Chapter 49: The Rise of Shen Hu
For Tan Ling, this training camp is an important opportunity for her to try to change her technique and return to the national team.
Tan Ling's muscles were more solid than when He Hui saw him before.
This gave her more confidence in changing her blade, and she was very decisive in pressing the blade and jumping during training.
Snap——
Tan Ling failed in her attempt at 3Lz and fell on the ice again.
The jumping coach from Russia was very satisfied with this and praised repeatedly: "That's right, it's the way to jump with the outside edge."
Tan Ling nodded. She could feel the subtle feeling gradually accumulating in the constant failures.
On the other side of the ice rink, He Hui is consolidating his 4T success rate.
Lu Nanfeng looked at the hard work of changing the blade on the left, then looked at the quadruple jump on the right, and then looked at Zhu Xiangqing who was doing the advanced triple triple in front of him. He felt that he, a lazy person, was out of place with everyone.
"Why are you daydreaming on the court again? Can't you practice on your own for a while? The coach will come to check your results later. Don't embarrass me." The coach's voice rang out from the sidelines, calling Lu Nanfeng back to the terrible world of involution.
Lu Nanfeng quickly went on stage to practice jumping.
Twenty minutes later, the jumping class was over.
The alarm clock in Lu Nanfeng's body told her to stop immediately, as the feeling of exhaustion had already swept through her body.
She stopped, supported her knees and gasped for breath. When she looked up, she saw three equally matched curling kings still racing on the field.
If Lu Nanfeng hadn't turned around and seen Cheng Ran and Kong Ziqiu slowly stopping to rest on the sidelines, he might have doubted whether he really had a problem with his physical fitness!
"Are these three devils?" Lu Nanfeng's mouth twitched.
Kong Ziqiu nodded and drank a sip of water: "My physical strength is incredible."
"I have a reasonable suspicion that they are competing against each other secretly." Lu Nanfeng narrowed his eyes slightly, stroked his chin and watched the show, "It's the kind of tacit duel where whoever stops first loses."
"Then you must be the first one to be eliminated." Cheng Ran added calmly.
Lu Nanfeng: “…”
The first person to stop on the field was Zhu Xiangqing.
She was sweating profusely and her lips were a little pale. It seemed that she had to stop.
Tan Ling, who was fighting desperately with the outer blade, and He Hui, who was immersed in the surrounding world, still had no intention of stopping.
"Who do you think will stop first?" Lu Nanfeng started a bet on the spot. "I think He Hui's physical fitness is definitely the best."
Cheng Ran turned his head and asked, "What's the bet?"
"Invite the other party to dinner?" Lu Nanfeng asked the two of them with his eyes.
Kong Ziqiu nodded: "I also think that He Hui has stronger physical fitness."
"Then I think He Hui will stop first and then watch Tan Ling." Cheng Ran's answer was not just a simple name, but it was clear enough to make Lu Nanfeng look sideways.
The next second, He Hui stopped as Cheng Ran said, and then slid to the side of He Hui who was still groping.
"?!" Lu Nanfeng's eyes widened, "Are you... a charlatan?"
Cheng Ran: "I used my brain."
Lu Nanfeng's face suddenly fell, she felt as if the other party was implying something about her.
On the field, He Hui turned into a fan of Tan Ling, watching her intently as she tried 3Lz over and over again, applauding her success and feeling sorry for her failure.
Tan Ling caught a glimpse of He Hui out of the corner of his eye, so he stopped as well.
Her face was flushed, with beads of sweat hanging on her forehead and hair. She looked like she was enjoying herself and didn't look tired at all.
"Why are you looking at me so seriously?" Tan Ling asked.
"Your physical strength has improved a lot!" He Hui immediately grasped the key point.
Tan Ling smiled and wiped the sweat off her face with her arm: "Yeah, I don't feel tired so easily now."
"This proves that the technology change was correct!!"
He Hui believes that Tan Ling must have experienced too much unimaginable pain to completely abandon the skills he had practiced for more than ten years and choose a very difficult path with a desperate move.
Tan Ling was slowly crawling out from the deep, dark bottom of the lake.
"Yeah, fortunately the results look good." Her smile reached the bottom of her eyes. She seemed to see a ray of hope on the road to completing the impossible task.
*
In the third week of high-intensity training, the string that had been tightening in the atmosphere of internal competition finally broke.
