194 Extras (10)
◎ Don’t let yourself become a competition machine.◎
Zhu Qi and Maomao discussed the topic of "whether to go" for a while.
Maomao felt that Zhu Qi was not in a good state, but did not want to talk about other things in the coach's office, so he pulled Zhu Qi out, and the two of them whispered in the corner of the corridor.
"Have you been worried about anything lately?" Maomao patted his chest. "Forget about others, but me, don't you believe me? Tell me, I can solve it for you."
When Maomao was the team leader, he often told his teammates this, and they liked to talk to him whenever they had any problems. When Maomao lived on the seventh floor, it almost became a psychological counseling room for the team members.
She is also called "the most reliable captain" by the players. Now as the head coach, she is still as reliable as ever.
Zhu Qi was at a loss for words: "No, everything is normal."
"But after you came back from the National Table Tennis Tournament, you were always alone and in a daze."
Zhu Qi was impressed by Mao Mao's meticulousness and could only say, "I'm actually not very satisfied with my performance in this National Table Tennis Championships."
"Is it because you lost to A Shui?" Maomao asked again.
Zhu Qi nodded, then shook his head. "Actually, I'm not very satisfied with every match. I've been wanting to play a few more matches lately to get back into shape."
Maomao knew that Zhu Qi had high demands on himself and wanted to do his best in every game.
Ever since winning six gold medals at the Moscow World Games, the General Administration of Sport has treated the national table tennis team like its own daughters, giving them the best of everything and allocating funds the fastest.
The national table tennis team was very wealthy, so Ren Xinhua bought a CD burning machine to record and store every game of the players.
Sometimes after winning a game, Zhu Qi would write a review, make a summary, and watch the game video.
Not to mention the lost game.
Originally, Zhu Qi had not lost many games, and most of them were won by Zhu Qi.
It is one thing to be happy for your good friend when she wins the game, but it is another thing to compete with yourself. This habit has continued since Zhu Qi joined the national team.
"It's normal to have wins and losses in a competition. And Ah Shui did play well this time. You're just too demanding of yourself. And you don't necessarily have to go abroad to compete. There are plenty of competitions in China."
Zhu Qi knew that Maomao was doing this for his own good, and what he said made sense.
In fact, when she was in the provincial team, she often left the main group to compete.
At that time, He Qianlu would cover for her and let her uncle or Qin Xiaoba follow Zhu Qi. However, after she joined the national team, she no longer had such an opportunity.
Maomao analyzed the situation from all aspects and talked a lot with Zhu Qi.
Zhu Qi's idea of attacking New Delhi and Yokohama was almost extinguished.
As a result, when I went to the cafeteria to eat, I happened to see a few young players from the second team playing with their mobile phones at the door.
"Hey, is that Japanese athlete very good?"
"What's so great about it? Just listen to what Japan says."
"But he's ranked number one in the world. Aren't the number one the most powerful?"
"That's earned through hard work. The more games you play, the more points you'll get."
A few people were still discussing when they suddenly felt a shadow pressing down from behind.
Turning back, the girl holding the phone said bitterly: "Captain, Captain..."
"Give it to me." Zhu Qi reached out to the girl.
The player next to her pinched the girl whose phone was confiscated and whispered, "I told you to go back home and play, but you insisted on playing in the cafeteria..."
Confiscated mobile phone +1
"Go ask your coach for it tomorrow." Zhu Qi waved his phone at the young player.
The young player nodded with a sad face.
Zhu Qi lowered his head and glanced at the content on his phone, and found a line of large words on it.
——【Japan ends China's 22-year reign as world number one.】
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When Maomao talked to Ren Xinhua, Ren Xinhua also expressed his disapproval of Zhu Qi going to the competition.
But unlike Maomao, Ren Xinhua asked Maomao a question: "Maomao, what kind of player do you think Baobao is?"
Maomao answered seriously, "She's a pure table tennis player. Her passion isn't driven by money or status; it's simply because she loves it. And the most commendable thing is that she's maintained this mindset since she was little, and it's never wavered."
Ren Xinhua nodded, agreeing with what Maomao said.
This was also the reason why she was very optimistic about Zhu Qi and was determined to bring Zhu Qi over from Jianghuai Province.
Ren Xinhua has no children and has devoted his entire life to the cause of table tennis.
Everyone in the national team is her child.
She has also always tried her best to take care of each child and let each child complete his or her career.
Of course, she also knew that some of her sparring partners also had dreams of becoming champions, and she also knew how sad many children who did not make it to the end were when they left.
But there are too few podium spots.
Ren Xinhua has always believed that both sportsmanship and personal character must be taken seriously.
