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Published at 19th of June 2023 07:04:51 AM


Chapter 29

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The situation with Mei Xuandong was like a candied sweet potato. Qin Chunxiao held his chopsticks, unsure where to start. He wanted to take a bite, but hesitated, wondering if it would make him too full of calories.

Although a failed intimate relationship might not ruin his life, just like eating candied sweet potatoes, it could be burned off by running for a few hours. But the thought of the effort and hard work required to run for hours made him hesitate about eating the candied sweet potatoes.

Moreover, there was something more important than candied sweet potatoes. No, there was something more important than entering into a romantic relationship. It was the U21 match that was crucial for Qin Chunxiao’s volleyball dream. So he put aside the unreliable replies on the forum and focused on the present.

The U21 tournament continued for a few more days, and the situation for the G provincial youth team became increasingly challenging. After all, they had recently risen to this level and their bench was not deep enough.

From the beginning of the tournament until now, the main lineup for the G provincial youth team consisted of Qin Chunxiao, Li Ling, Li Xiaoping, Liu Kairui, Mo Lin, and Zhou Ziming. These six players were occasionally substituted, except for Zhou Ziming, and they had played in five matches.

It wasn’t that Chen Aiguo wanted to overwork the main lineup, but other players simply weren’t up to par. Even if he wanted to train a new batch of players for rotational tactics to accompany Qin Chunxiao and Li Ling’s dual-core strategy, or to partner with Qin Chunxiao and Li Xiaoping, he would need time to develop these players, right?

So when Li Xiaoping sprained his ankle, it directly weakened their strength at the net.

However, when they faced the former champion team, the Youth Team of H Province, in the round-robin match of the group stage, Qin Chunxiao displayed a calm and determined mentality.

He declared before the game, “Today, we won’t let the H provincial youth team leave this arena unscathed. No matter what, we have to take a few chunks out of them and let them experience the toughness of the G provincial gentlemen. They think they can easily defeat us? It won’t be that simple!”

His words sounded like a gang fight, full of intensity, but as Qin Chunxiao’s influence within the team grew, the other players responded one after another.

“Yes, Captain!”

They would never let the H provincial youth team have an easy time today!

Sitting next to him, Chen Aiguo sighed with relief. “This is the core of the team. Our cohesion is much stronger than when we started the U21 tournament.”

The assistant coach chimed in, “Indeed, everyone started as good boys, but after a few matches, they’ve all become guardians with swords by Boss Qin’s side.”

Qin Chunxiao fought fiercely in this match, and Li Ling didn’t experience any convulsions. The whole team adopted a defensive stance and applied pressure to the opponent, making the players from the H provincial youth team suffer. They achieved a similar result as they did against the X provincial youth team yesterday.

The G provincial youth team was an annoying team that made it impossible to score easily with their sticky and tenacious defense. Team had to work hard to earn every point against them!

At the end of the second game, the main attacker of the H provincial youth team angrily threw his water bottle to the ground, squatting and ruffling his hair into a messy nest. To avoid such a miserable state, he had enjoyed the treatment of an international superstar in today’s match

While switching sides and drinking water, Qin Chunxiao gasped, “The opposing team is truly a serving powerhouse. Every player has a strong serve, and it seems endless. Not a single serve makes us feel at ease! I’m exhausted.”

The members of the G provincial youth team were left speechless by this comment. Regardless of how powerful the opponent’s serve was, didn’t they manage to receive it every time? At most, their first pass wasn’t as stable as yesterday.

Facing a champion team like the H provincial youth team, they were already doing well to ensure that the opponents couldn’t score immediately after their serve.

Their captain always saw the opponents as strong, simultaneously cursing and defending against them, causing a mental avalanche for the opposing team.

Li Xiaoping fanned the boss with a small cattail fan and said, “Captain, you’ve worked hard. Drink some water!”

The only regret was that Qin Chunxiao couldn’t handle both offense and defense alone. With Li Xiaoping recovering from his injury, Li Ling and Mo Lin took turns in setting and attacking, but their firepower couldn’t match that of the opponents. The pressure was immense.

The two teams battled all the way to the fifth set. Just as Qin Chunxiao was about to unleash an attack with a one-step jump, he suddenly stopped right before taking off.

After the referee blew the whistle, the players had eight seconds to serve. Qin Chunxiao was accustomed to silently counting to three before starting his serve, but this time, he squatted down, covered his calf, and frowned.

Chen Aiguo realized something was wrong, got up and asked for a timeout, and rushed to the team leader with the team doctor: “Xiaozi, how are you?”

Qin Chunxiao’s fingers pressed down on the tense muscles: “It’s not good, I’m cramping.”

The cramped area was still hot and stiff, and he couldn’t even knead it.