The skating class on that day was very intense. For some players who had poor basic skills in skating, they almost collapsed to the ground after two hours of skating practice.
When Lu Nanfeng had practiced three-quarters of the way through, he waved his hands and began to back out.
"No, I need to take a break. I feel like I'm going to die if I keep practicing..." Lu Nanfeng chose to give himself a vacation.
Her personal skating coach did not insist, but simply repeated in detail the problems encountered in the previous practice.
Lu Nanfeng nodded to indicate that she would pay more attention, and then she went off to rest. She sat on the bench, watching most of the people struggling, watching them gasp with bad looks on their faces.
But even after the solid skating lessons, several students still chose to give themselves additional training.
He Hui was tirelessly drawing new figures, Zhu Xiangqing was doing land training on the soft mat next to her, and Tan Ling continued to do strength training in the equipment area.
Lu Nanfeng: "Don't be so curly!"
Cheng Ran patted Lu Nanfeng on the shoulder: "I won't roll, I'm waiting to eat the meal you invited me to."
Cheng Ran looked at Kong Ziqiu, who didn't know how to start the conversation, and gave her a reassuring look: "Lü Nanfeng can just invite him alone."
"Is the cafeteria okay?" Lu Nanfeng was speechless. After all, she was the one who bore everything in this world!
Cheng Ran thought for a moment and said, "I want to eat the kind with extra dishes in the cafeteria."
But as they walked outside, they heard a loud bang coming from behind them.
The three of them turned around at the same time, only to see Zhu Xiangqing lying straight on the ground, seemingly completely unconscious.
"Oh no! Zhu Xiangqing fainted!" Lu Nanfeng yelled in fear, and then immediately waved to Cheng Ran and Kong Ziqiu, "Go call a doctor!"
"Okay! Then I'll go to the infirmary and you go find the coach." Kong Ziqiu immediately divided the work with Cheng Ran.
"good."
The two men acted separately.
Lu Nanfeng, who was left anxiously there, forced herself to remain calm and recalled the first aid knowledge she had learned, and immediately straightened her body.
Well, this can speed up blood circulation.
"But the next step...what is the next step?" Lu Nanfeng felt that the more urgent the situation was, the more confused her mind became.
Also attracted by the sound were He Hui and Tan Ling who were practicing harder.
He Hui saw Zhu Xiangqing lying on the ground, then glanced at Lu Nanfeng who was at a loss beside him, and immediately squatted down decisively.
She first checked Zhu Xiangqing's mouth and nose.
Phew, no foreign objects, no risk of suffocation.
He Hui used her fingers to feel He Hui's breath again. She was breathing! But she didn't dare to take it lightly, so she checked her carotid artery again and found that it was beating very strongly.
When Lu Nanfeng saw He Hui's actions, he felt that he had found a savior. He looked at him eagerly, waiting for He Hui to speak.
"She probably just has low blood sugar or is overworked, don't worry." He Hui looked up and replied.
Lu Nanfeng and Tan Ling breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.
He Hui continued to lean over, patting Zhu Xiangqing's shoulder and calling her name in her ear.
"Wish Xiangqing, wish Xiangqing!"
Zhu Xiangqing's eyelids twitched, as if she was struggling with her sleeping body.
"Zhu Xiangqing!" He Hui kept calling her name and pinched her philtrum.
Zhu Xiangqing slowly opened her eyes.
"The doctor is here!" Kong Ziqiu's voice came from behind, and the doctor in a white coat and the team leader Xu Qing who hurried over from behind all arrived.
"What... happened to me?" Zhu Xiangqing had just woken up and was confused.
"You just fainted." Lu Nanfeng replied.
Zhu Xiangqing slowly stood up with the help of the doctor. The memory of herself losing consciousness and falling backwards came to her mind.
Xu Qing breathed a sigh of relief, but was still worried: "Go to the hospital for a comprehensive check-up. Physical health is not a trivial matter."
With the assistance of doctors and coaches, Zhu Xiangqing was sent to the nearest hospital.
"Luckily, there was a cushion underneath her instead of hard ice, otherwise I think she would have had a concussion." Lu Nanfeng was very scared about this, "I was so scared at the time."
"Well, I'm at a loss." Tan Ling commented.
