After adding WeChat, Wei Zhi went to have dinner with Lu Xin - since everyone was alone, it would be better to have dinner with a friend than to have dinner alone, at least there was someone to chat with.

Lu Xin is a humble person.

Unlike Shan Chong and the others - in fact, Weizhi has always felt that Shan Chong, Lao Yan, and Backstab have a strong sense of group consciousness, as if there is an impenetrable wall around them. People outside always want to squeeze in, but it is not easy to do so... such as Fox and Little Bear.

They seemed to be using the flower banquet as a breakthrough point.

But it can be seen that after Hua Yan was cheated by them several times, she lost face in front of Shan Chong. Although he didn't say anything, she was not very willing to pay attention to them.

It's hard to squeeze into a circle full of big shots.

Wei Zhi herself knew very well that if she hadn't won the limited edition hidden model by chance in the blind box at the gate of the ski school in Chongli, then these people who now constitute her main social circle in the ski circle would probably not even look at her twice on the ski slopes.

Of course it doesn't mean they are not good enough.

Excluding the bonus of luck, it is actually not that easy to meet someone with whom you have a natural charisma on the street.

Lu Xin told Wei Zhi that this was his second ski season. He had just started snowboarding last season, but this season he decided to specialize in snowboarding. He bought a special snowboard and came to Xinjiang to build his own board at the beginning of the season... He worked so hard because the people around him were so good, and if he wanted to fit in, he had to be good too.

Wei Zhi felt the same way after hearing this, after all, she also had such confusion——

Standing among a bunch of tall people, even the most timid person would find it hard not to step up and give it a try.

This is also the reason why she gets up early every day and spends all her time on the snow track, either working on updates or rolling around.

“I think carving is good,” said Eie hesitantly, “but my teacher is a park skater, so maybe I will learn park skates in the future.”

"Carving is actually a basic type of skating. Whether it's flat or park, the later you play it, it's all based on carving... Girls still play flat more. Don't you think flat looks better?"

"Pinghua."

Wei Zhi dragged out the sound and thought of Dai Duo and Lao Yan.

It wasn't that she was ignoring her master. Although she had seen Shan Chong play flat flowers before, it was very rare. Normally, she would stand in front and play Teng while he would stand behind her with his hands behind his back and pick on her like a dean with a sullen face. When he was picking on her, he would always be pushing the slope or something like that...

It can be seen that Shan Chong is not that interested in snowboarding. She has never seen him use a snowboard board during class. Occasionally, he uses his hard mach to hit the snowboard. In Lao Yan's words, it is like hitting the snowboard with a sledgehammer, and the snow track is almost cracked when it falls.

But Dai Duo and Lao Yan are different——

She had seen Daiduo Expressway Pinghua coming down the highway from various angles several times, waving his sleeves and leaving a crowd of fans behind...

There are also those videos that Lao Yan posted on the short video platform, in which he jumps and spins on the snow track, and his snowboard is shaped into waves. Each video has tens of thousands of likes. Some people left a message saying that Lao Yan is one of the top three snowboarders in China, and he is young. If he plays for a few more years, he may become the next Heima Kazunori (a Japanese snowboarder, a world-class leader in snowboarding, and the man known as the "God of Snowboarding").

Wei Zhi sighed: "The flat flowers are indeed very beautiful, especially the high-speed flat flowers, those that flattened Ivan - they are all very cool."

As long as you keep your distance from them and cover your ears to avoid listening to them, it's really cool.

She added silently in her heart.

Lu Xin: "You also know Keping."

Wei Zhi: “Of course I know.”

Lu Xin had no idea what kind of atmosphere the little girl in front of him was living in. Even though she didn't know how to change blades on the snow track, she was still confused when she talked about parks and flat flowers...

The reference specimens in her mind are either the former No. 1 in the domestic snowboard park, or the current king of the domestic snowboard park. The last one is the cute guy who makes her want to wrinkle her nose when she thinks of him, and is also a benchmark in the domestic snow circle with more than 100,000 fans on the short video website.

