The average age of this year’s national youth team was 18.3 years old, the oldest was 20 years old, the youngest Qin Chunxiao and Min Yaoyang were 16 years old, all of them were high school students or college students.
Qin Chunxiao and Min Yaoyang were still squatting in the first year of high school, while Fu Biyang and Li Ling were going through the third year of high school. Most of the rest had already gone to college, and many of them did not rely on recommendation to enter the Volleyball Academy of North Sports University, but took the exam themselves to get into good school.
There was no way, the men’s volleyball team was not popular, but athletes continue to support their families after retirement. If they didn’t learn a skill, everyone was afraid of being eliminated by society and starving to death.
Qin Chunxiao’s university before his rebirth was nicknamed “Q City Aquaculture Base” because his alma mater had a renowned major in aquaculture. However, don’t misunderstand, he didn’t study aquaculture. His dream, after retiring, was to go to Antarctica to explore. Qin Chunxiao majored in marine science.
If it hadn’t been for an accident, Qin Chunxiao originally planned to finish his senior year and go on to take the postgraduate entrance examination and the Ph.D. examination all the way up.
In addition to Qin Chunxiao, Mao Xunfeng was a student of human sports science, Xiong Wu was a student in the Department of Education, and Ai Zimaiti was a student in the university taught by Aunt Wei in the cafeteria. As for You Ziyu after retiring, he would become an anesthesiologist, just because he thought this profession can play with mobile phones for a long time, so he was currently in medical school, and it was said that he regret it…
With them around, it was understandable for Li Ling to clamor for other majors, and Qin Chunxiao also made up for him earnestly. Before the World Youth Championship was about to start, he managed to get more than 600 in the mock test.
In order to thank Qin Chunxiao, Li Ling’s mother gave him a box of Yantang milk directly. Qin Chunxiao finally understood where Li Ling’s love for milk came from.
However, he was in a precious developmental period, and he usually drank milk as water, but he would use up tons of this carton of milk in a week.
From the beginning of development to the present, Qin Chunxiao had steadily grown in height at a rate of one centimeter in two months, and was now a long-legged pier of 177.5. Although this height was still shorter than many libero in the men’s volleyball team… But Qin Chunxiao was very satisfied. He felt that he might be a few centimeters taller this time than in his previous life.
Although he didn’t feel the taste of milk, he still felt the benefits of milk.
Until June 10, Lao Niu issued a summoning order to the 12th team of the National Youth Team-boys, it’s time to come to the capital to gather.
Qin Chunxiao once again packed the luggage including Li Ling, Fu Biyang, and the canteen aunt who asked them to bring the boxed lunches for the road and a change of clothes, and boarded the plane with their passports and other documents and a bear wallet.
Lao Niu collected the prices and flights of everyone’s air tickets, prepared to reimburse them for their travel expenses, and sent someone to pick them up. He didn’t hold back his complaints: “Why did the three of you leave together again?”
Coach Zheng from Island H still said the same thing: “I’m afraid the chick will get lost.”
Probably Qin Chunxiao held two 1.9-meter-old children with his 16-year-old hands. When Lao Niu saw him again, he couldn’t help but say, “I’m sorry for you.”
Behind Qin Chunxiao, Li Ling was meeting Min Yaoyang at the entrance of the hotel. The two bumped their chests like excited gorillas. Fu Biyang and Min Yaoyang also bumped into each other, knocking Min Yaoyang to the ground. Xiong Wu hurried to help him.
Qin Chunxiao glanced back, and replied blankly: “It’s okay, I’ll just treat it as two more pets that like to run around.”
Don’t wronged him, he was not a male mother like Xiong Wu, and there was no good thing for him to raise his partner as a son. This way Qin Chunxiao made up a lesson for the two older children, and they also carried the luggage for Qin Chunxiao.
At this moment, Qiao Mingming came in with two suitcases and two luggage bags on his shoulders. Du Xiaofeng followed him: “I can just carry the luggage myself. Obviously, you are too tired like this.”
Qiao Mingming insisted: “I’m not working hard, your blood bar is short, I’ll help you share more.”