Because the person standing on the podium represents the whole of China, is the object of admiration of every Chinese, and can influence all Chinese people.
Over the years, Ren Xinhua has also been convinced that he was not wrong about the person.
Zhu Qi is very persistent in his pursuit of victory or defeat, which is a good thing for the team and honor.
But for Zhu Qi himself, the psychological burden was actually too heavy.
"Physical injuries are easy to treat, but psychological injuries..." Ren Xinhua sighed. She asked Maomao to go back first, but stood up and knocked on the door of the office of the head coach of the table tennis team next door.
/
There are a lot of people in the cafeteria.
Zhu Qi came over when A Shui and Qin Xiaoba were almost done eating.
Seeing Zhu Qi holding the phone, Ah Shui jokingly said, "That's too much, isn't it? My captain, children are bound to like playing. They can play for a while while eating. It won't interfere with training."
Cell phones are not collected in the first national team. Every time they see the kids in the second national team being restricted from using electronic devices, they are glad that they made the cut.
"The kids on the second team are really outrageous these days. Take this little girl, for example. I already took her out once before, and now she's got a new phone and a new credit card. Even if the national table tennis team gets a raise, they can't be so extravagant. Last time, someone quit the team and went to the coach to ask for his phone. The coach searched for a long time and found out he'd taken four phones."
A Shui felt that he would never be able to become a coach in the future.
She is a soft-hearted person, so when children act coquettishly towards her, she turns a blind eye.
Only someone with an iron fist, iron blood and a heart of stone like Zhu Qi can subdue these monkeys.
No one knew how the team knew that Zhu Qi wanted to go out to play competition. A Shui and Qin Xiaoba also did not agree with Zhu Qi going.
Their perspectives are relatively simple.
"Why are you going there alone? There's no team doctor or logistics support staff, and not even someone to carry your luggage. Can you read Hindi and Japanese? What if you get lost when you get there?" Ah Shui sat in the cafeteria, took a bite of tomato beef brisket, and then took a big bite of steamed bun.
Qin Xiaoba chimed in, "That's right. Of the three team doctors, one is out sick, and the remaining two are too busy to take care of the entire team." He shook his bandaged foot. "I twisted my foot playing all the table tennis, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to go with you. Forget it, sister. One or two games won't make a difference."
Zhu Qi said nothing and took another sip of soup.
The young couple looked at each other and exchanged glances. Ah Shui looked at Zhu Qi with some concern: "Bao Bao, I think something is wrong with you recently."
"What?" Zhu Qi's heart skipped a beat and he looked up at A Shui.
"You always sit there in a daze." A Shui said again.
"..." Zhu Qi said with a smile. "What does this have to do with it?"
She thinks she is quite normal.
Why does everyone say that she has something on her mind?
Qin Xiaoba wanted to say something, but Zhu Qi glanced at their finished lunch boxes and said, "There's a bunch of people waiting for empty seats outside. Go train after you finish eating. I'll be there soon."
Ah Shui scratched his face: "Then we'll go to the playground and wait for you."
Zhu Qi nodded.
Qin Xiaoba opened his mouth again, but was pulled away by A Shui.
The two of them walked out of the cafeteria mumbling.
"Why won't you let me speak?"
"Can't you see your sister is upset? Looking for trouble?"
"I can see that, so I wanted to ask what's going on."
"Don't ask, Baobao is too tired."
A Shui knew that Maomao was also so tired when he was the captain.
But Baobao and Maomao are tired in different ways. Baobao himself is a basketball fanatic, and for Baobao, nothing is more important than playing basketball.
But after becoming the team leader, Baobao's energy was diverted to managing the team members.
It had been a long time since she had played a game of ball happily and without distraction.
Just as Ah Shui and Qin Xiaoba left, Zhu Qi was still wondering why Maomao hadn't come to the cafeteria yet, when a player ran over and said to Zhu Qi, "Captain, Chairman Ren is calling you."
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The captain is half a coach.
In fact, before becoming captain, Zhu Qi often went in and out of the coaching room.
After becoming the captain, I came more often.
After arriving, Zhu Qi first took a look at Maomao's workstation and found that Maomao was not there.
Just as he was wondering, he pushed open the door of the inner room and Ren Xinhua's office, and saw Ren Xinhua lying on three folding stools put together for a nap, and he could hear bursts of light snoring.
Isn't this... asking her to come?
Zhu Qi didn't feel comfortable waking up Ren Xinhua, so he just sat on the sofa and flipped through the newspaper on the coffee table.
The content originally placed on the top should have been the one that Ren Xinhua had just read and had not had time to fold back.
This is the latest situation of the epidemic.