Wei Zhi added, "But I don't dare to think about Pinghua. My master is a petty person and I'm afraid he'll get angry with me. After all, he didn't even want to teach me the penguin steps."

Lu Xin asked her, "So it seems that your master has been focusing on the park for a hundred years. Where did you find such a person to teach you the basics? There are too many projects in the park. Most people just do some pole jumping and small jumping platforms. Is your master the same?"

"He knows a little bit." Wei Zhi thought about it, and suddenly he felt vain, and added, "Of course, the big jump platform is also OK."

Lu Xin exclaimed "Wow!", but didn't ask what the big platform was doing. When he heard these three words, he said directly: "Then your master is pretty amazing?"

The little girl smiled at his straightforward and sincere compliment.

In any case, it's a happy feeling to hear someone you like being praised by a stranger. Doesn't this indirectly mean that she has good taste?

"He is not only good at stage dancing, but also very handsome." She held her chin with one hand. "Because of his good looks and strong skills, many people have asked him for various lessons. He is usually a bit busy, so he can only teach me when he has time."

When the little girl said this, she was not complaining but smiling, her cat-like almond-shaped black eyes slightly curved into a crescent shape.

The fleshy palm was placed on the small pointed chin, pressing the face to squeeze out a ball of white and tender flesh. After taking off the helmet, the long furry curly hair naturally fell on the shoulders.

Behind her, the sunlight coming in through the glass window enveloped her in a halo of light. She turned her face halfway, so half of it was hidden in the darkness, and the other half was exposed to the sunlight, her delicate fur glowing softly.

This scene made Lu Xin, who happened to cast a polite glance at her to listen to her talk, feel moved. When he first saw this new snow friend, he really didn't think too much about her. He just thought she was pretty but not particularly outstanding.

Now in the warm and sunny restaurant, the moment before his eyes, he felt warm, furry and cute.

His eyes brightened slightly, and he sat up straighter unconsciously.

"You don't have to worry too much about the fact that the master is not around. After learning how to shrug and change blades, you will spend a long time doing this to lay the foundation for future advancement. Unless you are a genius, a normal person will be stuck at this stage for ten days or so," he said with a smile, maintaining a polite manner. "As the saying goes, the master leads you to the door, but it's up to you to practice. You don't need someone to always be watching you at this stage."

"But if no one was watching... for example, if you hadn't told me about the vision problem today, I might have continued to skate with my shoulders shrugged."

"That's easy. After you finish practicing every day, find someone to record a video for you. Then show it to your master and let him point out any flaws. Then you can correct them when you practice the next day."

"Where can I find someone to record me?"

"You can call me," Lu Xin said without hesitation, "Even if we can't meet on the slopes, I still have time to meet before practice every day and record a video for you."

"Are you all in the intermediate lane?"

"Well, except for the first trip of the day when I might go to the advanced trail to warm up, I'm always on the intermediate trail."

"I will be there even when my master is not available," Wei Zhi said obediently, "He said that only when you can smoothly change the big and small bends on the intermediate trail without falling can you move on to the advanced trail."

"He's right. Just like me, you've seen what I did at the intermediate level. I don't have the ability to practice Drivespin at the advanced level!"

At this point, the two looked at each other, and simultaneously thought of how everyone had fallen and rolled on the intermediate track today, and they laughed again.

Wei Zhi thought about it and felt that this was indeed feasible. He immediately felt that he had really met a simple, honest and kind-hearted person.

…

The two new and advanced skiers found common topics and had a great time chatting at the dining table.

They didn't know that in a far corner, sitting were the atmospheric creatures they had been discussing...their true selves.

There were five or six people sitting at a dining table. On a bench facing the direction of Wei Zhi and Lu Xin, Shan Chong sat in the middle, with Bei Ci on his left and Lao Yan on his right.