The styles of Team Qiao and Team Qin were so contrasting that even Newton couldn’t help wiping off his sweat: “All right, as long as you can manage them”
The World Youth Championship would officially start on June 23. Lao Niu plans to take them off on the 17th and arrive on the 18th. There was a one-day jet lag. The 20th, 21st, and 22nd were all used to adapt to the local environment and competition venues.
The reason why they were called over a week in advance this time was to allow the National Youth Team to sleep together for a short period of time.
Even if the things that should be taught had been taught in the national youth training camp, and dozens of practice games had been formed, but it was not just that they were not quick to sharpen their guns?
In order to make the last emergency assault for this powerful team composed of cores from various provinces, Lao Niu specially brought in six strong men as sparring partners for them.
In the early morning of June 11, Qin Chunxiao and other team members followed Captain Qiao Mingming to run 10 laps around the playground, and saw a familiar figure walking into the stadium.
That vigorous gait, those bulging muscles, and that dangerous aura that made him extremely afraid, like a lazy leopard, was one of the top four main attackers, Ding Rong of Bayi Team!
Since this person had done the thing that knocked down the whole field during the national youth training camp, everyone except Qin Chunxiao was thrown by him. When they met someone now, everyone became more polite than each other.
“Hello Team Ding!”
“Morning Team Ding!”
“Has Team Ding had breakfast?”
Ding Rong replied kindly: “Okay, okay, everything is okay, how about you?”
Everyone: “We are also good!”
Behind Ding Rong, Tong Shulan, the other four main attackers and the captain of Province S, threw his sports bag on the chair, followed by Kong Duojin, the vice-attacker of Province S, who was tall and powerful, at least two meters one.
Qin Chunxiao waved happily: “Team Tong! Is your injury healed?”
Tong Shulan smiled at him: “Good morning, Team Xiaoqin, Team Meng asked me to say hello to you and when you are free. She wants to lead the team to your practice match.”
Qin Chunxiao said bluntly: “I have no problem. After the game and returning home, you can make an appointment for the game at any time. The Meng team can directly contact our coach Chen.”
Zhang Feng, the deputy attacker of the national team, followed behind Tong Shulan. He was also a member of the Bayi team.
These people all had national team uniforms and had participated in international competitions. Many domestic fans had listed them as the contributors to the Chinese men’s volleyball team’s bid for the Rio Olympics, but at this time they were all wearing the clothes of their respective provincial teams.
Everyone turned their attention to Newton who walked in.
Lao Niu opened the electronic scoreboard and said casually: “Tong Shulan and Ding Rong temporarily withdrew from the national team due to injuries and are in the provincial team to take care of themselves. He returned to the provincial team and was suspended for three months. He Shiping was getting old. Coach Zhao hoped to inject new strength into the national team, so he let a newcomer take his place. Kong Duojin had stomach surgery last year and used some drugs. He originally had to report to WADA I made the record, but Coach Zhao forgot, which resulted in the drug test failing, and I am appealing recently.”
Behind Old Niu, five big boys smiled formulaically.
Min Yaoyang raised his hand: “Question, coach, Brother Ding and the others are the main force, and Brother He, he was the number one libero when we played in the Rio Olympics. They all returned to the provincial team. Who will fill their vacancies?”
In fact, Min Yaoyang’s original intention for asking this question was very simple. He just felt that the people in the country who were capable of taking up these positions were all in the national youth team, but the national youth team was about to go to the World Youth Championship, so wouldn’t the national team have a lot of vacancies?
Even a big kid like Min Yaoyang knew that the national team should not be short of people.
Newton reported a few names with a blank face, all athletes from the same province as Zhao Youde, but their strength was not outstanding in China, at least the players of the national youth team standing on the scene had the confidence to beat them.
Li Ling was the most outspoken. He covered his mouth with one hand, and said “whisper” to Qin Chunxiao in a not low voice: “Is Lao Zhao crazy?”
It was rare for Qin Chunxiao to pat him on the head gently: “Yes, so stay away from that old lunatic from now on.”
Newton coughed, and Li Ling made a zipper movement around his mouth, indicating that he would not speak.