It says that because China provided SARS-specific drugs to its neighboring countries, countries such as Japan, South Korea, Russia, the Philippines, and India have controlled the number of new patients, and Japan has had zero new infections for a week in a row.
Zhu Qi had experienced two epidemics in his previous life, and he also felt that these two epidemics came inexplicably and suddenly.
At the beginning, they said all kinds of things, such as insect and ant infection, microbial mutation, eating wild game... this and that.
Later, after attending some military lectures, I understood what was going on.
The characteristics of biological and chemical weapons are that they come with great force, but things made in the laboratory are not suitable for nature and will disappear quickly.
SARS is an immature biological weapon, and the virus strain is evolved so it is highly contagious and has the ability to mutate.
Although Zhu Qi was in Incheon when the epidemic broke out in China, he also paid close attention to the situation in the country.
People scrambled for iodine, alcohol and salt, and every household boiled vinegar to fumigate the house for disinfection.
Although we were caught off guard at the beginning, the situation was basically under control in the country within six months.
It doesn't mean that fighting the enemy with bayonets is the way to fight the war.
Each generation has its own Long March.
For doctors, fighting the epidemic is a long march.
As Zhu Qi read every word on the black and white newspaper, he could feel himself being pulled out of the tide of history.
As he gets older and closer to the time of his previous life's death, Zhu Qi sometimes feels that this life is just a dream before death.
Only when playing games did Zhu Qi feel his blood boiling.
She really has something on her mind.
Sometimes I wonder whether I should talk to someone about my past life, but I feel that it is a bit too outrageous. There is a high probability that no one will believe it and I will easily be regarded as a lunatic.
Athletes are prone to psychological problems.
By then, there's an 80% chance that the cat will drag me directly to see a psychologist.
Just thinking about——
"Hmm..." Ren Xinhua rolled over, opened his eyes, and slowly sat up when he saw Zhu Qi. "Here you are. I'm getting old and haven't been sleeping well at night. I thought I'd take a nap, but I fell asleep anyway."
"I just arrived. Do you have any work to assign to me?"
"No, no, I just called you over here to get some air conditioning and rest." Ren Xinhua sat up, walked to the file cabinet next to him, and pulled out a box of tea leaves to make some tea for Zhu Qi. "I see you've been tired lately. The team has expanded, and now there are so many players, it must be tiring to manage them."
"It's okay. Everyone is training very seriously."
"Actually, you should be given a vacation. You are a great contributor to the Riyadh World Games, but you haven't been able to have a good rest until now. Kid, besides playing basketball, I don't know if you have any other interests or hobbies over the years." Ren Xinhua walked up to Zhu Qi and reached out to touch Zhu Qi's head.
I don't know why.
Zhu Qi felt that Ren Xinhua seemed a little shorter, perhaps because he was a little hunched over due to his old age.
She felt inexplicably sad.
She also regards Ren Xinhua as a very close elder and her family.
This was the first time Zhu Qi truly felt that his family seemed to be really old.
"I don't seem to have any other hobbies or interests." Zhu Qi thought about it and realized that he was not interested in other things.
"As head coach, you've performed exceptionally well over the years. You're the best player I've ever coached. Your athleticism, character, and physical abilities are all top-notch. But as someone who's watched you grow up, I'm actually a little worried..."
"Worried?" Zhu Qi was a little confused. "What are you worried about?"
"For you now, is playing basketball more fun or more of a responsibility?"
Ren Xinhua's words were a question that Zhu Qi had never imagined.
Are you still happy playing ball?
Zhu Qi couldn't quite remember.
She felt that standing on the podium was just like that.
I've stood there so many times that I've forgotten what it feels like to have every blood vessel in my body throbbing with excitement and every nerve in my head brimming with joy.
She took standing on the podium as her duty.
It is something that must be done.
How long has it been since you played for yourself?
Zhu Qi was stunned by the question.
When she learned to serve with a rapid running style beyond the baseline, she screamed excitedly at the bottom of the table.
She was also very proud when she performed the pole jumping step for the first time in the competition and received cheers from all around.
At the Macau Palace World Championship Cup, she couldn't contain her excitement when she scored several points against Li Keshan with her flying shot.
When she joined the national team and learned how to exchange positions in doubles for the first time during coach Xu's training, she found it very interesting.
When she participated in the table tennis league for the first time and played against Sister Xia, she solved all the difficult problems that Sister Xia posed for her.
When she faced off against Ayaka Ayaka at the Tokyo World Games and successfully looped the ball, she felt like the world was in her hands...
These memories seem to have nothing to do with the podium.
