wipe the ice and fire

Because of some changes in the music, and in view of Du Qingshao's messy sense of music, after the second day's practice, Luo Ming quietly pulled him to the sidelines and asked if he would like to go to the dance classroom to listen to him play it again before making an analysis.

Letting him take music lessons is more torturous than sitting at the dining table watching others eat big fish and meat but not being able to touch a single bite.But in order to have more fun during the game, he could only bite the bullet and agree.

The poor boy sat listlessly at the piano.Luo Ming opened the cover of the piano, and first talked about the choreography idea: "Combined with the observation during this period, I think you are really suitable for music with a fast rhythm and more outgoing emotions. Therefore, the eight bars after the main part of the second movement of the original song The interludes have been replaced with the third movement this season..."

He didn't understand anything, and interrupted annoyedly: "Don't explain the principle, just tell me how to skate."

Luo Ming frowned when he heard this, picked up the tablet and sat beside him: "I think you still need to understand it." After speaking, he dug out the numbered notation that he had prepared long ago, and divided it into sections for him according to the parts of each movement. Look, I also patiently wrote the professional terms next to it.

The only advantage of getting along with him is probably that the two lefties are rarely consistent in the details of their hands, and they will not hit the hand when they get together.

But even though he changed to the most common language, Du Qingshao was still impatient to listen, and soon began to lose his mind.Luo Ming patted the back of his hand lightly with the pad pen: "Concentrate, this is the song for your competition."

"Actually, I understand what you mean." He broke off his fingernails embarrassedly, "It's equivalent to making the footwork music a little tighter. The allegro melody in the main part of the third movement will appear twice, playing the first echo effect, right?"

Although he has a bad sense of music, he is not stupid.A person like Luo Ming who can play Beethoven with his eyes closed, if he puts on numbered notation and makes fun of himself, if he can't understand it, he will probably die of laughter secretly.

After hearing this, Luo Ming nodded slightly in surprise: "That's right, then I'll talk about the details of the joint music."

Du Qingshao didn't express his opinion, and sat lazily on the ground watching him play the piano, silently memorizing the time of entering the rotation and the details of raising and letting go to match the music in accordance with the score.After using it for one season, he was much easier to understand and memorize, and Luo Ming's teaching was unexpectedly smooth.

After explaining everything, he closed the piano cover, looked at the faint reflection of the shiny black piano, and hesitated for a few seconds: "Du, I have a question, and I would like to take the liberty of asking you."

"If you feel presumptuous, then there's no need to ask, I'm sure I won't answer you." Du Qingshao lowered his head and snapped his nails again, and blurted out directly.

Hearing this, Luo Ming coughed in embarrassment.Only then did he realize what he had said, and scratched his head: "I have no other meaning, let's talk."

"How did you think of choosing Beethoven's Sonata No. [-] at that time? Now there are not many contestants in the classical music competition." After a pause for a few seconds, Luo Ming asked.

"This one," he raised his eyebrows, "it was recommended by Teacher Ciceline at the time. I happened to have read Romain Rolland's "Biography of Celebrities", and felt that I knew Beethoven too."

It's still far from understanding... Luo Ming secretly slandered him, but he didn't dare to speak out to provoke him, so he just asked, "Did Ciceline say anything to you at that time?"

"Just a brief talk about Beethoven's creative experience. It was painful at first, and then he bravely fought against fate." He held his head and recalled the scene last year, and seemed to remember something, "By the way, teacher How is she now?"

Ciceline is like an old mother in figure skating. Du Qingshao and her cooperation are also very pleasant. Originally, I wanted to invite her to choreograph this season, but unfortunately Ciceline fell ill, so I chose her as the next best thing My friend, that is, the little foreign golden retriever in front of me.

Hearing this, Luo Ming lowered his head, stroked the piano cover with his slender fingers, and whispered, "It's not good, it's cancer, it has... spread."

Du Qingshao said "ah" in a daze, and lowered his head in embarrassment: "Just pretend that I didn't ask. Now that medical technology is so advanced, it should be able to survive."

He does not mean that.Luo Ming blinked, feeling that his eyelashes were a little wet, and turned his head to the other side, staring at the curtains in a daze.Seeing him like this, Du Qingshao didn't know what to say, got up and patted his butt: "I went to the coach to train, goodbye~"

When I got to the sidelines, the training hadn't started yet, and the players were sitting on the sidelines chatting.

