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Ke Zhiyan was finally willing to put down her pitifully tormented markini that made the sound of sawing wood, turned around from the window, and stingily allocated some attention to the game technical video tape that was playing on the computer.

After New Year's Day, the National Table Tennis Team returned to its previous busy schedule.There are still nearly two months before the Chinese New Year. It just so happens that the Qatar and Kuwait Opens will be held in the next year.These two open tournaments are one of the must-have events for the Chinese team every year. Because the start time is usually after the lunar new year, the national team generally regards these two tournaments as a stepping stone to the mid-year World Table Tennis Championships or the World Cup.

The 2014 World Table Tennis Championships will be held in Tokyo, and the five places in the team competition will be handed over to the General Administration of Sports a preliminary list at the beginning of the year.

Ke Zhiyan was determined to win the group spot, and after registering for the two open competitions, he went to Chen Ji to collect a lot of recent technical videos of his teammates and returned to the room to study.

The athletes of the national team are both teammates and opponents. For the table tennis team, the time of being an opponent is longer than that of being a teammate.

She doesn't have much time to watch technical videos. The annual holiday is early this year, and New Year's Eve is at the end of January.Of course, one has to go home during the Chinese New Year. If it were in previous years, Ke Zhiyan might consider staying in City B for the sake of not finishing the technical video, but obviously not this year.This year she promised to celebrate the New Year with someone alone.

Since the snowy Christmas night, Ke Zhiyan and Wei Cheng have only had a few intermittent contacts. The time difference is a big obstacle. Both of them have heavy training tasks to carry out. They are both professional athletes, and they can take a good rest and give up. Discuss which of the two is more important during the break.

The few contact times are all by email. Ke Zhiyan often sends a message before the break, and he will not receive a reply until the day's training is over and he can rest again.

The efficiency of this kind of communication is surprisingly slow, but neither of them has anything too important to do, and the emails are full of trivial matters in life.

In just one month, I passed through several emails.When Ke Zhiyan took Ke Lvyan's free "taxi" back home again, the Christmas tree from a month ago had disappeared from the yard, replaced by red lanterns with more Chinese characteristics.

The Ke family is full of New Year's spirit. The old couplets on the gate have been torn off and only wait for the new ones to be replaced early in the morning on New Year's Eve. Mrs. Ke changed Hel's clothes into a traditional and festive bright red color, which complements its tall and erect couplets. Pointy ears appear more appropriate.

Mr. Ke was writing the couplets to be posted the next day in his study. He wrote good calligraphy, but it was a pity that his two daughters, especially the eldest daughter, had been too westernized.Ke Zhiyan can write swashbuckling characters with circles in one hand, but her knowledge of Chinese characters is only neat and neat, and that of elementary school students, let alone Ke Lvyan, Ke Zhiyan always suspects that her mastery of Chinese characters is not as good as that of junior high school students.

Wei Cheng also came, and was obediently standing in front of the desk at the moment watching Mr. Ke scold Fang Qiu.Ke Zhiyan stood at the door and looked at it for a while, no matter how she looked at it, she felt warm. She had thought about her life after retirement, and after thinking about it, she found that it was probably like this situation. It would be good if her family and Wei Cheng were by her side.

For the New Year's Eve dinner at night, dumplings were made. The noodles and fillings were made by Ke's mother herself. Unfortunately, Ke Zhiyan would be returning to the team after the Chinese New Year, so she couldn't eat meat. She made vegetarian fillings for the dumplings alone, and the rest ate meat.

Ke Zhiyan doesn't have much demand for meat. She is picky and demanding, but she is surprisingly easy to feed. As long as you give her what she likes to eat, she can spend a whole day in peace.

Ke Lvyan adjusted the Spring Festival Gala of an unknown year from the Internet. There was white wine on the table, which was not high in strength. After the meal, Ke Lvyan accompanied his father to have a few drinks.Ke Zhiyan took a glass of juice and ran to the fireplace to grill skewers by himself, avoiding cleaning up the dishes after the meal.

Wei Cheng helped Ke's mother tidy up and returned to the living room after wiping her hands. Seeing Ke Zhiyan's behavior, Wei Cheng was a little surprised: "The fireplace can still be used like this?"

Ke Zhiyan turned around and saw her, beckoned her to come over, moved his body to the side, and made a big space on the carpet: "Haven't you watched British dramas? That's how the earliest barbecues came about."

Wei Cheng sat on the ground next to Ke Zhiyan, her two long legs crossed up took up a lot of space, even though there was already an open space, half of her crossed legs still pressed against Ke Zhiyan.Ke Zhiyan didn't move, and she didn't take it away either. The two of them just looked at the row of vegetables skewered on the grill, "I've only seen one with toast."

"Ke Lvyan's idea, this food is too smokey and it won't taste good." Ke Zhiyan shrugged and said evil-heartedly: "Wait, it's all hers."

Wei Cheng gave her a symbolic pat on the head before she finished speaking. It didn't take any effort at all. It's more like touching than patting, and even Wei Cheng smiled: "Don't always bully your sister. "

Ke Zhiyan raised the corners of his eyes, looking unhappy, "Why are you protecting her? What did she keep in your ears when I was away?"

