Youth Training Manual

Chapter 38

After Xie Yuenian and Wu Huai signed, they went to the locker room first. Fortunately, they didn't need to go to the end of the line or face Zhanyan.

Wu Huai didn't know Zhanyan's mood at the moment, but he knew that he was inexplicably unhappy, that kind of being abandoned by others, but still thinking about the other person, standing in a conspicuous place, but the other party still chose to ignore him, that kind of feeling The feeling of extreme anger almost gave him the urge to destroy something.

Perhaps, it's okay to just break off this relationship completely, as if the two of them don't know each other at all, throw away those memories, and never communicate with each other ever since!

"Bad boy, I think I saw Brother Zhan."

"Yes." Wu Huai replied casually.

"Aren't you saying hello to Brother Zhan?"

"Huh?" Wu Huai's eyes were concentrated, and he smiled at Xie Yuenian, "Okay, I will definitely say hello when I see it later."

Xie Yuenian nodded, wanted to say something, but felt that there was nothing to say, he frowned, then continued to change into his swimming trunks in relief.

In fact, the changing room of the swimming pool for this competition was very large, and the location of Xie Yuenian's locker was not very good. Until Xie Yuenian changed into his swimming trunks and went to the waiting area, he didn't meet Zhanyan.

Only contestants can enter the waiting area. Wu Huai accompanied them to the door, but stopped Xie Yuenian: "Anyway, you're just sitting there, let's chat here, you're not that boring."

Xie Yuenian thought the proposal was great, and immediately nodded in agreement.

So, when Zhanyan came out of the dressing room, she immediately saw Wu Huai and Xie Yuenian standing at the end of the corridor.

At that moment, Zhanyan wanted to retreat to the dressing room.

Embarrassed and apprehensive, he had almost accepted the fact that Wu Huai didn't see him just now.

This is not a good thing, it means starting from scratch.

He had to continue to think about how he should explain those nonsense thoughts to Wu Huai that he couldn't express.

"Hi, Zhanyan."

There was a voice behind him, and Zhanyan turned his head to look.

A man he didn't know smiled and said, "You won the championship this time, or Zhang Lin? You have to work hard, I bet you win."

With a very rude tone, he even gambled with his grades, looked at the other party with a blank face, and then turned and left.

A voice came from behind: "Hey, what's the matter with you, I'm talking to you? Do you think you are awesome because you have grades? Who are you!"

Zhanyan stopped and turned to look at him.

The man immediately lost his voice.

I have grades, I'm a world champion, I'm awesome, what's wrong?

This is confidence and strength!

Turning around, Zhanyan found that Wu Huai had already looked over. The idiot's voice was too loud just now, and he was caught off guard, and now he couldn't dodge even if he tried to hide.

He hurriedly softened the expression on his face, raised a smile, and walked towards Wu Huai.

Wu Huai regained his original laziness posture leaning against the wall, took a step forward, and when he got in front of him, he called obediently: "Brother Zhan."

A restrained and alienated smile.

A polite and normal greeting.

Before Zhanyan had time to taste the flash of sourness in his heart, he showed a bright smile: "I knew I would meet you, I am so happy to meet you."

"In the 100-meter freestyle, Brother Zhan must be in the position. Come on and win the championship." Wu Huai smiled, as enthusiastic as ever.

"Okay." Looking at the smile in front of him, Zhanyan felt warm and comfortable in his heart, as if all those entanglements were going away, as long as Wu Huai smiled, it was enough to make up for everything.

"That's all right, little brother, I'll go back first, come on, the preliminaries are fine, you can swim with confidence, you will definitely enter the semi-finals." After finishing speaking, Wu Huai gave Xie Yuenian a big hug, and when he withdrew his hand When looking at Zhanyan, his smile was still bright, but he just nodded at Zhanyan, ignored the raised hands, turned and left.

Wu Huai walked swiftly, but Zhanyan was really stunned.

Is Wu Huai angry?

still none?

No, you should be angry, right?Whoever was treated so inexplicably would also be angry.

Zhanyan, what answer do you want to get?A Wu Huai who is not angry at all, a Wu Huai who has never changed and only looks at you with admiration and trust?

so possible?

But deep down, what is that sense of loss?

Perhaps, compared to such a lukewarm treatment, what I am looking forward to is an explosion, a questioning, or even a dispute.