It was during the competition that she broke through herself little by little, upgrading her skills and expanding her arsenal.
It is the purest and most essential original intention of a person who loves table tennis.
Zhu Qi knew.
Ren Xinhua wanted to awaken his inner love for table tennis.
Instead of turning yourself into a competition machine.
Zhu Qi had actually been thinking about this issue a long time ago.
She seemed not to have felt the excitement and joy of this kind of competition for a long time, but Zhu Qi had never mentioned her inner thoughts to anyone.
I don’t know how Ren Xinhua saw that.
Zhu Qi admitted: "Yes, I also feel a little confused and want to find my previous state. So I will take advantage of this competition and regain the world's number one ranking..."
"Then you can go with the badminton team. They happen to be holding competitions in both stops, and the venues are all in the same venue, with buses for transportation and drop-off all in the same place. I've already made arrangements with the badminton team's head coach, and the team is bringing all the necessary personnel. There's a team doctor, logistics support, an interpreter, and two chefs from the cafeteria who will rent a local kitchen to cater to everyone. Your airfare, hotel fees, entry fees, and any additional medications you might need will all be covered by the National Table Tennis Team."
The badminton team has a Sudirman Cup team competition in India and an All England Open, which is of great importance in the badminton world, in Japan, and all the players who will go there are the absolute main players of the team.
I heard that the badminton team learned from the previous diving experience and spent a huge amount of money to airlift a large amount of food.
Moreover, the ingredients must be very fresh, and they need to be airlifted for the same number of days that the badminton team is away.
The badminton head coach was very worried about the air freight costs, and Ren Xinhua said that he could subsidize part of it. The badminton head coach was naturally ecstatic.
And what they followed was the first double-circle Grand Slam in Chinese history, what a great fortune!
With this double Grand Slam in hand, the badminton team might just be able to take advantage of their strong tournament luck and win the championship!
In addition, Zhu Qi has a good relationship with the Sunshine Group, and they often chat together when they meet in the national team.
The badminton coach quickly agreed, fearing that Ren Xinhua would change his mind, and promised: "Don't worry, I promise to raise you a plump and healthy child."
The training grounds for the badminton team and the table tennis team are separated by only a wall.
There is a joke among many fans that table tennis and badminton are one family.
Many fans who like table tennis also like the badminton team, and those who like the badminton team also like the table tennis team.
Ren Xinhua felt more at ease after handing Zhu Qi over to the badminton team.
"Really?" Zhu Qi originally thought that he could not go. If all the personnel were fully equipped, it would not matter if he went.
Ren Xinhua nodded and said, "Also, in this competition, the results are one thing, but the most important thing is that you finish happily."
Zhu Qi was deeply moved and stood up straight and saluted: "Yes!"
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Knowing that Zhu Qi was going to the competition with the badminton team, they ate and lived together when they arrived. The only difference was that one went to the badminton area and the other went to the table tennis area when they arrived at the venue.
The Sunshine Group was also very happy and ran to the table tennis girls' dormitory to find Zhu Qi.
As veteran members of the Bayi team, although they cannot meet throughout the year due to their schedules being away for competitions, they can be said to have grown up together with Zhu Qi.
"I didn't expect we could actually go out and compete together." Yangyang slapped his thigh. "This feeling is quite novel."
"Yeah, but if you go alone, don't you need off-field guidance?" Xiaoguang asked.
"No, it's just a small match. I can play by myself."
"That's awesome." They both gave a thumbs up.
Therefore, the situation in Japan is now basically under control, and various competitions have begun to be opened one after another.
Five days in India, five days in Japan, basically you can come back in two weeks.
Zhu Qi had also thought it through.
I'm going to play these two small games this time.
The max-level boss goes to the novice village to bully the noobs.
You can do it by yourself, the most important thing is to find the state.
Although you don’t have to worry about safety issues when eating and living with the badminton team, you still need to take the necessary precautions.
Sister Yangguang took Zhu Qi to the infirmary to get a large amount of isatis root and a thick stack of masks.
"It's still better to be in China." Yangyang touched his mask, sighed, and then took a deep breath of the air of his homeland. "When I go outside, I have to block my mouth and nose again."
There are no N95 masks in China now. Many people use 18- or 16-layer spun cloth masks. The most advanced mask in China is activated carbon.
This mask smells a bit like charcoal when worn on the face. I heard it can prevent bacteria.
Knowing that Zhu Qi was really going to play in the game, Maomao was not in a hurry yet. Someone stopped Zhu Qi and asked him to go back to the gym to pack his things.
【Author’s words】
These two games are quick and easy to play, with little suspense and purely plot-based gameplay, and are basically completed in one chapter.
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