Previously, in order to score, Qin Chunxiao had to increase the point of the ball to increase the number of overhand spikes, so today he had been using one-foot take-off and one-foot landing jumping. The 15-year-old body was under too much pressure, and the muscles were overwhelmed. Started protesting against him.

Chen Aiguo was silent for a few seconds, stood up and signaled to the referee that they wanted to make a substitution.

“Take a rest if you feel uncomfortable. It’s just right. Let others practice.”

Qin Chunxiao raised his head and asked Old Chen: “Aren’t you unwilling?” The youth team of G Province is limited in strength. If he is allowed to retire, it means giving up the current game. If they meet other strong teams in the future, maybe they would lose their chance of being on the podium.

Chen Aiguo said firmly: “Health is the capital for you to go to the world stage. There is nothing more important than health. It is not that you will stop fighting after this game. You are only 15 years old. You will work hard for a U21.”


It was strange, obviously Qin Chunxiao didn’t have a height advantage, and he started to play volleyball relatively late, but no matter in his previous life or his present life, Chen Aiguo never questioned that he would one day be on the world stage.

This was the first time that Qin Chunxiao, the core player, had left the court since the start of the U21. Take it easy.

His exit also indicated the attitude of the G provincial youth team towards this game – we are already in the semi-finals if we don’t beat you. Instead of forcing this victory, we would rather let the 15-year-old team leader rest for a while.

Without Qin Chunxiao and Li Xiaoping, only Li Ling and Mo Lin’s hard-working G provincial youth team lost in the end, but at the end of the game, the audience still gave them applause.

The provincial youth team of G used to be weak, but today they almost defeated the former champion team. Even if the core left the field, they played bloody and showed wolf-like ferocity. For real volleyball fans, it is already enough.

On the second day, Qin Chunxiao led the team to play again, but due to the exhaustion of the players’ physical strength the day before, they unfortunately lost to the provincial F youth team in another group, but the boys of the provincial G youth team were determined to fight. Resolute, insisting on entangled with the opponent until the end and did not give up. The team’s style is several times tougher than in previous years, which made countless fans shine.

The only thing that people criticized in this battle was that the provincial F youth team was only the top eight teams in previous years.

However, after playing against the Provincial F Youth Team, the Provincial G Youth Team won the even stronger Provincial L Youth Team. Some fans joked that the Provincial G Youth Team has carried out the spirit of robbing the rich and helping the poor this year.

In this U21 session, the provincial G youth team was a big gutter, and the strong teams they faced were more or less overthrown, and the only one that survived was the provincial S youth team.

In the above two games, Qin Chunxiao’s playing time was greatly reduced. The reason was very simple. He suffered from muscle cramps and joint pain. The former was caused by muscle fatigue, while the latter was due to growing pains.

The 15-year-old Xiaoqin team had entered a period of rapid development that was crucial for athletes.

This was also the last precious period in his life when he was able to grow taller and increase his muscles significantly. Moreover, he did not pay attention to protecting himself and supplementing nutrition during development, which would directly affect bone density. Insufficient bones would affect the athlete’s competitive lifespan. .

No responsible coach would ignore the developmental period of an athlete.

In order to ensure the smooth development of Qin Chunxiao, Chen Aiguo took a tough attitude and reduced Qin Chunxiao’s daily training and competition time.

Lao Chen said this: “You will have more competitions in the future, and you will definitely be stronger in the future than you are now, so listen to me and protect yourself so that you can welcome a better future.”

Qin Chunxiao usually made his own decisions on small issues, and Lao Chen doesn’t interfere. When it comes to big issues such as future development and physical health, he couldn’t beat Lao Chen.

Qin Chunxiao considered himself a good boy who respects the coach’s ideas.

He had to accept the reality that he would play for a while and sit on the bench for a while, and told Zhou Ziming: “You stand in the back row.”

Zhou Ziming nodded solemnly, turned his head and played the game with the best statistics since he became an athlete on the court, and Liu Kairui stumbled and occasionally performed in front of the net after Li Xiaoping retired, but he really didn’t have acting talent. Gritting his teeth for the last time, he simply began to share the blocking pressure for Li Ling, so that his teammates could focus more on the offensive end.

After several days of melee, the U21 battle came to an end. The H provincial youth team and the L provincial youth team, which had suffered losses in their hands, finally met in the final after hard work. After that, the champion and runner-up were divided.

The L provincial youth team, which was only a semi-final team in previous years, played a powerful role this year. He was a main attacker born in 1997. He was 2.03 meters tall and had a rather rare surname.