In Qin Chunxiao’s memory, Zhao Youde originally loved to play in backhand, but he didn’t exaggerate to this extent. He looked at Lao Niu’s face and found that he looked very energetic, so he was relieved.
Newton: “Because they are relatively free, I asked them to be your opponents in the practice match. It happens that they have a lot of experience in international competitions.”
After he finished speaking, the boys of the national youth team first cheered. Athletes had a generation of four years. These post-95 and post-00 players generally grew up watching the games of post-85 and post-90 players. They had respect for these seniors and had a strong sense of competition. It would be great to be able to fight against them.
But soon, everyone discovered that the number of people was wrong.
Ding Rong, Zhang Feng, He Shiping, Tong Shulan, Kong Duojin, were there only five people?
Lao Niu answered the phone at this time: “Hey, what? You lost your way… Wait, I’ll ask Jiang Xiaohai to pick you up… Xiao Hai, that road idiot can’t find a place again, you drive to the hotel entrance to pick him up. “
The big guys waited for a while, and saw Jiang Xiaohai bringing in a young man who was about the same height as Xiong Wu, Du Xiaofeng and other libero, only 7 centimeters taller than Qin Chunxiao by visual inspection, with a handsome face, an inch-cut hair, and exposed arms. A black snake tattoo, looks like the kind of social youth who would squat on the radiator of the police station and talk to the police, and then be reprimanded.
Several people in the arena whispered.
“Pi-shen!”
In the domestic volleyball arena, sometimes good players with a good relationship will praise each other as “Gao Depi,” which means “god.” Qin Chunxiao was called “Gao Deqin” by the fans.
However, the original “god” was Gao Depi who was the main attacker in the provincial team with a height of 184 cm and made it all the way to the national team.
It was once said that the short people who play volleyball all over the country know Gao Depi. This sentence was not an exaggeration, because he gave hope to many people who are less than 1.9 meters tall to play as attackers. People called him “Little Goudpi” for that.
Such an outstanding player was defeated by Zhao Youde’s “Fuck the main force” tactic. He was sent to the hospital with a stress fracture and a broken Achilles tendon, and was sentenced to a “death sentence” for his sports career by many domestic doctors.
He was also the one who was most completely abolished by Zhao Youde among the four main attackers.
At this moment, Gao Depi greeted Tong Shulan and Ding Rong generously: “Are you surprised?”
Ding Rong rushed over and beat him on the shoulder: “When did you get well, boy? Why don’t you talk to others!”
Gao Depi staggered, and almost lost his breath: “I’m not well. Professor Li, who is doing my rehabilitation, said that I can’t participate in the bloody main-intensity competition like before.”
“Of course, the height of the smash is not as good as before.” Gao Depi sighed: “But I still want to continue to play. It happened that I was recuperating from my injury and I couldn’t feel good. I listened to the introduction of Old Niu and came over to be a training partner for the children.”
He turned his head to look at Qin Chunxiao, with a sigh in his eyes: “I was born in 1991, and I feel that I am not old yet, but the players in 2001 have already begun to rise. Time runs so fast.”
Tong Shulan and Ding Rong smiled at each other, and also looked in the direction of the national youth team. They had also worn the youth team uniforms before!
Qiao Mingming, the youngest and healthiest of the four main attackers, was silent for two seconds, smiling confidently, and took off his coat.
“Warm up, get ready for the game!”
All the team members responded one after another, followed the slogan with enthusiasm, and prepared for the field.
Gao Depi watched the boy, who was even shorter than he used to be, easily split a fork, doing difficult stretching exercises, and earnestly activating the muscles of the whole body.
Tong Shulan rubbed against him: “I heard that Xiao Qin’s Achilles tendon is 25 centimeters long, which is 3 centimeters longer than yours.”
Gao Depi chuckled, and went to warm up while walking. When he pressed his legs, his fingers brushed the back of his calf. There was a knife mark on it, which was the mark of the operation.
Now the length of the Achilles tendon was meaningless to him.
Anyway, he would never be able to fly in the sky and play volleyball again in his life.
Before the started of the World Youth Championship, everyone in the national youth team was in a luxurious training environment where the four main players were all present, and played a full 30 practice matches with the opposite group of players who had been honed in the international arena for many years.