At this moment, the man's fork in his left hand was picking at the food on the plate absentmindedly and unskillfully.

The food was not eaten much.

Maybe they looked good when they were first served, but because they had been on the plate for so long, the oil had started to build up and they looked really unappetizing.

He was wearing a sweatshirt, and because the restaurant was heated too hard, he had rolled up his sleeves to his elbows and lowered his eyes... His long, thick eyelashes cast a small shadow under his eyes, obscuring the emotions in his eyes.

There were quite a lot of people in the restaurant, but that didn't stop him from not wanting to eat. The laughter of the little apprentice reached his ears clearly -

He didn't know what the two of them were talking about, he only knew that she was laughing happily with a male creature she had just met... In Shan Chong's opinion, this was enough to be directly classified as "talking softly and laughing loudly".

It makes people feel impatient for no reason.

So, when Weizhi was once again amused by the person sitting opposite her, the man put down his fork and kicked her in the back for the fourth time under the table as she stretched her neck to look forward: "If you are really worried, stand up now and bring her back."

"Isn't that bad?" Backstab hesitated but was excited, "The kids are eating!"

"Pick up your plate and sit over here. It doesn't matter where you eat."

They originally came to eat with Weizhi, which was a bit like an old father coming to pick up his kindergarten daughter from school...

But before I had time to make a phone call when I arrived at the ski equipment hall, I saw the scene just now: the girl took the hand of the kindergarten kid and said, "Dad, I want to play with my new friend."

Backstab is a bit hesitant.

"But……"

"But what?"

"Look at it from another perspective. With Jiji's beginner level, it will take at least a year or so for her to catch up and go to the park with us. This is assuming she's willing to work hard in Sunac Refrigerator in the summer... We can't always take her out to play now, and I think it's a good thing for her to make friends on the slopes." Backstab was worried like a mother. "Making friends and growing together with fellow skiers of similar level is also one of the charms of skiing. How can we ruin her normal social life?"

"What kind of ice and snow sports promotion manual are you reciting?" Shan Chong said, "You shouldn't make friends with the people in Wantong Hall. How many good people are there among them?"

“…”

The man's voice was cold and emotionless.

To be honest, backstab is a bit shocking.

First of all, although the CK Club and the Wantongtang Club have always been at odds, one thinks the other is inferior, and the other mocks the other for being hypocritical...

However, regarding the top management and managers of the two clubs, everyone still maintained due courtesy on the surface.

As a senior executive and club mascot, Shan Chong had never publicly expressed his dissatisfaction with Wantongtang on any occasion before.

Secondly, although he has a bad mouth and is sometimes even a bit mean, he basically doesn't do map cannons, and rarely says things that carry strong personal prejudices -

For example: There is no good person in Wantong Hall.

So when they heard him say this, not only Backstab, but also the remaining Lao Yan and three or five other people at the table, all stopped eating and looked over silently.

Only the man had a sullen expression, sitting there with a look of decisiveness, and it seemed that he didn't think he was wrong at all.

Shan Chong: "What are you looking at?"

Lao Yan: "Brother Chong."

Backstab: "You are very biased."

Lao Yan and Bei Ci exchanged a glance and they didn't have the courage to say the following sentence: "We reasonably suspect that you are not targeting Wantong Tang. You might also say the same thing about Qiantong Tang, Baitong Tang, and Caihong Tang..."

They didn't dare to say a word, but the mysterious atmosphere was there.

It's not that I think their brother Chong is jealous of that kid from Wantongtang. He definitely (probably) wouldn't do such a shameful thing - it's a bit like how all the old fathers in the world can't bear to see their daughters, who have finally grown up and cling to their thighs every day, suddenly one day have to be walked to the bottom of the stairs after school by a green-haired boy, and may never need him to pick them up again in the future.

That's not pleasant in any way.

In the silence of everyone, the man slowly drank the milk in front of him, raised his eyes slightly and said: "Have you seen enough?"

