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It symbolizes a sunny summer day, but the weather is gloomy.Everyone lined up and jogged around the field to warm up, and then scattered to find a table.

This is London's ExCEL Gymnasium, where the Chinese women's table tennis team will do their last adaptive training, and the Japanese women's team will be training with them.

The entire venue was divided into two halves, one half for the Chinese team and the other half for the Japanese team.The relationship between the Japanese women's team and the Chinese team has always been good. Seeing them training freely at this moment, the captain Bai Chuan Yi Cang immediately came over with a racket, and asked Wang Ying in fluent Northeast dialect with a smile: "Old Wang, let's play two games."

Although Shirakawa Yicang is from Tokyo, he played league games in China since he was a child, and grew up with Wang Ying, who is also from the L provincial team.The two are about the same age, and they are also the youngest players. They are often arranged by the coach to play doubles, with one left hand and one right hand.When they were in the limelight, even the former big devils of the national table tennis team had to stay away, and at that time, they were only about 20 years old.

Therefore, Bai Chuan Yi Cang had the best relationship with Wang Ying in the national team, and later met Wei Cheng, Ke Zhiyan and others. These young people have been growing up since they were young team members, and their revolutionary friendship has been promoted step by step. Get better together.

Wang Ying actually rejected the title "Lao Wang".Are you kidding me, how could she have such a wretched title of "Old King next door" for a talented player like a fairy, a fish, a wild goose, a wild goose, and a moon and a shameful flower? !

Wang Ying replied with a smile: "Teacher Cang, the competition starts tomorrow, and today we play two boards. Are we going to spy on the military situation?!"

Ke Zhiyan: "Why do I want to complain about the title 'Teacher Cang' so much..."

Wei Cheng patted the back of her head: "Kids know so much!"

Ke Zhiyan: "Sister Cheng, I'm already 17 years old, but you still treat me like a child."

Wei Cheng was angry with her: "Is 17 too old? You haven't even taken off the hat of being a minor!"

Ke Zhiyan couldn't talk to her, pouting: "Anyway, you will always treat me like a child."

Wei Cheng: "It's good that you know."

While the two were talking, Bai Chuan Yi Cang came over aggressively: "Come on Xiao Yanzi, let's have a showdown!"

Wei Orange:? ? ?

Wei Cheng turned her gaze to Wang Ying: "What did you tell her?"

Wang Ying spread out her hands: "I dumped the pot cleanly, and Xiaoyan also needs to warm up."

Wei Cheng was helpless, looked at Ke Zhiyan again, and gave her a look, roughly meaning: Shall I refuse for you?

Ke Zhiyan has his own set of plans for doing things, when and what he does is accurate to the minute, and he executes the plan like a robot.But today, her original plan was to play a few games against Wei Cheng to warm up, and then find a sparring partner to get familiar with the style of play.

Ke Zhiyan went through the process in his mind, and deleted the item about warming up with Wei Cheng.She raised her head and gave Wei Cheng a small smile: "Sister Cheng, can you guess the score?"

Wei Cheng was taken aback, Ke Zhiyan had already stepped over the barrier and entered the venue.

Bai Chuan Yicang took out a coin from his pocket in a dignified manner, "A tree, or a word?"

Ke Zhiyan didn't answer, but took out a coin from his pocket, "Flowers, or characters?" [Note 1]

Bai Chuan Yi Cang rolled his eyes, dead child. "Character."

The coin was tossed upwards, gleaming coldly in the light, and pressed against the back of a wrist-wrapped hand.

Ke Zhiyan spread out his hands, showing the back of his hands, it was a word.

"Oops."

Bai Chuan Yi Cang directly took the table tennis ball, "I want the right to serve."

Ke Zhiyan stood calmly at the field closest to her.

"Tsk." Wang Ying slowly swayed to Wei Cheng's side, "That's why I said, sometimes you are as stupid as Xiao Yanzi."

Wei Cheng tilted her head, puzzled flashing in her eyes.

"I haven't participated in any big competitions, and I haven't won a few decent singles championships. I am eager to participate in the Olympics, but the tickets come so dramatically. What do you think she will think?"

Wei Cheng was stunned and didn't respond.Wang Ying had an expression of "you're so stupid" and continued: "On the day she was notified to get the ticket, she came to me. I didn't see her. I saw her sitting by the door through the window. She drooped her head and wiped her tears with her hands. The next time we met was the day of the expedition. She ran out of the apartment. I took her to take a group photo, and I raised my hand to nothing. The expression and movements of the child were as if she had just arrived Same with the national team."

Wang Ying also turned her face to look at Wei Cheng. Because of her height, she had to raise her head slightly to meet Wei Cheng's eyes. It is more than a head lower than her.

"Tell me, what did she go through during this time?"

Wang Ying's voice was very soft, so soft that it was almost inaudible.Wei Cheng had to stare at her mouth shape to judge, and then her brain broke out in a cold sweat instantly based on the information quickly analyzed by her voice and mouth shape.

"I...I didn't find out..." She suppressed her throat and almost squeezed out a sound from between her teeth.