The average age of this year’s national youth team was 18.3 years old, the oldest was 20 years old, the youngest Qin Chunxiao and Min Yaoyang were 16 years old, all of them were high school students or college students.
Qin Chunxiao and Min Yaoyang were still squatting in the first year of high school, while Fu Biyang and Li Ling were going through the third year of high school. Most of the rest had already gone to college, and many of them did not rely on recommendation to enter the Volleyball Academy of North Sports University, but took the exam themselves to get into good school.
There was no way, the men’s volleyball team was not popular, but athletes continue to support their families after retirement. If they didn’t learn a skill, everyone was afraid of being eliminated by society and starving to death.
Qin Chunxiao’s university before his rebirth was nicknamed “Q City Aquaculture Base” because his alma mater had a renowned major in aquaculture. However, don’t misunderstand, he didn’t study aquaculture. His dream, after retiring, was to go to Antarctica to explore. Qin Chunxiao majored in marine science.
If it hadn’t been for an accident, Qin Chunxiao originally planned to finish his senior year and go on to take the postgraduate entrance examination and the Ph.D. examination all the way up.
In addition to Qin Chunxiao, Mao Xunfeng was a student of human sports science, Xiong Wu was a student in the Department of Education, and Ai Zimaiti was a student in the university taught by Aunt Wei in the cafeteria. As for You Ziyu after retiring, he would become an anesthesiologist, just because he thought this profession can play with mobile phones for a long time, so he was currently in medical school, and it was said that he regret it…
With them around, it was understandable for Li Ling to clamor for other majors, and Qin Chunxiao also made up for him earnestly. Before the World Youth Championship was about to start, he managed to get more than 600 in the mock test.
In order to thank Qin Chunxiao, Li Ling’s mother gave him a box of Yantang milk directly. Qin Chunxiao finally understood where Li Ling’s love for milk came from.
However, he was in a precious developmental period, and he usually drank milk as water, but he would use up tons of this carton of milk in a week.
From the beginning of development to the present, Qin Chunxiao had steadily grown in height at a rate of one centimeter in two months, and was now a long-legged pier of 177.5. Although this height was still shorter than many libero in the men’s volleyball team… But Qin Chunxiao was very satisfied. He felt that he might be a few centimeters taller this time than in his previous life.
Although he didn’t feel the taste of milk, he still felt the benefits of milk.
Until June 10, Lao Niu issued a summoning order to the 12th team of the National Youth Team-boys, it’s time to come to the capital to gather.
Qin Chunxiao once again packed the luggage including Li Ling, Fu Biyang, and the canteen aunt who asked them to bring the boxed lunches for the road and a change of clothes, and boarded the plane with their passports and other documents and a bear wallet.
Lao Niu collected the prices and flights of everyone’s air tickets, prepared to reimburse them for their travel expenses, and sent someone to pick them up. He didn’t hold back his complaints: “Why did the three of you leave together again?”
Coach Zheng from Island H still said the same thing: “I’m afraid the chick will get lost.”
Probably Qin Chunxiao held two 1.9-meter-old children with his 16-year-old hands. When Lao Niu saw him again, he couldn’t help but say, “I’m sorry for you.”
Behind Qin Chunxiao, Li Ling was meeting Min Yaoyang at the entrance of the hotel. The two bumped their chests like excited gorillas. Fu Biyang and Min Yaoyang also bumped into each other, knocking Min Yaoyang to the ground. Xiong Wu hurried to help him.
Qin Chunxiao glanced back, and replied blankly: “It’s okay, I’ll just treat it as two more pets that like to run around.”
Don’t wronged him, he was not a male mother like Xiong Wu, and there was no good thing for him to raise his partner as a son. This way Qin Chunxiao made up a lesson for the two older children, and they also carried the luggage for Qin Chunxiao.
At this moment, Qiao Mingming came in with two suitcases and two luggage bags on his shoulders. Du Xiaofeng followed him: “I can just carry the luggage myself. Obviously, you are too tired like this.”
Qiao Mingming insisted: “I’m not working hard, your blood bar is short, I’ll help you share more.”