At least, then you can prove that you are still so important to that child, a position that has never been shaken, from beginning to end.

Wu Huai disappeared from sight, Zhanyan tried hard to suppress the disappointment in his heart, stopped Xie Yuenian who was about to turn around and enter the door, and asked, "How is this time?"

He looked at the other party expectantly, hoping to get even a few words of news from Wu Huai from the person next to him.

"It's pretty good." Xie Yuenian was gathering energy, seeing Zhan Yan as a formidable opponent, he had the urge to knock him down, so he held back so that he didn't give him a sneer.

Facing this answer, Zhanyan was at a loss, he didn't know what he was looking forward to, did he expect to see a haggard and gloomy Wu Huai?

The men's 100-meter freestyle preliminaries have already started for a while. The average time for one group is 5 minutes. There are 21 groups in total. 166 players participated in this event.The game has reached the ninth group, and the first person to finish the game has even changed his clothes and left the locker room.Wu Huai went back and forth, standing silently at the door of the dressing room, his back leaning against the wall, his posture relaxed, his expression as usual, but the color of his eyes was dark, like a deep pool that could not see the bottom.

For a moment, he didn't know what to do with Zhanyan.

He wanted to make Zhanyan regret his neglect of him at the beginning, but he felt that it was meaningless. If that person really didn't care about him anymore, what's the use of continuing to be cold and hypocritical?

Ask yourself, what I want most is to get back to normal with Zhanyan.

"Hey, what happened to you just now? Why did you quarrel with Zhanyan?"

A sudden voice came from behind, Wu Huai raised his head and looked over, it turned out that it was the person who had quarreled with Zhanyan before, talking to the people around him.

I heard the man say: "Greetings with good intentions, what are you being arrogant about, isn't it just a better swim? What's wrong with looking down on people?"

"What do you mean? What happened to him?"

"I greeted him, but he left without saying a word, who is this?"

"Tsk, first-line athletes are different from us."

"What's wrong with the first line? Isn't he still a human? Nostrils are up to the sky, be careful that one day he will fall and fall to his death."

"A professional swimmer with good swimming performance must swim poorly like you?"

An abrupt voice came in, the voice was not loud, and the tone was also light and unfunny, but it felt like a needle prick in the ear, it was extremely uncomfortable.The man was standing at the door of the locker room, with the athlete's nameplate hanging around his neck. He looked very handsome, but his eyes were cold, especially with his conspicuous yellow-brown hair. He looked a bit like a hooligan .

"Who are you?" The man frowned.

"Zhanyan's friend doesn't like to hear people say bad things behind his back. How about we confront him face to face?"

"..." One sentence blocked the man's mouth, and he was silent for a while before muttering, "What kind of bad words are these, I'll discuss the matter."

"It doesn't matter, Zhanyan should be over soon, he was wrong about this, I apologize, you are wrong, you have to apologize too, how about it?"

The man's face changed slightly, and he turned his head to look behind him guiltyly, and cursed, "You are crazy." He pulled his companion and left.

The two walked past Wu Huai, and saw Wu Huai smiling with the corners of his mouth curled up. In fact, it was a friendly smile, but for some reason, it made people panic. No one said anything, and their pace quickened, and they passed Wu Huai in two or three steps. , and left the locker room.

There were still people changing clothes in front of the locker near the gate. They heard the whole process and looked over curiously.Wu Huai looked up to meet him, and his smile deepened a bit.The man said subconsciously: "Some people just can't eat grapes and love to say that grapes are sour. You don't need to be serious with them."

"Yes, even if a dog bites me, I can't bite back, but it's disgusting to leave it alone, what do you think?"

The man froze for a moment, then laughed: "Brother, your mouth is really poisonous, I am from the Guangxi team, and you are also from the People's Liberation Army?"

"No, I'm from the Guangdong team."

"Oh, yes, the People's Liberation Army has a training base in Guangdong. You have a good relationship with Zhanyan, don't you?"

"Ah, very good."

Zhanyan's preliminaries are still ahead of Xie Yuenian, so it's no surprise that his preliminaries are No.1 so far.

In fact, it is not without reason that the young man is jealous. There are so many swimmers in the world, there are eighty to ninety thousand if not one hundred thousand. Not to mention being able to get No.1 among so many people, he can even go to bigger competitions, go to What an honor it is to represent the country in the world. The highest dream of all athletes is now realized by someone around me. The feeling of looking up at a high mountain will only make people despair.