Backstab: "...If you are not guilty, why don't you show us what you are doing?"

Lao Yanchong gave him a glance of praise - there was nothing he could do, as long as Shan Chong's right hand was bandaged, he was still in the labor reform stage and dared not speak out.

Staring at Shan Chong with a sinister look on his face.

The latter really had no guilt: "The last time Wei Zhi was with the people from Wantong Hall, he was carried back in a wheelchair. The story of my apprentice falling down is almost known to everyone in Chongli..."

He paused, raised his eyes, and said slowly: "What's wrong with the shadow in my heart?"

Everyone at the table fell silent.

I was almost convinced by his righteousness.

Shan Chong added: "It is always wiser to take precautions before they happen than to mend the situation after it has happened."

Everyone at the table remained silent.

This time I was really convinced by him.

A man wearing a woolen hat and Bluetooth headphones stood up and said he was going to fetch the little apprentice sister. Obviously, such an errand on flat ground didn't require Lao Yan or Backstab...

He was just about to go that way when the two kids who were chatting and laughing ended their tea party and stood up to go out.

No one knew what the kid in the purple sweater from Wantongtang said. Weizhi waved at him, said goodbye to him with a smile, and then the two parted ways.

The man in the woolen hat turned around and looked at Shan Chong helplessly, asking, what should we do now?

The man didn't react much. He didn't let him go to bring the person back. He pointed his chin at the place where he was originally sitting, motioning him to sit down and let her go.

As the man in the woolen hat sat down, the atmosphere at the dining table returned to normal... Backstab breathed a sigh of relief for the younger sister who was almost in "disaster", ate a few more mouthfuls of rice to suppress her surprise, and then turned to discuss with Lao Yan the International Ski Federation Snowboard Big Air World Cup to be held in Altay next month.

This thing is related to the points of athletes in next year's Winter Olympics. During this period of time, all kinds of bigwigs should have rushed here from all over the world. Dai Duo's appearance in Xinjiang is probably because of this.

The topic came to this point and Wantongtang was simply passed over and no one mentioned it again.

The wound on his palm was a little stinging and itchy, but Shan Chong still had no appetite. He just listened to them talking about some foreign park boss who had come to Irwin to make a pilgrimage recently...

Most of them are names of his contemporaries or juniors.

The man felt it was boring after listening to half of it. When he was backstabbing someone and almost flipping the table over whether Dai Duo could make the top three in the next World Cup -

"Owen Mackenzie, Ohno Hirano and Stephen Churchill will all be here this time. Dedo is nothing. He is awesome to be fourth!"

…

"Ohhei Heye fell while playing the halfpipe last week, so he may not be able to do it this time."

…

"At least he's better than Dai Duo. Look at him picking up girls on the high street every day these days," Backstab said, "but what's the point!"

I have completely lost interest in attending the class.

The disciples at the table were arguing over Dai Duo. Shan Chong picked up his phone, opened it, and clicked on WeChat. Typing with his left hand was a little inconvenient, so he stared at the screen expressionlessly and typed slowly -

【Chong: Where? 】

He was probably walking and playing with his phone, so he replied very quickly.

[Girl: On the way back to the hotel. ]

【Chong: Hmm, rest in the afternoon?】

[Girl: I have a job! ]

Work? Shan Chong thought about it and remembered, oh, the job that didn't make much money.

【Chong: What are your plans for tomorrow? Follow me on the advanced path?】

This time, the other party didn’t reply immediately. It showed “typing” for a long time. The man was a little impatient waiting and frowned slightly. He wanted to ask her what she was saying, but she kept deleting and revising for a long time...

Her new post finally popped up on the chat interface.

[Girl: No need. I fell all over the place on the intermediate track today. I finally found the problem. Let’s fix it tomorrow? ]

[Girl: The doctor told you to rest for a few more days, not just one day. You can't fart that fast even if you take off your pants.]

