to sit on it, and backstabbed and occupied the other one. The two of them huddled on the swing with grievance. Lao Yan and Hua Yan laughed and pushed them, swinging on the swing...
and.
Yanyan sat on the side of the snow trail and posed for a photo. Lao Yan, Bei Stab and an unknown person who passed by threw a snow wall at her like a train. The last person to come down was Shan Chong. The snow wall must have been at least four meters high.
A group of big guys are competing in back-edge push-down on the snow track in a regular ski resort.
A group of big guys went to ski and flipped over, fell into a pit, and everyone threw their boards into the pit, laughing and digging people out...
The camera gave Shan Chong a close-up. Even with the face protector and snow goggles on his shoulders, one could feel that he was speechless. The man took out an engineering shovel from his backpack.
——It was a very long video, but Weizhi watched it patiently frame by frame.
"What I mean is, let the two kids get a certificate after the Chinese New Year."
Mr. Han's voice suddenly came into Weizhi's ears.
"Xiaozhi," Han Yiming's gentle voice also rang in my ears, sounding particularly patient and gentle, "Don't look at your phone. If you have any ideas, you can say it now."
…The video on my phone started playing again because I didn’t pause or exit it.
The ice and snow are a white romance that seems to slow down the brain and filter everything, including the scenery, people and stories of those places...
For her, it was like the protagonist of the story had passed through the magic wardrobe and gone to the Kingdom of Narnia. She had also been to the fairy tale world.
The protagonist of the story met Aslan, the Lion King, in the Kingdom of Narnia.
In another place of ice and snow, there is also the king in her eyes.
Now that I have left that city of ice and snow and returned to the place where the sun shines brightly, it seems as if everything has returned to its original state.
Everyone around her is telling her through their actions, Weizhi, you have to be an ordinary person who works from nine to five and lives a life that follows the rules.
It turns out that strong sunlight has no temperature.
——But she doesn't want this.
She looked at the table of five people, looking at her expectantly with false kindness and enthusiasm.
——She doesn’t want this.
Something had been tense in my brain for a long time, and suddenly it snapped.
The harsh sound of a chair scraping across the restaurant floor interrupted the rhythm of the surroundings, and the adults' cheerful chat came to an abrupt end. The other diners looked over in surprise.
The waiter hesitated whether to come up and advise the lady that this was not in line with restaurant etiquette...
But none of that matters.
"I won't get married. I don't like Han Yiming. I can't hold hands with him, take wedding photos with him, get a marriage certificate with him smiling, or sleep in the same bed with him... I'm sorry to disappoint you. I'm not kidding you. It's just that I thought I could do it before, but now I find that I can't."
Wei heard his own voice slowly and firmly——
"I'm leaving now. I bought a flight ticket to Xinjiang tonight and now I'm in a hurry to go home and pack my luggage... Enjoy your time."
She threw the tablecloth on her skirt back onto the table, turned and left.
From walking briskly at the beginning to running away at full speed at the end, Weizhi threw down all his belongings and ran away when everyone was caught off guard.
Although not responsible.
But it is liberation.
The author has something to say: Oh, actually the heroine is not just running for the hero
For a man I've only known for ten days, this is not possible.
I wrote such a long paragraph describing the video just to express that the heroine has seen another possible scenery in life.
——Unorthodox science time——
In reality, no one can boast that they can sit down with a cup of coffee.
But Ivan will always be the source of all kinds of legends
For example, last ski season there was a guy (who was actually a nice person) (but for some reason he liked to talk nonsense) who said he had driven down Alvin at 133.4 mph.
As we all know, skiing is faster than snowboarding. The fastest speed of skiing is just over 100 mph, and the average speed is about 50 mph. On snowboarding, you usually feel like you are about to take off when you reach 60 or 70 mph...
This doesn't seem to be representative enough.
Let me give you an example, 133.4, this speed is considered illegal when driving on the highway (.)