Zhanyan's strength is really strong, unless there are some big accidents, even if he plays casually, he will enter the finals casually in China. If he is more serious in the finals, the champion will be won.Even Wu Huai couldn't help being envious of that overly relaxed posture.

After the game, Zhanyan walked into the locker room while wringing out the towel. The muscles tensed up by the game had not yet completely relaxed, so the lines drawn were particularly obvious.

I haven't seen her for almost a year, and I'm in better shape.

The champions all have a kind of aura, they can only watch from a distance and have a sense of distance that cannot be played with. Zhanyan has been baptized by the eyes all the way, although he still can't adapt to it until now, but he has been able to barely do it. And his face didn't change color.

However, this mask suddenly collapsed when it met Wu Huai's eyes.He was taken aback for a moment, then surprised, then embarrassed, and finally showed a smile that he couldn't even find out, with a little eagerness to please.

"Wu Huai..." Zhanyan called out this unfamiliar name, then continued after a pause, "I thought you were in the stands, waiting for me... Xie Yuenian?"

"Well, that kid hasn't been weaned yet, so I have to follow wherever he goes." After finishing speaking, Wu Huai observed Zhanyan, saw him smile awkwardly, and then continued, "I also want to chat with you."

chat, chat? ?

Zhanyan suddenly became nervous.

What he was most worried about was still coming.

Zhanyan was changing clothes, while Wu Huai stood beside him silently, neither of them spoke.

Maybe it's because of mentality, even though Zhanyan's self-confidence has come out of the original demon barrier, but after all, his thoughts have turned to another direction at that time, so the process of changing swimming trunks that he has become accustomed to suddenly becomes Extra hard up.

He changed his clothes a little too neatly, and when he raised his head, he saw Wu Huai's surprised and innocent eyes.

Thinking of those nasty thoughts in her heart, Zhanyan's ears felt slightly hot.

Another group of players who finished the preliminaries walked into the locker room, bringing noise and a lot of water vapor at the same time.

Zhanyan closed the cabinet door, and walked out with Wu Huai.

They were not allowed to run around during the competition, so the two simply stood at the gate of the swimming pool.

Wu Huai said: "Brother Zhan, I miss you a lot, haven't we been in touch for ten months?"

"..." Zhanyan nodded her head, her slightly lowered eyelids covered the darkness at the bottom of her eyes.

Wu Huai said again: "I've reflected on it, I'm really annoying, I know you were so busy training at that time, you were exhausted every day, and you kept pestering you to chat with you, especially your mission at that time It’s so heavy, it’s the World Youth Championship and the World Championships, now that I think about it, I’m really not sensible at all.”

"No." Zhanyan was surprised that Wu Huai would think so, and looked at Wu Huai hesitantly.

Wu Huai showed a pure smile, looked deeply at Zhanyan, and said: "I have reflected on this year, and I will never be so clingy in the future, so please don't be angry with me, okay? Brother Zhan, you don't know How sorry I am, please forgive me."

For this "staircase", Zhanyan, who was full of ghosts, couldn't refuse no matter what. In the end, he could only respond softly: "I also made mistakes. I shouldn't have broken contact. Don't be angry with me."

"So we're reconciled?"

"Um……"

"Hey~" Wu Huai smiled cheerfully, his eyes sparkling.

Facing this innocent smile, Zhanyan felt more and more guilty, and almost wanted to bury himself in the crack of the wall.

Wu Huai asked: Brother Zhan, what is your best score now?

Question: Brother Zhan, you went to Australia in January to compete in the short course. Is it really summer there?

Ask again: Brother Zhan, did you take two photos with Ai Luo and the others?

Ask again: Brother Zhan, Brother Zhan, I think Xunliao Bay is very interesting, let’s go play together when we have time, okay?

Simple, eager, just like the child in Zhanyan's memory, so pure that people have to hold him in the palm of his hand, look at him, and care about him.

Nothing has changed.

Too cute.

Thinking of this, Zhanyan's eyes gradually became focused. He looked at Wu Huai's frowns and smiles, and his heart felt soft, as if something was slowly flowing out. Even though he tried his best to stop it, there was nothing he could do.