Although the talents of the primary six students are not as good as the four main attackers in the peak period, namely Ding Rong, Gao Depi, Tong Shulan, and Qiao Mingming, they were more stable and solid in terms of skills and mentality. Winning the U21 championship this year, coupled with his outstanding height, was destined to win the favor of the national team.

By the way, he was also one of Qin Chunxiao’s national team teammates in 2023.

In the semi-finals, the honest Liu Yuelou was played by Qin Chunxiao’s acting skills. He was also one of the unlucky U21s who were so angry that Qin Chunxiao jumped.

After the game, some fans ranked him, Fu Biyang, and Qiao Mingming together as the “Squatty Victims League”.

A group of people from the G provincial youth team heard the name Shorty Dundun from the players of the H island team after the game was all over.

Li Ling was furious: “Who called us Xiaozai short and stout, and spread this nickname? Stand up, I will put him in a sack!”

Liu Kairui rolled up his sleeves: “Yes, put on a sack!”

Li Xiaoping suggested: “There is a construction site nearby, shall I pick up two?”

Zhou Ziming: “I run fast, I’ll pick it up.”

Chen Aiguo staggered. He glanced at Newton who was not far away without any trace, and decisively diverted the attention of these guys: “Don’t think about anything messy, go and accept the award!”

The G provincial youth team was the biggest underdog in this year’s U21. As a big team, they went all the way, and finally won the third place and received the bronze medal.

If it wasn’t for this group of silly boys who made a sack talk, Chen Aiguo would be so happy seeing this result, but now he had no choice but to contact Meng Yuqing in advance and ask her to take the boys to the arena of the women’s volleyball team in S Province went shopping and discuss some practice matches.

Qin Chunxiao had been paying attention to Chen Aiguo’s expression all the time, seeing his eyes drift to Newton, he knew that the person who arranged his height in this life must be the Lao Newton.

As the stumpy deity, he yawned very calmly: “What kind of sack are you wearing? Maybe the one who passed on my nickname is a strong man with a bad temper who is more than 1.9 meters tall. Are there any of you who are good at fighting?”

“Ling Er? Can you fight?” He nodded at Li Ling, and Li Ling turned his face away guiltily. He also knew that he was a war scum, and Qin Chunxiao had to protect him every time he was in danger.

Qin Chunxiao then nodded to the others: “If you can’t even beat Ling Er, don’t you need me to tell you?”

Everyone was ashamed and changed their tone: “This time, the kid is lucky. We are busy receiving the award, so we spare his life.”

Only Liu Kairui moved his wrists: “What are you afraid of? My uncle and I have practiced unlimited special martial arts. With me around, no one can bully the members of the Provincial Youth Team of G!”

Qin Chunxiao: “Go as you go, the one who can’t do anything is you!”

Unlimited Special Martial Arts was a school of martial arts that exists in reality. This school took criminal law as its core method. The purpose of the school was to see a judge rather than a forensic doctor. Kicking eggs was an honor, and poking eyes was a tradition. And the one who wins, Qin Chunxiao knew how vicious this kid was.

It really made Liu Kairui take action against the person who spread the nickname of “Shorty Dundun”. Qin Chunxiao feared that he would never be able to wait for the day when the head coach of the national team was Newton..

He said freely: “Let’s go as they call, one day the Shorty Dundun will become the opponent that the big guys don’t want to face.”

After speaking, he put on the earphones again, and walked towards the podium in a chic way.

Newton looked at Qin Chunxiao from afar and thought, there was another piece in the puzzle of eliminating related households and rebuilding the new national team.

Full of ambition, Lao Niu stepped forward in person to wear medals for the bronze medal winners – the children of the G Provincial Youth Team.

As the last medal was hung on Qin Chunxiao’s neck, Newton said gently: “You played energetically in this game, and it also showed me the backbone of the young players. They are all good boys.”

Qin Chunxiao smiled politely back, thinking, these good boys were discussing how to cover you with sacks just now.

He raised his head inadvertently, and his gaze paused in the auditorium behind Newton.

A tall figure wearing sunglasses and a mask sat silently in the first row. He didn’t speak, but Qin Chunxiao could always recognize him.

Mei Xuandong noticed those blue eyes looking towards him, he felt uneasy, raised his hand and waved it, and saw Qin Chunxiao no longer looking at him, as if the meeting just now was just a coincidence.

There was a note in Mei Xuandong’s pocket, on which were the 10 suspected soulmates he had investigated, and Qin Chunxiao’s name was on the list.

If he want to add labels to soulmates, Mei Xuandong could’t judge how other people are, because he didn’t know any of them, and he didn’t understand any of them.

Only Qin Chunxiao, a young athlete whom he had never had a deep understanding of, was a brightly colored spicy hot pot to Mei Xuandong.

He politely looked away, hesitating, not knowing whether he should step forward to test it.





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