"I heard that sister Qi Yue invited Alva to arrange the short program for this season. She is a world-class choreographer."

"As expected of the first sister of our team, the treatment is different."...

He was warming up on the edge of the ice rink, and he listened to them muttering about choreography.Song Tanghao, who is also in the men's singles of the adult group, came over and asked abruptly, "Have you heard about Qi Yue's choreography lineup for this season?"

He raised his eyebrows lightly, with a casual look: "Why?"

"In the end, they are those who want to hit the gold medal. The lineup is that some people are much more luxurious. But think about it, you may not even be able to enter the free skating. There is no need to spend a lot of money on a new program. Just find someone to edit it. It's gone." Song Tanghao leaned against the wall with his hands in his pockets, and said a lot in a strange way.

Du Qingshao's heart twitched, and he almost tore the ligament of his leg in a few seconds of distraction. He struggled to pull his old leg off the bar, met the opponent's provocative gaze, and jokingly said: "You really know how to think about me every day. body."

Sure enough, Song Tanghao's face changed drastically after hearing this: "I'm talking about you, little brat. It's ridiculous to find a ballet dancer to choreograph for you..."

"Who do you look down on!" When this topic was brought up, Du Qingshao suddenly erupted like eating gunpowder, grabbed his collar and brought him up in front of his eyes, "Let me tell you, Lumi Varis is a very mature woman. He is a dancer whose music and choreography are far superior to world-class choreographers. He is now my teacher, and if you look down on him, you look down on me!"

The other party was stunned for a moment, and pretended to be calm and sneered: "Yes, after all, it was the one who ran away and chased back with his own hands. Then I want to see what this world-class choreographer teaches you in the end."

After speaking, he slapped Du Qingshao's paw away, leaving only the blushing little boy standing there.

I'm so mad, I'm so mad!This stinky golden retriever, a [-]-line choreographer, actually wants to protect him by himself.Du Qingshao kicked the crossbar angrily, threw off his coat and continued to warm up.

In the current domestic men's singles, the veteran Ma Jiabo is about to retire, and Song and Du will be left to carry the banner in the future.It's a pity that Song's skills are not stable. He has not made it to the Grand Prix finals for two years since he was promoted to the group. Four Continents and the World Championships are also running with him.Although Du Qingshao has not seen the bloody storm of the adult group, but judging from the existing data, his performance is much more stable than him.

Because of this, ever since he was promoted to the group ahead of schedule, the two of them have been competing with each other overtly and secretly with the script that the king does not see the king.

After warming up, they first practice basic skating according to the coach's instructions after going on the ice.Du Qingshao's mind was full of the scene where the guy said he couldn't do it, and his teeth were itching with anger. After the physical activity was about the same, he slipped to Ye Feihong's side: "Coach, I want to try the quadruple hook again today. …twenty jumps.”

"Feeling in shape?"

He raised his shoulders and moved a bit: "No problem, the pain here has long been gone."

Ye Feihong looked at him and avoided speaking.After the start of the off-season, he has been trying to practice for a month, and there are only five or six successful landings in total, not including the phenomenon of lingering weeks and slipping out of steps.

Facing the coach's hesitant gaze, he rolled his eyes angrily: "Haven't I succeeded before, why don't you let me dance? Could it be that if I can't practice this year, I can dance all at once next year?"

The quadruple hook is the hardest quadruple except the Axel jump, so it has the highest base score.Five or six years ago, the number of dancers in the world who could dance could be counted on one hand. Unexpectedly, in just a few years, the men’s singles quadruple jump has achieved a qualitative leap. It's a joke.

There is no way but to learn.

Ye Feihong was also looked at helplessly by him: "Okay, but you can only jump twenty times, and now the body is still important."

After getting the permission, Du Qingshao immediately slid to the side of the long fence, and began to accelerate around the sidelines.To be honest, the feeling of quadruple jump is really special. If it can be done effortlessly, he will definitely enjoy this process very much.

Everything in front of me—the five-star red flag and inspirational slogans—flashed before my eyes, and the wind rustled in my ears.With his hands crossed in front of his chest, he used his peripheral vision to estimate the timing of the jump and the position from the baffle. He adjusted his body so that the right rear outer edge touched the ice, and the left blade touched the ice to take off.

The first time I was not in the right condition at all, I felt it when I took off, and stood crookedly on the ice after the gap.

