Chapter 271: Monza's Gambling Covenant (I)
For the Chinese team at that time, it was probably not so easy to achieve...... Although Xiao Nan didn't say it, he didn't take Lao Zuo's rhetoric too seriously in his heart, after all, until four years later, Chinese motorcycle racers have only just emerged in the international arena, let alone four years ago...... Hey, it's all the brainless and illegal urban motorcycle ban and restriction policy!
"What, do you think I'm talking big?" Zuo Longxin could see what she was thinking from the subtle change in Xiao Nan's face.
"No, I didn't mean that, I mean ......" Xiao Nan saw that Zuo Longxin had peeked through her thoughts, and she was a little embarrassed and hurriedly wanted to find an excuse to cover it up, but she didn't have Xiao Ting's clever tongue, she was a little embarrassed for a while, and her little face couldn't help but turn red.
"It's okay Xiao Nan......" Zuo Longxin didn't care about Xiao Nan's thoughts: " Actually, it's normal for you to think so, after all, my partner and I are the first time to go to the international competition to participate in the competition, no one will believe that two little-known Chinese players can achieve good results in the International Invitational Tournament, and even the leader of our team, Director Chen of the Automobile and Motorcycle Center of the General Administration of Sports of the People's Republic of China did not have much hope for us, he said that after all, we are the first time to compete abroad, and the most important task of this competition is not to win medals, but to carefully study and study the advanced technology and management concepts of each world's strongest teams, and accumulate experience for laying a foundation for the future- Although he later said that it would be better if we could get a good place, my partner and I knew very well that no one expected us to make any waves at this invitational tournament except the two of us......"
"Oh......" Xiao Nan blinked, what Zuo Longxin said was completely in line with her thoughts. Feeling that Lao Zuo still had something to say, he stared into his eyes and waited for him to say the following.
"But Xiao Nan, although everyone didn't have much hope for us, my partner and I decided to go all out to fight for the championship, just like when we were competing in China, no matter what kind of legend his opponent is, whether it is a mule or a horse, you will only know the result when you pull it out and slip it!"
Zuo Longxin couldn't help laughing after speaking, and he asked Xiao Nan: "Do you think my partner and I are a little too whimsical?"
"Nothing!" Xiao Nan shook her head vigorously, the ponytail on the back of her head swaying with her movements. "That's the pride and dignity of being a professional racing athlete, right? I know ......."
Zuo Longxin smiled, smiling happily, it seemed that he was not surprised that Xiao Nan would say such a thing. "Sure enough, it's the racer who knows the racer's heart best!"
Xiao Nan also gave him a faint smile back: "Then, what about the result?"
"The result...... Zuo Longxin bared his teeth mysteriously: "You guess~"
"I can't guess......" Xiao Nan shook his head: "I'm not an immortal, I can know the past and future with a finger...... But judging by your expression, it seems like you're getting a good grade?" she said tentatively.
"It is said that women's intuition is very accurate, it seems that this is true!" Zuo Longxin This can be regarded as an affirmation of Xiao Nan's guess.
Damn! Intuition is intuition, why add "women's intuition"...... Xiao Nan was secretly unhappy with Lao Zuo's "approval" but had no choice but to take the initiative to guide the topic back to the invitational tournament: "That...... What did you end up with?"
"Third and fifth!" Zuo Longxin could no longer hide the pride in his chest, and unconsciously raised his voice, as if the general who had returned from an expedition was announcing the news of victory to his hometown father.
"Third and fifth place !!" Although Xiao Nan had seen some signs from Zuo Longxin's proud demeanor in advance, she still didn't expect that it would be such a good result in the end, so that she opened her eyes wide and looked at Zuo Longxin, and her eyes couldn't help but have some admiration in her eyes. "You're so good! Did you get the third?" she couldn't help but ask.
"No, I just finished fifth......" Zuo Longxin seemed to scratch his scalp a little embarrassed: "My partner played better than me, he won the third place, and stood on the podium on behalf of the national team." โ
"So powerful!" Xiao Nan exclaimed: "I have seen your skills, I think you are already very powerful, the driver who is even more powerful than you, what is his name?"
"His name is Qingcheng, he is my best friend, and he is also the most powerful opponent in my career, even if I have been suppressed by him in my best years, it is difficult to win him once, sometimes I can't help but think, both Shengyu, He Shengliang!" Zuo Longxin said this and sighed softly: "It's a pity that he is the same as me, he left the track early before he reached the age of retirement......"
Hearing the name "Qingcheng", Xiao Nan's heart chuckled for a moment, and he couldn't imagine that it was him! This world is too small!
It is precisely because Qingcheng has the title of former national champion that Xiao Nan will compete with him in order to use him as a yardstick to measure his ability, and because of the accident in this game, Xiao Ting's spine was seriously damaged, which caused Xiao Nan to turn to the witch doctor Shi Dafu later, and used the "ritual" to treat Xiao Ting's high paraplegia, which eventually led to the chain reaction of his own cliff transformation - fate is so interlocking, it seems to be unexpected, but it seems to be a certain number in the dark......
"Xiao Nan......" Zuo Longxin saw that she was suddenly distracted, stretched out his hand and shook it in front of her eyes, and Xiao Nan came back to his senses.
"I'm sorry, but I was just imagining the two of you at the track in Monza, Italy, when you were cornering, and I was a little distracted......" she quickly disguised. "Let's continue to talk about The International...... I didn't expect you to be able to get such good results, and the race must have been very difficult against so many internationally famous drivers, right?"