When Wei Cheng saw her, she knew that this unhappy expression was fake, and she didn't know why, but subconsciously felt that Ke Zhiyan's expression was unusually rich when she was by her side. "It depends on whose ears it is. She told me a lot about you when you were not around."

"It's not good to hear it." Ke Zhiyan muttered.

"Then why don't you confess first and be lenient?" Wei Cheng stared at Ke Zhiyan with a smile.

"I haven't done anything wrong." The skewers on the mantel seemed to be cooked, Ke Zhiyan flipped them all over, took them all off and put them on the side plate after a few seconds, "Would you like some? "

"Didn't you say it's not delicious?"

"It's really not delicious." Ke Zhiyan frowned and stared at the things on the plate, with great disgust in his eyes, "Only Ke Lvyan's stomach that has been corroded by dark dishes can eat it." She didn't stop after she finished speaking , quickly took it to the dining table in three or five steps and pushed it in front of Ke Lvyan.

When she came back, Wei Cheng still kept the sitting posture just now, the house was not cold, but she was still sitting upright in front of the fireplace, seemingly warming herself up.

Ke Zhiyan walked to her side, didn't sit down, lowered his head and asked, "Isn't it hot?"

Wei Cheng turned her body sideways and looked up at her, her eyes narrowed and she smiled, "It's a little bit."

"Go upstairs? I'll play the violin for you."

It was a question, but Wei Cheng really didn't give Wei Cheng any extra choices in the action.Wei Cheng thinks that the child's Chinese literacy should be strengthened.Thinking so, he stretched out his hand to hold Ke Zhiyan's.

Wei Cheng thinks that she has never rejected Ke Zhiyan's hand, not when she was invited to be her sparring partner when she was young, not when she became the main force when she played doubles with Ke Zhiyan, even the cold kiss in the snow that day, She didn't refuse either.

Wei Cheng always wanted to give herself more time to think about it, and to give Ke Zhiyan more time to think about the way out, but when she saw Ke Zhiyan's clear eyes, she forgot all about the refusal she had already thought about net.

All she knew was to reach out her hand, grab what the other person extended, and then hold it tightly, making everything inseparable.

The New Year's Eve after New Year's Eve is an ordinary working day. Those who should go to work still have to go to work, and those who have appointments still have to keep appointments.

Early in the morning, Ke Luyan grabbed Ke Zhiyan, who was wearing pajamas and had sleepy eyes, in front of the stairs and took him to the study for questioning. He stared at her nervously as if he was guarding a criminal who had escaped from the Tower of London.

Ke Zhiyan knew what she wanted to ask, but many years of habits still made her in the state of "the enemy does not move, I do not move" in front of Ke Lvyan.

Ke Luyan stroked Ke Zhiyan's upturned hair in the style of a elder sister, "Today is a big day, huh?"

"Are you married?"

Ke Lvyan's smile didn't break down, not even the slightest change in the arc, "Stop making trouble, you know what I'm talking about."

"I made an appointment at 10:30, and there are still more than three hours."

Of course Ke Lvyan knew about the date with Joanna, she meant something: "Where's Wei Cheng?"

Maybe because he was tired from standing, Ke Zhiyan turned his body and leaned against the wall, "Didn't you ask me before if I would tell her?"

"You said you didn't know."

"Just then."

"I don't know what made you change your mind..." Ke Lvyan stared at his younger sister's expression. Even though they only saw each other once or twice a year, they knew each other best in the world.Ke Luyan caught the flash of pride on her younger sister's face, and she understood, "Oh, yes, of course, congratulations!"

What was the difference between then and now?It's nothing more than a swap of identities.

"I haven't thought it through yet, but I think I should let her know me."

"As long as you don't blame me for the immoral things you did when you were a child." Ke Lvyan shrugged and pretended to be relaxed, "Whatever you want." She said, taking advantage of her height, she touched her sister's head and left gracefully.

Wei Cheng was in a state of confusion this morning, from Ke Zhiyan secretly tugging on her sleeve at breakfast and asking her if she had time to visit a friend with her, to Ke Lvyan driving them to a place In the very familiar house, and for the first time ever, the two sisters did not quarrel but remained sullen.

Wei Cheng couldn't help but want to make a joke to ease the atmosphere: "What's wrong? Your prime minister has stepped down?"

Ke Lvyan twitched his lips in a face-saving manner, "Believe me, my dear, the British care more about the one who lives in Buckingham Palace than the prime minister."

"It's here." Ke Zhiyan said.The car stopped.

Ke Luyan asked, "Do you want me to pick you up?"

"We'll go back by ourselves." Ke Zhiyan said, the girls sitting in the front row looked at each other, and they seemed to have reached a consensus from this brief eye contact.

Outside the car was a very ordinary dwelling, Wei Cheng subconsciously glanced at his watch, 10:30.The door of the dwelling was opened from the inside, and a blond woman came out and greeted them with a smile: "Yan."