"Hey!" Xie Yuenian came out of the passageway with wet hair, and came to Wu Huai's side. His golden hair color and Wu Huai's style became a combination of washing, cutting and blowing.

At least in Zhanyan's eyes, Xie Yuenian with blond hair was ferocious, but Wu Huai was soft and fluffy.

"How is it?" Wu Huai asked.

"It's not bad, the group is second. The buddy in front of me swam 49.32, which is considered the final result, right? This is bad luck."

"You can get this result even if you work hard."

"You also said that you have to fight hard, and your face is not that good."

"It's okay, you have a big face."

"Damn it, you're so shameless." Xie Yuenian couldn't say anything, and started to move his hands and feet again, and his fingers were always tricky and nimble to scratch Wu Huai's itchy flesh. Wu Huai laughed so hard that tears came out .

Zhanyan watched from the side with a faint smile.

He couldn't get along with these two people, he both envied Xie Yuenian and hated Xie Yuenian, the person standing beside Wu Huai was originally him, but now he couldn't find his place anymore.

People really haven't changed, but everything else seems to have changed.

When Wu Huai waited until Xie Yuenian, he bid farewell to Zhanyan.

Turning around, the smile on his face disappeared.

Xie Yuenian knew Wu Huai well, and asked on the way back, "Are you mad at showing off your face?"

"A little bit." Wu Huai didn't explain, he really missed the time we spent together so much, so he didn't pursue it anymore, but when he took the initiative to approach Zhanyan, Zhanyan still didn't give him an explanation.He couldn't make excuses for Zhanyan anymore, maybe Zhanyan had changed, maybe he had never understood Zhanyan before.

Inexplicably, a little disheartened.

Back in the stands, Wang Haitao asked him if he saw Zhanyan?It is said that Zhanyan had a great ride in the preliminaries and pulled No.2 by more than one position. He is worthy of being a world-class player, and he is indeed amazing.

Wang Haitao mainly asked Wu Huai, his fox eyes narrowed slightly, and he smiled casually, taking a panoramic view of Wu Huai's reaction.

Wu Huai was in a complicated mood, and just let out a flat oh.

After the morning competition ended, Zhanyan entered the semi-finals as the first place in the preliminaries. Now he seems to be completely unafraid of Zhang Lin, and has firmly established himself as the number one brother in China.

48.09 is only the result of the preliminaries. Zhang Lin has swam all his life and has never achieved this result.

Xie Yuenian swam 49.87 and successfully entered the semi-finals, which is already Xie Yuenian's best result. However, once he is placed with Zhanyan, don't look at it for more than a second. Once it is placed in the event of short-distance swimming, it is heaven. big gap.

While everyone was happy for Xie Yuenian, they inevitably felt a little worried.With Zhanyan standing in front of him, unless Brother Nian can surpass Zhanyan, he will never be able to stand at the top.

Xie Yuenian was extremely open-minded about this matter. After all, he was two years younger than Zhanyan, and he had infinite possibilities in the future.

In short, today's lunch, the topic is around the 100-meter freestyle, and inevitably Zhanyan's name repeatedly appeared in Wu Huai's ears.Wu Huai, who was in a complicated mood, spoke very little and was preoccupied.

The preliminaries of the swimming competition are over, and the swimming pool will be used for diving and trick competitions, so Wu Huai and the others who have entered the semi-finals will have nothing to do for the next two days, either stay in the dormitory, or go to other places. Watch the game on the field.

Wu Huai and his team live in the same building as the basketball team members, and they usually have a good relationship with each other. Taking advantage of the fact that there is no game, Wu Huai, Xie Yuenian, and Wang Haitao went to cheer them on. After a tense contest, the Guangdong team won and went back. Everyone was very excited on the way.

Xie Yuenian has a good relationship with a forward of the basketball team. That buddy is two meters tall and has a particularly simple and honest face, but he is so strong that neither Wu Huai nor Xie Yuenian can beat him.

Wu Huai was a few steps behind and didn't intend to follow up to talk. He always felt that everything was boring, and his heart was always depressed and uncomfortable.

Wang Haitao walked up to him and called out, "Wu Huai."

Wang Haitao seldom called Wu Huai a bad guy, and he was not familiar with the basketball team, so he didn't expect to follow him today.

"Brother." Wu Huai looked at him.

Wang Haitao said: "What's the matter with you these days? It seems that you are not in a good mood."