"Yes, the technical level of those foreigners is very high, and it is indeed not comparable to our domestic competitions. Zuo Longxin gradually put away the proud look on his face when he said this, and his expression became serious: "Actually, if it weren't for an accident that happened before the race, my partner and I might not have had so much courage to challenge ourselves and the limits of the car on the track in Monza regardless of life and death, so the two of us were able to get this result, in fact, there is a certain luck factor in it......"
"Accident?" Xiao Nan immediately thought of the broken locomotive placed in Zuo Longxin's local tyrant's office, as well as his slightly lame leg, but then overturned this idea, if there was an accident during the race, Zuo Longxin and his partner would obviously not be able to achieve such good results, you must know that it was competing with the top locomotive masters from all over the world, not to mention such a serious rollover accident, even if it was a small mistake, it was possible to miss the good ranking.
"It's definitely not the time you fell and injured your leg...... Although he knew that he would tell it even if he didn't ask Zuo Longxin, Xiao Nan couldn't help but ask: "Mr. Zuo, can you tell me, what kind of accident was it?"
Zuo Longxin nodded: "Yes, the accident is indeed not this time, but it is a chain reaction caused by this competition......"
"I don't understand...... Xiao Nan blinked vigorously, his face full of confused expression. "Can you tell me more about that?"
"Of course, I'm here to tell you these things today!" Zuo Longxin smiled lightly, took a sip of coffee, and continued: "As I said earlier, there were many professionals who were very unoptimistic about our Chinese national team before the game, of course, we actually saw it this way in our hearts at the beginning, until two people appeared in front of us......
"Two people, two people?"
"One is a sports journalist from the island nation and the other is a race car driver from the island nation. Although it has been many years, Zuo Longxin couldn't help frowning when he mentioned these people, showing a strong sense of disgust.
"They...... What did you do?" Xiao Nan asked suspiciously, with her intuition, she knew that this matter was definitely not simple.
"Hmph, if I hadn't met these two people that day, it is estimated that Qingcheng and I would not have had that much motivation to work hard!" Zuo Longxin looked out the window, and the expression on his face became solemn, as if he had returned to the Monza Autodrome in Italy four years ago......
"That day, the organizing committee of the invitational race opened the track for the participants of each team to warm up and familiarize themselves with the venue, in order to prepare for the upcoming qualifying and official competitions, because the arrangement was relatively late, Qingcheng and I waited until after lunch before we had the opportunity to warm up on the track, and when we finished the warm-up, we just returned to the rest area of the representative team, and met the two island people, at that time, the two guys were full of red and drunk, and a girl in our team's logistics team was full of whimpering and didn't know what they were saying, I knew that Qingcheng had learned island Chinese for a few days, so let him translateใ โ
"What did those two guys say?" Although Xiao Nan has never been to an island country, she used to visit a foreign language translation community in China, where she used to read some translated island country posts, and she knew a little bit about the virtues of island people, so although she didn't have a hatred for island people, she really didn't have a good impression.
"The two guys probably drank a few more drinks at lunch, and when they passed through the rest area of our team, they met the girl of our logistics group, and when they saw that she was beautiful, they had to invite her to drink coffee and chat, and the girl was unwilling, so they were entangled. โ
Xiao Nan couldn't help frowning when he heard this, he really deserves to be an island country, and he never forgets his true nature wherever he goes. "What about the people in your delegation, do you see that no one cares about your sister being bullied?" she couldn't help but interject.
"How is it possible!" Zuo Longxin hurriedly explained: "Our delegation is already small, after the warm-up game started, everyone ran to the edge of the arena to surround me and Qingcheng, only this girl stayed in the rest area to watch the house, otherwise how could we be indifferent to see our sister being entangled!"
That's pretty much it...... Xiao Nan nodded and closed his mouth, waiting for Zuo Longxin to continue.
"The girls in the logistics group were very annoyed by their entanglement, the two guys buzzed around her like two flies and couldn't leave, and next to them were a group of foreigners who didn't understand Chinese, and they didn't know who to find if they wanted to ask for help, and at this time they just saw us two coming back, so they quickly ran over and hid behind us. โ
But judging from the beginning and the result, it seems that this routine should not be? Xiao Nanqiang resisted the urge to complain and patiently listened to Lao Zuo's next words.
"The two islanders - I saw them with the certificates issued by the organizing committee around their necks, and I knew their identities - I saw the girl running away and followed, and I was stunned for a moment when I found that Qingcheng and I were blocking them, and raised my head to look at the national flag on the chest of our uniforms, and then looked at the racing car that the two of us were pushing each other, and suddenly looked at each other and smiled very presumptuously, and the two of them said again. โ
"I couldn't understand what those two guys said, and when I saw that Qingcheng's face around me was very ugly, I asked him to translate it for me. Qingcheng told me that the reporters from the two island countries said that a team like the Chinese team, which even has to buy a commercial sports car from the island country to modify its own competition car, the level of the drivers is definitely not much better, and they are not qualified to appear in this kind of world's top event. It's just a matter of saying that, after all, what they say is not all nonsense, but the point is that the island country racer, when referring to China, actually used the insulting and slanderous terms they used during World War II, they thought that we Chinese couldn't understand the island Chinese, so they dared to be unscrupulous in front of us, but I didn't expect Qingcheng to understand some, he translated to me very angrily after listening to it, and I was furious when I heard itโโ"
"That'...... What did you do at that time?" Xiao Nan asked a little worriedly, "Shouldn't you have beaten someone?"