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Chapter 84
Hearing the name Ning Xi, everyone was stunned, and almost by coincidence, everyone had the same smile on their faces as Liu Lin.

"Oh...boring, really boring, how could I do such a boring thing?" Stretched around: "Go back to watch TV!"

"Yeah, go back, I've only read half of the book..." Dai Guangming said, and then walked towards the stairs.

The others winked and laughed, and followed Dai Guangming to the stairs. Hu Gandang was the last one. When he walked into the stairs, he turned his head and looked in the direction of the pine forest. He muttered to himself, "...It seems that I didn't get dazzled that day. Hehe, Aaron, good boy, keep quiet..."

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During this time, Long Bisheng had a great time.

Dai Guangming and the others guessed right. During this time, Long Bisheng was sneaky and always missing. He was training alone in the pine forest, a place that only he and Ning Xi knew. Most of the time, Ning Xi would come here to accompany him whenever she was free. In the past two months, the relationship between the two quickly became harmonious.

It's just that there was nothing between the two of them—at least from the perspective of Long Bisheng and Ning Xi—Ning Xi forgot that today was Valentine's Day before asking Long Bisheng out that night. It was only after walking down the street that they realized that today was a special day.

Originally, the two of them just planned to go for a stroll in the street. After seeing the lively atmosphere on the street, they decided to have a good time. Passing by the cinema, they saw "My Sassy Girlfriend" being played. Originally, Long Bisheng didn't like to watch this kind of erotic movie, but Ning Xi liked to watch it, so she forced him to watch it.

This period of time can be regarded as the happiest time since Long Bisheng came to Yunjia Tianyu Football School. In addition to having goals for progress, mentoring, and sincere friendship, he also had a friend of the opposite sex for the first time in his life!
Sometimes when he was with Ning Xi, he even thought of Tian Xiaoxia in "The Ordinary World". In his eyes, Ning Xi was like Tian Xiaoxia lighting up Sun Shaoping's life, and at the same time brought an unusual brilliance to his life.

Like Tian Xiaoxia, Ning Xi is also a lively and kind-hearted girl who likes to read books and listen to music. It's a little strange that a girl in her teens doesn't like to listen to those popular songs or songs by female singers. Instead, she likes to listen to Luo Dayou, Zhao Chuan, Zhang Yusheng... According to her own words, she got used to hearing these songs from her father since she was a child, and she began to really like them.

During the rest of training, listening to Ning Xi humming the songs of Luo Dayou and others in a slightly hoarse voice, Long Bisheng's heart was at peace, and he often fell into his own thoughts, feeling the rare leisure time with the low but melodious music.

With Ning Xi, not only can we talk about football, but also about music. Ning Xi taught him to sing some classic old songs, and he taught Ning Xi to sing those melodious Xintianyou...

Of course, this is not the only thing that makes him happy. Before the end of this semester, Ding Yu had another private conversation with him, pointing out the direction he should go in the right direction in training.

In that conversation, Ding Yu pointed out that for a high center forward, long-distance running with the ball is definitely not what he is good at. Therefore, in addition to the ability to head the ball, the first thing to strengthen is the ability to hold the ball with his back and turn around.

Near the front of the opponent's penalty area, use your strong body to protect the ball after getting the ball, and then forcefully turn around and break into the penalty area. This is the most practical way for a high center forward to break through in the opponent's penalty area.

"Practice these two tricks well, at least you won't be at a loss in terms of offense. Whether you're hitting the air or hitting the ground, you can show your abilities." Long Bisheng firmly remembered what Ding Yu said: "As for the other things, you can also practice them at ordinary times. Anyway, it doesn't hurt to practice...but it's best to focus on practicing these two. It's hard for anyone to defend against your tank-like breakthrough... You have to remember that your body is your most precious wealth."

After this conversation, Li Jie soon became Long Bisheng's unlucky partner again when he was training desperately. After the winter vacation, he was dragged by Long Bisheng to practice more. Long Bisheng spent most of his spare time with him, and only a small part of it was training in the pine forest with Ning Xi.

If this is the case, Li Jie has no objection. After all, in the past two years, he has always practiced confrontation with Long Bisheng, but the situation is a bit different now. Before Long Bisheng pulled him to train, he had to bring almost all the people in the dormitory—with Dai Guangming instigating behind him, with Zhang Yi passing from the two wings around him, Wu Bufan guarding the goal, and Hu Gan as an assistant defense—only in this way can a complete confrontation effect be formed. As soon as he showed his laziness, Long Bisheng could only do nothing.

But the physical confrontation after holding the ball that is being practiced now does not require the cooperation of other people. In addition, Ding Yu gave Li Jie a death order. Whenever Long Bisheng wanted to drag Li Jie to practice alone, unless Li Jie's physical strength was exhausted, he could not say "no" to Long Bisheng!

At the beginning, Li Jie was still willing to physically abuse Long Bisheng, who was much bigger than himself, especially when the girls in the class would watch from the side, it was time to show his masculine charm!

Although Long Bisheng was a bit bigger than Li Jie in size, and his strength alone was a notch higher than Li Jie's, but as we all know, when a defender defends a forward who has not turned around, he always takes advantage of it. One is to push forward, and the other is to push backward.

But what surprised Li Jie was that Long Bisheng's progress in this area was unexpectedly fast!
In the physical confrontation for high-altitude balls, it took Long Bisheng more than a year to draw with Li Jie, and his progress can be said to be very slow. But this time, he only took less than a month to win and lose with Li Jie in the confrontation. Although there were also many times when he was squeezed from behind by Li Jie and lost his balance, or when he turned around, Li Jie stabbed the ball off his feet, but there were also many times when he was able to use his body to turn around and squeeze Li Jie into his body. Then break into the penalty area or shoot directly from behind!
"Aaron, you're enlightened!"

In a training session, after Long Bisheng used his body to squeeze away Li Jie's defense and suddenly broke through the gate guarded by Wu Bufan, Li Jie wiped his sweat and said to Long Bisheng.

"Hey..." Long Bisheng laughed honestly, with a sincere smile on his face. He liked this kind of confrontation very much, because this kind of confrontation allowed him to fully display his own characteristics.

In the past few months, he has been worrying about how to increase his ability to attack on the ground. He has also learned a lot of messy passing skills, but he can't use them at all on the court. In the case of not being able to vent his depression, Ding Yu's few pointers seemed to open another door for him. He used all the energy he had held back in the past few months.

Ding Yu has seen Long Bisheng's rapid progress during this period, and he is secretly delighted. It seems that his vision is not wrong. During this period of time, Long Bisheng's ability to protect the ball with his back, his ability to turn and break through, and his ability to play the ball have all grown rapidly. In the next two years, try to let him increase some ability to run with the ball and the ability to make the ball in the first time.

The ability to play the ball can slowly accumulate experience in the game, and the biggest problem with the ability to run with the ball is that Long Bisheng’s speed is not fast enough, but in Ding Yu’s eyes, this is not a problem. After all, a football game is not a 30-meter race.

However, what Ding Yu didn’t know was that besides the basic training and the usual exercises he taught, Long Bisheng had never given up on the training of those highly skilled surmounting movements—the training in the pine forest had become what Long Bisheng yearned for most in his spare time, because there was someone who was always with him there, so even though training these movements took him a lot of time and energy, and the effect was not very good, he still enjoyed it.

This kind of hard work will not be in vain. Maybe when these movements trained in the pine forest one day can be skillfully used by Long Bisheng on the court, it will cause great surprises-who can say that it must not?

(End of this chapter)