The styles of Team Qiao and Team Qin were so contrasting that even Newton couldn’t help wiping off his sweat: “All right, as long as you can manage them”
The World Youth Championship would officially start on June 23. Lao Niu plans to take them off on the 17th and arrive on the 18th. There was a one-day jet lag. The 20th, 21st, and 22nd were all used to adapt to the local environment and competition venues.
The reason why they were called over a week in advance this time was to allow the National Youth Team to sleep together for a short period of time.
Even if the things that should be taught had been taught in the national youth training camp, and dozens of practice games had been formed, but it was not just that they were not quick to sharpen their guns?
In order to make the last emergency assault for this powerful team composed of cores from various provinces, Lao Niu specially brought in six strong men as sparring partners for them.
In the early morning of June 11, Qin Chunxiao and other team members followed Captain Qiao Mingming to run 10 laps around the playground, and saw a familiar figure walking into the stadium.
That vigorous gait, those bulging muscles, and that dangerous aura that made him extremely afraid, like a lazy leopard, was one of the top four main attackers, Ding Rong of Bayi Team!
Since this person had done the thing that knocked down the whole field during the national youth training camp, everyone except Qin Chunxiao was thrown by him. When they met someone now, everyone became more polite than each other.
“Hello Team Ding!”
“Morning Team Ding!”
“Has Team Ding had breakfast?”
Ding Rong replied kindly: “Okay, okay, everything is okay, how about you?”
Everyone: “We are also good!”
Behind Ding Rong, Tong Shulan, the other four main attackers and the captain of Province S, threw his sports bag on the chair, followed by Kong Duojin, the vice-attacker of Province S, who was tall and powerful, at least two meters one.
Qin Chunxiao waved happily: “Team Tong! Is your injury healed?”
Tong Shulan smiled at him: “Good morning, Team Xiaoqin, Team Meng asked me to say hello to you and when you are free. She wants to lead the team to your practice match.”
Qin Chunxiao said bluntly: “I have no problem. After the game and returning home, you can make an appointment for the game at any time. The Meng team can directly contact our coach Chen.”
Zhang Feng, the deputy attacker of the national team, followed behind Tong Shulan. He was also a member of the Bayi team.
These people all had national team uniforms and had participated in international competitions. Many domestic fans had listed them as the contributors to the Chinese men’s volleyball team’s bid for the Rio Olympics, but at this time they were all wearing the clothes of their respective provincial teams.
Everyone turned their attention to Newton who walked in.
Lao Niu opened the electronic scoreboard and said casually: “Tong Shulan and Ding Rong temporarily withdrew from the national team due to injuries and are in the provincial team to take care of themselves. He returned to the provincial team and was suspended for three months. He Shiping was getting old. Coach Zhao hoped to inject new strength into the national team, so he let a newcomer take his place. Kong Duojin had stomach surgery last year and used some drugs. He originally had to report to WADA I made the record, but Coach Zhao forgot, which resulted in the drug test failing, and I am appealing recently.”
Behind Old Niu, five big boys smiled formulaically.
Min Yaoyang raised his hand: “Question, coach, Brother Ding and the others are the main force, and Brother He, he was the number one libero when we played in the Rio Olympics. They all returned to the provincial team. Who will fill their vacancies?”
In fact, Min Yaoyang’s original intention for asking this question was very simple. He just felt that the people in the country who were capable of taking up these positions were all in the national youth team, but the national youth team was about to go to the World Youth Championship, so wouldn’t the national team have a lot of vacancies?
Even a big kid like Min Yaoyang knew that the national team should not be short of people.
Newton reported a few names with a blank face, all athletes from the same province as Zhao Youde, but their strength was not outstanding in China, at least the players of the national youth team standing on the scene had the confidence to beat them.
Li Ling was the most outspoken. He covered his mouth with one hand, and said “whisper” to Qin Chunxiao in a not low voice: “Is Lao Zhao crazy?”
It was rare for Qin Chunxiao to pat him on the head gently: “Yes, so stay away from that old lunatic from now on.”
Newton coughed, and Li Ling made a zipper movement around his mouth, indicating that he would not speak.