【Chong: Will you go to the intermediate level again tomorrow?】

In the past, she was full of yearning for the advanced roads, and she would sneak up without paying attention. But after coming to Xinjiang, she became more obedient. It seems that her time in the wheelchair was not in vain...

It would be better if she could be made to clearly realize that the people from Wantongtang should stay away from this matter.

Shan Chong was just thinking about this when he saw a message pop up on his phone that made his eyelids jump -

[Girl: Yeah, today I met someone on the intermediate trail who is not very good at skating, and we agreed to continue working hard tomorrow! (..??V??..)]

Shan Chong: “…”

...and even posted an emoticon to be cute.

Shit effort.

The man threw his cell phone on the table with a "bang", which scared the people who were worried about whether Dai Duo could qualify for the Winter Olympics.

Backstab turned to look at Laoyan and said, "Look, Brother Chong also thinks that Dai Duo has already scored over 600 points, so it won't take long for him to get the qualification. As a skateboarder, you should stop being jealous and switch to skateboarding as soon as possible. You can also take advantage of the Summer Olympics. That's right! Brother Chong!"

The man whose name was called turned around, lowered his eyebrows, and said expressionlessly: "Dai Duo? He can do whatever he wants."

His voice was low and he looked unhappy.

…

After dinner, they found a recliner in front of the locker and lay down. Shan Chong didn't want to go skiing in the afternoon, so he stood up and prepared to go for a walk outside, then go back to the hotel and lie down to watch a movie to kill time.

On the way back, I saw a familiar figure through the window of a ski equipment store.

Shan Chong paused, took a few steps back with an expressionless face, opened the door of the ski equipment store, and accompanied by a burst of pleasant wind chimes, the man walked into the store.

"Size S is enough for a little girl like you... Oops, that one is not it. It has a hard piece inside. It's a park protective gear. Although it is more protective, it will hurt if you fall. You can't use it."

The shop owner's voice reached my ears.

The man lowered his eyes, gently brushed the snow off his shoulders with his left hand, his dark pupils flickered slightly, and he moved his thin lips, calling out to the little girl who was squatting on the ground with her back to him, picking up something: "Weizhi."

Looking at the entire Silk Road ski resort, there is only one person within a hundred miles who calls her by her full name.

Hearing this cold voice suddenly, the person whose name was called shivered, and turned around suddenly like a woodchuck squatting in the corner stealing food and being caught by a cat, and found that he was already shrouded in the shadow of the person standing behind him.

The man was wearing jeans, a sweatshirt, and a pair of AJs in a familiar color scheme. At this moment, he was looking down at her.

Weizhi: “…”

Wei Zhi was at a loss: "Master, father?"

"Well," Shan Chong lowered his eyes and asked lazily, "What are you doing here?"

"Buy protective gear," Weizhi picked up the net bag in his hand, "I fell on the intermediate trail this morning and it hurt so much. My new friend said that you need to buy inner protective gear for this kind of edge-changing stage. The little turtle can't protect itself anymore."

“…”

Shan Chong said nothing.

Weizhi blinked and smelled something strange in the air.

The man pursed his lips and looked down at the little face in front of him that was full of vigilance - well, she should be vigilant - after all, she might have forgotten what she said when the owner of the large snow equipment store in Chongli recommended wearing protective gear to her when she bought snowshoes...

She said, don’t wear it inside because there is a little turtle. The little turtle was given to her by her master, and if she changes it, her master will be unhappy.

What a nice thing to say at that time.

What now?

Um.

Now I'm grown up.

The little turtle is no longer useful. It doesn’t matter who gave it to you. When it’s time to replace it, it should be replaced. Isn’t that right?

The man narrowed his eyes slowly, not realizing at all that his thoughts were divergent. To him, these words, in a rounded form, sounded no different from "I have a new friend, and I need to listen to my new friend, so my master is no longer of any use."

"Okay," he smiled without getting angry, "Did the person you mentioned in your WeChat who knows an intermediate level tell you?"