"I'm practicing hook jump again, it's too hard." The teammate whispered with emotion.

"It seems a little nervous." Ye Feihong slid to his side, "Don't stop first, when lighting the ice, use the strength of your upper body and chest to bring yourself over."

"Yes, I see." Du Qingshao nodded obediently.

In fact, he was also afraid. The moment he took off, his brain was almost blank, and his heart would jump out of his throat. Then he closed his eyes and turned around in the air a few times. When he landed, his mind was still empty, and he relied on muscle memory to do the next action.

It failed the second time and fell directly on the ice.But he fell a lot. At the moment he landed, he could already judge whether he could succeed by the feeling of the axis in the air and the blade touching the ice, and then adjusted his body state in a few milliseconds to buffer the falling ice to the maximum extent, so as not to overwhelm him. Injuries to important joints such as the tailbone and ankle.

Sliding a short distance along the ice surface, the familiar place felt pain again. He looked up and glanced at the headlight above his head, and beat the ice surface to vent his anger, before getting up and patting the ice chips off his shoulders.

"The teeth of the knife fell on the ice first, and we need to find the center of gravity before we are ready to fall on the ice." The coach helped him correct his mistakes.

He nodded, got up and adjusted his condition, continued the third and fourth trials, and slowly found the feeling, and the pain gradually accumulated in the place where he had been injured before because of the continuous fall.

I don't know how many times I fell, the pain was extremely sharp when I fell on the ice, Du Qingshao calmed down, saw the faint red blood stains on the ice where he fell, wiped the ground clean, and separated The clothes were wiped quietly.

A faint smell of blood spread between his fingers.

Only then did he feel the pain belatedly, his tears couldn't be stopped physiologically, and the ice rink in front of him was a little blurry.

Seeing him standing there motionless, Ye Feihong hurried forward: "How are you doing, are you okay?"

He coughed twice in a cover-up manner: "It's okay, it's just a scratch on the shoulder."

"Don't practice today, I will give you the video just now, and I will study it later."

"No," he raised his neck, "I have a feeling, why don't I just break my skin, and wash it with hydrogen peroxide later and it will be fine."

After speaking, he turned around and planned to continue, but turned his head and instantly met a familiar silhouette.

Luo Ming folded his arms around his chest, and at some point stood on the sidelines.The two exchanged a look, he suddenly sighed, lowered his eyes, clicked his lips disdainfully, turned and left without saying a word.

What does he mean?Look down on yourself?In just a few seconds, Du Qingshao was dumbfounded, forgot the pain and practice, rushed to the sidelines to put on a protective cover, brushed twice and rushed out, stopping him outside the house.

"Hey! Come back to me!"

Seeing this, Luo Ming restrained his contemptuous expression, and said lightly: "Sure enough, this is the only way to let you rest."

"?" Du Qingshao was dumbfounded, and realized that he had been tricked by him, so angry that he put his hands on his hips, blew his beard and stared.

"I'm also doing it for your own good. Your other two quadruple jumps, whether they are high-distance or falling ice, are very good. Polish them well in the new season. They are still young, so don't make fun of your body."

"Shut up! Don't talk about my age anymore." He immediately became angry when he heard this, stepped on his skates and took two steps forward, raised his hand to force Luo Ming back against the wall, "Come to the adult Whether it is 17th or 27th, whether you are [-]th or [-]th, those who are injured are not injured, and if you don’t skate well, you have no grades, and no one will give you sympathy points just because you are weak.”

"I have my own plan. If I am really hurt and can't stand up, I will go to the college entrance examination. Anyway, I am not stupid, and I can go to a good university after a year of review."

Although it was easy on the lips, when I mentioned this topic, my heart still skipped a beat.Song Tanghao's letter of war, Qi Yue's earnest expectation, everything is still in my ears.He had mixed feelings in his heart, and his hands against the wall gradually clenched into fists: "You idiot, you don't understand the world of our athletes at all. I don't know what kind of blow you suffered, you didn't even dance ballet anymore, Still crying in front of his fans. Is it ashamed? No wonder so many people look down on him!"

He almost roared out, and the emotions he had been accumulating all along finally couldn't help but explode.Seeing his appearance, Luo Ming avoided his eyes in a panic, but the moment he lowered his head, something rushed into his mind, and started beating along with his warm heart.