As the national anthem sounded, Liu Dazhu, who was standing in the middle of the podium, held his gold medal tightly in his hand, then watched the national flag rise, and sang the national anthem loudly.

Liu Dazhu looked at the raised national flag and felt as if he had returned to the Kushan Mountain Village School, in Liu Dazhu's memory, there was a straight bamboo pole standing in the middle of the dilapidated school, and then every morning he would watch the national flag rise in the morning light. And at that time, the happiest time for Liu Dazhu was his turn to be the flag raiser.

Liu Dazhu looked at the slowly rising national flag, and felt that from the mountain village school in Kushan to the swimming school in Linxi City and now the swimming pool of the Jinling Youth Olympic Games, this national flag seems to have never changed. In his feeling, the national flag is always the one that rises from the bitter mountain, and it has never been replaced. It's just that this national flag is raised from Kushan, from Lin Xi, and from Jinling...... Rising from everywhere.

The news of Liu Dazhu's victory soon spread throughout Kushan, and the entire Kushan was happy that he had such a small celebrity.

"I'll tell you, I live next door to Dazhu's house, this kid was stupid when he was a child, his mother was a fool, this kid was a half-fool, but it's really a fool who has a stupid fortune, who would have thought that this kid would win a gold medal in swimming. ”

"Yes, I've heard, that's a great gold, it's such a big piece of gold!" the people who said this gestured with their hands, and in their minds, the gold medal was made of pure gold.

"That's really amazing, it's been sent to his family. ”

Overnight, Dazhu's house was full of people, and those who knew and didn't know, those who had relationships and those who didn't have anything to do with them all ran to Liu Dazhu's house.

The town also came to find Liu Dazhu's father, and asked Liu Dazhu's family to move to the town, and prepared a small building for Dazhu's family. But Liu Dazhu's father categorically refused, Liu Dazhu's father was a traditional and stubborn person, the local concept is very heavy, he has lived in the bitter mountain for most of his life, deeply rooted here, and is already unwilling to go out of this mountain.

He was obsessed with the land, and he knew nothing but farming, and never imagined that his son would be able to leave the land and plunge into the water.

But no matter what, Dazhu's father was happy and proud from the bottom of his heart that his son could have today's results, and even on the day Liu Dazhu won the championship, Dazhu's father returned home from China Hope School It was already night, but Dazhu's father still smeared and went to the cemetery with sacrifices from home.

The stars on a summer night are quite bright, so that the night will not be out of sight, but the empty and cool cemetery is still quite frightening on this big night. And Dazhu's father was not shy about it at all, holding a bag in one hand, which contained meat, eggs, chickens, fish, incense and paper money, and the other hand walked in the rows of tombs with a flashlight, and the beam of the flashlight was dangling.

found his ancestral grave, Dazhu's father couldn't wait to set up the offerings and light the incense, then kowtowed, and said in his mouth: "Master, father, Dazhu has a future, our Liu family has a future." ”

His son Dazhu has a future, and Dazhu's father feels that he is worthy of his ancestors, at least as Wang Xinming said to him at the beginning, it should not be difficult for Liu Dazhu to marry a daughter-in-law.

After Liu Dazhu won the gold medal in the 100-meter freestyle at the Jinling Youth Olympic Games, it caused a lot of shock in the sports circles of Linxi City, and even the province paid a lot of attention, after all, Hanhua Province has not yet produced a person with a face in swimming. Hu Shengsheng, a reporter from the sports section of Hanhua Daily, also made an exclusive interview and report for Liu Dazhu again.

Lin Xi Daily made a big report on Liu Dazhu, and publicized it as a typical representative of the development of sports in poor and backward areas of Linxi City: it is thanks to the vigorous development of sports by the Linxi Municipal Government and the investment and support of sports resources in poor and backward areas that talents like Liu Dazhu have been discovered and cultivated.

Anyway, there's nothing wrong with that.

After the Jinling Youth Olympic Games, Liu Dazhu ushered in his holiday and returned to Kushan.

On the day Liu Dazhu came back, the Municipal Sports Bureau specially sent someone to pick up Liu Dazhu, and the person who picked up Liu Dazhu was Liu Wanlong, the former director of the swimming center and now deputy director of the Municipal Sports Bureau, and Coach Li, Liu Dazhu's coach at the Linxi City Swimming Center, also went together.

Thanks to Liu Dazhu's blessing, Lin Ping had the opportunity to sit with Liu Wanlong and others.

At the wine table, everyone inevitably said a few flattering words to Liu Dazhu, but Liu Dazhu just smiled stupidly, then ate with his head down, and didn't talk much.

And because Liu Dazhu didn't talk much, other people at the dinner table chatted, especially Lin Ping, Liu Wanlong and Coach Li.

Liu Wanlong said to Lin Ping with a smile: "I've always wanted to have a meal with Principal Lin, but I haven't had a chance, these five years have passed, Brother Lin, we can finally sit down and have a meal together." ”

Liu Wanlong's tone was extraordinarily cordial, and his smile was full of sincerity, but there was inevitably hypocrisy in his expression that could not be concealed.

And Lin Ping could only hypocritically pretend to be enthusiastic and embarrassed and said: "I've always wanted to have a meal with Director Liu, but I haven't had a chance, and today I finally met my wish." Come, Director Liu, I would like to give you a glass. ”

Lin Ping and Liu Wanlong's wine glasses touched each other, Lin Ping drank all the wine in the glass, Liu Wanlong took a sip and said with a smile: "Okay, Brother Lin, I heard that you are now the principal of the county high school?"

Lin Ping nodded and said, "Yes, the high school principal of Xibei County No. 4 Middle School." ”

Liu Wanlong patted Lin Ping's shoulder: "Yes, Principal Lin is young and promising, he is a high school principal at a young age, I think you are still crawling at your age." ”

Everyone at the table laughed.

Then, Liu Wanlong said: "Brother Lin, if you have anything to do with the development of sports in the future, you can tell me." ”

Lin Ping hurriedly said: "Thank you Director Liu, my school and I will work hard to contribute to the development of our Lin Xi's sports industry, put sports in an important position, and cultivate and deliver more outstanding sports talents for the city." ”

"Okay, come on, do one. Liu Wanlong laughed.

In any case, thanks to Liu Dazhu's outstanding performance and the attention and praise of the province, it didn't take long for Liu Wanlong to successfully take up the position of director of the Linxi Sports Bureau and concurrently serve as the chairman of the Linxi Sports Association.

For this position, Liu Wanlong has been coveted for a long time, and he has been constantly operating and planning for many years, and has always hoped that his position can rise again, and Liu Dazhu has become a key help for him to be promoted to director and further in his career.