"Then, He Hui suddenly performed an operation that saved my little heart." After this incident, Lu Nanfeng's admiration for He Hui reached a new level.
"Let's go, then you can treat your idol to a meal as well." Cheng Ran suggested.
Lu Nanfeng reluctantly said: "You..."
"Don't you want to treat me?" He Hui deliberately joined the conversation and teased.
"No! Let's go, I'll treat everyone to a meal in the cafeteria!!"
After a thorough examination at the hospital, Zhu Xiangqing confirmed that it was just hypoglycemia and recent overwork.
Xu Qing was frightened by today's episode, and arranged a first aid class overnight, so that every contestant could have some necessary skills to save people while protecting themselves. Whether it was CPR or Heimlich, everyone was taught.
However, Zhu Xiangqing's fainting still caused a small-scale discussion.
Lu Nanfeng: "It's so scary. I think it's because she has been working too hard recently."
"But maybe it's also the beginning of the impact of growth stagnation?" As someone who has experienced this, Tan Ling has a lot to say about this. "If you want to maintain your weight but your body is growing, it's hard to balance it."
"Yes, it seems that Zhu Xiangqing has not been so light recently." Lu Nanfeng nodded, "Oh, I hope I can not draw too much by then."
"You won't become a giant, will you?" Cheng Ran suddenly interrupted, "I saw your parents last time, they were both very tall."
Lu Nanfeng was touched on a sore spot and sighed: "I don't really want to inherit their height..."
"How tall are your parents?" He Hui asked curiously.
"1.75 meters and 1.9 meters." Lu Nanfeng pursed his lips.
He Hui's eyes widened: "That's... good genes."
He Hui thought, fortunately based on her height in her previous life, she would definitely not grow into a giant.
"Oh." Lu Nanfeng slowly leaned on the table, his chin supporting his dejected face.
"Actually, regardless of whether she grows fast or not, I feel that it is inevitable that a girl's condition will be affected as she grows." Tan Ling tried to comfort Lu Nanfeng, but unexpectedly it triggered a new round of anxiety.
Cheng Ran also nodded: "I'm suddenly a little scared."
For a moment, the atmosphere was filled with gloom.
"But I feel like there should be no problem with He Hui." Lu Nanfeng's current mental state is to trust He Hui unconditionally.
He Hui: “Hmm?”
How could she not know?
Lu Nanfeng patted her shoulder: "You can do it!!"
“......Okay.” The atmosphere was so intense that He Hui had no choice but to nod.
With everyone having such high expectations of her, He Hui could not help but continue to strengthen her strength and skills to be fully prepared.
After all, if you don’t do it, it will be too embarrassing!!
*
In the training camp, Tan Ling climbed up from the bottom of the lake faster than anyone had imagined.
She showed the best form she had ever had. Whether in the gliding class or the jumping class, she stood out among the second group of players, which can be said to be a strong counterattack.
After experiencing the darkest valley, she is emerging from the deep lake of development.
Even his outside edge hook jump, which had always been extremely wrong, made great progress in the three weeks of training, and there seemed to be more and more hope of successfully changing his edge.
This made her very motivated and she often practiced on her own during breaks in class.
On this day, Tan Ling made a new attempt in the corner of the ice rink.
With a serious look on her face, she accelerated her pace without taking any steps, and focused all her attention on the use of the blade when jumping.
Touch the ice, jump, and the body is thrown high into the air.
Swoosh——
The ice skates slid in a deep arc, and after landing, Tan Ling turned around lightly and happily on the spot.
He Hui applauded her from the side: "Tan Ling, you were clearly an outsider just now!"
Tan Ling: "Are you so sure?"
"Of course, my eyes are better than Louise Polly's!"
He Hui looked at it very carefully, and she was sure that there was no problem with the use of the blade.
Unless it's Louise Polly.
"What? Are you still holding a grudge?" Tan Ling burst out laughing. She had heard about the feud between the strictest technical referee and He Hui at the World Youth Championship.
"You must remember this!" He Hui deliberately showed a fierce expression on his face, "I want her to never be able to find any evidence against me now!"
Tan Ling gave her a thumbs up: "The pride of China!"
"Hmm." Miss He raised her head proudly.
Tan Ling laughed along: "Thank you for your advice."
It sounds simple and easy to say "improve technology", but only Tan Ling himself knows the sweat and effort that goes into it.