In Qin Chunxiao’s memory, Zhao Youde originally loved to play in backhand, but he didn’t exaggerate to this extent. He looked at Lao Niu’s face and found that he looked very energetic, so he was relieved.
Newton: “Because they are relatively free, I asked them to be your opponents in the practice match. It happens that they have a lot of experience in international competitions.”
After he finished speaking, the boys of the national youth team first cheered. Athletes had a generation of four years. These post-95 and post-00 players generally grew up watching the games of post-85 and post-90 players. They had respect for these seniors and had a strong sense of competition. It would be great to be able to fight against them.
But soon, everyone discovered that the number of people was wrong.
Ding Rong, Zhang Feng, He Shiping, Tong Shulan, Kong Duojin, were there only five people?
Lao Niu answered the phone at this time: “Hey, what? You lost your way… Wait, I’ll ask Jiang Xiaohai to pick you up… Xiao Hai, that road idiot can’t find a place again, you drive to the hotel entrance to pick him up. “
The big guys waited for a while, and saw Jiang Xiaohai bringing in a young man who was about the same height as Xiong Wu, Du Xiaofeng and other libero, only 7 centimeters taller than Qin Chunxiao by visual inspection, with a handsome face, an inch-cut hair, and exposed arms. A black snake tattoo, looks like the kind of social youth who would squat on the radiator of the police station and talk to the police, and then be reprimanded.
Several people in the arena whispered.
“Pi-shen!”
In the domestic volleyball arena, sometimes good players with a good relationship will praise each other as “Gao Depi,” which means “god.” Qin Chunxiao was called “Gao Deqin” by the fans.
However, the original “god” was Gao Depi who was the main attacker in the provincial team with a height of 184 cm and made it all the way to the national team.
It was once said that the short people who play volleyball all over the country know Gao Depi. This sentence was not an exaggeration, because he gave hope to many people who are less than 1.9 meters tall to play as attackers. People called him “Little Goudpi” for that.
Such an outstanding player was defeated by Zhao Youde’s “Fuck the main force” tactic. He was sent to the hospital with a stress fracture and a broken Achilles tendon, and was sentenced to a “death sentence” for his sports career by many domestic doctors.
He was also the one who was most completely abolished by Zhao Youde among the four main attackers.
At this moment, Gao Depi greeted Tong Shulan and Ding Rong generously: “Are you surprised?”
Ding Rong rushed over and beat him on the shoulder: “When did you get well, boy? Why don’t you talk to others!”
Gao Depi staggered, and almost lost his breath: “I’m not well. Professor Li, who is doing my rehabilitation, said that I can’t participate in the bloody main-intensity competition like before.”
“Of course, the height of the smash is not as good as before.” Gao Depi sighed: “But I still want to continue to play. It happened that I was recuperating from my injury and I couldn’t feel good. I listened to the introduction of Old Niu and came over to be a training partner for the children.”
He turned his head to look at Qin Chunxiao, with a sigh in his eyes: “I was born in 1991, and I feel that I am not old yet, but the players in 2001 have already begun to rise. Time runs so fast.”
Tong Shulan and Ding Rong smiled at each other, and also looked in the direction of the national youth team. They had also worn the youth team uniforms before!
Qiao Mingming, the youngest and healthiest of the four main attackers, was silent for two seconds, smiling confidently, and took off his coat.
“Warm up, get ready for the game!”
All the team members responded one after another, followed the slogan with enthusiasm, and prepared for the field.
Gao Depi watched the boy, who was even shorter than he used to be, easily split a fork, doing difficult stretching exercises, and earnestly activating the muscles of the whole body.
Tong Shulan rubbed against him: “I heard that Xiao Qin’s Achilles tendon is 25 centimeters long, which is 3 centimeters longer than yours.”
Gao Depi chuckled, and went to warm up while walking. When he pressed his legs, his fingers brushed the back of his calf. There was a knife mark on it, which was the mark of the operation.
Now the length of the Achilles tendon was meaningless to him.
Anyway, he would never be able to fly in the sky and play volleyball again in his life.
Before the started of the World Youth Championship, everyone in the national youth team was in a luxurious training environment where the four main players were all present, and played a full 30 practice matches with the opposite group of players who had been honed in the international arena for many years.