Wei Zhi stared at the corners of the man's lips, his pupils shrank slightly, and he felt his scalp tingling as if he had watched a horror movie. After a while, he nodded cautiously: "What's wrong? Is what he said wrong? Have I been deceived again?"

"No," Shan Chong said calmly, "When changing edges, it's easy to get stuck in the straight board stage and fall on the hip axis. It's time to change to inner wear protective gear. I didn't think about it."

Wei Zhi has never heard Shan Chong take the initiative to admit that he is not good——

He even looked confused when he pushed himself down the slope and fell, "Why did I fall?"

At this moment, I was really frightened by him. I was not sure whether he was being weird or not. I threw away the protective gear I was choosing, stood up and wanted to reach out to touch the man's forehead to see if he was feeling unwell, but he turned his head away.

Weizhi's white claws scratched weakly in the air.

At this time, the man turned around and looked at her: "You have an appointment with that person to go skating tomorrow?"

Wei Zhi let out an “ah”.

The man smiled without any smile and said, "It's not possible."

Before she could react to what was happening, she saw the man pick up his phone and randomly press a button. Then her phone began to vibrate wildly and the WeChat voice notification tone rang out.

I picked up my phone and saw that I was pulled into a WeChat chat group by Beidan Chong, the name of which was "Dear Disciples of the Dog Zodiac".

...are the legendary group of Shan Chong’s disciples.

When she wasn't dragged in by him, she got really angry.

Later he said he would bring her in once she knew how to change blades. Now that she knew how to change blades, she almost forgot about it, but he did take action.

Beici, Laoyan, Huayan, Yanyan and others were all in the group. They were chattering non-stop about some large-scale international competition that would be held at the Altay General Mountain Ski Resort in the future, and Dai Duo would go.

As I was watching, a few new lines suddenly popped up——

【CK, Chong: Team building tomorrow, practice basic skating, all stand up. 】

【CK, Chongli: 8am to 1pm, 30km, sign in at the top of the mountain at Silk Road Ski Resort. If you haven’t come here yet, take photos and check in in the Chongli, Changbai Mountain and Jilin self-conscious point groups. The photo gestures will be announced at 7am tomorrow.】

【CK, Chong: Take a screenshot and check in at 1pm on Kilometers Skiing APP (*A skiing app that records snow time and skiing kilometers).】

【CK, Chong: @all members】

30KM. According to the ordinary ski trail of Silk Road Ski Resort, which is about 2.7KM, that means ten round trips in one morning.

The ski slope at Chongli Mountain Ski Resort is 4-5km long. It usually takes Weizhi 30-40 minutes to go down the slope. And according to her training, she usually goes down the slope two or at most three times in the morning.

The little girl was frightened.

I couldn't help it, and reflexively sent a message in the group in front of the man -

【Girl: Are you crazy? 】

Before anyone could respond to her, the people below stopped chatting, and a few seconds later, the rhythm in the group changed to -

【Hua Yan: Received.】

[I’m moved: Got it. 】

[Marrakech Horizon: Received.]

【Lao Yan: Got it.】

[He drove his neighbor's toyota: Got it. ]

【CK, Backstab: Received.】

[I am moved: Got it]

【Yanyan: Got it.】

…

Weizhi: “…”

ah.

Fuck you.

This.

【Girl:……】

【Girl: Got it.】

Holding the phone in her hand, Wei Zhi felt it was burning. She looked up at the calm and relaxed man in front of her. After a long pause, she asked quietly, "Why did I go to such lengths and cry to join your group of disciples?"

"It's God's will." The man said expressionlessly, "Just like when I chose you between you and Jiang Nanfeng, do I regret it?"

Weizhi looked at him.

Shan Chong looked down at the stubborn and rebellious face of the little girl in front of him, paused, and said slowly, half-seriously and half-falsely: "...I have to say, it's true."

Weizhi: “…”

Wei Zhi: “? I’m going to make a scene.”