"You should thank yourself for taking a desperate step." He Hui said seriously as he looked at the obvious lines on Tan Ling's arms and legs.
Tan Ling was probably thinking about his past, his eyes drifted to one side, deep and distant.
The memories of those dark and endless days and nights came flooding back like a tide, making her head feel dizzy.
The so-called burning of the boats was so unbearable that Tan Ling once wanted to give up.
The initial muscle gain was a blessing to a certain extent. Tan Ling got rid of the shabby life of boiled vegetables every day. At least she was no longer hungry, had more strength to lift weights every day, and was not so irritable.
But she didn't go on the ice at all during that period. She ate on time every day and worked hard to increase her strength training.
As a result, on her first day back on the ice after gaining muscle, she even felt unfamiliar with her limbs.
Her body was out of control, and every small muscle did not respond to the brain's command. She glided on the ice, gradually regaining the sense of her unfamiliar body.
Speeding up and touching the ice, Tan Ling hesitated at the last moment and jumped into the air. She suddenly didn't know how to jump up again on the ice.
It's like a person has lost the ability to jump.
This instantly overwhelmed Tan Ling with panic. She slid aimlessly on the court, round and round, but she couldn't make up her mind to escape gravity.
Tan Ling kept giving herself positive psychological hints, and finally after circling the field three times, she bravely stepped onto the ice again.
The height of the jump became higher due to the increase in strength, but the feeling of her body in the air made Tan Ling feel unfamiliar. Gravity kept pulling her down, and she fell to the ground before she finished three turns.
Every jump after that had almost the same fate, and Tan Ling kept failing over and over again.
Fall down, stand up, fall down again, stand up again...
Her body was covered with bruises of various sizes, and it hurt every time she turned over in bed. The pain was enough, but her success rate in jumping was even lower than when she was growing up, which put her under tremendous psychological pressure. She stared at the ceiling all night and couldn't fall asleep.
Under the dual torture of physical and mental torture, Tan Ling gritted her teeth and persevered month after month.
It was not until the fourth month that Tan Ling felt that the situation had improved, and the road ahead finally became much smoother.
His thoughts drifted back to his mind, and Tan Ling gave a wry smile.
“I thought I would never be able to skate again.”
He Hui felt a little distressed when he saw that look, and inexplicably thought of all the bad things that Tan Ling had experienced in his previous life.
"But you succeeded!" He Hui held her shoulders with a firm look in his eyes.
This time, Tan Ling did not become devastated, and Lin Xiaoman did not become depressed.
This time, Tan Ling rose again from the bottom of the lake, and Lin Xiaoman became a world-famous coach.
Even their brilliant life stories have only been written for a few pages. As the saying goes, they all have a bright future!
"Yes." Tan Ling smiled with relief, but there was a fleeting regret in her eyes, "Unfortunately, I don't think Sochi and I are destined to be together."
Tan Ling didn't think she could win the only Olympic spot. He Hui was getting better and better in terms of difficulty and current state.
But He Hui immediately corrected Tan Ling: "It's not even the time for selection yet, you can't give up."
Tan Ling smiled: "But in this case, my competitor is you."
"So, you don't have the confidence to defeat me?" He Hui approached Tan Ling, his eyes curved, and looked forward to Tan Ling's answer.
"Hmm..." Tan Ling did not step back. Her smile deepened and she paused for a moment as if she was thinking casually.
"I think you should be careful." Tan Ling said harshly.
When He Hui heard this, he felt like something hit his heart.
The energetic, ambitious and future-oriented Tan Ling is really back!
Tan Ling stood in front of her, smiling proudly and unbridled, her eyes moving around, smart and confident.
"What's wrong? Are you scared by my aura?" Seeing that He Hui didn't speak, Tan Ling waved her hands in front of her.
He Hui came to his senses and shook his head.
It seemed that Tan Ling's confidence had indeed recovered a lot. So, she replied: "No, I just think that your wish may be difficult to realize."
Tan Ling pouted and said, "Then wait for Pyeongchang, until you earn me an extra spot to go."
After saying that, she immediately shook her head and said, "No, you have to get all three places!"
He Hui: "Okay, it's a deal. You have to skate until then."
The career of a female singles figure skater is usually short, but Tan Ling and He Hui made a new promise to each other to participate in the Winter Olympics in four years.
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