She knew that Ke Zhiyan came back with red eyes and cried a lot that day, but she didn't know that Ke Zhiyan went to find Wang Ying; she also knew that Ke Zhiyan was under great pressure and had many nightmares after returning from closed training, but she couldn't understand Ke Zhiyan's dreams.

She knew that Ke Zhiyan was under a lot of pressure, and that although Ke Zhiyan had a slumped face and a bad temper, she was actually delicate and emotional, so she still cared about the list.

But she didn't notice, she was the closest to Ke Zhiyan but she didn't notice...

Wei Cheng thought that Ke Zhiyan went to Wang Ying that day, but Wang Ying didn't see her, she sat silently by the door, feeling aggrieved and sad, misunderstood what Wang Ying meant, thinking that Wang Ying was blaming her and wanted to part ways with her; There are those dreams she had, "Please" one after another, and after waking up, she dared not make a sound, curled up on the bed and forced herself to fall asleep again.

How desperate should she be at that time?

Wang Ying said that Ke Zhiyan seemed to be back when he first came to the national team, but Wang Ying didn't know that Ke Zhiyan looked exactly the same when he first came to the national team when he was in the B provincial team.

Wei Cheng couldn't breathe in her chest. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath, feeling that her chest was about to explode.

That nightmarish past, she thought she had woken up.

"The first game, 11:8, Bai Chuan Yi Cang won." Zhao Yunhan, who was temporarily pulled to act as the referee, added with a smile: "Xiao Yanzi, please work hard!"

Ke Zhiyan put down the racket, walked over without saying a word and wiped the thin layer of sweat on his forehead with a towel.

It was just a warm-up discussion, neither of them exerted their full strength, Bai Chuan Yi Cang conserved his strength, and Ke Zhiyan also knew how to recharge his energy.

Therefore, there were not many bright spots in this game, and the game was quite satisfactory.After Bai Chuan Yicang served, Ke Zhiyan just rubbed the first board, at best he added a return serve to attack, and the first three boards followed the order.

After a few rounds of you come and me, the first six rounds have reached a 3:3 tie.

In the deciding game, Ke Zhiyan kicked off the ball. After thinking about it, she used a counter-spin serve, and the ping-pong ball quickly spun to the sideline. Bai Chuan Yicang's habitual grabbing position was not easy to use, and she quickly turned sideways to catch the ball in the forehand position.

When the fast-spinning ping-pong ball touched the racket, Shirakawa Icang's heart skipped a beat. She made a mistake in her judgment, lacked power and the racket was not in the right shape.The backspin ball flew out from the front of the racket, spun and rubbed in front of the net, fell to the table after exhaustion, rolled a few times, and stopped on the edge of the table.

"Oh yo."

Ke Zhiyan ran two or three steps towards the side closest to her to pick up the ball, but the ping-pong ball fell on the other sideline, so she had to lean over to pick up the racket and hook the ball, almost lying on the table.Ke Zhiyan stretched out his hand, turned his head and said, "That ball is underspin, how do you push the board with the momentum?"

Bai Chuan Yi Cang: "..."

Wang Ying, who was standing outside the fender, rolled her eyes when she heard these words, looked sympathetically at Bai Chuan Yi Cang who was trying to take a deep breath, turned her head and said seriously to Wei Cheng: "I take back what I just said, this little brat has a low EQ It's hopeless, and I'm worried that she will think that the tickets are ill-gotten gains, and she will feel inferior and can't hold her head up..."

Wei Cheng still resented her for ignoring Ke Zhiyan's anomaly these days, so that she was left to face these things alone again, and upon hearing this, she just smiled reluctantly, wanting to restore her usual sunny aura.She replied casually: "Anyway, it is her honor that Sister Ying can think so much for her in advance."

Although he was talking to Wang Ying, his eyes never left the audience.

The kid was already ahead by several points.

After a while, there was no sound from the side, Wei Cheng couldn't help but look around, but saw Wang Ying was shrouded in the pale light of the hall, her eyes were half closed, her expression was unclear.Wei Cheng couldn't see through her expression, but she vaguely thought of Zagreb five years ago, when the 19-year-old Chosen One stood on the field attracting the world's attention, dazzling and confident, full of vigor, with every beat and every board. Full of aura.

It was a night that Wei Cheng would remember forever. Before that, she and Ke Zhiyan were just starting out, just ignorant of wanting to stand out from the crowd and bump into the coach's sight; The star in the sky, every drop of sweat and tears is to be able to stand one day at the height that that person once stood.

Now five years have passed, and the genius of the past was trapped by injuries and almost disappeared from everyone; but step by step, even though she stepped on thorns, she finally caught up with that star and even moved forward.

So many things happened in the past five years, Wei Cheng sometimes thought that she might never see the star that night again.But now, just before the trial of another young warrior, she watched Wang Ying show a wise expression again, with a spirit jumping between her brows and eyes.

Wei Cheng thought, Ke Zhiyan would be happy, that star was finally found by her.

"Azure orange."

"Ah? Yes!"

Wei Cheng subconsciously stood at attention, showing the attitude she had when she was fourteen or five years old when she first joined the national team when she faced Wang Ying and other seniors.

Wang Ying smiled, stood on tiptoe and reached out to pat her on the head: "I'm used to being an older sister, don't forget, this kid also calls me older sister."